Chapter 2225 ('ω') Uninvited Guest
After more than ten days, with the support of Shirji and the aerial patrol and path exploration of Shirji and the pet reptile that was ruthlessly 'abandoned' by Annie again, Gus, Farnese and the rest of the group finally succeeded.
The three thousand Knights of the Silver Hand under the Holy Light Legion were safely brought back to the City of Holy Light, which had become somewhat dilapidated for some reason and was full of traces of battle.
After asking, they learned that it turned out that during the nearly one month before and after Gus and other generals took the most elite cavalry troops out to watch the battle, especially during the twenty days when the world changed drastically, the Holy Light
Of course, the city is just like other places, and it is inevitable to encounter various attacks from those terrible creatures that suddenly appear.
Unlike Gus and others who knew the general situation, no one among the soldiers and generals who stayed behind knew what happened. Especially in the first few days, they still patrolled and maintained order here as usual.
Until they saw those extraordinary existences.
As a result, chaos inevitably occurs.
Anyway, during the period after that, all kinds of creatures, monsters, monsters and even legendary beings visited this big city with a population of at least hundreds of thousands.
Although, after the chaos, the generals and soldiers who stayed behind quickly reacted and tried their best to protect their homes and people. However, in the face of all kinds of terrifying monsters and people they had never seen before,
Under the attack of powerful creatures, they continued to retreat and lost almost all external towns, villages, farmland, strongholds, a large amount of supplies, and military camps except for city walls and cities.
The City of Holy Light, where hundreds of thousands of people originally gathered, have now fled, gone missing or been killed, with tens of thousands of them missing. The remaining over 100,000 soldiers and civilians can only huddle within the city walls and resist and work hard.
Maintain the status quo.
But even then, during this period of time, they were still attacked by monsters several times and lost thousands of soldiers and civilians.
If it weren't for some unknown reason, a large number of soldiers in the two remaining legions of the 'Silver Dawn' and the 'Scarlet Crusaders' quickly received the response of the Holy Light and used it to kill the monsters and creatures that invaded the city.
If they drive out again, I'm afraid that when Gus and the others come back, what they see will not be as simple as the dilapidated scene in front of them.
So, when Gus and others saw the miserable condition of their base and the city, they were of course furious, and early in the morning after their return, they couldn't wait to lead the generals who stayed behind,
The knights who led the three thousand Silver Hands and some of the heavy armored infantry of the elite Holy Light Legion rushed directly to the military camp that originally belonged to them outside the city.
Because it is said that about ten days ago, a group of giants came there. They captured many of their villagers and attacked their granary outside the city. They took all the food and villagers to the place that originally belonged to the Three Holy Lights.
In the main camp of the legion, they still stayed there and refused to leave.
After that, their huge monsters now have more and more people, nearly a hundred of them, and they have almost formed a tribe.
What's more important is that those monsters refused to leave, and even attacked their city from time to time, making it difficult for the remaining troops to defend themselves. The city gates were repeatedly lost to their attacks, and each time they were lost, the defenders were unable to defend themselves.
The army will lose many soldiers, citizens and a large amount of supplies.
So, after learning about the tragic situation in the City of Holy Light, the furious Gus was of course ready to take them to the sword first.
"Lord Gus!"
"Look!"
"It's those monsters in front!"
At noon, when the three thousand knights of the Silver Hand took up formation in front of their original military camp, when the two thousand infantry accompanying the army also formed their formation and pushed out the few remaining cannons and crossbow beds.
, the general Macca then galloped up to Gus, who was observing the situation with a dark face, and pointed to the military camp in the distance, which was also alarmed by their arrival. At this time, they were shouting, drumming, roaring and striding.
The monster giants who rushed out of the military camp said:
"They are very big and powerful. Our soldiers are at a disadvantage when fighting them. Even a three-meter-long spear does not pose much of a threat to them. Bows and arrows have almost no effect at all. They can only attack.
The cannons and crossbow beds used by the city were barely able to cause a certain amount of damage."
"But cannons and crossbow beds are difficult to aim at. In addition, it is relatively difficult to transport and load large-scale equipment. Therefore, we will suffer big losses every time we face them!"
"If it weren't for the protection of the great Holy Light, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to insist on your return, and the city would have fallen into their hands!"
At this moment, Maika's face was full of exhaustion and fear.
Obviously, it can be seen that their defenders must have fought those terrifying monster giants more than once during this period, and they must have suffered losses at the hands of the opponent more than once.
"..."
Gus ignored the other party, just gritted his teeth and looked forward with his one eye narrowed, and that dangerous one eye was filled with anger and murderous intent.
Because, he saw...
At this moment, many villagers are being locked up in ferocious log cages and being raised like livestock, and at a glance, there are probably hundreds or even thousands of them!
There were hideous scenes of bloodstains and bones around those cages. He didn't need to think too much to know what many innocent people had experienced during their absence.
What's even more hateful is that outside the originally sacred guardrail of the military camp, where the Holy Cross flags should have stood, those red and gold Holy Cross flags can no longer be seen flying. Instead, there are
Log piles standing tall.
At this time, hanging on the wooden stake was the kind of terrifying flag that was made of human skin ripped off a young woman's body at a glance!
The human skins of those innocent victims were torn apart by the giants and sewn tightly on the top of the wooden frame. They were also painted with horrifying symbols using some kind of paint.
There was an ominous aura floating in front of the entire originally sacred military camp, and Gus couldn't help but grit his teeth at the sight.
"See clearly!"
"There are only one hundred and thirty of them in total. The tallest one is about seven to eight meters tall. The tallest one should be their leader!"
"Only ninety-eight came out."
"Thirty-two of them are still in the military camp. Judging from their size, the ones left in the military camp should be the old, weak, sick and disabled. As long as the group of guys are defeated, the remaining ones hiding in the military camp should not be a concern.
"
"They also have simple armors, stone axes, wooden clubs and other weapons, and those... well, judging from those flags, they should not be like the ignorant cyclops that Anne caught that day. These giants should have the most basic
of primitive civilization and wisdom!”
"We have to be careful!"
At this time, Serpico, the deputy leader of the Knights of the Silver Hand and secretary of the Legion of Light, who was on the other side of Gus, spoke up and directly stated the basic situation he had observed so far.
"Captain Gus!"
"Let Shirji and her dragon launch magic and breath attacks!"
"If we just charge forward like this, our knights will definitely suffer unnecessary losses when facing a giant with such a size advantage!"
After Serpico finished speaking, Farnese on the other side also made a suggestion.
Those mere hundred giants should not be a big problem for the knights of their order, but the problem now is: in such a must-win situation, any damage is not what she expects.
Therefore, she hoped to let the legion witch and the dragon directly set fire to the enemy and disrupt the opponent's formation. Then, the knights of their knighthood would wait for the opportunity to launch a charge. In that case, she would have the confidence to use the minimum or even minimal losses.
Go and annihilate those giants and their tribe who dare to occupy the Crane's Nest!
"With magic and breath?"
"That won't work!"
However, Gus just thought about it and took one more look at the giant who ran out of the barracks and actually knew how to line up first before refusing and saying:
"That is our own military camp. It can still be used after some repairs. If it burns down, it will have to be rebuilt, which is not cost-effective."
"besides!"
"As you can see, there are at least hundreds or thousands of villagers inside. We must rescue them!"
"And then..."
"If we have to rely on witches and dragons to deal with the hundreds of monsters here, then there is no need for us paladins to exist anymore!"
After saying that, Gus thought about it and didn't explain much. He simply turned over and dismounted, then slowly pulled out the giant sword on his back, and then took the initiative to stride towards the dozens of people standing together.
The imposing-looking giant walked in front of the formation.
"Hello!"
"Legion Commander!"
"Are you sure?"
Upon seeing this, Farnese and Serpico, who knew what Gus wanted to do, naturally exclaimed, trying to stop each other from acting recklessly alone.
"..."
Unfortunately, Gus was unmoved.
He just dragged his sword and quickly walked to the giant formation where the group was also curious about his arrival. He stood dozens of steps in front of the giant formation and then stabbed the sword hard into the ground in front of him.
Then he raised his fingers provocatively towards the opponent, who looked to be the tallest and largest giant, at least seven to eight meters tall.
"Woo?"
"Roar……"
"..."
Seeing Gus's provocative actions, even though they couldn't understand the language, the giants who had just formed their formation instantly became commotion, and then, the biggest one couldn't help but fall for the trick.
"Woo..."
"Ouch!!!"
It first roared at Gus, and then took a somewhat clumsy-looking step. With the cheers and cheers of the other giants, it covered the distance of tens of meters in just a few steps and arrived in one fell swoop.
In front of Gus, it raised high the huge mace in its hand, which was obviously rough-processed from a giant wood and wrapped with iron wire found from nowhere.
boom!!
Next second!
Amidst the splashing of earth and rocks, there was a loud noise as the earth trembled slightly, and the opponent's blow easily made a big crater in the place where Gus had just stood.
"!!"
However, for Gus, who had fought against all kinds of monsters, undead and demons and killed at least tens of thousands of enemies, that kind of attack was nothing more than superficial.
Therefore, with just a twist, he smoothly and skillfully dodged the opponent's powerful and heavy blow that would have instantly smashed anyone into pieces, and then allowed the gravel and grass dust to fly out at high speed.
He didn't even frown when he was hit, he just used his quick movements to fly behind the opponent.
"drink!!"
Wow!!
The next moment, he roared, and the huge black sword that had killed countless monsters and apostles swung past the corner of the giant's back foot that was receiving the force.
"??"
With a flash of blood, before the doubtful giant could cry out in agony, it staggered and fell backwards as its legs were cut off completely.
"Go to hell!!!"
And at this moment, Gus, who had already predicted and dodged in advance, happened to be standing next to the opponent's shoulder when he fell to the ground, and at the moment before the opponent landed, he sharply raised the giant sword in his hand.
With one move, he slashed towards the opponent's unprotected neck.
Tuk!!
Following the muffled sound of a giant sword chopping flesh, the head with a pair of huge eyes as big as a carriage gushed out with spring-like blood and slowly rolled not far away.
"!!"
"here you go!"
"Commander Gus is mighty!"
"beautiful!"
"sharp!!"
"Look, he didn't even use the Holy Light. He defeated the tallest giant with just brute force and skill!"
“It’s incredible!”
"Sure enough, I knew he would be like that..."
"Isn't it?"
"I still remember that when I went to rescue you, Captain Farnese, I saw the horrifying sight of him fighting with the endless monsters in the forest."
"yes……"
At this time, seeing Gus easily decapitating the seemingly most powerful giant with just one move without the help of Holy Light, the magician who was a little worried just now
The generals such as Ernese, Serpico, Yasan and Clete all praised loudly, cheered and discussed excitedly.
"..."
But in the distance, Gus, who successfully killed a giant with one sword, had no intention of stopping. He continued to use the same action again towards the group of people who were frightened by his fierce appearance, so that
Even the original cheers and cheers stopped abruptly, and the giants, who looked at each other in disbelief, issued a provocation.
"Roar!!"
"Roar!!!"
Now, the giants were angered again.
Then two of them, five or six meters tall, looked at each other, then roared and rushed out of their formation, waving the mallets and who-knows-what they were holding in their hands.
The giant bone club of the biological skeleton rushed out towards Gus.
That’s right!
After their biggest, tallest and strongest 'leader' was killed, they lacked confidence and shamelessly planned to kill Gus's little lamb, two against one.
"!!"
Seeing this, Gus didn't have time to think too much. He just glared and then moved forward without retreating, waving his giant sword and rushing towards the opponent.
Whoosh!
Wow!!
Then, while narrowly avoiding the wooden sticks and bone clubs thrown by the opponent from the left and right, he still had time to slash the opponent's abdomen below the navel with two swords at the moment when the two sides passed each other.
The huge opening caused the opponent's white intestines to gush out in an instant.
"Ouch!!!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
As a result, the two giants naturally rolled to the ground and howled, and knelt down awkwardly and stretched out their hands, as if they wanted to use their dirty intestines again.
Put your big hand back?
"..."
However, Gus would not give them a chance.
He was always ruthless with his first move. He had already started to turn back when the two giants were wailing and rolling. Then, when the other side was kneeling on the ground with their back to him and busy stuffing their intestines, he had already rushed to the other side.
His back jumped high.
Wow!!
With just one sword strike, he cut off the back of one of the giants' necks and the spine in half, causing a large amount of blood to spurt out from its neck and dyeing his whole body red. At the same time, he also made the opponent's head droop directly towards its chest.
He drooped down, and then he just sat there on his knees and twitched.
"!!"
But Gus did not stop. He ignored the sticky orangutan odor on his body and jumped up again the moment he landed. Another sword stabbed directly into the back of the other giant's head where it was connected to the brain.
Phew!
Then, when the second giant stood up straight and staggered to the ground as if struck by lightning, Gus had already sheathed his sword and returned and once again faced the group of people who were stunned into silence by the ferocious appearance of him killing three people in a row.
Monster giant.
"Gus!"
"Gus!!"
"Gus!!!"
Unlike those monsters who were so frightened that they collectively lost their voices, when the knights and heavy armored infantry of the Legion of Holy Light saw this, of course they all raised their weapons in the air and cheered with joy.
And their morale, which was still a little uneasy because of the enemy's huge size, was inspired to the highest point by Gus's bravery at this moment, and they could not wait to rush over immediately and follow Gus to kill one or two of them.
A terrifying giant that can crush them with its feet.
"..."
"..."
"..."
At this moment, seeing that neither one-on-one nor two-on-one was a match for Gus's fierce little human, the remaining giants naturally began to riot and looked at each other for a long time.
No one dared to take action.
"!!"
"Ouch!!!"
"Roar!!!"
But they soon reached a certain consensus.
Then, somewhat hysterically, they began to roar loudly, waving the weapons in their hands and charging forward in a swarm without any sense of martial arts, preparing to take advantage of their large number to kill Gus first.
That little human was smashed to death or trampled into a meat pie, and then he went to scatter more little humans in the distance.
"Bah!!"
"I am the spirit of the earth "Roma"!"
And just when Gus was standing ready, and when Farnese and the others in the distance were anxious and unable to save him, a voice suddenly came from above the giant dragon that was hovering in the sky.
The resonance was then amplified by the clear, hollow voice of Witch Shirki.
"The earth and plants here, please obey my orders!"
"Grow wild!"
"Bind those evil giants!!"
Immediately afterwards, as the opponent's loud chanting spell was chanted, soon, before the giants could rush to Gus and use group fighting tactics to deal with Gus, they only saw in horror.
:
The originally ordinary flowers, plants, and shrubs on the ground began to grow and spread crazily, and soon spread towards their legs and waists, leaving them all staggering.
Falling to the ground or having to stop, and then having to get on hands and knees to tangle with those weird tough vines and weeds.
"!!"
"good chance!"
Upon seeing this, Farnese knew that it was Shirji who had taken action, and of course he did not want to miss the opportunity.
"Blow the horn!"
"Knights!"
"charge!!!"
"Kill me!!!!"
So, without waiting for Guts' orders and instructions, she brazenly issued a general attack order to the knights who were originally the Knights of the Iron Cable under her command, but were now called the "Silver Hands".
then!
Toot!
Didi beep beep beep beep!!
As melodious horns sounded, and with Farnese holding her sword high and her flag bearer moving forward, the paladins who had been inspired by Gus's feat were eager to try.
Then they clamped the belly of their horses tightly, and turned into a torrent of silver steel, rushing towards the giants who were standing, sitting or lying on the ground to compete with those wild growing vines and weeds.
passed.
"Wow!"
(ω)
"It looks like it's coming to an end!"
(^▽^)
On the back of the dragon, I saw that the knights below had rushed into the formation of the giants, and were chopping melons and vegetables with weapons wrapped in holy light to create on the bodies of the monster giants who were bound and unable to move.
There were bloody wounds one after another, and she saw less than a hundred giants being chopped down by the knights one by one with just one charge. After seeing that there was no suspense about victory, Anne turned around and faced the already finished man.
Shirji, who cast the spell and recovered, asked:
"But!"
(′～`●)
"Sister Shierji, why don't you like using the magic I was taught to you?"
(~)
"Didn't someone tell you? Casting spells in resonance with that kind of existence is quite powerful, but if you're not careful, you may never come back again!"
(ˇεˇ)
That’s right!
In Annie's view, although the other party's 'warlock' type spell that allows the soul to leave the body and resonate with a powerful elemental spirit to cast spells with the help of the other party's power has certain advantages, it is still too dangerous.
, if you accidentally encounter some kind of evil, I'm afraid it will be difficult to come back after the soul goes out.
After all, warlocks only use contracts to harness the power of demons.
But just now, the other party simply used the soul to merge and resonate with the elemental elves. With that method, I am afraid that those warlocks who are good at playing with evil energy and using the power of demons will call it "evil way" and stay away from it, right?
"I know."
"But the magic you taught me is too powerful, and I always feel a little uncomfortable with it."
"That kind of uncontrollable spell can hurt everyone if you are not careful. I will not use it lightly unless it is absolutely necessary, especially those attack spells."
Shaking his head, Shirji took a breath after recovering, then wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with a dry smile and said this to Annie.
Especially the magic wand that Anne gave her, its power has always been deeply remembered in her mind, and it will cause big trouble if she is not careful!
Therefore, when she usually practices and trains the magic from Hogwarts, she mostly uses her own big wand.
Anyway, before she has complete control, such as at the time just now, she is still more willing to use the more familiar spells that her teacher Flora has taught her for many years, and ensure that nothing goes wrong at critical moments.
"All right!"
ε=(ο｀*)))Alas
"but……"
(ー`ー)
"It seems like new troublesome guys are here. How do you want to deal with them?"
(σ)σ
Annie curled her lips and was somewhat noncommittal about the other party's statement, so she didn't try to persuade him. She just stood on tiptoes on the dragon's back and looked at the distant horizon, and asked Shirji with some ill intentions.
"ah!"
"Those are……"
At Anne's prompt, Shirji, who was already on the dragon's back and had a commanding advantage, of course also saw it.
At this time, when Gus and the others were cutting down the giants with overwhelming force and successfully entered the military camp, and were using a powerful offensive to make the old, weak, sick and disabled giants who remained inside howl and run around,
In the distance, it seemed that a group of cavalry appeared on the hill and were observing Gus's battle?
"It's actually them?"
"But….."
"Why is it at this time?"
From the flag held high by the other party, Shirji recognized it. The other party was exactly the one they had seen on the battlefield when they were watching the battle in the capital of Mitlan more than half a month ago.
The double-winged sword flag of the Eagle Regiment!
"Uncle Gus hates them, doesn't he? Why don't you use magic to burn them?"
(ω)
"Or, let the dragon fly over and drive them away?"
(ψ｀▽′)o
Naturally, seeing the confusion in Shirji's eyes, Annie, who was afraid of the world being in chaos, naturally spoke up next to him and instigated the proposal.
"ah?"
"Burn them?"
Hearing this, Shirji was naturally shocked.
"No! No!"
"None of them have shown any hostility. It's definitely not possible to attack them now!"
Then, of course, she quickly waved her hands to reject Anne's 'kindness' and continued to add without waiting for Anne to say anything else:
"Let's wait until the battle below is over and let Gus and the others deal with it."
As she said that, while continuing to keep the giant dragon hovering high in the sky, Shirji subconsciously tightened her grip on the big wand that looked like a tree root in her hand, and began to be closely vigilant about the group of people appearing in the distance.
uninvited guest.
"Anyway!"
"I'll keep an eye on them!"
Then, she began to use some kind of magic similar to telepathic communication to report what she saw to Gus, Farnese and others who were finishing the battle on the ground.
"Really!"
(~)
"You don't dare to do this or that. You guys are really useless. You are all a bunch of idiots!!"
o(*｀ー)o
"Ignore you!"
o(^｀)oHumph!
Seeing that the provocation was not successful, Annie got angry decisively, and then disappeared on the back of the dragon in a flash, and she didn't know where she went.
"..."
Of course, Shirji, who knew Anne well, didn't pay much attention. He just frowned and stared at the group of guys holding the flag of the Eagle Regiment that appeared in the distance and waited patiently for Gus and Farnese's reply or reply below.
It's a command.
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Chapter completed!