Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard

Ryan stood on the city wall, looking towards the north. At this moment, the whole earth was bathed in the soft light of the setting sun. The surface of the emerald green grass seemed to be painted a layer of crimson. I don’t know if it was reflected by the setting sun or flowed by the day. Stained with blood.

In the distance, there are endless camps of orcs, one by one, spreading out of the field of vision, and close by are the corpses of the orcs left during the daytime siege.The soldiers of the Thor Fortress had reached outside the city wall through the cable, converging all the dead soldiers' corpses, but the tens of thousands of orcs' corpses didn't have time and not much manpower to manage.

"This is war." Ryan said lightly as he looked at everything in front of him as if he was still in the water.

Allenduo said: "Since it is unavoidable, don't be the loser."

"Haha," Bart said with a smile, standing aside, "You two are not very old, and you talk like very experienced adventurers."

Ryan and Allen smiled at the words, and did not speak.

But Bart continued: "The evening on this city wall is different from other places, because there are towering mountains on both sides, so the sunrise here is slower than other places, and of course the sunset will disappear more than other places. fast."

As I was talking, the glow of the sky gradually faded, the crimson color turned crimson, and the crimson quickly turned pale red, and the sky dimmed a lot.Finally, when all the red light disappeared, the whole land fell into darkness.

On the wall of Thor Fortress, a raging bonfire ignited every 50 meters. The soldiers and mercenaries who watched the night gathered around the bonfire nearest to them, relying on the blazing flame to resist the cold.Since they were not allowed to make loud noises or sleep during the night watch, they had to chat quietly with the people around them, occasionally making a little louder laughter, and immediately patrolling soldiers passed by and stopped drinking loudly.

Ryan and Allendo sat side by side, and Xiao Bai squeezed between them, curling up into a large furry ball.Sitting with Ryan and them, besides Bart, there were three mercenaries and six soldiers.These 12 people were all assigned to a group, and the group leader was a human archer with a bow and arrow in his hand.

Seeing the darkness around and the cold north wind blowing from time to time, a mercenary couldn't help complaining: "Damn it, I would not take this task if I knew it. I thought it was a good job."

"Haha, what you think is pretty." The group leader holding a bow and arrow smiled and said: "In fact, this night watch is not a very hard work, but it is a time of war. It is not as relaxed as usual. Stay vigilant."

"Ah, you said. Will the orcs come sneak attack tonight?" another mercenary asked in a low voice.

"Who knows? Maybe it will come, or it won't. Anyway, we just have to be faithful to our duties."

"Then, how do we investigate the situation outside the city? Look at the large black areas all around. If there is not a bonfire, I am afraid that if you sit opposite me, I can't even see your appearance."

"It's easy, look at it." The group leader holding a bow and arrow said: "You can come together, anyway, it's not everyone's turn in the end."

After finishing these words, the group leader holding the bow and arrow stood up and walked to the north side of the city wall with the longbow in his hand.Ryan waited for the five mercenaries to stand up together and walked over.It's the first time for them to watch the night, so naturally they need to get familiar with it more.

The team leader holding a bow and arrow drew a special feather arrow from the quiver behind him, and then said to Ryan: "Torch!"

Ryan nodded and agreed, walked back to the campfire a few steps, picked up a burning torch, and walked quickly over.

The team leader holding the bow and arrow put the arrow on the torch to light it, then pulled the bowstring and shot the rocket toward the north.The rocket drew a beautiful arc in the dark night sky, as if a meteor struck the sky, fell about 400 meters away, and quickly extinguished.

Under the reflection of this rocket, the originally dark ground was illuminated by a large area. Ryan looked around, and there was still a daytime scene, faintly visible, the corpses of orcs, and the dense "arrow forest". , No change at all.

"That's it? It's easy." After watching a mercenary, he said nonchalantly: "As long as you can shoot arrows, it's not difficult to complete."

The team leader holding a bow and arrow smiled and said: "This method is used for surprise inspections, because the angle and distance of the arrow can be controlled freely. However, the scope of this method of inspection is too small and the time is very short. If you want to check the situation at close range, you can just go out with a torch, and the effect is the same. Hey, don’t just sit down, just show them.” The group leader with the bow and arrow pointed at him. The group member, the five soldiers sitting by the campfire said.

The five soldiers stood up together without looking at them, and then quickly walked to the dump truck on the south side of the city wall and motioned to Ryan and the others to pass.When Ryan and the others were all there, one of the five soldiers said in a blunt voice: "I will only do it once, and you are optimistic." After speaking, the five people stood in their positions very tacitly and forcefully Winch the winch of the boulder, and slowly pull the upright projectile rod to a horizontal position.

After fixing the winch, the two soldiers brought a dark object from the ammunition cart on the side, and placed it in the "spoon" at the end of the projectile rod.It was the soldier who explained: "Remember, don't use stone bullets. Use this kind of'cloth ball' made of soft rope and linen. If you take the wrong ammunition, there will be no effect at all."

After saying this, the soldier strode to Ryan's side, grabbed the torch in Ryan's hand, and put it on the "spoon". After a few seconds, the dark thing immediately burned. The fire light immediately turned the soldier's face red.

The soldier said hurriedly: "Hurry up this time, because this'cloth ball' can only burn for a short period of time."

After speaking, the soldier released the mechanism that fixed the winch, and the catapult rod that was bent at an almost ninety degree angle immediately bounced back from the horizontal position to the upright position, and this huge elastic force would also be placed on the ejection rod. The "fire ball" at the end bounced out.

"Boom!" Accompanied by a loud voice, the burning fireball flew high under the action of the huge elastic force produced by the projectile rod.The fire group took a clear picture of where it went, allowing Len and others standing on the wall to have a panoramic view of everything.

Soon, the fire ball began to fall and hit the ground with a "poof", but the fire ball did not go out, and it continued to burn violently like a bonfire.I believe that if there is a night attack by orcs, it will be exposed under the radiation of the fire ball.

The sound of using a stone dumper here immediately caught the attention of others on the entire city wall. Seeing that their companions had already started, the soldiers sitting by the campfire could no longer sit still, and stood up to teach them to be with themselves. The mercenaries used the dump truck, and for a while, the silent night sky was broken by noisy sounds.

The soldier who explained did not care about the actions of others. He still said in that blunt voice: "This kind of'bubbling' is expensive to build. Don't use it too frequently. Moreover, the angle and distance of the launching of the stone dumper are basically It is fixed, and it must be combined with the bow and arrow to play the best role."

"Thank you." Despite the soldier's blunt tone, as if someone owed him hundreds of thousands of gold coins, Ryan was grateful for his detailed explanation and expressed his gratitude seriously.The soldier looked dazed, and then returned to the campfire with his four companions.

Bart said in a low voice, "Don't care, he is like that."

"Huh!" An atmosphere full of mercenaries whispered: "What kind of attitude is this, as if we were begging him. Did we walk thousands of miles to come here just to see his stinky face? "

The team leader holding a bow and arrow lowered his voice and explained to everyone: "No, don't care, his brother died in the daytime battle."

When the mercenaries who were still angry heard these words, they immediately closed their mouths.

The team leader with a bow and arrow continued: "He and his brother are both in charge of the drappers, but they are in two different units. Who knows that when the orcs attacked the city in the morning, they used the drappers to return the Thor Fortress, and they were destroyed. The car his brother was in charge of was dropped. At the time, his brother was twisting the rope and was hit by the stone bullet and was killed on the spot. Alas..."

After listening to the group leader with the bow and arrow in hand, everyone sat back by the bonfire in silence, and the atmosphere instantly solidified.

After a long period of time, all the teams finished their demonstrations, and the noisy Thor Fortress walls calmed down, and only the bonfire made a "crack" burning sound.

Because of doing nothing, many people started chatting again. The soldiers told the mercenaries about the past of their training, and the mercenaries vividly described their adventure stories that they didn't know whether they were true or false, which was not lonely.A few mercenaries were so eloquent that even a group of soldiers on patrol stopped and stood beside him listening quietly.

"Hey, Ryan." Bart asked Ryan, "What wonderful adventure story do you and Alan have?"

Ryan smiled and shook his head. To be honest, if Ryan tells his own experience, no one in the Thor Fortress will be more exciting and exciting than him, but Ryan always hopes to be low-key and naturally won't show off.

"Oh, you guys, everything is good, but your mouth is too hard to ask anything." Bart and Ryan have not been together for a short time, and naturally they have a certain understanding of Ryan, but he will not give up and continue. He asked, "Then you and Allen can go deep into the North Taren Prairie, can you always talk about it? In such cold weather, it would be boring if you just sit like this."

"Yeah, yeah." The other mercenaries also said together: "Ryan, just talk about it. What did you see over there? We are very curious."