The Amber Sword

Time came back half an hour ago.

Compared to the turmoil in Grey Rock Town, the nearby hills are quiet, Elouin's mission is on the hill, everyone is quietly in the pine woods, no one dares to light a fire or do anything extraordinary because of the fear of the hawk witches circling in the sky, and even have to whisper - everyone is waiting for the sky to be completely dark.

Until then, however, time became extraordinarily tedious and lengthy, with some whispering, others eating food to keep their strength dry, and four inner chivalry knights in the woods discussing the North Mountain sentry. Roman tells a story to Grand Duke Goran-Elson, who looks admirably at the merchant lady, who has a special ability to tell the beginning of what has not yet happened. She is talking about her business group, a merchant boat with huge sails like clouds crossing the sparkling sea, along the shipping lane to the bustling harbour, the barbaric areas, the giant beasts lurking in the high seas, the storms bred above the sea, the strange fish and the rare sights of mortals in her lifetime, although she has never been to those places, but as if she had seen them, the way to come and attract people to victory. Soon she was surrounded by other people, and Brando saw three loyal listeners of Roman, the sugar cans, Delphirie and Hippamilla, and then joined Chiara and Princess Magdalene.

The Duke is accompanied by several stars of Enid. The strange stars of Vaughn are always shining from east to west. The night sky is like a black cloth sprinkled with rubble ends, gleaming. A long river of starlight has appeared hidden, as if the final coming of the night had been proclaimed. But after the stars converge with the light of the moon, the light rises outside the woods, and the valleys of Silver Hua shine a faint glow at night.

Until nightfall, Brando had been asking Cooper about the situation in Ashley Town, which also wanted to highlight the siege by night, but suffered from the tightness of protection in Ashley Town, not to mention the eagle witches in the sky who had no choice. He had little knowledge of what was happening in Grey Stone Town, and Brando could only answer a few vague questions when asked, but as a local nobleman he knew very well about Grey Stone Town itself, where there were markets, where there were open streets, where there were military camps and towers, where there were temples, he knew all about them and could draw a simple map.

Brando asked in great detail and made Cooper wonder, “Count, are you sure you want to take down Graystone? ”

“It is hard to say that everything will wait until nightfall to find out.” Brando replied.

“Count, the Georgendigan armies stationed in Gray Rock are not weaker than we are. They also have a defensive advantage. The Eagle Witch and the Caveman have a stronger soldier power than our swordsmen and spears - of course, they may not be as good as your army, but as I can see, my lord, you have not brought many guards?” Cooper asked carefully.

that noble spears in Eruin, especially in the South, are at most equivalent to first-order soldiers, even at a lower average level than infantry swordsmen and spears in local regiments, but that noble militias are still slightly stronger in Kruz and can be equal to swordsmen in first- and second-line regiments in Eruin, who, like cavemen, belong to second-line ranks, but also have strong and weak ranks in the same ranks, Cavemen are in the upper middle ranks of the second rank, Cruz noble spears and swordsmen are at most close to the second rank, the human army is slightly better at discipline, but they are far too poor at solo combat. Disciplinary advantages tend to show obvious advantages when fighting large regiments, but in small battles, in surprise battles, personal strength can determine a battle Win or lose.

Not to mention Jorgendioka and the hawks and razor boars, which are real third-degree creatures, which would be a disaster for the noble army of these places if there were one or two more nest lords or Minotaurs in town.

Shaddle Cavemen, a clan that is not very powerful beneath Jorgendigan, but on the same scale as the local legions of the Krutz, such as the lords that Brando is familiar with in history, such as Troc, the 'King of the Blind’ Satak, or the 'Traitor’ Hilika, whose armies have won a battle against the border regiments within God's borders, and the existence of Gerat and Medusa after that, if they did their best, would not necessarily be able to contain even the empire's front-line legions alone.

“What do you think you should do, Sir?” Brando asked.

“I think we should find a way around… we are few and walking through the hills is not necessarily what we find.” Cooper thought about it and answered in a vomitful manner, as if even he felt that his suggestion was not so reliable. Brando smiled and shook his head gently. One or two thousand people marched in the hills. It's impossible not to be found. Don't say a thousand or two, even if one or two hundred people can't cover the shade of the bush once it moves, unless all of us are separated in groups to scatter into the hills, but how much space it takes, how long, we don't have time at all.

We can't leave this place safely if we don't get rid of Graystone's garrison.

“Hey," Cooper sighed, a little desperate: "Must we fight, there's no other way? ”

Brando seemed scared by the Jogentigans and could only comfort him with two words: “Sir Cooper, Greystone is less difficult to overcome than you think. ”

Cooper nodded and glanced at the direction of the valley as if it were comforting.

Through the pitch-black woods, Haruze seemed attracted by the light outside. He held a pine tree by his hand and walked out, finally seeing Les Mecca on the edge of the woods, Medusa standing beside the bushes, gazing at the bare white rock beneath the moon. But the little prince saw a shadow in the valley, a place flat with a rocky gaze, called Gray Stone Town, which the teacher told him was geographically the exit of the valley, but he knew that the town was occupied by some special enemy at the moment.

“Are those your compatriots, Sister Les Mecca?” He went behind Medusa and asked softly.

“Compatriots? Not really.” Les Mecca had heard the little prince's voice and replied.

Haruze looked at her indissolubly.

Les Mecca turns back and looks at this little prince, with a mild meaning in his amber prism: “Little cutie, in human language, Jorgentine is actually just a geographical noun, not a degree or a piece of territory, the real Jorgentine is actually divided into three layers, each very different, the shallowest ruler is a dwarf, the middle layer is the Jorgentine you know, and the bottom layer is the kingdom of the Dark Elves, and then down, there are rivers of lava and sulfur. In the dark underground world, with thousands of different ethnic groups, they have never had the notion of a nation, even the most powerful lords tend to rule only one city and one territory, smaller tribes depend on the life of their lords, and since history they have fought and fought against each other. ”

As she said, she sighed, and Haruze felt that she probably shouldn't have mentioned these things and stopped asking.

After sending Cooper away, Brando watched the scene far from the woods as he returned to Nimmasis.

“Medusa over there?” He turned back and asked.

“Her Royal Highness promised to shelter her, and Her Royal Highness the Little Prince seemed to like her very much.” Nimatis replied, but he didn't look over there, as if he didn't care at all.

“No problem?”

“The problem is not so great, don't forget that she came with the devil. ”

Brando nodded, and in the middle and lower levels of Jogentigaung, the natives were enemies of the devil, but there was also a small group of people who had to serve the devil, who were slaves of the devil, by virtue of this origin, and by virtue of the fact that she had personally returned the little prince, so Griffin had no reason to believe in her so much.

A moment of silence between them, silently looking in the direction of the valley, the wind blowing from the hills swept the whole pine forest over their heads, making a noise.

“It's getting dark early.” Nimmasis suddenly said.

'Cause it's almost winter. ”

Nimais glanced at him: "The direction of the meteor's fall is near the North Mountain Sentinel. ”

“There are many witnesses, most of whom testify to this, but most of them do not believe it to be true, and they generally believe it to be a Jorgendigan trick. ”

“Cavemen are looking for it. ”

Brando nodded, and although most people thought they were headed for Count Alcons, he had the answer in his heart a long time ago.

Nimaisie looked at him quietly as if he were a ghost: “Could it be that thing? ”

“Soon enough. ”

“So confident? The jazz gentleman was suspicious that you could take this place.” Nemathis thought of Cooper's face and couldn't help but curl his mouth, but unfortunately Brando hadn't noticed, and he laughed after hearing it: "What is it, don't you know, this era is famous, but ‘we’ have our own means. ”

“Are you trying to say 'player’? ”

Brando doesn't want to answer this question lightly, and he's been thinking about it all these days: does history tend to happen or change, and if so, what are the opportunities?

The night is getting deeper and deeper.

It is obviously unrealistic to approach Gray Stone Town under the eyes of hawks before it is dark. These monsters have sight comparable to that of their distant relatives on the ground. In fact, do not speak of the valley, as long as they walk out of the shade of the dense tree crown, they may be targeted. As a reconnaissance force in a flight unit, Eagle Girls are also at the top of the list throughout Warnde, and even Buga's Stone Ghosts are slightly inferior in terms of reconnaissance capability alone, although they are fragile and accustomed to jumping between subterranean formations with short wings and insufficient ability to climb in the sky, which makes them highly underprivileged in their struggles in the sky.

But it's also a delusion to be near Gray Stone after nightfall, and hawks are creatures in darkness, and they actually have better eyesight at night than during the day, because they have a slight photoblindness that makes them very ill-adapted to the day of the surface world.

According to Charles, the only way to get quietly close to Greystone is if you can learn to be invisible - if you can find so many wizards to do magic for more than a thousand people hiding in the mountains.

Looks like there's only one way to attack.

But players are particularly good at small-scale unconventional combat like this, so Brando and Nimaisie are usually less troublesome to choose from.

As Sir Cooper's clockwise pointer crossed the twelve markers, it seemed like a breeze in the forest, a small group of stone statues were taking off from the wooded land at the top of the mountain, but from above the forest, all he could see was a slight shake of the black-painted canopy, the branches seemed to be slightly sunk by the falling airflow pressure, a total of seven or eight invisible waves swept across the canopy, and then disappeared.

And beneath the crown, the wizards dressed in robes were watching the stones with the Invisible spell take off, and they were surrounded by a second group of stone ghosts waiting to take off, which stood between the woodlands like statues when they were not activated, with their wings almost above the height of the tree's tip. These are the first backups of the Stone Ghosts, and if possible, everyone here sincerely hopes to succeed once and for all and do not use these supplies.

And by night, as if Martha was on their side, the plan was going much better than I thought.

Eight invisible stone statues climbed into the night sky, and they quickly flew into the clouds, onto the heads of those eagle witches over Gray Stone Town, and the moonlight poured over the clouds, looking down through the cloudy fog void like a light veil, the four black dots that were flying in a circle could be clearly observed. The eagle witches did not feel any danger approaching. They were circling halfway through the sky, watching the vast land with sharp eyes. In their sight, the mountains and hills where the stars converged with the east and west under the moonlight were like a tiny sand plate, and the hills covered with silver mist appeared calm.

And at this point, eight stone ghosts have long locked their targets, and they climb high and start making the final turns, then dive.

Stones, like ghosts and vultures, are heavy flying units, and their wingspans are much wider, more powerful, and more robust than vultures, which means that they have almost the strongest climbing and diving power of the same level of life - in the game, stone ghosts are the closest of the three ranks of the four ranks, vultures are the fourth rank, eagle witches are the closest of the three ranks of the four ranks, and the equilibrium of the three flying creatures is almost always among the brothers, but more than reconnaissance. Stones, like ghosts, are not rivals of eagles, are more like entanglements than fierce lions, but in the pursuit of climbing and diving speed, the Buccanese stone ghosts are the first worthy.

Not to mention that the statue ghosts diving from the clouds are still invisible at this moment, and the four-headed eagle witch has no idea that the disaster is falling from the sky until the bursting tsunami reaches their ears and they react in panic.

But unfortunately.

It was too late, and the precision of the construct allowed eight stone ghosts to enter the attack distance simultaneously, and when they showed their intent to strike out of the Invisible spell, the Eagle Girl had no reaction at all, and they fought in vain for a moment in the middle of the sky, then were punched through the fragile sternum by cold claws. Almost all eight stone statues are arranged in a sequence of attacks, one by one, in order to prevent leakage of fish, but this has proved to be more than one.

As soon as the stone ghost passed, a rain of feathers fell in the air.

It's just a pity that it's too high off the ground, feathers are dancing, and you don't know where you'll be when you land.

In the night, no one finds that the battle in the sky is over before it begins.

Those who waited anxiously on the ground received a message from the Stone Ghost at the same time, and Rogers couldn't help but slap some excitedly and his companions, and the wizards in the forest clapped their hands to congratulate him. But at the same moment, on the other side of the hill, a bunch of pixies dressed in feather capes, dressed very differently than humans, with long canes, were walking out of the forest, painted with various patterns on their faces, some of them looking like barbarians in the mountains, but their identities - Druid the Tree Elf - were revealed in their pointy ears.

A small group of Druids had long joined Brando's sorcerer regiment in the Autumn War, and after the war, more tree elves came out of the Black Forest and settled in his territory - part of his deal with the Druids in the Wind of Faith, and as the Mage regiment traveled with the Eruids' mission, the Druids came to the land of Kruids.

They recite ancient spells against the night breeze, and then one after the other they turn into birds or ravens, flying in groups from the woods, beneath the valley, in the direction of Gray Stone Town.

Near the Empire's internal sea, migratory birds often migrate, and even inland, ravens hovering over hills are not uncommon, but the Druids safely chose to disperse into towns, and after losing their eyes on the sky, Jorgendigan's army simply failed to notice these scattered birds. The Druids flew into the city, landed in the dark - in dead ends, in dark alleys or in secluded courtyards, and then reshaped into shapes in a dark green light, a couple of groups of Druids, pulling blue stones out of their pockets, putting them on the ground under some particular pattern, forming a large and small court formation.

They then began to inject magic into the stones, and the green beam of light, like a snake, stretched between the stones, and when each stone was in series, the space above the Pharaoh shook up, and a flashing silver line emerged from the center, expanding to both sides, like an open eye in the void, but this eye had no eyelids, and there was only a strange space inside that flashed blue and white light.

Far away in the hills, a dozen light doors were opened, appeared in front of the long-awaited White Lion Guard and the noble militia of the Cruz, and everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them, "Buga's Frente de Conversion!” Rogers shouted, looking at Brando with complexity: "The artisan wizards are behind you. ”

Brando laughed, “Mr. Knight, if you make your voice louder for Sir Cooper to hear, maybe he'll start questioning your identity. ”

As Rogers changed his face, thinking that it was more important for him to hide the identity of the Knight of the Nativity, he shut his mouth carefully.

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