Chapter 22 Shutorals counterattack and the power of the extraordinary
Fiona pretended that nothing happened or saw anything, and sat on the soft chair opposite her best friend with a calm face.
Actually, she was shocked. What happened to Sonia? Seasick? Impossible, how could an extraordinary person still get seasick? Could it be...
Griffith, you have such thick eyebrows and big eyes, you can’t imagine that you are also a bad guy... Impossible, impossible, this is amazing. I must have misunderstood something...
Sonia has calmed down after finishing spitting out the paper, and has gained peace from the depths of her soul.
Had I known it, I would have torn it into pieces and thrown it into the river~ Why should I eat it...
Fortunately, the fraction part has been integrated into the beautiful Vero River. Sonia pretended that nothing happened, folded the remaining part of the paper and stuffed it into the small bag.
This matter is now concluded, and now comes the issue of reporting.
The report can be submitted after returning to Homemonworth, but without Griffiths coming along he won't be able to compile the materials needed for the report!
Fiona, who was sitting opposite, had been carefully observing her good friend's expression for a while. She smiled and reached out to touch her spread blond hair: "What are you thinking about?"
Sonia thought for a while and suddenly raised her head, "Should I write to Griffith and explain the situation?"
“Pfft!” Fiona just picked up the black tea at hand, took a small sip, and almost spit it out, “Isn’t it a bit too direct?”
Direct? Why is there a problem with directness? Sonia tilted her head in confusion and adjusted her thoughts: "I thought about it seriously. If I don't explain it clearly to him, it will be too late."
"Ahem~" Fiona choked and hurriedly put down the teacup, looking at her good friend with wide eyes, as if she no longer knew her. A thought rolled in Fiona's heart, Sonia, you have developed like this
Quick? You and Griffith have only known each other for a few months! It's not like Lana and I.
"But there are so many things I want to say, and I don't know where to start." Sonia turned her head and looked into the distance outside the boat. The breeze blew her light blond hair on her shoulders, and the quiet river reflected the mountains in early spring.
Flowing in her blue eyes, it was as if Fengyue's sorrow and longing were melting away.
No, no, is it true? Even if I misunderstood something just now, this look is extraordinary! Did you really have something going on with Griffith? Fiona was shocked, the look in her close friend's eyes
Wang Chunshui filled her with a sense of responsibility and carefully probed: "So urgent?"
“Well, it’s very urgent, we can’t delay it any longer.” Sonia, who had just failed the exam, didn’t dare to be careless.
"I really didn't expect it," Fiona rubbed her forehead, "Is there anyone competing with you? Galadia?"
The elves are different from us. She will go back to her own country in the future, and her grades at Homemon Watts may not be important. Sonia sighed softly and said casually: "Her conditions are too good, and the starting point is the same as mine."
no the same."
Fiona began to worry about her good friend, very, very worried. Indeed, the elf has so many talents, beauty, elegance, unparalleled talent and noble status, and sings well, plus she and Griffith adventured in the East together.
Experience, Sonia's situation is grim.
Griffith, you sinful villain! What to do! What to do? Fiona realized the difficulty and seriousness of the struggle situation. She opened her mouth, but there was something stuck in her throat and she couldn't speak, so she hurriedly pursed her lips again.
I took a sip of black tea.
Sonia smoothed her long hair and suddenly made up her mind. She looked at her good friend seriously and asked: "Can you lend me Lana?"
Use Lana, use it! What expansion is this? Fiona almost fainted: "Are you serious?"
"Well," the daughter of the Larmore family nodded very seriously, "He is also quite powerful. I won't spend a lot of time paying it back to you."
What nonsense! I have never dreamed of this kind of thing...I only think about it occasionally! Fiona's face immediately turned red, she stared at her best friend in stunned silence, and whispered coyly: "This, is not good, is it?
He will be very tired."
“That’s right, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have made such a request.” Although Sonia didn’t quite understand why Fiona was so resistant, since her good friend felt bad about it, she shouldn’t continue the topic.
At this moment, there was a shout from the sailors of the sloop. A group of people on the starboard shore were flying a signal flag to them.
The sailors ran out of the cabin and raised the signal flag toward the shore in response. The ship immediately turned around and headed for a pier not far ahead.
Sonia didn’t pay much attention to this matter and continued to look down at her book. It was almost noon now, and most of the nearby families had brought fresh food to them.
"Fiona, come and sit in the cabin for a while," Lana, who was fully armed, came over and saluted Sonia who was sitting opposite, "Miss Larmore, please come with me."
"You, you, what are you going to do?" Fiona suddenly jumped up, blushing and shaking her head desperately, "Three people, this kind of thing is not allowed, right?"
Lana glanced at Fiona in confusion, not knowing what she was thinking, but he had encountered this situation many times: "This is not the core territory of the kingdom. According to the regulations, the staff must assume that they will meet during the trip.
To fully protect the safety of the commander in case of attack. Please enter the cabin to guard against danger."
Sonia nodded, packed up her books and stood up. This trip, like hiking in the Whispering Forest in winter, was a simulation under specific conditions.
Ever since he suffered a big loss last winter, no matter how lax Xu Toral is, he attaches great importance to the system and safety, and almost everyone is about to turn into a Griffith, big or small.
Neither the school nor the parents stopped this behavior, which shows that their persistence should have some validity.
The three of them left the deck and came to the inner cabin. There was a spacious lounge there. Isius, Berthier and Dedeus were playing six-player auto-chess with their Scitoral. The others and the professor
Most of them played chess and read books in their cabins.
"He's delivering lunch, right? This journey is really boring," Isius noticed the movement of the sailboat and opened a porthole to look outside. "Murat, we are scheduled to disembark from the ship tomorrow for inspection, right?"
"Yes, Viscount," Murat looked through the schedule, "In addition, this location and time should be lunch and local information sent from the nearby Richter Manor. According to the original plan, they should contact us at the next ferry.
The time has also been advanced by half an hour.”
"I have been sitting on the boat for a whole day and there is no signal at all." Viscount Isius shook the echo crystal in his hand to everyone, "My crystal signal has been very noisy since yesterday, and today I can't hear anything at all. You guys
How about it?"
"I don't know~ My dad won't let me establish contact with unidentified psychic nodes," Fiona sat down on the sofa nearby, "Don't you just want to listen to the messages from those suspicious echo terminals? You
You don’t even know whether the owner of that voice is a human being, why you are still so interested, aren’t you afraid that followers of black magic or even demons from the abyss are tempting you?”
"Demon of the abyss? Charm? If it's a succubus, I can do it!" Isius lay down on the sofa, "Sitting on a boat is really boring. It would be great if there are followers of black magic who come to give me some fun."
Berthier, who was very bookish, also tested the crystal and found that the signal was indeed very poor. The echo hub in the old town and the time of the Astrology Tower could not be heard. He thought solemnly for a while and said hesitantly: "Is it possible?
What's wrong? Someone is interfering with us or the psychic energy in this area."
"New magic items all have this problem, and they will mature in two years," Dedeus said nonchalantly, then looked at Kulala's chessboard, "Hey, your water element is too far forward, and the assassin is in the back row.
.”
“You don’t understand, just watch, I’ll kill you in the next round!” Kurala said while quickly adjusting the position of the chess piece.
Bertier still felt something was wrong. The goblin attack last year scared him badly, and his subordinate Sciuto Larnona was also injured in the subsequent battle.
Although he had no evidence, he always had a vague premonition: "There are no rebels around here, right?"
"There is a small-scale rebel army, Mr. Berthier. They are led by a rebel knight named Lance. They claim to be under the command of a rebel leader in the northwest mountains who calls himself the Lightning King," Lana replied, "
Viscount Tretter's army is fighting them two days' journey from us.
“A reinforcement force composed of local city defense troops and militia has joined Viscount Tret’s army. I paid attention to their battle reports, and Reims’ army is about to collapse.
“The larger rebel forces are far away from us and are mainly concentrated in the mountainous areas of the southwest and northwest.”
Sonia sat down, and through the porthole she could see a small pier approaching. A group of people and a carriage carrying large and small packages had gathered there. They were waving signal flags and guiding the sailboat to dock.
“Bang.” Murat lowered the wooden board of the porthole to block her view.
"I'll go to the deck, Murat, and I'll leave the inspection of the cabin to you," Rana nodded to everyone when he saw that he was about to dock, picked up his weapon, turned around and walked out of the cabin.
Rana wore a black fine armor, with a dense layer of mail under the armor. He had large and small daggers and hatchets stuck on his waist, which were almost the same length as an ordinary adult male, used to break formations and fight.
A heavy horse-killing sword for large creatures. According to the regulations, he should arrive at the bridge before docking the ship and monitor the situation at the dock. However, this large and small equipment is very inconvenient to walk in the crowded aisle of the cabin. From time to time, people who care about lunch will run by him.
He also had to step aside to avoid the classmates who were eating something.
"Nonna, Cruara, put on your armor and get in position," Murat reminded the two female Scitoral who were still playing, "Bertier and Mr. Dedeus, please prepare for the docking this time.
You must also participate in alert drills for supplies."
“Ah! We’re obviously going to win!” the beautiful girl with silver-white shawl hair yelled, “Can’t we pause the auto chess game?”
"Culala, put on your armor," Nona, who had already put on half of the plate armor, put the breastplate aside into the hands of her companions, and then said sternly to the aristocratic young man who still looked confused, "Mr. Berthier"
, stop staring at the Beyeland Post and thinking nonsense, we all know there is nothing real in it except the date."
The cockpit is in the second half of the second floor of the cruise ship. It is a semi-open space where the rudder and navigation chart are. The captain is directing the sailors to dock and put down the cables and planks. With a "boom" sound
There was a sound, the cruise ship docked at the pier, and then there was a sound of sliding planks and cables.
Due to a delay in the lounge and passage, Rana, who had originally planned to board the bridge before docking, had just climbed up the narrow stairs at this time.
If Griffith was here, I would have to say that I moved slowly... The burly Lana shook his head helplessly, trying to look out through the gap while crawling, but he could only barely see a figure moving on the shore.
"What are you doing?!" Suddenly, the captain in the cockpit at the end of the stairs shouted. Rana's heart tightened, and just as he was about to speed up, he heard a piercing sound.
Oops!
The captain who shouted was hit by an arrow in the forehead and fell backwards on the deck. With a series of noises, arrows rained down on the open bridge. There was chaos on the bridge, and a sailor screamed.
He ran into the stairs and jumped down on top of Lana who was still climbing up.
There was a series of thuds on the deck, and something was thrown up.
“Damn it! Get out of the way!” Lana was knocked directly back into the cabin on the first deck by the jumping sailor.
There was no point in going to the bridge now. He threw the sailors away, kicked open the nearby side door and rushed to the deck.
The small group of old town defense troops accompanying them were scurrying around. Continuous arrows flew across the deck, making them unable to lift their heads.
An arrow was nailed to the wall next to Rana. He glanced at it and found that the workmanship was quite poor. The attackers were shooting at the cockpit with bows and arrows and blocking the passage to the deck.
A group of people holding torches quickly climbed up the side of the ship under the cover of arrows. They wore shabby coats and were armed with short guns, hatchets and torches. As soon as they got up, they destroyed the sails and cables.
“Mura, come on deck!”
Lana roared angrily. The narrow space of the cabin did not allow him to take off the sword on his back. He sank his body and rushed to the deck despite the arrows that came from time to time.
The two attackers who were destroying the sails immediately spotted him and rushed towards him with short guns. Rana grabbed a short gun with one hand, pulled out the short knife from his waist and stabbed him in the heart. The other man raised the short gun.
He took the opportunity and stabbed Rana in the waist.
The tip of the gun bounced off the armor. Rana didn't care, turned around and punched the attacker to the ground. He picked up a short gun with his toes, caught it with his hand and stabbed it into the attacker's throat.
The short spear stuck at the waist is not worth mentioning. This kind of weapon cannot penetrate sophisticated heavy armor.
Rana drew his zanma sword and swiped it at the attackers who had climbed up the side of the ship. A group of attackers were jumping onto the deck with daggers in their teeth and holding torches. Before they could gain a foothold, the zanma sword had already swept over them, killing them.
The body, chopped into pieces and with its intestines scattered, fell into the river.
The attackers who had just boarded the deck rushed towards Rana. However, they had no armor and no armor-breaking weapons. They were invincible against the enemies with heavy armor and swords.
Lana killed seven or eight people in the blink of an eye like he was chopping melons and vegetables. The rest screamed and jumped over the side of the ship and fled towards the shore.
"kill!"
Suddenly there was another roar from the shore. Hundreds of men in rags emerged from the bushes and woods in the distance and rushed towards the docked sailboat. They had no armor and no bright weapons.
Weapons, holding a variety of bows and arrows, slings, torches and oil flasks.
In a blink of an eye, this group of people crossed the dock, lit the kerosene bottle, and threw it towards the ship. Others joined the first batch of shooters and washed the deck with dense arrow stones. "Boom!" The kerosene bottle
It shattered on the deck and immediately burst into flames, igniting the deck and ship's sides and spreading to all sides.
Rana pulled out his dagger and threw it, knocking down an enemy, but more attackers rushed in with bottles of kerosene. Although they were poorly equipped and not worth mentioning in battle, it would be troublesome if the sails were set on fire!
“Bang!”
A raised bottle of kerosene suddenly exploded, and sharp arrows shot through the clay pot. The tongues of fire immediately rushed down, devouring the attacker in the blink of an eye, turning him into a screaming and twisted torch.
Another sharp arrow penetrated an archer who was aiming at Lana in the distance, going straight through his eye socket. He fell straight backwards.
“Rana, Murat, get off the boat and fight back, don’t let them get close!” Nona and Kulala rushed out of the cabin and immediately shot and killed the two enemies.
These two arrows attracted the attention of the attackers. They drew their bows and arrows, or swung their slings, and a hail of bows, arrows and stones hit the deck.
Nona and Kulala did not seek cover either. They wore helmets and stood proudly on the deck. Facing the arrows and stones flying from the sky, they bent their bows and arrows at the crowds on the shore. They suppressed the shore with rapid fire like the wind.
Enemies on the side.
They did not carry strong bows, but used light riding bows as weapons to shoot quickly, creating a continuous rain of dense arrows and the reverberation of bowstrings.
The attackers who were shooting on the shore were named one after another, and their heads pierced by arrows bloomed like roses on the ground. They shouted and launched a counterattack at the two men, but the weak bows, arrows and slings could only hit
The deck and sails responded with precise and rapid shooting.
The ragged attackers were like saplings in a strong wind. They fell down one after another after being struck by arrows, leaving their livers and brains covered in blood on the trestle on the shore. Some people were shot and exploded by an arrow before they could even throw out the kerosene bottles in their hands.
The flames swallowed him up instantly, and he jumped into the river dancing.
Rana jumped up and landed firmly on the trestle on the shore. He swiped his horse sword forward with both hands. Immediately, three or four attackers holding kerosene bottles were cut off from the waist. Their broken corpses and flames fell into the river together.
Soon, they collapsed. Suppressed by the burst of shooting from the two Beyonders, Nona and Kulala, more than thirty attackers were shot dead in less than half a minute. If it weren't for the fact that the casualties came too suddenly,
Horrible, they might have fled long ago.
However, there were still some people in the dispersed crowd who refused to retreat. They gritted their teeth and tried to throw up torches and kerosene bottles.
Lana and Murat, who disembarked and fought back, tore them apart with swords and halberds.
There was the sound of rapid horse hooves on the shore, and a group of riders was coming from a distance. The attackers actually arranged a third wave of ambush.
Although their previous and later rounds of attacks were disconnected from each other, upon seeing the appearance of these riders, some of the originally defeated attackers in the first two rounds also turned around and fought back.
"Go and stop the cavalry, they are coming here with torches!" Nona, who had black hair and brown eyes, fired at the fleeing attackers on the shore and shouted to her three companions, "Drive them away and leave a safe position for the professor.
.Culala, summon the sailors and city defense troops to put out the fire and save the sails."
…
A group of cavalry galloped towards Rana. They had superb riding skills, armed with sabers, spears and torches, and marched towards Shutoral. The leading rider rode towards Rana with a spear, and stabbed Rana. There were others.
Two horsemen holding sabers surrounded him from the left and right.
A horse thief who can use a lance? Could it be that an official army surrendered to the rebels?
The Lancers are menacing and their horses' hooves are rumbling. The pressure of the spears and fast horses is enough to make the recruits collapse.
Lana did not dodge, and rushed sideways towards the lance that could pierce him. The black horse-cutting sword slashed head-on. Amidst the terrifying whistling and tearing sounds, the rider, horse head and lance were broken in half. The broken horse
The bullet created a streak of fire on the breastplate. Lana turned a blind eye and stepped between the bloody corpses of the men and horses. He exerted his strength with his waist and slashed at the outflanking saber rider.
The horse was slashed under the rider's crotch from the left shoulder, and the rider's waist and legs were torn all the way to the horse's lower right abdomen. The rotten intestines and intestines of the rider were screamed out several meters away.
The third horseman was already panicking. He didn't know where to go with the saber in his hand, but the two-handed sword was already pressing down like thunder.
“Dang!”
The sword was cut into two pieces, then the head was cut open, and the spine and throat were scattered all over the ground.
The rest of the horse thieves screamed in surprise, this bloody and crazy scene was truly unprecedented.
Lana did not hesitate. He retracted his sword and charged towards the leader of the group of riders, jumping and slashing him head-on.
"Wow!"
The leader just screamed, and his head exploded like a watermelon under the heavy blow. The sword edge smashed his neck and cut into his chest, and then he was cut in two pieces from the middle.
The menacing horse thieves were in chaos. Nona and Kulala were sniping at them on the boat. The continuous arrows shot down four or five more of them, and the rest hurriedly turned their horses and ran away.
“Follow them!” shouted Lana. “Mura, let’s catch some tongues!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a burning fireball flew out of the woods in the distance and flew through the air towards the sailboat.
“Bang!”
The fireball dragged a trail of thick smoke, passed over the hull of the ship and crashed into the river, causing waves several meters high.
“Trebuchet!” cried Nona, “go and take away that trebuchet.”
There was actually a trebuchet placed in the bushes not too far away. It was hidden at the edge of the forest and hidden with bushes and branches. At this time, the camouflage had been removed in the chaos, and a circle of people was busy reinstalling it.
Load expendable stone bullets. As long as it is hit by one shot, the hull of the sloop will be severely damaged, or at least the sail will be burned.
Nona and Kulala threw away their riding bows, grabbed the longbows beside them, pulled out the pleasing full circle, and shot in the direction of the trebuchet. The arrows streaked across the sky, accurately killing the two attackers.
But this was not enough to eliminate the danger of the trebuchet.
"I'll kill it!" Lana raised his hand and said, "You stay where you are and defend it."
As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful wave of spiritual energy surged from behind. The terrifying magic power that seemed to tear everything apart was stirring, making everyone shudder.
Professor Witzleben came to the deck. He quickly chanted an unidentifiable spell and drew the wand in his right hand in the air.
“You lowly insect,” the professor, who held the rank of an extraordinary person, looked at the direction of the trebuchet. “Let you see the consequences of offending the majesty of Homemon Watts.”
Suddenly a suspended magic circle appeared in the sky, shrouding the trebuchet. Waves of fire surged in the dense clouds. As the red clouds rolled, the plane and the air were torn apart, and burning meteorites poured down.
“Be destroyed by the attack of meteors and fire showers!”