"Seven days have passed and this is the eighth day."
At dawn, the Emerald Legion led by Margaret arrived at the border of the Beihai Fortress.
Lifting the telescope, the Beihai Fortress in the lens shone with crystal clear light under a few rays of sunlight. The whole city could not feel any vitality. No one could see any human beings or animals. The whole fortress was silent.
As if dead.
For this unusual situation, Margaret was mentally prepared and ordered the Black Rose mage to release several detection spells. However, the spells disappeared in an instant as they approached the fortress. As the wizards explained, it was near the fortress.
The elemental tide was in an extremely chaotic state. Seeing that it was impossible to use magic to conduct long-distance detection, Margaret sent three teams of ten reconnaissance cavalry to explore the way first.
According to the army building concept formulated by Lester, the scout cavalry is a small group of the most elite cavalry. Just like the scouts in previous lives, in addition to basic military literacy, everyone needs to master one or two amazing skills.
A unique skill, because only in this way can we accomplish tasks that are impossible for ordinary people.
Riding on his horse, Temple commanded his team to quickly approach the city a thousand meters away.
As a ten-year veteran who joined the army from the Black Iron Guards, Temple has extremely rich combat experience and has practiced archery skills in the early years. This makes Temple, who has the talent of eagle eye, even more in the military.
He was like a fish in water and became a famous marksman in the army.
Rejecting the offer to become an officer, Temple, who has always been adventurous, chose another path and joined the highly mobile, well-paid but extremely dangerous reconnaissance cavalry.
After practice, Temple, who was already gifted in archery, found his own path in mounted archery. He achieved impressive kills every time during harassment tactics, and was able to detect the enemy's situation through a pair of eyes with excellent eyesight.
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"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Seeing that he was about to approach the shooting range of the city wall, Temple slowed down his horse, whistled, and circled the top of his head twice with his right hand.
After receiving the order, the remaining nine horse archers began to distance themselves horizontally, crossing Temple and approaching the city wall covered with clusters of ice.
Standing five hundred meters away from the city wall, Temple skillfully took off the precious short dragon bow from his back, quickly took out three dynamite arrows from the quiver, and held them firmly with his ring finger and little finger.
Two arrows were lost, so he placed the first dynamite arrow on the dragon's sinew string and pulled the bow arm halfway. This was a continuous shooting method he invented, which could shoot three arrows within two seconds.
As long as there is any enemy exposed on the city wall, he will draw the bow to full capacity and let the arrow bite into the enemy's body, giving an early warning to his companions.
Things went more smoothly than expected. Like other reconnaissance cavalry teams, several cavalrymen jumped off their horses and used special hand crossbows to shoot the flying tiger claws connected to the rope to the edge of the wall and stuck it, and pulled it twice hard.
Start climbing up.
Someone quickly climbed up the more than 20-meter-high city wall. It was not until the first agile cavalry jumped onto the city wall that Temple loosened his bow string and took back the bow.
"What's going on? How's it going up there? I don't know if I'm dead or not!?"
Riding his horse to the lower edge of the city wall, Temple saw that his clever men in the past seemed to have disappeared and did not know how to report. Temple took the initiative and asked loudly with a dark face.
Three seconds later, a cavalryman poked his head out with a ghostly expression on his face and stammered in his words. Temple's veins popped out and he was furious.
"All...all are dead, they are all dead...all dead...Captain Temple...come up and see for yourself..."
Although he didn't know what happened up there, Temple knew that at least there was no danger up there.
It is definitely a good thing that there is no danger on the battlefield. As for the abnormal behavior of his subordinates, it must be because of some indescribable situations.
After comforting the somewhat uneasy horse, Temple hung up the saber lock to prevent the saber from falling off. Temple put the dragon tendon bow on his back and began to climb up along the hanging rope. He felt that the temperature was getting colder as he went up. Obviously, the temperature was very cold.
unusual.
After climbing over the edge of the city, the scenery in front of him made Temple's brain slow down for a moment and his breathing froze.
This is not a man-made disaster, this is a desperate natural disaster.
Everywhere you look is icy blue, and up and down the dead gray-blue city wall, countless Heidi people retain their truest feelings during their lives, whether they are anger, fear, confusion, or despair.
The expressions are all vivid. The pale face in the ice crystal seems to still be living in this world, and it seems to be dead. It just stares at the living with wide eyes, cursing those who come to fall into the deepest fear and nightmare.
Time was frozen at a certain moment. The next second, in silence, everyone died in the ice-blue terror. The entire city fortress was shrouded in frost, swallowing everyone's souls and taking away everything.
vitality.
Unable to escape, unable to refuse, I can only blend into this dead frost fortress and become a silent part of it, standing alone for hundreds of thousands of years, becoming a forgotten sculpture...
Withdrawing his gaze, Temple opened his mouth to say something, but felt that his throat was filled with lead, and his tongue seemed to be tied up and refused to obey instructions.
How many people live in this fortress? How many people died in this disaster?
Who caused such a disaster?
Temple had countless questions in his mind. He at least understood one thing, that is, the natural disaster in front of him was definitely related to the legion that rushed over after receiving the news.
Thinking of this, he guessed that the disaster suffered by the Heidi people was related to the Emerald Territory. The man who was slightly relieved almost stopped and began to think about the day in the past. The angel fell, the legion retreated, and he rode the dragon bird.
Lester, the Emerald Lord of Shia, left alone. At that time, he seemed to be still sighing sadly, saying that he had missed the best opportunity to capture the fortress, which reflected his dissatisfaction with the lord.
If... all of this was done by the lord for revenge alone, and the entire Emerald Legion was just here to take over the endgame...
A cold wind that made the soul tremble blew by. Temple stood on the city wall and shuddered unconsciously. His knees weakened and he was about to fall to the ground. Fortunately, other cavalrymen supported him in time.
Temple, who fell down and turned pale, did not make a big fool of himself.
The scene in front of him was originally shocking, but after thinking about the cause and effect, Temple only felt endless fear.
“Fa…fa…fa…”
After saying it three times, Temple, who was feeling tight in chest and short of breath, did not smooth out his stiff tongue. Instead, his subordinates who came out of the shock asked: "Send a safe signal?"
Pursing his mouth tightly, Temple signaled his men to let go of him, but he leaned against the city wall and nodded lightly.
As three green fireworks symbolizing safety exploded in the sky on the city wall, three kilometers away, Margaret issued the order to enter the city.
