After the king's team returned from the three wild boars, several bards came to the castle to see them.
However, Elizabeth, together with the well-informed dwarves and drows, saw through their disguise. Just as the king had predicted, none of the bards in Langdon City met the king's expectations.
Just like that, the time came to the next day.
At noon the next day, Elizabeth and others surrounded the king on the city wall.
They were waiting for Cassander, who had gone on a reconnaissance mission, to return and report the location of the Emperor's troops.
The catman built a pergola with his hands and leaned against the wall to look far into the distance: "I can't see the Amur light cavalry. Shouldn't they be wandering around the city preparing to intercept the conscripted troops that are coming?"
Wang: "Maybe they are intercepting those armed farmers far away from the city."
As soon as he finished speaking, Duke Langdon led his entourage onto the city wall: "Don't worry, I have ordered all the conscripted peasants to enter the nearby baron's fortress, where they will not be harassed by cavalry."
King: "Good afternoon, Your Majesty the Duke."
Elizabeth: "You look happy, brother."
Bruce smiled: "Because there is good news, the River Valley Leader's army still on the river has submitted a letter of surrender. They don't want to rush back to the River Valley Leader through the blockade of tower ballistas again, so they surrendered to us.
"I have captured twenty knights with fiefdoms, and I have asked their followers to return to the River Valley Territory on a fast boat. I estimate that the River Valley Territory will withdraw from the war soon and pay a ransom for us to release them."
Elizabeth: "So the war is almost over, right? Then there should be no need for the king to attack the emperor's army."
Bruce looked at his sister and patted her shoulder gently: "How can you say that? You are the saint of Langdon. How many casualties can be reduced by letting the mage transform into a dragon and spray it on the people of Langdon City? The enemy is
There is a military advantage."
Elizabeth: "But..."
"Don't worry." Wang interrupted the princess, "I have made complete preparations today. Look at this."
As he spoke, he took out a headband from his dimensional bag and put it on his head: "This is a magic item captured from Erwin. It can prevent instant death effects."
Elizabeth: "But before you..."
The king took out another ring: "Do you know this ring? The traitor found it. In order to give this ring to me, you promised to give the traitor 4,500 gold coins."
Elizabeth squinted at the ring: "I remember you said this was a counter-spell ring?"
Wang nodded: "Yes, I gave this ring to your great mage this morning. He is a seven-ring spell caster. I asked him to fill the ring with a dissociation spell. In this way, the first one to me
The dissociation spell fired will be countered by the ring."
The Archmage smiled and said: "I have consumed a precious sixth-level spell slot, but I think it is worth it. Bring us victory, Your Majesty the Archmage."
I don’t know why, but since yesterday, everyone likes to call me Master Wang.
Wang: "I'm just a rookie with three rings."
At this moment, a sparrow landed in the sky and transformed into Cassander before landing: "The emperor's troops marched to our predetermined position and observed a huge team of spellcasters, as many as 80 people!"
The barons and viscounts behind Bruce exclaimed: "Eighty people?"
"Even if they are all third-level spellcasters, they can use fireballs to blow up all the city gates!"
"Damn emperor, does he still have a trump card?"
Bruce raised one hand to stop the discussion of the nobles and looked directly at the king: "What do you think? Your Excellency, a disciple of the legendary archmage?"
Wang shrugged: "The emperor did not send magical spellcasters to participate in the attack the day before yesterday because the priests of the Good God and all the holy warriors did not allow themselves to participate in this kind of robbery and massacre of civilians. However, the arcane spellcasters did not
There are no such moral constraints.
"Actually, just talking about mages, there are a lot more evil mages who are willing to study at any cost. Why didn't the emperor send a single arcane spellcaster to the attack the day before yesterday?
"I think that the emperor does not have so many arcane spellcasters. This is the emperor's trick. He makes adult men wear robes and hang a bag on their waist. From the air, they look like mages.
"Of course, there should still be quite a few magical spellcasters in the emperor's army."
The king's words relieved the newly shaken nobles. But Bruce asked: "How can you be sure that these are the emperor's tricks? Maybe he did not receive reinforcements when he attacked yesterday, maybe these spell casters have something to do with them.
What a promise."
King: "You are right, but I have other evidence. Cassander, are all the spellcasters you see gathered together?"
Cassander nodded: "Yes, all together."
The king turned to Bruce: "This is unreasonable. The emperor should have learned through the knights who fled back that there was a dragon here - or a mage who could transform into a dragon to help.
"If he really has so many casters, he should disperse them throughout the team. Once the dragon attacks, use the spell 'Common Protective Energy'. The attributes of the dragon's breath attack can be judged by their appearance. With so many scattered casters
, can greatly reduce the damage of Dragon Breath.
"But he didn't. Then there is only one possibility. This 'mage team' is used to scare people."
Bruce smiled, turned to the nobles and said, "Did you hear that? This is the analysis from the disciples of the legendary archmage. The emperor is already a paper tiger, and he is bluffing through this method. Victory will definitely belong to us!"
Wang took out the artifact from the dimensional bag, and a blue-white light immediately flashed everyone's eyes - this thing was so bright even in the early summer sunshine.
Bruce raised his hands to shield his eyes and asked, "Can't you turn down the light?"
Wang: "It can't be adjusted, it's just so bright. From now on when we venture into the dungeon, we won't need to light a torch."
Elizabeth: "That sounds like great news."
The king looked up at the sun, estimated the time, then turned around and grabbed Elizabeth's shoulders.
Elizabeth looked like her blood had stopped: "What are you doing?"
Wang: "Get out of the way. The dragon will push you off the city wall later. You don't want to be the first princess to fall to death under Langdon, right?"
Bruce: "It's the second one. Our great-aunt was thrown out of the window by her maid and fell to her death from the tower during the process of seizing the right of birth. Since then, the maids of our female children have been appointed by absolutely loyal old ministers.
My wife took charge."
Wang looked at Bruce with an expression that was shocked by the "family affection" between nobles: "Oh, well, I didn't expect this to be traditional. But I still hope Elizabeth can stay away."
Elizabeth nodded and walked a long distance to the side with the rest of the team.
Bruce also led the nobles to retreat closer to the tower.
The king activated the artifact and transformed into a huge black dragon. With his keen dragon hearing, he heard Bruce's archmage mutter: "This is probably the advanced dragon form with eight rings, or even the ultimate dragon form with nine rings, not seven.
It’s such a child’s play.”
After completing the transformation, Wang roared first for some reason. Maybe it was because the black dragon was cruel in nature and liked to howl in front of so many humans.
The sour smell of corruption on his body drove everyone away a little further. Only Elizabeth remained standing.
Cassander said: "I will lead the way."
After saying that, he turned into a peregrine falcon and took the lead in soaring into the sky.
The king flapped his wings and took off, but Elizabeth stood still despite the strong wind he created.
After Wang Fei got up, Elizabeth turned to Xiaobai and said: "You go too! Protect him. If he falls down and changes back to human form, you have to drag him back! I will reward you with meat when he comes back!"
Xiaobai: "Okay!"
After saying that, she climbed over the battlements and jumped off the city wall. Elizabeth took a step forward and saw a bald eagle rising from under the city wall and catching up with the giant dragon flying towards the sun.
Elizabeth was lying on the battlement, worry written on her face.
Marika stepped forward and comforted: "His left eyelid jumped yesterday. How about you believe in his fate?"
"I believe it. But that doesn't stop me from worrying," Elizabeth said.
Bruce turned back to Wayne, who was loyally protecting him, and said, "Our sister's soul has been lost."