Elizabeth saw him coming forward and immediately complained in a low voice: "Didn't you agree that before the bard joined the team, I would be allowed to do this kind of scene?"
Wang whispered in her ear: "It's okay, I just had a brilliant idea."
After speaking, he patted Elizabeth on the shoulder and turned his eyes to the knight.
"We also have a message for Mr. Harvey. The Duke has decided to relieve him of his duties and let Miss Elizabeth take over the entire valley." As he said this, the king took out the letter from the Duke, because the letter was opened very carefully with a letter opener.
, just be careful when taking it, you won’t be able to tell that the letter has been opened on the shore, “This is the order letter given to him!”
The knights looked at each other again.
Wang: "What are you still doing? Return to Lakeside City immediately and catch Harvey here. Miss Elizabeth doesn't plan to get off the ship and will work on the ship from now on."
The knight was silent again
The king didn't waste any time and started casting spells directly. The mirror image technique was activated directly, and his true body was mixed into a crowd of phantoms and could not be distinguished at all.
Then he did the second thing: took out the glow stick.
The mirror image technique 100% replicated his actions, even projecting the phantoms of his dimensional bag and glowing stick.
This dragon-headed luminous stick is already very bright, and even the seven sticks with its mirrored body are really unusually bright, eclipsing even the early summer sun.
The knights on the river bank may have seen this scene, but their horses have not! Immediately, seven of the ten horses were startled, and the knights on the horses were all thrown to the ground.
Then the blinded horse continued to kick wildly, injuring all three relatively calm horses.
A horse with its legs broken by a kick fell to the ground, and the knight on its back was thrown out, making a big splash and falling into the river.
"Help! Help!" The armored knight just had time to shout, and then he sank to the bottom.
Someone on the shore shouted: "Sir, this is shallow water, stand up!"
However, the knight was busy thrashing and drinking water and did not hear it.
The only remaining rider was the captain with the hair on his helmet. He loudly ordered the peasants on the shore: "Go and help him up quickly!"
The civilian husband responded in fear: "Sir, he is swinging his sword around, we dare not approach him!"
The captain drew his sword: "Then you should consider whether my sword will hit you."
When the king saw this, he immediately ordered: "Scorching ray."
Elizabeth seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and without asking who to hit, she directly pointed at the knight captain who was threatening her subjects with a sword, and the blazing ray hit his armor.
The captain of the knight fell off his horse, and the people by the river dispersed.
The king held up his luminous stick and shouted: "Uncle of the Duchess of the Valley, Sir Stoker! Come out! Otherwise I will transform into a dragon and destroy your family's only source of wealth!"
There was silence all around.
All the civilians who had been watching were hiding, and all the soldiers watching the show on the battlements at the checkpoint were also missing. Regardless of the battlements or the shooting windows, the faces of the soldiers leading the river valley could not be seen at all.
Wang: "It seems that he is not here. Send a messenger immediately and ask Sir Stoker to come to Watergate immediately to see him... uh..."
The mage turned around and asked Elizabeth in a low voice: "What should I call my niece's husband's sister?"
Elizabeth spread her hands: "If you just say Duke Langdon's sister, that's the end of it?"
Wang: "I want to emphasize the in-law relationship between you. Forget it, just settle for the next best thing."
After speaking, he raised his voice again: "Let's just say that the agent sent by Duke Langdon is waiting for him at the port!"
His shouts echoed through the narrow valley, forming a series of echoes.
Elizabeth: "What's next?"
"Wait, he will come."
"Should you explain to the silly sorceress what happened?" The princess smiled slightly.
Xiaobai: "Silly wolf doesn't understand either."
King: "It's like this. There should be no high-level arcane spellcasters in the River Valley Territory. So they can't deal with the dragon. Although you can use siege crossbows and other things to deal with the dragon, it's not that easy to hit.
Destroyed by the dragon's breath. The dragon's vision is very good and it will immediately detect the hidden siege crossbow.
"So if they want to catch us, they can only do a sneak attack, so they sent this group of knights to lie and pretend to have found signs of missing cats and dogs. When we rush to Riverside City, we will probably be attacked by a sneak attack.
"I used the Mirror Image just now to prevent them from having a second plan: that is, use a crossbow or siege crossbow to kill me before I use the artifact to transform into a dragon."
Elizabeth: "I understand. Isn't it bad that you asked me to attack their knight captain just now? That guy has a coat of arms and should be a baron."
Wang: "Your brother has already killed the old Duke of the River Valley, and you still care about this? But I think the captain is still alive. Xiaobai, are you sure you can carry him aboard with his armor on board?"
Xiaobai: "I'll give it a try."
After a while, the bald eagle struggled to carry the armored knight captain onto the boat.
His breastplate was completely baked red by the scorching rays, and now it has cooled to a dark red color. The coat of arms that was originally painted on it has been burned away.
The air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh stuck to the inside of the armor.
Wang: "Give him treatment and stabilize his injuries."
The dwarf took out Caelin's holy symbol and began to recite a prayer.
After a burst of soft light, the unconscious Baron woke up.
"Don't kill me!" he shouted.
King: "We will not kill a baron."
The baron shouted with disbelief: "I don't believe it! Your reputation is known to everyone from the Thorn Islands to the Mountain Kingdom!"
Elizabeth smiled: "It seems I can't pretend anymore. Now tell me everything you know immediately! Otherwise, I will let the werewolf over there peel you off layer by layer and eat you bit by bit!"
"
Water stains spread under the Baron's crotch, and the smell hit everyone's nostrils.
Baron: "I say, I say everything!"
Next, the Baron described the causes and consequences in detail.
The Duchess of Vale's uncle, Stoke, had his own idea of becoming a duke and had been preparing for this. There were even rumors in the Vale area that Stoke drugged the dead old duke so that he would not be able to have another son.
.
In this way, he can take advantage of the loophole in the inheritance law of the River Valley that favors men, connect with the nobles who don't like a duchess, and find a way to raise a rebellion.
Now Stoker felt that the time had come, and widely claimed that the duchess and her fiancé teamed up to kill his father. This statement was supported by many nobles who did not want a duchess to rule their own. In addition, the duchess
He is no longer in the Dukedom, and now the entire River Valley Territory is de facto controlled by Stoker.
Although Sadiq Harvey, the acting official sent by the Duke of Langdon, also tried to contact those who opposed Stoke to form an offensive and defensive alliance, he was placed under house arrest not long after his arrival, and the formation of an offensive and defensive alliance was postponed indefinitely.
When Wang heard this, he suddenly interrupted the baron: "Who is Sadiq Harvey planning to find to form an offensive and defensive alliance?"
Baron: "The Earl of Ximu and his family, as well as the barons and earls around their fiefdom, originally lived a prosperous life based on mining, but the cavemen changed everything. So they have always wanted to accumulate strength, eliminate the cavemen, and regain them.
Everything. They don’t like Stoker who is prepared to rely on Watergate for the rest of his life.”
Elizabeth added next to her: "The Valley Territory has always been dissatisfied with our increase in tax rates, thinking that this has reduced shipping on the Rhineland River and lowered their taxes. It is obvious that they themselves are the biggest obstacle to shipping on the Rhineland River."
Wang: "Is there anything else besides these? I mean, against Sir Stoker."
Baron: "He has now proclaimed himself a duke. If he wants to arrest you, he also intends to use you and Duke Langdon in exchange for the heraldic flag of the Duke's family that is held back there."
Wang: "Okay, let me correct it. Besides the Earl of Ximu, who else is against the Duke of Stoke?"
The baron shook his head: "Originally, the lords on the western plains were against him, but you, Duke Langdon, killed the old Duke. Now the lords in the west are also wearing the same pants as Stoker, because Stoker claimed to want to surrender to Landon.
Take revenge."
Wang rubbed his chin and thought for a few seconds before asking: "If Count Ximu wants to encircle and suppress the cavemen, they should be very powerful, right?"
Baron: "Legend has it that they hired experts in dealing with cavemen, a team of dwarf miners."
Flint patted his belly excitedly: "Dwarf miner! This count knows his stuff!"
Elizabeth asked the wizard: "What, do you really plan to solve the problem here?"
Wang: "No, I am going to take Watergate and then continue to move towards Monrovia. I just asked the question out of curiosity."
The baron who peed his pants said: "Then you have to hurry up. I heard that the Duke of Stoke has a vicious thief, and he will definitely have a clever plan to keep you here."
As soon as the words hit the water gate, there was a deafening explosion!
Flint looked at the orange flames and exclaimed: "Caris Newman! This is definitely an alchemical explosive!"
Before he finished speaking, the stone bridge where Shuimen petitioned collapsed. Huge stones piled up in front of the fallen water gate, sealing the narrow passage. Of course, judging from the flow of the river, water could still pass through.
The river water passing through the gap formed several vortexes of different sizes in front of the closed water gate.
Elizabeth: "How could they have this?"
Wang: "They originally relied on mining for their livelihood. Is it any wonder that they have alchemical explosives to mine? This Stoke intends to trap us in order to negotiate terms with us!
"Captain, is it possible for us to tow the ship across from the land?"
The captain replied: "It's possible. But you need to capture the entire Watergate Town first, and then hire thousands of young and middle-aged laborers. I personally think it's better to find people to clean up the stones blocking the Watergate, but this also requires capturing Watergate Town.
and build defenses."
Wang took a deep breath.
"Okay." He said, "We are now divided into two groups. The first group is our team. Let's go to Ximu Town to connect. The second group is the captain and the elite sailors to guard the Star Chaser. This is our
The base camp.”
The captain patted his chest: "Leave it to us."
Elizabeth grabbed the king's hand and asked: "Why don't you change the dragon and attack Lakeside City? Can't this force him to submit?"
Wang replied solemnly: "I only have one hour to transform into a dragon every day. After the transformation, I have to wait for 23 hours for the staff to be recharged. The enemy only needs to hide deep in the fortress where the dragon cannot directly kill him and escape this hour."
"Once this hour is used up, we will face an overwhelming offensive in the remaining 23 hours. The enemy knows that we only have third-level mages and priests, and there are only so many spells in total.
"If the dragon can escape immediately after capturing the water gate, then there is no need to worry. Now we may have to overthrow this self-proclaimed duke before we can move forward.
"In this case, I can't change into a dragon easily. As long as I don't change, the enemy will always be wary and can only use evil.
"Correspondingly, there is no way for us to forcefully break into Stoke's lair by transforming into a dragon. Without changing into a dragon, it would be too difficult to deal with the remaining forces of the River Valley Leader with the strength of our team.
"There should be no high-level spellcasters in the River Valley Territory, but there should be a lot of second-level and third-level arcane spellcasters like me! There are probably more divine spellcasters. After all, not all local priests participated in the battle against Lan that night.
The expedition to ascend.
"We need to find allies."
Elizabeth: "I understand, let's go to Earl Ximu."
The king stood up and said, "Prepare your horses and get ready to go."