Imperial Crown

After climbing over the remains of the tower that still had the residual heat of the flames, everyone came to the city under the leadership of Raven.

The terrain here is flat, about 30 meters long and 20 meters wide. There should be a layer of snow on the ground, but now a considerable part of it has been melted and evaporated by Nancy's magic. There are ashes and burning wood everywhere, and a dusty road in the middle.

There is a city gate at the end, but now it is wide open, and you can even see the castle through it.

Volaf laughed: "The Baron's plan is really amazing. There are really no people in the Scorpion Nest!"

Raven's expression did not relax at all. He used the Eye of Truth to observe around. He didn't find anything, but he always felt something was wrong.

Nancy's magic just now was powerful, and the noise it made could even be heard by the deaf, but now the entire Scorpion Nest is a little too quiet.

The open door seemed to be waiting for people to walk in.

"Margaret." Raven's voice was casual and calm: "You go out from the front gate to explore the way."

Now the whole team only needs her, so Raven doesn't have to feel bad.

The witch pointed to her nose: "Me? But..."

Before she finished speaking, her legs had already started moving.

Raven's words were absolute orders, and she couldn't disobey.

Margaret cursed Raven in her heart, but she had to move forward little by little.

Just when she walked to the city gate, a rapid sound of iron chains rubbing sounded, followed by a heavy iron door falling to the ground with a bang, splashing a large piece of snow and firmly blocking the city gate.

"Come back!" Raven's attention was already focused, and seeing this, he immediately shouted: "Form a formation!"

Swoosh-bang! ! !

Three fireworks shot up from the scorpion nest and exploded with a bang.

Under the light of the fire, a large number of horse thieves emerged from the three remaining walls of the city, at least more than 30 people, each holding a crossbow and a longbow, aiming at Raven and others in the city.

At this time, Margaret had also run back, and the guards raised their shields and formed a circle to protect Raven and the other three.

"As expected of Baron Raven who came up with the plan of dividing troops and surprise attack, he is really vigilant." A horse thief with a fiery red beard appeared on the edge of the city wall.

"It's a pity that Lord Heleti is still better." Another horse thief came out. He was thin and had a goatee on his mouth. His voice was full of sarcasm: "He had expected you to come!"

Seeing these two people appear, Raven's heart skipped a beat: "'Fire Beard' Shef, 'Steel Teeth' Baru?"

"Yes, it's us two." Fire Beard laughed.

"The Baron's intelligence is very accurate!" Steel Teeth took over the conversation, with clear sarcasm in his tone.

Raven's heart sank, and his face became uglier.

"Firebeard" and "Steel Teeth" are both well-known horse thieves outside the Bloody Highlands. They have at least 60 men under their command, and they are second-level extraordinary!

This Heleti actually dared to leave two powerful outsiders in the Scorpion Nest just to guard against Raven!

"The fireworks are rising, and Lord Heleti is on his way back." Firebeard rubbed his beard, and his voice was serious as if he was giving an order: "Now let your people lay down their weapons, and then strip the woman next to you and give her to us."

Steel Teeth lay on the city wall, his eyes lingering on Nancy:

"As long as we have enough fun, maybe you still have a chance to survive!"

Nancy's face turned pale and she was about to scold, but Raven had already opened his mouth slowly, pointing at the witch beside him: "You want her? Okay, Margaret..."

Before the word "take off" came out, Firebeard's face changed drastically: "Leave this for your own enjoyment!"

Margaret was so angry, you look down on me, and I look down on you, what a thing! ?

Steel Teeth's expression became gloomy: "Baron, are you going to fight for a woman and even ignore your own men?"

Raven frowned slightly.

As expected of a famous horse thief on the Bloody Highlands, he still did not forget to suppress the morale of his own soldiers at this time.

But Raven knew and trusted his personal soldiers. He turned cold and asked loudly:

"Do we need to exchange our lives for a woman?!"

The personal soldiers led by Volaf shouted in unison: "No need!"

Raven asked again: "What should we do if we want to survive?"

The voices of the personal soldiers echoed in the city: "Fight--!"

Raven stretched out his hand to touch his belt and held the staff in his hand:

"Nancy, Margaret, do it!!"

Nancy waved the staff in her hand and uttered a syllable. The crystal on the top of the staff suddenly lit up. The originally gray sky suddenly lit up. Six or seven fireballs burning with blazing white flames covered the section of the wall where Firebeard and Steelfang were!

Second-level magic, meteor shower!

Firebeard raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth, drew out the long sword wrapped in blazing flames from his waist, and jumped up with his legs!

In mid-air, Firebeard turned his wrist, and his fighting spirit flowed. The sword tip, which was only about one meter long, suddenly expanded to three or four meters long, and turned into a more dazzling white color!

He held the sword with both hands, exhaled and shouted, and swung it at the fireball that fell from the sky!

Zi——

The sword tip collided with the fireball, bursting into a ball of sparks, and the fireball was split in half from the center, and then exploded with a bang, exploding into a cloud of fire!

The sword kept moving, and Fire Beard raised his arms and waved his arms horizontally. His movements were like a dance, but they were swift and precise. He fired each fireball in the same way, creating a rain of fire that scattered and burned in mid-air!

Martial skill, "Splitting Flame Slash"!

Not only can it increase the attack distance, but it can also cut through flames.

If used by a strong person from the Holy Realm, even the dragon's breath can be split.

With a snap, Fire Beard fell to the ground.

The crisis was over, Gangya waved his arm suddenly:

"Fire arrows!!!"

The crossbowmen, who had been preparing for a long time, poured arrows into the urn city.

The bowstrings are ringing, and arrows are falling like rain! !

Even though Raven's soldiers have formed a shield formation, there are still three walls in Wengcheng, and arrows are pouring down from three directions, making it impossible to fully protect it!

"Protect Lord Baron!!" Volaf yelled and retreated towards Raven with his soldiers!

They can die, but the Baron cannot be injured!

Seeing the soldiers scrambling for the first place, Snow Chicken huddled in the corner gnashed his teeth and cursed in his heart:

It's always like this, it's like this again!

The most dangerous things are left to others, but Baron Raven just needs to hide in the back and enjoy the benefits.

Watching others working hard for him, watching others dying for him, unable to do anything, and then hypocritically giving them some trivial compensation!

Stop, surrender! Don't die for this kind of person! ! !

No one heard Snow Chicken's inner cry, and the soldiers guarded Raven desperately!

The sound of piercing the sky was getting closer and closer, allowing the soldiers to clearly see the tip of the arrow flashing with cold light.

Once it falls, Raven can survive, but they will definitely suffer heavy casualties!

However

Raven uttered a syllable, and a layer of cyan light lit up on the staff.

A ray of breeze blew up, and the remaining snow and ashes on the ground were blown up, flying all over the sky.

The next moment, a fierce wind broke out with Raven as the center!

The wind element condensed into a light blue hemispherical wall, which expanded and pushed horizontally with the snow and ashes. Wherever it passed, the feather arrows lost their strength and fell staggeringly. The weaker ones would be reflected by the wind. Push it back!

Crackling...

The feathered arrows fell on the ground one after another, and occasionally a few landed on the soldiers, but they were too weak to do anything with the half-warcraft leather armor!

Snow Chicken was stunned.

The horse thieves were stunned.

Firebeard and Gangya were also stunned!

Margaret looked on, her black eyes about to pop out. She was ready to take advantage of Raven's weakness to run away, but she didn't expect that he would hide such a trick!

"Aren't you a flame mage!?" The rain of arrows just now made Nancy's face turn pale, but now she blushed slightly with excitement:

"When did you learn the Wind Wall Technique?"

Nancy jumped up and patted Raven on the shoulder: "If you hadn't told me earlier, you almost scared me to death just now!"

"Okay, don't talk useless nonsense at this time." Raven missed Nancy's palm: "Everyone take precautions, Nancy, Margaret, clean the city wall!"

The morale of the soldiers was lifted.

Nancy chanted a spell in her mouth, no longer releasing second-level magic, and waved her staff to send fireballs to the city wall!

With her second-level strength and extraordinary talent, even the fireball technique in her hands showed the blazing white light that only second-level magic can have. Every time it explodes, it can wrap up two or three horse thieves!

The captured horse thieves howled and rolled down the city wall.

Margaret also began to release her magic, and crows flew out of her sleeves and flew towards the city wall.

Compared with her previous majesty in the cave, she was obviously fishing.

Raven's tone was as cold as frost: "If you want to die, just keep doing this."

The witch shuddered suddenly, spat bitterly, and ten skinny branches-like fingers intertwined and danced in front of her chest. After a low and noisy chant, a large group of crows flapped their wings and soared out like black clouds. The wall covers most of the Wengcheng.

"Ah - don't peck me!"

"Get away, damn crow!"

"Who? Who's stabbing me!?"

Amidst a flurry of shouts, people screamed and fell from the city wall from time to time. Some stepped on the air by themselves, and some were pushed down from above by "one of our own".

Under such circumstances, with Raven's Wind Wall technique as a deterrent, the feather arrows on the city wall became increasingly sparse, and the defensive pressure on the soldiers dropped sharply, without any casualties.

Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Firebeard and Gangya both looked gloomy, looking at each other and nodding at the same time.

Firebeard ordered loudly: "Open the city gate and charge!"

The sound of iron chains rubbing together sounded again, and the steel door was slowly lifted.

Blue lightning fighting energy flowed from Gang Ya's body, making crackling sounds from time to time; Fire Beard's body ignited a layer of blazing flames.

The two of them took a deep breath at the same time, jumped off the city wall, and landed on the ground with a crash, sending up large amounts of snow and dust.

At the same time, the city gate also opened with a bang.

"kill--"

Along with the rumbling cry of killing, a group of horse thieves poured into Wengcheng!

"Nancy, you go deal with Steel Fang; Margaret, you go get Firebeard." Raven took a deep breath and pointed the staff straight ahead:

"rush!"

The soldiers had long been fed up with being beaten passively, and they were immediately excited when they heard the order. Volav shouted loudly:

"Kill them all——"

"Just a bunch of peasants!" Gangya crossed his hands, pulled out two long swords with electric light from his waist, and swung them forward suddenly:

"Let them know who is the master of the bloody highland!"

At this moment, Raven chanted a spell, his staff flew in the air, and the strong wind rose again!

The wind wall pushed forward, allowing the guards to charge faster and more fiercely.

The horse thieves were covered with smoke and blood foam in the wind, and their speed could not help but slow down.

The guards, with their fierce momentum, crashed into the horse thieves!

With the help of the wind wall technique, the strength of one side was reduced, and it was only a moment of collision. The horse thieves fell down in a row like harvested wheat, and blood spurted out like a fountain, bringing up hot blood mist, and screams one after another!

"Kill!!"

Volaf waved his long sword, and the ice fighting spirit wrapped around the blade, and slashed it fiercely!

The attack was blocked by the horse thief on the opposite side with a scimitar, but the cold fighting spirit still rushed to the opponent by inertia, and at the same time, the overwhelming force pushed the scimitar and hit the horse thief's chest!

A clear bone cracking sound came, the horse thief's chest collapsed, blood spurted out of his mouth with hot air, and then was thrown out and smashed into the crowd.

Volaf roared wildly: "Come again!!!"

He has been holding back for too long!

Not only Volaf, all the personal soldiers burst out with amazing fighting power at this moment!

They are Baron Raven's personal soldiers, the real elite of Eagle Ridge.

But in this counterattack on the bloody highlands, the hardest bones to chew, field battles, defense, were all handed over to the first battalion to be responsible for!

Now, they finally have the opportunity to fight bravely, how could they let it go easily?

They can also fight! !

As if to prove this point, the long spears in the hands of the personal soldiers kept stabbing, and each strike was aimed at the opponent's vital points, either pushing the opponent away or bringing a burst of blood, stable, powerful and extremely rhythmic.

Long-term training and fighting experience are indispensable.

Occasionally, there are horse thieves with strong personal strength and martial arts who can avoid the long spear cluster, but the crossbowmen aiming at the back will quickly teach them a lesson.

The personal soldiers are not equipped with enchanted crossbows, but they are equipped with fire enchanted crossbows, and there is no possibility of missing at this distance.

Once hit, as long as it penetrates the armor, no matter where it is shot, a large area of ​​​​fire will be ignited, roasting and burning the horse thieves alive!

The smell of blood is accompanied by bursts of barbecue aroma, which is so weird that it makes people nauseous!

Gangya gnashed his teeth and his face was full of hatred and a little frightened.

In addition to their two families, Heleti also recruited many scattered horse thief gangs, so although there are many people taken away, there are not a few left here.

Now there are more than 60 people in the city alone!

However, the bandits, who are three times more numerous than the enemy, are retreating step by step in front of less than 20 personal soldiers, and the battle line is constantly advancing inward!

At this moment, a ball of fire came, and Gangya crossed his two swords and wrapped his fighting spirit and slashed forward fiercely. The blazing white flames burst out, and were neutralized and annihilated by his fighting spirit!

"Damn it!" Looking at Nancy with a provocative look, Gangya gritted his teeth and cursed.

Of course, he knew that the fastest way to win this battle was to go straight to Raven and kill him or control him.

However, Nancy was standing on the ruins, staring at him alone. Once he wanted to make a move, a fireball would fly to his face.

For a moment, he didn't know whether he was holding Nancy back or Nancy was holding him back!

In fact, if he really rushed forward without considering the cost, Gangya was sure that he would rush to Raven with only minor injuries.

But he was a hired thug by Heleti, not a slave of Heleti, so he would not risk his life!

Fire Beard had no time to be distracted, and he cut down the flying crows with his sword. At the same time, he had to beware of the curse power that rushed to his body from time to time, and the operation of fighting spirit could not stop for a moment!

The two second-level extraordinary people belonging to the horse thieves were both stuck, and the personal soldiers had Volaf as the spearhead, advancing very quickly. The horse thieves left one corpse after another, constantly shrinking the defense line, and their fighting spirit became weaker and weaker.

Volaf swept his sword and cut the horse thief in front of him in half, and blood mixed with internal organs splashed and smeared on the face of the next horse thief!

The horse thief stopped and saw Volaf's hideous face covered with blood. He smelled the strong smell of blood, and his heart trembled violently.

He reached out and took off a piece of frozen intestine from his face. His pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip, and an indescribable fear rushed to his brain:

"--Help, help!!!"

With a wail, the horse thief dropped his weapon and turned to run towards the city gate!

Under his leadership, the horse thieves' already very low morale collapsed instantly, and they dropped their weapons and fled!

When professional bandits are afraid, they are not much better than professional farmers!

Gang Ya swung his sword and killed a horse thief who wanted to escape, shouting at the top of his lungs:

"Go back! Keep fighting!!!"

But this didn't work.

The horse thieves were not stupid. Going forward to face Raven's soldiers was a life-and-death struggle. Going back had at least a greater chance of survival!

The defeat was like a landslide.

Gang Ya gritted his teeth, looked at Raven's soldiers who were gradually approaching, looked at Nancy and Raven who had their eyes locked on him, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva in humiliation: "Fire Beard... Let's retreat!"

Even if Steel Teeth didn't say anything, Firebeard had already lost all his fighting spirit, and now they immediately hit it off!

"Follow them, line up at the gate of the city!" Seeing Firebeard and Steel Teeth going away, Raven gave a loud order and took a step!

"Charge--" Volaf shouted loudly, leading his soldiers to rush out of the inner gate of the city!

Their morale was unprecedentedly high.

This was enough to be called a hearty victory!

Twenty to sixty, if you count those on the city wall, it's twenty to one hundred!

Although everyone was injured, no one died in the battle, and no one was seriously injured!

"Congratulations, Baron!" Margaret was the first to come up and flatter him: "Your wind wall technique and command are simply exquisite! As long as you entangle Firebeard and Steel Teeth, no one can threaten your soldiers!"

In addition to compliments, this sentence also had her own selfish motives. Raven had seen through her previous slacking off, so of course she had to emphasize her importance at this time!

Nancy also jumped down from the ruins. She came to Raven and said, "How is it? Did I do well?"

"Okay." Raven smiled and shook his head, "The battle is not over yet!"

He knew why he could win this battle.

The unexpectedness of his wind wall technique was only one aspect, and more importantly, it was the difference in the quality of the soldiers on both sides.

This group of soldiers was Raven's original team. They had the longest training time. After the baptism of the Anderson battle, their psychological quality had also greatly improved. Whether it was equipment, training, or treatment, they were directly benchmarked against the captain of the Eagle Army, and they cooperated well and were in high spirits.

And the horse thieves on the opposite side were obviously just a group of rabble. Most of them were not subordinate to each other and fought each other. There was no coordination or tactics.

What's more, the opponent's extraordinary could not participate in the battle, but Raven had two magicians. Even without taking action, just standing there could bring huge psychological pressure to the horse thieves!

But now is not the time to celebrate. The opponent was just retreating, but it was not to the point of exhaustion.

Sure enough, when Raven walked out of the city wall, he saw that Firebeard and Steelfang had begun to gather the previously fleeing bandits. While setting up another line of defense, they were also organizing their own confidants to mount their horses.

Fighting in an open area, and being the attacking side, the infantry would not have any advantage, but after a great victory, the morale of the personal soldiers was high, while the morale of the bandits had dropped to the freezing point!

Defeat them once more, and we will truly win this battle!

Not wanting to give the other side any time, Raven took a deep breath and was about to give an order when he suddenly heard footsteps behind him!

Turning his head, he saw a man wearing golden enchanted plate armor had jumped off the ruins of the tower, followed by eight warriors in full helmets and armor, striding towards him with spears in their hands.

Heleti's eyes met Raven's, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth:

"Raven! You are so powerful!"

A sharp-eyed horse thief also saw this scene, and immediately shouted in surprise: "It's Lord Sand!"

"Lord Sand is back with the Scorpion Guards!!"

This sentence immediately brought a cheer, and the morale of the horse thieves soared, even higher than before the battle!

In their view, as long as Lord Sand takes action, there is no problem that cannot be solved!

"Heleti!" Margaret looked at the man who was walking step by step, with a trace of fear in her eyes.

A third-level extraordinary! She couldn't do anything about it!

"Lord Baron... Let me leave, give me an order, I will go to ask for help now!!"

"Shut up!" Raven scolded, but the atmosphere of despair began to spread uncontrollably.

Volaf's hand holding the long sword was already full of cold sweat.

The timing of Heleti's return was too fatal!

If they were a little later, when they strangled the remaining horse thieves in the Scorpion Nest, they could still use the advantage of the city wall to attack Heleti with magic and crossbows.

But now, Heleti led eight elites to appear behind them, making them attacked from both sides!

Once Heleti launched an attack and joined forces with Firebeard and others, then they...

will definitely lose!

Even Nancy, who was always fearless, became nervous:

"Raven...what should we do?!"

Nancy, the personal soldiers, the witch, and even the horse thieves.

Everyone's eyes fell on Raven, waiting for him to make the final decision.

Heleti waved his spear and gave an ultimatum from a high position:

"Surrender or die."

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