The slender sword pierced through the skull, and the last Undead Terracotta also lost its strength and fell to the ground. The female mercenary with long red hair held her sword with one hand and panted heavily as she looked around. Her emerald eyes reflected the corpses and skeletons on the ground. The battle was over. Although they paid a heavy price, they managed to repel the attackers.
Jana heaved a sigh of relief and sheathed her rapier in a black leather sheath.
"Leader!" A shout came from behind. She turned around and saw a young man running out of the crowd.
The female mercenary saw the young man running in front of her, but she stopped him and said: "No need to say anything, leave some people behind to take care of our injured brothers. The rest of you, come with me. We've wasted enough time, we need to take control of the West Gate before the undead army arrives! "
"Wait!" The young man called out to him breathlessly.
"What's wrong?" Jutta frowned.
"It's too late," the young man said loudly: "When we were fighting with the monsters, 'Rat' and the others saw the magic beacon from the South. Leader, it's too late, the undead have already arrived. If we go there now, we'll only face the undead army — — "
The female mercenary leader stopped and looked at him: "What else did 'Rat' say?"
"'Rat' said that our only choice is to give up. We'll break through the encirclement to the North and leave Abies. If the undead come, we'll all die here. "
"If we leave, what about the others?"
"Leader, can we change anything by staying here?" The young man said anxiously.
"Bastard!" The female mercenary leader punched the wall: "Tell our people to prepare. Tell the Owls, Grey Wolves, and Brown Bears to lead people along the three streets! Since we can't stop them from entering Abies, we'll stop them from entering the city! "
"Leader, you're crazy!" The man shouted: "We have less than 300 people, and there are thousands of them. We can't stop them without the city walls!"
The female mercenary leader pressed her chest and gritted her teeth: "We have to stop them even if we can't. Do you want me to break my promise — —!"
"Leader …" The young man was startled.
"What are you waiting for?"
"But is it worth it for a noble?" The youth took a deep breath: "That young man is also a noble. He only helped us because of the conflict between him and Graudin. In the end, they were still the same kind of people. Why should we fight for people like them — "
The man gritted his teeth and shouted at her, "Leader, your sister and parents died in the hands of those damned nobles! Most of the brothers under your command also had the same experience. Everyone, everyone respected you, so we came together! Why should we die here for that kind of person? Let them fight amongst themselves! "
Jutta was stunned.
She sighed and raised her head to say something. However, at this moment, a loud bang came from the direction of Abies Castle. Everyone turned around and saw a beam of white light rising into the sky from the darkness. It was a magic beacon!
A pure white beam of light pierced through the night sky, as if it had pierced through the darkness of the world. The light seemed so pure and flawless against the deep background, as if it was the first tear of Mother Marsha in the darkness in the epic of the creation of the Kirrlutz people.
It was the first light that depicted the birth of the world.
Light was born from the darkness, giving all things wisdom, nobility, and spirituality.
At that moment.
Jutta and her assistant raised their heads in a daze, their eyes reflecting the light in the darkness. They watched as the light rose to the highest point and exploded. Then, it turned into a message that was commonly used in the army.
The words shone in the night sky and did not fade away for a long time. The red-haired female mercenary captain raised her head, and a deep glint flashed in her dark green eyes.
"Graudin is dead — —"
"My lord wants us to reply immediately." She said calmly.
"My lord?" The youth looked at her in shock.
Jutta lowered her head and smiled at the youth: "If Cornelius dared to choose this path, why wouldn't I? Graudin is dead, and that young noble gave me an answer. From now on, he will be my follower. "She smiled and shook her head:" Unfortunately, the time is too short. "
"But … …"
"No buts. Can we reply?" Jutta asked.
The youth shook his head: "Those liches used dark magic to silence the entire street. Other than the light and dark elements, no other elements can enter. But we don't have any wizards or priests in our group. Our strongest Elementalist is only an Iron-ranked warrior, and we can't cast any spells! "
"What about the signal arrow?"
"'Rat' said that the arrow is ignited by elements."
Jutta gritted her teeth and looked at the other side of the street: "Then we'll use our own method to buy some time for our lord."
"Leader?"
But the woman's face had already turned serious. She was silent for a moment, raised her head, turned around, pulled out her thin sword and waved it to the right. "Everyone has one. Listen up!"
"Someone gave us an answer with noble actions, but now we've lost our promise. Fortunately, we can still salvage the situation. So I order you to move forward and drag those damned skeletons here. Or, let them step over our corpses! "
The street was silent for a moment, and only Jutta's solemn order echoed for a long time. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at the regiment commander subconsciously.
"Answer me, there are no cowards among my men."
"There are no cowards!" The mercenaries raised their weapons.
The young man stared blankly at Jana. He wanted to say something but was interrupted by the female mercenary commander. "You don't have to say anything. You know that I won't change my mind easily once I give an order!"
"But leader, why do you have to do this for a noble … …"
Jutta smiled gently.
She lowered her head and patted the youth's face: "I know nobles better than you, little one. If that young man was a noble, he wouldn't have killed Graudin. This is the rule between them, and no one has ever broken it in the past few hundred years — "
She raised her head and looked at the dark night.
"But no matter who he is, at least from this moment onwards, our deal is done."
The youth was stunned for a moment.
… …
At the South Gate, the fierce battle was still ongoing. Under the supervision of the Firebrand Legion's Grand Commander, the mercenaries maintained the same rhythm time and time again, engaging in a tug-of-war with the skeletal army without any regard for their own losses.
The battle in the darkness seemed to be endless. Everyone could not help but feel exhausted. As far as the eye could see, all they could see were piles of white bones. The humans and the undead exchanged losses, and the corpses piled up like mountains. However, the most they could do was to maintain the battle line above the ruins.
Fortunately, the breach in the city wall was only ten meters wide, and most of the Iron-ranked mercenaries were barely able to stop the undead army that outnumbered them by a hundred to one. In fact, the mercenaries understood this, and they were willing to pay ten times the amount of blood to repair the breach in the city wall.
It was no longer a battle, but a mincemeat that lacked the beauty of battle tactics.
The commanders of both sides were like grim grim reapers, silently adding more lives to the short ten meters of flesh and blood battlefield. But to Madara's side, the liches could emotionlessly push the skeletons to the center of the table as if they were worthless chips.
And this was the most chilling thing for the humans.
"Crossbowmen in position —"
"Reload the blunt arrows —"
The leaders of the mercenaries acted as heralds at this time. They watched as the experienced warriors unscrewed the corks of the bottles of holy water and poured it on the bundles of arrows. They could not help but feel a little sad. In normal battles, they rarely used these consumables so extravagantly.
The warriors raised their four-armed crossbows, aimed, and fired.
Then, there was a shrill sound, as if an invisible wall had swept through the rows of skeletons below. The skeletons fell without warning and immediately turned into ashes in the white light.
Raban stepped on a pile of skeletons with one foot and carried his sword on his shoulder with one hand. He had just indifferently replaced the exhausted first team with his second team. Then, he ordered a small mercenary group to carry the wounded down from the city wall. To him, this battle seemed endless, just like the battles he had experienced in Karsuk.
Raban calmly commanded. He knew how far Madara and himself could go.
But at this time, he also turned his head and looked up at the flash in the dark sky. His eyes reflected the beam of light, and he smiled. "Nobles killing nobles, it's worth the ticket price. But it's the first time I've seen them use methods other than conspiracy, poison, and assassination. That young man is really barbaric. "
"Those nobles are capable of anything," his deputy replied.
Raban glanced at him.
"You don't understand," he said. Then he asked, "How long more?"
"Half an hour," the deputy replied immediately.
Raban waved his hand. "Go, put our battle flag higher. After repelling this attack, they will replace the lich. That guy gave me an answer, and now I have to give him an answer. "
"Dawn …" The leader of the Firebrand Legion looked at the horizon. "Soon."
The deputy was slightly stunned.
However, Vern smiled and said, "This is also the first order of that guy. Of course, we have to act according to the orders of the boss. "
"Boss?"
"Let's think so for now." Raban looked back at the battlefield.
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