Chapter 144: In Danger

When Daenerys and Vincent rode on griffins and quickly returned to the castle of Earl Harris in Rosby, the first thing Daenerys did was to go to the Earl's study and write a few letters.

Since the general communication mark of wizards can only be used for communication within a certain range, this range generally does not exceed a large city, that is, within a radius of 100 miles.

Therefore, Daenerys does not need to contact Hydrashil College across the continent, even if she wants to contact the capital directly, or the nearest undead wizard school-Ignis School, she is unable to do so.

There are two necessary conditions for communication mark communication. One is that the distance is within a certain range, and there can be no interference from strong energy objects in the middle. The second is that both parties must leave each other's communication mark runes, otherwise, there is no way to communicate.

Therefore, under the current situation, Daenerys can only use this ancient way to transmit information.

After Daenerys finished writing two letters, she covered them with red mud and performed a trick.

The Earl of Tuxedo, who had been waiting on the side, saw that Daenerys had already written the letters, and respectfully took the two letters and immediately arranged two peregrine falcons to deliver the messages.

Peregrine falcons are small birds of prey with extremely fast flying speed. Although they are not large birds of prey or extraordinary species, they are good at flying very fast and dodging in the air.

Moreover, since they are carnivorous birds, they are not easily captured by natural enemies like other ordinary birds, thus losing the letters.

However, because they like to eat fresh meat, the breeding of peregrine falcons is quite expensive, and ordinary knight families can hardly afford it. Only senior nobles or big merchant families can breed them.

When Daenerys saw the peregrine falcon rushing into the sky like a gray line, she began to arrange the second thing.

She asked Earl Harris to immediately recall the wizard apprentices and demon hunters from various academies that had been sent out, and called on all wizards and wizard apprentices in Rosby County to gather in the county town.

From the signs she and Vincent had found, the wizard apprentices and demon hunters who supported Tulip Town should have been killed, and their bodies became the enemy's food and were taken back to the deep rift.

Although it is unknown what the monsters are doing with the human bodies, it is definitely not a good thing. The bodies of wizard apprentices are obviously more precious than those of ordinary people, and more useful to the mastermind behind the scenes.

Therefore, if the wizard apprentices and demon hunters are not recalled urgently, it will be an act of aiding the enemy in Daenerys's view.

Moreover, from the perspective of Shining Gold Town, the wizard apprentices who supported in the past are likely to have been wiped out.

Therefore, since Daenerys already knows that the opponent's strength is definitely at the level of a formal wizard, then sending out wizard apprentices and demon hunters for support in a scattered manner is a stupid tactic of adding fuel to the fire, and the enemy may be eager for her to do so.

In Daenerys's view, only by concentrating all the elite forces of Rosby County, attacking the mysterious rift directly, and suddenly delivering a fatal blow, can the current predicament be solved.

Pure waiting is not advisable. Maybe after attacking seven or eight towns, the other party has collected enough human corpses to perform some evil rituals, then it would be meaningless for her to come to Rosby City for support.

So, she chose to take the initiative. Although there are risks, in Daenerys's view, this risk is still controllable.

"But if all the supporting teams are summoned back now, what about the remaining towns?" Earl Harris said after a long silence.

This topic is a bit heavy. He didn't expect that the petite girl in front of him would be so decisive. The other party was a white wizard, but this kind of decisiveness is not much less than that of a black wizard.

From a rational point of view, although Earl Harris didn't want to admit it, he also knew that Daenerys's plan was the most suitable solution to break the dilemma at present.

However, from a personal emotional point of view, the entire Rosby County is his fiefdom. He doesn't want his fiefdom, so many towns, to suffer heavy casualties. He hopes to have the best of both worlds.

Hearing the earl's question, Daenerys looked at Harris with her clear eyes and said, "This is a difficult decision, but if we don't do it, I'm afraid we will lose more."

After a moment of silence, Earl Harris nodded: "Okay, Your Highness Daenerys, I will give orders to summon all wizard apprentices and demon hunters."

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When Richard rode the wildebeest and galloped all the way to Silverpine Town.

His mood was like himself on the horse, jumping up and down.

Unexpectedly, one year later, he would be able to return to Silverpine Town with the strength of a third-level wizard apprentice, which was much faster than he expected before he went.

Although before he went, Richard considered that he had an inspiration panel and his improvement speed should be very fast, but at that time he only thought that it would be good if he could barely be promoted to a second-level wizard apprentice in about a year.

As a result, he didn't expect that one year later, he was already a third-level wizard apprentice.

Of course, because he didn't want to attract too much attention, Richard didn't take the promotion test for the third-level wizard apprentice in the Ignis School, nor did he change into the unique mark that symbolizes the third-level wizard apprentice. Instead, he used the special effects of Rodrigo's meditation method to restrain his breath and dynamically adjust his breath strength according to the actual situation.

So, Richard now looks like an ordinary wizard apprentice.

I don’t know how my father, mother, and elder brother are doing. Oh, and my little maid Serena.

When Richard thought of Serena, he couldn’t help but smile. He remembered how Serena was about to cry when they parted.

However, when his little maid Serena saw that he suddenly came back, she must be very happy!

Thinking of this, Richard’s mouth curved up even higher.

According to the speed of the wildebeest, he would be able to reach Silver Pine Town in about half an hour. Richard, who was in a good mood, looked at the scenery on both sides of the road and felt completely different.

Not far ahead, on the right side of the road, there was a clear lake like a sapphire.

The lake was not large, but there were various tall and short shrubs growing around it. A little further away from the lake, there grew the silver pines that the Silver Pine Forest was famous for. Each silver pines was tall and straight, with needle-like leaves, and was silver-green all year round.

This lake not far from Yinsong Town is named Green Pine Lake by the residents of the town because the silver-green silver pines can be seen reflected in the clear dark green lake all year round, showing a green color as a whole.

Now, in Richard's eyes, this lake named Green Pine Lake is embedded in the lush Silver Pine Forest. This beautiful picture is like an eternal sapphire engraved in his memory, evoking his longing for his hometown and family.

However, strangely, many small animals that used to drink water at the edge of Green Pine Lake, such as hares, deer and other gentle animals, were not seen, which made Richard frown.

Could it be that some beasts have appeared in the Silver Pine Forest recently, causing almost all the small animals to be killed?

It shouldn't be!

As he got closer and closer to Silver Pine Town, Richard, who was thinking on the back of the wildebeest, keenly smelled a hint of blood.

This immediately made him tremble in his heart. The smell of blood was vague, but his sensitive sense of smell would not be wrong. It should be because it was a little far away from him.

But at this moment, the direction of the smell of blood came from Yinsong Town, his hometown, and the location of the family fiefdom.

Richard looked up, stared at the front, and frowned slightly.

As if he had a vague premonition of something bad, Richard immediately clamped his legs on both sides of the wildebeest's abdomen and drove the wildebeest to run faster.

But the closer he got to Yinsong Town, the tighter Richard's brows frowned, and his face became worse and worse, because the smell of blood was getting stronger and stronger.

You know, Richard was also a veteran, so he quickly distinguished that the smell of blood was so strong that it would not be so strong without the death of dozens of people!

Immediately, Richard whipped a whip heavily and hit the wildebeest's buttocks hard!

"Whisp, whack, whack!"

The wildebeest, in pain, let out a high-pitched neigh, and immediately spread its hooves and increased its speed by 30%, and began to run at full speed!

"I hope nothing bad will happen, otherwise, no matter who it is, they will face my wrath!" Richard held the reins tightly with both hands, his heart no longer calm.

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Silver Pine Town.

Clavell Castle.

Seeing a huge mutant crab demon coming to the back door of the castle, the old baron knew that he had done his best to deal with one at present, and he still relied on the castle's geographical advantages and the giant crossbows that were mobilized.

At this moment, there were no extra giant crossbows or extra manpower to deal with the mutant evil demon.

If half of the defense force of the front door was divided to guard the back door, the result would probably be that the front door could not be defended, and the back door could not be defended, and at the same time, the guarding force would suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, the experienced old baron thought for a moment and immediately made a decision, shouting: "Everyone, retreat to the inner castle!"

Immediately afterwards, this sentence was shouted by dozens of guards together: "Everyone retreat to the inner castle!"

The Clavel Castle, which has been built for a hundred years, has consumed a lot of manpower and material resources of the Clavel family. Although it is not as wealthy as those hereditary earl castles, it is also a classic concentric castle.

The biggest feature of the concentric castle is that there are two circles of walls, the inner castle and the outer castle. The outer castle wall is only three meters high, but the inner castle wall is six meters high and is built with strips of stone.

So, although the inner castle area is much smaller, the inner castle is a level higher than the outer castle. At the same time, this is also the last line of defense of the Clavel family.

If they can hold on, there is a deep well and a cellar in the inner castle area. The cellar stores wheat, bacon, pickled fish, dried radish and other foods that can be eaten by at least one thousand people for half a year. The old baron is still confident that he can hold on until the reinforcements of the Kingdom of Heron arrive!

After hearing the old baron's order, the guards of the Clavier family, the Silver Pine Town Security Team and some strong young people in Silver Pine Town who were originally defending on the city wall began to retreat to the inner castle, while the guards stationed at the gate of the outer castle began to retreat through the tunnels between the outer castle and the inner castle.

Led by Levi and Knight Rawlins, the guards fought and retreated, passing through the temporary wooden bridge on the outer castle wall, killing small monsters while retreating to the inner castle wall.

Under the cover of archers and large crossbows on the four corners of the inner castle, the guards retreated to the inner castle wall after only losing a small number of personnel.

So, when the mutant crab demon's claws slammed open the gate of the outer fort, what appeared before it was another solid castle.

This immediately made it very angry, and it roared loudly.

Now, it must break through another gate to capture this area.

But during the battle just now, several pieces of its solid shell had been cracked by the heavy crossbow, which made it hesitate a little. But thinking about the request of its master behind it, the mutant crab demon raised its powerful claws and began to attack the inner castle gate.

Seeing this scene, the old baron on the strong wall of the inner castle shouted: "Throw rolling stones! Prepare kerosene!"

Suddenly, dozens of huge round stones were pushed out from the high battlements of the inner castle wall by the guards, and under the blessing of gravity, they hit the besieging monsters fiercely.

The smaller monsters, because they were crowded at the foot of the wall, saw the huge stones falling, but they couldn't dodge at all, and were immediately smashed into meat sauce!

Although the mutant crab demon smashed several rolling stones with its giant claws, it was still repelled by several other rolling stones. After all, its solid shell is not invincible. It is still very difficult to resist the rolling stones weighing hundreds of pounds.

The old baron thought about it, turned his head quickly, and shouted to Levi who was shooting arrows: "Child! You and Lord Duan immediately go to find your mother and children, hurry to the third floor of the inner castle cellar, and rush to Rosby City through the secret passage."

"Father, please let me stay and fight with you!" Levi immediately rejected the old baron's request.

He was educated as a knight in his family since he was a child, and he was not afraid of sacrifice. On the contrary, this kind of desertion in the face of battle, in Levi's view, is no different from betrayal!

"No, child, your battlefield is still behind, and the road to Rosby City is not unobstructed. You and Lord Duan have to escort women and children to Rosby City. This will be a difficult task. Are you a coward and unwilling to take this responsibility?"

The tone of the old baron's last sentence was extremely high!

Facing his father with glaring eyes, Levi stammered twice, but in the end he didn't say a word!

Yes, fighting to the death against a strong enemy is a kind of bravery, but daring to take on a difficult task is another kind of bravery.

Escorting women and children, these children are the hope of the future of Silver Pine Town. With them, Silver Pine Town will definitely be rebuilt in the future. As long as the children can arrive at Rossby City safely, even if the guards die in battle, they will definitely be willing to see their children escape!

But to be honest, Levi himself has no confidence in taking these unarmed and powerless women and children to break through the blockade of monsters along the way and arrive at Rossby City safely!

But because of this, it means that what his father said is right. This is a difficult task and has great significance. If you don't dare, you are a coward!

After figuring it out, Levi immediately calmed down and said, "Father, I will definitely live up to your trust!"

The old baron nodded with satisfaction, patted Levi's thick shoulders, and said, "Hurry up and retreat immediately. We will help you attract the attention of the monster army, so that your evacuation will be much easier! Go quickly, call Lord Duan to join you!"

"Remember to thank Lord Duan for his efforts on behalf of our Clavel family!"

"Well!" After taking a last look at the old baron, Levi immediately rushed to the inner castle square without looking back and began to organize the children and some women to enter the cellar.

"Pour kerosene! Throw torches!" Knight Rawlins shouted.

The huge rolling stone attack just now caused great damage to the monsters, but the number of rolling stones was limited. After they were used up, the monsters quickly surrounded them again.

Especially the mutant crab demon, which was huge in size, had just suffered a lot and was hurt by the rolling stones, which made it extremely angry. When it saw that the rolling stones on the human wall were exhausted, it roared loudly and launched a fierce attack on the inner castle gate again.

"Shua shua shua!"

As the kerosene was poured, a large number of small monsters at the foot of the wall were now stained with thick kerosene.

But they didn't know what these things were, they just thought that the human "pouring water" attack was meaningless.

But the next second, they knew what they were stained with!

"Boom!"

With the throwing of dozens of torches, the kerosene on the monsters under the wall was ignited. In an instant, the monsters wailed everywhere, including the mutant crab demon, which had always been unmatched, and was also screaming at the moment.

I don't know how many small monsters died under the trampling of their companions.

The mutant crab demon was surrounded by mud, full of the corpses of monsters that were trampled to death by it!

Suddenly, this made the people defending on the city wall breathe a sigh of relief! It seems that this wave of monster attacks has been resisted.

The old baron's mood has also calmed down a little. It seems that the possibility of holding on to the inner castle and waiting for the kingdom's reinforcements has greatly increased!

However, at this time, the archer at the highest point of the tower suddenly changed his face and shouted to the old baron: "Baron, look over there!"

I saw a large black cloud flying in the western sky. The cloud was very fast and it was estimated that it would soon come to the sky above the Clavel Castle.

"Not good! It's a flying monster!" The old baron was horrified and couldn't help but lose his voice. At the same time, he immediately turned his head on the city wall and shouted to the inner castle square: "Hurry up and hide! There is a flying monster!"

"Quick! Enter the tower!" The old baron made a decision immediately, and dozens of guards shouted in unison: "Enter the tower!"

He didn't expect that his side would only be able to defend four towers so soon. The opponent actually had flying monsters to cooperate with the attack. If he continued to defend on the inner castle wall, the flying monsters' swooping attacks would quickly cause a large number of casualties to his guards.

But if he gave up the defense on the wall now, it would actually be a temporary solution.

Because after the two mutant crab monsters broke through the inner castle gate and various monsters poured in like a tide, there would be no food and fresh water, and the defense forces divided into four towers would be eliminated one by one, and the rest would definitely be a losing situation for them.

But the old baron considered that if he died later, he could continue to contain the monster army and reduce the risk for the evacuated children and Levi.

However, at this time, in the center of the inner castle, although the children of Silver Pine Town had been taken to the castle cellar by Levi and Duan, there were still hundreds of women and elderly people who had not had time to hide.

As a large group of flying monsters flew over the Clavier Castle, under the command of several extremely unpleasant screams,

Suddenly, hundreds of blood vultures, led by more than a dozen human-faced monster birds, began to swoop down and massacred the unarmed humans in the inner castle square!

From time to time, an old man was pierced by the blood vulture's claws, and under the flapping of the wings with a wingspan of three or four meters, the old man was grabbed high up, brought to the air and thrown down fiercely. With a desperate scream, it was the death of a human.

In less than five minutes, less than 30% of the people in the inner castle square were able to escape, and most of them were slaughtered.

The guards and young men who were defending the four towers tried to rush out to rescue several times, but after several attempts, they could not break through the blockade of the monsters in the air. Even if they barely rushed to the inner castle square, they could not carry out rescue.

So, they could only roar while using the bows and arrows in their hands to cover the fleeing crowd on the square.

At this time, the gate of the inner castle was also breached. The two mutant crab demons, who were covered with injuries, led a large number of small monsters to break through the last line of defense of the Clavier family, which had been operating for more than a hundred years.

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At this time, Richard had already reached the last hillside. As long as he climbed over this hillside, he could see Silver Pine Town.

But when Richard rode his wildebeest to the top of the hill, what came into view was the smoke billowing, the ruined Clavel Castle under the siege of monsters, and the ruined Silver Pine Town.

And the shouts of humans were almost inaudible. What this meant, Richard knew it best.

Richard couldn't help but be shocked, and his eyes went black!

Could it be that his family members had already...

Suddenly, Richard was furious!

There was only one thought in his mind, which was to kill all the monsters in front of him.

Richard immediately waved the mutant summoning staff, and the abomination nearly three meters tall was summoned out, striding towards the group of monsters besieging the Clavel family castle.

Richard himself quickly took off the griffin wings on his back, activated the secret technique of rapid shooting, and attacked the monsters in front of him.

Although the special effects of the Griffin Wings have been used up today, the top-level witchcraft props are very powerful in themselves. In addition, under Richard's extreme bow control, the arrows shot out are as fast as lightning, as if holding a Gatling machine gun.

The sound of "swoosh, swoosh!" breaking through the air is endless, and the monsters around Richard are also killed in large areas.

On the route Richard is heading to his family castle, the army of monsters is like ice soaked in hot water, instantly melting and opening a path.

It was not until Richard rushed to the foot of the family's outer castle that he found that although the outer castle of the castle had been breached, he could still clearly see intermittent arrows shot out from the four inner castle towers, fighting back against the monsters.

This made him feel like crying with joy.

There is still resistance in the family castle, he should still have time!