Lord Highlander

In this world, everything is immersed in darkness...

It's like being in a thick fog, unable to peek further. Everyone's field of vision is only a space less than five meters in diameter, and beyond that is endless darkness.

The ghost-striped soldier ants became a little confused. They wanted to listen to the instructions from the ghost-striped ant queen, but they found nothing after waiting for a long time. Therefore, the ghost-striped soldier ants on the battlefield became extremely disordered for a while, rushing to the city wall. The ghost-striped soldier ants fight out of instinct. They no longer consider making enough space for the soldiers rushing up from behind, nor do they try their best to open up the battle situation on the city wall. Almost all the ghost-striped soldier ants are fighting for their own survival. for war.

For the city defense defenders, they can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Selena and Aphrodite quickly walked behind Suldak, surrounded by a large group of city guards.

Suldak was at the front of the team, and the dwarven chain shield in his hand burst out with sacred flames. Aphrodite hurriedly squeezed to the front of the crowd, and a bloody magic circle appeared under her feet again, like a spider web. The body was covered with jerky and incomprehensible magic lines, and as the spell sounded, a huge eyeball appeared on top of Aphrodite's head again.

That eyeball carried an evil and chaotic aura, and the moment he opened it, his eyes fell on the giant ghost-patterned soldier ant.

The ghost-patterned soldier ant seemed to be under the spell of slowness, and all its movements became extremely slow, as if its joints were all rusted, and the huge tentacles stopped in front of Suldak.

Holding the dwarf chain shield, Suldak backed away from the claws of the ghost-striped soldier ant, looked at Aphrodite, saw her nodded slightly to him, and jumped to the ghost-striped soldier ant without any explanation. On the back full of black thorns, the blood-red crescent pierced into the back skull of the giant ghost pattern soldier ant along the bone seam.

The body of the giant ghost-patterned soldier ant shook violently. Suldak took the opportunity to jump off the top of the ghost-patterned soldier ant, stood in front of Aphrodite and Selina, and asked softly, "Why are you here?"

Selena closed her eyes, without any expression on her face, as if she was in a deep sleep.

But she held her hands in front of her chest, and there was a black ball of light condensed in her palm, which is the ball of darkness. The phantom behind her has not disappeared for so long, as if another person is controlling her body .

The ball of darkness emits circle after circle of black ripples. It is this dark breath that shields the perception of everyone around the city wall and the ant clan.

Aphrodite glanced at Suldak and recited another spell. A five-pointed star pattern appeared under her feet, and a huge phantom of a vampire bat flew out of the magic circle...

'Embrace of the Vampire'

A huge phantom landed on a ghost-striped soldier ant, immediately covering its head, a ball of brown blood sprayed out from the top of the ghost-striped soldier ant, the whole ghost-striped soldier ant looked like a soulless The body quickly fell to the top of the city.

Knowing that he couldn't say much at this time, Suldak rushed to the front and rescued a city guard who was pinched by the ghost-striped soldier ant's tentacles.

At this time, Andrew and Gulitum had rushed over with more than twenty first-rank veterans, suppressing the attack of the ghost pattern soldiers.

Some ghost pattern soldier ants that rushed to the city wall were quickly beheaded by these people, and some ghost pattern soldier ants that climbed the city wall behind were blown off the top of the city again by the thrown fire scale bombs.

Thirty ghost-striped drones lying on the fire wall hissed in pain, their bodies straddled the flames and twitched non-stop. Their legs had been quickly scorched in the flames, and the flames came from between the ghost-striped drones. In the cracks, it burned again.

Without the queen's orders, the ghost-striped soldiers under the city stopped stepping on the body of the ghost-striped male ant, enduring the burning of the flames and continuing to attack the city.

They stayed away from the thirty ghost-striped male ants one after another, watching the thick carapace on their bodies burst under the high temperature, and balls of flames shot out from inside, these ghost-striped soldier ants did not dare to cross the fire wall and rush to the city. on the head.

The ghost-patterned soldier ants at the top of the city couldn't get follow-up supplements. Basically, they killed one and lost one, and the situation was brought under control.

The cavalry began to rescue the group of city guards on the city wall who were besieged by ghost-striped soldiers and ants, who were manipulating bed crossbows and pushing rolling stones.

A few ghost-patterned soldiers climbed up to the watchtower, and Samira ruthlessly shot them through the head, and the corpses stood obliquely on the wall of the watchtower.

Suldak fought side by side with Gulitum and Andrew, and with the help of Aphrodite's control magic, he successively killed several giant ghost-striped soldier ants raging on the top of the city.

As the situation gradually stabilized, the feeling of being surrounded by darkness quickly receded...

Behind Selina, the phantom of the goddess trapped in the courtyard disappeared into the darkness, and she fell asleep with a pale face. Suldak asked Aphrodite to stay behind the city and take care of Selina.

Adams and Gallatin on the other side also rushed to the middle of the city, and everyone began to strangle the ghost pattern soldiers on the city.

The darkness recedes...

The ghost-striped soldier ants under the city once again felt the call of the queen, and they became orderly again, ready to cross the bridge built by the ghost-striped male ants again.

It's just that these male ants have completely burned up, and the group of ghost pattern soldiers rushing in front of them rushed into the flames without hesitation, their bodies were instantly ignited, and they just managed to climb a few steps on the city wall, and then twitched all over. Fell into the wall of fire below the city.

The catapult has continued to throw more than 50 packs of explosives from the north city wall, and the continuous explosions have turned the canyon outside the city wall into corpses.

Probably because the queens felt that this attack method could be successful, they then organized thirty ghost male ants to march forward side by side, dragging their bulky bodies, passing through the fire wall, and directly inserting the huge tentacles into the cracks in the city wall. , the huge bodies were connected together again, forming a wide bridge.

The people guarding the city wall this time have long been prepared...

Gulitum raised an oak barrel full of kerosene, and threw it directly from the city wall. The oak barrel was thrown on the ghost-striped male ant and shattered, and a flame burst from it.

Throwing more than twenty barrels of kerosene one after another, finally completely ignited the thirty ghost pattern male ants.

Another sea of ​​flames was formed under the city.

...

The battle on the north city wall continued for another whole night, and the sound of explosions did not completely subside until dawn.

In the early morning, the merchants got out of their wagons on the edge of the town, squatted by a clear river to wash, and watched helplessly as the city guards below the northern city wall cleaned up the piles of spoils. The corpses of those ghost-striped soldiers were almost Casually thrown by the shed.

Waiting for the leather craftsmen to dismember them, the head will be sent to the military camp, and the body will be thrown into the pit for softening.

A group of mercenaries retreated tiredly from the city wall, and occasionally they would carry some private possessions and secretly sell them to the merchants here.

But this time there seemed to be nothing, they walked directly into the mercenary union along the long street of the town.

The other team of mercenaries was already ready to go, and they greeted each other familiarly.

"Hey Jack, how was the harvest last night?"

"It's okay, but I almost died on it..."

The mercenaries who have just come down from the city wall will not rest immediately, and everyone will gather in the hall of the mercenary union. While having a simple breakfast, they will throw all the gains of last night on the table, and a special person will be in charge of keeping accounts Check with them, and at the same time calculate how much each person can get in a day.

The leatherworkers in the mercenary union also began to use this interval to check the magic pattern structures on each mercenary one by one.

The leather maker found that the leather armor on many mercenaries was damaged, and couldn't help frowning and said:

"What did you guys go through last night? The structure is so worn out..."

Mercenaries like to buy some single-piece magic pattern constructions, mainly helmets, breastplates, trousers, and boots. Basically, they are lucky in the magic market and can be bought. Generally speaking, single-piece elementary The price of the magic pattern structure is generally between ten magic crystals and forty magic crystals. The quality of the materials used, the manufacturing process, the attributes of the magic pattern and so on determine the real price of the magic pattern structure.

Calculated in this way, the cheapest one would cost seventy gold coins.

Once the magic pattern structure is damaged, the maintenance cost is astonishingly expensive.

Such a battle caused extensive damage to the leather armor, which was not worth the loss.

The leader of the mercenary captain was holding a silver spoon in his hand and took a spoonful of milky white mushroom soup. The hand holding the spoon kept shaking. Hearing the inquiry from the leather craftsman, he could only smile wryly: " I thought I was going to die on it..."

When the surroundings became quiet, he said proudly again:

"...But the ending is not bad. I finally climbed down alive. This kind of battle always makes people's blood boil. I need a cup of sweet milk to calm down the excitement."

The person in charge of bookkeeping picked up the list in his hand, shook it to everyone present and said, "Look what we got last night!"

After speaking, he glanced at the list, and said to the five people present: "Oh! The harvest this time is really good, sixteen magic cores..."

These words caused the mercenary squads in other booths to look sideways.

The leatherworker looked at the mercenary captain in surprise, and asked in a low voice:

"You fought all night?"

The look in the eyes became very complicated, it was envious, and it was jealous...

...

When the morning fog cleared and the sun shone into the canyon, the people guarding the top of the city discovered that the ant colony in the canyon had retreated to the middle of the canyon again.

The wall of fire below the city wall was still burning continuously, and the billowing heat wave rolled up from below.

The fresh water hoisted up from the base of the city by the auxiliary soldiers of the city defense brigade continuously washed the city wall, not only to wash away the sour and stinky rotten liquid, but also to cool down the city wall, otherwise the temperature on the city wall would almost drop. People are roasted and dried out.

The mountain walls on both sides are full of mottled traces, and thick smoke billows from the pile of corpses below the mountain walls.

In addition to the corpses and stumps of ghost-striped red ants on the battlefield, there are also some arrows and supplies.

Seeing the ant colony retreat, the guards on the top of the city quickly shot out ropes, and at the gap where the fire walls on both sides of the mountain wall did not reach, city guards kept slipping down the city wall.

They mainly collect the giant crossbow bolts and ordinary arrows on the battlefield. Unfortunately, those rolling stones are now calcined in the wall of fire. Many stone balls have been blasted into waste stones under high temperature. Don't even think about getting out of the fire at this time. pull out.

On the contrary, six large ghost-striped male ants were maimed by the explosives. Although they are still lingering on the battlefield, they still couldn't escape. After the weak point, easy to kill.

Because of the barrier of the fire wall, these ghost-striped male ants couldn't be dragged back to the north city wall. The only thing they could take away was the fist-sized magic core.

The battlefield was covered with acid and stumps, and the city guards collected the heads of some soldier ants, which could still be brought back.

The battle last night caused a lot of casualties, forty-two city guards died on the top of the city.

The injured city guards were carried to the barracks, and during the treatment process, fourteen more seriously injured city guards died one after another, and there were more injured city guards. Surdak has been busy with the treatment work since the morning , didn't have much rest all night, after a series of treatments, it is inevitable to feel a little top-heavy and dizzy.

Nika went out early to deal with the shattered glass in the neighbor's house, but failed to become Suldak's assistant.

Now Selena is at his side to help.

In the morning, Selena did not go to the free market to make a price parity. The vendors habitually used the price set the day before as a reference, and no one took the opportunity to disrupt the market.

Signa was lying in Samira's attic, which contained only a single bed.

Her petite body was hugging the quilt, sitting on the bed, looking at the half-elf archer very curiously, Samira was holding a dagger in her hand, and was carefully sharpening the shaft of the arrow. In her eyes, those arrows were unqualified Yes, there is no good balance, and the arrow shaft is not smooth at all. She carefully repaired the arrows in the quiver, and her movements were meticulous.

The time has come to summon the succubus, and she has returned to the lava mines of Bump Mountain.

Andrew and Gulitum did not come down from the city, they had already lived on the city wall.

Suldak stopped, his hands were stained with blood, washed in the basin, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Your injury has been treated, try not to touch the wound when you go back, next..."

Selena picked up the teacup and handed it to his mouth, and fed him a sip of water.

"Last night, how did you and Aphrodite run to the north city wall?" Suldak suddenly remembered, and asked Selena.

Selena leaned against the door, watched a wounded man push the door into the small building, pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "You just implanted such a life magic pattern in Aphrodite, why did you forget to ask her if there is any?" What effect?"

Suldak asked in surprise: "You mean that her perception has expanded to the point where... she can perceive the battle situation on the north wall at the barracks?"

"I don't know about this, you should ask her..." Selina said as she walked towards the wounded soldier and began to examine the wound.

Suldak sat on the chair, quietly closed his eyes and meditated, trying to regain some mental strength...