When this Swadian Light Infantry rushed up to report, it seemed to confirm the accuracy of Zhang Bo's divination, causing the Holy Tree Knights, who were originally anxious and somewhat skeptical, to completely change their expressions.
Yes, their expressions completely changed.
"What exactly is going on?! Explain in detail!" The Holy Tree Knight looked at the Swadian Light Infantry.
"In the east side of the city, just now, a powerful entity appeared, capable of using very strange magical power. On the south side of the city wall, near the east city gate, a ramp made of bone fragments has been formed again. It's already there." The Swadian Light Infantry swallowed hard, forced himself to calm down, and carefully described the situation.
At the same time, he finally added, "Now, Sir Fatis is leading some Lake Rat Gang Destroyers to resist the surging Skeleton, and the situation is very dangerous!"
He described it clearly.
"I understand." The Holy Tree Knight turned and walked towards the nearby stairs, intending to report this matter to Shen Mu.
"No need to come up, Lord Shen Mu has heard and is preparing to come down now." Just then, a Holy Tree Knight's voice came from above.
Then, with a bang, a Holy Tree Knight in full armor jumped down from the top of the spired tower, over three meters high, landing heavily on the wooden floor of the attic, making a loud thud, and the wooden floor groaned under the instantaneous force.
However, this was not the only Holy Tree Knight who jumped down from the top of the attic.
With a series of thuds, seven or eight fully armored Holy Tree Knights jumped down from above, then stood to one side, their faces grim, and took up guard.
Clearly, this three-meter height, combined with their nearly seventy or eighty pounds of armor and equipment, did not cause them any harm.
It also represented the physical quality of these Holy Tree Knights.
"Mr. Zhang Bo, tell me, what exactly happened?" At this moment, Shen Mu had also climbed down the stairs, looking at Zhang Bo's extremely tense, clearly fear-distorted face, and said calmly, "Where else will danger appear according to the divination result?"
Shen Mu was asking.
Zhang Bo looked up at him, and immediately seemed to understand.
He quickly walked up to Shen Mu, pointed at the east city wall, and said loudly, "It's really urgent, Lord Shen Mu, according to my divination, there are definitely not just these two ramps on the east city wall; something even more dangerous will happen!"
"Lord Shen Mu! The second ramp has already appeared, and the troops on the east city wall are insufficient!" The Swadian Light Infantry, acting as a messenger, added, panting heavily.
"Mm." Shen Mu remained very calm.
He nodded in response.
Shen Mu pondered for a moment, then instructed the Swadian Light Infantry, "Mobilize 500 Swadian troops now and reinforce the city wall again."
These soldiers, even the weakest Swadian Light Infantry, were equipped with chainmail. Fighting the Skeleton on the city wall, they would not be at a disadvantage.
What's more, with the addition of the Lake Rat Gang Destroyers, who have stronger melee capabilities.
As long as they are mixed.
Forming city wall combat teams.
Even those weak Skeleton, even if they are stronger than ordinary undead Skeleton, with a metallic sheen all over, dark, and stronger in defense and combat power than ordinary Skeleton.
When facing organized combat teams from the Mount & Blade World, they are no different from ordinary Skeleton frames.
Shen Mu added this sentence while giving his orders.
"Understood."
The Swadian Light Infantry responded, then turned and left the attic to relay Shen Mu's orders.
This was a problem that needed to be resolved quickly, as the east city wall was currently under enemy attack pressure. If not resolved promptly, it would still be quite important for Deherim.
As soon as the Swadian Light Infantry left the Castle Main Building, the Mount & Blade Soldiers already stationed in the Castle Main Building and on the outer city walls were immediately mobilized.
500 soldiers, consisting of Tier 5 Swadian Sergeant, Tier 4 Swadian Infantry, and Tier 3 Swadian Light Infantry, immediately picked up their weapons and streamed out through the small door on the second floor of the Castle Main Building, which was connected to the city wall. They quickly ascended the stairs of the two sections of the city wall and reinforced the east city wall.
They watched the Lake Rat Gang Destroyers, who, although still firmly suppressing the Skeleton, had already shown some defensive gaps.
They also raised their weapons and charged forward fearlessly.
"Kill! For Swadia! For Lord Shen Mu!" As these heavily armored Swadian Soldiers rushed onto the city wall and joined the ranks resisting the Skeleton, the pressure on the entire east city wall immediately decreased significantly, and it clearly became safer.
"Lord Shen Mu, the pressure on the city wall has been partially relieved." In the Castle Main Building, a Holy Tree Knight looked at the east city wall, where the Skeleton's attack was being resisted again, and immediately turned to report to Shen Mu.
"Mm, very good." Shen Mu nodded with satisfaction.
However, at this moment, he looked at Zhang Bo, who had completely recovered, with little expression on his face, and simply said, "Mr. Zhang Bo, your divination is indeed very useful, as expected of a Prophecy-type Mage. So, where else will danger appear next?"
"Thank you, thank you for your praise." Zhang Bo, looking as if he was still shaken, swallowed and, as if very weak and tired, said with a bitter smile, "But Lord Shen Mu, this is not the only danger. In my divination, a greater danger is still brewing, still lurking in the shadows, watching Deherim."
"Mm, I know." But Shen Mu was not surprised by this.
In fact, he was not surprised at all.
How could those two bone-fragment ramps outside have formed so casually and ordinarily?
Just thinking about it makes it clear.
There must be a terrifying, powerful master of extraordinary power, or even a higher-level spellcaster, hidden within those dark rooms, existing there.
Just as Zhang Bo said, they are watching them.
"There's a powerful necromancer, very strong." Shen Mu said calmly, "We must be vigilant."
Zhang Bo pursed his lips, wanting to say something, but then a thought flashed through his mind, and the words at his lips twisted, "No, Lord Shen Mu, there's even more danger!"
"Hmm?" Shen Mu frowned, looking at Zhang Bo.
He hadn't expected to be wrong.
At this moment, even the Holy Tree Knights nearby turned their heads curiously to look at Zhang Bo, frowning, quite annoyed by his hesitant, incomplete words.
Especially in such an urgent situation, it made them, who were stable in character but as knights and warriors capable of fighting on the front lines, particularly annoyed by such indirect speech.
In the chaotic mount & blade: Warband - Pendor, which had been divided for hundreds of years, the former court nobles were gone.
Where could there be so much indirect talk?
"Master Zhang Bo, what are you hesitating about? Or rather, what are you afraid of?" Shen Mu also looked at Zhang Bo.
"No, no, no, I'm not afraid of anything." Zhang Bo's voice trembled, and he swallowed before saying with a shaky voice, "But, in my divination, a terrifying presence is coming from the east."
"A terrifying presence?" Shen Mu frowned, "Can you be clearer?"
He noticed that Zhang Bo's mental state was very poor now.
Not only was his speech stuttering and hesitant.
Even his narrative was completely muddled.
Extraordinary existences, powerful existences, Shen Mu also knew. Even if Zhang Bo didn't say it, he could guess it from the two Skeleton ramps outside.
Now, he found that Zhang Bo's words were a waste of time. If he continued to be muddled and talk nonsense, he wouldn't want to continue talking to him here.
Because it was useless.
"Oops, I overdid the act a bit." Zhang Bo also noticed the annoyance on Shen Mu's face at this moment, realizing that his performance just now seemed to be a bit over-the-top.
So his expression changed again, and he looked at Shen Mu very seriously and said, "I'm sorry, Lord Shen Mu, I don't know what that is, but according to the result of my divination, if more troops are not sent, it will be difficult to resist that existence and the large number of undead troops it brings."
"More troops?" Shen Mu frowned.
"Yes." Zhang Bo swallowed, nodded very affirmatively, and at the same time looked at the knights beside him, who were wearing excellent plate armor with tree crowns printed on them, and said with a trembling voice, "In my divination, if these stronger Sir Knights can go to the front line, there will be a greater chance of victory."
"Mm." Shen Mu nodded.
He did not doubt Zhang Bo's words, because Holy Tree Knights were inherently powerful Tier 5 knights.
Moreover, due to their equipment, their combat power against evil was stronger than that of ordinary knights.
For example, they were stronger than Swadian Knight.
This was the advantage brought by the mithril and elven craftsmanship left behind in the mount & blade: Warband - Pendor, a low-magic world.
"Then you all go." Shen Mu made a decision after pondering.
The 50 Holy Tree Knights specifically protecting Shen Mu did not hesitate and immediately turned and left the tower.
However, 10 Holy Tree Knights remained behind as Shen Mu's bodyguards, no longer leaving his side.
"Do we still need more soldiers to go to the east city wall for support?" Shen Mu looked at the suddenly empty spired attic of the Castle Main Building and then looked at Zhang Bo again.
"This is already very good." Zhang Bo nodded repeatedly, and to make his performance more realistic, he even reached out and rubbed his chest, taking two breaths before adding, "Of course, Lord Shen Mu, if more troops can also go to the west city wall and defend together to prevent anything from happening, that would be even better."
"Will there also be problems on the west city wall according to your divination?" Shen Mu asked directly.
"Yes, but I'm not sure." Zhang Bo smiled bitterly, "I'm just a low-level Prophecy-type Mage, and I can't predict any real results in this world with 100% accuracy, especially since I'm using ambiguous divination, which makes it even more vague in terms of prophecy."
"Vague?" Shen Mu was expressionless, "That's a real shame."
"Sorry." Zhang Bo detected the distance in Shen Mu's tone, understanding that what he had just said about prophecy made Shen Mu look down on him a bit.
So he sighed, still wanting to salvage his reputation.
However, in his heart, Zhang Bo was also somewhat speechless towards Shen Mu now, and even felt that he couldn't keep up the act, after all, the time was almost up. If he didn't need to perform now, Zhang Bo himself would have wished he could just pull out a knife and stab Shen Mu in the stomach.
This way, there would be no need for the Wood Elf Village or rather, the Green Leaf Group's surprise beheading squad.
Of course, this was just Zhang Bo's thought.
After all, if he really dared to do that, even if Shen Mu didn't die on the spot after the knife was plunged into his stomach, Zhang Bo, a Prophecy-type Mage who was not good at combat and had no means of escape, would probably be cut down and killed on the spot by the 10 Holy Tree Knights who remained.
There wasn't much chance for him to escape, nor was it possible.
Zhang Bo still had his own plans; he wanted to seize the opportunity after the Green Leaf Group's assault troops attacked the Castle District to quickly go to the Holy White Council's Holy Light Torch Tower and sign a soul contract with those Human Mage who called themselves Eden Garde, so that all his followers would be replaced by these Human Mage.
This was Zhang Bo's little scheme.
Just as Zhang Bo was lost in thought, Shen Mu glanced at him and asked again, "Is the west city wall also dangerous?"
"I think it's always right to be careful." Zhang Bo snapped out of it and quickly replied.
"Alright then." Shen Mu nodded, and had a Holy Tree Knight go to convey this order.
The number of troops pouring into the Castle Main Building and the Castle District was simply too large.
If they were all crowded in here, they would lose room for tactical maneuver.
Releasing a batch to garrison other places and adding more tactical free space is also very helpful in terms of defensive arrangements.
Soon, the Holy Tree Knight who went to convey the order returned.
"Sir, everything has been arranged." The Holy Tree Knight reported.
"Mm, very good." Shen Mu nodded. Lezalit was in charge of the west city wall, and he was also a meticulous mount & blade General. Shen Mu believed he would not make any mistakes.
"But, Sir." The Holy Tree Knight's face was worried.
"What?" Shen Mu looked at him.
"The defending forces in our Castle District, including the Castle Main Building, are too few now." The Holy Tree Knight hesitated to speak.
As he spoke, he glanced at the empty attic and said with a heavy tone, "Especially with those Holy Tree Knights leaving your side, I believe it is inappropriate. You must receive the highest level of protection."
