"Goodbye!" Roland waved to the centaurs who were sent a hundred meters out of the forest, and then set off on his journey home with Nyx and the knights.
"Hey, I think I need to play for a few more days~" Nyx nudged Roland's chest in frustration while riding on horseback. Young, innocent and mischievous girls always love to play, especially the nobles who have nothing better to do...
"Once the kingdom is settled, I will take you to travel across the kingdom's magnificent rivers and mountains, and witness the vicissitudes of life together!" Roland held the reins in one hand and hugged the beauty with the other. At this moment, it seemed as if his life had reached its peak.
"Swish!" Suddenly a sound of breaking through the air was heard.
"clang!"
We should be thankful for Roland's cherished nature. He never forgot his divine shield, Elial, wherever he went. The arrow struck Elial, shattering it into pieces. A divine shield is a divine shield! It cannot be tainted by ordinary iron!
"Looking for death! Fearless Spirit!" Roland urged the large shield in his hand, and a gentle wave swept over the knights centered on Roland. Roland added status in advance to protect his knights from the negative effects of the status.
"Orcs!" The knights' faces changed, and they surrounded them one after another. In an instant, a thick steel "human wall" surrounded Roland and Nyx.
"Kill them!" Roland could only give orders because he couldn't fight at all with one hand on Nix. As for the offensive holy arts, Roland didn't intend to waste his fighting spirit. He had a rough idea of the power of his attacks.
"Your Highness, be careful! Support will be here soon!" The leading knights refused to attack. They were struggling to protect their own king and future queen, let alone attack. The captain's eyes were filled with anger and embarrassment. Angered that he couldn't strike down these invading bastards with his sword, embarrassment that the king had been attacked on his own soil... utterly humiliating! Luckily, Roland reacted quickly, or else he might have been assassinated like San'er! Even if these knights committed seppuku, they wouldn't have been able to undo this loss.
"Shoot!" The angry knight captain waved his hand. "Today, I'm going to be a scoundrel! Don't you like archery? Fine! I'll shoot at you! Missing the target? No problem! We have plenty of arrows! Our armor is thick! Shoot wherever you want! If you can get through me, I'll consider myself unlucky. One shot from my pointed armor-piercing arrows will leave a bloody hole in you little kalami! Today, we knights are going to be unruly!"
"Buzz~"
"Boom~"
"Ding-ling-dang-dang~"
Like a symphony, it resounded across this solemn battlefield. Roland would never have imagined such a spectacular scene unfolding between knights and orcs! One fought tooth and nail but couldn't penetrate the knight's plate armor, the other tried desperately but couldn't hit the orc...
Roland and Nyx, observing through the gaps in their shields, looked at each other in bewilderment, their faces filled with speechless silence...
"Your Highness... I think the knights' archery skills should be improved... What do you think?" Nyx cautiously glanced at Roland's face, which was as black as the bottom of a pot.
"You're right! My dear Grand Duke! They should be properly trained!" Roland's voice was icy cold, his eyes filled with embarrassment and anger.
After hearing Roland's words, the knights tightened their collars and quickened their movements, but their accuracy... became even worse!
"Can't you aim?" Roland finally lost his patience. He watched these brave knights achieve projectile-like shots with their flat shots, and Roland frantically asked, "Can someone tell me if that arrow that strayed hundreds of meters was real? Who shot it? What a talent!"
"Let's take a break! Let's wait for reinforcements!" Roland said weakly. The knights' achievements before him had completely blinded Roland. Look at those fallen orcs? Roland swore on his lower body that there were no more than five! And the jungle where those orcs were was shot with at least hundreds of long arrows! The orcs were even starting to fight back with the knights' arrows...
Roland casually pulled out a stray arrow that fell through the gap in the shield and glanced at it: "Well done, gentlemen! I was attacked by my own armor-piercing arrows! Are you afraid that the other side doesn't have enough arrows and you keep sending them arrows?" Roland shrugged and put away the stray arrow. After all, the wealthy and powerful Jiliu City could not withstand such destruction from them!
"Baby, I miss those Badanian archers!" Roland suddenly missed those fierce barbarians immensely. Although they were a bit ferocious and often slacking off, they were at least professional! Ten Badanian archers could send this small group of less than 100 orcs to the Dragon God in less than five minutes.
"Alas... please come and put an end to all this!" Roland's heart was filled with wail as he listened to the tinkling sounds like rain hitting banana leaves. If he had known earlier, he would have let the centaurs send him back... In this place where there is no village in front and no shop behind, Roland felt miserable guarding these two waves of idiots!
The knights were in even greater distress! Although they wished they could pierce the orcs with their spears, they dared not move because of the presence of the two princes! Forming a human wall was their only option.
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"Yeah!" In less than ten minutes, reliable reinforcements finally arrived!
"Boom!" Cardo spewed out a cyan gas ball, followed by a ball of light that expanded at the point of impact! Cyan wind blades danced all over the sky, cutting the entire grove into pieces and finally razing it to the ground.
"A secondary forbidden spell! Breath of Whispering Wind?" Roland's eyes widened. This meant that Cardo had reached the peak of his youth! Similarly...Caslo also advanced with the growth of the dragon!
"Congratulations, His Excellency the Dragon Rider General! You've taken another step forward in your Dragon Rider Mastership," Roland said with a smile. That's right! Kaslo had quietly reached Level 5! The Dragon Riders' growth rate was truly despairing... We'd agreed to stay together at Level 3, but now they've all left Roland behind and advanced. Thorin must be at Level 4 too! After all, with the Arken Gem, a treasure with a training buff, Thorin's breakthrough to Level 4 was a piece of cake. He's probably on the verge of Level 5 now.
"Ah..." Roland sighed.
"I'm sorry to have scared you! We are too late to save you!" Caslo felt extremely guilty.
"It's okay! You came just in time. If you were any later, they would have wasted hundreds more of my arrows..." Roland rubbed his head, feeling a headache and pain in his body! It was all about money!
"Well, they are just not good at shooting..." Kaslo tried to explain to the knights.
All the knights cast grateful eyes, as if they were looking at their reborn parents, their adoptive parents.
"No need to explain it to them. This is the first time I've seen a knight shoot a fixed target like that...it's eye-opening." Roland finally understood what it meant to say that life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by heaven! Hitting a target depends on luck, and killing someone depends entirely on luck.
"Uh..." Caslo was suddenly speechless.
"Wait a moment, Your Highness. The remaining knights of the Order will be here soon!" Kaslo had to change the subject. You know, when the magic flare was launched into the sky, everyone was worried. Kaslo was just the first to feel it. Omsk was galloping with a large group of people in the rear.
