Chapter 712 Allegiance
The little Khan Duke and his knights continued to join the battle group. After Akasha's treatment, several other envoys who were lucky enough to escape here also joined the defense line built by Roddy. They did not have extraordinary courage, but because of Roddy's appearance, the "positional war" became much simpler than imagined.
In dealing with a large number of enemies who were blindly charged, Elvin and others could definitely be called "practice makes perfect", and they cooperated with extremely tacit understanding. Infantry defense, cavalry stabbed guns in the back, and used spells to build covers where they could not defend on both sides. The rest was enough to continue to kill repeatedly.
Therefore, when the mages who escaped and rescued recovered, they immediately learned from Sylvia and Melinthra and began to continuously cast spells to build "temporary city walls" and "covers" to protect the team. One by one, the earth walls and ice walls stood up in the square under the magic tower, and the crisis of lack of combat power was immediately resolved. As the magic array repair on the magic tower ended, round after round of magic support began to fall from the sky again. The soldiers who were originally under great pressure were finally able to take a breath and start the rotation of reserve teams.
When all this happened, Evely and Taoreus sat on the stone steps behind the position in a daze. Half of the seal was lifted, they could only move their necks stiffly, and they could not even stand up. The soldiers running around did not realize that they were "tied" and just thought that they were unable to move because of injuries.
The troops of Eska Kingdom suffered heavy losses in the battle just now and are now separated to some extent. Evely was almost killed by the "subbody". If it weren't for Akasha's treatment, she would probably have suffered so much now. When she knew that her life was saved by Roddy's team, her thoughts were still a little dazed. Seeing that the battle situation had stabilized slightly, she still suppressed the grief in her heart and quietly asked what happened to Taoris.
The result she finally realized how terrible the young man not far away was.
"Everything is fake... it's fake, I can't see through him at all." Taoris's voice was very depressed. She felt that she had been in vain for years. In addition, she was extremely depressed when she learned about the deaths of Miranda and Kiel. "He seemed to know more about the plan to infect the fishman than us, and he scolded me at that time, saying that we are... digging our own grave."
Evely was a little distracted by the pain in her calf, but after hearing Taoris' words, she was stunned for a moment and then muttered to herself: "Digging the grave... Does he know that we will encounter such an attack?"
The deaths of Miranda and Kiel were really deeply stimulated by the patriarch. She realized that those "sub-body" would never rush over to siege them for no reason. So what is the problem?
After thinking about it, it would only be the "Destroy the Fishman" spell cast by Miranda!
This spell was learned by her and Taoris after receiving the books in the "Royal Palace of Spells" in the Kingdom of Esca. It was not someone else who asked them to learn this spell, but His Majesty King Talia!
This spell is indeed effective for fishman, but it has an unusual attraction to those cruel "subbody". Is this a coincidence? If it is not a coincidence...
The sudden fear made her feel like a needle pricked on her back, and cold sweat almost immediately flowed down her forehead. As soon as this idea came to her heart, many unintentional details became strong evidence to maintain this judgment. Especially the words mentioned by Miranda when she talked about "His Majesty Talia's reward" before - why did they suddenly gather together to participate in this kind of mission, as leaders of major domestic forces?
The Eska Kingdom has never been a country that is centralized in the royal family. The power distribution is similar to that of the Karen Kingdom. They all clans control their respective territories, and the king nominally commands all the clan leaders. Evely thought carefully: If there was no unexpected factor of "Rody" in this incident, then Taoris would leave with them and would have a high probability of being besieged and killed by the "subborns"!
When the team is destroyed, what is the situation in the country? Who will be the biggest beneficiary?
She would never have thought that Talia, who was fifteen years younger than her, would have such vicious scheming. But when all the clues were connected, Evely suddenly realized that she had made a very stupid mistake...
In politics, underestimating anyone will end up miserably.
And now it seems that Roddy, who they were trying to use, had become a "benefactor" by mistake!
Fate sometimes likes to joke. Evely leaned against the cold stone wall with a little depressed look on the cold stone wall, and his eyes were gone, and he whispered: "Torres, we may not be able to go back to Eska."
"Will your Majesty send someone to save us?"
Taoris obviously had fantasies about the Majesty, but her words made Evely smile bitterly: "Save us? Even if we are lucky enough to return to China, we will probably die for inexplicable reasons. Miranda and Jill did not die in an accident... Your Majesty wants us to die here to achieve her goal!"
Her words made Taoruis confused, but the latter was not a fool. After a moment of thinking, she understood what she meant. The bone-broken cold made Taoruis a little panicked: they who became "abandoned sons" would obviously become garbage-like existences in front of these forces in front of them.
"Then...what can we do now?"
Taoris asked anxiously. She was afraid of death and never wanted to be left in the battlefield full of dangers.
"We have no choice, we must choose to rely on one side. Either the Parliament or the Kingdom of Karen..."
Evely also became decisive at this time, trying to move her imprisoned body, and approached Taoris: "The only one who can prevent us from being held accountable now is the messenger of the Kingdom of Karen!"
Taoris nodded repeatedly, knowing that it should be the most urgent thing to express loyalty like Roddy. But when they found each other in the crowd, they were both shocked - because Jeremy, the Speaker of the Rassieman Council, was standing next to Roddy at this moment, obviously listening to him telling something important. The Speaker's expression and expression were extremely serious, but he should be nodding as if he was scolded as a magic apprentice.
The way to deal with ancient sea beasts is not as simple as direct bombardment. Roddy didn't have time to go around Jeremy, and explained the concepts of "maternal body" and "child body" straight to the point, and at the same time explained the "combat plan" he gave.
Based on what was happening right now, Jeremy immediately realized that this was indeed the only feasible solution. He immediately put away his airs, carefully kept everything Roddy said in mind, and agreed with Roddy's combat plan very decisively, and then said: "I'll prepare immediately! It may take ten minutes! The combat plan is under your command, and the council will do what you said!"
After saying that, he went to the top of the tower with "floating technique", obviously notifying the magicians on the top of the tower. Roddy was very surprised by this. He originally thought that the most optimistic situation was to let the other party accept the "combat plan", but he never thought that the other party gave him the command to himself directly - this is indeed completely different from the "bureaucratic" rule in his impression.
"After all, they are all magicians, I know the importance..."
Roddy couldn't help but sigh that talking to smart people is to save energy. He turned his head and looked at the battlefield with a stable front and shouted at Akasha: "Be careful to save mana! There will be a strong attack later!"
"No problem!" Akasha waved to this side, and then cast a "holy shield" for Nafi beside him. The latter was not idle at the moment and was concentrating on controlling the puppets to fight on the front line. With rechargeable crystals as energy, the "battery" of the puppet III type is amazing, so Nafi is almost fighting without any magic consumption. The only thing to do is to occasionally release a shield for the puppet to protect.
Confirm that the battle situation is temporarily stable, Roddy's eyes turned to the "taskbar" in front of him and found that the description of "Devil's Disaster" above had changed:
"You bravely decided to face the ancient giant beasts from the deep sea, but simple "courage" cannot defeat the enemy. The enemies that become powerful at all times are far more terrifying than you think!
You still have a chance to escape, otherwise you will have too little time to regret it.”
Quest completion conditions: Defeat the ancient monster 0/1
Mission reward: Skills "Demon Deterrence", "Fear Gaze", "Sacrifice"
Experience value 4560000 points
As Roddy changed his choice, the task obviously embarked on another path. Compared to the previous result of only rewarding more than 10,000 experience points, the difficulty of facing the ancient sea monster was obviously increased by several levels, and the reward was also very amazing - because Roddy glanced over and found that these three skills were all "epic skills" with purple borders!
【Demon Deterrence】
Consumption of 1500 magic power
Casting range: 50 meters
Cooling time: 10 minutes
Effect: Intimidate a demon and keep it in place for three seconds.
【Fear Gaze】
Consumption of 50 magic power per second
Release range: 5 meters
Effect: When the other party's eyes are condensed, it will make the other party feel fearful.
【Sacrifice】
Consumption: Sacrifice
Casting time: 1 minute
Effect: Different effects are produced according to the type of sacrifice.
However, at this time, Roddy was not stupid enough to stand and think about how to use these skills. He closed the interface, rushed to the "fire crossbow arrow" in a few steps, raised his hand to move the boxes of "charged crystals", and shouted to Malinthra not far away: "Come and help transform the magic circle! There is not much time left!"
After two big fireballs exploded a fishman, Maleenthra turned around and began to re-arrange the nodes on the magic circle according to Roddy's request. These things were originally all the weapons or floating magic circles that Elson City had recently studied, but now they have changed their properties under Maleenthra's hands... The charging crystals are densely inserted on it, which looks spectacular.
Roddy had turned around at this time and walked straight towards Taoris and Evely who were thinking about what to do.
"Mr. Roddy, we are willing to be loyal to you!"
Taoris and Evely made a statement without saying a word. Because they were imprisoned, they could only sit on the ground and bent down at Roddy. Roddy was not surprised at all - as long as the other party was not a fool, he would definitely understand what was going on after being besieged by the "sub-body". So he didn't talk nonsense and said directly: "It's okay to be loyal. Now there is a place for you to show your loyalty. If you do what I say, then I will accept your allegiance and protect your lives."
"Must do it!"
"We all listen to Lord Roddy!"
They knew that there was no choice at this time, so they agreed directly. But as soon as they finished speaking, Roddy's request made both of them widen their eyes at the same time-
Chapter completed!