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He was probably on guard against the archmage from Landon's territory.
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William, the general of the Valley Territory, put down the loudspeaker that the Lord had personally granted him, turned around and said to Morgan, the great wizard of the Valley Territory beside him, "Thanks to you, otherwise that dragon would have wiped us out."
Morgan: "Humph, you still have to be careful. Since the dragon did not turn into dust and completely shatter, it means that the disintegration technique only seriously injured him. An angry dragon is very scary. However, why didn't your Majesty's intelligence mention the contract reached between Lord Landon and the dragon clan?
"It's still a black dragon. Black dragons usually live in swamps and are more common in river countries with dense river networks."
As he was speaking, Morgan suddenly saw something strange: a white-headed sea eagle was flying towards him with a huge ham.
Morgan: What the hell?
Because what they saw was beyond common sense, even the knowledgeable wizard was stunned and missed the opportunity to cast a spell!
The white-headed sea eagle turned into a petite werewolf girl in the air. As she fell, she grabbed the root of the ham and made a circle to hit the wizard!
However, as a great wizard who could cast the Dissociation spell, he must have a trigger spell. So when Ham touched the great wizard, his skin became as hard as stone!
The hard ham hit the stone and actually bent.
The archmage reacted and began to cast a spell, but the druid was faster. She turned into a giant bear in the blink of an eye and slapped the mage on the arm.
The stone's crust shattered like a bar of chocolate, and the remaining impact force directly broke the archmage's bones.
The Archmage howled.
The giant bear was still using its turtle fist to smash the stone skin on the mage's body inch by inch.
General Hegu reacted quickly, drew his sword and rushed towards the giant bear.
The next moment, the druid turned into a squirrel and nimbly disappeared from the warrior's sight.
The Archmage's apprentice yelled, "There!"
The next moment, magic missiles were fired, and three missiles flew directly at the squirrel that was running wildly on the flagpole of the river valley!
The squirrel immediately grew larger, but time was running out and she only had time to become a creature the size of a raccoon before she was hit by the magic missile.
The raccoon fell to the ground, and the magic missile obviously injured one of her paws - if she hadn't grown in size, she would have been half dead after being hit by these three missiles in her squirrel state.
The raccoon transformed into a giant warg and pounced on the apprentice who was casting magic missile.
The apprentice didn't have the trigger magic like his teacher. Although he hurriedly wanted to cast a spell, the wolf came too fast and was in front of him in an instant.
In panic, the wizard accidentally dropped the gel in his hand. The gel was wrapped in the eyelashes of some creature, which was obviously the material for the invisibility spell.
Without the materials to cast the spell, the apprentice could only face the wolf. The next moment, the wolf's claws slashed his throat.
The apprentice fell down, holding his neck which was still bleeding.
The warg turned into a sparrow and soared into the sky.
"Shoot!" the general roared!
However, it is not easy to shoot a sparrow in the dark.
William rushed towards the wizard, only to find that he still had half his life left.
"Pastor! Pastor, come quickly!"
While shouting, William looked down at the ham on the ground. He kicked the ham and found that it seemed to be a real ham.
What the hell?
An armored priest rushed over, squatted down to check the condition of the Archmage, and immediately began to treat him. After performing several healing spells in a row, the priest looked at the Archmage's condition suspiciously: "Strange... The broken bones and damaged muscles should have recovered, why is your breath still so weak? It seems like you have some disease."
William: "Don't you have the disease removed?"
"Today is a short decisive battle, so the magic arts I prepared are all kinds of protection and benefit magic arts, and I didn't prepare to remove disease. Who would prepare to remove disease in this situation?"
William: “Is there any medicine?”
Pastor: “We need to take it from the ship.”
"Then go quickly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a messenger rushed over to report: "Report from the left wing army, the mad dragon has killed and injured many of our people, and the enemy has also taken advantage of the situation to attack. We can't hold on!"
William: "Damn it! Adjust the formation, reserve team..."
At this moment, a sparrow appeared behind him, and the sparrow turned into a giant bear in mid-air, knocking him to the ground. Then the giant bear slapped his helmet, knocking his head and the helmet off.
The giant bear turned into a white-headed sea eagle, picked up the ham on the ground, and flew up in the surprised eyes of everyone.
The deputy general woke up as if from a dream and shouted: "Shoot!"
Seven or eight archers shot together, but it was still difficult to hit a moving target in such darkness. The only few arrows that hit the target were stuck in the ham.
Chapter 55 Dawn
Elizabeth here.
After the "barrier" left by the dragon disappeared, the enemy tried to attack again. It must be said that the emperor's standing army was indeed a strong army trained in the Southwest War, and it was able to maintain morale.
In the melee, Elizabeth fired the last magic missile and watched it hit a swordsman. One of the missiles hit the swordsman in the face, entering through the gap in the mask.
The swordsman cried out in surprise and pushed aside his mask, only to have one of his eyes roll out of its socket—the missile was like a heavy punch, literally blowing his eye out.
The next moment, the cat-man's crossbow arrow hit the swordsman's wide-open face, pierced his nose, broke the cartilage of his nose in one go, and went straight into his brain.
The swordsman fell backwards.
The cat-man shouted to Elizabeth, "Good shot, Your Highness!"
Elizabeth hesitated for a moment, then fired her last scorching ray, aiming at a captain with a feather on his helmet. The ray accurately hit the captain's arm, causing his raised sword to freeze in mid-air, probably because his shoulder was carbonized and lost its ability to move.
The militiaman who was confronting the captain immediately stabbed the captain under the helmet with his spear.
This type of full body armor has a neck guard, but the force of the spear's thrust still pushed the captain backwards.
Another militiaman holding a blacksmith's hammer immediately stepped forward and struck twice!
Elizabeth did not see how the militiamen fought specifically, she only knew that the feathers on the captain's helmet disappeared from her sight.
After casting the spell, Elizabeth squatted down, picked up the crossbow arrow at her feet, and struggled to string the crossbow.
At this moment, a brisk horn sounded.
Elizabeth looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of cavalry charging into the battlefield.
The leading knight raised his sword high, and the blade shone brightly because of the Holy Weapon Covenant.
Paladin!
The sudden appearance of the cavalry was the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the morale of the Styrians collapsed. They rushed to the nearby dark alleys, trying to avoid being chased and trampled by the cavalry.
Elizabeth shot a crossbow arrow at the retreating enemy, then threw the arrow at her feet and gasped for breath.
Misha Sara jumped to her side and carefully checked her body: "Very good, no injuries. I have good news for you, Your Highness. You survived the fierce battle."
Elizabeth gave a wan smile, "Thank you. I've already cast all my spells, and I'm a little tired now. If there's another fight, I'll just have to shoot crossbow arrows."
Just as the cat man was about to reply, a holy warrior riding a tall horse came over.
Wayne Langdon pushed open the visor of his helmet and looked at his sister with concern: "Are you okay? Bruce sent me to destroy the Wanderers Guild. When I arrived, I found that a large number of Steyr regular troops were coming out of the Wanderers Guild.
"Then I remembered you were still in Gallows Square, so I hurried over. When I arrived I found you were gone."
Elizabeth stood up and looked at her brother. "I was going to retreat back to the castle, but when I saw the tragic scene on the road, I decided to fulfill my noble duty and protect my people!"
As soon as the voice fell, the children, women and elderly people who were protected around them all said in unison: "Your Highness the Princess protected us!"
"I will always be loyal to Your Highness!"
Wayne smiled: "You see, your efforts have been recognized by the people. I am proud of you."
At this moment, Elizabeth suddenly remembered: "Oh, a dragon just helped us. Without that dragon, we would definitely be dead. Where did the dragon come from?"
"It was transformed by the wizard guy you like." Bruce's voice came from the other side.
Elizabeth turned her head and saw Bruce leading a group of soldiers into the square.
Bruce: "Pastor, treat the wounded immediately! Soldiers, continue to chase the enemy who fled into the alley! This is the neighborhood where you grew up. You are more familiar with the terrain than they are. Don't let a single Steyr escape!"
The soldiers responded loudly, their morale high.
After sending the soldiers away, Bruce led a few followers on horseback to the barricade where Elizabeth was. In addition to Casander, his followers also included the Langdon family's archmage and mage apprentices.
Elizabeth: "He's only a third-ring wizard, how can he turn into a dragon? I don't think that's a spell a third-ring wizard can cast."
The Langdon family wizard said, "In fact, Dragon Shape is a seventh-level spell. It is said that there is also a spell called Lesser Dragon Shape, which can be cast by the sixth level."
Bruce: "You are also a seventh-ring wizard, why don't you turn into a dragon?"
The Archmage was in a dilemma: "Even the basic dragon form of the seventh ring is a very rare magic. I have been collecting scrolls or spell books with this magic for so many years, but I have found nothing. Not to mention the advanced dragon form of the eighth ring and the ultimate dragon form of the ninth ring.
"As for the six-ring inferior dragon form, that is a legendary spell that no one has ever seen."
Bruce: "Wait a minute, the wizard has a book of infinity. He should have seven rings of dragon magic. If he shows it to you, can you turn into a dragon?"
The Archmage shook his head. "All Transfiguration magic requires the caster to be very familiar with the creature to be transformed. Even if the Master Mage allowed me to copy pages from his book, I would not be able to master it so quickly. I have to find another book, perhaps many books, to learn about the ecology of dragons and the structure of their bodies. (*)"
At this moment, a messenger rushed into the square on a fast horse: "Your Excellency the Duke! The army of the River Valley Territory at the port has been defeated! Baron Willy, who is commanding on the scene, reported that the dragon you sent was injured, and the priests don't know if they can heal it!"
Elizabeth was shocked: "He's hurt? I'll go right away!"
Bruce held his sister down and said, "Don't get excited. You look like you have used up all your magic and are very tired. It's so chaotic now. If you run around, you might just cause more trouble. Brother, do you still have holy healing?"
Wayne responded to the lord with, "There is one more, sir."
"Take the troops and go over there to have a look, and by the way, drive all the people of the valley back to their broken boats."
Wayne clenched his right fist and patted his left chest, then turned his horse and galloped away, with his soldiers following closely behind.
Bruce looked at Elizabeth and said, "You've done a great job. Leave the rest to us tonight."
**
The giant dragon that the king transformed into lay on the ground, gasping for breath.
The Valley Army had been defeated, and now surrounding him from a distance were the mercenaries of the Port Chamber of Commerce.
The priest employed by the Chamber of Commerce argued: "I don't want to go near a seriously injured dragon."
"Yes, our healing magic may be just a drop in the bucket for him."