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The king decisively turned to the other side where there was no wind wall protection, raised the scepter, aimed it in the approximate direction, and activated the scepter's dragon breath ability.
The best defense is offense. Kill the enemy before he destroys all his illusions and you will be safe!
The strong acid sprayed out in a fan shape, covering almost all the attackers on this side.
The attackers were not protected from the strong acid, and only the two people at the edge of the spray escaped the fatal spray by rolling. As soon as the two stood up, they heard the screams of their companions, turned their heads and saw the miserable state of their companions' flesh melting, and they immediately turned around and ran.
At this time, the dwarf and the barbarian also stood up, and the dwarf shouted, "Recall!"
Then his armor returned to him, as if he had never taken it off.
Then the dwarf shouted and rushed towards the enemy.
His shouting attracted the enemy's attention, and countless arrows were shot at him, but all hit his steel armor.
"This is the steel armor I made myself!"
"high!"
The barbarian rushed towards the enemy on the other side and smashed them with his brand new battle axe.
Marika temporarily abandoned her dagger and shot with her short bow.
Finally, the enemy began to flee and disappeared into the mountains and forests, leaving only the wounded groaning on the ground.
Wang: "See if there's anyone who looks like the boss. Ignore the others and save your healing spells!"
Only then did Elizabeth get up and look around with sleepy eyes.
The moment she saw the blood, she suddenly woke up: "What did I miss?"
Wang: "One night raid, that's all."
Chapter 82 Interrogation of the leader of the attackers
Elizabeth looked very guilty: "I'm sorry, I..."
Wang: "Next time I will remember not to count you as a combat force in a nighttime encounter."
Elizabeth's face flushed in the light of the dragon head scepter: "I will overcome it!"
Wang: "At least you are less likely to be hit by stray arrows when you are lying on the ground, which is less worrying than standing up."
Marika: "You're still talking about our princess. You're against the protection system. Every time we face bows and arrows, we have a headache. Obviously, a shared protection arrow can solve the problem."
The king argued: "Not necessarily. A strong archer can still penetrate the shared protective arrows."
Elizabeth: "He doesn't have to worry too much about relying on invisibility and mirror image."
"Okay," Flint tried to smooth things over. "We just slaughtered the enemy, so why are you blaming each other? When we get to the next big city, we can just prepare some shared protective scrolls. I'll tear them up. We're not short of money anyway."
The king looked at the dwarf in surprise: "Aren't you a dwarf? Aren't you very incompatible with the arcane?"
"That's an ordinary dwarf. I'm not an ordinary dwarf. After all, ordinary dwarves won't become Cailin's priest." Flint spread his hands.
Marika: "Ordinary dwarves can't tap dance either."
At this time, Xiao Bai, who was checking the wounded left by the enemy, shouted: "Hey! This person smells like good tobacco, he must be a leader!"
After saying that, Xiao Bai sneezed loudly and complained loudly: "Wow, this tobacco smells so pungent!"
Wang: "Bring him here!"
Xiaobai turned into a wolf and picked up the guy lying on the ground. The guy was still pretending to be dead, but now he was scared out of his wits: "Don't eat me! I'm not tasty! Not only do I stink of tobacco, I also have body odor, no amount of spices can cover it up!"
The little white wolf picked up the screaming hunter and spit him on the ground.
The king released the glowing scepter, took out the bottle of pepper from his dimensional bag, and gently sprinkled some on the captive's head as everyone watched.
The captives' screams startled the birds within a mile radius.
Wang: "Tell me who sent you here. If you don't, you will be thrown into the oil pan immediately. Before that, your stomach will be ripped open and filled with spices!"
"I'm telling you! It's the 'Duke' of Stoke, he calls himself the Duke now! We didn't want to come either. I'm from the Duke of Riverdale's hunting troop, originally a hunter in the mountains.
"After the mining industry collapsed, a duke wanted to make up for the deficit in the mining industry by relying on furs and other wild goods from the mountains, so he stipulated that all the mountains and forests belonged to the duke. If anyone went hunting privately, their prey would be confiscated and they would be hung up and whipped with twenty saltwater whips!
"We have no choice but to serve as rangers for the Duke. We usually help the Duke hunt and fight poachers."
Wang: "Stoker sent you here to kill us all?"
"Kill everyone except Princess Langdon, and also 'show Langdon's little girl a lesson', that's what Stock said. We have no such idea, absolutely not!" the chief ranger vowed.
Wang: "Xiaobai, smell it."
The little white nose, still in wolf form, moved close to the man and sniffed him, then he sneezed, and a bunch of saliva flew onto his face.
The ranger had never seen such a big wolf spitting at him, so he urinated with a "hiss".
Xiaobai turned back, blew his nose hard, fluttered for a long time and shouted, "He smells like pepper!"
Wang looked down at the pepper in his hand.
Is this also a foreshadowing?
The dwarf was still teasing: "Is Pepper lying or telling the truth?"
The forest ranger cried miserably, "It's the truth!"
Marika: “Really?”
The drow put the dagger against the ranger's neck and said, "I am a drow, an evil drow. My favorite thing to do is to let our druids cast rejuvenation on you and then peel off your skin bit by bit.
"Because of the rejuvenation technique, the wound where the skin was just peeled off would immediately start to grow new skin, and when it was halfway grown it would be peeled off again. I did this little by little until the effect of the rejuvenation technique wore off."
The ranger: "It's fake! It's fake! The princess is the most beautiful woman in Kuosania, so we were daydreaming for a long time on the way here."
Zhuo Er snorted: "Then you will pay the price!"
Elizabeth shouted, "Wait a minute, we can't take his life just because someone has bad thoughts about me. Just give him a little punishment to let him know his mistake!"
Zhuoer's knife had cut the ranger's leg vein, so blood could not be stopped from flowing out and mixed with the ranger's urine.
She kicked the fellow to the ground. "My incision is very careful. He won't die immediately. Let him experience the feeling of brushing shoulders with death. Remember, you are saved because of the princess' generosity and mercy."
Forest Ranger: "I won't dare to do that again... Please, please save me... I have a daughter and a wife at home..."
King: "Xiaobai, work with Gotrek to gather the dead rangers together. Such a large number might give rise to undead creatures. Have the priest perform a ritual and burn them."
Xiaobai: "What if there are still some who are not dead?"
"Just wrap them with bandages and leave them there. Our healing spells are very precious, but we have plenty of bandages. The rest depends on their own luck. After we're done with this, we'll move to another camping spot. Marika, you have dark vision, go find a new camping spot."
Zhuo Er nodded, untied the horse's reins from the bushes beside him, jumped on the horse and disappeared into the night.
The dwarf, Xiaobai and the barbarian also got busy, leaving the king and Elizabeth standing there watching the forest ranger's life slip away quietly.
Wang: "How do you feel now?"
Elizabeth exclaimed, "What are you doing?"
"Collecting first-hand information. This is obviously much more cost-effective than experiencing near-death yourself."
The ranger tried in vain to cover the veins in his legs with his hands: "Devil! You devil!"
King: "It's not that I won't heal you. I'll let the priest heal you later. This is to punish you for having wild thoughts about the princess. So, how does it feel to have your life slowly slipping away?"
Forester: "I feel cold."
"Are you cold? This should be caused by blood loss. Then what? Do your legs feel numb?"
Forester: "Yes... and..."
Wang took out a notebook and quickly recorded what the ranger said under the light of the dragon-changing scepter.
Elizabeth looked at the wizard with a mixture of strangeness and fear.
When the ranger was finally speechless, the wizard finally stopped asking questions, put away the book, took out the bandages and began to bandage him. While bandaging him, he called to the priest: "Flint, come and heal him."
Flint rushed over and cast a healing spell on the dying ranger.
Elizabeth looked at the king who stood up with satisfaction and said, "At that moment just now, I always felt that you were a little scary."
Wang: "What's so scary about it? His life is guaranteed, and I got first-hand information - of course this information could be fake, I have to experience it myself to be sure."
Elizabeth: "Scary to the point of being sensible. Are you totally devoid of empathy?"
"…There should be," Wang said with an uncertain expression, "I think there is."
Elizabeth sighed: "I think I understand why your teacher threw you out to travel."
The dwarf who was checking the ranger's condition stood up and said, "This guy should be able to survive. Thank God the positive energy in this place is normal. I might have to waste a remove disease spell in Langdon County."
Xiao Bai in the distance shouted: "The dead are piling up!"
Gotrek: "Wake up!"
The dwarf pulled out a torch from the campfire that had not yet been extinguished: "Let Cailin's holy fire burn these poor creatures."
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Afterwards, everyone rested safely in the new camp until early morning.
The king got up early in the morning and began to memorize spells.
Seeing this, the priests and druids also began their own prayers and meditations.
The barbarian held an axe and stood guard beside the vulnerable spellcaster, looking around vigilantly.
Elizabeth didn't need to prepare magic and was now making breakfast for the whole team.
Marika stood on the tree, holding a short bow instead of her usual dagger, and she and the barbarians were on guard around them.
The king was the first to finish preparing the spell and put away the spell book. Elizabeth seemed to have been waiting for a long time and immediately asked, "You are using a different spell book than yesterday?"
"Yes, this is Erwin's spellbook. His spellbook contains a lot of very practical magic, and most of it is low-level magic, with almost no high-level magic. It is very suitable for me."
Elizabeth: "There are basically no high rings? Is this normal?"
"If he is a mage from the Union of Arcane Magic, then that is not normal." Wang spread his hands. "This kind of mutual aid organization for mages will share valuable knowledge. Members of the Union can exchange spells from the Union by points. Not only that, they can also borrow spells from a shared spell pool."
Elizabeth: Borrow?
"Yes, for example: you borrowed a fifth-level spell in an emergency, and a few days later when you are safe or have time, you have to return a fifth-level spell."
Elizabeth: "Isn't the wizard from the Union of Arcane Magic very difficult to deal with? Because he can use all kinds of spells without being restricted by the spells prepared today."