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Elizabeth: "Eh? Okay, but aren't these two closely related?"
Wang: "They are not close relatives, although they are both water birds. The pelican is the goose's cousin, and the partridge is the chicken's cousin."
Elizabeth was shocked: "Aren't chickens and geese close relatives?"
Xiaobai: "Of course not. Goose has more fat and meat, and tastes better than chicken."
You use this to distinguish!
Just as Wang was making a sharp comment on Xiao Bai, his attention was drawn to a group of soldiers with uniform armor and patterns.
He asked Flint: "Is that the regular army of the Principality of Frank?"
"What? Where?" Flint turned his head to look in the direction Wang pointed. "No, that's not it. The leather armor strips protecting the waist and hips of their regular army are blue. It's far from the yellow."
The standard armor of northern Kusanya and Monrovia does not have this "skirt armor" structure, but starting from the River Kingdoms, this skirt armor seems to have become standard.
The king was about to continue asking Flint, but Marika said, "These are soldiers from Catalonia. Why are they here?"
Hasher added, "It is said that the princess from Catalonia is coming, and she will come by airship, but apart from your airship that arrived today, I haven't heard of any other airships docking at the port?"
The docking of an airship is a big deal. After all, airships are rare and only the Thorn Islands can often see airships taking off and landing: explorers from the Gnome Explorers Association usually go on adventures by airship.
So if there was an airship docking, as the boss of the Pelican Gang, Hasher would definitely know.
Wang: "The one who led the way? Is he a friend of your Pelican Gang?"
Hasher: "How is it possible! The national teacher from Catalonia is a member of the sect. If you go to Catalonia next, you may be imprisoned by the king as soon as you enter the country. The princess's coming here may be a conspiracy of the sect.
"The conflict between our Pelican Gang and the Order has become public. It is impossible for the soldiers from Catalonia to get along with us in a friendly manner."
When she finished saying this, the number of Catalan soldiers had increased to over a hundred, and Wang didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that these soldiers were looking at him.
Is it because he is in dragon form now? Has the Catalan never seen a black dragon?
At this time, several members of the Pelican Gang walked towards the Catalan soldiers and said, "You can't come in! Please go back to the Catalan Embassy!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the captain of the Catalan army raised his hand and swung his sword, and the gang member's head rolled to the ground.
His body seemed to be a step too slow to realize that he was already dead, and he knelt forward, then fell crookedly to the side.
Several other gang members cried out in shock and drew their weapons, but were all slaughtered in one fell swoop by the regular army.
While all the members of the rescue team were shocked, Hasher said calmly, "See! Didn't I tell you?"
Chapter 194 The collective appearance of the villains
The battle broke out immediately.
The king in dragon form was still confused at this time: "Why did it suddenly become a battle with the Catalan regular army? Why did the Catalan regular army get involved? This... doesn't make sense logically!"
At this time, the Pelican Gang and the Catalan regular army began to tear each other's scrolls, and all kinds of spells began to fly in the sky.
This is how it is in this plane. It is rare to see arcane spellcasters, but there are plenty of scrolls. After all, arcane spellcasters who study hard also need to make money to "pay tuition". How do they make money? They copy scrolls and sell them.
A scroll of fireball can be sold for 300 gold coins, and if a war is about to happen, the price can be doubled.
Because of this situation, there are scroll experts in the regular armies of various countries who are specifically responsible for tearing scrolls. Most of these people usually work as clerks or accountants, and they will demonstrate their skills in using magic props during war.
Their presence also makes the battles between regular armies or paramilitary organizations very "colorful".
It was in this environment that the king began to ponder.
The key is that he is very big and very conspicuous.
Xiaobai turned into a bird and flew over his head. After turning back into a human, he shouted, "Don't think about it now, fight the battle first!"
"But I don't understand the situation. The old lady just said that Catalonia is going to send an envoy, and there is a princess in the envoy. Generally speaking, sending a princess here is an attempt to win me over, right? After all, they are sending a princess to participate in the love battle."
Xiao Bai: "How did you come up with the idea that 'having a princess' equals 'they want to win me over'?"
Dragon: "I deduced it based on past experience. So I don't understand the hostility from Catalonia..."
A fireball hit the dragon's shoulder, but it couldn't penetrate the dragon's magic resistance, so Pia was killed instantly.
Xiaobai: "Look, they threw fireballs at you. It's obvious that they regard you as an enemy!"
Dragon: "Why? I am not hostile to Catalai. Could it be that Catalai has been controlled by the cult?"
Xiao Bai: "Why don't you just catch Commander Catalai and ask him?"
Dragon: "That makes sense. They attacked me first, so it doesn't count as us starting the fight. We'll also have an advantage if we pursue the matter later."
After saying that, the dragon took a deep breath and sprayed a mouthful of strong acid towards the area where the Catalan soldiers were most concentrated.
Then the strong acid sprayed onto the barrier that was emitting blue light and disappeared.
"Protect against strong acid!" the dragon shouted and flapped its wings and flew up.
Since the breath is useless, the only option is to use the dragon's body (*).
As soon as he flew up, he was suddenly hit by an "Earth Binding" attack.
This spell is a second-level spell, but it is very rare. Normal mages don't know this spell. The reason why Wang knows this spell is because their mage tower is awesome and has information on almost all spells.
A huge force pulled the king downward, as if the earth was extending a warm invitation to him.
The giant dragon that had just taken off crashed into the ground and slid down about seven or eight meters due to inertia - after all, it had such a large mass.
Xiaobai landed on him and changed back: "What's wrong?"
Dragon: "Earth Bind, a very rare second level spell! These guys came prepared!"
As the dragon spoke, it stood up, swung its tail, and knocked the Catalan soldier who was rushing towards it away, and then flew into the window on the second floor of the house next door.
More Catalan soldiers gathered around.
When Wang was hit, he was planning to use a dive attack on the Catalan army, so his flying direction happened to be towards this side, but now he landed directly in the middle of the enemy formation.
The Catalan arrows shot at the dragon densely, but were all bounced off by the dragon scales.
Suddenly a feather arrow hit the dragon's eye socket and almost pierced into its eye.
Xiaobai left a sentence "I'm going to find the sharpshooter" and turned into a sparrow and flew away.
The dragon turned its head in another direction and used the scales on the back of its head to catch the next few arrows from the archer.
Catalan warriors rushed up from the ground, this time all of them holding strangely shaped spears.
The king recognized this spear. It was a spear specially designed to kill dragons. The unique structure of the spear head would give it a certain chance of penetrating into the flesh at the base of the scale after hitting the dragon scale.
In an instant, seven or eight of these spears hit the king, but the designed situation of "slipping between the scales" and "piercing the flesh at the base of the scales" did not happen.
The main reason is that dragon scales fit very tightly together, and unless the blade is as thin as a dragonfly's wing, it is impossible to insert it. And with human smelting technology, if the metal sheet is thin to this extent, the strength cannot be guaranteed.
The result is that this special weapon is useless.
Wang swung his tail and swept away the suicide squad armed with special weapons, and shot one at a time from each window of the surrounding houses.
Some unlucky ones didn't hit the window but hit the wall, breaking their spine and dying.
The dragon roared and flapped its right wing, slapping away another wave of Catalan warriors that surrounded it.
Many people would think that a dragon's strongest weapon is its breath, but in fact, it is not. The dragon's body is its strongest weapon. The perfect defense provided by dragon scales, coupled with its powerful physical strength, provides an attack capability far beyond that of humans.
And the tail, and the huge body itself, are the dragon's weapons.
Wang leaped forward, his entire body falling to the ground, then used his powerful hind legs to provide thrust and delivered a ground charge!
In some dimensions, this move seems to be called "Dragon Chariot" by warriors who hunt dragons. It is a terrifying move, and countless warriors have died from it.
Wang had used the sky-drop version of this move before, with great effect. Now that he couldn't fly, he used the foot-powered version.
He crashed into the Catalan formation, and the Catalan soldiers in the formation were directly blown away.
The spears that the Catalans hastily raised were all bounced away by the dragon scales, and had no effect other than creating fire on the dragon scales.
After the dragon car finally stopped, Wang immediately stood up and performed a 360-degree spin on the spot.
This time, the area around him was completely cleared, and the entire Catalan team of 100 people evaporated - no, not evaporated, they were all on the wall.
However, more Catalans appeared.
A horn sounded in the sky.
The king turned his head to look for old lady Hashir in the chaos. With the help of dragon's vision, he found her without much effort. He asked loudly, "What does the horn mean?"
The old lady answered, but the battlefield was too noisy and the king couldn't hear her.
At this time, a Catalan soldier who was pinned down by the king laughed and said, "It's the legion's attack horn, which means the legion has arrived. You have to face 10,000 Catalan soldiers!"
Wang: "Ten thousand? Where did they come from?"
As he spoke, he used his claws to pull the soldier out from under him. The action seemed to cause something in his lower body to be caught in the armor.
The soldier's whole face was distorted.
Only then did Wang realize that this soldier's armor was different from that of ordinary soldiers. He was a centurion, probably the leader of the group of soldiers who had just been knocked away by his dragon chariot.
The king suddenly remembered that he had started the fight just to capture an officer and ask him about the situation, so he asked, "How did you, Catalai, get involved in this battle? Aren't you planning to send the princess to join the rescue team?"
The centurion laughed, and blood spurted out of his lungs.
Wang: "Answer the questions quickly. After you answer them, I can send you to the pastor for emergency treatment."
The centurion wiped the blood on his hand and replied: "What does it matter if I die for the great cause of Catalonia?"
Wang: "What great cause?"
Centurion: "Of course it is the coming of Ragnora, the only true God in the world!"
Wang: "Ragnola? The thing that the leader of the cult studied? Are you the only one like you in Catalonia?"
Centurion: "Master Imperial Master has brought prosperity and hope to Catalonia!"
The king finally understood that Catalai might not join the cause of the salvation team. This country has been completely controlled by the cult.
**
At this time, the princess from Catalonia, the agent of the cult, Kadia Banujulian, walked through the portal and looked at the master of the cult next to her.
"How is it going?" asked the Princess.
The master smiled and said, "Your Highness, don't worry. The rescue team is still quite powerful, and the great wizard is still in the dragon state. Although my students used the Earth Binding to pull him down from the air, a dragon is a thing that is difficult to deal with even if it can't fly."
The princess nodded. "Okay. Are the rest of the team also difficult to deal with?"