Chapter 226: Night Attack (Part I)

[Yesterday's tragedy was like this. I locked myself out, it was hot, and I wandered around for a long time. If you can't go home, you can only find a place to spend the night, don't mention the update, and you haven't brought much money with you. Later, I saw a sign that said unlock, I asked, and the man said no. I thought I'm going to wander, NND. In the end, I found another one, and I happily agreed, and it only cost fifty yuan. Don't say fifty, I have to give two hundred. When I got home, I sat on the stairs tiredly, and I wanted to see how to open the lock, but as soon as I got distracted, the lock was opened with a click. It's scary, isn't it? The locks we usually rely on can't survive three seconds in the hands of professionals.

Rex's expression slowly softened, and she looked at Saleen and said, "Neris has been bullied. You're not angry?"

Salin was a little helpless, Nellis's identity, he couldn't tell Rex yet, it had nothing to do with trust. Nellis actually relies on her own life, and once her identity is revealed, I am afraid that all the magicians on the continent will be interested in her.

"Don't listen to Neris, Rex, Zola doesn't have the guts. Shika spoke suddenly.

Neris glared at Sika viciously, but didn't make any other moves. Rex was surprised, fluted for a moment, and suddenly felt that the people around Salen were a little strange, and he couldn't see through it.

The atmosphere was awkward, and Saleen had to focus on his surroundings and stop chatting with Rex. This is an ancient road, built by the method of cloud flow, although it is a dirt road in the mountains, but after thousands of years, there is still no grass on the dirt road. Tall trees grow on both sides of the road, but this environment is suitable for thieves to rob.

The northern part of the Titan Principality has fewer rivers and is more hilly. The cities in this area are all very spaced, and there are small fortresses in the countryside everywhere, and there are many low-ranking nobles.

There are hundreds of châteaux in Bordeaux, most of which belong to these petty nobles. These petty aristocrats were wealthy and could afford to raise private soldiers. It stands to reason that thieves don't have much room to survive.

Titan's treatment of thieves is much more cruel than Qin Yin's, and basically once a thief is caught, he will be fed to a demonic beast once he is convicted. That group of thieves may still have some collusion with the local nobles.

His group didn't attract anyone's attention when they passed through Phoenix, and after changing horses in Garolan, no one should know Rex's identity. As long as it's not a conspiracy against Rex, it won't be too much trouble. Perhaps it was the filthy actions of these petty nobles who wanted to plunder the merchants.

The sky gradually darkened, and the swordsman accompanying him outside the car asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, are you in a hurry, or are you resting?"

"Is there a place to rest?"

"Five miles to the south, there is a small castle, and the owner is a baron. ”

"Is this the last place to stay?" asked Salin.

"The Titans did not allow farmers to receive merchants, which was the right of the nobility, and of course, it was part of the nobility's source of income. Rex explained to Salin.

"Let's hurry. Saleen proposed.

"It's less than a day away from the princess's castle, and even if you change into a skeleton warhorse, it will take half a day. Why?"

"Those thieves want us to go to the castle. The nobility here is in collusion with them. ”

"A baron's castle, no matter how large it is, will not exceed more than a hundred people. We can totally fix it. Rex looked at Saleen. Looking forward to his answer.

"Maybe the baron was pushed out to die, he didn't know. If this happens, the princess's castle will send troops to surround us, and the only way for us to get out of this situation is to reveal your identity. ”

"Salin, you're already a qualified partner. Rex laughed. What Salin thought of, she thought of too. The thieves showed up to make their own group afraid. When they appear in this position sooner or later, they are taking advantage of people's psychology. Go to the castle for the night and it will definitely be safe.

And that's not the worst of it, the bad thing is that the castle itself is a trap that you can't touch yet. Once they touched the baron in the castle, Rex and the others were immediately framed as thieves or thieves who killed nobles. When the time comes, there will naturally be local thieves to testify, and Rex has a hard time telling.

It's nothing if this chain is broken, but if you crash into it, you won't be able to get out.

"Let's work hard, let's hurry. Rex said outside the car. She had come to Titan to find the third temple site, not to cause trouble. Otherwise, with the strength of her team, as long as she doesn't attack the city, she can still get out. The Titans' Xiongguan is on the front line of the Princess Castle to guard against the Tangulas Empire. And the east side is not directly bordered by Qin Yin, Rex can escape back at any time without being surrounded by a large army.

"Tell everyone, if you encounter anything during the day, you will kill them all. Rex finished and began to meditate.

Meditating in the magic chariot feels like returning to the magic tower. The effect is much worse though. But one thing is the same, and that is that the mage can wake up from meditation at any time and join the battle.

At a height of a thousand meters, a flying golem followed Sarah's magic chariot over a red mountain. In the distant wilderness, a group of thieves gathered around a gray-robed mage.

The mage was in his sixties, and his gray magic robe had two magic markings on it. The leader of the thieves, dressed in pink robes, asked, "Master Mage, they didn't go to the Baron's castle?"

"No, they went west, and they had already crossed the Red Clay Ridge. ”

"Are they not so brave that they rushed overnight?" said the leader of the thieves a little depressed, for this operation, the thieves used all their strength, if they did not succeed, then all the gold coins invested would be in vain.

"They're just too timid, Argus, you're doing too obviously. The mage said lightly, and casually destroyed the magic array on the ground, and the flying puppet in the sky immediately turned around and flew back.

The leader of the thieves blushed and said, "I didn't expect them to be so shrewd. At this time, he also found that he was doing something a little casually. Since the other party is carrying a heavy treasure, how can he take it lightly.

"It's fine. Send a double-faced iron horseman. After the Red Clay Ridge, it is the plain, and no one will be able to escape in front of them in front of the iron horse.

"Master Mage, this is going to use a double-sided iron horse?" the leader of the thieves was a little reluctant. The double-faced iron cavalry is the foundation of the thief group, and several encirclements and suppressions of nobles have been solved by relying on double-sided iron cavalry.

"These people are sparing no effort to rush to the princess's castle. At their speed, they would arrive after dawn, and the horses would be finished. ”

"In that case, please ask the Master to give me orders. The leader of the thieves did not hesitate any longer. Once those people entered the territory controlled by the princess's castle, he couldn't do anything. Although the princess's castle is no longer the residence of the Grand Duke, there are still 1,000 iron horsemen, as well as two elite infantry regiments. Three thousand soldiers is definitely not something that he, a group of thieves, can offend.

No matter how big the background of the thieves is, they can't attack the princess's castle. Attacking the princess's castle is not only tantamount to provoking the Grand Duke, but also insulting the royal family of the Yunliu Empire. Although they are in collusion with Yunliu, there are still some things that cannot be touched.

I heard that Yunliu has another princess who is going to marry a Titan, and the fief must be near the princess's castle, this hornet's nest can't be poked, whoever touches it will die.

The mage seemed to see through the heart of the leader of the thieves, and he said expressionlessly: "Argus, you have invested a lot, if you don't do it, I still have to take my share." ”

"I understand, please give the order. ”

"Hmm. The gray-robed mage nodded and began to rearrange the magic array. He had to pass the news to the two-faced iron riders who were ambushed on the road, and ordinary methods would not work. If someone were sent to deliver the letter, I am afraid they would not be able to catch up with the convoy.

After the magic chariot crossed the red mountains, there was already a plain ahead, and the convoy slowed down, and did not make a hurried gesture again.

"Rest where you are. Rex canceled the order, and her swordsmen weren't surprised. On the march, such changes are also common. The manager always revises the plan according to the actual situation.

The camp was quickly set up, and although it was only a camp of twenty people, it had eight tents, and the sides were surrounded by tree trunks, all of which were sharpened to avoid being attacked from both sides by cavalry.

The real defense was the magic traps on the outskirts of the camp, and the number of mages in Rex's group accounted for nearly half, with only two high-level swordsmen and two black iron sword masters. It's so easy to set up these magic traps, and the chain of traps protects the camp layer by layer, and even if the other party has a powerful mage, it is impossible to sneak into the camp without touching these traps.

The two fourth-level mages inserted several wooden sticks into the ground from a distance, and the top of the wooden sticks was inlaid with a gemstone. This is the mage's Detection Eye. Like magic wands, they are valuable pieces of equipment, and the wood and gems they require are extremely special.

After arranging it, Salin had no choice but to leave the magic chariot, which was full of women, and it was not convenient for him to stay overnight. Although everyone has lived together in the Divine Punishment Hell for a long time, this is the Mers Continent, and if Salin stays in the carriage, I don't know what the swordsmen around Rex will think.

Instead of getting into another magic chariot, Salin sat at the gate of the camp, looking at the plains in the distance, and was stunned.

It wasn't going to be too quiet tonight, and Saleen just didn't understand that something was wrong with his team and that they would be targeted. There were only two wagons, and the ruts were not deep, what did the thieves find?

There was no problem with the carriage, the problem was the ten high-ranking swordsmen. The armor of these swordsmen was too expensive, and each person's armor could be sold for tens of thousands of gold coins when they were sent to a trading house. Such a carriage protected by a swordsman, of course, the thieves will be treated as fat. Saleen used water alchemy to create magic armor for Rex's swordsman, and although he had tried his best to hide the elemental fluctuations emitted by the armor, he couldn't hide the high-level mage.

The thieves didn't do it on a temporary basis, as the news was sold when Saleen's convoy entered the Duchy of Titans. If Sarin's team had entered the Titan and headed south, something would have happened a long time ago.

Because the northern part of the Titan has always been peaceful, there are no big bands of thieves, so they can have a safe journey. They were on the road at great speed, and the only bandit group in the northwest was ambushed several times, but they all missed the opportunity. Because of the mages accompanying them, the mages in the Bandit didn't get too close to the flying golems, so they couldn't grasp their exact course of action.

After making a few mistakes, the thieves immediately changed their strategy and wanted to trick Salin and the others into going to the baron's castle and setting up an ambush.

Saleen didn't understand this, but he knew that when he arrived at the princess's castle, he would be safe. There are still less than three hundred miles away, and even if you don't change into skeleton horses, the convoy can arrive in half a day.

The premise is - to survive tonight.