Chapter 81: Killing the Juggernaut (I)
Rex is also reminiscing about Salin's battle, using low-level magic to create an attack power of medium-level magic, which is not an innovation, magicians can do it, but Salin is only a fourth-level magician who has just been promoted.
If Saleen can do that, he can do it himself.
Rex originally thought that her foundation was very solid, but when she saw Salen make this move, she realized that she had not done enough. At least in terms of understanding of water magic, he is not as good as Salin.
The rain in the north comes and goes as fast as it comes. All the people had no intention of staying in the store and left one after another, and the horses of Salin and the others had been washed and led out. The four men followed the convoy protected by the mercenary group on the road and headed east.
Six wagons, fourteen mercenaries, if you walk in the various principalities, it is a very dangerous thing. However, because Qin's territory has always been peaceful, the merchants dare to hire only such a small mercenary group. Seeing the thieves chasing and killing those swordsmen in the forest trading house, the people of this small mercenary group were all shocked.
If they were attacked, there would be no chance of them even escaping.
No one could guarantee that there would be any thieves on the road ahead, and when Saleen said that he would go with them, the mercenaries were so excited that they almost cried.
Of course, Rex and the others will not understand the mood of the mercenaries, the four of them rode horses, following the team, the convoy is already on the way as soon as possible, this road can completely allow the chariots to move at full speed in wartime, and the speed of the convoy is not slow.
It was not until noon that the convoy stopped and rested on the spot. Because of the morning fright, the mercenaries carefully fenced the carriage and sent a crossbowman to probe the surroundings.
All this seemed to Saleen to mean nothing. The strength of the mercenaries is too weak, and a team of ten heavy cavalry in Kushui County can kill these mercenaries cleanly.
Saleen and Rex chose a clearing on their own, and Rex directly dried the ground with combustion, covered it with oilcloths, blankets, and had to eat something.
"Rex, we can only walk more than a hundred miles a day, when will we get to Alchemy City?" Salin didn't understand why Rex didn't hurry up. At the current rate, it will take about three months to get to the Alchemy City, and there can be no delay in this.
If Rex used magic to move forward at full speed, he would be able to walk at least more than five hundred miles a day, and he would be able to reach Alchemy City within a month.
"Salin, my heart is in turmoil, it's not a good thing for a magician, I need time to recover. Rex cut the bread with a knife and handed a slice to Saleen.
"Wouldn't it be nice to rent a carriage and hire a team of mercenaries?"
"That's not as good as me transferring people in Kushui County, at least it reassures me. Salin, there are a lot of things I have to learn all over again, like the way you handle things, I haven't been exposed to them. ”
Salin understood a little, but he still asked suspiciously: "Then our affairs, aren't you in a hurry?"
"Alchemy City is complicated, and there is no urgency. It will take at least a year for Kushui County to settle down completely, and I need to have no worries before I can make plans for the next step. ”
"Nagarulan ......"
"It's been a year of fighting, and it's their mistake that the Holy See hasn't co-opted the Yunliu Empire. If you want to completely defeat Garudan, you can't do it without three or five years. Those nobles of Qin Yin have a lot of power in their hands. Now that there are at least one million troops in the eastern part of Garolan, the Holy See has been hit hard, and the magicians of Alchemy City have infiltrated it, so they dare not expand the war for the time being. ”
Speaking of which, Rex is familiar with the road, in addition to studying magic since she was a child, she mainly studied politics.
As he was talking, a caravan approached from the main road in the distance. From a distance, the scale of the caravan is not small, there are more than twenty vehicles, and a convoy of this size needs about a hundred mercenaries to protect it.
The captain of the mercenaries protecting the caravan became nervous, and he asked his mercenaries to take out the bows and arrows hidden in the car, hide all of them behind the car, and walk towards Salin by himself.
"Master Mage......
"Trouble?"
"The convoy coming in front of me was empty. ”
"Huh?" Salin and Rex unleash their senses at the same time, discovering that something was wrong with the convoy. The carriages weren't empty, at least two people were still hidden, not cargo. This cannot be the case with a normal caravan unless they are ...... Thief!
This was one of Qin Yin's most important avenues, and after encountering two powerful groups of thieves in a row, Saleen was also not motivated. The thieves don't come out of nowhere, maybe someone is pretending.
"Let's go back and take care of the vehicle. Salin sent the mercenary captain away, turned back and asked Rex, "What's the matter?"
Rex thought for a moment and said, "It's a small matter, it is estimated that someone wants to control smuggling, and now that Garudan is at war, there is a huge profit here." But the nobleman who has such means is at least a marquis. ”
Marquis Salin frowned. The Marquis may not be anything in Yanjing, but in the local area, it is equivalent to the status of Rex, controlling hundreds of miles of land and owning at least three or four cities.
"Can conflict be avoided?"
"It's okay, since they are disguised, they don't dare to reveal their identities. Once the identity is revealed, Holy Rock City will pursue it. Rex's words were full of murder. The number of nobles in Qin has only doubled in the past thousand years, and in addition to the difficulty of inheriting the title and the fact that new nobles are rarely rewarded, there are still many laws for controlling the nobles.
If a nobleman breaks the law, it will be difficult to maintain the glory of the family.
"Then I'll do it. "Salin had the scroll ready this time, and if he ran into trouble, he wouldn't dare to save it again. More than a hundred people could not be solved by him with icicle technique, and now that the rain has stopped, it is difficult for Saleen to swing as freely as Fang Cai.
The mercenaries relayed the situation to their employers, and several businessmen quickly followed the mercenaries to the back of the car. The mercenaries prepared their bows and arrows, there was still a distance of about fifty meters from the main road, and once the other party rushed over, they had to greet with bows and arrows first, and it would be good to create a little time for the magician.
The convoy also saw six trucks on the side of the road, and there was no special reaction. More than twenty carts came from the road, crossed the place where Salin and the others were resting, and continued to walk west.
Saleen was nervous, he sensed what was in the twenty-odd carts, in addition to the two people in each cart, there was also an alchemy crossbow.
Of course, this alchemy crossbow is not an imperial weapon, and it cannot fire alchemy arrows, but its delicate structure allows it to fire arrows that can damage mages.
Which nobleman did the Williams family offend?
The convoy of more than twenty carts disappeared from sight, and Saleen had just relaxed a little, when there was another sound of horses' hooves in the west, and a white war horse turned its head and headed straight for Salin.
Immediately it was a middle-aged man, with a short beard, a dark complexion, brown hair tied up casually behind his head, no armor on his body, and a Qin Yin eight-sided sword in his hand.
The man rode as fast as the wind, and in a blink of an eye came to the middle of the road close to Salin and the others, reined in his horse, and said to Salin from a distance: "Mage, have you seen a group of swordsmen passing by?"
"Behold, there were more than forty men, and they went west. Salin's face did not change, and he already held a fifth-level scroll in his sleeve. This middle-aged man gave him the feeling that he was very dangerous, maybe not as good as the four Black Iron Sword Saints under Rex, but definitely more than a high-level swordsman like Tynis.
Could it be that this person is a quasi-sword saint? That is, a warrior who has been called a bronze sword saint.
Even if he is a quasi-sword master, the sword qi can split through Saleen's ice armor. Although Salin had Rex behind him, he had never directly fought with a Sword Saint-level martial artist after all, so he carefully blessed himself with an ice pattern armor first, and in addition to the ice pattern armor, he released an additional water pattern shield.
The middle-aged man smiled when he saw Saleen's nervous look. He swung the sword in his hand a few times, lifted the reins of the white horse, and turned to leave.
Rex suddenly said, "The people you mentioned are already dead. ”
The middle-aged man turned his horse and looked at Rex, feeling uncertain. Only then did he take a closer look at Rex, this woman was probably about the same age as the young mage, wearing a fancy robe, and her expression was calm. Could it be that this is also an intermediate mage?
You must know that the distance between the two sides is still more than fifty meters, and the woman's voice is not loud or small, and it is still easily sent into her ears.
Seeing that Rex had moved to kill, Salin had already made a decision in his heart. If this sword master sneaks up on him from behind, Rex may be fine, but he is very dangerous, so it is better to take advantage of the absence of those big cars and directly kill him here. There are heavy crossbows in more than twenty large cars, and it is difficult to say whether one's magic shield can ensure safety in such an open area.
Saleen didn't want to experiment, if this Juggernaut restrained himself, he would definitely be shot into a hedgehog by a crossbowman.
The middle-aged man bared his teeth, his smile was cold to the bone, and he didn't continue to ask, he lifted the reins and rushed down the road. At a distance of fifty meters, even a swordsman will not take a long time, it will arrive in a few seconds. The white horse under his crotch sprinted with amazing strength, and Saleen quickly unfolded the scroll, and a strong wind rolled up from the ground, which happened to be the path of the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man's long sword pointed forward, and the wind was pierced from it, and a dazzling light shot out from his eight-sided sword, which was the characteristic of the sword qi explosion. The fourth-level wind scroll was split by a sword, and this was the power of the Sword Master.
How could Salin fight alone, when the second scroll unfolded, Shika's boomerang had already reached the throat of the middle-aged man. This second scroll is a fourth-level earth-based magic, quicksand.
The white horse's forefoot fell and he stepped forward, and Sika's boomerang seemed to be waiting there. The middle-aged man was not panicked, the long sword in his hand shook, and the sword qi shot vertically upward, knocking Shika's boomerang away, his feet had already left the stirrup, and on the saddle, the man flew up into the air and pounced on Salin.
Salin smiled brightly, and he used the scroll to cast fourth-level magic in a row, just to paralyze the enemy and make them think that he was just a third-level magician. Level 3 magic could not break through the Sword Master's body protection sword qi, so this middle-aged man dared to jump. Salin first made the middle-aged man abandon his horse, cutting off his possibility of escape, and then unfolded the third scroll, and Shika also rushed up with a club at this time.
(To be continued)