Blood tax

Chapter 127 Shutoral's Counterattack and the Power of the Extraordinary
Fiona pretended nothing happened and saw nothing, and sat calmly on the soft chair opposite her best friend.

In fact, she was stunned.What happened to Sonia?Seasick?Impossible, how could Extraordinary still get seasick?Could it be...

Griffith, you big-eyed, unexpected villain... Impossible, impossible, this is amazing.I must have misunderstood something...

Sonia, who finished spitting out the test paper, has calmed down and gained peace from the depths of her heart.

If I knew it earlier, I would tear it up and throw it into the river~ Why should I eat it...

Fortunately, the score part has been integrated into the beautiful Vero River.Sonia pretended nothing happened, folded the remaining part of the paper and stuffed it into the small bag.

This matter is considered closed, and the next thing is to report the problem.

The report can be submitted after returning to Homonwatts, but Griffith didn't come with him and he couldn't compile the materials needed for the report!

Fiona, who was sitting opposite, had been carefully observing her good friend's expression for a while, and reached out to touch her loose blonde hair with a smile: "What are you thinking?"

Sonia thought for a while, then suddenly raised her head, "Should I write to Griffith to explain the situation?"

"Pfft!" Fiona just picked up the black tea in her hand, took a small sip, and almost spit it out, "Isn't it a bit too straightforward?"

direct?Why is there a problem directly?Sonia tilted her head in doubt, and adjusted her thoughts: "I thought about it seriously, and it will be too late if I don't explain it clearly to him."

"Ahem~" Fiona was choked, put down her teacup in a hurry, and stared at her good friend with wide eyes, as if she no longer knew her.A thought rolled in Fiona's mind-Sonia, are you developing so fast?You and Griffith have only known each other for a few months!Not like me and Lana.

"But there are too many things I want to say, and I don't know where to start." Sonia turned her head and looked at the distance beyond the ship's side.The light blond hair draped over her shoulders was blown by the breeze, and the quiet river reflected the mountain scenery in early spring, flowing in her blue eyes, as if the sorrow and longing of Fengyue were melting away.

No, no, is it true?Even if I misunderstood something just now, this look is not ordinary!What's the matter with Griffith really?Fiona was taken aback. The spring water in her close friend's eyes filled her with a sense of responsibility, and she cautiously asked, "So urgent?"

"Well, it's urgent, and we can't delay any longer." Sonia, who just failed the exam once, dared not be careless.

"I really didn't expect it," Fiona rubbed her forehead, "Is there anyone competing with you? Galadia?"

The elves are different from us, she will go back to her own country in the future, and the results of Homonwatts may not be important.Sonia sighed softly, and said casually: "Her conditions are too good, and the starting point is different from mine."

Fiona started worrying about her best friend, very, very worried.Indeed, elves have so many talents, beautiful, elegant, extremely talented and noble, and they can sing well. In addition, she and Griffith have adventures in the East together, and Sonia's situation is grim.

Griffith, you sinful wretch!How to do!How to do?Fiona realizes the enormity and gravity of the struggle situation.She opened her mouth, but she couldn't speak because of something stuck in her throat, so she took another sip of black tea hastily.

Sonia stroked her long hair and suddenly made up her mind.She looked at her good friend seriously and asked, "Can you lend me Lana for a while?"

Use Lana, use it!What is this unfolding?Fiona almost fainted: "Are you serious?"

"Well," the daughter of La Moore's family nodded very seriously, "He is also quite powerful, and I won't spend a lot of time paying it back to you."

What a tiger and a wolf!I dream about this kind of thing... I only think about it occasionally in my dreams!Fiona's face turned red immediately, she stared at her best friend dumbfounded, and whispered coyly: "This, it's not good, he will be very tired."

"That's right, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have made such a request," Sonia said. Although Sonia didn't quite understand why Fiona resisted so much, since her good friend felt bad, she shouldn't continue this topic.

Just then there was a shout from the sailors of the sloop.A group of men on the starboard bank were hoisting a signal flag at them.

The sailors ran out of the cabin and raised the signal flag towards the shore in response.The ship turned its course and headed for a pier not far ahead.

Sonia didn't pay much attention to it, and continued to look down at her book.It was almost noon now, and most of the nearby families brought them fresh food.

"Fiona, sit in the cabin for a while." The fully armed Lana came over and bowed to Sonia who was sitting opposite, "Miss Lamor, please come with me."

"You, you, what are you going to do?" Fiona jumped up suddenly, blushing and shaking her head desperately, "Three people, this kind of thing is not allowed, right?"

Lana glanced at Fiona in confusion, not knowing what she was thinking, but he had encountered this situation many times: "This is not the core territory of the kingdom. Fully protect the commander's safety in case of attack. Please enter the cabin to avoid danger."

Sonia nodded, packed her books and stood up.This trip, like the Whispering Forest hike in winter, is a simulation under certain conditions.

Since suffering a big loss last winter, no matter how lax Xiutoral is, he attaches great importance to the system and safety, and almost everyone is about to become a big or small Griffith.

Neither the school nor the parents stopped this kind of behavior, which shows that there should be some reason for their persistence.

The three of them left the deck and came to the inner cabin.There was a spacious lounge where Iseus, Berthier, and Dedius were playing auto chess with their Shutoral.Most of the other people and professors played chess and read books in their cabins.

"Is it delivering lunch? This journey is really boring," Isius noticed the movement of the sailboat, and opened a porthole to observe the outside. "Mura, according to the plan, we will disembark tomorrow for inspection, right?"

"Yes, Viscount," Murat looked at the schedule, "In addition, this location and time should be the lunch and local information sent by the nearby Richter Manor. According to the original plan, they should contact us at the next ferry, The time is half an hour earlier."

"I sat on the boat for a whole day without even a signal," Viscount Iseus shook the echo crystal in his hand to everyone, "My crystal signal has been very noisy since yesterday, and today I can't hear anything at all. Yours How about it?"

"I don't know~ My dad won't let me establish contact with unknown psionic nodes," Fiona sat down on the sofa beside her, "Don't you just want to listen to the messages from those suspicious echo terminals? You You don’t even know if the owner of that voice is a human being, why you’re still so interested, aren’t you afraid that believers in black magic or even demons from the abyss will charm you?”

"A demon from the abyss? Charm? If it's a succubus, I can do it!" Iseus lay down on the sofa, "It's really boring to take a boat, if only there are black magic believers to come and make fun for me."

Berthier, who was very bookish, also tested the crystal, and the signal was indeed very poor. The echo hub in Old Town and the time signal from the Astrologer Tower could not be heard.He thought for a while with a solemn expression, and said hesitantly: "Is there something wrong? Someone is interfering with us or the spiritual energy in this area."

"New magic items have this problem, and they will mature in two years," Dedius said nonchalantly, looking at Kulala's chessboard again, "Hey, your water element is too far ahead, the assassin stands in the back row .”

"You don't understand, just watch, I will blow you up in the next round!" Kulala said while quickly adjusting the position of the chess pieces.

Berthier still felt something was wrong.Last year's goblin attack scared him badly, and his subordinate Shutoral Nona was also injured in the subsequent battle.

Although he had no evidence, he always had a vague premonition: "There are no rebels around here, right?"

"There is a small rebel army, Mr. Berthier, and they are led by a rebel knight named Lance. They claim to obey the leader of a rebel army in the northwest mountains who calls himself the Lightning King," Lana replied, " Viscount Tretter's army is engaging them two days' journey away.

"A reinforcement army composed of local city defense troops and militia has joined Viscount Tretter's army. I have paid attention to their battle reports. Lance's army is about to collapse.

"The larger rebels are far away from us and are mainly concentrated in the mountains in the southwest and northwest."

Sonia sat down, and a small pier could be seen gradually approaching from the porthole.There gathered a party and a wagon full of packages.Waving signal flags, they are guiding the sailboat to shore.

"Boom." Murat lowered the wooden board of the porthole, blocking her view.

"I'm going to the deck, Murat, I'll leave the inspection of the cabin to you," Lana, who saw that he was about to dock, nodded to everyone, picked up his weapon, turned around and walked out of the cabin.

Lana was wearing a high-quality black armor with a layer of dense chain mail under the armor.There are large and small daggers and hatchets stuck in his waist, and he carries a heavy horse-chopping sword that is almost the same length as an ordinary adult male and is used to break formations and fight against large creatures.According to the code of conduct, he should arrive at the bridge before stopping the ship and monitor the situation at the pier.However, it was very inconvenient for him to walk in the crowded cabin aisle with such large and small equipment, and he had to turn sideways to avoid students who ran past him from time to time who were concerned about what to eat for lunch.

"Nona, Kulala, put on your armor," Murat reminded the two female Shutorals who were still playing, "Mr. Berthier and Dedius, please prepare. You also need to participate in the alert exercise for supplies."

"Ah—! I'm about to win!" The beautiful girl with silver-white shawl hair yelled, "Can't Auto Chess pause for a while?"

"Culala, put on your armor," Nona, who had already put on her plate armor, stuffed the breastplate aside into the hands of her companion, and said sternly to the noble boy who was still puzzled, "Mr. Berthier , stop staring at the Bayerland Post, we all know there's nothing real there except the date."

The cockpit is a semi-open space in the back half of the second floor on the cruise ship deck, where the rudder and navigation chart are located.The captain was instructing the sailors to put down the cables and boards on the shore.With the sound of "boom", the cruise ship leaned against the pier, followed by the sound of sliding boards and cables.

Due to the delay in the lounge and passage, Lana, who originally planned to board the bridge before docking, had just climbed the narrow stairs at this time.

If Griffith is here, I must say that my movements are slow... The burly Lana shook his head helplessly, trying to look out through the gap while crawling, but he could barely see a figure moving on the shore.

"What are you doing?!" Suddenly, the captain in the cockpit at the end of the stairs shouted.Lana's heart tightened, and he was about to speed up when he heard a piercing string.

Oops!

The captain who shouted was hit by an arrow in the forehead, and fell backwards on the deck.Following a series of noises, the rain of arrows poured towards the open bridge.There was a sudden commotion on the bridge, and a sailor screamed and ran into the stairs, jumping off Lana's head who was still climbing up.

There was a series of thumping sounds on the deck, and something was thrown up.

"Damn it! Get out of the way!" Lana was directly knocked back into the cabin on the first deck by the jumping sailor.

There was no point in going to the bridge now, he threw the sailors aside, kicked open the nearby side door and rushed to the deck.

A small group of Old Town City Defense Forces accompanying them was fleeing with their heads in their arms.Continuous arrows flew across the deck, making them unable to lift their heads.

An arrow thumped against the wall beside Lana.He glanced at it and found that the workmanship was rather poor.The attackers were firing arrows at the cockpit and blocking access to the deck.

A group of people holding torches quickly climbed onto the side of the ship under the cover of arrows.They wore battered overcoats, armed with muskets, hatchets, and torches, and broke sails and hawsers as soon as they came up.

"Mura, come on deck!"

Lana growled.The narrow space in the cabin did not allow him to remove the Zhanma sword on his back, so he sank his body and rushed to the deck braved the arrows that hit him from time to time.

The two assailants who were destroying the sails immediately spotted him and charged at him with muskets in hand.Lana grabbed a short gun in one hand, drew out a short knife around his waist, and stabbed him in the heart.Another person raised his short gun and took the opportunity to stab Lana in the waist.

The tip of the gun bounced off the armor.Lana didn't care, turned around and punched the assailant to the ground.He picked up a short gun on the tip of his toe, caught it with a wave and stabbed it into the attacker's throat.

The short spear stabbed at the waist is not worth mentioning. This kind of weapon cannot penetrate fine heavy armor.

Lana pulled out the Zhanma sword and swept it towards the attacker who climbed up the side of the ship.A group of attackers were biting their daggers and jumping onto the deck with torches in their hands. Before they could get a firm foothold, the Horse-Chopping Sword had swept over, splitting their corpses into pieces and falling into the river.

The attackers who had just boarded the deck rushed towards Lana.But they had no armor, no armor-piercing weapons.There is no single enemy in front of an enemy with heavy armor and great sword.

Lana killed seven or eight people in a blink of an eye like chopping melons and vegetables, and the rest jumped over the side of the boat screaming and fled to the shore.

"kill!"

Suddenly there was another roar from the shore.Hundreds of people in ragged clothes emerged from the bushes and woods in the distance, and rushed towards the sailboat that was docked.They had no armor or bright weapons, but in their hands they carried all kinds of bows and arrows, slings, torches, and oil bottles.

The gang crossed the pier in an instant, lit kerosene bottles, and threw them over the ship, while the others joined the first shooters, scrubbing the deck with a dense mass of arrow stones.

"Boom!" The kerosene bottle shattered on the deck, and immediately ignited a mass of flames, which ignited the deck and ship's side and spread to all sides.

Lanar drew his dagger and threw it, knocking down an enemy, but more attackers rushed forward with petrol bottles in their hands.Although their equipment is poor and their combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning, it will be troublesome if the sails are set alight!

"Oh!"

A raised kerosene bottle burst open, a sharp arrow pierced the clay pot, and tongues of flame shot down, engulfing the assailant in an instant, turning him into a screaming, twisted torch.

Another sharp arrow pierced a distant archer who was aiming at Lanar, piercing his eye socket.He fell straight back.

"Lana, Murat, get off the boat and fight back, don't let them approach!" Nona and Kulala rushed out of the cabin and shot and killed two enemies immediately.

The two arrows attracted the attacker's attention.They drew their bows and arrows, or waved their slings, and a bunch of bows, arrows and stones slammed on the deck.

Nona and Kulala didn't take cover either.Wearing armor and full armor, they stood proudly on the deck, facing the arrows flying all over the sky, bowed their bows and set arrows at the crowd on the shore, and suppressed the enemies on the shore with rapid fire like a gust of wind.

Instead of carrying strong bows, they used light cavalry bows as weapons to shoot quickly, forming a continuous shower of dense arrow rain and bowstring echoes.

Those attackers who shot upwards on the shore were named one after another, and the heads pierced by arrows were like roses blooming all over the ground.They shouted and launched a counterattack towards the two of them, but the weak bows and slings could only hit the deck and sails, and they responded with precise and quick shots.

The ragged assailants were like saplings under the strong wind, one after another, they were shot down and fell to the ground on the trestle bridge by the bank.There was also someone who was shot by an arrow before he could throw out the kerosene bottle in his hand, and the flames swallowed him instantly, and he jumped into the river dancing and dancing.

Lana jumped up and landed firmly on the trestle by the bank, and swept forward with his two-handed horse-chopping sword. Immediately, three or four attackers holding kerosene bottles were chopped off in the middle, and their broken bodies and flames fell into the river together.

Soon, they fall apart.Under the suppression of the explosive shooting of the two Beyonders, Nona and Kulala, more than thirty attackers were shot and killed in less than half a minute.If it weren't for the sudden and terrifying casualties, they might have fled long ago.

However, there were still some people in the dispersed crowd who refused to retreat. They gritted their teeth and tried to throw even torches and kerosene bottles up.

Lana and Murat, who disembarked to fight back, tore them apart with great swords and long halberds.

There was the sound of hurried hooves on the shore, and a group of riders was coming here from a distance.The attackers even arranged a third wave of ambushes.

Although their previous rounds of attacks were out of touch with each other, seeing these riders appear, some of the first two rounds of attackers who had already been defeated turned around and fought back.

"Go and stop the cavalry, they are coming here with torches!" The black-haired and brown-eyed Nona shouted to the three companions while shooting at the fleeing attackers on the bank, "Drive them away and leave a safe place for the professor Kulala, summon the sailors and the city guards to put out the fire and save the sails."

……

A group of cavalry galloped towards Lana.They were skilled in riding, holding sabers, spears and torches, and stepped head-on towards Shutoral.The first rider rode his horse and held a gun, aiming at Lana and stabbing him.Two other riders held sabers and outflanked them from left and right.

A horse thief who can use a gun?Could it be that some official troops have turned to the rebels?

The Lancers were aggressive and their horseshoes were rumbling. The oppressive force of facing the spears and fast horses was enough to make the recruits collapse.

Lana didn't dodge or dodge, and rushed sideways to the lance that could pierce him, and the black horse-cutting sword slashed head-on.Amidst the terrifying howling and tearing sounds, the rider, horse's head and lance were cut off in the middle.The broken cavalry bullets drew a flame on the breastplate, Lana ignored it, stepped between the corpses of the blood-spitting horses, exerted strength from his waist, and slashed at the outflanking saber riders.

The rider's crotch and the horse were split from the left shoulder, and the rider's waist and legs were torn to the horse's lower right abdomen, and the rotten intestines were spilled several meters away under the screams.

The third rider was already in a panic, the saber in his hand didn't know where to go, and the two-handed sword was already pressing down like thunder.

"clang!"

Zhan Majian broke the saber into two pieces, then cut off the head, and scattered the spine and throat all over the ground.

The rest of the horse thieves screamed in unison, this bloody and crazy scene is really unprecedented.

Lana didn't stop, and while retracting his sword, he was already charging towards the leader of the team of riders, jumping and slashing head-on.

"Wow!"

The leader only screamed, and his head was smashed like a watermelon under the heavy blow, and the blade smashed his neck and cut into his chest, and then he was cut in two from the middle.

The menacing horse thieves were in a mess.Nona and Kulala were sniping at them on the boat, and the continuous feather arrows shot down four or five of them, and the rest hurriedly turned their horses and ran away.

"Go after them!" Lana yelled. "Mura, let's grab some tongues!"

As soon as the words fell, a burning fireball flew out of the distant woods, across the air and hit the sailboat.

"Oh!"

The fireball dragged the trail of thick smoke, skimmed the hull and smashed into the river, setting off waves several meters high.

"The trebuchet!" Nona yelled, "Go get that trebuchet."

A trebuchet was actually arranged in the bushes not far away, not too far away.It was concealed by the edge of the forest and concealed by bushes and branches, and at this time the camouflage had been dismantled, and a circle of people was busy reloading the spent stone bombs.As long as it is hit, the hull of the sloop will be severely damaged, or at least the sail will be burned.

Nona and Kulala lost their riding bows, grabbed the long bows beside them, pulled out a pleasing full circle, and shot towards the direction of the trebuchet. The feathered arrows flew across the sky and accurately shot and killed the two attackers.But that wasn't enough to eliminate the trebuchet danger.

"I'll kill it!" Ranayan pointed, "You stay put and defend."

As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful surge of spiritual energy surged from behind.It seems that the terrifying magic power that is about to tear everything apart is stirring, making everyone shudder.

Professor Weitzleben came on deck.He chanted an indecipherable spell quickly, drawing in the air with his wand in his right hand.

"Low bug," said the professor who was high on the Transcendent rank, looking at the direction of the trebuchet, "I'll let you see what happens when you offend the majesty of Hormonwatts."

A suspended magic circle suddenly appeared in the sky, shrouding the trebuchet impressively, and the fire waves were raging in the dense clouds.As the red cloud rolled, the plane and the air were torn apart, and burning meteorites poured down.

"Let's be wiped out under the attack of the meteor fire shower!"

(End of this chapter)