Lord Highlander

   Chapter 1501 1488. The Eve of the Great War

The Black Magic Priory reappeared on the streets of Hailansa again, and openly assassinated the head of the guard battalion of Hailansa city. It is a temptation for those in power in the city, or in other words, some people want to know the actual control over the city during the period when Suldak left the city of Hailansa.

  Obviously, they are eyeing Baron Karl Casement, Lady Marianne Christie's lover and close friend of Lord Suldak.

  This assassination can be said to have been carefully planned. The other party knew Karl's whereabouts like the back of his hand, and could summon several black magicians to complete the assassination mission.

  The only thing the opponent missed was here. The black magicians they hired were too low-level, and they couldn’t use high-level black magic during the assassination, so that Karl had a chance to escape.

In the next few days, the entire city of Hailansa was under full martial law. Not only the Knights of the Guard Battalion, but even the Law Enforcement Team of the Magic Union were also participating in the anti-criminal and evil operations to hunt down black magicians throughout the city. .

  In the headquarters building of the Hailansa Guard Battalion, the lights in the commander's office are still on.

  Although it's time to get off work, the entire building is still running at high speed.

  All the guard battalion knights stayed very consciously to conduct a city-wide raid.

  Carl looked tired. He was sitting at his desk. There were two steaming cups of lemon tea on the tea tray in front of him, but he didn't have anything to drink.

  Friend Lance sat opposite him, staring at the map hanging on the wall, silent for a while, and then found that the room became a little quiet.

   "You said that in the assassination incident the night before yesterday, who actually helped us in the dark?" Carl scratched his blond hair and asked in a firm tone.

Lance squinted his eyes and said: "Who else can it be? It must be the follower of Suldak who stayed in Hailansa City, that mysterious Ms. Aphrodite. When I was in Wall Village, I first When I saw her for the first time, I felt that her magical power was unfathomable. She usually wears a mithril mask and likes to wander alone among the mountains in the barren land."

   "Based on my years of experience dealing with black magicians, this Ms. Aphrodite is proficient in black magic."

   "She came to me a month ago. Suldak brought me a batch of magical herbs and asked me to help refine healing potions. I hope Suldak can change the proportion of healing potions and spiritual potions..."

"Yesterday, I also approached the village chief Bright, and learned from him that this Ms. Aphrodite is Suldak's liaison officer in Hailansa City. Currently, it is processed and manufactured in various workshops in Wall Village. Almost all the supplies are shipped to Handanar County on the Warsaw plane.”

   After the magician Lance finished speaking, he smiled proudly at Carl.

  Carl said belatedly at this time:

   "So, my mysterious man this time is a follower of Suldak?"

Lance nodded and said, "That's why I didn't ask people to continue the investigation. Instead, I searched around for the black magician who participated in the assassination. I didn't expect that in just a few years, there would be another black magician in the city of Hailansa." Signs of activity in the Priory of Magic..."

   "You said that this follower of Suldak has been staying in Hailansa city, why?" Carl asked a little puzzled.

Lance glanced at him, stared into Carl's eyes with a strong questioning look, and said mockingly: "Sometimes I really don't understand how you, the chief of the security battalion, are doing. It’s a big move, but I haven’t noticed anything yet…”

   "Not only the village of Wall, but now the entire city of Hailansa is Dak's logistics supply station."

"The entire city is continuously providing a large amount of armaments and supplies to Handanar County on the Warsaw plane. The weapons and equipment purchased by Suldak in Hailansa City in the recent period alone are almost enough to equip a hundred thousand A heavy armored infantry regiment with more than one man."

   "Of course, the huge cost involved is inseparable from the frequent victories won by Suldak's West Route Army."

The magician Lance is quite sober, and the law enforcement team recently accidentally discovered that the trading houses in Hailansa City were sweeping up the supply of magic weapons in large quantities. After this period of investigation, Lance discovered that the source of purchasing these magic weapons was actually His friend Lord Suldak.

   Unexpectedly, the magic weapons needed in his legion would actually boost the economy of the entire magic industry in Hailansa City.

   Up to now, there are still a large number of magic equipment flowing into Hailansa City.

  Carl rubbed his hands, his tone full of uncertainty: "I always felt that during the assassination incident the night before yesterday, I felt the breath of Suldak..."

  Lance heard Carl say this, a little disapproving, and said casually:

   "It may be that this guy has been away from us for too long, and he often misses the hallucinations. At this time, he is thousands of miles away in the Warsaw plane. How could he suddenly come back to help us out..."

   While the two were talking, a voice suddenly sounded outside the door:

"Report!"

   Before Karl let the man in, the door of the office was pushed open from the outside. The constructed knight who walked in was the captain of the first brigade. He saluted Karl and said:

   "Traces of the Black Mage were found in the residence on the west side of Derek Johns Street, and it was preliminarily determined that it was a contact point of the Black Magic Priory."

   "Send people to surround there immediately, try not to let a suspicious person go!" Carl said, patting the table.

   "Yes, sir!" The captain of the first brigade strode out with his chest upright.

   At this time Lance also stood up, pushed open the window of the office, pulled out a magic broom from the magic pocket, turned over and rode on it, turned to Carl and said:

   "I'll go over there to see how many black mages are hidden, and there are so many black mages living so blatantly under our noses..."

   After finishing speaking, Lance flew out of the window on the magic handle, leaving a string of magic light at the end of the handle.

   "Hey... this guy, the city of Hailansa belongs to the magic no-fly zone..." Carl stood at the window and shouted at Lance who disappeared into the night sky.

  Lance flew away without looking back.

  The ban on flying over the city of Hailansa has been promulgated for many years, and magicians have always maintained this habit.

  However, for the black magicians of the Black Magic Priory, they don't have this awareness at all, and they fly around the city on magic horns without any scruples.

  The law enforcement team of the Magic Union also needs to ride a magic handle if they want to arrest these black magicians.

  …

  At the same moment, Aphrodite was standing on the roof of a residential house on Derek Johns Street, but her body was like a shadow, attached to the chimney on the roof, and it was completely integrated with the chimney.

   It is impossible to recognize that there is actually a person hiding in that shadow.

   Seeing teams of guard battalion knights rushing over from the streets in all directions, Aphrodite exhaled a little, and whispered to herself on the roof:

   The fatty meat delivered to the mouth, this time it will not be too much to eat!

There is a crescent moon hanging high in the night sky, and the whole city of Hailansa is covered with bright moonlight. There are almost no pedestrians on the street, and there are clear sounds of horseshoes on the street, the crisp sound of horseshoes colliding with stone slabs. The sound can be heard far away at night.

   This house is a closed courtyard with a row of storefronts facing the street on the west side. There are two huge golden oak trees growing in the courtyard, and green acorns are hung on them.

  The house is different from other small buildings that are single-family or connected. This courtyard is built more like a courtyard, and the inner courtyard has an extremely private space.

The situation of the people in this yard is not very good now. Several people wearing magic robes were all hung on the golden oak tree, their hands and legs were tightly bound by ropes, and everyone's mouth was stuffed into a Smelly socks, this group of people were hung upside down on tree branches, and there were a lot of magic books scattered in the yard, as well as other items related to black magic.

  As the courtyard door collapsed, a group of guard battalion knights broke in from the door, and their eyes immediately fell on the group of magicians hanging from the tree.

And those magicians seem to see their relatives at this moment. They are hanging upside down on the tree, and their entire faces have been smothered in sauce because of the backflow of blood. The magician's head bled to death.

  Seeing the guard battalion knights breaking into the courtyard, they immediately twisted their bodies like silkworm chrysalis with all their strength, trying to attract the attention of the guard battalion knights as soon as possible.

  There is no time in their life that can compare to this time. From the bottom of my heart, I hope that the knights of the guard battalion can keep an eye on them...

  Before the knights from the guard battalion completely occupied the yard, a lot of magicians flew over in the night sky, and they quickly landed on the roof of the yard, and each magician was lit up with magic circles.

   Seeing this group of magicians appear in the field of vision, these black magicians hanging upside down on the oak tree completely extinguished the idea of ​​running away.

  …

  Suldak didn't pay attention to the situation in Hailansa City. He just saved Karl's life that night, and immediately returned to the military camp at the northern pass of Moyunling.

  As for the specific situation in Hailansa City, he handed it over to Aphrodite to continue to pay attention, and on the premise of ensuring that the situation will not continue to deteriorate, help them if you can...

  Suldak began to adjust the garrison plan of the city defense army at the Beishankou camp. He mainly aimed at the large group of ghost fighters on the south side of the city wall, and then decided on the city defense plan.

   This time, the evil ghost army gathered outside the city wall of Beishankou again, and it seemed that they were bound to win the Beishankou camp.

However, Suldak has made sufficient preparations these days. Not only Andrew and the wolf knight Tiger led the constructed knights to practice the city defense battle, but even the native alliance army is also learning the specifics of the city wall defense battle. way of fighting.

  They need to get used to fighting on the city wall. Hiding behind the wall and stabbing the rushing ghost warrior with Paglio's spear is a basic operation.

  In the past few days, they are mainly practicing how to use fire phosphorus bombs, explosive barrels, rolling stones, kerosene and other military supplies to defend the city.

   Once these armaments and materials are used improperly, they will cause an immeasurable devastating blow to the city wall.

  That's why Suldak requires every indigenous warrior who climbs the city wall to participate in the city defense battle to be proficient in using fire phosphorous bombs and kerosene...

  There is no magic bed crossbow on the city wall this time, and it is impossible to use giant crossbow bolts to suppress the ghost warriors at the initial stage. Compared with the defenders, the invisible pressure of defending the city is much greater.

  Probably because the senior officials of the Evil Ghost Legion also realized how fatal the loss of the north and south gates would be to the Evil Ghost Army, so they sent so many evil ghost soldiers to surround the North Mountain Pass.

Although the number of troops of the Evil Ghost Legion exceeded Suldak's estimate, their own supplies are also extremely scarce. Most of the Evil Ghost soldiers came from the camp with hungry stomachs, and they ran here Already starving...

   Now it is discovered that the human army has built a city wall, and all the soldiers are hiding on the wall, refusing to go out to fight easily...

  For a while, the ghost fighters had no choice but to accumulate more troops, preparing to smash down the city wall and regain the north gate of Moyunling.

  On the hillside outside the city, there are black ghost warriors everywhere. The invisible pressure made all the soldiers on the north city wall feel a strong panic in their hearts.

  However, in the past few days, there have been constructed knights stepping on the "halo of courage" on the city wall, and the guards on the city wall can no longer feel the strong pressure outside the city.

  Andrew and wolf knight Tiger take turns to watch the night every day to ensure that the Constructed Knights can participate in the battle at any time.

  The native fighters of the Tribal Alliance Army are training every day, and everyone is staring at the evil ghost fighters on the south side of the city wall, waiting for how earth-shattering they will be when they charge their power.

  In fact, each of these aboriginal fighters is proficient in throwing spears, especially condescending throwing. The ghost fighters have no way to climb the city wall with bare hands surrounded by aboriginal fighters.

  In addition, they have been scared by Suldak's cavalry regiment. Because of the fog of war, the evil spirits are completely afraid to fight at night.

  This also means that as long as the aboriginal fighters defend the attack of the ghost fighters during the day, they will have enough time to rest...

  Facing the battle that was about to break out, all the aboriginal warriors were gearing up. Their optimism really infected the group of ant cavalry in the cavalry regiment.

   Another quiet day passed, and the North Mountain Pass at dusk was hidden in a huge shadow, only the snow peaks in the distance were still white.

  Suldak stood on the city wall, looking at the ghost warriors on the south side of the city wall. Now their army has pressed two kilometers away from the city wall.

  Andrew couldn't hold back the fighting spirit in his heart. He was lingering around Suldak every day, begging him to rush outside the city wall with the Constructed Knights to fight the ghost warriors.

   This group of giant ghost pattern soldier ants also seemed extremely restless every day. If the druids hadn't tried their best to suppress them, they might have caused some trouble.

  The war is about to start...

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  (end of this chapter)