C20

Shuttle Castle.

"How are the civilians doing entering the city?" Linke asked Burton, staring at the dim light on the archery tower in the distance.

"We've already sent people to raise the alarm and organize the civilians to enter, but seeing the speed of the beast tide, I'm afraid we won't have enough time to move into the castle before we have to close the gates!" Burton was slightly anxious, but his voice remained calm.

Linke turned and walked away, shouting, "Burton! "Carry out my orders: Do not close the gates of the castle until the last civilian enters!" He quickly walked down the wall, patting the armor of the family guards as he walked, "The Moutes family will never abandon any of their leading citizens!" Come, warriors of the Murters, put on your armor! Hold your weapons tight! Follow me, Cohn Mutters! In order to defend the honor of the Murters! In order to protect the safety of all of our citizens! " He raised his voice abruptly. "Kill the enemy!"

"Kill the enemy!"

"Kill the enemy!"

His decisive action and impassioned words instantly stirred up the courage of all the guards who had been hiding in their hearts for a long time. He was like a natural born leader, allowing all the old guards who had retired from the battlefield to finally regain the feeling of being in the battlefield! And the well-trained rookie guards were similarly undeterred. Instead, they were full of excitement!

"No, young master Cohen. Give this opportunity to me, Old Brooke. You just need to stay here and watch your brave warrior offer his loyalty to the family!" Brooke swiftly squeezed through the excited guards and stopped Link. His eyes were filled with concern and even pleading. "Moutes can't have Brooke, but you can't have Cohen. You have to understand!"

"I know what I'm doing!" "Here!" On the battlefield! You can never expect a Murters man to choose to hide behind the family army! Get out of the way, Brooke! " At this moment, he was as ferocious as a lion! The surging aura from Cohen in his soul almost dominated his emotions, making up for the lack of viciousness in his heart! It was a power that came from the clan's honor! It was a glory unique to the Blood and Fire world that he would never be able to experience even if he mixed it with his previous life!

Lin Ke looked at Brook, who was standing not a step away from him, and suddenly said solemnly, "Since that's the case, Brook will obey!" We will split the 25 people into two teams and launch a frontal assault, stopping the forward momentum of the vanguard beast tide to buy time for the civilians to avoid entering the castle! Afterwards, do not continue to fight and dig into both sides of the river where you have yet to completely cross the river. Gather in front of the stone houses! "Time is of the essence, let's take advantage of the fact that these ordinary beasts have not yet gathered together!"

Linke's words were both an order and an explanation, "Execute! "Knight!"

Brooke frowned, but in the end, he made the choice a Knight should have and performed an extremely formal knight salute.

"As you wish, Lord Cohen!"

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The civilians who were running away from the city gates made way for the knights who were running away from the castle.

Brook was the first to rush out, leading his twenty-five Knights with his full-body armour. He did not wait for Link's team to rush out, but took the lead with a wave of his hand and led his Knights towards the monster horde in the direction of the stone bridge!

Lin Ke and his team of twenty-five knights followed closely behind. He was still clad in his own armor, and was protected by a few fully armored knights in the middle of the group. He did not refuse the protection of the guards.

Burton, who had rushed to the city gate, tried his best to calm the civilians, looked at Link with a worried expression. The moment he stepped out of the gate, he calmly nodded his head.

"Young Master, the number of beasts is increasing." Behind Lin Ke, the one who was also wearing leather armour was unexpectedly Xue'er! At this moment, Xue'er held a strange looking large bow in her hand. In the middle of the bow was a large pearl which emitted a grayish luster.

"What do you think, Neil?" Lin Ke, who was running towards the monster herd seemed abnormally calm. No one could tell that this was the first time he had encountered such a terrifying battlefield, especially when he was unable to ride his mount well.

"It's not a big problem," Neil was wearing full body armor, so it was hard to distinguish his appearance from the outside. At the moment, he was protecting Lin Ke on the left side, "The increase in the speed of wild beasts is not enough to increase the thickness of the wild beasts, instead, it will make the wild beasts that have already passed through the river chaotic. They are just a group of wild beasts, after all, they won't affect your plan to penetrate the river."

Lin Ke nodded his head. In his previous life, he had always loved military affairs, but at most, he was just a military enthusiast during the cold weapons era. In addition to the tactical knowledge that Cohen had memorized from his previous life, he was at most a flowery and talkative person, and he was not as good as Neil, who had experienced too many battles in the Beastman Empire.

While he was speaking, Brook's team had already met in the monster horde. Brook's double-handed sword, which was as an arrow, suddenly surged with a fiery-red energy that was six or seven meters long, condensing into a massive greatsword that seemed like it could flow in a liquid state!

From afar, the tiny Brook had actually raised up a gigantic holy sword!

The shining greatsword suddenly slashed down!

With a loud boom, Link saw a large piece of soil, mixed with broken parts of the wild beast's body, thrown into the air. Violent rays of light brought along with them, illuminating the dark land, and a huge hole was forcefully opened up in the dense horde of wild beasts.

"How amazing!" Xue'er couldn't help but cry out in alarm as she looked at the fiery red sword that was only a small circle smaller than the rest of the world. All of the beasts that saw it felt their hearts tremble.

Lin Ke was also far from being as calm as he appeared on the surface. He somewhat understood why such a powerful expert had become a key force in the army that was said to be able to break through the military formations.

However, the battlefield did not allow for their shock to continue.

Soon, the team led by Linke would meet the monster horde!

Link slowly raised his right hand and a terrifying energy began to revolve around him!

Cavalry charge!

The first to attack was not Link.

While Lin Ke was still preparing her powerful offensive magic, Xue'er had already made her move. In just a few seconds, Xue'er shot out a dozen arrows with a faint blue light from three hundred to two hundred meters away from the group of beasts. With such a large group of beasts, she didn't even need to aim, and her arrows combined with magical power streaked across the sky like shooting stars.

The group continued their charge, but when the guards got closer, they discovered that the herd of beasts that should have been blocking the cavalry had been killed by the arrows without a sound, leaving behind a huge gap. Each of the dead beasts had a huge gap in their midst, but the gap was only covered by a layer of ice!

The beasts nearby were currently fleeing while howling in pain because they had been injured by the ice shards from the explosion!

The might of a magic-archer was so great!

But this was not the end. Lin Ke, who had prepared for such a long time, finally showed off his might.

An enormous light green ball of air appeared above his head, and with the end of his chanting voice, the huge ball of air broke apart with a bang, turning into a river of countless wind blades, continuously rushing towards the direction of the cavalry.

Every single wind blade was a death god's scythe.

Everything in the way of the wind blades would be sliced to pieces.

The long river of wind blades was like a never-ending river, slicing a long and thin path through the not-yet-thick beasts!

Broken limbs flew everywhere as blood flowed like a river!

The cavalrymen didn't have time to be surprised, and the speedy squadron took advantage of the huge gap to rush forward, and was encouraged by the explosive power of the two spellcasters. Each and every one of them were brave enough to fly into the air with their sharp spears and scream miserably, causing the nearby beasts to stop in their tracks in fear!

From time to time, he would release his wind blades to suppress the wild beasts on the right side of the team, which would occasionally explode and rush at them, causing a fiery red qi to surge out from Neil's body, spreading to the entire body of the spear, swinging the spear up and down, accurately crushing every berserk beast on the left of the team into black scraps. Xue'er's field of vision was the broadest, most continuous way to resolve the dangerous situation the Knights were encountering, and she would always be able to give them the most assistance at the most crucial moment!

In just a few short breaths, the cavalry army had managed to carve a path through the group of unharmed vanguards!

The two raids successfully dispersed the wild beasts that had crossed the river. The wild beasts immediately stopped their charge and fled in the direction of the river.

Link's eyes lit up, and he turned to Neil, who was beside him, and asked, "Arrow Tower?"

"The remaining will of the beasts that had passed the river bank has been destroyed. I can feel their fear, but the density of the beasts in the direction of the stone bridge is a little high. With our current cavalry strength, even if we were to combine forces, it would be very difficult to break through that distance."

Lin Ke frowned as he discovered a sturdy figure suddenly appearing on the horse's back. He could not help but become excited.

"Too rash!" Without waiting for Linke to open his mouth, Seventh Elder Heller cursed fiercely, "The family needs a future leader and strong warrior, not a boorish one who falls in the middle of the road!"

"Yes, Grandpa Seven," Lin Ke replied perfunctorily, "There are a few of our trapped guards in the direction of the stone bridge's archery tower. We must rescue them!"

"Definitely?" asked Elle, his face cold.

Lin Ke's expression was also unprecedented serious. "Definitely!"

"Hmph." Heller's face was still cold, but he found that Brooke had already brought another cavalry escort over. The two troops had met up in front of the stone houses according to Link's original plan.

"Roar!" "Roar!"

The two squadron of riders from the two divisions were cheering loudly!

Following which, the guards who were stationed on the castle walls and the commoners cheered out loudly!

"Master Cohen, are you alright?" Brooke, however, didn't feel any excitement. He anxiously pushed his mask up, only to discover another middle-aged man riding on the same horse as Link. He couldn't help but be stunned. "Lord Heller!"

Without paying attention to Brooke, who was bowing respectfully to him, Elli waved his hand, allowing one of the cavalrymen to let him ride his mount back to the castle. He himself mounted his horse and rode up to Link.

"Look at the beasts over there, they are still continuously crossing the stone bridge," Heller pointed in that direction and coldly asked Rinko, "Do you still want to say for sure?"

Rincewind looked at the direction where Heller was pointing. The beasts that had been retreating gradually regained their courage after being attacked by the horde of beasts on the stone bridge. They then charged towards the castle once again.

"The retreat of the commoners should be almost complete, but I can imagine the fear and despair of those trapped guards," Rinko said in a voice as quick as his own. "When the beasts attacked, they didn't choose to escape immediately, but to stay there and issue the alarm and retreat and chose to resist. They used their lives to bet on that lost bet," Lin Ke clenched his right fist and smashed it into his heart, "I didn't want them to lose the bet!" He began to get excited, a passion that he had never experienced before in his two lives surging through his entire body, "The Murters family won't let them lose!" Even if I have to die, I have to let them see the descendants of the Mutters die on the road to rescue them! "

He urged the black horse to go to Heller, and the horse, as if sensing his master's mood, became abnormally obedient. Rincewind dismounted and knelt on one knee, begging, "Seventh Elder, Cohen Moutes requests your help to save the warriors of the Moutes family!"

The clan guards were all moved. It was unknown who was leading them, but they all dismounted and followed behind Linke, kneeling down in the direction of Heller.

There were men's knees everywhere!

There was a moment of silence.

"Well, I don't think we have much time," said Heller, leading his horse to Brooke, who was also kneeling on one knee beside Link. "If Cohen is dead, then this battle will be your Brooke's final battle."

"Unless Brooke dies, no one can hurt young master Cohen!" Brooke solemnly replied, as if he was making an oath!

"Unless we die, no one can hurt young master Cohen!" A Knight roared!

"Unless we die, no one can hurt young master Cohen!" A group of people were generous and decisive!

Xue'er gripped her longbow tightly, her eyes full of determination!

Looking at the figure in front of the crowd who was kneeling down on one knee, the expression on Neil's face was extremely complicated!

"Then keep up with my pace."

Heller's voice was as cold as his face had always been.