Henselt seemed to have just come to his senses, and shouted angrily, "Lannister!"
"You actually let these Scoia'tael escape without killing a single elf! All my guards were killed and this is the only result?!"
Lann panted and looked over coldly. Although there was not much blood on his body, he still had the aura of the great power he had just displayed.
Henselt's voice seemed to be cut off at the throat, and he took a step back involuntarily.
After hearing Henselt's accusation, Mi Wei was even more rude: "That's enough, Henselt! He fought ten elven assassins for you alone, one sword against ten swords, and he saved your life! What else do you want?"
At this moment, the other kings also slowly walked out from behind the protection of the knights.
"Twelve weapons," exclaimed Demavere, King of Aedirn. "I have never seen such swordsmen, nor such reliable allies."
Henselt groaned a few times and then fell silent.
Lann retracted his gaze, adjusted his breathing, and looked outside the fortress. He saw flames and strong winds at the edge of the forest not far away, and from time to time there were explosions of alchemical bombs and flashes of golden light.
That was the direction of the ancient Deer-Headed Spirit, and also the direction that Lei Suo and his companions were heading.
Lann turned and walked away, his sword in hand. His reddish-brown griffin cloak rustled in the evening breeze, and the knights surrounding him spontaneously made way for him.
"Where are you going, Lan?"
"Keep helping! None of these monsters will leave here alive tonight!"
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Not long after humans arrived on this continent, they discovered a magical creature in the primeval forest. Living next to it, no matter how ferocious the beasts were, they would become docile, and all the fruits on the trees would become plump.
Over time, the creatures became the center of local worship in some places, and farmers who lived near their groves would offer them sacrificial offerings, usually rabbits or birds, but human blood was also known to be offered.
This creature is called a woodland dwarf, and it also has a more well-known name - the Deer-Headed Spirit.
The category is [residual].
In many legends, the Deer-Headed Spirit is a kindly character who helps lost travelers find their way through the forest or rescues them from bandits. Unfortunately, such legends have no basis in reality. In fact, humans are just a source of energy in the eyes of the Deer-Headed Spirit, no different from other animals. The Deer-Headed Spirit will suck the vitality of nearby humans until only a shell is left.
When humans worshiped the Deer-Headed Spirit as a "god", the Deer-Headed Spirit also kept them in captivity.
However, as humans explored the forest further, their respect for the unknown diminished. They gathered wood, built stone dwellings, and spread like a plague, thus angering the forest and its inhabitants.
As a result, "God" also became the "remnant" among the monsters.
Of course, in some places far from civilization, there are still villages that maintain ancient beliefs and provide for the ancient gods of the forest day after day.
These deer-headed spirits that have survived from ancient times have accumulated extremely terrifying power, so much so that monster scholars have even created a new category for them - [Ancient Deer-Headed Spirits].
They have innate magical abilities and can heal and control crows, wolves, and even small monsters such as demons and ghouls; they can create magical totems around their territory, just like a warlock builds a wizard tower to enhance their own power; they can also leave black magic curses on humans, and be reborn from the cursed person after death.
The monster in front of everyone is an elderly ancient deer-headed spirit.
It is said that in ancient times, deer-headed demons rarely left their territory. How did the Scoia'tael do it?
They sent out half of their people, killed all the lives in the forest that might be the seeds of the ancient Deer-Headed Spirit's resurrection, destroyed all the ancient Deer-Headed Spirit's magic totems, and destroyed as much water and plants as possible in the other party's territory.
The ancient monster therefore persisted in pursuing them.
Good news: It has now been lured out of its territory by the Scoia'tael, its totem destroyed, and its power weakened to a certain extent.
The bad news: It's now angry.
Bad news two: It's not the only one that's angry.
There was a sound in the sky, and a knight wearing a unicorn emblem drew his bowstring towards the night sky. However, to his surprise, a large group of crows came towards him, like a dark cloud covering the sky!
Even a whole team of archers could only fumble in the face of this situation. The knight shot an arrow in vain, piercing the bodies of two crows. Then he was carried up by the dark cloud of crows and smashed into the mud, knocking him unconscious.
When he was about to call for help, his steel mask was suddenly lifted up by several claws.
Crows are extremely intelligent, even as smart as uneducated children. Not to mention that they are controlled by even more ancient and intelligent creatures, so they are not helpless against the enemy hiding in the tin can.
The knight let out a horrifying scream, and then his mouth was blocked again. He whimpered for a few breaths and then stopped struggling.
The crows flapped their wings and left the knight's body, and another group of ghouls and wild wolves pounced on him to tear up the rare human flesh. They refused to give in to each other, staring at each other with eager eyes, and actually started to bite each other in the middle of the battlefield.
"Woo-boom——"
It was as if a thousand-year-old tree was collapsing and falling to the ground. The source of the sound was the ancient deer-headed spirit. With the body of a monster, he made the sound of a natural disaster.
In this dull and loud sound, the beasts and monsters that were baring their fangs at each other suddenly stopped fighting as if they had heard the horn of soldiers, turned around and immediately returned to the battlefield, rushing towards humans.
On the front line battlefield where they were fighting hand-to-hand with these monsters, the people of Cintra were lagging far behind, forming a sharp contrast with these panicked soldiers.
They worked in groups of three or five, using bows and arrows to deal with the monsters rushing towards them from a distance, or they cooperated tacitly to slaughter wild wolves, and there was not even much blood on their bodies.
"How long do you think it will take them to react and form a formation to kill that ancient deer-headed spirit?"
Hearing Kolgrim's question, Letho thought for a while: "It won't take too long. These monsters just caught the army off guard. There will be a lot of casualties, but it will definitely not collapse. I am more worried that this ancient deer-headed spirit will escape halfway through the fight."
Milva frowned when she heard this: "This is the prey that the Earl specifically requested, it can't run away!"
The female archer grabbed the mahogany bow that was as long as her, and her body, which had been strengthened by the [Follower] system, burst out with astonishing strength.
The "clacking" sound of the bowstring was clearly heard by the demon hunters. Although they were not able to pull the bowstring to its full extent like Lann, the sound was already terrifying enough.
"Is this still human strength? This arm must be filled with cow tendons, right?" Kolgrim muttered.
Milva used almost all of her body to exert strength. In order to draw the bow more conveniently, she only had an arm guard wrapped around her left arm, and a leather ring on her right thumb, leaving both arms exposed, with the slender and strong lines clearly visible, like a female leopard.
Her figure was unusually agile among female warriors, but she didn't look like a body that could pull a bow of this poundage.
"Forget about Lan En, but why are even his attendants so abnormal?"
The bow does not recognize whether its owner is normal or not. As long as the power is sufficient, it will shoot the arrow.
The distance of a hundred steps passed in a flash. The special arrow shaft bore huge kinetic energy and swam forward in the air like a barracuda, but then it seemed to hit a rock wall and shattered completely.
The ancient deer-headed spirit lowered its head in a very anthropomorphic manner, dug out the half-buried steel arrowhead from its chest and threw it aside, and the wound on its wooden body healed in an instant.
"What's going on? Another immortal? Why do I keep running into such opponents recently?" Milva frowned, drew her bow and put another arrow on it. "I wonder if I can shoot it in the head. It looks like it's made of bones..."
Reso reached out and touched Milva's bow handle, and shook his head at her in the face of the female archer's puzzled look.
"The ancient Deer-Headed Spirit cannot be harmed by steel. Only our special [Residue Oil] or the silver sword can effectively attack it, or you can use the magic-blocking gold arrowheads."
Milva showed a ridiculous expression: "How can I have such a precious thing?"
Upon hearing this, Letho handed over a bottle of sword oil and asked Milva to apply it on the arrowhead. "I know Lann has special magic-blocking gold arrows. With your archery skills, you deserve them. You can ask Lann for them and show your corresponding strength. With his personality, he will definitely not be stingy in giving them to you, and he may even praise you. Don't underestimate yourself."
Milva was stunned: "Really? The Earl... won't reject me?"
Lei Suo showed a strange expression: "I mean the magic-blocking golden arrowhead..."
Shaking his head and ignoring the female archer who was lost in thought, Lei Suo turned back to call the demon hunters of the Snake Clan: "The monsters brought out by the ancient deer-headed spirit have been almost cleared out by the army. Let's go!"
"Okay!"＊3.
The demon hunters drew out their silver swords that had been coated with sword oil and poison, and weaved through the gaps between the Kaedwen soldiers like snakes, silently approaching the ancient deer-headed demon. However, the soldiers did not dare to approach the ancient deer-headed demon, which was more than four meters tall when standing upright. They only used bows and arrows to test it from a distance, and the demon hunters soon had to be exposed to the enemy.
Before the Snake Sect could use tactics to approach the enemy, they saw a flash of green light before their eyes, and the figure of the ancient Deer-Headed Spirit suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving only a few tangled tree roots in its place.
"not good!"
The demon hunters who were familiar with the habits of monsters immediately became alarmed. Without hesitation, they raised their hands at the same time to cast a layer of [Quen's Seal] on themselves, and then frantically activated their demon hunter senses, searching for clues in the air.
Suddenly, Kolgrim felt his heart skip a beat.
"spread!"
Kolgrim shouted frantically, then without hesitation pushed aside a soldier who was in the way, and rushed forward desperately.
Before the Kaedweni soldier could curse "damn demon hunter", the next second, there was a heart-pounding vibration on the ground where he lay. Driven by magic, tree roots thicker than a human broke through the ground at a growth rate tens of thousands times faster than nature, and easily turned the Kaedweni soldier into a gourd like a clay figurine.
In the crowd, a huge ancient deer-headed spirit appeared in a burst of faint green light and howled towards the sky.
"Boom——"
The human soldiers were horrified when they saw this. They might have the courage to face enemies that outnumbered themselves, but when monsters several times their size stood in front of them, they were immediately frightened because they had little experience.
The organized team immediately collapsed, and the blood-stained corpses of their comrades irritated their nerves. Only a few desperate warriors wielded swords and slashed at the ancient deer-headed spirit, but they could only create a few scratches on its tree-like body, and it disappeared in an instant.
Then the ancient deer-headed spirit stomped his feet violently like a landslide, and countless twisted tree roots shot out from the ground again, turning the dozen or so soldiers around it into nutrients for the plants.
Seeing this, the soldiers who were not attacked by the tree roots immediately scattered.
The ancient deer-headed spirit no longer cared about these tiny people and turned to face Kolgrim who had just escaped.
However, the monster did not notice that among the fleeing human soldiers, a burly figure was moving through the crowd at an unreasonable speed.
With a "swish", the poisonous silver sword of the Snake Sect that Lei Suo had just obtained pierced through the lower back of the ancient deer-headed spirit. It felt like he was cutting a piece of frozen meat that had just begun to thaw.
Although it was difficult, he still managed to cut it in! Green smoke like a burning iron floated out quickly from the wound of the ancient deer-headed spirit. This was the effect of the [Residue Oil].
Then, the body began to turn black and rot from the places where it was cut, and began to wither slightly like rotten wood in a swamp.
It's poison, the super enchantment effect from the grandmaster-level silver sword [Snake School Poisonous Silver Sword]. Even monsters like the ancient Deer-Headed Spirit are not immune.
Such a strike was enough for Lei Suo to retreat successfully. He kicked the ancient deer-headed spirit hard, and used the reaction force to avoid the huge enemy's palm in the air with a dexterity that was completely inconsistent with his body size. After a few jumps, he jumped ten meters away.
After landing, he also threw away a pull ring. It was the pull ring of the [Magic Resistant Gold Bomb].
With a "boom", the green metal powder immediately surrounded the ancient deer-headed spirit, suppressing the equally green magical energy that was emanating from its body surface.
However, Reso, who had been fighting in the squad for a long time, did not consider the environment he was in. He ran away, but more Kaedwen soldiers began to face the indiscriminate rage of the ancient deer-headed spirits. Without magical abilities, the ancient deer-headed spirits still had a body comparable to that of a small giant and an invulnerable body of steel, and could still stir up bloody storms in the crowd.
Of course, Reso might not care too much about it.
"Use fire! This monster is not afraid of iron, use fire!"
Oaks shouted in the crowd, both to remind the soldiers to protect themselves and to hope they could help him a little more. In the crowd, the demon hunters were also restricted from using range seals such as [Igni Seal] and [Alder Seal].
After hearing the Snake Faction Demon Hunter's warning, a quick-reacting soldier immediately raised his torch and tried to rush forward. However, with a disturbing cawing sound, a seemingly endless number of crows appeared from the sky again, desperately rushing towards the soldier, knocking him to the ground and causing the torch to fall out of his hand.
“Swoosh—”
However, an arrow once again flew across the battlefield, seizing the opportunity and accurately piercing through the torch. The arrow coated with thick sword oil was instantly ignited, drawing a red arc in the air and fiercely nailing the right side of the ancient deer-headed spirit's neck.
Seeing that her attack was effective, the heroic female archer moved her position while taking out another arrow from her backpack.
Kolgrim's eyes suddenly lit up, and he shouted at Milva to attract her attention. He also ran quickly along the crowd, then made a seal with his left hand and shot an Igni Seal into the sky.
Milva immediately understood what the snake demon hunter meant. Although they had not rehearsed beforehand, the two of them, who had fought several battles to get used to each other, showed amazing tacit understanding.
Soon, a second cone of flames lit up in the darkness, as if someone had set off a large firework. And one after another, sharp arrows kept piercing through the flames, allowing the ancient deer-headed spirit's body to light up the darkness.
The ancient deer-headed spirit's body cooperated very well and kept making "dong" and "dong" sounds, taking a step back every time it was hit by an arrow.
After shooting ten arrows, Milva shook her fingers, which were a little sore from pulling the bow at high speed. On the other hand, half of the ancient deer-headed spirit's body was already on fire, and the flames were connected into lines, which would soon turn into flames.
"Boom——"
The burning flames finally broke the defense of the ancient deer-headed spirit, which had always been deep and repressed. It howled to the sky and immediately summoned a cloud of crows. These big birds desperately used their feathers, wings, and even their entire bodies to put out the fire on the ancient deer-headed spirit, and quickly put out the fire that Milva and the demon hunter had lit together.
The female archer gritted her teeth when she saw this, shook her fingers and was about to draw the bow again, but suddenly she felt a fishy wind blowing on her face.
When he turned around, he saw a group of more than a dozen timberwolves rushing towards him.
In order to effectively snipe the ancient deer-headed spirit, Milva sought a wider field of vision and unknowingly left the team and walked to the front. House and other teammates saw this and wanted to step forward to rescue Milva, but they were either too far away or were hindered by other beasts that suddenly appeared.
At the critical moment, a black whirlwind swept across the battlefield.
It rolled through the pack of forest wolves like a chariot, its amber eyes flashing with excitement.
That is not a black whirlwind, that is a black wind.
Without Lann's leadership, it actually ran out with the Cintra team on its own, charging and trampling and killing many wild beasts and small monsters along the way. It was extremely excited.
But the horse still has a high IQ. More beasts surrounded it under the command of the ancient deer-headed spirit. It bit the quiver on Milva's back, picked up the female archer like a chicken, and ran away.
The group of wild beasts and monsters really let it run away recklessly, and no one could catch up with it.
"The Earl's mount..." Milva murmured absentmindedly, "It's protecting me..."
The female shooter was confused for a moment, but she quickly reacted. She turned over nimbly in mid-air and hugged Heifeng's neck, shouting excitedly:
“Heifeng, run more steadily. Let me sit on your back and shoot a few more arrows at you! With your speed, no other monster can catch up with you. We will soon defeat it... Aaaaaaah!!”
But before Milva finished speaking, she suddenly screamed. It turned out that Black Wind suddenly made a sharp turn and drifted sideways at an astonishing speed, throwing Milva out directly.
The female archer flew towards the Cintra cavalry and was quickly caught by her comrades.
Heifeng snorted disdainfully, and suddenly felt a familiar feeling surge in his heart.
With a sudden realization in his mind, the Demon Hunter Horse suddenly charged towards the Ancient Deer-Headed Spirit. As its speed increased, an invisible wave of magic suddenly spread from its body.
Then there was a buzzing sound, and a bright emerald light flashed on Black Wind's back, condensing into the shape of a knight within a breath. As the starlight on the surface faded away, Lann's figure appeared on the battlefield.
【Teleport】
Kolgrim's eyes widened in disbelief, and he was once again shocked by the griffin: "What's this new trick?"
Of course they were complaining, but when they saw the arrival of the Griffin Demon Hunter with the strongest seal, Kolgrim and all the Snake Demon Hunters knew that the decisive round of the battle had come, and they all surrounded the ancient Deer-Headed Spirit.
At this time, the human soldiers around the ancient deer-headed spirit had almost all run away, leaving a piece of open space again.
Lan patted Heifeng's neck. The relationship between the two could no longer be simply summarized as "understanding". Heifeng understood his master's thoughts in an instant.
Another high-speed super sharp turn drift, Lan was thrown towards the ancient deer-headed spirit by the warhorse like a cannonball!
The ancient deer-headed spirit was not angry but happy. This was simply a perfect target! There was still some magic-blocking gold powder on its body, so it couldn't use magic. However, that palm as big as a carriage was definitely not something that an ordinary person could handle!
However, Lann did not give the ancient deer-headed spirit a chance to collide. Just when the palm that was almost the same size as his body was about to cover him, the world in his eyes suddenly slowed down.
It's not the exaggerated stillness of time like in Mirror Master, but it's as slow as if someone sped it up by 0.1 times.
The Cintra cavalry, startled by Lan's reckless behavior, screamed, their tongues twitching in the air; the Black Wind that was moving away was confident and unrestrained, its mane fluttering softly in the strong wind; the giant hand of the ancient deer-headed spirit was approaching him inch by inch, and Lan could even see the magic-blocking gold powder falling from it.
Lann's movements were also slowed down. He had no way to swing his sword or use seals. He just remained in the posture of being thrown out.
But his thinking is normal.
The dark golden pupils were now rendered into the bright emerald color of mixed energy, as if energy would burst out in the next second. In his field of vision, a circle spread out from him to the surrounding areas. Those were all places he could reach with a thought.
【Flash】
With a buzzing sound, Lann disappeared into a light spot in midair, like a picture erased by an eraser. The giant hand of the ancient deer-headed spirit crushed the air and the light spot, but held nothing.
The monster looked down in confusion, but did not see a figure appear behind him and slap the ground, and then a purple magic circle rose around him.
[Seal of Aden]!
The body that was blackened by the poisonous silver sword and flames of the snake sect was dyed with new colors again. The ancient deer-headed spirit with purple light noticed the enemy and turned around to attack. However, this time it was the only one who was slowed down, and Lann easily jumped back and left its attack range.
With a "crack", the purple magic lightning made it stagger, and shattered the tender sprouts on its shoulders and the human skull.
Then Lann deliberately avoided the direction of the human army, raised his left hand horizontally, and made a magic seal.
[Igni Seal: Magical Explosion]!
The huge amount of flames was like a fire dragon, suddenly engulfing the wild gods in the forest. The surging heat flow was recycled, spinning in the air to form a huge fire tornado.
The snake-faction demon hunters also seized the opportunity to surround him, with their four left hands raised together.
[Alder Seal] *4!
The fire was fueled by the wind, and the fire tornado became even more ferocious.
“Woo——”
Seeing how bravely the Earl fought, the Cintra cavalry also launched a general attack. They rode forward and began to continuously shoot arrows into the fire tornado from a distance, killing beasts along the way with the trampling of their horses and their swords.
Until one moment, those fearless beasts and monsters suddenly regained their senses and fled into the depths of the forest in panic.
Lann knew that the battle was won.
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