Chapter 737 Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery (Two in One)
"Hmm? Such a big bird? It must be a monster."
Just as Gervis was about to look away, he suddenly noticed a black dot flying in the sky.
Although the black spot was only the size of a sesame seed with Gervis's eyesight, he was still certain that it must be a magical beast, because the altitude was too high and ordinary birds could not reach that height.
Of course, although he was surprised, Gervis had seen many flying monsters during the few days he had been in the Land of the Falling Gods, so he did not pay too much attention to it. He immediately retracted his gaze and began to close his eyes to rest.
The flying beast in the sky just circled in the distance, and then flew directly behind Gervis and the others.
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In a clearing in the jungle a dozen miles away from Gervis.
Ten swift dragon birds were crawling on the ground eating meat. Although these dragon birds were only mid-level magical beasts, it was said that their ancestors had a trace of dragon blood, so they could fly very fast and were also a rare aerial mount.
Not far from them, there were ten soldiers in armor sitting in a circle, eating barbecue and compiling information.
"Captain Enbi, I've already done some research. There are three cities along this route, two of which are within sixty miles ahead, and the other is more than two hundred miles away!"
"The two closest to us are small cities with a population of tens of thousands. Only the small city a hundred miles away has a population of less than three thousand!"
These ten people are none other than the Dragon Bird Squad of the Golden Shield Family, they are the elite aerial knights of the Golden Shield Family.
Since Gervis and his group set out, they have been secretly following behind Gervis and his group.
"The Killer God has only about 500 people in his group. They definitely don't have the strength to capture the two small towns with a population of 10,000 ahead. To the west is the area planned by our Golden Shield Family, so the Killer God's final destination must be the small town 200 miles ahead."
The captain named Enbi was the one who reported the situation to Batman at the Golden Shield Family’s base a few days ago. After listening to the news from his subordinates’ reconnaissance and looking at the simple map in his hand, he immediately guessed the purpose of Gervis’s trip!
"Pyle, Kepi, you two go back and tell the Duke immediately that we have determined the destination of the killer god, and ask the Duke for his next instructions!"
"Yes, Captain!"
The two dragon bird knights in the crowd heard Enbi's order and immediately responded, then quickly went towards the swift dragon bird that was eating.
"You guys should eat quickly, and then continue to monitor the God of Death's team!"
"I know you are eager to go back and follow the army to capture the city, but this time the old Duke has personally given the order, so we must complete this mission seriously and there must not be any accidents!"
Seeing his two men leave, Bie En quickly finished the barbecue in his hand, and then solemnly instructed the remaining subordinates.
"Yes! Captain!"
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It's night!
On a relatively flat dirt road, Gervis and his group began their journey again under the cover of night.
They didn't dare light torches, but just moved forward in the faint moonlight.
Fortunately, the title knight's five senses have been enhanced, and his speed is not slow even without torches.
"Sir, the city in the distance is the one we explored during the day!"
Ike rode his warhorse in front of Gervis and whispered, pointing to the city more than a mile away from their team.
Gervis had already seen the city at this time. The city walls were brightly lit and he could clearly see many figures walking around and patrolling.
"Well, a city of this size has a population of at least 30,000 or 40,000. We definitely can't take it down with our strength!"
The city wall in the distance is at least thirty meters high and about two kilometers long and wide. Although it is considered a small city, the population inside is at least comparable to that of a viscounty in Eurasia. Even if Gervis and his men have three small cannons, they cannot shake it.
"Pay attention to your surroundings and keep moving forward! We'll find a place to set up camp in the second half of the night!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
After hearing this, Ike immediately responded respectfully, then distanced himself from Gervis and ran forward with his guards.
Next, Gervis and his companions continued walking smoothly for several hours until the second half of the night, when they chose a suitable location to set up camp.
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Nothing happened that night, and time passed quickly and it was dawn again.
The next day, Gervis and his team continued to move forward non-stop, and just as the sun was setting, they finally arrived at the second city along the way.
As long as they pass through the scope of this city, there will be no obstacles on the rest of the journey and they can go directly to their destination.
"Notify the whole army to rest for half an hour, and we will continue to march out half an hour later!"
The sun has already set, but today's rest time is not as sufficient as yesterday's.
However, Gervis did not plan to walk until midnight tonight. As long as they passed through the city and were out of the safe range, he would stop the team and continue their journey tomorrow.
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"Well, what do you want, Your Excellency the Duke?"
Just as Gervis and his companions began to rest, two swift dragon birds flew straight from the west seven or eight miles behind them and landed in an open space on the side of the road.
These two people were the Dragon Bird Knights who were sent by Embi to deliver a message to Batman yesterday afternoon. When Embi saw the two returning, he immediately stood up and asked them.
"Captain, the Duke asked us to give you this letter!"
The two Dragon Bird Knights immediately took out a piece of letter and handed it to Enbi.
Enbi did not waste any time. He quickly took the envelope, peeled off the sealing wax, and then began to check it.
"Captain, what do you think? Does the Duke have any instructions?"
Seeing that Enbi had finished reading the letter, his subordinates immediately asked him questions.
They have been following Gervis and his group every day these days, but have not gained any benefit. They are all eager to end this mission quickly so that they can return to the Golden Shield Family's army to capture cities.
"The Duke asked us to continue following this God of Killing. He has sent a thousand golden knights and more than a dozen strong men to kill the God of Killing and his group!"
"Captain, then we will have to wait for another two or three days!"
When the team members heard this, they immediately looked disappointed. They were going to miss a lot of good things in just two or three days.
After all, if they could capture the indigenous cities, they could plunder and collect spoils to their heart's content.
"It won't take two or three days. The Duke said that we should try to delay this killing team as much as possible to avoid wasting too much time for the thousand golden knights and more than ten strong men! After all, there are still many cities that need to be conquered next!"
Embi immediately shook his head and gave another explanation from Badman.
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"Set off!"
As night fell, Gervis and his companions rested for half an hour, ate some dry food, and prepared to set off again.
Following Gervis's order, a team of more than 500 people began to march under the cover of night.
After walking for about an hour, the second city finally appeared not far away.
Because of the experience of the previous night, the team was not nervous about crossing the city this time, and everyone was in good order.
Gervis just glanced at the city a few hundred meters away and then looked away.
However, just when Gervis thought that he would be able to pass through the city smoothly tonight, he suddenly felt a strong wind coming from the air.
Gervis looked up into the sky in confusion, and immediately discovered several dark shadows rapidly approaching from the sky.
"Be careful, there are enemies in the air!"
Gervis immediately realized that something was wrong and he immediately pulled out the Crimson Moon. The fighting spirit in his body surged up into the sky while he uttered a warning.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Hearing Gervis' warning, the members of the direct guard reacted immediately. Fighting spirit flowed through their bodies, and they raised their swords and looked up at the sky vigilantly.
Roar! Roar! Roar! At this moment, the strong wind above their heads became closer and closer, and then Gervis and others heard the sharp roar of beasts coming from the air.
Along with the sharp roar of the beast, ten balls of dark blue light flashed in the air. After these balls of light appeared, they streaked across the sky like meteors and smashed towards them.
"Critical strike with one sword!"
Seeing the blue ball of light falling, Gervis roared and slashed at the nearest ball of light with a sword.
A red sword light instantly shot out from Gervis's blade and slashed straight towards the nearest ball of light.
Boom! As Gervis swung out with this strike, the dark blue ball of light was directly cut and exploded like fireworks.
Unfortunately, Gervis' attack only hit the ball of light, but did not hurt the flying beast hiding higher in the sky.
Boom boom boom! The ball of light on Gervis's side exploded in the air, and then three more balls of light were destroyed in the air. They were the masterpieces of Gust, Hayden, and Weldon.
Of course, the attacks of the three men were just like those of Gervis, and they also failed to hit any flying beasts.
However, they could not care about much at this time, because there were still six dark blue light balls in the air that had not been destroyed, so everyone took action again.
Boom boom boom! As everyone took action, they destroyed four more light balls, but the remaining two were too late to be destroyed. They fell directly to the ground and exploded with a deafening roar.
Fortunately, those flying beasts were at an altitude of 70 to 80 meters, so although the released blue light balls were fast, their flight trajectories could still be judged in advance by the soldiers, so no casualties were caused.
"Damn it, who on earth is this! Is he a native of this city?"
Gervis was a little annoyed at this time, with his eyesight he could see that the ten monsters in the sky were controlled by humans, but they were a little high, and it was impossible to hurt the monster knights in the air with swords.
"Fireball!"
Gervis had no choice but to put away his sword and start releasing fireballs.
"Teacher, the magical beast in the sky is a mid-level magical beast, the Swift Dragon Bird! It can only be found in the Holy Continent!"
Hearing Gervis's low curse, Weldon spoke.
Gervis did not recognize the magical beast in the sky, but Weldon did. After all, although the Swift Dragon Bird was rare in the Holy Continent, its reputation was as good as that of the Griffin, and basically everyone who was knowledgeable knew about it.
"Only the Holy Continent has it? Then someone is deliberately trying to cause trouble for me. Could it be the Golden Shield Family?"
When Gervis heard the origin of the magical beast in the sky, he immediately realized that it was not a native, but someone from the Holy Alliance who was deliberately targeting him!
As for the person who had a grudge against him and could use the Aerial Knights, Gervis knew without a doubt that the most likely person was the Golden Shield Family.
"Yes, Master! The Golden Shield Family does have hundreds of Swift Dragon Bird Sky Knights!"
Sure enough, Waddington nodded immediately, confirming Gervis's guess!
"These bastards, I haven't even gone to look for them yet, and they're thinking about me again!"
Gvis gnashed his teeth for a moment, he didn't expect that it was really the Golden Shield Family's plan.
"Your Majesty, dozens of cavalrymen are coming out from the city!"
At this moment, Gervis suddenly heard Ik's reminder in his ears.
Upon hearing this, Gervis immediately looked towards the city several hundred meters away, and sure enough, he saw more than twenty cavalrymen slowly approaching them in the dark.
At this time, Gervis finally understood what the ten dragon bird knights in the air wanted to do.
They wanted to delay themselves and let the natives in the city discover them.
The twenty or so riders who came now were naturally not here to attack them, but were spies who came to investigate the situation.
Once they know the details of Gervis and his group, they will definitely want to swallow Gervis and others in one gulp.
"Your Majesty, what should we do now? Should we go and kill all those twenty or so spies?"
Gust and the others naturally figured this out at this time, and immediately asked Gervis.
The dragon bird knights in the sky were just harassing them and didn't dare to get close to attack, so they could do nothing.
The only choice at the moment was to kill all the native spies coming out of the city so that they could not find out the details of their group, and the natives in the city would not dare to leave the city easily.
"No! Those people are riding monsters. If they want to escape, we won't be able to stop them!"
Gervis had already seen clearly that the mounts of the natives were all low-level magical beasts. Although they were low-level magical beasts, they could not be caught up with by the mounts of his direct guards.
Besides, those natives were not stupid either. They had already scattered in all directions. Even if Gervis went to hunt them down personally, there would always be some who would slip through the net.
"The only thing we can do now is to leave here quickly!"
Gervis pondered for a moment and then spoke.
Then he suddenly raised his head and looked at the ten dragon bird knights hovering at an altitude of seventy or eighty meters.
"But Your Majesty, even if we want to leave, those Dragon Bird Knights will probably find a way to stop us..."
"Fireball!"
"Fireball!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh! When Gervis said he was leaving, Gust was still a little hesitant, because the Dragon Bird Knight in the sky would definitely not let them go so easily.
However, before he could finish his words, he saw a scene that he would never forget.
Gervis roared after quickly swallowing two kiwis, and then a beam of fiery red light appeared under the dark sky.
"This...this...how is this possible..."
Gust, Hayden, Welton and others were stunned.
Especially the wizard Welton, who had completely forgotten to release magic to attack the Dragon Bird Knight in the air. He just stared blankly at the huge fireballs that kept appearing in front of Gervis.
He dared to challenge the gods and wizards in the heavens. He really did not expect that one day he would see a being that could release fireballs like this.
How could this be a fireball? This was clearly a pillar of fire extending from the ground to the sky!
It was seen that the distance between each fireball of Gervis was no more than twenty centimeters, and the fireballs were shot continuously into the sky like a queue.
If Welton, Gust and others knew about the existence of close-in weapon systems in their previous lives, they would now know that the barrage formed when the close-in weapon systems fired would be like what Gervis is looking like now.
Although Gervis's rate of fireball release at this time did not reach tens of thousands of rounds per minute, his rate of three rounds per second made him a true humanoid self-propelled artillery.
Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom! Roar! As Gervis's fireball barrage appeared, the Dragon Bird Knight, who had been hovering in the air without any worries, finally suffered the first wave of attacks.
In an instant, a dragon bird was caught off guard and hit by five or six fireballs at the same time. It only had time to let out a mournful cry before falling rapidly to the ground.
Roar! This is not over yet. When the first dragon bird knight fell, Gervis's attack target immediately changed. The second dragon bird also let out a mournful cry and fell quickly! (End of this chapter)
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