Lord of War

( ) William and Neil quickly brought Domingo and others outside the lord's mansion.

Here, Domingo and all the people under his command have been driven together, and after just a glance, Domingo's face became extremely ugly.

The subordinates brought by Domingo have gathered together at this moment. Although they have not been disarmed, Domingo has not felt any respect. Because from the faces of the soldiers around him, Domingo saw nothing but disdain. Obviously, in the eyes of these soldiers, disarming the people under his command was simply an irrelevant matter.

"You..." The anger on Domingo's face was very obvious, but as soon as he opened his mouth to speak, Thain pulled his sleeve.

"Is your lord qualified to declare war on Tinky's land?" Thain took a step forward. He knew that his father was easily affected by emotions and made some wrong judgments, which is why he could only serve as the leader of one legion. The reason why he was unable to enter the Royal Headquarters to become a commander because he was the head of the legion.

"Didn't you hear what the executive officer said just now?" William said lightly, "Our lord has all the legal rights to rule the entire Panda Land. Do you know what legal rights are? This includes the right to declare war .”

"Your lord is not even considered a nobleman, but a pioneer knight." Thain said in a deep voice, the expression on his face remained as calm as before, and did not change because of the attitude of William or Sean just now, "As a A pioneering knight, not only expelled a nobleman, but also issued an order to declare war, are you provoking the entire Darbion Kingdom?"

William raised his brows slightly. He felt that he had been misjudged. He didn't expect that the clerk in front of him was a talent. In just a few words, the situation between Sean and Domingo has been raised from a personal grievance to a national level. If William answered yes, then this must be the trigger for the war between the two countries, but if he did not answer, then the authenticity of the declaration of war would be questioned, which would weaken Sean's authority.

But if another person faces this kind of inquiry, how to answer it perfectly is indeed a difficult task.

But for Sean, who wanted to fight Dabion for a long time and was troubled by not having a suitable excuse, Thain's words gave them an excuse instead.

So William didn't even think about it, and said directly: "Don't scare you Dabion, even if you are provoking Dabion? Could it be that Dabion will fight for waste like you? Let alone you , Even if the five dukes of your kingdom are standing in front of us today, our lord did not pay attention to it."

When William said this, the faces of Domingo, Thain and others became extremely ugly.

This is already a naked provocation and insult to all nobles in a kingdom.

"What you said is a bit too much." Neil said suddenly.

Thain and Domingo glanced at the chief political officer under Sean, looking a little better. As long as there is a step, Thain can take advantage of the situation to step down, after all, if there is a war with Pandaling now. They, Tinchin, were not prepared enough, and they never thought about the idea of ​​a war at the beginning. In this case, it is never a good idea for them to rush to the battle.

That's why Neil said this sentence. In Thain's eyes, it is the subtext of a step. This made Thane feel that Neil looked more pleasing to the eye. After all, he is the chief political officer of a territory, who specializes in internal affairs. If a war starts, it will make his work difficult and troublesome, so wars have always been important. The situation that all political officials least like to see.

"Which is too much?" William looked back at Neil.

"Did you put them in your eyes?" As soon as Neil spoke, Thain frowned slightly. These words don't look like they are going to set up steps for them to step down.

"Of course I won't take it seriously." William sneered and cast a sideways glance at Domingo and the others.

"Since you and I don't take it seriously, how can the lord take it seriously?" Neil said calmly, but Thain almost vomited blood out of his mouth. "It's as if you heard a dog barking. Are you still yelling at him? Just beat him to death with a stick. Are you saying that what you just said was too much?"

"Indeed." William nodded with a smile. "I'm exaggerating. I'm really sorry for the Lord Lord."

"you……"

"What about me? Hurry up and get out, didn't you hear that the lord deported you? You're still staying here, you're really thick-skinned." William frowned in disgust, looking very impatient, " By the way, the Heroic Sword Mercenary Corps must stay, and the rest of you can get out."

When they heard William's words, the guards under Domingo's command made a commotion, because at this time, the black-armored heavy infantry surrounding them had already started to step forward and catch people in the crowd. This was another naked insult to Domingo. The other party didn't take him seriously as the earl at all. It was obvious that Sean's attitude in the conference room before was serious.

"Stop it!" Domingo shouted angrily.

But as the troops currently under the direct command of William, how could the soldiers with dark wings listen to the words of this enemy?

Seeing that the other party didn't give him any face, Domingo immediately yelled again: "Taylor!"

The deputy head of the Second Cavalry Regiment, who understood, rushed towards William immediately.

He is a high-ranking gold powerhouse, and at this time, he made a sneak attack with thunderous means. The distance between the two sides is not even five meters. This kind of distance is not a sneak attack. Even Xiao En may not be able to attack from the front. It can be parried immediately, so dealing with William who has no combat power at all can be said to be an easy task. And Domingo's plan is to hold William hostage first. As long as William is in their hands, let alone the sword of heroism, I am afraid that even the issue of Panda collar can be manipulated, because Domingo has long seen that the relationship between William and Neil and Sean is not normal.

Facing Taylor's sudden attack, William remained motionless. Just when everyone thought that William was being frightened, the corner of William's mouth twitched slightly.

Taylor was startled suddenly, a cold wind suddenly hit from the side. Its speed is even far above him. Taylor immediately realized that the person who made the shot was definitely a high-ranking gold powerhouse whose strength was not inferior to his own, and the opponent was closer than himself and William, otherwise he would not be able to help immediately at this moment. And if he still insisted on shooting William at this time, then his right hand would be abolished, so without thinking about it, Taylor immediately pulled back.

A swipe of light suddenly appeared and disappeared.

Taylor's expression looked extremely dignified.

A woman wearing a special priest's robe came out from the side, the scabbard around her waist was gone, and she was holding a chopping blade in her right hand, standing in front of William and Neil. Looking directly at Taylor.

Cephagno.

"Priest with a knife!?" Taylor's expression changed slightly. Judging from the aura of this woman, he could feel that the strength of the other party was not inferior to his own.

If it was an ordinary church clergyman, even if it was a priest or a temple knight, Taylor would not change his expression. Because he is confident that even if he can't win the opponent, it is still no problem to keep Domingo and Thain. But if it is a priest with a knife. Then things get very, very tricky. Because priests with knives are the most powerful profession in the church system, basically they can be regarded as invincible at the same level. Facing such a priest with knives, Taylor may be able to protect himself, but he wants to protect Dominic. Ge and Thain, it is absolutely impossible.

When hearing the words "priest with a knife". Domingo's face also changed suddenly, and he immediately shouted: "Church personnel? This is a matter between our nobles, and your church personnel have no right to intervene!"

The opposition between royal power and religious power is no secret in this world at all. Basically except in the St. Joles Empire and a few other countries. In other places on the mainland, the royal power is stronger than the religious power, so in these places, the church seldom interferes in the affairs of the nobles. Yes, noble lords will also give these churches the necessary respect and a certain degree of autonomy, and even divide temple autonomous regions in some areas.

Whether it is the Kingdom of Dabion or the Principality of Ryan, they both belong to countries where the royal power is stronger than the religious power.

Therefore, no matter how fiercely Domingo and Sean fought, the church, as a secular institution, was not qualified to intervene—of course, it was different in the St. Joles Empire.

"I have an agreement with Sean." Cefanio said softly.

What kind of agreement, Cefanio did not say, but Domingo, who thinks he is smart, can already guess a few points. Many nobles will have a secret agreement with the church in the territory. The contents of these agreements are different, but basically most of them are more inclined to protection and assistance, but this kind of agreement is basically written in black and white. agreement only. If Domingo knew that the agreement between Sefanio and Sean was a divine agreement, I'm afraid he wouldn't dare to have any other thoughts.

And at this moment, the guards under Domingo's command also broke out into a greater commotion and several shrill screams.

Looking back, Domingo's anger could no longer be contained.

Because the man with the dark wings had already launched a short and fierce confrontation with his guards, and dozens of people had fallen on the ground. These people included members of the Sword of Heroes mercenary regiment, and there were also several members of his private army. Only there are no people under William. And the treatment of these people is also completely different, like the private army under his territory, they are only subdued and lose the ability to fight, but the mercenaries of the heroic sword are all killed on the spot.

Seeing that the scene was faintly out of control, William couldn't help but frown.

In his prediction, Aiwen and his heroic sword should be incorporated by Domingo. But at this moment, it seems obvious that his prediction was wrong. At least this Aiwen was not included by Domingo, and maybe his status is almost equal to that of Domingo. William is a little bit clear when he thinks about it. , I understand that Aiwen should have been incorporated by the Nugus family.

In this way, there is a speculation as to why the Sword of Heroes abandoned himself and fled when he led the army to fight the Dabron mercenary group.

"Take it!" Thinking of this, William immediately understood, let alone let Aiwen escape from the Void City, "Whoever dares to intercept, shoot and kill!"

With an order, the momentum of the Black Wings team changed immediately.

Although under William's reorganization and training, the pitch-black wings only lasted for more than half a year, and they can't be regarded as a real third-level regular army. But the tacit understanding in cooperation has also matured, and all the equipment configurations of the pitch-black wings are excellent. It is still a heavy infantry army, and the opponent has less than 30 people. With all kinds of advantages, even these three Ten people are a fifth-level army, and I am afraid that they will not be able to stop the attack of the black wings.

To know. At this moment, there are hundreds of soldiers with pitch-black wings surrounding the lord's mansion, and there are even more steel-winged soldiers with bows and arrows on the surrounding roofs. Even if they really can't fight, all the heavy infantry just need to put up a defensive formation, and then let those steel winged soldiers scatter, it is enough to shoot them all into hedgehogs.

At this moment, the aura of the pitch-black wings changed. Whether it's Domingo or Thain, or Ivan hiding in the crowd. Immediately knew that Sean and William et al meant business. Immediately, he had to start fighting hard. However, under the huge advantage gap, in less than ten seconds, these guards under Domingo dropped another five or six corpses. The Sword Mercenary Corps is still an ordinary soldier, and anyone who dares to stop and resist will be killed.

soon. The smell of blood began to linger outside the lord's mansion.

But at this moment, a burst of shouts of killing sounded from all directions.

William frowned slightly, and immediately reacted.

Not only William, Domingo, Thain, Taylor, Neil and others. It was also in an instant that he realized the change of the situation. But at this time, Neil and William secretly glanced at Domingo, and saw a bit of stunned and helpless look on his face. Now William believed in his guess even more. It was obvious that Ai Wen was sent to Domingo by the Nugus family,

But what made him dissatisfied was that the heroic sword commanded by Aiwen unexpectedly mixed into the Void City in batches without anyone noticing, but the Void Realm did not find it at all, which made William realize immediately. The Void certainly has a major surveillance loophole. It's just that knowing these things is useless now. According to intelligence clues, the total number of Aiwen's Sword of Heroes mercenary regiment has as many as 2,000 people. There are less than a thousand soldiers near the mansion. If they are surrounded by the heroic sword mercenary group, they will be the ones who will become troublesome and troublesome.

Thinking of this, William immediately said to Neil: "You retreat into the lord's mansion first."

Neil nodded. He knew that in this situation, he could not be of much help. Although he was not weaker than William in terms of military strategy, he could even be said to be better, but even Neil had to admit , In terms of commanding before the battle, he is indeed inferior to William. After all, William has focused on this aspect of development from the very beginning, and has also received systematic education. Naturally, he has rich experience, but he has to be distracted too much, so he is really inferior to William in this aspect.

The shouts of killing became obviously more deafening.

William's eyes gradually became gloomy and cold. Without the slightest hesitation, he said in a deep voice, "Red signal flare."

At some point, several messengers had begun to gather around William. Following William's order, one of the messengers immediately took out a signal flare and launched it. In an instant, the sky above the entire lord's mansion turned into a beautiful sunset, but to ordinary people it was a beautiful sunset, but to Domingo, who was also a soldier, it was filled with a chilling aura.

Involuntarily, Domingo glanced sideways at William, only to see that William had a serious face at this time, and his aura was completely opposite to what he had just been in the conference room.

William certainly felt Domingo's gaze, but he didn't care.

He glanced lightly at the besieged Heroic Sword mercenaries. At this time, less than ten people were still alive. Looking at the orderly appearance of these people fighting and retreating, William knew that these people were all heroic. The members of the Sword Mercenary Corps, otherwise they would not have such a tacit understanding. Although it is still the soldiers with black wings that have the upper hand, and the arrows from the surrounding roofs are still shooting at these people, but the effect is very low, and only look at the opponent's retreat route and the sound of killing, William It is known that there is a team of heroic swords breaking out here.

Seeing this, William has already made a basic judgment: "Double walls stick to it. Snipe."

Simple two words, four characters, but revealed an extremely cold killing intent.

The two orderlies quickly left William's side.

No one knew where they were going, but after a short while, they saw that the heavy infantry surrounding the dark wings of less than ten people immediately changed their formation, and stopped trying to strangle these people with the heroic sword. Instead, they set up a defensive formation, only using the shield and the heavy armor on their body to form an encirclement circle, enclosing everyone in the innermost part. Of course, this is not the end. The encirclement only surrounded three circles. From the fourth circle, the heavy infantry turned around, facing the heavy shields in their hands, and also circled three layers.

Seeing this scene, Domingo immediately understood William's intentions. This formation can not only resist the siege of people outside, but also completely trap the people inside. Although only relying on these hundred people may not last long. But thinking of the signal flares that William released at the beginning, and the tight formation situation I saw in the embassy before, I am afraid that in a few minutes, all the defenders in the city will flock here, and it will be these who will be wiped out by then. The man of the sword of valor.

Domingo is just a little impulsive, or he is not suitable to be the commander-in-chief of the first army. But by no means a fool.

Seeing this change, he immediately turned around and walked towards the Lord's Mansion without hesitation. Thain's reaction was half a beat slow, but when he saw his father's movements, he immediately realized it. Then he pulled Taylor and walked into the lord's mansion.

Seeing Domingo's actions, a trace of helplessness flashed in William's eyes.

In fact, as Domingo thought, the Void City has 10,000 defenders at the moment, and the 2,000-strong Sword of Heroes mercenary regiment may be able to cause a certain amount of destruction and chaos in a short period of time. But in the absence of sufficient deterrent chips, they will be wiped out by the defenders sooner or later. Of course, a moment of chaos is inevitable, and in this case, William can even order Domingo and others to be killed.

It's just that William didn't expect that Domingo was so shrewd and cautious, and immediately returned to the Lord's Mansion. Without thinking about it, he knew that they must go back to find Christina. Only by Christina's side can they be truly safe. However, although he couldn't kill Domingo and others by the way, William didn't care. He had already carefully checked the information that Ruby sent just now, so he knew that such a thing might happen. .

The only thing I didn't expect is that Sword of Heroes has developed very well in the past year, and the members have grown to this size.

If only relying on the city defense army, it would be really difficult to stop this mercenary group.

But now there is more than one city defense army in the city. After seeing this sunset-like scene, William believed that Alfred would come over soon.

In all circumstances, just as William expected, the city defense army that had set up a line of defense to strangle the street was no match for the mercenaries like the Sword of Heroes. After resisting for less than five minutes, the line of defense was completely broken, hundreds of The Heroic Sword mercenaries flocked towards the Lord's Mansion like quicksilver pouring down the ground, and half of them split up to surround the defensive formation formed by hundreds of heavy infantry with pitch-black wings.

These mercenaries came in a menacing manner, and they were extremely evil. They were obviously a troop accustomed to fighting in battle.

However, the location of the Lord's Mansion is located at the core of the entire Void City. The layout here still retains the original appearance of the town center of Baige Town, but it has been slightly expanded for the square. The square in the center of the city can only accommodate four people at most. , Five hundred people. At this moment, there are hundreds of soldiers with pitch-black wings forming a circle in a corner of the square. The space occupied is not small, so although there are as many as three or four hundred enemies flocking to the center of the city, considering the combat situation At most, only one or two hundred people can start the front line, and in the end, more than one hundred people can only play the same role as reserve soldiers.

However, these are only for the central square of the city.

Like the Lord's Mansion, the gate can only accommodate a few people walking side by side. Maybe 30 to 40 people can come in if they climb over the wall, but in the Lord's Mansion, it is by no means defenseless. The real elite of Wing is in the courtyard of the lord's mansion, and there are high-ranking gold powerhouses like Xuefanio.

So seeing those people rushing towards the lord's mansion, William looked cold and slightly raised his right hand. With a sudden wave.

In an instant, dozens of arrows flew out from all directions, and then fell into the crowd of the Sword of Heroes mercenary group.

These soldiers don't wear heavy armor and heavy shields like the black wings. Almost all of them wear soft armor made of leather. If so, it is impossible to stop it. So it was just the first round of arrow rain, and twenty or thirty mercenaries from the Heroic Sword fell immediately.

Faced with this sudden attack, all the mercenaries immediately found that there were archers ambushing around, and immediately scattered some people to kill the surrounding buildings.

As soon as I saw the actions of these people. The corners of William's mouth raised slightly, and all the enemy's actions were completely within his expectations.

Since he could arrange for these archers to occupy a high point to monitor the entire central square of the city in advance, how could he not have arranged for people to stay behind to protect these archers? Moreover, fighting with strength in such a room cannot be conquered simply by relying on the number of people, because if you fight indoors. The space is extremely limited, if you strangle such positions as doorways and passages. The advantage in numbers cannot be brought into play at all.

Just look at the reactions of these mercenaries. William immediately had a more accurate evaluation of this mercenary: Whether it is individual combat capability, tacit cooperation, tactical formation, etc., it is far better than any of the three top troops under Sean's command. , Even compared with the three top troops, they all have their own victories - the use of tactical formations is far better than steel wings, individual combat capabilities are far better than Cecilia's Guards, and the degree of coordination is far better than Thunder Lions .

Not to mention the Black Wings and Void City Defense Forces, which ranked second to last and third to last among the ten troops.

It is by no means a fluke to be able to break through the defense line of a mature defensive formation within a few minutes. As long as they are given enough time, they want to swallow the hundred or so black-winged soldiers. It is not a problem to successfully rescue their leader Aiwen Dass.

But unfortunately, this force is destined to not have enough time.

Because Alfred had already led the Thunder Lion over, William even heard the sound of thunderous footsteps, and it would only take another minute at most. They can rush into the square. And fighting in such an obviously not much space area, the Thunder Lion doesn't need any tacit understanding at all, and can easily harvest the lives of these mercenaries only by cutting in with the formation.

As for those mercenaries who went to trouble the archers, William no longer had to worry about it.

Steel Wings is the most resilient unit. They are not inferior to these mercenaries in terms of individual combat effectiveness, and they are still fighting in a narrow area like a house. With the equipment of Steel Wings, if you want to defeat them, you will find trouble with them. The enemy is simply a breeze. Besides, if they just regard the archers with steel wings as archers, I'm afraid they will suffer more than this.

The houses near the central square of the city are not too far from the city center, and it only takes one or two minutes to run forward. But now several minutes have passed, and the rain of arrows still shows no sign of stopping. On the contrary, the mercenaries of the Sword of Heroes fell more people, and there are already hundreds of corpses left in the central square of the city. , almost all of them are the mercenary corpses of Sword of Heroes.

The reason why I say almost is because the pitch-black wings have also begun to suffer casualties.

As long as the enemy has casualties, even if there are only one or two people, it is a good start for the heroic sword. At the very least, the morale, which had already declined, started to recover at this time, which made William extremely dissatisfied.

But at this moment, Xuefanio made a move.

A blue brilliance shone on the bodies of all the jet-black winged soldiers, and a thin and transparent blue starlight shone on them. The weapons that would have sprayed sparks when they were hacked on the armor of these soldiers, this time, after falling on them, they did not emit these sparks. Instead, there was a huge counter-shock force, and their weapons were even stained. There was some white frost, which made the weapons in the hands of the mercenaries like the Sword of Heroes instantly vulnerable.

Thorn Ice Armor!

This is an enhanced and advanced divine art of ice armor. While possessing the physical defense of ice armor, it also has a certain anti-injury ability. Of course, in reality, you won’t lose blood if you cut it like in the game, but the powerful counter-shock force will obviously make the enemy a little uncomfortable. Besides, the Frost Talent who can make weapons weak It's an even more frighteningly difficult problem. (To be continued..)

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