My Magic Age

The people of the North believed that in addition to the towering city walls and crossbows, only the Knights of the Construct could stop the barbarian army.

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In recent years, as the number of falcons in the North has gradually increased, there are always some barbarians being hunted.

The barbarians suffered enough in the North, and they began to look for the reason. They found that they were poached by falcons. So the barbarians thought it would be safer to get together, and they could easily capture some towns with weak defenses. So the barbarians began to wander in groups in the North.

When the barbarians formed a large group, the damage to the North was undoubtedly huge. They could not get enough supplies in the wild, so they had to go to human villages to find food. Once they could not find enough food, they would destroy some houses and trees. More often, these barbarians would eat people to fill their stomachs.

However, barbarians walking together in groups will also encounter some new problems. When they gather together, their targets become larger and it is easy to attract the attention of the North Wind Legion. Once the Construct Knights follow the barbarian brigade, it is difficult to get rid of the pursuit of the Construct Knights unless they break up and escape into the mountains.

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Eyre City is one of the few cities in the province of Sloyte that the barbarians are unwilling to approach. The main reason is that the governor of El City has always insisted on building a strong defense and clearing the wilderness. Before the river is closed in winter every year, officials from El City will go to the surrounding towns and villages to persuade the people there to spend the winter in the city.

In addition, four years ago, the barbarians of the Storm Bear Tribe besieged El City in vain, which also left some shadows in the hearts of these barbarians.

Unexpectedly, in this winter, these barbarians would actually cross El City and go to the cities in the south of the province to rob human slaves.

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A large group of barbarians gathered on the ice surface of the downstream river of the Beilan Lake Icefall. They wanted to cross the Arm Mountain to the Lavenham City area to plunder the imperial people in the town, but they could not find a way to cross the Arm Mountain.

Thousands of barbarian warriors wandered at the foot of the northern slope of the Arm Mountain, and it seemed that they had just arrived here not long ago.

The Arm Mountain is steep and stretches for hundreds of kilometers. The northern slope is covered with dense yellow pine and red pine. The barbarians hate walking through the dense pine forest. The branches of the pine trees can easily hang their bodies. The steep mountain is covered with snow, and it is very difficult to climb even with bare hands.

Dozens of barbarians carried a giant tree several dozen meters long and headed towards the valley entrance of the Beilan Lake Waterfall. It seems that they have decided to capture the pass of the Beilan Lake Waterfall.

The strength of the barbarians lies in their strong physique. They run like a wild horse and can wrestle with bison with their bare hands. They are not afraid of the cold. Even in the coldest winter, they don’t need cotton clothes to keep warm.

They are good at fighting in the wilderness, but not good at siege warfare, and they don't even know how to build ladders.

Ordinary barbarian warriors can fight against the first-level warriors of the empire without losing.

When these barbarians form a team, their combat effectiveness is greatly improved. They can even confront the same number of constructed knights on the field battlefield.

The falcon team can hunt lone barbarian warriors in the wild, but they are helpless against the barbarian brigade.

The team hid in the dense forests between the mountains. I stood on a wild pear tree and looked down the hillside. A barbarian brigade lined up from the west side of the Left Arm Mountain and gathered on the glacier under the Beilan Falls. The river water here has long been frozen, and the countless condensed water flows of the waterfall are like countless swords piercing from the sky.

Deborah folded her wings from high in the sky like a goshawk, swooped down from the sky, and pounced directly into the dense forest.

If an ordinary bird dared to do this, it would inevitably have its wings cut off by the branches in the dense forest. However, Deborah, who had the powerful body of a succubus, flexibly climbed the branches with both hands, swung back and forth between the branches a few times to offset the momentum of falling, did an elegant somersault in the forest, landed steadily on the ground, folded her wings and ran to Kalancuo's side.

Deborah had an indescribable sense of dependence on Kalancuo. The cold wind in the sky froze her fair little face a little blue. Her clear eyes were filled with infinite curiosity as she watched the barbarian brigade under the mountain, and her silver hair fluttered in the wind.

She habitually touched the yellow-orange collar around her neck with her hand, leaned on Kalancuo's back, and folded her two wings behind her back. The white wings were nothing, but a layer of ice crystals condensed on the dark flesh wings of the other succubus, shining like diamonds in the sun.

"Are you cold?" Kalancuo casually put a cloak on Deborah and asked her.

Deborah looked happy and said with a smile: "Fortunately, every time I fly, I feel that my body is about to be frozen by the cold wind, and my body will feel like it is on fire, and then I won't feel cold at all."

Kalancuo didn't think there was anything wrong when Deborah said this.

But I have seen what Su's "shadow body" looks like when it breaks out. When those shadow magic patterns on Su's body appear on her skin, her whole body is like on fire. Those shadow magic patterns spread on Su's body little by little, as if they were going to swallow her whole body.

I went to Deborah's side, grabbed her wrist, and rolled up her sleeves above her elbows, and saw those dark magic patterns like volcanic lava all over Deborah's arms, but these shadow magic patterns were fading rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Kalancuo stretched out his hand to tear open Deborah's collar, and found that her full and swollen chest was also covered with such magic patterns. He asked me in surprise: "Is this the shadow magic pattern of the succubus?"

My eyes followed the magic pattern lines all the way to Deborah's neck, and saw that the magic patterns spread to the yellow-orange collar and stopped abruptly. These magic patterns were actually blocked by the slave collar and could not continue to spread upwards.

I didn't expect that Deborah had been in the North for less than half a month, and her own strength had increased so much, and she also awakened the shadow magic pattern in her body that originally belonged to the succubus.

I nodded to Kalancuo and said, "Yes, it is the shadow magic pattern, but I don't know what happened. These magic patterns actually stopped spreading upwards here at the slave collar."

Normally, without strong enough mental power, there is no way to stop the spread of shadow magic patterns.

But this abnormal situation happened to Deborah. Those shadow magic patterns did not invade Deborah's face. Perhaps because of this, Deborah's body was covered with shadow magic patterns, but her mind remained clear.

Seeing Ebola's strange state reminded me of Su. This is a way to suppress the power of shadow.

If Su also had such a magic metal collar on her neck, if she used the "Shadow Body", I don't know what would happen. Maybe the sea of ​​​​spirit would not be eroded by the shadow magic power erupted from the Shadow Body.

Then I asked Deborah: "How far did you see these barbarians in the sky?"

Deborah stood on a rock, pointed to the west side of the mountain, and said to me: "All the way to the valley over there, there are barbarians everywhere."

I asked Deborah again: "Then have you seen a human team like us hiding in the dense forests between the mountains?"

Deborah jumped down from the rock and said to me: "Yes, there is a team on the hillside opposite us, with about a dozen people. They thought I wouldn't see them hiding in the pine trees. Naive!"

It seems that the field of vision is still very wide when reconnaissance in the air, and almost everything can be seen.

So, I couldn't help asking Deborah again: "Have you seen the pass on the top of the waterfall?"

Deborah asked me back a little uncertainly: "You mean the city gate tower built on the mountain road?"

I then asked Deborah: "Almost! How many people are stationed at that pass?"

Deborah frowned and said to me: "There is no one on the top of the city! Oh... Oh, no, there are probably two guards wearing light armor. They are running around on the city wall and planting flags all over the top of the city. Isn't it funny?"

Deborah spoke poor Imperial language with a full imperial accent. She didn't understand grammar and could only say the most commonly used words, so what she said usually made me ponder for a long time.

But this time, I understood Deborah's words at once, and was scared to death by her.

"Hey, wake up, Deborah, what are you talking about! How could there be no one stationed at such an important checkpoint as the Beilan Lake Pass!" I hugged her shoulders with both hands and shook her hard to wake her up. I told Deborah that I might have said something wrong or was talking in my sleep.

Deborah's long silver hair was flying in the air because of my shaking. She protested: "Hey, Jijia, what are you doing? I'm not talking in my sleep! If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself!"

My face was almost close to hers, and I asked her: "Are you saying that there are really no troops stationed on the walls of the Beilan Lake Pass?"

Deborah did not avoid my gaze, but nodded to me and said: "Yes, there is no mistake, I can see it clearly in the sky."

I still couldn't believe what Deborah said.

I said to Kalancuo: "...I want to go and see it myself!"

As I said that, I pulled out the magic broom from my magic waist bag, input magic power, and rode on it. The floating magic circle lit up little by little, and the magic broom carried me slowly into the air. At this time, Kalancuo jumped up from the ground, sat behind me, and said to me: "Take me with you."

The two of us rode the magic broom through the gap in the dense forest and took off from a slightly farther position.

As soon as the magic broom came out of the dense forest, I felt the cold wind in the sky suddenly freeze my leather clothes. I finally experienced what kind of cold Deborah had been enduring in the air. A gust of cold wind choked my chest, and I felt that my internal organs were cold.

I quickly released an ice shield in front of me, which seemed to block the cold wind from blowing directly. We rode the magic broom to increase the height as much as possible, because the barbarians' short flying spears dominated the low altitude of about 100 meters, and we couldn't avoid those flying spears thrown from the ground in the air.

After I raised the magic broom to a safe height, I ignored the commotion of the barbarians in the valley below and flew straight to the pass at the mouth of the waterfall.

When I rode the magic broom to the sky above the pass, I found that the gate facing the city of Lavenham was wide open. Various scattered supplies were discarded along the road. There were no people on this road. The valley pass was in a mess. The city head that should have been full of guards was really guarded by only two warriors running back and forth on the city head.

The two of them were preparing for battle on the city wall, carrying bundles of crossbows to the side of the bed crossbow.

At this time, a guard on the city head saw me floating in the air on the magic broom. He waved to me from the city wall. Worried that I didn't see him, he climbed up the parapet of the parapet and shook his arms vigorously.

When I saw the guard soldier signaling for us to fall down, I didn't hesitate and flew directly to the top of the city on the magic harpoon.

As soon as I jumped off the magic cauldron, I was surrounded by two guards on the pass. They looked at me with hope, saluted me and asked: "Your Majesty the Magician, you came from Lavenham City. Help our reinforcements?"

I sat on the magic pot and spread my hands, and said to the two guards: "I'm sorry, we are just a Falcon team coming from El City."

Kalancuo jumped off the magic jade handle, jumped a few times, and jumped to the highest point of the city wall to look up the steep valley road. Several barbarians were looking up at the mountain pass, and some other barbarians were doing siege. Prepare.

"Ah! So you are falcons..." The guard warrior seemed excited and disappointed at the same time, and said to me in a trilling voice.

Then he lowered his gaze and saluted me apologetically.

The guards let me stand on the city wall, and said with a frustrated look to the companions rushing over: "Hey, Correggi, I thought reinforcements were coming to support us! It seems that this is just my extravagant hope. They're all gone and no one will come to help us!"

Another guard soldier just walked over carrying a heavy bundle of crossbow arrows. He stopped and said to the previous guard: "Yes, Ram, it's better to shoot the crossbow at the bed before the barbarians rush up." Bring more crossbows next to you!"

I followed the guard named Ram. Asked him: "Where are the soldiers guarding here?"

Ram and Keleji stopped and promised me: "We are here, Your Majesty the Magician."

I waved my hands to them and said, "I mean the other people. There shouldn't be only two assistants at this pass!"

Warrior Ram showed a hint of loneliness on his face, and said to me: "They are all gone. They have to settle their relatives before the barbarians rush over. Only Correggi and I have no relatives since we were young, so We can only stay here and continue fighting.”

With that said, Ram picked up the bed crossbow arrow with a thick arm and put it into the groove of the bed crossbow. The bow string of the bed crossbow had been twisted quickly by the two people. As long as the mechanism was gently pulled, the crossbow arrow could be shot.

Looking at the barbarians climbing up the mountain road, I turned my head and glanced at Kalantso, who made a safety gesture.

I chased after the city wall guards and said to them: "I still have some followers. I can let them go to the pass on the top of the mountain to resist the barbarians at the bottom of the mountain."

After saying that, I didn’t wait for any indication from the two pass guards. I mounted the magic harpoon and raised the flight altitude, flying towards the mountain opposite to where our Falcon team was hiding...