Chapter 676: 665. Night Raid

Chapter 676: 665. Night Raid

   Chapter 676 665. Night Attack

  In the tent sat the eight most powerful members of the mercenary group. For the sea giant mercenary group, they were once again caught in a dilemma. No one made a statement, so the atmosphere seemed a bit dull.

  Captain Gabriel coughed twice, he knew that no one wanted to be a promise breaker.

But tonight, if the mercenary group does not evacuate Huwan Oasis in advance, it will face a large number of desert bandits. This also means that each member of the mercenary group will face dozens of robbers at the same time. It can be said that the situation is very serious So steep, Captain Gabriel couldn't even think of a reason for his victory.

   Gabriel is a little confused. There are two voices in the mercenary group. The conservatives want to take advantage of the snowy night to leave the Huwan Oasis quietly. If they leave without a word, they will unilaterally terminate the cooperation with Baron Suldak. A few aggressive mercenaries in the mercenary regiment believed that doing so would shame the sea giant, and that it was a cowardly act to leave without saying a word. Abandoning their companions on the battlefield was an out-and-out deserter.

   But before death comes, being a deserter seems to make sense.

  Captain Gabriel was a little hesitant. He wanted to hear the thoughts of the eight members of the mercenary group who had the greatest say.

   "Okay, what are your plans?" Gabriel felt that his throat was bitter when he said this.

The other mercenaries in the sea giant mercenary regiment looked at each other, and after making eye contact for a while, a high-ranking ax warrior poured the short mission ax in his hand into the frozen hard sand, his eyes fixed on the ground. Looking at the short-term ax in front of him, he didn't look into other people's eyes, so he said bluntly:

   "If I just leave like this, I may look down on myself for the rest of my life, I want to stay!"

  His voice was a little deep, intermittent, and rough.

  Hearing someone say this, a ranger sitting next to Captain Gabriel immediately said:

   "Wake up, don't be stupid again, Bobby, don't you know how many robbers are going to attack Huwan Oasis at night?"

The ax warrior still didn't raise his head, just took out a piece of oilstone, and kept polishing it on the blade of the axe. Every time the oilstone passed the blade, a dark red glow would appear on the oilstone. He said in a low voice: " I know there will be a lot, but I want to fight until the last moment with my chest upright, it is better than sneaking away and living my whole life, this is my pursuit, I can't force others to be like me, I won't force you, but I will Stay and fulfill my last promise to them."

  The ranger laughed angrily, and said: "We have fulfilled our promise very well, what promise do we have?"

  The ax warrior said stubbornly: "I have one piece of hardware, and I won't leave until the mission ax in my hand is broken."

  A two-handed swordsman sitting next to the ax warrior said seriously: "Captain Gabriel, I also plan to stay. There is no word 'retreat' in my life motto."

   Another mercenary holding a spear and carrying a heavy shield said: "I don't think we will lose, and I will stay."

   "Baron Suldak saved me, I want to stay and help him..."

   Some people continued to say.

  In the end, the only one who wanted to leave at night was the ranger, and the ranger also smiled awkwardly, and said, "Damn, why am I always a villain in vain!"

  Captain Gabriel reached out and patted Ranger on the shoulder, signaling that he understood everything, and then said:

"Since everyone intends to stay, everyone! Prepare well, there will be a bitter battle before us, I will go to Baron Suldak to confirm the defense duties at night, as well as the way of fighting when the enemy attacks, and remind them , we have to be extra careful tonight, but it doesn’t matter, our night scouts can put the patrol area farther away, and buy us more time to prepare!”

   "Yes! Captain." The seven mercenaries stood up at the same time.

   There were twenty-two mercenaries standing outside the tent, waiting for their decision.

  …

   "This world is currently half bright and half dark alternately. When complete darkness falls, the Goddess of Darkness will descend on all believers in this world..."

  Selena was wearing a black robe, sitting in the middle of the tent and reciting the teachings of the Dark Goddess.

  When she was spreading the teachings of the Goddess of Darkness with the kobold slaves, she had already memorized these words by heart.

Now speaking to the female slaves who were plundered by these desert robbers is naturally effortless, and the expressions on their faces become more solemn when they say more, and the women are silent like cicadas. In fear, they survived the killing, and these people did not abandon them in the icy and snowy desert. They were like a heavy burden, always being carried.

  Women worry that these people will feel that they are a burden, and they will be abandoned in the desert in the most dangerous time.

   Now suddenly a woman in a black dress told them: Her name is Selina, everyone quickly come to believe in the goddess of darkness, Celine. If you believe in the goddess of darkness, the goddess will protect her believers when everyone is in danger.

  Women seem to be holding on to the last straw. Even though they know that the straw cannot bear the weight of their bodies, they still hold it tightly in their hands...not intending to let go.

  For the women, it may not only be a dead grass, but also the last hope for all of them to live.

  It seemed very quiet inside the tent, Selena dragged her tired body to stand up, walked to the entrance of the tent, opened the tent and walked out.

  Surdak sat outside the tent, without turning his head, he asked Selina:

   "Is there really a world of eternal darkness?"

  Selena said without hesitation: "Of course."

  She walked up to Surdak, and sat down directly regardless of the snow on the ground.

  The bright eyes became as bright as the bright moon, and there was even a moon emblem on her smooth forehead, making that beautiful face even more charming in the dark.

  Suldak turned his head to look at Selena's side face, and told her: "If the battle breaks out tonight, you will hide with them."

  Selena protested: "I can help you."

"I know…"

   After finishing speaking, Suldak looked at the dark night in the distance,

  At night, the surrounding tents are still lit.

  The snow stopped.

  …

  Viru scratched his hair in some pain, and he found that the man in front of him who looked exactly like Jambach was actually different from Jambach, and the biggest difference came from the depths of his heart.

  Viru knew that Chambach was a person with single-minded feelings, and his sweetheart was a female magician in the northern border. Before confirming her life and death, he could not fall in love with other women.

  Surdak is not like this. He has a beautiful and gentle wife in the village of Wall, and it is said that he is also engaged to a noble lady in the city of Bena, and now he brings his lover to the battlefield...

  Jambach is also a devout believer. He believes in the Statue of Liberty. He always hopes to pass the test in the temple and become a devout battle priest.

  But Suldak is different. He can’t help but have no respect for the Statue of Liberty. His woman is actually a pagan...

Viru suddenly felt that he might have taken it for granted. Now he felt that although Suldak and Jambach were exactly the same in appearance and body shape, they were fundamentally different. He was even a little discouraged, thinking that he had done something again. pointless thing.

It's not meaningless. He followed Suldak's army into the desert. He has been eating salamander meat every day recently. His body has been greatly improved. He is not so repulsive to the fire element. After being burned by the fire element His body is also slowly recovering.

  The idea of ​​leaving suddenly rose in his heart, and he looked at Suldak from a distance, wanting to make his coming and going quietly...

   But I'm afraid it won't work now. He still has to stay and help out before fulfilling his promise this time, at least to let him return to Wall Village safely.

  Viru embraced the somewhat warm scorching bow, slowly closed his eyes, and felt the inside of this world...

   That trace of fire element in the cold wind.

  …

  A group of sand bandits broke through the wind and snow and came to a sand dune.

  The night sky was pitch black, and the desert in front of me was also covered with a layer of snow. Except for the sand dunes, there was nothing else to be found here.

  If the robbers were not very familiar with this place, I am afraid it would be difficult for him to touch it in the dark.

  Now they are hiding in the darkness on the sand dunes, looking at the sand dunes under their feet, there are still lights on in the tent at the bottom, and the fire light makes this cold night a little warm.

  The troops who came from the barren land were stationed under the sand dunes, and these people touched the top of their heads, but the other party didn't notice it.

  Cumberland leader can hardly imagine why the other party didn't even arrange for night guards...

  He glanced back, and in the dark night, the scimitar scabbards inlaid with gems on the waists of those sand robbers could still see some faint colors.

  These bandits are being divided into four teams according to the previous deployment, and they quietly surrounded the camp.

Even though they are the losers of the power struggle in the center of the desert and the exiles who were expelled, they are the masters of the southern edge of the desert. No one knows this place better than them. The leader of Cumberland held the reins of the horse with one hand, Trying to restrain the impulse in my heart.

A group of robbers behind them also became excited. Their eyes fell on the camp below them. This kind of wolf pack sneak attack tactic has not been used for a long time. They lined up in two rows, waiting for Cumberland's order to rush down.

  They will open the tent, let the people inside wake up in the cold north wind, and then under their shocked faces, they will raise the scimitar in their hands and cut off their heads.

   They were killed before they could even crawl out of their sleeping bags, or even put on their armor.

  The robbers suppressed the excitement deep in their hearts, suppressed the horses under their crotches, and let them settle down a bit.

  On the opposite sand dune, a neat row of sword lights lit up, and the robbers on the sand dunes on both sides also sent ready signals. At this time, the leader of Cumberland lit the torch in his hand...

  Almost at the same moment, two hundred robbers behind him lit the torches in their hands at the same time, and a neat row of fire dragons appeared on the sand dunes.

There were also lit torches all around, and these torches were arranged in a neat row, making the world brighten up suddenly. I don't know which robber rushed down the sand dune first with his horse, and one robber rushed down first, and immediately all the robbers They all rode their horses and rushed down the sand dunes.

  The torches in their hands were like lines of fire, and the horseshoes stepped on the sand dunes, flying down with the rolling quicksand.

   Leader Lowell, Kaiplov, and Scarface were in four different directions, charging towards the camp under the dunes almost at the same time.

  …

   In fact, when the bandits first arrived at the dunes, everyone in the camp knew about it.

Two hundred veterans of the cavalry battalion in the tent, wearing thick full-face armor and holding heavy tower shields, sat quietly in the tent and waited for the bandits. They tried their best to suppress the excitement in their bodies, and stared at Over the dunes.

  When a long fire dragon lit up on the sand dunes, the veterans in the tent couldn't suppress their inner feelings and let out a low voice.

  At the same time, the four directions were lit by countless torches, and nearly a thousand desert robbers rushed down from the sand dunes, appearing extremely powerful.

In her tent, Selena drew a circle with complex patterns on the ground. She knelt devoutly in the center of the circle, clasped her hands together and silently recited a hymn praising the Goddess of Darkness. Meteor-like dark elements pierced the night sky Falling into Selina's body, those dark energies continuously gathered between Selena's hands, and a big dark orb formed between Selina's hands.

  The moment this orb was formed, the entire room was darkened.

As Selena chanted the spell, an invisible black cloud slowly formed in the dark night, those invisible dark auras spread out from Selena's body, and absolute darkness was slowly forming, and it seemed to be rolling The turbulent morning mist spread to the surroundings.

  The robbers who were the first to bear the brunt only felt that there was a cloud of black mist in front of them. After charging in, the torches in their hands suddenly dimmed.

The leader of Cumberland, who rushed to the front, suddenly felt his heart tighten. He felt as if he had rushed into a thick black fog. Although he could see the surrounding situation, he was only within fifteen yards of him. A little further away, the field of vision becomes pitch black.

He rode his horse and charged down. The **** of the sand dunes was very steep. At this time, he could not stop no matter what. The camp in front suddenly disappeared from sight. There was a trace of cold air behind the leader of Cumberland. It seemed that things were not as he thought. as simple as that.

  A bad thought came to my mind...

   There is a magician in this team, the scene in front of him is flying by, and a group of cronies are still following him, which makes him a little uneasy, a little more stable...

  (end of this chapter)