Kadis fled to the southwest with Awan, Orville and others. They avoided Adam's team, left the forest and walked onto the road. Not long after running, they found dozens of people riding horses towards them.
Orville had sharp eyes, and as soon as those people appeared in his field of vision, he asked everyone to hide. Cadiz and his group hid in the half-human-high grass beside the road, watching the team in the distance slowly approaching.
"Boss, do we want to fight or not? We have no horses left after crossing the forest." Orville asked, "It's already daytime. If the traitor Adam catches up with us, we will be in trouble. If we kill these guys, we will have horses."
"We only have twenty-two people, much fewer than them." A horse thief muttered.
"With the boss here, you have nothing to fear." Awan said in a muffled voice, "If I complete the transformation into a rock giant, I can stop them all by myself."
"By the time you finish transforming, the enemy will have disappeared." The man said. Although Awan's bloodline transformation is powerful, it is slow and noisy, which is a big weakness.
"Shut up, everyone. Let the boss make the decision," Orville shouted.
Kadis looked back at his men, his narrow eyes swept over each of them. Everyone was silent, and the guy who had just sung a different tune even trembled. He snorted coldly and said, "We just lost a battle, but did we lose because we couldn't fight? No! Did we lose because we were timid? No! It was that bastard Adam who betrayed us at the most critical moment. Now we are all the closest brothers in life and death. No one will stab us in the back. What is there to be afraid of! We'll do it today! Only by killing these bastards can we drink good wine and eat good meat! Only then can we take revenge on those bastards in the future." A fierce look appeared on Kadis's face, and his words were even more murderous.
However, all the horse thieves became more energetic when they saw Kadis's appearance. Awan said happily: "Yes, let's kill them. I know the boss will not let go of the fat meat in his mouth."
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Li Jia secretly looked at Sir Arias from the corner of his eye. She rode upright and heroically, like a legendary Valkyrie, admirable but not approachable. Li Jia did not want to offend this lady, and he did not think it was love at first sight. It was more like a student's dependence on a teacher.
"You are distracted again. I hope you can seize every minute to meditate," said Sir Arias.
"I, yes, I am uneasy," Li Jia admitted.
"At any time, worrying is useless and will only make you weak."
Seeing that Sir Arias was talking about the main business, Li Jia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He said, "You are right, but many of them are my relatives and friends. I can't help but think about what would happen to me if they fell."
"If something like that really happens, you can cry, you can be determined to take revenge, or you can choose to forget it, but just don't think about this issue beforehand."
Li Jia and Shi Hao were silent. Du Mei complained, "Sir Arias, we have never experienced a battlefield. This is too demanding."
"War won't wait until you're ready," said Sir Arias.
"Li, this is war. Maybe the place you used to live in has been peaceful for too long. In a place like ours where we are fighting all the time, people won't think too much. Don't think about it if you shouldn't, forget it if you should. Believe me, this is for your own good." Sir Tor Botero interrupted. This guy, who didn't get along well with Sir Arias, became much friendlier after learning that Li Jia could use magic. He would show up in front of Li Jia whenever he had the chance. If Li Jia hadn't refused, his servants would have treated Li Jia as a distinguished guest.
"Hmph, you are a kid who hasn't even fully grown out, how can you even talk about forgetting?" Baron Fernando hated the word "forget" the most. "Some things will never be forgotten. From a certain moment on, they will be engraved in your bones and rot in your heart. You will never be able to get rid of them in your lifetime."
The baron was now wearing a heavy set of plate armor and carrying a two-handed sword on his back. He no longer looked like a peasant. The knights under his command were also armed to the teeth.
Sir Thor was about to retort when he was surprised to see Fernando suddenly pick up the long sword behind him and sweep it towards him. Baron Fernando was famous for his family's swift fighting spirit, so his sword was naturally very fast. Sir Thor, who had just acquired fighting spirit, was swept away by him before he even had time to draw his sword.
Sir Thor was so frightened that he heard a sound of neighing and horse crying in mid-air. He couldn't help but wonder in fear, could it be that Fernando had suddenly turned against him
He fell heavily into the grass by the roadside, and was knocked unconscious. He struggled to turn over and hurriedly touched his ribs where he was hit by the sword, but found that there was no wound, just some pain from being hit.
However, when he looked up at the horse team, the scene in front of him almost made him vomit. As if they were hit by a sickle in the void, most of the horse team's upper bodies were gone, and their mounts were also headless. Their upper bodies either flew into the air or fell to the ground. These running people and horses were neatly cut in half by a force, and then fell in all directions, and were then hit by the people and horses behind them. It was horrible to see, and human and horse blood flew everywhere like a fountain.
The servants around him were all cut in half. If Baron Fernando hadn't saved him... Thinking of this, Sir Thor screamed like a woman.
Shi Hao also shouted. Just after Fernando made his move, he saw Sir Arias suddenly raise her hand in front of her. A ring on her hand emitted a halo, protecting her and Li Jia. However, he and Du Mei were a little further away and were not covered by the halo. Perhaps it was a woman's intuition that reminded Du Mei, or perhaps it was because of the strange red light that appeared in front of her. At that moment, Du Mei pushed Shi Hao hard and pushed his upper body into the halo.
A moment later, a blood-red light about ten meters long swept across the front half of the cavalry. The red light did not cut through the light circle, but cut through the bodies of the people outside. Shi Hao watched helplessly as the red light chopped into Du Mei's abdomen like a guillotine. She maintained the posture of pushing people, and was cut in half.
She fell down, but her eyes were always fixed on him. Even though her body fell forward and was hit by the horse from behind, her head was always kept towards him.
Shi Hao understood the fear in her eyes, understood the reluctance in her eyes, but he could not understand the more inexplicable emotions in them. He just couldn't help but scream.
Cadiz used his knife to support himself and slowly walked out from the grass. The previous attack almost exhausted all his fighting spirit and energy. Even he himself didn't know that he could make such a domineering attack.
He understood that the pain of failure and the ambition to rise again allowed him to break through.
This strike killed nearly half of the enemy's men and injured many more. Only the leading female knight and the middle-aged knight in the front of the team survived unscathed. At this moment, Kadis suddenly felt that whether he could survive was not so important. He had not lived in vain to be able to strike such a strike. However, he really wanted her to see this scene... He laughed wildly at the scattered horse team.
Orville and Awan led their men to rush forward and fight with the enemy. The panicked warriors were beaten by these habitual bandits for a while, and soon some fell under their swords. But slowly, Baron Fernando entangled Orville, and his knights stopped Awan, giving Serinda the opportunity to issue orders and stabilize the situation.
However, at this moment, Kadis looked at the female knight with some doubts. He heard the tone of her voice and saw her fighting movements. Everything was familiar, corresponding to the "her" in his mind. And that person was the only pure land in his heart after he sank into a horse thief.
When he met her, she was only 13 years old, and her figure and demeanor were far different from the man in front of him. But at that time, her immature beauty was already set off by her wisdom and decisive temperament, making her extremely charming. At that time, Cadiz was just an ordinary guard of ordinary birth, relying on good talent and a bit of luck to climb up in the Earl's Palace, and she, Serinda Arias, was the most dazzling pearl of the Earl's Palace.
The two people who had little interaction with each other became acquainted because of their encounter in the martial arts field at night. In those days, they competed in martial arts and exchanged views. This smart lady told Kadiz many things that he didn't understand before, and Kadiz became a listener. Except for Arias, no one knew how hard this noble lady worked, and how much effort and thought she put into the rise and fall of the Earl's Mansion.
This kind of life lasted for a long time, until the Earl used the blood fighting spirit technique as a lure to get him to leave and set up a bandit gang to serve as the Earl's hidden man.
Whenever Cadiz thought of this incident later, he wondered if the count had discovered something and didn't want anything to happen between the young guard and the beautiful lady, so he gave him such a task
This is her, how she looked like four years later. She has grown up, with a tall figure and steady manners, making her even more charming. Kadis walked towards her slowly like a moth attracted by candlelight.
Serinda Arias, Baron Fernando, Sir Thor, and a dozen warriors were the main force to stop the horse thieves' attack. Sir Arias could use various spells to assist everyone in the battle; Baron Fernando's knights were all skilled in martial arts and battlefield veterans. Sir Thor shouted loudly to his surviving servants, who, with their equipment advantages, could also fight back and forth with the elite horse thieves. Gradually, some horse thieves were injured or even killed in the battle. The situation began to tilt to the other side.
The bandits ultimately misjudged the situation, and when Cadiz failed to successfully carry out the beheading, the team's combat effectiveness far exceeded their expectations.
The performance of the two modern men in this battle was lackluster.
Shi Hao's eyes were red and he gritted his teeth, holding his gun ready to shoot at any time, but the enemies and his own people were mixed together, making it difficult for him to take action.
This was even more true of Li Jia's wind blade magic. His control over the precision of magic could only be described as extremely clumsy. He picked up an ownerless sword and carefully hid behind the crowd.
Just as everyone began to turn defense into offense, Kadis noticed them.
Shi Hao spotted Kadis approaching, and he raised his gun and shot at him, but Kadis dodged like a civet cat, and Shi Hao emptied his magazine but failed to hit him. The opponent easily bypassed the defense line of Serinda and others from the outside and pounced on them from behind.
"Protect Li Jia!" Sir Arias said anxiously.
However, Baron Fernando, who was close to them, was attacked by Orville and had no ability to break up and rescue him.
Kadis pounced from the air and knocked the weapons out of Li Jia and Shi Hao's hands with his hands. He kicked away a knight who was rushing towards him, grabbed Li Jia and the others by the collar, retreated quickly, and instantly captured them out of the knights' protection circle.
He stood behind the group of horse thieves, put his hands on the back of Li Jia and the other man's heads, and shouted to Sir Arias, "Stop! If you fight again, I will kill them."
Sir Arias pulled his sword from the chest of a horse thief and made a gesture to stop the attack.
Fifteen to eight, Sir Arias's side had already gained the upper hand, but the other side had captured two hostages.
"Hehe." Cadiz laughed bitterly, "Ms. Serinda... long time no see."