"There is a roadblock ahead! Two hundred meters!" Roger shouted loudly outside.
"Let me blast it with a fireball." Tasya said eagerly.
"No, that will scare the horses." Xiao Chen pushed aside the curtains and half of his body leaned out, only to see two big trees lying across the middle of the road ahead, completely blocking the way forward. If the car rushed forward at its current speed, the result would be car destruction and death.
"Keep up the speed! I'll take care of the roadblock." Xiao Chen shouted to Roger.
Xiao Chen took out a short magic wand from the space bag and concentrated on it. The magic wand made crackling sounds due to the crazy influx of mental power, and even began to crack. Bright silver light burst out from the cracks, as if Xiao Chen was holding a silver torch in his hand.
The wind and rain outside blew Xiao Chen's hair into a mess, but under the shining silver light, it created a mysterious and wild atmosphere.
"I'm almost ready, but I still need to get closer!" Xiao Chen shouted.
He continued to pour his mental energy into the wand. At the current speed, he had to persist for another ten seconds to reach the maximum casting distance of the impact spell.
"There are arrows!" Roger shouted loudly and whipped away two incoming arrows.
But the subsequent arrows hit the horses instead of the people. Roger tried his best to shoot away a few arrows, but some arrows still hit the backs of two horses. The horses neighed in pain and ran faster. Roger drew out his sword, kicked his feet, jumped out of the driver's seat, sat on the back of a horse, and waved his sword to keep shooting away the arrows.
However, he was clearly not strong enough to take care of two horses by himself, and soon two more arrows were stuck in the horse without a rider. At this time, a figure jumped out of the carriage and sat on the horse on his right. The person who came was Belia, Tashia's guard. She held a rapier in her hand, flying up and down, blocking the arrows shot from the right.
With Belia's support, Roger's pressure was suddenly reduced, allowing him to calmly block the arrow from the left.
He found that Belia's strength was slightly inferior to his, but her moves were swift and agile, and she was more comfortable than him in knocking away arrows. He couldn't help but praise: "Good swordsmanship!"
The assassins hiding in the forest, seeing that their attempts to shoot the horses were fruitless, shot arrows at the carriage. An arrow grazed Xiao Chen's cheek and pierced into the carriage, scaring him into a cold sweat.
He used a trace of mental power to activate the amulet that Morey had given him on his neck, and a light shield emerged from his body, blocking the wind and rain as well as the cold arrows. Xiao Chen secretly prayed that the other party did not use a perverted thing like the magic-breaking arrow, while staring at the front and estimating the distance.
The distance was finally reached, Xiao Chen put more strength, and the carrying capacity of the magic wand finally reached its limit and broke into pieces.
"Get out of here!" Xiao Chen stretched out his hand and threw it forward. The fragments and silver light mixed together and rushed towards the two fallen trees. The silver light exploded in front of the trees, and the strong airflow pushed the two trees to both sides, revealing enough width for passage.
"There's something on the ground ahead!" Belia, who never spoke, suddenly shouted.
Roger looked closely and saw a magic circle drawn on the ground in front of the original position of the two big trees. When it was not activated just now, it was hidden in the darkness, but now, the magic words on it have begun to flow, emitting a bright red light, like a monster's mouth, waiting for them to come to it.
"Sir, can you tell what kind of magic circle it is?" Roger asked.
"I don't know! But never mind, let's go!" Xiao Chen returned to the carriage and immediately flipped up a small table from the side of the carriage. He pulled the protective amulet off his neck and pressed it on a magic circle in the middle of the table. Then an enhanced magic circle was activated, the protective necklace glowed, and then a much larger shield burst out, wrapping the entire carriage including the horses.
"Is this the price to pay for destroying the amulet and unleashing all its power at once?" asked Tasya.
"That's right."
Tasia took off her own pair of earrings and handed them to Xiao Chen, saying, "If you don't have enough, use these two of mine!"
"I can't use them at the same time, but don't worry, their goal is to catch me, not blow me to pieces!" Xiao Chen had just finished speaking when he heard a loud bang and the car suddenly flew up. Looking out the windows on both sides, the nearby woods and the distant mountains dropped sharply at the same time, leaving only the gloomy sky. The fire from under the car came directly through the gap between the base and the door. Finally, the shield made by Morey played its due role and blocked the scorching invasion.
The carriage drew a parabola and fell heavily to the ground.
The shield that had resisted the explosion could no longer withstand the heavy blow of the earth, and it collapsed the moment the carriage touched the ground. Roger and Belia, who were on the two horses in front, each turned over and dismounted before landing, stepping on the ground to support themselves, using their strong bodies to replace part of the impact that the horses should have suffered, so both the people and horses staggered for a while, and basically landed safely. But the carriage at the back was not so lucky. The moment it landed, one of the wheels on one side was knocked off, and the carriage flipped and slid, and it seemed that it was about to fall into the forest with the two knights.
Roger and Belia reacted completely differently at this time. Belia grabbed the harness on the horse and tried to stop the carriage that was about to roll over. Roger, on the other hand, cut the leather ropes connecting the harnesses of the two horses to the carriage with a single sword.
The horse, which was about to be dragged down, lost the pulling force from behind and suddenly jumped forward.
"What are you doing!" Belia said angrily, holding the two broken ropes.
"Save the horses! Only with horses can we save people! They all have magic protection! Trust Master Xiao Chen!" Roger shouted, "We still need these two horses to escape!"
While the two were talking, the horses had already run more than twenty meters. The two men quickly turned their horses' heads and rushed towards the car.
"assassin!"
At this time, two assassins who were lying in ambush behind the trap rushed towards the carriage.
However, before they could get close to the carriage, Belia took out two daggers, infused them with fighting spirit and threw them over. One dagger was blocked by the assassin, and the other stabbed into the assassin's shoulder. Seeing the two knights rushing towards them, the two assassins quickly gave up the plan to kidnap Xiao Chen and ran away.
The two men were agile and their movements were strange. Roger rode past an assassin from behind, holding the Thunder Sword horizontally, and wanted to chop off his head, but he twisted his body to avoid it, leaving only a cut on the back of his shoulder.
The assassin seemed to have used some secret technique. His fighting spirit burned and his speed suddenly increased, escaping from his attack range.
"Stop chasing, save him!" Belia did not hold the other person back either.
The two men hurried towards the carriage.