Erestor felt that the god of nature still favored him, of course, the god might favor the Chinese even more.
As a mid-level mage, his status in the Black Guard is not low because he knows more than ordinary soldiers.
This was an ambush carefully planned by Emperor Alfred. They wanted to take advantage of the Chinese people's underestimation of the enemy after their successive victories and teach them a profound lesson, but they did not expect that the Chinese would see through their plan.
Not only was there a second troop following behind the team, but many masters were also sent out, especially Gabriel, who killed the Great Knight Lannit. He was so terrifying that he had reached the master level in both martial arts and fighting spirit.
Erestor remembered that he was hit by a mental shock magic during the battle. This magic came from a powerful female mage. Originally, according to his mental strength, he would not be knocked out by the magic, but at that time a crystal grenade exploded behind his head, and the explosion hit something on his head. Then he seemed to walk a few steps in a daze, and then fell to the ground and lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying in the grass. It was quiet all around, with only the sound of birds chirping from the sky.
He stood up and looked around carefully. There were several corpses nearby, but no sign of the enemy.
The battle was definitely lost, and most of the remaining soldiers of the empire fled, but the Chinese did not clean up the battlefield properly before leaving in a hurry. They left themselves on the battlefield as corpses.
Erestor touched the back of his head, where there was a big swelling and clotted blood. The blow was quite severe and almost killed him. He slowly got up and found that there was no other injury on his body.
At this time, the sound of armor was heard not far away. Erestor hurriedly squatted in the bushes, and looked over there. He found that it was his colleague, the Black Guard Figuras, who had woken up like him. This guy also saved his life and was crawling up from the ground.
Erestor walked towards him. Figuras heard the sound and quickly picked up a long sword from the ground and shouted in the direction of Erestor: "Who?"
"Figras! I'm Erestor." Erestor came out from the bushes.
"Lord Erestor, you made it through! This was such a one-sided battle, so many people died. It seems like we two are the lucky few."
"Not good enough, otherwise we shouldn't have been abandoned here by the team." Erestor said.
"Sir Erestor, I fainted a little later than you. Before I was knocked unconscious by the explosion, our team had already dispersed. Several officers were dead, and there was no one to replace them. So the beasts ran away on their own, and no one could save us at that time." Figueras explained, "Those beasts were all scared and ran like rabbits being chased by the enemy. You know, running away early at this time is not necessarily a good thing. I guess those who escape early will die in the pursuit of the Chinese."
Erestor sighed and said, "The enemy's experts and weapons are superior to ours. The guys around His Majesty still don't judge the enemy's strength well enough."
Figueras said, "I have been here several times before with the food collection team, but I have never encountered enemies of this level. Maybe they discovered our whereabouts at some point."
"Okay, let's stop talking about this useless stuff. We have to find a way to get back to Blackwood Pass as soon as possible." Erestor said.
The two men found two beast warriors who were also alive on the battlefield. This situation was common in hasty encounters, so the four men were not surprised. They found a few ownerless horses and rushed to Heimu Pass together.
Erestor cast an acceleration spell on the team. Although using the acceleration spell to travel long distances would consume the horses' physical strength faster, they could not care less at this time.
After walking north for more than half an hour, they caught up with a group of beast soldiers running in front. These people were obviously the defeated soldiers in the previous battle.
"Sir Erestor, do you think we should gather them together?" Figueras said, "We have been walking for so long and haven't seen any trace of the Chinese. I think the Chinese have either gone to Acedo Village or returned to Suero. If we gather these people together..."
"Of course, this means that we have at least done something." Erestor said to a beast warrior beside him, "Go, go and call them all over to me."
Erestor's team gathered a Black Guard and more than fifty beast warriors on the way north. Although their speed was getting slower and slower, they did not encounter too much trouble. It was as if the god of nature was protecting them. Neither the attacks of wild beasts nor the falling rocks in the mountains could really cause them any harm.
When they arrived at the gate of Heimu Pass, it had already been opened, and a team of black guards were waiting for them outside the moat. Apparently, other escaped soldiers had already fled back to the pass, and the upper echelons of the empire had already known the failure of this operation.
"Erestor, you actually managed to gather quite a lot of troops." The Black Guard general Moret was standing on the iron bridge, leaning on his sword, looking at the messy team that had escaped and said.
“Lord Moret, we, we tried our best. But they have battle angels, as well as a large group of high-level warriors and mages. We are really no match for them.” Erestor said, “However, through this battle, I also made some discoveries.”
"Tell me about it." Mollett showed some interest.
"There are two things that particularly concern me. The first is that there are actually a large number of spiritual mages among them. This is really disadvantageous to the beasts. If we cannot send out a large number of mages to fight against them and protect the sanity of the beasts, we must face the chaos and madness of the beasts in our team.
The second reason is that there are organized dark elves in their team. I am afraid that these Chinese have reached some kind of deal or even an alliance with the Elven Kingdom. "Erestor saluted and said.
Mollett was slightly moved, and it was obvious that he cared a lot about what Erestor said: "Yeah. As expected of Erestor. None of those guys who ran back before could say so many organized things."
"Your Excellency is too kind." Erestor said modestly, "As a mage, in addition to fighting, I naturally need to observe and think about the characteristics of our enemies. In addition, Figuras also helped a lot along the way."
"Very good! You two go back and think about these things carefully. I'm afraid His Majesty and the ministers will also want to listen to them." Mollett waved his hand, "Now go into the city and rest. I will send someone to call you later today or tomorrow morning."
"Yes, sir!" Erestor and Figueras responded in unison. (To be continued)