Half an hour later, the perception array was completed, and the summoned spirit servant mages disappeared one after another, leaving only Xiao Chen and Luo Ling in the magic array.
Luo Ling left the magic circle, and Xiao Chen walked to the center of the magic circle. He closed his eyes again, pressed down lightly with one hand, and the lights on the magic circle began to light up one by one.
Combined with the power of the magic array, his perception of the bracelet immediately became clearer. He could now determine the direction of the bracelet, which was originally just a faint feeling. What surprised him was that the other party did not run towards this side, but instead moved towards the southeast. With the help of the magic array, Xiao Chen had a rough sense of the distance, and he could judge that Nina's position had passed the city of Lagos.
Xiao Chen walked down the magic circle, his face full of worry, "Something is wrong, Nina is moving in the wrong direction."
"Did he run back to Lagos?" Luo Ling asked.
"No, it seems that they have gone deep into the forest southeast of Lagos City." Xiao Chen lowered his head and thought, "Could it be that they encountered an obstruction from the Temple of Nature on the way? They had to go in that direction? Anyway, they must have encountered trouble, and we must hurry to get there."
Xiao Chen didn't have time to say anything more to Banos, so he asked him to go to Green Forest City to find Qin Mu and Li Tianrui. He then immediately set off with Luo Ling and others in the direction of Lagos City.
When Xiao Chen and Luo Ling performed the flying spell, they were far from being comparable to Nina and the others. They performed the floating spell on the warriors Kalanda, Chen Hansheng and Akeley, while Lin Lichuan performed the flying spell himself. Then Xiao Chen used magic to form a rope to tie everyone together, Luo Ling made a streamlined shield in front of everyone, which also served as a windbreak and acceleration, and Lin Lichuan unfolded his own unique spiritual power thread "The Thread of All Things", which outlined countless wind magic runes behind them at lightning speed. The runes condensed into concentric circles, and then ejected air currents outward to push everyone forward. With the full force of the three mages, it took only thirty minutes for everyone to approach the city of Lagos.
The sky was already getting light, and from the air, one could see the general situation in the city. Xiao Chen and his companions hovered in the air, hiding their traces, and looked down at the situation on the ground. Xiao Chen cast a lens magic, magnifying the scene on the ground many times and presenting it to everyone.
Lagos had just experienced a fierce battle. Black smoke was everywhere in the city. Those were the houses and trees that were set on fire by magic. There were many small pneumatic cannons and mortars on the city walls. It seemed that even with the use of Chinese technology, Serinda's troops still couldn't resist the Knights of the Temple of Nature for too long.
There were many soldiers below carrying corpses and cleaning up the battlefield. Some priests and wizards were putting out fires or repairing the city walls. It seemed that they were ready to restore the city's defenses immediately.
A little further away, a team of over a thousand people were coming from the northern road, preparing to enter the city from the north gate.
"That's an army of the kingdom." Ackley said after observing carefully. He was the most familiar with the kingdom's military system among the crowd. He could tell the origin of a troop just by looking at their weapons and armor. "Judging from their uniforms, they should be the queen's army. Half of them are the royal guards and half are from the southern army. The people cleaning up the streets in the city now should be the remnants of the Duchess Josefina who was defeated some time ago. They should be led by the Duchess's clansmen to avenge her. On guard around them are the Knights of Rage and the Legion of Heavenly Punishment from the Temple of Nature's Guard.
Although Josefina's troops are large in number, their combat effectiveness should be limited. I guess the Knights of the Rage of the Temple of Nature and the Heavenly Punishment Army were the main attackers, and the Duchess's troops followed them to join the battle. However, it now seems that it is Queen Laura's army that will eventually capture the city. "
"The people of the Temple of Nature actually expended their own forces and laboriously conquered a city, and then handed it over to Queen Laura?" Xiao Chen felt a little strange. "This is not in line with their usual style. Judging from the corpses on the ground, they should have lost a lot of people, right?"
Ackley said, "Yes, do you see the gap in the wall?"
Xiao Chen looked closely and saw that the gap must have been blown open by powerful magic. There were corpses lying all around it. A very fierce battle must have taken place around this gap. Judging from the corpses on the ground, a large number of berserkers died on the side defending the city, while many temple knights in bright armor fell on the side attacking the city.
Ackley studied it for a while and analyzed, "The attackers broke in from here, but Serinda's berserkers are not easy to deal with. Once they go crazy, they are fearless and will not be affected even if they are suppressed by the enemy.
From here, the Knights of the Wrath had more casualties than the Berserkers. However, the Knights of the Wrath used their numerical advantage to kill all the Berserkers at the gap and entered the city. But they were ambushed by a second wave near the east gate. This wave of attacks was a joint effort between mages and Berserkers. The Berserkers held off the enemy in an alley, and then the mages cast spells and attacked from the rear. But strangely, there were no Berserker bodies here, only the Knights of the Wrath. "
"There are both elemental magic and spiritual magic. Judging from the appearance of this magic... it should be the work of Li Jia." Luo Ling said.
Xiao Chen frowned and said, "That's right. Those berserkers whose bodies are missing are not ordinary people, but Li Jia's spirit servants. They disappeared naturally after the battle. It seems that Li Jia did not run away before the battle. Did Nina fail in her mission?"
"No matter what Nina's mission was, judging from the traces at the scene, Li Jia should have fought for a while and then retreated." Ackley continued, "They were blocking the enemy near the east gate and should have been covering the evacuation of others. After this battle, Li Jia and the others should have chased others out of the city."
Chen Hansheng also said: "Yes, I saw small groups of enemy scouts running towards the southeast forest. They should be tracking down Li Jia's remaining troops."
"Can we continue tracking Nina's location?" Luo Ling asked.
Xiao Chen said: "After coming here, I feel Nina's location more clearly. She should have run eastward into the forest."
Luo Ling said: "Let's find Nina first. Maybe if we find her, we can figure out what happened last night." (To be continued)