Two warriors rushed over and pulled Lumiere and Serinda into the bushes.
Just as they were hiding, they saw two groups of soldiers flying down from them. These warriors were wearing light armor and were very agile in the forest. They were holding crossbows and other weapons in their hands. They looked like members of the Shadow Group of the Temple of Nature. There were also people on the opposite hillside, surrounding them. On the path leading to the small village, a cavalry team of three or four hundred people appeared and rushed towards the village, blocking the road out of the village.
The villagers had also discovered the situation around them, and the wounded soldiers picked up their weapons, ready for the next, perhaps final, battle. Some of them had broken hands, some had limped legs, and some were burned beyond recognition by magic, but they still formed a battle formation.
“How can we possibly win? These people can hardly even stand here.” Serinda said anxiously.
"So it's useless for you to go down." Lumiere's hand was still clasped on Serinda's wrist. "It's my best to let you come here to see the final outcome. I don't want to give you any regrets, but please protect yourself! Otherwise, your father will not forgive me."
Serinda struggled for a moment and cursed, "Damn it!"
But no matter what she did, Lumiere refused to let go.
At this time, Serinda saw the door of a house in the village opened, and a middle-aged man in armor walked out. He looked seriously injured and walked very slowly. He had a bandage on his head, his right arm was broken, and even his foot was lame. When he looked up, Serinda finally saw clearly that it was her father, Count Carlos.
On her way here, Serinda had imagined the Earl's current condition. She had thought of the worst possible scenario, that he had died on the battlefield. But now seeing that he was so seriously injured, yet unwilling to retreat, dragging his seriously injured body to fight the enemy, for some reason he no longer had the strength to struggle.
"Why did he do this?" Serinda choked up, but Lumiere and the others around her were silent and no one answered her question.
The count refused Master Banderas's help, limped to the front of his warriors, pressed the sword in his hand to the ground, and looked quietly at the enemy at the entrance of the village.
Two people from the horse team at the door jumped off their horses and walked to the front. One looked like a priest, and the other was a knight in temple armor.
The middle-aged priest looked at Count Carlos from a distance of more than 100 meters. After a moment, he said, "Of course. Your Excellency, is this the place where you found your own burial place?"
The count coughed twice and actually smiled: "Master Felix, is it finally your turn to take action?"
"Count Carlos, if I were to say who is the best actor in the kingdom, I think it would be you. For so many years, everyone has thought that you are a useless dude, a loser who only knows how to chase women. But who would have thought that you are a real master in hiding? Even our temple couldn't find any clues about your strength. I didn't expect you to be so strong that you could kill two of our great knights and a master assassin. But now you are already a useless person. Are you still going to struggle?"
Count Carlos chuckled and said, "You are still talking nonsense to me now, which shows that you are not confident enough. I thought you would launch an attack without saying anything."
Felix ignored the earl's taunting and said, "This is your last chance. Surrender, pledge allegiance to the temple, and have all your berserkers pledge allegiance to the temple together."
"I remember I have already answered this question, but you guys just don't learn from it. Do you really want me to show you my answer again?" Count Carlos looked up at the sky, gurgled a few times in his throat, then shook his head and spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm.
Looking at the gloomy priest Felix opposite him, he laughed: "I have endured in front of that old immortal king for so many years, pretending to be a dog that I despise every day. At this time, will I retreat? Some people lie down and eat shit because they are cheap, but some people do it so that they can stand up and chop off the other person's head one day. I have stood up now, how can I lie down again
There may be bastards and lunatics under the name Arias, but there are no cowards."
Felix looked at him coldly and said, "Since you have made such a choice, then prepare to die. I thought you would escape alone, but I didn't expect you to wait here for the end of everything."
Count Carlos looked back at his team. "The ones left here are my old brothers. They have been my right-hand men for so many years. Being able to fight with them to kill a few more enemies at the last moment is the luckiest thing in my life. How could I leave alone after such a good show?"
"You can't leave even if you want to. This valley has been covered by the space interference of my men. Neither you nor Banderas will have a chance to leave today." Felix raised his hand, ready to signal an attack.
Count Carlos on the other side was unmoved. He said with some emotion: "This village is a good place. It is indeed suitable for my burial place. Haven't you noticed that we have been circling in the mountains these days and are getting closer and closer to my territory
Ten years ago, when I read about this place in the classics and came here again, I had already thought about this. I am engaged in a job that can cost me my head at any time, so I naturally have to think about my own funeral. At that time, Uncle Banderas said I was a lunatic, but today, it seems that all my preparations were worth it.
If you can’t come on stage with great fanfare, then leave with great fanfare.”
Felix was stunned, and an ominous premonition emerged in his heart: "You, what are you going to do?"
He hurriedly asked the two priests behind him to stop the space interference magic, and began to prepare the teleportation magic himself.
But it was too late, the space disturbance would always last for some time.
Count Carlos did not give him an answer, but nodded to Master Banderas.
Master Banderas closed his eyes and poured his mental energy into a spherical magical weapon in his hands.
Sensing the fluctuations of the magic weapon, red light lit up on the ground of the valley, covering the entire village, as well as the location of Felix and the cavalry.
Serinda looked down from the mountain and discovered that this was an extremely large magic circle buried underground. The magic circle operated extremely quickly and soon lit up completely.
Then a raging fire burst out from the ground.
Amid the raging flames, the Count raised his head and glanced in the direction of Serinda, then smiled and said to the panicked Felix: "I forgot to tell you that there used to be a volcano underneath..." (To be continued)