After the elf migration team got rid of Jondal Forest, although they dispersed into a formation of long snakes, deliberately luring the human thieves from the Golden Plain to attack, the route of the team was still particular. They generally moved along the north bank of the Naga River. .
This is to avoid being flanked by the attackers when they are attacked. With the Naga River as their back, they only need to deal with enemies coming from one direction, so that the elves don't have to worry about one thing and lose another.
Of course, the elf team is not close to the Naga River, but is about two kilometers away, so as not to be driven down the river by a charge by the attackers. As for whether the enemy will go around to the north bank of the Naga River first, and then launch an attack, no one feels that there is such a possibility.
After all, the relocation team dispersed into a two-kilometer long snake formation, and the druids who were always deformed in the sky were responsible for the investigation, so it was not easy for the bandit group to go around in advance. Unless they cross the Naga River first, wait for their companions to attack from the south bank, and then take the opportunity to cross the river to attack.
However, these attackers belonged to the amalgamation of small groups of thieves, who were willing to take on the vanguard mission for others and use their own losses to contribute to others. Therefore, even Qin Lun didn't think much about this possibility.
However, there are no absolutes. When everyone, including Qin Lun, thought that the attack had come to an end, he saw a black line on the right side of the caravan, on the horizon on the north bank of the Naga River, heading towards the aftermath of the disaster at an extremely fast speed. The elves rushed.
The black lines came at an extremely fast speed, and in just a few breaths, they crossed a distance of nearly one kilometer, revealing the ferocious faces with their fangs exposed.
"Lizard Cavalry, Orcs!" An old elf surrounded by the caravan suddenly stood up, his eyes widened as he watched the black line billowing in the distance.
At this distance, with Qin Lun's eyesight, he could already see the attacker's face clearly. They were some ugly creatures with iron helmets on their heads and black and yellow fangs on their faces. They are generally more than two meters tall, with knotted muscles, some with bare upper body, wearing simple leather armor, thick hair on their bodies, and holding heavy weapons such as maces and maces.
The face of orcs is very different from that of humans and elves. Their skin color is mostly green, their cheekbones are protruding, their nostrils are thick, their brows are high and raised, their eye sockets are deep-set, and their eyes have a cruel scarlet light. They look at the eyes of elves. It's like seeing delicious food.
All the orcs who attacked were cavalry, but the mounts were not horses, but a huge lizard. This monitor lizard has a triangular head, thick limbs, stands 1.45 meters tall, has a flat and long tail, and a broad back. It is equipped with a simple saddle.
The crawling speed of monitor lizards was very fast, not inferior to galloping horses. Seeing these monitor lizards with horned webs, Qin Lun knew where the lizard cavalry came from. The monitor lizards belonged to amphibians. They should have crossed from the south bank of the Naga River. They launched a sudden attack when the elves and the human bandits were both wounded and their physical strength and arrows were consumed.
These orcs should come from the south bank of the Naga River, the Philstep Mountains of the Char Kingdom. The orcs in the Filstape Mountains and the trolls in the Rathgant Hills are two of the most serious threats to the Char kingdom. It is precisely because of these two heart problems that the strong and powerful Xia Kingdom failed to continue expanding its territory to the north and south.
At the eastern end of the Firstap Mountains, the Kingdom of Char specially set up Toth Castle, stationed a whole 10,000-man heavy army to contain the orcs. At the beginning, the reason why the relocation team opposed crossing the Naga River and detouring the Chara border to the Anker Forest was because they were concerned about the Charar's heavy armored army going to Toth Castle.
Elves, humans, dwarves, even goblins, trolls, and elemental genies, most of the intelligent races in the world of Toril have left brilliant civilizations in history. Only giant dragons and orcs have not formed a complete civilized country.
Because of the number of giant dragons, the reproduction of this race is too difficult, and the individuals are too strong, so it is understandable that they failed to form a complete civilization. Orcs are different. Their reproductive ability is not inferior to that of humans. In addition to IQ, their individual strength is also stronger than humans. It is a bit strange that tens of thousands of years of world history have failed to leave a complete civilization.
However, looking at the entire history of the orc race, everyone will take this for granted. The orcs do not produce or create. Although they have formed their own language and religious beliefs, they have been stagnant for tens of thousands of years, and they have always belonged to the primitive tribe and clan state.
In ancient times, before the elves fled from the plane of Yantargil to the main material world of Toril, there were many tower cities built by the close relatives of the orcs, the lizardmen, in the continent of Faerun, but they were quickly defeated by the cold climate of the Thunder Era. Returned to the state of ignorance, and never rose again.
In the simple minds of the orcs, there is no so-called self-reliance and life creation, and their majestic physique makes them full of aggression.
Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are full, and grab what you don't have. Anyway, there are many intelligent races that can create and produce on the mainland. Orcs are the favorites of the gods, they don't need to do anything but fight and breed!
This is the thinking logic of the orcs. Whether in ancient times or today, the thinking of orcs has never changed. No grass grows where the orcs pass, and what they always bring is destruction and killing.
None of the intelligent races and kingdoms in Faerun dared to unite with the orcs. These green-skinned cruel guys would often turn around and kill their collaborators after they succeeded.
It is absolutely impossible for the human thieves to join forces with these orc lizard cavalry. The thieves are not good enough to make wedding dresses for others. Qin Lun also didn't believe that it was a coincidence that these orcs appeared here. The biggest possibility is that someone notified them, and the goal was pure killing.
Kingdom of Jondas? No, even if it is a sworn enemy with the Jondal elves, it is impossible for Jondas to let the orcs enter the country.
It is even more impossible for Sespetz and the Kingdom of Shaar. The former has a good relationship with the Ankh elves, and sometimes they will hire Anker elves to resist the two major human powers of Tethyr and Calimshan in the west. The latter is busy suppressing the Steam Lake Business Alliance (that is, the border kingdom), and has not yet had the energy to take care of Seth Pats and Jondas on the north bank of the Naga River.
Many thoughts flashed in Qin Lun's mind, but his attention only stayed on the orc cavalry for a moment, and then immediately shifted away. The orc cavalry threatened the Moon Elf's relocation team, and it had nothing to do with him. It wasn't the orc cavalry that made Qin Lun feel a huge threat, but a distorted space more than 20 meters to his right.
This mass of distorted space is human-shaped, materialless and transparent, and the scenery behind is clearly visible. If it wasn't for the detection halo and the perception line of the eye of the clock that outlined the distorted and transparent shape of the human body, Qin Lun probably wouldn't have noticed it at all.
"A high-level stalker! It was discovered after being invaded at this distance!" Looking at this transparent person, Qin Lun's pupils became needle-shaped, and he kicked his feet without hesitation, leaped back, and spread the wind. step, and fled in the direction of Elistine.
"The other party notified the orcs just to disrupt the situation. The purpose is not to relocate the ordinary elves in the team, but the envoys of the sun elves, perhaps including the descendants of the royal family of the moon elves who were exhausted after the war."
At the time of life and death crisis, Qin Lun's thinking became more agile, and Fuzhi thought of the Japanese elf envoys in the team, and immediately connected it with everything in front of him.
"Hey!" There was a surprised whisper from the open space on the right side of the caravan, and then a blurry figure carried a strong wind and rolled over the caravan angrily. On Qin Lun.
A beast-tooth-shaped dagger that was more than one foot in length protruded from the empty space and pointed at Qin Lun's throat. At the same time, a stalwart figure in a black hooded cloak and black clothes also appeared from the air, appearing in front of Qin Lun.
At the juncture of life and death, Qin Lun became more and more calm in his heart, and stared at the stalker in front of him indifferently. The stalker maintained a vertical leaping posture, with his upper body leaning forward, his right hand holding the animal-tooth dagger and stabbing at Qin Lun. His face was covered with a black veil, only a pair of shining eyes were exposed, and his race and gender could not be distinguished.
"Hmph!" Qin Lun grinned, and a five-pointed star crystal mirror formation that was as tall as a person suddenly appeared between the two of them. With the stabbing of the dagger, the crystal mirror exploded, but the ensuing elemental critical strike also blew Qin Lun away, widening the distance between him and the stalker.
The animal tooth dagger was slightly blocked by the pentagram crystal mirror, and immediately pierced through the air, but the stalker was not surprised. Since the opponent can see through his stealth and avoid the battle without hesitation, it is obvious that his perception is very high and he can distinguish the strength gap between the two sides.
To deal with such a target, one cannot count on a one-hit kill. It is necessary to disrupt his escape rhythm through continuous attacks and create a defensive gap before he can be killed.
The stalker swung his empty left hand back abruptly, and a bright white light more than a foot long spewed out from his palm. Since the two had just crossed the caravan, this vindictive white glow happened to be aimed at a young elf standing in front of the caravan.
"Bang!" The elf's face turned pale, blood spurted from his mouth, and a palm print with a depth of two inches suddenly appeared on his chest. The concave edge of the palm print was as smooth as a knife and an axe.
"Boom!" The unlucky elf slammed into the caravan behind him like a cannonball. With a loud noise, the whole caravan plowed a trail more than ten meters away on the grass. It broke.
With the help of this huge force, the stalker's figure was in a trance in the air, and suddenly flashed in front of Qin Lun again. The animal fang dagger in his right hand draws a beautiful arc from top to bottom. If Qin Lun was killed by this blow, Qin Lun might be dismembered.
Simple, direct, and lightning-fast, this is the strength of a high-level assassin! Qin Lun's needle-like pupils dilated in an instant. He has experienced many life and death crises since he entered the Broken Starry Sky, but he has never felt the shuddering taste of death in every cell like this moment.
Am I dying? Qin Lun's mouth tasted bitter like rust, and a little scarlet suddenly appeared in the depths of his pupils, which spread to the entire pupils in an instant...
"Huh!" The ferocious aura rushing towards his face made the stalker let out a soft cry of surprise for the second time in this battle. While feeling awe-inspiring in his heart, the dagger in his hand fell faster, piercing into the elf like lightning. chest.
However, at this moment, a layer of blood-colored light suddenly rose from Qin Lun's body. As soon as the blood-colored light rose, it quickly condensed and condensed on his chest, blocking the animal-toothed dagger like a piece of blood-red rubber. .
The tip of the dagger seemed to have pierced into a piece of extremely tough leather. It only penetrated an inch or so before the force of the stab was offset by the mass of blood and the sternum.
"Hehehe!" Qin Lun's teeth were trembling up and down, and there was a streak of blood hanging from the corner of his mouth, but a distorted grin appeared on his face. The left hand tightly grasped the animal-tooth dagger, resisting the assassin's subsequent force, while the right hand turned over, and the evil dagger stabbed silently at the opponent's lower abdomen.
A gleam of light flashed across the sneaker's eyes, and he raised his right knee, just in time to block Qin Lun's right wrist. Withdrawing the animal fang dagger, the tip wiped the elf's throat again with a trace of blood.
"You have no chance!" The young man whose personality was changed to Joey grinned grimly. He opened his arms to embrace the stalker, and at the same time opened his mouth wide, revealing a mouthful of white and neat teeth, and bit down on the stalker's neck fiercely.
The stalker did not expect that the opponent would use such a rogue-like move, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes, and his attack rhythm was finally interrupted. In the past, those who faced him, even if they were stronger than him, could only choose to avoid the edge or take defense at this time.
To deal with a high-level assassin's surprise attack, everyone knows that they need to avoid their sharpest front moves. When they recover, the assassin will no longer be a threat. Few people would adopt this kind of desperate close combat, let alone an elf who is not good at strength.
When this elf first discovered him, the contingency measures he took were also quite satisfactory, and there were no unexpected actions. But all of a sudden, his temperament changed drastically, as if he was a different person, risking his life to hurt both sides.
It's not that the stalker didn't think that the elf was pretending to die together, but the aura on the other party would not lie. That ferocious and cruel aura is even crazier than a desperate beast. He did still have the strength to kill the opponent, but he also couldn't retreat completely, and would definitely be injured, and it would be a serious injury.
The stalker hesitated. He knew that the elf in front of him was a royal descendant of the moon elves, and he was also one of the targets this time, but not the main target. Judging from the performance of this elf in the previous battle, he should have a high status in the moon elf tribe. After killing him, even if the moon elves were on the way of migration, they probably wouldn't let it go.
Once severely injured, whether it is the tracking of the high-level elf ranger or the sense of smell of the high-level druid, it is enough to find him and kill him. And most of the companions who came with him were cold-hearted and cold-hearted, and it was absolutely impossible for them to stay and protect him.
As soon as he thought of this, the stalker finally let out a dark sigh, his whole body filled with white fighting spirit, and shook off Joey who was carried like an octopus, and at the same time kicked the young man on the lower abdomen, sending him far away. Kicked and flew out.
Joey slammed hard on the grass, and was bounced away by a huge force, like a stone floating on the water, rolling continuously uncontrollably, and finally collapsed on the ground like a ball of mud, his hands and feet moved in a weird way. The posture of the ground was distorted, probably dislocated or completely broken, he gritted his teeth and couldn't sit up after a few struggles.
With the strength of the stalker, this kick caused great damage to Joey. But in this way, the distance between the two was completely opened, and the elf rangers nearby, including Elistine, had already reacted, and he had no chance to continue chasing and killing the young man.
"Aw!" Elistin, who had turned into a giant bear, roared in grief and anger, and flew towards this side on all fours. During the run, a green beam of light full of vitality fell from the sky and shone on Joey who fell to the ground.
Druid Healing Magic—Glory of Life!
At the same time, countless thick vines emerged from the place where the stalker was, twisted into a huge green palm and slapped him fiercely.
Druid Nature Magic - Hand of Thorns!
"Whoosh!" Before Elisten had time to rush to the stalker, two flashes of light flashed across the air, and two fine iron long arrows shot at the stalker, one left and one right, sealing off his evasion angle. The people who shot were the two elf rangers who besieged together with the elf druids, the leader of "Wolf's Claw", Schlieffen.
Schlieffen, who thought he was going to die, was overjoyed, and immediately turned and ran away without looking back. The stalker's assassination action inadvertently saved him, but he had no intention of making a fool of the stalker.
After this battle, most of the members of "The Claw of the Wolf" died here, and I am afraid that they will not be able to recover their vitality for a long time in the future.
The stalker's eyes flashed brightly, he tapped his toes, and stepped back.
"Boom!" The huge thorny hand smashed a big hole in the grass, but the magic was still not over, the green palm was slightly raised, and immediately grabbed the stalker again.
Knowing that the assassination had failed, the stalker swung the black velvet cloak behind him, turned around without hesitation, and wanted to leave. However, just as he turned around, he was taken aback for a moment, only to see a group of moon elves frantically rushing towards him behind him.
This group of elves are the old women and children who gathered near the caravan just now. They relied on Qin Lun to save them before, but now the young people are lying on the ground, not knowing whether they are alive or dead. This immediately aroused the enthusiasm of these elves, and they risked their lives to prevent the stalker from leaving .
The stalker groaned secretly. Normally, he could kill all these elves with just a few breaths. But now there is a high-level druid and two powerful elf rangers behind him. If there is a little delay, they may really be buried here.
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The blood in Qin Lun's eyes had faded, and Joey gave up the dominance of his consciousness at some point. Now he only felt his ears rumble, his mouth was full of blood, and the scene in front of him was blurred with overlapping shadows.
However, his consciousness was still very clear, and in the black and white field of vision formed by the perception lines, Elistin had already fought with the stalker. It's just that the elf druid is still at a disadvantage. Even if there are two elf rangers harassing them, they may not be able to take down the enemy in a short time.
Orc cavalry... Qin Lun tried his best to sit up and looked up into the distance. The battle between him and the stalker was very short, and at this time, the orc cavalry finally rushed to the front of the moon elf team, and the two sides had already become entangled.
They wanted to penetrate the team, and they had no intention of melee, but just a cover for this assassination operation? These orcs are willing to be used by the mastermind behind the scenes!
Qin Lun only took a look at the battlefield before he sensed the intentions of the orc cavalry, because they were too obvious. But just because he noticed this, his face became even more ugly.
When did the orcs have a real partner