Following my words, the bigwigs of the Kingdom of Yan finally dispersed their doubts. Although I could clearly see dissatisfaction in their eyes and facial expressions, at least they still accepted my words. After all, in the eyes of these magicians, ordinary warriors are not as valuable as magicians. Even the empire, which is famous for its warriors, is not as good as their magic kingdom in comparison, not to mention that the people who died were not from their own country.
"Gather, gather, all magicians who have sealed the wind magic, the wounded, and the survivors, all go to the teleportation array and wait for orders, and prepare to be teleported directly back to the survivors' land..." Seeing that the battle situation on the Canglang defense line was becoming more and more urgent, I gave the order to evacuate some troops without hesitation. The first ones to be sent away were of course those soldiers and wounded who were most likely to become a burden during the retreat. Then, it was the "crawling" magicians who could not fly.
Just as I was sending away tens of thousands of soldiers in waves of white light, I heard the sound of swords clashing behind me, followed by an angry shout that caught my attention.
"You are so good, Shen Xiang. When your allies were in danger and the entire human race was about to fall into destruction, not only did you not lead the people to help, but you also openly and privately took the lead in fleeing the battlefield..."
After signaling the other troops to continue to follow the retreat order, I turned around and faced the intruder. The person I led was Marshal Bout of the Mokaster Empire, who I thought was still on the Canglang defense line leading the low-level orcs.
"Marshal, I don't know what you mean by that. Besides, shouldn't you still be leading the people to resist the orcs at the Canglang Line? Why? You took the lead in evacuating?" I said back without hesitation with a hint of sarcasm. You said I fled privately? How the hell were you the first to rush out of the line? At least from what I can see now, the entire Canglang Line did not retreat, and most of the Canglang Line continued to resist the attack of the orcs.
"Hmph, you are quibbling. Tell me, why didn't you send troops to support me? Did you intend to let the orcs occupy the Canglang Line? Or even let the entire East Continent be enslaved by the orcs?" After blocking the sword swung by Yiya, Bout took a step back, then roared at me viciously with his chest heaving. At this time, his face was full of anger, and his whole body was covered with blood. Even the hem of his cloak and armor was torn by the sharp weapon. At this time, Bout's image and momentum, not to mention those who didn't know the truth, even I almost thought that I had done something unforgivable and caused him, a righteous man, to complain.
"Support you? How do you want me to support you? Who said that you would be in charge of the Canglang Line of Defense, and our Kingdom of Yan would be in charge of the Undead Army
Besides, you asked me to help you. How should we help you? When you sent a message for help, there was no place to stand on the walls of the entire Canglang Line. In such a close combat, how should we ask our magician troops to intervene? Should we use magic sticks to hit the beasts' heads? Or should we let our magicians use magic to blow you and the orcs together?"
With obvious mockery, I was not willing to give Bout any face at all. In addition to his attitude towards me yesterday, I also expressed the strongest contempt for him for abandoning his troops and rushing to withdraw from the Canglang Line.
"You..." After hearing what I said, Bout was extremely angry, but he had no way to fight back against me.
"What do you mean by 'me'? Just go and take care of your own troops. I don't have time to entertain you... Yiya, take the last batch of wounded and the surviving soldiers away. We will set off after we send you off." After shutting up Bout, I immediately signaled Yiya and the other troops that were preparing to evacuate to enter the teleportation array.
"My lord, I will go with you. With my speed, I can definitely catch up with the flying speed of ordinary magicians. You don't need to worry that I can't keep up with your evacuation speed." With a blush on her face, Yiya rejected my suggestion in a low but firm voice, without any sign of moving towards the magic circle.
"Okay! Then you will retreat with me. In that case, you should let your people retreat first! We don't have much time." I looked at Yiya deeply and changed the order immediately, letting Yiya stay. At the same time, I urged the last batch of evacuation troops to enter the magic circle immediately.
When the afterglow of the last magic circle flashed by, on the vast land in front of the City of Earth, the six magic teleportation arrays slowly stopped operating due to the exhaustion of magic power.
At the same time, as the Canglang Line of Defense fell, more and more troops followed Bout and evacuated. Many of them followed the direction of Bout's evacuation and rushed here. It seemed that the collapse of the Canglang Line of Defense was only a matter of time. Who asked their commander to be the first to flee
"My lord, my lord, the Five Beast Legion of Orcs is coming. As long as they dig through the north gate that we have blocked, they can immediately send cavalry to pursue us. Why are you still staying here?" Just as I was giving the order to withdraw the teleportation array and gathering those mages who had exhausted their magic power due to driving the magic array to prepare for evacuation, a voice that disgusted me came over.
"William, you finally got out. What's the situation? How long will it take for those orcs to rush out?"
"Sir, it is estimated that in less than an hour, those orcs will rush out. You haven't answered me yet why we haven't evacuated yet? In a while, it may be too late to run away even if we want to..." Hearing Bout's words, William hurriedly urged Bout to leave immediately.
"It doesn't matter. I think we have a good way to retreat. If nothing goes wrong, we can get to the rear and take a good breath in a few minutes... Ah! You guys, what are you doing? How can you dismantle the magic circle? Stop, you must send us away from here first..." Bout answered William very excitedly and proudly, and pointed to the teleportation arrays. But soon, Bout's face changed completely, because the magic circle he pinned his hopes on for evacuation had been torn to pieces by a group of magicians, and it could no longer carry his wishes. (To be continued)