Although not in the north, Stoker people also have a bad impression of winter, which symbolizes coldness and desolation. But only this year, only this winter, almost all Stoke people are looking forward to it being longer and longer. They even feel that it is not unacceptable to live in such a harsh environment forever.
Because the Stoker people themselves also understand that when these biting cold ice and snow melt, it is the day when their homeland will be baptized by the fire of the northerners. Although the cold is bitter, it will not destroy their families or leave their homes. And when the horseshoes of the northerners arrived, what they had to endure was far from as simple as shivering from the cold.
But spring will come after all. Because although the ice and snow temporarily stopped the northerners from going south, it could not freeze the passage of time. The warmth of spring gradually dissipates the coldness of ice and snow, and dots of green begin to appear on the continent again. From a natural perspective, abundant vitality is something that can be seen everywhere.
But things in the world are so ironic, just like shadows only appear where there is light. In such a new season that was supposed to be full of hope and vitality, destruction and killing filled the entire southern continent. Because... the northerners' attack began again.
Poof!
Lisanna calmly withdrew her blast from the enemy's throat, and blood spurted out from the Stoker soldier's throat. Due to the squeeze of the heart, some of the blood spattered onto Lisanna's body, which was covered with sword marks. on the old armor. But the girl didn't care about this at all. She kicked the Stoker away and then looked for the next enemy indifferently.
When facing the Stokers, Lisanna's swordsmanship was always the most deadly and ruthless. Anyone unfamiliar with Lisanna will have an inexplicable fear of her after seeing her fight. Because she clearly has pink hair that symbolizes softness and tenderness, and she looks like a gentle and quiet girl. But every time she was on the battlefield, her performance was even more eye-catching than some male warriors.
Because Lisanna never pursues other things when killing, she will not consider whether she will be stained with blood after this blow, nor will she consider the gorgeousness and ornamental value of her movements and postures. Lisanna always pursues only one goal in battle, which is to kill the enemy with the simplest and fastest movements. If she cannot kill, she will pursue causing maximum damage to the enemy.
Because of this, enemies under Lisanna's sword usually have very hideous wounds. Those soldiers who fought with her still remember that Lisanna once got her sword stuck in an enemy's body, so she straightened out the poor guy's spine...
Therefore, many warriors feel that although Lisanna looks sunny and warm, she is actually a pervert with a twisted bloodthirsty heart. Although they were somewhat grateful that this pervert was on their side, to be honest, the warriors of the Golden Eagle Knights were only in awe of Lisanna, but it was hard to accept.
And this is one of the reasons why Lisanna became Alexander's personal guard. Lisanna was indeed subtly isolated there.
Lisanna stooped forward, her body moving through the battlefield like a ghost. The two swords in her hands flew alternately. She drew the sword accurately and quickly, delivering fatal blows to passing enemies while running rapidly.
And if Lisanna fails to hit with one blow, she will not stop fighting. Her fighting method of running and attacking is actually a kind of fighting skill. It was modified and created by Malolite based on her fighting method in the Wind Dance state. And give it to Lisanna. Malolite was named the Shadow of the Reaper in a very good way.
With Lisanna's current physical fitness and nerve reflex speed, she can barely maintain high-speed movement, and she can also grasp the timing of drawing her sword while moving. However, she was unable to perform rapid changes of direction while moving at high speed like Malolite. If she could not do this, she was destined to be unable to repeatedly hit the same target when using this fighting technique. And once she stops, her body's mobility will be greatly reduced due to the overload of running, and even her fighting ability will be temporarily reduced.
Lisanna focused her fighting energy on her legs. She used slight deviations to avoid the warrior blocking her. If it was an enemy, she would wield the Swift Wind Shadow and slash the guy.
"Seven...eight..." Every time Lisanna draws her sword, she can judge whether she has killed the enemy with just the touch on her wrist. As she shuttled across the battlefield, drawing her sword, she silently counted the numbers in her mind.
Lisanna was counting how many enemies she had killed in this battle. By nature, Lisanna doesn't like killing, nor does she like bringing blood and pain to others. But the scene of her mother's death always haunts her like a curse, so whenever she encounters a Stoker, the Lisanna that people see in normal life will die. Instead, there is this pink evil spirit that harvests the enemy's life like a machine.
But this evil ghost still retains a glimmer of kindness. So every time Lisanna kills, she will record how many lives have died under her swords. Then when the battle is over and it is completely safe, Lisanna will pray devoutly and repent, hoping that those who died because of her will The departed souls can rest in peace.
"Thirteen...fourteen..."
Lisanna feels that her physical strength has reached its limit, because she will fall into weakness every time she uses Reaper's Shadow, so this fighting skill is usually used by Lisanna as a finishing move when the battlefield situation is completely clear. At present, it seems that she should have killed more than a dozen enemies in this battle.
"fifteen… "
Lisanna's speed dropped sharply due to the exhaustion of her physical strength. In the end, she wielded the blast and chopped off an enemy's head directly. Then she staggered and fell to the ground under the astonished eyes of her comrades who were fighting with the enemy.
"Being a woman... really brings a lot of inconveniences!" Lisanna's face turned slightly red, and she thought to herself while taking a deep breath to regain her strength. Fifteen enemies was not a record she could be proud of, but there was nothing she could do about it. Because... her relatives have come these two days...
As long as they are girls with normal development, even high-level warriors still cannot get rid of the troubles of their relatives.
Lisanna turned over with difficulty and sat on the ground, and then began to think about the war experiences between the two empires during this period.
The Hawke Empire's army has been in high morale since the beginning of spring, and now the battlefield on the eastern plains of the continent has shown a one-sided situation. The northern soldiers marched straight in. The Stokers were like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered in front of the northern army equipped with dark elf equipment and magic cannons.
The northerners are now unstoppable, directly entering the borders of the Stoke Empire, and with the pleasure of revenge, they can inflict on others the suffering that the southerners have inflicted on themselves.
Moreover, the army of the Hawke Empire is currently mixed with barbarian troops. These barbarians who came down from the snow and ice plateau in the north were the best at plundering and destroying. They wreaked havoc in the occupied southern villages at will. Destruction, killing, rape, looting, arson, etc. were what they were best at.
According to the intelligence obtained by Regner, some barbarians even hid Stoker babies under one year old in the army. Why? To raise? No no no! They do it so they can feast when no one is around.
Incidents of barbarians eating babies have occurred in many armies, causing the Hawke Empire's military to be at the forefront of public opinion for a while. Cannibalism is something that no matter whether it is a northerner or a southerner, as long as he is a normal human being, it is difficult to accept it.
In the end, Alexander, as the current de facto supreme commander of the military, could only order that the barbarians within the army were strictly prohibited from committing such heinous acts of cannibalism again, and asked other human soldiers to jointly supervise them. Moreover, in order to establish his authority, Alexander also executed several barbarians with arrogant attitudes as a warning. Only then did this kind of crazy thing slowly come to an end.
However, cannibalism is easy to restrict, and the rations provided by the empire this year are not bad anyway. But Alexander couldn't control the plundering of the army. Because not only barbarians would do this, but also the human soldiers of the Hawk Empire. And these humans had their own reasons: because the Stokers had done the same thing to them.
In the end, Alexander could only let his troops burn, kill, and plunder the enemy's land. As long as he didn't go too far, the second prince would not dig into it.
Lisanna has been following Alexander, and she naturally understands how painful it is for the prince who has always been upright and bright to make such a decision. Therefore, even though Lisanna herself had a soul-derived aversion to harming civilians, she still did not take advantage of her proximity to Alexander to say even one more word.
But now, Lisanna is still following Alexander to fight everywhere.
Because the war in the east had basically subsided, Alexander began to focus on the western battlefield at this time. Two years ago, Saron used an unimaginably huge magic circle to teleport tens of thousands of soldiers into the fortress, launching an unprecedented siege.
After losing the Costa Fortress as a support point, the Hawke Empire army could only withdraw from the western mountains and gave up part of the plains as a buffer to defend the Stoke Empire's attack.
However, as the pressure on the eastern battlefield dropped sharply, the Hawke Empire finally had enough energy to deal with the passive situation in the west.
Alexander therefore came to the southwest of the empire, where he would personally command the army to retake the Costa Fortress. Today's battle is just an encounter with the remaining forces in the north of the Stoke Empire. Although the enemy's number was more than twice that of his own, Alexander was protected by the Knights of the Golden Eagle, who were feared by the Stokerians. Therefore, this battle was more of a one-sided massacre than an encounter.
And now, the massacre is finally coming to an end.