"The beast tide is coming!... So many... so many, many, many! I can't see the end here! There are too many of them!" Leah, who was standing on the cliff and responsible for the reconnaissance (actually because she was the weakest), was Excluded from the battle and having nothing to do, her expectant eyes finally saw the shadow of the beast tide, and she couldn't wait to start warning.
Unfortunately, her exaggerated scream made the hearts of the soldiers under the cliff sink.
"Shut up! You yellow-haired girl! You have only seen a few beasts... The total number of enemies we have killed is more than the salt you have eaten!" Ella yelled, stopped Leah and continued to talk about those who would Words that shake the morale of the military. Not only that, she also inspired her comrades a little bit - just listening to their muffled laughter, you can tell that these people really like to watch the drama between two beautiful women.
"Why are you laughing? Lower your bodies and hide behind the shield!"
Due to lack of preparation time, Ella finally had time to pile a rough "dragon" in the narrowest part of the canyon. Only the dragon head is real, and the bottom is just a pile of rocks. God knows how useful this can be! Fortunately, the stone pile with the dragon's head stood in the center of the canyon, and its size alone cut off about one-third of the canyon passage.
The remaining two-thirds are blocked by two shield walls.
The comrades-in-arms group is also called the "shield mate group" because the soldiers who join are required to choose a companion to be their "shield mate" - meaning "the person who can protect their back." Therefore, in order to fulfill their duties, almost every member has a well-made pure metal shield produced by Sky Forge!
Even Ella, a huntress whose main weapon is a bow and arrow, is no exception.
Now these shields are neatly arranged in a shield wall - the knight shield is next to the large buckler, the owl shield and the tower shield are tightly squeezed together, forming an indestructible line of defense!
In order to increase the impact resistance, the lower end of the shield was equipped with a spear tip and inserted into the Gobi Desert, and the tree trunk was supported behind the shield. This is all the preparations possible. The soldiers of the Comrades Group lowered their bodies one by one and hid behind the low "city wall". They pressed their shoulders against the shield and waited quietly for the impact.
"Here they come! They rushed into the canyon!" Leah persisted in her useless alarm work.
The earth trembled slightly under the galloping horses, as if a drum was beating on everyone's heart! No beasts can be seen from this end of the canyon, only the dust storm raised by the beast tide is rushing towards this side! The soldiers of the Comrades formed two lines of defense alone. In front of them was the indestructible torrent, and behind them was the granary that the entire Skyrim Province relied on for the winter! They have no retreat...
"Hold on!" Ella yelled in a rough voice.
The soldiers all lowered their heads and gritted their teeth.
"hold fast!!"
Their muscles tensed and the veins on their necks bulged.
"hold fast!!!"
The shield friends put their feet together, clasped their arms, and held on to their companions!
"Impact!"
"Ho~~~~!"
Like a long bow with its string loosened, the warriors pressed their shoulders against the shield and thrust it forward with all their strength!
The soldiers with their heads lowered could not see what was happening ahead, but they fully believed in Aila's command ability.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!", the final counterattack was timed just right! The warriors who pushed forward collided head-on with the beasts through their shields! Then they blocked and stood their ground!
First, relying on the disguised dragon, the last remaining power after death, frightened some of the beasts; then the timely counterattack of the comrades again offset part of the impact force; finally, when the shield bounced back, it was tilted again The last layer of strength was eliminated from the supporting tree trunk.
Three times in a row, the tide of beasts hit the shore like a storm, with twists and turns!
When the surging beast tide was finally blocked from the front, the shield wall was not broken!
Lions, wild wolves, saber-toothed tigers, elk... countless beasts running in front of the beast tide were mounted on the shield wall, and many beasts suffered broken bones and tendons - the beasts were running away in a panic, and there was no way to escape. What unified command? It was entirely out of their genetic fear of dragons that they ran from the Jellal Mountains to the White River Valley. Now that the beast tide had long since fled, they were exhausted, and coupled with being trapped in such a sudden way, their momentum suddenly collapsed, and many of them stopped.
Only the beasts in front stood still, while those behind continued to pour into the canyon.
This is an hourglass-like canyon, narrowing in the middle and flaring on both sides, which originally had an accumulation effect. The comrades' position is located in the narrowest place, and their behavior is like trying to build a dam that can stop the flood - now the dam and the flood meet in a narrow way!
Whether the dam can hold back the flood or whether the flood eventually breaks the dam is completely unknown.
"Back off, light the fire!" Seeing that the most ferocious first impact was blocked, Ella finally breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that the beasts were gathering more and more, her eyes began to move, and she immediately issued the second step of the order.
The soldiers of the Comrade Corps pulled up their shields, turned around and ran away. The farmer hiding behind them lit the torch and threw it onto the straw pile where they were standing. The wheat straw was piled in a shallow ditch and had been poured with grease in advance. Now when it is roasted by a torch, it immediately burns fiercely and turns into a river of flames.
The beasts are afraid of fire. The beasts in front of them immediately fled backwards, while the beasts behind them were still rushing forward, becoming confused in front and back, and the chaotic waves were still spreading backwards.
"The situation looks good, but the biggest danger has not yet come. You know, the flames can't be stopped for long." Cisco Moon, who retreated, happened to stand next to Ella and whispered. "In this case, unless a dozen of us all transform into werewolves..."
"No, that's absolutely impossible!" Before Cisco could finish speaking, Ella interrupted him decisively.
"There are too many outsiders here," she said sternly in a low voice as she glanced at the farmers who were helping to maintain the front line. "And once word spreads... there are a large number of werewolves among the members of the Comrades? I don't have to care about myself! Or I don't care about the pursuit of the Silver Hands! But the five thousand years of glory since Sgramer founded the Comrades... The tradition my mother and my mother’s mother upheld must never be stained!”
She said it categorically, leaving no room for negotiation.
Yes, there are conflicts wherever there are people, and the core "circle" of the comrades is no exception.
Because of the differences in beliefs between werewolves and Nords, the core "circle" of the comrades has actually been vaguely divided into two factions - one of which is like Cisco Moon, who believes that werewolf blood is a gift. They hope to replace the Nordic tradition of the Comrades with a new bloodline tradition, which will rectify the name of the werewolf bloodline and allow the Comrades to return to the world stage; while the other group believes that the werewolf bloodline is a curse, and they are constantly trying to expel these curses. Return to the body of an ordinary Nord.
The leader of the Comrades, Korak Whitebeard, used to be a member of the first faction when he was young, but as he grew older and death approached, his longing for Sognard made him lean more and more towards the second faction. But for him, whether he can go to Sognard after death is a personal matter. He will never use this matter to drag down the entire group of comrades; and Ella is similar. She believes in Hircine and likes the power of transforming into a werewolf, but There is no rejection of those who oppose the werewolf bloodline.
This makes her, like Korak Whitebeard, a middle figure between the two factions - which is why Ayla is not smart, but Korak will hand over the command to her. She knows when to stand up for her principles and uphold the traditions of her comrades. Cisco Moon wanted to take the opportunity to expose the werewolf bloodline of her comrades, which she would never allow.
"Cisco Moon, I'm staring at you! Besides, don't forget that there are Silver Hands, they are not that easy to deal with..." Ella looked directly at Cisco Moon, until he looked away, then she loudly said, "Everyone Everyone, raise your bows! Prepare to fire!"
Unfortunately, her bow died before she could take off. Ella looked around, grabbed a huge rock, and held it above her head.
"Listen to my orders, 1...2..."
Wheat straw burns quickly and the grease is not endless. After the initial deflagration, the moat formed by the flames was rapidly decreasing and was about to burn out. The fear of dragons is deeply rooted in the blood of beasts, and they cannot resist it out of nature. If you want to drive away the beast tide, just blocking is not enough, you must also use greater fear to drive away their fear of dragons! The first two steps are just the appetizer, a killing is inevitable!
Ella looked around and sighed silently in her heart - she didn't know how many members would survive after this battle...
"3-Shoot!!!"
She threw the boulder in her hand hard!
"Whoosh~!" "Whoosh~!" "Whoosh~!"
The deafening sound of breaking wind flew past Ella's cheek, adding an extra blood stain to her face with three claw marks!
The salvo happened, but it was not from the side of the comrades, but from the other side of the river of fire.
A chain of arrows like raindrops, metal shafts and feathers passed through the sea of fire, whizzing like a strong wind.
Those sharp arrows not only knocked the arrows just shot by the comrades away not far from the string, but also broke the arms of the longbows held by the soldiers! Some of the remaining arrows penetrated the decoration of the helmet, and some nailed someone's iron boots to the ground - they were always on target, but they were merciless!
After the arrow rain, except for the scratches on Ella's face, everyone in the comrades group was attacked, but no one was injured! What kind of magical archery is this? ! Even Ella couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
However, even though all the arrows shot were blocked, the boulder thrown by Ella still rolled and hit an area where wolves gathered - everyone looked at the boulder nervously. They knew that the person who stopped them from shooting arrows would not sit back and watch this giant dragon smash the wolves into bloody pieces.
He either stops the boulder, or he can't stop the boulder, but can attack Ella for "revenge"... Cisco Moon rushes to Ella's side and raises his shield!
"Wushuang!" In this tense atmosphere, they heard someone shout two words loudly - and then a white saber-toothed tiger as tall as a man jumped out of the herd and rushed to the bottom of the rock.
Because the speed was so fast and sudden, they only saw a figure sitting on the tiger's back. Immediately afterwards, his vision was blocked by the falling rocks, and he couldn't see what was happening behind the rocks. But with "Clang~~!" Two harsh friction sounds, two cross-shaped rays of light penetrated the rock from behind!
Then with a horizontal stroke and a vertical slash, the light cut the giant rock into four petals! Unparalleled rock-cutting sword!
The broken rocks flew in different directions, but they all gave way to the herd.
The separated giant rock finally revealed the scene behind it - a giant white saber-toothed tiger lying among the wolves. The man sitting on it, with his back to the direction of the comrades, was slowly inserting his swords back. The scabbard on the back.
The man was wearing emerald green full-body armor and a helmet, but instead of leg armor, his lower body was divided into three large pieces of skirt armor, which seemed to be for the convenience of riding.
The saber-toothed tiger that fell into the wolf pack was not besieged by the wolves - it stands to reason that the beasts would not understand who stopped the falling rocks and then expressed gratitude... They could not understand such a complicated cause-and-effect relationship - but the wolves But he didn't attack the saber-toothed tiger, and he didn't show any threatening teeth-baring behavior, which was very strange. Similarly, the giant tiger just squeezed away the wolf next to it, allowing it to move more freely, and then stayed there obediently.
What's even more strange is that the man was walking leisurely among the wild beasts, and no wild beast took the opportunity to attack the back of his neck. This couldn't be more strange!
As for the warriors of the Comrades, Ella's words are not bragging, they are all good hunters. Now that he saw this unconventional scene, he was stunned for a moment and did not continue to attack according to Aila's order. And Ella also felt in a dilemma, how to fight when humans and beasts are mixed together? The sudden situation made her, who was already not good at adapting, scratch her head even more.
The man patted the sitting tiger again, seeming to be saying something. The saber-toothed tiger roared in response, seeming to express some dissatisfaction, but why did it sound like a cat acting coquettishly?
Hearing this cry, Ella, who loves big cats deeply, was hit in the heart and her eyes were narrowed in joy. Everyone saw the saber-toothed tiger taking two steps back, then running wildly, using his strength to jump... His huge body stretched out his limbs powerfully, and he actually jumped over the sea of fire!
The members of the comrades-in-arms group had not retreated very far. The white tiger jumped over the fire wall and took two more buffer steps to reach the edge of the second shield wall.
With such a big tiger standing in front of me, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous! Besides, the tiger's eyes are as big as a human's, and the eyeballs are bigger than fists - it's lying down, how big do you think this tiger is! The soldiers in front felt their hearts jumping into their throats. Although they were very brave and held on without retreating, they all raised their shields.
As a result, the man glanced at these people nonchalantly, and finally stopped at Ella.
"Are you the woman who just threw the stone? Why did you throw the stone? She is a mother for the first time, and she is already mentally fragile. You almost scared her into miscarriage just now!"
Psychologically fragile? abortion? You mean wolf?
The men in the comrades group subconsciously turned to look at the wolves, and sure enough they saw a wolf with a round belly being protected by the wolves in the center. It was really a female wolf with a child! ...But when the stone fell, it shouldn't have caused a miscarriage, but it would have been smashed into pulp, right?
"How do I know she's pregnant?! I just threw rocks in any direction..." Faced with this man's groundless accusation, Ella felt inexplicably guilty... She reluctantly defended herself, but her voice became smaller and smaller. .
etc! This speaking voice...
"You are a woman?!" Ella shouted in shock.
The men in the comrades-in-arms group were immediately shocked, and many of them even punched themselves in the head! Damn it, I said something was wrong just now - it turned out to be the sound! That voice is a woman's voice! But my focus was on the she-wolf who stupidly turned around to see that she was pregnant... My sensitivity was not even comparable to that of Ella, a man-in-law. I really deserved to be single for the rest of my life!
"What's wrong with women? Do you look down on women?"
Soft words are like a spring breeze.
As if she felt it was impolite, she took off her helmet while speaking... Her long golden hair poured down from the helmet, splashing randomly on the emerald green shoulder armor. Snow-white skin, perfect chiseled cheeks, and a pair of eyes as blue as lake water, shining in the firelight!
She just sat sideways on the tiger's back, and it seemed as if the brightest star had risen in the sky...
"This is the first time we meet, I am Evanstadt," she said a beautiful-sounding name in an unknown language, and then switched to common language.
"You can call me Eveningstar."
