Chapter 546: The Imprint Appears

It was nearly June, and the temperature in the western part of the Karen Kingdom was gradually rising, and the visibility under the scorching sun was extremely high in the clear sky. When looking from the height of "Palov Fort", you can have a panoramic view of nearly 100 kilometers.

From the scarred walls, it can be seen that the castle has not been repaired for a long time. After all, this is the central area of ​​the Karen Kingdom, more than 50 kilometers to the west, and after crossing the north-south Mel River, it is the Efta territory that is currently the most discussed by the Karen people.

Looking east from here, one can vaguely see the prosperous corner of Bergen's territory at the end of the field of vision. Compared with the Bergen Territory, which is backed by the royal capital, the status of the Castel Territory where "Parlov Fort" is located is very embarrassing - the income is average, the strength is half, the number of knights is average, and the strength of the nobles is average. It seems that everything here is in the "No up, no down" state.

"Rada, do you have any plans for the evening?"

"What arrangements can I make? It seems that the little salary you just took is not enough to go to Fuli Lane to play? Don't ask me, I won't borrow money."

The bored guards leaned against the city wall and chatted. The fort here was built early, with a simple and clumsy style. When standing on the corridor of the city wall, they could only observe the distance through a small opening tens of centimeters square. And counting, there has been no war here for more than ten years. Even if they knew that the Efta territory was being invaded by orcs, they never thought about the possibility of being attacked.

"How long do you think Everta can last?"

"Who knows, I've never seen an orc, maybe I'll retreat after a few beatings."

"Earl Mirno didn't mean that the Duchess of Efta was treasonous or something. He seems to be planning to lead troops to recover the territory of Efta."

"If you want to go, go, anyway, we can't call us, let me say-uh, what is that?"

The guard named Lada glanced at the observation port on the wall next to him, stopped and looked out for a few seconds, and asked strangely: "The troops from Efta? Are they nobles who were repelled by the orcs?"

"Where is it? Let me see."

The companion next to him pushed him away and took a closer look—not to mention the number of scouts these days, the guards in the entire territory probably didn't even know how to read. What does that black shadow on the ground mean.

"Should I report to the lord?"

"I can tell you something, after all, didn't Earl Mirno say he would send troops to fight them?"

As soon as the two guards got together, they quickly reported to the team leader that "unknown troops were found in the distance". The latter was busy playing dice with several other subordinates at this time, so he didn't care about anything else. Just in time to bet on the right number, he rolled up more than 30 copper coins and put them in his pocket. When he got excited, he completely forgot what the two guards said just now.

"Come on, come on, I will win all your money today!"

Time passed like this, and after two hours, the captain, who had made a lot of money, suddenly saw the two subordinates running over in a panic—"Captain! There are, there are, there are teams rushing over!"

"What's wrong with rushing over here? Which nobleman has nothing to do and ran to the fortress to squat? If he really came over, go to the door and ask him what he is doing!" He said while betting a handful of copper coins in the "small" area Inside, he continued playing without raising his head.

But then, the sudden loud shouts caused the crowd to raise their heads.

The team leader got up and yelled: "What are you yelling for? How dare you come to the fortress to rob in broad daylight?"

He got up and walked a few steps, looked down from the gap in the battlement, but sat down on the ground with an "ow" sound...

A few guards who didn't know why looked over together, but saw more than a hundred strong orcs riding wargs rushing into the castle without hindrance, swinging knives and killing soldiers and civilians who were fleeing everywhere, no one could stop them!

And looking out of the city, there are nearly a thousand infantry arrays following behind, all of them holding weapons in their hands, full of evil spirits!

The guards had no time to tell whether the village in the distance had been captured, because the moment the orcs entered their field of vision, the fate of this territory had already been changed...

Sauron's soldiers are obviously more disciplined than other warlords,

Even if they broke into the castle, there was no scene of complete burning, killing and looting. A team of superintendents suppressed the orc soldiers who might get out of control. They did not stay in the outer city with a large number of humans, but quickly captured the gates of each city in small groups, and then directly entered the inner city, overthrown The captain of the guard and soldiers tried to resist and took complete control of the entire castle.

This process went smoothly beyond imagination, and the orcs didn't even encounter decent resistance from the beginning to the end. And when Sauron stepped up to the highest tower of the castle, the six villages in the vicinity of the field of vision were billowing black smoke pillars for notification.

"Great chief, why are the humans here so vulnerable? They are like lambs!"

Sauron's deputy sighed. He felt that the scene in front of him was like a dream: more than 30,000 orcs were unable to attack Efta for a long time, struggling to support almost to the verge of running out of ammunition and food, but only laid down one fortress. But for such a big castle right now, with 1,400 people rushing over, it only took 20 minutes to declare the complete capture of it.

"Six villages have been captured by us, now we don't have to worry about the food problem anymore! Great chief, no wonder you have to abandon most of your luggage and rush all the way here. It turns out that their hinterland is not fortified at all!"

The other deputy couldn't hide the joy in his heart, he wanted to scream a few times - as a subordinate of the great chief, he had been ridiculed by several warlords before, and now with such a result, it really made all the orcs who followed Sauron Feel elated.

"This is just the beginning, we can't stop, otherwise it will be difficult to get out after the other party reacts." Sauron didn't show emotion on his face, he didn't come here to see the scenery. Turning his head and looking at the still calm Bergen territory, he stretched out his fingers and said, "Choose out thinner wolf cavalry, let them put on human robes, and mount human horses to scatter for scouting. I need information about those fortresses." .”

"Yes! Great Chief!"

"Rado, restrain the subordinates who control the village, and let them not kill people. We need to have enough logistics troops to transport food. We can't do this by ourselves, understand?"

"Yes! Great Chief!"

"Counting the weapons and protective gear, I will celebrate our warriors tonight," Sauron stood on the tower, raising his fist at the orcs looking up below: "Long live the orcs!"

"Long live the orcs!"

The shouts were deafening.

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"They are attacking Elson City, Your Majesty."

In the palace, Earl Mirno was bowing deeply, reporting the latest battle situation to Charles II in a low voice: "A fortress in Efta has begun to fall, although they held on for a long time before, but now this line of defense has collapsed. There is a breach. The orcs are not stupid, they will soon gain the upper hand and smash Sally's line of defense..."

Although Mirno was trying to control his emotions, the distorted hatred still made him grit his teeth in the last few words.

Charles II naturally understood the meaning, but he would not persuade him at all. As a monarch, he wished that there would be as many courtiers as possible who worked hard like this—needless to say, Mirno had already handled Efta's affairs properly, so why would he be dissatisfied?

"What do you think of the orc army? Tell me."

Charles II sat casually on the armchair, tapping the back of the chair with four fingers in an orderly manner, but he was thinking about when to send people to negotiate with the orcs.

"They don't know anything about siege, but they have strong combat capabilities in the plains." Mirno said truthfully, "Sally's line of defense consists of a series of fortresses and castles. They can't make any city equipment well, but now they've figured out the trick..."

Charles II laughed twice, and waved his hand: "If you want to fight on the plains, it is enough to send Earl Moore to organize his cavalry. Let those orcs see the real strength of my Karen royal family, and they will naturally know what to do .Let’s let Efta consume their energy for the time being, otherwise these guys probably won’t be willing to sit down and negotiate.”

The Earl of Moore was Charles II's right-hand man. That skinny old man was unambiguous in his battles. The victories over the years are here, and Charles II has full confidence in him-not to mention persecuting the orcs, but also defeating Efta by the way. , that should all be a matter of "hands-on".

"Your Majesty is wise!"

"Okay, Mirno, you have worked hard these days." Charles II got up and walked to Mirno, and patted him on the shoulder, "When I wipe out Efta, you have at least 50% of the work. I won't forget it."

Milno bowed deeply, knowing that his position in the eyes of Charles II was completely stable.

But at this moment, he is looking forward to one more thing, which is to let Rody die at the hands of the orcs as soon as possible...

But he never imagined that Rody wasn't in Elson City at all. The witcher was studying the "abilities" of the tieflings in front of him with Melinthra in a dry room—there were only 20 cavalry and barbarian soldiers who were originally in the village. .

There are still three days before the decisive battle with Dasco, and Roddy still looks relaxed. But only he himself knew that the purpose of studying tiefling's abilities at this time was actually to figure out what Augustine was looking for.

Among these tieflings, Elder Luther is the most powerful one. After his transformation, his strength has almost skyrocketed tenfold. If he is armed enough, he will definitely be a tank-like existence on the battlefield - why his body can undergo such a mutation, Roddy and Melinsera are very curious.

In order to study the influence of "infection" on the tiefling, Merlinsera tried various methods to measure the strange power in Luther's body. After finding that the results were not clear, she finally decided to cut a small wound and use magic detection to determine what changes would happen to the tiefling's blood during the transformation.

"ha!"

Luther transformed obediently, and the wound on his forearm quickly healed with the effect of the transformation, but the blood that flowed out released lavender light and fluctuations under the control of Merlinsera's spell , Rody raised his eyebrows, a little surprised at the power released by the blood, he turned his head to say something to Merlinsera, but saw her complexion suddenly changed, watching him take several steps back...

Luo Di's heart suddenly tightened. Even if he didn't look in the mirror, he could still feel the slight burning sensation in his left eye.

A dazzling platinum halo appeared around the pupil, and the appearance of the "Dragon Slayer Mark" meant that a giant dragon appeared within 10 kilometers...

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