Chapter 263 The Knights Set Out

Ridging on Corvis's eagle, he hurried back to Avalon from Redingburg.

Leon came to the griffin enclosure in the inner city and took the opportunity to visit the severely injured Deathclaw for the last time before leading the army to set off.

The giant beast, which was sleeping soundly in the enclosure, saw its familiar companion, and its mighty eagle beak made a humming sound of intimacy, and immediately came over to rub Leon's body.

Leon held the huge eagle head and stroked it for a long time before letting go of the increasingly affectionate big cuckoo.

Deathclaw, whose wings were seriously injured, still could not fly and could not return to its griffin nest tower. He could only lie in the shed under the newly built tower every day to recuperate.

After a period of recuperation, it at least looked much more energetic than before.

It is worthy of being a masterpiece of the King of France in ancient times. As long as there is enough food, the griffin can still gradually recover from the injuries that are enough to kill ordinary animals with its extraordinary vitality.

A crisp cry came from the side. Leon turned his head and saw that it was the little Goethe who had been curled up in his mother's arms. He suddenly flapped his wings and was awakened by the noise.

In fact, Leon felt that the "little" in the little Goethe in his heart could be almost removed now.

Although this griffin cub was only seven months old, it had grown to a size close to that of an adult male lion and had long learned to fly.

Since this kid could fly, he has never been idle. He has been playing in the sky of Avalon every day, or strolling around the castle.

Nowadays, the people in the territory are no longer surprised by this friendly and magical beast.

Leon let it go. First, with the wisdom of the griffin, it is impossible for it to get lost or run away. Second, the people in the territory basically know the names of "His Royal Highness Death Claw" and "His Royal Highness Goethe" and regard them as auspicious beasts guarding Avalon.

As a "male lion" with wings and can fly, ordinary people can hardly threaten them.

Besides, the griffins are extremely smart. Goethe grew up under their care and could understand human language and human writing. In terms of cultural level, he is much higher than his mother who has not been polluted by knowledge and is simple and clear.

Although it cannot carry people yet, even if it returns to the wilderness alone, Goethe is already an amphibious beast that can live freely.

However, it is not certain whether it is willing to give up the comfortable life of eating and sleeping in Avalon and return to the wild to become a "wild griffin". After all, even if it lives in Avalon and enjoys the service of humans, no one restricts its freedom. For it, everyone in Avalon is also its relatives.

Especially Corvis, who is simply another "mother" to it. Of course, Corvis always insists that little Goethe regards him as his father.

Leon held the old Goethe for a long time and played for a while before getting up from the death claws, rubbing Goethe's fat belly reluctantly, and saying goodbye to the griffin mother and son.

On this expedition, Leon would not be so crazy as to bring a seven-month-old young griffin with him.

Even though this little griffin has a strength far beyond that of ordinary natural beasts, it is still difficult to protect itself in a dangerous battlefield.

It is better to keep it as a little sheriff in Avalon to help Uncle Brian defend the territory and protect Deathclaw.

"Guard your mother at home and wait for us to come back."

Leon looked at Goethe who was lying back to Deathclaw obediently, waved his hand, and left the pen shed.

If only the three Ore Mountain Bear cubs locked in the back mountain could be so obedient to their relatives when they grow up.

Unfortunately, it is a fool's dream.

Leon went to fulfill the promise in the contract. He left the fortress from the side door of the castle and came to the side of the back mountain, in front of the cave where the Ore Mountain Bear cubs were temporarily kept.

The entrance and exit of the cave had been sealed with thick iron fences by Azerien's order, leaving only a small door locked with an iron chain.

Currently, two teams of soldiers take turns to clean and guard the cave.

In their spare time, several soldiers sit on stones and play with wooden cards. One soldier is teasing a young bear with the handle of a gun like a cat toy across the fence at the entrance of the cave.

". Lord!"

The soldiers guarding the bear cave did not expect the lord to come, and they stood up and saluted awkwardly.

Hearing the voice behind him, the soldier who was teasing the bear also quickly drew back his spear, turned around and straightened his body.

Leon smiled and waved his hand, and he didn't blame them for being lazy.

Guarding three young bears in this secluded place, guarding for a whole day, who wouldn't be bored after a long time.

"You go back to the castle first, and come back when I go back."

Leon sent them away temporarily.

After several soldiers left, he took out the black card from his waist bag.

The card face of the black Neti card is a ferocious giant bear appearing in the shadows of the night.

It opened its bloody fangs in a violent manner, and around the Dread Mountain Bear, there were hundreds of Wolf Family soldiers who were either fighting hard or scattering in panic.

Monster card, Dread Mountain Bear Callisto.

Turning to the back, the card back mark of this card is the gray-winged red sword mark that is exclusive to the Pendragon emblem.

Leon didn't know what caused it, but the summoning ceremony of the Neti card identified the belonging of the Dread Mountain Bear spirit as his own camp. Perhaps there is no concept of neutral creatures in this magic.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was watching, he injected magic power and activated the monster card in his hand.

The Neti card turned into flying light particles, and the huge magic power stirred up a gust of wind, reconstructing the giant beast of astonishing size.

Boom——.Under the weight of a giant beast that could not tell if it was more than ten tons or twenty tons, the ground was shaken and trembled.

The fierce forest king lowered his giant head silently and whispered in a menacing voice.

Leon looked at the violent female bear and was not afraid of it messing around.

After completing Laura's contract, Pai Ling couldn't move a hair on his body and had to completely obey the instructions. The command spells in some works he had seen in his previous life were more restrictive than the command spells in his previous life, and there would be no chance of him summoning a big daddy.

However, Leon had no intention of breaking his promise to this female bear.

He turned around and saw that the cub that had just been lying at the entrance of the cave was anxiously biting the iron fence in its mouth to get out after seeing its mother whom he had not seen for many days.

Even the other two in the cave, who were full of goat milk, smelled the scent of the female bear, and Sayazi ran to the entrance of the cave and called out.

Leon opened the iron chain that locked the entrance, and the three cubs immediately rushed out of the iron door anxiously and ran to the mother bear.

Seeing the lively cubs, the mother bear's eyes became softer.

The bear barked softly, and the mountain bear rumblingly lay down. The three cubs grabbed their mother's fur one by one, and they didn't calm down until they climbed back on the giant bear's back.

The female bear did not escape with them. Although it was not that intelligent, it also knew that it had nowhere to go as a card spirit.

Leon didn't urge him, and kept patiently watching the giant bear cooing with its offspring in the open space.

A few hours later, when the magic power was almost exhausted, he clapped his hands and reminded the mountain bear he named Callisto that it was time.

The mother bear, who was lying on her side to breastfeed her children, reluctantly got up and pushed away the napping cub in her arms.

It roared at Leon a few times, and turned into particles of light that dissipated all over the sky with some reluctance.

Guiding the condensed Neti card to float back into his hand, Leon looked at the three cubs.

The cubs suddenly lost their mother and were so anxious that Leon had to go over and take the running cubs back to the cave one by one.

According to his agreement with the female bear, he would raise the three cubs until the cubs were weaned and learned to hunt and survive, and then let them go free.

As a price, this mountain bear spirit will fight for itself.

Although he felt that it was an upright and fair transaction, for some reason, Leon always had the inexplicable illusion of turning into a yellow man.

In the next two days, Leon received the Knights of Hilalir who arrived in Avalon and opened the castle for them to come in for pilgrimage.

At the same time, he summoned the top brass of the Knights of Avalon to make final preparations for war with his companions and staff, inspecting supplies and ordnance, and arranging farewells for the soldiers who were about to go on the expedition and their families.

Every expedition may be the last time soldiers and their relatives see each other, not to mention that they are about to face a truly terrifying enemy without mercy.

Since returning to Avalon, Leon has not hidden from the soldiers the enemy they will face next.

The senior sergeants of the Knights also popularized the types and characteristics of the undead to all soldiers day and night.

Every word of those battle reports sent by Baron Ivan about the battle between the eastern army of Kantadar and the undead army is the experience gained by countless lives with blood.

Based on the information mentioned in the Yiwen letter, Leon roughly divided the currently known undead in the undead army into seven categories.

The first category is the "walking corpse" that accounts for the largest proportion.

They are ghouls transformed from ordinary corpses. They generally have no weapons and cannot use weapons. They only use their claws to tear living creatures apart. They are the main body of the undead army.

The second category is "undead soldiers". There are two types of undead.

One type is the "Ghoul Warriors", which are armored ghouls that still have dry flesh and blood. They were soldiers in the army during their lifetime.

The other type is "Skeleton Warriors", they are more like skeletons forcibly awakened from the tomb by unknown witchcraft, their joints are spliced ​​by bone spines, and they are completely inhuman.

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The third category is "ghosts and ghosts".

Wraiths have almost no entity to speak of, and ordinary swords cannot harm them at all. They can only be destroyed with fire, magic, and a few enchanted weapons.

The fourth category is "undead beasts".

There are too many types of such existences, from the common "winged corpse monsters", "giant bat ghosts", others such as "undead lions and scorpions", to some completely indescribable monsters stitched together by ghosts and ghosts. For the sake of convenience, you can temporarily sew them up. fall into this category.

The fifth category, which is more special, is the "Dead Knights". These powerful dead people who were martial knights in life seem to still retain some combat wisdom. Although they have little consciousness and cannot try to communicate, they can summon other warriors on the battlefield. Lower undead help him fight.

The sixth category is the commander of the undead army. There are two types.

One is the "corpse witch" transformed by a shaman during his lifetime.

One is the "ghoul lord" transformed by the leading nobles during their lifetime.

These two are the generals leading the army of the dead and the brains in the sea of ​​undead corpses.

Based on Ivan's observation, the undead army does not have a middle-level and grassroots command structure other than corpse witches and corpse lords.

Regardless of the size of the sea of ​​corpses, they only have these two undead generals to command and mobilize them.

Usually they have no tactics at all. They just focus on attacking targets and then attack with the whole army.

It stands to reason that if such a huge army is composed of living people and has such a rough command system, even if it is terrifyingly large, it can be easily defeated.

However, the bad thing is that the ghouls have no fear, no flinch, no morale, they are huge in number and require no logistics or rest.

A series of advantages beyond ordinary people's imagination have replaced most of the functions of mid-level and junior officers.

It seems that with their huge size and locked morale, no matter what enemy they face, the undead only need to know F2A.

After the military meeting dispersed, Leon, who took a breather, sat alone in the conference room and looked at the map in front of him.

Judging from the situation informed by Ivan, most of the land in the eastern part of Kantadar has completely lost contact with them.

The Undead Cloud now occupies more than 60% of the territory of Sobonitz Territory.

If the scale of the undead raging in other eastern counties of Kantadar is the same as that in Bardim County.

Leon estimated in his mind that the number of undead in this area would probably not be less than half a million.

A desperate number.

But Leon understood that this was his most conservative estimate after excluding survivors and escapees.

According to the situation reported by Baron Ivan, before the disaster struck, the Sobonits Territory had a population of more than 1.5 million.

In fact, this is only the current situation facing the Kantadar battlefield.

What about Serian?

Ever since he learned that the Church of the Holy Sun had sent an envoy to contact Ledwin III to fight against the enemy together, Leon knew that the disaster was spreading in more than one direction.

Are we also facing hundreds of thousands of undead on the front lines in Serian?

The last thing Leon wanted to think about, but what he had to think about, was that there were probably more than 300,000 dead in the Loranal area that had been massacred and plundered. If the situation on the other side was critical, and the war had been going on for so long, the undead in Serian would snowball. To what extent?

It is indeed a natural disaster

Feeling powerless, he slowly closed his eyes. Leon only hoped that Ledwin had launched a comprehensive military edict in all the kingdom's territories at this moment.

The king currently has about 30,000 to 40,000 southern levy troops, which is a combined army of part of the "Kronya Territory", "Vest Territory", and the entire "Grey Shirt Valley Territory".

But according to Lord Elif’s discussion not long ago, if the remaining “Falayel Territory”, “Beladen Territory”, “Ostania Territory”, “Carsom Territory” and “Lotus Territory” can be mobilized, "Manling" has five large territorial areas. In theory, it is not a problem to recruit another 100 to 150,000 troops.

What's more, the West Territory and Cronia Territory have not yet sent out all their troops.

The thing is, theories are just theories.

In this era, it is not easy to mobilize and assemble a national army of this size.

Leon shook his head. This headache was Ledwin's problem. He couldn't care what the other lords in the kingdom thought. He could only do his best at the moment.

Standing up, he walked out of the conference room and opened the corridor window, looking at the city of Avalon Castle.

From here, you can see that the barracks fortress to the east of the middle area has been filled with soldiers stationed there.

With the full strength of the Knights' army, Leon gave them a new internal organization in order to boost their morale.

The three rifle and shield infantry companies that constitute the main body of the army are now known as "Blade Wings".

The elite company of crossbowmen equipped with fire arrows specially made for the undead was named "Fire Crow Wings". Since they were all called Crow Wings, he simply equipped each of them with war horses.

Anyway, there are not that many qualified cavalry in Avalon. The one hundred and dozens of Uriah horses that will be added after the expansion of the cavalry force cannot be kept idle and they can simply increase the mobility of the fire arrow shooters.

As for the most elite heavy cavalry company of the Knights, they are called "Griffin Wings". They wear the best and finest armor and carry the most complete weapons. They are the aces who charge with the knights.

Counting dozens of knights errant who had gathered for the chivalrous oath, and one hundred and fifty conscripted militiamen to escort supplies, this was the entire force that was about to go on the expedition.

Of course, there is also the thousand-strong Knights of the Holy Lake army.

Leon was grateful that Laura's prophetic ability had prepared such a powerful army for him early without any salary.

Although they don't want money, Avalon still wants face, and Leon will still provide necessary food and grass supplies to this friendly army.

In this expedition, except for the ten cavalrymen led by Uncle Brian and the two hundred levies who stayed to defend Avalon Castle, all members of the Knights will be dispatched.

The 1,700 Avalon and Holy Lake coalition forces, plus the 2,000 Thorn Flower soldiers that Earliver is currently in Glade County, have prepared.

An army of more than 3,700 people was all the force he could muster to help Ivan at the moment.

Of course, our own teacher Laura is indispensable.

Leon pressed his chest, feeling that Miss Holy Prophet was already with him, although in Elliot's view, he was just leading the army to delay the defense work of Orland and the country.

But he knew that there was only one real goal from beginning to end.

Find an opportunity and take Laura back to Rolannar.

He didn't know what Miss Dharmaraja could do, but he could probably guess something based on his imagination.

Perhaps, only by retrieving her remains in the great temple can this ancient magic emperor regain his magic power and reverse the current crisis.