Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

In addition to Judy, some beastmen also showed similar expressions. Although they were new beastmen, beastmen who had escaped the influence of chaos under the glory of the Earth Mother Goddess, they still retained some of the instincts of chaotic beastmen in their hearts, and were warlike.

Judy's words were echoed by many beastmen. As the enemy was in such a bad state, many beastmen did not have enough fun in this ambush, and most of the beastmen's weapons were not stained with blood.

So, before Lind spoke, the beastmen were all in a state of "Let's fight", "Let's fight", and "Your Highness the Son of God, let's fight".

Linde really wanted to say, "Comrades, we can't fight," but he held back and looked at Ranna instead.

After listening to Fran's report, Ranna looked thoughtful. She was surprised that Ji Yang IX's team could react so quickly.

"How did Jiyang IX's team know that the other team was attacked?" Ran Na looked thoughtful. "Did anyone withdraw?"

"No, all the enemies are here, no one has escaped." Fenrir replied, and the group did not find anyone escaping.

"That's right. Even if someone escaped, they couldn't possibly join up with Jiyang IX's team in such a short time." Ran Na shook her head. "Did the enemy find out the situation here by some means?"

"That Kado's magic or divine power?" Lind thought of the knight who was knocked unconscious by Schnee's body fragrance. "That man named Kado seems to have a special kind of magic that can possess other people remotely. In addition to that knight, it is not surprising that these people have similar situations."

"That makes sense." Ran Na nodded in agreement. "In that case, the earliest time the enemy would react would be when they were poisoned..."

"Ms. Fran, how long will it take for the enemy to arrive?"

"Based on their speed, they should arrive here around dark today." Fran said after an estimate.

"Thank you for the information." Ranna nodded to Fran, then looked at Lind again.

"My Lord." Ranna said to Lind. "May I ask if we still want to reduce casualties as much as possible?"

"Of course." Linde nodded as a matter of course.

"Then I suggest that we prepare for the decisive battle here," Ran Na suggested.

Chapter 446: The Final Battle

Just as the beastman troops led by Lind were easily eliminating the knights who were suffering from collective ammonia poisoning, another team was quickly arriving.

Guillon IX took the lead, riding his fine Aquitaine Batolan warhorse, with a crazy smile on his face, sprinting towards the distant destination.

In Jiyang IX's eyes, there seemed to be something like an arrow pointing to one place, guiding Jiyang IX forward. This arrow made Jiyang IX feel ecstatic, even crazy.

Jiyang IX was just sixteen years old, just coming of age according to the tradition of Batoran. Although he was born into a Batoran noble family with generations of knights and received strict knight training since childhood, Jiyang IX had to admit that even with the noble bloodline of the Twelve Paladins, due to his age, he still had no advantage when facing many experienced knights, and was even at a disadvantage.

But now, Jiyang IX's body is full of strength, a strength he has never had before. After drinking the imitation Holy Grail made by Kado, Jiyang IX's body is full of strength.

If the original strength of Ji Yang IX was a rushing stream, then now the body of Ji Yang IX is a raging river with huge water flow that is ready to burst out at any time.

The strong desire to vent makes Ji Yang IX urgently need to vent, and the way to vent is in the direction pointed by the arrow.

The arrow was pointing at the beast king of this place, Ji Yang IX was very sure of that.

Before this power fades, he must defeat the Beast King and complete the trial given by the Lady of the Lake. After experiencing this powerful feeling, Ji Yang IX had another reason to complete the Holy Grail Trial: he must not lose this powerful power.

Ji Yang IX longs for great power for a simple reason: the pressure from his sister.

Complete the trial, become a Holy Grail Knight, gain powerful strength, and then return home in glory. When others mention the new generation of the Duchy of Aquitaine, the first person they think of will be Guillon IX, not the so-called talented Eleanor.

Jiyang IX rushed to the front, followed closely by the Holy Grail Knight Fred, and behind him was a group of excited followers.

The reason why the followers were so excited was simple. After drinking the water in the imitation Holy Grail, Jiyang IX held up the imitation Holy Grail and shouted to the others: "Warriors! Let us share the power of the Lady of the Lake together!"

Then the imitation Holy Grail was passed around by the followers in turn. All the followers drank the water in the imitation Holy Grail, and then all of them gained the power of the Holy Grail Knight.

Originally, Fred should have stopped this absurd thing, but then, Fred felt a piercing pain in his heart, which made Fred lose the ability to think. He felt that his brother George had encountered something very bad.

Concerned about his brother, Fred did not pursue the matter of this strange imitation Holy Grail. Instead, he followed Jiyang IX and headed towards their destination together.

The messenger Cardo, who caused all this, looked like he had completed a work of art. With a satisfied smile on his face, he rode a rainbow unicorn and followed at the end of the team.

Everything is ready. Now it depends on what the so-called Son of God can do.

The knights rode in front, and the attendants followed on foot. It was almost impossible for the attendants on foot to catch up with the speed of the cavalry, even if the cavalry was not advancing at full speed. However, under the effect of the holy water of the Holy Grail, not only the knights, but all the attendants had an exaggerated leap in physical strength.

Although Jiyang IX was very excited, he still had some basic rationality and did not let the horse go at full speed. Even a Batoran warhorse could not dissipate heat as well as a naked human, and going at full speed in a short period of time would cause the horse to die from overheating.

The forced march lasted for three hours, and at around five in the afternoon, King Guiyang IX and his party arrived at the place where George and his party were attacked, an open space sandwiched between two forests.

The bodies of knights and servants were piled up in a mess on the open ground. The weapons and armor on the bodies were taken away. There were several unfinished earth pits on the open ground next to them. Some bodies were piled up in a mess in the earth pits, and the disposal of the bodies was only halfway done.

"We are late." Jiyang IX stopped, the horse under him was already panting.

After a long forced march, even the strong Batoran horses felt tired. After Jiyang IX stopped, the attendants behind him stopped and took the time to rest.

"These are all our people." A royal guard knight dismounted, walked to the edge of the pit to check, and quickly confirmed the identities of the dead.

"I know." King Jiyang IX's face was not good. The excitement of becoming a temporary Holy Grail Knight also faded a lot because of the death of his subordinates. "The despicable beastmen, they must have resorted to a despicable sneak attack. Otherwise, with Lord George in charge, there is no way they would lose to the beastmen."

After seeing these corpses, Fred looked for his brother's body with an expressionless face, and soon found it. Fred found his brother among the pile of corpses.

Fred walked up to George with an expressionless face. George's armor had been stripped off and his sword was gone. The elder brother stood in front of his brother's body with an expressionless face. Fred finally understood what the ominous premonition in his heart meant.

"George..." Fred raised his hand to his heart and saluted his brother's body. "We'll see you at the Lady of the Lake."

In the legend of Batoran, after the death of the Holy Grail Knight, he would go to the Lady of the Lake and become her personal guard. Fred knew that this was not just a legend. After the death of the Holy Grail Knight, the soul would really go to the Lady of the Lake. The famous Green Robe Knight was such a person.

"Everyone!" Guillon IX said loudly to the grieving crowd. "The despicable beastmen attacked our colleagues! And brutally killed them! But I promise you! Their deaths will not be in vain! Just like in the past! I! The only legitimate heir of Aquitaine! Guillon IX! I will kill all the beastmen! Avenge all the colleagues who died tragically!"

"The Lady of the Lake has been giving me inspiration! She has been guiding me in the direction of the enemy! That's why I can lead you here! Look at the situation here! The enemy left in a hurry! We will immediately..."

Before he could finish his words, a muffled sound suddenly came from a distance, interrupting Ji Yang IX's passionate words.

"What's that sound?" a knight asked curiously.

The next moment, something fell from the sky, hit the ground heavily, and caused an explosion.

Chapter 447: Fireworks

At the site of the battlefield, the team led by Jiyang IX was counting and checking their casualties. It didn't take much effort to see that the whole team was wiped out.

The death of all his companions plunged Jiyang IX and his troops into a long period of grief. Jiyang IX also took the opportunity to deliver a short speech, both to boost morale and to enhance his status in the eyes of his soldiers.

Never miss any opportunity to show off in front of your subordinates. This is what Guillen IX's father, the current Duke of Aquitaine, Guillen VIII, taught him.

The short but impassioned speech had just begun, but King Jiyang IX did not intend to continue this impromptu speech for long. However, not long after he finished speaking, a sound interrupted King Jiyang IX's speech.

There was a dull thud, followed by something falling from a high altitude and hitting something not far away.

"What is that?!" Jiyang IX looked in the direction of that thing. "A meteorite?!"

Just as a knight was about to go forward to check, just two or three seconds later, a violent explosion occurred where the thing fell.

A large amount of shrapnel mixed with soil and gravel knocked down a large number of the knights' servants who were closest to them. Many of those who were a little further away were also knocked to the ground by the blast.

Jiyang IX was not knocked over. Firstly, he was a bit far away from the explosion site, and there were many people in between who took the attack for him. Secondly, after drinking the water that imitated the Holy Grail, Jiyang IX's strength had reached the passing line of the Holy Grail Knight, so he could withstand it.

"What happened!?" Ji Yang IX shouted anxiously.

"It's a magician! My lord! This is the magician's explosion technique!" One of the accompanying knights recognized what the attack was and responded immediately.

"Magician!? Where is he!?" Jiyang IX immediately drew his sword and looked around, trying to find the magician's location, but after looking around, he didn't see any magician, let alone any enemy.

"He must be hiding in the forest nearby! He can't hide too far! Find him quickly!" After not seeing the magician's figure around, Ji Yang IX immediately ordered to search in the nearby forest.

This is what Ji Yang IX judged in his heart. The magician's range is limited. After the magic is launched, the magic power will decay during the flight. The power of magic that is too far away will be greatly reduced. Moreover, if the magician wants to accurately hit the opponent in his dream, he must be able to see the enemy's position with his own eyes.

But that is based on common sense. The enemies that Ji Yang IX is facing now are not traditional enemies.

At this moment, another muffled sound was heard, exactly the same sound as before. This time, Ji Yang IX recognized that the sound came from the depths of the forest next to him.

"The sound comes from that direction!" Not only Ji Yang IX, but Fred also heard the source of the sound. He immediately changed direction and took a defensive posture towards the direction where the sound came from. He wanted to find out how the enemy attacked.

Then Fred saw a red ball like magma falling in a parabola to... the other side of the team.

"Is that... an iron ball?" Fred frowned slightly.

Two or three seconds after the iron ball landed, it exploded again. The same thing happened again on the other side of the team. Shrapnel mixed with dirt and gravel knocked down another group of servants, and the shock wave of the explosion hit another wave of knights.

Unlike the previous shot, although this time it still did not hit the central position where Ji Yang IX was, the distance was much closer. The blast made Ji Yang IX's mount unstable and it took several steps to stabilize.

"What kind of attack is this!" Ji Yang IX looked into the depths of the forest, his eyes full of shock.

At the same time, right above the team, a pigeon was circling in the sky, its smart eyes revealing a hint of bloodthirsty excitement.

The look of a pigeon shows bloodthirsty excitement, which is very strange no matter from which angle you analyze it. Moreover, with such a loud noise, any normal animal except a silly roe deer would run away, but this pigeon is completely in the state of a bloodthirsty spectator who thinks "it's so exciting, so exciting".

In the forest some distance away from the pigeon, Fran, who was sharing vision with it through the beast control technique, also felt the pigeon's condition and was very upset.

"What's wrong with this pigeon?" Fran closed her eyes and muttered to herself with a frown. "Has it finally gone crazy after being controlled by me so often?"

In the depths of the forest about 600 meters away from the battlefield ruins, the beastmen led by Linde were hiding quietly here. The distance between the two sides was not too far, but with the cover of the forest, Jiyang IX's team did not discover the hidden beastmen troops.

In the team, the Ilufa wind and fire cannon finally came into play. Under Ranna's control, it fired two shots in succession.

"What are you talking about?" Linde, who was next to Fran, asked after hearing Fran talking to herself.

"Nothing. Something is wrong with the pigeon that I control as my eyes." Fran replied. "Maybe it has been affected by me because I control it so often. There have been similar cases before."

The beastman's beast control magic can make originally docile animals violent, such as the mount suddenly losing control and throwing the owner to the ground. In addition to temporary magic, some beastman's Chaos Shaman will use beast control magic to continuously transform the body and mind of normal animals, turning originally normal animals into twisted war beasts.

Fran was somewhat suspicious that the pigeon's condition might have changed because it had been manipulated too much. After all, her own magic was improved from the evil art of manipulating beasts.

"Let's not talk about the pigeons for now. How is it? Did it hit the target?" Putting aside the unimportant matter like the pigeons, Lind was concerned about whether the two shells hit the target.

"No." Fran shook her head. "The first shot was too far to the north. The second shot was much more accurate, but still a little far to the south."

"Rana! You missed the target again!" Linde shouted at Ranana in dissatisfaction after hearing that.

"I'm sorry, sir. This is my first time using this kind of weapon." Ranna quickly apologized to Lind. "I've only used trebuchets before, not cannons. I took the initiative to take on this task because no one here knows how to do it."

Linde was speechless for a while. What Ranna said was true. Although the cannon was delivered with an instruction manual, no one here knew how to fire it, so Ranna, who had secretly learned how to use the trebuchet, had to learn it on the spot.

"The enemy has discovered our location!" Through shared vision, Fran saw that Jiyang IX led the remaining team and began to rush into the forest.

Chapter 448: Abnormal Enemy

Through shared vision, Fran has discovered that Jiyang IX found that the enemy was hiding in the forest nearby. This is not surprising. After all, the sound of the Ilu French wind and fire cannon is quite loud, and it would be strange if you can't hear the sound of the firing.

If possible, Lind actually wanted to stay farther away, but the range of the Ilufa wind and fire cannon was limited, and the distance table marked on the wind and fire cannon was only up to 600 meters, and there was no range further than that, so Lind could only wait here with his team.

However, the forest also serves as a concealment, and for the Beastmen, the forest environment is their home ground.

On the other side, King Jiyang IX had already discovered that the enemy attacking him was in the forest, and immediately ordered the troops that still had combat effectiveness to rush into the forest.

"Rana!" Lind immediately shouted at Ranna, asking her to ejaculate again quickly.

"It was slightly south just now, right!" Ranna shouted, and without waiting for Fran to answer, she quickly adjusted the angle of the wind and fire cannon, and then fired another shot.

Another explosion was heard from a distance, and Lind looked towards Fran, waiting for a report.

"No! This time it's heading north!" Fran reported what she saw to Lind. "The last shot landed in the middle of the attendants and didn't hit the leaders!"

"Ranna, you've gone astray again!" Linde said angrily to Ranna.

"I'm sorry, my Lord, but I can't help it." Ran Na argued unconvinced. "The range table of this wind and fire cannon is very inaccurate, and the time is so short, I can't adjust it accurately. I can only think about it and fire it when it's almost time."

"Then you are thinking too much!"

"Stop arguing, both of you! The enemies are coming!" The largest and tallest old shaman, Thrall, had already seen the enemies on the other side of the forest and interrupted their argument.

After hearing what Sal said, the two people who were arguing about how to shoot immediately stopped arguing and looked towards the forest.

In the evening sunlight, several cavalrymen rode on tall horses and rushed into the forest.

"They actually rushed in!?" Lind said with some surprise when he saw the cavalrymen appearing in the distance.

"Based on my understanding of King Jiyang IX, he would not choose to retreat after seeing so many of his troops killed." Ran Na said firmly.

The forest terrain is obviously not suitable for cavalry to perform, and the dense vegetation will prevent the cavalry from taking full advantage of the horses' mobility. But that is for ordinary horses. The Batoran warhorse can maintain a certain combat effectiveness even in a forest environment.

Unlike ordinary horses, Batoran warhorses will consciously avoid obstacles and choose the appropriate path in a forest environment, although it is certainly not as good as on the plains.

"The enemy is coming!" Ranna drew out the sword she had just seized and shouted to the beastmen behind her. "Rifles, ready to shoot!"

Under Ranna's command, the beastmen in the front row raised their rifles and prepared to aim and shoot.

"Fire!" As the enemy got closer and reached the effective killing range of the bow and arrow, Ranna gave an order and the beastmen pulled the trigger one after another, firing dense hot rays at the enemy.

Under the intensive attack of the hot rays, the cavalrymen in the front fell one after another, and then the others in the rear continued to rush forward.

Seeing this, Linde frowned, something was wrong.