Chapter 185 Wolf Pack 2
The leader of the pursuers strangled a wolf by the neck. The force he unleashed was so great that the wolf quickly rolled its eyes after being strangled.
However, there was not only one wolf. The other wolf that fell on him quickly opened its mouth and bit his throat.
Then several more wolves jumped out of the woods and fell on the pursuing leader, biting them one by one.
"Uh... you... all go to hell!"
The leader of the pursuers was desperate and issued a curse before his death, but he didn't know who the curse was for.
He relaxed his muscles and allowed the wolves to tear into his body, and soon he lost all breath.
"Senior, get into the carriage!"
Seeing this scene, La Di immediately picked up the already limp and pale princess and dragged her into the carriage.
Inside the carriage, a little girl who looked to be in her early teens seemed to be lying "sleeping" on her seat.
The little girl is very cute, and her eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Helen. When she grows up, she will be one of the most beautiful women in the world.
This is Dame Fanny, the sister of the Grand Duchess of Eton.
La Di closed the car door tightly.
The attack on the mercenary leader seemed to be a signal, and more and more wolves jumped out of the woods.
This group of beasts first targeted the three horses and launched an attack with thunderous speed.
The horses swung their hooves wildly to defend themselves, but in the end they were still unable to withstand the sharp teeth of the wolves. In the end, they fell to the ground and were bitten and devoured by the hungry wolves.
La Di thought to herself: "I hope the three horses can feed these hungry wolves!"
However, she was disappointed in the end. More wolves ran out of the woods, and they did not go. Instead of competing for horse meat, they fought around the carriage.
Obviously, the target of these newcomers is them in the carriage.
After turning around a few times, a wolf finally couldn't hold back anymore and jumped towards the carriage.
The carriage was violently shaken by the wolf, and the princess screamed in fright.
La Di took out a short crossbow and handed it to Helen, "Senior sister, if a wolf breaks the glass and gets in, use this to stab it hard. I hope the church's carriage is stronger."< br>
Helen nodded tremblingly.
Whatever you say comes, and with a "bump", the car window glass breaks into pieces, and a huge wolf head pokes in.
La Di looked at the right spot and accurately inserted the short crossbow into the wolf's eye.
The wolf howled miserably and retreated, rolling on the ground next to the carriage, looking extremely painful.
It seemed that the tragic situation of their companions had frightened the wolves around the carriage. They temporarily stopped their attack plan and continued to wander around the carriage.
While reciting the spell silently, La Di carefully calculated the area occupied by the carriage and the distance between the wolves and the carriage.
Finally, her red lips opened slightly: "Ring of flames!"
Soon, with the carriage as the center, a strange light emitted from the surrounding ground, and the light formed a circle with a diameter of approximately The three-meter aperture just surrounded the carriage.
With a sound of "huteng", the aperture ignited with flames.
Wild animals are afraid of fire. The wolves around the carriage jumped a lot and ran around, away from this burning circle.
Many wolves that happened to be on the fire ring had their fur set on fire, making pitiful screams and rolling on the ground. After finally extinguishing the fire on their bodies, they ran away with their tails raised.
However, it can be heard from the howling sounds that are still coming from the surroundings that more wolves continue to lurk in the surrounding forest. They have not left. The number sounds like there are hundreds of them. many.
This [Ring of Flame] originally erupted into a flame as high as a person when surrounded by enemies, causing heavy damage to the enemy. However, this time in order to deter the wolves for a long time, Ladi controlled The intensity of the flame makes it burn longer.
With her life no longer in danger for the time being, the princess calmed down.
She praised: "La Di, your mastery of magic has become more and more refined. You are really a latecomer. I can't catch up with you now." Although she received praise from her senior sister, La Di still She was not in the mood to be modest. Although she had tried her best to control the burning speed of the [Ring of Flame], it would eventually burn out after a while.
“The howls of these wolves are so loud, Nisborg must have heard them too. Won’t the city guard send someone to take a look?”
“That’s fine too. It's dawn tomorrow, and now they will just close the city gate tightly."
"Senior sister, we can't count on outsiders to help. We have to think of our own strategies. What I can think of now is that we take turns to use [Ring of Flame] to protect the carriage until dawn. Do you have any good ideas?"
A mage cannot cast the same magic continuously and repeatedly. He must wait for a period of time before he can continue to use a certain magic that he has used before.
If Paul Greenman knew this, he might understand it in terms of the "skill cooldown" in the video games of his previous life.
How long the interval is depends on the master's mastery of magic. It may be as little as a few hours or even dozens of minutes, or it may be as long as several days.
As for how this ‘mastery’ should be explained, there is still debate in the small circle of mages. Just like the IQ of ordinary people, there is no unified standard.
Anyway, the more you use it, the higher your 'mastery' will be. Some people can cast the powerful lightning spell once every hour, but they can only cast the light spell once a day.
The lightning spell is more complicated than the light spell. It requires more casting materials and the spell is more complicated to recite.
In short, in this world, even the mage himself is ignorant of the nature of magic. A lot of knowledge is hidden under a mysterious and hazy veil and needs to be continuously explored.
Most mages only become mages based on experience, knowing it but not knowing why.
And they are also intoxicated in this "mystery", thinking that magic should be like this, unexplainable and unreasonable.
Only in this way can they be distinguished from ordinary people such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and mechanics who also possess certain skills, so that they, a special group that is not tolerated by the world, can gain some comfort.
Hearing La Di ask this, Helen shook her head in shame.
"Sorry, I don't have a good idea. And..."
"And what?"
"I can't control it as precisely as you, I will..." I'll set the carriage on fire and say... maybe even the forest."
The normal version of [Ring of Flame] takes the caster as the center point, suddenly generates a circle of flames, and then spreads outwards as small as the ground.
If you can't control it as accurately as La Di and force it inside the carriage, maybe it will really happen...
"Okay, senior sister. After the flames are extinguished, Let’s summon the clay puppet again.”
“Okay, I can do this.”
After the two discussed it, they quietly watched the fire around them decrease little by little. Small.
As the flames weakened, the surrounding wolves became restless again.
"Start preparing to summon...wait, senior sister, did you hear something?"
Ladi seemed to hear something and listened attentively.
The Grand Princess also held her breath, trying to capture the sounds in La Di's mouth.
"They are all the howls of wolves... Huh? There is indeed something different about the sound!"
The sound came from far to near, and it seemed to be a "bump! Bump!" sound.
But Ladi looked happy and suddenly said: "Musket! It's the sound of musket! No wonder it feels so familiar."
"Musket?" The princess didn't know why.
"Well! Senior sister, the crew of the Southern is here to rescue us!"
(End of this chapter)