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At this time, in the west tower where Richard's father, the old baron, was trapped, many hyena-like monsters the size of calves had already crowded the narrow staircase in the tower.
If Richard was at the scene, he would immediately recognize that these small monsters were called bucktoothed hyenas. They looked a bit similar to hyenas among ordinary wild beasts, but their two iconic upper incisors were extremely prominent like the lower canines, about ten centimeters long and extremely sharp.
Therefore, the overall appearance of the bucktoothed hyena looks uglier. At the same time, they have sharper claws and stronger limbs than ordinary hyenas, and they run faster and more flexibly.
What's more troublesome is that they also have a clear organization behind them, just like an ordinary hyena group has a hyena queen behind it to give unified command.
Small monsters like bucktoothed hyenas usually hunt in groups of dozens, and they also have a bucktoothed hyena queen to command them from behind.
However, thanks to the narrow, circular staircase around the wall in the tower, many buck-toothed hyenas cannot pounce on it at once.
Because the narrow circular ladder around the wall can only allow two adults to walk side by side, the three people must be staggered. For buck-toothed hyenas whose shoulder width is similar to that of an adult, or even wider, at most, only two or three can attack at the same time.
If there are three of them, this is the case when one of them jumps high and attacks from above the other two. If there are more of them, they will be blocked by the buck-toothed hyenas in front and will not be able to attack the castle guards diagonally opposite the circular ladder.
The second geographical advantage was that the bucktoothed hyenas attacked from the lower stairs towards the higher stairs, while Baron Clavier and his guards defended on the high stairs, perfectly occupying the terrain advantage and attacking from above.
The final reason was that the old baron was an experienced warrior with the strength of a mid-level knight. After he occupied the narrow circular ladder, he was like a single man blocking the way for ten thousand.
The old baron held a sword and shield and stood firmly in the middle of the stairs. With the support of the guards on both sides, he prevented any of the buck-toothed hyenas from rushing through. This move greatly boosted the morale of the guards in the tower.
But in the east tower, the scene is quite different.
Knight Rawlins, the sheriff of Silverpine Town, was only a junior knight and had been promoted for less than two years. So after he had managed to fend off the attack of the bucktoothed hyena in a panic, he was accidentally pounced on the stairs by a ferocious bucktoothed hyena.
Although, he managed to save his life after many guards' strenuous rescue, his tendons and bones were broken and his combat power was greatly reduced. Fortunately, the knight armor he was wearing had excellent wrapping properties, and although the bucktoothed hyena bit him many times, it was unable to bite through the sturdy plate armor in a short time.
However, the hyena queen in each group of bucktoothed hyenas has a very high intelligence, which is also the most troublesome thing. Upon seeing this, the other side immediately seized the opportunity and organized groups of ferocious bucktoothed hyenas to force them, which immediately put great psychological pressure on the remaining guards in the east tower.
A pack of bucktoothed hyenas often does not need to attack their prey directly, but only needs to keep pressing forward. When the psychological pressure on the trapped prey is pushed to an extreme, the prey will either lose its composure, or be forced to launch a suicidal attack on the bucktoothed hyena pack, or the prey will be forced into a desperate situation, such as the current situation.
Since Knight Rollins, the core knight-level combat force in the east tower, was severely damaged, the tower guards, who lost their backbone, were defeated and their numbers were reduced. They have now retreated to the highest floor of the tower, and above that is the roof of the tower.
But going out from the top of the tower would be seeking death. There were a large number of blood vultures and human-faced monster birds in the sky, and they were worried about not finding targets to attack.
Just now, a panicked tower guard opened the iron cover on the top floor and stuck his head out. He was instantly pierced and grabbed by the sharp claws of a blood vulture. The other guards hurriedly closed the cover.
Now we are in a desperate situation where we are attacked from all sides!
Looking at the black mass of ferocious buck-toothed hyenas, just when Knight Rawlins and the remaining dozen or so guards were in despair, it seemed that the buck-toothed hyenas in front of them were in a commotion, and it seemed that their attack suddenly slowed down.
Although they still don't know the reason, at least they feel relieved.
After all, being able to live one more second is good!
The commotion did not just occur in the east tower; the buck-toothed hyena groups in all four towers also experienced some disturbance.
The instigator was none other than Richard outside!
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With the abomination leading the way, the pack of bucktooth hyenas could not stop Richard's advance at all. Every time the huge abomination chopped with its axe, a rain of blood would be splashed. The bodies of the bucktooth hyenas that were chopped in two were immediately snatched away by the remaining members of the same tribe.
Occasionally, a buck-toothed hyena would escape the net and try to attack Richard from behind, but Richard would shoot them one by one, pinning them to the spot and soon after being torn apart and eaten by their own kind.
This allowed Richard to rush into the castle very smoothly. As soon as he passed through the damaged gate of the outer castle, Richard saw at a glance the huge mutant crab demon that was destroying the gate of the inner castle!
This scene shocked Richard, "Isn't this the monster from the Gray Fern Wilderness - the mutant crab demon? How did it run to the surface? Could it be..."
Richard thought that the large group of buck-toothed hyenas he had just encountered was organized and controlled by a particularly powerful buck-toothed hyena queen, but there was no way that the buck-toothed hyena queen could command such a large monster as the mutant crab demon.
Richard had some vague guesses in his heart, and although he was still thinking, his hands did not slow down at all.
The [Mimic Wristband] instantly transformed into a hard metal round shield and attached to Richard's left arm. His right hand pulled out the gleaming [Ice Guardian], giving him the double protection of a dark element shield and skeleton armor.
Facing this familiar opponent, Richard plans to end the battle quickly!
The fat and burly abomination obviously immediately attracted the attention of the equally tall mutant crab demon.
Under Richard's command, the Abomination roared, immediately abandoned those small monsters, and rushed straight towards the mutant crab monster.
The mutant crab demon seemed to have its own pride. Facing the fat man rushing towards it, it roared and waved its giant claws to meet him!
"Boom!" The two thick arms of the abomination, as strong as the waist of an ordinary man, tightly grasped the joints below the giant claws. Suddenly, the mutant crab demon's claws were unable to exert the terrifying shearing force and were lifted up high!
Although Richard's current abomination was not as powerful as the mutant crab demon, at least the gap was not that big, and he was not at a disadvantage in weight. They were both super heavyweight players, so they were still comparable!
Richard jumped off the wildebeest in an instant and performed the rare zero-level witchcraft [Shadow Dance] that he had just learned.
When Richard jumped into the shadow area behind the abomination, his speed increased rapidly. He stabbed the mutant crab demon who was wrestling with the abomination with a sword from bottom to top, stabbing the mutant crab demon's brain!
Just when the mutant crab demon saw a frosty white cold light flashing and was about to dodge, he found that he was wrestling with the fat man opposite and could not move at all.
This forced the mutant crab demon to take Richard's sword!
However, the thick defensive shell of the mutant crab demon was like a piece of thick paper to the sharp [Ice Guardian], and was directly stabbed to the bottom by Richard's extreme swordsmanship!
Before it could even scream, the mutant crab demon was killed on the spot by this sword!
With the death of this mutant crab demon, the group of bucktooth hyenas besieging the tower seemed to have a commotion, and the bucktooth hyena queen, when she saw the scene of Richard and his abomination killing the mutant crab demon, became a little hesitant and mobilized many bucktooth hyenas for defense.
Suddenly, the attacks of the buck-toothed hyenas in the four towers began to slow down. At this time, the guards in the towers also reacted and realized that some changes that were unfavorable to the monsters must have occurred in the castle, otherwise the originally ferocious buck-toothed hyenas would not be in this state.
This scene instantly made the old baron's eyes light up. He seized the opportunity and launched a counterattack, forcing the group of buck-toothed hyenas besieging the western tower out of the tower.
When the old baron walked out of the tower to check what was going on, swinging the knight's sword in his hand continuously with the help of the guards beside him, he saw the man in black robe waving the sword at first sight.
The black-robed man has a very advanced swordsmanship. The bucktoothed hyena beside him is no match for him!
Hey! This swordsmanship looks so familiar, like the family's Cornell swordsmanship.
No, this is Cornell swordsmanship!
The old baron has also practiced Cornell swordsmanship for decades, and he is very sure that the black-robed man in front of him is performing Cornell swordsmanship.
Just as the old baron was pondering over who among the people he knew had such advanced Cornell swordsmanship, he saw the profile of the man in black robe. In an instant, he could not believe his eyes!
That's right, this familiar figure looks so much like his deceased second son Richard.
He rubbed his eyes again. When the old baron saw the face under the hood clearly, he couldn't help crying and shouted, "Richard!!!"
Suddenly, Richard, who was still killing monsters, looked up at the west tower entrance and saw the tall familiar figure!
"Father!" Richard shouted in surprise.
But as the mutant crab monster's body fell to the ground with a loud bang, the movement on Richard's side finally attracted the attention of many flying monsters in the sky, especially those human-faced monster birds, which stared at Richard intently and made extremely sharp and strange cries.
Suddenly, as if boiling water was poured into a frying pan, hundreds of blood vultures in the sky began to scream loudly and circled rapidly above Richard.
The circling of hundreds of blood vultures caused a huge change in airflow, which made Richard's black robe rustle. Under the command of the human-faced monster bird, the huge group of blood vultures began to gradually change their formation, adjusting to an arrow-shaped sharp arrow formation, as if they were about to swoop down from top to bottom and launch an extremely ferocious attack.
"Richard, be careful!" The old baron's heart suddenly skipped a beat when he saw this scene. He knew very well that these blood vultures were extremely ferocious, but he couldn't get away to help Richard.
As I hesitated, I heard a strange, shrill cry in my ears.
"not good!"
The sharp-eyed Richard immediately pulled out an eagle-tail arrow and shot it several meters above the old baron.
Suddenly, a human-faced monster bird was hit in the abdomen by an eagle-tail arrow and fell in front of the old baron with a scream.
"Father, hide quickly and don't worry about me!" Richard shouted.
Richard felt relieved when he saw the old baron began to follow his instructions and fight and retreat at the same time.
Richard's first thought was to temporarily avoid the blood vultures, avoid the dive attack of the opponent's arrow array, and then look for opportunities to kill them one by one. But just as he was about to move, Richard changed his mind. The speed of killing was too slow. Besides, he was not alone now. He had to show his momentum. He might as well go head-to-head and boost everyone's morale!
After figuring this out, Richard stopped moving immediately. While quickly reciting the spell of Shadow Grip, he took out dozens of Fire Dance Stars and Silver Moon Dust from his arms and made a bundle of "cluster bombs".
When hundreds of blood vultures in the sky adjusted their formation and prepared to launch an extremely ferocious and continuous dive attack under the leadership of an extremely huge blood vulture head bird.
Richard roared, "Go to hell!" and instantly controlled the dark element hand to smash the bundle of "cluster bombs" hard into the sky above his head, at the blood vulture-headed bird that was preparing to launch a cluster charge.
"boom!!!"
Suddenly, there was a loud bang in the air!
A fireball with a diameter of tens of meters appeared out of thin air. The heat wave shock wave visible to the naked eye instantly spread out hundreds of meters away. All the flying monsters hit by the shock wave fell down like dumplings.
The many guards in the four towers were also shocked by the loud noise! They
stared at this scene in a daze, their hearts filled with horror. You know, it was these flying monsters that forced them to retreat from the inner castle wall to the towers for defense, and dozens of brothers died at the hands of the cunning human-faced monster birds.
But he didn't expect that the Baron's second son, Young Master Richard, could wipe out almost all these ferocious flying monsters with just one move.
Many of the guards were soldiers trained by the Clavell family since childhood. They had known Richard for a long time and were amazed to see that the originally thin and frail Master Richard had become a mysterious wizard who could easily defeat the army of monsters in front of him.
The old baron, who had been heart in his throat, felt extremely relieved at this moment.
He didn't expect that his second son, who had long been reported dead, not only came back to life, but also had such amazing strength. When the Clavier family was facing a desperate situation, he was like a god descending to earth and directly turned the situation around.
In his opinion, the strength of his second son Richard seemed to be far greater than that of Duan, a second-level wizard apprentice of the Ignis School who came to garrison the family.
This made him a little bit unbelievable. After all, he still had some impression of Richard's wizard qualifications. However, the old baron shook his head and stopped thinking about this problem, because it was not important. What was important was that his second son Richard came back alive!
Long before the violent explosion in the air, Richard had already hidden behind the abomination, but his ears were also shaken so that he could not hear anything for a short time!
After all, the mixed "cluster bomb" of more than 20 tubes of Fire Dancing Stars and Silver Moon Dust was absolutely powerful enough to match or even slightly exceed the attack power of a first-level wizard.
As for the human-faced monster birds that were originally in charge of command in mid-air, although they did not suffer direct trauma because they were far enough away from the explosion point, they were also almost shaken by the shock wave and the deafening roar, and were about to fall from mid-air.
Not to mention the hundreds of blood vultures, especially the dozen or so blood vultures at the center of the explosion point, which had already been killed or even destroyed.
Almost every blood vulture within a hundred meters from the center point was turned into roasted turkeys. In an instant, it was as if a turkey rain was falling from the sky above Clavel Castle, and turkeys fell "bang bang bang" onto the ground of the castle.
The unique aroma of roasted turkey gradually spread throughout the entire Clavel Castle!
The bucktoothed hyenas smelled the aroma and were very excited. They immediately scattered and began to devour the roasted vulture. Even the bucktoothed hyena queen could not suppress it.
This gave the guards in the four towers a chance to catch their breath, but Richard had not expected this unexpected effect.
Richard instantly put away the [Ice Guardian] that was covered with frost flowers, and quickly took out the [Griffin Wings], while aiming the arrow.
This time, every arrow he pulled out was an eagle-tail arrow. He aimed at the human-faced monster bird that was still dizzy in mid-air, and suddenly, there was a burst of "swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!" shots.
Under the guidance of the secret arrow, every arrow hit the target. Each eagle tail arrow would hit the vital point of a human-faced monster bird, and one arrow would take away a human-faced monster bird!
After a few seconds, Richard swept away all the remaining flying monsters in the sky above the castle.
At this moment, Richard remembered that there was something he had not done, and he immediately released the Soul-Eating Demon Spider in his arms. The crystal-colored Soul-Eating Demon Spider quickly began to crawl towards the mutant crab demon and began to devour the mutant crab demon's soul.
Taking advantage of this gap, Richard glanced at his inspiration panel, and a screen full of energy point information came into view:
[Gain 78 energy points.]
[Gain 74 energy points.]
[Gain 79 energy points.]
[Gain 8333 energy points.]
[Gain 128 energy points.]
[Gain 123 energy points.]
[Gain 566 energy points.]
[Gain 126 energy points.]
[Gain 578 energy points.]
Just now, because Richard was too excited, he ignored the energy points. The dozens of points belonged to the bucktooth hyena, the one with more than a hundred points should be from the blood vulture, the one with more than five hundred points belonged to the man-faced monster bird, and the highest one was the mutant crab demon with more than eight thousand points!
Originally, the inspiration panel still needed Richard's confirmation when absorbing energy points, but after hanging around in the Gray Fern Wilderness for a while, Richard discovered that he could silently recite in his mind to automatically absorb energy points, and the inspiration panel would absorb the relevant energy on its own.
This really saved him a lot of time, especially when he encountered such a large number of monsters to kill.
At this moment, a thumb-thick ownerless mental force was transmitted from the Soul-Eating Demon Spider to Richard's sea of consciousness, along with a trace of extremely pure soul energy. This immediately infused his originally slightly tired mind with a stream of hot spring water, instantly making him feel much more energetic.
After the Soul-Eating Spider finished devouring, it began to control the giant mutant crab demon to attack the large number of buck-toothed hyenas around it, which made the buck-toothed hyenas even more terrified!
What was going on? The original leader of the monsters actually turned around and killed them!
At this time, the back door of the inner fortress shattered!
A crab demon that was slightly smaller than the mutant crab demon just now rushed in with its big claws waving aggressively, but when its small eyes looked forward, it was stunned!
It saw the "big brother" who was bigger than itself was slaughtering the buck-toothed hyenas around it, which made it a little confused, because this was not what the owner had instructed it to do.
Richard looked and saw another one. Not bad, not bad. Over 8,000 energy points. He had searched for a long time in the Gray Fern Wilderness and had not encountered many mutant crab demons. Unexpectedly, today at home, he encountered two at once!
With the cooperation of the Abomination and the Soul Devouring Demon Spider, Richard used the same method to sneak attack and kill the mutant crab demon in an instant.
Suddenly, all the monsters seemed to be in a state of being leaderless, and the remaining bucktoothed hyenas began to retreat in large numbers.
Crisis averted!
The guards in the four towers also launched a counterattack, rushing out of the towers and clearing out the remaining monsters.
Richard also climbed up the inner castle wall as soon as possible and headed towards the western tower where his father was.
The joy of seeing relatives was beyond words!
Looking at the old baron's gray hair, if it weren't for the familiar voice, Richard would have been a little afraid to recognize him for a moment.
"Father! Your hair?" Richard cried out in amazement.
"It's good that you're back! It's good that you're back!"
Looking at his excited father, Richard understood instantly, and in an instant, he hugged his father tightly!
At this moment, all the family guards in the four towers, the garrison forces of Silver Pine Town, and the young and strong men who stayed in the town all cheered! Cheers for surviving the disaster! Cheers for avenging
their families! Cheers for finally driving away the monsters! Richard, who had calmed down a little, let go of his father and asked, "Where are mother and eldest brother?"
The old baron finally reacted and said, "Not good! Richard, hurry up and catch up with your mother and elder brother. They are heading to Rossby City through the secret passage on the third floor of the cellar!"
Leaving Knight Rawlins to clean up the mess, the old baron quickly took Richard and ran into the cellar.
Along the way, the old baron was worried that the team escorting the children might have walked out of the castle's secret passage and entered the main road leading to the city of Rossby. At that time, Levi and his team would inevitably be attacked by monsters.
Upon hearing this, Richard immediately began to speed up. In the dim secret passage, with the blessing of shadow dance steps, Richard rushed forward like a black arrow.
After a while, Richard saw that there seemed to be a bright exit in front of the secret passage.
Obviously, the eldest brother and mother had led the team out of the secret passage.
This couldn't help but make Richard a little worried.
(End of this chapter)
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