"Eric, tidy up and send a message to the brothers in other hotels, asking them to meet near Yalagar tomorrow morning. We will leave the city immediately."
Li Ang looked at the situation at the scene and watched the strange group of attackers disappear from King's Avenue. Instead of pursuing them, he immediately signaled Eric to clean up the scene and prepare to leave.
Of course you can't pursue...
Eric's escorts attacked from behind and from the side of the enemy, but in this case they actually had more casualties than the enemy!
These people are quite powerful in fighting!
Those enemies obviously did not expect that Li Ang would have so many men. They were worried that Li Ang would have backup, so they retreated so quickly.
There are about two hundred people on both sides. If there is such a big movement, if the fighting continues, the city defense army or the Lion Knight Order army will inevitably be suppressed...
In fact, the enemies did not suffer as a whole. They only lost about ten people in the alley next to the stables. Those on King's Avenue actually suffered no losses.
These enemies are a well-trained and strong force.
But it doesn't look like a regular army. After all, Lion Territory has never seen any regular army with so many women.
But since this force dared to attack him in Lion City, it means that there must be some big shot in Lion City who wants to kill him by name.
After the king has signed an agreement with himself, he still plans to take his own life?
Lord, I don't understand. What kind of person would do this?
Could it be that Ulrich is suffering from some kind of madness?
Therefore, Li Ang plans to leave Lion City quickly.
It is night now, the city gate is closed, Lion City checks are very strict at night, it is easy for one or two people to want to go out, but the convoy cannot leave the city together.
Lion City A large number of armed personnel are not allowed to enter and leave the city at will. Eric They used to enter the city in batches in the name of transportation teams, but now they can only leave the city in batches.
Eric directed half of the brothers to quickly pull out the carriage behind the hotel and move all the bodies to the carriage. The escorts once again became a transport convoy.
The other half were the personnel left by Eric to gather intelligence. They began to clean the scene to clean up the blood stains and remove all traces of the previous battle.
Naturally, no one stopped the transport convoy with three baron flags, and dozens of people quickly left the city.
"Eric, do you know who these people are?"
Lion City Outside, Li Ang looked at the bodies in several cars, a little confused.
His bodyguards lost more than a dozen people in this short battle, most of them killed with a sword. The enemies were generally very skilled and used unusual weapons.
The enemy also left more than a dozen corpses, most of them died in sneak attacks.
There are several corpses that should be adventurers from Raven Territory.
But more of the corpses were women. It was rare for so many female adventurers to gather in one team.
Moreover, these women seemed willing to protect the leading knight with their lives.
This is even rarer...
Li Ang picked up a sword and a fan-shaped shield from the carriage.
This sword and shield were left behind by the leading knight.
It was a Knight Commander sword with a blade as black as ink. It looked quite old - it looked very similar to Li Ang's own sword.
Moreover, the weight block of the sword hilt is also clearly engraved with Griffin crest.
This is Griffin Knight Sword!
The fan-shaped shield is also very old, and the black coat of arms is somewhat mottled, but it still clearly looks like a griffon. The outer edge of the shield is covered with brass, making the entire shield look like a black griffon on a gold background.
This is the equipment of Griffin Knights back then.
"Sir, this looks like the 'Prodigal Son' Milgan Kilik. That guy is very famous in the mercenary industry... His mercenary group is called 'Griffin Sword'..."
Eric has been a mercenary for more than ten years after all, so he is quite familiar with him. Most of his escorts are also well-informed, and they all said that this person should be him.
The 'Griffin Sword' mercenary group is indeed famous, but most people feel that they actually have nothing to do with Old Pendor and Griffin Knights.
If there is a connection, it is that this mercenary group is generally equipped with weapons that used to be Griffin Knights - military swords with Griffin crest.
So they are called 'Griffin Sword'.
But this mercenary group is not famous because of this equipment of unknown origin, but because of the leader of the mercenary group Milgan Kilik.
Milgan is notorious for his greed, arrogance and unique charm that especially attracts women.
He is known as Pende's 'libertine' and is extremely good at seducing women...
There are a large number of female explorers or female warriors in Griffin Sword Mercenary Group, and most of them were seduced by him.
And most of the girls even secretly ran away from home to join his team - they followed voluntarily and brought their own dry food, so no one really could blame him...
Nobles who knew Milgan Kilik would often lock up their wives and daughters when they saw him, so as not to be deceived into joining the mercenary group by him...
But although Milgan himself is not popular among male nobles, his mercenary group enjoys a high reputation among the Pande Continent.
So far, Griffin Sword Mercenary Group has been able to successfully complete its tasks most of the time and is quite trustworthy.
Therefore, it is strange that the nobles hired him while cursing him...
The escorts were all talking about this mercenary group. It seems that many people have heard of the romantic story of Milgan - most of the escorts showed a strange kind of envy, jealousy and hatred...
Including Eric--He behaves more obviously because he is over thirty, but he is still a bachelor...
So he changed the subject.
"Sir, these swords look very old, but they are still so sharp. They should be swords made of ebony."
Eric took out another Griffin Knight Sword from the body of another female warrior, and lightly scratched the blade with a broken gun shaft.
The barrel of the gun was chipped neatly with ease.
"Ebony Sword...Eric, take this sword and use it yourself. From now on, let the brothers pay attention to where there are ebony minerals."
Eric obviously likes that sword, but he didn't take it away before. Obviously, Gou Sheng still practices the rules set by Li Ang - to distribute the spoils based on military merit.
That is the harvest of the entire team, and now the top commander is Li Ang, so he has to wait for Li Ang to distribute it.
Eric is indeed a very clever subordinate.
So the lord directly gave him the sword - the person with the highest merit in this battle was Eric who fully understood the look in Li Ang's eyes. Otherwise, if they had gone head-to-head, the brothers' losses would have been much greater than they were now.
The 'ebony' of the Pande Continent is actually not wood, but a rare metal unique to the Pande Continent.
It is only because this metal will produce a wood-like texture after being refined and shaped that it is called ebony.
It is said that this metal was used to make magic items in the Titan Age tens of millions of years ago - at that time, this metal was also called Mithril or black gold.
But those were just ancient rumors. Nowadays, magic in the true sense is basically no longer seen on this continent.
This kind of metal unique to the Pande Continent can last for more than a hundred years without rusting. It is obviously the best weapon material. Of course, Li Ang also wants to find it.
Inside Lion City, the private residence of Igor.
An ordinary-looking aristocratic mansion.
Two people are quarreling.
"You actually let him run away?"
Igor was a little confused. "Didn't you bring a lot of people with you?"
"Igor You bastard! You said he traveled alone, but he had more than a hundred men in that hotel! You caused me to lose many brave female warriors!"
Milgan Kilik waved his helmet and roared menacingly at Igor.
"More than a hundred people? How could it be? Did he bring all the troops to Lion City?... I didn't find it before..."
Igor was confused, but in the blink of an eye he shook his head. "Even if he has more than a hundred people, with your ability Griffin Sword, it won't be difficult to kill him, right?"
"Of course I can kill him! But this is different! Do you understand? Killing a person is very different from killing an army!"
Milgan shook his head dissatisfied. The mustache on his lips was neatly trimmed, and his eyes seemed to be firing all the time. He was indeed an extremely handsome middle-aged man.
But this handsome guy's face was livid at the moment, and his electric eyes seemed to be spraying with anger.
Igor sighed heavily, "Milgan, you have to be trustworthy..."
"Of course I'm talking about credibility! What I mean is, you have to pay more! Igor! You have to make up for my losses!"
Milgan waved his helmet and shouted.
"Before he returns to the east, if you can kill him and bring his body to Lion City, you can get fifty thousand dinars... Milgan, are you satisfied with this price?"
Igor thought for a while and directly added an outrageous price.
"Fifty thousand... ah ha! I have to collect a deposit first..."
Milgan's anger disappeared almost immediately.
"Bullshit deposit! You'd better go after him quickly!... If he runs back to the east and sees Godric, not to mention whether you can kill him or not, even if you can do it, the meaning of killing him will be lost! He and his people must die in the jurisdiction of Lion City, and no one can escape! Do you understand!"
Now it's Igor's turn to lose his temper. If the ink continues, Li Ang will run away...
If a noble like Godric knew that Li Ang had been released by the king a long time ago, it would be difficult to blame the king.
"Don't worry, he can't escape! If we don't let him out of the city, we won't be able to kill so many people - I can't start a war in the city, right?"
Milgan said it quite arrogantly.
He does have arrogance.
After coming out of Lion City, he went to a camp outside the city.
"My dear, they went all the way to the west. There are only more than sixty people. I sent people to keep an eye on them all the way."
In the camp, a female explorer was showing off her merits to Milgan.
"Very well, honey, you are the most capable baby... Everyone, come with me! We have a big and exciting job to do!"
After hugging the woman and kissing her hard, Milgan brought out a large force of 500 people from the camp...
All cavalry!
This is the reason why the 'Griffin Sword' mercenary group enjoys a high reputation in the Pande Continent - this is a force that no one can ignore.
The speed of the convoy is relatively slow at night. After all, vehicles can only travel on the main road, and it is indeed not as convenient as horses.
The night passed and until early morning, the convoy only reached the vicinity of Yalagar village and at the foot of Goddess Mountain.
Li Ang asked everyone to stop to let the horses rest and bury all the bodies under Goddess Mountain.
Brothers died in battle, of course they must have a suitable destination, and under Goddess Mountain, it is a destination that all Lion Territory soldiers will be satisfied with, whether they are the enemy or one of our own.
This is also the meeting point agreed with the escorts in other Lion City hotels, but the escorts haven't come yet.
"Sir! I seem to hear the sound of horse hooves! Lots of horse hooves!"
At the foot of the mountain, Li Ang was leading his brothers to bury the body, and the bodyguards serving as scouts outside shouted.
The lord turned his head, but did not see the enemy.
Eric lay down on the ground and listened. "Sir, it seems that a large army is coming. I don't know if it is one of our own..."
The escorts also have a large number of carriages...
But Risadiran suddenly appeared at this moment. He jumped down from a big tree and came to the Lord: "Lord Li Ang, I saw a big plume of smoke coming here. It is definitely not one of our own... You'd better leave here quickly..."
Risadiran's eyesight is far beyond that of ordinary people, and he can see far from a high position in the tree. Since he said this, there must indeed be a large number of enemies coming.
"Risadiran, you protect me and go first, I'll stay and check the situation."
Eric nodded towards Noldo Elves.
Eric is currently the person who is most familiar with Risadiran besides the lord. They can occasionally talk to each other - Risadiran does feel a little guilty for accidentally hurting Eric.
"Eric, it's best to go together... Those people seem to know our location, and they feel like they are going to surround us. If we stay here, there will be no way out!"
Risadiran rarely talked a lot.
"Everyone! Follow me!"
Since there was danger, Li Ang naturally didn't waste any time, got on his horse and ordered everyone to start retreating.
Eric drove a carriage and followed Li Ang: "Risadiran, get in the car!"
The escorts were indeed well-trained. Within half a minute, they all drove the carriage and followed Li Ang eastward.
Risadiran's advice was timely. Just a few minutes later, Milgan led his mercenary group to catch up.
The scene of five hundred cavalry galloping was quite astonishing. Even in the early morning when the dew was heavy, smoke and dust were rising high along the way.
When seeing those new graves, the leader Milgan slowed down.
He saw several female warriors placed in the pit, their bodies covered with a thin layer of soil, but they had not yet had time to completely bury their tombs.
"They stayed here... and left before they finished covering it with soil, so they are not far away! My dear, what are our arrangements now?"
Milgan asked the female explorer next to her.
"A few dozen miles to the east is the foggy no-man's land - if it were me, I would definitely run there. My dear, you'd better arrange for two hundred-man squadrons to surround them, and then lead a large force to pursue them from behind and intercept them at the edge of the foggy area."
The woman looked to be in her twenties. She was the only one in the mercenary group who was not wearing armor. She was not pretty, but quite capable. She was probably Milgan's right-hand man.
"You arranged it well, dear!"
Milgan praised the woman next to him, "My dear, I am going to charge. You are not good at riding horses, so just stay here and bury these brave ladies..."
After saying that, he left the capable woman and several female warriors behind Goddess Mountain, divided the troops into three groups, and continued to pursue eastward.
On the Lord's side, after running eastward for several miles, he saw two cavalry troops, each with about a hundred men.
A cavalry team composed of Raven Territory adventurers and rogue knights;
The other branch is all women, female adventurers and explorers.
This is obviously someone from Griffin Sword Mercenary Group.
These two troops were obviously faster than the convoy, but they were moving in parallel far to the side. They seemed to be intentionally flanking on both sides, compressing the space for Li Ang's team to move, so that it could only move in one direction.
"Stop!"
The lord stopped his horse suddenly, causing the convoy behind him to stop.
"Eric, turn around, let's go back to the place where we agreed to meet with the brothers!"
Li Ang ordered the return in an unquestionable tone.
"Sir, this... ahead is a no-man's land shrouded in heavy fog. It's very possible for us to escape there!"
Eric doesn't understand.
But Li Ang had already turned around and rode away. "They are outflanking us! Let us die and survive... Hurry up! Follow me! Even if you beat the horse to death, don't be bitten by the enemy!"
Risadiran flew into the driver's seat of the carriage, took the horse's reins to turn around, and whipped the horse on the buttocks.
"Eric, those two cavalry were faster than us, but they did not pursue them directly. Your Lord's judgment is correct... We can't go any further!"
Encountering real danger, Noldo Elves seems to be no longer autistic. In terms of starting point, he may have more experience than anyone else.
Li Ang took the convoy in a circle and ran back. The convoy was empty, and the speed of the draft horses was quite fast.
The cavalry on both sides actually overran for a while. Although their horses were much more agile than the convoy, no one probably expected that Li Ang would suddenly come back with a carbine - who would run back when they knew someone was chasing them behind...
As a result, when they turned around and pursued them again, the convoy had already picked up speed, and the two cavalrymen could still only follow on both sides.
A few minutes later, Li Ang led the convoy in an arc and returned to Goddess Mountain. The convoy stopped.
"Eric, arrange the car formation!"
Li Ang called out, and then took Risadiran together to start cleaning up the few women who stayed here.
That was the capable woman who had been talking to Milgan. She was not wearing heavy armor, but was wearing a noble brocade robe. She was probably not very skilled, so she was left here to bury the tomb by Milgan.
Now this woman was a little panicked. She obviously didn't expect that Li Ang would go and come back. She supported a horse and tried to ride on it, but failed to get on the horse twice - her brocade robe was not suitable for riding, and the horse was indeed a bit tall for her.
The other female warriors are quite powerful, and their fighting power is probably a little stronger than Lion Knight. Risadiran was actually defeated by them in a hurry.
But Li Ang didn't help...
The lord always picks up the weaklings first in battles. Although Li Ang doesn't know what is going on with these women staying here, but judging from their attire, the weakling present is obviously the woman in the brocade robe.
So, just ten seconds later, a sword was placed around the woman's neck.
This is the sword dropped by Milgan Kilik.