The leader of the pursuing soldiers 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. Another 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 in the carriage!"
Seeing this scene, Laddie immediately picked up Grand Duchess, who was already weak and pale, and dragged her into Carriage.
Inside 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 the sister of Eton Grand Duchess - Duchess Finnie.
Laddie Close the car door tightly.
As if the attack on the mercenary leader was a signal, more and more wolves jumped out of the woods.
This group of beasts first targeted 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.
Laddie thought to himself, "I hope the three horses can feed these hungry wolves!"
However, she was disappointed in the end. More wolves ran out of the woods. Instead of competing for the horse meat, they circled around Carriage.
Obviously, the target of these newcomers is them in Carriage.
After turning around for a few times, a wolf finally couldn't hold it anymore and jumped towards the carriage.
Carriage was shocked violently by the wolf, and Grand Duchess screamed in fright.
Laddie took out a short crossbow and handed it to Helen, "Senior sister, if a wolf breaks the glass and gets in, use this to Ground Spike it hard. I hope Church's carriage is stronger."
Helen nodded shakily.
Whatever he said came, and with a "bump", the car window glass shattered into pieces, and a huge wolf head poked in.
Laddie looked at the right spot and inserted the short crossbow into the wolf's eye accurately.
The wolf howled miserably and retreated, rolling on the ground next to Carriage, looking extremely painful.
It seemed that the tragic situation of his companions had frightened the wolves around Carriage. They temporarily stopped their attack plans and continued to wander around Carriage.
Laddie While silently reciting the spell, he carefully calculated the area occupied by the carriage and the distance between the wolves and the carriage.
Finally, her red lips parted slightly. "Flame Ring!"
Soon, with Carriage as the center, a strange light emitted from the surrounding ground. The light formed an aperture of about three meters in diameter, which just surrounded the carriage.
There was a sound of "huteng", and 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. They let out pitiful screams and rolled on the ground. After finally extinguishing the fire, 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, and the number sounds like there are hundreds of them.
This [Flame Ring] originally burst out with 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, Laddie controlled the intensity of the flame to make it burn longer.
With his life no longer in danger for the time being, Grand Duchess calmed down.
She praised, "Laddie, your mastery of magic has become more and more refined. It's true that latecomers are catching up. I can't catch up with you now."
Although she received praise from her senior sister, Laddie was not in the mood to be modest. Although she had tried her best to control the burning speed of [Flame Ring], it would eventually burn out after a period of time.
"The howls of these wolves are so loud, Niceburg must have heard them too. Won't City Garrison send someone to take a look?"
"That will have to be tomorrow at dawn. 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 using [Flame Ring] to protect the carriage until dawn. Do you have any good ideas?"
The mage cannot cast the same magic repeatedly continuously, and must wait for a period of time before he can continue to use the magic he used before.
If Paul Greiman knew this, he might use the "skill cooldown time" in the previous life video game to understand it.
How long the interval is depends on the mage's mastery of magic. It may be as little as a few hours or even dozens of minutes, or as long as several days.
As for how to explain this 'mastery', there is still ongoing 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.
However, 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 completely 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 Laddie ask this, Helen shook his 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 will set the carriage on fire, say... maybe even set the forest on fire."
The normal version of [Flame Ring] takes the caster as the center point, suddenly generates a circle of flames, and then spreads outward from small to large areas.
If it can't be controlled as precisely as Laddie, and it can be forcibly used inside Carriage, maybe it really...
"Okay, senior sister. After the flames go out, we will summon Clay Golem again."
"Okay, I can do this."
After the two discussed it, they quietly watched the fire around them decrease little by little.
As the flames weakened, the surrounding wolves became restless again.
"Start preparing to summon... wait, senior sister, did you hear something?"
Laddie seemed to hear something and listened attentively.
Grand Duchess also held his breath, trying to capture the voice from Laddie'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 "touch! touch!".
But I saw Laddie suddenly said with a happy look, "Musket! It's the sound of musket! No wonder it feels so familiar."
"Musket?" Grand Duchess didn't know why.
"Well! Senior sister, the crew of the Southern is here to rescue us!"