Warhammer Throne Chapter 57: , Manticore

This is a deserted manor. The scene of prosperity in the past has disappeared. The ruined walls tell of the richness of the past and the desolation of the present. Looking at it, the original fertile fields have been covered by ice and withered weeds, low houses and granaries. Most of them collapsed, and the fences and walls were broken and damaged everywhere.

There are ghouls and beasts, as well as terrible undead wandering in the wilderness. This is the case in this terrible world. If the dead are not buried in a proper way, they will turn into terrible undead at night, with The nostalgia of life and the hatred of the living, wandering in the wild forever.

At this time, it was still daytime, and a loud noise erupted in the manor.

"Boom!" The sound of heavy objects hitting the gold and iron resounded through the empty manor, followed by the roar of wild beasts and the shouts of humans: "Come on! Beast! Try me!"

"Be careful! Ah Fu! Don't be impulsive!" Another voice yelled: "Theresa, it's heading toward you!"

"Know!" the calm female voice replied, and then she said softly, "Frost technique!"

"Pretty, look at me now! Holy Judgment!" The white light flashed, and the beast let out a painful roar.

This finally allows people to have a full view.

In the barren and dilapidated field, three humans are fighting around a huge beast.

The headed human has a full-body plate armor, a large square shield in one hand, and a paladin standard one-handed long sword in the other. He has blond hair and blue eyes, sweat runs across his forehead, and the white light belonging to the **** of justice is constantly flickering. , He struck his shield vigorously with his sword: "Come on! Beast!!!"

"Clang clang!" The sound of gold and iron clashing made the monster extremely annoyed.

The tall white wolf knight wearing chain mail and breastplate took the opportunity to storm the right wing of the monster. Every attack he made caused huge damage to the monster.

"Ryan, be careful of its stings!" A little far away, a female warlock in a black leather outfit, holding a staff, moved as she chanted a spell in her mouth.

The stones on the ground and the collapsed ruins began to unite under the guidance of the magical power of the sorcerer, and gradually formed a two-meter-high golem composed of stones and wood. The surface of this golem was covered by thick frost. Under the command of the sorcerer, she fell to the ground and rushed towards the monster.

The full picture of the monster is also shown before the three.

This is a huge creature with the appearance of a lion. It has a ferocious face like a jackal, a fiery red mane, huge fangs and wings covered with spikes. The most special thing about it is that it has a very long tail. , With a barb at the end.

This monster is just the manticore that makes people talk about it!

Even in the creation of Chaos, Manticore can be considered extremely vicious. Because of inherent stubbornness and combativeness, manticores will fight any enemy for their own territory. Faced with the giant eagles, griffins and even the dragon king who strayed into the territory, the manticores responded in the same way: they would roar and rush towards the enemy, carrying out **** and brutal fights, and you will die until you die. And if the enemy is not much stronger than himself, the winner of such a fight is often a manticore. They will stand on the cliffs and roar, showing their strength and determination.

"Damn, I didn't expect the manticore to be so difficult!" The paladin Alfred moved sideways cautiously, looking for an opportunity to attack.

The manticore is so sensitive, it can always easily dodge the attack of the paladin, and immediately respond.

The professional characteristics of the paladin were slow movement, low offensive ability, and good defensiveness. In the face of manticore's attack, Alfred always had a situation where he couldn't help it.

Because that animal's tail is so annoying, the green venom-soaked stinger always dangling around his head, constantly trying to find a chance to pierce his helmet, when Alfred's After the helmet was deformed by the stinger and flew out, the paladin had to retreat carefully.

The poison of the manticore is a very poisonous one that can seal the throat with blood, and the poisoning of ordinary people basically means that they are dead.

"Fu, do you want to withdraw?" Ryan shouted from the side. He carefully avoided the stinger from the piercing. Seeing the manticore spread its wings and wanted to take off, Ryan directly gave a heavy hammer. It fell back to the ground: "Don't force it, you have reached the conditions for a glorious retreat!"

Glorious retreat, one of the dogmas of the Church of Justice.

For the paladins who often like blood, and for justice to die at their own discretion, the **** of justice formulated this doctrine. When the enemy's strength is three times or more than ours, it is not a shame to retreat. , But a glorious thing, called a glorious retreat.

Since this doctrine was published, the death rate of paladins has been greatly reduced.

"No, my Holy Shield technique today is useless!" Alfred shouted.

"Well, it's up to you." Ryan stopped talking.

Divine Shield and Holy Light are also known as one of the paladin's two great guardian magic skills. Alfred, who has advanced from the paladin to the Temple Guardian, can use Divine Shield once a day. It comes from justice. The divine power of the gods will bless him to continue fighting in a state of basically invincibility for a short period of time (almost six seconds).

Although Divine Shield is not invincible in the absolute sense, it is enough to deal with manticores.

The manticore pounced towards Ryan, splashing a lot of dust and snowflakes. Ryan rolled away easily, then dashed in, hitting the manticore's front paw with a hammer, and then immediately avoided the manticore's poison. Thorn chase.

"Ice Spear Technique!" Teresa immediately condensed a long ice spear in the air, which cut through the sky and whizzed directly towards the manticore.

The manticore drew away abruptly. Taking this opportunity, the ice golem immediately hugged it full of arms.

Ryan saw this and began to accumulate energy.

The manticore was struggling with all its strength. Its sharp teeth and claws quickly grabbed the golem temporarily summoned by Teresa to pieces. The slender tail flicked wildly, and the stinger at the end of the tail could hit the golem with every blow. A hole was pierced in the surface, and rubble was splashing everywhere.

Soon, the joints between the arm and the head of the golem were damaged, and the manticore could not be controlled by sight.

But this is enough.

"Frost Nova!!!" The sorcerer screamed, and a large burst of frosty mist suddenly spewed from the inside of the ice golem. The manticore was screamed by the freezing mist, and it struggled to break free. The control of the golem, but under the control of the sorcerer, the golem clung to the manticore firmly.

Gradually, the body of the manticore became stiff, and the golem completely turned back into stone and wood in the onslaught of the manticore at any cost.

"Holy Shock!" A white glow emerged from the paladin's long sword, and Alfred fought hard, and his long sword left a huge wound on the manticore's back.

Immediately afterwards, it was Ryan's attack. The warhammer in the hands of the White Wolf Knight exploded with golden light and hit the manticore's head with a heavy blow.

Skull Smash!

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Alfred rushed forward, and the stinger on his tail passed high above its head, and pierced directly towards the paladin's Tianling Gai.

The old power was gone, the new power was not born, and the paladin itself was not an agile profession, Alfred immediately activated the magic.

A golden ring envelops Alfred, countless golden runes swirling around the paladin, the manticore's ferocious attack is completely blocked by these mysterious energy, no matter how hard it is, it can't break through the periphery. Golden protection energy.

With the protection of the Holy Shield, Alfred immediately resorted to a desperate style of play. Every move of the paladin was to fight for his life, and he didn't mind his moves that were open everywhere. His long sword Each swipe left a deep bone wound on the manticore's body. Soon, the manticore slowed down due to excessive blood loss and injury, and entered a dying state.

Ryan secretly smiled.

The Holy Shield is such a rogue. When the Holy Shield is turned on and in an invincible state, the Paladin will make the most of the value of the Holy Shield through this style of play, so many people jokingly call the paladin in this state. For "Long Live Charge".

He didn't need to take action anymore, because the battle was over.

Teresa came, and the sorceress stood outside the maximum attack range of the manticore and stretched out her staff to release a terrible frost. The monster was slowly frozen into a whole piece of ice sculpture, Alfred first A sword chopped off the manticore's head, and Ryan rushed to it. The psionic blade waved and the manticore's tail separated from its body.

"Finished! We have kept this thing intact. Ms. Dietlind should pay us a good price!" Ryan laughed.

"Come on!" The golden circle around Alfred also disappeared. The paladin smiled and retracted his sword, put his shield behind him, and stretched his waist: "I haven't seen you for many years, I didn't expect you to have changed. It's so strong."

"How can you be your friend if you are not strong?" Ryan murmured casually, and then put the warhammer away: "But you have become very strong too, Afu."

"That is, how can you be worthy of the title of 'Sledgehammer' Ryan's friend if you are not strong?" Alfred laughed.

The two [biquger.info] men looked at each other and felt a deep understanding between each other.

Only the female warlock standing on the side rolled her eyes, wondering if these two men brag about each other is not disgusting?

"Cough, okay, we've finished the kill, the manticore has fallen, it's getting late, let's go back soon, Ryan? Al...Fred?" Teresa tried her best to look more cheerful. .

Although the sorcerer doesn't like paladins, Alfred is Ryan's friend and childhood playmate, and she feels it is necessary to make rhetoric.

"Speaking of it, it's really... surprises me, Ryan, that you will find me to do this." Alfred sat on the ground directly, panting: "This... ."

"A wish?"

"Well, actually, when we entered the city, this Ms. Nora stopped us once on the street." Alfred laughed self-deprecatingly: "But she can't pay the fee, even if we have given the bottom line. So even if it's sad, we have to tell her that we can't do it. Ryan, you know, manticores are not the kind of ghouls or goblins that we can deal with with a few strokes. We can't risk it. Do things that don't take any money at the risk of your life."

"The children surrounded us and begged us to help Ms. Nora, but we couldn't do anything. This feeling is really uncomfortable." Alfred said with a sense of interest. Shouldn't I help the weak and the strong? Shouldn't I help the weak? But I've encountered this a few times."

"Oh, Fu, you have to know that manpower is limited and precious." Ryan sat down after seeing this. The man looked at the dim sky and sighed: "If justice does not require a price, then does justice itself have no Is value at all? If you don't respect order, does the existence of order have meaning?"

"I also know this, and if you don't talk about the cost, the power of a paladin can easily be used by someone with a heart..." Alfred quickly recovered, he got up and wiped the snow and mud under him, recovering A cheerful expression: "It's almost done, let's go back!"

"You go back first! I still have something to deal with." Ryan said that he still has something to do: "It's my personal business, so you don't want to participate."

"Personal business? What do you have to do in this deserted manor at night?" Teresa felt very puzzled. Her beautiful face was all strange: "And why should you be alone? We didn't say yes. Do you face it together?"

"This is different. This is my personal business. Do I need a little private space?" Ryan shook his head, obviously not wanting the two of them to continue participating.

"you..."

"Okay, okay, Ms. Trovik, since Ryan doesn't want us to participate, let's go back!" Alfred came out to solve the scene, and the paladin's words gave the female warlock a step down, Teresa Somewhat unwillingly glanced at Ryan, Zhu's lips vomited slightly: "Then you come back for dinner tonight?"

"No." Ryan shook his head and walked toward the depths of the manor. The sorcerer reluctantly used the space ring to put away the manticore's body, and returned to Milodhaven with the paladin.

The interior of the manor has been very dilapidated. It can be seen that after the manor was abandoned, there were few thieves or scavengers patronizing it. Maybe it was also deterred by the manticore. Ryan crossed an uphill path and collapsed towards it. Walked to the manor house.

This kind of manor is very common in Nord. A typical manor has a large house or castle surrounded by fields, farmhouses, pastures and woodland. In most cases, the manor is self-sufficient. Some surplus daily necessities can be traded with other manors to complement each other. Generally, a manor will have ten or more tenants to supply the manor's life and production.

The tenants depend on the situation. Some tenants will have more share and part of the property rights, and some tenants will be no different from serfs-they not only need to pay 70% to 80% of the harvest, but also take care of the arrangements and care of the manor's daily life. And life.

Charlemagne was born as a tenant. When he was a child, the founder of the human empire had let off cows, planted land, chopped firewood, and forkped dung. Not only was the founder of the great human empire not ashamed, but proud of him, from the tenant to The emperor's story has deeply inspired generations of poor farmers from generation after generation to bravely embark on the road of adventure.

However, the big house that appeared in front of Ryan had been seriously damaged. The doors and walls of the big house had various big holes, and the roof completely collapsed. You can vaguely see the smashed furniture and floor on the second floor, and the snow also fell. Entered the interior of the big house.

"It really fits the definition of a deserted manor. It will take a lot of effort for Ms. Nora to move in again." Ryan grunted his nose.

In fact, as long as the monsters are cleaned up and relative safety is ensured, Nora can rebuild this manor with the help of the Life Church. As for the tenants...there are too many farmers who can't survive without land to grow, and want to recruit some tenants. It's not a difficult task, as long as they can eat their food and not be frozen to death.

This is not the point, the point is... the ruins of the ancient sage are here!