ushernet Chapter 246 - 246: Conflict Escalates
Chapter 246 - 246: Conflict Escalates
Nighttime. The knights' kingdom was in turmoil.
The actual battle reports had come in from the frontlines. More than half of the six thousand witcher-knights had died in Greenland Forest, while the survivors had been scattered in the wild and were unlikely to regroup anytime soon.
The cause for the delay in information was due to that accursed Count Vanlier taking up arms and rebelling. He had publicly surrendered to those evil invading Mages.
Only five radiant knights remained out of the leaders that went to battle. They led a hundred of their subordinates back to Herdurand City, and that was how news of the battle got back.
The sudden betrayal of the dragons!
The departure of Fourth Grade Holy Knight Sir Willis with the dragons!
One of the three dragon knights had died in battle, while the other two had been caught in the Mages' base.
The terrifying Mages' tower remained standing in the depths of Greenland Forest, now impenetrable and unassailable!
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Bad news repeatedly came. Finally, the elderly king was unable to go on and started coughing blood.
Just as he got news of the dragons' betrayal and the dire straits of his kingdom, news reached his ears about an attack on Runeforge Camp, the most important location for the knights. This increasingly angered all of the witcher-knights!
The many radiant knights that stayed at and guarded the palace led their indignant subordinates out on the hunt, recklessly
Under the terrified gazes of countless palace guards, numerous acidic poison and wind poison dragon breaths rained down like a storm. All of the human warriors that were caught in them died a painful death before they could even escape.
The warriors that were engulfed in the wind poison fell to the ground, their faces a deathly black. They had been killed instantly by the poison. Those that were showered with acidic poison had their flesh dissolved like melting candles, turning into viscous green liquid and leaving only a pile of charred and withered bones behind.
Bows and crossbows on the ground fired in unison. Waves of fire and ice arrows slashed through the sky, barring the dragon flight.
Clinking noises echoed throughout. Countless arrows were swiped out of the skies by the dragons' wings and tails, but some arrows still found their way into gaps in the scales of the younger dragons.
For a moment, grunts and cries of pain rang out incessantly from the dragon flight.
A few adolescent green dragons quickly dove down and used their massive bodies to shield the young dragons. Under the orders of the adolescent dragons, the dragon flight quickly took to the sky and gradually left the range of the crossbows.
But this didn't mean that the dragons were going to retreat. In fact, it was the precursor to a ferocious attack.
Dragon roars rumbled through the skies. With two adolescent dragons in the front, and three juvenile dragons following closely behind, five massive green dragons beat their wide wings and dove downwards at the palace at high speed.
The five green dragons opened their mouths wide, and large balls of horrifying acid quickly gathered behind their throats.
The next moment, five dense acidic poison breaths had ploughed several paths of death through the crowd below. The crossbows attacks from the ground were mostly deflected by the dragons' scales. Even the occasional bolts that found their mark into flesh wasn't enough to interrupt the dragons' wild breaths.
The first group of dragons had just finished unleashing their ravaging breaths. Just as they turned their bodies and took to the skies once more, a second group of dragons had already started their high-speed dive. Behind them, a third group of dragons was already in formation, looking for the best diving angle...
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