"Your Highness..." A group of archers ran back covered in dust.
Their noisy voices successfully attracted Roland's attention. Roland curiously poked his head out of the blacksmith shop to take a look, and was instantly stunned by the Badaniyan archers in front of him. Some of the archers who were originally wearing fine mail armor had their armor torn, some had scratches on their arms, and some were wet all over, like drowned rats.
"What happened?" Roland narrowed his eyes. He wondered if they were attacked by orcs.
"Sir, a huge octopus monster has appeared in the Rapid River. It looks like it is at least a high-level monster!" A shooter organized his words and told Roland the whole story.
The archers had gone out fishing in their boats. The rapid river was still rich in resources even in winter, and they had already harvested more than a dozen large baskets of fish. Just as they were working together to collect the nets, several thick tentacles suddenly emerged from the water, and in no time they tore the fishing nets apart. Then a big mouth with sharp teeth appeared and swallowed up the fish in the nets. The archers who reacted shot at the octopus-like thing with bows and arrows, but unexpectedly it aroused its ferocity. The huge tentacles swung wantonly, knocking the five galleons surrounding it to the ground. Fortunately, the Badanian archers had extremely strong agility. They dodged the tentacles that swept around but could not avoid falling into the water. With the rescue of the remaining five galleons, although there was no sacrifice of personnel, many people were injured. Facing the octopus monster that ordinary arrows could not kill, the Badanian archers could only shoot and retreat. They finally let the boats land on the beach and ran quickly into the inland, thus blocking the attack of the monster.
"What the hell? Are there any cows or horses that dare to come and cause trouble?" Roland was extremely angry. This winter, the city of Jiliu was short of food and clothing and relied on the seafood of Jiliu River to survive. Even Roland could only eat grilled fish with black bread or fish soup with black bread. How could Roland and his people survive without these seafood!
"All the Knights of Holy Glory stay here. Renault, you are responsible for protecting the City of Rapids. The guards of Lagran City and the archers of Badaniyah, you follow me. Pastor Ivy and Lord Radil, thank you for your help." Roland assigned the tasks. It was a pity that Kaslo was not here, otherwise his flying dragon would definitely be a powerful weapon.
"Let's go! Let's go meet it." Roland gritted his teeth.
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Looking at the calming Rapid River, Roland turned to look at Radil and said, "Sir Radil, thank you for your help!"
"This is what I should do, Your Highness." Ladir bowed, and the next moment a huge amount of mental power was released through the staff in Ladir's hand. Judging from the amplification effect of this staff on Ladir, it must be no ordinary item. Under Ladir's control, the mental power continuously explored both sides of the river with Ladir as the center...
"Found it!" Radil suddenly opened his eyes.
"Mental Explosion!" Radil cast a high-level mental magic. It was not a big problem for an earth-based war mage to use expensive mental spells. After all, the spellcaster constructed the spell with mental power and magic power. The higher the level of the spellcaster, the mental power was definitely not lower than the magic power.
"Boom!" A muffled sound came from underwater. With the sound, a huge white water ball emerged from the water and exploded. A magical beast with dozens of tentacles was washed to the surface by the water current.
"Holy crap? Aquatic Watcher?" Roland looked at the familiar barbed tentacles and the ugly appearance. Wasn't this the same Aquatic Watcher that appeared in Mirror Lake at the west gate of Moria? Roland was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he felt relieved. Mirror Lake was originally a closed lake, connected to it by only a river. If an ancient creature like the Aquatic Watcher could enter that narrow water, why couldn't it enter this wide, fast-flowing river?
"Shoot!" Roland commanded his soldiers to attack. Compared to the crude archery skills of the Knights of the Holy Glory, the crossbows of the Lagrande guards were much more accurate. They couldn't shoot wherever they pointed, but they could definitely hit the target with a high probability. Not to mention the skills of the Badaniyan archers, which were even better!
"Sure enough!" Roland looked solemnly at the underwater watcher who was angry in the water because of the pain. Although his skin was not as thick as dragon skin, the ordinary arrows that Roland had left could not cause fatal damage in the hands of these low-level professionals.
"Light bullet!" Ivy condensed a ball of light and shot it at it. Unexpectedly, the reaction of the underwater observer was extremely violent. The light burned its skin and made it feel like it was dying.
"It's a creature of the Dark Alliance! It's afraid of light, fire, and holy attacks!" Radil exclaimed. Fighting in the water was a real pain for the earth-attributed old man. Besides using his mental power, he could only cast a few ranged spells like Falling Rocks, which infuriated him. He possessed the power of a War Mage, but couldn't fully utilize it, dealing even less damage than a third-level Priest! He felt humiliated by the water-attributed beast.
"Judgment of the Holy Sword!" Roland raised the Dragon Slaying Sword and thrust it fiercely into the ground. A huge golden hexagram emerged with the Dragon Slaying Sword as the center. At the same time, an identical hexagram appeared above the head of the underwater observer. The next second, a Dragon Slaying Sword constructed by divine power flew down from the hexagram array and pointed directly at the underwater observer below.
"Squeak~" The piercing sound tortured everyone's eardrums. A wound one meter long and half a palm deep was left on the head of the underwater monitor, and dark black blood continued to flow out of the wound.
"Thank you, Lord Radil!" Roland couldn't help but give the old man a thumbs-up. Though the old man lacked his powerful earth magic output, he still used his immense mental power to restrict the underwater watcher's movements, preventing it from retreating into the water. It could only take a single blow from Grand Knight Roland's Holy Sword Judgment. While Roland's move had been impressive, it actually had significant flaws. First, it couldn't be used while moving like Raynor, and it had a several-second delay before it could be used, making it extremely deadly on the battlefield. This showed that Roland relied too much on his men and hadn't fully developed his own strength. Despite his Knight Commander rank, he'd struggle even against a veteran knight in actual combat. It was no wonder that Kaslo had stopped Roland from ascending Raven Ridge to confront Azog. In this world, Azog's weakest skill would be a Tier 5 professional, or even a Tier 6 Tyrant, Hero, or Warrior. Even Thorin, the Berserker, without the Seven Rings of the Dwarf, would probably only be able to deal a few simple blows. As for a movie-like comeback... forget it.
"Judgment of the Holy Sword!" Roland, whose skill had cooled down, used the Paladin's ultimate move again.
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"He should be dead now..." Roland sighed, holding his waist after releasing the 47th Holy Sword Judgment.
"..." Ivy looked at Roland, who had exhausted all his fighting spirit, and then looked at the underwater observer who was almost pierced by the Holy Sword Judgment... Several black lines hung down her head.
"Your Highness, that's enough! That's enough! You've already penetrated this guy..." Seeing the miserable state of the underwater observer, Radil quickly stopped Roland, who was still forcing himself to use his skills. Radil would control the struggling underwater observer in the front, but the underwater observer in the back was already floating in the water like a dead fish, allowing Roland to attack...
"Okay, let's continue fishing... Just fish that thing out, dig out the magic crystal and throw it aside." Roland looked at the body of the observer in the water, thought of the inky black blood, and immediately stopped thinking about pulling it back to eat.
"What a pity for my galleon..." Roland lamented the destruction of the five boats. Now his daily catch would be much smaller...
"It seems that I have to pair the archers with the city guards to go fishing together in the future. I didn't consider the factor of magical beasts in the river before... This is not the Middle-earth described by Tolkien!" Roland sighed. He almost forgot that there are a large number of magical beasts in this world.
"I'm going back to tinker with my blacksmith shop..." Roland was still thinking about the blacksmith shop. After all, his subordinates' equipment was in urgent need of repair.