Alien Knights

Froststone Camp, five minutes before the start of the battle.

Todd looked at the group of barbarians of different ages, men and women, and asked Ackerman in a low voice: "These people are all the troops we can use?"

The latter nodded helplessly: "I know there are fewer people, but the key problem is that we don't have enough equipment. Look at these people, they don't have decent armor, and even their weapons are homemade hunting bows and tree-cutting axes..."

Todd turned his head to Rachel: "How long have they been away, Alfonso?"

"Almost thirty minutes." Rachel silently calculated the distance and time in her mind: "According to the predetermined tactics, the knights set off first, two in a group, and cleared all the enemy's secret posts in the forest. The gladiator troops marched directly towards the enemy's camp."

Todd nodded: "So now, it's almost time to fight..."

Before the words fell, a sharp whistle came from a distance.

Ackerman looked into the distance in surprise: "What's that sound?!"

Rachel said to him: "The enemy is using loud arrows to notify the troops in the distance... Ackerman, tell the sentries around the camp to increase their vigilance!"

A few minutes later, a barbarian hunter ran into the camp panting, and said to Todd, "Boss! A group of cavalry is heading towards the camp!"

"how many people?"

"More than seventy people."

Todd issued an order to everyone around him: "Ackerman, let everyone who can fight guard the entrance of the camp! Rachel, you organize the old and weak of the tribe to hide in the bunker we repaired in advance!"

Rachel opened her eyes wide and asked Todd, "What about you?"

"I must stay here!" Todd gave her a relieved look: "Besides, there are only seventy cavalrymen. As long as we stick to the camp, we can easily repel them by using the terrain."

Rachel glanced at Todd, said nothing, just nodded and left the place.

Glancing at Ackerman with straight eyes, Todd laughed: "First time on the battlefield?"

Ackerman shook his head.

Patting him on the shoulder, Todd put on his sword and shield and strode towards the gate of the camp.

The barbarian warriors held their weapons and were already waiting behind the fence of the camp. The sound of horseshoes in the distance was getting closer and more urgent.

Todd stood among the crowd, slowly drew out his sword, pointed straight ahead, and shouted loudly: "Behind us are our brothers, sisters, parents and children! Think about it, if we lose the battle, what will be their fate afterward?! Death will become a luxury!"

"Take up the weapons in your hands and raise your chests! Let us use our flesh and will to tell these Ulster sons of bitches that this is our homeland!"

"Roar!"

Under Todd's instigation, the barbarian warriors struck the fence with their weapons and let out a loud roar.

At this moment, the enemy's cavalry also got out of the forest and appeared in the sight of everyone.

"Archers prepare! Make sure every arrow is not wasted!" Todd looked at the cavalry who were getting closer, estimated the distance between the two sides, and then ordered loudly: "Attack!"

Barbarian warriors may not have received military training, but these hunters are all first-class experts in the use of bows and arrows.

The arrow passed through the gap in the fence, and the trembling tail of the arrow played a role of balance. It crossed a nearly straight ballistic trajectory in the air, and directly pierced a cavalryman's eye socket. The powerful force pulled him off the horse abruptly.

After two rounds of bow and arrow shooting, the enemy's cavalry lost eleven people, but the distance between the two sides has been shortened to the point of close combat.

"Shield wall!" Todd lifted the shield in his deputy and took a step forward: "Get ready for close combat!"

To Todd's surprise, the expected impact did not happen. After these Ulster light cavalry approached the outer edge of the camp, they just threw the packages on their horses behind the fence and fled in all directions in a panic.

The enemy retreated like this?

Todd and Ackerman, who were on the front line, looked at each other.

The latter walked to a torn package and carefully picked off the outermost layer of oil paper. The pungent stench almost made him unsteady.

Looking at the things inside, Ackerman shouted: "It's full of carrion and internal organs, damn it, there are maggots!"

Todd was stunned for a moment, then stood there thinking hard for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "Everyone! Withdraw to the bunker!"

It's a bit late to say this.

From the forest came the howling of wild animals and the rustling of trees.

Just when everyone was in doubt, a giant mutant wolf with a body length of more than two meters jumped up from the tree trunk and rushed into the crowd.

This war beast overturned a wooden shield with one paw, opened its bloody mouth, and bit the throat of a barbarian warrior. After repeated bites, the opponent's head was torn off.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen giant wolves jumped out of the forest and began to attack the camp.

Todd pierced the giant wolf's throat with a sword, and kicked the corpse away. Before he could wipe off the blood on his face, he saw a soldier beside him was bitten by the ankle by the giant wolf, dragged into the pack of wolves, and was dismembered in an instant. He struck the shield with his sword and shouted to the people around him: "Everyone, gather! Gather around me and form a circle!"

The soldiers began to spontaneously form a circular defensive formation with Todd as the center.

The giant wolves began to run around the circle, looking for openings for their jaws. Although the barbarian warriors were occasionally dragged out of the formation due to carelessness, they finally stood firm and resisted wave after wave of attacks from the war beasts.

"The archers aimed at the legs of the giant wolves and slowed them down! Once the defenders in the outer circle are injured, they should quickly retreat back into the formation, and the people behind them will replace them!"

Todd carefully calculated the combat power ratio between the enemy and us. There were originally 24 giant wolves in the war beast herd, but after killing nine of them, there were still 15 left; our soldiers originally had about 140 soldiers, but now there are less than 110 left.

"Steady the formation, don't let the war beast rush in, we can win this battle!" Todd pulled in a soldier with a leg injury from the periphery of the circle, took his place again, and began to fight side by side with the others.

The giant wolf swam for a while, then suddenly stopped, retreated a short distance, and started howling towards the sky.

A few seconds later, a huge, shambling female wolf came out of the forest and slowly walked towards the circle.

It is covered with pits all over its body, and its abdomen is raised high. Judging from its shape, it is filled with wriggling "spheres", and it also emits a strange red light through its belly.

As the female wolf approached step by step, its abdomen became bigger and bigger, its wriggling speed became faster and faster, and its red light became brighter and brighter.

Knowing that something was wrong, Todd quickly ordered the soldiers to focus their arrows on the strange female wolf.

At the same time, the surrounding giant wolves came to the side of the female wolf one after another, covering the latter with their bodies to continue moving forward.

As it got closer to the circle, the female wolf let out a cry of a baby, and suddenly quickened her pace. The sphere in her stomach seemed like a balloon that would explode at any moment.

With a roar, Todd pushed away the soldiers around him, covered his body with the metal skin, rushed forward with one step, and pierced the she-wolf's head with the blade in his hand.

boom!

There was a loud bang.

A violent explosion occurred in front of the camp gate, and a huge wave of air toppled the fence and scattered the snow.

The circular defensive formation formed by the barbarian warriors was also disintegrated in an instant. The nearest few warriors were gradually bleeding from their mouths and noses, and they seemed to be dead.

Todd was pushed several meters away by the explosion, and the bells and chimes rang in his head, creating chaos.

In his eyes, the world seemed to be a slow-moving movie. Giant wolves leaped into the air, their sharp teeth reflecting the dazzling light; barbarian warriors raised their hands in front of them, and the expressions of fear on their faces gradually enlarged; the second and third self-destructing female wolves appeared at the edge of the forest.

Todd stood up slowly, the passage of time was getting slower and slower around him, and finally froze in the picture of stop.

Memory pictures that he had never seen one after another quickly flashed before his eyes.

A sick barbarian boy was escorted by a group of barbarians to the shaman's hut in the snowy forest.

An injured barbarian boy, holding his injured calf, looked at the pack of wolves in front of him. Several barbarian hunters with torches stood in front of him, driving the beasts away for him.

A barbarian youth led a group of warriors in a desperate struggle with the enemy in front of him.

The memory screen kept flickering, and finally Boyle's light blue spirit body appeared in front of Todd.

"I am an incompetent person, an unqualified leader..." Boyle's spirit body flickered, his expression looked a little confused, but it was more sad: "My people took care of me and trusted me, but I failed to bring them a better life..."

Todd said in surprise: "Aren't you wandering in the soul space? How did you break through the barrier and come here?!"

"The explosion created a gap in your soul world. From there, I saw what happened to my people and came to your eyes through the gap." Boyle's spiritual body began to fade slowly, and a smile slowly appeared on his face: "Todd, I owe you too much, but I still beg you to lend me your strength again. In this last time, I hope to do something for my people..."

"The last time... what are you talking about?!"

The passage of time returns to normal, and everything restarts for four weeks.

But Todd found that his body had begun to enter a state of evolution, and an unstoppable fighting spirit rose from the depths of his soul.

Ackerman held up the dilapidated wooden shield. The sharp teeth of the giant wolf in his pupils were getting closer and closer, but he had no power to fight back at all. He could only close his eyes and wait for death quietly.

A pair of pitch-black iron claws stretched out from behind him, firmly grasping the giant wolf's upper and lower jaws, and when the two claws parted, the giant wolf was instantly torn in half.

A three-meter-tall humanoid monster jumped into the pack of beasts, and its pitch-black iron scales withstood all attacks from the pack of giant wolves. A icy breath spewed out from its mouth, freezing the seven giant wolves around it into ice cubes.

A self-exploding female wolf saw the timing and climbed onto the monster's back. After the violent explosion, the latter was unscathed, shook its body, threw the broken body of the female wolf to the ground, and fought with the remaining beasts.

In less than a minute, the battle beast group was completely wiped out.

The pitch-black monster glanced back at the surviving barbarian warriors, dropped the wolf's head that was still dripping blood in his hand, fell on all fours, his figure was like the wind, and ran towards the northern battlefield without looking back.