Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords.

Chapter 413 Fountain of Life
The battle between the strikers finally ended with the "Gunawin Electric Cloud" of the Holy Sith Kingdom.

The power of this spell is also at the forefront among epic spells, and it is the nightmare of all air riders.

The range reached nearly five miles, and the dark clouds covered most of the horned eagle riders. There were flashes of lightning condensed from the elements inside, which completely electrocuted them into charcoal and fell into the sea.

Only one or two hundred horned eagle riders on the periphery survived.

With the help of the priests' magic, the mighty and majestic men of the Persian Gulf were all killed by the soldiers of "Storm's Fury", and only less than two thousand remnants escaped from the battlefield.

A group of Golden Eagle Knights plus a regiment of Sith Warriors almost wiped out an enemy army of 10,000 with less than a thousand casualties. Any commander would be delighted by this answer.

But Tokay, the veteran who pursues perfection, was visibly dissatisfied with this.

If they had not underestimated the opponent, the "Storm's Fury" Legion would not have suffered more than 400 casualties due to their strange magic equipment.

The only thing that could save their mood a little was that the deserters fled to the rear as expected. This was what Tokai wanted to see the most. As long as these remnants escaped to White Whale Port, they could bring some help to their expeditionary force no matter what.

The entire expeditionary force has won two major victories so far, and the overall morale of the army is high and even a little arrogant, but Governor Bernard still calmly ordered the air cavalry to patrol the sea fifty miles away from the main force in batches.

The vanguard army is responsible for exploring the way for the main army to prevent ambushes.

The lord was in the lobby of his own Forge main ship, deep in thought as he looked at the confiscated "magic equipment" on the table.

The weapons used by those horned eagle riders caused the Sith Nation to suffer a great loss. Naturally, the entire expeditionary force would not turn a blind eye to it. Afterwards, they directly sent people to the bottom of the sea to salvage some of these weapons.

The lord used his status to obtain some from the old general Tokae for research purposes.

A small flag and a glass oil lamp on the table are not magic equipment at all. Through interrogating the prisoners, these weapons have unique names - "Biga Fire Flag" and "Bronze Smoke Lamp".

It is a weapon infused with divine power by a group of priests called Aru in the sacrificial temple of the Persian Gulf Empire.

"Evra, don't you know these weapons?" The lord looked at the beautiful snake leader beside him.

If there was anyone present who knew these weapons best, it was undoubtedly Medusa, who was once a member of the Persian Gulf Empire.

"I don't know." Yifura shook her head. "We, the Medusa tribe, have always lived in the Falling Spring Forest. We only come out when we are called upon."

"A peaceful life without caring about worldly affairs. If it weren't for this war, I'm afraid you Medusas would still be living a quiet and peaceful life." Heather, the drow elf, said with some envy while cracking melon seeds.

The drow elves living underground were at war every day, and there were countless conspiracies and intrigues, which once made her extremely disgusted.

"An Ning?" The beautiful snake leader finally showed a trace of helplessness on her face: "Do you know why our Medusa clan has a prophecy that in the future there will be a dragon knight who will lead us to prosperity?"

"why?"

Zamanzi, who was arm wrestling with Volebear, suddenly became interested and stopped teasing the bear man. With a "snap", he pressed the opponent's arm, which was as thick as a pillar, on the table, and immediately looked at the other mistress of High Cliff Castle and made a joke.

Realizing that the barbarian in front had been playing tricks on him, the honest man Wolebel's face suddenly turned red, but fortunately it could not be seen on his furry face.

"I have to tell you something about the secret of our Medusa first." Evela took the tea handed to her by the lord and moistened her throat.

"You say."

"We, the Medusa clan, are only female. This is known to everyone. People think that we, the Medusa clan, are just like the goblins and the harpies. When the Titans created us, they deprived us of the other sex. This is not the case at all."

"What does it look like?" Levi asked while he was busy studying the "Biga Fire Flag" and the "Bronze Incense Lamp".

"In fact, it's because of the Fountain of Life!" Yivra's eyes turned serious. "There is a unique magic spring deep in the Falling Spring Forest. As long as we Medusa drink it, we can give birth to life without combining with humans..."

"Oh my god, isn't this the Zi Mu River?" The lord became interested and dropped the two objects in his hands.

Apparently the magical spring water that can make people pregnant is more attractive.

"I'm curious, if a man drinks this spring water, will he get pregnant?" Zat's simple mind was filled with a sinister plan that ordinary people could hardly imagine: "If we secretly put the Fountain of Life into the drinking water of the Persian Gulf troops, will they all give birth to children when they fight the next day?"

"Great minds think alike!" The lord patted the beastman's shoulder, and the two of them winked at each other and laughed happily.

"Levi, wait for me to finish." The beautiful snake covered the lord's mouth with her slender fingers and rolled her eyes. She didn't let go until Levi blinked and continued, "Why is it different from the goblins and harpies? It's because although the Fountain of Life can make us Medusa pregnant, only female babies can be born."

"That would definitely take away a lot of the fun." Heather said with a smile.

Since Tina and Tiffany did not come with him, this drow elf had been pampered recently and had become somewhat addicted to it. Every night he would pester the lord, wanting to give birth to a bunch of little masters of Highcliff Castle.

Therefore, I feel sympathy for these Medusas who have never tasted the sweetness of a man.

This was not a topic that the Ice Warlock Mesha and the Elf Chieftain Ashe could interrupt, so they both knew better and kept silent.

"Isn't this good? As long as there is the fountain of life, it doesn't matter even if all the babies are girls." Levi said.

"If that were true, there would be no prophecy." The beautiful snake girl showed helplessness on her face: "Just a few decades ago, we noticed that the fountain of life was slowly drying up!"

"If the Fountain of Life disappears completely, it will be a devastating blow to us Medusa."

"Then combine with other races." The Lord suggested, "I don't believe that a living person can be suffocated to death by urine."

"We've tried it before, but it didn't work." Ivra said calmly, "It's as if we Medusas are collectively cursed. We can't have children with men at all."

"This……"

The audience looked at each other in bewilderment.

If this is true, once the fountain of life dries up, the Medusa clan will become another race that disappears in the long river of history.

"So the so-called prophecy is actually because you have no choice at all." The lord finally understood why these Medusas believed in the prophecy so firmly.

To be honest, when the beautiful snake chief of Ivra chose to join Gaoya Castle, he had considered all kinds of conspiracies and tricks, but when the other party's joining the team notification appeared on the system panel, all of this disappeared in an instant, leaving only the joy of pie in the sky.

This is a real legendary warrior, plus a race that produces a lot of sacrifices. The addition of this group of Medusas completely made up for the shortage of magicians in High Cliff Castle, and instantly raised the military strength of High Cliff Castle to a higher level.

Moreover, the high-end combat power of Gaoya Castle, plus Cesni, the black dragon queen who is always thinking of escaping, suddenly reached three people.

This configuration can be said to be no less than that of a small country.

……

Five days later, the coastline appeared in everyone's sight, and the White Whale Port of the Persian Gulf Empire was also in sight.

Teams of Griffin Knights, who were on high alert, received the military order and began to take off in batches, circling back and forth over the White Whale Harbor following the air currents. No matter how they cruised in the sky, they always maintained a fairly high altitude.

The lord also came to the main ship where Bernard was, standing on the watchtower and looking through the telescope.

White Whale Port is a classic seaside city. The port is surrounded by low two- or three-story buildings, and next to the port there is a huge white castle built on the mountain. The towering city walls are thirty to forty meters high.

"Boss, has anyone attacked here before?" Zha Manzi asked in confusion, looking at the collapsed buildings and the ruined port in the distance.

"Do you understand 'fortify the walls and clear the countryside'?" The lord patiently imparted knowledge to this fellow: "Knowing that we are coming, they will definitely concentrate all the resources outside in the castle and leave nothing useful for me."

"But something's wrong, something's very wrong..." But soon, Levi started muttering to himself.

He looked towards the top of the city wall of White Whale Port, but didn't see a single person.

The whole castle exuded a dead air, as if someone had come to attack them before them.

Moreover, the defeated deserters did not flee to White Whale Port, but changed their route halfway and went to the red soil plain on the other side.

Although he didn't understand why they changed their route halfway, the expeditionary force's primary goal was to capture White Whale Port. Bernard could only send people to continue following, while the main force kept its goal unchanged and headed towards White Whale Port.

"Could it be that the opponent's coach is trying to confuse us?" Leighton still maintained a cautious guess.

"Maybe, these idiots were frightened by the military might of Gaoya Fort last time and became cowards, so they just ran away. What do you think, Marshal Wo?" Zha Manzi put his arm around the bear leader's shoulder and laughed, looking very heartless.

Volebear ignored this guy and just thought about how the Bearmen of the Pier tribe should appear in this battle.

The lord had no time to pay attention to this fool; his mind was filled with doubts.

Like Levi, Bernard had no idea what the coach of the Persian Gulf Empire was doing at this moment.

Logically speaking, their main force was so close to White Whale Port that the other side should have reacted long ago. At the very least, they would not allow the Griffin Knights to conduct reconnaissance in the sky without restraint.

The information brought back by the Griffin Knights stunned the expeditionary officers for three full breaths.

The guards on the city wall had none, the weapons had none, the air cavalry that intercepted the griffin knights had none... no matter what it was, there was none at all...

Nothing is normal.

"No matter what kind of undead the other side has, we will understand everything after a battle!"

General Tokay said this, and was agreed by a group of officers.

So a second-rate army of 20,000 men from Debe took on the task of siege.

This is a choice that any commander would make. First, let the second-rate legion consume the enemy's soldiers and city defense supplies, and then let the elite legion go up and make the final decision.

The soldiers in the front held shields and advanced in coordination on both sides of the siege vehicle, with a group of archers ready to assist behind them.

"Infantrymen hold up their shields and advance at a constant speed, while archers provide covering fire." The officers roared loudly, trying to ease the nervousness of the recruits, but it was hard to say whether it had any effect, because the recruits were fully focused on the towering city walls in front of them at this moment, and it was difficult for them to notice any sounds from the outside world.

The ability to react is also an instinct that comes from long-term training.

The entire army was only 500 steps away from the city wall, but the imagined crossbows, spells, and bows and arrows never arrived.

This relieved the recruits, but made the officers even more nervous.

Because this group of officers who were promoted from veterans understand better what the calm before the storm means.

But the subsequent development puzzled the officers. An army of 20,000 men advanced safely to the city gate.

The alchemical ladders exported by the Sith Nation were easily placed on the city wall. The soldiers began to climb up, and the huge battering rams began to hit the city gates, with thunder-like explosions resounding over the White Whale Port.

When the soldiers poked their heads out from the city wall, they found that the wall was the same as what they had reported in the intelligence. There was no people, not even a single undead.

When the huge city gate was knocked open and the soldiers rushed in with roars, they found that there were only a few panicked refugees in the corridor. Their thin bodies, half naked, made even the Debe soldiers unwilling to dirty their swords.

"What kind of undead tricks are these Persian Gulf pirates up to?"

This was the unanimous guess of the expeditionary force.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and the other party will not simply give up the entire White Whale Port so easily to allow the expeditionary force to have a foothold.

Often times like this you need to be more careful.

Therefore, the expeditionary force only held the city walls tightly and did not take a single step into the city. An internal meeting was also urgently held.

The possible conspiracies and tricks that the other party might carry out were collectively discussed by the staff, and finally the documents were compiled and presented to the generals.

There are a large number of soldiers hiding in civilian houses, explosive military weapons similar to wildfire buried under the city, and an army hidden in the dense forest behind White Whale Port...

Small groups of soldiers were sent one by one to eliminate various possible events. Even if something really happened, the loss would not be too great.

In this way, the expeditionary force worked extremely nervously from early morning till dusk, and finally figured out one thing incredulously - the group of Persian Gulf pirates might have really abandoned the White Whale Port.

(End of this chapter)