What did you do with the dice?

"My Lord, I'm here!" Custer hurriedly pushed aside the messengers and came over, kneeling on one knee before Rusalka. "Please give your orders."

Rusalka almost fainted from his red tape: "Stop this useless stuff, where is Phoenix?"

Caster was stunned. "Phoenix? Is she the maid from the Ferlin tribe? Isn't she always by your side?"

Rusalka: “Huh?”

But Custer's puzzled expression was indeed not fake, which made Rusalka completely at a loss.

In other words, Phoenix clearly told him that she was following the logistics troops, but in fact she lied to them. She didn't even show up in front of Caster, but always used the concealment advantage of the shadow plane to carry out secret operations that only she knew about.

At this moment, a crisis of trust suddenly arises.

Rusalka: (The traitor is Phoenix? Is this possible? But if it wasn't her, who else could have seen the city defense map and have the ability to kill all the soldiers guarding the gate opening mechanism from inside the city and then open the main city gate?)

Sanita: (I didn't say that. This is your own inference. Unfortunately, I don't have any good rebuttal this time. I also think it's quite possible.)

Rusalka: (But she shouldn't have any motives, unless all that stuff about her past was fake. Was she a spy for the El Empire this whole time? Was she lying to me just to gain my trust? This...how could she have possibly come this far? What if I didn't take her with me? She'd just be a cat maid for the rest of her life...No, I need to find her and get to the bottom of this.)

Sanita: (I support you, but I can't help you. I need to finish sleeping first. If it really is her who did it, can you handle her alone?)

Rusalka clenched her fists and gritted her teeth: (If it was really her who did it... I... I must... Or maybe I should just wait until you wake up. Uh, I can't do it, I can't do it, wuuu, kulusi.)

Sanita: (I thought you would rush out. What a wise choice! Tell the whole army that we will meet the enemy in this open area. Street fighting is an advantage that only local soldiers have. We outsiders only have war weapons and the firm belief when we unite together.

Even if Phoenix is ​​pierced by a dragon crossbow, bombarded by a magic cannon, and her head is cut off by your greatsword, she will die.)

This scene made Rusalka want to plant a loquat tree here after the war (from "Xiangjixuanzhi")

Chapter 101 Good Cat/Bad Cat

From a perspective unknown to Sanita and Rusalka, time went back to the end of the first wave of attack.

The El Empire, through years of war and racial integration, has continuously absorbed experience from battles.

The innovation of weapons stimulates the progress of magic, and the progress of magic stimulates the innovation of weapons. Just like this complementary relationship, the El Empire, which is backward in both magic and weapons, believes in the God of War and has a more terrifying talent for war growth.

The Hobbits are a weak race. All history books and biological analysis books describe the Hobbits as a race that can only be used for harassment and surprise attacks in military terms, but is useless in frontal combat and has no logistical capacity.

The fact that the high mountains and cliffs to the north and south of Mingyue City are natural defenses but cannot protect against the Hobbits has been ignored by everyone because of this generally accepted evaluation.

Everyone thought, even if the hobbits flew into the city, what would happen? The gates were opened in a sealed chamber, and the hobbits, unable to wear armor, wouldn't even be able to defeat ordinary militiamen on the ground. So even if they flew in, they would only pose a minor threat to civilians.

In war, the death of civilians is considered insignificant by every noble. If the hobbits want to vent their anger, then let them kill. As long as the war is won, all sacrifices are worth it.

What's more, if the residents choose to stay indoors, even their stones will be ineffective.

However, on the night of the second siege, that night of joy and sorrow when the wolf cavalry retreated after their failure, Phoenix in the military camp sensed that his own people were nearby.

It was a kind of resonance that came from blood, instinct, or perhaps it was a resonance between assassins. These subtle signals were all warning her, telling her: Your enemies have arrived.

In other words, without anyone knowing, the assassins from the Filin tribe had sneaked into the city.

How did they do it?

The answer is simple: they were captured and brought down by the Hobbits.

The feint attacks of the previous two days were all preparations to conceal their troops' sneaky movement up the mountain. Although everyone had the impression that hobbits should move by flying, no one would imagine birds hiking up the mountain. The fact was, they could also walk and climb mountains.

Some might say this is impossible. Hobbits can't even wear hard armor, so how could they possibly carry a Filin from the air into the city with such limited strength? Even if a Filin isn't heavy, its weight far exceeds the weight of a piece of light armor. If they were to jump down together, wouldn't it be like having two lives, given the Hobbits, who can't even get airborne?

Indeed, it would be absolutely impossible for the Filins to ride on the Hobbits.

But what if the hobbits carried a hang glider or a simple parachute?

That's it, every hobbit carries a ready-made folding hang glider on its back. Just as this world full of magic and supernatural powers does not need a physicist, all concepts that can be realized are just those that can be used.

There is no need to understand why hang gliders allow people who cannot fly to experience the feeling of flying, nor is there any need to understand why the hobbits can carry the hang glider on their backs and grab the film tribe to land smoothly together. All the force analysis and air resistance analysis are not necessary.

All you need to know is that it can achieve such an unexpected effect.

Thus, the first batch of elite assassins were quietly transported into the city.

This is also why the Ai'er Empire strangely did not launch an attack immediately after the sacrifice of the ratman cannon fodder - on the one hand, they were climbing the mountain, and on the other hand, they were creating opportunities for the defenders to relax, waiting for the assassins of the Filin tribe to sneak into the city, giving them time to understand the terrain.

During the second offensive, the wolf cavalry had just launched the attack. That time, the assassins of the Flin tribe locked the position of the magic cannon on the clock tower and confirmed their first target of action.

On the night before the siege on the third day, the assassins of the Filin tribe took action, and this happened to be the moment when Phoenix sensed their presence and began to act alone.

On the third day before the wolf cavalry and Gorol were about to climb the wall, Phoenix reached the top of the bell tower - the place where the smell of his own people was the strongest.

As soon as she walked up the stairs, Phoenix smelled a faint smell of blood in the air. The bodies of the guards guarding the door had long been dissolved by the Filin tribe with secret medicine, and they also sprinkled deodorant. Because of this, the Marquis's mansion, which was originally less guarded, did not discover in time that the clock tower of the magic cannon had been controlled by the Filin assassin.

The only good thing in this misfortune is that the El Empire is not proficient in magic and magical equipment, and the Filin assassins will not carry explosive props that can destroy magic cannons.

So even if they occupied the magic cannon clock tower, they could only silence it and could not use it to attack the defenders.

Phoenix slowly walked up the spiral staircase. The moment she reached the roof, two Filins guarding the doorway emerged from the shadows, holding daggers to her throat. But when they saw her ears and tail, they gave her a strange look and sneered, "Hey, little one, why are you so late? Is this your first time doing this and you peed your pants?"

"How strange! Would a rookie like this be assigned to the first delivery team?"

"Who knows? Maybe one of the elders dislikes her. Come, let me hug you and comfort you."

The voice stopped abruptly, and in an instant, the two leaders rolled down. Phoenix, who had held the dagger in both hands at some point, was coldly putting the dagger back into his waist.

Hatred made her feel as if she had returned to the state she was in two hundred years ago after waking up from the statue - at that time she was omnipotent, and all creatures would surrender to her shadow and then have their lives taken away.

It was for this reason that she ignored her sister's words and founded the Shadow Society, a notorious assassin organization.

She wanted to use her own strength and power to take revenge herself, rather than waiting at the border of the Snidi Kingdom to await the arrangements of fate, but she did not have the ambition and means to restrain her power, which ultimately led to her losing control of the Shadow Association she founded.

Under the manipulation of the conspirators and inspired by the great saint Theresa, the Light Church launched a war to eliminate the Shadow Association, which had gone out of control and become a killer organization.

Fate once again showed her its power, and the Shadow Association was completely destroyed by the Golden Blade Knights under Theresa's name.

And when the old but extremely powerful leader of the Paladins was about to kill her, he suddenly questioned her why she grew up in the country of Esdi but still became such an evil and dirty executioner.

The old knight slowly placed his sword on Phoenix's neck: "If you can't suppress the urge to kill in Filin's blood, then I will grant you liberation.

I will kill you in an instant. At least you will not suffer the pain experienced by those victims killed by your association, nor will you feel the pain of those whose families have been broken and whose hearts are torn apart for the dead. This is also my last mercy to you."

Phoenix replied, "I'm sorry, I just wanted to avenge your compatriot, the Paladin Roland, who took care of me since I was a child."

Fate made her fail at the last moment, and then, as if mocking her, spared her life, demonstrating her own absoluteness:

The old paladin who was supposed to execute her on the spot, after a clearly greatly shaken ideological struggle, finally made a decision that no one could have imagined: he retracted his sword and let go of the only legitimate heir of Lady Shadow, the most promising and terrifying assassin in the world.

If any believer of God Light were here, they would question and scold him, but the old knight did it anyway.

As he turned and left, he left her with only these words: "So you belong to Roland... Go away, get out of Esdi forever, and I will never allow you to return to this sacred land. And I want you to remember, this is the last time. From now on, Roland's foolish apprentice will never be able to save you again."

When Phoenix looked up, she was alone again - just like when she woke up in front of the statue.

Everything seems to have returned to the starting point. Is this the fate predicted by my sister?

From that day on, the Shadow Association perished, and the infamous president "Ghost" was also announced to have been killed by the great leader of the Golden Blade Knights in that battle, and none of the core members survived.

After leaving Esdi incognito, she followed Hydra's prophecy and wandered to the Pearl Tear Territory.

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred years have passed, and the Knight Commander who let her go has now returned to his homeland - he was only a human being and could not resist the erosion of time.

Sometimes when Phoenix was in a daze in the Pearl Tear Territory, she would think that perhaps the only person in the world who knew that she was still alive had passed away. What about her? Was she just going to wait for the unknown nothingness forever?

Before Rusalka appeared, her faith was shaken and her strength continued to decline.

At this moment, she who had once succumbed to fate felt that she was about to receive the first gift and reward from fate for her, a "submissive and submissive person".

After killing the two assassins of her own tribe, Phoenix felt an unprecedented peace in her heart. She slowly walked to the top floor of the bell tower, looked at the corpses of the soldiers on the ground in front of her, and at her own tribesmen who were sitting in the corner eating food, turning their heads to look at her with puzzled eyes and wondering who she was. Her body slowly entered the shadows.

The shadow plane returned to the way it was before, like a loving mother, once again opening its warm and familiar arms to her.

The flow of time began to switch, and everything in the main plane became a slow motion at 1/4 the speed in her eyes. The time difference between switching between the shadow plane and the main plane was only 0.2 seconds - which was also the time required for ordinary people to adapt to the switching of vision.

In the first second, she was 20 meters away from the other person.

In the third second, she appeared beside the other person and waved the dagger in her hand.

In the fifth second, the second assassin drew his dagger, and Phoenix had returned to the shadow plane.

In the seventh second, another assassin was beheaded.

It took Phoenix only 7 seconds to kill two elite Filin assassins.

She slowly raised her leather boots and used the power of shadow to cut the opponent's head into several pieces. Red and white things sprayed all over the ground. She watched all this with indifference.

I wonder if you were one of those people who once looked at me with contempt while I was hiding behind Roland?

She turned to look at the shadows in the corner behind her. Before the power of Lady Shadow, the disguises of these people, who used their racial talent, the Haze, seemed as childish and ridiculous as a swaddled baby showing off to an adult. "Tell me, where is your leader?"

She paused, a wave of shadow emerging from her body, slowly wrapping around her wrist and dagger. She said coldly, "I will kill you in an instant, without causing the slightest pain. This is the last mercy I will offer you."

In response, she was met with poisonous crossbow arrows fired from three directions.

"Go to hell! You traitor to the Filin clan!"

With a sneer, Phoenix's golden eyes were slowly swallowed by the black mist. As the last descendant of the Shadow Lady, Phoenix in his prime was no match for an ordinary Filin assassin.

Three black lines scattered from the ground where Phoenix disappeared, and instantly merged into the shadows under the feet of the three Filin assassins. Their shadows squirmed and turned into sharp spikes, which suddenly shot out from the ground behind them and pierced through the bodies of two of the Filin assassins who were unable to dodge.

Although they did not die immediately, the shadow on their chests instantly spread out, fixing their bodies in place.

The last red-haired Filin assassin hurriedly escaped from the shadow of his former companion and today's enemy, but he did not see the sunlight in front of his eyes, only a pair of emotionless golden eyes looking down at her.

Then, a cold light flashed across her throat, and the black mist that followed was like a ferocious and hungry beast, pouncing on her body and cutting it into pieces.

Phoenix walked slowly on the platform, killed the two assassins bound by shadows with a sharp knife, retracted the three shadow lines, and immersed his body in the shadow plane again, walking towards the roof.

The roof of this clock tower is square. Apart from the perforated walls around it used to camouflage the magic cannons, there is no shelter. Everything, including the entrance, is exposed to the sunlight.

The leading black-haired Filin assassin was observing the city gate through a scope. His ears twitched, sensing something unusual at the gate. He then suddenly shouted to the two of his clansmen guarding the ascending stairs, "Get out of the gate!"

The last two members of the Filin tribe were stunned, but it was too late. The shadow under their feet suddenly locked their feet, and then two daggers wrapped in black mist pierced their throats.

The two men fell silently, and Phoenix slowly emerged from the shadows behind the bodies.

The remaining five film assassins including the leader instantly drew their weapons, and their bodies gradually became transparent and disappeared in the sunlight, blending perfectly into the background like a chameleon. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't tell that there was a person standing there.

The leader of the assassin team was the only one who hadn't gone invisible. Upon seeing Phoenix's appearance, he shared the same incredulous expression as the assassins downstairs. "Fellow tribe? No, I have no impression of you at all. Who are you, and why did you betray us?"

Phoenix stared at his face for a long moment, then slowly said, "I remember you."

After she finished speaking, she swung the dagger in her hand, and countless sharp spikes rose from the shadows under her feet. Her body turned into a storm of shadows and stabbed the surroundings countless times at a rapid speed. Then, two Filin assassins with wounds all over their bodies were forced to show their figures. When they were about to retreat, the shadows behind them suddenly appeared and stabbed them twice, freezing their bodies.

Phoenix took small steps and swayed his body left and right, then he took their lives with the dagger in his hand.

After doing all this, she stood back to her original position as if nothing had happened, and continued to speak to the assassin leader, whose eyes were filled with gloom and solemnity: "Two hundred years ago, you killed a paladin."

The other party was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then snorted and laughed: "I'm sorry, I've killed too many paladins. You want revenge for him? I'm afraid you'll have to wait in line and come back in your next life."

After saying this, the other party made a subtle gesture behind him, then suddenly took half a step forward. His body seemed to have traveled through space in an instant and suddenly appeared in front of Phoenix.

At the same time, two invisible assassins threw short blades coated with poison at Phoenix from the left and right directions.

At this moment, a black line cut through the air - it was the dagger swung by Phoenix's arm, which was so fast that it was impossible to catch it with the eyes.

The surrounding black fog silently swallowed up the two daggers.

She ignored the fading false figure before her, turning instead to face the assassin leader, who had awkwardly revealed himself and blocked her attack with his dagger. She said calmly, "Back then, you didn't even dare step over his corpse. Now, I've become what you all expected me to be. I wonder, are you now, including the former clan leader, proud of my growth?"

Phoenix swung the dagger quickly, knocking the dagger out of the opponent's hand, but the latter was an ace assassin after all. The moment the dagger slipped out of his hand, he took out two daggers from his sleeves and held them in his reverse hand to block and counterattack.

But all of them were easily cracked by Phoenix.

"In the past two hundred years, I have knocked on the gates of hell many times for revenge."

After calmly and textbook-likely neutralizing the opponent's attack, Phoenix raised his hand and stabbed the opponent three times in a row in the chest, head, and abdomen. The opponent barely managed to hold the dagger with his backhand to protect himself and barely blocked the first two moves.

However, the last move could not keep up with Phoenix's movements, so the only price he paid was the shattering of a wooden sign hanging around his waist, which allowed him to unfold a ripple barrier to block Phoenix's fatal stab.

"But Death won't take me."

After saying this, Phoenix ignored the assassin leader who was sweating profusely and retracted his arm and dagger.

Then she took half a step back, and her figure gradually disappeared into the black fog.

......

When the black fog exploded from three directions, and Phoenix emerged from one of them and immediately killed the invisible assassin lurking nearby, and then controlled the shadow to strangle another assassin, the outcome was no longer in doubt.

Sleight of hand and illusion have no effect on Phoenix.

The assassin leader wanted to escape, but no matter which direction he fled, Phoenix would stand in front of him and fight with him.

And every time, she let him take the initiative, and after breaking through his proud assassination and fighting skills, she counterattacked with the simplest attack, destroying his protective gear and crushing his confidence.

When he escaped to the main door at the bottom of the bell tower, Phoenix stood in front of him, who was on the verge of collapse, with her back to the sun.