#705 - Horse-drawn carriage (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

The people at the scene now understood what Anduin meant. It turned out that this practical exercise was actually a relay race, with each team entering in sequence instead of waiting for the previous team to be eliminated before the next team took its turn. →Google Search Reading

In this way, the advantages and disadvantages of the teams entering first and last were very obvious. The teams that entered first had a head start, and their progress would definitely be faster than the teams behind them.

The teams entering later had the advantage of intelligence, they could summarize the gains and losses of the first entrants and identify obvious dangerous areas.

On the other hand, this also meant that each action team participating in the mission had now turned from companions into competitors, and it should be known that there was an upper limit to the number of hostages, especially that one and only princess.

After learning this news, the most uncomfortable people were the twins of the fourth team. It turned out that they could only enter last, and who knew if those hostages would have been rescued by the time they went deep.

"It's over, I thought we had a great advantage, but who would have thought it would be this result." Fred hugged his head in pain.

"Don't be discouraged so early." Cedric appeared relatively calm, "You should have also seen that this ruin is more dangerous than imagined. We must now use our advantages, so we are not without a chance to catch up with the people in front."

After speaking, Cedric picked up a sharp stone from the side and drew a sketch of the ruins on the ground. He marked the three main roads and several more obvious buildings, and put a cross in the middle of the main road.

Hermione nodded repeatedly after seeing Cedric's approach, "Not bad, with our level, we can catch up in a kilometer or two in no time. It seems more beneficial to let them open the way for us in front."

"Okay, I hope the monsters in the ruins can give us some strength, otherwise we can only drink the northwest wind." George sighed, then sat down cross-legged and carefully checked the movements in front.

At this time, Wood and Neville of the second team were also ready. They learned the lesson of the first team and did not choose to enter the dungeon from the main road, but chose the side road on the left.

No one knew whether all the roads were full of traps, but it was too slow to move directly through the ruins. After thinking for a long time, Wood decided to try walking along a road.

Of course, he was not unprepared for the attack. After Wood led the crowd into the dungeon, he immediately turned his head and instructed, "In a while, we will advance along the right side of the road in a linear queue. Once there is a change, pay attention to my command, but when I say retreat, everyone will run to the right. These ruins are our natural cover, and retreating to the same side will not cause us to be scattered."

"Yes, Captain!" Honest and honest Neville responded immediately. Wood's arrangement was also considered relatively thoughtful, at least he prepared emergency measures.

Because of the lessons learned from Penelope's team, this group of people behaved very cautiously. They basically didn't chat along the way, and they were all carefully guarding their surroundings.

And this group of people soon encountered their trouble. After the second team advanced about 100 meters along the side road on the left, it was as if they had activated some kind of switch. There was soon movement in this ruin around them.

It was the sound of rustling footsteps, accompanied by the sound of stones falling and being crushed, but other than that, there were no strange phenomena in the field of vision.

This was completely different from the silence of the first team in the front section of the main road, and it also made Wood and the others immediately vigilant.

"Be careful, hide on the side, Neville, you are responsible for paying attention to the rear, everyone act according to the circumstances!" When encountering such a phenomenon, Wood was not in the mood to let everyone move forward so blatantly, but led them to hide carefully.

After a while, they finally saw the source of the sound. At the intersection not far in front of the crowd, a group of skeleton teams walked out. Their arms were well-coordinated, and there were nearly twenty people.

At the same time, there was actually a skeleton carriage in the queue, and a strange stone box was being dragged on the carriage board. Looking at the shape, it should be a coffin.

This team of skeletons just slowly passed by in front of the crowd, as if they were not coming for the people of the second team, as if they were preparing to transport the coffin to attend a funeral.

"Skeletons dragging coffins? What are they going to do?" Hannah Abbott in the team stared silently at the skeletons that appeared in front of her, she couldn't understand why there would be such a discordant thing as a coffin among a group of undead creatures.

"I don't know, what should we do next, should we wait for them to leave before acting or take the initiative to engage the enemy?" Ernie lowered his voice nervously, for fear of alarming those monsters.

Wood glanced at the skeleton queue, secretly calculated in his heart, and whispered back, "There are a total of 22 enemies, including 4 skeleton swordsmen, 6 skeleton spearmen, and 12 skeleton archers. The most difficult to deal with should be those skeleton swordsmen. I can be responsible for solving them, are you confident in dealing with the rest of the enemies?"

In the second team, the honest Neville had already shared the skeleton construct information he knew with everyone, so they roughly knew the strength of these monsters.

"Why don't we just do it, anyway, there are no strange enemies like giant skeletons among them, and we can catch them off guard!" Hannah, the only girl in the team, showed a very warlike attitude.

The rest of the people also had eager expressions. After all, this was just a battlefield simulation, not really going to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and they had also seen Mandy being safely teleported back after being killed before, so these people were not very afraid of fighting.

"Okay, then wait for them to go a little further, and we will attack the backs of these skeletons. You should focus on the archers, and I will be responsible for solving the swordsmen!" Wood, who came from Lion Academy, had actually wanted to fight for a long time, but he had to take care of the thoughts of others, so he asked symbolically, but these little ghosts were more excited than him.

"Gah!"

However, just as everyone was discussing ambushing this group of enemies, a hoarse howl suddenly came from the coffin on the carriage, and then the skeleton convoy that was moving forward stopped, and at the same time, these skeletons turned their heads in unison and looked at the hiding place of Wood and his party.

Not good, we've been discovered!

Wood reacted quickly when he saw this, quickly got up and blasted out a blasting spell that had been charged for a long time, and shouted loudly, "Do it!"

Hearing his greeting, the others didn't hesitate, and the four people, including Neville, neatly shot out four shattering spells. They knew that 'crushing bones' was the most effective way to deal with these enemies!

"Bang bang bang!"

The second team's attack was effective as soon as the battle started. Wood's blasting spell directly penetrated the entire convoy, and a skeleton swordsman and a skeleton spearman were instantly shattered.

The spells of the other four people were also prepared long ago, so the accuracy of the first shot was quite good, and they respectively defeated four skeleton archers.

"Aww!"

The skeletons, who had lost six people in an instant, seemed to be provoked, roaring one after another, and quickly put on a fighting stance.

The skeleton swordsmen and spearmen rushed towards the crowd with their weapons, and the archers also began to draw their arrows and bend their bows, and a head-on battle was about to begin.

"Ernie, Terry, you two climb to a high point and deal with those archers directly. Even if you can't quickly defeat them, you must interfere with their attacks. Neville and Hannah, follow me to meet the enemy head-on!" Wood, who was the Quidditch captain, was unusually calm when commanding the battle, and he was already used to giving orders.

"Yes!"

Ernie and Terry didn't hesitate when they heard this. After so much tactical training, they were no longer the little kids they used to be. The two stepped on the rubble next to them like climbing stairs and quickly jumped to the second-floor balcony of a broken house on the right, and began to cast spells on the archers in the rear.

"Sandstorm!"

"Obstacles everywhere!"

Neither of them had the confidence to aim and directly hit the enemy so far away, so they both chose interference tactics.

The sand and stones splashed by the sandstorm spell affected several skeleton archers gathered together, completely losing their accuracy, and the obstacle spell directly knocked down two archers. Although it failed to shatter them, it also delayed the attack.

"Shatter!" "Expelliarmus!"

With the cover of his teammates, Wood didn't need to consider the arrows coming, so he could show his power and launch attacks at will. Even those skeleton swordsmen holding shields couldn't stop his third-level Expelliarmus and shattering spells, so the skeletons in the front row were shattered one by one in no time.

Although Neville and Hannah were less accurate, they could always hit one with two or three spells. Of course, some spells were directly blocked by the shields of the skeleton swordsmen, and some failed to defeat the enemy after hitting the front due to insufficient power, but undoubtedly their spells had suppressed the opposite skeletons.

The current performance of these skeleton constructs is worthy of their status as miscellaneous soldiers. They are no different from targets without forming a battle formation. In a short while, they were reduced to only half, and it seemed that the second team could wipe them out without any damage.

But at this moment, the skeleton carriage that was staying in place moved!

"Creak!"

A sound suddenly came from the simple white bone coffin lid on the carriage, as if someone inside was pushing it. After a while, the coffin lid finally loosened and was pushed away by a huge force.

Then, from this coffin, a skeleton stood up straight, just like an ancient zombie, violating physics.

This skeleton was about the same size as ordinary skeleton soldiers, but unlike the other naked skeletons, it was wearing a slightly dilapidated leather armor, a light blue cloak with gold trim on its shoulders, and at the same time holding a rapier with a handguard, just like an ancient fencer.

As soon as this skeleton dressed in strange clothes appeared, it immediately turned its head and scanned the crowd attacking the convoy with its scarlet eyes, and after a little distinction, it immediately focused its eyes on the two young wizards on the second floor responsible for cover.

"Aww!"

The blue-robed skeleton howled dryly, and then kicked its legs hard, and then the whole person slid over Ernie and Terry in the air. It was obviously tens of meters away from the two, but it completely ignored gravity as if it had grown a pair of wings.

"Be careful!"

Ernie, who was constantly using spells to cover the front troops on the balcony, quickly noticed the blue-robed skeleton. He quickly warned Terry next to him, and at the same time casually shot two spells at the enemy in the air.

But the blue-robed skeleton sliding in the air was like a flexible swallow at this time, and it could actually freely change its position in the air. It just dodged the incoming spell with a right swing and quickly rushed to the two.

"Come down quickly, this skeleton is a little strange, don't fight it head-on!" Wood, who was facing the enemy head-on, also noticed the two's encounter and quickly shouted loudly, while also launching a powerful Expelliarmus spell to try to cover Ernie and them to evacuate.

But facing Wood's spell, the blue-robed skeleton just waved its sword and cut the Expelliarmus bullet away, and at the same time relentlessly attacked the two.

Ernie and Terry were a little flustered when facing the menacing skeleton swordsman. They didn't even notice the warning issued by Wood, but blindly shot spells at the opponent.

But the rapier in the blue-robed skeleton's hand was like a sharp blade, whether it was a shattering spell or an obstacle spell, they were all cut to pieces like paper, and swept towards Ernie with a sword after approaching.

Faced with this sharp attack, Ernie instinctively jumped back a step, barely dodging it, but the blue-robed skeleton acted extremely agile, not at all

This time Ernie was not so lucky, he was stabbed into white light and disappeared on the spot.

Terry next to him was terrified, was this skeleton so fierce?

Just as the blue-robed skeleton raised his hand again to attack Terry, the rapier in his hand was suddenly blocked by another white bone long sword. When he raised his eyes, he realized that Neville had jumped onto the balcony at some point.

It turned out that when Neville saw the blue-robed skeleton rushing towards the two on the balcony, he was also very anxious, but he knew himself very well, knowing that his spells might not be able to do anything to the opponent at all.

Therefore, after Wood shattered a skeleton swordsman who rushed to the front, he immediately grabbed a white bone single-handed sword, and then rushed to the balcony to prepare for close-range support.

Unfortunately, Neville rushed and rushed, but still failed to save Ernie, but at least he arrived before Terry was in danger.

"Terry, you go down quickly, I'll find a way to hold this guy back."

Neville was not arrogant enough to think that he could single out this elite monster, but he had carefully observed the opponent's attack patterns before, all of which were relatively stiff horizontal chops, vertical cuts, and straight stabs, and the attack angle was also very fixed. It is estimated that this is the limitation of this construct skeleton.

It's just that the blue-robed skeleton's shot speed is very fast, which makes it easy for people to not keep up. Neville calculated in his heart and felt that he should be able to barely block it.

"Okay!" Terry of the same grade knew Neville's ability, so he didn't talk nonsense at this time, and jumped directly from the balcony.

He had to quickly support Wood. The sudden appearance of this blue-robed skeleton had disrupted the rhythm of the frontal battlefield, and the skeleton archers who had been disturbed before had also freed their hands, and the arrows that were shot from time to time now made Wood overwhelmed.