The leader of the chasing soldiers grabbed a wolf by the neck, and his burst of strength was so great that the wolf rolled its eyes quickly after being pinched.

However, there was not only one wolf. The other wolf that fell on him quickly bit his throat.

Then several wolves jumped out from the woods and threw themselves on the leader of the pursuers, biting each other one by one.

"Uh... you... all go to hell!"

The leader of the chasing soldiers was desperate, and issued a curse before dying, but he didn't know who the object of the curse was.

He relaxed the muscles all over his body, and let the pack of wolves bite his body, and soon he was out of breath.

"Sister, get in the carriage!"

Seeing this scene, Ladi immediately pulled up the princess who was already limp and pale, and dragged her into the carriage.

Inside the carriage, a little girl who appeared to be in her early teens seemed to be lying "sleeping" on the seat.

The little girl looks very cute, her eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Helen, and she will definitely be a beauty in a million when she grows up.

This is the younger sister of the Grand Princess Eaton - Lady Fanny.

Ladi closed the car door tightly.

The attack on the mercenary leader seemed to be a signal, and more and more wolves jumped out of the woods.

The group of beasts first targeted the three horses, and attacked with thunderous speed.

The horse frantically swung its hooves to defend itself, but it was still difficult to reach the sharp teeth of the pack of wolves. In the end, they also fell to the ground and were bitten by the hungry wolves.

Ladi thought to herself: "I hope the three horses can feed these hungry wolves!"

However, she was disappointed in the end, and more wolves ran out of the woods. Instead of fighting for the horse meat, they circled around the carriage.

Obviously, the target of these newcomers was them in the carriage.

After a few laps, a wolf finally couldn't hold back, and jumped towards the carriage.

The carriage was violently shaken by the wolf pounce, and the Grand Duchess screamed in fright.

Ladi took out a short crossbow and handed it to Helen, "Senior sister, if a wolf breaks through the glass and gets in, use this to stab it hard. I hope the carriage of the church will be stronger."

Helen nodded tremblingly.

He said what he said, and with a "bang", the window glass was shattered, and a huge wolf's head poked in.

Ladi aimed at the spot, and precisely pinched the short crossbow in the wolf's eyes.

The wolf howled miserably and retreated, rolling on the ground next to the carriage, looking extremely painful.

It seems that the tragedy of the companions frightened the pack of wolves around the carriage. They temporarily stopped their plans to attack and continued to wander around the carriage.

While reciting the spell silently, Ladi carefully calculated the area occupied by the carriage and the distance between the wolves and the carriage.

Finally, her red lips parted slightly: "Ring of flames!"

Soon, with the carriage as the center, a strange light emanated from the surrounding ground. The light formed a circle of light with a diameter of about three meters, which just surrounded the carriage.

With a sound of "Hooting", the aperture ignited a flame.

Wild animals are afraid of fire, and the wolves around the carriage jumped up and ran around, away from this burning strange circle.

Many of the wolves that happened to be on the fire ring had their hair set on fire, made pitiful howls, and rolled all over the ground. After finally extinguishing the fire on their bodies, they fled with their tails on their backs.

However, judging from the howling that was still coming from around, more wolves continued to lurk in the surrounding forest. They did not go away, and the number sounded as if there were hundreds of them.

This [Ring of Flame] originally burst out a flame as high as a person when surrounded by enemies, causing heavy damage to the enemy. However, this time, in order to deter the wolves for a long time, Ladi controlled the intensity of the flame so The burning time is longer.

Temporarily out of danger of life, the princess calmed down.

She praised: "Ladi, your mastery of magic is becoming more and more refined. It's really a latecomer, and I can't catch up with you even if I flatter myself now."

Although she was praised by her senior sister, Ladi was not in the mood to be humble. Although she had tried her best to control the burning speed of the [Ring of Flame], it would eventually go out after a while.

"These wolves are howling so loudly that Nissberg has also heard them. Won't the city guards send someone to look at them?"

"That will have to be at dawn tomorrow, and now they will only close the city gate tightly."

"Senior sister, we can't count on outsiders to help us. We have to think of our own strategy. What I can think of now is that we take turns using the [Ring of Flames] to protect the carriage until dawn. Do you have any good ideas?"

A mage cannot continuously cast the same kind of magic repeatedly. It must take a while before he can continue to use a certain kind of magic that he has used before.

If Paul Grayman knew this, he might understand it with the "skill cooldown time" in the video game of his previous life.

How long the interval is depends on the mage's mastery of magic, it may be as little as a few hours or even tens of minutes, or it may be as long as several days.

As for how to explain this 'mastery', there are still debates in the small circle of mages, just like the IQ of ordinary people, there is no unified standard.

Anyway, it doesn't mean that the more you use it, the higher the 'mastery'. Some people can cast a powerful lightning spell every hour, but they can only cast the light spell once a day.

However, the lightning technique is more complicated than the light technique, requiring more casting materials, and the spell is more complicated to read.

In short, in this world, even mages themselves are ignorant of the essence of magic, and a lot of knowledge is hidden under the mysterious and hazy veil, which still needs to be continuously explored.

Most mages become mages only by virtue of experience, knowing it but not knowing why.

And they are also intoxicated by this "mystery". UU Reading www.uukanshu.com believes that magic should be like this, which cannot be explained and is unreasonable.

Only in this way can they be distinguished from ordinary people such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and mechanics who also possess certain skills, so that they, a special group that is not tolerated by the world, can gain a little comfort.

Hearing Ladi's question, Helen shook her head in shame.

"Sorry, I have no other way. And..."

"And what?"

"I can't control it as precisely as you can. I'll... I'll set the wagon on fire and say... maybe set the forest on fire."

The normal version of [Ring of Flames] is centered on the caster, suddenly forming a circle of flames, and then spreading out as small as the earth.

If you can't control it as precisely as Ladi, if you force it to be used inside the car, maybe it's really...

"Okay, senior. After the flame goes out, we will summon the clay puppet again."

"Okay, I can do this."

After the two discussed it, they quietly watched the fire around them decrease little by little.

As the flames weakened, the surrounding wolves became restless again.

"Begin to prepare for the summoning... Wait, senior sister, did you hear anything?"

Ladi seemed to hear something, and listened attentively.

The Grand Duchess also held her breath, trying to catch the voice in Ladi's mouth.

"It's all the howling of wolves... huh? There really is something different!"

The sound came from far and near, and it seemed to be "Bang! Bang!"

But Ladi suddenly said with a happy look: "Musket! It's the sound of musket! No wonder it feels so familiar."

"Musket?" The Grand Duchess didn't know why.

"Hmm! Sister, the crew of Nanfang is here to rescue us!"