Deep in the dark mountains.
The pioneering team has been active here for a month. After initially establishing a foothold, Gawain will send various exploration teams every day to the southern mountains, western forests, eastern mines or the wilderness across the White Water River. After searching for supplies and surveying the terrain, the serfs' route into the mountain turned out to be one of the natural mountain paths that had just been discovered in recent days. But even though it was newly discovered, exploration teams and soldier patrols had already gone back and forth several times, but no trace of the monster had ever been found.
The aberrations undoubtedly appeared here recently.
The road into the mountain was not easy to walk. Although Gawain and Amber had amazing legs, the other two serfs, who were ordinary people, could not walk so fast. It took them nearly an hour to finally reach the end of the mountain. Near the intersection where a monster attack occurred previously.
As she got closer and closer to that place, Amber, who was usually a carefree and carefree guy, couldn't help but become nervous. She held the small dagger tightly and lowered her voice: "I've been talking for so long. "It's time for those monsters to wander away..."
"Not necessarily, you don't understand the 'habits' of the aberrations," Gawain looked at the rugged mountain road ahead and the bushes on both sides of the mountain road. Plants, his gaze stayed for a long time on a steep mountain wall that seemed to collapse at any time, and then lowered his voice and said, "They are not normal life forms. They do not need to eat in a magical environment, except for attacking intelligent life and tendencies." Apart from instincts such as the source of magic power, they have no clear purpose of action. If there is a human or magic reaction within the sensing range, they will pounce on it, but if not, they will wander aimlessly or stay where they are. Of course, if their number reaches a certain level, their actions will be unpredictable."
"So what are the aberrations..." Amber muttered, his eyes constantly flickering. The shadows between the trees are not wary of enemies hiding in the dark, but they are constantly looking for escape routes.
Gawain shook his head: "It's really hard to say. There is a conjecture that human beings have become deformed bodies after being invaded by chaotic magic. There is also a theory that a gateway to another world opens in the demonic tide. Passage, the aberrations came from other dimensions, but in fact neither theory has been confirmed."
Amber curled her lips, thinking that even Gawain had fought monsters twenty times in his previous life. No one in the field can tell where the monster comes from, so it seems that the so-called experts and scholars in the interior of the kingdom are even less reliable in this regard.
While her eyes were scanning the surroundings, a trace on the ground suddenly caught her attention: "Hey, there seems to be something over there!"
Not far ahead. On the stone wall, you can see the cracked rock, and dried blood can be seen between the cracks in the rock.
When the two serfs responsible for leading the way saw the traces, they immediately trembled like chaff.
"It seems like it's nearby." Gawain held the Pioneer Sword tightly and concentrated on sensing any subtle changes in the surroundings. "Raise alert."Be vigilant. ”
Amber swallowed her saliva and followed Gawain carefully towards the other side of the fork in the road, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Suddenly, Gawain stopped and suddenly An instinctive alertness originating from this body spread. Guided by this alertness, he quickly hid behind a boulder and looked towards the other side of the mountain road.
Four flesh-and-blood skeletons. Huge humanoid creatures like giants appeared in the field of vision. They were wandering staggeringly on the mountain road. Their faces were covered with red mud and had no facial features, but chaotic, blasphemous, and indescribable low sounds were constantly coming from their chests and abdomen.
Oh, whispering
"One, two, three...four," a warm breath came from behind, and Amber's lowered voice came from behind. Come, "it seems that the serfs encountered them. It looks like they haven't noticed us yet. You go ahead and I'll wait until you can't see us before running away. ”
Gawain didn’t pay attention to the shameful elf’s daily remarks. His eyes were fixed on the abdomen of one of the aberrations, where he could clearly see a section that had been twisted, deformed and decayed. The ugly gray-black object may not be able to tell what it is, but after looking at it carefully, Gawain saw the clue: it was a weapon of the Gondor Empire!
He looked away, Sensing the surroundings attentively, he confirmed that there were no more monsters nearby, and then responded to Amber: "I'll charge head-on later, you sneak over and backstab the last one, drag the one next to you, and we'll work together to resolve the battle after I take care of the other two." ”
Hubo blinked and nodded happily: “Okay, I’ll wait for you to take action.” ”
Although she had deliberately made jokes and said some weird things before, it was obvious that when it came time to get down to business, she was still unambiguous.
The two serfs who had led the way had already been The monster was so frightened that he couldn't move, but he mustered up the last courage to cover his mouth and didn't scream in panic or run away. This was already a pretty good performance for them. Gawain nodded to the two of them. , asked them to wait quietly, and then raised the Pioneer Sword.
The magic power was injected into the blade, and scorching light spurted out from the blade, and Gawain's armor was also covered with fire. There was a layer of pale white light, and then he jumped up, directly across a distance of tens of meters, and slashed at the monster that had just reacted like it was falling from the sky.
But before he jumped out. At the same time, a hazy shadow also flashed in the air, and then the last one of the four monsters was shaken all over - it had just been attracted by Gawain's attention, and it was looking up to the sky and letting out a chaotic roar, But Juhua was severely injured and fell to the ground after a critical hit.
Amber emerged from the shadows and began to move quickly around another monster that had already reacted. Her small dagger was outside of the target's weak point. It has no effect at all, and can only splash out some dots of red mud or sparks, so as soon as the fight starts, he shouts: "Boss, help! ”
Gawain’s long sword has been cut down, and the firstThe aberrant body staggered as it slashed, and then he did not pursue it. Instead, he turned around and pounced directly on the monster with an ancient sword stuck in its belly. Just as he expected: although a sword stuck in its belly would be a big blow to this monster, It is not a fatal injury, and it will also affect its activities. Facing Gawain's fierce offensive, it only resisted twice and was directly cut into two pieces.
If you have the power to cut the enemy in two, then it doesn’t matter whether you hit the weak point or not.
The aberrant body in front of him let out a chaotic and inexplicable roar. Its murmur before death was mixed with power that could disturb people's minds, but Gawain didn't care about the momentary trance in his mind, and used his strength to twist it. body, the sword blade had already struck the enemy injured by his first sword.
The last enemy was successfully killed amidst Amber's embarrassing screams.
As the giant composed of flesh and mud fell heavily to the ground and quickly decomposed into chaotic elements in the air, Amber also fell to the ground: "Oh my god... I'm tired." It's killing me... It seems that I still have to strengthen my escape skills..."
Gawain inspected the remains of the monster that fell on the ground and replied without looking up: "Normally thinking at this time Isn’t it time to improve my frontal combat effectiveness?”
“Let me tell you, my current frontal combat effectiveness is already at my personal peak. I am very self-aware... Hey, what are you studying? "What?"
Halfway through, Amber noticed that Gawain was squatting next to the remains of one of the aberrations, his head lowered and he was studying with an expression of concentration, so he asked curiously.
Gawain waved: "Come and take a look."
Amber obediently walked over. She saw the aberrant body lying on the ground, and a large amount of flesh and blood mud on his body had "evaporated" It fell off, leaving only a pair of blood-red bones (the bones will take a few days to completely dissipate). And on this terrifying skeleton, there is a piece of metal that has been severely twisted and corroded.
Amber blinked: "What is this?"
"Gondor Empire standard soldier sword," Gawain said seriously, "it can't be wrong, It's the model used by the Empire's Northern Outpost."
Although Amber has an out-of-touch personality, he is not stupid. He immediately reacted: "Wait a minute! This monster has this thing on it... so it does. Came from the Gondor Wasteland?"
Gawain nodded silently.
"This...how is this possible!" Amber felt cold sweat spread from the back of his head to his heels in an instant, "The entire wasteland of Gondor is surrounded by magnificent walls built by the elves, and those sentinel towers It's not a decoration... How could these monsters escape?"
Gawain was silent for a while, and suddenly said quietly: "The magnificent wall has been standing there for seven hundred years."< /p>
Amber's face twitched and he smiled dryly: "Hey... Hehe, don't scare me. Maybe these monsters were locked outside the wall back then and have been in the Dark Mountains and Sentinel.It wandered in the middle of the Tower of Soldiers, and then just wandered here this year. "
"It's impossible. The aberrations will gradually disintegrate after leaving the magic tide environment, unless their number reaches enough to form a new chaotic magic environment," Gawain dispelled Amber's last hope," These monsters couldn't survive outside the wall for seven hundred years, so... they ran out of the wall. "
Hubo thought for a while and trembled: "...Oh my god! "
"Don't make any noise yet," Gawain looked into Amber's eyes, "The situation may not be that bad - I was on the scene when the Sentinel Tower was erected, and I know that those things can repair themselves. and load-balancing capabilities, so a complete outage is unlikely. The most likely possibility is that one of the sentinel towers has temporarily lost power due to its age, but the barrier will heal itself in a short time..."
Amber swallowed: "The translation in human language is What's the meaning? "
Gawain: "...There may be a hole in the barrier temporarily, but it will make up for it on its own. "
"Then if you didn't tell me earlier," Amber quickly patted her chest, which didn't have much presence, "you would have scared me.
Gawain still frowned: "Don't be too busy to relax. It's obvious that there is something wrong with the magnificent wall. Even if there is a hole and it is repaired, it is enough to prove that it is aging." , the small hole will turn into a big hole sooner or later. "
"What should we do? ! "
"...No, I have to take a look, even if it's just to see from a distance that the wall is still there," Gawain stood up suddenly, "If you stay here and guess, you will never feel at ease. "
"Then I..." Amber stood up, her mentality swinging violently between cowardice and recklessness, but in the end she was infected by Gawain's attitude and gritted her teeth, "I will tell you. Let’s go together! ”