The carriage suddenly slowed down, and the middle-aged wizard made a gesture of listening attentively. Then he reported back: "Saint, our nightmare beasts must rest, otherwise they will not be able to survive until Blackrock City."
"Okay, let's take a break." Xiao Chen also wanted to get off the car and take a look.
He got off the carriage and found that his carriage was silver, with smooth lines. It was smaller and flatter than the usual office carriages, but the interior was more spacious. It was obviously the result of the application of space magic. The carriage was pulled by a strange beast, the nightmare beast. The nightmare beast was almost the same as a horse, except that it had a blue-gray body and hair that shone with a red magic halo. The halo looked like flames burning on their necks and hooves.
There were six carriages in total, most of which were packed with four or five people. Although these mages were fleeing for their lives, they were in good spirits. They were indeed the elites of the most glorious era of magic. When they saw the Saint Gomez controlled by Xiao Chen, they all saluted, but their attitude was not as overly respectful as that of modern people when seeing a saint. It was more like the attitude of students meeting professors in the past. Xiao Chen finally learned the name of the middle-aged mage from the way others addressed him: Master Jocano.
The warriors in charge of driving the carriage stopped the carriage in an open space on the side of the road and fed the nightmare beasts with magic crystals to replenish their energy. Some people arranged a few sentry posts around, while others built a few bonfires and sat down to rest.
Xiao Chen saw Master Khalid, who turned out to be an elf, looking very weak. A swordsman helped him sit on a rock, and he curled up there with his head in his arms. But the strange thing was that everyone kept a certain distance from him, and behind him there was a great swordsman who was holding the hilt of his sword and looking at him nervously.
Xiao Chen's curiosity was piqued. He walked up to Master Khalid and asked, "How are you doing?"
Khalid released his hands from around his head, looked up at Xiao Chen with bloodshot eyes, and replied in a hoarse voice: "Sir Saint, although I haven't slept for seven days, I haven't given up the fight with it. However, I really don't know if I can hold on to the end."
"Can you tell me more about your situation? I have forgotten some things since I fell into a coma." Xiao Chen lied.
"Ah? Okay. Its oppression on me is sometimes strong and sometimes weak. I guess its condition is not very good. Otherwise, why doesn't it strengthen its power in the world now that the war of killing gods is over?" Khalid said these words with great effort.
"God of Nature?" Xiao Chen inferred based on his words.
"Of course, this despicable guy manipulated my brothers and sisters. As long as he had an idea, it would be difficult for us so-called followers to resist. He sent us to the battlefield one by one against our will to join a meaningless war. He called this our fate, damn bastard. But fortunately, I am a wizard of the Dream Tower. My meditation space can help me resist that guy. I may be the only elf in the world who can resist his summons." Khalid smiled, "Although it is very hard."
Xiao Chen looked at the people around him. Although he saw him and Khalid talking, no one came over.
"Sir Saint, please don't blame them. After all, Lindsay blew herself up, and Collier failed to resist the control. She suddenly turned against us and killed several of our companions. It's normal for everyone to be wary of me. Poor Lindsay and Collier, if they can hold on for a little longer, they will definitely be able to survive. I have written a new spell. As long as this magic is cast, we can further resist the manipulation of the God of Nature."
"Can you tell me about this spell?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Of course. I hope you can help me correct this magic." Khalid began to narrate the spell, and Xiao Chen tried hard to write it down.
"I hope this is useful to you." Khalid said, "I really want to rest now..." Khalid yawned, and then suddenly stared blankly.
He suddenly covered his throat with his hands as if someone was strangling him, making a hoarse sound.
"Damn it... I just relaxed for a second..." Khalid looked at the sky with a grim face, a huge amount of energy gathering in his body, "Damn it, I won't give you my most precious freedom!" He loudly recited his own spell over and over again, but the opponent's power seemed to have penetrated into his will long ago, causing this tug-of-war to slowly slide into the abyss of failure.
"You despicable guy who claims to be a god, I will not surrender even if I am the last one, and you will get nothing!" Khalid began to gather lightning energy all over his body.
Xiao Chen didn't know what to do, so he loosened his grip. However, Gomez didn't seem to have any solution either, and just watched Khalid struggling over there. Xiao Chen regained control of his body and looked at Master Chocano again. The latter shook his head and said, "Sir Saint, the clan's consciousness has been invaded by the power of the gods, and no one else can save him. The only way to free him is for us to kill him now."
Xiao Chen shook his head and looked at the struggling elf with a heavy heart.
At this time, Khalid in the clearing finally reached his limit, just before he was about to lose control of his body. He summoned thick lightning from the sky, removed all magical defenses, let the current flow into his body, and then he quickly burned and turned into charcoal.
"Khalid is too tired to persist. No one can keep fighting like this without sleep and meditation..." As he said this, Jocano performed a wizard salute to the charred body in the field. The other wizards around him changed their attitude of staying away from the elf and walked closer to salute.
"Every time I see a scene like this, I feel that we still have hope." Xiao Chen heard a female voice whose age could not be determined coming from behind him.
Xiao Chen turned his head and looked behind him, and saw a woman in a brown cloak standing behind him.
He couldn't see the woman's face clearly, nor could he sense her location. He only knew that she existed here, but not anywhere around, as if she was floating on the edge of this world, able to come in and leave at any time.
Everyone around turned a blind eye to the woman, only Jocano, who was at the highest level, seemed to have some sense of something, but he looked around and found nothing, so he went to arrange for Khalid's burial.
Xiao Chen didn't know who this woman was, so he naturally didn't know how to answer, so he wisely let go of his control over his body.
Gomez said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect you to show up! Prophet!"