Zola City.
This is a medium-sized city with a population of 50,000. It mainly trades the fishery products of the nearby Cascara Lake, and transports them to various parts of the Zambes Empire through the convenient waterways here.
Therefore, when Greem came to the commercial road leading to Zola City, he found that almost all the people coming and going here were wagons full of fish catches.
In order to better conceal himself, Greem also used witchcraft to slightly change his appearance.
Those eye-catching wizard robes and equipment have been hidden. He is now wearing a simple set of leather armor and leather pants, with a two-handed sword behind his back, and a dusty traveler's cloak covering his body. , looking like an adventurer running around.
As for his appearance, there has also been a slight change. His eye-catching long dark red hair and black pupils have disappeared, making him no different from the residents of the empire here.
On the road, I randomly stopped a convoy of goods. Greem became a member of the convoy with only two imperial silver coins. Go to Zola City in the distance.
The closer it is to Zola City, the more convoys and pedestrians will be on the commercial road.
In the busy traffic, the business travelers and coachmen who passed each other kept shouting and greeting each other with a warm and familiar attitude.
However, just ten miles away from Zola City, there were suddenly thunderous hooves of horses in front of them.
The carriages and pedestrians on the business road hid to the side of the road one after another, allowing a group of silver armored knights to rush past on tall horses, kicking up high dust behind them.
Although the convoy became a little flustered due to the appearance of the silver armored knights, no one complained dissatisfied in the face of the passing knights. Instead, the convoy returned to the business road after the other party disappeared without a trace, and the merchants and coachmen accompanying the convoy began to discuss in low voices the reason why the knights were in such a hurry.
"It must be because of the strange things that happened at Lake Cascara..." Old Tom muttered in a low voice while waving his whip, "It must be... such terrible things happened there, these paladins will definitely investigate !"
"What happened to Lake Cascara?" Greem asked suspiciously.
"You don't know? Look at you, haven't you just returned from Cascara Lake? Could it be... Didn't you see that terrible flint falling from the sky yesterday?" Old Tom looked in disbelief.
"Oh, you mean that flint! This kind of thing shouldn't be considered so strange, there is absolutely no need to make such a fuss." Greem replied with a relaxed expression.
"You are an adventurer. It may not be surprising that you have seen a lot from the north and the south, but my old Tom has been in Zola City for thirty years, but this is the first time I have seen such a terrible scene. You may not have seen it with your own eyes. After the flint fell, half of the lake boiled, and the dead fish and shrimps floating on the water were densely packed, how scary it looked..." Old Tom was obviously also a very talkative person, when he talked about yesterday's strange incident , It's just eloquent, as if to take out everything I know.
Greem also chatted with him casually, but his thoughts drifted to the group of paladins who galloped by just now. There were six first-level black iron knights, not even a second-level silver knight, which made Greem lower his expectations for the Holy Light Chapel in Zola City.
If the Chapel of the Holy Light in Zola City was large enough, Greem wouldn't mind making a big deal here. But if the scale of strength is too small, it is not worth exposing one's identity and whereabouts.
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Natagu's mood at the moment is simply terrible!
Although he had been warned many times by the adult before coming here, saying that this young fire witch was extremely difficult to deal with, so he had to be very careful. But in the face of a three-to-one situation, Natagu is still full of confidence in his trip.
However, his idea of having a good time hunting was overturned by the cruel reality in front of him before he lasted half a day.
That damn guy escaped in such a blatant and arrogant way, this... obviously challenged Natagu's endurance.
However, just as he was furious and about to chase after him openly, a short distress message from across the air made Natagu calm down suddenly.
The message was sent by the Mechanical Witch Katie who left alone, and the content was even more brief, only the words "help me". And after the message was sent, when the three of Natagu tried to contact her again, they couldn't get any response.
What happened to Katie Knives
The three newly landed wizards couldn't help feeling a little suspicious.
It stands to reason that with a low-level plane like the Envik plane, the third-level wizards can almost be regarded as rampant here. As long as they don't encounter those terrifying fourth-level paladins, the rest of the third-level paladins are nothing more than a group of fake 'magic sticks' without the blessing of gods!
The so-called paladins seem to have the combat skills of high-level knights, as well as the holy light magic that is similar to that of a spellcaster. But in the eyes of the wizards, it is a typical "junk job" with no literary skills or martial arts.
And the wizards who came across the border this time are all combat wizards, and all of them have the identity of hunters. With such strength, will he be in danger in this low plane? I'm afraid that even if Katie the Swordswoman is attacked by multiple third-level paladins, she will be sure to break out of the siege easily and run away!
And the opponent was able to beat her into panic and call for help, and then quickly lost, which made the three wizards quickly think of the two famous fourth-order holy knights in their own plane.
By the way, there are two Tier 4 holy knights in this plane, one is besieging the Witch Tower in the south, and the other is recuperating in the empire with serious injuries. Could it be... Could it be that this holy knight who was recovering from his wounds was still thinking about moving
How did they know that in a forest 120 miles to the north of them, a tragic battle had just come to an end.
The team of paladins who rushed from the imperial capital has been more than half injured at this moment, and the mountain forest they are in is also full of mess, broken old trees can be seen everywhere and the strength to cut through the soil chasm.
The terrifying knife girl Katie had her hands and feet cut off, and then she was nailed to the cliff by a huge long sword.
Even though the situation was so depressing, the ferocious Katie still shot out terrifying energy rays from the scarlet mechanical eyes, cutting the surrounding ancient trees and bushes into pieces, devastated.
The rank 4 holy knight who accompanied the team had a simple and resolute expression, with short gray hair standing on end, majestic and majestic like a raging lion.
Seeing that the evil witch whose arms and legs had been cut off was still so cruel, the 4th-level holy knight rushed in front of Katie, stretched out his right hand, not afraid of the scarlet and terrifying energy rays of the opponent, poked and bent his two fingers , and dug out those two half-flesh, half-mechanical strange eyes.
ah…
Katie opened her mouth and let out an extremely shrill scream. There were five or six gaps on the back of her body, and a few metal tentacles protruded from it, planning to attack the holy knight.
"Huh, I don't know how to live or die..." The holy knight snorted coldly, stretched out his big hand, and grabbed a few metal tentacles in his right palm as quickly as lightning.
With the sudden force, Katie raised her neck and let out a more shrill and sharp roar. Those few metal tentacles connected to her spine were broken, and several huge blood holes were opened on her back. Purple-black blood mixed with a stinky concoction flowed out of it, choking the surrounding paladins back again and again.
However, even after suffering such a terrible trauma, Katie still twisted her body to continue to fight back.
The holy knight finally got a little impatient, and quickly chiseled several joints of Katie's body.
Cervical spine, scapula, sternum, lumbar spine, coccyx…
This series of critical blows immediately made the modified metal joints inside Katie's body seriously dislocated or burst, instantly paralyzing Katie's control over these mechanical parts and flesh and blood tissues.
Katie's body finally went limp and paralyzed, and she was powerless to resist anymore!
After subduing this ferocious mechanical witch, the holy knight looked around the battlefield, saw the messy forest land that had been destroyed, and then looked at the holy knights lying all over the ground. His heart was also shocked and angry.
What shocked me was the ferocity and brutality of these foreign invaders...
What is angry is their indifference to the creatures of the Envik plane...
This fourth-order holy knight, Ade? Calle, was finally completely angry!
All wizards should be damned, they cannot be allowed to continue to exist in the plane of Envik...
The furious emotions aroused the injuries on Ad Carleigh's body, and he couldn't help coughing violently, bleeding out a large pool of black blood in one breath. In the black blood, some organ fragments and flesh fibers could be vaguely seen.
This fully shows that the serious injury he suffered in the witch's tower has not stabilized, and there is even a sign of deterioration.
In order to reduce the casualties of ordinary paladins besieging the Witch Tower, Ade Kalei once relied on his powerful strength to forcefully break into the Witch Tower and destroyed the interplanetary teleportation array there. And he, also under the joint attack of the witches stationed in the tower, suffered a near-destructive blow to his body.
If the holy light in his body wasn't the best at healing and dissolving alien energies, I'm afraid Ade Kalai wouldn't be able to escape that tower alive.
Although he escaped alive, the terrible injuries on his body tortured him deeply.
As a last resort, Ade Kalai could only leave the battlefield, return to the imperial capital to recuperate, and use the sanctuary space in the Holy Light Cathedral to heal his injuries.
Unfortunately, just when his injury was getting better, the omnipotent great holy light sent the strongest warning message to his ears. According to the prediction of the Holy Light, new enemies will invade the northern part of the empire, and their arrival will also trigger a terrible catastrophe for the paladins!
It was precisely because of this terrible omen that Ade Kalai held his body up and led a group of paladins to the northern part of the empire. In order to save time, they even crossed the Avili Mountains, Starfall Canyon and the wild jungle.
I don't know whether it was the correct guidance of the Holy Light or the bad luck of the enemy. Their team actually encountered this lonely witch from another world when they crossed the Hammer Mountain.
So, after a bloody fight, this ferocious half-human, half-mechanical witch knocked down nearly half of the paladins, and was taken down by the wounded Tier 4 holy knight Ad Carleigh in one fell swoop.