The ground under the moonlit night is an endless field.
Now Jenkins and Unicorn are located very close to the edge of the city. This is the main grain production area of Nolan. A few decades ago, the land of the nearby village was annexed by large farmers, forming a large-scale farm. .
It finally landed on the ground, and the rice fields in summer are full of green, and you can't see the edge even if you try your best. When the night wind blew, the rice in the rice field rose and fell like waves. Jenkins bent down, and the unicorns lay down. It was difficult to see them from the air if you didn't look carefully.
On the contrary, observing the sky from the ground, the battle situation above is very obvious. The red dragon flew at the front in embarrassment, occasionally spitting out a mouthful of fiery red breath, leaving dazzling colors in the fog layer of the sky.
Behind it, the wandering cavalry riding on the skeleton horse, under the cover of black full body armor, almost blended with the black of the sky. They seem to be galloping on the ice road in the sky. Every time the horseshoes step on the air, a thin and transparent layer of ice will extend outward, and it will disappear quickly after a whole team of cavalry pass by, without even bringing rain to the ground.
Because of the armor, the skin and facial features of the cavalry were completely unclear. But deliberately forging armor with spikes and scary looks is enough to turn what happened in the night sky into a horror fairy tale, bringing interesting bedtime stories to generations of children.
Because there was no hand-to-hand combat, but only a chasing battle, the terrifying chasers didn't take out their weapons, and could only rely on the captain at the front to use spells to defend against the dragon's breath again and again.
The cavalry were looming in the mist, and Jenkins couldn't count how many there were. Only two captains with obviously different armors can be seen. Therefore, this should be a relatively late number of hunts among the 7 times.
Behind the wandering knights, the demigods of the church pursued. They attacked while chasing, and behind the demigods, a bright yellow gorgeous carriage that radiated light and heat like the sun was also running in the sky. It was driven by the Bestower of the Church of the Sun and Justice. The number of passengers that the carriage could carry was limited, but seven people were forced into it now.
Therefore, although it was a chasing battle, the wandering souls who were dragon hunters were essentially surrounded by the dragons in front and the mortals behind. According to this situation, it won't take long for the wandering cavalry to be wiped out. This is a predictable future.
"So I don't need to intervene at all."
Jenkins said softly, bent down beside the unicorn, and hid with it in the rice field, waiting for the people above him to disappear quickly.
But contrary to expectations, the roar of the giant dragon was indeed moving away, and the surrounding temperature was getting lower and lower. Even lying on the ground, I observed snow falling.
The chaotic sound of horseshoe trampling became louder and louder, looking up. At some point, the ghosts gave up chasing the red dragon. Instead, they drew out their long swords with their right hands and swung them, while holding the black reins tightly with their left hands, they rode their horses and launched a terrifying charge towards the ground.
The target of the charge was aimed straight at a man, a beast, and a cat lying on the ground.
"Huh? Chocolate, what are you doing here?"
He saw that Chocolate was actually lying on the ground like him and the unicorn, but with the cat's height, maybe even the wandering spirits couldn't see it when it jumped up.
"The ground is dirty."
While speaking, he stood up while supporting the ground, and stuffed some fried chocolate into his pocket.
Facing the snowflakes that were already flying all over the sky, Jenkins raised his hand and looked at the Wandering Knights swooping down from obliquely above:
"Ice!"
There was an abnormal and slight noise in the air, and as the moisture condensed, a large ice plate appeared directly in front of the dragon hunter cavalry.
The two cavalry captains, holding weapons like wands, pointed at the front, and the ice slab exploded in the air, turning into flying ice shards and scattered in all directions. And in the middle of the ice, Jenkins, riding a unicorn and holding a sword in his right hand and a stick in his left, swooped up:
"You dare to provoke me!"
The white sword glow instantly illuminated the night sky, splitting the team of wandering soul cavalry rushing down in two. But the white light did not disappear immediately. Above the raised scepter, the orb radiated endless light in the night field. As Jenkins continued to rise, the light went straight to the sky, causing the church members above and the red who just flew back Even the dragon couldn't see what happened in the center of the light.
They could only hear the shouts of killing, the exchange of weapons, and the falling of heavy objects to the ground. Occasionally, the huge sword light swept across like a flywheel dancing in the air, and then bursts of explosions could be heard in the air.
When the white light gradually converged on the top of the scepter, the orb gradually dimmed, and only the man riding the holy white unicorn remained in the air in the frontal charge just now.
His left cane was slightly raised, and the sword in his right hand was naturally drooping. The fighting instinct given by [Hero] and the suppression of monsters gave Jenkins an absolute upper hand in this sudden confrontation.
Under the unicorn, dozens of armors were scattered on the ground, the skeleton horse wriggled in the farmland, and the black long sword was inserted straight into the soft rice field soil like a tombstone, feeling the slightly cold night wind of Nolan.
The man riding the unicorn didn't leave immediately, but he didn't look up at the circling dragon, nor did he chat with the church members who didn't know what to say in the sky.
He lowered his head and pondered, and it was obvious from his appearance that he was thinking about a very important question:
"Should the following be my trophies?"
That's an important question, of course, but those armors are just too heavy. He only had a unicorn mount, so he definitely couldn't take all the armor with him. So I plan to leave these trophies to the church. After all, although they are valuable, they are not particularly good things for Jenkins.
During the period of thinking, the demigod of the church slowly descended from the air, and fell to a position almost level with Jenkins. But only one person came down, and this was the demigod Ms. Carol Hoffman who had been stationed in Nolan for a long time in [The Church of the Night and the Hidden]. She knew Jenkins in the past.
"Good evening, believer in lies."
She tugs at the hem of her skirt to say hello to Jenkins.
"Good evening... Just ask what you want to ask."
Jenkins said this, looking at the surrounding night:
"I'm in a hurry to get back to the city, and I don't have much time to waste here."
He wanted to get home before Hathaway came home, otherwise it would be a little too suspicious.
"Why did these wandering spirits suddenly give up chasing the dragon and rush towards you? Sorry, this is not a question, but just curiosity. The one you defeated just now was A-03-5-2737 [The wandering spirit of the dragon hunter] The fifth time they appear, we must ensure that their last two appearances are also controllable. After all, this is Nolan, once this kind of monster gets out of control, I think everyone can imagine the consequences."
"Actually, I don't know why they're coming at me... don't look at me like that, it's the truth. In fact, earlier today, your dragons passed over my head with those ghost riders too, I was indoors and didn't get the attention of the cavalry... Yeah, why is that? I remember the documentation saying that A-03-5-2737 would only hunt one dragon at a time and never change targets."
If the [immemorial amber stone] gifted by the silver dragon lord Anastasia is still there, Jenkins may suspect that the stone has been carried by the silver dragon for too long, so that the "dragon characteristics" of the carrier Jenkins far exceeds that of the red dragon. Dragons, thus changing the characteristics of [Giant Dragon Hunter's Spirits].
But now the amber stone is long gone, and the resulting red fighting ability [Malicious Transformation] has nothing to do with dragons. So now Jenkins possesses dragon-related characteristics, only the red slender flame on his chest is left, which is the "dragon soul" among the four king souls, which is the solid body of a giant dragon obtained by ancient humans in order to imitate it. , and by creating myths and writing legends, a unique power created with the power of the entire race.
"Could it be the soul of the dragon?"
Thinking in his heart, he raised his head and looked at the red dragon that was stretching its wings and circling in the air:
"Maybe you should ask that dragon. Dragons probably know more about this weird thing than humans."
"good idea."
Ms. Hoffman nodded, but did not leave:
"For your safety, please don't stay away from here for the time being. We don't know why those wandering spirits attack you. If you enter the city and the wandering spirits appear and choose to look for you again instead of falling into our encirclement, then at least a few hundred people will die from it."
What she said made sense. Although Jenkins was eager to go home, he didn't want to let a group of wandering spirits tear down his house when he fell asleep at night. But he couldn't agree immediately, but pretended to be embarrassed and thought for a while:
"Okay, but I can only stay here for a while. I really have important things to do at night."
As he spoke, he let the unicorn carry him upwards. But at this moment, the snowflakes that stopped following the defeat of the Wandering Soul Knights fell from a higher altitude again. It landed on the tip of the cat's pink nose sticking out of the pocket, making the cat shake its head uncomfortably.
Both Jenkins and Ms. Hoffman stopped their movements and looked at the distant fields, only to see a cloud of white mist with a strong cold air emerging from the ground and rapidly approaching the top.
In the mist, there were also chaotic and unusually dense hoofbeats, and the mixed smell of rust and blood, which almost prevented them from smelling the rice fields below.
The cloud of cold mist was completely different from the thin gray mist in the sky, it was fiercer and more dangerous. Jenkins saw directly behind the cold mist with his monocle, and he asked softly to the woman beside him:
"I remember that once A-03-5-2737 [The Wandering Soul of the Dragon Hunter] is defeated, it will take at least an hour to reappear. Now it's only less than ten minutes?"