A small group of Cruz knights climbed down the steep glacial cliff and slowly approached You Xi's body. The corpse was nailed to the ground in a weird posture by the huge impact of the arrow. The undead was already dead, with black holes in his eyes, and the fire of the soul extinguished.
The leading knight couldn't help taking a breath, and with a warm breath woven into a thin white mist in the icy canyon, and quickly melted into the surrounding ice mist.
The wolves have long since retreated, and there are still some wolf corpses around, blood-stained, broken feather arrows all over. The gorge was a bit creepy and quiet. He should have reported back immediately after confirming You Xi's death, but the weird silence made him look around.
In a trance, he seemed to see something standing in the depths of the canyon. A beast the size of a pony stood behind the mist with its hairless hair.
He was taken aback and looked intently, only to find that there was nothing there. The beast originally thought was nothing but mist floating in the deep valley, but even so, the knight couldn't help but let out a cold sweat.
After the short ambush was over, the canyon was plunged into this weird atmosphere, and the current situation seemed more terrifying than when they were being chased by wolves. The captain of the knights took a breath and seemed to be ready to stabilize his emotions. He is a member of the Knights of Broken Swords, the leader of the young Cruz generation, and he will be scared suspicious by a quiet and silent canyon. It is too much to say. Shame.
But just as he was about to vent his breath, he realized that there seemed to be something wrong around him.
"Team... Captain..."
A stuttering voice sounded behind him, the voice of his subordinates. The knight suddenly raised his head, and at some point, a pair of indifferent, burnt yellow eyes appeared in front of him.
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"Wolf!"
Little Pello, Brende and Nimesis, everyone was silently waiting for the reassuring news to come back, but what they were waiting for was a panic scream.
"Hao—" With a soft sound, a monster with a silver mane jumped down from somewhere and landed in front of everyone. The pale son, the anxiety and anxiety in Freya's heart seemed to become reality in an instant.
Everyone knows that You Xiyu is driving the Winter Wolf forward, and it is the silver monster that controls the pale son.
Two-headed, three-headed, one after another monsters fell from above and landed around the cruz knights. They neither uttered a threatening growl nor rushed forward. They just surrounded them with their heads held high and cold. His eyes are on these human beings.
Those eyes were full of wisdom that shouldn't belong to wild beasts, but it was just like this that made people chill from the bottom of my heart.
Freya was the first to react. She raised her head, her light brown pupils shrank slightly against the dawn, and she saw several white figures appearing on top of the glacier that shone with light.
At some point, these pale children had already ran over them. In other words, when they were still confidently ambushing You Xi, these monsters had already begun to expand their encirclement.
How could this be
Since the middle of the night yesterday, these pale children and the silver monster never appeared again. Everyone believed that they had separated from You Xi, but now it seems that they arrived here first.
The heart of the girl from Buche was cold, could it be said that the Knights of Folding Sword lied to her? But what good is this for them
She shook her head vigorously before throwing this absurd idea out of her mind. The Cruz people are in the same boat with her at the moment, and it is unlikely that they will lie on this issue. In other words, their scouts did not see the pale son behind the winter wolf.
She couldn't help looking at Brende. Brende's face was also blue and white. Obviously, she also thought of this. After Anika died, he was the captain of the scout team of the Knights of Folding Sword, and he was obviously right now. There is a fault in his work.
"Black Blade." Brende growled in anger.
"Captain, it's not my fault. I dare to swear in the name of the King of Flames. I absolutely never saw any pale son among the winter wolves... Except for the four heads beside You Xi." The knight named one. Face aggrieved, explained in a low voice.
"It's not his fault," Freya breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the reaction of the two of them, and hurriedly stopped the quarrel in a low voice: "These monsters have already circumvented above us, which shows that they should at least be better than Yuxi. Arrived, but it doesn't make sense, why would they just watch You Xi go to death?"
"I don't know, maybe that silver monster is in contradiction with You Xi itself." Alea pressed the wound, staring at the monsters surrounding them and shrugged.
This is one of the possibilities, but Freya instinctively feels that this is not the truth of the matter.
"Monsters, there are so many!" The shout came from far below the canyon, "Little Pello, Brende, Commander, be careful, they are coming at you!"
Then there was the sound of fierce fighting, the sound of people and beasts fighting intertwined.
All the Cruz people in the front row subconsciously raised their swords. The long swords shone brightly in the cold air, facing the teeth of Bai Sensen that was smashed by the monster wolf not far away.
The next moment, a scream suddenly came from the crowd. Everyone turned their heads, but saw that a pale son had come among them at some unknown time and bit off the arm of a sword knight.
The knight clutched his bloody severed arm, and pierced the pale son's left eye with a backhand sword. The latter also let out a whine and hurriedly backed away.
The knight next to him stepped forward to protect his companion.
"Be careful, they will stealth spells!" The knight with a broken arm shouted through gritted teeth.
Everyone's complexion changed.
"Watch your surroundings!" Freya shouted. She remembered the tactics of seeing those invisible ghosts in the forest, and instinctively felt that these invisible monsters might have the same combat methods.
Sure enough, a giant beast suddenly appeared on her left side, it appeared like a flowing transparent liquid in the air, opened a huge mouth, and bit her.
But before it had time to bite, a clear blue light appeared on Freya's armor, abruptly blocking its fangs from the light wall.
"Wind back half body armor!" Brende let out a low voice.
At this time, Nimesis had already taken a step forward, and a sword pierced the throat of the astonished beast. Since meeting the crystal stag with Brando that night, with the help of the rough stone, she The advancement is also advancing by leaps and bounds, the golden flame is burning in her body, and the luster of the element is about to be born within it—and this sword is worthy of the female knight’s rapid progress since these days, and the tip of the sword is shining. A layer of faint black light that is difficult for outsiders to detect, it breaks through the dark magic protection all over the body of the pale child, and pierces the throat of this monster with a sword.
The giant wolf didn't seem to have thought that it would die so easily, it struggled for a while, and then crashed down.
"This is the suit of armor he gave you." Nimesis withdrew the sword from the giant wolf's mouth, wiped it on the silver mane, and asked.
"Um… "
"Although the back half body armor of the wind is a standard armor, the one that has been passed down to this day is also invaluable. It seems that he cares about you very much." Nimesis replied pointedly, and she glanced at Freya with a profound meaning. His gaze made the latter's heart throb.
Freya let out a sigh of relief. If it weren't for the back half of the wind, the bite of the giant wolf just now would have bit her entire right shoulder, shoulder blade and chest. She could almost imagine the coldness of sharp teeth penetrating her body. That's almost certainly mortal.
Brando rescued her again, and she didn't know how to count it. This was the first time she had accepted that person's favor.
She shook the sword in the handshake before waking up. She turned her head away, trying to avoid making herself look at her senior sister’s weird gaze. She felt that there was something else in it, and she didn’t know how to answer. good.
At this time, the knight and the Pale Son are already fighting together. The Pale Son’s raid caused the Cruz people to suffer heavy losses, but it must be said that thanks to Freya’s previous reminder, otherwise the current situation is more than just a heavy loss. .
However, even so, the Knights of Broken Swords dispersed for the sudden appearance of the monsters, and the pale sons that appeared from the invisibility spell seemed to spring from all directions. These nightmares in the winterland are not as weak and deceptive as their close relatives. As the Twilight Species, even after a thousand years of weakness, it still retains at least the level of strength from the peak of silver to the first level of gold at this moment. The Cruz Knights dealt with these difficult opponents and immediately fell into a hard fight.
In other words, it is not appropriate to say that it is a hard fight, because from the very beginning, the young swordsman knights have been retreating steadily, gradually losing their organization and connection. Freya was washed away with Nimesis, and soon only Alea and Brende were left beside her, and even Pello was lost.
"Your Excellency Commander, in which direction are we going to break through?" Alea asked, squinting from the side.
Freya shook her head. All they could choose at the moment was to move closer to the middle of the canyon and see if they could gather other people there.
"I still haven't figured out where these ghosts came from." Brende couldn't help cursing: "Black Blade is absolutely impossible for him to make a mistake, and if the silver monster is near us, how could it be? I watched You Xi be sent to death. Even if they had conflicts, it would be easy to kill us, so why play this hide-and-seek game with us."
"I heard that cats have a habit of teasing mice." Alea replied.
"It's not a cat, and we're not a mouse." Brende blocked it in angrily.
Freya frowned as she listened to the conversation between the two. The same question was in her mind. She raised her head and carefully observed the smooth fracture on the top of the glacier. From time to time, pale sons jumped from above and fell into the crowd.
Seeing this scene, she suddenly felt excited and remembered one thing.
"Brend, do you remember the direction those giant wolves came from?"
"Your Excellency, they came from the glacier, it's obvious."
"No, I mean last night."
Brende's face changed: "In the forest, they came from the forest."
"They cannot live in the forest. The forest is the territory of the winter wolves. It is impossible for the two wolves to live together. If there is such a glacier behind the forest..."
"Wait, Commander, you mean...?" Brende also reacted at once.
"I remember that Brando often told some legends about the Dead Frost Forest. In the middle of the forest is a huge maze. It is the hibernator temple of Milos, the god of frost giants. I suddenly remembered that this is not a glacier. , But the outer wall of the Temple of the Hibernate..."
"These monsters... came from the temple."
"What!?" Alaya finally heard the conversation between the two: "You mean, these monsters live here? This is their lair?" This bystander couldn't help frowning at the news. He seemed to be very happy when he heard it: "Your Excellency Commander, what you mean is that the monsters we saw in front of us did not arrive here first, but they were wild themselves, so they were nothing like that silver monster. Relationship?"
It sounded like he didn't need to deal with the silver monster, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
But it's a pity that Freya obviously didn't think so. The premonition in her heart gradually became reality, and at this moment the clues of confusion in her mind became clear a thousand times.
She raised her head and looked at the three of them: "I want to know, if these monsters come from here, then where does that silver monster come from?"
The complexions of Brende and Alea changed suddenly, and even Nimésis raised his eyebrows.
At this moment, a sharp laugh interrupted Freya.
"It's worthy of being a descendant of the goddess of war, so keen."
Freya suddenly widened her eyes and shouted: "Be careful, Brende, behind you!"
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