It didn't take long for everyone to feel relieved when there was a burst of shouts getting closer and closer in the twisted woodland. It sounded like a large group of people marching in the forest. At the same time, the dark woods also gathered from everywhere. There were dots of firefly-like torch light, this movement made Lily pull out her ice and fire twin blades subconsciously, and the others immediately became alert.
Accompanied by a rush of hoofbeats, a group of knights rushed out of the shadows of the dense forest first. They rode tall military horses, wore bright church knight order armor, and the armor was covered with a sacred cloak printed with the emblem of the Glorious Sect. Every knight held a long sword, and the long sword was lingering with the brilliance of magic. It looked as if it was going into a battle. And behind these knights, a group of soldiers who were obviously mages also ran out on horseback.
More and more soldiers jumped out of the dense forest on horseback, and the next few groups were obviously members of the Kingdom Knights. They shouted murderously and ran to the lake beach, but they were all dumbfounded: There are only black boulders everywhere, and a small group of strangers of unknown origin. The "prey" they were chasing disappeared.
"Call - call -"
Accompanied by shouts, the knights reined in their horses and stopped, while several captain-like soldiers trotted up to Hao Ren and the others, they did not dismount, but held their swords vigilantly: "Who are you? ! Why are you wandering around the holy lake?"
Hao Ren was a little dazed. He didn't know what was going on, but he subconsciously said the nonsense words he had memorized long ago: "We are traveling mages from the Northern Empire... in Holleta A mercenary group has been registered here, and they came here on a mission to find the orbs of the temple a while ago."
He was still not sure about the origins of the knights in front of him, so he only mentioned that he was a mercenary group who came to find the orb of the temple, but he did not mention that the orb had been found. After this explanation, he became even more vigilant: "Baozhu? The search operation was terminated half a month ago! You..."
Just when Hao Ren realized that the situation had changed and began to think about how to fool around, the bearded ascetic suddenly came up from behind: "Is it a paladin of the church? Which parish? We are ascetics who accept the mission of the goddess. "
The four bearded men are all wearing dilapidated gray robes, and they usually have a low sense of presence. You can't notice them at all when they are not talking. Just now, the knight captain thought that these four men in gray robes were just ordinary down-and-out mercenaries. Hearing the other party speak, he took a look. Finally recognized that gray robe is the symbol of the ascetics of the church. The bearded man also took out a shiny metal piece from his arms and shook it in front of the captain of the knight. The latter made a careful identification before getting off his horse: "It's an ascetic monk?! Why are you here? We haven't heard that the above sent The ascetic monk came down..."
It seems that the knight captain is very cautious. Even if they saw the "identity certificate", they were not directly fooled. After all, ascetic monks are very special in the Huiyao sect. They are not regular troops, but special elites that only the pope and the goddess oracle can directly command. It is hard to believe that a small group of ascetic monks are in such a place. The bearded man took a closer look at the emblem on the church officer before taking off his hood: "It's the senior knight of the rector of Girton, you should have seen the four of us at the 'Introduction Ceremony' a few months ago .”
The induction ceremony was the meeting held when the Templar Orb first arrived in the Beinz parish a few months ago. Hearing these four words, the captain of the knight immediately looked up and down at Big Beard and the other three people beside him. After a while, he showed a shocked expression: "You... you are from the Temple Orb... four masters, why are you here? here?"
Becky jumped out boldly at this time, patted her chest hard and pretended to be a leader: "Why do you need to ask! The Temple Orb was found by our mercenary group! By the way, we also found four masters—but I don't know except In addition to a set of orbs, how much extra money can the four masters exchange for... "
Hao Ren hurriedly pulled back the mercenary girl who didn't know the door: Becky is good at everything, but once the topic of getting rich is brought up, the whole person will become excited. Listen to what she said, and you know that several masters I got it back, those who didn't know thought she tied it back...
The bearded man looked back at Betsy. The expression on his face was dull: "We are definitely not as precious as Baozhu, but we should be able to exchange for a few good horses."
Hao Ren hastily smoothed things over: "You're too polite, you're too polite. People like you are worth at least two houses even if they are kidnapped and sold..."
Vivian punched him hard from behind: "If you can't speak, don't speak!"
The knight captain and the other small captains around him were still a little confused at this moment. The orb of the temple that had been missing for several months was suddenly found, and even the four masters who were listed as "martyred saints" stood in front of them intact. This sudden situation made them feel very uncomfortable. reality. But after a while, these professional soldiers realized that the knight captain suddenly turned around and shouted to the adjutant behind him: "Send the signal! Call the other teams! Escort the holy object back to town!"
An adjutant immediately fired a signal flare into the sky, and the knight captain suddenly remembered something else after the flame exploded in the sky. He looked at the piles of black stones like hills in amazement, and looked at the bearded man in disbelief: "Master, just now There should be a group of stone demons here... have they all been purified by your lords?"
The bearded man pointed at Hao Ren calmly: "It was dealt with by him."
The knight captain gulped and swallowed. He was startled when he saw the wreckage of the stone giants on the lake beach just now. Seeing that there were only a few mercenaries in front of him, he certainly couldn't believe that those more than a hundred stone giants were killed by these people. At best, he reluctantly believed that a powerful ascetic monk had created such a miracle, but now the latter confessed that the credit should be attributed to an unattractive mercenary, which made him feel a bit fanciful: "He? A person? "
"The average number of them is one or two," Hao Ren smiled and pointed at the people around him, "I am one hundred and twenty-two."
The captain of the knight didn't close his mouth for a while, and finally choked out a sentence: "... Are all the magicians in the Northern Empire monsters?!"
Hao Ren folded his hands on his chest to show off his aura of a master. The data terminal was buzzing in his pocket, and the voice was transmitted directly to his head: "Put it on, keep on pretending, you didn't burn any calories just now except running around in circles." What's wrong? Becky has higher DPS than you!"
The knight captain didn't know the real situation, so he directly regarded Hao Ren as a monster anyway, but he was just a middle-level and low-level officer who obeyed orders, and he wouldn't pursue the details. And Yzaks found that there would be no more misunderstandings, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's going on here? You drove the stone giants here? In addition, we passed the sentry by the lake before. Stand, what's going on over there?"
The captain of the knight looked at the two-and-a-half-meter-long giant, and subconsciously helped his helmet: "You don't know? Where have you been for the past half month?"
"We're with them, not in the Beinz area." Hao Ren raised his finger and pointed at the bearded man. "We just ran in through space teleportation. The specific situation is related to the orb. It's a secret. We can't tell you until we see the rector." You just explain to us what's going on here."
Lifting the "Temple Orb" was really useful. The knight captain immediately had no doubt about him. He sighed: "The stone giant came from the Dragon's Back Mountains... You know that? Well, the basic situation is half a month." The number of former stone giants suddenly increased, once breaking through the defense line of Layton Town, and an ancient passage appeared on the flank of the mountain range, allowing many monsters to infiltrate the Twisted Woodland to the area around the holy lake. We were ordered to encircle and suppress the area just now A group of monsters, we have been tracking them for two days and two nights, and we managed to drive them into the encirclement tonight—I didn’t expect to be solved by you. As for the lakeside outpost, it was lost a few days ago, and now it is around the holy lake Several outposts are attacked almost every day... These are not secrets, you will know when you go back and ask, and now there are many mercenaries helping to guard the outer line of defense to prevent the stone giant from running into the kingdom."
"How is the situation in Layton Town?" Hao Ren asked casually.
"Marshal Ovra personally guarded it, and it has been taken back, you can rest there," the knight captain said, shrugging and smiling, "It's just that I can't guarantee a good night's sleep: those big monsters run up and shake the mountain , and the nearby mountain collapses several times a day.”
The bearded man suddenly asked nervously: "Where's the holy lake?! What are those monsters trying to do to the holy lake?! Did they damage the lake water?"
(Ask for a monthly ticket!! I don’t know if it’s too late to ask for a ticket on the last day...) (To be continued~^~)