Despite the time constraints, Catherine did not rush into action. She knew that the crux of the matter now was that they couldn't move in a definite direction. Of course, if you make a hard breakthrough - you are not afraid of alarming the humanoid armor, it is not impossible to go all the way to the end. It's just that such a plan is too risky, and once there is no way out in the chosen direction, most of them will fall into the encirclement of humanoid armor. At that time, it may not be able to make it out alive and explore other directions.

The female mage frowned and took two steps back and forth. Gold also walked around behind her with some boredom. There were a lot of marks on the ground, including Catherine's footprints and golden hoof prints.

Catherine, who was at a loss, inadvertently glanced at the ground, and she jerked to her feet, eagerly scanning the ground in front of her and her several times. Some footprints are deep and some are shallow. The golden hoof prints are more pronounced in shades. Catherine suddenly stomped hard, and a deep footprint appeared under her feet. She walked to a shallow place and stomped on it, and then a foot where the footprint was deep.

These three deliberately stepped footprints, their depths are clear at a glance. Catherine exclaimed in her heart, "Sure enough." The depth of the footprints is due to the different humidity of the soil. She had made a basic judgment before, that there was a water source somewhere in this space. If you're not sure where to go, you might as well go to the water source. At the very least, the water element that permeates the air there will be more abundant, and if you have to fight, you will be able to use magic.

Following the general direction provided by the footprints, Catherine and Gold groped together towards the water. This time, the mage chose to walk, and she needed to constantly adjust her direction according to the humidity of the soil under her feet.

Soon a humanoid armor appeared in front of him. It came out of the black fog in a daze, just in the way of its path. "Destroy it as fast as you can. Catherine patted the gold beside her. The naughty fellow had already grown impatient in the slow walk, and at last he received the order of his master, and immediately rushed forward with a cry of joy. As if venting his frustration, the golden tall man stood up and stomped fiercely towards the humanoid armor. This kick directly stomped the poor metal doll.

"Chirp" Golden called and ran back, rubbing her neck against Catherine, like a spoiled child. The female mage praised him, but the speed of his journey increased. She knew that the other humanoid armor would soon move closer to them, surrounding the intruders.

The next humanoid armor reappeared in less than three minutes. Catherine directly used a little water-based magic to bring it down. Keep moving forward quickly. As expected. There is a noticeable increase in the water element in the air. This is also a clear proof of the proximity of water sources.

Humanoid armor began to emerge one after another, two or three at a time, three or four at a time, and the intervals between their appearances became shorter and shorter. Catherine and Gold are not too difficult to deal with them. But the real crisis has finally arrived.

A group of about ten humanoid armor suddenly emerged from the black mist beside them. One of them holds a heavy sword. Completely different from other armor. Its armor was jet black and shiny. Two red lights also appeared in the helmet.

As the group of humanoid armor came from her, Catherine's first instinct was to release a freeze on the ground. The icy ground was very slippery, and the humanoid armor suddenly turned on their backs. Catherine shouted that she was going to "fight" the golden, and hurried forward. But she didn't see the sword-wielding humanoid armor standing in front of the frozen ground. The strange puppet glanced in the direction in which Catherine had disappeared, and turned back into the black mist.

Just when Catherine thought that she had just encountered a small episode and enjoyed three or five minutes of undisturbed hurriedness, the black fog in front of her suddenly rolled up. This unusualness gave Catherine a sense of foreboding. The humanoid armor with a heavy sword in hand stepped out of the black mist. Seeing that there was only one, Jin immediately rushed forward, and the people stood up and planned to squash each other.

The humanoid armor dodged the attack with a rather uncoordinated step, and slashed at the two golden front hooves with a sword. The sword severed its golden hooves, and instead of falling to the ground, the two front hooves adhered to the sword, wriggling and wrapping the sword like a living creature. Seeing that the sword was starting to show rust spots, it was obvious that it was suffering from severe corrosion.

"Chirp" Golden wailed and fled back to Catherine's side, as if she had been greatly wronged. Luckily, his hooves had regrown, and he didn't seem to be hurt.

The humanoid armor looked at the eroding heavy sword and the slime that tended to spread to its hands, and simply threw the sword to the ground. The two red lights in his helmet stared at the gold, and there was a chaotic sound of "clang" in the black mist behind him. A horse-shaped armor covered in pitch black stepped out, with a dark golden spear and a gray iron shield hanging from the metal horse's side. The humanoid clad patted his mount and clumsily flipped onto his horse.

Cold sweat broke out in Catherine's hands. It's a real opponent. Not only does this humanoid armor have intelligence, but it should also be difficult to deal with.

The black mist continued to roll, and another humanoid armor came out one after another. They all carried iron swords in their hands, and some even carried shields.

The female mage raised her hands, palms up, and two egg-sized frozen snowballs slowly appeared. The water elemental here is not comparable to the sea outside, but it is enough to meet the basic requirements for the use of magic.

"Chirp" the golden let out two chirps. The heavy sword, which had been thrown to the ground by humanoid armor, actually crawled over on its own. The golden body tissue that had been attached to it turned into a layer of slime that enveloped the entire sword, and a bunch of small feet stretched out of the slime, and the heavy sword ran back. The heavy sword has been corroded a lot, and now it looks more like a stick. The golden body tissue lowered the sword and remerged into the golden body.

The corners of Catherine's mouth rose slightly, and she nodded at her mount in a compliment. Without weapons at hand, this "short stick" is better than nothing.

There were a total of six humanoid armors with swords that came out of the black mist, and together with the guy on the horse, they formed a small clan centered on knights.

The opponent didn't attack right away, and the female mage was not in a hurry to release the frozen snowball in her hand. As the water elemental accumulated, the two egg-sized frozen snowballs grew in a full circle. With enough time to charge, the magic power of the Frozen Snowball can be increased by one notch.

But the calm of the battlefield is always short-lived. The humanoid armored knight on the opposite side raised his spear and took his shield, and the metal horse attacked with a single step, but fortunately it was not fast at all, only a few points faster than on foot. This is presumably because they themselves are made up of metal armor. As soon as the leader moved, other humanoid armor also outflanked him from both sides. (To be continued.) )