Chapter 490: Almost
Rurik and his subordinates, who did the guess of the person who passed by and saved him, was it really Alice as Rurik guessed?
As he thought, it would be in Alice's best interest to save Rurik and make this an opportunity for him to change, to follow the path that Alice wanted him to take, and to become the king of the Rose steppes.
No, no, no, it should be said that part of Rurik's guess was correct, at least at the beginning, he was indeed rescued, saved from the hands of those druids.
However, the one who saved people was not the Alice he imagined, but the consciousness of this land that he would not have thought of even if he wanted to break his head...... That's right, it's the consciousness of this land called Novgorod, and it's not wrong to call it by the name of this land of Novgorod.
The druids, known as the Friends of Nature, after Rurik fell into a coma, could of course feel what was happening to Rurik, and the familiar could not be more familiar, and the consciousness that usually only appeared in them was a part of this plane.
In Scandinavia, the strength of these snow-capped druids can become even stronger than usual, also because in that land, they have received a certain degree of help from the consciousness of belonging to that land.
The same is true of the elves, who once lived in the Karelian Forest, and the reason why the forest once lived had the confidence to confront Attila's army head-on was also because of the support of the forest consciousness.
When Siegel was fighting against the elves, the reason why the dryads and dryads stood in front of him and attacked him was partly due to the forest's disgust with him.
If it was another snow-capped druid, when he saw that the consciousness of this land was helping Rurik, he would definitely not hesitate when he consumed energy to help Rurik recover from the injuries on his body, and he would definitely kill the killer.
Because the Snow Mountain Druids are friends of that part of Scandinavia, not this strange land, Novgorod, and killing Rurik will not cause them to suffer anything.
It's a pity that these snowy mountain druids here are already planning to leave for home, although raising their hands can solve the problem of the man in front of them, and let their fellow beasts who have helped them many times lose a lot.
However, seeing the scene in front of him, he had already lost a lot of time, and the druid, who had his relatives in the Norwegian mountains of Scandinavia in his whole mind, hurriedly packed up and left here.
Of course, we don't know if he had the same mind as Alice and saw the difference in Rurik and hoped that he would cause trouble for Attila.
After sparing Rurik, the Snow Mountain Druid dismissed his beast friends who had helped them a lot, left some supplies and medicines as a reward, and galloped lightly to the west.
After being attacked by the Novgorodians, the snowy mountain druids did not intend to continue their struggle, and they could not figure out why the Novgorodians were able to find their exact location.
Therefore, in order to prevent more enemies from finding their position and attacking them, it is best to leave the land quickly, believing that as long as they can run to the ice of the Baltic Sea, they will be safe and can safely return home to reunite with their families.
The smooth ice field is also their home field, and even an army several times their number will not be able to inflict damage on such an ice field that cannot run quickly.
Because in such an environment where you can fall if you go a little faster, you only need one [Greasy Technique] to solve most of the problems, unless the incoming enemy can fly.
I have to say that when a spellcaster like a druid can turn into an animal, they have too many advantages, because most animals have many advantages over humans physically, whether it is recovery, strength, speed or physical strength, they are not comparable to ordinary humans.
These druids, in the form of wolves, quickly run forward across the snowfield, their thick fur making them brave the cold of the blizzard, and their keen sense of smell makes it easy for them to avoid the enemies that live around them.
Of course, in order to cover up something, this wolf pack also has real wolves inside, all of whom have survived the battle just now and have been treated by the druids with herbs and magic.
Even if it is really unavoidable, those people of the Attila Empire will only think that they live in the Rus steppe when they see a pack of wolves, and they go out to forage for food because of the cold weather.
After all, the Rus' steppe is only separated from Scandinavia by the Baltic Sea, and the land is also connected by the land of Karelia, and the two lands have too many similar species, or they are simply migrating from each other.
This is also the reason why the Snow Mountain Druids, those squads that do not have legendary strength to sit in, are also difficult to be detected by the enemy when they hunt in this land and carry out raid supply team operations.
It is unrealistic to find a druid-turned wolf from thousands of wolves, just like finding a hidden leaf in the forest and a grain of sand in the desert, which is completely impossible to accomplish with human power.
Even skilled hunters can hardly tell the difference between the animals that druids turn into and ordinary animals, after all, druids are natural friends, and they spend most of their lives with their animal friends.
It can be said that the druid is the most familiar expert in the world with the habits of animals in addition to the animals themselves.
Of course, a powerful spellcaster like Alice can still tell with magic, or for the powerful, they don't need to tell the difference, they don't need to find the hidden leaf in the forest, and they don't need to find the gravel in the desert.
They will only burn the forest with flames, destroy the whole forest, and burn the whole desert into glass with the flames...... You don't need to find what is hidden, you just need to know a general range, and it is enough to solve everything in that range.
It's a pity, it's very unlucky, in front of these druids, there is such a figure now, who won't tell which one is the real wolf and which one is transformed by the druid.
Death, after killing the legendary druid, he came to this area, the westernmost point of Novgorod, and found a pack of wolves in his field of vision.
He stopped his progress and turned his gaze to the wolves, with a little doubt in his eyes, it was difficult to see animals on the land he had just walked, and under the snow, there were only traces of grass roots being eaten by voles in large quantities.
Having dealt with the druids and died in battle, they soon learned of the anomalies that were taking place in the area, and the druids gathered the animals of the land as their helpers to launch an attack on the forces of Attila and the supply lines.
So, it would be a very strange thing to see a pack of wolves here, a pack of wolves that he didn't turn away and run away, and didn't attack, and death guessed the true answer with just a little thought in his head.
Moreover, judging by Death's personality and previous ways of doing things, even if these targets were indeed just strange wolf packs, he would not have a reason to let them go...... Even as a strong person who is not narrow-minded, he will not allow himself to be provoked by the so-called weak.
I didn't see any movement from him, just gently stretched out his right hand, and the five fingers closed into fists, and a strong breath of negative energy appeared in the howling cold wind.
In the main plane, such a negative energy aura usually only appears in the cemetery where the corpse is decomposed, or in the deep crypt where there is no sunlight, after all, this is not a negative energy plane with rich negative energy, and under the sunlight, these negative energy can be easily dispelled.
However, in this area, at this time when the sky has already appeared a little white, and a little sun is shining on the earth, the wind has not stopped.
The gray ability began to rapidly erode the bodies of these wolves, which was the most feared and resistive energy of life, and in just a few seconds, most of those wolves fell.
Their snow-white fur quickly fell to ashes, their pupils dilated, their flesh and blood shrank rapidly, and in a few moments, the breath of life disappeared from their bodies.
These are ordinary wolves, in the face of the erosion of negative energy breath and the fact that they are personally manipulated by a strong person like death, they have no ability to react at all, nor do they have the strength to resist, and running away is even more of a luxury.
When these ordinary wolves fell, the wolves still standing on the field, needless to say, were transformed by the druids, and their transformations were not ordinary changes, even if the outer bodies became wolves, they still maintained the druid's spell-casting ability.
Negative energy, which is the deadliest poison for ordinary creatures, is not a big deal for these druids, because as a spellcaster, they have been dealing with negative energy for a lot of time, and they are quite familiar with this kind of thing that is very rare in the main plane.
However, the problem now is not the problem of those negative energy breaths, what they need to consider now is the knight who directly attacked them as soon as he appeared, and he couldn't see the gender.
No, even if it is impossible to know the gender of this knight, simply from his outfit, there is only one person known in the main plane with a green horse, green armor, such a appearance, and such strength...... One of the three most powerful of Attila's men, known as the Knight of Death.
"Why...... Death, why are you here. ”
The wolf opened its mouth to speak human language, but even a child could hear the fear and disbelief in the voice.
Of course, the druids would feel incredulous, the strongest of them did not even reach the legend, if they were able to defeat each other with the large number of animal friends and the inability of Rurik to sit idly by and watch their people being slaughtered.
Now, having lost an animal friend and not recovering physically and mentally from the battle just now, there really is nothing more unlucky than meeting a strong man who can fight each other with someone like Beowulf.
"Our Elders...... Did our elders die at your hands?"
Suddenly remembering something, the young druid, who had turned into a wolf, pleaded with death in a bitter voice.
Although he didn't like those stubborn elders because of their different philosophies, believing that their ideas were not conducive to the development of the druids, he had to admit that those elders had great powers, and even in legends, they could be called strong powers.
When death appeared in front of him, the truth about the death of the previous elder and the demise of several other squads was easily guessed by him, and only when they encountered the cyan knight in front of them, they would not even be able to escape.
Death did not answer the young man's words, not because he was arrogant, but because it was really unnecessary, and none of these druids in front of him had reached the level of legend, and it didn't take much effort to kill them.
For those who are already doomed, death does not feel the need to spend spat on talking to them, and does not feel the need to spend too much time on them.
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The silence of death made the young man only feel a surge of anger from his heart, as the victor who had just defeated a legendary warrior, he could hardly accept that his strength could not even make the other party speak.
However, soon he didn't need to be angry, the situation in front of him made him tense as if he was facing a great enemy, and the wolves who had just fallen to the ground and had lost their breath of life were standing up one by one.
The shrunken muscles, the blank gaze, the withered hair, the strange walking posture, and the rich negative energy aura on the body all tell that these wolves are no longer alive.
They are the dead, they are the spirits of the dead, they are called immortal
It is the enemy of all life, and it should not appear in the main plane, which is filled with the breath of life.
However, these undead who were transformed by the corpse of a wolf, eroded by the negative energy breath, were not repelled by the main plane, because they were converted using the materials of the main plane.
"It's underestimated......"
The young man looked at the zombie wolf that surrounded him and the others, and said softly.
It's just that these newly converted undead could be the opponents of the spellcaster druids, in such a cold and snowy place, but they are the home of their snow-capped druids.
If the knight called death only had such means, it seemed that it was not impossible for him to defeat him.