"Have there been any recent movements around the area?"

Standing on a tall horse of maroon, Catherine was dressed in delicate armor of bright silver, which made her more graceful and light.

Although from the outside, Catherine's body looks very slender, and even a little weak. But when she puts on a full set of steel armor and wields a great sword to attack her enemies, she will immediately turn into a mighty lion, even more daring than those male knights.

So as she frowned, her face flushed with sorrow, the apprentice knights who followed her became more and more bewildered.

"What are you worried about, Lord Catherine?" asked a young midshipman, daringly, "those witch remnants have been forced into the jungle near Black Mountain City, and if you search patiently, you will find their hiding place." Why should you be so worried when you see that the situation is good?"

Catherine shook her head in confusion.

"You haven't seen the ferocity of otherworldly wizards, and you have no idea of their terrifying powers. I...... I ......" Speaking of this, Catherine couldn't help but give a light shiver, as if remembering something terrible.

"You mean...... Hakans City!" the knight asked tentatively.

As Catherine's guards, they naturally knew something about the several brutal wars she had experienced.

According to legend, Catherine was also a member of the Chapel of the Light in Hakans. When caught in the clutches of a wizard, Catherine, as a knight-in-acumen, dared to step forward and rescue dozens of her companions from the terrible wizard.

It was because of this experience that after the catastrophe of Hakans City, the Paladins sent her to the south to participate in the siege of the remnants of witches. And Catherine was obviously not intimidated by the cruelty of the wizard, but burst out with 120,000 points of courage, and actually survived to the end in a cruel war to encircle and suppress the second-order witch, and stabbed the second-order witch.

And it was in that battle that she received a rich feedback of holy light and jumped to the rank of Black Iron Knight in one fell swoop!

Speaking of Catherine's experience, everyone present is familiar with it, so it is very understandable that she is sentimental. Anyone who knows well with her friends and dies in a battle will become just as melancholy and resolute as her.

"Don't talk about me......" Catherine quickly shakes off her sentimentality, "Tell me about the recent witch movements!

Another young midshipman, who was also full of immaturity, argued, "I know this. Those monsters were truly terrifying, with a terrifying plague contagion effect, and ordinary people could not resist their attacks at all. But fortunately, the two Holy Knights were near the epidemic area where the group of monsters broke out, and they intervened in time to block them in the Red Cloud Plateau. I heard that the two Holy Knight Lords took turns to slaughter nearly half of the monsters, so they didn't let the terrible epidemic spread!"

"That'...... The one who hid under the Gonsas volcano...... What about the demon?" Speaking of this, Catherine's body trembled slightly, and she didn't even dare to mention the demon's name.

"I don't know! In order to find out the situation of the battle of those demons, the Northern Branch lost another elite team. It's a pity that even then, I didn't find the whereabouts of those demons. However, since that group of terrifying plague monsters appeared in the Red Cloud Plateau, I'm afraid those demons won't be far away. The reason why the two Holy Knights were staring at each other was probably because of this. ”

Catherine shook her head in annoyance.

"Lord Holy Knight shouldn't give up here!, I always had the feeling that the plague monsters that broke out in the north were just a means used by the other side. And their real goal ...... Probably it's us!"

"Where are we?" A few of the apprentice knights, you look at me, I look at you, and they all feel a little incredulous: "What do you mean, that terrible demon will come here to join the witches?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. My mind is very chaotic now, and I always feel that I can sense some danger vaguely, but I can't tell where the danger comes from. I ......"

Catherine was struggling when a tall dust mist suddenly rose from the gray-white dirt road in the distance, and several fast horses rushed into the barracks with shouts all the way, and rushed towards the position of the central tent. It was impossible to hear what they were shouting from afar, but where they passed, a large number of paladins and imperial warriors had come out of the camp, looking like they were talking and gearing up.

"It's the team that went to the north to investigate!" a trainee knight opened his eyes and carefully identified it, and suddenly said excitedly: "They suddenly ran back, they must have some valuable information!"

No one spoke to him anymore, and a group of people galloped down the high slope and hurried to the central tent.

When they reached the center of the camp, a large number of paladins had gathered around the tent. There was a lot of discussion at first, and then there was a lot of inquiry, and soon Catherine figured out why they were so excited.

The lair of the witch's remnant has been found!

It's not surprising to say that the witch's lair is hidden in the depths of the poisoned swamp as expected.

The Paladin's team sent to reconnoiter near the Poison Marsh was lucky enough to capture a Tier 1 witch who wanted to abscond there from another region, and knew exactly where the witch's lair was from her mouth.

What's more, the remnants of witches seem to have the intention of abandoning the lair, and are desperately calling the nearby witches to join them. It is said that they intend to abandon this place and abscond to the north to unite with the plague monsters that are causing trouble there.

Hearing such important information, the three golden knights sitting in the central tent did not dare to delay, while sending people to Blackwater City to let the four golden knights there rush over to support, while quickly gathering and dispatching paladins, preparing to gather the most powerful team to plow the enemy to sweep the cave.

The enemy wants to escape from the poisonous swamp, hmph, it's just wishful thinking!

Somehow, seeing the posture of many companions around her, ready to finish the battle, Catherine's heart was inexplicably very frightened.

But there are as many as three or four hundred black iron knights like her, and under the dispatch and command of the three golden knights, there is no room for her to come forward and make suggestions.

The Poison Swamp is also one of the more well-known dangerous places near Black Mountain City!

It was located in a low basin, about seven or eight miles wide from north to south and eleven or twelve miles long from east to west, and it was full of foul-smelling silt and terrible swamps full of puddles.

The basin is full of foggy pine flowers, which produce a large amount of poisonous gas in the humid environment, coupled with the closed area, the poisonous gas has nowhere to spread, so a terrible swamp poisonous fog is formed over the swamp.

It is precisely because it is so terrible that the locals near the city of Montenegro almost never dare to go even half a step close to the poison swamp. Only in the short days of June every year, the scorching sun can penetrate the forest sea and shine into the poisonous swamp, dispersing the poisonous fog there.

Taking advantage of such a great opportunity, the local mountain people dared to break into it to pick some exotic flowers and plants that were not available outside. Therefore, for the topography inside, only those older old mountain people can know a little bit about it.

Therefore, in the message that the assembled paladin team sent to Black Mountain City, they were even more asked to do their best to recruit those old medicine farmers who had entered the poisonous swamp.

…………

Poison swamps.

Even on a bright day, the basin where the Poisonland Swamp was located was still filled with a thick fog that could not be seen.

There was no wind.

The fog is like a thick layer of gauze, firmly covering the basin, hiding everything inside in the dark that no one knows.

Step into the poisoned swamp, which is full of bubbling mud ponds and swamps, and the smelly and fluffy sludge is covered with a thin layer of aquatic weeds, making it difficult to tell where is the solid mud and where is the soft silt.

While the forests and mountains are difficult to navigate, and a large number of Imperial warriors are still trudging through the majestic mountains, the elite paladins who have changed their light chain mail have blocked several places where the poison swamp must pass through to the outside world.

Standing on the high mountain col, looking down on the white poisonous swamp through the leafy forest, everyone's hearts were both excited and worried, not knowing which way the next battle would develop.

However, the party has taken the absolute initiative, as long as the defenses on the periphery of the witch's lair are broken, what tricks can the remnants of the witches with less than ten fingers of them toss up?

A makeshift battle camp was entrenched near the entrance to the basin.

A team of more than 370 paladins gathered here, quietly waiting for the high-ranking commanders to give the battle order. As for the remaining more than 400 trainee knights, they led the imperial soldiers to firmly control several dangerous terrain around them.

The poisonous fog inside the Poison Marsh was simply not something that ordinary people could resist, so the Imperial Warriors and Trainee Knights were left outside. The nearly 400 paladins were divided into more than 20 battle teams, led by the local medicine farmers who had been gathered, went deep into the swamp to clear the last witch's lair.

Catherine's team of fifteen people, led by two silver knights, lit torches one after another, and slowly followed an old but sturdy medicine farmer to the edge of the swamp.

Before entering, the old medicine farmer rolled some red beans from unknown sources in strips of cloth and tied them under his nose, and then walked into the swamp with a long wooden stick and paused.

The Poison Marsh doesn't have any fixed route at all, so every step requires a wooden stick to probe the reality underneath the aquatic weeds, so it is extremely slow to walk.