As the twilight deepened, the cloudless sky gradually changed from a deep bruise to a lonely and cold darkness.

Stowe was a little uneasy, but he didn't show it, and cautiously groped for the edge of the dragon's lair, and the knight's greatsword, which was as wide as his palm, as bright as Mingjin, and blessed with magic, was held tightly in his hand.

Soon, Stowe stopped beside an old iron tree overgrown with nodules, and stood with his sword.

"Something is wrong. ”

He paused to look into the distance, listened intently, and showed his heart to the engram: "I'm uneasy, it's too quiet here, and perception tells me that there are no living creatures within a radius of tens of miles, which is illogical. ”

"Unless ......"

Stowe muttered, but stopped halfway through the sentence and didn't continue.

A cold wind whizzed through the woods, and his mink cloak shook behind his back, revealing the mercenary-style chain mail within, and the pieces of armor trembled slightly.

Sweat was pouring down Stowe's forehead, and it was hard to imagine that just a few kilometers from the edge of the dragon's lair could make a legendary mercenary exert so much physical exertion.

"To be honest, I'm scared right now. ”

Stowe was sweating, his voice was weak, and he had never been so frightened in more than 20 years of crisscrossing the jungle, what was going on?

The slender and broad knight's sword, the hilt has long been soaked with sweat and has lost its color, and the blade is also full of gaps due to decades of conquest, this is undoubtedly a famous sword on the mainland, but at this time it trembled gently with its owner.

After a long time, after finding that there was nothing unusual around him, Stowe finally breathed a sigh of relief, and developed some resistance to the indescribable fear in the dark curtain, and with some difficulty, he carried the knight's sword and continued to move towards the deeper darkness.

Stowe walked through the dense trees, climbed the gentle slope, and walked towards the ridge, which was covered with a thin layer of snow, the ground was wet and muddy, and it was easy to slip, and the strange rocks and hidden vines could also stumble, these small things that were usually inconspicuous were now causing great trouble to the legendary mercenaries who were extremely cautious and refused to reveal the slightest breath.

After struggling over the old trees and through the empty dragon's lair, Stowe finally reached the top of the ridge and looked out into the open plains below, treading through the snow and mud.

"Heavenly ......"

His heart stopped beating and he couldn't help but hold his breath.

The moonlight shone on the clearing, reflecting the glowing landscape below, snow-covered rocks, frozen streams, scorch marks, and deep-seated ravines.

And a shocking keel!

"The Seven Gods are above!"

The long-lasting smell of blood made Stowe's throat greasy, he was dripping with cold sweat, even if he heard about it, but suddenly saw the skeleton of a holy realm golden dragon, Stowe still almost lost the ability to speak, he opened his mouth, trying to find the right words to express the vibration in his heart, but in vain.

The noble golden dragon was eaten to the point that only a rugged skeleton remained!

Fear is like an indigestible meal in the stomach, like a fish in the throat.

The wind became stronger, like a knife cut, Stowe bowed up silently, assumed an extremely vigilant posture, and clenched the knight's sword, the cold famous sword full of rune fluctuations made him feel a little relieved.

He looked around, opened the seventh-order magic item "Sentinel's Eye", listened intently, and observed carefully.

The wind whistled in the air, the leaves rustled, the cold stream gurgled and the snow wolf mooed in the distance.

The abyss appeared silently.

Stowe's eyes were fixed on the top of the towering foothills opposite, the air throbbing in the wind, and fear poured over him like molten iron.

It was not a mountain peak at all, but the body of a behemoth, silently disappearing in the darkness, merging with the pitch-black mountain ridge, making the opposite peak rise a hundred meters high.

"Black King ......"

For a moment, Stowe felt cold all over, cold air pouring in from all directions, and he shivered and leaned against the trunk of the tree, his face pressed against the bark of the old iron tree, and the thick and bitter sap soaked into his face.

The creature in the shadows did not move, and even its eyes did not open, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep, but it made the king of mercenaries of the legendary realm instantly frozen by the cold air and stiffened in place.

The wind stopped imperceptibly, and it was cold to the bone.

After a long while, he shivered and retreated down the mountain, half-lying and slumped on the other side of the ridge, with his back against the rock, took out the palm leaves from the space bracelet to stop bleeding, rolled them together, lit them and took two sips, and his pale face became more beautiful.

"It's ...... the Advancement"

Stowe said softly, speaking to the engram, his voice as small as a child: "I looked embarrassed just now, but don't think that I'm cowardly, but the abyss aura on the Black King's body is too deep, even if it doesn't wake up, it will always oppress the whole body cells of the surrounding creatures." ”

"I have no doubt that if an ordinary person just looked at it like I did, its body would explode into a cloud of black smoke in an instant, and now I understand why there are no other creatures nearby. ”

Stowe's nerves were tough enough to stop staring at the terrible creature, and after taking some time to calm down, he rolled over slightly, leaning against his knight's sword.

"If you were there, what would you do at this time?"

Stowe asked, and then his expression became solemn, and his sweat stains became more serious: "I want to seriously warn everyone, don't think about attacking these demonic beasts that are advancing at this time. ”

"They seem to be unaware of their surroundings, but in fact they are in a state of 'semi-sleep', they are even more vigilant than when they are awake, they are extremely difficult to deal with, and once you interrupt the advancement of the demonic beasts, you will face a situation of endless death, unless you kill it completely, you can't even escape!"

As he spoke, Stowe couldn't help but use the Sentinel's Eye to take another look at the terrifying creature on the other side, and then quickly turned off the spell, letting out an irrepressible hiss.

"The Black King is about to become holy, this kind of existence, even I can't provoke, and I will die at every turn!"

Stowe continued to warn, and then as if he had discovered something, he smiled wryly and explained: "Don't look at me talking here, in fact, I can't protect myself, I'm trying my best to block my vital signs and mood swings. The strength of the Black King is terrifying, and I think it only takes the slightest hint of hostility for it to wake up from its slumber. ”

Thundered!!!

Suddenly, the originally dark and cloudless night sky suddenly swam away with electric snakes, and thunderclouds were thick.

The Cangyun Mountains trembled, and as the pair of dark golden vertical eyes on the mountains opened as bright as day, a hurricane rolled up in an instant, and the mountains roared with it, as if an abyss monarch had descended here.

The Black King, Nidhogg, has successfully stepped into the Holy Realm.