Thank you for the reward of suffocating Hui Yao to death and Zhen Yue Zi.

Thank you again for the tip from Intix

I'm more brainy~?I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid~?

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In the early morning of the next day, a group of cavalry left Jiangcheng and advanced in a southwestern direction.

No need to ask, Li Bai and Lilith are also mixed in.

Morana did not come forward to say goodbye to them, this change of attitude once surprised the red-haired girl, but Li Bai knew very well what the other party meant, and the strings in his heart collapsed even tighter.

The total number of cavalry is 32 people, and there is no special life like the card elf, but the captain of Thor led by him is outstanding, and his strength is not inferior to that of the lower monsters. The rest of the warriors also have more force than ordinary people. Li Bai estimated the value of the other party, Thor's value fluctuated around 1100, and the rest of the fighters ranged from 700 to 1000.

With such a team escorted by Flotis, who had just experienced the war, it could be said that as long as they did not encounter rare natural disasters or high-ranking monsters, they would not be in any danger.

Each horse was tied to its forehead and hips with a thin piece of sharpened fluorite, which was used to illuminate and identify people's orientation, and from a distance it looked like a firefly in the dark. There were countless dangerous sights in the shadows that noticed the group, and the smell of fresh blood and sweat ticked them off, and if it weren't for the instinctive consciousness of the lower creatures warning them of the danger, the team would have been surrounded by strange hordes.

"What are those?" Li Bai vigilantly stared at the little red lights that followed the team in the darkness, she knew that these red lights were the eyes of creatures, "Maned dogs...... Or a wolf? ”

"Neither." Thor's voice came from behind her left, a muscular middle-aged man, dressed in moderately worn ranger leather armor, carrying a longbow and a large sword behind his back, and not only that, but he also had several short knives on his thighs, the blades of which were exposed and reflected in the glow of fluorite.

"Red eyes, it can't be a maned dog or a wolf." He rode his horse to Li Bai's side and side with her, secretly looking at the white-haired woman who was required to be escorted by this mission out of the corner of his eye.

"I don't understand why I came across these things shortly after I got out of town...... But that's undoubtedly humanoid. ”

"Humanoid?" Li Bai was stunned, "Are those monsters mutated from the long-term survival of human beings in the dark?" ”

"Yes." Thor answered, and then glanced at her with some surprise, "These are the ones the Legion Commander told you, right......?" Then she must have told you that the combat effectiveness of humanoids is very low, and the current number of these is about twenty or thirty, which does not pose any threat to us, and the endurance of humanoids is not long among monsters, so you can get rid of them soon, don't worry. ”

Regardless of men's affection for beautiful women, even if it is only biased towards human yearning for beautiful things, it is normal for him to say a few more words to comfort her, not to mention that the other party is still the main person he wants to protect on this trip.

"Your corps commander also told me that humanoids have very little guts, and they only live by eating the leftover corpses and other dead things of other monsters on weekdays, and it is impossible to actively pursue prey and launch a round-up." Li Bai frowned, not at all relieved, "And there will be so many kinds of people in the realm near Jiang City, it doesn't seem to be a normal situation, right?" ”

"I don't think these things will give up."

As if to prove that she was right, there were more red lights in the darkness at the front of the group, and there were no more people than the ones who followed them!

"Stop!" Thor immediately stopped the group, "Dismount and grab your weapons!" ”

"It's just humans, protect your horses! Don't let them get hurt! ”

In addition to the horses he rode under his crotch, each rider in the cavalry carried a horse as a transfer, and in the event of a large number of enemies, he might lose his horses if he was careless, so he issued battle orders and reminded these soldiers to pay attention to the protection of their horses - this was a guarantee for the rest of the journey, even if one horse was killed or wounded, it was a very serious loss.

After hearing the order, the warriors formed a loose circle and blocked their horses behind them, while Li Bai and Lilith were protected by everyone in the center of the queue, as if they were not fighting at all.

(Jiang Cheng is the largest city in the border area, but there are only less than 10,000 people, the flow of information should be very fast, they and the human cavalry I met in the desert should be the same formation, there are those people spreading, it is impossible not to know that I also have good strength, why...... ）

Li Bai raised an eyebrow, not knowing why; It wasn't until she caught a glimpse of a number of people looking at her with sneaky glances that it dawned on her.

(I see, is it nature again?) ）

After completing the encirclement of the prey, the group lurked for a short time, and finally could not hold it anymore and began to crawl out of the darkness one after another.

Humanoids are indeed quite disgusting monsters, they still have dead white hairless skin all over their bodies, the front and back limbs are bent in reverse, which is more conducive to walking on all fours, most of the teeth are still flat, but the edges have become sharper, and most of them have two dark red eyes, which are quite ferocious.

Li Bai noticed that the left or right eyes of some humanoids had degenerated, the upper and lower eyelids grew and closed, and several humanoids had such a situation in both eyes.

"Kill them all! Kill! Thor was the first to attack, and the huge longbow was already in his hand, and with a single arrow flew out, a monster was crucified to the sand.

"Hiss——!!" Enraged by his provocation, the humanoids immediately dispersed and howled and swarmed up.

“…… Moon was right, these trash fish had nothing to praise except for being disgusting. Seeing Thor shoot several humanoids again with a few arrows, and then throw away the longbow and cut the rushing humanoid in two with a sword, Lilith pursed her lips disdainfully, "The amount of flesh is only equivalent to that of ordinary humans, if you exclude biological instincts, you may not be able to beat an ordinary person with a weapon one-on-one." ”

"So, why would this not powerful, timid and cautious monster attack us unusually?" Li Bai still felt that there was something strange here, "...... It's obviously an act of sending people to death. ”

"Who knows, maybe it's crazy from hunger." Lilith was obviously unimpressed, and casually flipped through her own magic book.

She came from the higher level of civilization and had a contempt for the lower monster instincts, and she didn't feel anything wrong with it.

“…… I hope I'm too careful. Li Bai didn't answer her words, she instinctively felt as if she had overlooked something—something she seemed to have noticed some time ago, but now she couldn't remember anything.

Just when she was in a trance, at the left line of defense, the two humanoids with completely degraded eyes suddenly swept over the two sword blades like fishes, and their agile bodies jumped up on the sand, rushing towards the center, that is, where she and Lilith were, and the people defending on that side were shocked when they saw this, and a "be careful" came to their lips, but they couldn't say anything.

Judging from the time, it was obviously too late for their reminder...... The white-haired woman was obviously stunned before, but now she was staring at the two monsters with a stunned expression, maybe she would be torn apart by the claws the next moment.

“Light· Faerie (Elven Light). [Note (1)]

Just when almost everyone thought that Li Bai was going to die, a steady voice came out of her mouth, and I saw that her right hand was raised to the point of being level with her face at some point, and a jewel appeared in her hand.

Then, there was a flash of bright light. Two muffled sounds came, and those people looked again, and found that the two-headed humanoid had actually fallen to the ground, and the original dead white skin on his body appeared in a large area of scorching, accompanied by bursts of hot air, as if they were dead and could not die anymore.

“Magician？” Several light cries rang out, and it was obvious that this was not a means that ordinary people could have at all.

Thor split a humanoid body again, and looked deeply at Li Bai with an unclear gaze.

"Speed up! Two...... If they hadn't targeted you just now, you'd be dead by now! ”

Hearing Thor's voice mixed with obvious dissatisfaction, the rest of the people's hearts tightened, and the sword swung even harder, and soon, but in just over ten minutes, the intruding humanoids were all killed, and everyone was unscathed except for the traces of blood stained on their weapons and armor, worthy of the elite evaluation among ordinary people.

"There was that mistake, and it should not be called elite." Ordering his subordinates to rest for a while, Sol came to Li Bai with a big sword, "I'm sorry, ma'am...... I don't think we're going to make this kind of low-level mistake again. ”

"Captain Thor." Li Bai shook his head, "You are too polite, we still have a long way to go and need your escort, this kind of trivial matter is not worth mentioning." ”

"Besides, I'm not incapable of fighting myself, and if I encounter a stronger enemy, I hope you'll take my and Lilith's forces into account in your deployment...... It's also for all of us. ”

She wasn't angry at the negligence of the two warriors, partly because she wasn't afraid of something that wasn't even a low-level monster, and partly because she had her own guesses.

The deterioration of the eyes of the two-headed humanoids seemed to have strengthened their instinctive reflexes, otherwise it would not have been possible to break through that line of defense suddenly......

"I'll think about it." Thor nodded, then turned, tucked his sword back into his back, picked up his longbow, and strode away.

"That's what a decent soldier is." Lilith's voice rang in my ears, "Much more powerful than those brave perverts." ”

"If you know ......" Li Bai stared at Lilith meaningfully, the strangeness of his gaze confused.

"Forget it, your experience is shallow, and it will be bad to sue you." With that, she rode forward, and in an instant she threw Lilith several meters away.

"Let's go, it's almost time to get rested, it's time to move on."

As the leader of this cavalry, Thor was most likely given a secret mission by Morana alone...... It's not good to tell the other party directly, there is a risk of startling the snake.

Humanoid corpses were of no use, not even food—no one wanted to eat their flesh unless they had to, so they briefly packed up their swords, bows, crossbows, and other utensils, and the group was back on the road.

"Hey!" Lilith opened her mouth and immediately followed closely behind, she drove the horse to a position parallel to Li Bai, with a look of resentment: "...... I hate people who sell guanzi. ”

Li Bai smiled silently, no matter how soft the red-haired girl was, she didn't speak, and the angry Lilith ran to the other side of the team alone and ignored her.

Because of the means of transportation, the speed of the team is very fast, they follow the avenue opened up, and soon see the change of the boundary, the ground becomes soft, the horse's hooves can be seen from time to time green grass breaking through the soil, along the way to see more and more shrubs and plants, which means that they are about to leave the desert border, into the grassland boundary.

On the way to Carol, this was the first geography, and after a short plain was to pass through a mountain valley and into the vast Black Forest, as Morana had explained, and from there a path would nearly double the time.

Li Bai's riding skills were still very rough, and he couldn't keep riding for a long time like everyone else, so the whole team would stop every two hours to rest for a while in order to take care of her.

"Will it take at least twenty days to travel such a journey......" Descending from the horse to the ground, Li Bai felt a dizziness in his head, and he held on to the horse before he stood firm.

Through the faint fluorescence, she could see that there were wild weeds all around, high enough to reach her knees.

The air became quite clammy and cold, and on the top of the sky, purple-black thunder infested quite intensively, and from time to time there were gusts of strong wind mixed with water vapor blowing, which made her shiver a little.

"When we enter the wetland grassland, we have to face a humid and rainy climate." A gray-haired young man led the horse past her, and pulled a ball of cloth from the second horse's bag and threw it to her.

"I think you're going to need this." The young man grinned, his face was not very handsome, but it revealed a smell of clean sunshine.

Li Bai caught the large mass of cloth, and the strange touch of her hand made her immediately understand its usefulness.

It is a waterproof cloak, very thick, with a layer of wool intimately sewn on the inner liner, which looks like wool to the touch.

"Thank you." She put the cloak on and immediately felt a lot warmer, "Great raincoat...... What is your name? ”

"Archibald ......" The young man was stared at by her bright red eyes, and a faint layer of pink appeared on his face, and he was a little at a loss even with the movements at hand - he was about to lead his horse to the front to graze, but at this moment the reins were pulled too hard, and the horse raised his neck in dissatisfaction, and fought with him for control of the reins.

"Don't mess with Al! And you Angel...... Want to rebel...... I won't give you any good food! ”

Finally calming his horse, Archibald smiled at Li Bai with some embarrassment: "Uh...... These two guys do this a lot, so ......"

"Looks like you care about them." Li Bai also showed an indifferent smile at him, "Otherwise, you wouldn't have given them all names, how long have you been getting them?" ”

took advantage of the break time to have nothing to do, and the two chatted like this. From Archibald's words, Li Bai learned that he was actually from Beo, and his ancestors lived in Beo, and the two horses were foals that his aunt had brought him when he was young, and he had grown up with him for nearly ten years.

"I remember that the nobility of Beo are all half-werewolves, and pure-blooded humans like you live in Beo, won't they be ostracized by them." Li Bai was very curious about this question.

In the materials she had studied before, she remembered that there was a special class of troops in the country of Beo, called the Beowulf Wolf [Note (2)], and the entire country was also controlled by the beast warrior race, and based on her past experience, she felt that it might not be much easier for other races to survive in a country like Zài.

"No? What rejection will there be? However, the truth is completely different from what she thought, Archibald said that his family is doing well, "There are many warriors of the beast warrior clan in the village, and we get along very well with each other, but we often help each other with work......

"Also, who told you that I am a pure-blooded human." He pointed to his unique black and gray hair color, with a smug expression on his face: "I also have a trace of beast warrior blood, grandpa said that our family has produced Beowulf wolves before, so I will also become a warrior of the level of Beowulf wolves in the future!" ”

"Miss Lipel's race must be a magician." Before Li Bai could recover from his surprise, Archibald immediately asked his doubts, "I see that you have used ...... in previous battles."

"No, I'm not a magician." It's not surprising that the other party would ask this, because the release of the elven light is indeed similar to magic, or it is originally magic - magic cards.

"Archibald, can you tell me about the connection between race and power, I'm interested in that." Li Bai thought about it carefully, and became more and more aware that the other party's self-confidence was very abnormal, just like a person who was 100% sure that he would get a full score for his essay before the exam, and it was a little weird with his self-confidence - how could he expect that his future would be comparable to that of a powerful warrior of the beast warrior clan?

She couldn't help but wonder if it was the trace of the bloodline of the beast warrior clan that he mentioned that gave him such confidence.

"Of course no problem, in fact, it's due to my pedigree......"

In the ensuing conversation, the focus of the topic was on the differences between people with bloodlines and ordinary people, and Archibald didn't think it was strange that Li Bai had this kind of question, even if the question she asked was known to many people.

He estimated that subconsciously she was still regarded as the kind of eldest lady who did not leave the door.

"Are you saying that if you have a bloodline of the corresponding race, you can use the power or equipment related to that bloodline perfectly or even beyond the limit?" It can be seen that Li Bai has benefited a lot from this conversation...... Her eyes were shining, and they were too bright to look at.

The reason why she was so excited was because she had figured out a way to quickly improve her strength from this piece of information - she was also a person with a bloodline, and that bloodline was still quite precious to the dragons, so that when she used dragon-related magic and even traps, she would be far more efficient and effective than other cards.

The fiasco of melee combat with Morana gave her a sense of crisis, and it stands to reason that even if she loses, she shouldn't be so miserable, because based on the huge card pool stored in her system, as long as the speed of embodiment can keep up, it is impossible for the other party to threaten her...... She couldn't figure this out before, but now it seems that her direction was not right in the first place.

(I should have thought of it a long time ago, I should have thought of it a long time ago!) ）

Constantly shouting in his heart, Li Bai felt that one of his long-standing troubles was likely to be solved.

It's no wonder that she can't think around, reality is different from games after all. In the previous environment, she didn't think that she should specifically pick and choose dragon-related cards to train and use, but instinctively chose equipment magic that was more handy for "humanoids".

Because she still subconsciously sees herself as a pure-blood human, relying on armor and swords, but ignoring her own way of fighting.

…… It wasn't supposed to be that way!

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[Note (1)]: The light of the elves can only be equipped with magic, and only monsters with light attributes can be equipped. Equipped monsters have 400 Attack and 200 Defense.

[Note (2)]: Beowulf Wolf, a four-star beast warrior with a ground attribute, is usually a monster, with an attack power of 1650 and a garrison power of 1000.