50 First Meeting, Darien
"What is that place, and why should we get around it?" Thea looked at the buildings not far away, and asked Fordin, who was leading her away from the main road, puzzled.
"Cowling intersection. It was a thorough route between several important towns in the Plaguelands, so it was once a very prosperous town. It has now been completely overrun by the Scourge Legion. There's no way the two of us can sweep through this area, so let's take a slight detour just to be on the safe side. Ferding carefully pulled his horse, trying not to attract the attention of the undead, and walked down the side path.
"But this road is very inconvenient for horses to walk." Thea frowned. There is a strange area of ravines along the road of the Ferding Belt, the largest of which is like a huge scar carved deep into the ground.
"Well, but this ravine is not very long, just this way, just go around. You should be able to get to the Chapel of Light's Wish before dark, so there's no need to rush. ”
Xia looked back at the Cowlin intersection behind her, and could see several figures floating in the air in the distance, which were ghouls and undead witches. Even looking at it from a distance, she felt a little creepy, and Xia subconsciously shrunk her neck and followed in the footsteps of Fordin.
Despite their caution, a ghoul spotted them. The ghoul let out a screech, summoned his companions, and took the lead in darling towards them.
"Oops, discovered! He's calling out to his companions, run! ”
"Uncle, get on the horse quickly." Thea tries to push Ferding on the horse, but Ferding refuses. Fording let go of the reins and gave his mount a gentle pull. The horse, who had been with Ferding day and night, immediately understood what his master meant, and ran away on his own.
"There is a ravine area in front, I can't run fast on horseback, you are not familiar with this place, you don't know where to run, come, follow me!" Fordin picked up Shia with one hand and ran. Several ghouls from behind followed unrelentingly.
"Run a little farther and finish them off!" Fordin's words came from the front, "They have too many reinforcements here, and the two of us will be consumed by them sooner or later." Don't be afraid. Hold on, the Chapel of Light's Wish is almost here. ”
"Hmm!"
Chapel of the Light's Wish.
"Marlan, where are you going?"
The female knight in armor, who was walking in front, heard the greeting of the person behind her, stopped, took off the protective mask on her face, and turned her head to look at the latter. The female knight Marlan, who had taken off her mask, was a beautiful girl with large brown eyes. She gently stroked her shoulder-length black brown hair, which had been a little messy from removing her mask, and asked in an impatient tone. "Go out for a walk, what's wrong, does this also need your approval? Darian. I don't know when the Scarlet Warriors will come under your command of the Silver Dawn. ”
The young man who was scolded by Marlan was not angry. "I just don't think it's safe for you to go out alone."
"Safe?" Marlan repeated the word sarcastically. "It's surprising enough to hear the word safe throughout the Plaguelands. I said, Darien, having all those boring meetings with you all day has made me feel like my life has been shamefully wasted. Now I'll have to go out and kill a couple of scourges so that I can have the energy to continue sitting here and you guys tomorrow with all that useless nonsense. ”
"But you, as the Supreme Commander of the Scarlet Sect for negotiations." Darian reminded softly. "We have to keep you safe."
Speaking of this, Marlan was angry. The war was raging in Stratholme, and she had come here to waste time with a bunch of Silver Dawn and Brotherhood of Light cowards without Dathorhan's insistence. If it weren't for the stinky boy in front of her, she would have been impatient to grind and chirp with these cowards. At this thought, Marhan put back his mask in frustration, "Come on, if you want to keep me safe, then you will follow." Otherwise, don't be wordy. Can't I take care of myself? Amusing! ”
The attendant on the side led her Holy Light Warhorse, and she quickly turned on her horse, looking at Darien with her head held proud.
Although through the mask, Darien could clearly feel the disdain and provocation in the eyes of the woman under the mask staring at him.
The safety of Scarlet Commander Marlan must be guaranteed during the peace talks! Remembering the order of the Silver Dawn Commander, Darien jumped on his horse anyway.
"Drive!" Marlan's legs clamped slightly on the horse's belly, and her mount sped at once, and in an instant ran down the slope in front of the Chapel of Light's Wish, and made a light leap before the end of the slope, easily leaping over the sideways rejection and landing smoothly. Before everyone including Darien had time to react, the whole process had been completed, and it was really lightning fast. Marlan turned his horse's head and looked at Darion triumphantly, a satisfied smile under his mask. "If you have the ability, follow me!" With that, she rode her horse again and began to run.
Darien caught off guard and chased after the dust kicked up by Marlan's horses' hooves. Marlan is long gone.
"I don't know how long it will take for this idiot to catch up." Marlan patted his mount beneath him. "Old man, you're more reliable. You say we're going to kill a few natural disasters today before we go back to eat? ”
The tame mount was already moving along the path she had been walking for days, without her guidance.
“? Something seems to be wrong ahead! Marlan dismounted alertly, pulling his mount and hiding behind a nearby tree.
"Holy Light Punishment!" The white glow is so familiar.
Marlan saw two ghouls besieging an old and a young, and there were already several ghoul corpses lying on the ground. The Holy Light Punishment just now was sent by the young woman. Although it seems that things are already obvious, due to the principle of the Scarlet Crusaders, both non-Scarlet Crusaders are suspicious. With the usual caution of the Scarlet Crusaders, Marlan decided to observe for a while, but she forgot about the heel behind her.
Darian, who was rushing to catch up with Marlan, also spotted the old and the young in front of him, and unlike Marlan's choice, he almost immediately dialed his horse to the rescue.
"Hammer of Light!" Although Darian was a little shy in front of Marlan, he was in fact a very good paladin, and after his joining, the remaining two ghouls were easily dealt with.
"Are you alright?" After the battle, Darien asked.
"I didn't ...... It's okay! Although Xia knew that her disguise was flawless, she couldn't help but be nervous. Fortunately, Darien only understands this nervousness as the nervous fear of encountering a natural disaster.
Ferding had been watching Darion silently ever since he appeared. At this time, he stepped forward and silently blocked the nervous Xia. "Darien Mograini?"
Darien looked at the old man in front of him in surprise, who was meeting for the first time. "Who are you? How do you know my name? ”