On a barren gravel plain, two knights rode their horses along a road in disrepair, the sound of horses' hooves echoing far and wide in the wilderness.

After decades of wind and rain, the roads built during the imperial era were in tatters, and the ground was mostly messy with gravel and wasteland, and the land was so barren that there were few trees and grass, except for the occasional unkempt half-dry bush that sturged out on the ground.

Just as the two knights had just entered the two relatively large bushes, there was a noise of chirping, and dozens of green short figures rushed out of the bushes on both sides. They were short, lean, ugly creatures less than a meter tall and dark-green, armed with simple weapons such as sticks and stone clubs, and a few with crudely made bows. As soon as the little things rushed out, they chirped and noisily brandished their weapons at the two knights, and at the same time threw several crooked and weak arrows.

But just as they rushed out, a bright fireball flew out of the hands of one of the knights and fell into the horde of small monsters. There was a loud bang and flames, and more than a dozen small monsters in the center were directly blown to pieces, and some of the peripheral ones were also swept out by the explosion waves. Only a few small monsters at the very edge survived, screaming and dropping their weapons, fleeing into the distance faster than they had rushed out.

"It's as ubiquitous as flies and fleas... These little monsters... It's called a goblin. ”

Feng Yinqiu let go of the hand that had just thrown the fireball and sighed. In the past few days, he has encountered this kind of inexplicable monster sneak attack and ambush for the fourth or fifth time, but it is all such a lingering harassment like mosquitoes and flies. In fact, he had long felt that these things were hidden behind the bushes, and he wouldn't have bothered to care if they hadn't jumped out on their own initiative.

Gao Wen, who was riding on another horse next to him, said lightly: "Highland steppe goblins. The closer you get to the north, the more barren the land becomes, and you can't grow much food, but only monsters like goblins can be found everywhere. These monsters eat bugs, eat corpses, eat fellow citizens, and eat everything they can. And don't look at them as cowardly, every year there are always some careless travelers and merchants who die at their hands. However, these things are generally not close to towns and villages, and two days further north is the town of Ashdale. ”

"Oh, is that where the cultists last appeared?"

"Right...... Or rather, just chasing here. The town of Greyvale is already considered the border of the Empire, and further north is the Sguth Mountains, which are the territory of the dwarves. ”

Feng Yinqiu came out this time, naturally, to pursue those heretics who escaped from Osstar City. Getting rid of Liu Xuanying, Mu Qinyi and other people in the envoy group, naturally there are some things that they don't want them to know, but it doesn't matter if Gawain is a pure European native, and he really needs a local guide with a black eye, so he went to the Rothschild family to pay a visit, went to the envoy camp and Liu Xuanying agreed on follow-up measures, and after ending the matter in Osstar City, he went to invite Gawain to come with him.

In fact, Feng Yinqiu originally didn't expect to invite the chief guardian of the Guardian Hand, and the previous Gawain knight had been so busy that he couldn't touch the ground, he originally thought that he would ask Gawain to introduce one from the Guardian Hand Church, but as soon as Gawain heard it, he immediately agreed to accompany him personally.

The reason is naturally not that Feng Yinqiu has a big face, but because Oss City suddenly stopped tracking down the cultist incident, and also sent an order to the elites of the temple church who had already pursued out, asking them to stop the pursuit and return quickly. Normally, the major temples don't necessarily listen to the orders of the noble mages, but this time they didn't say much, and they stopped and returned to Osstar City. In this way, the garrison of Oss City was immediately greatly increased, and all the turbulent factors were singled out, and Gawain was relieved.

"It's not because of the Arcane Revival. If the cultists **** this time were provoked and planned by them, the nature of the incident would be completely different. The most important thing now is not the cult of evil gods that they use as a tool, but to prevent those madmen from taking more drastic and direct measures. But I don't think these people will be able to come back anytime soon, so it's better to accompany you, Mr. Feng. ”

At that time, Feng Yinqiu asked the reason, and Gao Wen also seemed extremely helpless. Although he found out the true face of the black hand behind him and temporarily uprooted the hidden enemy, Gawain did not feel relaxed at all, and his face seemed to be more tired than before. This Arcane Revival is much more troublesome than any cult or something.

Seriously, the Arcane Revival is not really a mysterious organization. The Society was founded four or five years after the fall of the Empire as a loose alliance of mages, under the slogan of reviving the arcane law and restoring the glory of the Empire. In the beginning, this slogan was quite attractive to many mages at that time, especially since it was rumored that this revival would be led by a few mages with royal blood, if it weren't for the continuous natural disasters that made the noble mages everywhere exhausted, as well as the fierce reaction of the temple church, I am afraid that it would have been very popular a long time ago.

The purpose of the Alpha Revival Society is destined to stand on the opposite side of the major temples and churches, and the Alpha Restoration Society really has no intention of reining in, even in the most difficult times, it excavates the ruins of the empire, collects all kinds of materials and spell items, and fights with the clergy who come to obstruct it. In the silent years of alien races, it has become the most common and main contradiction and conflict on the mainland for a while.

But a mage is not just a mage, a mage is also an aristocrat, a ruling class, and a person with feelings. Not many people are willing to spend their minds fighting each other in such a difficult time, and no nobles want any more turmoil in their territory, and with several tragic conflicts with the forces of the Temple, many mages have drifted away from the Arcane Revival.

Slowly time passed, and the natural disasters gradually subsided, but the Alpha Revival Society did not flourish. Most of the nobles everywhere were accustomed to the peace of the church temples, and to the days without the rule of the Empire, and most of the older generations who were most loyal to the Empire died, and the glory of the Empire era, the magic of the arcane gradually became an old iconogram for memories. Excavating the ruins of the Empire has become unpopular even among mages, and there are indeed mages who are obsessed with arcane arts or are loyal to the Empire, but are afraid to disclose their tendencies under pressure from their families and those around them.

The gradual revival will slowly turn into the shadows, and the actions are becoming more and more secretive and extreme, and the vast amount of arcane resources in the hands of these people in the hands of the Age of Empires also makes them more and more dangerous. To this day, the Alpha Revival has become the most troublesome enemy of the temple churches everywhere.

It's not just the Temple Church that has a headache, but the noble mages everywhere are also very troubled by this organization. The biggest headache is that they can't even deny the purpose of the organization, at least not in public. The empire has only collapsed in the alien race, it has not been subverted or destroyed, and the status of the nobility comes from the inertia of the old system, and to deny the empire and the arcane is to deny oneself.

As a result, anything that involves the Arcane Revival will invariably become very complicated. The Arcane Revival Society can semi-openly recruit some noble mages to join, and in turn, some noble mages will rise to the idea of using the Revival Society's arcane resources, or even using their radical methods. It seems that the Revival Society has become a chronic terminal disease that is entangled in the body of the mage class, lingering and incurable, and no one knows when and what kind of symptoms will erupt.

This time, the instigation of the cultists to assassinate Viscount Osstar undoubtedly broke through the bottom line in the hearts of the mages, and the turmoil that was originally just at the bottom quickly spread to the top level, and the entire West Coast Mage Council became nervous. And the war golem that appeared when capturing the mage of the Revival Society, the nine-ring arcane arts, made the various families even more noisy, for fear that one day these things would fall on their heads, and hurriedly asked for the elite of the church who went to pursue the cultists to come back.

Compared to the potential danger of the revival, that group of cultists is not very important, especially after they have fled to the more delicate area of the northern border, and it is no longer worth the loss to pursue them excessively. The assembled church elites also returned to the city where their temples were located to assist the local nobles in their defenses.

“...... As I said before, the entire continent is far from recovering from the war of fifty years ago, and under the crumbling system, all parts of the country are barely trying to survive, and there are so many uneasy madmen. Revival, cultists, and... You'll be able to see it when you get to Ashdale. It was actually a garrison of the Northern Legion. Well, it's really interesting that a group of cultists, led by Westerners, will flee to the garrison of the Northern Legion......"

Gawain's voice was somewhat fragmented by the sound of the wind and the sound of horses' hooves. Looking to the north, although he couldn't see the Gray Valley Town yet, there was still a hint of expectation in Feng Yinqiu's eyes.

At this time, in the northwest, far away from Feng Yinqiu and Gao Wen, hundreds of miles away from the mouth of the sea shrimp, Mu Qinyi surfaced, opened his eyes, and woke up from the mysterious state of half-meditative and half-distracted, and after a little trance, a burst of surprise appeared on his face.

It was nearly two thousand miles from the city of Ossing to the mouth of the northernmost river in the empire, and it took about ten days for ordinary ships to reach it, but it only took her three days, or rather, only three days to meditate on the current. And when I was more than ten miles away, I found this place just by virtue of the subtle feeling of the current.

Of course, what she is happy about is not this, but the activity and closeness of the water around her, as if all of them have become her own limbs, an extension of her own consciousness, and she seems to have more and deeper mysteries in it. She never imagined that she could reach such a state in such a short period of time with the help of the power of Euro Shinto, even in the land of Shenzhou, she had never felt like this.

Of course, this has fundamentally deviated from the essence of the Five Elements Sect Method, and the true path of Shinto is not so easy to follow. The more clearly one feels the elemental spirit of this continent of Europe, or the god of the water element as it is called the continent of Europe, the more you can be attracted by the vast, boundless, and pure feeling. The Divine Water Palace Mind Method, which had been cultivated for many years, as well as those methods of the Water Path Method, were like instincts that turned into 'paths' to approach this elemental true spirit.

But in the absence of established strict rituals to regulate the depth of perception, and without specific teachings to define oneself and the concepts of perception, that is not entirely a good thing. The human body is just an insignificant thing like floating dust compared to heaven and earth, but in the deepest part of the soul, it is faintly connected with the essence of this heaven and earth, and when you feel that the heaven and earth are far greater and purer than yourself, once your own state of mind and understanding can't keep up, you will not be able to hold on to it and get lost.

Fortunately, compared to this danger that is uncertain for the time being, the rapid improvement brought by this Shinto path is now real. Mu Qinyi can be sure that compared to when he left Osstar City before, his strength has increased a lot.

The stinky boy surnamed Feng will surprise you sooner or later, and you don't dare to underestimate me. Mu Qinyi's silver teeth bit secretly. She had quietly inquired in the church of the Guardian Hand, and it was Wind Yinqiu and Gawain who had come to the north, supposedly to follow the tracks of the cultists. She was now going from the sea into the mouth of the river and up the river faster than they could by land. When he first found out the details of those cultists, and waited for him in the strongholds of those cultists, I don't know what kind of expression he will have at that time.

Standing upright and slowly rising from the sea, there were no water marks on his clothes and hair, Mu Qinyi took a deep breath of the real air that he hadn't breathed for a long time, and walked on the sea towards the mouth of the river in front of him. There was a small island in the river with a radius of dozens of zhang, and she planned to take a good rest on it, replenish all the spiritual vitality consumed along the way, and then go up the river downstream.

Coming to the shore of this small island, Mu Qinyi was suddenly stunned for a moment, and felt from the water flow under his feet, a large part of the water surface of this small island in the river was empty, and it was only a very small piece directly connected to the underwater ground, not so much an island, but a thing floating on the water like an iceberg.

It wouldn't be a natural occurrence anyway, but the estuary island was nothing out of the ordinary, with overgrown trees and weeds, birds and reptiles, and it looked full of life, and the terrain gradually rose up in the middle, forming a small rocky hill in the center.

Just as he was about to go into the water to see what was going on at the bottom of the island, a bush not far away suddenly stirred from it, and a man came out of it.

This is a young man of about twenty-five or sixteen, with black eyes, black hair and yellow skin, and his face looks like a complete Shenzhou person, but the clothes on his body are the same as those of the Euro people. The man stretched and yawned, his eyes were hazy, and he looked like he had taken a good nap, but the low, dense bushes did not look like a comfortable place to sleep.

Walking to the shore, the man opened his pants and peed into the river, looking aimlessly left and right at will, until he saw Mu Qinyi standing in the water not far away, his movements stiffened suddenly, his sleepy eyes widened, and he quickly lifted and tied the pants that he had taken off, and no matter how much of the rest was urinated on the pants.

"It's... This girl... Offended, sinned, sinned, sinned, I, I... You, you're ......"

The young man was clutching his wet-soaked pants and half-crouched on the ground, his face flushed. He didn't have the vigilance or panic that he should have when he met strange people in the wilderness, but he was just embarrassed and embarrassed like a big girl who met a neighboring village at the entrance of the village. And although what he said in his mouth was also the official language of the Central Plains of Shenzhou, it had an inexplicable strange smell. "What kind of girl are you? Why haven't I seen you? And how did you get out? Still standing in the water?"

Mu Qinyi suddenly felt extremely interesting.

PS: A few days ago, I had back spasms due to a cold in the tail vertebrae, and it hurt to sit, and I didn't sleep for a day, and then I induced gout and tossed for a few days. Next, resume the update