Walking up to the head of Nora City, which had been converted into a fortress, Renault was a little irritable.

It's been almost two months since he came to Nora, and he thought that this crusade against heretics would be very simple, but he didn't expect to deal with what kind of heretics he had to deal with, but mutated evil beasts and dead and rising corpses, these are things he has never heard of, and if he hadn't seen them with his own eyes, he would never have believed that the creatures depicted in "Hymn to Hell" really existed.

Fortunately, Nora City is extremely strong, originally built to defend against the small barbarian kingdom west of Aura, and now it has become a fortress against evil beasts entering Aura.

Renault couldn't wait, and some spies said that Freya was in a good mood after returning from Icefield City, and she could often be heard laughing when talking about Rafa.

"What is she happy about?" Renault clenched the hilt of his sword in his hand, a bad thought flashed in his mind, "She's the sister of Rufa the waste...... She was so happy...... Could it be that Fili was Rafa...... Nope!"

Thinking of such an outcome, he immediately led the Western Legion directly north along the foothills of the Orr Mountains, razing the desolate Icefield City to the ground and snatching Philicille out.

However, his last sanity made him know that he couldn't do this, and that if he abandoned Nora City and let thousands of evil beasts rush into the hinterland of Aura, the consequences would be dire, and even if he wanted to, the cardinal who was with him would not let him succeed easily.

The overwhelming wind and snow were falling, and he couldn't tell whether it was morning or evening.

"Woo~"

The dull sound of trumpets came from the wind, and the knights hurriedly picked up the Changge or knight's sword and began to look at the sky or under the city walls.

"Roar!"

A piercing roar came from beneath the walls, and the strangely shaped beasts began to step on the heaps of corpses of their companions toward the walls.

Compared to Icefield City, Nora City's defense was much more miserable.

Generally speaking, knights can't keep the evil beast under the city wall, because to deal with the evil beast with rough skin and thick flesh, the bow and arrow have little effect, basically you have to shoot eight or nine arrows at the same evil beast to completely kill it, and the knights are often scattered shots, and many times even an evil beast can not be completely killed.

As for dumping fire oil or stones, it has little effect, and there are enough evil beast corpses piled up under the city wall, if you drop the debris again, I am afraid that it will not be long before the evil beast can climb up the stairs directly.

Therefore, when the beast gets a little closer, the knights can only stretch out their sharp spears and stab outwards, but this is also very dangerous, and it is likely that the beast will not stab the beast, but let the beast bite the spear and throw the knights away.

"Ahh

A scream came, and a knight was indeed taken out by his own spear, and in just an instant, along with the armor on his body, he was gnawed away by the evil beasts.

Renault retracted his thoughts, drew his knight's sword, let out a roar, and rushed over.

Facing a three-headed wolf, Renault was not afraid, and pounced with the three guards behind him, and slashed at its thick claws, and the claws of the giant wolf were splashed with blood, but the giant wolf didn't seem to care about his wounds, and the mouths on the three heads were wide open and bit him.

Renault took a step back and held his broad knight's sword across his side, just in time to fend off the fangs of one of the wolf's heads, while the surrounding guards also pounced, each picking up the other wolf's head.

"Brute!"

Renault didn't know where to get the strength, he slashed the knight's sword stuck in the giant wolf's teeth horizontally, and continued to slash inside, cutting off the jaw of the wolf's head, and then he continued to rush forward, stabbing the knight's sword straight through, deep into the chest of the three wolves.

A large amount of blood spurted out of the wounded wolf's chest, and some blackened blood flowed down the knight's sword to Renault's hand, and he was surprised to find that the blood of the giant wolf was not hot, but as cold as ice water.

But I've even seen the dead come back to life, and there's nothing unusual about the cold blood.

The giant wolf, which had lost too much blood, finally began to float on its feet, and Renault kicked it in the chest, drawing the knight's sword, and the blood gushed even more, and then the giant wolf finally couldn't hold on, his scarlet eyes widened, and he fell to the ground like a hill.

"Roar!"

Renault raised his blood-soaked knight's sword and roared loudly, and the knights around him, boosted by his morale, all shouted excitedly and waved their weapons in their hands.

Renault also doesn't remember when he had the courage to not be afraid of evil beasts, when he came to Nora City, he encountered evil beasts that poured out of their nests on the way, and he was still trembling with fear when he was still in the midst of the hosts, but now, he was able to calmly face the evil beasts that were several times larger than himself.

"Could it be that I have really grown?" continued to rush forward to fight, and Renault had a trace of doubt in his heart.

When he received the order to go west, he thought that war was a good errand to stand on a high platform and shout slogans, after all, the spies came to report that Freya did this when she defeated the orcs attacking from the southern continent, but now, he never imagined that he could really pull out this knight's sword, which has always been used for decoration.

"What the hell is going on?" Piercing a cyclops in the eye and cutting off his head, Renault was extremely calm, he faintly felt that his changes were too great, a little beyond his imagination.

Even now he felt that the way he calmly slaughtered the evil beast was so incomprehensible.

It's a weird feeling that you can't understand yourself, like when you imagine you can't do it, your body does it, and it's doing it very well.

As he was fighting, a huge vulture with only bones left swooped down silently, its sharp claws stabbing him in the back, and all the guards around him were fighting hard, and no one saw the white bone bird.

"Could it be that the witch is bewitching me?" Although Renault admits that his current state is simply good, he feels that he is passively changing, so he does not want to accept such a change.

"Get out!"

Obviously he didn't see it, but he could sense it, and he swung a sword backwards without looking.

The vulture, which was only a bone left, was split in half by a sharp sword, and the spliced bones were suddenly scattered to the ground like a sand tower collapsing, making a "crackling" falling sound.

"No, not a witch. Standing in the middle of the scattered bones, Renaud touched the broken magic stone hanging on his chest, it was still bright and intact, it was put on by the cardinal who was traveling with him, there should be no problem, "Since I am not a witch, what is changing me?" or ...... Guide me?"

On this bloody battlefield, Renault, who had been reckless for more than 20 years, began to calm down in the battle and think about why he had changed.

Although he can't follow the trail, but in the dark, he always feels that something is silently guiding him, just like a person who walks in the dark must follow the guide of the lantern, you can only follow him, but you don't know where he will lead you.

He didn't want to follow the lead of that thing.

In order to get rid of that strange feeling, he wanted to provoke himself and get himself out of this strange calmness.

And the best way to provoke yourself is to imagine Rafa and Felihill.

Sure enough, thinking of the news that Felicille had to protect Rafa and how happy Freya was after going to Icefield City, he immediately became angry, his calm eyes immediately became distracted, and he almost didn't escape the attack of the monster in front of him several times.

"Rafa, I swear to kill you!"

However, as soon as he got out of his calm state, he fell into another state of rage, and took the evil beast in front of him as Rafa, and slashed it angrily, looking at his appearance, the ferocity was even more fierce than before.

"Fili, you're my woman!" A sword split the low giant beetle covered in a carapace in front of him, Renault roared in a low voice, his hands with the sword stained dark red by the blood of the evil beast, "You are mine!

Due to the ferocity of Renault's leading soldiers, this wave of evil beasts was quickly repulsed, and the remaining evil beasts quickly retreated as if they had received a neat order, leaving only many mutilated corpses.

It seems that the wind and snow follow the beasts, and as the beasts' attack fails again, the wind and snow gradually dissipate, so the sentinels of Nora City are very relaxed, and they can basically determine whether the beasts will attack or not as long as they observe the weather.

In the evening, Renault walked into the bathroom prepared for himself alone, and sat in the warm water, he looked at his hands with some concern.

The places on his thick hands, where they had been stained with the blood of the evil beasts during the day, had all turned a dark red like a flame spreading, and it could not be washed off, as if it had a strange tattoo.

After scrubbing vigorously for a while, when the bath water was almost cold, there was still no trace of the flame on his hands, and he sat down in the cold water, knowing that he might not be good.

Dressed in heavy armor and wrapped his hands tightly in iron gloves, Renaud stepped out of the bathroom to find the cardinal, who he had never been very interested in, but now he had no choice but to pray that God would not abandon him.

Walking through the neat barracks, he came to the makeshift church that the cardinal had built, and through the cloudy glass, he could see that the cardinal was inside.

He was about to knock on the door when a voice suddenly rang out from nowhere.

"Don't go in, you'll die. ”

Renault was stunned, and his outstretched hand stopped abruptly.

Then he thought back to why he had come here, but he couldn't remember it at all.

In a trance, he vaguely remembered that someone seemed to have spoken to him, but when he thought about it, he couldn't think of anything.

His mind went blank for a while, and the first thing Renault remembered was Rafa.

"Rafa, you wait! If you dare to touch my Fili, I will break you to pieces sooner or later!"