The Northern Horn army soon crossed most of Sicily and followed its guide to the vicinity of the Etna Mountains.

"This is Etna." One of the Norman knights said, "The area around Mount Etna is known for its fertile land, and it is said that the air and water here contain magical powers, and the yield of crops is higher than in other places." ”

"It's because of the ash." Robert said, "Every eruption of a volcano brings out the Wizard's Stone that melts in the mantle, creating a spiritual environment that is slightly higher than the Magic Tide. ”

"Will casting spells in this environment be stronger than normal?" William asked thoughtfully.

"No, it won't." The Norman knight replied, "It's just that when you stop casting, your spirit will regenerate a little faster." ”

"That's right." Robert suddenly asked, "Was Mount Etna erupting recently?" ”

"This volcano used to be active." The Norman knight replied, "But it hasn't erupted in the last half a month, and it's probably in a dormant period." ”

"Hmm." Robert groaned.

A thought crossed his mind: the Azure Sword had lured them here, could it be that it was to cause some kind of volcanic eruption and then destroy them all?

However, such an idea was so unbelievable that Robert himself laughed dumbly.

Not to mention whether the Azure Sword has the ability to make a volcano erupt, even if it does, to mobilize such a large volcano to erupt, the amount of spirituality required to consume is absolutely incredible, and even the demigods may not have that ability.

On the other hand, if any demigod had such power, there was no need to deliberately lure them to the volcano. Didn't William lead the fleet in the Tyrrhenian Sea a few days ago to meet the ghost fleet of the Southern Continent?

As long as you follow the fleet all the way, and then set off a tsunami when the two fleets are fighting each other, it is estimated that all the rest of the people except William will be wiped out - the spirituality required to set off a large tsunami is probably less than a tenth of the same mass of magma.

After all, which is heavier, water or lava, needless to say.

In the old game world, players would call this "the limitation of NPC templates", which meant that NPCs could be very smart, so clever that they could even crush the player in political stratagems, but they would never think of any kind of manipulation that only the player could think of.

For example, if you want to enter an area blocked by an enchantment, choose to drill a hole and drill through the ground; Another example is to take on a high-priced search for intelligence from an NPC, then turn around and contract the task to other players at a lower price, and take a cut of it yourself. These whimsical operations sometimes make people wonder how these players' brains grow.

In short, Robert, who dismissed this suspicion, followed William's Northern Horn army and began to march above Mount Etna.

According to William's tracking instructions, the other side should be on the other side of Mount Etna. However, when they were halfway down the mountain road, they saw two demigods standing in the middle of the mountain path with their hands in their hands, and Aske was standing behind him with a respectful expression, holding the hilt of the sword at his waist with one hand.

"Robert." William said without hesitation, "You take half of the people around and continue to the location of the artifact, and the other half of the people are led by me to drag them here." ”

"Okay." Robert took the wolf's skull from him, then ordered half of the Huskar guards and departed with all the knights under their command.

"The Normans actually divided their forces...... Shirley said in surprise as she looked at the change in formation in the distance below.

She originally thought that her two demigods were here, and the other party should also send two demigods over, otherwise she would not be able to defeat them.

However, before Asker, he said that the other party would divide his troops...... Now it seems that it does confirm his statement.

"The reason is simple." Aske laughed, "We know there are only 2 demigods here, and they don't know: they're going to guess the worst possible. ”

"If there are demigods on the back side of the mountain, then letting the northern horn go alone will inevitably only be slaughtered by the demigods, so when the other party divides the troops, it will inevitably let at least one demigod be responsible for leading to ensure the safety of the army."

"1 demigod has gone, how can the remaining one be our opponent?" Shirley's reason is also very straightforward, if you send your companions away in order to protect the army, then you can't beat us one-on-two.

"No need to beat." Aske replied, "Just hold us back." After all, the most important goal of their trip was to reclaim the artifact. ”

"Then they don't care about this kid?" Shirley gestured to Roger, who was tied up next to him.

"The value of the heir and the artifact, the Outville family can still distinguish it." Aske smiled and said, "What's more, this prestige in the family has also dropped a lot in this battle. Even if we let him go, it's a matter of whether he can continue to be the heir. ”

Roger:..................

In that case, you let me go!

"So how do we distribute the enemies here?" Derek asked, pointing at the aggressive enemy rushing up below.

"the two of you to entangle the demigod William." Aske said, "I'll take care of the rest." ”

He jumped down the mountain road, and suddenly and strangely changed speed in the air, and suddenly avoided William's attack, and fell towards the Northern Horn army in the rear.

"When did he copy your abilities?" Derek recognizes Asker's unused change of direction in the air as Shirley's "speed manipulation".

"Just now." Shirley shrugged her shoulders and jumped down as well.

She threw a few throwing knives in the air, and then the knives seemed to be connected to invisible silk threads, and they besieged William from different directions, and the speed was almost instantaneously out of the range that the naked eye could catch.

William's face sank like water, and the crimson field beneath his feet spread, turning everything around him into rusty debris. The knives shot into the crimson field, instantly turning into rust and disintegrating with tremendous velocity and air resistance.

Really...... Shirley was not surprised by the result.

In the tactical design process beforehand, according to Asker, the opponent's law skill can pollute everything into a "steel" or "rust" form, steel is hard, and rust is loose, so the essence of this thing is to manipulate and change the "hardness" of the object.

Shirley's law of speed, which can manipulate the speed of an object, essentially uses kinetic energy for output. The biggest problem with William was that once the object was rusted, it would be stripped away by air resistance when flying at high speeds, resulting in the dispersion of kinetic energy.

Therefore, Asker's suggestion is to try to manipulate larger objects to attack, so that even if it is rusted, the air resistance will be stripped from the outermost part, and the kinetic energy inside can be locked for a little longer.

This truth was fully understood by Shirley when she saw the effect of William's law with her own eyes. However, Asker's ability to anticipate this accurately before the battle still amazed Shirley.