Chapter 42: The Tracking of Light and the Surveillance of Evil
Eric walked into the forest with seven knights, whistling rhythmically as he tried to contact the temple patrol with a code.
The loud slogan was conveyed far away in the forest, startling the birds.
But there was no reply, and the patrol did not hear anything at all.
"Something really happened."
Eric's heart sank, and it stands to reason that if he gave a signal, the patrol would answer him anyway.
This is the regulation of the Knights Templar, even if one knight violates the ordinance for special reasons, it is impossible for all twenty-three knights to rebel against the ordinance, right?
"They're definitely dead, there's an enemy around here! Maybe it's a high-level Warcraft, maybe it's an enemy. ”
Eric lowered his head and analyzed, the patrol was quite numerous, how could it be eliminated so easily, and quietly.
Thinking of this, Eric didn't dare to let the knights split up to find someone, but cautiously sent the Lucky Eagle to hover in the nearby sky looking for suspicious targets.
And he led the knights to search the ground for suspicious traces.
"Even if you die, there should be blood or traces of a fight."
Eric has a lot of professional knowledge, although he has little experience in leading the army, he has a lot of combat experience, and he exchanges hunting experience with old hunters in the villages near the main city all year round.
It can be said that the forest is also one of the main battlefields that he is good at, which is why Eric was sent to be the vanguard.
"Strange, how come there are no traces of fighting and blood?"
Eric's brow furrowed more and more, and he ordered in a low voice: "Expand the search area!" Plus, everyone is ready to fight at any time, and the enemy is likely to be nearby! ”
"Yes, Your Excellency."
The Templars nodded solemnly, and they all clenched their weapons in unison.
They are not afraid of battle, nor are they afraid of unknown enemies, they are fanatics of God, brave and strong.
"Wow!"
In the sky, there was a loud sound of eagles, and several lucky eagles returned, hovering above Eric's head.
"Fortune Eagle has made a discovery."
Eric clenched the knight's sword in his hand, and his fighting spirit was already wrapped around the knight's sword: "Let's go, let's follow Fu Ying to see the situation." ”
"Okay."
The Templars followed the Eagle as they made their way into the depths of the forest.
......
After a while, the Lucky Eagle stopped somewhere.
They don't chirp, they just find trees to fall and look down somewhere.
Eric knew this, and hurriedly signaled, leading the Templars to bend down and cautiously sneak forward, close to the place where the Lucky Eagle was.
"Whoa."
Not far away, the sound of Suo Suo could be heard, and Eric could feel a strong stench, as well as a dizzying evil aura.
Holding back the anger and surprise in his heart, Eric quietly pushed aside the grass in front of him and stretched out his head to look.
"Boom, boom!"
Several ugly ghouls were gnawing at the corpses on the ground, and next to them stood several skeleton soldiers and a skeleton mage.
The group of undead swayed aimlessly, stiff and dull as mechanical tools.
Eric carefully looked at the corpses on the ground, from the blood-stained knight's greatsword and knight armor on the ground, he could tell that these corpses on the ground were the knights of the temple patrol!
"Damn the undead!"
Eric was so desperate to rush out and kill all the evil and filthy creatures.
"Your Excellency, let's go kill them all!"
"Don't let these evil creatures defile the bodies of God's people anymore!"
The Templars were indignant and whispered to war, they all wanted to kill the undead.
"No way!"
Eric shook his head, gritting his teeth and saying, "It's not the time yet. ”
"According to the texts in the temple, the undead are low-intelligence evil creatures who are not afraid of death, and if we rush out now, they will definitely rush over and fight."
"These low-level undead are no match for us at all, but they killed the patrol."
"Twenty-three members of the patrol, even I dare not say that I can kill them all! How did these low-level undead do it? I can say for sure that there are many more undead in the forest. ”
"If we kill this group of undead now, we will lose the clue to find more undead."
Eric took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "We have to be patient, the undead are social creatures that have a certain dependence, especially in areas that are not in the undead kingdom, they will definitely act in groups." ”
"We just have to wait until they get back to their companions, and then follow them in the shadows and destroy them in one fell swoop! Avenge the patrol! ”
Eric's analysis was the first to go, and the Templars nodded in agreement.
Since there is the strength to kill the patrol, then there must be a large-scale undead presence in the forest.
"Father, your fears have come true."
Eric muttered to himself, "The undead, they have really escaped from the forests of the North, and they will bring endless disasters to this continent. ”
"But I'm willing to be the first bulwark of humanity, holding off all the undead! And destroy them! ”
Eric's gaze was resolute.
The Templars didn't have to wait long, and soon the group of ghouls had eaten and followed the skeleton undead in one direction.
"Quick, keep up with them, don't get too close, they will reveal their tracks, the undead are very sensitive to the breath of living beings."
"Okay."
The Templars followed the undead as they walked their way.
I don't know when, it's getting dark, and the undead are walking slowly.
Eric was worried that the size of the undead legion was too large for his knights to solve, so he turned around and said, "You two go back and let everyone in the camp come over!" ”
"Remember, don't bring torches, give me the Elixir of the Night in advance."
The Elixir of the Night, which allows the Templars to see in the dark, is the product of the alchemists of the Eske continent.
"Okay."
The two Templars nodded, and turned back to inform the troops.
The night has completely covered the entire forest.
Under the shade of countless leaves, the entire forest could not even shine in the moonlight, and the surrounding environment was pitch black with no fingers visible.
Eric and the rest of the knights continued to follow this small force of undead, but fortunately, Eric and several knights were not weak, and they were barely able to see in the dark with their fighting spirit.
Strange as it may seem, the undead wandered around the forest, but they did not see them joining the army.
Eric didn't know the habits of the undead, he had only read about these evil creatures in books, and he didn't know much about them.
He didn't doubt too much, but patiently followed and waited.
Until the Templars stationed in the camp arrived, counting Eric, there were already three hundred and twenty-two Templars here.
Every Templar has the strength of a mid-level knight, and Eric is a high-level knight with extraordinary strength.
If you have to use the hierarchy of the godhead system, Eric is at least a martial NPC character above level 30.
"Why is it so slow?"
Eric frowned and looked at the undead not far away, and he swallowed the [Elixir of the Night]. Even the great knights didn't dare to use their fighting spirit all the time when they were about to fight.
The fighting spirit of a knight is the same as the magic of a magician, and if this thing is used up, there will be no force or threat.
The knight may be a slightly stronger ordinary person when he runs out of fighting energy, and the magician is even more unbearable when he runs out of magic power, and a strong teenager can beat him wildly.
"They seem to be a little faster."
Eric was shaken and hurriedly led a large army to keep up with the movements of the undead.
He didn't notice that in the deep shadows of the darkness nearby, the air was flooding with imperceptible fluctuations.
"Brother Cong's plan is really powerful!"
"I thought they were going to run out and kill the bait team, but I didn't expect him to be patient and have a big appetite to kill all of us."
"Hehe, even if he is patient, Brother Cong has already made two preparations."
"It's just a bunch of NPCs, and you still want to compete with the player's IQ?"
"If only Brother Cong's Dead Man's Paradise Legion is here, I'm afraid these hundreds of knights won't be able to eat it."
"But the NPCs will never know how many players we have, hehe."
The ghosts in the dark, while watching the knights, chatted with the buttons of the team's channel.
They were looking forward to seeing if the Templars would be pleasantly surprised when they saw the large army of the undead.