In less than half an hour, a team of nearly 100 people appeared in front of the demon hunters and others with the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves.

This time, the holy warriors dispatched by the brigade formed a formation, and the night shone like day, and the priest who came with them began to unleash their magic without saying a word, pulling the wounded back one by one from the brink of minor injuries or near death.

The bodies of the two war dead were also placed in special metal coffins by the priest and escorted back to the castle of the Retribution Regiment.

Dale saw Xu Yichen's gaze and explained: "Senior paladins have been fighting against Chaos all year round, and they will be more or less contaminated with some pollutants, and when they are still alive, there will naturally be no accidents, but the remains after the death of the battle have occasional accidents. ”

From the somewhat sad voice of the holy knight, the demon hunter could guess that this special ritual must have been taught by blood to make the church pay attention to it.

"Of course, if a priest becomes a legend within a year, they still have a chance to fight for the gods again." Paladin Dale explained with a wry smile.

With Xu Yichen's level, he still can't get in touch with the divine art of the level of resurrection technique, and he can't know what kind of price it takes to cast such a spell.

"Bring back all these bodies and belongings, send someone back to Anthony Port overnight, and inform Pastor Richard." Dale Seaworth commanded the paladins who came to their aid, packing up the items left behind on the battlefield one by one, not even sparing the corpses.

In this world, death is not the end of everything.

"In groups of five, spread out to reconnoitre, those attackers are likely not far away, they must have a hidden camp around here!" The paladins scattered silently under Dale's command, skilfully manipulating their horses and treating the trees of the forest as if they were nothing.

"Watch out for the Greenskins, if there is a connection between these pirates and the Greenskins, then it's likely that the Greenskins have been armed by the pirates." Xu Yichen reminded Dell.

"It's okay, they know that there are enemies in the forest, they will be careful." Dale nodded: "We were slack before, and we didn't think we would encounter enemies in the outskirts of the city. ”

"Severn, you are a first-hand witness of this attack, and you return with the wounded and tell Richard all about what you want on this trip, especially the power of this new weapon!" Dale Seaworth handed the gunpowder weapon in his hand to Severn with trepidation, and instructed, "Let Richard Priest send this object back to the Great Sanctuary directly through the teleportation array!" ”

"Do as you command, Lord Seaworth!" Severn carefully carried the powder gun on his back, and the pirates' powder guns were fitted with canvas straps that made it easy to carry.

As the commander of the Paladin Expeditionary Force, Seaworth himself was not a figure in the local church system, but he still had a very high prestige among the paladin community.

Without hesitation, Severn summoned his Celestial Companion and set off with the men who had escorted the wounded back to the castle.

This night was destined to be a sleepless night, and the holy warriors who came one after another came one after another, a full three hundred people, and carefully checked the nearby areas belonging to the Black Forest.

The pirates' previously hidden camp was found by the paladins, who found nearly two tons of gray-white putrid substance, in addition to a shipment of gunpowder and buckshot.

Obviously, the Chaos Pollution Zone, which was originally classified as a forbidden area by the Church, has been infiltrated like a sieve, and it is not only the local nobles who are secretly smuggling these undefined substances, but also the pirates who regard this kind of thing as a scarce resource.

The original polluted area, after the Demon Hunters arrived, still looked unchanged from the front, but the five-kilometer circular area had been dug up a huge gap on the back.

The grayish-white putrefactive substance was originally just covered in the ground, and digging down into the depth of a hand's palm would reveal the dirt underground.

By this time, many places had been dug up, revealing the dark brown soil underneath.

Prior to this, Richard Priest had wanted to organize people to dig out this gray-white corrupt substance and concentrate on guarding it.

However, until it was uncertain whether the substance would affect mortals, the proposal was put on hold for the time being.

Contraband smugglers don't think about this, and when they offer a pound of corrupt substance, the price of a gold coin and a half, many professionals are willing to sneak away from the church patrols and bring a few pounds of these things in exchange for a small amount of money when they go on a mission.

In addition, some time ago, the ecclesiastical forces in Antony Harbour focused most of their attention on the Chaos Crisis in the depths of the Black Forest, and did not pay attention to the situation in the vicinity.

And with the Retribution War Group stationed here, the green skins are regularly cleared, and the edge of the Black Forest is much safer, and some brave mortals have also come to make a fortune.

The nobles and the big smugglers had already received the news of the arrival of the Paladin Expeditionary Force, and they washed their hands in the golden basin early, planning to see the reaction of the church and make follow-up arrangements.

But the news of the civilians was much more silent, and before dawn, the paladins grabbed fourteen mortals who were carrying broken sacks on their backs at the edge of the contaminated area to collect corrupt substances.

Even if these people can eventually be determined to have nothing to do with the pirates, trespassing on the restricted area of the church is a felony.

Most of these fourteen people are young adults, and most of them have received some professional training, otherwise they would not be able to escape the beasts and greenskins of the Black Forest.

"What are you going to do with them?" Xu Yichen looked at the pollutants that were regarded as cherished mineral development, and felt that there were not brainless people among the aborigines.

Holy Warrior Dale sighed: "Most of these mortals can't resist the judgment of the Inquisition, even if they are lucky enough to come out alive, people are basically abolished, but it is a matter of chaos, careless, this is a necessary insurance!" ”

"There are already a lot of these things that have been circulated through various channels, and if they could corrupt mortals, they would have been corrupted a long time ago." The Demon Hunter pointed to the gap, and the uncleaned contaminants on the paladin's shield, "Why don't you give them to me, I don't care if they are pirates or not, as long as they can work, I can make them repent." ”

Sixteen hours a day, for two or three years, even the most heinous fellows would be smelted into a fine piece of steel.

Xu Yichen smiled and told the holy warrior his plan: "If they are really infected by Chaos, it will be more secure in my hands, and the church should have relevant records about my blood." ”