The dryad let out a scream of sorrow mixed with a roar of rage, and the thick roots of the tree burst out of the ground like a whip towards the humans who dared to challenge it.

It knew that it was at a disadvantage, so it naturally targeted the knights of the fourth detachment.

"Stop this wave!"

Seeing this, the knights of the first and second detachments immediately lined up in a horizontal line of defense to block the attack of the tree god.

The dryad's roots were nimble and hard, and with a speed that was hard for the naked eye to keep up with, it frantically slammed into the knights' shields and swords.

Over and over.

The knights were able to stand up at first, but they immediately found that the opponent's attack became stronger and stronger as the number of attacks increased, and in less than half a minute, the weapons of four or five knights were shattered by the steel-like roots, and even their bodies were knocked away and they could not move.

Suddenly there was a gap in the defensive line.

"Get up there!"

The knights of the third detachment immediately blocked the defensive line.

They were supposed to be in charge of guarding, and naturally they were also responsible for replacing the wounded at such a special moment.

As a foreign support for the third detachment, Kayilu stood on the torn defensive line, holding her breath, she swung a straight sword, and the battle momentum easily cut off one tree root, then one side dodged the other, aimed at the part closest to the taproot, and swung the sword again. The whole set of actions is smooth.

She was a second-order peak swordsman, and her strength was naturally much higher than that of ordinary lower-level knights, she glanced back at the knights of the third detachment around her, and shouted, "Hey, what are you doing!" Strengthen my defenses on both sides! I'm enough for one person here. ”

"But......" the knights looked at Kayilu with some confusion, "this is different from the formation arranged by the deputy commander......

"Don't you know how to improvise! Hurry up! Kayilu glared at them.

"Yes!" Several of the knights gathered around Cairu immediately ran to the flanks of the group.

It stands to reason that even if they didn't hear Kailu's orders, they should have realized that the current formation was not suitable for the actual situation, but after all, they were only junior knights, and even if they had been trained, they didn't have the same flexible thinking as regular knights.

And Kayilu was trained by the father of a regular knight, and because of his personality, he could naturally see the battle situation clearly.

“…… Thank you very much. Gulha looked at Kayilu who had taken his command, nodded, and then turned to the knight of the fourth detachment, "Attack troops!" Shift the primary target. ”

The knights understood that the time had come to fight back, and continued to shout with full strength, "Understood! ”

"Make a final attack! Target, Dryad! Repeat! ”

"Target Tree God!"

The knights of the fourth detachment responded loudly.

They took a few steps back, held the fiery stone behind them in their hands, and threw it with maximum force.

The fiery stone slashed through a large parabola in the air and smashed into the trunk of the dryad. Although the Dryad Sigma stretched out several roots to intercept it, most of the fiery stones hit their targets.

In an instant, the flames soared into the sky.

The air waves and sound waves were limited by space and could only spread in all directions, forcing the knights on the front line to retreat.

Sigmar, the god of trees, swayed all over his body in the thick smoke and seemed to have been hurt to a considerable extent.

"Go on!"

The fiery stone kept falling on the dryad.

In this small space, the disappointing fire elemental continued to expand and explode, like a high-level magic [Fire Roaring Bomb] sweeping continuously one after another, and the deafening sound even made people feel that their ears hurt, but it also made people feel hearty.

The knights kept throwing fiery stones, and by the time they had consumed two-thirds of the number, they heard only a creaking sound, and the body of Sigma the tree god had become pitted, like a cracked stone statue.

It's just a little bit there!

Gurha realized this and hurriedly signaled the knights at the front to retreat.

Finally, as the last bag of fiery stones was exhausted, the giant monster burst into two pieces and toppled to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

He let out an unidentified scream, and his body turned into countless fragments.

Silence enveloped the entire hall.

Everyone present didn't react for a minute.

"Win?"

One of the knights came to his senses, dumbfounded.

"Did we win?" Another knight asked.

"Yes, we won, really!"

The knights of the Order erupted in cheers.

They couldn't believe that all this was reality, originally they all participated in this battle with the mood of seeing death as home, but they didn't expect to really win in the end, this historic moment, even the predecessors failed to do it!

The sense of honor in defeating the enemy and the joy of the rest of their lives filled their hearts.

Gulha on the side couldn't help but burst into tears, he rubbed his eyes, coughed lightly and said: "Everyone, we have completed the task of this trip, we also have to tell the head of the regiment and the mentor the news immediately, those who are in good health, you go and treat the wounded, and we will leave here......

Gulha was thinking in his heart how to report the current situation to the regiment commander Jester immediately, he remembered the silver light stone Jester gave him, and was about to reach out to touch it, when a strange sound suddenly sounded in his ears, which made Gulha's movements pause.

Everyone looked at the source of the sound in unison, and a terrible scene that they would never forget appeared before their eyes.

I saw that the broken body of the tree god stretched out green branches and reconnected with the remaining part, slowly closing like a magnet, and a mocking smile appeared on the face of the person on the trunk, its blood-red eyes widened, and its expression became more and more hideous.

Immediately after, the sound of metal breaking sounded all around, and the iron chain that locked the limbs of the tree god was broken into two, and at the same time, a lot of fragments fell from the tree god's body, and these scattered fragments burrowed into the ground, took root in the ground, quickly developed saplings, grew buds, and finally turned into a group of ugly creatures.

They look exactly like Sigma the god of trees, except that their bodies are very small, about the size of a child of 3 or 4 years old, but the magic entangled in them is stronger than anyone present.

They stared at the knights with their scarlet eyes, and opened their mouths to emit green smoke.

"Quick, get out of the way!"

Gulha hurriedly shouted.

Although he still didn't know what the harm of these green mist was, he had a premonition that if he got into it, something irreparable would happen!

"Dodge!"

Hearing the words of their superiors, the knights dispersed quickly and orderly as they repeated Gulha's command.

But it didn't work at all, not to mention that the number of these little guys was nearly several times that of the knights, and the speed of the smoke spread was unexpectedly fast, except for Kayalu, who reacted early, and the knights in the back row, the rest of the knights were shrouded in smoke.

"Damn!"

The knights hurriedly waved the sharp swords in their hands and used the sword wind to expel the smoke, but the turquoise smoke seemed to be sticky, and even if it was blown by the wind, it would not disperse at all, and it would dissipate automatically after a few seconds.

When the smoke cleared completely, the knights were surprised to find that a layer of green moss had been attached to the place where their bodies had just touched the smoke.

"What's going on!?"

"Wait, it's a little weird......" One of the knights touched the turquoise marks on his arm, and the next moment, the moss on his arm spread all over his body at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning him into a humanoid turquoise.

"What!"

Seeing this scene, consternation and fear filled the hearts of the other knights.

They stared at the moss on their bodies and tried to cut it off with their swords, but it had no effect at all, and all the knights who came into contact with the smoke, without exception, turned into plants one by one.

Even the knights who wanted to rescue them had moss on their hands the moment they touched their bodies, showing the same symptoms.

Turned into a plant.

"It's ...... Infect? ”

Gulha watched this scene in amazement, and suddenly came to her senses.

The ancient book records that the tree god Sigma destroyed the breeding and splitting skills of several cities, referring to these little guys!

And there is only one possibility for them to turn humans into plants, and that is ......

"Gollum." The face of the tree god made a sound similar to swallowing saliva.

Then, the plants (knights) began to wither and melt rapidly, turning into a cloud of black mud and flowing towards the tree god.

The black mud touched the tree god, as if the clear water had met a sponge and was immediately absorbed.

"You...... Actually ate them! Gulha froze for a moment, letting out a roar that was somewhere between fear and anger.

He gripped the knight's sword in his hand and rushed towards Sigmar, the god of trees, with all his might.

The battle aura filled with earth elementals enveloped him, forming a layer of protection, and he let out a loud cry and swung a lightning-fast sword at the enemy group.

The air shook strangely, and the ground seemed to resonate, cracking open a ten-meter-long gap, and the air flow of earth slammed into the bodies of the little tree gods, breaking them apart, and their body parts flew around like parts.

This is the skill [Earthshaking Sword] between the early stage of the third order and the peak of the second order, and it is also the most powerful killing move that Gulha can use after summing up years of combat experience.

Gulha unleashed the Earthshaking Sword again, tearing a hole in the crowd of enemies, and then ran straight towards the tree god Sigmar itself.

Sigmar, the god of trees, stretched out a huge root and stabbed at him. Gulha unleashed the Sword of Earth once more, and at the same time dodged it.

The air currents of the earth struck the roots of the tree, only slowing it down slightly, and by the time Gulha reacted, his body had been tightly bound by the roots and suspended in the air.

"Brute......!" Gulha resisted with all his might, but could not move at all.

He glared at the human face on the trunk of the tree god Sigmar, angry, but powerless.

The dryad, on the other hand, let out a few mocking sounds, strangled his neck with a sharp root.

"Your opponent is here."

Suddenly, there was a sound not far away.

A black sword sliced through the air, slicing through the air and slicing with precision the roots of the tree that trapped Gulha.

Gulha fell from the air to the ground and looked at the man who had saved him suspiciously.

It was a young girl.

The girl had already jumped high at this moment, caught the falling black sword, and then put her hands in a fighting posture and launched an attack on the tree god.

"Kayiru-sama?" Gulha looked at the girl in a daze, and then he looked around as if he had thought of something.

The empty hall that greeted him was in front of him.

In addition to himself, only five wounded people were left lying on the ground.

As for the others?

The results speak for themselves.

The army was almost completely wiped out, how could this be won?

Gulha thought desperately, he turned his head to look at Kayilu who was still fighting, and a deep guilt appeared in his heart, obviously this was a battle that could not be won at all, but he took this patriotic girl to the dungeon, and tacitly let her join this battle with no return, as an elder, how could he accept that a young girl with a future died in this ghost place?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt so, so he shouted, "We can't win!" You've done enough, Kayiru-sama! Please get out of here quickly!!

"You're telling me to escape?" Kayiru glanced at him, swung her sword to cut off the roots of the tree that struck her, and then continued to avoid the green smoke, "Don't do it, only when you do bad things, you can use the soles of your feet to grease this trick!" That's my guideline! You have this gossip skills, you might as well hurry up! You know, we're going to destroy this monster anyway......"

The next moment, the shredded bodies of the dryads stretched out several slender vines and wrapped them around Kailu's feet.

Can they do this other than spitting fog?

Taken aback, Kayilu quickly cut off the vines on her feet, but it was too late, and the tree god Sigma summoned several roots, broke through the ground, and stabbed Kayilu in the abdomen, and as soon as Kayilu made a defensive gesture, he was knocked out by the powerful inertia.

She slammed headlong into the stiff stone wall, grunted, and fell to the ground.

Blood slowly flowed from the girl's forehead......