Bands of cavalry wandered around the outskirts of the Shadow Mountains, scrambling around, picking up the corpses buried in the snow and trying to find their companions.

The search had been going on for five hours, but the cavalry had found nothing, and the mighty paladin seemed to have disappeared into the gloomy mountains, and the cavalry had only found his horse under one hill.

"Haven't found it yet?"

The cavalry leader galloped forward, his eyebrows twisted, the snow was full of dead Green Goblins, and it was not easy to find the paladin.

Alone in the Shadow Mountains, even a paladin is certain to die.

Huh, the archbishop's order is obviously only for the paladins to patrol the periphery, but according to the current situation, the paladins must have entered the interior of the Shadow Mountains, and may have already encountered a large army of dragonmen.

Thinking of those terrifying monsters, the gloom on the face of the cavalry leader became even thicker, and he looked at the horizon in the distance, and the cavalry in charge of guarding the sentry kept an eye on the movements there, and whenever there was any abnormal movement, he would immediately sound the alarm.

The cavalry could not fight the monsters in the snow, the snow would block the impact of the horses, and it was almost impossible for the cavalry to survive if the horse's hooves slipped and fell during a high-speed run.

But the archbishop's order was to find the paladin and take him back, even if it was his corpse, to Ironrock.

The cavalry leader could not understand the archbishop's order, in this tense battle situation, even if a companion died, carrying the corpse would slow down the cavalry, and in order to prevent the companion from throwing the corpse into the wilderness and showing respect for the corpse, the rangers would burn the corpse of the dead companion and take the ashes back to bury it.

But the archbishop gave a death order, he must not burn the paladin with fire, and must return his body to Iron Rock City, even if it is a mutilated body.

Although he did not understand the meaning of this order, the cavalry leader had to act according to this order, and although he did not want to go deep into the valley covered by the haze, judging from the current situation, the paladin definitely did not stay on the periphery for long.

"My lord!" a cavalryman rode up to the leader and pointed to the direction not far behind him: "At the entrance to the valley, the body of the dragonman was found. ”

"The skull is broken, the cervical vertebrae are twisted, and the bones of the whole body are broken," the cavalry reported the death of the dragonmen, this violent killing method is obviously not caused by others, "The dragonman with the broken head was obviously attacked by a blunt object, as far as I know, the paladin's weapon is a war hammer......"

The cavalry leader quietly heard the report of his subordinates, someone had already dragged the corpses of the dragonmen over, looking at the corpses that were in a miserable state and the bones were seriously deformed, the cavalry leader's eyes condensed a trace of heaviness, these dragonmen didn't even have the action to resist, they were simply taken away by the paladin, these monsters that were extremely powerful in the eyes of ordinary soldiers, in the hands of the paladin, they were like a newborn chicken boy without resistance.

The paladin is known as the strongest soldier in the continent, and it really lives up to its name.

But......

Even if the paladin is so powerful, after stepping into the depths of the Shadow Mountains, he still can't escape, how many terrifying monsters are hidden in this mountain range?

The leader of the cavalry glanced at his ranks, and more than two hundred cavalrymen in heavy armor and heavy armor were quietly waiting for his orders.

Will these two hundred cavalrymen be able to find the body of the paladin alive?

"Listen to my orders! Ten people are a small team, enter the Shadow Mountains in order, and keep a distance of ten meters between the squads," the cavalry leader's face was grim, "Always pay attention to the changes in the surrounding environment, and after discovering any changes, quickly launch an alarm, if you encounter an irresistible enemy, the rear team will turn to the front team and evacuate as soon as possible!"

"I'll lead the way!" the cavalry leader muttered, "keep up with me!"

"Once you're in the valley, be sure to keep quiet!"

Three minutes later, the last of the two-hundred-strong team vanished at the entrance.

The trail leading to the interior of the Shadow Mountains is very wide, and there are obvious traces of artificial development on both sides of the road, which is a passage carved out by the Green Goblins who once lived here, and there are occasional flagpoles with tattered flags hanging on the mountain walls, due to the long-term erosion of wind and snow, the patterns on the flags have been desplened, and only those flags can be vaguely identified, which once belonged to one of the expeditionary forces of Ironrock City.

Since the years of war, not only has the Green Goblin unilaterally invaded Ironrock City, but in the glorious period of Ironrock City, the Holy See has also sent a large number of troops to expedition to the Shadow Mountains to try to solve the threat of monsters at once.

But the operation was clearly a failure.

Countless human soldiers have fallen here, their souls and flesh turned to dust in the mountains, and war is a meat grinder for low-level soldiers, whether they are on the side of the active attack or the side that is forced to be beaten.

"There are no caves, no stone mounds where you can hide. It seems that in a short time, we are safe......" The cavalry leader walked at the front, his spear tightly in his hand, and after entering the Shadow Mountains, the temperature around him seemed to be a few degrees lower.

And there was a lingering fishy stench all around, which was a unique smell of monsters, and it was contaminated all year round, and even the stones in the Shadow Mountains exuded a choking smell.

After a corner, the cavalry leader suddenly stopped.

He saw a few dragonmen lying quietly in the snow ten meters away that were stronger than the dragonman guards at the entrance, but all of them were lying in pools of blood, losing signs of life.

"The method of death is the same as those dragonmen at the entrance, and it is confirmed that the Paladin-sama has indeed entered the depths of the Shadow Mountains. A sentry stepped forward and took a cursory look at the corpse of the Lower Dragon, "The time of death must have been more than seven hours." ”

When a monster dies, its flesh and blood shrink rapidly, and does not change depending on the temperature.

Based on the degree of muscle atrophy of these dragonman corpses, the paladin had passed by before last night.

Seven hours, how far is enough for the paladin to go?

The cavalry leader felt a flustering feeling inexplicably, and he was almost certain that the paladin was definitely dead inside.

If the paladin's body is torn apart by the mad monsters, how is he going to find the flesh?

He looked at the increasingly cramped mountain road, if the monsters suddenly poured out, the cavalry could not fight back in this environment, even if they had to escape, they would have to pay a great price.

Although the mountain road was opened, it was still too narrow for the cavalry.