Chapter 239: Between the Woods (8)

When the faint sunlight poured down from above the treetops, Chen Kai and the others had just extinguished the bonfire that had been lit at night. The sunlight above their heads was not dazzling, but Chen Kai and the others knew that this was one of the few opportunities they had been able to see the sun since they entered Denzelsen.

It's just that they know very well that they entered the Denzel Forest this time to hunt down an escaped necromancer, but the problem is that the Elven Empire only provided the general spatial location of the other party's escape, but did not give a specific location. In fact, the upper echelons of the entire Elven Empire wished that Chen Kai and them had been groping in the Denzel Forest for a few years, but Chen Kai and they hadn't thought of this yet.

As the group began to pack their bags and set off, Negrim, the demon knight who had left from Runmaran in the other direction of the forest. Although his former elven identity was still not recognized, he was released from his captivity and entered the Denzel Forest with some food and provisions. It's just that he knows that if he wants to rescue his queen, it will be impossible to rely on his own strength, but he still wants to work hard.

Armed with his almost legendary weapon, the Demon Knight stepped into the Denzel Forest alone, and although he only walked on his own feet, his speed was much faster than that of the elven cavalry led by Romans due to his unusually familiar forest environment. It's just that although they move fast, they missed out on Negrim because they didn't have a guide and they crossed Runmaran directly from Lorraine Illit into the forest. After wandering around the forest for a while, it wasn't until Chen Kai and they were teleported over that they could be considered to be on the right path, and at this time, the demon knight who relied on his feet to walk had already surpassed them for dozens of kilometers.

It's just that because the two sides are no longer in the same straight line and the distance between the two sides is relatively far, Chen Kai and the others don't know about Negrim's entry into the forest at all, and for Negrim, he wouldn't have thought that he should have gone to the capital of the Elven Empire. Because when Negrim left Runmaran, the matter of Lorraine Illit had not yet spread, in fact, the surrounding elven villages couldn't believe it at first when they got the news. It wasn't until they sent someone to confirm that they found out that after Runmaran, their elven clan had suffered another heavy injury.

It's just that by that time, Negrim had already left Runmaran and entered the Denzel Forest. And even if he didn't leave, there was no way to help the elves of Luolan Er Elite, and he couldn't confirm Chen Kai's situation. Walking slowly through the forest, Negrim soon spotted the traces left by the Ballow Flame Demon, the scorched trail as clear as the lights in the night. Although the burned trees had turned into charcoal, making it almost impossible to see in the dark, the smell of sulfur and burnt in the air gave Negrim a clear direction.

"Firedemons! Hum! Negrim had suffered from the firefiend, but this time he didn't back down, but continued to follow the path created by the Barlow Firefiend's march towards Teramis. After all, the speed of movement is not the same as moving from the dense forest and moving from the path opened by the demon army of the Fire Demon, and at the current speed, Negrim only needs seven or eight days to reach Teramis, which is much faster than expected.

Less than a few hours into his advance, Negrim saw a village in ruins. It was the closest village to Runmaran, in the Denzel forest, but except for the ground that had been burned into black basalt. Negrim couldn't see any of the villages. It can be said that the fire demon has destroyed this village and even the temple in the village very completely, and there is even no scum left.

"Looks like there's no way to replenish the water here!" It didn't matter if Negrim didn't drink water for three or four days, and the elves he had rescued him when he left Runmaran had given him a small bag of food and water that would last him in the forest for a month. No matter how big his appetite is, it is enough to use, and he doesn't feel like he's going to live in the forest for a month. If he succeeds according to the current situation, maybe he can follow the demon army to rush into Terramis to rescue his queen Xià, if he doesn't succeed then it is useless for him to keep those foods, so when he found that the Barlow Flame Demon was carrying a huge army, Negrim's movement speed began to increase, and he even used his demonic power to fly short distances, so that the distance between him and Chen Kai was further and further away.

Chen Kai and the others, who were searching in the direction of Teramis in the forest, were actually not moving slowly. After all, they knew that even if the necromancer ran to the Denzel Forest, he would not be willing to be lonely. As a necromancer, he will definitely summon his army of undead to protect himself as soon as possible, so for Chen Kai, as long as they find traces of the undead, then they will not be far from discovering that necromancer.

Of course, they didn't think about another point, that is, whether this necromancer would be very unlucky and fall directly into the hands of those remnants of ancient magical civilizations. If this is really the case, maybe Chen Kai can simply turn around and leave, and it is more realistic to run directly to the Rohan Empire on the other side of the forest without even going back to the Elven Empire. Because of Chen Kai, they really can't afford to mess with those ancient magical civilizations. For a few spellcaster players, they really want to go to the remnants of an ancient magical civilization to get their hands on it. It doesn't matter if you can't learn the best spells, as long as you can make the mana value go up.

It can be said that the ancient magical civilization is the era that all spellcasters want to return to the most, although that necromancer is definitely a top-level heretic in the outside world. But in that era, as long as he didn't do too much, then basically no mage would pay attention to him. Of course, Chen Kai and the others didn't know that this necromancer was really captured by the ancient relics, but his life was not good. The remnants of the ancient magical age of the legendary Paradise of Mages did not turn a blind eye to him because he was a spellcaster, and when he found out that he was a necromancer, he was doomed to tragedy.

At this moment, the former High Councillor of the Dark Council is now a prisoner. His greatest role is to constantly summon the undead from the underworld, and then the moment these undead are summoned, they will be captured by the ancient remnants guarding the surroundings. The originally high-level undead quickly turned into various materials, the bones were directly ground into powder, and the soul fire was captured and used to synthesize soul crystals, and in just a few days, the great undead spellcaster Keno was labeled as a despicable and shameless bastard by the underworld. Basically, as soon as he opened the portal to the world of the undead, what appeared in front of him was a projection of an underworld watchdog, and then hundreds of high-level undead.

It's just that for Cerberus, this projection is definitely tragic, because it was directly sniped by more than a dozen purple-robed mages, and was instantly beaten into fragmented soul fragments. As for the hundreds of high-ranking undead who were ready to trouble Kino, they were instantly captured by an even larger number of silver-robed mages with a cage of light. Then it becomes a fish waiting to be slaughtered on a cutting board.

It can be said that after such a thing, it is basically impossible for a great necromancer to summon any undead monsters from the underworld, and the combat power of a necromancer who loses this ability is instantly reduced by a large margin. Because as soon as he opens the summoning door, what appears on the other side of the door will definitely not be the projection of Cerberus, at least the level of clone. At that time, no matter how powerful those purple-robed mages are, they will not be able to kill a clone of the main god-level watchdog in a short time, and the best outcome for the necromancer is to be bitten by that watchdog as a dog bone for hundreds of years. Because he knew very well what the hideous eyes of the watchdog projection meant when he was beaten into soul pieces, and he understood the truth that death was sometimes the best ending, and he often used it to tell his enemies.

So after a few days of being played as a human flesh summoner, the poor necromancer errand was transformed into a craftsman who specialized in making undead golems for the remnants of the ancients. Of course, he was treated a little better. At least he has human rights, and he no longer has to wear shackles, but he still has a magic limiter around his neck. As long as he tried to use the portal to leave Teramis, his head would thump into a shattered watermelon, and his soul would be imprisoned and thrown into the world of the dead. Thinking of the result of being thrown into the underworld, Kino obediently acted as a puppet maker, and although this errand was a shame for him, he still had a good time. After all, compared to the small life is not guaranteed, and the soul will be bitten by the watchdog as dog glue for hundreds of years, even if the current life is humiliating, at least the small life is still there.

At the same time, for the sake of his own life, Kino directly contributed to the method of making the undead puppets he had pit from Ness and the other members of the Dark Council, but when the first huge imitation of the White Knight appeared in the sight of the ancient remnants. They turned it into raw material with just a few dissociations. There is no doubt that this kind of white bone product is indeed of high quality and inexpensive, and for ordinary people who do not have high-level spellcasters, it is almost like a nuclear bomb, but for these ancient relics, the undead puppets made of white bones are too fragile. Even though the appearance is extremely good-looking, the problem is that the sturdiness is very problematic. With that kind of material, they might as well just build a metal puppet.

So when Keno saw the drawings taken out by several silver-robed mages, he was directly frightened, because he found that the other party was actually planning to use pure gold and rare materials such as Mithril and Sun Crystal to make a white knight with a metal structure. It's just that when Keno saw a few silver-robed mages open their private warehouses, he instantly knelt down. Materials that are rare to find for spellcasters on the main material plane, in these silver-robed mages' private warehouses, are basically piles of warehouse stuff. For the more advanced mages, their private vaults were much richer, and the contents stored in the public warehouses of the entire Ancient Remnant were enough to make several royalty of the Human Empire jump off the building in shame.

The matter collected from thousands of years of wandering in the astral realm is definitely not a joke, let alone building a white knight out of pure gold and mythril. Even ten or twenty are not a problem, and even if you open the private warehouse of a few scepter mages, you can make a war puppet with the top-level Sun Adamantite. Of course, these mages would not do such a ruin, but it is possible to build a white knight out of Adamantite Mithril. First of all, the defense of metal is much higher, although it does not have the plasticity of bones in the hands of necromancers, and because of its large weight, it needs to be redesigned because it is a magic thruster, and as an energy supply or something, it needs to be completely recalculated.

Therefore, the white knight, who was originally ten meters tall, turned into a small war puppet three or four meters tall when it was made of pure gold and mythril, but the magic ability and the ability to use the magic array of these ancient relics once again made Keno, who thought he was talented, fall down in an instant. In order to understand why he could not change the prisoner even if he contributed such a powerful weapon of war, he was too bad for those ancient mages, even a silver-robed mage with only the strength of a high-level mentor from the outside world could completely abuse this almost demigod necromancer. Of course, that was when Kino couldn't use the undead summoning, because the opponent's casting speed was too fast, and almost at the moment the battle began, more than a dozen dissociation spells were directly launched.

This kind of behavior, which in Keno's opinion was completely a reipulative tactic, instantly turned him into a shirtless man with only a few pieces of protective equipment left, and then several spells that he had never seen before were released, allowing the poor necromancer to be swatted out like a fly. The poor necromancer had wanted to teach a few silver-robed mages a lesson to make them respect him, but it turned out to be a complete tragedy for him.

The poor necromancer's sad days went on like this. In fact, how much he wished he could summon his fellow Dark Council over now, but it was clear that he couldn't. Although he still has the ability to cast spells, the collar around his neck directly limits his space and ability to summon spells in order to prevent him from escaping or summoning friends. As long as the spell he casts is designed to space and summon, then his head will instantly turn into a crushed watermelon.

So when Chen Kai and the others were about to find out the poor necromancer by searching for the undead legion, they didn't know that in fact, the culprit who caused tens of thousands of elves in Lorraine Elite to turn into corpses was now squatting pitifully in the corner with bandages and eating cold rice. For Kino, who had enjoyed it in the outside world, the food rationed by the remnants of the ancients was really similar to the cold rice of the stumps.

The people who walked slowly along the forest also quickly discovered the traces left by the Fire Demon, but Chen Kai and the others didn't know that this burned forest or that it should not be a burned forest, but that the road left behind after the flames burned was the masterpiece of the Barlow Fire Demon. They didn't have Negrim's keen sense of smell, but a few of them found some traces of demons.

So they quickly realized that this was a path for the demons to stay, and the number of demon troops that had opened up such a huge passage was definitely huge. At that moment, the first thing a few elven knights wanted to do was leave the forest and issue an alert to the surrounding villages. However, they soon discovered that the demon's trail was spreading deep into the forest, and to their surprise, they soon found traces left by members of the Natural Punishment.

Although these traces are very faint, there is no doubt that they are indeed left by members of the Punishment of Nature, of course, they do not know what the Punishment of Nature is Chen Kai. It's just that they understand that these guys who have left a few leaves to carve are definitely their own people, but there is no doubt that the other party has been away from here for an unknown number of days, so the traces carved on the tree poles have dried up, and there is no fresh portrayal of that moist feeling.

"Looks like we need to speed things up! Maybe converging Nature's Punishment is a good idea! Romans' words made Chen Kai feel very strange, but there was no doubt that the natural punishment in the other party's mouth was definitely the reinforcements that Chen Kai had said when he gave them the task a few days ago.

Since there are strong reinforcements that can converge with Chen Kai, they naturally don't feel that there is a problem, but in this way, they can't search the situation on the road. After all, they need to rush straight forward along this path that has been opened. Depending on the speed at which the horses moved, it might only take a few days for them to catch up. But this raises another question, what if the necromancer is not in that direction? Turn around and come back? Not to mention the wasted time, such a few days is enough time for the injured necromancer to run I don't know how far.

"! These elves can't fool us into coming to the forest to be natives, are they? Fei Yun looked at the elven knights in front of him and said depressedly. To be honest, finding someone in such a vast forest, even if the other party is a necromancer who can fight violently, Fei Yun feels very unreliable for such a thing. If possible, Fei Yun even wanted to instigate Chen Kai to directly abandon these elves and run to the Rohan Empire from the other side of the forest.

But there is no doubt that Chen Kai will not do that, because then the prestige he has accumulated with great difficulty will drop a lot in an instant. After all, even if the elves don't deal with the human empire, they are still an important alliance member. At least when it comes to fighting demons, the elves never lag behind. So even if he knew that it was a pit, Chen Kai could only grit his teeth and jump down. In fact, after getting his new armor, Chen Kai knew that he had taken on a task that would definitely be a pit. But the question is, when a few pieces of armor are placed in front of Chen Kai and them, can they have the ability to refuse? No! So even if he knew that this was a pit, he could only grit his teeth and jump down, at most, he would only be a wild man in the Denzel Forest for a few months, and this was also the reason why he bought a lot of supplies in the imperial capital of the Elven Empire, because he was ready to be a forest native for a few months. (To be continued......)