The aberrant did leave a lot of traces of pollution as it roamed - although the aura of chaotic magic had quickly dissipated, there were still many traces left due to the timely detection of it.

Following the pollution that would appear from time to time, Gawain and his party continued to advance through the dark mountains, and gradually approached a mountain gap in the southwest of the camp, which made Gawain vigilant.

This is the lower part of the Dark Mountains, and the easiest pass to climb through, if those monsters are coming in through this gap...... Then they will soon be able to sense the human aura of the pioneer camp, and will rush down from the mountain and attack the camp with a long drive.

The group of three climbed a boulder and looked far away at the gap in the mountain ahead, where there were not many vegetation cover, and the exposed gray-white rock was as lifeless as a broken skeleton, and the whole terrain seemed to be chopped by a sharp axe, and below the gap, a disturbing gray-black mist could already be clearly seen rising.

Gawain immediately asked Hetty to use spells to cover all kinds of auras on the three of them, including magic - the ability of third-level mages in this regard is of course limited, and this aura concealment can't hide from any intermediate or above profession, but Gawain is well aware of the shortcomings of distortions: after leaving the demon tide environment, their perception will become very dull, and their thinking ability is low, as long as they do not clearly feel the breath of magic or intelligent beings, they will not react.

After doing their job of concealment, the three of them cautiously touched forward, and before they were halfway there, a rotting breath was already coming from the front.

"Hmmm......" Hetty retched under her breath as her fingers gripped the staff slightly: she was so familiar with the breath that it had even appeared in her nightmares more than once, waking her up from the breath in which the entire old Cecil Territory had been destroyed months earlier.

Knowing that the monsters were able to sense magic fluctuations and that their masking spells had limited effect, Heti resisted the urge to release the Breeze Shield and cautiously followed Gawain, bypassing the rocks and ancient trees that stood in his way.

Gawain, who was walking in front, suddenly gestured: "Hide - in front." ”

The group of three was hidden among the craggy rocks, and Amber had the audacity to poke her head out a little from under Gawain's shoulder, and the next second she got goosebumps all over her body.

The trail below was shrouded in a grey-black mist, where the plants withered and mutated, the rocks and dirt sprouted horrific spikes and tentacles, and the squirming and tumbling of soft-bodied mass between the dirt and rocks was disgusting to look at, and hordes of flesh giants staggered along the path that looked like a road to hell, flesh and mud flowing from the chaotic faces, and a profane, muffled murmur emanating from their chests and humming through the air.

What is even more chilling is that many of these flesh giants are stuck with rotten and tattered ancient weapons, and Amber even sees that one of the giants has a hollow human skeleton stuck in his abdomen, which is disgusting evidence of Gawain's judgment:

It is an army of demons from hell that has wandered out of the wastelands of Gondor.

Amber immediately grabbed Gawain's arm, and said her clearest thought at the moment in the lowest and lowest voice in her life: "Boss, I don't want the salary, you let me go......"

"Shhhh ”

"Isn't that bad?!" Amber looked at Gawain like she was looking at a madman, "That's enough to tear down the entire camp three times!" ”

"Don't be intimidated by the surface, in fact, there are not as many of them as you think," Gawain knew what kind of misconceptions ordinary people would have when they first saw the aberrant army, so he patiently explained, "Those mist and the vegetations surging on the ground will give you the illusion of a large number, but if you count carefully, the number is probably less than a thousand ......"

Amber was stunned, and carefully estimated the number of flesh giants shaking in his sight: "It seems that there are really only a few hundred ......"

But immediately after that, she reacted: "But our entire camp is only 800 people—700 of them still can't fight!" ”

"But it's much better than I could have imagined," Gawain whispered, "and my biggest fear was that they outnumbered the 'line' too much—in that case they would multiply so quickly that they would grow out of thin air, and we had suffered a lot from this, and the two thousand enemies in the report could have multiplied to three or even four thousand by the time we met...... But if you look at this, there are no new aberrations growing out of the air, which means that they don't just go above that line, or just a little bit over, but not to the point where they will grow naturally......"

"But even if there are so many of them, they can't deal with the current camp," Hetty whispered worriedly, "Ancestor, their current direction of action is exactly to the north of the mountain, and sooner or later they will come to the vicinity of the camp, once the camp is exposed to their perception......"

Amber's two pointed ears twitched uneasily in the air, "Didn't you say that these aberrations wander randomly or simply stop in place when they don't perceive a magical response or a human?" Maybe they won't leave after a little longer, and stop where they have been for 1,800 years......"

"Don't put your hope on this, although their numbers will not increase, they will also exceed the tipping point of natural extinction, expect these nearly a thousand monsters to stay in the mountains forever and be our neighbors? Dream on," Gawain frowned, "we have to find a way to get rid of them......"

Amber glanced at Gawain silently: "Then I have a plan......"

Gawain was a little surprised: "Do you have a plan?" ”

"That's the case, I'll sneak over and kill one first, and then you, the legendary knight, will jump out in a heavenly god and go down to earth, and kill the remaining nine hundred and ninety with a war charge, and you, the great-granddaughter of a great beauty, will put a few arcane flowers next to you to help the fun, and when you go back, you will claim that these nearly a thousand monsters are the two of us to defeat together, you continue to be your lord and farm with peace of mind, and I will find a tavern to brag about...... Eh, don't go, I didn't finish it......"

Gawain knew that she was actually in a state of serious nervous analysis again when she was halfway through her mouth, so he didn't listen to what she was saying at all, but looked up at the surrounding terrain, and finally found a way to bypass those monsters, so he pulled Lahti's robe, and then carefully began to detour from the side.

Amber was stunned, stopped analyzing, and obediently escaped into the shadows to keep up with Gawain's pace.

The trio bypassed the slow-moving aberrations, found a path between the rocks, and followed the direction indicated by the corrupted path, approaching the gap in the Dark Mountains, and finally finding a high ground enough to look beyond the rocks to the southern side of the Dark Mountains.

Gao Wen climbed the mountain rock and looked into the distance.

On the other side of the mountain...... It's so dangerous that I accidentally think of the Smurfs.

There are no cute Smurfs on the other side of the mountain, only the ruins of civilization, only the remnants of the world of order, and only the wasteland of Gondor shrouded in chaos and darkness.

Although the true Gondor wasteland was still farther away, the aura of the polluted land was already present above the sky on the other side of the Dark Mountains—after crossing a certain dividing line, the sky on that side was as dark and chaotic as an eternal twilight, and large clouds of filthy clouds hung down from the sky, showing a sense of oppression that almost swallowed the earth, and under this strange sky, the earth took on a strange posture as if the otherworld was distorted.

From the southern foothills of the Dark Mountains, an endless forest of gloomy gloom covered all the mountains and a small strip of plains, and even from a distance, Gawain could see that the twisted woodland known as the "Black Forest" was filled with mutated giants that reached into the sky and swayed slowly, stretching out their poisonous tentacles to the sky; The farther ribbon rises with a thick mist, and the fog constantly presents phantoms of past cities, fortresses, palaces, etc., and beyond the phantom, you can see a barrier like an aurora.

The aurora barrier was the only thing in sight that was reassuring and pleasing to the eye, at this distance, it looked like a hazy shimmering ribbon, but in fact it was extremely tall and grandiose, the layer of "shimmering" connecting the sky and the earth, it seemed to be a fragile light curtain, but it was thicker and stronger than the mountains, and at the base of that light curtain, you could see one after another neatly arranged towers.

The light curtain is sustained by the powerful energy released by the tower.

The curtain of light is the wall of grandeur, and the tower beneath the curtain of light is the Sentinel Tower—a system that seals off the entire wasteland of Gondor and averts the destruction of all living beings across the continent.

Everyone knows that this barrier was built by the Elven Silver Empire, but in fact it is so beyond imagination that the technology and resources required to build it have exceeded the limit that any intelligent race alone can bear, and even the powerful Elven Silver Empire cannot bear it independently, so in fact, the elves only took the lead in taking half of the resource pressure and providing all the technology, and then all the forces on the continent, including the Dwarven Kingdom and the remnants of Gondor, jointly took on the other half of the material task, This barrier was built.

It was really a time of excitement.

But it was also an era when terror enveloped the land and no one could sleep peacefully.

Amber's head dangled under Gawain's shoulder, and she looked nervously at the polluted land south of the mountain, and then at the barrier further away with amazement.

Even with the barrier of the Great Wall, the aura of the Demon Tide still polluted a fairly large area outside the barrier, but compared to the inside of the barrier, even the Dark Forest was already a complete paradise.

Gawain turned his gaze away from the light curtain, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "The barrier is still there. ”

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