Deep in the Dark Mountains.

The pioneer team has been active here for a month, and after gaining a foothold, Gawain will send various exploration teams every day to search for supplies and survey the terrain in the southern mountains, the western forests, the eastern mines, or the wilderness on the other side of the Baishui River. But although it was newly discovered, there had been several rounds of exploration and soldier patrols, but no trace of the monster had ever been found.

The aberrations are undoubtedly new to the scene.

The road into the mountain was not easy to walk, and although Gawain and Amber had amazing foot strength, there were two serfs who were ordinary people who could not walk so fast, and it took them nearly an hour to finally get close to the fork in the road where the monster attack had occurred before.

As she got closer and closer to that place, Amber, who was usually a big grin and jumpy guy, couldn't help but get nervous, she clenched the small dagger and lowered her voice: "It's been so long, those monsters should wander away......"

"Not necessarily, you don't understand the 'habits' of aberrants," Gawain looked at the rocky mountain road in front of him and the plants growing on both sides of the mountain road, his gaze lingered for a long time on a steep mountain wall that seemed to collapse at any moment, and then said in a low voice, "They are not normal life forms, they do not need to eat in a magical environment, and they have no clear purpose of action other than the instinct of attacking intelligent life and tending to the source of magical power." If there is a human or magical reaction within range, they will pounce, but if not, they will wander aimlessly, or stay where they are. Of course, if their numbers reach a certain level, the actions will be difficult to predict. ”

"So what the hell is an aberration......" Amber muttered, her eyes wandering between the shadows of the trees, not on the lookout for enemies hiding in the shadows, but on the lookout for an escape route.

Gawain shook his head: "It's really hard to say. There is a conjecture that humans have become deformed after being attacked by the magic of chaos, and there is also a theory that the passage to another world has opened in the demon tide, and that the aberrant came from another dimension, but in fact, none of these claims have been confirmed. ”

Amber pursed her lips, and said in her heart that even people like Gawain, who had fought with monsters for twenty years in their previous lives, couldn't tell where the monsters came from, so it seemed that the so-called experts and scholars in the interior of the kingdom were even more unreliable in this regard.

And just as her eyes swept around, a sudden trace on the ground caught her attention: "Hey, there seems to be something over there!" ”

On the rock wall not far ahead, you can see the cracked rock, and you can see the dried blood stains between the cracks in the rock.

The two serfs who were in charge of leading the way trembled like chaff when they saw the trace.

"Looks like it's around here," Gawain gripped the Pioneer Sword tightly, intently sensing any subtle changes around him, "be on your toes." ”

Amber swallowed, and cautiously turned after Gawain to the other side of the fork in the road, as if facing a great enemy.

Suddenly, Gawain stopped, an instinctive alertness from the body spreading, and guided by this alertness, he quickly ducked behind a boulder and looked to the other side of the trail.

Four gigantic humanoid creatures like flesh and bones giants appeared in view, staggering along the mountain path, their faces flowing with red mud without facial features, and their chests and abdomen constantly emitted chaotic, blasphemous, indescribable whispers.

Oh, whispering.

"One, two, three...... Four," came a slightly hot breath in his ears, and Amber's voice in a low voice came from behind him, "it seems that the serfs have encountered them." It doesn't seem that you haven't found us yet, you go first, and I'll run when you can't see it. ”

Gawain didn't pay attention to the elven shame's daily searching, his eyes were fixed on the abdomen of one of the deformed objects, where he could see a distorted and decaying gray-black object, others might not be able to tell what it was, but Gawain saw the clue after looking at it carefully: it was the weapon of the Gondor Empire!

He retracted his gaze, intently sensed the surroundings, and confirmed that there were no more monsters nearby, before responding to Amber: "Wait for me to charge head-on, you sneak over and backstab the last one, drag the next one, and after I solve the other two, let's join forces to solve the battle." ”

Amber blinked and nodded happily, "Okay, wait for you to act." ”

Although she deliberately gags and says some strange things before, it is clear that when it comes to doing the right thing, she is still unambiguous.

The two serfs who led the way were already frightened by the monster at this time, but they finally mustered up the last courage to cover their mouths, and did not panic and scream and ran away, which was already quite a good performance for them, Gawain nodded to the two of them, told them to be quiet and wait, and then raised the sword of the pioneer.

The magic power was injected into the blade, and the scorching light erupted from the blade, and Gawain's armor was also covered with a layer of pale white shimmer, and then he jumped up, directly crossed the distance of dozens of meters, and slashed down from the sky towards the monster that had just reacted.

At the same time as he leaped out, a hazy shadow also flashed through the air, and then the last of the four monsters shook - it had just been caught by Gawain's attention, and was looking up to the sky to let out a chaotic roar, but the chrysanthemum was hit hard, and fell to the ground after a critical blow.

Amber emerged from the shadows and began to quickly swim around the other monster that had already reacted, her little dagger had no effect when it hit outside of the monster's weak point, only to burst out with some red mud or sparks, so as soon as the fight began, she shouted, "Boss, help!" ”

Gawain's long sword had already been cut down, slashing the first deformed into a stumbling slash, and then he didn't pursue, but turned around and pounced directly on the monster with an ancient sword in its abdomen, just as he expected: although a sword in the stomach was not a fatal wound to the freak, it would also affect its activities, and in the face of Gawain's fierce attack, it only resisted twice, and was directly cut into two pieces.

If you have the strength to cut the enemy in two, then it doesn't matter if you hit the weak point or not.

The aberrant in front of him let out a chaotic and inexplicable roar, its dying murmur mixed with the power that could disturb people's minds, but Gawain didn't care about the momentary trance in his mind, and with the help of force, twisting his body, the blade had already slashed at the enemy who was slashed by his first sword.

Then, in Amber's screaming and screaming, the last enemy was killed.

As the giant of flesh and mud fell to the ground and quickly disintegrated into the elements of chaos in the air, Amber followed suit. The stock fell to the ground: "Oh my god...... I'm exhausted...... Looks like I'm going to have to sharpen my escape skills......"

Gawain replied without raising his head while inspecting the remains of the monster that fell to the ground: "Isn't it normal to think that at this time, shouldn't you improve your frontal combat effectiveness?" ”

"Let me tell you, my current frontal combat strength is already my personal peak, and I am very self-aware...... Eh, what are you studying? ”

Amber asked curiously when she noticed that Gawain was crouching next to the remains of one of the aberrations, his head bowed and his face invested.

Gawain beckoned: "Come and see." ”

Amber obediently leaned in, and she saw the deformed figure fall to the ground, a large amount of flesh and mud that had "evaporated" from its body, except for a blood-red skeleton (which would take a few days to completely dissipate). And on this terrible skeleton, a piece of metal that has been badly twisted and corroded is stuck.

Amber blinked, "What is this?" ”

"The Gondor's Empire-style soldier's sword," Gawain said in a serious tone, "it can't be wrong, it's the model used by the Empire's northern outposts back then." ”

Although Amber has a detached personality, she is not stupid, and at this time she reacted instantly: "Wait! This monster has this thing on it...... So it came from the Gondor wasteland?! ”

Gawain nodded silently.

"This ...... How is this possible! Amber felt a cold sweat spread from the back of her head to her heels, "The entire Gondor wasteland is surrounded by a magnificent wall built by the elves, and those Sentinel Towers are not decorations...... How could these monsters get out?! ”

Gawain was silent for a while, and then suddenly said faintly, "It's been seven hundred years since the magnificent wall stood there. ”

Amber's face twitched, and she smiled dryly, "Hey...... Hehe, don't scare me, maybe these monsters were locked out of the wall in the first place, dangling among the Dark Mountains and Sentinel Towers, and just dangling here this year. ”

"It's impossible, the aberrations will gradually disintegrate after breaking away from the Demon Tide environment, unless they are large enough to form a new Chaos Magic Environment," Gawain dispelled Amber's last hope, "These monsters can't survive outside the walls for seven hundred years, so...... They came out of the wall. ”

Amber thought for a moment and shuddered: "...... Damn! ”

"Don't be quiet," Gawain looked Amber in the eye, "it doesn't have to be that bad - I was there when the Sentinel Tower was erected, and I know that those things are self-healing and load-balancing, so it's unlikely to shut down completely." The most likely possibility is that one of the Sentinel Towers has temporarily lost power due to age, but the barrier will heal itself in a short time......"

Amber swallowed: "What does it mean to translate in human words?" ”

Gawain: "...... It's that the barrier may have a hole for a while, but it will fill it on its own. ”

"Then you didn't say it sooner," Amber quickly patted her chest that didn't have much presence, "and startled me." ”

Gao Wen still frowned: "Don't be busy relaxing, it's obvious that there is a problem with the magnificent wall, even if there is a hole and it is patched, it is enough to prove that it is aging, and the small hole will become a big hole sooner or later." ”

"What then?!"

“…… No, I have to take a look, even if the wall is still there," Gao Wen got up, "Stay here and guess, I will never be at ease." ”

"Then I'm ......" Amber stood up with it, her mind swaying violently between cowardice and recklessness, but in the end she was still infected by Gawain's attitude and gritted her teeth, "I'll go with you!" ”