Barty was unusually attentive to the pattern, but he didn't realize that there was a big difference between the large and small circles. The carving of the magic circle is not just a matter of practicing for a long time, otherwise it would have been a master of the world array long ago. In order to complete a high-level circle, you must first have an extremely deep understanding of the spells to be cast.

Although the strength of a "quick" powerhouse like Barty is not weak, when it comes to understanding magic, I am afraid that it is not as good as the apprentice in the normal magic tower.

However, power always brings blind confidence, and he carved faster and faster, but within an hour, the patterns on the books had been completely moved by him to the circle.

Although the night was cold, Barty felt a little sweaty. He carefully held the book to confirm the details, and finally felt that there was no problem, so he put the thick book aside.

He didn't notice that there were a few drops of black blood on the edge of the page where the array map was.

With revenge in mind, Barty began to order his men to start moving all the crystals - there were more than six hundred crystals found from the ruins, all of which were of the highest quality. These things were also rare in the high elf period, but most of the wood elves at the moment had no concept of this at all, and they threw the magic crystals there at random like moving stones, and Barty didn't bother to say anything, and began to embed the magic crystals into the magic circle one by one according to the fit.

After ten minutes, he finally got everything ready. After waking up the twelve strongest wood elves in each village, he took his head to the circle, and he picked up the dagger and made a cut between himself and the arms of the wood elves, so that the blood that was constantly flowing soaked on the edge of the circle...

This blood determines who the circle transforms into. The blood of the thirteen Wood Elves was mixed together, and the blood connection was enough to cover all the Wood Elves near Linnis Village.

"Let's get started..."

He stood in the center of the circle, and slowly activated the circle with his mind as a guide - at this moment, Barty suddenly felt a little dazed, because he felt as if some uncontrollable emotions appeared in his mind.

Barty shuddered, and his brain suddenly came back to his senses. At this time, he realized the danger of his actions: any abnormality in the magic circle of SLR would affect not only himself, but all the wood elves...

He suddenly looked to his side, and a mist-like element had already appeared on the edge of the circle, and Barty hurriedly stopped the guidance of his spiritual power and tried to stop. But the next moment, he found that the scene in front of him suddenly turned dark red.

Angry and agitated emotions seemed to be filled into someone's mind, and Barty, who had been breathing steadily, gasped for breath, and he tried to suppress it, but in vain. At this point, Barty clearly realized that he seemed to be missing something, but it was too late.

The dazzling light quickly engulfed everything...

When Panda opened his eyes, it was still dark.

"Priest, you're awake!"

Hearing DeWitt's voice, Panda knew he was still alive. The cold wind blew his cheeks numb, but he could feel his head and body wrapped tightly, and when his eyes were able to adjust to the dim light, he realized that the team had come to a strange glade.

"Where are we?"

He sat up, feeling a little dizzy—similar to the after-effects of overcasting, Panda had exhausted all his strength from last night's battle, and felt like he had been running all night.

"Lord Priest, we moved the camp a few dozen meters. ”

"Who's in command?"

"Commander Julia's soldiers are still there, and she says we'll go to Elsa Village at dawn. ”

Hearing this, Panda nodded. The team has suffered heavy losses, and it is not known if the Wood Elves will carry out a second attack, and the safest way is to go to the garrisoned village of Elsa... Despite his sensitive identity, Panda no longer considers himself an arcane. Walking as a priest of the "Cult of the Moon", no one should doubt his identity.

At this time, another priest handed over a few freshly cooked meat skewers: "Captain Julia said that we need to replenish our strength as soon as possible. ”

Panda was surprised by the strength and composure of this mercenary group. He glanced into the distance, "What are they doing?"

"It seems that I am studying the corpses of those wood elves, and these wood elves have become dried corpses after they die, and I don't know what happened..."

The priest who spoke continued, "Are you going to call them?"

"No, let's rest first. ”

He looked at the sky, and the moon was still visible. He whispered a few prayers, and opened his mouth to start a meat skewer - but after taking a bite, he remembered the rules of the Luna Sect of vegetarianism, but where the mercenaries went out, they paid attention to what kind of meat and vegetable combinations, and in order to replenish calories, they could even eat raw animal fat... In desperation, he whispered a few words of repentance and continued to stuff the meat skewers into his mouth.

The priest now thoroughly disciplined himself with doctrine.

On the other side, Luo Di and the others had already examined the corpses of the twelve wood elves one by one, and unexpectedly found twelve condensed "magic crystals".

"I said something was wrong... Because their aura is largely similar to that of demons. ”

Luo Di had bloody crystals in his hands, and said in a low voice: "There are many kinds of creatures in the demon plane, and among those guys who invaded the high elf civilization at the beginning, the commanders with a little strength all have things like magic crystals. So much so that the high elves later recorded: 'To deal with this kind of character, you must dig out the magic crystal to completely kill'..."

Iskar nodded: "It's true, I remember seeing it." But... The fluctuations emitted by these wood elves are still different from those of demons after all. And these are not the kind of people with demonic blood like Tevelin, nor are they the way they were after being infected by infected beasts, and they seem to be sane. ”

"It's the tall elves that are to be doubted now, not the wood elves. Kardashian pointed to the collapsed mountain in the distance: "They must have stolen something from the ruins and become like this." ”

"But I don't remember that there was such a thing in the history of high elves..."

Rubens scratched his head as several people spoke, when a strange green wave of light suddenly streaked across the sky.

The dragons who were talking around the corpse suddenly got up, and the green curtain of light sweeping outward like waves overhead was too weird, and what made them feel palpitations the most was the familiar, sulfur-like smell.

"It's really a demon?!"

The original judgment was completely overturned at this moment, and Iskar's eyes, who were still distinguishing between the wood elves and the demons, widened, and after the green light curtain above the clearing disappeared, they all felt the oppression they had only felt when they were at the Demon Gate before...

(End of chapter)