290, Lava Knight [4000 words]

After a night's rest, early the next morning, Ouyang Jing and his entourage set off again.

This time, he and the minotaur warriors no longer need to use their feet to hurry, and they all have good horses to walk.

The best rouge horse - after a full meal, a night's rest, and Gesar lifted the negative energy seal on his body, the horse's body fur became as smooth and beautiful as a red rabbit Elena. Blazing Flame naturally became Ouyang Jing's mount.

Gesar and the four minotaur warriors each rode a female warrior of Elena's guards.

Adult minotaur males are generally more than two meters four tall, and the four minotaur warriors selected by Ouyang Jing as guards are even more than two and a half meters. The body shape of the bull head is horizontally developed, with broad and thick shoulders and back, like a thick wall. Their bone and muscle density are also far greater than those of humans.

Therefore, the weight of a two-meter-and-five-meter minotaur is basically about two hundred and fifty kilograms. Including weapons and equipment, the total weight is close to 350 kilograms.

However, even so, Elena's female guards were still able to easily carry the minotaur warriors, and trotted quickly on all fours. There was even room to talk and laugh loudly with the minotaur warriors on their backs.

The only thing that is a little embarrassing is that the minotaur warriors are too tall and thick, and there is always a feeling of incongruity when riding on a centaur female warrior whose total height is not as good as theirs.

But it didn't matter, anyway, the minotaur warriors and centaur female warriors seemed quite happy - the minotaur warriors had horses to ride, and they didn't have to travel long distances on their legs, so they were very happy; The Centaur female warriors escaped alive and no longer had to be the ogre's reserve food, and they followed a powerful "Divine Son Lord", and of course they were also very happy.

Since everyone is so happy, the slightest incongruity can be ignored.

Ouyang Jing was also in a happy mood.

As a horse lover, although there is already a red rabbit, there are always too many good horses.

Although Elena is only half a good horse, and the other half is a human, whether she is a human or a horse, she is always beautiful and eye-catching, can run fast, and is very good at fighting - this point, even Chitu can't compare to her.

Early this morning, before setting off, Ouyang Yue had already used the steel ingots he carried in the storage ring to control the innate ability of metal, and tailored weapons and battle armor for Elena and the centaur female warriors.

Now they all wore iron helmets, and their upper bodies were covered with steel plate cuirasses lined with calfskin, and each was equipped with two thick-backed straight knives, and a longbow with steel arms.

The horses were also covered with thick felt. Even the four hooves were nailed to the shoes.

Iron weapons are scarce in the steppe, and the centaurs, let alone the shoes, even iron weapons are extremely scarce. Only the best condor archers in the tribe can be equipped with iron arrows, iron tools, and a heart guard.

And now, each of them wears an iron helmet on his head, an iron armor, a steel bow on his back, and a steel knife hanging from his waist, and even his hooves are inlaid with a hoof.

This made the centaur female warriors feel ten thousand satisfied and infinitely grateful to Ouyang Jing, the new lord. I can't wait for a group of enemies to appear now, so that they can show off their martial prowess in front of the lord, and try out their newly acquired good equipment.

Elena's outfit is even more luxurious.

As "my horse", the strength and weight-bearing capacity are the strongest "sweat and blood BMW", Ouyang Jing created a full-body plate armor for her.

Not only helmets and cuirass, but also back armor, shoulder armor, arm armor, and hand armor are all available.

Because in addition to being a marksman, she is also a "lava knight" - lava knight, which is a special combat class in the centaur race.

This combat class, which not everyone is capable of, is a gifted class related to bloodline.

Only centaur warriors with a special bloodline, who can communicate with the earth and fire elements, and activate the power of the elements, can perform "lava trampling" can be called lava knights.

Elena performed a "lava trampling" for Ouyang Jing, which was indeed quite a powerful ability.

At that time, she rushed with her hooves, and when she charged, suddenly a person stood up and stepped heavily on a pair of front hooves.

As soon as she stepped on it, the earth shook, sinking, and bursting, and even more blazing magma erupted from cracks in the ground, spurting out a large fan of one hundred and twenty degrees in front of her hooves, with a range of nearly ten meters.

This trick is used in battle, and it can be said that no military formation can resist it.

Whether it is used to charge and break the formation, or to hedge against the cavalry, this lava trampling move is a desirable cover.

It's a pity that this trick is too expensive. When Elena launched the lava trample, her aura briefly climbed to the four-star initial level, but after using it, her aura quickly fell back, and she was sweating profusely, panting, and looking quite tired.

According to her, with her current strength, she can only perform a maximum of four lava tramples in a day, and each time she activates, she will have to rest for a long time to recover. If she activates it twice in a row, she will lose all her strength in an instant.

Even so, Ouyang Jing still praised her ability, in addition to the steel arm longbow with heavy bow arms and two thickened and widened long knives, he also specially equipped her with a full-body steel Zhangba snake spear, which fully armed her.

He even fantasized that if he could recruit a team of "lava knights", it would not take too many, a thousand horsemen would be enough, then when the time came, who would be able to stop the charge of his cavalry legion?

I'm afraid that if it's a six-star powerhouse, I have to avoid the edge for the time being.

It's a pity that it's just a beautiful fantasy.

Because Elena said that only centaurs with the blood of earth and fire given by Mother Earth can communicate with the earth and fire elements at the same time, activate the power of the elements, and perform "lava trampling". And the centaurs of this bloodline are basically the chieftain families of various major tribes.

And even in the chieftain families of large clans, not everyone can steadily awaken this ability.

Like Elena's father, who has been killed in battle, the famous Lava Knight, can perform eighteen lava tramples a day, and can perform up to four times at the same time in a short period of time, trampling shock range, lava splash distance, close to thirty meters, and the bloodline is so pure that it couldn't be more pure.

Elena's mother is of the same blood. But of their seven sons and three daughters, only Elena and her two older brothers were able to communicate with the earth and fire elements at the same time, and perform lava trampling.

Elena's other five brothers, two older sisters, can only communicate with one element of earth and fire, and can only use ordinary "trampling" skills, or fire archery.

Therefore, the scene of a thousand lava knights in Ouyang Jing's fantasy of charging and breaking the formation at the same time can basically only appear in fantasy.

With good horses to ride, the speed of the group was more than twice as fast as when they were walking yesterday.

Before noon, Ouyang Jing and his entourage came to an important landmark area on the grassland, the Rinfeng Canyon.

On both sides of the Rinfeng Canyon are weathered cliffs, stretching for hundreds of miles to the left and right. Within these hundreds of miles, there is only one ditch in the Rinfeng Canyon that connects the north and south passages.

Although the highest part of the cliff is only about ten meters, and the low place is even only five or six meters high, the terrain on the cliff is fragmented, full of ravines and caves, not only rugged and difficult to walk like a labyrinth, but also a large number of bears, goblins, ogres, jackals, wild boar people and other evil monsters.

Therefore, most of the travelers passing through this place gathered in groups, and crossed this dangerous area from the middle of the canyon with high alert.

Fortunately, the canyon is not long, only about ten kilometers, and the bottom of the valley is very wide, two or three kilometers at the widest point, and more than one kilometer at the narrowest point. The valley floor is also very flat, and the carriage and horses can pass freely.

When Gesar traveled south with the remnants, he passed through this canyon.

Four days ago, Elena had also passed by here with more than a dozen female guards soldiers.

It's a pity that there are too few of them, which caused a migrating ogre family to covet it, and they were ambushed by the ogre family and attacked them secretly.

Elena and the others fled all the way, exhausted, hungry and thirsty, in a very bad state, and very poor in weapons and equipment, so they were caught off guard and killed six female warriors on the spot. Elena and the remaining seven female warriors were also captured and imprisoned by the ogres as a reserve.

If Ouyang Jing hadn't gone north to the grassland and arrived in time, then Elena and her seven female guards would have been slaughtered and eaten by ogres in the coming daysβ€”ogres don't need war horses.

Perhaps the weapons and equipment of Ouyang Jing and his entourage were too luxurious, and when they crossed the Rinfeng Canyon, although they were few in number, they were not attacked by evil monsters, and they walked safely all the way to the end of the canyon.

Out of the valley and looking at the prairie that was opening up again, Ouyang Jing motioned to Elena to stop and said to Gesar: "There is no need to continue north, we will camp here." ”

As a tribal chief and shaman, Gesar's intelligence was naturally sufficient, and when he heard this, he immediately understood his thoughts, knowing that His Highness the Divine Son wanted to stay on the road that must be passed south within a radius of several hundred miles, waiting for the tribes that migrated or fled south to the door automatically.

Immediately, he turned over and dismounted, and took the four minotaur warriors and seven centaur female warriors and set up camp.

Ouyang Jing did not dismount, and motioned for Elena to carry him to the top of the valley cliff.

The canyon faces the grassland, the valley mouth is more than a kilometer wide, the cliff tops on both sides are about seven or eight meters high, and the cliff wall is not particularly steep.

Ouyang Jing stood at the top of the cliff, squinted his eyes, and stared at it. As far as the eye can see, there is an endless grassland, and there is no sign of human activity for the time being.

After looking at it for a while, and just as he was about to go down, there was a sudden gurgling sound behind him.

When I looked back, I saw several monsters with wild boar heads, more than two meters tall, dressed in tattered animal skins, and carrying huge bone mallets, crawling up from a dirt ditch not far behind, and rushing towards them with small eyes full of fierce light.

"Boar people."

Elena whispered, and slammed the spear to the ground, and the short cone of the spear handle pierced the ground and stood firmly in her hand.

Then she took off the steel arm longbow she was carrying, and took out three pointed steel heavy arrows with a triangular pyramid shape, and at the same time put these three arrows on the bowstring, and pulled it with force, and the steel arm longbow with a bow force of a thousand catties was suddenly bent like a full moon.

Boom! In the crunching sound, the heavy arrow left the string.

Almost at the same time as the sound of the bowstring, the sound of popping into the flesh was also heard. Three heavy steel arrows simultaneously sank into the left eyes of the three boarmen, and even pierced their steel-solid skulls, exiting through the back of their heads.

Elena didn't stop, shooting three times in a row, and in less than two seconds, she shot all eight strong and hideous boar men.

"Good archery! He is worthy of being a condor shooter on the grassland. Ouyang Jing smiled and praised.

Elena's face was slightly red, and she smiled shyly: "I haven't shot down the Golden-winged Demon Eagle yet, so I can't be considered an eagle shooter." But...... With the bow and arrow given to me by His Highness the Son of God, even if it is a golden-winged demon eagle, I should be able to shoot it down. But it's not because I have the strength of the Condor Shooter, it's just because ...... With such a good bow and arrow, it's just that. ”

The condor archers on the grassland can use ordinary wooden bows and iron arrows to shoot arrows containing elemental power to kill the golden-winged demon eagles. Elena, on the other hand, can't bless the elemental power to the arrows, which requires too much control of the elemental power, and Elena can't manipulate the elemental power so finely.

Ouyang Jing smiled and said, "Weapons and equipment are also part of strength. The reason why the demon cavalry on the grassland are invincible is not because their weapons and equipment are far superior to yours? ”

Elena nodded gloomily: "Yes, Your Highness the Divine Son, what you said is exactly what you said. ”

"It's not a wise saying, it's just a simple fact."

Ouyang Jing smiled: "Don't be sad. My territory, on the edge of the grassland, will have a battle with the demon cavalry sooner or later. When that time comes, you will take revenge on the demon cavalry with the bows and arrows and weapons I have given you. ”

Elena's eyes lit up and she nodded heavily. Then all four hooves trotted towards the boar carcasses, ready to retrieve the arrows.

Ouyang Jing looked at the corpses of the eight wild boar people, and then looked at the ravine-covered and fragmented terrain on the top of the cliff, and his spiritual sense emanated, and within a radius of only a kilometer, he sensed dozens of evil bloodthirsty aura.

"Here...... It seems that there are a lot of evil creatures hidden...... They are all big men with strong physiques and vigorous blood, but they are also poorly equipped, and they are unorganized in battle, and they only know how to rush up in chaos. There are almost no combat skills, and they will only rely on brute force to rampage...... It's a great place to get sacrifices! ”

As soon as he thought of this, Ouyang Jing suddenly had an idea, and decided to recruit enough tribesmen, arm them, sweep those evil monsters here, and bring them all back as sacrifices.

As for whether this will trigger the association of the tribesmen, and associate his behavior with the "demon sacrifice" of the grassland reincarnation, it will cause panic......

Ouyang Jing thought for a while, and said casually: "My mother goddess, I need sacrifices. She is a good god, and the sacrifices offered to her, in addition to minerals, grains, and treasures, are also very pleasing to her.

"Since there are so many evil creatures here...... I decided that when I had recruited enough men, I would take out all the evil monsters in this area and bring them back to sacrifice to my mother goddess. First, you can please my mother and give you a reward. Second, you can also get rid of some scourge for the steppe tribesmen, Elena, what do you think of my idea? ”

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