The village of Russelan, 700 miles southeast of Valencia, was also a small village close to the Aveli Mountains, with a total of less than 100 people in more than 30 households, but now it was a small military camp, and a force of more than 1,200 people was stationed outside the village, and Count Hawass established a command post in the village as military chief.

The arrival of the mages was warmly welcomed by the Count of Hawass, and a modest welcome feast was held in the village council hall. The humble low wooden table was filled with grilled steaks sprinkled with fine spices, stewed pork and potatoes, fine pepper sausages, freshly baked bacon pies and breads, a silver basin with the smell of creamy mushroom soup with precious saffron and thyme, and a large wooden barrel beside the table with sweet honey, wine as sweet as water, or soju as a flame in the mouth.

In short, the variety of delicacies takes care of both the knight who likes to eat the sea, and the mage who likes to be elegant and delicate, although the feast in the same hall, the knight and the mage are still distinct, and it is rare to see which knight can clink glasses with the mage and talk. Although Li Xun also wants to eat the grilled steak and let the delicious gravy flow with his hands, after all, he can only imagine that he can only follow the mage around him, pick some bread, pies, mushrooms and other plain foods on the dinner plate, and occasionally drink some wine, which makes the 17-year-old young man pretend to be a noble and elegant mage master, and he is really tortured to take a tone everywhere. Fortunately, while people were not paying attention, Li Xun secretly hid a piece of grilled steak in the dimensional bag, and prepared to go back to the room to enjoy it slowly.

Since he couldn't indulge in food, Li Xun began to slowly look at the people in the hall. Sitting in the middle of the hall, the high-ranking mage José Tiku was talking to Count Havas in a low voice, and the mages were discussing something in a bunch of three or two, and the knights were very enthusiastic, either drinking or laughing loudly, and the busy waiters were shuttling among them, and the scene was very hot. Out of boredom, Li Xun suddenly turned on his soul vision, wanting to see what a high-level mage looked like in his soul vision. In the soul vision, Jose Tiku showed a dark green, and the Count of Havas next to him was light green, sweeping the whole audience, the soul light was unstoppable, and the color was different, but it could correspond to the strength. Suddenly, the little bit of bright red in the knight's camp came into view, and Li Xun was startled, red?

The strength of the soul light can be seen from the shade of color, and the rules of color change are: red for those who are hostile to themselves, green for those who have good intentions for themselves, and blue for those who have nothing to do with themselves. I just arrived here today, and there is no one among the knights who knows him, why is there a red color that is hostile to him? Judging from the concentration of red, he should be a middle-level knight, and he has inadvertently offended people?

Shocked in his heart, Li Xun pretended not to care and looked at the knight. Due to attending the banquet, the other party did not wear full-body armor, but light armor of soft cowhide, and it can be seen that this middle-aged knight is very burly and strong, his face is not familiar, and on the cloak behind his back is a clenched iron fist badge. Judging from the attitude of the knights around him, his status should not be low, but he really hasn't seen this person, why is he hostile to himself?

While Li Xun was pondering, the banquet had been going on for two hours, and Count Havas clapped his hands lightly, and the busy waiters in the hall immediately bowed down and retreated, and closed the door. Count Havas glanced at everyone in the hall, raised the wine glass in his hand and said loudly, "God bless Novis!"

Everyone in the hall raised their glasses at the same time and said, "God bless Novis!"

After a sip of wine and silence in the hall, Count Havas continued: "Thank you to all the venerable mages for being able to fight alongside us! Your presence has brought hope of victory to our warriors, and I welcome you on behalf of the Fiolans!"

The knights applauded and saluted, buckled their chests and bowed, while the mages touched their foreheads and bowed in return, and the scene was very harmonious for a while.

The leader of the mages, the high-ranking mage, José Tiku, added with a smile, "As a member of the Duchy of Novis, when the Duchy is attacked by evil, we mages are willing to contribute our strength and obey the command of the Earl. ”

Count Havas nodded with satisfaction, "The evil necromancer has caused great trouble to our warriors, and it is difficult to remove the undead creatures that are raging in the mountains and forests, and we urgently need the support of your mages." The mages have just arrived here, and they don't know much about the situation here, so I'll give you a brief introduction here. ”

"Since our first attack two months ago, more than 300 people have been killed, and we have only recovered more than 40 corpses, and the rest have fallen into the hands of the damned necromancers and become their slaves. Those necromancers raid villages everywhere to make undead, and it is these moving corpses that fight us every day, and it is a disaster for our warriors to do something to these moving corpses that used to be our own!"

"Isn't there any information about necromancers?roughly where are they hiding?how many of them??," a mage asked, frowning.

"The necromancer preliminarily judged that there are 7-9 of them, one of them is suspected to be high-level, and the others seem to be low-level. Count Havas hesitated, his tone very weak.

"How can you tell if there is a high-level necromancer among them?"

"In order to expel these damn undead, we sent 11 knights, 1,000 elite soldiers, and fought with them in the jungle for many days, eliminating some of their undead men, but also lost 3 knights in a battle, only to find that they were refined into black knights in the next battle, and the necromancer who can refine the black knight in such a short time should be a high-level!"

Many mages nodded in unison, agreeing with this judgment, it seems that there is indeed a high-level necromancer among the enemies.

"They are cunning. Once dispersed, they used high-level undead to attack and ambush, and we were very passive, and the morale of the soldiers was low, so we had to retreat here to rest. Knight Hans has just led the team to repel a sneak attack by these undead, so let him tell me the specific situation at that time!"

With the words of Count Hawass, the middle-aged knight who was suspected by Li Xun walked out of the crowd, clasped his chest and saluted, and said loudly: "I was ordered by the Earl to lead 100 soldiers with Knight Mook to carry out a search mission in front of the large army, which is only 10 miles away from the large army. When he was camping and resting at night, he was attacked by the enemy. The main force of the enemy is 17 vampires, assisted by 30 ghosts, and our soldiers simply cannot deal with these undead. The team quickly fell into disarray, and the Mook Knight was captured by the vampires, and I rushed into the jungle with my men but could not get him out, so I had to lead the soldiers to hold out until dawn before retreating to the main camp. Didn't see a necromancer throughout the battle. ”

Li Xun's eyes flickered, and he thought of a possibility. This Hans knight has had direct contact with the undead, and could it be that he has been controlled by the necromancer, only then can explain why his soul takes on a hostile red color.

Is there a mind control in necromancy? It still needs to be easily detected by other mages, and it seems that I will have to read the Book of Death later!

The most important thing in combat is how to find the enemy, due to the existence of necromancers and high-level undead, the scouts in the army go out to scout is simply to send materials to the enemy, and it seems that the mage has to be invited.

So Li Xun and several low-level mages who aspired to become battle mages offered to go out to reconnoiter and provide intelligence for the large army. José Tiku happily took out the communication crystals and distributed them to the mages who signed up, agreeing to some of the personal requests made by the mages and promising to report to the Duchy for a heavy reward after the destruction of the undead.