Not long after everyone calmed down, there was a sudden shouting sound getting closer and closer from the twisted woodland, which sounded like a large group of men and horses marching in the forest, and at the same time, the dark and dreary woods also gathered from everywhere with the light of torches like fireflies, which made Lily subconsciously pull out her blades of ice and fire, and the others immediately became vigilant.

With the sound of horses' hooves, the first to emerge from the shadows of the trees in the dense forest were a group of knights. They rode tall military horses, dressed in the glittering armor of the Knights of the Church, covered with sacred robes emblazoned with the crest of the Radiant Order, and each knight held a sword with the glow of magic in his hand, as if he was about to enter a battle. Behind these knights, groups of soldiers who were obviously mages also rode out on horseback.

More and more soldiers leaped out of the jungle on horseback, and the next few groups, apparently members of the Knights of the Kingdom, ran to the open space of the lake with murderous shouts, only to be dumbfounded: there were only black boulders everywhere, and a small group of strangers of unknown origin, whose "prey" was gone.

"Woo-hoo-"

With the sound of shouting, the knights stopped their horses, and several captain-like soldiers rode their horses and trotted to Hao Ren and them, they did not dismount, but clenched their swords vigilantly: "Who are you?!" Why linger at the Sacred Lake? ”

Hao Ren was a little stunned, he didn't know what the situation was, but he still subconsciously said the nonsense that he had memorized for a long time: "We are traveling mages from the Northern Empire...... I registered a mercenary group on the side of Halletta, and I came here a while ago on a mission to find the Templar Orb. ”

He wasn't sure what the knights were coming from, so he only mentioned that he was a mercenary group that had come to find the Templar Orb. He didn't mention that the Templar Orb had been found, but the middle-aged knight captain on the other side was even more vigilant after hearing this explanation: "Orb? The search operation was terminated half a month ago! You ......"

Just when Hao Ren noticed that the situation had changed and began to think about how to fool around. The bearded dervish suddenly walked up from behind: "Is it the paladin of the church?" Which parish? We are ascetics who accept the mission of the Goddess. ”

The bearded four of them were all wearing shabby gray robes, and they usually had a low sense of existence. You can't notice them at all when you don't speak, just now the knight captain also thought that these four gray-robed people were just ordinary down-and-out mercenaries, and then he heard the other party speak before he paid attention to it, and finally recognized that the gray robe was the sign of the ascetic of the church. The bearded man also took out a shiny piece of metal from his arms and shook it in front of the knight captain's eyes, and the latter carefully identified it before turning over and dismounting: "It's an ascetic?!" How did you end up here? We haven't heard of dervishes sent down from above......"

It seems that the knight captain is very cautious, even if he sees the "identity certificate", he is not directly fooled, after all, the ascetic is very special in the Radiant Sect, they are not regular troops, but special elites that only the Pope and the goddess can directly command. The presence of a small group of dervishes in such a place is unbelievable. The bearded man took a closer look at the insignia on the church officer before removing his hood: "It's the senior knight of the Dictor of Gerton, you should have seen the four of us at the 'induction ceremony' a few months ago. ”

The reception ceremony was held a few months ago when the Templar Orb had just arrived in the Diocese of Beinz, and when the Knight Captain heard these four words, he immediately looked up and down at the bearded man and the other three beside him, and after a moment he showed a shocked look: "You...... You are the ...... of the Orb of the Templar Four masters, how did you end up here? ”

Only then did Betsy jump out boldly and confidently, patting her chest vigorously and pretending to be a leader: "Do you still need to ask!" The Templar Orb has been found by our mercenary group! By the way, there are four other masters that we also found - but I don't know how many additional bounties the four masters can exchange for in addition to a set of manors in the orb......"

Hao Ren hurriedly dragged the mercenary girl who didn't keep the door on her lips back: Betsy is good for everything, but once the topic of making a fortune is mentioned, the whole person will be excited. If you listen to her, what you know is that she has brought back several masters, and those who don't know think that she tied them back......

The bearded man glanced back at Betsy, and the expression on his face was blank: "We must not be as precious as the orb." But it should be possible to change a few good horses. ”

Hao Ren hurriedly played the round: "You are too polite, you are too polite, a character like you." Even if it is kidnapped and sold, it is worth at least two houses......"

Vivien punched him hard in the back: "If you can't speak, don't speak!" ”

The Knight Captain and the other squad leaders around him were still a little confused at this time, and the Templar Orb, which had been missing for months, was suddenly found. Even the four masters, who had been listed as "martyrs saints", stood intact in front of them, and the sudden situation felt unreal to them. But after a few moments, the professional soldiers reacted. The captain of the knights suddenly turned around and shouted to the adjutant behind him, "Send a signal!" Call the rest of the team! Escort the relics back to town! ”

An adjutant immediately fired a signal flare into the sky, and the knight captain suddenly remembered something else after the fire exploded in the air, he looked at the pile of small mountain-like black stones at the scene in amazement, and looked at the bearded man incredulously: "Master, there should have been a group of stone demons here just now...... Could it be that they have all been purified by several Excellencies? ”

The bearded man pointed at Hao Ren very calmly: "It was solved by him." ”

The knight captain swallowed his saliva, he was already startled when he saw the remains of the stone giants on the lake beach just now, seeing such a few mercenaries in front of him, of course he couldn't believe that the more than a hundred stone giants were killed by these people, at most he barely believed that it was the powerful ascetic who made the miracle, but now the latter frankly said that the credit should be attributed to a mercenary who did not look amazing, which made him feel a little fantastic: "He? Alone? ”

"There are two of them on average," Hao Ren smiled and pointed to a few people around him, "I'm one hundred and twenty-two." ”

The knight captain's mouth didn't close for a long time, and finally he held back a sentence: "...... Are all the magicians of the Northern Empire monsters?! ”

Hao Ren clasped his hands on his chest to show his master's temperament, and the number of jù terminals buzzed in his pocket, and the voice was transmitted directly to his head: "Pretend, continue to pretend, what did you do just now except to consume some calories when running in circles?" Becky has a higher DPS than you, okay? ”

The captain of the knights didn't know the real situation, anyway, he directly treated Hao Ren as a monster, but he was just a middle- and low-level officer who acted obediently, and he wouldn't investigate the details. And Itzax found that there would be no more misunderstandings, so he stepped forward and asked, "What the hell is going on here?" Golem was driven here by you? Also, we passed by the outpost by the lake before, what happened over there? ”

The knight captain looked at the two-and-a-half-meter-tall giant, and subconsciously supported his helmet: "You don't know? Where have you been for the past six months? ”

"With them, not in the Beinz area," Hao Ren raised his hand and pointed to his beard, "We just ran in directly with spatial teleportation, the specific situation is related to the orb, it is confidential, and we can only say it after meeting the rectend." Just explain to us what's going on here. ”

It really worked to bring out the "Templar Orb", and the knight captain immediately did not suspect him, and he sighed: "The stone giant is from the Dragon's Back Mountains...... You know that, huh? Well, the basic situation is that the number of stone golems suddenly increased half a month ago, and once broke through the defense line of Leighton Town, and an ancient passage also appeared on the flank of the mountain range, allowing many monsters to infiltrate the area around the twisted woodland and the holy lake. We were ordered to encircle and suppress the monsters tonight, and we have been tracking them for two days and two nights, and we managed to drive them into the encirclement tonight - I didn't expect to be solved by you. As for the lakeside outposts, they were lost a few days ago, and now several outposts around the sacred lake are under attack almost daily...... These are not secrets, as soon as you go back and inquire about them, you will know that there are also many mercenaries on the outer defense line to help guard the stone giant from escaping the kingdom. ”

"How's the situation in Leighton Town now?" Hao Ren asked casually.

"Marshal Ofrah himself has taken it back, and you can rest there," said the knight captain, shrugging his shoulders and smiling, "but there is no guarantee of a good night's sleep: those big monsters are shaking the mountains as they run, and the nearby mountains are cracking several times a day." ”

The bearded man suddenly asked nervously, "Where's the holy lake?!" What the hell are those monsters trying to do to the Sacred Lake?! Did they damage the lake? ”

(Ask for a commuter pass!!) I don't know if it's too late to ask for a ticket on this last day...... (To be continued......)