"Meteorite, what's that?" said Magill, looking at Nerfi, his face full of bewilderment.

Nerfi walked to the edge of the pit and looked to the bottom of the pit, where the black stone balls had been washed away by the rain and had revealed some brownish yellow. "It is said that meteorites were summoned from other worlds, and they burned all around them, falling rapidly from the sky and smashing into the ground, with a tremendous impact that could destroy all living things in their path, and all living creatures in their vicinity would be scorched by the heat. ”

The more Magill listened, the more dazed he became. "How did these damn spells come to be, wouldn't we be dead if we clashed head-on with these mages?

"It's very unlikely, but it's promising. Nerfi looked across the crater and estimated its diameter. "The mage who can cast meteorite spells must be an archmage, but judging from the size of this crater, he is not a very high-level archmage. ”

"Hell, could there be more terrifying magic than that? I can't imagine. Magir shook his head as he scanned the corpses scattered across the walls of the pit.

"Of course, I guess the disaster in Grivel was also caused by magic, and the sight there will definitely make you realize the power of magic again. Nerfi walked up the edge of the pothole.

Magill glanced at the knights behind him, and the knights split into four squads and scattered to examine the bodies. Compared with the corpses found two days ago, the corpses here were even more miserable, and the charred and mutilated corpses could hardly be reminiscent of a person. The knights turned the corpses over one by one with branches or scabbards, and though they didn't know what clues they could get from the black, unrecognizable corpses, they continued mechanically.

Stan roughly estimates the number of corpses as far as the eye can see. "There are almost fifty corpses, and it's impossible to tell if they are from the Mage Tower or the Twilight Cult, and it's hard to deduce how many people they have gathered here. ”

Nerfi nodded thoughtfully. "Meteorite is a very dangerous magic, no matter which side casts it, it must be injured by mistake, and if you don't get it, you will also put yourself in it, it can be seen that the party who cast this magic at that time must have been desperate, but I didn't expect so many mages to go deep into Threndra, and judging from the current clues, there are many archmages among them. ”

"Is it just to capture the Holy Seal? I should have asked Lord Sigmund to give me a whole formation of knights, at least five hundred. Magill looked ahead worriedly, and the tragic events he had witnessed along the way made him feel very uncertain about the safety of his team.

Tirin didn't seem to be much frightened by the tragic situation in front of him, and was still very calm. "A large number of people is not necessarily an advantage, you look at these mages, with so many people, but fighting all the way, it is better to send only an elite team, but you can avoid the attention of the enemy. ”

Magill looked at Tirin disapprehantly. "It's even more risky for you to do this, once you are discovered, you can only wait for death, and a few people encounter large-scale interception, and there is no chance of winning. ”

Tirin retorted, and Nerfi's voice interjected. "The mages of the Twilight Sect turned out to be from the Mage Tower, so it is very likely that there are still their spies in the Mage Tower, Etiyesh must have taken this into account, so he decided to send as many people as possible to escort the Holy Seal, he did not dare to take this risk, the Holy Seal is very important to him, and the purpose of their coming to Serendra must also be crucial, and no mistakes can be allowed. ”

"But what the hell are they going to do, isn't the Lord of the Dark on the northern border?" Stan asked, puzzled.

Nerfi shrugged and sighed softly. "Isn't that what we're here for?"

"Our purpose is more than that, we must take back the Seal and bring it back to Canrito. Magir looked at the crowd steadfastly.

Tirin smiled wryly and turned away. "It's a blessing that we can return to Kanrito alive, and if we want to regain the Holy Seal from those mages, I think it will take five hundred people. ”

Magir frowned, and paced back and forth on the edge of the pit without saying a word, it would be a great shame for him if the task given to him by the Grand Lord failed, and the knight captain felt that the glory was leaving him.

"Come on! there is a situation!" Ted's shout came from a distance, and everyone almost didn't hesitate, and immediately ran in that direction, and ran dozens of steps before they saw several knights guarding the surroundings, Ted and Ulf were kneeling on the ground, as if protecting something, and in front of them was a massively burned corpse, compared to the corpse near the crater, although the corpse far from the center of the explosion was gone, there were still a few pieces of skin that were not completely charred. Seeing everyone leaning over, Ted lifted one of the corpse's arms, revealing several symbols on the inside of the arm. "He must have been set on fire by the explosion, and in a hurry he took off his burning clothes, but he still did not escape death, and he seemed to have written something before he died. ”

Nerfi frowned, but still resisted the discomfort and crouched down to look at the blurred writing on his clothes, which had faded after a few days of rain. "Fortunately, he wrote with a magic charcoal pen, and he can still keep it to this day, otherwise he would not have been recognizable. ”

Stan remembers the letter Quiai wrote to Fern at Dagger Mountain, when she must have used the same magic. "Can you recognize what is written, it seems to be just a simple sentence. ”

"It's the symbols in the spell, each one corresponds to some text, I'll try it. Nellfi looked at the handwriting carefully, her lips trembling slightly, and she read it out word by word. "If they want to release the Dark Lord, they must stop them, and we are about to run out of them. ”

Everyone gasped, and in the sweltering rainforest, everyone felt the cold that went deep into their bones, and Nellfi slowly stood up. "That's all, he must have written this in desperation, so it seems that this meteorite spell must have been cast by the people of the Mage Tower, who were cornered. ”

Magir pondered, looking at Nerfi. "How can you be sure he's from the Mage Tower, his mage robes are gone, maybe the one who wants to cast the Dark Lord isn't the Twilight Cult?"

"How is that possible?" Nerfi's voice suddenly raised considerably. "The Twilight Cult appeared in Wallis in anticipation of the arrival of the Dark Lord, this is common knowledge that almost every mage knows, what reason do they have to prevent the Dark Lord from being released, and what reason do the people of the Mage Tower want to release the Dark Lord?"

Magill waved his hand casually. "I'm just telling the truth, you see we can't tell which side of this body is, and it's best to take every possibility into account. ”

Stan nodded thoughtfully. "Magill has a point, Nerfi, if you think about it, Etiyèsz's motives are indeed very suspicious, even Adeline once thought about releasing the Dark Lord, of course, her reason was to destroy the Dark Lord before his power was fully restored, so it is entirely possible that Etiyesh has some reason that we don't understand. ”

Nerfi turned and looked at the crater in the distance. "Even if your assumption is correct, this is the Twilight Cult, then why would they stop Etiyès? ”

"We'll only find out when we find them. Stan walked over to Nerfi and sighed worriedly. "But against them, we don't seem to have any chance of winning. ”

Tirin pulled out his bottle and drank it. "Who knows, anything can happen before you actually encounter them. ”

Magill snatched the bottle from his hand and gulped it several times. "What the fuck, how are we going to do this damn mission!"

Tillin snatched the bottle from the Captain's hand and raised it above his head, but only poured out the last few drops, so he put it away and punched Magill. "It's useless for you to be in a hurry, we can only continue to track them until we find them, and as for what happens after we find them, let's think about it then. ”

Magill was still muttering as he walked towards his mount, and the knights followed him back to the crater, with Stan and Nerfi at the end. Looking at the backs of the knights in front of him, thinking of the tragic things he had seen along the way these days, he began to worry about the fate of these Canrito knights. He remembered the surviving Sara soldiers he had met in Sarah, and then the Altuna soldiers who had escorted them in the twilight forest, most of whom had died, and not many people knew what they had done, and had left this world in obscurity. Stan silently prays in his heart that the light will bless the knights.