On the other side, in the camp of the Pioneer Army in the northern part of the Forgotten Forest, the lights were dim. Several teams of wolf-tooth samurai guards were shuttling back and forth between the barracks. In the general's inner courtyard, there was silence, and the hall was empty, except for two wolffang guards holding wolftooth cones and long guards guarding the entrance to the foyer. At this time, in a hidden room behind the hall, the ghost Mercury was talking to a figure in purple robes who was hidden in the dark.

"My lord, I didn't know that you suddenly arrived, and you lost your welcome, disrespect, and disrespect. Mercury confessed.

"Between you and me, there is no need to be polite. The man spoke, "I heard that the Shadow Knight you sent brought back a mysterious staff in the waters of the Jialan Peninsula, and the High Priest specially sent me here to find out the details. ”

"Wait a minute. Mercury twisted the stone button on one side of the wall, only to hear the sound of grinding stones, and a stone door slowly opened in the middle of the floor of the room, and a dark grid that could accommodate a person appeared, and in the dark grid was placed a magic staff, the body of which was more than six feet long, and the head of the staff was inlaid with four red, green, blue, and black bar stones. "My lord, this is it. Mercury carefully took out his staff and held it up with both hands to the purple-robed man.

The purple-clothed man held the staff in his hand and leaned against the light in the corner of the wall. At this time, by the light, the person's face became clear. I saw that his face was pale, his beard was gone, two purple marks had drawn his upper and lower eyelids, his nose was like an eagle's beak, his ears were like sheep's horns, his face was like skin and bones, and his head was like a bone and foreskin.

He took a closer look at the runes on the staff and couldn't help but be surprised: "This is actually the Void Staff. ”

Seeing his expression, Mercury knew that this thing was extraordinary, and hurriedly asked, "What is the Void Staff?"

"Legend has it that this staff is an ancient magic weapon, which was created by the great prophets of Cangyan, Jialan and Feihuang more than two years ago by combining the mana of their lives, and has the power to change the stars and destroy the heavens and the earth. I also heard about it a long time ago, when I was a child, from my grandfather. It has long been a symbol of supreme power and power, owned by the Great Prophet of the Dawning Alliance, but after the Great War a thousand years ago, it disappeared. ”

"I know that great war, that time was arguably the most powerful era of my Shesheng clan in thousands of years, when the Shesheng King was the great-grandmother of the High Priestess Black Qilin, known as the Purple Regent of the Spirit King. Legend has it that under the leadership of the Regent King, my sacrificial army almost annexed the entire Dawning Continent, but in the end, the God of Dawn came to the world and saved the Dawning tribes. ”

"No, that's not the God of Dawn. The purple-clothed man shook his head and said, "According to the legends of the Dawn tribes in later generations, it was the Five Leaves God who descended that time. ”

"Five-leaf god?"

"Well, that five-leaf god is one of the sub-gods of the so-called God of Dawn, and has always been the guardian god of the Jialan clan. ”

"Well......" Mercury pondered for a moment, then said, "Forget it, these legends are just some illusory theories. Look, my lord, since this staff has such magical power, fortunately it has fallen into our hands, and if it is obtained by the Dawning Alliance, it will not be a great disaster for us. ”

"That's true, this kind of artifact has reappeared in the world, and we have found it, God really help me. By the way, did the Shadow Knight you sent to the Southern Dawn Sea find the location of the Four Elephant Divine Stone that the High Priest said?

"No, I didn't. ”

"Then where did you find this Void Staff?" the man in purple seemed a little puzzled.

"It's a long story, so please take a seat. Mercury stepped aside and continued, "About a month ago, I sent two Shadow Knights to infiltrate the area of the Jialan Peninsula to secretly search for the ruins of the Four Elephant Stones, but after a few days of searching, nothing came of it. But they lost a talisman when they lurked in the fishing village, so in order to find the talisman, so they returned to the fishing village to look for it, and late one night, the Shadow Knight accidentally found the signal of the talisman on the coast, and when they arrived, they found that it was several Jialan guards, the Shadow Knight expected that these Jialan guards must have found the talisman, but after solving these guards, they did not find anything, but intercepted the staff from them. ”

"So, isn't the Shadow Knight's whereabouts exposed?" the man in purple was slightly displeased.

"Indeed, on the secret way back, shortly after leaving the Jialan Peninsula, the Shadow Knight was followed by men, killing and wounding one. Mercury returned truthfully.

"Who is coming?" the man in purple was surprised.

"According to the report of the Captain of the Shadow Knight who escaped, the person who came was very mysterious, with a black veil on his face, and his skills were far above that of the Shadow Knight, and he killed a knight within a few moves, and the Captain of the Shadow also took all the effort to escape, but he was also seriously injured. ”

"There is still such a master in the Jialan clan? The Shadow Knight of our clan can be called the most outstanding first-class killer on this continent, even the Moon Knight of the Old Lady of the Moon Wheel can at most make a draw, if you say that those black-robed mages, although there is a middle master who can use the method to suppress the Shadow Knight in terms of skill, but in terms of body technique and speed, it is far inferior to the Shadow Knight, let alone able to come in the tail. The man in purple frowned and pondered, and then asked, "Can you see what kind of move weapon it is?"

Mercury shook his head and replied: "I didn't use a weapon, I didn't know what move I used with my bare hands, according to the knight captain, although I didn't see any method, but after the fists and kicks in my body, I felt paralyzed in my muscles and bones, and my internal organs were painful like tears, and it was difficult to fight back, and this person was extremely fast, and it was difficult to dodge his moves." ”

"I'm afraid this is a dangerous signal for us......" The man in purple frowned, sighed, and after a moment of thought, he said, "Since we can find the whereabouts of the Shadow Knight, this person must be in the Najialan Peninsula, or rather, from a few fishing villages near the sea."

Hearing this, Mercury seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly said: "My lord, you have reminded me that although there are fishermen and a few low-level guards living in the coastal area, there is one person from the southernmost fishing village of Jialan, and in terms of martial arts achievements, he does have the power to intercept and kill the Shadow Knights. ”

"Oh, who is it?"

"This person's name is Liu Lingkong, and he is the most powerful subordinate of the Moon Wheel Priest, although he is only thirty-five or sixteen years old, he is already ranked first among the blue and black-robed mages, I have fought with this person many years ago, whether it is the body or the method, it can be called the superior realm, very good. However, this Liu Lingkong is an authentic Water Gate Warlock, and his moves are mainly based on method control, and he is not very good at hand-to-hand combat. ”

"Well, no matter what, we can't take it lightly, since there is such a dangerous person in Jialan, it will inevitably become our henchmen in the future. Have you told the High Priest about this?"

"No, the matter has not yet been ascertained, and I dare not let the high priest know about it. Mercury said.

"Hold this matter silently for the time being, lest the high priest be overwhelmed. The purple-clothed man nodded and said, "I'll take this staff back to the high priest first." Just now you said that this staff was obtained by the Shadow Knight from a few low-level Jialan guards, why such a treasure is in the hands of a few small guards, I am afraid that this matter is strange. ”

"Isn't it related to the Four Elephant Stones? Such unusual artifacts actually appeared near the shore of a small fishing village of Jialan, and presumably what we were looking for was also in that area. Mercury mused.

"Hmm...... It's not unreasonable, you go ahead and send people to investigate, remember, don't startle the snake again. ”

"Yes. ”

"Well, that's it for now. The man in purple paused, and then said: "There is another matter, the high priest asked me to send another five thousand ghoul warriors to you to help you take Cedar City as soon as possible. ”

"Thank you, sir. Mercury arched his hand, and then said, "But now that my lord has come alone, where are these five thousand warriors, and when will they be returned to my camp?"

The man in purple smiled, flicked his sleeve and said, "Today." Seeing that Mercury was still dazed, he got up and said, "Come with me outside the camp." ”

With that, the man in purple walked out of the general's inner courtyard, marched with Mercury to the outside of the camp, and hurried out in the night. After a while, they came to the foot of a hill on the edge of the Forgotten Forest.

It was night, it was dark, and all the creatures in the forest had returned to their nests. I saw that after the purple-clothed man stood still, he closed his eyes and concentrated, opened his arms, and silently recited strange incantations in his mouth, and for a while, his whole body was full of red light, and huge spiritual power rose from the ground under his feet, stirring the air currents within a radius of ten steps to flow rapidly. After he finished reciting the incantation, his eyes suddenly widened in anger, he bent to the ground, his hands gathered a huge amount of mana and slapped towards the ground, only to see a huge arc of power with a terrifying red light, like a rapidly tumbling wave, lying on the ground and rushing towards the forest.

The forest immediately became restless, and the red light passed everywhere, and the wails were all over the field, and the beasts fled in all directions, and Mercury saw that many frost wolves were also alarmed, and the other birds and beasts also fled in a hurry. But they didn't have to run far, and these birds and beasts all seemed to be burned by the flames, their skin and flesh were opened, their limbs were broken, and they became a mess of bloody rotten flesh and bones on the ground, and a strong smell of corpse decay emanated. The red waves of this great force went about two miles deep into the forest before they stopped, and everywhere they passed, there were ghosts crying and wolf howling, and the smell was unusual. Soon the red light faded away, and the radius of two miles became silent, a veritable deathly silence, except for the rustling of the wind as it passed through the forest.

Mercury stood aside, stunned, but still unaware of his meaning, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the person who was doing it beside him. The purple-clothed man did not speak, still maintained a posture of kneeling on one knee, staring at the forest in the distance, and after seeing that everything was silent, he urged the Dharma in his body again, and at this time, two white lights gathered in his hands, and he bombarded the earth again. Just like Fang Cai, huge white waves rolled swiftly in the direction of the forest, sweeping over the place where the red light had eroded just now. This time, the white waves passed, and the broken bones and rotten flesh soaked in blood began to slowly gather again, as if there was an invisible hand pinching the clay figures, and gradually turned into human figures that stood bowed down, and finally on the top of the human form a hideous head was born, with red eyes, fangs turned out, and then two arms like wolf claws grew on both sides of the body. After the corpses were fused, the samurai began to let out a dull coughing sound from their throats, twisting their necks as they slowly walked out of the forest.

Mercury couldn't help but sigh in a low voice: "I see, this ghoul warrior is really clever to get it like this." Lord Lich, as expected, lives up to his name, and his mana is boundless. ”

It turned out that this purple-clothed man was the famous archmage in the Shesheng clan, the lich protector. The method he practiced was the art of the door of life and death, and he was best at turning life into death and reincarnating from death, which could not be described as terrifying. Therefore, this method is regarded by the Dawning tribes as an evil method that violates nature and destroys the normal life and death, and has been a taboo for the mages of the Dawning Alliance for thousands of years.

After about half an hour, all the refined ghoul warriors were formed, and they began to march out of the forest, standing in front of Mercury and the Lich Protector. Exactly: turning over the hands of a hundred beasts into bones, and covering the bones of the hands into ghost soldiers. It's chilling.

"Ghost General, this is the five thousand soldiers I sent you, and I will go first and take my leave. With that, the Lich Protector stretched out his hand and waved it into the sky, summoning a bony necromantic wyvern, riding it, swirling a gust of wind, and disappearing into the night in an instant.