At night, the dark forest is shrouded in endless darkness, and the seeping cries of the night owls add an eerie flavor to the quiet woods.

Soloto slowly opened his eyes, he had just slept in the treetops, no more, no less exactly 3 hours, accurate to the second.

The samurai could go three days and three nights without eating, drinking, or sleeping, and they could still maintain a clear consciousness and sufficient combat effectiveness, and they could close their eyes and sleep and wake up on time in any environment as long as necessary, and it didn't matter whether they were standing or lying down. Soloto once slept under the waterfall for two hours, and it was not difficult for him to stand on the branches of a tree to rest.

The dense canopy of trees obscured the cold, dim moonlight, and the dark forest could not be seen. In complete darkness, the Moon Elves with dim vision could not see the surrounding scenery clearly. Solotto silently worked on the Holy Force, his eyes gradually lit up with a white-gold glow, and all the details around him became clearly visible, but he didn't see the group of ferocious wolves.

Fourth-level holy warriors who are promoted to adjudicating warriors must cultivate the Holy Dwelling Technique, tearing apart their muscles and bones inch by inch, and then using divine arts and secret elixirs to heal little by little, honing their bodies and minds in unimaginable pain for ordinary people.

After the cultivation was completed, the body of the judgment warrior could be as soft as cotton or as strong as iron, and ordinary soldiers holding a battle axe could not cut their muscles and bones at once. Overcoming pain, loneliness, and fear, the Judgment Samurai has a heart as indestructible as a diamond and crystal clear, with a keen intuition for danger and malice. In addition, in the process of healing the body of the divine arts, the residual holy power and the ruling warriors are integrated, and they can mobilize the holy power to strengthen themselves like a knight running a fighting spirit, and their strength, perception, speed, agility, physical strength, defense, and even elemental resistance and self-healing ability have reached an incredible level.

The divine dwells in the body, and merges with the body and soul is the holy dwelling technique! The ruling warrior has since stepped into the ranks of the transcendent, with the status of a silver knight.

Soloto strengthened his senses with his holy powers, not only could he see his surroundings clearly in the dark, but he could also hear the sound of insects crawling, but he could not detect the movement of the ferocious wolves, which made him puzzled and at the same time suffered.

The ferocious wolves and Soloto were entangled for a day and a night. During this time, Soloto tried to trap several ferocious wolves to relieve the pressure on the rescue team, but when he jumped off the branches, the wolves immediately scattered and hid in the dark woods. Not a single ferocious wolf has ever been seen in Soloto's field of vision, but the howls of the wolves have always echoed around him.

While avoiding confrontation with powerful opponents, it is the habit of wolves to use stalking and harassing tactics, but Soloto feels that these fierce wolves are extraordinary, and their behavior is even more suspicious.

There were 21 of these fierce wolves, and they were so powerful that there was no need to hide from any prey. In fact, if the wolves attacked regardless of casualties, Soloto could not guarantee that he would survive. However, no matter how much he tried to tease him, the ferocious wolf always hid in the shadows. Soloto did not feel the hostility of the ferocious wolf.

The ferocious wolf neither attacked nor retreated, and Soloto couldn't catch it, and he couldn't shake it off if he wanted to, so he could only stay in the treetops and wait for rescue.

However, Soloto became more interested in the pack, and he believed that there were two circumstances that could explain the abnormal behavior of the ferocious wolves. They're either protecting something or they're being manipulated by wizards! Whatever the reason, Soloto has to find out!

Paladins are one of the three major clerics, and their promotion rules are different from those of priests and paladins. Before the fifth level, the holy warrior could be promoted to the fourth level by relying on his own faith and trials, but after the holy knight became a judgment warrior, he could only advance through divine grace, and there are two sources of divine grace, purifying the wizard or fighting orc monsters.

It was too dangerous to fight against the Wild Orcs, and Soloto had to become a high-ranking priest, and he would not easily lose his life in the hands of the Orc monsters unless he had to. But the life span of the ruling samurai is shorter, generally not more than 65 years old, and Soloto is 47 years old this year, and there are only two paths in front of him, either to advance or to die of old age.

Some wizards' abilities are very terrifying, but wizards are often alone, they have no backup, no cover, no inheritance, at best they are farmers with extraordinary powers, and the degree of danger is far less than that of organized orc tribes, and the divine grace obtained by purifying wizards is very rich, and it is far more than destroying orc monsters.

Therefore, when the clergy discovered the wizard's traces, they were as elated as if they had been favored by the Lord of Radiance. Ordinary clergy generally cede the glory of purifying wizards to the bishop, but this does not include paladins, who are accustomed to eating alone.

Soloto decided to report the incident in the Dark Forest directly to Archbishop Lazarus, whether these ferocious wolves were guarding some kind of strange object or hiding a wizard, he had no way to find a target in the vast forest, and he was not able to solve the problem on his own. And Archbishop Lazarus can mobilize thousands of paladins and priests to search the area. If he really found a worthy target, the archbishop's meritorious deeds would never be a little less beneficial to Solotto, and if he could get the high-level divine magic crystals infused by the archbishop himself, he would be satisfied.

In fact, Soloto had already marked, and as he jumped on the branches, he secretly cracked the inside of the branches, which would soon wither and become the most obvious signpost. But Soloto wasn't sure if the abundant Void Water Elemental would be able to repair the branches, so he wanted to capture a ferocious wolf alive.

However, the ferocious wolf is gone!

Solotto used his holy power to strengthen his hearing to the limit, and he couldn't sense the movement of the ferocious wolf, but he heard the footsteps of two people.

It didn't take long for two figures to appear in Soloto's field of vision, the one walking in front was tall and stout, the fine iron war hammer in his hand was stained with red blood, and the one following was holding two bright short swords, and he was heard shouting from afar: "Master Solotto, are you okay?"

"Victor?!" Soloto slipped down from the tree and asked in surprise, "You didn't go back to Thorn Manor?"

"I was going back to Thorn Manor. But...... Since the ferocious wolves are staring at you, I may be able to take this opportunity to find the surviving guards. Victor put his sword into the sheath, pointed at Renault and said, "Fortunately, I found Renault in time, otherwise he would have died in the dark forest." ”

Looking at Victor with a happy face, Solotto was shocked.

The aristocracy valued two things, one was profit, and the other was fame. Victor ordered his soldiers to break off the queen and protect the apprentice knights of the House of Solim, which was in line with the interests of the nobles. However, sacrificing the lives of soldiers would damage the reputation of the lord, so Victor advocated searching for and rescuing the broken soldiers in order to save his reputation. However, finding 20 soldiers in the vast forest is difficult. It was no less than looking for a needle in a haystack, Soloto thought that Victor was just putting on a show, and he didn't expect Victor to actually save a soldier.

Victor went into the jungle to search for and rescue the soldiers, which was not in line with the usual practice of the nobles, and Soloto was inevitably puzzled, but after seeing the soldier's physical appearance, his heart couldn't help but move, and asked, "Is this warrior the fierce warrior?"

"That's right. ”

Victor nodded happily and said, "I have two fierce warriors under my command, one is Nelson and the other is Renault. Thanks to the master's attention to the ferocious wolf, if it drags on for another day, I'm afraid that even if Renault is not bitten to death by the ferocious wolf, he will be lost in the dark forest. ”

Renault bowed to Soloto solemnly, "Thank you, Master." ”

The Randall family doesn't have knights yet, so it makes sense for Victor to take the risk of rescuing his fierce warriors. Soloto waved his hand, "Don't thank me. I didn't help much. Then he asked, "What about your companions, and what happened to you after we left?"

"We broke through the goblins and ran westward for a while, only to encounter a whole pack of ferocious wolves. The brothers fled for their lives, and the team dispersed. Later, I heard the call of the adults, and this is when I joined them. The adults took me around and found no one else, so we gave up. Renault said sullenly.

Soloto nodded and said to Victor: "What you haven't found now will be difficult to find later." By the way, did you encounter those ferocious wolves when you came over?"

"Nope. Victor shook his head and said, "I can hear the sound within 500 meters, and I haven't found a violent wolf from beginning to end." ”

"It looks like the ferocious wolves have left somewhere else......"

Solotto secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he still suspected that the wolves had evacuated because of Victor, but if Victor really got the strange thing, the wolves would never let them go. Victor was able to avoid the wolves in the treetops, but the Warriors couldn't walk on the branches, and since he followed Victor unharmed, it was enough that they didn't encounter the wolves and didn't get the strange things.

"Let's go back. ”

Victor climbed up the tree, made his way, and led the way towards the edge of the forest.

When it was dark, the three of them came out of the forest and were greeted by a few barking hounds, and then Victor saw a makeshift camp. The barking of the hounds alarmed the people in the camp, and the two slender figures rushed over first, rushing straight into Victor's arms.

The twin sisters were dressed in scale armor and hung long swords at their waists, the elder sister Alina buried her head on Victor's shoulder, and the younger sister Alice hugged Victor's arm tightly, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, are you okay?!"

Victor gently patted Sister Alina on the back and comforted, "I'm fine, don't worry. ”

"Haha! Victor, Master Soloto, I knew you could come out. ”

Cliveton, dressed in armor and laughing, walked over. The Kruther knight of the Schultz family followed him with several retinues.

"Lord Randall, Master Solotto, you're fine. Knight Cruther was also heavily armed, and he was visibly relieved to see Victor and Solotto.

"I'm sorry to worry you. Victor let go of his personal maid and said apologetically.

"Master Randall, Master Soloto, we are planning to go into the forest to find you. Now that you're out, why don't you go to the camp and get something to eat. ”

Lillilla said beside her, dressed as a swordswoman in leather armor and carrying a longsword, and Victor smiled, "Lord Lilla, you have become a knight trainee?"

Lillilla gave Victor a knightly salute and said, "Yes, sir. I just learned the vindictiveness yesterday. It's just that...... Lucien hadn't woken up yet. ”

"It's okay, I'll wait for him for 10 days. Victor nodded, and then said, "Let's go to the camp and talk first." ”

The three of them filled their stomachs before Victor began to recount what had happened to them in the forest. Speaking of the fact that there were many ferocious wolves at the edge of the forest, Lérilah and Crusher's faces changed drastically, and if the ferocious wolves entered human territory, not only would Thorn Manor suffer, but also Barony Schultz would suffer great losses.

Cliveton looked at Renault on the side and said euphemistically: "Victor, those lost soldiers are afraid that they are more than lucky......."

"Yes. Victor sighed and said, "I can't sacrifice more people for my soldiers...... I will take care of their families. We'll rest for a few days at Thorn Manor and hit the road. ”

Solotto said, "Victor, Cleaveston, I won't accompany you for the rest of the journey. Although ferocious wolves generally do not leave their territory, just in case, I am going to gather paladins and station them in Thorn Manor for a period of time to prevent the invasion of ferocious wolves. ”

"Thank you so much, Master. Knight Cruther said gratefully.

Soloto nodded, pulling the priest to the distance and talking in a low voice. Victor was secretly amused in his heart, and in order to separate the judgment of the samurai, he had to expose the hordes of alchemical mastiffs, and Soloto's reaction was also expected. However, the Church was destined to find no clues about the ferocious wolves, and Victor ordered the alchemy militia to quickly erase the traces and return to Randall's territory on their own, where the glade would soon be overrun by goblins or gnolls.

As for how many men the Church would have to lose in exploring the Dark Forest, Victor couldn't handle it, and if they were lucky, finding Adamantite Ore, White Crystal Ore, or Aoi Root wouldn't be in vain, though it depended on luck.

Although it is a pity to give up the resources of the Dark Forest, Victor has achieved all his goals, and he has awakened a new talent, activation.

Victor tested the activation in the forest camp, and he found that after the life attribute was increased to 26 points, the duration of overrun, wind, supersensibility and apocalypse increased exponentially, and now the duration of overlimit has reached 70 minutes, 35 minutes of wind, 100 minutes of supersensibility, 15 minutes of apocalypse, and the embodiment of the wind element can shoot 15 arrows in a row, and the use of the blue blade in the state of the apocalypse can only last for 21 seconds, but now it has reached 38 seconds. Once Victor uses the activation, his stamina and energy are fully replenished, and these abilities will be activated again. Under normal circumstances, it can be used every 4 hours when activated, and once every 10 hours and 10 minutes when it is hidden.

With the activation talent, Victor's combat power and survivability have been significantly improved. It's a pity that after the water elemental rune was repaired, Victor could no longer look inside himself, and his interaction with the void water element was interrupted.

Victor planned to return to the territory and then slowly study the secret form of the golden toad, he vaguely felt that he had reached a bottleneck period, and only by entering the state of inner vision could the bloodline be further purified.

Five days later, Lucien had failed to become a probationary knight after spending 10 potions, and the Church's paladins had rushed to Thorn Manor, where they had set up camp on the edge of the dark forest to store supplies, and it was said that more clergy would come later.

For a while, the Thorn Manor was surging, and Victor, the initiator, had already slapped his ass and left.