"Shield Strike!" Lilith stepped forward to block a skeleton with her own tower shield, and then the tower shield pushed forward, and the skeleton was instantly smashed into pieces.

However, at this moment, several amorphous black shadows appeared around Lilith, and the black shadows stretched out their tentacles as if they wanted to grab Lilith.

"Holy Light!" Rowling snorted, and a divine light shone around Lilith, and the black shadow let out a hoarse cry in the light of the holy light before disappearing.

Roland also took the opportunity to step forward, and the two light swords cut the ghoul who wanted to pounce on Lilith in half, and the green fishy juice splattered out of the ghoul's body, Lilith and Roland hurriedly took a few steps back to avoid being sprayed by the ghoul's juice.

"......" Almost at the same time, a fireball smashed in front of Lilith with a tacit understanding, burning the ghoul's corpse and the remaining ghouls directly into charcoal, and Caroline exhaled softly.

"Brother Roland, didn't you already know that ghouls can't be killed with ordinary attacks, and if they are contaminated with ghouls' blood, they will be poisoned. Rowling replicated Roland, who retreated in embarrassment.

"Hehe, isn't this you? Roland seemed to know that he was wrong, and he didn't defend himself, but just smiled at Rowling.

"We're done here, too. Alan and Cylith also returned to the team, holding a few black crystals in their hands, and Lilith also walked back, holding a few of the same crystals in her hands, although the crystals were large and small, but the difference was not big, everyone handed over the crystals to Rowling for safekeeping, and then sat down and began to rest.

"These necromantic creatures are not a big deal, although some necromantic creatures also have the strength of the middle level or so, but they have no intelligence or equipment, and they don't seem to have anything special except for moving in groups. Roland stretched his hand holding the sword slightly, then took out a rag and smiled at everyone while wiping the crack.

After the assessment began, they directly chose to leave the safe area around the castle, and according to the map issued by the assessment, they decided to go a little deeper into the Lost Dark Domain, and then started the project of this assessment, that is, hunting and killing spirit creatures, and after the death of the dead spirit creatures, a black crystal will fall, which should be the basis for judging the results later.

This is also Allen's proposal, after all, the assessment has a week, and although the advantage of a large group is that it can use the power of the group, the speed of the same movement will be slowed down a lot, so if a small group like them wants to pass the assessment, they can only take advantage of the flexibility in the early stage to avoid the large group and hunt some more necromancers, otherwise in the later stage, the hunting efficiency will definitely not be comparable to the large group.

"But the atmosphere here really doesn't feel like a place for the living, and even cemeteries or mass graves have never had such a strong smell of death. Lilith frowned and said, this should have been a green forest, but now there are only dead dead wood and black thorns growing in a mess, these plants seem to have their own consciousness, constantly appearing where they were supposed to go, and even Rowling once noticed that the thorns were strangely growing in her direction, as if to catch her, fortunately she flashed in time.

"Goddess Gaia's divine power has also weakened a lot here, and it seems that it is not only the Holy Light that can weaken the Necromancy, but the Necromantic is also affecting the Holy Light. Rowling also said worriedly, as a messenger of the Holy Light, Rowling instinctively hated this kind of place, and her and Lilith's bodies even began to emit a glimmer of light after going deep into the Lost Dark Realm, as if to resist the erosion of the aura of death. Although their Holy Light has a great effect on the necromancy, after using the Holy Light Technique a few times, Rowling was surprised to find that the recovery speed of her Holy Light power here was actually much slower, which made everyone have to be vigilant, and reduce the number of times Rowling fought against the enemy, in order to retain the most powerful weapon, and even Lilith tried to use only her own weapon to fight the enemy.

"Hey, I'm back!" Richie suddenly emerged from the shadows.

"What's the situation ahead, have you found any other swarm of necromancers?" Roland asked, cherishing his self-esteem. His own sword was put into the scabbard at his waist.

"Yes, but the situation ahead is a bit weird, so you'd better take a look. Richie said earnestly to Roland.

「...... Then I, Allen, and I will go ahead with you to have a look. Roland trusted Richie quite a lot, and he also believed that Richie would not joke at this time, so he called Alan to go ahead with him.

"I'll go and I'll come back. Alan nodded, patted the dirt on his leg, stood up and said to a worried Cialis.

"Then I'll leave it to you here, and we'll be back shortly. Roland said to the crowd.

"Go ahead, leave it to me here. Lilith stood up proudly, with a tin can armor, if it weren't for the crisp and pleasant voice, it almost made people think that it was a majestic and mighty man speaking.

Alan and Roland followed Richie delicately through the death-filled forest, carefully avoiding the black thorns.

"It seems that there are a lot fewer necromancys here?" asked Alan with a frown as he turned to Richie after a while. Most of the necromancers they encounter are like lifeless puppets roaming the forest, and only when they see living creatures will they pounce fiercely. Because of this, most of the necromancers are scattered in the forest, and they have obviously walked a short distance, but they have not encountered any necromancers, and the situation has obviously changed compared to before, but after all, they have only just entered the Lost Dark Realm for a short time, and they can't determine whether this is a serious abnormality.

"You'll find out in a minute. Richie didn't reply directly, just whispered to Alan.

The group continued to walk in silence, and at last, Richie stopped, and deftly jumped onto a dead tree, and Alan and Roland found a nearby branch to climb on.

「...... What's going on?" Roland said, frowning.

I saw that there was a forest path in front of me, although it had been abandoned, but it was obvious that there was still a trace of clearing up, and I don't know how much easier it was to walk than the forest, but Roland was surprised that it was not this, but that the path was actually crowded with dense necromantic creatures.

Whether it is a ghoul that looks like a shriveled corpse, or a skeleton made of white bones, or even a disembodied spirit composed of only black shadows, they are actually lined up in a long column at this moment, staggering in one direction, occasionally colliding with each other and even tripping over thorns and falling into a ball, but on the whole, it can still be seen that they are pushing and shoving in one direction.

"No wonder there weren't any necromantic creatures in the forest just now. Roland unconsciously clenched the hilt of his sword, pulled Richie and Allen back a few steps, and entered the forest to avoid being discovered by the group of necromancers.

"What's the matter with those necromantic creatures?" Roland said with a sigh of relief after entering the forest and making sure that no necromancers had spotted them.

"Feeling...... What do they seem to be attracted to?" Alan said after a moment's thought.

"Attract necromantic creatures, unless it's ......" Roland muttered to himself, then looked at Allen in horror, apparently thinking of the same thing.

"What's the matter, what are you talking about?" Richie asked, confused.

"You know that these necromancers can feel the breath of the living, right?" Alan explained.

"I know that, but their perception is quite ordinary, and if you are careful, you usually go unnoticed. Rich replied.

"There is one exception, they are so sensitive to the breath of flesh that they are hungry and thirsty. Alan said.

"No wonder you don't know, Caroline accidentally cut her skin during the battle before, and shed a little blood, and in an instant all the necromantic creatures rushed towards her, and even the necromantic creatures in other directions were agitated, fortunately, Lilith blessed herself with holy light in time to barely block the large number of raging necromantic creatures, that battle attracted almost all the nearby necromantic creatures, and in the end, it was Rowling who found out the reason and took the time to heal Caroline's wounds, so that the necromantic creatures finally did not increase again. Roland followed Allen's words and said that for the sake of efficiency, Richie usually does not participate in battles with necromantic creatures, but constantly uses his speed to find the location of other necromantic creatures and guide them after the battle is over.

"No wonder you all looked tired the last time you went back, it turns out that this kind of thing happened......" Richie said with a sudden realization.

"I wanted to tell you and tell you to be careful when you explored, but you pointed the way, marked the map, and left immediately, and didn't come to tell you at all. Roland said.

"Hey, didn't I want to hurry up and improve the results, but the eldest brother said that if I didn't pass the assessment, he would kill me. Richie shuddered, as if he was genuinely afraid.

"Are you kidding?"

"No, he's serious. 」

「......」

"Anyway, let's go back to the camp and discuss it with everyone first, it's not something the three of us can solve after all. Roland said, and Alan nodded with Richie and ran together in the direction of the camp.