Chapter 14: Danger Lurks (3)

"Presumably, the Templars must have had a dry mouth along the way, so you don't need to be polite, please enjoy it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info," Karl said, standing up to the Templars around him.

"We are honored by your hospitality, Your Excellency Duke Karl. Arthur raised his glass in respect, took a sip before putting it down.

"Your Excellency Duke Karl, now let's get down to business. The spirits of the undead, who had been destroyed three hundred years ago, have reappeared, and there is a rumor that has displeased the Pope. I hope that His Excellency will put aside his personal vendetta against the Kingdom of Rees for a while and assist us in investigating the whereabouts of the heretic cult of the Crimson Moon. Arthur said with a serious expression.

After drinking the mead, Karl said, "Lord Arthur, before I want you to lead your Templars to help us cleanse the northern city of Slinkana of the undead, my soldiers have no experience with this supernatural existence, and after dealing with these undead, I am more than happy to cooperate with Lord Arthur in investigating the heresy of the Crimson Moon." ā€

"Of course, Lord Duke, it is our Templars' duty to eradicate these evil existences. Arthur stood up, put his right hand into a fist in front of his heart, and said solemnly.

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"Sister Evely, I'm dying. Chris whispered weakly.

"Chris hold on, there will be hope. Evely was also weak, but the light of hope in her eyes never faded.

Chris and Evely have been hiding in a wooden rattan box, maintaining a bent posture and not drinking or eating, for almost two days. Hearing that there was no movement outside the account, Evely carefully pushed open the box, endured the sour tinging pain on her body, and lightly held the kettle and black bread in her arms from the small wooden table, and then hid back in the box.

"Come Chris, drink slowly. Evely handed the kettle to Chris.

"Gollum. Like rain moistening the wasteland, clear water ran through his dry throat, and Chris greedily drank the little liquid in the kettle.

"Sister Evely, you can drink some too. Holding back the desire to drink it all, Chris handed the remaining half of the jug back to Evely.

Evely drank a little water, then tore the black bread in half, and the two of them put the black bread in their mouths and slowly melted the hard bread with saliva, and one accidentally coughed.

"Uhh.....h

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Sister Evely blames me. Chris whimpered.

"Don't be afraid, Chris, don't be afraid. Evely said as she hugged Chris, but her trembling body showed that she wasn't that strong.

"Click, click, click. The wooden rattan box gradually cracked under the incessant beating of the undead, and through the cracks, I saw the humans in the box, and the green light in the eyes of the undead flashed, and they slapped even more wildly.

In the end, the wooden box still did not withstand the attack of the undead, and the two people in the box fell backwards after the box broke. Chris and Evely looked desperately at the half-undead crawling over.

"Who's going to save us!" Evely shouted desperately as Chris beside her, and just as the undead were about to pounce on her, a golden flash of light in mid-air sent the undead out of the tent with great force, breaking through several other tents.

Evely's eyes were met by a tall armored knight on a horse, "It's not hurt, is it?" the knight gently comforted as he removed his helmet. The handsome knight figure in front of her was deeply imprinted in Evely's mind, she never thought that a human figure would be so tall and majestic, and Evely shed tears of emotion for the rest of her life.

"Sorry to scare you, introduce myself, my name is Oselev Babbel Van Arthur, and I am a Templar. The noonday sun reflected a reassuring glow on Arthur's blonde hair, Arthur was not arrogant because the other party was just a refugee, nor would he put on a flattering appearance because of the strength of the other party's background, for Arthur all beings were equal, of course, those pagans were an exception.

Arthur pulled up the two who fell to the ground, dirty, and did not show a look of displeasure because of the smell of each other's bodies, or the filthy sludge stained on his pure white armor.

"There are two survivors here, Jack, you come here to keep them safe. Arthur said to one of the Templars behind him, "Don't be afraid, Jack will protect you." With that, Arthur stepped onto his steed and led the rest of the Templars towards the rear of the undead.

Looking at these tall knights, Chris made up his mind that he also wanted to become such an existence that helped the weak eradicate evil, and his little heart planted an unwavering goal.

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"There's a big group of men ahead, hide quickly. Diamas was alert to the movement in the distance, and pulled Ao Xingfeng into a bush.

Many teams mixed with humans and green orcs kept running through the bushes where the two were hiding, "What's going on?Has the Reece Kingdom withdrawn?" said Ao Xingfeng through the gap as he looked at the Reese army who were running behind him in a panic. "Maybe it's because of the undead?" said Diamas, unbeknownst to the two of them, unaware that there were already more than 200,000 undead in Reese's territory at this time, and groups of undead of various sizes were attacking towns and villages, bypassing the fortified castle and spreading despair and fear throughout Reese.

When one of Reese's soldiers was evacuating, he accidentally fell in front of the bushes, and although he was startled when he found the two, he did not react otherwise, but got up and continued to follow the large army back to the kingdom of Reese.

Seeing this, the two stood up from the bushes, and the surrounding soldiers and green orcs of the Rees Kingdom kept passing through, ignoring them, "It seems that they are really withdrawn, let's go, leave them alone." After Ao Xingfeng finished speaking, he ran in the opposite direction of the Reese army.

After about twenty minutes of walking through the forest, the two of them walked out of the forest and came to an open plain, and in the distance was a city with black smoke, surrounded by a large black crowd like the sea, this is the city of Mera, located in the southwest of Slinkana, after being slaughtered by the army of the Reece Kingdom, it was set on fire, and the fire burned for three days and three nights, and the slaughtered inhabitants were transformed into undead for unknown reasons. The evacuated Reese army was attacked by the undead, and the entire team was scattered, only one of the regiments had just fled, and more Reese troops were either killed by the undead, or scattered throughout the province of Carlos and did not dare to cross the undead-occupied area.

"Are you really sure you want to cross the sea of the undead?"

"Damn! I was already close at hand, but I was stopped by this group of dead things. Ao Xingfeng gritted his teeth and said. "Everyone in the village, you must be safe, right?" Ao Xingfeng prayed in his heart.

The two who were blocked by the sea of undead in front of them had to choose a detour. The three kingdoms of Maleni, Dove, and Pompeii in the ten eastern kingdoms of the Irene continent are located on the shores of the Sky Sea, which is much faster than crossing the border between the Green Orc tribe and the Iroman Empire and following the coast of the Sky Sea in the east of Maleni.

"Is this the sea in the sky? Ao Xingfeng looked at the sea in front of him in shock, the two people who made a detour from Mera City after a three-day trek arrived at the shore of the sea of the sky, the whole ocean at a glance was extremely clear, reflecting the scene of the sky, and those who didn't know thought that this continent was floating in the air.

"Let's go north along the coast, and we should be able to get to Loulan Harbor in two days, but I only have enough food for one meal, so let's find some food first." Diamas looked at the shocked Ao Xingfeng and said, everyone who sees the sea of the sky for the first time will show this expression, and Diamas himself is much more exaggerated when he first looks at the sea of the sky.

"Are you going fishing?" asked Ao Xingfeng, turning his head sideways.

"What about fishing...... What does the fish taste like in the sea of the sky......" Diamas said unnaturally.

Suddenly, Ao Xingfeng saw a boat running on the sea in the distance, the sailing ship seemed to be floating in the air, and the sea surface passing by did not set off a single wave. "We should be very close to that Loulan harbor, right? Ao Xingfeng said.

"Delusion, there's still two days to go, and the ship should be coming from the Broken Isles. After saying that, Diamas patted Ao Xingfeng on the shoulder and walked north along the coast.

The two men heading north stopped at a beach because they saw a small number of undead gathered in front of them outside a small village on the shore ahead.

Listening to the shouts of people in the village, some small boats rowed out of the village, and the people on the boats shouted anxiously to the people in the village.

Diamas took out his longbow and said, "Go and save people!" Ao Xingfeng condensed a black arcane ball in his hand, and when he got close to the group of undead, Ao Xingfeng threw out the magic ball in his hand, instantly killing the undead who gathered in a pile, and Diamas shot the remaining lone undead.

"Irene bless, someone has come to save us! and an archmage! The villagers said with tears streaming down their faces.

After a while, the undead outside the village were cleaned up, and the village names opened the gate of the village and ran out to greet the two life-savers. An elderly man from the villagers said, "Thank you very much for coming to the rescue, and if I can, I would like to invite you to the village." ā€

Ao Xingfeng took a breath and said, "No need for the village chief, we are still in a hurry, hoping to get some food supplies from your village." The people of the village looked at each other and led them into the very small village.

"Come with me, two warriors, come and sit at my house for a while, and we'll prepare food for your archmagician. The elderly village chief bent down and said humbly.

Ao Xingfeng sat by the fire in the village chief's house and discussed with Diamas for a while. A stocky young man walked in with a large bag of dried fish. "Village chief, I brought the food that everyone in the village put together for this matter, and I brought it to the two warriors. The swarthy young man said.

"My lords, are you really no longer a guest in the village for a while? The village chief, smoking a cigarette stick, asked.

After declining the village chief's kindness, the two continued their journey with the dried fish, and walked along the coast for two days.

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In the eastern part of the kingdom of Maleni, a large group of fleeing refugees poured into the outside of Finney City, and the defenders of the city struggled to maintain order, and a red-haired and black-haired youth inquired about the news in the tavern in the city.

"Alas, the world is even more chaotic, and even the legendary spirits of the undead have appeared. ā€

"Look at those refugees, it's dirty and smelly, if I were the lord of the city, I would kill them all, or stop them outside the city, you see, it's only been a few days, I've heard a lot of thefts, robberies and murders. ā€

"If it weren't for the undead, Slinkana would have fallen, and I think we'd have to thank them, hahaha. ā€

"Did you hear? It looks like the Holy See has sent the Templars over, phew, those self-righteous people. ā€

"The poor little city lord of Holmie encountered such a situation before he could see off the old city lord of Holmie. ā€

"Little Lord Holmie is so beautiful that I couldn't even hear what she said on stage. ā€

"You old cripple, put away your pig brother look, it's really disgusting. ā€

"What did you say, did you find fault?" said that, the two of them fought, and after a while, the whole tavern was in a mess.

In a corner of the messy tavern, Ao Xingfeng and Diamas collected information from these idle mercenaries, and learned from their words that Slinkana should be the last line of defense against the Rhyss army, and the undead disrupted the ranks of the Rhyss army before it was breached, so in this case, the villagers of New Testament Village, who had evacuated to the north, should still be among Slinkana.

Still sorting out his thoughts, suddenly a person knocked over their table, got up and glanced at the two of them, and punched Ao Xingfeng, "You are looking for death!" Ao Xingfeng scolded angrily and released an ice blue beam towards the person who called. The mercenary who was directly hit by the beam let out a scream like killing a pig, and suddenly, the entire tavern fell silent. Magician, what an unattainable existence, looking at the mercenaries rolling around in pain on the ground, the others froze in place, and several people in black cloaks at the tavern bar looked at Ao Xingfeng in surprise.

At this moment, a tall mercenary came up from the crowd and said, "I'm very sorry, Master Magician, and I beg you to spare this stupid guy's life. The man, who had a very hideous scar on his face, humbled down.

"The people of the Banshee Mercenary Group are going to be unlucky, you said that he was so immortal that he actually provoked a magician. ā€

"There's a good show to watch~"

Ao Xingfeng waved his hand and said, "Take him away." The scar man hurriedly bowed, "Thank you, thank you for your kindness." Then he walked out of the tavern with the rolling mercenaries on his shoulder, and several of the mercenaries left the tavern with him.

The others who watched the show not play grin, returned to their chairs, and began to show off the news they had heard to the people around them.

Diamas straightened the overturned table again, sat down and said to Ao Xingfeng: "Xingfeng, you are too heavy, I think that person is guilty." Ao Xingfeng shook his head and explained: "I haven't seen everyone in the village for a long time, and I'm a little excited. ā€

The two continued their conversation when three cloaked men in black approached them by the bar.