Chapter 37: Rainstorm and Night
The first day of February was a cloudy day, and it was nearly 8 o'clock when Li Yun, Matt, and Beckett left Xiaoyue Town, and the sky was still dark as if dawn had just arrived. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The werewolf guard on duty told them that he smelled the wind and rain, and that he was afraid that a rainstorm would fall before noon.
Li Yun took out the map and looked at it carefully, and made a new travel plan, and he decided to arrive at the abandoned Hessgreen Mill before the wind and rain fell.
Since the road leading there has long been abandoned, and there is a considerable amount of baggage with them, it is feared that it will take a whole force to get the mounts up and running before the heavy rain falls.
Matt and Beckett listened to Li Yun's arrangement and expressed their willingness to accept the challenge, which lasted for about two hours.
Both of them felt the existence of energy through the triangular war streak, and according to the common name of this world's war system, they called this energy combat energy.
With combat ability, he is a knight, but the two have not yet achieved combat energy, and the other is that the cultivation method is quite different from the mainstream.
The mainstream uses tree-like energy veins, which originate from the body, nourish the body, and flow like blood.
Li Yun's teaching also pays attention to flow and nourishment, but emphasizes more circulation, and does not let the energy flow in the bloodline, but forms a separate system, and does not entangle with the bloodline.
Theoretically speaking, this system of Li Yun's legend is more difficult to master, but there are energy nodes that can be clearly sensed by war paints, which are more intuitive than the mainstream ones, and there is no need to deliberately take anatomy classes, do not need to meditate, and feel the flow of blood in the body. Just follow the diagram and make the connection according to the nodes given by the war paint, and you can naturally feel the flow of energy.
After more than two months of practice, Matt and Beckett have crossed the threshold, and now they dare not say that it is as natural as breathing, but there is always a thought in their hearts, so that they can always operate, and they have formed a habit, and they can't be released, but they are better than ordinary knights for their own use.
Before today, the two of them had not been running together for such a long time, and they were both a little excited. You must know that most knights can only last half an hour when they are united, and they are only used when launching an offensive charge.
And then they marched towards the two-hour pass, which no knight with a title could not.
"What the teacher teaches is the real unity of man and horse, since it is united, naturally it is not only people who exert force, but also horses should participate. ā
"Yes, in the teacher's words, it's a fuller interaction, internal circulation, extracorporeal circulation, not only people practice, horses are also practiced. ā
"Let's compare to see who holds on longer and controls better?"
"It's better than that, I've been practicing a lot lately. ā
"Each other, each other!"
The two of them got on their horses separately, and they sat down and 'blew fat' at a visible speed, their muscles were knotted, their manes were messy, their spirits were flying, and they looked full of power.
Li Yun nodded secretly as he watched from the sidelines, in terms of single-mindedness, the achievements of the two had even surpassed him. His men and horses are one, mixed with the elements of magic. Maite and Beckett, on the other hand, are simply energetic, and their future professional achievements can be expected.
He also entered the state of unity of man and horse, and once again experienced the feeling of the blood connection of the Qingxue under his body, like the fingers of the arm, and also experienced the fun of galloping and indulging in wild running, the three horses ran at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, and ran for more than two hours in one breath, and the distance of nearly 200 kilometers was left behind by the three.
Beckett and Maite didn't admit defeat and tried to persevere, but he shouted to stop and was lifted.
"Very good, the resilience is up to standard, and when you practice again in the future, pay attention to the use ......of skills when dealing with obstacles and emergencies," Li Yun pointed out.
Both of them listened attentively, and Beckett took out a small notebook to write it down. This is learned from Ben, who has become a knight, Ben is the hardest working of them, and the fastest growing, and is a role model for Beckett.
The men are tired, the horses are tired, the sweat is flowing, and the Hessgreen Mill is already in sight.
The Hessgreen family were large landowners under the Earl of East Kamaran, and it is not difficult to imagine the wealth of the Hurss Green, who were not very high-ranking but well-run, and it is not difficult to imagine the size and size of the windmills on the nearby hillsides.
The sky was already as overcast as the bottom of a pot, and the wild wind of the call sign was sandwiched with scattered bean raindrops, and the torrential rain would come at any time.
Maite and Beckett, who were sour and weak, led their beloved horses and followed Li Yun, staggering towards the dirt mountain in the center of the windmill group, where in addition to a large windmill, there was also a relatively intact horse barn.
Soon after the three of them entered the barn, lightning and thunder roared, and a strong rain and hail began to sweep across the land.
It was leaking rain, the tattered gates were fanned back and forth by the wind and rain, the barn creaked, and the tattered planks fell from the ceiling from time to time, as if they were about to collapse at any moment.
Li Yun pulled out the staff hanging like a spear from his back, and gently shook it in his hand, the spar the size of a goose egg on the head of the staff shone brightly, and when he poked the staff upward, there was an ice-blue light cluster the size of a coconut, like a soap bubble blown away, rising upwards and rising to the arched roof of the horse barn, shrouding the entire inside of the horse barn in a soft blue and white light.
Matt and Beckett had already unloaded their harness and wiped their sweat with dry towels, while Li Yun took out six rune bone stakes of meters from the black skull, and built a six-fulcrum spire in the center of the ground. After shaking the staff, the runes on the bone stakes lit up one after another, and a hexagonal shape of light was formed with a fulcrum below, and a bright blue light shot out from the middle crack of the bone stakes on each other, rushing into the sky, although slender, the roof of the horse barn was completely unable to resist, and went straight into the sky.
Then, a circle of light formed on the ground, then a triangle, a quadripartite, and a circle, all of which centered on the innermost hexagon, with a total of seven layers, and then disappeared into the earth.
Immediately after the earth shook, some invisible fluctuation spread, and the sky-high light thickened violently, drowning the entire hexagon in the light, like a thick pillar, supporting the heavens and the earth.
The wind and rain were strong, lightning and thunder roared, and the clouds in the sky took the pillar of light as the core, gradually forming a whirlpool of clouds, and the lightning was also attracted to it, and was guided to gather in this pillar of light.
Li Yun had already ignored it, unloaded the harness, and wiped the sweat for Qingxue.
One of the characteristics of the barn was that it could be used as a stable, and Matt and Beckett cleared three of them for the horses, and then found a hunger trough and a water trough, and took the rainwater, and poured bean cakes for the horses to eat and drink, and then began to work for themselves.
He picked up some dry-rotted wooden planks from the barn, used the tattered clay jar as a brazier, raised the fire, and then dismantled and mended the two large holes in the side wall of the barn, and stuck the door that was slammed back and forth with a horizontal wooden latch, and finally there was a small world to block the wind and rain.
The two rode their horses all the way, their underwear had already been sweated, they took the rain and scrubbed their bodies, washed their wet clothes and dried them out, took dry underwear from their bags and changed them, and then boiled water to cook food.
At the same time, Li Yun threw the staff into the pillar of light, and the staff hung in it up and down, allowing the energy flowing in it to be refined.
With the power of heaven and earth and the power of nature, for his own use, Li Yun relied on the special means of the gods to possess this ability.
Weather like today's is not encountered a few times a year, and he naturally refuses to miss it easily.
The dark clouds are like umbrellas, and the earth is like a felt carpet, connecting this force of nature, and an area similar to the size of the Kingdom of God has become a temporary realm, and various forces are dominated in the meantime, some of which flow into the Kingdom of God through the rune bone array, and some gather in this world.
For this world, the power within the scope of a storm is only a drop in the bucket, not to mention that the area that Li Yun can dominate is only a small part of the area covered by this storm.
But for Li Yun, such a huge force is still very useful. He can't directly draw power from the universe void, ether space, and other regions like a real god, and he can only let the little divine kingdom have more controllable energy outside of faith in this way.
With the infusion of energy, the Blood Moon Wilderness and the Dead Cold Hills changed, and the glowing spheres formed by the convergence of clouds, water, and energy hung in the sky, as bright as the moon.
And in this world, the speed and quantity of the collection of evil made Li Yun feel the difference.
"There must be a nest of chaotic forces here, otherwise how could there be such a production?"
Thinking of this, he cast a spell with the help of a magic circle.
In this temporary realm, his spell power and coverage are enhanced.
Outside, as his spell cast, a rain of scarlet and azure light fell along with the raindrops, poignant and gorgeous, and the sky was much brighter because of these lights.
After about ten minutes, there was a sound of Calle and Calle outside the barn, and Beckett opened the door of the barn at the behest of Li Yun, and the rain outside was densely packed with skeletons, which could be as many as thousands, and in the farther away, there were still more skeletons converging here.
Li Yun drew a ray of light from the central circle, forming an oval-shaped watery door outside the barn gate, and then the skeletons lined up through this gate to enter the Dead Cold Hill.
The body whose will has died is driven by a little residual soul power, and such an existence is undoubtedly low-level.
Evil has a more effective way to control it, that is, to replace the will with the soul power formed by negative emotions, so it is easier to kill, ravage, mutilate, etc., and often become an essential link, stored through sacrifice, and can also be invoked through rituals. From such a point of view, the things that evil has done that have lost their conscience can be regarded as serious in their production operations. On the contrary, the so-called pleasure by these cruel means is nothing more than a deformed hobby with a distorted will, a subsidiary product, not the purpose of cruel persecution.
Li Yun did not go along with evil, the important difference is that he did not break through the bottom line of human nature because of convenience and speed, he still has a positive hobby, and he feels happy because of this, eliminating the negative emotions in his heart that are far more rapid than ordinary people. Darkness is a hotbed of evil, and with darkness as a companion, negative emotions are like weeds after the spring rain, growing wildly, and then squeezing out the beautiful memories and thoughts in human nature, which is why people who use the power of darkness are more likely to become evil.
The wind and rain outside the barn became more and more violent, the raindrops were connected into lines, and the wind caused the rain to form a large area of mist, and the layers of water mist formed a rain curtain, blocking the view, making people feel that the sky was pouring.
The lightning and thunder are becoming more and more urgent, breaking through the sky and earth in an instant, reflecting a thrilling brightness, making the sound of thunderbolts and thunder, making people's hearts sway.
Li Yun knew that such a fierce would not last long, and the storm was about to pass.
He took his staff out of the pillar of light, and threw his armor and weapons, as well as the armor and weapons of Matt and Beckett, into the pillar of light, and forged equipment with the power of heaven and earth, which could obtain some random force bonuses.
Sure enough, after ten minutes, the wind and rain began to weaken rapidly, and soon the pillar of light was difficult to sustain, and after a short while, the dark clouds dispersed, and the sunlight scattered the ground through the gaps in the clouds, and although the clouds were still stacked, the rain stopped completely.
Matt and Beckett, who had eaten some hot meals, happily took over the armor weapon and wiped it carefully, Li Yun let the two rest here, and he himself carried the staff on his back and went to investigate the neighborhood on foot, less than an hour of the storm, the evil collected was enough to refine more than ten cans of Ether Toxin, which was more than one-third of the total amount of evil collected by the entire Mann Territory, he wanted to see what kind of evil nest existed nearby.
The entire mill area has become much brighter because of this large-scale purification, and there is no longer that gloomy feeling, Li Yun's gaze only swept a few times, and then he eliminated suspicion, crossed this mill area, and walked further east.
Turning over two mounds, a ruined wall appeared in his field of vision, the scale of which was a large village or a small town, but now it was completely dilapidated, and there was not even a wall more than a human height, compared to the horse barn in the mill area, it was obvious that it had experienced not only abandonment, but also demolition and destruction.
There is nothing unusual here, there are only a few dangerous small beasts in the overgrown weeds, and there are no strange things.
He looked up a little farther on the hillside, where the ruins of a large mansion remained, and it looked very striking.
Beyond the ruins, the weedy road saw a street sign that was almost rotten, and carefully identified it, pointing to the side of the mansion, engraved with Hesgreen.
Stepping on the mud to the top of the slope, he also found nothing abnormal, he did not give up, and patrolled among the ruins again, but there was no clue.
"Maybe it's the power of the Temporal Realm that has penetrated into some evil realm in the Shadows?" he looked up at the sky, abandoning his curiosity-sparked exploration.
This trip to the dark town is scheduled for three days, including the cost of the round-trip journey. One of the reasons why the schedule is so tight is that the number of people in the Flying Shadow is limited, and it is beyond the reach of this side. In other words, his communication with the outside world is now interrupted. For him, who is accustomed to being the first to know the dynamics in and around his territory every day, this is very uncomfortable, especially now that the situation is volatile.
It took nearly two hours to go back and forth, and it was already half past thirteen, and Matt and Beckett took a nap, but it was not enough to make up for the consumption of the morning's rush, but they had to go on the road.
Taking advantage of the efforts of the two of them to pack up the saddle, Li Yun looked at the map again, the map here was provided by the Shadow Werewolf Ducasse, very professional, according to the map, there are still more than 70 kilometers to go from the dark town, the destination of this trip, as before, the road is mostly turned to the mountain, but the road is more difficult.
Sure enough, not long after getting back on the road, I began to experience the pain of bad roads, mountainous areas, many gravel, many naturally formed rainwater ditches, plus just after the rain, muddy water gushed in many places, I can't ride a horse at all, I can only walk with water, even so, I have to pay attention to the gravel from time to time to hurt the horse's legs, especially the stones in the water.
I rode and walked like this, and spent the whole afternoon on the road. Seeing that it was about to get dark, there were still more than ten kilometers to go.
The place where the three of them were already a complete wilderness, with high mountains and deep forests, and from time to time there were wild beasts roaring and strange howls, and from time to time there were animals walking or being startled in the nearby bushes and long grass.
At this time, there is no way out, you can only determine a direction, and then try to find a good route to move forward. The Dark Folk and the Luna faith gave both Maite and Beckett night vision, but the horses did not, so they had to lead them on foot.
After walking for another distance, a forest appeared in front of him, and Matt couldn't help but ask, "Teacher, is this the Night Forest?"
Li Yun nodded and said, "It should be here, rest for a while, according to what Ducasse said, the night forest has characteristics similar to dusk to dark, and you can't see far with night vision." ā
As he spoke, he drew his necromantic wand from his belt.
Unlike the wand with the holy cedar wood as the body and the moonlight gem as the core gifted by the goddess, the main material of the necromancy wand comes entirely from the capture, and both Servis and the Black Blade have contributed to it, like a small wand like a baton, the gray-white wand body is mixed with bone, wood, stone, and gold, and looks like an ivory carved handicraft.
With the dance of the wand, a cluster of blue light lit up in the dark wilderness, and after a while, these large or small blue lights moved to the left of Li Yun, Matt and Beckett saw clearly, the light was wrapped in animal corpses, all small animals, rabbits, mice, etc., they were resurrected in the form of bones, and then gathered into a ball of bone eggs, and before long, the egg cracked, and a monster jumped out of it.
The monster looked like a thin-waisted greyhound, but it looked like an exoskeleton, like a lobster or a crab, like armor, and the joints were tough cuticles, and they were glowing.
The monster devoured the shell as soon as it was born, and then wagged its tail around Li Yunjimad and Beckett.
Both of them were a little nervous, but Li Yun said that it didn't matter, saying that the bone dog was remembering the soul fluctuations, and the two saw that the war horse was very safe, and there was no special reaction, so they put their minds at ease.
After feeding the war horse some well water from the moon well, and drinking some of it himself, the two led the horse and followed Li Yun step by step into the night forest.
The Bone Dog explored the path in front, and the three followed behind, and after walking for a while, they had to light torches.
The torch was peculiar, not an ordinary burn, but it was a branch the thickness of an arm, split one end apart, and then caught something from the dead hills, like a torch wrapped in sackcloth and grease, to form a burning light, but without temperature, the flame was also ice blue. But even if there is such a special torch lighting, it will only illuminate the area with a radius of 5 meters, and the distance will quickly dim, and the darkness will not be visible at all. Such a limited field of vision made both Maite and Beckett subconsciously tighten their heartstrings. Even if he knew that there were bone dogs, and the attack from the beast raid was zero, he still couldn't help but feel apprehension.
The road is not easy to walk, but it is, at least it used to be, because everywhere else is a patchwork of trees, but on this road, there are only weeds and shrubs, and no trees in the way.
Li Yun held a torch in one hand and a staff in the other to open the way. His staff was special because its tip resembled a diamond-shaped spear sword, which was both a staff, a spear, and a long-handled machete.
Along the way, several large beasts approached, but in the low roar of the bone dog, it was finally gone, and the two knew that the beast retreated, not because of the bone dog, but because of the breath deliberately released by Li Yun.
In fact, on this trip, the three of them have encountered large beasts more than once, but they were all shocked back by Li Yun, Matt and Beckett didn't find anything unusual, but the beasts always retreated as if they had encountered some extremely ferocious monsters. The two of them could only envy Li Yun's ability.
After groping in the darkness for more than an hour, there was a faint light on the road ahead, the brightness of the lights.
"It's really inhabited. Beckett said happily.
Matt, on the other hand, noticed the peculiarity of the light, "It seems to be some kind of peculiar lamp." ā
A peculiar lamp indeed, it at first glance looks like a large horse lantern, propped up by solid wooden poles to form a street lamp. But if you look closely, you will find that it is actually a kind of glass-covered cage, which contains glowing insects like fireflies, but these insects do not glow with their tails, but all over their bodies, and their brightness is much higher than that of fireflies.
"Don't move, just stand there honestly, or we'll shoot arrows." ā
There was a sound in the darkness, but no one could be seen, and the other party took advantage of the dark nature of the lamp, and there was a bright illuminated thing, and the shadows became darker and darker, and the other party was obviously hiding in it.
"Woo......" The bone dog crunched down and roared at the shadows, it did not have normal vocal cords, the roar was like the wind passing through the bone whistle, and the whining sound was a little strange.
"Come back. As soon as Li Yun called, the bone dog ran back to Li Yun, its obedient behavior was not like a dog, because it was not a dog, but it had some characteristics of a dog.
"Who are you, what are you doing here?" The man hiding in the shadows saw that the three of them were quite cooperative, and his voice was much calmer.
"We're from Mannland, on behalf of Baron Mann, and we've heard that there's a human town here, and we're here to investigate. ā
"We have our own leaders, and we won't join Mann Territory. A young voice rang out in the darkness.
"Rest assured, Baron Mann is not asking you to join. It's only because evil has comprehensively eroded Kamaran that out of concern for the same clan, we deliberately let us take a look. Even if you can't help each other, I hope you can do well, and maybe something can help you. ā
"How many of you came. ā
"Just the three of us. It's hard to find here, and there are almost no roads. ā
"But you're here anyway. It shouldn't just be as simple as wanting to help, right?"
"Indeed, I want to find someone with the surname Vincent, in order to solve the problem of the increasingly widespread depraved werewolves. After the evil has fully eroded Kamaran, the Fallen Werewolves have become ferocious and have become a disaster. We want to curb the werewolf curse at its roots. ā
"There's no one you're looking for here, so let's go. ā
"We've finally found some clues, about all the people living in this land, help. We don't have to go into town, just ask a few questions. If you have any conditions to mention, we will try to meet them. ā
"If you don't say it, you won't have it, get out of here!"
Matt and Buict were on fire, and said in their hearts: "We are good at talking to each other, but we meet such an unkind person, it is really shameless." ā
Both of them looked at Li Yun, and they waited for him to give an order to start fighting, not to mention a few hunters and sentinels, but there were knights on the other side, and the two of them also had the confidence to win the battle.
Li Yun signaled not to be impatient, he felt the inconsistency of the other party's attitude, at first the other party was mainly asking, after he said the reason, the other party immediately refused coldly, he felt that there should be something here.
After thinking about it, he said solemnly: "If this matter touches on your unspeakable secrets, you might as well say it briefly." Give us a reason to say the past. Cold and hard rejection can easily make us have bad associations. As I said earlier, it concerns all the people who live on this land. Evil is everywhere, the Mann people have suffered heavy losses, and in order to survive better, the Manns don't mind talking with their swords. ā
The other party snorted coldly, "If you don't agree, use force, this is your true face, just now you said that you hope we have a good life and hope to help us." ā
Li Yun said solemnly: "This is not a contradiction. We care about our fellow citizens, as well as our allies. We do not believe that our compatriots or allies will obstinately stand in the way of the eradication of the scourge of fallen werewolves. We've even reached an understanding with the Wolf Clan, and we've become allies. The werewolves also supported us in this matter and gave us great help. ā
He added, "We are well aware of the damage that the crazed creatures of darkness such as the Fallen Werewolves can do to the land we live in the face of the full range of evil. We cannot tolerate endless harassment by fallen werewolves in our daily lives. Think about what you would do if you lived in a town that was harassed by murderous and bloodthirsty werewolves day and night? This is not alarmism, but an intensifying fact. ā
In the end, Li Yun said frankly: "The intelligence we have gathered points out that the werewolf curse is spreading in Kamalan, and there is a driving force behind it, as well as a key artifact, so in order to eradicate the fallen werewolves, we are trying our best to find this artifact, as well as the black hand." ā
The other party was silent.
Beckett couldn't help but say, "Hey, give me a clear explanation, what are you embarrassed about? If you can't be the master, notify the person who can be the master." Is it appropriate for you to stop us like this? The reason has been made very clear, do you have to be an enemy?"
Speaking of which, the other party is still forcibly making excuses: "How do you prove that you are not using some kind of excuse to achieve an ulterior purpose, and how do you prove that you are the representative of the Mann, the representative of Kamaran?"
"I have a seal, issued by Lord Mann, and my status is a special advisor to the lord. Saying that, Li Yun was about to take the printing card.
"You don't have to show me, I can't tell the real thing. ā
Matt was furious, and interjected with a strong smell of gunpowder: "You are deliberately making things difficult, you think we are easy to bully, right??"
Li Yun motioned to Maite to dissipate his breath and said in a deep voice: "We are not here to make trouble, but to solve problems." Without a clear statement, we will not leave easily. I now solemnly ask to speak to your steward. Stop trying to prevaricate, we are willing to resolve the issue in an amicable way, but we do not rule out the use of force. ā
"You wait, I'll report. As he spoke, he saw a lean man in leather chain mail and a hood come out of the darkness and walk down the road into the depths.
"Wait. Li Yun said: "Say your name." ā
"Baldwin. The man said without looking back.
"No, that's not your name. Li Yun said: "Your surname is Vincent, right?" ā
As soon as these words came out, the man immediately went into the dense forest by the roadside. But Li Yun's movements were faster, and with a finger of the staff in his hand, a scarlet light shot out, and after hitting the man, it turned into many flying scarlet arcs swimming on his body, "Ahhh
Matt pounced on him and tied him up, while Buict stared warily at the dark chu on the left side of the road, where there was a hideout, and at least one other person was right.
Beckett soon discovered that a young man in the same leather chain mail was leaning against the trunk of a tree and did not move, and upon closer inspection, he had fainted.
Matt wanted to carry the lean man's neck collar like a chicken, lifted him over, and slapped him on the head, especially in anger, and scolded: "What kind of secret, as for you knocking your companions unconscious!" (To be continued.) )