Chapter 628: The Dark Shadow Behind the Skeleton
(In this day of the carnival of chopping hands, the director chose a suitable time to release the first chapter of the sixth volume, well, in fact, I want to say that according to the convention, there are new girls around Lao Luo, and today's relatives are mentally prepared...... Don't say it, the ten heroines of the previous five volumes came to me with kitchen knives, Qiuqiu quickly take me out of here!(Little Maoqiu: Uncle Director is here, stupid girl and sisters come and help me cut him!))
After the Beamon Behemoth rushed into the black hole, the Lamp Gods immediately cast a spell to close the dimensional black hole, and the Elder of the Lamp God waved his hand to open another dimensional gap next to Rog and Catherine, and the scene of Beamon's location appeared at the entrance of the dimensional gap. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
I saw Beamon rushing out of the exit of the dimensional black hole, trampling a black forest with one kick, a large number of harpies flew away from the trees with screams, and the furious Beamon destroyed the decaying jungle of the dark hills while leaving huge footprints on the black land polluted by black magic.
At the same time, the long brown hair on Beamon's body began to fall off, his skin became mottled, and large swaths of flesh began to fall off his body, and Beamon, who felt the pain, became more and more violent, running wild in the dark hills and black forests, but it still couldn't stop the death barrier from breaking down its huge body.
Finally, Beamon, who had lost the last of his strength, fell to the ground unwillingly, and his huge body was left with only a white hill-like skeleton, which finally turned into a cloud of white dust and drifted away, leaving only the mess everywhere he went.
"William gave us a problem," Rogge let out a long breath when he saw Beamon fall to the ground, took a cigar and lit it and took a puff softly, "but he helped us solve this problem himself, and further proved to us the power of the Death Enchantment." ”
"Maybe the dark wizard shouldn't have used the Pharaoh's Stone to seduce us. Catherine looked happily at the bag with the glowing pharaoh stone around Rog's waist and said, "This time they miscalculated!"
"But they're not for nothing. Rogge sighed softly and said, "I guess the two regiments of the empire have lost at least half of their troops, and with such a force, we have only a thirty percent chance of winning by marching into the dark hills to the Shadow Fortress to fight William." ”
"Then what should we do, do we want to go back to replenish the troops?" Catherine asked with a restrained smile when she heard this, and looked at Rogge worriedly.
"Let's go back and talk to Antonio and Goethe first. Rog turned and thanked the Elder Lamp, and thanked all the Lamp Gods who had come to help, and after saying goodbye to them, he followed Tali through the dimensional passage back to Antonio.
As they left the dimensional portal, they saw Antonio talking to the High Priest, and the surviving knights and priests were sitting in the surrounding clearing, all of them with colors on their faces and a look of horror on their faces, and Tali was treating the wounds of the wounded.
As soon as he saw them return, Antonio immediately greeted him, and learned that Beamon had been destroyed by the death barrier of the dark hills, and that the Yellow Sand Fortress was safe and sound.
Rogge asked him about the casualties, and as he expected, the Knights had lost more than 200 men, and the Priesthood had suffered even more casualties, the number was less than 200, and the total number of people counted at present was only about 400 men, compared to three-fifths of the casualties when they set out on the expedition.
Rogge let out a long sigh when he heard this, and mentioned to Antonio about replenishing his troops, Antonio bowed his head and muttered to no avail, and the high priest Goethe stepped forward and objected loudly: "I don't agree, the two regiments of the empire have suffered so many casualties, do you still want to transfer the troops guarding the imperial capital to send them to death?"
Rogge and Antonio looked back at Goethe together, only to hear him say with an angry face: "I will never transfer another person, Antonio will transfer people from your knights if he wants, and if he wants to transfer people from my priesthood, this is no way!"
After saying that, he turned around and brushed his sleeves away, Rogge and Antonio exchanged glances with each other, and both sighed in annoyance, Antonio pondered for a moment and said: "In this case, let's do it, these remaining wounded soldiers alone will not be able to defeat William at all, I will transfer all my remaining five hundred knights, and we will make a bet with William!"
"But in that case, your order may suffer heavy losses, and in the future the power of you and Goethe will become very different......" Rogge looked at Antonio worriedly, and gave him a meaningful look, passing on his inconvenient words to him.
"There's no time left to think about the struggle for power!" Antonio said, looking around at the wounded Silver Dragon Knights, "I'll send these wounded soldiers back, let them recuperate, and then transfer the troops left behind, that's it." ”
After Tali and Monica treated the wounds, Antonio asked the god of lights to open the dimensional passage and sent him and the wounded back to the imperial capital, while Rog and Catherine returned to the Patronus altar with the Pharaoh Stone, which had not yet been fully unsealed, and brought back the Pharaoh Stone after it was completely unsealed.
As he carried the Pharaoh Stone through the dimensional passage of the God of Lights, stepped on the land of the Dark Hills and lifted the Pharaoh Stone into the sky, a brilliant light dispelled the black energy that lingered in the sky above the Dark Hills, and the God of Lights floated out, finding that the Death Barrier had completely dissipated.
"The Death Barrier has been broken, and the next thing we need to do is find the Shadow Keep. Rogge turned to the god of lights at the entrance of the dimension and said, "God of lights, help us find the location of the Shadow Fortress." ”
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"Still can't be found?"
Walking through the dark and dark jungle of the dark hills, Rogge asked the lamp god beside him as he walked, and the lamp god held a transparent map with blue light on the palm of his right hand, marked with one coordinate point after another, and the lamp god was paying close attention to the objects marked on it.
"There is no trace," he said helplessly to Rog beside him, "I have never encountered such a situation, even the Mage Tower can be searched with the dimensional map, but the Shadow Fortress is as if it does not exist at all, there is no trace of it." ”
"Obviously, William had thought of all possibilities in advance. Antonio, who was walking behind Rogge, exchanged glances with Tali beside him and said, "He won't let us find him so easily, it seems that we will have to search by manpower." ”
"Are we going to look for William's filthy lair step by step in this dark forest?" said the High Priest Goethe, looking disapprovingly at the gloomy jungle around him, his brow furrowed and his face grumbling in disgust.
"Perhaps, High Priestess, you have a better idea, so that we can make a little less effort?" asked Catherine, looking back coldly, glancing at Goethe.
Goethe glared at Catherine angrily, annoyed by the little girl beside the lone wolf who had repeatedly commanded his army, but there was nothing he could do with her, so he could only turn his face away and continue to walk silently.
Suddenly, the little owl lying on Rogge's hat whispered to Rogge, "Bad wolf, there seems to be someone in the woods on the right!"
Rog's eyes were pointed in the direction Lilith had said, and he saw a dark shadow lurking behind an old black tree that had become toothy and clawed after being polluted by black magic, and he noticed that Rogge was looking in his direction, and the figure disappeared behind the tree in a flash.
"Wait here!" said Rog to Antonio, striding towards the place where the figure had disappeared, but when he came to the tree, there was no figure, and the woods were silent, and there was no sign of anyone there.
Rog crouched down on the ground to search for human traces, and saw a strange footprint on the ground covered with rotten black leaves, the outline of the footprint deep in the black dirt mixed with the leaves, and the seams of the bones could be clearly seen, as if there was no flesh on the foot.
"Skeleton Scout?" Rogge looked up at the silent and empty jungle, and saw the footprints stretching all the way into the dark woodland, he got up and chased a few steps, about five hundred meters, and the footprints suddenly disappeared.
Rog stopped where the footprints had disappeared and carefully searched the surroundings, and since he didn't find any scattered bones, he was sure that the skeleton scout was still nearby, otherwise it wouldn't have disappeared into thin air.
Suddenly, the little furball lying on Rogge's hat shouted: "Bad wolf......, bad wolf, bad wolf!"
Rogge turned around sharply and raised the gauntlet of the fallen angel in his left hand to resist the possible attack, and the five sharp claws on the tips of his right fingers pierced through the black leather gloves and grabbed forward, only to hear an exclamation, and Rogge, who urgently stopped his hand, stopped his claws at a centimeter in front of Catherine's forehead.
The two looked at each other in shock, Catherine's little face turned pale with fright, looked at Rogge's claws in fear, and said tremblingly: "Yes, it's my ......"
"Yes, yes, bad wolf, stupid girl, why are you so nervous?" said the little furball, who looked like he was not too busy to see the excitement, and gloated over Rog's black wide-brimmed hat.
"Isn't it because you little villain is yelling and screaming?" Rogge withdrew his right hand and slapped it on the head, and the little furball was unprepared and slapped on the hat by Rogge's "snap", pouting and rolling his eyes on the hat.
"I'm sorry baby, I'm frightening you, but you're also responsible," said Rog, wiping the cold sweat from Catherine's forehead, "Don't approach people from behind, don't you know that approaching a horse from behind will be kicked by a horse's hooves?
Catherine nodded apprehensively, looked around uneasily, and asked, "Have we gone a little too far, have you found anything?"
"Only a few skeleton footprints have been found," Rog said, looking at the silent and dark forest around him, "but here he is gone, perhaps the Scouts of the Dark Wizards, who seem to have known that we were entering the Dark Hills." ”
"What then, will they sneak up on us?" asked Catherine, alertly pressing her hand to the silver handcuff around her waist.
"Possibly, but now that we're here, we can't be deterred by this. Rogge gently put his arm around her shoulders and said, "Come on, let's go back and meet Antonio first, and then tell them what we have found, so that the two regiments can keep their vigilance." ”
The two turned and walked slowly away the way they had come, and in the shadows of the jungle not far behind them, a dark figure stepped out from behind a tree, and from the outline of his body, he was carrying a jet-black scythe on his back, looking like a grim reaper.
He stared in the direction the two of them had left, glanced down at the bone in his hand that exuded purple magic, took it on his body and quietly followed.