Section 26 Lesser Devils

A knight stepped out of the cave and crouched down to grab a handful of snow.

The white snow and ice are no different from normal snow flakes, but I haven't seen ice or snow in the desert area for more than ten years, and it feels very strange to be able to hold them in my hand.

Buzz~zzz~

The strange radio wave sounded, Li Yuntao had an indescribable awkward feeling, the originally smooth and smooth aura circulation in the body became sluggish in this sound wave, and an indescribable feeling of nausea and rejection arose for no reason, similar to seasickness.

The words on the knights' armor and tower shields kept shining brightly, some of them suddenly went out like short-circuited light bulbs, and the rest of them continued to emit light, but they were slowly extinguishing one by one.

He didn't care, but looked back at his companions, slowly straightened up, and stood on the slope at a strange angle to the surprised gazes of several people.

"What happened? Charlie. A knight who was still standing at the entrance of the cave asked.

"Hmm~ I can't tell what is going on, but you will understand when you come out." The knight named Charlie let go of his hand, dropped the half-ice-half-snowflake condensation, and exhaled, white smoke wafting out from under the visor, coating the surface of his visor with a layer of hoarfrost. "It's cold." He couldn't help but say.

Seeing that there was no danger, several people walked out of the cave with curiosity.

Li Yuntao stepped on the slope, and his strange sense of balance told him that this was not the state it should be, and he could fall down at any time if he stood with his body tilted like this. Following his instinct, he corrected his posture in time, and the slope that had previously seemed to be inclined became a flat ground after he corrected his posture.

And the tunnel they had come out of before had become a hole in his eyes that had sloped downward.

"It's an amazing feeling, what the hell is this place? It seems that the sense of balance has been disrupted. One of the knights sighed, and as he spoke, the white air wafting from the visor covered its surface with a layer of hoarfrost. It's cold. He couldn't help but snort.

"It's not just the balance that's messing up, my man. I don't feel Heavenly Father's grace anymore. Another knight slammed his shield into the ground, and the lower edge of the shield plunged into the frozen ground with a dull crashing sound. The emblem of the Church of the Father on the surface of the shield has been completely dimmed, leaving only a cold metal shell.

"Yes, I can't move the magic in my body freely. This situation... The summons that are supposed to be similar to and summon to our world must rely on the magic I provide to exert their abilities. Old Aris tried to draw a simple array of magic patterns with his wand, which was almost instinctive for the Grand Magus, but the magic light that sprinkled from the top of the wand was intermittent, and although the firefly magic spell that could be easily completed by a first-level warlock was finally completed by him, the magic power consumed increased exponentially.

The fire spirit generated by the completed firefly magic is only the size of a fist, which is not abnormal, but the fire it releases does not bring even a trace of warmth to everyone, and only serves as a lighting.

Aris observed the fireflies he had summoned, then made several attempts, and after a short period of thought, he spoke: "The elemental laws of this place seem to be very different from the world we live in, and performing magic spells according to the magic knowledge I have accumulated will be greatly limited here.

And the place where we are currently should be the meeting point that connects the two regions, where the laws of both worlds can take effect, once we leave here. We will become no different from ordinary people. ”

Boom~!

"Honorable Archmage, at least we still have this sturdy armor and weapon. I feel like we can continue the mission and save the missing people from the monsters. One of the knights tapped off the heavy and sturdy steel armor on his body and said confidently.

"I don't doubt your courage, but are you sure your hard shell won't be a burden to you in this environment?" Old Aris teased a little, his snow-white beard swaying with a gust of cold wind, and he unconsciously tightened his loose and light swan robe.

This cold wind not only made old Arris wrap his robe tightly, but everyone in the team shivered unconsciously.

"Isn't this minus 30 degrees?" Li Yuntao tightened his body and let the heat drain as slowly as possible, and at this time he began to congratulate himself that he had not ordered an all-steel crossbow. The grips and armrests made of wood-wrapped leather are so approachable at this time.

He stomped his foot, trying to dispel the chill from the soles of his shoes.

Even with their dark blue flannel cloaks, the knights could not stop the chill. The Church of the Father, which is active in the perennially warm northern regions around the desert, will not prepare equipment for the Holy Cult under its command, after all, they are not arrogant enough to launch a diocesan war against other churches in the cold southern regions.

"I have to admit that your wisdom is the most precious treasure at all times and in all places, but my conscience cannot allow it to be done just as I watch my people under my rule being plundered by monsters." The knight pointed to the tracks on the ground that stretched in the direction above the cavern, leading to the camp by the purple lake in the distance.

"I'm not against you doing what you do right, but I suggest we do it after we're prepared, it's not far from White Sands, and it's only a little midnight to track them here because we have a limited speed to travel at night. As a rough estimate, this passage will not be more than fifty miles away from Baisha City. Fifty miles, a maximum of two hours on horseback can be reached. Old Aris tried to convince the knight.

The other two knights thought they were visibly shaken, and nodded their heads at the knight who had spoken.

"And if my guess is correct, these monsters are not completely preying on the population for food, if they just eat them, this place is so big, and a small number of people like Baisha City would have been eaten up a long time ago." Old Arris pointed with his wand at the endless pale snowfields and blue grasslands shrouded in the desert mirage.

"And what is their purpose?" The knight subconsciously asked.

"My guess, it's just a guess. Based on my experience in summoning over the years, it has taught me that it takes not only magic but also soul power to summon elemental spirits from other worlds to our world for impulse.

This is also the reason why the contract warlock becomes drowsy every time he casts a summoning spell, the magic power is only used to release the energy of the magic, and the soul power is the price necessary for the contract elf to come to this world to cast the spell on his behalf. As he said this, he glanced at Li Yuntao, who was shivering in the cold wind, and there was no idea of teaching the new apprentice.

"And by reversing this process, these monsters plundered the population of our world, in addition to the possibility of using it for food, it is more likely to plunder their soul power, so that they can operate normally in our world.

Just like we are in now, if we want to operate normally here, I'm afraid we need to rely on their soul power. It depends on the steel seal that the laws of the world imprint on the soul when it is born. The different laws of the world only recognize that the inhabitants of their own world live in their own homes. ”

"It's like Donghuang's copper coins can't be used if you don't exchange them for city copper Sardinia when you get them in Baisha City?" Li Yuntao's eyes lit up, and he had roughly understood the principle.

"Pretty much the same, but not all right." Old Aris looked at the new apprentice with satisfaction, nodded and smiled.

"Isn't what they did a bunch of robbers who forcibly robbed us of our money and then came to our world to spend it?" Li Yuntao continued along this line of thought.

"A bunch of monsters, how can they be compared to robbers? But their spells that rob the souls of the inhabitants of our world for their own use are new magic that I have never heard of. There are many powerful beings in the contract elves that are far more powerful than we think, but even if they are so powerful, they have to obey the constraints of the contract. Old Aris looked down in thought with deep eyes.

"And these guys forcibly plundered the souls of the inhabitants of our world, which is equivalent to skipping the shackles of the contract and descending directly into our world, this magic is very dangerous, but it is very practical..."

But the problem in front of them is that as monsters from another world, they obviously won't give this magic to themselves and let themselves use it on them.

"There is a situation!" At this moment, a knight suddenly half-crouched down and propped up his shield.

Whew~Whew!

With a strange howl, a white shadow tore through the cold wind and crashed into the knight's tower shield.

In the creaking and tearing sound of tooth aches, the knight's tower shield was slightly deformed.

Whew~Whew!

The white shadow kicked on the shield, and the hairball-like body instantly broke away from the heavy shield and fell into the snow beside it.

It was only then that everyone could see what was attacking, it was covered in thick and long white fur, its limbs were slender and its claws were wide, and the three purple-black claw blades at the tip of its furry claws were nearly half a foot long. The front end of the pom-pom-like body, with ears longer than a rabbit, bends from the middle to the sides, looking at the tentacles that resemble ants, and it is estimated that the head and body are too close to make it look like it has no head.

A pair of round and large purple glowing eyes, in the center, there is a faint red glow. The muzzle is short, hidden in the long hairs of its cheeks, and only the tiny, mouthy teeth can be seen when it howls.

If it weren't for seeing the six nearly two-inch-deep gaps torn by the claw blades on the knight's tower shield, Li Yuntao felt that this little guy was quite cute.

"Go back, quick." The leading knight no longer hesitated, and shouted loudly.

"Damn, more than one!" A knight next to him raised his shield and helped the shouting knight block a pounce.

Whew~Whew!

The three knights were disrupted by the sudden attack, and at some point they touched the furball monster next to several people, and the color of the fur was hidden in the snow, and it was impossible to identify them without looking closely.

A small monster that rushed through the knight's defense line howled and pounced into the air, grabbed the firefly spirit that emitted orange firelight, and then ran away without looking back.

It carried the fireflies away, and the remaining hairball monsters that launched the attack also stopped continuing to attack everyone, and they jumped in the snow chasing the monsters that held the fireflies and quickly disappeared into the vast wind and snow. Counting what everyone didn't find, there are probably dozens of heads.

Several people looked at each other in surprise, the attack of the little monsters just now had disrupted their formation, as long as the attack continued, they were afraid that they would not even have time to escape.

Looking at the passage hole within a few meters, thinking back to the number of little monsters that had left before, everyone only felt colder.

"I'll go back first." Li Yuntao said without waiting for others to respond, he returned to the passage with the crossbow machine, and when he jumped down, his sense of balance was stirred again, and a wave of nausea surged in his heart.

Not only the sense of balance, but also the low temperature of the frozen people in the snow field outside quickly turned into the slight cold of the previous desert night, although it was still a little cold, it was already pleasant warmth for Li Yuntao.

He shook his shoulders and shivered, and then walked to the other end of the passageway, regardless of whether the people behind him were following him or not.

Back in the center of the bottom of the pool, the knight who stayed behind had already dug the ladder up from the bottom of the pool, and at this time he was skating on the frozen ice of the pool with the movement of the metal soles of his shins, and when he saw Li Yuntao coming up, he quickly stopped his movements, squatted down and took out a dagger to make an ice chisel action.

Li Yuntao ignored him, walked up the stairs to the oasis on the shore, sat on the ground and began to rest. Even though he had only been in the other world for a while, he felt as if he had gone through a great war, and the cold and fear had taken away too much of his physical strength.

After a few minutes, heavy footsteps rang out one after another, and the clanging sound of metal was approaching, and a knight's helmet appeared in his field of vision, accompanying him as he stepped up the stairs to the shore, revealing his armor and the tower shield that had been scratched by the little monster everywhere.

Then the second knight, the old Arris, the third knight, all returned from the icy world.

The knights threw down their shields and sat down on the sandy ground where the oasis had a layer of floating grass without any image.

"What kind of monster are those little things just now, I didn't expect it to be so scary. They always look familiar. One of the knights lifted his mask and spoke first.

"If you remove that thick, long layer of white hair, don't you think they look like little devils?" The knight next to him removed his steel shoulder pads, which had three deep scars on them, and when he removed it, the knight's blood-red shoulders were exposed, and the chain mail worn inside was torn apart and drooping like rags.

"No kidding, it's more than several times faster and more powerful than the Bad Devil. Look at this shield, the half-inch-thick pure steel plate was sliced two inches deep by the blow of that small claw. It was so powerful that I could barely hold it. ”

"Little devil? Last month we wiped out a nest in the outer woods of Nanka village, hammer at a time, and their claws couldn't even leave a white mark on their armor. Another added.

"But just get rid of the white hair. Elongated limbs, half-foot-long claws, a spherical body, a bouncing way of traveling, gregariousness, and that impressive pair of ears, all the features match, don't they? The knight, with a shoulder injury, continued to analyze.

"They came into our world and were clearly weakened." Old Arris joins the crowd in the discussion.

"The Little Bad Demon is just the most common type of weak Demon Beast, but along with the area around it, there will definitely be more powerful Demon Beasts. It seems that the demonic beasts that live in the depths of the forests of our world may come from the opposite world. ”

This indirectly explains the relationship between the origin of the monster and the abrupt formation of the desert. If I'm not mistaken, the earliest record of a demonic beast was around this desert. ”

"Rotherland, once the Emerald Sanctuary, began to desertify for no apparent reason a hundred and fifty years ago. None of the snow flowing down the Daisetsuzan Mountains can nourish the land and allow it to continue to rejuvenate. ”

"There are many more secrets hidden on the other side of this passage than we expected." Old Arris looked at the dark hole at the bottom of the pool, and there was a burning light in his eyes.

Li Yuntao shrugged his shoulders, no matter how important those secrets are, it has nothing to do with him, it is obviously far beyond his current ability, he can only be said to be ignorant and fearless in the past, and now looking at the tower shield on the ground next to him, Li Yuntao said that he would not get involved in this matter anymore.

After a short rest, Aris thawed the waterhole, leaving two knights to guard the oasis, and he rushed back to White Sands City with his newly recruited apprentices under the protection of two other knights.

There are many things that need to be done in the future, and Baisha City is already equal to most of the empty cities, and new help must be sought.

After returning to Baisha City, it was slightly cloudy, and the sleeping people had not yet woken up, Cen Yuping had simply treated her wounds, rested on the sofa neatly dressed, and even made herself a new pot of tea.

Old Aris temporarily requisitioned the room next to Serena to meditate and restore mana. Serena's room was already a little messy from the previous battle, and it didn't sound appropriate to occupy the girl's room by herself.

During the meditation of Old Arris, the people in the hall on the first floor gradually climbed high into the sky with the sun and slowly woke up. The first to wake up was Serena, a first-class contract warlock. Others woke up an hour after she woke up.

Li Yuntao briefly recounted what happened last night and omitted the secret of another world. Some things are still left to old Aris to decide whether to make them public, otherwise he may invite trouble if he talks too much.

Aris meditated quickly, and when everyone was busy making breakfast to fill their stomachs, he found Li Yuntao and Serena who were talking to Cen Yuping in the small living room, and then led everyone to the terrace without stopping, drawing a teleportation magic array, and opening a portal composed of starlight.

"Give this letter to the Council's current president, Doug Murphy. Rager, he'll take over as I tell him to do. The letter must be handed to him by hand, and the action must be quick. He handed Serena an envelope sealed with the coat of arms of the Magician's Council and spoke quickly in Western Chinese.

Turning his head to face Li Yuntao: "You follow her to my mage tower first to familiarize yourself with the environment, and then I will arrange your specific affairs after I go back." ”

"I'm very sorry, dear Cen, I can't continue to accompany you in the future, you are seriously injured now, and although preliminary treatment has been done, I recommend that you go to Filgreen Medical College under the Magician Council for further treatment. Your love, one of my best friends, dear Sun, I will stay here to take charge of retrieving him. All you have to do is wait quietly for news in Filgreen. ”

"This unfortunate thing happened too suddenly, if it wasn't for my invitation, you wouldn't have come here with me, as a member of the Senate of the Magicians' Council, the owner of this land, I will definitely be responsible for this matter to the end, please believe me."

He bowed down and bowed to Cen Yuping, and his posture was extremely low.

"I know that the sect behind you has unimaginable strength, but please give me this chance to make amends."

Cen Yuping's face was still pale, and there was no emotional change on her face, she nodded indifferently, and her demeanor couldn't find any flaws.

"I believe you, Arris, you have always been a good friend of ours, and our relationship has been stable for decades of our relationship. I believe that this incident was just an accident, but I still have to go back to the sect to inform about such a big thing. Cen Yuping walked into Aris two steps slightly, and whispered: "Sun Jingxiao's position in the sect is very important, in addition to the position of the elder in charge of foreign affairs, he also has another identity, he is the second son of the sect master of Qionghua Sect, if he is so silent and there is no news, the sect master will definitely be thundered and angry." I have to go back and explain this matter to him in person, otherwise if he comes to Xingshi to ask for guilt, I think that what will happen after him will not be something you and I can undo. ”

"Of course, I alone can't win the trust of the sect master, I still need someone to go with me, and I must take him away." Cen Yuping pointed at Li Yuntao.

Arris's face changed slightly, and he didn't know what to think, and there was a brief silence between the two of them, during which the portal remained open.

After more than ten seconds, he nodded, stopped talking, and only made a gesture of please.

Cen Yuping nodded, and walked into the portal with a graceful gait, while Serena and Li Yuntao followed her in. After the three entered, Aris maintained the mana transfer for a while, and only after a few points of starlight on the teleportation gate flickered slightly and moved his position, then he stopped the mana supply and withdrew his wand.

"Can a small child be a witness? Cunning Orientals. He shook his head, and then nodded again: "It doesn't matter if they know about the existence of another world, the little bad demons have become so terrifying, and the other monsters don't know how strong they will be, and the Magician Council can't gnaw on such a big bone." ”

The starlight dots that made up the portal faded behind him.