Chapter 62: The Darkness Before Dawn

El fell headlong from the tree, feeling dizzy, his eyes black, and two blood streaks in his nostrils. He didn't care about wiping off his nosebleed, and crawled desperately in the direction he came.

When he used the power of insight runes to peek at the behemoth of Red Stone Ridge in the distance, he also noticed the flickering teleportation light in the wormhole, but he didn't expect to be found half a mountain away.

The appearance of the War King Worm has already terrified El, and the Spider Girl who came after that was even more terrifying. The moment he looked at the past, Rangalia looked back consciously. The terrifying psychic shock descended from the sky thousands of meters away, and rushed directly into El's defenseless brain.

The wild instincts in the body are alarming like never before, and they are far more powerful than mortals can imagine. At that moment, El clearly realized that there was a world of difference in strength between himself and the other party, and it was the most terrifying existence he had ever seen in his life.

Stumbling and running for an unknown amount of time, it wasn't until he saw the faint campfire in the village that El resisted the fear in his heart and stopped. The coercion from the powerful presence behind him had long since disappeared, but he could still vaguely feel that something was chasing after him.

"It's El!"

"The kid is back!"

The soldiers of the night watch found El, who was nearly in collapse, and ran over to carry him to the village. The desperate run had almost exhausted El's physical strength, his hands and feet were weak, his eyes stinging and unbearable, and he could only be half-closed at their mercy. In a few moments, he heard the sound of familiar, heavy footsteps approaching him.

"I thought you were a deserter, boy. ”

Captain Corson's voice rang in his ears, and then a water bottle was handed to El's mouth, and he grabbed the water and poured a few sips of water in embarrassment, finally calming himself down.

"There's no time, listen to me. ”

Licking the nosebleed from his lips, El breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly, "Do we still have horses?" find someone to remember what I said, and then go back to report to the general at once...... Or some other adult in charge. ”

"Romney, come here!" Captain Corson nodded and beckoned to his vice-captain, "This kid doesn't know what the hell he has encountered, you remember what he said next, word for word." ”

"Yes, Captain. Romney agreed, pulling out a worn-out notebook and charcoal from his pocket, apparently prepared for the situation.

"They've built something bigger than a castle on Redstone Ridge, and you'll be able to see it after dawn, and it's probably a portal. I saw several groups of regular troops coming out of it, all of them elite...... Don't ask me how I know, they're all big guys, the kind we've seen. There is also a war king worm, which has begun to lay eggs. ”

El quickly recounted what he had seen, and Romney crouched to the side, his face turning pale and his fingers trembling as he wrote.

"What is the War King Worm? Sounds like you know a lot. Captain Corson said coldly as he stared into El's eyes with suspicion on his face.

"Shut up and listen to me!" El didn't care about the concerns of others at this time, and continued: "The most important thing is that the leader of the other party's legion has arrived! You can't imagine how powerful that monster is, and I was looked at by her half a mountain away, and it became the way it is now. This information must be reported to Isttalon immediately!"

"You're saying you've been discovered?" Captain Corson keenly grasped the crux of the matter.

"Yes, that's right, there's something chasing after me, they're coming!, let's get Romney out of here, we're here to buy him a little time!" El said as he struggled to his feet.

"No, you go with Romney. Captain Corson hesitated for a moment, then spoke

"What did you say?" El almost thought he was hallucinating in his ears.

"I don't understand what you're saying, and Romney certainly doesn't understand either. Captain Corson shrugged his shoulders and looked at El with a calm and calm look in his eyes.

"There are two more horses, you two go together, go back and go directly to the military headquarters in the name of Detachment 57 to ask Master Stephen, only he knows about these bugs. ”

"The things that catch up are not easy to deal with. El clenched his bow and looked Captain Corson in the eye and said, "Without me here, you won't be able to stop these wounded for long." ”

"Then you bastard doesn't have to worry about that!"

Captain Corson grabbed his two-handed broadsword and shouted to the soldiers who gathered around him: "Brothers, cheer up, prepare for battle!"

There was a grinding sound of swords being drawn and unsheathed, and the soldiers responded directly with action.

As El and Romney stepped onto their horses, a huge crimson firework exploded in the sky behind them. Under the fireworks, the warriors struck their shields with the hilts of their swords and hummed in a low voice the ballad that had been passed down from generation to generation in Istalen.

"Did this old bastard take the wrong medicine?" El said to himself, with the dozen remnants now, there was no hope of survival at all. And before that, the bearded man still didn't like him, and he didn't know why he left him a chance to escape.

"I told you, the boss is actually a good person, but he is too rigid in doing things. Romney whispered, "I think he thinks that your survival will be more useful to this war, that's all, so you don't need to take his affection." ”

Saying this, the deputy captain's voice was still a little suppressed, he didn't look back at his comrades, pulled the reins of the horse and rushed forward. The love between men does not need to be expressed in words, and the time exchanged for life cannot be wasted.

The night roads in the forest are so rugged that it is impossible to gallop on horseback. Luckily, the two of them could return to the city of Isttalon by walking all the way along the river.

As soon as he walked less than three or four miles away, El suddenly felt something, and reined in his horse's head and looked back. In the direction of that village, the fire of human life had completely disappeared, replaced by the breath of the landwalkers.

"It's almost dawn! we need to pick up speed!" Romney shouted from the front. El shook his head, remembering the bearded man's name in his heart, gritting his teeth and following closely.

The two military horses have pure blood, good patience, and have not slackened even if they have maintained a high-speed movement for such a long time. The horses' hooves occasionally trampled in puddles, causing large splashes of water, and it seemed that there was still strength left, but it was difficult to pick up speed again. For the average horse, endurance and explosiveness are never directly proportional.

"We've got to go faster!" El shouted at Romney, noticing that the pursuers hadn't stayed in the village for long, and had rushed straight in his direction at an uncanny speed.

"Damn! we don't have the knight's set!Hold on a little longer, I think I've seen the avenue!" Romney scolded as he slapped his mount's ass desperately.

The forest trees in front of them were thinning, and in the distance they could already see the flat road by the river, which was exactly where they had walked when they came out, not far from the city. And you can vaguely see the fire on the main road, it should be the troops in the city are moving, as long as they get there, the safety of the two people will be guaranteed.

"It's too late!" El shouted, clenching his horse's belly sharply. Turning around and stretching his bow, he mounted a white-feathered ebony arrow and shot it into the sky. A strange cry came from the dark mist, and some kind of flying monster fell in response.

Romney pulled out the rocket that Captain Corson had stuffed into his pocket when he was leaving, and in his desperation, he couldn't tell the color, so he threw it out in a hurry. Colorful fireworks exploded at the same time, reflecting half of the sky and the pursuers following them. It was a half-human, half-mantis monster, holding a half-arm-long handleless blade in both hands, and it looked very similar to the kind of monster that used a whip that I had seen before, and its strength would not be much different.

El's bowstrings rang out one after another, and the swift arrows swirled and whistled through the wind, piercing the bodies of the three Mantes scouts, while the rest of the mantis monsters dodged. They flew at an astonishing speed, and after making a small circle in mid-air, they raised their long, snow-sharp blades and swooped down towards El.

"Keep running, don't look back!" El shouted at Romney, vaguely aware that the mantis monsters had targeted themselves from the start.

Elle gripped the axe and rolled over and jumped off his horse. He stared into the monster's eyes and slid sideways at the last moment, dodging the aggressive slash of the mantis monster in front, and the long blade in Mantes' scout's hand passed by him, shaving only a few strands of hair. In the next moment, he realized the flaws of the volley, and the sharp steel slashed deftly through the angle below the side, stabbing into his abdomen almost effortlessly, and then tearing open a massive wound with the reaction force of his impact. When his body fell to the ground, the blood with strong pressure had already carried his internal organs out of the wound, which was nearly half a meter wide.

The blow showcased El's masterful fighting skills, but it couldn't change the hostile situation he was about to face. The two long blades that followed stabbed at his body at the same time, without any buffer time. Every Mantes scout is no less powerful than a double-whip monster, and now that they are outnumbered, there is no hope of escape.

At the last moment of life and death, El suddenly laughed. A faint blue rune light burst out from his eyes and chest at the same time, and the light rose to the sky.

"Since you refuse to let go of Lao Tzu, let's die together!"

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