At the edge of the forest, there are countless degenerates. writing brush

As soon as Oswood rushed out, he caused a great commotion - almost all the Fallen turned their heads and pounced on him.

Olswood was indeed very good, swinging his sword in his hand, easily cutting off two bloody heads.

But no matter how good he is, he is afraid of being beaten by a crowd of degenerates—these non-humans swoop down like locusts from all directions, and one man and one sword cannot kill them, and Oswood is almost instantly besieged.

"Stop them!"

Olswood yelled, expecting his men to help him.

However, the dozens of people he brought with him did not save him......

The few people closest to him were also entangled by the Fallen, and most of the others immediately turned around and ran back when they saw that the situation was wrong, completely ignoring the life or death of their own boss. writing brush

These are people who are accustomed to torture and loot, when they torture civilians together for fun, they will call each other brothers, and when they can get benefits, they will commit crimes together and share the spoils, but when it is obvious that they will die, how can they sacrifice themselves?

Oswood was abandoned by his own "brothers."

Just as he was always used as cannon fodder by the Lion Knights before, when encountering unsolvable difficulties, no one would share the hardships with ***......

But the remnants of the soldiers who left behind the boss and ran away did not survive.

They were blocked by Sir Roland chasing after them.

Sir Roland and his troops had been following Oswood closely, and had not yet left the forest, and could not see the situation outside.

Seeing Oswood's people turn back, Roland thought that they were going to be brave and fight to the death with him, so he asked the troops to stop and besiege and annihilate, which was considered to give these remnants a happy time. writing brush

Probably those who insist on justice can indeed be protected by the goddess of justice, if it weren't for the delay for the annihilation of these remnants, I'm afraid that Roland would also plunge into the sea of the degenerate.

Having just taken out the remnants of the soldiers, Roland saw a flood of the Fallen, who were pouring into the forest.

"Oh no...... There's also something in the back!"

Renard ran from the back of the group.

There were indeed the Fallen behind them, the same group that had fought against Oswood's forces before, and had now chased after them.

Although the Fallen are not fast, they are now in the forest.

In a forest environment where visibility is poor, vines, shrubs, and fallen leaves can all hinder human footsteps, and it is not easy for humans to outrun the Fallen, who are so powerful that shrubs and vines have little effect on them. writing brush

"Separate your departures...... I'll stop them!"

Roland raised his sword to meet several of the Fallen, intending to buy time for his troops.

There was no fear in the eyes of the paladins,

"Run, ma'am...... You're too young to die here."

Renard sighed and spoke to Irano.

Then, with his five brethren, he followed Roland to the Fallen: "Knight of Dawn! Charge!"

But Illano ignored Reynard, and instead stood still and shot the crossbow arrow in his hand. writing brush

The bolt was fired in the direction of Roland, passing past Roland's side and nailing it to the head of a fallen man with precision.

The degenerate fell.

Illano then lifted a short spear and followed behind Renard, "I'm also a member of the Knights of the Dawn!"

Speaking of which, Illano is indeed a member of the Knights of the Dawn now, if Roland is considered the true Knights of the Dawn.

She was a man of Duke Andelmar, lord of Dawn Furnace, the maid of the duke's daughter, Katiah, and Katiah's bodyguard.

Not all the maids in these years are serving tea and pouring water to wash their underwear, and a few will practice martial arts from an early age to protect their female dependents, and Illano is this kind of maid who has practiced martial arts since childhood.

After the city of Dawn was breached, Illano fled with Katia in tow

As he left, he met Sir Roland, who was evacuating. writing brush

Roland protected them from Ursula's men, and sent someone to escort Kaetia to Raven City - the paladin certainly wouldn't embarrass the two innocent girls, no matter whose daughter Ketia was, Roland would do so.

Paladins are not the same as Leon......

Illano did not follow Katia to Raven City again, she thought that Roland's behavior was true chivalry, and she wanted to follow a real paladin.

She then becomes a student of Roland, who does not accept female soldiers, but who is happy to accept an apprentice who voluntarily joins the arms of the Goddess of Justice.

Roland's apprentice, of course, will become a true Knight of the Dawn sooner or later.

Illano didn't run, in fact most people didn't.

They silently followed Roland's footsteps and spontaneously formed battle formations, ready to meet the siege of the Fallen. writing brush

In fact, their eyes were full of fear, but the spears and swords in their hands were still firm.

These warriors were all followers of the paladin Roland, but none of them were knights, all of them were civilians or even refugees.

Most of them are from the eastern border of the Raven Realm, and some of them are descendants of the Misty Mountain people who have lived in the Raven Realm for a long time.

Roland has been constantly fighting evil and helping the poor when he was in the Dark Falcon Castle, because the surrounding villages often face the invasion of Cato or the Misty Mountains, Roland will often train the villagers in martial arts and battle formations for free, so that they can form a formation to protect themselves.

The eastern frontier has been plagued by small-scale raids by the Cato for the past year or so, more frequently than in previous years, as a result of Gregory IV's dealings with the Cato warlord Zakar.

There are fewer Gatu going to the Lion Realm, but more Gatu are coming to the Raven Realm, and Zakar considers the eastern part of the Raven Realm his territory.

But whenever the villages are in danger, Roland always arrives in time. writing brush

Most of the surrounding villages have benefited from Roland's favor, and most of them have a new understanding of faith - a knight like Roland can be regarded as a true knight.

Roland's subordinates are all from those small villages.

When Ursula raised an army to attack Dawn Furnace, Roland prepared to evacuate Darkfalcon Castle and go to Foxtown to fight evil.

And these villagers, at that time, voluntarily followed Roland, hoping to follow a true knight, even if they were destined to face all kinds of sinister enemies in the future.

They were not very good at what they had, only the 19-year-old girl, Ilano, had been trained for a long time, and the others were just amateur fighters who had been training in the village for a year.

But as long as they are following Roland, they are not afraid of any strong enemy.

Because they know that they follow true righteousness. writing brush

This is the true Knights of the Dawn.

"Don't stay here and die...... Wait, what's that?"

Renard turned back to Irano, then stood still, looking at the canopy to the side.

"Sir Roland! Go this way! Come with me!"

Qingyue's voice came, and Risa Dilan quickly and sensitively walked between the branches, the bow in his hand shooting an arrow as he leaped, and accurately hit a fallen man in front of Roland.

The arrow did not hit the head of the Fallen, and it was not strong enough, piercing the Fallen's chest shallowly.

This is just to remind Roland. writing brush

Roland finally turned around, and he saw the Noldor arrows.

Naturally, it was the Risadilan that set the fire outside the woods before.

He was ordered by Leon to lead his guards to the south side of the forest to set fires, and was about to call it a day and return after lighting the fire, when he suddenly heard the voice of Roland in the woods, who was ordering the pursuit of Olswood.

Luckily, the Noldor Guards were here, and if it were someone else, it would have been impossible to hear the movement inside in that situation.

At that time, Risardiran was actually only two hundred meters away from Sir Roland, but the two sides were cut off by fire, and nothing could be seen under the thick smoke

Go in and support.

And, no matter how much you shout outside, the people in the woods can't hear it through the fire, and the crackling of branches and leaves and the shouts of killing in the woods will drown everything out - unless there are Noldor elves inside.

Risardylan was quite anxious at the time, and he heard Roland shouting "Catch up with him", which obviously meant that Roland would be chasing Oswood in the direction of Lion Lake City! writing brush

However, Risadilan had just come around from there, and the Devourer, the terrible big-eyed ball, was between Lion Lake City and the forest.

So Risa Dilan had to chase from the perimeter across the line of fire to the northeast, and only now did he catch up.

"Goddess bless! Everyone, follow the elf!"

Roland breathed a sigh of relief and led his troops to follow Risardran.

The Noldor elves took Roland and the others around the arc and walked out of the forest from the side, with Risa Dilan leading the way, but they successfully shook off the degenerate.

The Noldor Guard were waiting outside the forest, having shot out a handful of the Fallen in the area, clearing a safe area.

Then, another fire was ignited by the Noldos, and the two troops made a detour from the southeast and left the dangerous place. writing brush

"Risa Dilan, where is Lord Leon? I think now is a good opportunity to destroy these degenerates!"

Roland glanced back at the Noldos' newly lit fire.

"It's hard for fire to burn them, the wind here is always from north to south, and it can't burn there...... And they don't need to breathe at all, they don't lose their combat effectiveness from the smoke – you should have seen it."

Risa Dilan guessed Roland's intentions.

Indeed, there is nothing wrong with setting fire to people, but it is very difficult to burn ghosts.

For this non-human who does not need to breathe, the effect of fire attack is really small - directly being burned to death is a low-probability event, and people who die from fire are usually due to suffocation.

"But on such a large scale...... And Agrim the Devourer is constantly creating new Fallen, so how do you deal with it?" writing brush

Roland seemed to be well aware of the characteristics of the Devourer.

"Lord Leon is trying to figure out a way...... There's always a way."

Risa Dilan actually didn't know how to deal with it, maybe the Noldor Elves were already the most suitable group to deal with the Fallen, but in the face of the army of tens of thousands of Fallen, everyone had a headache.

Leon also had a headache.

He is doing his best to disperse the villagers around Lion Lake and Payne.

The army of the Fallen will gather southeast of Lionlake City, which is actually the result of his joint efforts with Lord Vidis.

Because they all know that the Devourers cannot be allowed to continue to create the Fallen, or they will increase the number of the Fallen endlessly. writing brush

Therefore, Leon asked Vidis and Gondor, the Doom Seeker, to attack the Fallen outside the city, both to allow Vidis to try to break through and to attract the attention of Agraem the Devourer.

He then sent most of his cavalry to split up and try to bring all the surrounding villagers south of Payne.

King Vidis and Gondor still behaved very cooperatively, after all, Vidis had to save himself, otherwise he would be surrounded in Lion Lake City and wait for death.

However, Vidis still couldn't make it, and he couldn't even open the gates - the Devourer wasn't the kind of thing without intelligence, and it drove a large number of Fallen to block the gates of Lionlake City in the first place.

Vidis could only fight against the city, and Gondor led the team to charge once on the periphery, but could not break the siege and had to evacuate.

Fortunately, the army of the Fallen in Agraim was ill-prepared, and they had no good idea of what they could do with the walls of Lionlake City.

They're actually building ladders, but they're slow to cut and make them, and they feel like a bunch of apes doing their craft—after becoming degenerates, they're clearly no longer sapient creatures, they're getting stronger, but they're not getting smarter. writing brush

The cavalry team organized by Leon took advantage of this time to barely clear the nearby villagers, and at the same time, this also made the Devourer's range of action expand to dozens of miles southwest of Lion Lake City - there were no humans nearby, it

You can only run a little farther to find a new "source of soldiers".

So, Leon had Risadilan set fire to the forests in that area, forcing Oswood to the location of the Devourer.

By this time, Oswood had been captured alive.

It's strange to say that the Fallen didn't kill Oswood - although Oswood cut off the heads of a dozen Fallen Ones in a row, the Fallen didn't hit him hard.

After all, there is no wrath of the Fallen, only obedience—and the Devourer is here.

It seemed to be interested in the man of great skill, and its big eyes stared straight at Olswood up and down.

Several degenerates carried the dying Oswood and lifted him into the shape of a cross. writing brush

In fact, Olswood was not only not dead, but also not seriously injured, he was swept up by the Fallen, buried in a pile of bloody bodies.

But at this moment, there seemed to be a mysterious force suppressing him, he couldn't move at all, and his eyes couldn't move.

He could only watch as he rode a demon steed and looked down on his devourer getting closer and closer.

"No, no, no...... Don't come here......

Fear had spread throughout Oswood's body.

An inexplicable black mist diffused from the Devourer, and a mysterious wail rang out again—not from the Devourer, but from Oswood.

This time, the wailing was far more terrifying than the sound under Lion Lake, and it felt like thousands of people were wailing together. writing brush

"Such a sin...... You've created so many resentful souls...... Hahaha......"

The Devourer was probably laughing, but the fleshless skull was even more eerie when he laughed: "I like you......"

Olswood was already scared to pee.

Everyone knows that being liked by such a demon is certainly not a good thing - it is more likely than being killed or dismembered...... Maybe it's worse than becoming a degenerate.

Sure enough, the Devourer immediately expressed its preferred way.

With its own hands, it used the tomahawk in its hand to shred all the armor and clothing on Oswood's body, and in less than ten seconds, he stripped Oswood naked.

However, cutting clothes with an axe, especially underwear, inevitably left some after-effects, and Agrame's method was a bit rough - Olswood was left with small wounds all over his body, including some indescribable places...... writing brush