Pitch-black, "sticky" disembodied non-corporeal matter erupted from the wound where the dagger had pierced his body.

The amount of pitch-black material that erupted from the body of the official knight of Seventan was the largest, and because it was the closest, these black substances directly covered the entire group of soldiers who came down to check it.

“！” Kevin's reaction was not unpleasant, and his own ploy to allow him to get close was a ploy to lure the knight into the bait, and he immediately chose to retreat quickly after noticing the unusual behavior of the official knight who had been stabbed into the body by the sword.

But the distance was too close, and the official knights of Seventan had reduced the distance to the length of a mere sword at the cost of their lives, already dooming the sudden outbreak to something they could not avoid.

These pitch-black non-physical beings, the moment they burst out from the wounds on the formal knight's body, began to spontaneously rush towards all the soldiers around them.

The speed was extremely fast, and at close range, only a few soldiers had time to raise their shields in their hands to try to block the seemingly undesirable substance.

However, these black substances directly and completely ignore the shield, and do not interact with the shield at all, the goal is clear, and the target of these black substances is these soldiers.

More or less, after a short period of time, all the soldiers at the Canyon of Sighs outpost who had come down to check on those nightcrawlers were touched by this black substance.

When these black substances touch the body, they melt into it without delay and disappear into the body of the person who comes into contact.

And the next moment, "poof...", the body fell on the ground of the ash-covered camp without warning, raising a fluttering black ash.

"Uhhh

The imprint left in the "Heavenly Darkness" to "resist" the spiritual pollution of the void was stirring in his soul, and the sharp pain in his forehead like a pinprick also explained the nature of what he was struggling to resist at the moment.

Being a member of the Night's Edge gives him more willpower than the average soldier.

The black substance that entered his body only made his mind chaotic at the moment, and his mind was in a trance and pain, but he had not yet broken down like the soldiers next to him.

"Lady of the Night......" struggled to pronounce the name of the god of her new faith, and her more and more stinging spirit tried to bring the next prayer to her lips as much as she could.

"I'm ......" At this moment, the black substance produced by the other nightkkins stabbing daggers into their bodies also began to reach the vicinity of these soldiers.

After touching Kevin, the only one who had not yet fallen, he melted into his body and began to continue to destroy his soul.

The view began to blur, and the dark shadows covered the scenery that should have been bright because of the night vision.

The sting of the "request for ......" spirit gradually ceased to worsen after reaching a certain point, and turned to a strange feeling of numbness and sleepiness.

"Tie ......" his lips trembled and spat out the last syllable, his heavy eyelids slammed shut, and his solid body fell to the ashes of the ground like the rest of the soldiers.

The Wall of Alest's Sigh outpost fell into a deathly silence, with no sound of life, and the smoldering embers gradually extinguished after the burning material was exhausted, and the sparks no longer flew, leaving only darkness and dead silence.

After a long time, the sound of horses' hooves in the distance broke the dead silence of the moment.

……

At the Alestria Field Medical Facility, a soldier dressed as a healer reports to a burly commander with a flaming fire coat of arms carved on his back.

"General Blake, more than thirty soldiers on duty have been confirmed dead, the cause of death is soul collapse, the source of these attacks is uncertain at present, the principle is being analyzed, but it is certain that these people must have suffered an extremely serious mental impact before they died, you can see the expressions of their corpses for yourself."

The healer, who had deep dark circles under his eyes, walked over to a white cloth-covered table behind Blake Ben, the front-line commander of Alestale's army, and spoke calmly.

He casually lifted the white cloth off the table, revealing the two relatively well-preserved corpses of soldiers who had not been disfigured by the remaining fire.

"Well, these people should have faced great fear in their lives, and this transcendent fear is the reason for their death."

The front-line commander, known as the Flame Attaché and possessing the strength of a great knight, glanced at the terrifying faces of those soldiers and made a judgment.

The soldiers' faces were unusually distorted, their expressions as if they were facing something terrifying that made their souls tremble, and the muscles of their eyebrows and some parts of their bodies were twisted with excessive force, causing their skin to tear apart, spilling blood and leaving hideous wounds.

The terrifying expression and the tragic condition will make the viewer feel instinctively uncomfortable, but for Blake Ben, a battle-hardened knight, it is nothing.

"The severals of Seventan want to go to war, then they will fight, do they really think that now is the same as hundreds of years ago, and they can win the war with their momentum and bravery?"

"The resources of that bitter cold land, coupled with the magic and alchemy technology that have not made breakthroughs for many years, determine that it is impossible for them to defeat us, since they are the first to provoke a decisive battle, then let Seventan completely withdraw from the stage of this continent."

The fire attaché, Blake Ben's deep and majestic voice sounded, and the confidence and momentum contained in it were not something ordinary people could have.

"Let the Ordnance Department cooperate with the three standard troops to go to the front line to build the fortifications first, and remember to send a team of military mages who are good at earth-based spells to follow and speed up the progress." The order was given from Blake's mouth.

"Yes!"

His subordinates, who had been waiting in the tent for a long time, quickly accepted the order and left the tent to relay Blake's orders.

Blake turned his gaze back to the healer with unusually noticeable dark circles, "What about Kevin?" I think he's a member of the Night's Blade, he's not supposed to die, his current condition should be dementia or coma, can I get some extra news from him or something? ”

"The situation of Captain Kevin's outpost is quite special at the moment, he is not dead, he is currently in a coma, but it is worth noting that he does not have the same residual erosion marks as other soldiers, and the "Heavenly Darkness" mark in his soul has not been triggered. ”

"His current state is strange, not so much an erosional soul breakdown as a nightmare, the reason why he is still in a coma, is more like him, unwilling to wake up."

The therapist took out the small notebook that had been tucked under his arm and looked at it, confirming the doctor's judgment of Kevin's condition, which was still in a coma.

"Hmm...... Take me over and see it. Blake paused slightly when he heard the healer's words, and then asked him to take him over to see Kevin's condition.

The healer led Blake to the inside of the tent, which was a more important treatment site, and all kinds of equipment and the like were more delicate and expensive than the outside, and ordinary people could not enter.

But for Blackburn, the head of the field medical facility, and the army commander, these restrictions on entry were meaningless.

Near the innermost bed, in a hard rock room forged by an earth mage, lay Kevin's body, and next to him was a series of alchemical devices.

The doctors next to him were adjusting the operation of these alchemy equipment, collecting and analyzing Kevin's state at the moment.

"Now the results of various tests show that Kevin has no problem with his soul condition or physical condition at the moment, and he just doesn't want to wake up at this time."

The healer raised his hand and pointed to Blake at the object displayed by the alchemy instrument next to him, which was the detected data.

Blake glanced at the transparent alchemy reagent bottle on the instrument with very strange colors, using different color differences to represent different data, and turned his head, he didn't understand this.

Focusing on Kevin's body, Kevin's eyes were closed, his face was in pain, and there was a lot of sweat coming out, soaking several pieces of the towels the doctors had given him.

"His "Heavenly Darkness" inscription is not broken? ”

Blackburn looked like Kevin, who still hadn't woken up and seemed to be in a nightmare, and Kevin, whose body was trembling slightly because of his bad dreams, confirmed it again with the healer next to him.

"No, his engraving is intact, no problem." Confirmation by the healer.

"Can you forcibly wake him up...... If only it was a dream. ”

Blake walked to Kevin's body, took out a sharp dagger from his waist, and stabbed the blade into Kevin's shoulder, blood gushed out from the piercing place, but Kevin's eyes were still closed, and he didn't react to the wound.

"No, you can't wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, his current state is that his body refuses to accept all information from the outside world and closes himself off."

The healer shook his head slightly, walked over to Kevin's shoulder where a wound had been cut, and gave him a powerful healing technique to stop the bleeding from the wound that Blake had stabbed and slowly healed.

"You either wait for him to finish the nightmare by himself, or you can directly force him to wake up with drugs, but because of his formal knightly physique, the potions used to stimulate ordinary soldiers generally do not work for him, and if you want to work on him, you need a large number of potions or more powerful potions, which will cause him irreversible damage."

Finally, the therapist made an addition.

"It's okay, just use it, the information he knows is more important." Blake said casually, not caring about the so-called irreversible damage.

"Okay." The healer sighed imperceptibly, then turned to walk out of the room to get his medicine.

But at this moment, Kevin's body, which had not responded to any stimulus, trembled greatly, vibrating with the iron bed, and his hand touched his waist, where his sword was.

"Don't! Stop it! An abrupt roar came out of Kevin's mouth, and his body suddenly bounced off the bed like a spring.

The hand that touched the saber gripped the long sword at his waist fiercely, and slashed it out with all his might, the target was the non-existent enemy.

"Ding! Click! The sword in Kevin's hand collided with another, thicker sword in the air, sparks bursting and making a piercing humming sound.

In an instant, Kevin's rapidly swung blade broke in two in the middle, and the heavy long sword that stopped him didn't move.

"Awake? What do you want to do? Blake's low and majestic voice reached Kevin's ears, causing Kevin, who had just woken up from the "nightmare" and was still unresponsive to what had happened, to quickly regain his senses.

"I ......" Looking at the broken long sword in his hand and the blade drawn by the "Flame Attaché", Kevin didn't know what to say for a while, he was trying to attack Commander Blake Ben just now?

"Okay, it doesn't matter what you were doing just now, just wake up, I'll ask you a question, don't hide it, answer me, don't try to fool my eyes." Blake withdrew the sword back into his waist.

"Yes." Kevin had just woken up from a "nightmare", and at this moment, after being frightened by Shinichishi, he did exactly what Chief Black asked him to do, according to habit and instinct.

"You have encountered a mental attack, how did you resist these mental shocks?" Blake's gaze looked into Kevin's eyes, his expression was inexplicable, and the oppressive force was amazing.

"Yes...... A new method of dealing with spiritual contamination inside the Night's Edge is called the "Prayer Communication Network". ”

Kevin was stunned, and also remembered what he had done at the end, praying to the Night Lady and connecting to the prayer communication network that the Night Blade of the Royal City had spoken.

"Prayer Communications? It has to do with faith, which god is it?

"I don't remember Night's Blade's belief in the god of light."

Blackburn's tone remained serious, questioning Kevin's idea.

"This is a god of the new faith of the Night's Blade, the Night Lady, who has a registered church in the royal city, and this is the new divine art."

Kevin explains that the Prayer Network is no secret among and outside the members of Nightblade, but they only know that this thing is related to the new god of the Night, and it is not clear who the creator is.

"Lady Night......, I understand, you told all the information to my subordinates before you fell unconscious, and then prepare for the next war."

Blake arranged what Kevin was going to do next, turned and walked out of the tent.

"Yes," Kevin replied.

The healer suddenly walked over and patted Kevin's shoulder, his face obscured by the special fabric, and a look of pity flashed in his only exposed eyes.

"How?" Kevin was a little stunned, not understanding what the healer meant.

"It's nothing, let's treat it first."

……

Blackburn walked through the barracks and turned into one of the tents, where a guy dressed as a civilian was dealing with information.

"Inform Wangcheng and check the "Prayer Communication Network" inside the Night's Blade, as well as the Night Lady Faith, and the creator of the "Prayer Communication Network". ”