The three of them set out on the road and continued along the Great Round Lake towards the north of the forest.

The forest in front of them seemed to be vast and endless, and the three of them walked all the way along the lakeside, and finally after two days of difficult trekking, they went around to the north shore of Dayuan Lake.

Du Wei took out the map of the Ice Peak Forest given by Beinrich, the leader of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Regiment, and looked at it. On this map, the southern shore of Dayuan Lake is described in great detail, where it is safer, and where there are more places where there are more monsters are marked.

On the north shore of the Great Round Lake, the mark is relatively simple: the large blank space on the map is simply written with the word "forest", and the only direction of progress is also written by the head of Beinrich based on the information left by many previous adventurers.

"Well, if we continue north, I think it's best to follow this path on the map. Du Wei unfolded the map and showed it to the two of them: "Look, this is probably the only place that people have walked in two hundred years, along here...... This direction, right where we are now, is on the top left...... All the way north, we will cross a safe area, the map says that there are fewer monsters in this place, but after two days, we will come to a canyon, oh, this canyon has no name, but it is clear that there is danger in that place, there will be high-level monsters. And further north...... It's completely unknown. ”

Dardanelle looked at the map very seriously, but Hussein looked indifferent.

"Decide. My companions, how the hell are we going?" Du Wei laughed, "Shall we follow the map and go through that canyon?"

When he said this, Du Wei was probably looking at Hussein. He felt that the old magician's trip to the Ice Peak Forest must have a purpose, and this holy knight who betrayed the temple should know the destination of this trip. They didn't say it before, but when they got here, they should have said it.

However, Du Wei was disappointed, and Hussein looked indifferent. said lightly: "Whatever, as long as you keep going north, as for which way to go, you can decide." ”

"Let's go through the canyon. Dardanelle pondered for a moment and then made his own suggestion: "No one has been to other places, and the devil knows what they have." Only this canyon has been walked by people before, and although there is not much information left, at least we can still be a little prepared. ”

"Okay. Then it's decided. Du Wei put away the map. Laughing, "Let's head for the canyon!"

He didn't care about it, after all, he was followed by a continent's first knight, and there was a top super magician behind him at any time, even if he encountered any danger. It shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Beyond the Great Round Lake to the north, the weather is already unbearable cold. Arguably. If it was Du Wei's previous physique, I am afraid that he would have frozen to death on the road. But now, he practiced the new set of moves Hussein taught him several times a day, and it was enough to withstand the cold.

And Hussein, relying on his fierce spirit, is also not afraid of the cold.

On the contrary, it was Dardanelle, although he was a strong samurai, but after all, his strength was only a third-level samurai, but he seemed to be a little unable to support it.

The northern shore of the Great Round Lake walked into the forest. The weather here is very strange, and there is no wind in the woods anymore. There was silence all around, but the snow under your feet was so thick that it made your heart tingle!

Sometimes, if you accidentally step into a snow nest, the thick snow can almost bury a person's waist!

Moreover, the snow here is not only very thick, but also very hard! In the past two days, when we were camping, when we dug up the snow on the ground and set up tents, the land was barely visible under the snow! Several times they dug up the snow, but there was hard ice underneath!

"Hell...... I suspect there is no soil on the ground here, it's all ice! How do these trees grow on this ice? Can these trees grow in ice?" Dardanelle sighed.

Du Wei frowned, and he said in a low voice, "By the way, do you feel it...... Ever since I left the lakeside and walked into this forest, I have always had a strange delusion...... It was quiet, almost silent, but I felt like we were all being watched by something...... Do you feel that way?"

Dardanelle shook his head, and he said no. Hussein seemed to laugh a little, and then the knight glanced at Du Wei: "Oh?

Du Wei relied on his jīng divine power and keen sensitivity, while the knight was because of his transcendent strength. Only Dardanelle, who is relatively weak, is only a mid-level samurai, and he does not have such a strong sensing ability.

"Are we being targeted by some magical beast?" Du Wei frowned.

"Maybe not one, but a group. Hussein said lightly: "Whatever! They better not show up." If it does, we'll just have some extra dinner. ”

Du Wei had no doubts about Hussein's words.

In fact, along the way, in the process of advancing along the Great Round Lake, the three of them encountered the attack of the Demon Beast more than once.

In this icy and snowy place, where food is scarce, the level of the monsters is also very high, and some bloodthirsty monsters will even attack them desperately for a little prey - even at night, Du Wei sprinkled dragon feces around the tent, but it gradually had little effect.

The monsters here all seem to have relatively high intelligence, and the dragon's feces can't scare them away, although they don't dare to attack directly, but they will carry out some temptations.

Once, in the middle of the night, three earth dragons came out of the ground under the tent and attacked them. This kind of earth dragon is not a real dragon, but a small animal that looks similar to the pangolin that Du Wei had seen in his previous life, but this kind of thing will give people a headache!

They can dig holes in the snow and beneath the frozen ground and ice that are harder than iron. And it's fast! These guys have a layer of hard scales on their bodies...... Just how hard it is, you can ask Dardanelle. Because during a night attack, Dardanelles, a third-level samurai, slashed at the back of an earth dragon with all his strength with a scimitar, but the earth dragon only shook its body, but the scimitar in Dardanelle's hand had been broken in two!

These earth dragons possess unusually strong defenses, and they have claws and teeth. But it's even more terrifying! They can easily bite off hard metal! You know, they burrow under the frozen ground and ice with their claws and teeth!

This kind of small thing is not large, but it is amazingly fast, almost inferior to knives and guns, but if you are caught by them, or take a small bite, you can bite your life!

If it weren't for the fact that there was a strong man like Hussein in the team, Du Wei had no doubt that he and Dardanelle would probably be finished.

That night. Dardanelle slashed at an earth dragon. His own knife broke, and the earth dragon just shook his body and pounced on Dada

Neil's claws, big enough to dig through the frozen ground, were already on Dardanelle's shoulders. It easily pierced his leather armor, and even pierced the bones of his shoulder!

That's when it happened. Hussein, the first knight of this continent, made a move. He used a worn-out long sword, a sword swinged, with a faint golden sè arrogance, this pale gold sè fighting spirit in the night is extremely dazzling, just in such a piece of brilliance, three extremely hard earth dragons, two clicks, at the same time the head of the body in a different place! The one on Dardanelle's body was still lying on his shoulder, but his head was already rolling in the snow.

This evening. The three of them enjoyed a barbecue meal.

After breaking through the hard scales on the outside of the earth dragon, the flesh of these little things was so tough that it was impossible to bite at all...... But their internal organs are very delicious and delicious.

Hussein even peeled off the scales from the three earth dragons, packed them in a heavy bag, and gave them to Du Wei casually: "These things, take them to make armor, they are very light, but they are harder than metal, they should be good materials." ”

The knight even removed the tendons of three earth dragons, which were so tenacious that he used them to replace the Dardanelles' bow with a bow. A bow made of earth dragon tendons is several times better than an ordinary iron-tire bow!

Dardanelle no longer had any hatred for Hussein, and although Hussein almost killed him, now the knight not only saved his own life, but also got himself a good bow...... In any case, in the end, I owe this knight.

Hussein still looked cold, didn't talk much, and when he was fine, he folded his arms and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Dardanelle was embarrassed to talk to Hussein, but Du Wei didn't care, he had a lot of questions, and he could only get answers from the knights.

"Hey. Du Wei walked over to Hussein's side and sat down, "How's the wound? I still have a little ice berry here." ”

Hussein glanced up at Du Wei: "Thank you, but no need." It's addictive if you eat too much of that kind of thing. Moreover, I ate ice berries that day and have already said something that shouldn't have been said. I can support it now, I don't need these things. ”

Du Wei laughed for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "I noticed, your vindictive spirit...... It's golden. I've heard that only the paladin's vindictiveness is golden, and you were previously the strongest person closest to the paladin in a hundred years, and now look at your vindictive face...... You're a paladin now, aren't you?"

Hussein raised his eyebrows, smiling rather than smiling: "Paladin...... If I were already a paladin, I wouldn't have so many injuries on my body. ”

"Aren't you a paladin yet?" Du Wei was a little surprised: he single-handedly killed two ninth-level knights of the same level as himself, and also killed a top magician (presiding judge) in the temple, although Du Wei didn't know how many levels of magicians the presiding judge was, but he thought that there were at least eight or more of them. In addition, there is an eighth-level Holy Knight, plus several mid-level Knights......

Hussein has such terrifying strength, hasn't he reached the realm of a paladin?

"I'm still level nine. Hussein sighed: "I feel that I am almost at the threshold of a breakthrough, but I am always a small step behind...... This step was clearly in front of me, but I didn't know how to take it myself. Maybe today, maybe I won't be able to get past this in my life, only God knows. ”

Du Wei took a deep breath: "So...... Paladin, what the hell is it like?"

"I don't know. Hussein shook his head, his eyes were also a little confused: "But what I do know is that there is a gap that cannot be crossed before the Holy Rank and the ordinary level. Ordinary knights, whether they are level eight or level nine, although the strength is very different, but the challenge of leapfrogging is not impossible to win, for example, the level nine knights, although they are stronger than level eighth, but if they can concentrate several level eight knights, together they can defeat a level nine knight. But the Holy Order...... That's a realm I don't know...... According to ancient legends, only the Holy Rank cannot be challenged beyond the level, that is to say, once you reach the realm of the Holy Knight, unless there are other Saint Rank knights can be your opponent, and the knights of the lower level than you, even if they gather a lot of Ninth Rank, will never be able to defeat a Holy Knight!

"......" Du Wei didn't speak, as if he was thinking about something.

"Sometimes, I feel like I'm already strong. Hussein smiled bitterly: "In the decisive battle with Knight Luke and Knight Kelly, although my strength is stronger than both of them, I can deal with the joint attack of the two of them at most, and I have reached my limit." But if I were a paladin......" Hussein shook his head, closed his mouth, and did not continue.

Seeing that Hussein was no longer talking, Du Wei knew that this guy didn't want to continue the conversation, so he could only sigh, shake his head, and go to the side to help Dardanelle make a fire.

The next day, in the afternoon, the trio finally approached the last marked spot on the map:

Gorge.

In fact, the topography of this place is very simple, there are two mountain slopes in front of you, the steep slope is exposed with yellow rocks, the rocks are paved with ice and snow, steep and rugged, and there is a gap between the two mountain slopes, and this fracture is the "canyon" mentioned on the map.

The three of them walked to the entrance of the canyon, but they were all stunned.

Because at the entrance to this canyon, on both sides, as if on purpose, there are two stone sculptures!

The knight on the left is still waving, the expression on his face is angry, his eyes are wide open, his expression is vivid, and it is almost realistic to the extreme! The armor on his body is a little broken, but even every broken gap is carved extremely finely!

Gently wipe off a layer of floating snow on it, and even the patterns on the bare knight's armor are so jīng clear!!

Du Wei looked at this stone statue that was really too realistic, and suddenly his face changed!

"This ...... It doesn't seem to be a stone carving! It's not a carving! It's a real person, petrified!"

Soon, Du Wei and Dardanelle glanced at each other, and both of them spat out a sentence from their mouths at the same time!

"Golden-eyed python!"

Hussein's face was dark, he suddenly drew his long sword, frowned and whispered, "Hey! I have that nasty feeling again! There are still things peeking at us in the dark...... It seems like...... Yes, there is!"