The bleak white moon, which had not changed for hundreds of years, cast its light through the gaps in the dark clouds from the deep black canopy, and passed through the evergreen branches and leaves of the Ekka black pine in the depths of the Protasia forest, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the ground was different from the warmth of the sun, which only made people feel cold, and the courtyard, which had not been visited by anyone for two hundred years, had been covered with humus and turned black, and some withered yellow weeds grew on the soil because of autumn, and gently swayed in the night breeze.

The nameless reptile fled at the sudden movement, and where it flashed, a large foot in a leather boot that was clearly visible in the moonlight stepped down heavily.

"Bang-"

The two women were left in a stupor because of a never-before-seen scene.

The only word in the world suitable for describing such a scene, no matter how much you meditate, you can only think of it, and it is only one that no one would normally use to describe a battle.

-- Dance.

There is no need for any foreshadowing, confrontation, or scrutiny.

Just drew his great sword, and then rushed forward with an arrow step, and the battle began in that instant.

Every movement seems to have been meticulously rehearsed, and there is no superfluity, every blow, every step, every breath, every turn is so just right, as if-

He has done this, not in the thousands, but in the tens of millions.

"Qiang-" The blade of the greatsword shimmered in the cold moonlight, and Henry's starting hand remained unchanged as a classic upward move, and Mira stared at him blankly, she remembered that it was the same blow that killed the Sage when he rescued her just two weeks ago.

"Bang--" perfectly split the rat dragon that jumped from the ground, and its blood didn't have time to spew out, Henry turned around, converted the kinetic energy of the sword that was lifted upward, he grasped the place close to the gauntlet with one hand, and the palm of the other hand against the weight ball, and the whole person rotated at the same time, and the sword was also slashed and slashed down.

"Click-poof-" The heavy blow shattered the other rat dragon's heavenly spirit cover and even part of the spine, it was completely killed before it could even scream, and Henry stepped out with his left foot and held the sword in one hand, and directly stood up the whole sword, "Squeak-squeak-"

The rat dragon that leapt to his feet and pounced on him pierced his entire body in the front half of the greatsword, and Henry's judgment and actions were so precise that when he attacked, you looked as if the rat dragons had voluntarily slammed into the blade of the sword—the half-dead rat writhed and struggled, and the sage's wrist flipped up, first up slightly, and then heavily down, and the sharp blade unraveled, easily slicing through the rat dragon, and throwing it out with blood. But this was not the end, he had just finished throwing the sword and without looking at it, he turned his hand and held the hilt of the sword, and the tip of the sword stabbed out towards his back.

"Squeak!--poof" The scene was repeated again, and the blade of the sword struck the rat dragon in Henry's blind spot as if it had been magically applied to the enemy itself.

"Squeak-" The blow from the jaw through the back of the head caused the hairless rat to twitch and its tail to die immediately, and Henry shook off the corpse, took out a black cloth from his belt, wiped the blade clean, and retracted it directly behind his back.

"You...... You...... You, you, you, you ......" The blonde girl pointed at Henry with her fair and slender fingers very impolitely, and for a long time she didn't say anything, and the sage glanced at her, and then began to look around her.

The two bright moons that can be seen at this time of the night on the mainland of Torrigal are very bright in this courtyard.

It is not large, about 20 meters square, and you can faintly see the towering walls surrounded by trees and vines, and most of them have been damaged by plant growth and sun and rain. Henry pondered, and with the basic structure of a Barrowdian castle, combined with the design of the long buffer passage in front of it, and the location of the main armory, he could probably deduce that this was a "ramp".

-- This may sound like a description of an ordinary pathway, but it's not simple.

Originating from the Padrossi Empire, which was founded by the descendants of the Lamanites, this design began to emerge hundreds of years ago, and although it has a harmless name, it is an out-and-out murderous design.

The design of this castle, built two centuries ago, is not as mature as it is now, but it is still a little rudimentary, with a ramp in the middle of a typical Barrowdian castle. It consisted of several sections, with a ramp that led to the very core of the castle without any forks - a great route for the invaders who had broken through the front line and entered this side, but as mentioned earlier, it was a killing trap.

The walls along the route have a fairly thick surface, and the reason why they are designed in the open air without a roof is to make it easier for the archers standing on the walls to attack from a high position in the event of an enemy invasion.

As long as you enter this death ramp, there is no way but to move forward desperately under the rain of arrows in your face.

Henry knocked left and right, and the rectangular passage was clearly the only way they had at the moment.

Perhaps climbing the wall over it would have been a shortcut to joining Bernie and the others, but after two centuries, in a dry region, in such a vegetated place as the interior of the Protacian Forest, Henry's gaze rested on the fragmented roots and branches that topped the great limestone capital on which the castle was built. Just think about it, he didn't want to step on it and collapse the entire wall and hit himself.

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The only option left was to cross the passage full of weeds, shrubs, and roots, and turn back to tell the few people behind him about this judgment, and Henry walked ahead first.

Weeds that reached the height of the sage's waist were naturally even more terrifying to the others, especially young Mira, whose petite white-haired Lori was almost the same height as the weeds, and the fact that she could not see the road ahead made her more and more uncertain.

Henry took the other party's reaction in the eye, but only smiled lowly, but did not act.

When they first met, the girl showed calmness and maturity beyond her years, but when she encountered these horrors beyond understanding and imagination, she still looked nervous as a Lori should be.

This made Henry look very happy, and after the petite white-haired big Lori noticed the sage's emotion, she naturally wrinkled the cute little eyebrows again and pouted the words.

"Mr. Sage is the worst of adults. ”

The girl said this, and the key words in her mouth made the eyes of the blonde girl next to her brighten, and the lively young lady looked at Henry's back with sparkling eyes, but did not say anything.

The group continued to move on, and Henry's tall back at the front gave those who followed him a full sense of security, especially after the almost leisurely battle ahead, and even the woman who had prejudices against him quietly closed her mouth and followed.

The long passages were overgrown with all sorts of weeds, and if it weren't for the door between each passage and the occasional glimpse of the ruined ramparts under the vegetation, everyone would almost have thought they were walking in a forest.

Tall trees stretched out from the forest outside the walls that had broken the walls, and lighter shrub seeds, perhaps carried to the clearing by the birds, grew in bits and pieces, and more, innumerable, weeds and vines scattered everywhere.

Under the cold moonlight, the ancient castle in the uninhabited forest seemed to be like some legendary dark creature would emerge at any time, and people couldn't help but look left and right as if they were nervous, for fear that if they were not paying attention, there would be a black creature standing on the high wall behind them.

But the moonlight was bright, and in the end, except for a huge centipede that was trampled to death by Henry, the group did not encounter any dangerous creatures.

There was indeed some movement in the grass, but they were all small, and the wild animals with a keen sense of smell smelled the smell of blood on Henry's greatsword, and they knew how to avoid this behemoth.

Rituals are considered to be the top predators in this area, and relying on the high walls of the castle, these miscellaneous dragons that are thrown into the forest and can't even be defeated by wolves can become overlords.

The passage was littered with traces of rats, and in some parts of the passage in the moonlight, the grass had almost disappeared from the perennial activity, and it was precisely in these places that some of the large insects, including the large centipede, had been eaten and the shells were densely piled up there.

In addition to these, the husks of some nuts and the bones of birds and small mammals were also left there, and Henry paused to look carefully into the inexplicable eyes of the others.

There he saw small skeletons that resembled the rattosaurus itself, confirming a theory known to the sage that had never been confirmed in the academic world that rats were cannibalistic, just like rats.

"It's cruel. The white-haired Luo An Da Lori looked at the skeleton and obviously thought of such a thing, she sighed, and the blonde girl behind her nodded in agreement.

The group didn't stop long and move forward, these discoveries on this past defensive path confirmed the diet of the rattosaurs that lived here, it was obvious that the castle had formed a complete food chain in the interior of the forest based on the barrier, and based on the number and location of the food remains, and even the freshness, Henry could roughly deduce that there would be no more than a hundred rattosaurs living here.

This judgment is based on the bones of small rats, and cannibalism generally occurs only in two situations, one is a struggle for territory and the other is real starvation.

But the former was only found between two adult rats, so it is only possible that it was due to hunger.

Another side of this argument is the fact that Henry and the others first came in and met the young rats, who were driven out to live on the outskirts of the castle in relative danger, apparently because they were undernourished.

The hungry young rat dragons were sharpened outside, and after being killed by the high-level predators in the forest, the remaining part of the survivors who had survived a lot of hardships obviously had the strength to come back and compete with their fathers for turf.

In this way, the population of the rat dragon can not only ensure the continuation of health, only the strong individuals will survive, but also always maintain a certain number of people, and there will be no large-scale famine.

-- But that might be the end of it.

Because a certain sage who was dressed in black, and maybe even a little black in his heart, came to this place - this characteristic of the mouse dragon, combined with some facts, gave Henry a vision. With a hundred or so rat dragons, their entire team combined was also very stressful to deal with, the first of which was the lack of proper weapons and armor, plus this place was their lair and Henry was an outsider.

All this combined was such that they had neither the heart nor the strength to deal with the whole lair of rats in exchange for a peaceful night in the castle - but fortunately they would not have had to, assuming Henry's idea had come true.

The sage turned his head and took a deep look at the dark doorway behind him, and a pair of eyes with a hint of fear had been following them far behind them for a long time, and as soon as they met Henry's eyes, they immediately disappeared into the darkness again.

"Hmph......" The black-haired sage smiled at the darkness behind him, and this scene fell on the eyes of the three people next to him, looking like a spirit disease, but they couldn't see anything in the swaying weeds.

"......," Henry retracted his gaze, and immediately saw a pair of blue eyes shining in the moonlight with disdain below, and he reached out - halfway through the other hand touched Mira's head, and then said half to himself and half to the others behind him.

"Next, it's almost convergence. Henry said this, and the path had come to an end, and in front of him was a dark castle soldier's quarters. He raised his torch again, but it was at this time that a cacophony of shouts of killing accompanied by the screams of the rattosaurus passed through the left side.

"We need to hurry. Henry nodded to the group behind him, and then rushed up and kicked the wooden door downstairs of the soldier's quarters all over the door frame.

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R: The book has been signed with the starting point, but the contract has not been able to be sent out due to the Spring Festival express holiday, so the status has not changed. In short, what I want to say is,Readers who are worried that I am suddenly a eunuch so I am still hesitating, please rest assured that you will chase.,I want to collect and recommend.,Please smash it down mercilessly.。