July 14, before dawn.

The Cast Iron Mountains are an important barrier between the Snowton Empire and the Holy Alliance, and an important part of the Western Front of the "Chaos Zone".

This mountainous area is mainly characterized by solid and complex black rock formations, which are two or three thousand miles long from east to west, and hundreds of miles deep from north to south, among which there are the kingdoms of the white dwarves and all kinds of mountain barbarians, which are the barren land where human beings are extinct, and it is also the insurmountable isolation of the human kingdoms in the north and south.

An army wearing the White Thorn insignia has arrived at the southern foot of the mountain range.

Innedir, who was at the forefront, stood in front of this thousand cliffs, paused in silence, secretly calculating something.

"Your Excellency," the Duke of Tulip beside him leaned slightly and asked softly, "There is no road ahead, when will we turn west." ”

"Why do you want to turn west?" said Innedir with a slight smile.

"Isn't the Holy See's order to reach the northern foothills of the Cast Iron Mountains on the fifteenth of July?" Duke Tulip frowned, "We should pass through the corridor as soon as possible." ”

"But the hallway is here. Innedil chuckled softly and pointed to the stone wall in front of him.

"What?" the commander of the Holy Duchy of Ian on the other side was a little surprised, "but ...... There is no way forward. ”

Innedil smiled and turned to the east, the first rays of the morning light were slowly rising, and the first rays of light, coming from the distant sky across thousands of mountains and rivers, were shining on the stone wall in front of him.

Innedil beckoned gently, and the priest group he brought quickly formed a five-ring magic array in front of the stone wall, surrounding Innedil in the center.

The light gradually thickened, the sun rose into the sky, and the sound of prayer gradually changed from low to loud and high, forming a perfect harmony. The army behind them were all believers in the God of Light, and when they saw this, they all bowed their heads and prayed, and their faces were reverently moved.

And on the stone wall, the dawn that illuminated it gradually solidified, and penetrated into it like water waves, and the boulder actually emitted a shimmering light like jade.

"The glory of my lord shines on the whole world, even if it is thousands of feet underground, and the abyss is endless!"

Innedil raised his hands in the air, raised his arms and drank.

The stone wall opened suddenly, and the deep stone cave led to the unknown distance, in which every few meters, there were actually a pair of footprints emitting a faint light, extending into it in pairs, that was the footprints of the saints, that was the imprint of light, that was the road to victory.

This is across the cast-iron mountains, the "Path of the Lightwalkers".

Covered with clouds and black air, this silent and terrifying necromantic wilderness is the realm of death as opposed to the "Holy City of Ranken".

Such an atmosphere made the advancing soldiers feel a little frightened, they were not the elite part of the army, and in the face of such an unknown wilderness, they were naturally apprehensive.

What's more, this is still a swamp of step-by-step killing, as long as you are not careful, you will step into the swamp that exudes a faint miasma, and disappear in an instant. And the dark air mass that swirled around them with black fog swam around them, swarming up as soon as one of them was left alone, sucking up all their blood.

After walking for a long time, the army of tens of thousands of people actually lost one-third of its soldiers. On the contrary, the team of hunters who were protected by them in the middle lost only a handful of manpower.

"If we had traveled overnight, we would have been able to catch them tomorrow morning. Vice-Presiding Judge Perlop opened his eyes, and a red dot flashed on a broken diamond-shaped crystal in his hand.

"If you rush overnight, the casualties will inevitably be greater......" Schiller trusted Perlop's reconnaissance methods very much, he pondered for a moment, nodded in agreement, "But now that it's over, there's no need to be taboo about this." ”

The three of them nodded, and the black-robed hunters rolled away in the direction of the "Sulfur Fountain" volcano, wrapped in an army of tens of thousands of people.

Such a way of marching, as the local indigenous necromancers, naturally will not be unaware.

In fact, not long after they left, the barren hill where the three men were standing suddenly changed.

The black grass squirmed, and suddenly two exits opened, and two bodies wrapped in tattered black robes gradually rose from the dirt.

"Will you be able to catch up with the 'Knocker' tomorrow morning?" one of them tidied up and covered his scrawny and ugly body.

"Looks like the council has to intervene," said the other, grinning and facing a skeleton under his hood, "the 'Knocker' can't die until he draws in the demons." ”

"Supposedly he was a student of Master Herseus?" asked the corpse-like necromancer.

"That's right," the completely skeleton creature smiled, looking quite excited, "The White Bone Council must be very interested in him, if we can master both the 'Black Tower' and the 'Red Tower' in the 'Supreme Nine Towers', our strength will definitely increase by leaps and bounds." ”

"But for the sake of Lord 'Herseus', I think I will leave him a whole corpse. The two of them laughed strangely, and gradually sank into the black and dirty dirt.

Outside Ranken, at the top of the Tower of St. White.

The white-bearded and white-haired archbishop sat in front of the white jade desk with a withered face, his hands leaning weakly on the already somewhat muddy crystal ball.

Behind him, Silves, dressed in a black robe, stood solemnly, his eyes still bright, although haggard.

"Your Excellency," Silves bowed slightly, "I have come to bid you farewell. ”

"Are you leaving?" sighed the archbishop, a little dejectedly, "where are you going?"

"There are some things I have to do. Silves avoided answering, but replied with some firmness.

"It's for Anarysta sake," the archbishop sighed again, not as if asking, but with an affirmation, "I'm sorry, Silves, I can't find a way to restore her strength." ”

"You've done your best. Silves glanced at the archbishop, the old man who held the authority of the world, and for the first time in his life he seemed a little weak and tired.

"Do you know what Lu Dao is......" After a moment of silence, the archbishop suddenly whispered about the past that the two of them never wanted to mention, "Do you know what Lu Tao is for, and what I was so angry about when you switched to the Inquisition?"

"I have failed your expectations, Your Excellency. Silves replied softly.

"No, child," said the archbishop, standing up slowly, in a sad voice, "not only that, but I am going to keep you with me, but I am afraid that one day I will stand alone at the top of this tower, and all the people around me will leave me. My son, your father, has so resolutely left me and thrown himself into the arms of the devil, and how many people can I trust but you?"

Silves was silent.

"Even if you hate me a little in your heart, you will never harm me, will you......" The archbishop stretched out his hand a little weakly, "My grandson, stay, and let me leave it all to you while the situation is still out of my control." ”

"I've made my choice," Silves whispered, and finally spat out the already unfamiliar title, "Okay, sir...... Father. ”

"Okay, let's go...... But you, be careful of Inedil," the archbishop felt his outstretched hand become cold, and could only put it down in vain, and the mixed feelings in his heart turned into a long sigh and a calm tone of encouragement,

"Although he has not yet reached the level of a legend, his exploration of some divine arts has far surpassed mine-" He paused, and said in a trembling voice,

—so far away that even I felt terrified...... Because that's, that's the realm of the gods. ”

(Double Shift)

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