PS: Thanks to the rainy night creek and the monthly pass that flies higher L

When the first rays of dawn descended on the clearing with warmth, the harassment of the alchemical creatures under the witch's hand finally stopped. The armed cultists, led by Belif and Gudal, quickly packed up their tents and continued their way to the altar of Gumur.

However, the harassment of the witch apparently only temporarily subsided for a while, and after the end of the hottest afternoon period, the attacks of the alchemy creatures began to be frequent again, and in the evening, this attack reached a climax, and the pre-reconnaissance teams in several directions sent out a distress signal, so that the mobile support forces in the convoy continued to attack to deal with the increasing attack of the alchemy creatures.

The casualties of the convoy personnel also began to increase, and after a day, three disciples had died, and more than ten people were injured, fortunately, there were no seriously injured personnel, but for these casualties, the casualty rate had accounted for twenty percent of the entire number of people in the convoy, although the armed disciples also left a half-man and half-horse monster and killed it, but the losses were still somewhat heavy.

The three people who died and some of the wounded were all caused by the surprise attack of the alchemy creatures who were ambushed when they were supporting other attacked squads, and because they were attracted by the huge frontal attack, these armed cultists who went to support their companions were a little caught off guard in the face of the next flank raid, resulting in huge losses.

Of the three dead, two of them were killed by spears thrown by half-human, half-horse creatures, and the other died so horribly that Gehr could only see the lower half of his body that he had been brought back to. According to the cultists with this half body, it was an alchemical creature that was half human, half praying mantis.

Gehr took a closer look at the marks on the wound on the stump. It is very smooth, and it looks like a wound that is directly cut by a sharp weapon at one time. This unlucky guy should be lucky, and if you're lucky, you shouldn't feel anything and you'll be directly inferior to the arms of the god of the underworld.

Faced with this situation, the two leaders of Belif and Goodard discussed it and began to shrink the formation, at the cost of reducing the control of the field of vision, directly reducing the activity radius of the reconnaissance team by half, so that the support between each other is closer, and the control of the area around the convoy is more tight, so as to facilitate each other's rapid support and prevent being attacked on the support road.

There are two main types of alchemical creatures created by traditional alchemists. One is the puppet, which is a mechanical product that relies on soul crystals to supply active energy, and is generally made as an assistant to an alchemist, and the other is biological transformation, that is, the use of alchemy to make the original ordinary creatures have some special abilities, but the habits of this kind of creature are basically the same as before the transformation, and there will be no essential changes.

But because of a congenital defect. These two alchemy creatures can only deal with some simple problems, and their combat ability is not particularly outstanding, and the cost is not low, so they are not widely circulated.

But the alchemical creatures made by witches are very different from the traditional realms.

Because of the special process by which they become witches. As a result, they have a special method of using alchemy that is unique to them, and that is to create virtual souls.

Under the premise of this technique, they combine humans with other living beings. Combined with some of the puppet construction techniques, a special hybrid lifeform is created. Formed their unique alchemical creatures.

In order to distinguish it from the traditional alchemical creatures, they named them witchcraft creatures. Others have another name for this evil artificial life form - the Dark Witch.

Since the essence of the virtual soul created by the witch is made by distorting the intelligence of normal life, although the dark witch created by the virtual soul can handle complex commands, has a cunning personality, and is also very strong in combat, but because of the influence of the virtual soul's distorted soul, their behavior is very crazy and brutal. After killing their enemies, they will tear their corpses to shreds whenever they can, in order to vent their anger due to their soul pain.

However, because the resources required to create a dark witch are too huge, and this kind of dark witch can only last for twenty years because of the virtual soul, there are only a few dark witches created by each witch at a certain time, and they are used as the strongest combat power in their hands, plus ordinary alchemy creatures and evil native creatures driven by them, forming the complete strength that a witch should have.

According to the description made by those disciples, the half-human, half-mantis monster and the bear-body figure she carried when she first met the witch were both dark witches, as for the centaur, Gehr looked carefully, although there were some traces of alchemy transformation, but it should still belong to the indigenous creatures.

The reappearance of the Dark Witch shows that the witch's strategy has shifted from tentative harassment to looking for opportunities to inflict heavy damage on the convoy, and it is clear that Belif and Gugar are aware of this, and the defensive circle is more tightly arranged, preferring the convoy to be slower than giving the witch a chance.

By nightfall, the convoy had not yet seen the shadow of the Ghumur altar and had to camp in the treacherous forest again.

"Be careful, there will be a big move on the witch's side tonight, I've seen the map, even if the speed is slow, she will definitely be able to reach the Gumur ruins tomorrow, if the witch wants to intercept the convoy outside the ruins, tonight is her last chance." ”

Gehr looked at the busy camp and whispered to Camerita beside him.

The goddess officer carefully observed for a while before she whispered: "You see, even if the witch's attack is fierce, Belif and their attacks are fierce, they have not relaxed at all times for the five iron cage carriages covered with black cloth, and at least two teams of people can be on the side of the carriage at all times, maybe this is their hidden method." ”

Gell looked at the mysterious iron cage carriages and nodded. He'd been keeping an eye out for these mysterious things these days, but Belif kept them very guarded by the cages and carriages, and never gave Gell a chance to find out.

"I had a strange feeling that I should have seen something in there. ”

"I feel that way too......" The goddess bowed slightly, and then suddenly stopped speaking.

Gell reacted immediately, and looked sideways in the direction of Camerita's gaze, and the sight of Belif walking here came into his view.

"How's your medicine going?" Belif looked at an oversized bag of thick leaves in front of Gel, which contained all the medicine made by Gel.

Since yesterday's battle with the witches, the consumption of the wound medicine carried by the convoy has increased tremendously, so the wound medicine that Gehr can make from local materials is very valuable to the Holy Spirit Sect, so even Gudal and they have tacitly agreed to intercept part of the wound medicine for their own use when Gehr makes the wound medicine for them, of course, they will send a special doctor to check the materials and finished products used by Gehr to make the wound medicine.

"The material is enough to make these. Gehr handed the thick leaf bag to Belif. It's not that he doesn't want to put something in the medicine, but as prisoners, he and Camerita are very closely watched, and Belif and they won't use all the medicine rashly, so they have to give up the idea.

"It's enough. Belif gently opened the thick leaf bag with both hands, looked at the half-filled green powder inside, and nodded in satisfaction. "Be careful tonight, don't leave the center, the witch will not let go of any stranger. After folding the thick leaf wrap, Belif warned Gerle and Camerita again.

Gehr and Carmelita did not respond, and Belif was not surprised by this. He hadn't intended to get the two of them to do what he said he wanted, and the two captives had little other strength to do anything out of place, as long as they were under closer control, and he just told Gil and Carmelita that he had been watching them and telling them not to cause any unnecessary trouble.

"Something will definitely be a little unusual tonight. ”

After Belif left, Gell and Carmelita looked at each other, both seeing the same thought in each other's expressions.

......

Tonight's camp was particularly lively.

As Ger and Camerita expected, the witches' offensive was unusually fierce tonight, reaching its highest climax since the contact.

Although the witch still hasn't appeared, the monsters have taken on a leader, a massive centaur over two and a half meters tall and clothed in colorful feathers. According to Beliff, the monster is the centaur chieftain, who is supposed to be the leader of the indigenous creatures, and according to common sense, this should be the witch syndicate's most trusted subordinate.

Because of the problem of resource consumption, it is rare for two witches to exist at the same time in the same area, so even if the syndicate asks for help from other witches, it will be difficult for the syndicate to wait for the support of other witches.

This centaur chief is not only extremely powerful in his own right - just look at its muscles as strong as pieces of steel and its nearly three-meter-long pure steel halberd, you can tell the strength of its strength, and according to Gehr's observations, its strength is converted to a human, which should be the peak of the knight rank.

And its command ability is also surprisingly good, and the group charge of the five centaurs it leads is almost the same as the momentum of the knight's charge, and even superior in flexibility, putting a lot of pressure on the cathar warriors who are the main defensive force of the church.

With the command of the Centaur Chieftain, the attacks of other witch monsters are also more ferocious.

The sound of battle between the two sides continued through the night, and it was not until dawn that the centaur chief slowly retreated with the monsters, leaving a mess in his wake.

On this night alone, the number of dead and seriously injured of the armed cultists exceeded ten, including even two of the most elite cathars, and even Belif had a long wound on his back, which was brought to him by the centaur chieftain, and if it weren't for his quick reaction, this blow would have been enough to divide him into two parts. (To be continued......)