In the early days of the Radiant Empire, in that glorious era a thousand years ago, the power of knights and alchemists helped the empire sweep the world and create an unrivaled hegemony. The Radiant Empire's soldiers pointed at it, and no matter what enemy could only tremble under its sharpness, they were almost undefeated.

At that time, the Glorious Empire reached the peak of its heyday, grasped the unshakable continental hegemony, and became the most glorious civilization center in the whole world.

But light can never exist alone, darkness will always exist on its back, even the Empire of Radiance.

Due to the spread of alchemy, occultism, and transcendent martial arts, the power of darkness has risen secretly, and witches are an important force in it.

The Empire would not ignore the dark forces that shook the foundations of its rule, both in terms of its own interests and in the overall situation, so the Holy See, which mainly represented the official Church, and the Demon Hunters, a semi-official group composed of folk strangers, were formed to fight against the dark forces.

In the later stages of the Radiant Empire, the Slorassa sect, which had always been the state religion in the country, had an internal split, and finally after a battle, the Holy Spirit Cult won the final victory and became the most powerful sect in the Radiant Empire.

The battle between the two sides lasted for hundreds of years, and that history eventually dissipated into the dust of history with the collapse of the Shining Empire.

For ordinary people, this is just a saga from the past. But for both sides that still exist in the world, those thousand years of hatred will never be forgotten.

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Look at the rain of arrows that hit like a storm. A sneer flashed in the witch syndicate's eyes.

In the long war against these fateful opponents, the witches, who are on the side of the dark forces, have always been in a weak position in most cases. The experience of being besieged can be said to be very rich, and those who can't withstand this test have long been eliminated, not to mention the combat ability, the ability to escape if they can survive will not be weak.

Although the witches were ultimately defeated in the face of the Church and the Demon Hunters, whose manpower was almost endless due to the popular support, and the survivors were driven to remote corners of the desert, swamp, jungle, snow-capped mountains, and other harsh living environments, they also learned a lot from these failures, and learned to use their strengths to fight the enemy, rather than relying on brute force alone.

And witches are not a profession that relies entirely on their own abilities to fight. If she dared to show up, she was naturally well prepared.

Almost at the same moment when the cultists attacked, a terrible scream burst out of her mouth very suddenly, with her as the center, setting off a wave that spread in all directions, and the cultists who were at the forefront of facing the witch's howl were all covered in chest, nauseous and nauseous, and their minds were also in a trance.

At this moment, the syndicate took the opportunity to retreat sharply. At this moment, a huge black shadow swooped out from the shadows in the forest, blocking the Syndicate's side.

At this point, the arrow has arrived. After a series of muffled sounds, those present found that most of the arrows had been bulleted to the ground by the black shadow, and the appearance of the black shadow was displayed in front of everyone present.

It's an extremely muscular creature. Stand with your legs more than two meters tall and your hands above your knees. The claws are sharp and covered with long tan hair. It is like a giant bear standing up from a human, but it has the head of a human, its face is hideous, and its turquoise eyes reveal undisguised bloodlust and brutality.

Although most of the arrows were bounced away by its incredibly strong body, there were also a few arrows inserted into its fur, but looking at the extent of the arrows entering the body, you can tell that it was just some skin wounds, which only made the monster even more angry, and opened its mouth to let out a high-pitched roar at the armed members of the Holy Spirit Sect, and long fangs protruded from its mouth.

The next moment, the bear-like man bowed slightly, his chest bulged up, and he stomped on the ground with both feet, and rushed towards the disciples.

And the apologetic warriors who rushed to meet it immediately caught up, and the three armored warriors in the front rushed up with shields, and collided violently with the bear-body, a huge roar sounded, and the three warriors were directly bounced away a few meters away, and the impact of the bear-bodyed man was also intercepted.

At this time, Belif had already touched the side with his sword, and at the moment when the bear man was a little dizzy by the impact, his body suddenly accelerated, and the thin sword in his hand bit the bear man's face like a poisonous snake.

Oh!!!

With a terrible scream of pain, the pair of huge fan-like claws of the bear man wrung out from the left and right sides towards the front, and the grass in front of him was lowered by the stirred wind and waves, and the sound was terrifying.

Only this time it only ended up hitting the air - Belif had already retreated with the loot and was out of range of his attack.

The bear-bear-bear, who had driven away the enemy, gasped, steaming blood slid down the empty eye sockets, and the only remaining right eye stared hatefully at Belif and the lens on the tip of his sword, as if to remember him, and after a low roar, he turned and fled quickly into the bushes before the armed cultists could catch up.

The Syndicate the Witch had already escaped into the jungle with the help of the bears, and there was no trace of him.

"Don't chase it in. Belif stopped the cultist's pursuit, looked at the lens on the tip of the sword, and then shook the sword and threw it to the ground, shaking his head with some regret.

He was only close to stabbing the bear's brain just now, but in order to avoid being attacked by the bearman, he had to give up this chance to kill.

"Belif, do you want to ......" Goodard walked up and came to Bellive's side, his face solemn.

"Nope. Belif shook his head, stopping Gudar's intentions, "It's still far from her lair, we don't have an advantage in fighting in the woods, let's go directly to the Gumur altar and force her to fight us head-on." ”

Goodard thought for a moment, nodded, and agreed with Bellive's words, saying nothing more.

The two leaders decided on the next move of the convoy in a matter of moments.

Everyone immediately sprang into action, and the convoy immediately began to continue moving, moving towards the set goal.

......

"Do you think that monster looks familiar?"

Sitting in the somewhat shaky carriage, Gehr looked at the denser and denser woods around him, as if there were malicious eyes staring at the convoy in every shadow, and in fact Geer's warrior instincts were telling him that something was following the convoy all along, but it was not clear where it was, and that the sense of danger was even stronger as the convoy did not move a single step forward.

However, this question was naturally considered by Belif and them, and they must have been prepared for this situation if they dared to come here, so Gehr thought about it for a while, and then turned his thoughts to the bear-like man.

"Bern, underground waterways. Carmelita said softly.

Gehr nodded, he and the goddess officer thought of a place, the spider monster that made him impressed that time had a lot of similarities with the bear-like man today, and he couldn't help but pay attention to it.

"Alchemical creatures. Gehr spit out a few words softly, then looked at the goddess official opposite, and asked, "I don't know much about witches, do you have any information about them?"

"Yes. Turning her gaze out the window, Camerita reached out to catch a falling leaf, "Actually, the churches that still exist now will have the corresponding materials in their hands. ”

Gell looked at Carmelita and listened intently.

"The biggest duty of the church used to be to exterminate the dark creatures, so I know them very well, among the dark creatures witches are a very special kind, they are only women, and they used to be alchemists, they call themselves wizards, but we are used to calling them witches. ”

"Alchemist?"

"Yes, they are the part of the alchemists who seek eternal life. ”

"No wonder. Gehr nodded, which was the reason why witches were able to manipulate alchemical creatures.

"You also know that alchemy was originally created for the pursuit of eternal life, and the Great Knight is also a product of this concept, although it cannot live forever, but it is powerful, and its lifespan is far beyond that of ordinary people, which can be regarded as a very successful achievement. But some people are not satisfied with this level of immortality, they want to find immortality like the legendary gods, and after a series of research, a crazy idea is born. ”

The idea was proposed by a female alchemist, who concluded that the reason why the human body could not break through the limit of lifespan was because of the limitations of the human body's natural life source, the heart. ”

Speaking of this, the goddess pointed to her left chest, and Gehr was a little puzzled: "Is it a heart transplant?" In this era, there are already prototypes of surgical organ transplantation, but if he wants to complete such an operation, Geer still feels a little unbelieving.

"It would be nice if it was just that, but this method is more evil. ”

Camerita took a breath and said in a deep voice: "This female alchemist found a man to marry, and then became pregnant, and when the child in her womb developed to eight months, she used the alchemy synthesis technique she developed to refine the child directly in the body and become the second source of life in the body. ”

Gehr's brows furrowed slightly as he heard this secret, and he was also a little frightened by the madness of these madmen.

"Because it comes from the same source, there is no rejection of the life source refined with the baby in the belly, so this female alchemist has succeeded in her research and mastered the secret of immortality. (To be continued......)

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