After having breakfast served by Lilia, Nalant patrolled the town to ensure that there were no mistakes in the work of his subordinates.
While he was patrolling, he could once again see the low-level dark creatures that the rogues were eyeing at them hundreds of meters away.
In this place of death, low-level dark creatures are like lice and fleas. As long as the air of death exists, they are inexhaustible.
Nalant didn't pay attention to these brown candies. After confirming that the sacred thorns were planted correctly, he asked his subordinates to go to the top of the castle to plant the flag of the Storm Territory, and then set off again with his subordinates.
Although his route was relatively remote and the number of towns he encountered was very small, there were still five small towns and two small cities.
In this way, these all represent energy points, and Nalant will naturally not let them go.
Soon, the team continued their journey, and the next destination was more than eighty miles away, which took at least a day and a half.
On the way, Nalant once again exchanged the energy points gained from yesterday's battle into kiwi fruits.
Among them, Nalant still generously spent nearly two thousand energy points for his subordinates.
After all, the progress of his subordinates is visible to the naked eye, which can greatly reduce the burden of Master Narant.
As for the remaining more than a thousand energy points, Nalant put them on himself.
However, despite the rapid progress last time, the effect after taking kiwi fruit was not particularly obvious this time.
Whether it is fighting spirit or magic, there is no breakthrough in realm.
Nalant was also aware of this.
As your strength grows, if you want to make a breakthrough in the future, you will need to spend more energy points.
Fortunately, he is not in a hurry for the time being. After all, although there is no breakthrough in realm, the increase in combat power can be seen with the naked eye.
For example, when Nalant released space teleportation or teleportation, the casting time was at least five seconds.
But after consuming the kiwi fruit with one thousand energy points, it only takes four seconds to complete the spell.
In a battle, one second can determine life or death, so don't underestimate this mere second.
In addition, feeling that his spatial teleportation had made some considerable progress, Nalant turned his attention to the next more difficult space magic.
And this space magic is the only one that has collateral damage among the space magic that Nalant has learned.
The name of this space magic is Space Blade.
The space blade is not like the wind blade or ice blade that is released and then shoots at the enemy.
Instead, it directly opens a space crack in the area locked by mental power.
This space crack is different from the space crack that Nalant can open to teleport items and teleport.
Because this space crack is accompanied by a turbulent area in space and time.
Once hit by the space crack connecting the turbulent area, the enemy's body will be cut open immediately.
According to the records in the magic spell manual, even if a being like Sky Knight is directly hit by a space crack, he will end up with his skin torn apart and his body swollen, or even his body will be dislocated.
Of course, this space blade is not that easy to cultivate. The learning requirement for this space blade is to reach the level of a four-star magician.
Although Nalant is now only one step away from the magician, his magic power actually far exceeds that of a senior magician.
But it was still difficult to learn this space blade. At least he studied it for one night, and he could barely master it.
It was just a practice of loneliness.
This is the same as when he was practicing space teleportation. Although his magic power is higher than that of all high-level magicians.
But this space magic is a perverted existence, and even his current magic cannot support the completion of spell casting.
"Failure is success, damn it. Although my current magic power to practice this ultimate move is very difficult, I believe that as long as I get another batch of energy points, I should be able to reach the standard!" Nalant was not tired.
Practice loneliness as long as you practice it. Anyway, on the march in this land of death, facing the same gray world around him, he has nothing better to do.
In this way, Nalant's team moved forward and finally arrived at the second town on the afternoon of the second day.
The size of this town is much larger than the previous one.
Because this is a Viscount town, Nalant observed with a telescope on a hill five or six miles away from the town.
It was discovered that there were actually 20,000 to 30,000 dark creatures in the small town.
Moreover, as they gradually penetrated deeper into this place of death, the strength of the dark creatures became stronger and stronger.
This can not only be seen from the small town in the distance, but Narante also discovered it on the way here.
Because on the way here, among the dark creatures they encountered, they could often see the existence of mid-level dark creatures.
For example, green-striped spiders and bloodthirsty bats can often be encountered on the road.
Of course, Nalant was not afraid of these two dark creatures, but was rather happy to encounter them.
Because for him who has an army of magicians, these two mid-level dark creatures are just here to deliver food.
What really gave Nalant a headache was that they encountered a new species of intermediate dark creatures on the way.
That is the Nether Wolf.
The Nether Wolf is a fourth-level dark creature that was a Warcraft Wolf before death.
After death, due to the infection of death energy, he turned into a dark wolf with purple hair all over his body.
Its attacks are not too strong, and it cannot attack from a distance, and its combat effectiveness in close combat is almost equivalent to the hand-to-hand combat strength of a bloodthirsty bat after being defeated.
The reason why these ghost wolves really give Nalant a headache is that these guys have a special skill, which is invisibility.
After activating the invisibility skill, the ghost wolf has a one-minute invisibility period.
During this process, unless you take the initiative to attack, the invisibility effect will never appear, making it impossible to detect it with your appearance.
During the march yesterday and today, Nalant's team encountered a total of four attacks by ghost wolves.
When the ghost wolf launched its attack, it became invisible among a group of low-level dark creatures.
He launched a direct attack without any precautions, causing the casualties of several of his subordinates.
Ten of the goblins died and four were seriously injured.
A total of three people from the Wild Wolf Knights and the Tulip Knights were seriously injured.
The casualties were not too great, but the psychological pressure it brought to Nalant's subordinates was different.
After all, the Nether Wolf is everywhere, and no one knows whether such a guy will appear next to them at the next moment, making them fearful in fighting.
Fortunately, after Narant discovered the situation, he immediately responded.
In addition to asking Shirley to send out a large number of bees and swift eagles to check if there are any traces of ghost wolves around.
If there are wandering ghost wolves, then immediately issue a warning and let all subordinates be careful.
In addition, Nalant opened the Encyclopedia of Magic Spells and learned a basic magic called Junior Magic Guard.
This so-called primary magic guard is actually a puppet with condensed magic power. It has no attack ability and can only last for one hour.
In the past, Magic Narante would not waste his experience and learning. After all, he could not succeed in fighting, and he only had one hour, which was completely useless.
But now it seems that even though its existence is reasonable, it still has a bright spot, that is, it can sense energy fluctuations that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
This fluctuation is either fighting spirit, magic power, or death energy.
In this way, he is Nalant's best defense against ghost wolves.
Although the Nether Wolf is invisible, the death energy fluctuations on its body cannot escape the induction of the magic guards, and the fluctuations after using its skills are obviously different from other ordinary dark creatures.
Once it gets close, the magic guard will move directly towards its location.
When Nalant and his subordinates saw this, they just launched an attack regardless of whether it was accurate or not.
In this way, this time the anxiety caused by the ghost wolf to the subordinates was somewhat resolved.
"Shirley, how are you doing there? Did you find anything in the Viscount Castle?"
Putting down the telescope in his hand, Nalant looked at the little girl Shirley.
The situation in the town can be seen roughly with a telescope, but unfortunately, Nalant cannot see the situation in the castle.
"Sir, it's so strange in that castle. It's different from last time."
"Except for those bloodthirsty bats in the sky, the entire castle is empty." Little girl Shirley frowned when she heard this.
"Empty? Shirley, are you sure?" Nalant also frowned.
The last town was also a baron town, but it had a gargoyle.
But now this is a small town the size of a viscounty, but the castle is empty.
This obviously went against what Duke Miller and others told him, that the larger the gathering place, the more powerful the dark creatures would be.
"Sir, it's true. Although the Swift Eagle can't get close because of those bloodthirsty bats, the little bees' reconnaissance is definitely not wrong. They really didn't see any other dark creatures in the castle."
"Okay! Shirley, please continue to send bees to monitor the town and castle. It's getting late now. We won't start the battle today and will attack the town tomorrow morning."
Nalant definitely didn't think that this town would be as simple as it seemed. He suspected that there must be something weird in the castle.
In this way, he did not dare to take action rashly now, otherwise their situation would be even more unfavorable once the sky darkened.
"Yes, sir!"
Later, Nalant and his subordinates set up camp under this hill.
Placing carriages containing sacred thorns around the team can effectively avoid the endless harassment of low-level dark creatures at night.
In addition, Nalant released twenty more junior magic guards in one breath to prevent the appearance of ghost wolves.
To be honest, there are actually intermediate and advanced levels of this magic guard.
The latter two already have the ability to actively attack, and have existed for a longer time.
But Nalant looked down upon their attack power, which was incomparable to the third-level dark creatures, let alone the ghost wolves.
In this way, with this basic magic guard, Narant can release more than twenty at a time, surrounding the camp into an iron barrel, and the consumption of magic power is not too great.
With the protection of sacred thorns and magical guards, Nalant's camp passed the night safely.
When it dawned the next day and after all his subordinates had breakfast, Narant commanded the team to continue advancing.
As he advanced, he asked little girl Shirley to investigate the castle in the distance.
But the situation was exactly the same as yesterday. Except for a dozen bloodthirsty bats, there were no other dark creatures in the Viscount's castle.
When the team approached two miles away from the town, Nalant stopped talking.
Regardless of whether there are cross-dressers in the castle or not, just blast them and you will know the result.
So, Nalant asked Vivian to take the trebuchet and start bombarding the dilapidated Viscount Castle in the distance.
Bang bang!
As two huge muffled sounds were heard, a large plume of smoke and dust immediately rose from the Viscount's castle.
Choo Choo Choo!
The next moment, the bloodthirsty bats that were hanging all over the castle immediately took to the air and screamed.
Ho ho ho!
After that roar, several more high-pitched and ferocious roars came from the castle.
Nalant's expression immediately became serious.
He guessed right, there was indeed something strange in the castle.
And within a moment, little girl Shirley received the report from Little Bee, and then quickly said to Nalant: "Sir, Bee said that there are wolves in the castle, many, many wolves!"
"Wolf?" After hearing this, Nalant finally came to his senses and understood why the little bees didn't find anything strange when they explored the castle before.
Obviously, these wolves are invisible.
However, the Nether Wolf's invisibility time limit is only one minute, and it is impossible to remain invisible all the time.
So how do these guys stay invisible anytime and anywhere while staying in the castle?
However, Narante had the answer the next moment.
Ho ho ho!
Because, at this moment, a large number of dark wolves have emerged from the Viscount's castle.
There are a total of forty or fifty of these dark wolves, and most of them are purple-haired ghost wolves.
However, right in front of these ghost wolves, there was a tall white wolf that was all white but had red eyes.
"Ah, noble sir, that is the fifth-level dark creature, the Netherworld Wolf King."
"The Nether Wolf King is not only more powerful than ordinary Nether Wolf, but he also has a stronger invisibility effect. This invisibility effect will not disappear even before launching an attack or actively being exposed."
"Moreover, the invisibility effect of the Netherworld Wolf King can take effect on all Netherworld wolves within a few hundred meters of the surrounding area."
After Goblin Lumba saw the white wolf in the distance, he immediately exclaimed and introduced the abilities of the Netherworld Wolf King to Nalant.
"That's it!" After hearing the explanation, Nalant, instead of being nervous, nodded calmly.
The unknown is the scariest thing.
Now that the situation of this gathering place has been figured out, all that is left is a battle.
"Everyone, prepare to fight!"
The next moment Narant issued battle orders to all his subordinates.
In addition, he began to blast magic guards in large numbers.
Facing these invisible and transparent wolves, the magic guard is the existence that makes them invisible.,
After destroying more than a hundred magic guards, Nalant stopped temporarily, preparing to save the magic power under his body to deal with possible situations that might arise later.
While Nalant was preparing to prepare, the dark creatures in the distant town also began to surge towards Nalant and others under the leadership of the Netherworld Wolf King.
This time, the number of dark creatures was the largest that Nalant had ever encountered, with a total of more than 30,000 words.