"There is something in dreams, and it escapes from our hearts..."
Morian pinched his chin and repeated these words in confusion. It seemed that he had never heard of this knowledge in his experience. The old knight turned his head and looked at Veronica: "Your Highness, this seems to be
It's a bit like a wizard's approach."
"Are you talking about psychic illusions?" Veronica frowned, "These soldiers seemed to have suffered great fear before they died, and the commander showed signs of going crazy... It really looked like he had been possessed by a wizard.
Psychic illusion, but I have never heard of any illusion that has such a strong effect and such a wide range - those who can garrison at the border of chaos are veterans of hundreds of battles, and everyone has received at least one year of willpower
With training, their resistance to illusions is very strong."
Hao Ren watched from the side without making any comment. In fact, he knew much more than Veronica and Morian - he had seen the most powerful soul power in the universe, and had faced the power that could make a person face to face.
People in the whole city were going crazy with mental storms. He knew that there were many powerful extraordinary minds in the world that could do these things, such as the murmur of the eldest son and the dream talk of the guardian giant, but these things were difficult to explain to the local indigenous people.
And he couldn't be sure what exactly happened to the soldiers in this outpost, because he didn't see any trace of the activity of the eldest son's tentacles inside or outside the outpost, nor did he sense the breath of the guardian giant. Maybe something happened here.
A spiritual storm, but the instigator did not appear.
After thinking for a while, Hao Ren asked insinuatingly: "Have you ever come into contact with chaos monsters that are good at psychic attacks?"
"The very existence of Chaos servants can interfere with human minds," Veronica shook her head. "They don't need to specialize in psychic attack skills... Wait, could it be said that a new variety of monsters has been born in Chaos?"
Her Highness the Princess's guess immediately made the old knight next to her nervous. Although Hao Ren just asked casually, it made the two of them have too far-reaching associations. Morian immediately stood up: "We must return to the civilized world as soon as possible. Here
I’m afraid what happened hasn’t had time to be reported back.”
Veronica nodded: "Let's go along the thorn road. There are several outposts along this line. Maybe we can find something else."
The Thorn Road was an avenue in the past when the Shadow Jungle was not completely corrupted. It was originally a road that the elves in the forest often used to communicate with humans. However, as the forest completely turned into a land of chaos, this avenue has also been destroyed.
Swallowed by chaos, poisonous plants and animated bushes grow on the roadside, and the softened and deformed soil makes the road rugged and difficult to navigate. For ordinary travelers, there is no longer any way to survive in this jungle.
But for the knights of the kingdom, the Thorn Road is still a passage - although it is blocked by corrupt forces, the crystal dust buried in the road slabs by the Elf Kingdom is still having an effect, and the danger of the Thorn Road is still
It's a little lower than the surrounding wild forests. At least on this road, the man-eating bushes haven't reached the point where you can see them everywhere.
Under the leadership of Veronica, the team soon found the second outpost located deeper in the forest.
Although they had prepared for the worst, after seeing the corpses strewn all over the outpost, everyone's hearts were inevitably cast by a deeper shadow: all the soldiers here had also died, and the way of death was similar to that of
The ones in the first outpost were almost exactly the same. The deceased seemed to have experienced an extremely horrific scene during their lifetimes. Their faces were distorted and horrifying, their bodies were covered with self-remained wounds, and their bodies had begun to rot. In addition, outside and inside the outpost,
There are no traces of any battle.
The enemy did not attack from the physical plane, the battle was fought in the spiritual world, and it was clear that the mortal spirit was defeated.
The third outpost was the same, but Morian found a wizard near the small fire in the center of the outpost.
This wizard also committed suicide in a frenzy, but before his death he set up a large number of defensive runes around himself, and fragments of his magic book were also found scattered on the ground around the fire: Sacrificing his own magic spell
The book is a wizard's ultimate trump card. He will only use this trick when facing a life-or-death enemy. Obviously, the wizard who died near the fire, like the commander of the first outpost, also carried out an illusion in the hallucination.
A desperate battle.
However, the mysterious magical power could not save the wizard. He sat in the center of his defensive circle and ended his life. A hole was burned into his heart, which was the result of detonating his own magic power.
Based on the death scenes of the commander of the first outpost and the wizard of the third outpost, Hao Ren made a guess: Although these two people also fell into madness, they showed no signs of being greatly frightened. This may be the function of the furnace device.
, although the fire failed to completely protect their spirits, it at least allowed them to persist longer than the soldiers who died elsewhere in the camp.
And if the fire can have an effect on the "invisible enemy", the culprit of this matter will naturally fall on Chaos.
On the way to the fourth outpost, Veronica's expression was gloomy and terrifying. Her Royal Highness the Princess was not an introverted person. In fact, "Battlefield Rose of Talos" has always had a carefree temper and no princess temperament at all.
Known for her words and deeds, she punched the trunk of an old tree when she passed by: "One hundred of the best veterans! How could they die in the camp so grievously! We don't even know what the enemy looks like!"
"
The ancient tree was instantly awakened, and an angry and evil face appeared on the pitted trunk. The branches turned into sharp wood and stabbed Veronica: "Eat you!!"
Veronica pulled out her long sword and drew an arc, and the scorching flame instantly cut off all the branches coming towards her: "Shut up and go to sleep!"
The ancient tree trembled, and all its branches closed up: "Oh."
Hao Ren: "..."
Along the way, Veronica seemed very dull due to exhaustion and pressure. Only then did he see the fiery side of this knight princess.
"A new enemy has appeared in the chaos," Morian raised his eyebrows and glanced at Veronica quietly, "Your Highness, stay calm. Our most important thing at the moment is to survive in the forest, so that we can
Report truthfully what you saw to the general of the Western Region."
The rest of the journey seemed even more boring, and after discovering the fourth outpost that had lost all life, the dullness of the atmosphere reached its peak.
Although no one said it explicitly, a fact has already been laid before Veronica's eyes: all the outposts set up by the kingdom on the west side of the Shadow Jungle have probably been removed.
The Vitex Road is an avenue that runs through the jungle on the west side. It goes through every layer of defense in the forest. If all the outposts on this road have been wiped out, then the possibility of the same thing happening in other areas will be very high.
High, and more importantly, none of the outposts that were attacked along the way had been investigated or cleaned up, which meant that no one from the nearby outposts had been sent to check for any abnormalities.
The Hearth Fire Outpost in the Shadow Forest exchanges information with nearby outposts once a day, so once there is a problem at one outpost, other outposts will soon notice it. According to Hao Ren and the others, the corpses found
The rotten situation, the attack on the first outpost happened many days ago. In this case, no one came to investigate. There is only one possibility——
All outposts are finished.
The foundation of the kingdom's defense system that took two centuries to build was so mysteriously destroyed. This made Veronica silent for the entire second half of the journey, and even the knights fell silent. It was so boring.
It also infected Hao Ren. He couldn't find anyone to talk to, so he had to continue to study how to restore communication in the spiritual world alone.
Until they finally reached the edge of the Shadow Jungle.
The trees in front became sparse, and the unpleasant and oppressive atmosphere in the air suddenly decreased a lot. It was as if he suddenly crossed a certain boundary. After crossing two towering ancient trees that grew intertwined, Hao Ren suddenly felt light all over.
.
He saw a patch of gently rolling hills in front of him, and in the distance were two majestic mountains. Between the mountains, a beam of light pierced the sky, even tearing apart the dark masses in the sky, revealing
Bright white sky.
Under the light beam, Hao Ren could vaguely see a section of a magnificent city wall made of stones. There seemed to be a towering fortress and an arrow tower behind the city wall. Some man-made structures built along the mountains could also be seen on the mountains on both sides -
The buildings of these branches throughout the mountainous area were all bathed in the light of order, and the intensity of that light was far beyond the light of the furnace fire that Hao Ren had seen before.
Standing on the edge of the dark forest and looking at the brightly lit mountains in the distance is as shocking as standing in hell and seeing the kingdom of heaven.
If Hao Ren is a local, he should know that it is because of this magnificent scenery that the two mountains in the distance are called the "Gates of Heaven" by the mountain people of the Talos Kingdom, but it doesn't matter even if he doesn't know this name.
He could still imagine how much a person who had been trekking in the realm of chaos for many days would be touched when he saw a bright and splendid world - the knights around him had already cheered.
"It's the Western Fortress!" Veronica finally swept away the depression of the past few days when she saw the radiant light of Symmetra. The light of Symmetra was so powerful that when ordinary people looked at the mountains of the Western Territory here,
They can break through the blockade of the fog of chaos, and as long as she sees the intensity of the light of Symmetra, she knows that the Western Fortress has not fallen yet, "Great, our fortress is still there!"