Not long after everyone felt at ease, a shouting sound suddenly came closer and closer in the twisted forest. It sounded like the movement of a large group of people marching in the forest. At the same time, people gathered from all over the dark forest.
There were flickering torches like fireflies. This movement made Lily subconsciously pull out her ice and fire blades, and the others immediately became alert.
Accompanied by a rapid sound of horse hooves, the first to rush out from the shadow of the trees in the dense forest was a group of knights. They rode tall military horses and wore bright uniform armor of the Church Knights.
The sacred cloak of heraldry, each knight holds a long sword with the light of magic lingering on the long sword, looking as if he is about to enter a battle. And behind these knights, groups of soldiers who are obviously mages are also riding
The horse ran out soon after.
More and more soldiers jumped out on horseback from all over the dense forest. The next few groups were obviously members of the Kingdom's Knights. They shouted murderously and ran to the open space on the lake beach, but they were all dumbfounded:
There are only black boulders everywhere and a small group of unknown strangers. The "prey" they are chasing has disappeared.
"Uu——Uu——"
Along with the shouts, the knights reined in their horses and stopped, while several captain-like soldiers trotted to Hao Ren and the others. They did not dismount, but clenched their swords vigilantly: "Who are you?
!Why are you wandering around the holy lake?"
Hao Ren was a little dazed. He didn't know what was going on, but he still subconsciously told the nonsense he had memorized: "We are traveling mages from the Northern Empire... In Horlai
A mercenary group has been registered here in the tower, and they came here on a mission to find the Holy Temple Orb a while ago."
He was still not sure about the origins of the knights in front of him, so he only mentioned that he was a mercenary group looking for the Temple Orb. He did not mention that the Temple Orb had been found, but the middle-aged knight captain opposite, who looked like a leader, heard that
After this explanation, he became even more vigilant: "Orb? The search operation was terminated half a month ago! You..."
Just when Hao Ren noticed that the situation had changed and began to think about how to deceive him next, the bearded ascetic suddenly came up from behind: "Are they the paladin of the church? Which diocese? We are ascetics who accepted the mission of the goddess.
"
The four bearded men are all wearing shabby gray robes, and their presence is usually low. When they are not talking, you can't notice them at all. Just now, the knight captain thought that these four gray robes were just ordinary mercenaries.
Hearing the other party speak, he took a closer look and finally recognized that the gray robe was the symbol of the ascetics of the church. The bearded man also took out a shiny metal piece from his arms and waved it in front of the knight captain, who recognized it carefully.
After some time, he turned over and dismounted: "It's an ascetic?! Why are you here? We haven't heard that the higher ups have sent ascetics down..."
It seems that the knight captain is very cautious, even if he saw the "identity certificate", he was not fooled directly. After all, figures like ascetics are very special in the Huiyao Sect. They are not regular troops, but only the Pope and the Goddess.
It was unbelievable that a small group of ascetics appeared in such a place as a special elite under direct command. The bearded man carefully looked at the logo on the church officer before taking off his hood: "It's the Diocese of Gelton."
Sir, senior knight, you should have seen the four of us at the 'Introduction Ceremony' a few months ago."
The induction ceremony was the meeting held when the Holy Temple Orb first arrived in Beinz Parish a few months ago. When the knight captain heard these four words, he immediately looked up and down at the bearded man and the other three people beside him. After a moment
He looked shocked: "You... you are the four masters of the Temple Orb, why are you here?"
Only then did Betsy boldly jump out, patting her chest vigorously and pretending to be the leader: "Don't you even have to ask! The Temple Orb was found by our mercenary group! By the way, we also found the four masters - but I don't know
In addition to a set of orbs and a manor, how much extra reward can the four masters exchange for..."
Hao Ren quickly pulled back the mercenary girl who was talking about nothing: Betsy was good at everything, but she would get excited once the topic of getting rich was brought up. Listen to what she said, and you will know that she has brought together several masters.
I found it, but those who didn’t know thought she was the one who kidnapped her...
The bearded man looked back at Betsy, with a blank expression on his face: "We are definitely not as precious as the pearls. But we should be able to exchange for a few good horses."
Hao Ren hurriedly smoothed things over: "You are too polite, you are too polite. People like you are worth at least two houses even if they are kidnapped and sold..."
Vivian punched him hard from behind: "If you can't speak, don't speak!"
The knight captain and other surrounding team captains were still a little confused at this time. The Temple Orb that had been missing for several months was found so suddenly. Even the four masters who were originally listed as "martyr saints" were intact.
Standing in front of them, this sudden situation made them feel very unreal. But after a moment, these professional soldiers reacted. The knight captain suddenly turned around and shouted to the adjutant behind him: "Send the signal! Call the other teams!
Escort the sacred object back to town!"
An adjutant immediately fired a flare into the sky. After the fire exploded at high altitude, the knight captain suddenly remembered something else. He looked at the piles of hill-like black stones at the scene in amazement, and looked at the bearded man in disbelief: "Master, just now
There should be a group of stone demons here...have they all been purified by your Excellencies?"
The bearded man pointed at Hao Ren calmly: "He was the one who solved it."
The knight captain swallowed his saliva. He was shocked when he saw the remains of the stone giants on the lake beach. Seeing just a few mercenaries in front of him, he certainly couldn't believe that there were more than a hundred stone giants.
The giant was killed by these people. At most, he reluctantly believed that it was the powerful ascetic who created this miracle. But now the latter admitted that the credit should go to an ordinary-looking mercenary, which made him feel a bit fanciful.
Tan: "He? Alone?"
"On average, there are two per person," Hao Ren chuckled, pointing to the people around him, "I am one hundred and twenty-two."
The knight captain's mouth didn't close for a while, and finally he choked out a sentence: "...Are all the magicians in the Northern Empire monsters?!"
Hao Ren crossed his arms to show off his master's temperament. The data terminal buzzed in his pocket, transmitting the voice directly to his head: "Pretend, keep pretending. You just burned some calories while running in circles.
What's wrong with you? Betsy's dps is higher than yours, isn't it?"
The knight captain didn't know the real situation and treated Hao Ren as a monster anyway. However, he was just a middle- and low-level officer who followed orders and would not pursue the details. But Yzaks found that there was no longer any misunderstanding, so he
He took a step forward and asked: "What is going on here? Were you guys driving the stone giant here? In addition, we also passed by the outpost by the lake before. What happened over there?"
The knight captain looked at this two-and-a-half-meter giant and subconsciously adjusted his helmet: "You don't know? Where have you been for the past half month?"
"We are with them, not in the Beinz area." Hao Ren raised his hand and pointed at the bearded man. "We just ran in directly using space teleportation. The specific situation is related to the orb. It is confidential. We can only tell after meeting the rector.
.Just explain to us what is going on here."
Carrying out the "Temple Orb" was indeed useful. The knight captain immediately doubted his presence. He sighed: "The stone giant came from the Dragon's Back Mountains... Do you know this? Well, the basic situation is half
A month ago, the number of stone giants suddenly surged, once breaking through the defense line of Leighton Town, and an ancient passage appeared on the side of the mountain, allowing many monsters to infiltrate into the Twisted Woods to the area around the Holy Lake. We were ordered to encircle and suppress the area just now tonight
As for that group of monsters, we have been tracking them for two days and two nights, and we only succeeded in driving them into the encirclement tonight - I didn't expect you to solve them. As for the lakeside outpost, it was lost a few days ago, and now the Holy Lake
Several outposts in the surrounding areas are attacked almost every day... These are not secrets. You will know when you go back and ask around. There are also many mercenaries helping to guard the outer defense line to prevent the stone giants from entering the kingdom."
"What's the situation in Leighton Town now?" Hao Ren asked smoothly.
"Marshal Ofra is guarding it personally and has recaptured it. You can rest there," the knight captain said, shrugging and smiling, "but there is no guarantee that you can have a good sleep at night: when those big monsters run, the ground shakes.
, and the nearby mountains crack several times a day.”
The bearded man suddenly asked nervously: "Where is the Holy Lake?! What on earth do those monsters want to do to the Holy Lake?! Have they damaged the lake?"
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