Talinnam was a little tired. It may be that he was physically suffering from the hardships of traveling for days. However, the more likely reason was the worry and uneasiness in his heart.
The road ahead is long and dark, with almost no light in sight. Under the call of King Victor Charles, nearly one-fifth of the country's knights joined this massive chivalrous expedition.
The team was divided into several batches and set off separately by land and sea to the bad land, the home of the green space.
What kind of place is that? Talinnam doesn't know, he has never been there. It is said that it is an extremely desolate and barren land. There is almost no grass growing on the land, and it is full of Gobi and desert as far as the eye can see. Orcs, dwarves, and mice are fighting for it.
The few survival resources are fighting endlessly, day after day, year after year.
It was a bloody land, and living space was achieved through bloody fighting. Talinnam remembered that he and his former lord Bertol walked past the edge of the bad land a few years ago. The outermost edge of the Border Prince's Territory borders the bad land.
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And even Lord Bertot, who had experienced hundreds of battles, did not dare to pass by that land.
Tarynham really doesn't understand the significance of this expedition. Years of fighting have exhausted Bretonnia's financial resources and manpower. In many villages, the proportion of men has been far lower than that of women. This is all due to the imbalance of population proportion caused by the wars every year.
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The farmers need to recuperate, and the entire kingdom needs to recuperate, but at this moment, the king asks the knights from all over the country to participate in the chivalrous expedition...
Is it the will of the goddess again? If so, then what is the goal of the Lady of the Lake?
Well... I shouldn't doubt the goddess. For the first time, Talinnam felt that his faith was shaken.
No...it can't be like this...stop thinking about it...execute the king's order and keep the knight's promise, that's all. Talinnam said to himself.
Ahead is Death Pass.
Talinnam was not familiar with this valley, in fact, he was not familiar with it at all. He had never passed through this valley, and all the legends about it were heard from others.
Legend has it that this is a cold and dark valley of death, shrouded by dark clouds and miasma all year round. All creatures living in the valley, whether plants or animals, are full of filthy and evil energy. No light thing can survive here. Giant
Spiders, forest werewolves, and chaotic beastmen often appear in the canyon forest. Its environment is just like its name, full of despair and terror.
The scene before us also confirmed the rumors. In front of Talinnam, there was a scene like a place of death. It was clear and clear just now, but after entering the valley, it became foggy and gray.
The sky was shrouded by thick black clouds, and strange fog appeared and disappeared in the valley, erratic like ghosts. The trees in the valley all showed a weird twisted posture, tall old trees with intertwined roots, some with three
Two trees grow together, the branches and trunks are twisted and intertwined, and some grow a new plant on the trunk.
Both sides of the valley are covered with such weird and twisted woods, and the trees are extremely dense. Every tree seems to want to grow as high as possible in order to compete for the pitifully scarce sunlight.
However, in the process of growing upward, it was pulled and curled by the surrounding trees, and then various twisted and weird shapes appeared. Talinnam felt that this forest was like a huge burial ground, and those weird and weird shapes appeared.
The twisted trees are like zombies. Their life has long been exhausted, but they maintain the most painful and weird appearance before death.
He thought of the dream he had before. In the dream, he arrived in a place of death, surrounded by nothingness. Only a decaying and collapsed church stood in the center of the picture. The bells of the dead rang from the church, and everything around him was
Those ghosts who died tragically.
Talinnam's thoughts were interrupted by the knights around him. There was a rotting corpse hanging on the twisted tree branch in front of him. Judging from the degree of decay of the corpse, this creature had been dead for a long time. Even from the appearance alone
Look, you can't tell whether it's a human, an elf, or a beastman.
We have to get through here as soon as possible.
Talinnam whispered in his heart. It's not because the environment here is harsh and terrifying. It's because the terrain here is very unfavorable for the huge Bretonnian coalition. He really can't imagine what stupid person came up with the plan.
, risk passing through this valley. Although this is the shortest road, it is even several months faster than taking the sea route. However, passing through the valley in these two days will be very dangerous for the entire army.
A journey.
The scouts had already set off ahead of the main force, and they would come back and report once in half a day, which gave the legion commanders some confidence.
A light rain fell in the sky, and when the raindrops hit his face, it felt sticky, like fat blood... Talinnam couldn't help but think of the spring in Gray Tree Castle, where the rain was cool, clean and moist.
In that not-so-vast land, life there is truly a paradise... compared to other places in the world...
"Look, what is that?"
Suddenly, the knight in front exclaimed.
Looking in the direction pointed by the knight, Talinnam saw a piece of black and green clouds flowing down from the top of the valley.
At first, people thought it was just a heavy cloud, crawling in the mountains like other weird black clouds in the valley. However, everyone soon discovered something was wrong. This thick black cloud clung to the valley.
Moving quickly, the ground began to tremble slightly.
"That's not a sea of clouds! It's an army!"
Talinnam reacted almost immediately.
"Greenskin!"
The knights shouted one after another.
They knew the danger of encountering orcs in this environment. Everyone just took a chance and took a gamble. If they could pass through this valley within two days, they would become the first troops of the expeditionary force to arrive at the front line, and get
Favored by goddesses and kings.
However, this expectation came to nothing just a few hours after entering the valley.
People began to complain about the speed of the scouts, but perhaps they had been beheaded by the greenskins a moment ago.
retreat!
Talinnam immediately heard such an order in his mind. However, it was useless. Thousands of Bretonnian infantry and knights were crowded in this long and narrow valley at the moment. Even if they wanted to withdraw from the valley, they had to
Wait for the troops behind to withdraw.
However, they don't have this time.
Tens of thousands of greenskins roared down from both sides of the valley like a rolling torrent.
In fact, several ferocious heads stretched out from these dense woods, moving with far more terrifying howls than other orcs. Those were - giants.
The knights' horses were restless, while the kingdom's knights looked calm and composed on the surface, but were in a state of panic in their hearts.
When the retreating troops stopped moving, people knew that the orcs had blocked their way out of the valley. The long and narrow Bretonnian troops were like plump fresh meat, about to be cut up and slaughtered by the alien creatures...