"There's something in the dream, and it runs out of our hearts......"
Morian pinched his chin and repeated the words in confusion, as he didn't seem to have heard of it in his sight, the old knight turned his head and looked at Veronica: "Your Highness, this seems to be a bit like a wizard's trick." ”"You mean psychic illusions?"
Veronica frowned, "These soldiers all seem to have suffered great fear before they died, and the commander has signs of madness......
It does look like I've been caught in a wizard's psychic illusion, but I'm not aware of any illusion that has such a strong effect, and the scope is so wide - the people who can be stationed at the border of chaos are veterans of a hundred battles, and everyone has been trained in willpower for at least a year, and their resistance to illusions is very strong. ”Hao Ren watched from the sidelines, not commenting, in fact he knew far more than Veronica and Morian - he had seen the most powerful soul power in the universe, he had faced the psychic storm that could drive an entire city of people crazy, and he knew that there were many powerful transcendent minds in the world that could do these things in front of him, such as the murmur of the eldest son and the dream of the guardian giant, but these things were difficult to explain to the local natives.And he couldn't be sure what happened to the soldiers in this outpost, because he didn't see any traces of the eldest son's tentacles moving inside or outside the outpost, nor did he sense the breath of the guardian giant, and there may have been a psychic storm here, but the initiator didn't appear.After thinking for a while, Hao Ren knocked on the side and asked, "Have you ever come into contact with a Chaos monster that is good at psychic attacks?"
”"The very existence of Minion of Chaos is capable of interfering with the human mind," Veronica shook her head, "They don't have to specialize in psychic attacks......
Wait, could it be that a new breed of monster has been bred in the chaos?
”Her Royal Highness the Princess's speculation suddenly made the old knight next to him nervous, although Hao Ren just asked casually, but it made the two of them have too far-reaching associations, and Morian immediately got up: "We must return to the civilized world as soon as possible, I'm afraid what happened here hasn't had time to pass it back yet." ”Veronica nodded, "We're going in the direction of the Wattle Road, there are still a few outposts along this line, maybe there's something else to discover." ”The Path of Thorn was a path used by the elves of the forest to communicate with humans, but as the forest was completely reduced to chaos, the path has been swallowed by chaos, and poisonous plants and living bushes grow on the roadside, softening the deformed dirt and making the path rugged and difficult.For the average traveler, there is no way to survive in this jungle.But for the knights of the kingdom, the path of thorns is still a path - although it is blocked by corrupting forces, the crystal dust buried in the stone slabs of the road by the elven kingdom back then is still working, and the path of thorns is still a little less dangerous than the surrounding wild forests.At least on this road, the man-eating bushes are not yet everywhere.Led by Veronica, the team soon found a second outpost located deeper in the forest.Despite the worst-case scenario, after seeing the corpses everywhere in the outpost, everyone's hearts inevitably cast a deeper shadow: the soldiers here have also all died, and they died in almost the same way as in the first outpost, the dead seem to have experienced a terrible scene before their deaths, their faces are distorted and horrific, their bodies are full of self-residual wounds, and the corpses have begun to decompose, but other than that, there is no trace of battle inside or outside the outpost.The enemy did not attack from the material plane, the battle was done in the spiritual world, and it was clear that the spirit of mortals was broken.The third outpost was the same, but Morian found a wizard near a small fire in the center of the outpost.The wizard also committed suicide in the frenzy, but before he died, he set up a large number of defensive runes around him, and the fragments of his magic book were also found scattered on the ground around the fire: the magic book that sacrificed himself was a wizard's final hole card, and this trick would only be used when facing a mortal enemy, and it was clear that the wizard who died near the fire, like the commander of the first outpost, also fought to the death in hallucinations.Even the mysterious magic power could not save the wizard, and he sat in the center of his defense circle and ended his life, and the place of his heart burned into a hole, which was the result of detonating his own magic power.Based on the death scenes of the first outpost commander and the third outpost wizard, Hao Ren made a hypothesis: although the two men were also in a frenzy, they showed no signs of great shock, which may have been the effect of the furnace fire device, although the furnace fire did not completely shelter their spirits, but at least allowed them to hold out longer than the soldiers who died elsewhere in the camp.And if the furnace fire can have an effect on the "invisible enemy", the culprit of this matter will naturally fall on the head of Chaos.On the way to the fourth outpost, Veronica's expression was gloomy and terrifying, this princess is not a reserved person, in fact, "Talos's Battlefield Rose" has always been known for her big temper and completely unprincess words and deeds, she slammed her fist on the trunk of an ancient tree when she passed by: "A hundred of the best veterans!
He died in the camp so aggrieved!
We don't even know what the enemy looks like!
”The ancient tree was awakened in an instant, and an angry and evil face appeared on the pitted trunk, and the branches turned into sharp wood and stabbed at Veronica: "Eat you!"
”Veronica drew her sword and slashed through an arc, and the scorching flame instantly cut off all the branches that came at her: "Shut up and go to sleep!"
”The ancient tree shuddered, and all the branches were gathered together: "Oh. ”Hao Ren: "......"
Veronica was very dull due to fatigue and pressure along the way, and it was only then that he saw the hot side of this knight princess."
A new enemy has emerged in the chaos," Morian raised his eyebrows and glanced at Veronica quietly, "Your Highness, stay calm, the most important thing for us at the moment is to survive in the forest, so that we can report what we see to the Westside General truthfully." ”The rest of the journey was even more dreary, and the dreary atmosphere reached its climax after the discovery of the fourth outpost, which had lost its life.Although no one has said it explicitly, Veronica has already seen the fact that all of the kingdom's outposts on the western side of the Shadow Jungle have probably been removed.The Wattle Road is a road that runs through the jungle on the west side, it happens to pass through every layer of defense in the forest, if all the outposts on this road have been destroyed, then the possibility of the same thing happening in other areas will also be high, and more importantly, along the way, those outposts that have been attacked have not been investigated and cleaned up, which means that the nearby outposts have not sent people to check the anomaly.The firefire outposts in the Shadow Jungle exchange information with nearby outposts once a day, so once a problem arises at one outpost, other outposts will quickly notice it, and according to the decomposition of the corpses they found, the first outpost was attacked many days ago, and no one came to investigate in this case, there is only one possibility - all the outposts are finished.The foundation of the kingdom's defense system, which had been built up over two centuries, was so inexplicably shattered that Veronica remained silent for the rest of the journey, and even the knights were silent, and this dullness also infected Hao Ren, who could not find anyone to talk to, so he had to continue to study how to restore communication in the spirit world alone.Until they finally reach the borders of the Shadow Jungle.The trees in front of him became thinner, and the unpleasant oppressive aura in the air suddenly decreased a lot, as if he had suddenly crossed a certain boundary, and after crossing the two staggered ancient trees, Hao Ren suddenly felt light.He saw a slightly undulating hill in front of him, and in the distance there were two majestic mountains, between which a pillar of light pierced the sky and even tore apart the dark clumps of the sky, revealing a bright white sky.Behind the pillar of light there seemed to be towering fortresses and arrow towers, and some man-made objects built along the mountain could also be seen on the mountains on either side - the buildings of these branches throughout the mountain were all bathed in the light of order, and the intensity of the light was far from comparable to the light of the furnace that Hao Ren had seen before.Standing on the edge of a dark forest and looking at the glowing mountains in the distance is as shocking as standing in hell and seeing the kingdom of heaven.If Hao Ren was a local, he should have known that it was because of this magnificent scenery that the two mountains in the distance were called "Gates of Heaven" by the mountain people of the Kingdom of Taros, but even if he didn't know the name, he could still imagine how touched a man who had been trekking in the Realm of Chaos for days would have been when he saw a bright and brilliant world—the knights around him had already cheered."
It's the Fortress of the West!"
Veronica finally swept away the bitterness of the past few days when she saw the radiant light of order, which was so powerful that ordinary people could break through the blockade of the Chaos Mist when they looked at the mountains of the West here, and as long as she saw the strength of the light of order, she knew that the fortress of the West had not yet fallen, "Great, our fortress is still there!"
”(To be continued.) )