The head wolf insists on traveling to the ominous land tainted by chaos, which sparks an altercation among the mixed team behind her.This internal feud was not surprising: she was accompanied by three factions, including the Knights of the Crow Fortress, who were instructed by Ulysses, the governor of the South, to serve as the guide and escort of the head wolf, and whose main mission was to establish a line of contact with the White City; The second force is the Sanctuary Survey brought by Carasius, whose purpose is to cross the kingdom of Taros to find the Sanctuary of Cassuan, located in the heart of the barren wilderness, and it just happens that they are with the wolf; The third force is the pro-guard team composed of demon wolves, trolls, bear monsters and other fierce monsters, the army of the beast tide has been left on the southern border, Lily has selected a group of guys who are good at fighting to follow her as dog legs, this wave is the diehard loyalist of the head wolf, basically they support anything announced by the head wolf unconditionally.If the three parties were just in a hurry, they would still work together, but then the contradiction came out.The leader of the Crow Knights is a female knight with a slightly dark complexion and red hair, named Tridis, female knight chiefs are rare in the Crow Fortress, but no one dares to underestimate this tall royal sister who is good at wielding two two-handed giant swords and has great natural strength, she is the first to stand up against the head wolf's opinion: "The chaos tear point is dangerous, head wolf, you don't know this thing, it is far weirder inside than it looks on the outside, we don't need to waste time here."
We have to get to White City as soon as possible, that's the priority. ”Carasius then commented: "Chaos Rip Points are not a rare thing, Wolf Chief, you can see more spectacular Rip Points in Talos than here, and you can explore them when you reach your destination." ”He was more or less familiar with Lily, and at this time he thought that the other party was going to explore the purple-black mist out of curiosity.The demon wolves in the Warcraft Guard began to whine, and their unanimous opinion was that the head wolf was right, and the human category was BB.Lily circled around twice, shrugged her nose, and stubbornly pointed to the hillock in front of her: "No, my nose is fine, I smelled a familiar smell here just now, maybe the landlord is in front!"
”Karasius and Tridith looked at each other, they knew that the wolf's sense of smell was far superior to that of humans, if it was as the wolf had said......
Then no one could stop her from going to the tear point to find out.Everyone knows that the only reason the head wolf went to White City was to find her "landlord"."
Take your pick," Lily crossed, looking at the two groups of humans in front of her, "I'm going to go in anyway to see what is going on, but you can leave—after all, you're not my men, so there's no need to follow me on an adventure." ”Karasius frowned, his gaze swept over his team - the Sanctuary warriors had rested at the Crow Fortress, and now they had fully recovered their mental and physical strength, but they were still wearing their somewhat tattered church uniforms, and the once-glorious investigation team now looked like a wandering army.Facing the gaze of the high-ranking monks, the papal knights and monks straightened their chests, and none of them flinched."
Fighting Chaos is our mission, no matter where you are, you can't retreat in the face of Chaos, but the mission is just as important......," Karasius said, raising his hand to select a few knights and monks from the investigation team, "Carl, Hubert, Vanessa, Verusseran, Ryan, the five of you stay outside, if I and the head wolf haven't come out in a day's time, you just leave, continue the mission, and never stay again."
Hubert, take care of my seal and the sacristy. ”The High Monk handed over a few things that seemed important to his deputy: a simple-looking and steady Church Knight, and Tridith nodded to Lily after a short thought: "Lord Ulysses has ordered me to serve as the head wolf's guard and guide before I arrive in the White City, and the knight must not disgrace his mission - I will bring half of the men in with you, and the rest will wait outside, just like this monk's arrangement, let them wait outside for a day." ”As she spoke, she turned around: "Now I'll start the roll call, and the people who are named will come with me!"
”Lily thanked her and looked back, pointing to the big iron cage being carried by the bear monster, "What about this big smoked meat?"
”"This 'monster' still holds important secrets......
"Carasius frowned, "at least bring it to the White City and hand it over to the Talos royal family."
But the monsters must be guarded by bears who don't fall into dreams......"
"Easy, you guys stay," Lily waved her hand, letting a few of the bears stay, and by the way, a lizardman shaman who could speak the lingua franca of humanity was left, otherwise the stupid bears would not be able to communicate with the humans who remained, "You, you, you, and you......
Okay, so that someone is also in charge of escorting the smoked meat, and the arrangements are ready, right?
Let's go inside the tear point!
”This time, no one raised any objections.Everyone checked their gear, and just in case, Lily had each of them pack a handful of their own tail fur in their pockets, and after all the preparations were made, she, the first wolf, took the lead and stepped into the purple-black mist that swirled like flowing water.The moment she stepped through the mist, she felt that she had stepped into a completely different "realm" from before, the air was filled with a cold ** breath, her vision was affected by the purple-black mist, the ground under her feet became soft and corrupt, and even the sky above her head was shrouded in a purple-black veil, and the sun turned into a dull round spot, crumbling, as if it would be driven away by the darkness at any time.And all these changes happened at the moment of stepping into the fog, and looking at the "Chaos Tear Point" from the outside before stepping through the fog, it was just a gloomy hillock, far less eerie than it was at the moment.Lily snorted, the ** breath in the air made her a little awkward, she glanced down at her hand, and found that she had indeed begun to glow again.It's just that this light is much weaker than when it was in the Black Forest and the Great Wasteland, and the range of action is much smaller - after all, the Chaos Tear Point is surrounded by the Land of Order, and the ubiquitous power of order suppresses the primordial magic energy of darkness, and the conflict between order and chaos is naturally much weaker."
This place is much wider than when you look at it from the outside," Lily shook her head, looking up around, "It was a mound of dirt when I looked at it from the outside, and it looked like a hill here." ”Carasius is a veteran of this area: "Spatial and optical phenomena near the chaotic tear point can be distorted, and it is normal for the environment inside and outside the tear point to deviate.Be vigilant, we have entered the realm of chaos, and the evil forces of this land have noticed the approach of the invaders, and they will attack at any moment. ”Lily let out a sigh and walked ahead to lead the group up the hill.The hill was not large, though it was several laps larger than when it was observed outside, but it was only a small hill a few hundred meters high, and Lily looked up at the top of the hill and saw a large, dilapidated house standing quietly in the dark.It was a two-story bungalow, once perhaps magnificent, but now its façade was mottled and broken, the roof was open with several large holes, the windows and doors were turned into black holes, and around the bungalow, twisted and poisonous thorns grew wantonly under the stimulation of dark magic, as if they were about to swallow the whole building, and climbed up to the second floor of the bungalow."
That's 'Hogus's Hut,'" Karasius knew every Chaos Rift in Kolo's world, and in the Sanctuary's library, he looked up the history of each Chaos Lair, "Four centuries ago, before the Kingdom of Talos was founded, this hill was once the territory of the Eagle Empire, and one year, a plague with cursed characteristics broke out here, and a powerful shadow mage was ordered to come here to investigate the traces of shadow magic behind the plague- But the shadow mage named Hogus is actually a believer in Annihilation, and he planned everything here to collect the primordial magic of darkness so that a portal to chaos can be opened in the world of order.His plans were later revealed, and he was hunted down by the Emperor's knights all the way to this place, where his last magic laboratory was located, where the madman used his own energy to open a chaotic portal. ”"After that, this place became a tear point," the knightess Tridith shook her head, "its power once enveloped a third of the southern hills, and it was only after the efforts of many generations of Sanctuary monks and mystics that the tear point was reduced to such a small area.So cult maniacs are the most hateful thing in this world, and one must be seen and killed. ”At this time, the team had reached the top of the mountain, and the dilapidated bungalows were close in front of them, and Lily's sharp eyes saw something unusual at a glance: "Someone has really been here recently!"
”The area around the bungalow was filled with poisonous thorns because of the dark magic, but the thorns in front of the door had obviously been cleaned up.Lily leaned down again and sniffed hard—while the foul smell of the rotten dirt was very unpleasant to her, there was a little familiar smell mixed in with the fishy smell.But this time, the happy look on her face faded.Carasius was the first to see that something was wrong: "Wolf, what's wrong?"
”"There are other scents," Lily's eyes flashed with a strange light, and those who knew the head wolf knew that it was her instinct as a predator awakening, "an unpleasant smell......
I want to bite ......" wisps of dark magic began to seep out of the bungalow.Tridis's instinct of life and death, which has been a warrior for many years, made Tridis react immediately, and the female knight immediately raised her double sword: "Be careful, there are enemies!"
”(To be continued.) )