Hearing that the monsters had broken through the defense line of Leighton Town, the bearded man's first concern was whether the holy lake had been attacked, after all, the group of stone giants had already washed up on the shore of the lake just now.No one knew exactly how the stone bumps were going to attack a lake, but it was clear that they couldn't be allowed to move on.When the knight captain heard the bearded man's words, he had a somewhat strange expression on his face: "This ......
We don't know what happened, the Golem's ultimate goal is to be a mystery, they seem to be just aimlessly gathering towards the sacred lake, but when they do, they do nothing - just wander the twisted woodlands and lake beaches. ”"Didn't you try to pollute the lake?"
The bearded man was surprised, he couldn't think of what those monsters could do when they gathered around the holy lake other than destroy the water body, "The Lake Sanctuary is okay too?"
”"It's all right," the knight captain shrugged, "and the Sanctuary in the middle of the lake hasn't been affected in the slightest.However, the Dictor of Gerton decided that no matter what the golems wanted to do, they could not be allowed to gather like this, so he sent us to clean them up in the area. ”The bearded man nodded, indicating that he had no problems going forward.At this time, more horses' hooves came from the forest, and several other knights had gathered from the flare just now, Hao Ren saw the light of the torches in the twisted woodland drifting everywhere like a swarm of fireflies converging into a river, and was very surprised by the number of these knights, it seemed that in order to clear the stone giants who broke through the defense line, the Beinz diocese really invested a considerable number of troops.The Knight Captain admits that the area around the Sacred Lake is not safe now, and the entire Diocese of Beinz can be said to be full of battlefields, so he advises everyone to withdraw from the Twisted Woodland to Leighton Town overnight to return the orb to its place as soon as possible.Of course, there are still a lot of monsters in the twisted woodlands, but now it's not a big problem compared to the stone giants that roam around.The four ascetics were also eager to escort the orb, so they immediately agreed.Hao Ren and the others mounted the military horses brought by the Knights (except for Yizax), and walked straight along the official road of the twisted woodland to Leighton, escorted by the Knights of the Church and the Knights of the Kingdom along the way.Along the way, the others were fine, Betsy was really excited, she was just a little mercenary, she had never been so beautiful in her life, and at this time, surrounded by a group of knights, she felt like she had saved the world.Betsy rode her horse to the front of the team, trying to adjust her posture with a straight face and make a majestic appearance, until she ran for two hours, and suddenly remembered that no one looked at her in the middle of the night, so she slowed down her horse to level with the captain of the knights, and asked loudly, "Will there be a welcome banquet when you go back?"
Will there be a horseback patrol?
Is the canonization ceremony a return to the royal city?
”The knight captain looked at Betsy with a strange expression, and was stunned for a while before turning around: "How do I know!"
”Then he smacked his lips again, not lowering his voice at all: "Tsk, mercenary......
Sure enough, it's a guy who only knows money, you should pray a lot and let the holy thoughts of the goddess wash your brain. ”Betsy was not annoyed at all, but cheered even more happily: "I'm going to be rich!"
”Hao Ren was observing the surrounding knight troops all the way, and the official road of the twisted woodland was a long road, passing through the patrol sites of several knights in the middle, so at this time, the knights on both sides of the horse escort had changed two or three groups, and he found that eighty percent of these knights were members of the Church Knights in smocks, and there were only a few teams of the Kingdom Knights, and they were only patrolling outside every time, not only did not take on the main force, but even seemed to be a bit of a forced foil, which made him a little concerned:" Why are all the Knights of the Church who are slaying Golem here?
Aren't the Kingdom Knights the main force here?
”The knight captain replied casually: "Marshal Ofrah's soldiers are mainly deployed outside the Leighton Line, as well as patrolling the Dragonspine Mountains, they are responsible for clearing the monsters that have just split from the mountains to prevent monsters from invading the interior, and they are also responsible for commanding the mercenaries on the outside line.Within the Leighton Line is a major church land, and it is only natural that our Knights of the Church should be the main force.Rest assured, the Knights of the Church are strong enough to guard this holy place, and our unwavering faith is the guarantee of all this. ”The other party is really worthy of being a priest warrior who believes in the goddess, and when he talks about it, he will go around to his own beliefs.Hao Ren nodded when he heard the knight captain's explanation, what the other party said also made sense, the two knights set up two layers of defense according to their own nature, which was not surprising.After this trip, there was no word all the way, there were a large number of knight masters escorting them, Hao Ren and they did not encounter the monsters in the twisted woodland, and by the time they walked out of this large forest and arrived at the valley where Leighton Town was located, it was already the early morning of the next day.Accompanied by the rising sun, the first rays of sunlight in the morning spill through the gap in the Dragon's Back Mountains, waking this historic and mysterious holy place from the unstable night of yesterday.The glow of Leighton's protective barrier could be seen from a distance, and the members of the Order were visibly relieved when they saw it.The battle here has been going on for half a month, in the middle of which the defense line has been broken, the troops have been attacked, the outpost has been destroyed, and even the knights have been removed from the whole group, and the soldiers standing here have gone through many battles, they are already tired and under great mental pressure, and the glittering light of the fortress in Leighton Town is one of the biggest motivations to support them to continue fighting.The horses slowed down, and as Hao Ren walked, he observed his surroundings, and he noticed that the area could see the traces of the aftermath of the fierce battle: huge stone pits and charred bushes on the outer edge of the twisted woodland, and many makeshift fortifications made of steel and boulders could be seen along the roadside, almost all of them wounded, and how many times they had been destroyed and rebuilt.Protective stone tablets engraved with runes can also be found everywhere along the road, they were supposed to set up a magical barrier to resist Golem, but now that the magic has been exhausted and the runes have been broken, these stone tablets can only be used to prove failure.Of course, there is also plenty of evidence that Golem's progress was not going well: lifeless black boulders were scattered in piles near the woodland, some of which had been cut and excavated, and I am afraid that the soldiers on the defensive line would simply drag these enemy remains back as building materials.The knight captain sighed: "I don't know when these monsters will be killed......
The parish chief has been studying the secrets of the Dragonspine Mountains, but he still doesn't know how the stone giant split off. ”As they spoke, they had reached the entrance to the town of Leighton, where the towering and somewhat dilapidated walls of the fortress appeared in front of them.“…… It looked like it was a tough battle before," Yitzax couldn't help muttering after seeing the situation in Leighton Town, "Golem went straight through the town?!"
”The town of Leighton is nominally a "town", but in fact it is the largest military fortress on the border of Beintz's Blood Lake, with extremely thick walls and strong buildings, but now the fortress has clearly suffered heavy damage.Everyone could see that several huge and terrifying gaps had cracked in its outer walls, and even the city gates had disappeared in the direction of the twisted woodland, leaving only a hole nearly a hundred meters wide, and the broken wall bricks and rubble had not yet been cleared, and groups of soldiers patrolled nervously inside and outside the city walls, and the atmosphere of imminent battle lingered everywhere.Hao Ren could directly see the current situation in Leighton Town, and collapsed houses could be seen everywhere he looked.Speaking of what happened that day, the captain of the knights seemed to have some palpitations: "yes, I can't believe that we can save the town later."
At that time, the highest peak of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range cracked, and soon hundreds of stone giants rushed down from the avenue and the mountain path next to it, and half of the town's defenders were entangled with the monsters in the north, and there was no time to return to help, and the stone giants quickly smashed the outer barrier......
Then he ran straight through the town into the twisted woodlands. ”Finally, the knight captain stretched out his hands to everyone: "In the end, it is thanks to Marshal Ophra and the reinforcements who have just arrived from the interior of the kingdom to cut off the Golem from behind, and we were able to save the town under the leadership of the patriarch of Gelton.But as you can see, it's badly damaged. ”At this time, the soldiers who were patrolling the entrance of the town had already noticed that the large army had returned early, and a sturdy man like an officer ran over on horseback: "What happened?"
”The knight captain looked solemn: "Quickly inform the rector that the Templar Orb has returned!"
”(In the last half of this month, I have nothing to do to ask for a monthly pass, and check if there is a monthly pass on hand!)
）(To be continued.) )