The Rise of the Cemetery

The Kingdom of Xilarg, Annep County, the small town of Gnass.

The rapid sound of horseshoes came from far to near, along the path submerged in weeds and went straight to the hills. Soon, four tall and strong war horses appeared in everyone's sight, and rushed up the hill by the road without stopping.

There were already more than a dozen knights standing on their horses on the hill overlooking the distance. Hearing the sound of horseshoes, they all turned their heads to look around.

The cheering sounds of the war horses of the war horses kept coming and going, obviously the two sides were familiar with each other.

Lieutenant Cade, who was dressed in exquisite knight armor, leaned over to the ear of Countess Wenlier, who was looking into the distance with a binocular, and whispered, "My lord, you are a member of the Convicted Knights!"

The beautiful and vigorous countess in military attire trembled slightly with her small hands holding the telescope, and finally lowered her arms without petition, and slowly turned her horse's head.

The new knights were all wrapped in wide full-coverage gowns without exception, and even the big sword hanging on the waist was tightly covered, but it can still be judged from the embossment on the surface that there must be something under the gown. It is fully armed with exquisite knight armor.

The most obvious symbol of the Convicted Knights is the terrifying black armor. As one of the three major church armies of the Church of Morning Light, they have a terrifying reputation in the entire Klein Continent for making children cry.

During the many jihads of the Church of Morning Light against the "infidels", they broke through the capitals of 7 small countries and destroyed the lairs of 2 evil gods. Wherever they went, they killed fiercely and were extremely cruel to heretics, so they were also hailed as the most terrifying church armed forces of the Morning Light Church.

The three war horses stopped there after reaching the hill, and only the leading knight rode his horse and slowly came to Countess Wenlier.

The knight gently gathered the reins, stretched out a hand with a metal glove, and pushed away the hood, revealing the shiny black full-face helmet under it. The visor has fallen off, covering most of his face, only revealing the neat and delicate jaw. From this point of view, the knight should not be very old.

This was also confirmed by the soft neutral voice coming from under the off-white burqa.

"Your Excellency Wen Lier, Bishop Gude has issued an order to let your Fort Ansgard army march on an expedited march, and must arrive at Kern City before nightfall."

"Expedited march?" The many personal guards guarding the countess couldn't help but look at each other.

Countess Wenlier took a few short breaths, and said angrily: "Then when Bishop Gude gave the order, did he know that a mind flayer army had appeared near Kern City? And the 700 people I led belonged to the local government. Armed, only obey the direct assignment of the Grand Duke of Lumber..."

Facing the emotional countess, the condemned knight remained calm.

"Your Excellency Wen Lier, I am only ordered to deliver the decree, and I don't care about anything else. And... when Bishop Gude gave the order, Grand Duke Lumber was by his side, and he didn't seem to have any different opinions! Why, you want to disobey the decree make?"

When he said the last sentence, although the tone of the leading knight did not change at all, the three riders behind him spread out calmly, fanning forward slowly.

A deep and stern murderous aura instantly permeated the audience.

The Countess's personal guards were obviously not good at handling such a situation. Not only did Ma Yuyu's planing hooves retreat, but they couldn't help but put their hands on the hilt of their swords.

"Okay... I accept the order, and I will order to march faster. However, the Ansgarburg army is just a patchwork of local troops. Once they encounter the elite troops of the mind flayers, I am afraid..." the countess said decisively.

"Don't worry about this, the four of us will act together with the army."

The leading knight's answer finally made the countess heave a sigh of relief, and nodded silently.

After a while, the horn sounded in a hurry, and the marching speed on the avenue gradually began to speed up.

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When it was getting dark, the fast-moving Fort Ansgar Legion broke away from the main force and approached Kern City.

The drowsy road was lined with sparse tall trees, and the line of sight couldn't reach far.

Walking in such a wilderness, even a battle-hardened veteran would have to be terrified, not to mention a motley army like Fort Ansgar that was assembled by the local garrison and noble private soldiers.

Seeing that 2 miles ahead was about to reach a narrow intersection surrounded by sparse forests on both sides, Wen Lier frowned, and could only order to slow down the marching speed, while dispatching a dozen ranger squads to disperse into the forested areas on both sides to step on the spot . For a while, the messengers galloped on both sides of the road, rushing to the front and rear ends of the team respectively, very busy.

However, while the front was busy, the four convict knights walking in the middle of the team slowly stopped.

"Ayla, it's too quiet ahead. Can you feel anything?" the leading knight asked in a low voice.

The thinnest knight at the end of the team raised his head, stretched his hands out of his burqa, and moved his white fingers quickly across his chest. Almost instantly, a large-scale "detect evil" magic spell was completed.

The light flickered a few times in the condensed milky white magic light ball, and finally, a few spots of light full of evil red light emerged from it.

"There is an ambush in front, two on the left and three on the right. Judging by the intensity of the light spots, they should not exceed level 12, and most of them are illithids. The only mind flayer is on the right!" The exquisite magic cloth exposed from under his cuff It can be seen from the robe that the knight at the tail of the team turned out to be an out-and-out priest, and by the voice of a woman.

This is actually the scary thing about church magicians.

As spellcasters, they can still move freely while wearing chain mail, and they can ride forward and retreat like church knights when the battle is urgent. This will not hinder the quick strike ability of the church knights, but also allows the church knights to receive divine blessings and rescue at any time, which greatly improves their combat effectiveness and battlefield survivability.

That's why the Condemned Knights' squad, which consisted of only four people, heard that there was a mind flayer ambush in front of them. Not only did they not show any signs of fear, but they seemed eager to try and fight with high spirits.

Just as they were preparing silently in secret, something happened to the ranger scouts in the sparse forest on both sides of the distance.

A tall figure suddenly jumped out of the pit, and rushed to the middle of the ranger team with the acid and stench all over his body. The huge double-sided ax in his hand danced like the wind, brushing past the three rangers in an instant. body.

The sound of piercing and tearing flesh came out, and the stomachs of the three knights and their horses were cut open, and the warm, wet and slippery internal organs instantly flowed all over the ground. But at this time, more short and thin black figures emerged from all over the woodland, screaming and surrounding them.

"There is an ambush...everyone...ah..."

As soon as the ranger's loud warning sounded, it immediately turned into a terrible hiss.

The tall black figure exhaled heavy white air from the end of his nose, blowing his nose ring and rattling. He lowered his head and pointed at another ranger a dozen steps away with the twisted horns on the top of his skull. A strange, inhuman howl sounded, and the tall black shadow used his body as a weapon to launch a crazy death sprint.

The huge black shadow rushing like a sharp arrow startled the attacked knight. When he raised the reins, the horseman stood up, and took advantage of the momentum of the horse to slash fiercely at the sharp edge of the black shadow with the big sword in his hand.

"Clang" a loud sound resembling iron but not iron resounded through the sparse forest, and the knight's great sword was slashing on the hard skull of the incoming black shadow without deviation. But this sharp sword, which is usually enough to cut through a thick wooden stake, seemed to be cut on a thick metal shield, and it bounced more than three feet away. Just when the knight's empty door was leaking, the terrifying sharp horn pierced the knight's waist with only a slight delay.

With a howl of a cow, the tall black shadow raised its horns, directly lifting the twisted and struggling body of the knight into the air, and then fell to the ground like a leaking bag of blood. The splattered blood directly stained the tall black figure's body red, revealing its bull-shaped ferocious head in front of the human warriors rushing forward.

"Tauren..."

"It's the tauren..."

"Hurry up and take the long gun..."

There are as many as five tauren in the forest.

Amidst the noisy and panicked shouts, groups of human warriors wearing simple leather armor and holding short swords and shields rushed forward. They shouted and surrounded them, trying in vain to entangle these most terrifying underground monsters and rescue the rangers who were trapped in tight siege.

The upright tauren is about 7 feet tall (about 2.1 meters) and weighs more than 700 pounds (about 320 kilograms). How can such a violent beast go crazy when it sees blood, and a group of human infantry can stop it.

They do their own thing and rarely cooperate in combat, but their ferocious and wild combat power has completely made up for this small defect.

The broad and heavy hooves under his feet trampled the ground with a loud noise. A pair of blood-red angry eyes scanned the left and right, and the broad and tough hairy chest was covered with criss-cross scars. They held a huge wheel tomahawk in each of their hands, and from time to time they bent down and hooked their heads to launch a brutal charge. Wherever it passed, people turned on their backs, bones and tendons were broken.

A terrible scar on the top of the head of the tauren's skull almost penetrated the skull, and purple-black blood flowed all over his face, covering his pupils, making everything blood red in his eyes. Excited by this, it became more and more violent and ferocious, panting heavily, raised its head to the sky and let out a strange war howl, then turned the big ax into two consecutive lightning bolts again, fiercely piercing into the place where human fighters were most densely populated.

With the sound of hurried hooves, more than a dozen riders rushed into the forest.

As soon as she entered the forest, the scene of entering the scene made the self-proclaimed brave Countess Wen Lier so shocked that her eyes split open.

A group of nearly 30 to 40 terrifying underground creatures are raging crazily on her soldiers.

Logically speaking, the number of these underground creatures is not too large, basically equal to the number of 50 human fighters in the first team that poured into the forest, and the battle should not be so one-sided. It's a pity that the subterranean creature team that ambushed them in the forest this time is obviously a carefully selected and strong fighting race, and all of them are good fighters in single combat, so they can show their abilities even more in this narrow encounter. terrible power.