Age of Adepts

"Has there been any movement around recently?"

Standing on a tall maroon horse, Catherine's delicate silver armor made her graceful and light.

Although Catherine's body looks very slender from the outside, even a little weak. But when she wears a full set of fine steel armor and wields a big sword to attack the enemy, she will immediately turn into a mighty lion, even stronger in killing than those male knights.

So when she frowned and looked worried, the apprentice knights who followed her became more and more puzzled.

"My lord Catherine, what are you worrying about?" A young apprentice knight bravely asked: "We have forced those witch remnants into the jungle near Black Mountain City. As long as you search patiently, they will definitely be taken away." Found it in hiding place. Seeing that the situation is good, why are you still worried?"

Catherine shook her head in confusion.

"You haven't witnessed the ferocity of wizards from other worlds with your own eyes, and you don't even know the terrifying power they possess. I...I..." At this point, Catherine couldn't help shivering slightly, as if remembering something terrible .

"You mean... the Battle of Hakans City!" the trainee knight asked tentatively.

As Catherine's personal guards, they naturally knew about the brutal wars she had experienced.

According to legend, Catherine was originally a member of the Holy Light Chapel in Hakans City. When there fell into the claws of the wizard, Catherine, as a trainee knight, dared to stand up and rescued dozens of companions from the terrible wizard.

It was precisely because of this experience that after the catastrophe in Hakans City, the high-level paladins sent her to the south to participate in the siege and suppression of the remnants of the witches. And Catherine was obviously not intimidated by the wizard's ferocity, instead she broke out with 120,000 points of courage, and even managed to survive to the end in a cruel war to encircle and suppress the second-level witch, and killed the second-level witch .

And it was in that battle that she received a lot of feedback from the holy light, and she became a black iron knight in one fell swoop!

Speaking of Catherine's experience, everyone present is familiar with it, so they understand her sentimentality. Any familiar partners and friends who are buried in a battle will become like her, melancholy and resolute.

"Don't talk about me..." Catherine quickly got rid of the sentimentality: "Tell me about the recent developments of the witches! How are the monsters that appeared in the northern part of the empire now?"

Another young apprentice knight with the same immature face scrambled to say: "I know this. Those monsters are really terrifying. They have a terrifying plague infection effect, and ordinary people can't resist their attacks at all. Fortunately, the two The holy knights were near the epidemic area where the group of monsters broke out, and blocked them in Hongyun Terrace in time. I heard that the two holy knights took turns to kill nearly half of the monsters. The epidemic is spreading!"

"Then... what about that... demon hiding under the Gonzas volcano?" Speaking of this, Catherine's body trembled a little, as if she didn't even dare to mention the name of the demon.

"I don't know! In order to investigate the fighting situation of those demons, the northern branch lost another elite team. Unfortunately, even so, the whereabouts of those demons were not found. However, since the group of terrifying plague monsters appeared in Hongyun Terrace, I'm afraid those demons won't be far away. The reason why the two holy knights are staring there may be because of this consideration."

Catherine shook her head troubled.

"Master Holy Knight shouldn't give up here! I always have a feeling that the plague monsters that erupted in the north are just a means used by the other party. And their real target...is most likely our place!"

"Here we are?" Several trainee knights looked at me and I looked at you, feeling a little unbelievable: "What do you mean, that terrible demon will come here to join the witches?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. My mind is very confused now. I always feel that I can vaguely sense some danger, but I can't tell the source of the danger. I..."

While Catherine was struggling in distress, a tall cloud of dust suddenly rose from the gray-white dirt road in the distance. Several fast horses rushed into the barracks shouting all the way, and rushed towards the position of the central tent. It was impossible to hear what they were shouting from a distance, but where they passed, a large number of paladins and imperial soldiers came out of the camp, arguing and gearing up.

"It's the team that went to the north for reconnaissance!" A trainee knight took a closer look and said excitedly: "They came back suddenly, they must have some valuable information!"

No one talked to him anymore, a group of people galloped down the high slope, and rushed to the central tent quickly.

When they came to the center of the camp, a large number of paladins had already gathered around the big tent. There was a lot of discussion first, and after asking around, Catherine soon figured out the reason why they were so excited.

The lair of the Witch's Remnant has been found!

It's no surprise that the witch's lair is hidden deep in the poisonous swamp as expected.

The paladin team sent to investigate near the Poison Land Swamp was lucky enough to capture a Tier 1 witch who was trying to abscond there from another area, and she knew exactly the location of the witch's lair from her mouth.

And more importantly, the remnants of the witches seem to have the intention of abandoning that lair, and are desperately calling the nearby witches to join them. It is said that they plan to abandon this place and flee to the north to unite with the plague monsters who are making trouble there.

Hearing such important information, the three golden knights in the central tent did not dare to delay. While sending people to Heishui City to get the four golden knights there to come over to support them, they quickly summoned and dispatched the paladins, preparing to gather together The most powerful team will sweep the enemy's holes.

The enemy wants to escape from the poisonous swamp, hum, it's wishful thinking!

For some reason, Catherine felt inexplicably terrified when she saw the posture of many companions around her gearing up and preparing to do their best.

But there are as many as three or four hundred black iron knights like her here, and under the dispatch and command of the three golden knights, there is no room for her to come forward and make suggestions.

The Poison Land Swamp is also a well-known dangerous place near Black Mountain City!

It is located in a low basin, about seven or eight miles wide from north to south, and about eleven or twelve miles long from east to west. It is full of foul-smelling mud and terrible swamps full of puddles.

There are misty pine flowers growing everywhere in the basin, and a large amount of poisonous gas is produced in the humid environment. Coupled with the closed area, the poisonous gas has no place to spread, so a terrible swamp poisonous fog is formed above the swamp.

It is precisely because it is so terrifying that the locals near Black Mountain City almost never dare to take half a step near the poisonous swamp. Only in the short few days in June every year, the scorching sun can penetrate the forest sea and shine into the poisonous swamp, dispelling the poisonous fog there.

Taking advantage of such a great opportunity, the local mountain people dared to break into it to pick some exotic flowers and plants that are not available outside. Therefore, only those older mountain people can know a thing or two about the topography inside.

Therefore, in the message that the assembled paladin team sent to Black Mountain City, they asked them to try their best to recruit those old medicine farmers who had been in the poisonous swamp.

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Poison swamp.

Even on a bright day, the basin where the poisonous land swamp is located is still filled with thick fog that can't be seen.

There is no wind.

The mist is like a thick layer of gauze, firmly covering the basin, hiding everything inside in a dark place that no one knows.

Stepping into the poisonous swamp, there are bubbling mud ponds and swamps all over the place. There is a thin layer of aquatic plants growing on the smelly and soft mud. It is difficult to distinguish where is solid mud and where is water. Soft mud.

The forests and mountains are difficult to walk, and when a large number of imperial soldiers are still trekking hard among the majestic mountains, the elite paladins who have replaced the light mail armor have blocked several places that must pass through the poisonous swamp to the outside world.

Standing on a high mountain, looking down at the vast white poisonous swamp through the lush forest, everyone's heart is both excited and apprehensive, not knowing which side the next battle will develop.

However, our side has the absolute initiative. As long as the defenses around the witch's lair are broken, what tricks can the remnants of witches, who are less than ten fingers in number, do?

A makeshift battle camp has been set up near the entrance to the basin.

A team of more than 370 paladins gathered here, quietly waiting for the high-ranking commanders to issue battle orders. As for the remaining 400 or so trainee knights, they led the imperial soldiers to firmly control several dangerous terrains around them.

The poisonous fog in the poisonous land swamp was not something ordinary people could resist, so the imperial soldiers and trainee knights were left outside. The nearly 400 paladins were assigned to more than 20 combat teams, and led by the summoned local medicine farmers, they went deep into the swamp to clean up the last witch's lair.

Catherine's team consisted of 15 people, led by two silver knights, they lit torches one after another, and followed an old but strong medicine farmer to the edge of the swamp.

Before entering, the old Yao Nong rolled some red beans that he did not know where he had fiddled with and tied them under his nose, and then he walked into the swamp step by step with a long wooden stick.

The Poison Land Swamp doesn't have any fixed routes at all, so every step you take needs to use a wooden stick to probe the reality under the water plants, so walking is extremely slow.