The battle on the battlefield ahead is in full swing.

The logistics battalion in the rear was also receiving the wounded retreating from the front in an orderly manner.

Even if there is a priest battalion behind the main knight group to release various auxiliary healing spells for the knights, it is impossible for every knight to be safe and sound.

After all, high-level priests are just high-level priests, and not many priests can sustain the continuous release of full-status recovery magic.

As the knights of the Eighth Sacred Order gradually took the initiative on the battlefield.

The energy shock coming from the depths of the ice abyss was like thunder rolling across the frozen soil. Even far away in the logistics camp, the tremors of the ground could be clearly felt.

Mark and Monica exchanged a look—the time had come.

Mark immediately covered his chest, an expression of pain and anxiety on his face, and staggered towards the area where the holy water was stored.

"Oh no! This batch of holy water... shows signs of contamination!"

His voice was urgent, and the cross necklace on his chest seemed to glow in response, pointing directly to the corner of the pile of supplies. "Someone... Quick! Help me move those boxes. The source might be inside! We must find the source immediately and purify it!"

The dwarf Enzo understood what he meant and immediately let out a heavy gasp. His face instantly turned red, as if he was in great pain.

He growled, stepped forward, picked up a heavy wooden box half a man's height, and staggered towards the shadow where Mark pointed.

Several logistics soldiers nearby just thought that there was a problem with the holy water that Mark prepared himself, so it was reasonable for him to recover the holy water that had the problem.

Therefore, I was not alert to their actions.

At this moment, Anna came running in from the pack animal shed in a panic, her voice filled with anxiety: "The fodder! There's something wrong with the fodder over there! There are strong signs of magical corrosion spreading!"

Her words made several soldiers who were checking the pack animals look over nervously.

Food for people may not be important to the Knights, but dry food for mounts is the most precious thing and cannot be neglected in the slightest!

Just when everyone's attention was drawn to the corner of the pile of supplies by the unusual behavior of Mark, Enzo and Anna, Monica's figure flashed into the area where the grain bags were stacked like a ghost.

The sharp dagger cut through the bulging sacks of flour.

puff!

A large amount of snow-white flour gushed out instantly.

Blown by the cold wind from the camp, it immediately turned into a thick white dust fog, which quickly spread and enveloped the material storage area of ​​the logistics camp, blocking the view.

"Ahem! What's going on?!"

"Be careful with the dust!"

The soldiers nearby were choked by the dust and panicked.

Just as the white mist rose and the vision was blocked, Xiao Mu's gel-like body suddenly expanded, tightly wrapping Mark and the other three like a transparent film.

Without any hesitation, the ice beneath their feet softened and collapsed silently.

That was the entrance to the frozen cellar that Xiao Mu had dug through and reinforced at night after setting up camp.

The four people, along with the gel that enveloped them, sank into the ground instantly.

Three meters below the ground, in a narrow cave that can only accommodate four people, the frozen walls emit a biting cold.

The entrance to the cave was quickly sealed by the gel that Xiao Mu released, isolating it from the breath, heat, and any possible soul fluctuations that might be detected.

On the ground, only four dolls, roughly stuffed with scraps of leather commonly used to repair tents in logistics camps, condensed ice, and collected hair, lay quietly on the dusty ground.

Just after they sank into the ground, Xiao Mu returned to the surface and sprayed fireballs into several temporary warehouses that were filled with dust.

Then, it wrapped the four puppets and flew out of the camp quickly under the cover of thick white dust!

“Boom—!”

A series of explosions sounded from behind the camp.

There were even unlucky knights from the logistics battalion who were knocked back by the shock wave of the explosion and landed near the wounded battalion in front.

"Enemy attack! Abnormal magical fluctuations are detected in the logistics camp!"

On the main camp's watchtower, the knight in charge of monitoring the logistics camp keenly captured the subtle disturbance of magic at the moment of the flour explosion and immediately issued a sharp alarm.

The entire camp was alarmed in an instant.

Almost at the same time the alarm sounded.

The sentry at the edge of the camp saw a pink "small airship" with a slightly strange shape in the air a hundred meters away. It was the transport form that Xiao Mu had mimicked and was rapidly rising into the sky.

The four puppets were firmly fixed to its back with sticky gel, just like real people, and were speeding towards the south of the ice field!

"They've escaped! Over there!" The deputy commander happened to be patrolling near the logistics camp. He instantly drew his sword and shouted, "Holy Light Mage Tower! Lock on to the target! Cavalry! Pursue! We can't let them get away!"

His order was like a drop of water thrown into a frying pan, instantly detonating the camp.

The knights stationed in the camp immediately attacked after receiving the order.

The sound of rapid horse hooves was like thunder rolling over the ice field, and several light cavalry squads rushed out of the camp like arrows.

At the same time, light gathered at the top of the Holy Light Mage Tower temporarily built in the center of the camp, and several condensed holy light arrows tore through the dark night sky and accurately shot towards the speeding pink "airship".

Hiding in the frozen cellar, Mark, through the magic transmission scroll shared with Xiao Mu, clearly "saw" the huge pursuing army, which was like being attracted by a magnet, tightly biting Xiao Mu's clone carrying the puppet bait and quickly moving away to the south.

A cold spiritual detection wave swept across the ground area where they were hiding like water waves, and the cave did not move at all when the detection technique swept over it.

The natural isolation effect of the permafrost layer and the perfect breath shielding of the Xiaomu gel layer worked together to deceive this non-legendary detection.

"The bait's taken the hook." Monica raised her lips slightly in the small, dark cellar, her voice filled with the satisfaction of a successful plan. "Now, it's time to give Captain Theodore a headache."

Their team is not believers in the Holy Light. Since the Eighth Knights want to put them under house arrest, it is no wonder that they destroyed the army's food supplies to avoid the Knights' subsequent pursuit!

First, Xiao Mu, the fastest one, led away the first wave of pursuers, and then they took advantage of the night to escape from the surveillance range of the Eighth Knights' scout team.

By then, even the Eighth Knights would find it difficult to capture them.

Just as Monica expected, Theodore, who had been following the breath of the Star Heart in the center of the Ice Abyss, was pulling the black-armored sword out of the chest of a high-level werewolf when his movement suddenly stopped.

The message from his adjutant through the emergency mental link rang clearly in his mind: Mark's team created chaos, destroyed food supplies, and fled to the south with the help of some flying props. Elite troops have been sent to pursue them!

This time, the legendary leader's face turned completely ashen, and a surge of anger at being tricked instantly overwhelmed his determination to obtain the Oracle and the Heart of the Star Corpse.

He had painstakingly laid the net, and the big fish he was waiting for hadn't even taken a bite, but the bait he had carefully prepared slipped away?!