Just a dozen minutes after Delong and his companions set out again, they had already reached the trade road. They were forced to stop again not far from Hogg Manor.
Looking at the bloody fog that had filled the surroundings at some point, Delon solemnly asked the knights behind him to stop.
After the team came to a complete stop, Livia, who was beside him, drove the Dark Night slowly towards him.
“Delong, this…” Delong’s eyes lit up with a dark light. He raised his head and glanced at the blood-red mist covering the area. Then he lowered his head slightly and said calmly, “There is no violent elemental fluctuation. It should not be a spell cast by a powerful wizard, but a large magic circle.
It seems like they want to drag us here."
"So what should we do?"
Livia didn't understand the large magic circle that Delon mentioned, and didn't know what to do next, so she asked Delon while keeping an eye on the surroundings.
Delong didn't answer him, but turned around and gave orders behind him.
"Yuri, lead your team to find the source of the elemental fluctuations. Be careful."
“Pro, you lead the team to cover Yuri and the others on both sides.
Kettle, you and your men follow behind them and be ready to assist at any time."
"yes!"
Three knights stepped forward to receive the order, and then quickly organized the team to dismount and form a battle formation that looked very strange to Livia.
Unlike the battle formations he had seen on the Internet before, the thirty knights in front of him seemed to be standing scattered in a disorderly manner, but in his perception, they revealed a dangerous aura.
After careful observation, it was discovered that their aura was condensed into a whole by dozens of very fine black energy lines, as if attacking any one of them would be counterattacked by all of them.
Delon glanced at Livia, who had a thoughtful look on his face. This time he did not explain anything. His gaze returned to the knights who were lined up in battle formation. Seeing that they were ready, he turned around and ordered the remaining two teams of knights to be alert all around.
The knight named Yuri strode out of the team, closed his glasses, half-knelt on the ground, and then pressed his hands on the ground. A faint black glow flowed over his body.
At this moment, in Livia's perception, the knight captain named Yuri turned into a ball of black elements and disappeared in the perceived world.
But in the field of vision before him, the knight in black armor was squatting there motionless.
“Is this the true way of perception?”
He thought silently in his heart.
After a moment, Yuri suddenly opened his eyes and stood up, turned his body to the left, and looked at a place in the blood-red fog, as if he saw something through the thick fog.
"Over there!"
He pointed at the mist and spoke firmly.
Delong nodded, looked at Yuri and the others with complicated eyes, and said in a heavy tone: "Be careful, there is no need to fight to the death."
Listening to Deron's confusing words, Livia didn't quite understand what he was saying.
Yuri was also stunned for a moment, then he looked at the tall commander in front of him with a firm look and his expression became serious.
"Don't worry!
Just rest assured... just wait!"
The next moment, Yuri and the knights behind him saluted solemnly to Delon. Delon sighed silently and waved his hand to signal them to set off.
After receiving the order, Yuri strode into the fog, and the knights behind him followed Yuri into the fog.
"Aren't we going to follow along?"
Livia looked at Delon in confusion.
Delong slowly shook his head and looked at the figures of Yuri and others who were about to disappear in the mist.
“You have to know that sometimes what you feel is not necessarily what you want to feel, but what someone wants you to feel.”
"Are you saying that what Yuri sensed just now was not a magic circle but a trap?
? "
After listening to Deron's confusing words, Livia reacted and shouted in surprise.
"It's just a possibility. Although time is running out, we can't gamble because we don't have the capital to gamble whether it is correct."
Suddenly, a dazzling blood light appeared in the blood mist and collided with the black light on the other side. Just as Livia was looking at the place where the energy exploded with surprise, which was the direction where Yuri and the others were heading.
Ignoring Yuri and the others who had started fighting, Delon quickly observed the blood-colored mist around him that was dispersed by the energy collision.
Delong's nose twitched, and he suddenly turned his head to look at one of the thinner mists.
"Follow me!" he suddenly shouted, and then a black light flashed on his body and he drove his horse into the fog.
The twenty knights behind him seemed to have been prepared and quickly drove their horses to gallop. Livia was stunned for a moment, looked at the mist that kept flashing blood, gritted his teeth and followed.
As Deron and the knights behind him charged, the black light flowing on their bodies gradually gathered together to form a cone shape.
Livia, who was enveloped in it, suddenly felt herself inexplicably calm down, the distracting thoughts in her mind were cleared, and her body seemed to have a stronger and more powerful force.
[Blessed by special shadow effects, all attributes temporarily increase by 12%, and obtain a temporary 'Shadow Heart'.
Duration unknown.
】【Heart of Shadow (temporary): Affinity with dark elements and shadow elements increases by 25%, emotional stability: calm.
ps: Shadow is one of the most hidden and profound parts of the elements. If you have the Heart of Night, you will be favored by the shadow element, even if it is only for a short time.
】Looking at the system prompt in front of him, Livia couldn't help but exclaimed in his heart, "This is simply the buff given by the top auxiliary when starting a team fight. I didn't expect that any earldom in this world would have such a foundation."
In fact, Livia was thinking wrongly. Not every earldom could have such a technique. As a pioneer knight, it was very difficult for the ancestor of the Coral family to occupy a piece of land on the Coen grassland full of monsters at that time.
Due to the special features of Cohen Grassland, which is close to the Northern Wilderness and the forbidden Bone Burial Forest, the king of the Kingdom of Sava at that time specially raised the title of Viscount to Earl in order to stabilize this border territory, and also bestowed the Shadow Leopard Knight with a special training method and some magic treasures.
Originally, the ambitious King of Savoy had more plans, but unfortunately his development orders and some policies seriously infringed the interests of some ancient families and special forces in the Kingdom of Savoy.
Eventually, this ambitious king was killed in the palace in a coup d'état full of conspiracy and calculation.
Because of the death of the king, the Corral family's future plans also fell through. Some of the Corral ancestors who understood the king's plots died of depression at the age of over 40.
The Coral family and the lord of the neighboring Chinosi territory were also excluded from the royal circle because of this taboo matter. Although they were not purged like the king's confidants at the time, they never had the opportunity to move up again. For hundreds of years, they were exiled to this grassland and ignored.