Chapter 48 17. Death Hunting Ground

In the shadow of the forest, General Gavin Ladd held the epee and led the scattered paladins forward quickly through the forest.

A circle of scorching holy light lingers around his body, like a halo, shrouding the body of this paladin. Holy light magic focuses on healing and purification. In the 3,000 years since its birth in the human world to the present , this gentle energy is rarely used offensively.

But now, under the pressure brought by the orcs, the Church of the Holy Light has to turn to study the offensiveness of the Holy Light magic, and because it is heavily biased towards the light, it causes it to fight against the undead and evil creatures. , the scorching holy light will become extremely lethal.

Like an ice cube that has encountered sunlight, the evil undead will always be purified into ashes by the scorching light, which has been proved in the previous battlefield.

The 500 paladins easily defeated the 300 death knights led by Talon Gorefiend, and their own damage was minimal. This was a great victory, and the panic brought by the death knights was swept away, but it also had disadvantages. The knights are even more proud, and many of them disdain the fighting power shown by the death knight.

Little did they know, however, that those they defeated could at best be called plate warlocks, not death knights.

"General, I always feel that it is too risky for you to come here!"

Jor-Eyre followed behind Gavinrad with a warhammer in his hand. While looking around the forest vigilantly, he said in a low voice:

"It's just a few death knights who stole corpses. It's enough for me to bring people here."

"Don't worry, Joe."

General Gavinrad didn't care. He moved his shoulders and said in a deep voice:

"For those ordinary death knights, I am not worried that you will encounter failure. In fact, I have great confidence in you, but don't forget, the leader of those death knights... that guy named Talon Gorefiend, That is a ruthless character who can fight Master Antonidas head-on!"

"If you encounter it, the result is still hard to say."

The general of Stormwind coughed lightly:

"The number of paladins is too small, Joe, every brother is extremely precious, and most importantly, do you still remember that after the war, when we collected the remains of the battlefield, the bodies of three companions disappeared I doubt it, those death knights took it away, I suspect, just like we are trying to crack the secrets of the death knights, they are also studying the secrets of the paladins."

These words startled Jo-Eir, he subconsciously asked:

"You mean, this time they stole the corpse..."

"Yes!"

Gavin Ladd's eyes narrowed:

"Don't have too much confidence in the moral level of the green skins. If they come up with some kind of evil method and really resurrect the remains of the paladins into death knights, it will be a big deal for the new Knights of the Silver Hand. It is a real disaster! It means that the Holy Light we believe in has failed in the face of the evil of the orcs...Can you imagine the terrible consequences?"

"That will be a devastating blow to the will of the people!"

The general clenched the epee in his hand, and the holy deed of healing on his chest shone brightly in his emotional fluctuations. He clenched his teeth:

"I can't allow this to happen! That's why I have to come... This can't happen anymore! We have to..."

"ah!"

Before the paladin general could finish speaking, a scream came from the forest in front of him. Gavinrad immediately rushed towards the direction of the scream, and Jor-El gripped his hammer tightly, and followed closely behind. .

"Be careful! There are... traps!"

When Gavinrad arrived, several paladins were in a hurry to lift an unlucky dwarf paladin out of a pit full of spikes. It was a trap that was dug 3 meters deep. With a broken long spear, ordinary people will definitely be pierced in an instant if they fall.

Fortunately, this dwarf paladin had thick skin and a dwarf's natural petrified skin, so only his arms and thighs were pierced.

The paladin next to him immediately called for the power of the holy light to heal his companions. Under the soft orange light, the wounds on the dwarf's skin healed little by little, but the inner wounds still existed, and he was definitely unable to fight. The healing of the Holy Light is not a panacea. Unless it is the archbishops who focus on healing magic, no one can heal such a traumatic injury in an instant.

"Ah! These damned corpses!"

The dwarf tried his best to suppress the pain, but the expressions of the surrounding paladins became a little ugly.

General Gavin Ladd's brows were also furrowed. This was obviously a trap set by his opponent. As an old soldier, he knew better than anyone that sometimes it was better to let him lose his combat effectiveness than to kill his opponent. The existence of called wounded soldiers is a very big blow to the morale of the team.

"Hoffman, send Niles out of the forest and help us block those guys outside! lest they jump over the wall in a hurry!"

The general issued a new order. Although the injured dwarves and human paladins were a little upset, they still supported each other and walked to the forest behind. The paladins who can be selected into the Knights of the Silver Hand are veterans of many battles. I understand the significance of General Gavin Ladd's actions.

And a few minutes later, just as the two evacuated paladins were about to walk out of the forest, the expression of the dwarf Niles, who was cursing all the way, suddenly became ugly.

"What's the matter? Shorty, is your wound uncomfortable?"

The human paladin Hoffman noticed this, his palms were filled with holy light, and the dwarf sat on the ground rubbing his belly, a strange paleness appeared on his bronzed cheeks.

"I...I feel blood...boiling...weird..."

"Don't move, I'll treat you!"

The human paladin squatted down, but the moment his palm touched the dwarf's wound, the dwarf's newly healed wound seemed to be torn open inside, and hot blood gushed out from it, those hideous The blood beads jumped backwards in the air.

"ah!"

The dwarf screamed, making the atmosphere of the quiet forest weird. The blood sprayed Hoffman's face. The human paladin subconsciously turned around and saw not far behind the two, approaching the entrance of the forest. On the hillside, a slender figure in a long dark red hood was walking towards them, holding an epee that shone with a icy aura in his hand.

The fingers of Tyrion's right hand spread out in the air, and with the shaking of his fingers, one-third of the blood of the dwarf Niles, who was lying on the ground, was drawn out, entangled in the body like a jumping blood snake. On his arm, with the surging death energy all over his body and the blue eyes under the hood, it looks so weird.

Hoffman felt a deadly threat from the figure in front of him. He quickly pulled out the warhammer behind his back. The energy of the holy light in his whole body was agitated and shrouded his body. He pointed the warhammer at Tyrion in front of him. shouted:

"Death Knight! The Holy Light protects me! I'm not afraid of you!"

He roared and rushed towards Tyrion, the scorching holy light wrapped around his warhammer, and fell towards Tyrion's head.

"boom"

The cold epee collided with the warhammer, holy light and death, two opposing energies collided in the air and sparked dazzling sparks, but they failed to shake Tyrion's body.

With a flick of his wrist, the body blessed by death pushed the paladin Hoffman out. The paladin wanted to stabilize his figure, but the next moment, the holy light surging on his body was caught by Terry Ang's gauntlet wrapped in death corrosion was torn abruptly, and fragments of golden light were scattered everywhere.

"Snapped"

His neck was fastened and his whole body was lifted up. The holy light in his body was resisting, but after his proud martial skills and strength were defeated, no matter how hot his holy light was, it was useless.

The four eyes met, the ice blue eyes were as cold as dead frost, emotionless.

"Your holy light probably won't reach here."

"click"

Hoffman, whose neck was broken, struggled violently, and his body froze. Behind him, the eyes of the dwarf Niles raised with difficulty, were already full of despair.

When the death knights first appeared, their fighting methods were far from mature, but the paladins also just appeared, and their fighting methods were also immature, so the basic holy light attack could not threaten the former senior death knights at all Player, the current first-generation death knight Tyrion.

On the other hand, the deeper you go into the forest, the more and more traps the paladins encounter, with various patterns and great dangers.

From the most basic traps to the exquisite magic traps that cannot be detected at all, the former rangers did not forget the deadly traps they learned after falling into death. In this forest that has been prepared for 2 days, Full of "masterpieces" they left behind.

And after the paladins really entered the hinterland of the forest, the dark rangers under Tyrion's command no longer hid their figures. Whenever a paladin stepped on a trap, the dark rangers hidden in the forest would shoot deadly shots. Bone Arrow, although most of the traps can be avoided after heightened vigilance, but in the ambushes of 20 dark rangers, 7 paladins lost their fighting power, and 3 of them were killed. directly killed.

Perhaps on the battlefield, the assembled knights charging could easily crush the dark rangers in front of them, but in this kind of forest hunting and anti-hunting secret battle, the paladins fell into an embarrassing disadvantage.

"withdraw!"

Seeing the eighth paladin being hoisted into the air by the sling trap, General Gavinrad, whose face was extremely ugly, cut off the bone arrow shot from the forest with his sword, and watched the other knights rush towards the darkness that turned around and ran away. Ranger, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the veteran gave the order to retreat decisively. He already understood the current situation. The so-called stolen bones were obviously just a bait, in order to lure them into this trap and resurrect them from the dead in the forest. It is a nightmare for the slow-moving paladins to fight against the rangers.

At this moment, even Gavin Ladd, who had full confidence in himself, felt a little regretful in his heart. He took out the communication stone on his waist, which was given to him by the mage Ronin before entering the forest. Useful.

"Ronin! I'm Gavin Ladd, fly back to Dunholde Castle immediately, and ask Major General Blackmoore for support and support! There is an ambush in this forest! Tell him to bring more people, there is an ambush in this forest! "

"Got it! General! I'm leaving immediately!"

Mage Ronin, wearing goggles, glanced at the Wildhammer dwarf manipulating the griffin. The latter shrugged, pulled the rein of the griffin, and changed the direction of the high-altitude monster, intending to fly back to Dunholden castle.

But just above this flight line, on the top of a tree more than 300 yards away from the Griffon in a straight line, the Death Knight Serent, who was waiting for a rabbit, stood up from between the branches. He saw the Griffon Knight flying towards him. At this moment, the heavy black iron war bow in his hand was pulled away, and three sharp bone arrows rested on the bowstring. Each bone-white bone arrow was engraved with frost runes that exude cold air.

At the moment when the griffin spread its wings in the direction of Dunholden Castle, the mage Ronin saw the death knight on the top of the tree with his keen eyes, his eyes widened, and at the same moment, Ronin screamed When it sounded, the three bone arrows on the Celente bowstring roared out.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

The bone arrows imbued with the power of death pierced the air, making it faster and more lethal. The Griffin Rider roared and tightened the reins, making the huge body of the Griffin fly upwards, trying to avoid the three bone arrows , but unfortunately, what they faced was the best shooter ever in the Quel'Thalas Farstrider Legion.

"boom"

Ronin waved his staff indiscriminately in the air, and the arcane arrows that flew out smashed one bone arrow into the air. The Griffin Knight threw out the warhammer in his hand, and smashed the other bone arrow into the air, but the last one The bone arrow pierced into the griffin's feathers like a giant eagle from the front of his body.

With the huge size of the Griffin, this slender bone arrow can't kill it, but the moment it pierced the body, the ice rune on the bone arrow was activated, freezing its forelimbs and blood , Although it was only for a short moment, the griffin still let out a terrified howl.

The frozen limbs were destroyed even the trajectory of the flight, like a swirling and smashed stone, as the bird feathers flew horizontally, it fell fiercely into the forest in front of it.

"boom"

Mage Luo Ning felt that his body smashed into more than a dozen branches during the dizzying fall. When he hit the ground, all the bones in his body seemed to be broken, and he got up from the ground in disgrace. The first thing that comes to mind is to erase the communication stone and shout:

"The Gryphon has been shot down! General...we are ambushed!"

But at this time, from the other side of the communication stone came the clash of swords and the dying groans of the knights. This made the blood of the mage Luo Ning, who was on the battlefield for the first time, freeze at this moment.

"boom"

The death knight Serent's body hit the forest floor. He turned his head and saw the mage Ronin standing in the forest in despair. A trace of hesitation flashed in his gray eyes, but the next moment, he raised his hand again. A war bow.

Luo Ning was awakened by the sound behind him. He turned around and saw Celent aiming at him like a god of death. The rune light on the bone arrow danced so shockingly in the light and shadow of the forest.

At this moment, in the eyes of this unlucky young mage, he was already full of despair.