Chapter 2 Cursed Earth

"We are level 850, but...!" A white light shone over again, interrupting the boss of the Demon Spirit Knight. The boss of the Demon Spirit Knight immediately lost his voice after being hit by the white light, but it seemed that he was resisting the white light just now.

We have run out of the city limits, and the people behind us still refuse to let us go. The white light is still shining on us continuously. The speed of the demon knight's horse is not much faster than those of the white horses, but it can't be shaken off no matter what. I suddenly grabbed the left hand of the boss of the demon knights and said: "Stop!" All the demon knights turned around neatly and faced the enemy. "Prepare the javelin, run up! Throw!" Although he was afraid of the white light, an order was an order. The demon knight completed the action accurately, and a row of javelins flew out neatly. The guys who caught up behind us didn't expect that we, who had been running away all the way, would suddenly turn around and fight back. The 10 people who were at the front, including their horses and men, were transformed into a white light and resurrected on the nail ground.

"Turn around and retreat!" I ordered again, and the demon spirit knight immediately turned back to the original route and galloped wildly. The pursuers behind him were knocked down, and the long spears nailed to the ground blocked the road. People tripped and fell to the ground one after another, and by the time they got up again we had disappeared at the edge of the dense forest.

This is the first time that I have been chased so miserably by a player. This damn League of Holy Angels actually specializes in defeating the dark attribute! The demon knight couldn't even display half of its usual abilities in front of them. Fortunately, the Demon Spirit Knight was of a high level after all. With one shot of his spear, he managed to kill the most chasing soldiers and miraculously blocked the pursuers behind him! This time it was really embarrassing!

"Do you know what's not afraid of them?" I asked the Demon Knight.

The answer was still the boss of the Demon Spirit Knight. "In fact, they are afraid of everything except the dark element! The dark element restrains all attributes other than light, the light element specifically restrains the dark element, and all these attributes other than light and dark restrain the light element, so we have nothing to do with it. Method!"

"Isn't that the day I will never turn around again? I have drunk the water from the Fountain of Evil. My attributes will demonize all my demon pets. Even if I find an angel, I will become a fallen angel. That is not the case. Got beaten for everything?”

"No, luck, plague, and crystals can deal with them!" The boss of the demon knight said with certainty: "Dragon's natural magic resistance, no attribute can restrain the dragon's attribute, and of course the dragon can't overcome other attributes either. Attributes. But the dragons are all very high-level, just let the three of Lucky and the others raise their levels. Also, we are not really afraid of them!"

"Why are you not afraid of running away?"

"We hate his holy light! The brilliance of the Eye of the Gods will make us blind and then degenerate into bat form. But as long as we can't see the holy light, it's okay, but if we can't see it, we can't attack, so we have to run. !”

"So you're afraid of looking at those lights!" If only I had sunglasses, I wouldn't be afraid if I prepared a pair for the Demon Knight!

The boss of the Demon Spirit Knight added: "In fact, the dark element is not really afraid of the light element. Although the dark attributes in the early stages are very powerfully restrained by the light element, in the later stages they will gradually lose their restraining effect. Like the one just now Magic can cause actual damage to low-level skeletons and zombies, but it only serves to expel us!"

"So the Death Knights of the Mysterious Lock Unit are not afraid of light magic?"

"I'm afraid, but they're not as powerful as us. They won't feel the damage from the light element! In fact, the dark element itself is also the nemesis of the light element. When fighting in areas polluted by evil spirits, light magic is often very weak! But just now That city, the entire city and a large area outside it have been blessed by the sacred. We have very little power in that kind of land, let alone fight against light magic!"

"Master, they are catching up again!" A demon knight suddenly reported.

"Have we left the blessed area?"

"Not yet, this place has also been blessed!" The boss of the demon spirit knight looked at the ground and said: "There must be a large temple of light in the holy city. The blessing power of the temple has spread to the nearby area! The sacrifices in this area Everyone will get a strength bonus!"

"Forget it!" I jumped off the horse. "Attention, all demon knights! Close your eyes, listen to my voice and fight!" Anyway, the demon knights are not really afraid of the eyes of the gods, as long as they can't see them, that's fine!

The demon knights collectively turned around under my command. Their super-long spears were leveled by them, with the spear points pointed forward. A large group of light knights and priests rushed out from the other end of the path, and the wand in the leader's hand was shining with the Eyes of the Gods. "Charge!" I shouted suddenly! The Demon Spirit Knight suddenly rushed out, and the members of the Holy Angel Alliance who caught up did not expect to be counterattacked. In fact, it was useless to think about it. The Demon Spirit Knight's impact was not on the same level as them. The light knights who rushed up and the priests were scattered by the demon knights as soon as they came into contact. The tall demon knight knocked all the enemies off their horses in one fell swoop.

I continued to shout at the demon knight who was charging over: "Turn around! Charge!"

The formation turned and charged again. The members of the Holy Angel League who were knocked off their horses were hit by the horses for the second time before they could get up. A group of people were thrown dozens of meters away and hung on nearby tree trunks. .

"Okay, open your eyes!"

The demon knights opened their eyes and ran toward me. I jumped on the horse and ran deeper into the jungle with them.

After getting rid of those damn guys, we continued to walk through the dense forest. There were no roads in the dense jungle, and the lush trees around us did not look like the varieties that should be found in China. These trees are very huge, with trunk diameters generally exceeding 3 meters, and their dense branches overlap and cover the entire sky. The forest became a little dark because of this, but fortunately, the few sunshine that appeared could barely guarantee the illumination.

I moved forward according to the map coordinates. According to the map, there should be a major road nearby. It was really troublesome to keep digging in the woods. After walking for a while, we began to realize that something was wrong. The original green woods began to gradually change. The leaves of the woods we first entered were green, the ground was covered with yellow and red fallen leaves, and the tree trunks were also bright brown, but now the scene is starting to look a little weird. The emerald green leaves were gradually replaced by silver-grey leaves. The further we walked, the more it became like this. In the end, they were all leaves of this color. The yellow and red fallen leaves on the ground have also disappeared. What we are stepping on is gray land, and sand-like dust covers the ground. The color of the surrounding tree trunks is no longer brown, but has turned black! What surprised me the most was that not a single small animal was seen, but the corners between the tree trunks and the ground were covered with spiders. At some point, white mist began to appear around us. Although it was not very thick, it looked very scary in the already dark forest.

It was too quiet walking like this, and I felt the atmosphere was scary, so I started chatting with the Ghost Knight. First, I asked the boss of the Demon Spirit Knight who was leading me. "You've been following me for so long and I still don't know your name? Do you have a name?"

"Master, I don't remember my original name. After I became the Demon Knight, my name was Scott."

"Scott? It's a pretty good name." I stretched my head and looked at the demon knights on both sides. "What are your names? Tell me. Take off your helmets. You all have the same armor. I can't tell who is against whom!"

The demon spirit knights obediently took off their helmets and hugged their names one by one. Ranked on my left are four male demon knights, they are Aragorn, Theist, Renakin, and Foreb. Aragorn looks very young and doesn't feel older than me; Sister looks colder and feels like a cool guy; Renakin is very strong and has thick lines on his face. Just looking at his head, he can easily be thought of as a dwarf. Warrior; Fulibo looks like a doctor. It feels like he is a mage at first glance, but he didn't expect to be a knight. On my right are 5 ladies: Merida, Ana, Celine, Nina, and Vera. The five ladies all looked young, the eldest Merida was probably no more than 30, and the youngest Celine was probably less than 18!

"Master, we seem to have entered an illusion!" Scott (the boss of the Demon Spirit Knight) reminded me.

"Illusion?" I quickly opened the map and compared it. "You mean we're going the wrong way?"

"No!" Scott pointed to a point on the map. "We were here from the beginning. We should have seen this road at our speed, but we didn't see it! And the map showed that this is a river, but we have already passed here and didn't even see the shadow of the river. . So I judge that we have entered an illusion. The map is useless here. It will not show the correct position. The commander is leading us further and further away!"

"You said this is a forest with illusions like the one outside the Lost City?" I thought that only the ultimate evil zone like Lost City had illusions to protect itself!

"I think this illusion is much higher than the illusion of the Lost City! We are demon knights, and our eyes actually have many functions. Our eyes are called soul eyes, which can resist illusions to a certain extent. This Even the eyes of the soul can’t see through the illusion, which means it’s a relatively high level!”

"Then what should we do now? Just stand like this?"

"It's definitely not possible to stand, but you can't just walk forward, otherwise you'll end up looping back to where you were!"

"I have another idea!" I pulled out the dragon tendon flying rope on my wrist, hung the rope head on the crossbow and fired. The crossbow arrow flew far away with the flying rope before getting stuck in a big tree. "Okay, let's go over there!" We walked forward along the wire of the zip line. When we reached the tree, we continued to move forward. The steel wire was pulled out in a straight line and kept moving in its direction. Walk forward until the zip line is no longer long enough, then infuse magic power to cut off the connected trees and retract the zip line, then re-fix the zip line and continue pulling the line as before. Although this method is not very precise, at least we are roughly walking in a straight line.

As we advanced the forest changed again, first the density of trees began to decrease, but the diameter of the trees began to increase. The surrounding trees are getting taller and taller, some of them are even more than 10 meters in diameter. The straight trunks are glorious without any branches. It is not until dozens of meters above the ground that the trunks suddenly branch out into many branches. This growth method actually makes the ground very empty. Almost everywhere there are huge gaps like a forest glade, but the exaggerated branches and leaves above completely block the sunlight!

The thick fog disappeared again unknowingly, because the forest was originally empty, but now the visibility has become very good. Of course, the premise is that we all have night vision ability, otherwise it is so dark that you can’t see even if it is empty. Nothing is visible.

"It seems we have left the illusion barrier!" Scott looked around and said.

"You mean we came out?"

"I mean we're in!" Scott's voice seemed a little nervous. "The illusion protects this area, and we have passed through the illusion and entered its interior!"

"Oh! That would be even worse! But now that we are in, it would be a pity not to take a look inside. Let's move forward!"

Under my order, we continued to move forward, but the thick fog that had disappeared appeared again, and this time it turned into green fog. Scott pulled off my helmet and face shield. "Everyone put on their helmets, we have entered the area of ​​giant poisonous miasma! Everyone, dismount and put away the horses. This miasma will corrode even undead war horses!"

A group of us were forced to become infantry. The green miasma filled the forest and became stronger as we moved forward. In the end, the miasma has reached the point where I can't see my fingers, and we are forced to stay close together to prevent us from running away. Resuming the demon knight consumes a lot of magic power for me at this stage, so it is best not to waste it.

Although the miasma zone was thicker than the mist, fortunately it was not very deep, and I passed through it in a short time. The world inside the miasma surprised us again. The same tall trees had no leaves at all. We could easily see the sky, but now there was nothing but dark clouds in the sky. The clouds were very low and thick, and the sunlight was completely blocked, with only some dim and faint light penetrating.

"Power! Power! I feel great power!" Scott suddenly sucked in the air and startled me.

"Are you OK?"

"It's okay! I've never felt so good! The power of evil, the smell of rot and blood is floating in the air! I feel the huge evil energy! It's so good! If those sacrifices are here now, I promise to I won’t be afraid anymore!”

The other demon spirit knights nearby suddenly knelt down and stretched their bodies flat on the ground. "What a powerful force! This is the paradise of evil! Master, we are standing on the cursed land!"

"Curse the earth! Like the one outside the Lost City?"

"No! The one outside the Lost City is the eternal resting place, which is a low-level cursed land. The one here is a high-level cursed land, which is much more powerful!"

"Why don't I feel it?" I also squatted down and touched the ground, but I didn't feel any so-called power at all! But I 'touched' something hard, and it felt different from the ground next to it. I dug a few times, and a white thing was revealed on the ground. It looked like the bones of something, but most of them were still buried under the ground, so I don't know what kind of bones they were!

I continued digging, and found that under the gray surface soil was black soil, which was very damp and smelled strongly of blood! Because the soil was very moist, it was very easy to dig out. I dug out the bone in a few clicks. Now you know what it is, it's a human bone, it looks like part of a thigh. I followed the direction of the bones and dug around, and sure enough, the entire skeleton was there. It was a complete human skeleton.

"Master, what are you doing?" The demon knights had not finished enjoying the bath of evil energy until now.

"I want to see what this is!"

Scott pointed at the skeleton on the ground, then raised his hand, and the skeleton actually climbed up from the soil on its own. I took a few steps back in surprise. In fact, I was not afraid of skeletons. On the contrary, I thought they were cool. I took a few steps back because I was surprised. "Scott, can you demon knights summon skeletons? Why didn't you tell me earlier? If you had known, you would have recruited more skeletons to fight in Japan!"

Scott took his time. "This is the cursed earth. In a place like this, any evil force can summon skeletons! Just like the elves in the forest of life can restore life with magic! But we can only summon them here, not outside the cursed earth. !”

"I'm so happy for nothing!" I walked back to the skeleton and looked at it. "There should be many more nearby, right? How many can you summon at the same time?"

"There are skeletons everywhere here, but each of us can only summon one skeleton. We are not necromancers after all!"

"That's true!" What a pity. It would be great if I could summon a lot of them. It would also be good to summon them here and take them out to fight! "Okay, let's continue walking inside. Maybe there are more evil spirits inside for you to enjoy!"

"What is that?" A demon knight pointed to the depths of the dense forest.

I turned around and looked over, and there were indeed a lot of things dangling around. Since there is still some light mist here, things that are too far away cannot be seen clearly. However, the shadow looks like a human being, but it is unlikely to meet a human being in a place like this. It is estimated that 10% of them are zombies. It is normal for zombies and skeletons to appear on the cursed earth.

As we got closer, the targets gradually became clearer. These were indeed zombies, and a type of zombie we had never seen before. The zombie, which still retains its human shape, shows no signs of decay. It looks like someone is sleepwalking. This is the first time he has seen such a clean zombie. These zombies are all wearing armor and were obviously once soldiers. The reason why the number of zombies here is so dense is probably because they used to be in the army, so they still like to crowd together after becoming zombies.

Scott suddenly pointed at the zombie and said: "It's the army of the city of God! He's wearing the armor of the city of God!"

Xilin pointed at another zombie and said: "This is the army of Yunxiao City! There is also the logo of Yunxiao City on his sword!"

"That one is from Goddess City!" Another zombie was identified.

"Damn! The three major cities in the system are meeting here!" There are actually three armies! "How can we get through this dense crowd! Will hitting one cause a siege! By the way, Scott, summon a skeleton to hit!" As long as we attack people or monsters, my star pupils can read them. To maximize the opponent's attributes, it's safest to use skeletons. Even if the zombies riot collectively, we'll still have time to run away!

The skeleton rushed forward quickly, and the skeleton without weapons directly bit the zombie with its teeth. The data on my side came out immediately, and its name is Incorruptible Zombie. No wonder it looks so clean, but it turns out it is incorruptible. The level is level 400, which is very high. Its attack power is average among level 400 monsters, but its defense power is surprisingly high! Zombies already have thick blood, and these guys are all wearing armor. No wonder their defenses are abnormal! Looking at the speed, fortunately, it is about the same as ordinary zombies. It is very slow. Any living creature that can move is probably faster than them!

The skeleton I sent out only took two bites before being smashed to pieces by the zombies. However, although the surrounding zombies were helpful in attacking, they did not rush to deal with us. It seems that they cannot leave the area where they are standing!

Although the attributes of these guys are not exaggerated, their numbers are terrifying! And these guys are almost all lined up side by side, making it impossible to get through. The number of these zombies is so large, the density is high, and the speed is slow, which just meets my leveling needs. I summoned all the demon pets to stand aside. Since these zombies can't leave the place, I will try using long-range attacks. If they still don't move, I can take advantage!

I aimed an arrow at a zombie, and the arrow hit the zombie's chest accurately. But the zombie immediately faced me and opened its mouth. A red light flashed in front of my eyes. I felt like my feet were wrapped around something. He dragged his wrist towards the zombie swarm. "Help!"