Chapter 99: Treetop Knight

"Ferocious warrior?" Ryan asked with a little doubt.

He understood.

But he remembered clearly that Claire and Hamilton had said that the word "violent" was used to describe wild beasts, which were different from humans.

So Ryan asked with a questioning tone:

"Does it mean knight?"

Lagre nodded and said, "Yes! Ferocious and what you call breaking the limit are the same. Our barbarian clan has always called the warriors who break the limit as violent warriors according to the sayings handed down from ancient times."

After she came to Meister County from the Cold Wind Tundra to find her brother Harald, she has lived here for a while and knows some cultural differences between the two sides.

With Ryan's interruption, Lagre answered the doubts of her savior.

This made Ryan learn a lot about the barbarians from Lagre.

It turned out that the barbarians did not practice the traditional breathing method. According to Lagre, the barbarians have a thin blood of giants flowing in their bodies.

They practiced a breathing method called brute force, which was relatively primitive. Its effect was to tap into the potential of their own blood, strengthen their physique, and simultaneously enhance their strength and agility, so that the barbarian tribe could fight against the harsh living environment of the Wind Tundra.

This made Ryan stunned.

This breathing method was similar to his giant bear breathing method, which also focused on strengthening the two attributes of physique and strength. Of course, it was a little worse than the brute force breathing method in terms of agility.

When the barbarians practiced, they also had medicines similar to "black tung oil".

According to Lagre, the barbarian priests would prepare special potions made of various herbs for the warriors of the tribe to promote the progress of the warriors' brute force breathing method.

When Ryan heard it, he felt that the entire training system of the barbarian tribe was too rough compared to the orthodox knight breathing method, but the overall difference seemed to be not big.

But soon, Ryan changed his mind.

Because the barbarians actually broke through the extraordinary through the trial of life and death, not the advanced potion.

This surprised Ryan.

If a barbarian wants to become violent, the success rate is only about 20% to 30%.

For the orthodox knight, even if the breakthrough fails after taking the advanced potion, the mortality rate is only about 10%, and there is another 40% probability of strength decline, and 50% probability of successful breakthrough.

This is in sharp contrast to the situation that barbarians who cannot break through will die.

Ryan thought, as expected, the knight's path, as the most stable extraordinary path in the long history of mankind, can continue to exist for a reason.

"By the way, Lagre, I'm sorry to ask you so many things about your tribe. Let's continue to talk about what happened in the Night Song Forest." Ryan remembered that he seemed to have led Lagre's story astray, so he said with a little apology.

Lagre didn't mind, nodded, and continued:

"My brother turned the tide of the battle alone, slaughtered a large number of gnolls, and killed the old ogre and defeated him step by step."

"Just when we thought the situation was settled, the old ogre suddenly started to escape and finally ran into an unknown ruins."

When talking about the ruins, Ryan could clearly feel that Lagre's voice was trembling.

"This site is located deep in the Night Song Forest. There are collapsed tall stone pillars covered with moss and vines. We judge that this seems to be the site of a temple long ago."

"We chased after the old ogre, and suddenly, a mysterious knight appeared and started to attack us."

"The other party did not seem to be alive. The warhorse under his crotch was actually a funeral horse. I once chopped the horse's leg with an axe, but the other party only showed pale flesh, without any blood."

When talking about this, Ryan could feel a trace of fear in Lagre's eyes. This is an instinctive fear when facing an enemy who is much stronger than himself.

Although Ryan was very curious about what a 'funeral horse' was, Ryan did not ask this time, but chose to let Lagre continue to tell the story.

"The other party was wearing a knight's armor. The most unique thing was that there was a tree crown shape on the top of the knight's helmet covering the other party's face."

A knight's helmet in the shape of a tree crown?

Ryan immediately thought about it. The pattern or mark of the tree canopy should only be found in races or churches that believe in natural gods.

For example, in the book he got from the ‘King of Dogs’ Cole, there are patterns of big trees and flowers.

"The opponent is too strong. He killed one of our team members with one blow."

"I blocked the opponent's lance for just one blow, and my shield was broken, my arm was broken, and I was also hurt by this strange black air. My brother attacked with all his strength, but he was still no match for the tree canopy knight."

"The other team members died one by one to protect me from leaving safely."

Lagre seemed to think of the heartbreaking scene, and her eyes turned red again, and her eyes were blurred with tears.

Hearing this, Ryan couldn't help asking: "What about your brother?"

"He died too. The last scene I saw was that my brother tried his best to help me lead the tree canopy knight away, but he was pierced through the chest by the opponent's lance."

Obviously, when he said this, it evoked the picture that Lagre was most reluctant to recall in her heart.

Lagre couldn't hold it in any longer and started sobbing.

"I'm sorry," Ryan apologized.

He found that the other party had just woken up and his emotions had not yet eased. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to ask again after a while.

After a long time, Lagre restrained her emotions, turned her head and looked at Ryan and said:

"By the way, there is one thing that is very important. My brother asked me to pass on the message. This knight with a tree crown on his head seems to be an extremely rare evil spirit knight."

"Evil spirit knight?" Ryan was stunned when he heard it. This touched on a blind spot in his knowledge.

But no matter what, if the powerful strength of the "little giant" Harald is not the opponent of the evil spirit knight, Ryan does not think that Hamilton, the sheriff of the town of Shining Gold, can defeat that guy.

If this so-called "evil spirit knight" attacks Shining Gold, I don't know how big a tragedy will happen.

Ryan obviously also realized the seriousness of this problem.

Although there are still many situations that are not clearly understood, Ryan feels that this matter should be notified to Hamilton immediately so that he can prepare early.

After a little thought, Ryan said to Lagre: "Then you should have a good rest for the night. I will inform the Sheriff Hamilton of the Golden Lightning immediately."

"Yes!" Lagre nodded.

Ryan turned and left.

However, when he walked to the door, he suddenly remembered something and turned to Lagre and said: "Do you need something to eat?"

Lagre shook her head gently.

It seemed that she was still immersed in grief.

Although it was around ten o'clock in the evening, Hamilton was still in the office, but the wound on his body seemed to have been treated.

When Ryan came to the office, he could clearly smell the strong smell of the healing potion.

When Ryan mentioned that Harald encountered the evil knight and the team was almost wiped out, Hamilton was shocked and jumped up from his chair immediately, blurting out: "What! Evil knight?"

After getting Ryan's affirmative answer, Hamilton could no longer hold back and his face changed drastically.

The sheriff of Goldshire was seen pacing back and forth in his office, his brows full of anxiety.

It was the first time that Ryan saw Hamilton so anxious.

"Messenger!!"

A messenger dressed as a guard quickly ran in and saluted, "Lord Hamilton, what do you want?"

"Immediately inform Lord Hamadi of the county and the Church of the Goddess of the Sea that there are traces of the Evil Knight near Goldshire!"

"Also! Immediately send someone to notify Lord Lloyd of Habsburg Manor."

"Also, notify all night watchmen to be on high alert!"

It is obvious that the so-called 'Evil Knight' is extraordinary, as it can make a human extraordinary knight fall into such an anxious mood.

Hamilton muttered to himself:

"Harald's limit breaking degree has exceeded 40%, which is already the level of a senior knight, but he is still not the opponent of the other party. This shows that this Evil Knight is likely to have the strength of a peak knight, or even stronger."

'Senior knight' 'Peak knight'?

Ryan nodded. That plus the "formal knight" at the beginning should be the division of the knight level.

"Sir, is the Evil Knight really that scary?" Seeing Hamilton so serious, Ryan couldn't help but ask curiously.

Hamilton nodded and said solemnly: "The Evil Knight is scary on the one hand, but this is not the most important thing."

"The appearance of the Evil Knight means that some kind of evil is invading or reviving! It was recorded in ancient books that the Evil Knight is the minions of the evil god. It must have sensed the call of its master to appear here."

"This is the biggest trouble!"

The minions of the evil god?

Even if Ryan didn't understand the world, he knew that it must be difficult to deal with the one with the word "God". No wonder Hamilton was facing a great enemy.

However, the two words "evil spirit" made Ryan think of the piece of glow stone he had obtained.

After all, according to the blacksmith Boris, if it can be melted into a weapon, it will have a powerful killing power against evil.

What a pity!

I can't go to the county town at this stage.

Otherwise, with powerful weapons in hand, I will naturally have more assurance of safety.

When Ryan walked out of Hamilton's office, the cold moonlight passed through the gaps in the clouds, covering the town like a silver yarn, giving people a dreamlike feeling.

The cold wind of the late autumn night blew on his face, which made Ryan more sober.

After thinking about it, Ryan stopped walking towards home and turned to the training ground of the administrative hall.

The entire training ground was empty and silent.

"From Hamilton's attitude, perhaps the appearance of this evil knight means that the entire Shining Gold Town will face some kind of huge crisis."

"The only thing I can rely on is my own constantly improving strength."

"In addition, my understanding of this world is still too shallow. It seems that while relying on the Night Watch, I also need to work hard to obtain merit points and upgrade my rank."

Ryan looked at the Night Watch panel. With the experience points gained from killing wolves, the Giant Bear Swordsmanship is only a dozen points away from entering level 5.

He plans to upgrade the Giant Bear Swordsmanship before going home.

As Ryan pulled out the fine steel sword behind him, a figure wielding the sword was sweating profusely in the training ground.

About an hour later, the system prompt came.