Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 224 Shadow Howler

"I was born in a small dragon-born village in the Lost Star Mountains of the Northern Wilderness. After being attacked by evil merchants, I was captured and became a gladiator in humiliation.

In my gladiator career, I have seen too much injustice and oppression. I was dying after a brutal duel. At a critical moment, I was inspired by a paladin and accepted my own destiny. Saved by the paladins of Tyr, I am proud and..."

The dragon-born paladin looked solemnly at the trembling sarcophagus, and told Thorne about his experience, but he was interrupted by the half-elf ranger again: "Now is not the time for small talk, the death knight has come out gone."

When a fallen paladin dies without attempting to atone, certain evil watchers can use dark powers to transform the once-mortal knight into a loathsome undead creature commonly referred to by the Material World. Called: Death Knight!
In Thorne's solemn eyes, a burly white-haired man wearing pure black plate armor that seemed to have been burned by flames poked his head out of a large sarcophagus. His face was composed of scorched black skulls covered with With shrunken, rotting flesh and blood, dark red flames danced in the two eye sockets. Even if the terrifying gaze was not watched, it still made him feel cold and vicious.

The death knight got up and stood in the coffin, staring blankly at the ceiling. Thorne seemed to feel the confusion in his burning eyes.

"How long have I been asleep? Is my Dawn Town still there?" Immediately afterwards, the death knight made a low, cold voice, which sounded like an echo from the depths of an unfathomable cave.

"Could it be that our Dawn Town has been turned into a piece of scorched earth, Winster, Alruen, Wilhan, Kosam, and Tijie... Are you all still there? And my Dawn Knights... ...desperate war, angry and...sorrowful!"

The death knight just stared blankly at the ceiling, and his cold, deep voice slowly came out as his skinny Adam's apple squirmed.

"War of despair? A fallen paladin?" Thorne could hear the sadness in the death knight's voice.

The so-called 'War of Despair' refers to the first floor of the tower, which was mentioned in the message of the necromancer Winster.

From the intermittent whispers of the other party just now, let him know that the former Twin Towers Town was called Shuguang Town. Because of a desperate war, many people died in battle. There are also people negotiating with the darkness and gaining powerful power to try to change everything. .

In Winster's message, the woman mentioned should have failed, and the reason why the fallen paladin in front of him became the death knight is obviously because he tried to change something, and he also failed.

The final result should be that the necromancer Winster abandoned the tower. As for the others... probably the undead creatures he and the paladin Peo killed.

Thorne glanced at the nearly decayed clothes on the skeleton ghoul that had not yet been turned into ashes, and guessed secretly.

"No! I am the commander of the Dread Knights, and they all call me: Shadow Growler!"

Suddenly, the bewildered death knight put his head in his hands and began to howl in pain, as if he was trying to suppress something. With his miserable scream, the death breath surging around him began to gather crazily.

"Is this a confrontation between good and evil?" Thorne looked at the struggling death knight, walked up to the paladin Peo, and asked.

"Death knights are fallen paladins or lawful good fighters who are transformed by evil after death because they have betrayed the code of honor they have held throughout their lives.

But I have also seen some death knights in the Temple of Tyr touch the heart of goodness hidden in the deepest part and embark on the road of redemption. There will be true rest.

Obviously, when the death knight wakes up from his slumber, his good heart hidden in the deepest part is the first to be awakened.However, his evil heart is greater than goodness, so he is destined not to last long. "

Paladin Peo's expression was unprecedentedly dignified, and the protective aura around him gradually became more solid, exuding a dazzling holy radiance: "I can feel the kindness of this death knight begging me to help him get relief. , so I want to purify this death knight!"

"Evil Death Knight, accept justice!"

After the paladin finished speaking, he took a deep breath, one black and one white iron gauntlet clenched the sharp blade and shield in their hands respectively, and rushed towards the death knight inside the coffin.

"As expected of a paladin!" Thorn noticed paladin Peo rushing towards the death knight fearlessly, his eyelids twitched.

"Holy taste, disgusting glow!"

Just as the paladin Pao was about to approach the death knight, the struggling death knight suddenly regained consciousness and made a cold, deep voice.

He jumped out of the coffin, staring coldly at the paladin rushing towards him with eyes burning with vicious flames, and a pure black broadsword full of mysterious runes also appeared in his hand.

"Clang clang!"

The two sides did not speak any words. From the moment their eyes met, the sound of the collision of weapons began to sound one after another.

In the dark underground passage, the paladin Peo suddenly fought with the death knight. With the long sword exuding sacred light and the fine gold shield in his hand, the paladin Peo even fought the death knight evenly for a while.

"Damn Winster, you actually deprived me of my strength! Go to hell!"

The irritable death knight who was entangled by the paladin roared angrily, and waved afterimages of the rune broadsword in his hand, driving all the negative energy around him, tearing the air, and slashing at the paladin heavily.

"boom!"

Facing the ferocious attack, it was too late for the paladin Peo to evade, so he could only bite the bullet and raise the adamantine shield in his hand to block.

Although the paladin Peo was forced to retreat again and again by the attack of the death knight, because the quality of the adamantine shield in his hand was very good, he could still bear it for the time being.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The death knight was in control, and the rune broadsword hit the adamantine shield continuously, sparking dazzling sparks in the dark passageway above the ground.

"boom!"

The strong death energy condensed in one body, and the death knight directly burst out with powerful strength, and swung the rune broadsword again to hit the pure gold shield.

The paladin who ate the attack was accompanied by a 'click', like the sound of bones breaking, and his body of nearly 150 kilograms turned into a parabola, and fell hard to the ground.

"go to hell!"

The death knight roared, and his whole body jumped into the air. He raised the rune broadsword wrapped in dark energy with both hands, and with an unrivaled aura, he slashed at the paladin Peo condescendingly.

"boom!"

Suddenly, in the distance, a pure white arrow jumping with dark purple arcs and light orange flames pierced the air with a whistling sound, and precisely hit the chest of the death knight who jumped into the air.

The flame and electric arc quickly spread to the death knight's body, leaving behind a piece of scorched black. The moment the moonlight-like pure white arrow hit the death knight's chest, it turned into a little light and dissipated in the air. As a result, the death knight lost his balance. With a 'plop', it fell not far away.

Thorne, holding a composite longbow, glanced at the death knight who fell to the ground, and immediately walked to the paladin, and said in a deep voice: "I can feel that the power of the death knight is recovering, and the two of us may not be able to deal with it. How to choose, paladin of the God of Justice."

The paladin Peo's left arm was constantly being hit hard by the shield, and it was obviously dislocated at this time. Without saying a word, he first glanced at the death knight who was struggling again, and then stood the long sword in front of him. The right hand was free to hold the left arm tightly, his expression was slightly concentrated, and he directly straightened the displaced left arm.

Immediately afterwards, he took out the silver holy emblem and chanted in a low voice. The unique "Lay on Hands" ability of a paladin quickly covered the seriously injured arm with a layer of holy light.

Then he glanced at his recovered left arm, lifted his long sword and shield again, looked at Thorne and said righteously: "I am a proud and glorious warrior, a dragon descendant who inherited the blood of the ancient dragon god, and A paladin of the Temple of Tyr, a defender of justice.

If you can't even save a death knight who is eager for redemption, how can you talk about searching for the lost holy city of "Jinbatur City" of the Dragonborn, how to create a future under the malicious solidification of all civilizations, and how to maintain the law? Will, as an unquenchable hope! "

"...You can just say that you want to purify him." Thorne complained secretly, and glanced at the death knight: "Together?"

"Although you possess the power of demons, I can feel the aura of kindness radiating from you. I have no reason to refuse. Now, I, the paladin, Peo Joses, would like to be your partner.

The paladins of the God of Justice will never abandon the partners they identify with! "

After the paladin Peo finished speaking, he took out the silver holy emblem and stuck it to his chest. His tone and expression were full of solemnity, as if he was about to hold a sacred ceremony.

"Uh... don't make it so grand, you see the enemy will attack right away, you are wasting your time." Thorne directly interrupted the other party's respectful salute, motioning him to look in the direction of the death knight.

"Come out! My thirteen most valiant horror knights!" The death knight who got rid of the struggle and recovered his sanity raised the rune broadsword above his head. With an angry roar, the rich dark energy began to crazily move towards the thirteen coffins. gather.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The thirteen coffins seemed to respond to the death knight's call, and they all trembled violently, then suddenly remained motionless and returned to silence.

"Huh?" The death knight's flaming eye sockets showed doubts.

"Come out! My thirteen most valiant horror knights!" Immediately afterwards, he raised the rune broadsword above his head again, and his low, cold roar echoed throughout the underground space.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The thirteen coffins responded to the death knight's call, and all trembled violently, then remained motionless again, and returned to silence.

"Winster is your fault again, it's best not to let me find you!" Seeing that he still couldn't summon his most loyal and capable subordinate, the death knight immediately wanted to understand the reason, and growled angrily.

"Then, it's up to us." The angry death knight heaved his chest, waved his rune broadsword, and a black teleportation light circle appeared all over his body.

Immediately afterwards, a billowing mist swirled in the light array, and a large black steed with tail, mane and four hooves wrapped in flames neighed and emerged from it.

"It's the fear horse: Nightmare!" Thorne saw the death knight's mount, and his expression fluctuated slightly.

Nightmares are proud, wild and violent alien creatures with hearts as dark and evil as the abyss from which they came, and though they have no wings, they can fly at high speed.

At the same time, when the death knight summoned the nightmare, the paladin Peo standing beside him also surged with the light array, and a dragon blood lizard appeared in front of him.

The dragon blood lizard, with its thick limbs suddenly exerting force faster than a war horse, has no fear of swords and swords as hard as iron scales, and also has dragon blood, which is incomparable to that kind of swamp monitor lizard.

This kind of mount, which can only be summoned by the paladins of the dragon race, can serve as a mount for them, and it is equivalent to having an extra powerful and loyal helper.

Paladins are the most special group of people among all professionals. Those who firmly believe in lawful goodness are even rarer than wizards. They can't tolerate any evil in their eyes, but evil is a part of the whole world.

But they will never ignore evil, chaos and sin. Even if they sacrifice their lives, they must guard the camp of justice and goodness.

It is precisely because they have so many restrictions that they are even more powerful.

They have the abilities of warriors, and can also cast attack, buff, and healing spells, and are protected by divine energy, permanently immune to all diseases and disease-like spells, and inherently immune to any fear and fear-like spells.

Moreover, it is also a profession that can summon mounts from the outer plane, and easily ride and charge.

As for the profession of paladin, Thorn didn't dare to think about it, because it didn't conform to his values ​​at all. At least he couldn't become a qualified paladin, and he didn't want to become a paladin either.

Immediately, in the entire underground space, the screams of the nightmare and the roar of the dragon blood lizard sounded at the same time.

Nightmare, whose body was burning with flames, spewed out two thick streams of smoke from his nasal cavity, and turned into a fire shadow to meet the dragon blood lizard.

"Bang! Bang!"

The two figures collided with each other in an instant with an incomparable momentum.

While the death knight wields the rune broadsword and is entangled with the paladin Peo, the dark black horse Nightmare, which looks like a burning flame, also opens its ugly sharp teeth and flaming front hooves to strike together with the dragon blood lizard. .

However, the strong breath of death in this underground space is very beneficial to the death knight, and the nightmare mount under him has two supernatural abilities "hot hoof kick" and "choking smoke". Dragon blood lizards with spellcasting ability can resist hard.

The moment the two sides fought, the balance of victory had been directly tilted towards the death knight.

The paladin Peo and the dragon blood lizard were forced to retreat again and again. The paladin struggled to resist the slash of the rune broadsword, and the dragon blood lizard under his seat also spit out red cores, hissed and screamed, and his forehead was covered with flames. Burnt, and the two big eyeballs were also smoky from the smoke sprayed from the nasal cavity by the nightmare.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Thorn, who was hiding behind, didn't waste any time. He immediately drew out his armor-piercing arrows and kept shooting arrows with his bow. Arrows swirling around arcs and flames hit the vital parts of Nightmare and Death Knight frequently with whistling sound.

"Pfft!"

A sharp arrow flew across the air, and the Nightmare mount had no time to dodge, and was directly hit in the neck by the armor-piercing arrow, and the screams rang out frequently.

"call out!"

Immediately afterwards, Thorne once again took advantage of the death knight being entangled by the paladin Peo, and drew a howling arrow.

"clang!"

The death knight's long sword cut off the deadly arrow that was shot at the mount. Before he could return to his defense, he directly caught the long sword wielded by the paladin Peo with one hand. Xiaoxiao smoke made a sizzling sound.

"go to hell!"

——"Four Rings Divine Art: Frightened Slash!"

The death knight endured the burning of the holy light on the long sword, swung the rune broadsword filled with rich dark energy, and slashed towards the head of the paladin.

The paladin's face changed, he dropped his long sword, and held the shield in both hands, firmly blocking the death knight's heavy blow.

"boom!"

The paladin who had suffered a double blow to his mind and body was sent flying, and the dragon blood lizard under his seat also hissed, forcibly withstood the flame hoof kick from the nightmare, broke away from the opponent's entanglement, and ran towards the paladin who fell to the ground.

"Pfft!"

At this moment, seeing the opportunity approaching, Thorn immediately let go of the ready-to-go bowstring, and the arrow, which was blessed with desert wind martial arts, looked like a fire dragon in the dark night sky, tearing through the air, and instantly hit the death knight chest.

"what!!!"

The death knight, who didn't feel pain, saw the arrow in his chest, roared angrily, and stared coldly at the half-elf ranger holding a bow in the distance with his burning eyes.

——"Four Rings Magic: Phantom Charge!"

Suddenly, the death knight was driving the nightmare mount and turned into a phantom at the same time, appearing in front of Thorne in an instant. A rune broadsword exuding dark energy with a bitter negative energy breath slashed at Thorne's head.

——"Deflection field!"

When Thorne sensed the danger, it was too late to react, so he calmly activated the strongest protective spell on the protective ring, and without idle hands, he drew out his long sword to slay the demon at an extremely fast speed.

Just when he felt the sound of breaking through the air was about to tear his face apart, an almost invisible protective barrier emerged.

"boom!"

The "deflecting force field" offset most of the death knight's damage and shattered, and the remaining force was completely blocked by Thorne's timely drawing of the sharp blade.

However, Nightmare under the death knight's seat was not idle. While Thorne's long sword was clashing with the death knight, Nightmare raised his head and sprayed two suffocating smoke from his nasal cavity, burning his flaming front hooves, fiercely He kicked Thorne hard in the chest.

"boom!"

Accompanied by the sound of 'click', Thorn's ribs were broken, and his whole body was kicked away by the kick of flames like a kite with broken strings.

——"One-ring divine art: the collision of the rhinoceros!"

——"Supernatural Ability: Smash Evil!"

The paladin Peo, who re-mounted the dragon blood lizard, calmed down the neighing mount, endured the pain all over his body, and immediately launched the paladin's magic.

Under the blessing of divine magic, the dragon blood lizard exploded with more than twice the speed and strength, and intercepted the death knight who was about to make up for Thorne at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye.

"boom!"

Accompanied by the loud and mournful screams of the nightmare, both the death knight and the mount were knocked away by the huge body of the dragon blood lizard, and the paladin's long sword also left a bone-deep gap in his body the moment the dragon blood lizard approached the death knight. .

"Evil Breaking Slash" is the strongest attack of a paladin against evil forces. This kind of attack lingering with holy radiant energy not only breaks through the death knight's plate armor, but at the same time, the holy energy is still exerting its residual heat and burning continuously. his body.

The death knight's flaming eyes noticed that the paladin was driving the dragon blood lizard to charge again. With a thought, the Nightmare, who had a spiritual connection with him, immediately swirled like clouds of smoke, and the whole body carried the death knight and flew in the air. Among them, the dumbfounded paladin and dragon blood lizard were left behind.

Just as the death knight adjusted his formation and was about to charge again, a fireball the size of a washbasin exuded blazing heat and directly slammed into his face. The death knight's skinny face twitched a few times, and quickly drove to protect against energy damage. spell.

"Boom!"

The explosion of the fireball reverberated throughout the underground space, and the death knight's distressed figure emerged from the diffuse smoke: "Half-elf who is in the way! Go to hell!"

——"Four Rings Magic: Phantom Charge!"

The death knight driving the nightmare turned into a phantom again, disappeared from the spot, and appeared beside Thorn.

However, Thorne, who had suffered a loss once, had already prepared himself. When the death knight cast his icy eyes on him, he activated the shadow hand faction's teleportation technique in advance.

By the time the death knight slashed fiercely with his rune broadsword, Thorn's figure had disappeared under the shadow energy cloud.

——"Spell-like ability: Undead Summoning!"

The death knight looked at the half-elf ranger squatting with his sword in the distance, roared, swung the rune broadsword, and bursts of light from the summoning circle emerged on the ground.

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"

As the light of the magic circle dissipated, the figures of more than a dozen undead creatures such as ghouls, troll skeletons, ogre zombies, and skeleton warriors emerged from it.

The death knight immediately commanded the summoned undead creature to point in Thorne's direction, and then drove the nightmare to meet the charge of the paladin.

Thorne noticed that the roaring undead creature was approaching him, and stood the long sword within easy reach, watching the death knight's movements vigilantly.

Then he pressed the wound on his chest with one hand, and held the wooden sacred emblem with the other, casting out one after another the summoning spells he had mastered.

——"Second Ring Divine Art: Level [-] Natural Ally Summoning Art!"

——"Spell-like ability: summon demons!"

——"Desert Wind Sect (Enhanced Skill): The Flame of Chaos!"

First of all, the ferocious badger of the second-ring magic came out of the magic circle first. This is an enhanced version of a honey badger, with a body of more than two meters and a weight of 250 kilograms. The moment it appeared, it immediately displayed its "life and death" With the personality of "just do it if you don't accept it", he opened his big mouth full of fangs, waved his sharp claws, and rushed into the group of undead creatures.

When a dire badger is injured, it will directly enter an unstoppable ferocious state (strength +4, constitution +4), which is the most cost-effective ferocious animal in the second-ring summoning magic.

Immediately afterwards, four curious cowards and a treacherous Quasai flying in mid-air appeared.

Invaded by the will of the abyss!
Making a Will saving throw...

Will save succeeded!

You successfully saved yourself from the chaotic will of the Abyss!
……

The moment the demonic creatures appeared, Thorn immediately fell into a series of willpower checks. When all the willpower checks were successful, the demons obeyed his order and rushed towards the group of undead creatures.

Finally, there is a group of medium-sized fire element creatures about two meters tall. It is waving its two arms that are flickering, and its two bright blue flame pupils are looking at the undead creature. Roaring, like a group of explosive flames reverberating.

Afterwards, Thorne commanded the fire element to block in front of him, and then took out the composite longbow again to assist the paladin's attack.

(End of this chapter)