Knight with Wand

The windless woodland seemed particularly quiet.

The majestic ostrich feathers stood upright on the gold ornaments on the top of the helmet of the warrior holding the halberd.

The fully covered silver armor was shiny and inlaid with gold edges that looked like the real thing. The right shoulder was covered by a dark red battle robe, and the surface of the large ring shoulder armor that covered the left shoulder to the left chest was printed with a flame-shaped pattern with a hollow center.

The long-handled halberd held by the warrior was made of metal. The blade was not the common axe type, but a single-edged blade. The blade surface flashing with cold light was engraved with complex patterns, and the spine extended a spike like a nail chisel, which was exquisite like a work of art.

This set of luxurious and exaggerated armor and weapons was very different in style from the armor of the Feru people, the Uria people, or the Atias people that Leon had seen so far.

"Sir? Are you alive?"

Leon took the initiative to break the silence and asked the gorgeous warrior who stood outside the magic circle with his head down.

He didn't know whether he was an enemy or a friend, so he wanted to avoid misunderstandings.

After all, you can't just extract the soul of a living person and light the spirit lamp without distinguishing right from wrong.

But Leon's inquiry was not responded to.

The tall heavy armored halberd guard still stood outside the magic circle in a daze, looking down at something, standing silently like a sculpture.

Leon didn't dare to step forward rashly, approached the fierce heavy armored warrior to confirm his life or death, and then sought answers from the existence in his heart.

"What is the Yanyang Guard? Miss Laura, do you recognize this guy's identity?"

"The Yanyang Guard is the elite guard responsible for protecting the mage lord." Laura replied lightly: "Of course, the one in front of me has passed away long ago. I can't feel any signs of life. He has become a zombie."

"Can the spirit lamp also use his soul?" Leon continued to ask.

"Yes, but for you, such a warrior is still too dangerous even if he has become a mindless undead.

See that armor? Every part is made of forbidden magic steel. If you don't remove his armor, the spell under your feet can't work on his soul at all."

Lola warned: "You are lucky that he didn't attack you. Slowly retreat. If this guy wants to kill you, I can't stop him now. The little trick of Isha's Arrow hitting the armor of the guard is like tickling."

Itching Leon felt a chill on his back, and he raised his foot and slowly stepped back.

However, just when Leon took a step back, the "Flame Sun Guard" who had been motionless before suddenly took action.

The guard holding the halberd took a heavy step and stepped straight into the range of the magic circle.

Leon tensed his body as if facing a great enemy, and almost asked Corvis to run away on horseback.

But then, under the stunned gaze of the two teenagers inside and outside the magic circle.

The Yanyang Guard actually slowly bent down, holding the halberd, and with a bang, the heavy body knelt on one knee on the ground.

Leon's retreating steps stopped immediately.

He looked at the zombie guard's great ceremony to him in confusion.

"What does this mean?" Bow down? Leon thought that his tiger body didn't have time to shake.

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Miss Lola seemed to ponder for a while, and said hesitantly: "Maybe? Because of the magic under his feet, his remaining rationality may have regarded you as a wizard of the same faction."

Just as Leon listened to Lola's speculation in confusion.

The wizard guard who had become a dead spirit still did not stop.

The halberd-wielding warrior raised his left hand and took off the ostrich feather-covered helmet with armor.

As expected, the face underneath was a shriveled corpse head.

The hair on the head had fallen off long ago, and the ghost fire symbolizing the underworld was flickering in the empty eye sockets of the zombie warrior.

After taking off his helmet, the Yanyang Guard who was kneeling with a halberd in his hand stopped moving. His ghostly eyes stared at the spell runes on the ground and fell silent.

"It's really surprising. Did you recognize the spell? He still has such an obsession after being dead for so long." Laura sighed and urged Leon.

"Draw the seal. He seems to be willing to cooperate with my spell. This is good. It's a torture for him to wander around this area forever. It's just right for him to rest in peace."

Hearing what Miss Laura said, Leon felt relieved. He felt that this guard brother who had been dead for an unknown period of time was really a kind man with chivalry. He turned into a ghost after death. Not only did he not hurt people, but he also used his soul to help others.

I will definitely dig a good grave for him when I go out.

Silently thanking him, Leon immediately gestured to the kneeling zombie guard with his head exposed, so that the mage in his heart could start the spell under his feet.

The blooming magic light shone again.

However, unlike the soul shadow that Leon saw last time, the guard spirit that was slowly extracted from the body by magic actually shone with an exceptionally bright white light.

The guard body without a soul completely stopped, and the heavy halberd in his hand slammed against his shoulder armor.

The dazzling guard soul rose into the air, and then poured into the spirit lamp buried in the center of the magic circle with the flow of magic.

The light of the magic pattern dissipated, and the spell ended. Leon walked quickly to the center and dug the spirit lamp in the soil.

As soon as he dug the soil, he squinted his eyes because of the dazzling light.

The soul light in the wooden cage was much more dazzling than last time.

". So bright? Does it mean that the place he wants to go back to is also very close here?" Leon asked in surprise.

But he didn't hear Miss Laura's response.

He didn't care too much. He turned his head and looked at the body of Yanyang Guard again. He couldn't help but envy the equipment.

Anyway, he had taken the other party's soul with him, and now he had a warhorse to carry heavy objects.

Wouldn't it be a waste if he didn't take this cool set of armor and weapons?

He walked over, laid the warrior's body flat with respect, moved the heavy halberd away, and then began to try to strip the armor of the corpse skillfully.

"You may not be able to wear this armor. Even if you take it, I'm afraid you can only use it as a decoration." Miss Lola, who seemed to have come to her senses, suddenly spoke.

Leon frowned in disappointment: "What kind of insurance measures are there on it?"

"The armor of the Sun Guard has a magic-forbidden field inside. Only warriors who have survived the trial of the Sun can use it safely. If your spirit is not strong enough, this armor will burn your soul like a high-temperature furnace. If you are not afraid, you can try it.

Ah~ The premise is to complete our agreement before trying it. I don't want you to be burned to death by this armor before you take me back to Rolandar." Miss Lola reminded.

Hearing this, Leon regretfully gave up the idea of ​​wearing it.

But even if it can't be used for the time being, he really doesn't want to let this treasure be covered in dust in the cursed land.

Such a cool and exquisite armor, even if it is moved back home as a collection of art, it is quite impressive.

Or explain the hidden dangers and sell it to wealthy local nobles, it should be worth a lot of money.

Leon took out the completed wayfinder and turned back to ask Corvis to bring the warhorse over.

He asked the blond boy to help, and together they moved the body of the Yanyang Guard to the horse.

It wouldn't be a big deal, so why not just take the body of this kind brother out and bury it.

Then Leon turned around, lifted the heavy and gorgeous guard halberd on the ground, and asked Laura: "Can't I use this too?"

"This scorching weapon has no restrictions, but you don't know how to manipulate magic yet. It's just an ordinary long weapon with an exceptionally sharp pole for you, and it's much heavier than ordinary weapons."

Lola looked at Leon's strenuous movements in her field of vision, and reluctantly suggested: "You might as well give it to the kid next to you. At least he can connect to the self-discipline magic formula in the halberd and use the spell of manipulating objects to control it and hit people."

The gorgeous halberd forged from all steel is indeed very heavy. Leon picked it up and fiddled with it, realizing that this amount is not suitable for him at the moment. Although the body of a 16- or 17-year-old boy is growing well, he is still too young now.

He had no choice but to tie the halberd to the horse's back. Leon called Corvis to follow him. It was time for them to leave.

The blond boy followed Leon's footsteps with the lantern and turned to look at the magic item in his companion's hand, which was brighter than the high-quality magic crystal lamp: "Is this the thing that can let us leave the spirit-like land?"

Leon nodded and briefly recounted the general principle.

Listening to his companion's brief explanation, Corvis was unbelievable.

It seemed that every step was so easy, but he still didn't understand how the simple instrument that looked like a child's toy could bind the soul and work.

If it was so easy, why couldn't those wizards who ventured deep into the cursed land in the history of Atias and never returned make such a simple thing?

With curiosity and confusion, Corvis silently followed the pace and walked and stopped with Leon in the rugged forest.

When he really started to find the way, Leon found that this time was not as pleasant as last time.

There was no griffin to crush the zombies he encountered, and he had to deal with all the undead he accidentally encountered on the road by himself.

Fortunately, with the help of Corvis's spells, Leon chopped down the enemies who were pulled off balance by the blond boy in the air, and he was safe all the way.

The most dangerous thing was that he encountered a zombie tiger that had been dead for who knows how many years, and almost scared the warhorse away.

Leon was not wearing plate armor, and his head was still exposed. Considering that the leather chain armor on his body could not withstand the power of the beast, he could not go up and show his ability to slide. He just attracted the attention of the mindless undead in front, allowing Corvis to find an opportunity from behind, and successfully linked the halberd of the Yanyang Guard with the remaining little magic power to fly high, and then suddenly fell from the sky, piercing the head of the undead tiger heavily, nailing it to the ground.

Miss Laura was right, the scorching halberd was very sharp, and it was as smooth and easy as cutting into tofu when it penetrated the tiger's head.

After solving this only obstacle that almost killed him, the rest of the journey was no longer so unlucky. Leon looked at the light in his hand getting brighter and brighter, and his heart became more and more stable.

Maybe we will get out soon.

As the two of them trudged through the difficult journey, the trees around them became sparser and sparser.

Leon found that although he had not yet come to the outside world, the surrounding terrain and environment were becoming easier to walk.

Until a neat road that was obviously built by humans appeared in the mountains and fields in front of the two of them? !

Surprised, Leon waved the spirit lamp in his hand back and forth.

After repeated confirmation that the light was really the brightest in the direction of the road in front of him, he endured the strangeness in his heart and continued to set foot on the road.

As he walked, he looked down at the stone road under his feet.

It was a much more solid and flat stone road than the one built by the Orland and Kantadar people, but the easier it was to walk, the stronger the doubts in his mind became.

Since he walked on this smooth road in the mountains and forests, the light of the wayfinder no longer changed like before.

It was as if the spiritual lamp pointed to wherever the road led.

Finally, following the road, we arrived at a valley that extended downward.

Leon looked up into the distance. Although there was no sound or wind, the scenery in front of him was still particularly shocking.

A dark storm like a dark cloud rolled up on the sky that was like rolling ink.

Right below the bottomless eye of the storm was a valley full of trees.

The winding river coiled around the steep mountains. There was also a group of neat buildings like a small fortress located on the river bank and hillside.

And just at the innermost side of the small fortress against the mountain, from a distance, there stood a tall and angular spire, the top of which pointed directly to the chaotic sky that was rolling silently in the sky.

"Leon. Where is this?" Corvis looked at his companion with some uneasiness.

The boy felt vaguely that the two of them seemed to have not only failed to find a way out, but were getting closer and closer to the depths of the spirit-like field.

"I see."

Leon sighed.

He glanced at the dazzling spirit lamp in his hand, which was almost impossible to look at directly, and smiled bitterly.

"Dude. So you don't want to go out at all?!"

Resisting the urge to swear at the soul of the Yanyang Guard, he reorganized his mood and turned to the existence in his heart.

"You actually knew it a long time ago, right? Miss Laura?"

".Hmm~I guess so." Laura's voice did not deny it.

"So, you want to follow the guidance of this soul to take a look?"

Leon took a deep breath and said helplessly: "Why don't you say it, so that I can be mentally prepared. If you ask, I will find it for you."

"I also found out halfway that his soul is indeed not pointing to the outside world."

Lola comforted with a relaxed voice: "Don't worry, there is no danger here. It's better to say that it's not bad as I expected. This place may be the safest place in this area.

Don't stand there, go down and take a look, maybe it's easier to get out from there."

Leon shrugged his shoulders. What else can he do? Anyway, he owed this mage lady a favor that he couldn't repay, so he could only sacrifice his life to accompany her.

I just hope that the other party doesn't make a wrong judgment.

Patting Corvis' shoulder, Leon comforted his worried companion: "Don't panic, it's safe here."

"Are you sure?"

The blond boy looked up at the dark and horrifying scenery in the sky and was speechless for a moment.

With his doubtful companion, Leon led the horse along the road under his feet, crossed the stone arch bridge over the river, and came to the wall of the fortress.

It was not until he got closer that he found that although the wall was not particularly tall, the wall surface was actually neat and smooth.

It seemed that the whole wall was formed by a huge rock and was flawless.

Huge flags could be seen on both sides of the city gate, and the same round white flame pattern on the red flag as on the chest of the Yanyang Guard could be seen from a distance.

Is it really you? . Through the eyes of the person she was inhabiting, Laura stared at the familiar mark on the flag in a daze.