Mage's Secret

Traphael's words made DeWitt hesitate, he didn't fully trust the mage, but he was already here at this time, and besides the mage, he couldn't find anyone else who could help him.But he is confident in his own strength, if Trafael does something against him, then it will not be difficult for him to escape with the child.

Thinking of this, the paladin finally opened his mouth and told the mage what happened to him over the years.

The prophecy of the temple priest Yashana that his life would encounter a major turning point made him uneasy for a long time. At that time, he wondered whether his brief contact with the devil was cursed by the devil without him realizing it. .So during that period of time, he paid close attention to his physical condition, and he always asked the people around him to pay attention to whether there was any change in the breath around him.

But after waiting for several months, nothing unusual happened to him, so he gradually relaxed.Well, at that time, he received a mission to wipe out the monsters, so he completely put the priest's words behind him, and set off with a team of knights in the direction of the city that asked for help from the temple.

Logically speaking, it should be the responsibility of the cities near the place where the monsters haunted to wipe out the monsters, but not only because the rioting monsters were extraordinarily powerful this time, the lord of the city sent several cavalry teams, but none of them returned.He first asked for help from other cities he had made friends with, but perhaps he had already heard about the situation in their cities. The city lords of those cities refused to let their soldiers come to die.In desperation, the city lord had no choice but to ask the temple for help.

Soon DeWitt arrived at the target city, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the flattery of the city lord or attend the banquet. After he asked where the monsters appeared, he set off with the paladin team.

It was a vast and undeveloped forest, with towering ancient trees and lush trees spreading across the endless mountains. The number of monsters in this kind of place must be considerable.

But when Dewitt, who was on full alert, led the knights from the temple into the forest, he was not attacked.Not only that, they walked into the depths of the forest for a long time, but apart from some extremely weak ordinary beasts, they didn't see a single monster.

This is completely different from the chaos described by the city lord, and it is extremely unreasonable.So not only did DeWitt not relax his vigilance, but he became even more vigilant.

He led the knights into the depths of the forest along the traces left by the beasts. At first, he didn't feel anything unusual, but gradually, he began to feel a familiar evil aura—this was the devil's aura. breath!He won't admit it wrong!

He immediately stopped and told everyone to cheer up and be ready to fight at any time, and led the others to slow down and gradually walk towards the direction where the evil aura came from.

As the evil aura became stronger and stronger, not only him, but other paladins with magical talents in the team also felt this evil aura.But different from his calm and calm, those knights who had never been in contact with demons and only heard of this evil creature in evil legends panicked for a moment.Under DeWitt's scolding, they calmed down again, endured the discomfort and continued walking with their leader.

After walking for a short time, they finally saw the goal of their trip—hordes of monsters gathered together and let out restless whispers.And in the center surrounded by the group of monsters, there is a black mist about thirty feet in diameter, and that thick evil aura emanates from this black mist.

The group of monsters didn't notice the arrival of their group. They howled in low voices towards the black mist, ready to move, but they seemed afraid and dared not go forward.

DeWitt immediately waved his hand to signal the crowd to stop. He drew out the long sword hanging from his waist and poured his strength into it.Inspired by the paladin, the magic pattern engraved on the sword gave off a soft white light, exuding a divine light.

The black mist also seemed to feel the sacred power of the long sword, and began to become turbulent, and even the monsters attracted by the black mist began to become more restless.The border of the black mist shrinks and condenses at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the color becomes deeper and deeper.

DeWitt didn't wait too long, when all the magic lines on the sword lit up and the power was fully activated, he rushed out immediately, like an arrow leaving the string, and in a blink of an eye, he came to the black mist.He stabbed out the long sword in his hand, and the white light on the sword touched the black mist, and the black mist melted and disintegrated like snow encountering a branding iron, and fled around.

When the paladin went down with his sword, he felt as if he had pierced into the air without any obstacles, and the black mist in the small area in front of him also faded a lot.Even though the effect was obvious, DeWitt still frowned involuntarily—it was too smooth, but it made him vigilant.

He shouted loudly, and the long sword that was still stuck in the black mist began to buzz and suddenly emitted a strong white light.Although this white light is bright, it is quite soft to human eyes.As the light of the sword body flourished, a powerful energy also came from it.Under the impact of such a strong divine power, the black mist was like a pot of oil dripped with water, and began to twist and deform violently.

Such a drastic change in the black mist made the other paladins standing not far away sweat hard for DeWitt.But DeWitt himself, who was at the center of the incident, was not affected in any way.Those black mist brushed over his body, except for bringing him a little psychological discomfort, they didn't cause any harm to him, even when he touched the black mist, he didn't feel anything!

Just when DeWitt drew back his long sword and was about to swing the second sword, the black mist suddenly shrank into a small ball half the height of a person, and then shot towards him violently.The paladin immediately stopped the hand that was about to swing the long sword, and put the long sword across his chest, ready to resist the attack of the black mist.But just when the black mist was about to touch him, it suddenly changed direction and flew past his body.

When the paladin turned his head to look, the black mist had turned into a small dot and flew away.

Ignoring the monsters who came back to their senses after the black mist disappeared, and the paladins who hadn't reacted yet, DeWitt chased the black mist in the direction where the black mist was escaping.

But the speed of the black mist escaping was too fast. Even though the speed of the paladin was unknown how many times faster than that of ordinary people, he still lost its trace among the layers of tree shadows.He ran for a while following the evil aura left by the black mist, but in the end he had to stop because the evil aura became weaker and weaker.

When he returned to the original place to meet the other paladins, they had almost wiped out those magical beasts, leaving only a few sporadic ones, which were completely useless.

The task this time was completed quite smoothly, causing almost no casualties, but the interest in following DeWitt who had lost the cloud of black mist was not high.Just as he gathered the paladins and reorganized the team to return, there was a sudden burst of loud crying from the battlefield behind him.

DeWitt asked the others to stay where they were and wait for orders. He turned around and walked towards the battlefield full of corpses with his sword in hand.

Most of the remains on the ground are fresh, the remains of monsters, but there are also some human bones.Those were the humans who were killed by the monsters before they arrived here.Warcraft are bloodthirsty, they hunt the same kind or other races not entirely for food, most of the time it is to satisfy their own killing desire.So although these human bones were torn to pieces, they were not completely left with only bones.

DeWitt walked in the direction of the crying, and finally found the source of the sound under a human corpse with only the upper body left - it was a small basket, deformed by the corpse, but still supported A small space.Just under this narrow space, there is an immature baby.It was a baby boy who seemed to be less than a month old. There was no covering cloth on his body, and the crying sound erupted from his small body.It's just that he didn't make any movement during the fierce battle between the paladins and the monsters for some reason, and he didn't cry until then.

There are still survivors!DeWitt was a little surprised. He carefully carried the baby boy into his arms, examined him carefully, and was relieved to find that there was no other trauma on his body except for the blood stains on his back.And the blood on the baby's back was not his own.

DeWitt originally planned to lead the team back to the temple directly after telling the messengers who had cleared the monsters outside the city.But because of the addition of such a small new member, the plan was temporarily changed.DeWitt took the child to meet the lord of the city, and asked the lord of the city to post a notice in the city to search for the child's family in the city and nearby villages and towns.

But DeWitt spent a week in the city without anyone coming to claim the child.

The paladin didn't have much time to stay here, and he was still in a hurry to return to the temple to report the black mist, so he couldn't wait any longer.Thinking of this, DeWitt turned his head and looked at the baby boy who was crawling around on his bed.

On the baby boy's back, there is a slender red pattern at the spine.Dewitt didn't notice it at first under the cover of blood stains. After taking him back to the city and washing his body clean, this strange birthmark caught the attention of the Paladin.DeWitt was a little worried about whether the black mist had caused any harm to the child. After carefully examining the baby boy, he was finally relieved - there was nothing abnormal about the boy's body.

For some reason, the baby boy was so clingy to DeWitt that no one but him would be allowed to hold him, and as soon as he was placed in someone else's hands, he started crying.These days with the baby boy, DeWitt didn't feel bored, on the contrary, an emotion that could almost be called fatherly love was born from the heart of the paladin.

So, the paladin who was about to leave made a decision, he wanted to bring the baby boy he had picked up back to the temple.

However, what the paladin didn't notice was that there were many fragments like eggshells scattered around the basket containing the baby.But they were trampled by monsters and temple knights in that battle, and they were already trampled into powder.

Before the World of Warcraft riot, a team composed of a priest in the city and several hunters brought an egg of unknown species that was picked up a few months ago and was about to hatch to the Released in the depths of the forest.

But they never came back.