"Why are you two here?"

Thorne reached out and patted the head of the Fulong Beast lightly, and turned his inquiring eyes to the two girls in front of him.

Noticing the animal companion lying on his knees, Thorne crawled off its back with some difficulty.

The sole of his right leg was pierced by sharp icicles, and there was an ice thorn about the size of a baby's arm stuck on his thigh. Given his current physical condition, he had almost lost most of his combat effectiveness.

That's why he chose to run away. Although the "Fearless Action" mission of the Steel Soul faction has not yet been completed, he can't care about that much. The most important thing in front of him is to save his life first.

With his own strength and the mobility of the Fulong Beast, it is not a problem to get rid of the pursuit of the hobgoblins. If you add the two in front of you together, it is almost impossible to escape smoothly.

At this moment, it was the black dragon Sigrid and Lilia who appeared in front of him.

It was about three or four o'clock in the morning now, so it was impossible for the two of them to go to the Silent Forest in the middle of the night because they were bored.

Thinking of Thorne here, he immediately fixed his eyes on Sigrid.

He originally thought that this little girl who was only three-point enthusiastic about something would stay in the waterfall town for a few days, and she would leave on her own when she got tired of playing, so he asked Lilia to accompany her for a few days.

Unexpectedly, the other party stayed in Pushang Town for more than a month, and now he has left Pushang Town without listening to his advice.

"Why can't we be here?" Sigrid said confidently when she saw Lilia, who bowed her head and said nothing.

As soon as she finished speaking, she seemed to notice something interesting, her eyes lit up, she walked directly to Thorne, and said with a smile, "Yo! What's wrong with your face, it's all broken."

Then, Sigrid looked up and down with Thorne holding the sheathed long sword, and joked with a hippie smile:

"Thorn, I don't know why. Every time I see you looking so embarrassed, I feel very happy and excited for no reason."

After Sigrid finished speaking, while Thorne's brows were slightly wrinkled, he reached out a hand and patted his shoulder, and continued: "My little pet, you seem to be in trouble and need your master. Can you help?"

Not noticing the moment when Sigrid, who was seriously injured, clapped his palm on his shoulder, Thorne felt a force of gravity hit him, as if his shoulder had been hit by a hammer.

What followed was bursts of tearing pain from the wound on his right leg, which was half supporting his body, making his face even paler, and he couldn't help gasping for air.

Immediately afterwards, his body swayed slightly, and he staggered back two steps, so much so that he almost fell to the ground.

"You didn't see that he was already injured, so he didn't know the seriousness." Lilia, who noticed Thorne's strangeness, first complained to Sigrid with dissatisfaction when she saw the injury to his leg.

Then he quickly walked to him, carefully helped him sit on the ground, and began to help him deal with the wound.

"...A guy who values ​​sex over friends." Sigaret, who knew she was wrong because of her miss, glanced at the two of them apologetically, murmured hard, and walked to the side to stop talking.

Because the moment the two met, she was immediately attracted by Thorne's disfigured face and embarrassed funny appearance, so she didn't notice that he still had two scars on his legs, so she accidentally started a little harder.

However, as an arrogant black dragon, she would never admit her mistakes, and she could only blame the ranger for being too slow to dodge his own attacks, or his body was too fragile, even her friendly greetings Can't stand it.

So, I can't blame her at all.

Sigrid comforted herself in her heart.

- "Three Rings Magic: Healing Serious Injuries!"

"Thanks." Seeing that the wound on his leg healed quickly with the help of magic, Thorne, who was sitting on the ground, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and thanked the attentive half-elf girl in front of him.

Lilia looked away from Thorne's projected gaze, shook his head slightly at him, and then smiled back at him.

She knew exactly what happened in more than a month, whether it was Thorne's eradication of the hobgoblin assassins outside the town of Falls, or the actions of the last few days.

Seeing that Thorne has the strength to protect the town alone, Lilia was a little worried while she was happy.

She was very worried that Thorne chose to leave here when the town could protect himself, so that it would be difficult to see him in the future.

And she would be... a lonely one again, Lilia felt that the novel word Sigrid was applied to herself... Actually, it was quite appropriate.

"Why are you two here?"

Feeling the changes in the depths of the forest and the screams of some beasts, Thorne knew that the hobgoblin stalkers were about to approach here. He didn't dare to stay here too much, so he asked directly.

Now, under the influence of divine magic, his injuries have almost recovered. As long as he leads these hunters away alone, Lilia and the two will be out of danger.

But he was a little confused by the strange appearance of these two people here. He always felt that the two of them were here to find him, so he wanted to find out the real reason.

"Archbishop Lausien said that you were in trouble, let us come to meet you." Lilia came back to her senses, gave Thorne a slightly complicated look, and stood beside him and replied.

So that's the case, so the high priest of Merikai Temple has been secretly watching me?

After listening to Lilia's explanation, Thorne pondered for a while, and asked, "Is the "Avoid Detection" magic meeting? "

...

The night is like water, the moon is bright and the stars are thin.

The silver moonlight sprinkled down silently, and the entire Serenity Forest seemed to be covered with a layer of frost and snow, appearing hazy and dreamlike.

At this time, in the depths of this almost primitive dense jungle, the four figures leaping between the forests suddenly stopped.

"The trail of the ranger has disappeared." A Hobgoblin covered in black robes said slowly, looking at the dim amulet in his hand.

Then, the hobgoblin frowned involuntarily.

As a high-ranking priest of the Temple of the Almighty, he actually felt troubled by this second-rank little ranger.

This stalker of the Way of Silence, in addition to being able to easily exempt his divine control technique, was able to escape the tracking of his divine spell of prophecy, which gave him a headache.

In the past, he had completed so many tasks with the hunting team in the Black Pearl Forest, and it had never been so troubling as it is today.

"If today's task cannot be completed, I must join the Fire Seed Project and follow the voters of the Almighty to go to the deepest part of the Great Sword Mark Mountains to open up wasteland." The hobgoblin priest who remembered this incident had his brows knitted together. one line.

Obviously, he doesn't want to go. Compared with going to the unknown land to open up wasteland, he prefers to stay in the Temple of the Almighty every day to help the Heruk Hobgoblin group grow and develop.

Therefore, the ranger must die. The Hobgoblin priest clenched the talisman in one hand, and took out the holy emblem with the blood-seeking axe blade in the other hand, ready to perform the expensive divine spell of prophecy to search for the trace of the ranger.

The bear goblin and the two hobgoblins who were walking at the front noticed the abnormality of the hobgoblin sacrifice, and they all kept silent, choosing to look suspiciously at the hobgoblin who spoke, waiting for the next move.

"Sand, sand, sand..."

Just as the Hobgoblin priest was hesitating and struggling in his heart, when he was about to pay the price to perform the divine spell of prophecy, the bushes not far away suddenly swayed, directly attracting his attention.

The remaining three also turned their attention to the surging bushes.

Immediately afterwards, the hobgoblin holding a composite longbow and a bear goblin who was completely burned by the flames and looked like a depilated bear set their eyes on the hobgoblin captain again, as if asking him for advice.

Nima!

Feeling the gazes of the two, Captain Hobgoblin cursed inwardly.

Because the ranger they tracked was so bizarre that he made two mistakes in both judgments, killing a goblin bear the first time.

The second time, he clearly noticed that the Ranger had locked his murderous eyes on his teammates, so he immediately reminded him, but the deadly sharp blade appeared behind him, almost killing him.

Fortunately, the high priest arrived in time.

The hobgoblin captain, who was secretly grateful, looked at the vigilant high priest.

The traces of the ranger have disappeared without a trace, and the current situation can only be solved by the high-level sacrifice of the Almighty.

The wildly surging bushes seemed to issue an incomprehensible order.

"Crack! Kick! Kick!"

At the moment when everyone turned their attention to the bushes, a sound like the rotation of mechanical gears came from another direction.

The fine sound of the gears turning sounded, and a black shadow suddenly rushed out.

The suffocating action rushed to the front of the Hobgoblin priest in the blink of an eye, and a sharp blade emitting an icy cold light smashed the head of the Hobgoblin priest fiercely.

"boom!"

But unfortunately, when the blade was about to hit the high priest, it was blocked by an almost invisible protective barrier, causing this menacing sword to return without success.

Noticing the dim protective force field, the high priest's expression suddenly changed, and he immediately retreated to distance himself from him.

When he saw the respectful face of the attacker, his expression suddenly changed, and he couldn't help exclaiming: "What is this? Is it a construct golem?"

What appeared in front of everyone was not the ranger who made them grit their teeth, but a humanoid creature whose whole body was covered in sturdy armor.

This figure's armor was covered with a large area of ​​pure black dragon scales, and her face was covered tightly by two steel masks with ferocious corners, only revealing two light green shimmering eyes.

Her right hand is a long sword that exudes pale blue light and a light frost, and her left hand is a madly rotating triangular blade, and at the connection of the blade is a fine gold chain that can be retracted freely.

The armor's steel gloves and steel boots are all connected together, and in the bright moonlight, you can even see the hidden gears and small parts in the gaps.

"Crack!"

Just as the goblin sacrificed to a stunned god, the black figure once again made a clicking sound of various gears connecting and rotating.

Immediately afterwards, the two jet devices behind the shadow erupted with powerful air waves, setting off scattered dust on the ground.

Under the thrust of the air wave, the black shadow that launched the charge was extremely fast, and in an instant it approached the front of the Hobgoblin priest again. The barrier shattered.

The rotating blade also suddenly sprayed out, reaching the head of the Hobgoblin priest.

The Hobgoblin priest narrowly escaped the volley of the blade.

Taking advantage of the gap when the blade was retracted by the fine gold chain, quickly opened a large distance from the opponent.

Immediately, he took out a sharp decapitation axe, and while backing up to keep a distance, he blessed himself with various magical techniques.

He is very clear that it is obviously impossible to rely on attacking magic to respond to the enemy, because the continuous attack of the other party will never give him the opportunity to prepare magic.

Moreover, this godlike construct is absolutely immune to most magical attacks.

Therefore, only he can only melee to solve the opponent.

As a priest of the Almighty, their best ability is actually melee combat. For them, magic is just an auxiliary function.

When the blessing of the two magic spells was completed, the hobgoblin priest who was full of power no longer retreated, but clenched the beheading axe in both hands and roared towards the enemy.

At the same time, when the shadow hit the high priest and attracted the eyes of the three, the shaking bushes began to surge wildly.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

What followed was the sound of a thousand sharp knives unsheathed.

I saw that all the weeds and trees around the bushes grew sharp spikes and bent into thorns, and the group of demons swayed wildly towards the bear goblin and the two hobgoblins who had just reacted.

The two Hobgoblins responded quickly. One flapped its wings and flew into the tall and straight bushes, while the other jumped and rolled continuously, and quickly got away from the attack range of the thorns.

The shedding goblin bear reacted a little slower, failed to dodge successfully, and was immediately entangled by thorns.

As the hair on his entire body was burnt out by the flames, all the sharp spikes pierced into his fragile flesh and blood, and no matter how he struggled and mourned, it was difficult to get rid of it.

"Pfft!"

Immediately afterwards, a whistling arrow slid through the darkness, hitting Xiongdi Jingkou, who was unable to move his body, precisely.

Thorne was not surprised to see the bear goblin fall to the ground and died. He had personally tried the effect of the second-ring magic "Web of Thorns". With his 20 points of perception attribute and the blessing of the tree spirit's blessing, he did not have 18 points. The above power cannot break the entanglement of thorns at all.

The Goblin Bear died first, and Thorne immediately turned his attention to the Hobgoblin holding a composite longbow, because the Goblin Bear's challenge level was not as high as his, which meant that the ancient ritual of the Steel Soul Sect still could not take effect. .

——“Shadow Hand School (Teleportation Skill): Shadow Leap!”

Thorne's thoughts moved and disappeared directly in place.

When the Hobgoblin holding a composite longbow was trying to search for the figure of the enemy, he suddenly felt a palpitation behind him.

So he turned around abruptly and without hesitation put the longbow in his hand against his neck.

However, just as the ranger's sharp blade was about to slash on the hobgoblin's bow arm, the blade shook violently and disappeared without a trace.

"Pfft!"

The hobgoblin's arm holding the longbow snapped, and the pain of tearing his flesh made him scream.

At this moment, another supporting hobgoblin smashed wildly at Thorne with basketball-sized fireballs.

Thorne, who had long been blessed to resist the flame magic, was unmoved, but took advantage of this to jump forward, swinging a sword with his backhand, accurately stabbed the hobgoblin's throat, the wailing of the broken-arm hobgoblin stopped abruptly, and fell down. He twitched on the ground and died.

"Boom!"

The fiery fireballs kept bursting around Thorne.

However, the raging fire waves were all successfully resisted by Thorne's energy field and fire avoidance tactics.

"It's done!"

The hobgoblin was successfully killed, and Thorne saw the increase in experience and judged that the hobgoblin's challenge level was higher than his, and understood that the prerequisites for the ancient ritual had been met.

So he pointed Mo Feng in a certain direction in his hand, and sent a signal to Lilia, who was hiding in the dark, that he could attack, and then locked his eyes on the last Hobgoblin flying in the air.

"Roar!"

The Fulong Beast took the lead in launching the attack, and its sturdy figure, like an arrow from a string, slammed out of the wildly shaking bushes.

- "Supernatural ability: breath attack!"

A large spit containing poisonous mist and strong acid spurted out of its mouth, obscuring the figure and sight of the Hobgoblin.

"call out!"

What followed was a bursting arrow flashing with fire. The moment it hit the Hobgoblin's wings, it exploded directly in the air, emitting a dazzling fire.

The Hobgoblin, whose two wings were blown to pieces, swayed and fell to the ground uncontrollably.

Before he even landed, though, Thorne's longbow shot, ready to fire, helped him end the agony with the reverberation of the bowstring.

When the battle was over, Thorne gave Lilia, who was hiding in the bushes, an admiring thumbs up.

on the other side of the battlefield.

The Hobgoblin Priest is still fighting with Sigrid in Constructed Armor.

Facing Sigrid's stormy onslaught, the High Priest, blessed with various divine arts and protective barriers, could counterattack from time to time while resisting.

However, Sigrid's constructive armor was extremely hard. In addition to leaving traces of insignificant, in exchange for Sigrid's more vicious counterattack, his protective barrier gradually became dim.

"They're all dead!"

The high priest, who was in a hard fight, noticed that all his hunters were killed by the **** rangers, and he looked shocked, and immediately understood that there was no point in staying here.

So he faced the dim protective force field and slashed Sigrid with a sword.

Then he instantly activated the long-distance teleportation magic on the holy emblem, intending to withdraw from the battle.

"Oops! The surrounding space is blocked by the Dimension Anchor!" Realizing that the teleportation magic was useless, the expression of the Hobgoblin priest suddenly changed.

"Whoosh!"

Just as he was stunned, the triangular blade spinning in Sigrid's left hand spurted out.

At the moment when the hobgoblin was about to be approached, the blade suddenly changed its trajectory in the swing of the adamantine chain, spinning wildly around the hobgoblin.

In a moment, the chain wrapped tightly around him, preventing him from moving an inch.

Then, with a thought of Sigrid, with the sound of various mechanical gears turning, the adamantine chain suddenly retracted, and the body of the hobgoblin without the protection of the force field was slammed into the ferocious tip of the armor. Thorn on.

"Pfft!"

An icy cold light flashed, and the **** head of the Hobgoblin priest flew into the dust.