"..."
In the wilderness south of Ningmu Gefu, a homeless knight was riding a silver-armored horse, leading a dozen former Grek soldiers on a routine patrol here.
Originally, this was the area that the big tree guard was responsible for patrolling, and he had been in charge of this area for many years, so he was more familiar with the situation here than they were.
but……
That lucky guy was sent to the Weeping Peninsula to suppress the rebellion not long ago.
So, as a last resort, they were sent here, mainly responsible for patrolling, sniping and intercepting those faded ones who only did destruction and wanted to meet the Elden Ring and become the King of Elden.
And today, their patrol team, which had just come out of the camp, actually encountered a Stargazer Faded One!
The other party didn't know what was going on, but they actually used magic to attack and provoke them from a distance. Moreover, when they actively launched the pyroxene magic gravel, they stood carelessly on the high platform of the ruins. You didn't mean to hide or ambush, you just showed off your power towards them like that?
"??"
"laugh!"
"Tell me, what's going on with that guy?"
After easily dodging the opponent's pyroxene magic from a distance, the homeless knight riding on the silver-armored horse then looked at the soldiers around him and asked, dumbfounded.
"he……"
"Why does one person want to challenge our entire patrol?"
In this regard, he said that he really didn't understand what the faded man who was standing on the high platform and firing magic at them from a distance was thinking in his mind.
"have no idea……"
"Maybe he thinks we can't climb up?"
"Sir, you also know that those faded ones were originally expelled, and they are all guys with abnormal brains!"
At this time, a soldier first looked at the big hole made by the aphrodisiac gravel on the ground next to him, and then guessed while protecting his body with a shield.
In fact, what he said was not wrong. Those who faded were indeed freaks before they regained their blessings!
As far as he knew, those who faded were all pagans, temptresses who took the life force of others and slept with the dead, dung-eating freaks, prisoners, thieves, barbarians, etc.
As for guys like that, before anything happened to the Golden Tree and before Elden's Ring was broken, they were all a group of despised people who were deprived of their blessings and expelled from the border area. But now, they don't know why they got the blessings. Fu Bing planned to come back and claim the throne. How could they easily agree to something that sounded outrageous?
"Don't say it!"
"That place is quite high, and since he's using pyroxene magic to attack from above, it's really not easy for us to climb up!"
Another soldier also started teasing, and then lowered the shield in his hand.
This place is quite far away from the high platform. Although the magic of the mage and the faded one is very powerful, it takes time for the spell to fly over there. As long as he is not blind, he can definitely avoid it easily, completely. There is no need to look like you are facing an enemy.
"alright!"
"Since he came out on his own initiative, there is no need to be polite to him!"
"you!"
"Who went up and chopped him down?"
He was just a faded person, and he didn't pay much attention to the homeless knight in silver armor. Therefore, he looked around and suddenly asked the soldiers.
"no no!"
"forget it."
"Sir, let's not go over there, let's just shoot him to death!"
"Yeah, I don't want to climb up there!"
"I don't want to either!"
"Everyone, please don't go there. That kind of pyroxene magic can't be easily avoided if you get close. I don't know if I can defend against it with a shield?"
"!!"
"Stop guarding and shoot him!!"
The soldiers refused the order of the lost knight, and expressed that they would not run over against the enemy's magic and try to climb the high platform to seek death.
Although they would definitely be able to climb up if they spread out and rushed together, that approach was completely unnecessary.
"All right."
"Then shoot him!"
With that said, the homeless knight on the horse waved his hand and gave the order.
"Do it!"
"quick!"
"Give me some arrows!"
"hurry up!"
Immediately afterwards, except for the motionless knight riding on the saddle, the surrounding soldiers took out crossbows from their backs.
Then, while the faded man on the high platform opposite was stunned, they all pulled their arrows and aimed their coldly glowing crossbow arrows at the high platform.
The next second...
Whoosh~!
?
Whoosh~! Whoosh~! Whoosh~!
?????
After more than a dozen people shot at them with random arrows, soon, on the high platform in the ruins, there was only the corpse of a faded mage, whose body was covered with crossbow bolts and his eyes were wide open, and he lay there with no eyes open.
"Shooted to death?"
"Close the team!"
"Let's go on patrol!"
There is no doubt that if you are hit by so many crossbow arrows, you will definitely die!
So, after seeing that the faded enemy had been eliminated by his own soldiers, and then looking at the silence around this area, and there seemed to be nothing more than the chirping of insects, fish, and birds, the leader of the Homeless Knight even Not even bothering to confirm, he simply waved his hand, turned the horse's head, and prepared to lead the team away.
"etc!"
"S-Sir!"
"There are faded ones here, don't we need to search inside again?"
"The faded one just now is a stargazer. Although his skills are average and his brain is a bit weak, if we can discover their teleportation point, then we will have achieved great success!"
Seeing that the Homeless Knight was about to leave, one of the soldiers hurried forward and suggested excitedly.
"unnecessary!"
"A message came from Stonewell City last night. From now on, we will only patrol the checkpoints and roads in this wilderness. As for the rest, we will leave it to the man named Smarag."
The homeless knight, who was pacing slowly towards the road not far away, said without looking back, and directly rejected the soldier's proposal.
"Smarag?"
"Who is that?"
"But, sir, can he cope with such a large wilderness?"
The soldier seemed confused.
"that is!"
"It is said that there are many faded ones in the depths of the wilderness, as well as some sneaky guys. Who is that Smarag? Can he do it?"
"Unless he is a tree guard!"
"whispering sound!"
"Forget about the big tree guard, that guy is now leading troops to suppress the rebellion in Moren City. When he comes back, he will definitely be promoted. Why does he need to patrol our place?"
"Ah! That's right..."
"But, who is Smrag, and why do we seem to have never heard of him?"
"Sir?"
After the soldiers packed up their things and discussed quietly for a while, one of them followed the team forward and asked loudly to the homeless knight on the horse in front.
"Smarag..."
"Well……"
"It's almost time. You guys should pay attention to the sky, the northern sky?"
The homeless knight still didn't give a clear answer. He just continued to move forward on the horse with some dissatisfaction.
"??"
"North?"
"Why look north?"
Gu Xi
"Isn't there just the golden tree in the north? What else can there be..."
"Nothing at all……"
Subconsciously, the soldiers who were following in formation turned their heads and looked towards the gloomy sky to the north.
There, above the horizon, there was nothing but the canopy of a golden tree that blocked out the sun and still looked a little dull.
"!!"
"wrong!"
"Then, what is that?!"
"yes……"
"It's a dragon!!!"
"dragon?!"
"No! Hurry and hide!!"
Soon, the soldiers all exclaimed and gasped. Somewhat helplessly, they clenched the weapons and shields in their hands and rushed directly to the grass on both sides of the road to start fighting.
Because, they saw that there was really a huge dragon flapping its wings and flying towards them from the northern sky.
"..."
However, the homeless knight didn't take it seriously. He didn't even think about hiding, he just tried to restrain his horse.
'Hoo~! '
Not long after, the giant dragon came above them and roared towards the place, causing the sound waves and airflow to pass by.
At this time, everyone saw that the opponent was very large and flew very fast. The spread wings were probably more than a hundred meters wide, and the body was two to three hundred meters long from head to tail. long!
It felt very powerful when seen from a distance, and when it flew over, when it passed hundreds of meters above everyone's heads, it was even more frightening that the soldiers screamed and squatted on the ground. And they firmly protected their heads with shields.
After all, it was a dragon, and a giant dragon at that. It was countless times bigger than the little dragon captured by their demigod 'limb-joiner' Greg. A giant dragon like that, even if the demigod Greg came back to life, They probably all have to go around, let alone these little soldiers.
"Everyone stand up!"
"That's our dragon!"
"It's the Smarag I just mentioned, a giant pyroxene dragon!"
After patting the neck of his horse and trying to calm it down, the homeless knight, who was fully armed and whose face could not even be seen, turned to the group of people behind him who were behaving badly in a bored tone. The soldiers scolded loudly and continued:
"He is the pyroxene dragon that is entrenched in the Lienia area. However, it was captured by our Queen Anne and was only sent back yesterday."
"In the future, it will also help patrol the Nimgefu area and help deal with those faded ones!"
"We only need to patrol the dense forest avenue in front of the level and the main road in the wilderness. In other places, it will fly several times a day, which is much faster than us running with our legs."
Under the patient explanation of the Homeless Knight, the soldiers who originally thought they would be attacked or burned to ashes by a breath of dragon's breath stood up from the grass on both sides of the road with lingering fear and returned to the road.
"It's really a giant dragon..."
"Our Majesty the Queen is really powerful. She even captured the dragon in the Lienia area. I just said, why does that name sound familiar to me!"
"A giant dragon..."
"In this case, maybe we can really fight to the royal city in the future?"
"possible!"
"Hey, don't worry about that for now. At least with that dragon here to help us, we will be much safer patrolling in the future, and we can also severely combat the arrogance of those faded ones."
"That's true!"
"According to me, there must be a teleportation point for that group of faded ones somewhere in the wilderness. If we weren't short of manpower, we should have cleaned this place long ago!"
Then, the soldiers who stood up again and were no longer on guard began to discuss excitedly while watching the terrifying figure of the dragon retreating away.
"Save your energy!"
"Set off!"
"The Aylay Church is just ahead. Let's go to the church to have a look first, then continue south and go back before we reach the cemetery."
After saying that, the Homeless Knight stopped paying attention to the soldiers who were still talking excitedly, and just continued to lead the way listlessly.
Actually, he also knows that the new king of Stonewell City, their little girl Queen Anne, does have great potential and is very powerful in her own right. She is very likely to become the new King of Elden, and Now, even giant dragons have been captured as subordinates, but that has nothing to do with them.
because……
He himself, including the soldiers behind him, were just fringes.
They first served the Storm King, then were loyal to Greg, and now they are under the command of Queen Anne. In the eyes of others, they are just fagots, so it is unlikely that the witch Serolina completely trusts them. , and it is even less possible for them to easily come into contact with the core of power. At most, they can only do the inconsequential hard work of patrolling and garrisoning checkpoints.
And like the previous mission to go to Morn City on the Weeping Peninsula to counter the rebellion, that kind of battle with great merits would definitely not be their turn to intervene. They could only be guarded by the tree guards who first followed the little girl king and the furnace knights and Those direct descendants of the 'Fire Eyes' knights did it. Even if they were jealous, they could only watch helplessly.
But there was no other way. With their status and the fact that they had helped the "Extended Limb" Greg to perverse and massacre people, it would be good to be able to save their lives, but they certainly couldn't expect too much.
Of course, he would not tell those ignorant soldiers behind him about those things. Let them continue to be excited about the power of the new king.
"Sir!"
"Do you think Queen Anne will really become the King of Eldon?"
"When the time comes, when we go to attack the royal city, will we be transferred back?"
Although the Homeless Knight didn't seem to be in a high mood and didn't have much thought about the dragon's joining, the soldiers didn't think so. They just came up after the discussion and asked excitedly and loudly.
"Who knows..."
"But I heard that she doesn't seem to want to be the King of Elden?"
"But maybe..."
"Did I hear wrongly?"
As he said that, the Homeless Knight shook his head as if mocking himself, and then walked straight forward, towards the Airey Church in front of which he could already see the slightest outline.
He was not lying. That little girl, that King of Stonewell, had indeed publicly or privately expressed her unwillingness to become the King of Elden more than once!
but……
In view of the fact that the other party has captured dragons, went to the Liyenia area to investigate, and at the same time sent a large army to raid the Nimgofu area and the Weeping Peninsula, all the signs indicate that the other party is dealing with those who can only do random things. It was different from the faded ones who just wanted to become stronger and kill the gods to become the king of Elden. She must be preparing for some huge purpose?
And what that preparation is is undoubtedly self-evident!
"!!"
"Well?!"
"That is……"
At this time, the homeless knight who was thinking about things and dealing with the soldiers casually was suddenly shocked!
He saw that the giant dragon that had just passed over their heads seemed to have arrived over the Airey Church in front, and was beginning to terrorize the abandoned church with its terrifying blue dragon flames. The covering bombardment quickly razed the place to the ground, leaving a place of still-burning dragon breath, and then slowly flew south with its wings flapping.
"It's..."
"Do you want to burn down that cemetery and cave?!"
Seeing the fate of that church and thinking about the direction of the dragon's flight, the Homeless Knight couldn't help but exclaimed and sighed again.
At this moment, he could roughly guess what the other party wanted to do.
Because, there is no other place to the south of Airey Church. It is the Drifting Cemetery Cave where the Faded Ones appear most frequently and there is likely to be a teleportation point!
However, because the terrain there is complex, there are many powerful and sneaky pagans, and the manpower is always insufficient, it is impossible to conduct a thorough search and suppression there. However, if the giant dragon ran to use the dragon to It would be different if the cemetery and cave were completely destroyed.
Perhaps, their patrol work might become much easier in the future?
"Sir!"
"It burned down the Islay church. Did it find any faded ones inside?"
Looking at the flames in the distance and the horrifying situation that they could not be extinguished in a short time and were still burning fiercely, a soldier hurriedly asked with a somewhat moved expression.
"have no idea!"
The Homeless Knight shook his head. In his opinion, that kind of thing was not important.
Because, no matter whether it was the Faded One or someone else inside, he would definitely not survive under that kind of attack, so there was no point in discussing it anymore.
"Let's go!"
"Let's follow and have a look!"
"Boost!"
Soon, under the leadership of the homeless knight riding a war horse, this team of only a dozen patrol soldiers gradually began to speed up, trotting all the way towards Airey Church, towards the The giant dragon Smarag quickly pursued him in the direction of his flight.
And at the same time...
"Uh huh huh..."
???(?)???~?
When the homeless knight was leading his soldiers to see what the 'glowstone' dragon Smarag wanted to do, a certain troubled little girl left Stonewell City alone and Walk along the road to the east and towards the Sage Bridge.
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