The spirit beasts gathered in the hideout were all of average strength, with the giant elephant at the peak of the Yuanling level being the strongest. The rest were basically spirit beasts with lower bloodlines at the intellectual level and the elementary level.
Rogge and Filia would not stay here for long, so they took advantage of the time to recover from their injuries and led the spirit beasts to renovate the hiding place, increasing the concealment and laying many traps. Even if the vampires came back and discovered the hiding place, This will also give the spirit beasts enough time to escape.
Since the day Filia woke up and heard her confession, Rogge's smile has not disappeared in the past two days, and he has become silly and naive. Filia is angry and funny.
"Rogg, if you keep giggling like that, you're going to lose that point." Filia threatened Rogge.
"No, no, no, I'm not laughing, hehe." Rogge tried to adjust his facial expression in order to keep Filia's love.
"Are you completely healed? Come here and let me take a look."
"Oh." Rogge stood up obediently, took off his shirt, and inspected Filia.
The long and deep wound left by the Adjudicator on his back had healed, but the lack of treatment by the Light Magician still left a long scar.
Filia stroked Rogge's back with some distress and said, "When you find Nana, let her take care of it for you."
Rogge sighed: "I don't know where that girl is now."
Filia said: "If you are not with her, I guess she hasn't eaten well. Now that your injury is healed, let's set off early and try to find them as soon as possible."
"Okay." Although Rogge liked the world between him and Filia very much, he also knew that such a life would not last long.
The frozen plateau is just a corner of the Secret Garden of Spiritual Beasts. Although the two of them killed the Blood Knight and repelled the Adjudicator, this had little impact on the overall situation.
It can even be said that the vampires' actions on the frozen plateau were successful. In places where Rogge and Filia could not see, the vampires killed a large number of randomly teleported spiritual beasts and humans, the number far exceeding the two's imagination.
"The one the vampires are guarding on the frozen plateau is actually the blood knight. Rogge, you think so too, right?" Filia asked Rogge as she embarked on her journey again.
"Well, after you killed the Blood Knight, the Adjudicator immediately abandoned the giant elephant he was about to defeat and attacked you. He was very hostile to you. Then he retreated after seeing that we had the strength to fight her. This is enough to prove that the Blood Knight is the key. point."
"The previous blood captain said that the blood knight has always been in that place. This shows that the role of the blood knight is probably to maintain some kind of magic, and he himself is the core."
"Random teleportation has occurred, what can the vampires maintain?" Rogge touched his chin and thought.
"Well, I'm not sure, but we probably didn't bump into him just by chance. Maybe there are many such blood knights in the entire secret garden?"
"It's very possible, but there's nothing we can do on our own. We'd better find Nana and the others first."
The two of them were already on the edge of the frozen plateau, and they left the cold plateau in less than half a day's journey. The accompanying giant elephant shook its trunk and said goodbye to the two of them. It wanted to go back to protect those weak spiritual beasts.
To the south of the frozen plateau is a deep and wide canyon. As soon as the two entered the canyon, they heard the sound of fighting.
Rogge and Filia looked at each other and sneaked closer to the battlefield, only to find that to their surprise, the two parties fighting were not the vampires they imagined.
Three imperial soldiers and an imperial noble were fighting a giant-horned spirit. Due to the existence of the Secret Garden Code, the empire seemed to be restrained and did not dare to attack the spirit ruthlessly. But Lingxi didn't care, roaring crazily and attacking everyone.
"Isn't that Earl Dick?" the sharp-eyed Roger whispered.
"It is indeed him." Filia carefully confirmed the identity of the imperial noble.
"What kind of person is he?"
"Earl Dick has his own principles and is considered a good man, otherwise Emperor Charles would not have let him be the captain."
Three imperial soldiers formed a small formation and struggled to resist the giant horned spirit. They were all members of the War Horn Knights. Their strength was pretty good, but they couldn't hold on for too long.
"There's something wrong with this spirit! Lord Earl, let's attack!" a soldier shouted.
Earl Dick is a high-level warrior. If he really wants to fight seriously, he will definitely be able to defeat this giant horned spirit who has just reached the Yuanling level. He had communicated with Lingxi many times, but Lingxi ignored him at all and rushed around like crazy.
Earl Dick had no choice but to order an attack.
At this moment, two arrows flew from behind Lingxi, hitting Lingxi right in the butt.
Lingxi, who had not been seriously injured until now, was in pain. He turned around and roared. When he saw Rogge's figure appearing behind the tree, he abandoned the empire and chased after him.
Earl Dick also saw the person clearly and recognized Rogge as the young man who defeated the Holy Son in the sparring match. He understood that Rogge was helping them out.
While running, Rogge shot an arrow at the giant-horned spirit from time to time, tempting it to chase him. After the spirit chased it for a certain distance, he activated the speeding technique and turned a few sharp turns to throw away the spirit, and then let it go.
"Dumped it?" Filia asked.
"Yes." Rogge calmed down his breathing and saluted Earl Dick together with Filia.
Earl Dick returned the favor and said with a smile: "You guys came just in time. I didn't know what to do with that Lingxi, haha."
"Count Dick, what's going on with that telepathic thing?" Filia asked seriously.
"We don't know either. After teleporting, I came from the Echo Coast in the east, met these three soldiers of the War Horn Knights, and then came here as my companions. When I met the spirit, it was wandering around with a low roar, Thinking that the spirit beasts were all friends, we stepped forward to communicate with it, but unexpectedly it went crazy and attacked us without listening to what we said." Earl Dick said.
"Yes, this is not a spiritual beast. It is simply more violent than a Warcraft." said an imperial soldier.
Filia frowned. She had never seen such a giant-horned spirit before. Isn't this the manifestation of a monster that swallowed the red and black crystal? But why does it appear on the spirit beasts in the Secret Garden of Spirit Beasts?
"What do you know?" Count Dick asked when he saw Rogge and Filia bowing their heads in thought.
"I'm sorry, Lord Count, I can't talk to you about this matter," Filia said.
Filia's status was still very important, and Count Dick didn't say anything else.
"We do have some information to share with you." Rogge told Count Dick about how he and Filia encountered the Blood Tribe and killed the Blood Knight, and also shared their inferences.
"If this is the case, then we need to stabilize ourselves. With such a big thing happening, it is impossible for the Holy Spirit Summoning Kingdom to fail to take action." Earl Dick analyzed.
After discussion, everyone decided to act together for the time being and walk together in the direction of the holy tree.
While walking through the canyon, everyone discovered that the giant-horned spirit beast was not the only one that lost its mind. There were also other spiritual beasts that had symptoms similar to it.
After witnessing two mentally retarded beasts fighting but unable to stop them, Rogge gave one of the dying beasts a happy ending.
Before dying, the spirit beast tried to attack Rogge with its broken claw, which made Rogge very heartbroken.
Philiya dug out the spirit core of the spirit beast. The spirit core, which should have been clear and free of impurities, now appeared abnormally gray-white as if it had been contaminated, with a large scarlet patch in the middle.
Filia clenched her fists tightly. She was very familiar with the appearance of the spirit core. The Demonic Beast Demonic Core from the previous expedition to the Giant Horn Cave, the Demonic Mountain Tiger's Demonic Core, and the Twilight Forest Demonic Beast Demonic Core that she had dealt with alone earlier. It's all like this.
Rogge cut open the belly of the dead spirit beast and found no red and black crystals inside. It must have been absorbed.
"Is it a vampire?" Rogge asked doubtfully.
"Not necessarily, we don't rule out the possibility that it is the Blood Clan, but our Nalan Empire and the Blood Clan have no intersection, so what happened before was not done by the Blood Clan." Filia said.
"Then there is another possibility. It was done by the imperial people who came here."
"Yes, what exactly does he want to do by transforming the spirit beast?" Filia pondered.
There was so little information that Rogge and Filia couldn't come up with any results after thinking for a long time. Just the number of spirit beasts they encountered were in a violent state. If someone deliberately spread magic crystals to demonize spirit beasts, how many spirit beasts in the entire secret garden would be infected?
Rogge was anxious, but there was no point in being anxious. The road still had to be walked step by step. The form of the secret garden was getting more and more complicated, so don't be careless.
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Modoc, the capital of the Scarlet Holy See.
If the Holy City of Summoning Souls is an epic city because it is large enough, then Modoc is an epic city because people divide the city into epic cities at the most.
The towering city walls, numerous magic circles, exquisitely designed defense systems, and large and small auxiliary cities and fortresses scattered outside the city make Modoc one of the most difficult cities to conquer in the world.
As long as Modoc is not destroyed, the Bloody Holy See will never be destroyed.
Such a formidable vampire capital was currently under siege by the Holy Kingdom of Soul Summoners. It was said to be a siege, but because Modoc was too large, the troops of the Holy Soul Summoner Kingdom were only concentrated on the east side to attack.
Due to the existence of the new boundary membrane, the Spirit-Calling Holy Kingdom's many attempts to enter the Secret Garden ended in failure. The angry Holy King turned to organize an army to attack the territory of the Scarlet Holy See, with the intention of "encircling Wei and saving Zhao."
Unexpectedly, the resistance from the Blood Clan was negligible, and within a few days the Soul-Calling Holy Kingdom had reached Modoc, the capital of the Scarlet Holy See.
At this time, almost all the vampires in the east side of Modoc were huddled in the city, and the number of city defenders was greater than the army of the Spirit Summoning Holy Kingdom "besieging the city".
The two archbishops who stayed behind issued a death order, not allowing the vampires to leave the city. Anyway, if you attack, I will defend. If you retreat, I will not pursue you. If you curse people outside the city and call for battle, I will curse them back.
The Soul-Calling Holy Kingdom has no choice but to continue the stalemate.
"Lord Holy King, withdraw your troops. We cannot capture Modoc."
"We can't withdraw our troops. Let's continue to suppress them. If the vampires in the Secret Garden of Spirit Beasts come out and form a double-team with the troops from the Scarlet Holy See, it will be difficult for us to deal with them. What's the news from the Secret Garden?"
"The Holy King, the Holy Son and the Holy Lady have spread the news that the maintenance of the boundary membrane relies on the blood knights scattered throughout the Secret Garden. They are already gathering the citizens in the Secret Garden to destroy it."
"Very good, enter the secret garden as soon as you get results, and don't let go of any vampires you encounter!"
"yes!"
