I learned useful knowledge from the old priest.
The three of them secretly thought that they had made a lot of money.
Even if these things are recorded in books, they will not be so detailed.
What's more, it's the great achievements of people like the Holy Lord.
That's what they want to write home about.
Like a lich or something, who would mention it.
Nok was sure that the old priest was deceiving people when he said it was recorded in the book.
Either this is a secret he passed down from generation to generation, or it is a handbook passed down by the faction.
It cannot be something recorded by church historians.
Nok, who has mastered most of the book knowledge in the monastery, fully understands this.
However, while Nok and Leo were happy to have mastered new knowledge, a trace of shock also flashed across their faces.
Althanos is such a familiar and unexpected name.
Doesn’t he call himself the Lord of Death? Why is it the lich mentioned by the old priest, the dark mage who swept across the continent in ancient times!
If the other party is really such a terrifying big shot, not to mention the two of them, Zola, the elf, may not be able to survive.
Not only did the two of them not feel that the Althanos they met was scary, but they actually felt that his strength was a bit lacking!
However, that guy couldn't even kill the Holy Lord.
So, did Nok and the two really kill it last time?
A twinge of uneasiness flashed through the two of them.
But now was not the time to think about Althanos.
The four of them finished their dinner and then parted ways.
Nok had no intention of bringing two and a half buckets of water to the mission.
Although the old priest is rich in knowledge, he is an old man and cannot stand the trouble.
After being taught by the old priest, Nok roughly guessed what was chasing Freya.
Ghosts, maybe even evil spirits.
It seems that behind Freya, as Nok suspected, there is indeed a big shot belonging to the church.
Otherwise, how could Freya, a non-member of the church, know that it was a ghost who was chasing her?
The servants of the General's Mansion sent Leo's equipment.
As for Nok's equipment, what's visible is on him.
What is invisible is hidden in Leo's shield.
When we reached the entrance of the General's Mansion, it was already time for the lanterns to be lit.
The general and a group of people have been waiting at the door for a long time.
When he saw Nok, he immediately came up to him with a middle-aged man wearing armor.
"Father Ryan, let me introduce to you, this is Keynes who is acting as your deputy.
If you need anything, just ask him. "
After introducing Keynes to Nock, the general shouted to the fifty soldiers standing at the door: "This is Father Ryan, the person in charge of this mission.
His orders are equivalent to the orders of this general.
You have to do whatever he asks you to do.
Anyone who disobeys orders will be dealt with according to military law!
Do you understand? "
"I understand!" Fifty people replied neatly.
Nok looked at the soldiers who were in good spirits and could see that the general had spent a lot of money.
The people assigned to him are all elites in the army.
"Everyone, I won't say any more nonsense. There are ten people in a team, and the team leader is directly responsible for the three of us.
I'm Father Ryan, this is Gareth, and the rest of you should be more familiar with me than me, Cairns.
The three of us will be the leaders of tonight's operation.
I was the main one, Gareth and Cairns were the subs.
If you find anything, you can report it to any one of the three of us at any time.
Remember, any discovery.
Even if you find that your teammates don't usually like to smile, they suddenly smile at you.
If you feel something is wrong, you can report it, I understand! "
"Yes! Sir!" the soldiers replied in unison.
Nok nodded with satisfaction and said: "Very good! Now everyone turns around. Form a team into a group, each team is ten meters apart and head towards the street where the incident happened last night."
Nok gave an order, and the fifty soldiers quickly followed Nok's arrangement and moved towards the destination with a distance of ten meters.
"Keynes." Nok named him.
"My subordinate is here! Sir!" Keynes replied loudly.
"You are responsible for driving the carriage and keeping up with the soldiers. The distance can be relaxed to fifty meters away. Is there any problem?"
"No problem, sir!"
"Very good. Relax, I'm just a temporary boss, not the commander of your army. No need to be so respectful."
Nok patted Keynes on the shoulder and jumped onto the frame of a carriage with Leo.
Yes, the three people in Nok were not riding in a passenger carriage.
But a carriage pulling goods.
On the carriage body were two large wooden barrels filled with water.
Dozens of iron and wooden crosses were piled next to the barrels.
There are also some small wooden bottles and pottery bottles.
These crosses vary in size and are crude.
Apparently it was improvised.
After all, the inventory that existed in the past was either kept at home by the common people, or distributed to military camps and the general's mansion by the general's mansion.
The dozens of carriages now on the carriage were made by the general in the afternoon.
"After I turn two buckets of clean water into holy water, you put these crosses into one bucket and soak them. In the other bucket of water, put it in a small bottle."
As he spoke, Nok dipped his hands into the water in the two barrels.
Then the blessing technique was activated.
Blessing is a necessary magic for the church to create holy water.
The stronger the person who casts the blessing and the more devout his faith, the more obvious the effect will be.
The difference in the effectiveness of the holy water in various churches is due to the strength of the person who casts the blessing spell.
Of course, the holy water in places like regional churches and cathedrals is produced by collective blessings performed by a group of clergy.
The effect is closer to real "holy water".
Yes, the holy water used by people today was created by priests the day after tomorrow.
Only the holy water produced by the holy court's artifact [Holy Grail] is the real "holy water".
Just one drop of that kind of holy water can basically wipe out ordinary evil spirits.
The holy water currently produced by Nok is definitely not as effective as the regional church and the cathedral.
But it is definitely more powerful than Methossis's use of divine magic.
After all, Nok is also a peak silver level powerhouse.
With the double protection of holy water and cross, the safety of fifty soldiers can be guaranteed.
No, it’s the safety of fifty-two people.
Leo and Keynes are also needed.
However, Leo's treatment is definitely different.
Because Leo was soaking after throwing the cross.
Throw in Nok's dagger and his short sword as well.
If his barrel hadn't been able to hold his shield, he would have thrown it in too.
Fortunately, after Nok finished making the holy water, he picked up Nok's shield.
Start casting the blessing spell on the ice crystal.
After the soldiers and carriages arrived at their destination, Nok and Leo also completed the basic production.
“Now, everyone come and get your equipment.
Each person places a cross close to their body. Although the styles are different, the effect is the same.
They are all soaked in holy water and are valid for one day, so there is no need to pick and choose.
Each person has a bottle of holy water, and when in danger, he pours it out, and then runs away holding the cross.
Got it! "
"Understood!" the soldier replied neatly.
"Keynes, you are responsible for distributing the equipment. By the way, throw your weapons into the bucket and soak them. The holy water is still a little more powerful.
In addition, let the person with other equipment fetch another bucket of water, and I will make another bucket of holy water for later use. "
"Yes, sir."
Keynes still answered seriously.
Nok and Leo ignored him. After arming themselves, they began to study the route of action for a while.
Nock had no experience in commanding operations.
Therefore, Nok asked Leo to be responsible for arranging the battle plan.
He is responsible for filling in the omissions.
Soon, the crosses and holy water were distributed.
Nok began to arrange tasks.
“First of all, you’ve got the holy water and the cross.
The cross is to keep you safe.
If you encounter danger, take it out.
Basically, evil things dare not come near you.
However, do not rely on your cross to feel that you are invincible.
Take the holy water and the cross and rush forward.
When you find an enemy, what you have to do is report it, not kill the enemy!
If you encounter an enemy who dares to attack you, you can sprinkle the holy water in the bottle.
Splash onto enemies or your weapon.
This gives you a chance to kill the enemy and create an opportunity to escape.
Remember, I came to you to help find traces of the enemy.
I didn’t ask you to come and die!
Don't find my words unpleasant!
Because of your own impulsiveness, it is very likely that the whole team will be wiped out!
Okay, that's all I have to say.
Next, Mr. Gareth will assign tasks to you.
Keynes will be responsible for supervising you throughout the entire mission.
Well done, I'll let Keynes take credit for you.
If you don't obey orders, I won't deal with you. That's the general's business.
But I will let Keynes write down the mistakes you made one by one as evidence!
Okay, that’s all I have to say! "
After Nok finished speaking, the whole place was silent.
Not that he was suppressed by Nok.
But before coming, the warning given by the general was much more serious than what Nok said.
They have long been mentally prepared.
No words were spoken, it was just a matter of discipline.
Leo was very satisfied with the performance of the soldiers.
He was carrying an ice shield and said with a smile: "Very good! I am very satisfied with your current performance.
Neither arrogant nor impatient, this shows that you are all elites.
I won’t repeat the security issues.
The next thing I want to announce is the scope and manner of tonight's operations.
The next time, until dawn.
Where we are standing, this carriage is our command headquarters!
We will leave a small team, commanded by Cairns, with four members serving as liaisons
Follow each team ten meters behind and check with the team every five minutes to confirm safety.
The remaining six were responsible for protecting the command post.
see it? The bucket of water on the carriage is the spare holy water Father Ryan prepared for us.
As long as an enemy is discovered, the headquarters will rush to the scene with holy water.
Use holy water to bathe the evil thing that scares the people of the fortress!
So, next, the remaining four teams of ten.
We will start from here to inspect this residential area.
Each team is fifty meters apart on the left and right, and there must be no more than two meters between team members!
Blanket search.
No spreading out!
If anything is discovered, notify the team leader immediately.
It is up to the squad leader to decide whether the liaison officer should contact other squads or contact the headquarters!
Do you understand? "
"Understood!" the soldiers replied in unison.
"Good! Action!"
Leo announced his move.
A group of people immediately formed their formation and started walking towards the residential area according to Leo's arrangement.
Wait until the soldiers in front can no longer be seen.
Nok and Leo walked to Keynes, pulled him and whispered for a while.
Keynes looked at Nok with a troubled face: "Sir, this is not good. This is different from the plan."
"Don't worry. This is the real plan. You are the key to the plan."
Knock patted Keynes on the shoulder and said: "Mr. Keynes, our success or failure depends on you.
The safety of the fortress and the reputation of the general's mansion are all entrusted to you! "
After saying that, Nock didn't give Keynes a chance to object, and he took Leo and ran away, disappearing into an alley.
"Sir, are they...?"
The remaining six soldiers acting as guards looked at the two people leaving with confusion, and cautiously asked Keynes questions.
"Shut up! Don't ask questions you shouldn't! Just do your job!"
Keynes gave the person who spoke a small scolding.
Now, others didn't dare to be curious.
Keynes looked irritably at the alley where Nok and the two disappeared, and could only sit in the carriage silently.
Waiting for news.
Yes, wait.
This was what made him irritated.
He is a dignified lieutenant of the fortress, and it doesn't matter if he is subordinated to a young boy.
Who let this young boy be a priest?
Have the ability to solve the murder case in the fortress.
However, he lowered his stature and prejudices and obeyed his orders wholeheartedly.
But in the end, all he had to do was bluff here and wait for notification!
The two men acted in private and didn't even tell him their true destination.
How does this keep him from being upset!
That's right, Nok didn't expect these soldiers to help him find the evil thing that killed people.
Regardless of whether the opponent is a ghost or an evil soul, the opponent can pass through the wall and into the ground.
Unless the soldiers can search house to house.
Otherwise, such patrols would be nothing more than a warning.
But what Knock needs is for them to alert the enemy.
Tell the murderer's bluff that they're looking for it over there!
Only in this way can the murderer move to another place to commit the crime.
However, the murderer in the residential area is in no hurry to deal with it.
What Nok wants to deal with is the guy hiding in the military camp.
He knows how to hide his identity and his methods are weird and cruel.
It looks very much like the evil spirit described by the old priest.
If there are evil spirits in the military camp, then the problem will be huge.
Sneaking all the way, the two people soon arrived near the military camp.
Although the military camp was in panic because of the murder, the guards were still tight.
But one advantage is that it is tight on the outside and loose on the inside.
The purpose of these guards is not to let people sneak in, but to prevent people from escaping during the mutiny.
After the two evaded the guards and sneaked into the camp, they found that there was no one patrolling the camp.
The soldiers hid in their tents one by one, tossing and turning.
"What should we do now? There are still several hours until midnight! The devil won't come out at this time, right?"
Leo whispered in Nok's ear.
Nok thought about it for a moment, and it seemed that it hadn't been long since he heard the clock tower strike nine o'clock.
It took him a while to make the holy water, but he didn't expect that there were still nearly three hours until midnight.
It's not his style to wait and see.
So, he said to Leo: "There are still nearly three hours until midnight, why don't we split up."
"Huh? What do you want to do?"
"Of course we need to investigate what happened in the military camp. Find out whether it was done by evil spirits or man-made things.
We can't just believe whatever the general says. "
"Well, what you said makes sense. What if we don't find out?"
“Whether you find it or not, when you hear the midnight bell, you will come back here to rendezvous.
If you discover the general's little secret, take it away directly. "
"What if we encounter an evil spirit?"
"What a coincidence? Then Leo, just do it! Make more noise. I can fish in troubled waters and sneak up on it."
"Well, why do I think you are a bit stubborn?"
Looking at Nok who looked more and more like a rogue, Leo always felt that something was wrong.
Don’t people become more mature and steady as they age?
How come Nok, on the other hand, was even more childish than when he first met Nok.
Everything is done based on preference.
The two of them split up, one on the left and the other on the right, and began to inspect various parts of the camp.
There was no one in the military quarters, so they went in to investigate.
If there is someone's military tent, they will be careful to eavesdrop outside.
See if there is any useful information.
There were no valuable discoveries, but I heard a lot of interesting gossip.
Soon, the clock struck midnight.
Nok and Leo meet again.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?"
Nok asked curiously.
Leo glanced at Nok with a suppressed smile, and then said.
"Finding that you have been cheated on is not considered discovery."
"..." Nok fell silent, "Say!"
"I heard from the soldiers that there were rumors from people in the general's palace that there were a few nights before we came.
The general went to Freya's yard every night to wait on her.
So, you get the idea. "
The way Leo raised his eyebrows made Nok want to hit someone.
Although Nok also understood that his relationship with Freya and Charlotte was just an advantage.
Freya must be more than just him.
But I really found out that when the other person was following me, he was having an affair with someone else.
This kind of taste is indeed unacceptable to Nok.
"No, if that's the case. The general's wife can't possibly not know, right?
But today I saw that instead of making trouble, she was very afraid of Freya.
Even though she was a marchioness, the general's wife was also a countess.
There is no reason to be so afraid of her! "
Nok reacted and told what he observed.
Leo also felt strange when he heard this.
Could it be that there is something hidden in this?
"Tell me, do you think this service is really just service on the surface?
Otherwise, the general couldn't be so ridiculous as having a tryst with another woman at home in front of his wife, right?
If this spreads out, it will bring shame to both the general and his wife's family. "
Just when the two of them were studying how to serve this "service".
Suddenly there was a muffled groan in my ears.
It looked like someone had his mouth covered and his neck wiped.
"Something's not right!" Knock said.
"There's movement!" Leo said at the same time.
The two of them rushed to the camp where the accident happened, opened the door curtain and rushed in.
"Shet! What the hell is this!"
Leo looked at the guy with four arms and a big head under Nok's lighting technique, and screamed.
Where are the ghosts and evil spirits that we promised?
This monster has nothing to do with "soul"!
"Leo, kill him! I'll wake up the others! Something's wrong!"
Nok looked at the tent full of corpses. These soldiers had all been killed.
If it hadn't been for the sound of the last soldier who was killed, neither Nok nor Nok, who was near the tent, would have noticed it.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Get up!"
Nok threw the enemy to Leo and rushed out of the camp shouting.
Nok's voice alerted the nearby tents and camp guards.
However, what rushed out from the nearby tents were not soldiers, but monsters with big heads and four arms.
"Monster! It's a four-armed ogre! Why are they in the camp!"
One of the guards recognized the origin of the monster and shouted.
Four-armed ogre? Nok suddenly understood.
This is a monster that lives in the Dokosom Mountains and rarely comes down the mountain.
Occasionally, it only appears when a tide of beasts attacks the fortress.
But at that time, these ogres appeared outside the fortress.
How could he appear in the city or in the military camp now?
What's more, no one noticed!
You know, Nok and Leo just went around the military camp to investigate!
No clue how these monsters sneaked in!
Roar!
The ogre roared and began to attack the guards.
boom!
An ogre's body fell at Nok's feet, and Leo rushed out of the tent.
"What's going on! Why are there so many monsters?"
Leo looked at the bombed military camp and shouted with a headache.
"Don't ask why! Help quickly!"
Nok pushed Leo, and then he kept sending colored flares into the sky, and then detonated them.
He believed that the General's Mansion and the garrison camps at the North Wall would definitely notice the commotion here and send people to help.
The sky above the military camp on the south wall was lit up by illumination.
The whole camp seemed like daylight.
"kill!"
A soldier came towards Nok.
Nok ducked away with a headache and kicked him down.
"You idiot, I am the priest your general invited to help! Your enemy is over there! Why are you attacking me!"
Nok's words caused the soldiers who were planning to besiege him to stop, with hesitation on their faces.
"Look, if you look any further, all of your companions will die!"
"Holy Lord! Please grant your devout believers the courage to defeat evil!"
"Light of Courage!"
Nok cast a magic attribute enhancement spell, which landed on the surrounding soldiers.
Feel the courage and strength welling up in your heart, as well as the growth in your body.
The soldiers were finally convinced of Nok's identity.
"He is a priest! He is really a priest! He is not an enemy!"
"I feel the power coming out of my body, kill, kill the ogre!"
A group of soldiers began to change their targets and rushed towards the ogre.
Nok looked around carefully and threw a healing spell to the injured soldier.
"Who is the commander! I need to talk to the commander!"
Nok shouted loudly around.
"The commander's camp is in the northwest corner!"
"Go that way!"
Hearing that Nok was looking for the commander, the soldiers gave Nok directions.
"Aura of speed!"
"Aura of power!"
"Healing Aura!"
Nok rushed towards the northwest corner, not forgetting to throw skills to the soldiers in the passing battle circle.
The soldiers supported by Nok became extremely heroic.
Cooperating with his teammates, the ogre was suppressed to a disadvantage.
Soon, Nok arrived at the northwest corner of the camp.
"Who is the commander! I am the reinforcement sent by the general!"
Nok shouted loudly while releasing his skills to help the injured soldiers.
"I am the commander! Who are you!"
A man in the middle of a bloody battle stabbed an ogre through the heart with his sword and chopped off the ogre's big head with his backhand.
Then he looked at Nok.
Nok rushed to the commander's side, and regardless of whether he was injured or not, a healing halo enveloped him.
"Don't waste it, I'm not hurt. Who are you?"
"I am the person who was entrusted by your general to investigate the two-day demon murder case. I need to talk to you."
"Talk about it? Now? I don't have time to care about evil spirits or not!" Obviously, the commander had a bad temper.
"I have to talk to you! I suspect that the attack on the military camp was just a trap! Even the evil murder case a few days ago was also a trap!"
Nok's words completely stopped the commander in his tracks.
"Okay, you successfully caught my attention. I'll give you five minutes to briefly explain what you want to say."
After the commander finished speaking to Nok, he suddenly shouted in the distance.
"Evan! What are you doing! Cover! Cover! Chop off the ogre's hand! Don't let your comrades be distracted from defense while attacking the enemy!"
Nok looked at the commander who was still paying attention to the battlefield while talking to him, and suddenly felt that things might have turned around.
So, he decided to cut the story short and tell the commander his reasoning.
