Go Gin might not have noticed.
Minori, however, sensed that Kelart was deliberately trying to extract the current gathering places of the demi-human races from Go Gin's mouth.
This behavior immediately made Minori realize the Holy Kingdom's fundamental purpose.
"No wonder I had a strange feeling along the way. I had clearly scouted the enemy's position before, but I used the excuse of preventing traps to continue acting according to the original plan."
Minori's heart suddenly understood.
For the Holy Kingdom, the appearance of so many undead this time was not only a disaster but also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
They could take the opportunity to eliminate all the demi-humans in the hilly area!
However.
What is Kelart's reason for being so confident?
Minori pondered, and incidentally looked at Captain Nigun, who always had a cold face, making it impossible to detect any emotional changes.
"Captain!"
Suddenly, a hurried voice came quickly from the [Sunshine Scripture] unit.
"Life signs detected, the number is about 20 people, and they are approaching us quickly!" The Scripture member immediately reported.
"Life signs?"
"Aren't they undead?" Captain Nigun's eyes narrowed as he looked at the location pointed to by his subordinate.
Minori also looked over. Since they were life signs, then they were likely demi-humans in this hilly area.
Go Gin also stood up, with a look of joy on his face.
After a while.
20 cyan figures appeared in the vision of the crowd, rushing towards the location of Minori and others at an extremely fast speed.
The members of the Holy Knight Order immediately stood up and made defensive movements.
This was a species of insect race with sharp arm blades growing on their arms and their whole bodies wrapped in a layer of cyan exoskeleton armor.
"Blader!" Go Gin said after seeing these demi-humans clearly.
The number of 20 Bladers was not large, and coupled with the fact that the human side had intended to cooperate with the demi-humans, the Holy Knight Order members relaxed their guard slightly.
This group of Bladers even gradually slowed down as they approached the humans, meaningfully showing some kind of goodwill.
This made the Holy Knights even more relieved.
"It seems to be the vanguard of the demi-human side."
Kelart said softly with a smile on her lips as she watched this scene.
However!
As soon as the words came out, the smile on Kelart's lips froze on her face.
The Bladers, which had slowed down and approached, suddenly accelerated when they were about thirty or forty meters away from the humans!
In just a few breaths!
The Bladers had already rushed to the Holy Knights on the outermost perimeter, and the arm blades extending from their arms turned into cold light and slashed down.
"Ah—"
"Ah—"
The Holy Knights on the outermost perimeter didn't have time to react at all, and were directly beheaded by the Bladers, letting out screams.
In an instant!
The faces of the Holy Knights changed drastically, and they roared angrily, drawing out their long swords to meet them.
Remedios, who had been suppressing her anger and displeasure for a long time, disappeared from her spot in an instant and rushed into the Bladers.
"Holy Strike!"
Remedios's eyes were cold and angry, and amazing power poured down along the sword blade emitting a sacred light. The Bladers, which had armor protection comparable to plate armor, was split in half with one sword:
"Damn demi-humans! Kill them!"
The number of 20 Bladers was not large, and although the individual strength was stronger than ordinary Holy Knights, under the large number of people and Remedios's strong attack.
In just a moment.
This group of Bladers was completely beheaded.
The bloody smell permeated the air, and seven Holy Knight corpses lay on the ground, making the Holy Knights furious.
Every Holy Knight who could participate in this mission had the determination to die, but they never thought that their teammates would not die in the hands of the undead first, but would die in the ambush of the demi-humans!
"Go Gin!!"
Remedios turned her head angrily, the cold light in her eyes was extremely cold, staring at Go Gin.
Bang!
The ground under her feet shook.
Remedios rushed out like a silver lightning, the holy sword in her hand emitting a blazing white light,
Cutting through the air, making a "sizzling" sound as it slashed:
"Air Slash!"
"Gang Strike!"
Go Gin's eyes also showed coldness, and he swung his wolf-tooth club weapon without hesitation.
The two collided in an instant, and a strong wave of air surged.
Kelart and Captain Nigun, who were closest, retreated first. Minori also followed suit and retreated when he saw this scene.
"Wait, sister!"
Kelart stretched out her arm to block her face, preventing the surging air waves, and quickly spoke to stop her.
She also hated demi-humans and knew that something was obviously wrong with what had just happened. Even if those demi-humans had any thoughts, they would not attack this group of humans who came to help in the current situation.
The attack would at least be after solving the threat of the undead!
After a brief collision.
Remedios and Go Gin took a step back at the same time.
"Kelart, you also saw just now that this group of despicable demi-humans has no intention of cooperation at all!"
Remedios still looked at Go Gin angrily after hearing her sister's words of restraint.
"Your Excellency Go Gin, can you tell me what happened just now?"
Kelart signaled Remedios not to attack first, and asked in a serious tone: "I need an explanation!"
Go Gin was also a little confused and dazed at the moment, opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. He also didn't know,
Why the Blader clan would attack humans.
"Those Bladers should be controlled by someone."
"Didn't you notice that the actions of those Bladers were a bit stiff?"
Looking at the stiff atmosphere in front of him, Minori took a step forward and said softly.
Remedios immediately looked over and opened her mouth: "You guy, you actually stand on the side of the demi-humans—"
"Sister!"
Kelart's tone was obviously serious this time when she shouted.
"But—" Remedios.
"I also think the situation just now was a bit abnormal." Kelart said seriously, while looking at Minori apologetically:
"Controlled by someone?"
"Team Leader Minori means that our enemy should not only be the magic chanter who manipulates the legendary undead."
Minori glanced at Kelart in surprise, not expecting the other party to figure out the situation so quickly.
Sure enough, compared to Remedios, whose brain only had one string, Kelart was indeed smarter and more troublesome.
"That's right."
"Last night we were attacked by a large number of undead, but we never saw the figure of the Death Knight. This shows that there is someone else manipulating those undead to attack us."
"If I were that powerful magic caster, why would I be so cautious?"
Minori's expression turned serious as he reminded them:
"Our enemies aren't just one person. After running around all night, even though it's daytime now, it's the best opportunity to attack us."
Remedios glanced at Kelart in confirmation.
Bang!
"Fireball!"
A crimson fireball suddenly came from afar.
The members of the Holy Knights, already on alert, immediately released magic.
"Shockwave!" a Holy Knight shouted.
Boom! The exploding flames erupted, the immense force causing everyone to immediately stop their previous argument and look towards the direction the fireball came from.
They saw two figures appear out of nowhere, a hundred meters away in a previously empty space.
One was an old man wearing a gray magic robe, and the other was a warrior clad in black armor.
"Greetings, everyone from the Holy Kingdom and the Slane Theocracy."
"Did you enjoy our little greeting?"
The gray-robed mage's sinister laughter entered everyone's ears.
"That's 'Teleportation'?!"
Captain Nigun first looked at his subordinates, as their earlier reconnaissance had clearly not detected these two people. Then, he realized something: "Someone who has stepped into the 'Heroic Domain,' a 5th-tier magic caster!"
The others immediately became serious.
Minori and the others quickly stepped forward, directly facing the two mysterious figures.
"Who are you!" Kelart asked, his gaze icy.
"Oh dear, I forgot to introduce ourselves."
"We are disciples of [Zurrernorn], planning to transform the Abelion Hills into a true kingdom of the undead."
The gray-robed mage, completely unconcerned by the hostile gazes, arrogantly said:
"So, could you please go back?
"We don't want to offend two kingdoms at once; it would be very troublesome."
The name [Zurrernorn] elicited different reactions.
Some faces showed confusion, while others showed shock.
"That's the evil secret society that destroyed a city 20 years ago, according to rumors!"
Kelart muttered to himself, "So, the mysterious magic caster who controls the legendary undead is the leader of [Zurrernorn]."
"No wonder." Captain Nigun's eyes flashed, his expression turning cold as he understood.
One of their tasks was to investigate the identity of the mysterious magic caster. After all, the sudden appearance of an evil mage who could control and create legendary undead was cause for concern!
If it was [Zurrernorn], then everything made sense.
Minori wanted to laugh at this moment.
Well, it seemed that [Zurrernorn] was going to take the blame for everything in the hills.
He didn't expect the other party to announce their name right away. He didn't know whether to call it confidence or arrogance.
"Pabel!"
Remedios didn't have so many thoughts. Now that the enemies were identified, she would just kill them.
"Yes!" Pavel had already drawn his bow to its full extent, an arrow emitting a faint red light.
It was instantly fired.
The arrow transformed into a long rainbow!
The distance of a hundred meters was instantly crossed, shooting straight towards the gray-robed mage's head.
"Dark Strike!"
The black-armored knight, who had been standing silently by the side, suddenly stepped forward and swung his arm, unleashing his black longsword.
It easily struck the extremely fast arrow.
Boom!
The arrow exploded the moment it made contact, the blazing fire engulfing the black-armored knight.
The faces of the Holy Kingdom's side revealed a look of excitement, but then they were stunned.
They saw!
The black-armored knight walked out of the flames unharmed, his entire body shimmering with a faint black light, as if protected by some kind of enchantment magic.
"I hate petty tricks."
"I'll kill your captain first, and then you."
The black-armored knight raised the black longsword in his hand, pointing the tip at Pabel, his scarred face writhing like maggots, and said coldly.
"It seems you refuse to leave!"
The gray-robed mage's voice followed closely, raising the magic staff made of vine-like material in his hand and forcefully striking the ground:
"Come out, everyone!"
Rumble—
The ground shook!
Skeletons and rotten arms emerged from the ground, and a large number of low-level undead began to appear.
"Protect the corpses, prepare for battle!"
[TL: so more undead dont spawn]
"Remedios, I want to capture one of them alive," Kelart quickly said.
"Okay!" Remedios responded, her eyes gleaming with fire.
At this moment.
Minori looked at the attribute panel that only he could see, a hint of surprise appearing on his face.
'Discovered skill "Dark Strike", requires mid-tier class [Dark Knight], requires prerequisite class [Paladin], current conditions not met'
'"Genius" class activated, conversion successful, meeting learning conditions, consume 3 skill points to learn?'
"Prerequisite of Paladin?"
Minori was somewhat stunned.
If he remembered correctly, the prerequisite class of [Holy Knight] was Paladin, right? How could this mid-tier class in front of him also have Paladin as a prerequisite?
After a brief hesitation.
Minori moved his mind, a mid-tier class was just a waste of three skill points.
Buzz—
'Job change successful!'
Class: Dark Knight Level: Mid-tier Class Ability Effects:
Passive ·
"Power of Pain": Attacks inflict negative attribute damage, increasing the continuous negative attribute erosion effect.
"Heart of Darkness": Reduces Holy and Fire attribute damage taken by 10%, increases Holy attribute resistance by 10%.
Active Skill:
Dark Strike: A move converted from "Holy Strike", can halve the healing effect received by enemies who suffer this damage.
Introduction: A paladin who has fallen into darkness, light? Justice? Holiness? Bah!
(Note: Every level gained (MP, physical defense, magic defense) increases by 10 points in three attributes.)
Seeing the information of this class.
Minori finally understood why this mid-tier class, which didn't seem to have anything to do with the Paladin from the name alone, had [Paladin] as a prerequisite.
"Fallen Paladin, what a cliché class."
Minori observed the difference between the class information of [Dark Knight] and [Holy Knight], and found that there was no connection between the two in terms of class content.
Putting aside the thoughts in his mind for the time being.
Minori looked forward again, at the people already fighting with the undead.