In Roddy's plan, they would first find the village of the "sheep" on the outskirts of Tasman and adopt a straightforward "decapitation" strategy. They would first cut off the undead's control over the humans and then win over some of the humans.
Roddy thought that achieving this goal would be a piece of cake, but the scene before him made him feel as if he had swung his knife in vain. Even the target of "decapitation" was gone. What should he do?
"Natha, patrol at low altitude. The rest of you, explore the village. Stay alert."
Now that they were well-equipped and well-equipped, Roddy naturally spoke with confidence. He waved his hand and followed the team into the village. The cavalry team spread out and roughly sifted through the small village in less than half a minute. The barbarian soldiers at the back advanced unhurriedly. They were divided into front, middle, and back. Roddy, Akasha, Merinsera, and the ten High Elf Magicians were in the middle. Although the number of barbarian soldiers wasn't large, but with a big guy like Erwin wearing a full set of heavy armor blocking the front and back, this kind of infantry phalanx could completely be called a mobile "steel fortress". Ordinary cavalry troops simply couldn't break through.
After exploring for a while, they didn't encounter any enemy attacks. But Merinsera and Akasha immediately realized that something was wrong after entering the village. There were many corpses in the village, most of which belonged to the villagers in simple clothes. There were also nobles in luxurious clothes and armed private soldiers who had died in the square. A faint green mist had yet to dissipate from these corpses.
"It's a plague spell!"
Merinsera reminded them with a frown. Akasha had already raised her scepter and started chanting. This scepter was specially found by Roddy from the Rose Cross. Although it wasn't of the Epic quality, it was a rare superior quality among the Excellent ones. The enhanced Purification Spell quickly removed the rancid smell in the air. At the same time, it purified the returning knights one by one. It prevented them from being affected.
"The person who cast this spell isn't very powerful. This is a low-level plague spell. The effect will disappear after a day." Merlinsera casually cast a few spells. Her movements were so fast that even Roddy didn't have time to recognize them. She then sensed the changes in the elemental density around her and walked to the center of the village. She pointed at a place and said, "This should be the place where the spell was first cast."
Roddy went over and found out at a glance that the headless corpse on the ground was a revenant, and the penetrating wound on its body was obviously caused by a low-level "Bone Spear Spell". There were many footprints on the body of the nobleman who was wearing a luxurious robe, and the private soldier was also killed by the farm tools. With these signs, it was not difficult for Roddy to guess what had happened.
"So … these farmers rebelled and killed the nobles who managed them? But what's with this necromancer? "
However, unlike Roddy, she didn't know what would happen to Tasman in the future, so she couldn't figure out why there was a necromancer who had cast a "plague" and been killed.
Roddy, on the other hand, frowned and pondered, slowly sorting out his thoughts.
He knew that there had been "civil strife" in Tasman. But that was four years later. At that time, Tasman had already launched a large-scale invasion of Kallan, and the civil strife forced Augustine to withdraw his undead army to suppress it. It took three months for the civil strife to be completely quelled. At that time, a team of players had entered Tasman and interfered, and a series of live broadcasts of the civil strife among the undead had been at the top for a period of time …
The civil strife that was supposed to happen four years later had broken out ahead of time. The main reason was obviously because Roddy kept obstructing and sabotaging Augustine's plans, which ultimately caused the Undead Emperor to start the war ahead of time.
Thinking that he had completely changed history, Roddy felt an indescribable sense of accomplishment.
"What should we do next? Continue looking for the village? "
"Maybe we should change our original plan. We should —"
Before Roddy could finish speaking, he heard a sharp whistle in the rain. He immediately turned his head and locked onto the circling Kelda Duck in the sky. He ordered, "Cavalry, follow it immediately. Prepare for level two combat!"
Natha had five types of Whistling Arrows. This arrow represented "finding three or fewer enemies", so there was naturally no need for the entire team to go and encircle it. However, not long after the sound of the first arrow fell, the second, short, whistling arrow sounded again.
Roddy and Merlinsera looked at each other and realized that Natha might have run into trouble. They immediately rushed into the distance.
*****
Flying in the rain was far more difficult than usual. Not only was the surroundings extremely slippery, but vision was also extremely poor. If she hadn't activated the "Eagle Eye" spell on her necklace, it would have been very difficult for her to discover that inconspicuous figure on the outskirts of the battlefield …
As a Ranger, Natha was very clear about her current duties: Discover the enemy and warn them. Hence, she immediately used the Whistling Arrow to mark the suspicious figure's whereabouts. She was prepared to circle around and lock onto the figure's position. Then, she would wait for the cavalry to arrive and deal with the target.
She was already familiar with this procedure, but she soon realized that she had underestimated the opponent's speed of escape. Almost as soon as the Whistling Arrow sounded, the person hiding in the bushes reacted immediately.
The figure quickly fled into the distance like a fish in water. His lightning-fast speed almost caused Natha to lose sight of him. She immediately grabbed the Kelda Duck and dove down to shoot the second Whistling Arrow!
She knew very well that with the opponent's speed, it would be too late for the cavalry to catch him.
After the Kelda Duck entered a low altitude, Natha leaped down. Before she landed, she activated the "Slow Descent" spell, causing her body to pause in mid-air for a moment before landing lightly. This set of movements was seamless, allowing her to land directly more than ten meters behind the target.
As a Wood Elf, this kind of forest was absolute "home field" for her. However, after chasing for more than ten meters, Natha was surprised to find that the opponent seemed to be moving even faster than her in the forest!
With this kind of speed, it was impossible to stop and shoot the arrows. If two arrows missed, she could only watch the opponent escape. So, Natha immediately decided to catch the opponent in close combat.
At this distance, she could clearly see the enemy's appearance: a body that was similar to a human's and a tail that was almost the same length as its body, making it look like a large lizard. The opponent ran on both hands and feet. Not only could the light purple tail maintain the body's balance, but it could also hook onto the tree trunk like a tentacle, rapidly changing the body's center of gravity and direction.
In the end, Natha's two legs could not outrun this four-legged "beast". However, she was no longer the ignorant Wood Elf hunter of the past. The Ranger Natha, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, suddenly took a step forward, activating the "Leap" skill and "Sprint" skill at the same time. Her body seemed to be catapulted towards the opponent.
"Hiss!"
The enemy sensed the movement and used its long tail to wrap around the tree trunk. The huge inertia caused a fierce grinding sound, forcing it to forcibly change direction by ninety degrees.
Natha's body could not twist like this, but she chose to jump high. When both feet landed on the tree trunk, she activated "Leap" again, and activated the "Arcane Impact" skill on her leather boots at the same time!
"Pa!"
The "Arcane Impact" skill on her leather boots was a skill that Roddy had specially optimized for her. Its effect was basically equivalent to another "Leap" skill, but it had a wider range of applications, and could even be used as an attack skill. And now, the huge momentum of the skill and "Leap" stacked together sent Natha flying like a bullet straight towards the enemy who had just turned and had not had time to accelerate …
"Stop!"
Nata, who had been silent all this while, roared. She crossed a distance of fifteen meters in mid-air, grabbed the tail of the man, and slammed him to the ground!
"Crack —"
A piece of rotten wood was smashed by the two rolling people. Natha endured the dizziness and pain from her shoulder, grabbed the enemy's arm, and was about to use the Reverse Joints skill to hold the enemy down. Unexpectedly, the bony body of the enemy had extraordinary strength, and with a strong twist, Natha almost bounced off.
She felt that she was facing an extremely strong carp. Just as she was about to change her position to hold the enemy down, the guy in front of her turned around and waved his hand, and his sharp claws slashed horizontally like daggers.
"Ka!"
Natha did not dodge, and raised her left hand to block the attack. The sturdy dragon scales broke the enemy's claws, and this strong defense obviously stunned the enemy, and this short moment of hesitation caused him to take a solid punch from Natha!
"Bang!"
The strength of the Ranger Natha was comparable to that of a True Knight who was about to advance, so this blow almost twisted the enemy's head, and he hit the ground on the spot.
But before the second punch came, Natha found that her arm was wrapped by the enemy's tail, and the pulling force was beyond imagination, and she actually staggered and directly fell to the ground!
"Damn it …"
The enemy did not look at her, got up and continued to run into the distance. Natha reached out to grab it, and the tail slipped away from her fingertips like a loach. She did not get up, but decisively grabbed the small horn bow on her back, drew an arrow, and aimed …
An arrow silently swept past her side, and the next moment, the running enemy was enveloped by the blue light, and when he fell to the ground, half of his body was completely frozen.
It was Roddy's Freeze Arrow.
She slowly released the bowstring, and the next moment, Roddy appeared beside her, and pulled Natha up, who was still kneeling on the ground. "Very decisive, not bad."
His words finally made Natha's tense expression relax. She knew that the enemy could not escape.
She stood up, and Natha saw that the guy who was still trying to escape was pulled into the air by Merlinsera with a wave of her hand. The Wizard clenched her hands, and the struggling purple guy was pressed into a "mummy" position by a great force.
"Humanoid, powerful, fast and agile. There's also the smell of magic on their bodies … But this smell makes me feel uncomfortable."
Merlinsera narrowed her eyes, and her gaze became serious.
She was curious about this creature, after all, Dragons were not omniscient, and it was normal for there to be some unknown humanoid creatures. However, Rody stood there motionless for a long time. He was shocked by the prompt that suddenly appeared in front of him.
"You discovered a subspecies of demon."
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