It was extremely difficult for the Demon Hunter Knights to advance through the forest!
With the speed of the demon colts, if they ran at full speed, it would not be a problem for them to travel thirty to forty miles in an hour. But if they did that, the formation of nearly a thousand Demon Hunter Knights would undoubtedly become very loose. If they were to be attacked by the numerous Shaman Beasts that were lingering in the surroundings, then the entire group would instantly fall into disorder and become like a plate of loose sand.
Moreover, the only ones who could stand on their own were the seven Radiant Knights. While there were many Demon Hunter Knights, they were just moving delicacies in the eyes of the sorcerers. The Spell Breaker Knights could fight against the evil sorcerers if they worked together, but if they were alone, they would attract many wolves at any moment.
To keep the team compact, the Demon Hunter Knights had no choice but to slow down under the restraint of the Radiant Knights, traversing through the forest in a leisurely manner.
All the creatures in the Greenland Forest had disappeared, all transformed by the sorcerers into terrifying wizard beasts of various sizes. Apart from that, some of the hidden witchcraft traps in the forest also caused quite a bit of trouble for the team!
The quicksand traps and gravity traps were still manageable, but the fireball traps, acid traps, and poison cloud traps were enough to kill the Demon Hunter Knights.
The terrifying sorcerers had used their evil wisdom to the extreme!
The witchcraft traps were buried in the path of the knights, and there were many ways to trigger them.
Some of the traps were buried underground, and when the rocks above were touched, a small fireball would fly out from the ground. It was not very powerful, but it was not a problem to burn a Demon Hunter Knight and his demon colt into charcoal. Some of the traps were set up on branches three to four meters above the ground. Once the hanging vines were pulled, the highly corrosive acid would sprinkle down head-on.
Some poison cloud traps had very strange conditions to trigger. It would only explode when a certain amount of life force was near it.
Therefore, when the Demon Hunters riding on their demon colts slowly passed by, they would always see charred corpses on both sides of the road. Some of the corpses had their heads corroded into beehives, and some of their companions were dyed in strange colors …
The dead comrades were placed by the side of the road, and after a prayer, they continued on their way. However, those who were seriously injured or poisoned couldn't be abandoned so easily.
With the burden of these injuries, the knights' advance became even slower.
From time to time, loud shouts from the patrolling knights could be heard from the periphery. Whenever this happened, there would always be some inexplicable and strange sorcery that would descend from the sky and land on the team. It could be a low-level lava fireball, a terrifying poisonous cloud, or a huge acid swamp …
Most of the spells were destroyed by multiple rune arrows before they could even land. Even if there were some that managed to escape, they would be destroyed by the Flame Blades of the knights who rushed over. Although the danger they brought was not that great, it kept all the knights on edge. As they rode high up on their demonic colts and traversed through the forest, their vigilant eyes kept scanning the bushes, the treetops, and the piles of rocks.
Even if they were in the middle of the group, it wasn't necessarily safe.
This was because from time to time, there would be wizard beasts that were adept at concealment pouncing out from the dense canopy of trees or the messy rubble. If they were caught off guard and were scratched by their black, filthy claws, even with the physique of a Demon Hunter Knight, it would be difficult for them to resist the biological poison that the evil sorcerers had carefully modified.
An ordinary forest road that was less than 20 miles long took them two hours to walk, and they had lost as many as 16 non-combat members. Especially the seven or eight companions that were infected with the poison, they could only tie them to their demonic colts and barely follow the team.
When the sun rose high in the sky and it was afternoon, a new problem arose.
They were a lone army, and they had a strong belief that they would not turn back until they found the enemy's lair. That was why they rushed into the Greenland Forest without hesitation. Therefore, every member of the Demon Hunter Knights only brought three days' worth of rations and drinking water when they set off.
If it was a simple adventure, this equipment would be enough for them to search the vast forest that was nearly 200 square kilometers deep. However, after continuous cruel battles and bloody killings, they might have enough rations, but they were obviously overdrawn on drinking water.
What was more frightening was that along the way, they were furious to find that almost all of the drinkable streams and springs had been occupied by the undead creatures that were emitting a pale yellow plague poison cloud. This also meant that all of the surface water sources had been seriously polluted and had become undrinkable!
Humans were not machines, and it was impossible for them to maintain a high level of vigilance and combat readiness for a long time. Although the physique of the Demon Hunter Knights was several times stronger than that of ordinary people, after five to six hours of cruel fighting and arduous trekking, their physical strength inevitably fell to rock bottom.
As a last resort, the higher-ups of the Demon Hunter Knights set up camp on a high hill, so that the exhausted knights could have a safe place to rest. Many of the Magic-breaking Knights formed groups of three to five, forming patrol teams that wandered in the nearby forest to prevent the despicable sorcerers from causing trouble.
As for the seven Radiant Knights, they gathered in a small tent that was temporarily set up and discussed the follow-up plan.
The lair of the evil sorcerers was located in the southern part of the vast Greenland Forest that was 200 kilometers deep. After the previous bloody investigation, the Demon Hunter Knights had used their lives to sweep away nearly half of the suspicious spots. Now, in front of the seven Radiant Knights was a vast forest that spanned nearly 100 square kilometers.
The Radiant Knights who could sit here were basically fanatical radicals who abhorred evil as if they were their mortal enemies. Otherwise, they would not have been so infuriated by the fragmented investigation methods that they could not stand and rushed into the forest without hesitation.
According to their previous plan, they did not have to care about the scattered sorcerers at the edge of the forest. The army would charge into the core area of the forest like a hot knife through butter. Then, they would set up camp there and spread out their men in all directions, and they would definitely be able to find the enemy's lair easily.
Even if there were casualties, it would be much less than sending outstanding Magic-breaking Knights and teams of elite Demon Hunter Knights to the slaughter!
It had to be said that the oppressed evildoers in the Plane of Knights had deeply engraved the image of the weakness and timidity of the spellcasters into the hearts of all the Demon Hunter Knights. Even the higher-ups of the Demon Hunter Knights had never seen the invading evil sorcerers as a mortal enemy.
To them, the sorcerers were a group of sinister and cunning people who were good at hiding and sneak attacks. As long as they destroyed their foundation in one fell swoop, they would be like a group of rats that had their nest blown up. All they knew was to hide in a panic, and it would be difficult for them to organize any large-scale resistance!
In essence, this group of radical Radiant Knights used such a simple and violent method to deal with the invading evil sorcerers. It was the most suitable and fastest method. However, they had overestimated their own strength and underestimated the sorcerers' means.
If they could mobilize their army, if they could gather all the powerhouses of the plane, then the simplest and most violent method would undoubtedly be the best way.
Unfortunately, the powerhouses of the plane of grade 3 and above were absent. Coupled with the internal conflicts that had led to the division of the Knight Knights, these two points had greatly weakened the combat strength of this isolated army.
Therefore, when this group of Radiant Knights gathered together to discuss their next step, the counterattack from the sorcerer's camp had already arrived.
In the afternoon, the horde of terrifying magical beasts had completely surrounded the hill where the knights were resting. Then, under the command of the evil sorcerers, large groups of sorcerers broke into the cordon set up by the knights and started a cruel and bloody massacre.
In the vast forest, there was a loose defense line that stretched for two to three miles. Seven Radiant Knights led a group of Spellbreaker Knights, each occupying a side, resolutely and tenaciously destroying the waves of terrifying sorcerers. On top of the high hill, there was a temporary camp for the injured. The Demon Hunters who were too severely injured to continue fighting were sent here to wait for treatment.
Due to the lack of necessary treatment methods, the temporary Demon Hunters who acted as the rescue team could only use a dagger to cut off the rotten or stiff muscles, wash the wounds with a large amount of water, and bandage them.
This method may be useful for ordinary skin wounds, but most of the injured knights in the camp had been attacked by the claws and teeth of the sorcerers that were infected with the virus. Before the virus was expelled from the bodies of the knights, not only would their wounds not heal, but they would also worsen and fester as time passed.
This was also because the Demon Hunters had strong bodies. If it were an ordinary human warrior, the blood in their body would have already coagulated, and their flesh would have rotted to death. Yet, they could still fight the virus tenaciously. However, this also extended the time of their painful struggle!
The sorcerers' attack lasted from the afternoon until the sky gradually darkened!
After four hours of continuous attack, tens of thousands of sorcerers fell at the forefront of the battle, and the combat strength of the Demon Hunters had decreased from the initial seven hundred to less than four hundred now. Relying on the valiant mounts and the powerful runic equipment, the Demon Hunters did not really lose many of their combat strength, even though their combat strength was greatly reduced.
After four hours of continuous battle, 87 Demon Hunters had died in battle, but the number of knights who were attacked by the sorcerers was as high as 235. Even the knights who were still guarding the outer perimeter were all injured, but not to the extent that they could not get up.
More than ten thousand sorcerers had died, and almost half of them were killed by the seven Radiant Knights. Moreover, during the first hour of the battle, every time a series of sharp and domineering Half Moon Slashes plowed out a bloody path in the group of Wizard Beasts, the number of Wizard Beasts that were killed or injured had been rising.
After an hour of continuous slashing and slashing, they also had to throw the Berserk Knight's combat skills into the densest areas of the sorcerers. Even the Radiant Knights could not withstand such a high-intensity battle.
At the beginning of the battle, they would unleash a terrifying Crescent Slash every three to five minutes, but later on, they would only unleash it once every two to four minutes. In the end, their blood and Qi were in turmoil, and they could not activate the powerful knight's combat skills anymore. Therefore, they could only fight like ordinary Demon Hunters, relying on their powerful strength and strong physique to fight the sorcerers.
The number of sorcerers was not endless!
In the past month, the sorcerers had hunted almost all the wild beasts and magical creatures in the forest, transforming them into sorcerers in large numbers. But in just one day, they had already lost seventy to eighty percent of the less than a thousand Demon Hunters!
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