"Gulp …" Looking at the ghouls burning in the dragon flames, Jon swallowed hard. "This is fire control, gods!"
He had become a Shadow Binding Knight and could learn shadow, blood, and fire magic. Jon had read the "Tam's Notes" that the Dragon Queen had given him, but he did not learn any blood witchcraft.
He did not dare to learn. That "ghost story book" really scared him. The person involved, "Demigod Tam," even replaced all the weird spirits, deviant ghosts, and demons in Old Nan's story, and became Jon's most terrifying nightmare.
After becoming a Shadow Binding Knight, he gradually familiarized himself with his wolf spirit talent and found Bai Ling.
He also activated the Valleglia Steel Inheritance Plate (Lisbon's) and learned the same fire control magic as Danny.
So, he understood where this "bread circle" that protected them came from.
"The deviant ghosts have retreated. Look, the dead people outside have all retreated into the forest." Yergret got up from the ground and pointed at the ghouls outside the fire circle and shouted excitedly.
"The deviant ghosts have retreated. We have survived. We have won!"
"Long live the Dragon Queen, long live the True Dragon!" The others saw this and cheered excitedly.
Danny did not land. She only left the white dragon here to monitor the suicide squad and rode the black dragon back to the Great Wall.
It was still dark. She did not dare to land the dragon in the Ghost Forest. There were only 30 suicide squads left, and none of them had shields. If there were deviant ghosts hiding in the forest and shooting flying swords at Big Black, she would be an idiot.
Back at the Dark Castle, Big Black found a place to land on the Great Wall and monitor the savage camp below. She leaned against the warm wings and dozed off, entering the Dragon Dream.
She let Big Black work while she checked the meditation foundation of the belt in the Dragon Dream.
After absorbing the souls of the three deviant ghosts, the belt's area had expanded by one-fifth. Other than her multitasking skills becoming stronger, she did not feel any obvious benefits.
However, the strange connection between the deviant ghosts and the Green Prophet made her surprised.
Why did the deviant ghosts' souls have the same origin as the Green Prophet and could even complete the meditation runes?
It seemed that she had to find a chance to talk to Melisandre again.
.....
The deviant ghosts seemed to have retreated. Danny slept on Dahei's back for more than three hours. When the sun rose, there were no more deviant ghosts outside the city.
After instructing Bowen and Marcy to keep an eye on the captured deviant ghosts, Danny, who had just woken up, rode her dragon to the Haunted Forest once again.
Early in the morning, the golden sunlight shone on their faces. The thirty-four members of the suicide squad snuggled together and slept soundly.
Well, when they saw the White Dragon hovering above their heads, they knew that their safety was under the protection of the Megalosaurus. Everyone was at ease and didn't even arrange for someone to be on night duty.
"Hiss —" Blackie roared and landed on the scorched and cracked soil of the mound. The savages and the night watchers rubbed their eyes and stood up.
"Your Majesty, you're here," White Knight greeted.
"Let's get ready to go back," Danny said loudly.
"What happened at the Great Wall last night?" Jon asked.
"A dozen deviant ghosts led thousands of ghouls to attack the camp of the barbarians outside the Great Wall."
"What?" The savages exclaimed. They quickly gathered around and asked, "What's the situation? How many died?"
"It's a bit bad," Danny said with a sour expression.
Before she came, Wale had already reported the losses of the camp to her.
Five of the twelve chiliarchs had died in battle. Nearly a thousand raiders and spearwomen had died. These were the true elites of the barbarians!
Other than the warriors, four to five hundred ordinary people had died. Before Danny arrived, the camp had already fallen. They had all died then.
"About fifteen hundred people. More than thirty night watchers died as well," she said.
"Only thirty?" Yegerit raised her voice and shouted, "Are the crows hiding inside the Great Wall?"
"How many rangers do we have? The elites have all joined the suicide squad. Dark Castle has already done its best to send out a hundred riders, "Jon said with a frown.
"Where's Stannis?" White Knight asked with a frown.
"He's watching from the top of the Great Wall!" Danny was relieved to see the dissatisfaction and anger on everyone's faces.
"Alright, let's pack up and leave. This damned forest is not a place for the living to stay," she said as she clapped her hands.
"What about the ghouls? Are we not going to capture them? We can at least go to the hunting grounds and escort the chained ghouls back, "Sir Mallister suggested.
"I captured two deviant ghosts and dozens of ghouls last night. The suicide squad's mission was completed by accident," Danny said.
"There are also ice spiders. I caught two ice spiders over there," a night watcher said with a frightened expression. "The Seven Hells. I didn't expect the stories to be true. Deviant ghosts are really riding ice spiders in the forest to capture the living."
"Sigh, even the white ghosts have come out. Ice spiders are nothing." Ulma smacked his lips and said worriedly, "Among the ghouls that surrounded us last night, many of them were skeletons that had been dead for decades. Think about it, how many Westeros have died in the past few decades? "
"Ice spiders …" Danny frowned.
She had never seen that thing before, but she thought that it was a legendary creature unique to this world, just like the shadow lynx and the direwolf.
"The deviant ghosts are not stupid. If there really were ice spiders caught in the beast-catching net, they would have been rescued by now." Jon shook his head.
He guessed right.
Two dragons soared in the sky. Danny and a group of suicide squad members went south and left the Ghost Forest.
There were fourteen horses left. Other than the seriously injured, Her Majesty the Queen was also given a horse. Not long after the group of thirty-five people went south, they came across a hunting ground.
Not to mention the ice spiders in the net, even the ghouls that were chained up were gone.
The treetops were burned, and the trunk at the top was charred black with faint green smoke lingering around.
The beast-catching net hanging on the branches was torn into pieces. The net was woven with iron wire, and even an iron sword could not cut it.
The chain was still wrapped around the tree stump, but the black iron handcuffs that bound the ghouls at the other end were broken into a dozen pieces, and the fragments were covered with light blue frost.
"Hiss, so cold!" Sir Alisa squatted by the tree trunk, picked up a piece, and shivered, then threw it away.
Danny walked over and picked up a piece. Feeling the abnormal chill, she sighed. "The deviant ghost's ice sword can cut through bronze and ordinary iron swords.
Dragon Crystals are too brittle, and Valleglia steel is too rare. In the future, when facing the deviant ghost army, it's best to take advantage of the terrain and use Dragon Crystal arrows to shoot down from above. "
"Yes, I killed one deviant ghost with one arrow. One Dragon Crystal arrow for one deviant ghost, it's too worth it. "Ulma said proudly.
"I also killed one." Yergret smiled, revealing a mouthful of uneven white teeth. "With Jon, he blocked the deviant ghost's ice sword, and I used a bow to sneak attack."
"Your Majesty, don't you think that the deviant ghost last night was a little strange?" Jon asked with a frown.
Danny thought for a moment, then said, "Deviant ghosts have intelligence and can speak. They're very smart."
"Even if they're as smart as humans, our hunting plan was perfect. It shouldn't have failed completely," Jon said.
Danny's expression was serious. "What are you trying to say? Our plan was leaked, and there's a traitor in the suicide squad? "
"Jon, are you suspecting us freedmen?" Yergret's flat nose was crooked from anger.
"No." Jon hurriedly shook his head. "There's definitely no problem with the suicide squad, but we passed by many barbarian camps last night …"
"What evidence do you have? The freedmen all know that I'm willing to accept them. Even if they go to the other side of the narrow sea with an uncertain future, it's still better than relying on deviant ghosts. "
"I don't know what they think, but …" Jon spat out a name with an ugly expression. "Kast!"
Hearing that, even the indignant Yergret started to feel conflicted.
"Kast sacrificed the baby boy to the Frost God, and the deviant ghost protected his family from being harassed. Your Majesty, the relationship between the barbarians and deviant ghosts is much deeper than you think, and it has a longer history, "Jon said.
Danny glanced at the silent barbarians and asked, "You all know about Kast sacrificing himself to the Evil God?"
"Kast is different from us, and he never interacts with us," a barbarian warrior with messy red hair said.
"When did he start sacrificing deviant ghosts? Why didn't you kill that scum? "Danny asked.
"Dragon Queen, sacrificing to the Frost God has always been a tradition of some freedmen tribes, because the Frost God is also an old god," Yergret argued.
"Damn it!" Danny cursed. She understood that Jon's guess was not baseless.
"Aren't you afraid that deviant ghosts will cause a long night?" Barristan said in disbelief.
"We've worshipped it for thousands of years, and nothing happened," a barbarian mumbled.
.....
In the dark forest, there was snow everywhere. The air was cold and damp, with a moldy smell of rotten branches and leaves. The ground covered with brown sentinel leaves and withered grass was as soft as a blanket.
The sunlight passed through thousands of layers of branches and leaves, finally casting spots of light on the shoulders of the pedestrians.
Avoiding a large rock and stepping on ankle-deep puddles, the suicide squad moved forward with difficulty.
They had only walked four kilometers in an hour, and it was not a straight line either. They took many turns in search of a "wide and flat" beast path.
The gloomy atmosphere made everyone lose the mood to chat.
"Wuuu —" Bai Ling, who had been scouting ahead, suddenly stopped at the top of a hill and growled softly.
"What's wrong?" Jon was startled. He hurriedly whipped his horse forward and climbed up the gentle slope. Looking down, he cried out in alarm, "Careful, there's a dead man ahead!"
"Deviant ghosts?" Yergret had a bow hanging in front of her chest. The leaves rustled on her sheepskin clothes as she ran to Jon's side.
"Don't worry," the red-haired girl turned around and shouted to the suicide squad, "It's an internal conflict between the free tribes, not deviant ghosts."
There was once a giant tree to the east of the hill. It was unknown if the tree trunk was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leaving only a thick tree stump.
At this time, there was a circle of pits dug around the tree stump. A dozen dead barbarians lay in the pits. The thick tree stump in the middle was half charred.
The corpses were naked, and the charcoal fire was extinguished.
It could be guessed that a group of barbarians were hiding here, burning the tree stump for warmth, but they were tragically killed this morning.
They were wounded by swords, but they did not turn into zombies. Their clothes were also stripped.
Yergret said angrily, "Someone stole their clothes and food."
"Heh, so these are the barbarians …" Alisa's sarcasm attracted a dozen pairs of burning eyes.
Jon squatted down in front of a pale female barbarian. He gently squeezed her swollen breasts with his right hand, and two white balls of milk flowed out.
Before Yergret could question him, he quickly said, "This is a spear-woman who just gave birth, but there are no baby corpses here."
"Let your direwolf search for the murderer's scent," Danny said with a frown.
Jon whispered into Bai Ling's ear. The direwolf with white hair and red eyes began to howl towards the east and south.
"Are we going?" Jon looked up and asked.
"Let's go and take a look. We have to figure out what the free people are planning. A hundred thousand people escaped. If we leave them alone … "
Danny shook her head and did not continue. The others immediately understood her concern.
Adults turned into zombies, and babies turned into deviant ghosts.
"Hiss —" Little White obeyed her call and descended from the sky, landing beside the pit. Dragon flames raged and quickly burned the corpses into torches.
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