When he was investigating the Dragon Empire, Hao Ren had heard of the name Longwind Mountains. It was a very short mountain range, located in the southern part of the empire near the Black Forest and the Cliff Sea. The Cliff Sea was a long and narrow sea connected to the Scar of the World, and was also the natural border of the empire. The Longwind Mountains started from the Cliff Sea, and extended for hundreds of kilometers inland before becoming part of the southern hills.
This very short mountain range was not eye-catching within the empire borders, but it had quite a bit of fame, as it was one of the most prominent dividing lines of the Black Forest, to the south of the mountain range was a vast and rich populated area, to the north was the endless Black Forest, and the giant trees in the Black Forest with abnormally strong life force extended all the way to the north of the Longwind Mountain Range, and stopped abruptly at a dividing line known as the 'Razor Edge Line'.
The elves who were obsessed with researching the mysteries of the Black Forest were curious, and excavated some of the stones on the northern side of the Longwind Mountains to study, and found that these stones had the magical power to disrupt the life cycle of the Black Forest, so they carved runes on these stones, and made special rune bricks, and that was how the rune bricks on Greenway's Greenwood Barrier came about.
But that was hundreds of years ago.
As the elves mined a large number of stones to make runes, and with the instability of the Black Forest itself, the Razor's Edge Line of the Longwind Mountains had shifted twice in the past centuries, and this shift caused the mountain itself to collapse several times due to the erosion of the Black Forest, and the end result was that this mountain range became an insurmountable natural barrier, and even the elves who could walk in the forest like it was flat ground did not dare to step in. Plus the Black Forest that connected to the northern side of the Longwind Mountains was the Woodland of the Lost, and there were no paths in the forest, and normal people would get lost in the forest, so no one would try to enter the forest from there, and the imperial army naturally did not set up any sentries there.
In fact, other than the explored entrances and exits around the Black Forest, the imperial army had never set up any defenses in the vast forest, and other than walking on the paths in the forest, entering the forest from any other place would only lead to death, and there was no need to set up any defenses.
So when he heard Graeme's words, Hao Ren was quite curious, "Cross the Longwind Mountains? How did you do that? Aren't you afraid of being trapped in the Forest of Lost? "
"To a Broken Blade Knight, the Longwind Mountain Range is nothing," Graeme smiled, "Just walk up the mountain and jump into the forest. As for being trapped in the Woodland of the Lost … Don't you know? The Knights of the Broken Blade will never get lost in the Black Forest. "
Hearing this, Hao Ren and the others couldn't help but exchange glances.
"You mean, the Knights of the Broken Blade can freely traverse the Black Forest, right?" Vivian looked into Graeme's eyes, "Which means … the paths you are walking on are not the 'forest paths' that normal people can see, but the real … paths."
Graeme nodded slightly, and when he looked at Hao Ren's party again, his gaze changed a little. "I thought you would definitely know about this. After all … you can enter the Lost Kingdom just like me."
Rheia blinked, and looked at Graeme with interest, "So you call this place the Lost Kingdom, interesting … Looks like you aren't affected by the illusions in the Black Forest either."
Hao Ren continued, "We are from a hidden temple organization, and we have some special methods to walk freely in the Black Forest, but because we don't care about the world, we don't know much about the outside world, and don't know much about the Knights of the Broken Blade. In fact, we heard the name Knights of the Broken Blade from these few friends here. "
As he spoke, he pointed at Awenna and Charlemagne who were standing by the side.
"The Basilica of the World Tree," Charlemagne nodded, "That's the name of their organization. Me, my sister, and these soldiers were saved by them, so we traveled together. "
"Never heard of it." Graeme shook his head, "But it doesn't matter, there are always secrets in this world that we don't know about, especially when the world is split in two. Regardless, you have saved my life, and without going against my knight's oath, I will help you as much as I can, if you need help. "
Of course they needed help, and the information that a Knight of the Broken Blade could provide was the greatest help, but Hao Ren could not say that out loud, so he changed the topic and asked Graeme about what happened after entering the Black Forest, "Let's not talk about us first, what happened to you and your companions? Were you attacked after entering the Black Pine Forest? "
According to Graeme, he and a few other Knights of the Broken Blade had entered the Black Forest, and after that they had escaped the pursuit of the imperial army and the Knights of the Ebon Blade, but now he was alone and heavily injured in the ruins of the 'Lost Kingdom', and his companions were nowhere to be seen. Furthermore, only a portion of the wounds on Graeme's armor were left by the black steel mechanical sword, and the rest were clearly not caused by swords. All of this meant one thing: Graeme and his comrades had been attacked by something else after entering the Black Forest.
Graeme hesitated when he heard Hao Ren's question, but he still answered, "We encountered a Gorgonian Demon."
"Gorgonian Demon?!" Charlemagne was shocked, "In the Black Forest?"
"Yes, while it is hard to understand, but it is true." Graeme sighed softly, "We had planned to go straight through the center of the forest to the north, but when we got close to the northern end of the Black Forest, we were suddenly attacked by a Gorgonian Demon, and it was a Lord-class Gorgonian Demon. My comrades and I were caught off guard and were heavily injured, and only I managed to escape alive. But when I got back here, I lost consciousness, and when I woke up … I saw you."
Hao Ren and the rest looked at each other, and Lily curiously asked Awenna, "That Gorgonian Demon … What is it?"
"You don't even know this?" Awenna blinked in surprise, but she still explained, "At the northern end of the world, there is a dimensional passage across the sky above the World Scar, and we call the large area behind the dimensional passage Gorgon's Abyss. Gorgon's Abyss is a broken wasteland burned by flames, and there are countless broken and twisted boulders in it, and the Gorgonian Demons are the monsters that live in that wasteland. They have bodies made of steel and rock, and their bodies are covered in lightning and energy flames. Even the lowest level of Gorgonian Demon has the combat power of a hundred soldiers. "
"But although the passage to Gorgon's Abyss is open, only some of the demons will pass through the passage into this world, which is a blessing in disguise," Charlemagne continued, "Besides, although the entrance to Gorgon's Abyss is over the World Scar, it is not in the middle. Most of it is located in the Dragon Empire, and only a small part extends to the White City Federation in the eastern hemisphere, so the pressure on the Dragon Empire is several times greater than on our side. On the White City Federation side, Izzo led the construction of the 'Sentinel Fortress' to monitor Gorgon's Abyss and fend off the Gorgonian Demons that occasionally escape from the dimensional passage, and on the Dragon Empire's side … "
Without waiting for Charlemagne to finish, Graeme said, "It's the fortress group built by the Northern Army, and the Knights of the Broken Blade led by Her Royal Highness is also stationed there. In fact, the last trial to become a Knight of the Broken Blade is to kill a low-level Gorgonian Demon with your bare hands. Only by passing this test can we graduate from apprentice knights and gain the right to travel the country and carry out missions. "
Hao Ren nodded slightly and at the same time compared it with the intelligence scanned by the probe. The probe had indeed found an unstable spatial fault at the northern end of L 'Haronne, but the planet had been covered and transformed by divine power from the inside out, and unstable spatial faults and special energy burst points were everywhere, so he did not pay much attention to it. But he did not expect the spatial distortion point in the northern part of the planet to be such a special place.
But when it came to the Northern Army of the Empire, he suddenly remembered something. "Wait a minute, Graeme, you said that the Northern Army of the Empire is responsible for guarding Gorgon's Abyss, right? The six northern provinces? They have now followed Princess Constance to the south, what about the northern fortress group? "
"Could it be that the Gorgonian Demons have escaped to the Black Pine Forest because there is no one to guard the northern fortress group?" Lily asked.
Hao Ren nodded as he listened to Lily. At the same time, he thought that if that was the case, Princess Constance's sudden betrayal had really messed everyone up. The Northern Army of the Empire was used to guard Gorgon's Abyss, and now it had followed the princess's "rebel army" to the south to fight the Imperial Army and the Knights of the Ebon Blade. What about the demons that escaped from the abyss? Would they be allowed to sweep the world?
No … Her Royal Highness would not do such a stupid thing.
Sure enough, Graeme immediately shook his head. "Her Royal Highness would not be so reckless. She had already considered the defense of the northern fortress group when she mobilized the Northern Army. As far as I know, she has used some special means to temporarily stabilize Gorgon's Abyss for at least a year or two … "
"She can stabilize Gorgon's Abyss?" Charlemagne's expression was as if he had heard a fairy tale, but when a Knight of the Broken Blade said it so confidently, he had no choice but to believe it. "Well, even if it's true, the appearance of the Gorgonian Demons in the Black Pine Forest … is not a good sign."
Graeme was clearly worried about this as he paced back and forth with a frown. "That's why I have to go north as soon as possible to figure out what's going on … But there's a Lord-class Gorgonian Demon in the Northern Forest, and I don't know if there are more demons lurking in the forest, it's really …"
"Then let's go together," Hao Ren suddenly interrupted Graeme with a smile. "Take us along the path you originally planned, and I want to see what the Gorgonian Demons look like."
Graeme was taken aback as he looked Hao Ren up and down. "What did you say? You know there are Gorgonian Demons there, and you want to 'see'? "
"It can't be helped," Vivian sighed. "Because we are going north too."
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