If the beasts that cannot be defended are the first level, those barbarians who have been entrenched in the forest for more than a thousand years are the second level.

There is only one way to enter the ruins - activate the magic device located on the lakeside.

If the floating ladders do not rise, they will not be able to get close to the outer city through them, and if they do not enter the outer city, they will never be able to enter the true Ellison City without entering the outer city.

If you want to defeat the barbarians with a total of more than ten thousand people, unless you drive an army, you will not be able to support the country, so ordinary adventurers have to give up forcing a breakthrough in secret.

When you are lucky, even a barbarian can reach the lake directly without encountering it. Of course, the premise is to pass through a forest that is winding like a maze. Those small paths are not shortcuts pioneered by the adventurers of ancestors, but false paths deliberately disguised by barbarians of all generations. Some lead to beast caves, while others have death traps.

If you are willing to spend money to buy maps sold by the Thieves Family in Legu Town before entering the forest, you can follow the most correct path recently. Or, those who are willing to pay a high price can take the underground secret path, without having to cross the forest, and go directly to Lake Azell. This secret path that has been under the supervision of the Sardin family has not been found by the barbarians yet.

The mercenary group naturally spent 500 silver coins to buy the map, and the group of followers who did not follow the map behind them either retreated or lost in the forks of the forest, or had been swallowed by wild beasts.

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Standing in the open space, I waited for a long time with my breath, but the vast forest was silent.

"What's going on? Logically speaking, so many of us enter the forest, it should have alarmed the barbarians living here, but they did not take any action. It's very abnormal..." When the regiment commander Yaro was a small mercenary more than ten years ago, he followed the largest mercenary group in the South Continent at that time.

He still remembers the scene at that time. Countless barbarians hidden in the forests and grass flocked to the ground, and blood stained Azell Lake red.

After many years, there were no traces of barbarians like ants. This strange phenomenon aroused his alertness.

"Amy, check if there is a breath of the undead nearby."

The female priest casts spells in response, and the undead exploration that each priest of light will cast quickly covered the area where the mercenaries stood.

"On there..." pointed his hand at the north, and the female priest wanted to say something, but Yaro had already led the mercenary group to rush over.

"What's wrong with you?" The old mage, who was not as good as a warrior, noticed something was wrong with the priest, stopped and looked at Aimi who was not following him.

"No...can't go...there...Master Hesen...Stop them quickly. The breath of the undead over there is several times the last time!!" He grabbed the old mage's sleeve with a pale face. Aimi struggled to tell the news she had just learned. The breath sensed by the undead exploration made her body unable to move because of fear.

"What?!" Hesen, who was shocked and anxious, immediately used the acceleration technique to catch up with the mercenary group that had already run away.

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"Stop, can't move forward any more!!"

The elves and two church members issued warnings at the same time. The mercenaries who knew it later were about to walk out of the edge of the forest before they found an unprecedented powerful aura ahead.

"This...this feeling..." Yaro suffocated his breath, and he had already sensed that this was a unique breath belonging to the undead.

Cold and silent, without a trace of anger, all the sounds and living things disappeared.

The forest, which was originally mixed with various auras, suddenly became silent. The small animals in the grass, the insects chirping on the branches, and the beasts that followed behind them waiting for opportunities all disappeared without realizing it.

"All staff are on guard!!"

"No need." Deputy Commander Oruda just ordered the entire regiment to be alert, and Darcy pointed ahead and signaled that there was no need to make any defense, because their imaginary enemy was not far away.

The barbarians stood in a dense group, naked, each holding weapons, with fierce and bloody expressions on their faces.

At the edge of the forest, there is a giant lake connected. Although the cloudy sky makes the lake look a bit gloomy, it still cannot cover up the magnificent scenery here.

"Dream City..."

The mercenaries saw a giant building floating on the water in the lake behind the barbarians.

As the legend says, most of the city sank to the bottom of the lake, and only a part of the outer city emerged from the water. There are some independent buildings in the sky, and after thousands of years, they are still floating.

Before they could yet be amazed at this magical ancient city, everyone's eyes were once again attracted back to the barbarians. They gathered here not to wait for the Boka mercenaries. The targets of these humanoid races who lived like wild animals were other people.

Heson, who was dragging the priest with his spell, finally caught up. When he stood still mercenaries to the leader at the front of the team, even the great master with great knowledge could not have widened his eyes at what he saw.

Opposite thousands of barbarians, there was a figure that everyone had seen before.

Black hair, black robe, mask, and mysterious black knight faces the barbarian group guarding the ruins alone, behind him a down-looking human man.

“Get out.”

The flat-paneled tone without a trace of emotion broke the stalemate. The Black Knight briefly said an ancient northern phrase that had almost been lost in the Southern Continent, which seemed to anger the leader who was dressed like a sacrificial. Amid his roar, all the barbarians charged at the same time.

The deafening roar created a rush of momentum, which made the Boka mercenaries who were watching on the side feel frightened from the bottom of their hearts.

"There's no way...Sethil!"

Instead of pulling out the long sword with the ancient scabbard on his waist, the Black Knight reached out to grab the clothes of the human standing beside him.

In the strange and harsh hiss, a red shadow flashed away, and in just a blink of an eye it rushed into the barbarian group.

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"Wow!!" Eldan quickly covered his ears, feeling dizzy as if something had hit her head.

Looking forward, the vicious barbarians had fallen to the ground in a mess, some foaming at the mouth, and some groaning in pain.

What trick is this?

Turning his gaze back to the black knight beside him, the thief burst into a cold sweat.

Fortunately, he just agreed to this person's conditions, otherwise... he would be killed by him like these savages.

Although he is a member of the Sardin family, he has no right to use the tunnel, so he has to rely on the map to advance the ruins bit by bit.

He was originally very glad that he had luck, but on the way he met a tracking target who had lost before entering the forest, but when the other party spoke, he realized that the other party was waiting for him sincerely.

When the man said his purpose, Eldan never had such a moment of gratitude for his origin.

Entering the ruins requires the removal of the trap, which is exactly the specialty of the thief.

Roland originally did not want to bring humans into the ruins, but she already felt that the undead lurking in this ancient city was extraordinary, probably at the level of a sacrificial or a great lich.

With humans being squeezing, not only can't fight with all their strength, but also has to protect him. However, she doesn't understand the traps of the mechanism, and if she enters alone, she will probably take many detours. She doesn't want to spend too much time on this matter.

It is the most urgent thing to find the door of the underworld that may be opened at any time.

So when Roland met this human with the royal badge of the thief in the forest, he proposed a very attractive condition to him.

She was responsible for taking him into and out of the ruins at safety, and his responsibility was to lift any mechanism he encountered along the way.

Attracted by the conditions of entering the ruins, Eldan still agreed even though he knew the danger.

He knew that this short-sized knight was President Tarasha who appeared in recent rumor. It was not a problem to have him enter safely. The only thing he had to worry about was whether he would throw himself in the ruins when he came out.

Weighing the pros and cons, the idea of ​​witnessing the dream city overwhelms reason.

The thief nodded and agreed to the invitation without any guarantee.

"etc!!"

Just as Eldan was about to follow Roland over the way blocked by the barbarians, a angrily scolding came from behind.

"Are you a member of Blood Wings?" Yaro chased after him. Now, he must ask clearly.

This place is covered with a strong undead aura, and even a warrior who doesn't understand magic can feel it.

"Let's just... let's do it." Roland hesitated for a while, but finally admitted it.

With the title of president, how could she say that she had nothing to do with Blood Wings? What's more, these mercenaries had seen them in that town a day ago.

"So did King Savardo find Blood Wings to take over our Boca mission?" This is what the mercenary commander cares most. If this is true, it is the king who unilaterally violated the agreement.

No matter what the result is, the client shall not order other mercenaries before the end of his appointment. This has been a rule that has been passed on for thousands of years, and even the king must abide by it.

"King?" Looking at the group of mercenaries with an angry face, Roland pressed down on the ring with bright gems on his left thumb.

"Andre, there is a group of mercenaries trying to trouble me. Who did you take on the task from?"

"My President, I told you last time that it was the nobles of Savardo. They were dissatisfied with the king's entrusting such an important task to a second-rate mercenary group, so they offered a high price to let Blood Wings complete the task that was said to have failed." Andre's lazy tone came out of the ring. "Why, are you in trouble? I said I had asked Allen to go with you, but you like to go on the road alone."

"I know, please contact me later." Without wanting Andre to reveal more information, Roland quickly cut off the magical voice transmission.

"Although we may have taken on the same task, our respective employers are different, which is not considered a violation of the military service agreement and absent from accompanying us." After saying this, Roland did not give any explanation.

"That Tarasha..." Boca mercenaries watched Roland leave, and no one dared to stop him.

Andre, one of the six leaders behind Tarasha, secretly manipulated the entire organization, which is well known to everyone.

No one dares to pretend to be this mysterious dark mage, and the president of Tarasha is a must-have topic in the recent dinner.

The fallen black knight has the Martial Emblem of the Temple of War and the Thirteenth-level identity confirmed by the Paladin of the Church - Huiyao. No matter that, these are not something that the Boka mercenaries can fight against.

When he was in the town of Legu, Yaro became suspicious. He originally thought it was the Bloody Yizheng and one of the deputy commanders, but he never expected that the president would come in person.

As for the Cru and the other two who had been silent, they followed Roland's footsteps towards a collapsed building built by the lake, which was the magic control device that controlled the floating ladder. If it was not turned on, it would be impossible to enter directly.

Yaro and Hesen looked at each other and decided to follow.

He could not miss this opportunity. There was only one way to keep the reputation of the Boca mercenary group passed down to him by his father.

"They are following." Eldan turned around as he walked, and saw a group of people behind him, and couldn't help but worry.

"I know, don't worry about them." Roland didn't need to look back and knew that the mercenaries were following. Because he was carrying a human, the barrier that could have been forced to break through the underwater inner city with his undead physique had to go from the outer city. This really spared a long journey.

I don’t know if those magic devices that have been closed for more than 4,000 years can still be activated.

"Cough... cough... you can't get through..." The savage leader took a breath from the fear charge launched by the Dream Demon, knowing that their tribe alone could not stop this person from entering the ruins that had been protected for thousands of years, just as they could not stop the undead from entering a few years ago, but he still rushed to the magic device controller, hoping to dispel the other party's idea of ​​entering.

"Seeing that aperture is not..." Pointing at a light belt that is looming in the air, the barbarian leader declared the third level after his tribe; "The wrath of the gods, if any person without authority forcibly breaks through, he will be smashed by the strongest magic weapon in ancient times. Don't underestimate it, even if it has been abandoned for four thousand years, it can still operate."

"Hey, hey, sir, this is not a joke." As a descendant of the thief, Eldan certainly knew what the "Wrath of the Gods" was.

In the Rebellion of the Gods five hundred years ago, this magic weapon that had been forgotten for thousands of years was remade. Ningal used it to sweep the entire northern continent, and countless mages and church pastors buried in the "barrier fortress" Hahodell in order to defend it.

Ignoring the warning of the savage leader, Roland stepped onto the dark brown land where grass was not growing by the lake, and her target was the magic crystal placed in the collapsed stones and was covered by thick dust.

"Show authority, otherwise you will be treated as an invader and clear it." The common phrase that suddenly sounded out from the magic control crystal, causing the Boka mercenaries and the thief Erdan to retreat for a distance.
Chapter completed!