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The shadow beams unleashed by the two Shadow Followers struck the white barrier erected by the Moon Follower Ange.
The two opposing forces of faith quickly dissipated after colliding.
This shows that the faith power displayed by Ange, a follower of the Moon, is equivalent to that of the two Shadow followers on the other side.
Thus, after a round of tentative exchanges...
After discerning this information, Shadow Follower Karl glanced at Eclipse Knight Wood:
"We'll deal with this woman; the other one is yours."
"Sure, I do have some grudges against that woman."
Wood, the Moon Eclipse Knight, agreed and then put the removed visor back on.
His face, hidden beneath the visor, revealed a twisted, hateful expression.
Wood, the Eclipse Knight, knew very well that his purpose in invading the Crescent Territory's border defenses and stirring up trouble was simple.
That is—to kill these two women from the Church of the Moon using the cruelest methods!
So he began waving his hand, signaling his band of bandits to prepare to attack.
"Oh yeah!"
Immediately, the group of fierce-looking bandits became excited, rubbing their hands together and revealing their brutal nature.
Then look at the border defenses of Crescent Moon Territory.
Louise, a follower of the Moon, sensed the hateful gaze of Wood, the Knight of the Moon, hidden beneath his visor.
She turned her head and looked at Anjie solemnly:
"Sister, we must hold our ground, especially the church behind us."
After saying that, she turned her gaze to the church she had come from.
Behind the half-closed church doors, the little girl was still leaning against the doorframe.
She peeked out and met Louise's gaze.
Upon realizing that Louise had noticed her, she immediately and timidly withdrew her head.
She seemed very afraid of this woman who was older than her.
Louise noticed the little girl's timid demeanor, and a tender look appeared in her eyes.
But then she turned around, concealing the tenderness in her eyes, and her gaze became firm again.
Followed by.
She clasped her hands together in a devout gesture and silently recited the same prayer as Angela, a follower of the Bright Moon Cult:
"Praise be to my Lord, pure and spotless moon and goddess of purity Elune, grant me the power to judge heretics."
As she finished speaking, a bright white full moon appeared behind Louise's head.
And at this moment.
The bandit group led by Wood, the Eclipse Knight, gave them no more time to chat and launched an attack, rushing towards the border of Crescent Territory.
Soon, this border line was divided into three battlefields.
The first battlefield is between a bandit group and a knightly squad led by Neo.
Neo was on edge; as the border commander, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and confront those vicious bandits.
At the same time, he secretly hoped that the two priestesses from the Church of the Moon behind him could defeat the superior enemies who were more powerful than him.
Soon, the two sides were locked in combat.
In the second battlefield, Shadow Followers Karl and Beth faced off against Moon Followers Ange.
Despite being besieged by two remnants of the Shadow Church, Ange, a follower of the Moon Cult, maintained a calm and composed expression on her delicate face.
She deliberately bypassed the first battlefield, approached them, and used the white ribbons that emerged from the full moon behind her head to attack them.
Carl and Beth did not back down. Taking advantage of their numbers, they split up and launched an attack from Ange's two sides.
They raised their pale white bone staffs, chanted rapidly, and once again unleashed waves of shadow light.
Let's look at the last battlefield.
A clash between Wood, the Eclipse Knight, and Louise, the Moon Believer.
Wood, the Eclipse Knight, wielding a black lance and riding his third-tier silver wolf beast, crossed the first battlefield and arrived before Louise.
He looked down at the young woman in her pristine white robes, and spoke in an icy tone:
“Louise, I will make you taste the pain I have suffered.”
Having said that, he swung his black spear and thrust it at Louise, a follower of the Moon.
Louise, a follower of the Moon, moved nimbly in a prayerful posture and easily dodged the attack.
Then, she manipulated the white ribbons that emerged from the full moon behind her head to launch a counterattack against the Eclipse Knight, Wood.
"laugh!"
Faced with these incoming white ribbons, the Eclipse Knight Wood seemed to recall a painful past, and a look of pain appeared on his face beneath his visor.
And at this time.
The black spear in his hand seemed to sense the strangeness of its master and spontaneously emitted a dense black aura.
The black energy eroded the incoming white ribbons, instantly annihilating them.
"A holy artifact of the Shadow Church's bishop level? Those remnants of the Shadow Church are really willing to spend money."
Upon seeing this, Louise Duan, a follower of the Moon, discerned the origin of the black gun that Wood was wielding.
"That's right!
"I will use this bishop-grade Shadow Lance to pierce through your limbs and torso one by one, until you are rendered helpless by the excruciating pain."
Wood, the Eclipse Knight, freed himself from the painful past, but his consciousness seemed to be affected by the black energy emanating from the black spear in his hand, and his voice began to become extremely violent:
"Then I will brutally ravage and trample on your chastity that you have kept until now!"
While you harbor hatred for me, I will pierce and shred your heart, ending your life!
Wood's foul language chilled Louise to the bone, and she regretted her past decision to spare his life.
"You apostate blinded by shadows, I will atone for my past foolish mercy by ending your life here!"
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A short while later.
Just as the two sides were locked in a fierce battle.
Two figures on horseback suddenly appeared on the horizon at the edge of their field of vision.
Leading the group was a handsome blond youth, clad in armor and riding a fine, jet-black warhorse.
The man behind him rode an ordinary horse, following closely behind.
Soon, the two arrived at the border battlefield where the fighting was raging.
But they didn't seem to intend to get involved, and soon crossed the first battlefield where the bandit gang and the knight squad were fighting.
Therefore, border commander Neo was the first to notice their behavior.
He deduced from their lack of fighting spirit while riding that:
Their goal seemed to be simply to cross the border and embark on the main trade route that traverses the Red Leaf Mountains.
Chapter 68 I'm Just a Passing Knight
Let's rewind to 15 minutes ago.
"No, there is impending conflict ahead."
Arthur learned of the events that were about to happen on the road ahead from the water spirit summoned by Lancelot.
then.
The water spirits specifically describe a band of thieves who are heading menacingly towards the border.
After learning this information, Arthur thought about it briefly.
He did not change his original route and still wanted to cross the Red Leaf Mountains via this side path.
However, knowing in advance that conflict was imminent, he did not want to get involved in the unknown crisis.
So he decided to go to the side path of the Red Leaf Mountain Range in advance to wait.
While the two sides were fighting, he and Lancelot seized the opportunity and, in one fell swoop, bypassed both sides and entered the safe trade route.
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Time returns to the present.
Arthur and Lancelot had been waiting in the area near the side path for a long time, and finally the opportunity for the two forces to start a war had arrived.
So Arthur rode his black-haired horse, Nightshade, and led Lancelot toward the war-torn border.
soon.
They then rode their horses into the first battlefield on the border—where bandit gangs from the Red Leaf Mountains were fighting against the border knight squadron of Crescent Moon Territory.
Arthur and Lancelot were dressed in fine knightly gear, and their mounts were also quite impressive.
Upon seeing them, the border knights of Crescent Moon Territory's first reaction was that reinforcements had arrived, so they did not stop them from advancing.
Those ruthless bandits had the same first reaction.
But the bandits, who are on the opposite side of the border guards, will not let them pass easily.
A bandit rushed toward Arthur, wielding a broadsword with thick blades in both hands, and launched a horizontal slash at him.
Arthur didn't panic; instead, he pulled on the reins.
He commanded the Black-Haired Horse Night Shadow to unleash a first-tier wind magic, Wind Blade, striking the bandit's weak defensive position.
Although the bandit was not seriously injured after being hit by the wind blade, he lost his balance and his broadsword slash was interrupted.
Then, the other person leaned back.
Arthur did not choose to take action himself because he knew that once he became entangled in this conflict, it would be difficult for him to extricate himself.
After advancing to the second-tier magical beast, Mo Binma Yeying learned some simple first-tier wind magic.
So he took this opportunity to use it to help him avoid a possible crisis.
But Arthur didn't expect that his act of having Mo Binma Yeying take action would attract an even greater crisis.
Unbeknownst to him, there was a burly bandit wearing a fur cloak.
Upon seeing Arthur's black-maned horse, Nightshade, the bandit's lips curled into an excited smile.
He was a hunter by birth, and his life as a hunter in the first half of his life gave him an almost obsessive fascination with beautiful magical beasts.
The turning point for him to become a bandit was when he couldn't control his inner obsession and cruelly killed a nobleman's precious warhorse.
The thief still vividly remembers the scene from that day:
The beautiful warhorse neighed in grief and anger before him, bleeding itself to death.
This experience brought him unprecedented joy and relief from his repressed emotions.
From then on, he abandoned his identity as a hunter and became a bandit who hunted down the magical beasts kept by celebrities.
Now, let's return to the present.
The black-haired horse, Ma Yeying's agile figure and perfect physique stirred his heart.
He felt a strong urge that he hadn't felt in a long time, and his body trembled with excitement.
He drew an arrow from the quiver on his back, the arrow coated with a thick purple liquid.
Only he knew about this thick, purple liquid:
Any low-level magical beast that comes into contact with it will immediately go berserk and then die of a bloody hemorrhage within minutes.
then.