Alien Knights

The wheels of the carriage rolled on the dirt road in Muxi Town, making a "creaking" sound.

Seeing Todd's figure appearing in the convoy, the residents on both sides of the road stopped their work, stopped the ongoing conversation, stood upright and lowered their heads, their bodies moved with the priest's steps, and wordless respect permeated the quiet air. There were only five or six young children who followed the convoy laughing and shouting "Master Priest" respectfully.

In the team, Walton, a short and fat man who was looking around with freshness and talking loudly with his companions, was shocked by this strange atmosphere and fell silent. He turned to look at Todd's familiar face, but he could no longer connect this man with the monk who was toasting around the church camp.

"If I remember correctly, more than three months ago, this place was still a deserted beach..." Walton tightened the crossbow behind his back, and muttered softly towards the woman Adelina beside him: "Now this place has become, a bustling and bustling town... What kind of magic power does that person possess?!"

Walton scratched his hair angrily: "Ah! What a pity! If I hadn't had a mission back then, I would have stayed in Silver Ring City to watch the trial!"

Walking in front of him, the boy with red lines on his forehead turned around and saw the boots from the top of the man's head, and said in a mocking tone: "Even if you were there, you couldn't see it unless you brought a pair of stilts."

Hearing the noise of the people behind him, Todd turned his attention to the girl beside him as he walked.

Ever since he experienced that thrilling heresy trial together, he is confident that his relationship with Karin Foreman should become more harmonious. Who knew that the phrase "a needle in the bottom of a woman's heart" was not wrong at all. Not only did the relationship between the two not make any progress, but it was showing a tendency to regress.

When he meets the girl's eyes, the other party will always avoid his sight; when the two are alone in the room, Karin will always find various reasons to leave the room.

There is no reason for this to happen. Did I do something wrong?

With such distress, Todd, who was puzzled, chose to turn his attention to the knight in front of him.

Under Alfonso's chain armor and iron mask, the giant parasite covering his whole body really impressed him too much. However, the ability of "seeing through" can only penetrate cloth, wood and flesh and blood. For this kind of metal objects, only the blurred image inside can be seen. In Todd's heart at this moment, that hopeless curiosity began to haunt him again.

It would be great if the knight could take off that set of armor that got in the way, or sneak it off while he wasn't looking?

This dangerous and absurd idea turned in his mind several times, and was finally thrown off the cliff by reason.

The convoy drove out of Muxi Town and headed east along the road. Although the distance is not very far, due to the slow speed of the carriage, the total journey is estimated to take a day and a night, half of which is spent on the road, and the other half is used to rest.

After walking on the Moon Creek Plain for about an hour, Todd could see the "San Sidro Monastery" on the hill from a distance, and the workshop at the foot of the mountain emitting faint smoke.

There are too many memories of him, such as Master Myris, the seven arts in the morning class, bad food, farm work, underground laboratory, silver refinery...

The church gave him a letter of authorization to set up Muxi Harbor Church, and also granted him the holy order of a priest. He had to take off the monk's gray robe, but this did not mean that Todd was completely separated from the monastery.

On the one hand, he handed over all the secret recipes for refining silver and all the refining stoves at the foot of the mountain to the monks in the monastery. Although those benefits may not be enough for hundreds of monks to make them worry about food and clothing, at least they can make their penance life less poor and more comfortable; on the other hand, he also privately agreed with Bishop Fabian that the church stop all actions to annex the "Saint Sidro Monastery".

The convoy continued to move forward, and the scenery along the road made Todd feel more and more familiar.

This was the road he traveled with Karin.

The priest turned his head to look at the girl beside him, who looked at the scene in front of him with bewildered eyes and nostalgic face.

"Karin, I..."

Hearing Todd's voice, the girl suddenly woke up, like a frightened rabbit, jumping and hiding in the distance.

The speaker touched the bridge of his nose in embarrassment, thinking to himself, am I that scary?

After taking a short break during lunch time, the convoy marched forward for another four hours, and finally arrived at Fort Watcher at around six o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was setting to the west.

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Fort Watch was built at the pass of the Fallen Star Mountains, at the junction of three important roads. It leads southward to the Moonstream Plain, eastward to the border of the Silver Ring Kingdom, and northward to the barbarian land of the plateau and snow.

The standing force of Watch Fort is about 225 people, and the arms are mainly spearmen, crossbowmen and heavy infantry. The defense commander is Sir Adams, and there are five knights under him, three of whom are secular knights and two are church knights.

Judging from the cross-section of the city wall of Overwatch Castle, its height is much greater than its width. The wall adopts a structure similar to a sliced ​​bread. The inner and outer surfaces are made of brick and stone masonry, and the middle is mixed with stones mixed with mortar. The shape is almost completely vertical, like a curtain.

Defenders inside the castle could walk freely on the stone walls under the cover of thinner, stacked stone parapets. And through the perforations on the parapet, you can shoot arrows or throw other projectiles at the besiegers.

The entrance and exit of the castle adopts a double-door design, the entrance to the south is a gear stirring door; the entrance to the north is a four-cable suspension bridge door.

In general, Watch Fort is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was built in a dangerous place. It is an important barrier for the church and the secular country in the south to resist the barbarians in the north.

Not far from this barrier, pure water formed from melting snow in the mountains slowly flowed on the ground along the mountain streams, flowed into the groundwater in the mountains, and eventually became the main source of domestic water for the residents of Shouwang Town on the hillside.

After the sun set, a group of uninvited guests in gray robes, under the cover of night, avoided the turbulent crowd, came to the well in the small town, and started their long-prepared plan.

They opened the wax-sealed copper pot hidden in their arms, and poured the viscous light black liquid into the well.

A man straightened up, with the badge of "Crown of Thorns" engraved on his chest, shining with silver light. He looked at the vast night and the distant fire, and whispered in his mouth: "The experiment has begun..."