Banner of the Evil God

The sky gradually darkened. The castle was located at the edge of the sparse woods. Looking into the distance, the moon could be seen rising slowly from the horizon. The village, which could be vaguely seen during the day, had disappeared into the night, and there was silence all around.

"There is indeed a problem here." The trainee ranger said, "It shouldn't be so quiet in the wild at this time of year."

"Undead monsters emit negative energy, and no creature likes it. Except for a few mutated monsters in the northwest ash forest, even ordinary monsters will deliberately avoid the influence of negative energy." The trainee priest was still very clear about these things, "It's just that... when we came here during the day, there were obviously many wild beasts here."

"Yeah, I was planning to catch two to roast meat at night." The trainee ranger couldn't help but sigh, "Now I have to eat dry food."

"Maybe during the day, the negative energy is suppressed by the sun." The trainee priest guessed, "Negative energy will be strengthened at night. So it is said that in the Ash Forest, there are often a large number of undead monsters at night, which are extremely dangerous."

"Undead? If it is a skeleton, there is nothing to be afraid of." The rough trainee warrior laughed, "It's nothing more than finding a thick wooden stick and hitting it with one stick."

"One or two skeletons are certainly not scary, even ordinary farmers can deal with them." Yui smiled slightly and said, "But it is said that the skeletons in the Ash Forest either do not appear, or if they do, they are at least in the hundreds. Every night of the New Moon, there may even be tens of thousands of skeletons. Do you think you can beat hundreds of skeletons?"

The trainee warrior shook his head without thinking.

Of course there are heroes in the world who can beat hundreds of skeletons, but he is definitely not one of them. Let alone hundreds, dealing with ten or eight skeletons at a time is enough to take his life.

After all, although the skeletons are not strong in single combat, they are not afraid of pain or death. When there are more of them, the threat will increase sharply.

Apart from other things, once you are hugged by five or six skeletons, unless you are a hero with supernatural power, ordinary people will not be able to show their kung fu no matter how good they are, and they will definitely die.

He is barely skilled in martial arts. If he uses all his skills, he may be able to drive a dozen farmers away in embarrassment, but when facing a dozen skeletons, he will be the one to run away.

"What's strange is that why can't I feel the negative energy?" The trainee priest carefully sensed for a while and said in wonder, "I can't feel it at all."

"You can probably feel it when you walk out of this magic circle." Yui said lightly, "But that also means you may be attacked by evil spirits."

The trainee priest shrank his head: "I don't want to take that risk. If you can't feel it, then you can't feel it."

Everyone smiled kindly. For these rookie adventurers, safety first is undoubtedly the golden rule. Anyone who does not respect this rule will most likely die in an adventure and will not have the chance to enjoy a bright future.

"Okay, it's getting late, everyone eat some dry food and go to bed early, the three of us will take turns to keep watch." After laughing, the trainee knight began to arrange the work of keeping watch.

Keeping watch is an indispensable and important task during adventures. Nighttime is the time when most monsters are active. If you don't arrange to keep watch, once you are attacked by monsters, it is likely that everyone will be killed without knowing it.

And there is a convention among adventurers that spellcasters do not keep watch. This is to take care of spellcasters who are relatively weak and need sufficient rest, and to ensure that they will not affect their daytime status due to lack of sleep and reduce the success rate of spellcasting.

Sufficient sleep can allow spellcasters to recover their magic power better and keep them in a good mental state. Unless there are so many spellcasters in the team that they don't need to care about such trivial matters, otherwise everyone will abide by the rule of "spellcasters do not keep watch".

In other words, if anyone sees a group of adventurers asking spellcasters to keep watch at night, then they are most likely rookies!

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, some priests who believe in the God of Night or the God of Shadow, or necromancers... Night is their home ground, and they will be sluggish during the day.

However, this kind of spellcasters will definitely not act with ordinary adventurers, so strictly speaking, it is not a real exception.

Yui and the trainee priest are naturally not exceptions. Both of them need sufficient rest to ensure that they have sufficient magic power and good condition tomorrow. However, unlike Yui who slept peacefully, the trainee priest obviously did not sleep well, tossing and turning at night, and waking up several times.

More than once, he clearly felt that an evil force was spying on him, so he woke up in his sleep, but when he looked around, he saw nothing. Soon after he fell asleep, he felt the evil power watching him again, and was awakened again... This happened several times, and he didn't sleep well that night. The next morning, he was listless and obviously in a bad state.

His companions naturally noticed his situation and asked him about it with concern, but when he told them about how he woke up several times at night, the three people who were on guard looked confused.

Not to mention the warriors and knights with relatively weak perception, even the rangers with better perception didn't feel any evil watching.

"Stop thinking nonsense, this is a method used by evil spirits." Yui, who was full of energy after a good sleep, sighed and said, "It is spying on you from the spirit world, and it knows that the caster is its biggest enemy. , so trying to disturb your spirit - this may be a good thing, because it proves from the side that this evil spirit is not very strong, otherwise, it would not have to use this method. "

After analyzing it like this, everyone felt much more at ease. The curious warrior thought of another thing and asked, "What about you? Are you also a spell caster?"

Yu Yi smiled and said: "Maybe it can only disturb a person's mind, which is the limit. In any case, compared to me, a mage, the priest must be a greater threat to it."

Of course what she said was a lie. Although she was using the body of the trainee mage now, the soul inside the body was a talented young mage, and the child of two legendary powerful men. According to some scholars, the personality of her soul is inherently higher than that of ordinary people. The evil spirit also tried to attack her at night, but instead of disturbing her spirit, it was counterattacked and she was seriously injured. .

But these naturally cannot be explained to her companions. Anyway, the evil spirit will be mentally damaged and its strength will definitely decrease. Although her previous analysis was wrong, at least the result was correct.

In contrast, she was a little curious about another thing.

During this night, she clearly felt that a kind soul was watching her, sending friendly messages, and seemed to want to tell her something. It's a pity that she is a mage after all, not a priest, and soul communication is not her strong point, so she couldn't hear it clearly, which is a pity.

"How many days will we have enough dry food?" the captain asked.

The ranger in charge of logistics took a look at it and replied: "If you save a little, you can eat it for three days. Normally, we will hunt after lunch tomorrow."

"Then rest this morning." The captain said, "The priest must get enough rest. We can't take risks."

No one had any objection to this, and the ranger even said that he could take advantage of this morning to go hunting and catch a few rabbits for lunch.

So what they had for lunch was roast rabbit and a little dry food.

The novice adventurers' barbecue skills are not very good, but at least they are cooked. Yui was not satisfied with the food, but at least he was safely full.

She was not idle this morning. While checking the situation of the purification circle, she made some temporary props - using some temporarily collected materials and using up almost all the gem reserves of the trainee mage, she made several The pendants of poor craftsmanship were strung together with thin ropes and given to each of the companions.

"Psychic protection pendant." She introduced, "It can slightly improve the ability to defend against mental attacks, which is better than nothing."

The companions happily wore the pendant, although Yui knew that it would not be of much help.

The depiction of the spiritual protection circle was correct, and the materials were matched strictly according to the rules. The problem was that the materials were too low-level, and she did not have enough magic power to infiltrate these materials to enhance their effects.

This method called "enchantment" has strict requirements on the magic power of the caster. The trainee mage only has so much magic power. Considering that she may have to fight in the afternoon or evening, this is the only magic power she can draw out.

If everything goes well tonight, she can perform secondary processing on these pendants tomorrow morning to improve their effects. Although it can't be improved much, at least it won't waste those few gems.

With this thought in mind, Yui kept the scrolls and wands ready for use at any time, and then hung two short swords made of locust wood on his waist.

The pair of daggers were made for her by the knight this morning at her request. Locust wood is a kind of wood that can be well integrated with negative energy. Using it as a primer, this pair of swords may also be used to harm evil spirits.

Of course, that requires another kind of introduction. She didn't want to use that if she didn't have to.

Even if this is just a game, Yui never intends to risk his life.

However, she would not hesitate if necessary.

In battle, the last emotion you can't have is hesitation. No matter what kind of choice you make, it's better than no choice at all.

After lunch, the pastor finally rested and regained his energy.

So the group of people arranged the most suitable formation for fighting and stepped into the castle again.

This time, they were much more serious and nervous than yesterday.

Sui Xiong watched all this from the sky and couldn't help but smile.

"This kid Yui... seems to have the talent to be a commander..."

Cloudy's "Soul-Burning Steel" is about to be released. Readers who are interested in stories about style warriors may wish to check it out.