The Rise of the Cemetery

In terms of combat power alone, the mind flayer can be regarded as the most difficult to deal with among the magical monsters, and it can even be said to be the most dangerous.

Formless and invisible psychic powers are difficult to counter and evade, and by the time you realize its existence, you've usually been hit. Therefore, there must be no fluke mentality in fighting mind flayers, and one must do a good job of protecting one's own mind. Otherwise, if any psychic loophole is caught by the opponent, a level 14 mind flayer can control a level 16 human mage by leaps and bounds.

But the battle that took place in the woods today had a tit-for-tat flavor.

Mind flayers have always been famous for their many abilities of confusion control and stun. Any fighter who mentions them will gnash their teeth and hate them to the bone. But the Condemned Knights who fought against them today belonged to the special religious armed forces trained by the Church of Morning Light. In addition to the knights' powerful combat skills and rich killing skills, there were also so many single-type boosting spells that two slaps couldn't count.

Just look at the layers of magical halos on the Captain of the Condemned Knight, the shining halos are enough to blind the enemy's titanium alloy dog ​​eyes. And many blessings and amplifying auras are enough to raise his basic physical attributes to an astonishing level.

When galloping his horse, he moved swiftly and even brought out a string of phantoms, and his mighty knight's long sword didn't dare to resist even the burly Minotaur. Often with a single strike, not only can the big ax of the Minotaur be knocked away, but also its huge head can be chopped off.

Therefore, it only took a quarter of an hour to start the battle, and the corpses of underground creatures can be seen everywhere in the sparse forest, which is enough to show how fierce the previous battle was.

What's even more frightening is that the captain of the condemned knight can not only complete self-blessing, but also extend most of the aura increase to the horse under his crotch. Therefore, the black-clothed black-armored black horse turned into a black lightning bolt under the surge of the mighty magical power, charging left and right in the sparse forest, unstoppable.

Wherever it passed, the fierce and bloody savage charge of the Minotaur, the insidious crossbow arrows of the drow warriors, the sharp surprise attack of the harpies, and the ray attacks of the evil eyes...all fell into the empty space. And the broad sword in the hands of the Condemned Knight seemed to be the death scythe in the hands of the hell god of death. Every sword that fell down harvested the lives of underground creatures.

Perhaps among the spiritual servants brought by the mind flayers, the only one who can compete with the captain of the condemned knights is a terrifying Medusa from deep underground.

From the appearance, this creature is a humanoid monster with a snake tail in the lower body and a beautiful human female in the upper body. Its iconic feature is the terrifying dark green curly hair full of ferocious snake heads. So most people vividly call them "Gorgons".

Usually, the Medusa that can grow up normally are all females. This is a question that confuses outside scholars. How does a Medusa group with only females and no males survive? According to the research of some good people, although the Medusa populations are all females, they will go out to capture some strong males and bring them back to their nests for breeding every time the breeding season comes.

Because a mature Medusa possesses astonishing beauty and voluptuous flesh, it is very difficult for any creature that is targeted by it to escape their temptation, and thus willingly be squeezed dry by it. Moreover, the racial characteristics of Medusa are too strong, and most of the offspring they give birth to only retain the biological characteristics of Medusa, and will not manifest the racial characteristics of the paternal blood relatives at all, so this guarantees the Medusa group Continue to multiply and grow.

Moreover, the group of Medusa dared to live in the depths of the dark region, where demons are fierce and strange monsters are rampant, and they also have their own scary things. Once their glamorous faces covered with snake hair are seen by any foreigner, the other party will turn into a motionless stone statue within a few fingers, completely losing all vitality.

Of course, in addition to the terrifying "Petrified Pupil", Medusa also has good archery skills. Except that the shooting range is somewhat short, the accuracy and sharpness are not inferior to the surface elves.

To be honest, one of the most important reasons why the Captain of the Condemned Knights only wandered around the periphery, relying on his fast horse speed to keep killing the number of guards surrounding the mind flayer was because of this Medusa.

This Medusa was not dazzling when she first entered the stage. She was mixed among a group of underground monsters, and she couldn't see her strength at all. Because her snake arrows are both tricky and sharp, they can often turn into a wandering poisonous snake within one or two fingers when shot at the body, which belongs to the most dangerous long-range arms, so the knight captain quickly locked her and started With her as the center, a heroic charge was launched.

The previous process was surprisingly smooth, chopping up a few minotaurs and goblin bears along the way like chopping melons and vegetables. But when rushing in front of Medusa, this terrifying Gorgon actually swam up to the big tree by relying on its snake tail.

Just as the knight captain rode his horse around the big tree, Medusa swam down along the trunk again. The glamorous human beauties stared straight at the knight captain, while the frightening snake hair dancing wildly raised their heads high, all screaming sharply.

At this moment, Medusa's original green pupils suddenly became evil and shining, and a terrifying petrified force instantly poured into the body of the captain of the knight. Within half a finger's reach, the skin on the surface of the knight captain's body turned grayish white, and he lost his basic sense of flesh and blood.

Frightened, the captain of the knight re-armed himself with the shield of faith before the petrified alien force penetrated into his lungs, and continued to cleanse his body and mind with purification techniques, which barely eliminated the terrible alien force.

Of course, if it wasn't for the densely stacked magical halos that helped Captain Knight resist most of the petrified forces, I'm afraid he would still inevitably become a member of the opponent's collection of many stone statues today. Therefore, as soon as he felt that his body had returned to normal, the knight captain furiously activated all his attack skills.

"Holy Light Cross Slash", "Holy Light Judgment", "Puncture Combo", "Holy Shock"...

A series of sacred combat techniques unique to church knights were issued, and the criss-crossing sacred fighting spirit instantly severely injured the bold and reckless Medusa. If the mind flayer hadn't seen the opportunity and interfered with the knight captain's attack with the force field wall and energy shock wave, I'm afraid that the wave just now could have harvested this alien Medusa that reached level 13.

After paying a considerable price, the mind flayer finally succeeded in bringing Medusa back into its defense circle, and once again blocked the knight captain from the outside. As a last resort, the knight captain could only cautiously start to kill the number of underground creatures, and no longer dared to rush into the enemy's battle circle without fear.

Once he was entangled by a large number of underground creatures, and that Medusa took the opportunity to give him a "Petrified Eye", I am afraid that he really has no chance to save himself. Although he didn't know how many times that Medusa could send out that "Petrified Eye", but he didn't intend to try it.

As the captain of the third knight squad of the Convicted Knights, he is the famous "Halo Knight".

Devotion aura, increases the defense of nearby team members.

Retribution aura that causes any enemy that attacks a teammate to take holy damage.

Concentration aura, make the surrounding teammates concentrate and avoid interrupting the current action due to being attacked.

Fire Kang aura, increase the fire resistance of nearby teammates by X points.

Dark resistance aura, increase the shadow resistance of nearby teammates by X points.

Frost resistance aura, increase the frost resistance of nearby teammates by X points.

Swiftness aura, increase mount movement speed by 20%.

Although most of these auras are not allowed to be used overlappingly, how to skillfully switch back and forth between various auras has become a basic subject that halo knights must take.

Maybe he was still using the halo of swiftness last moment to make the mount under his crotch run faster, but at the moment when the enemy attacked, he had already switched to the halo of devotion, making his defense more indestructible. And when he needs to perform complex knight combat skills, he will definitely switch to the focus aura that prevents interruption.

In the midst of such frequent halo switching, the movements of the entire black-armored knight became more and more unpredictable, and the speed also fluctuated from fast to slow, making it unpredictable.

Of course, this is just the solo performance of the Cavaliers captain. And if you really want to talk about it in detail, Halo Knight is actually more suitable for team combat. With the assistance of his powerful war halo, the combat power of every church knight will be greatly improved.

Even so, this halo knight with a personal level of only level 12 was enough to crush a team of underground creatures led by a level 14 mind flayer and supported by two level 8 illithids.

There may be too many surprises in this kind of battle, but the powerful combat methods of the Halo Knight class are still staggering.

In all fairness, if the battlefield were moved to the narrow and boring underground tunnels of the Underdark, the battle today would never be so one-sided. Even relying on the strange abilities cultivated in the dark space, this group of underground creatures can kill you in a hundred ways that you can't imagine. But in today's battlefield, I'm sorry, the halo knight has really become the king of the battlefield, unrivaled in killing vertically and horizontally.

After the return of the two convict knights who had gone to assist the countess, the battle in this sparse forest area could be regarded as the official start.

3 condemned knights plus 1 priestess accompanying the team, 4 humans in black clothes, black armor and black horses formed a small cavalry team. With the captain of the knight as the spear and the two novice knights as the wings, they protected the priestess behind them, and rushed towards the defensive circle built by the mind flayer in such a brave and invincible manner.

Although there were only four people and four horses, it gave people a violent feeling of thousands of troops charging together.

In an instant, the defense line that the mind flayer had held on for half an hour collapsed like this.

The huge and broad iron horseshoe, and the knight's great sword flashing with strong fighting spirit, accompanied by a deafening noise, smashed into the underground biosphere.