Riding and Slashing

Maybe it was because he was extremely angry that the priest was interrupted, or maybe he was very dissatisfied with being blown black. Egrem has been chasing Roland tightly for a whole night, until he chased Roland to the east of Lion Lake City. In the wilderness.

In fact, Egrem was not chasing fast, and was about the same speed as the Fallen running on his legs-the previous explosion caused his demon horse to break a leg, and he limped when he ran, and he couldn't run fast at all.

The people Roland led were all riding light Jatum horses. These horses had good stamina and speed, and they could stop the horses from time to time and wait for Aigrem.

"boom……"

Another explosion appeared in front of Agram.

At this moment, Egrem had been blown black all over, and the demon horse under him was also blown to the ground.

But at this time, it suddenly stopped chasing - the demon warhorse was blown off its leg and couldn't stand up, and Aigrem obviously didn't intend to chase the cavalry on foot.

This is not a mindless monster, it has high intelligence, and the previous pursuit was probably just out of anger.

"Throw it all out! Then focus on shooting!"

"Boom... boom boom boom..."

Seeing that Egreme was inclined to retreat, Roland had no choice but to order all the remaining grenades to be thrown at Egrem, and asked all his subordinates to concentrate their firepower and shoot a few rounds with bows and arrows, intending to try to kill the Devourer.

If it can't be killed, it depends on whether such an attack can attract its hatred. Anyway, it has a speed advantage, so even if it fails, it can run away.

But the results were disappointing.

The grenade did indeed play a very good role, at least it could blow up Egrem and slow it down.

But these firearms didn't do much damage—Agrime didn't have any abnormalities except that he looked black.

So far, the only injury it has suffered is the loss of a small half of its big eyeball.

However, the explosion also blackened its eyeballs. Without eyelids, it would be impossible to clean up the black ash on the eyeballs. Now Egrem looks like it has been completely scorched.

This also made it no longer look gloomy, and the team led by Roland could no longer even feel the coercion brought by Egreme, which might be considered a windfall.

And the bow and arrow... didn't work at all.

Bows and arrows are traditionally advantageous items in Ravencrow Realm. Roland's soldiers from Ravencrow Realm are basically good at shooting, with a high hit rate, but all arrows, without exception, did not cause any damage.

Egrim was protecting his head all the time, and the arrows shot at his head were all blocked by the shield in his hand.

And what was shot at his body... was the same as when Li Ang shot the three prophets back then, it was probably equivalent to shooting a lump of roasted beef, and Egrem didn't respond at all.

It used the body of a dead person, and it was normal if it didn't respond. Roland was not surprised.

However, it will have additional protection for the head, which is important information-at least it means that it is afraid of damage to the head, which means that it can be killed.

Egrem ignored Roland. After being attacked by bows and arrows, it probably sensed the danger and hid itself among the fallen.

And the fallen people around it stopped moving.

Fortunately, at present, it can be considered that Egrem has been led to the predetermined position, and it has also lost its horse. The predetermined goal has been achieved, and Roland quickly evacuated with the troops.

Roland withdrew, but Egrem didn't pursue it. Obviously, it knew it couldn't catch up, so it turned around and approached Lion Lake City from the east.

This place is only about ten miles away from Lion Lake City. It seems that Egrem is going to vent his anger on Lion Lake City...

There have always been a large number of fallen people around Lion Lake City, and several rough long ladders have also been built.

In the early morning, as soon as Egreme arrived at the east side of Lion Lake City, he launched a wave of siege battles.

Knowing that the Fallen outside the city have been building siege equipment, King Vidis inside the city has been carefully preparing for the defense, and there is no major problem in the face of this attack.

The Fallen have already lost a certain amount of flexibility, and they seem to be quite slow when climbing the long ladder. Although the total number is huge, there are not many ladders, and the number of Fallen who can climb up at the same time is limited.

Vidis is not particularly difficult to deal with.

After a day of fierce fighting, hundreds of decapitated fallen fell to the city, and Vidis also paid the price of 50 deaths and more than 40 others were injured.

By evening, the fighting ended with the destruction of the poorly built ladders by the Fildsweans.

Egreme commanded the army of the Fallen to retreat a few hundred meters again, and continued to surround Lion Lake City, still building siege equipment.

But now, the main force of the fallen is in the east of Lion Lake City.

……

At this time, in the camp of Payne Village, Li Ang was studying the heresy code.

This is what Ilano brought back.

Li Ang has been researching for more than an hour, but found nothing - the content recorded in this law code is almost the same as what he judged before, and it is basically all the "teachings of the goddess Ereda".

It even contains content such as 'not allowed to pay taxes to the Temple of Justice', which seems to be added later.

But Li Ang didn't find anything related to summoning demons at all, nor did he find anything related to heretical sacrifices.

However, the two black metal pages are quite special.

In the sects that have been around for a long time, many of their ancient books and classics are indeed mixed with metal loose-leaf and parchment, bound with beef tendon, and the covers are mostly metal.

It is not easy to copy the books in the middle ages, this is to avoid damage, especially to avoid damage to the core ideas in the books.

Metal pages are generally inscribed with the most important core content, which enables its core ideas to be preserved in the event of fire and fire; while parchment usually records more specific and detailed explanations.

But on the two metal loose leaves of this heresy code, there is no word, only two simple patterns.

Those were two swirling unknown patterns, all made up of tiny dots, forming an oval cantilever structure—for Li Ang, these two patterns looked like some pictures deep in his memory.

This cantilever looks a lot like the Milky Way.

One front and one reverse, two swirl-shaped patterns on two loose-leaf pages, the directions of the spirals are opposite, but they have exactly the same spiral arm structure, even the positions of those tiny dots are basically the same.

One is made of raised dots, while the other is made of sunken pits.

If these two metal pages are overlapped, the two vortexes can be stacked together tightly, turning into a black metal plate.

Of course, this pattern is not very detailed, somewhat abstract.If you look at the two pages, you can probably see them as a pair of eyeballs—the pattern of swirl dots on the black metal does look a bit gloomy, maybe you can also think of them as gloomy eyes?
Moreover, the two metal leaflets are made of ebony.

"My lord, that Oswood has been rescued for the time being, but he lost all his skin, so he probably won't live long."

Lisa Dilan entered the barracks, interrupting Li Ang's train of thought.

"He may know something...Ilano, you stay here and watch. Lisa Diran, let's go and ask."

Li Ang put down the code of heresy, and walked out with Lisa Dilan.

Irano nodded, and closed the door after Li Ang left the barracks.

It was darker in the evening, especially after the doors were closed.

Irano lit an oil lamp on the table, and then sat down in a corner of the room.

She is not very interested in heretical codes, as a temporary guard, she just keeps guarding the house cautiously and is vigilant about the outside.

And at this moment, a wisp of black mist slowly drifted out from the two vortexes and drifted towards Ilano.

"Ah... uh..."

The young female warrior suddenly covered her head with pain on her face, and then she fell down slowly.

……

Lyon, who knew nothing of what had happened in the barracks, was talking to Osswood about the future.

He really wanted to know, why didn't Egreme turn Oswood into a fallen person?
Moreover, according to Lisa Dilan and Ilano's description, Egreme seems to be using Oswood as a sacrifice?
So, what is he worshiping?
What was the function of the heretical code?Why does even Egrim need to use this codex?
"Oswood, do you want to live?"

There are many problems to understand, but Osswood is also a problem.

This guy is not dead now, not alive, and communication is very problematic.

He probably also knows that for a person without skin, infection is almost inevitable, and he will not live long.

But people are contradictory, even if he knows that he must die, and he has to endure the pain all the time, he doesn't want to die now.

The current Oswood is basically half-crazy.

"You've seen what it did to me... haha... woo woo woo... It hurts..."

This lump of red flesh laughed for a while, cried for a while, looked stupid, and his speech was a little slurred.

There is a response to the question, but the answer given is not very useful.

This is also understandable, after being tortured by Egreme, it is normal for Oswood to go completely insane.

And, given his current injuries, it's remarkable that he's still able to speak - anyone can imagine the excruciating pain he's in right now, with half of his tongue cut out .

"...Oswood, you should know the Three Prophets—they can put a new skin on people... You must know them, right? Although you have become like this, you still have a chance to live , you should know what I mean."

Li Ang suddenly mentioned the Three Prophets.

For a mortal person, of course we must give him hope.

Oswood's lifeless pupils seemed to brighten all of a sudden: "Yes! The Three Prophets! Yes... I still have a chance!"

"I can find the Three Prophets. So... I won't ask you any more, tell me everything you know, maybe you still have a chance to live."

Seeing that he cheered up a bit, Li Ang asked questions quickly.

"Agrem was probably using me to summon a demon as terrible as it... I heard him say 'lover' and 'keeper'. I saw a dark door, and when it opened, there was A terrifying dark abyss, where endless evil spirits howled, and a fuzzy cloud of gray-white smoke flew towards me. But just as it was about to pounce on me, the gate of the abyss closed..."

Oswood had a bad tongue, and he slowly recounted what he saw. Obviously, his desire to survive was still there.

"The dark door? What does that door look like?"

Li Ang suddenly seemed to remember something, and hurriedly asked.

"Two doors, each with a pattern like an eye... glowing..."

Oswood described it with difficulty.

"Wait for me for a while... Keep an eye on him."

Li Ang suddenly realized, got up and walked to the barracks.

……

"Ilanor, bring me the Code of Heresy..."

Li Ang pushed open the door of the barracks.

Irano was standing in the room with an oil lamp, as if smoothing out the creases in his clothes.

Seeing Li Ang push the door in, she turned around and put the oil lamp on the table, picked up the code of heresy and handed it over, showing a strange smile to Li Ang.

The smile looked forced, like a person who is suffering from illness comforting a loved one.

"Sure enough... this is the gate of the abyss!"

Li Ang didn't notice Ilano's weird smile. He directly opened the metal page of the Codex. After the two metal leaves were spread out, it was indeed like two gates.

But when he turned to look for Oswood with the Codex in hand, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the shadow on the wall.

Li Ang's heart skipped a beat.

It was his own shadow reflected by the oil lamp.

And behind him, someone was approaching him with a sharp object.

"Ilano?!"

Li Ang turned around sharply, and the heresy code in his hand came out of his hand, smashing at Ilano behind him, and then dodged immediately.

This is in the camp, he didn't bring a weapon, but this heavy code can hit people.

The young female warrior was approaching Leon with a short spear, but found that the heresy code flew towards her.

And her reaction once again surprised Li Ang—Ilano dropped the short spear, and hurriedly took over the code of heresy, as if she didn't dare to let the code fall to the ground.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Ang rushed forward and picked up the short spear from the ground.

In a hurry, the end of the spear was caught, and Li Ang didn't adjust, and directly used the spear as a stick, and swept towards Ilano with a forceful and heavy sweep.

At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Come on!"

Li Ang knew very well that Ilano was obviously planning to attack him just now. Although he didn't know why, it was the right way to catch people first.

"Crack!"

Unexpectedly, Ilano did not dodge at all, but raised his left arm and took Li Ang's blow with one hand.

The handle of the spear snapped off—Li Ang used quite a lot of force, and he would not hold back a man who planned to assassinate him.

This girl was thin and light, if she hadn't blocked Li Ang's stick with her arm, she would have been thrown to the ground.

But after Irano blocked the handle of the spear with his hand, he seemed to be safe and sound, but was shaken back a few steps.

Realizing that something was wrong, Li Ang quickly took three steps back, and shouted again: "Lisa Dilan!"

Ilano showed a weird smile again, her right hand was still holding the code in her arms, while her left hand grabbed the table behind her with her backhand and threw it towards Li Ang.

It was a solid wood table case made of logs, it must have weighed more than 100 pounds, but she threw it like a small stone with one hand, and even caused a sharp wind howl!
This obviously cannot be accepted by force, Li Ang dodges the flying table with a sideways attack.

"Boom!"

After a loud noise, the heavy desk smashed on the door behind Li Ang, closing the door heavily, and it was equivalent to blocking the door from the inside.

The oil lamp that had been placed on the table fell to the ground and went out, and the barracks became dark again.

"You are the Three Prophets?!"

Li Ang had already realized that this must be one of the three prophets: "Stop! I want to talk to you!"