The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 443 Centaur Tribe

An hour ago.

Deep in a dense forest more than ten kilometers away from where the Snake Cult held a large prayer ceremony.

Three iron trees, four or five meters tall and shaped like human beings, are standing behind a man and a woman. On their rough trunks is the face of an old human. On each side of the branches there is a particularly thick branch extending out, like arms. These are the Ironwood Guards of the elves.

However, they consume a lot of energy to move, so they are usually in a state of rest, rooted in the ground, and slowly absorbing nutrients from the earth.

Based on the characteristics of the Iron Guards, the elves not only regularly cast natural magic to help their growth, but also deploy Iron Guards as a hidden line of defense in some important areas of the Ferdinand Forest to deal with invasions.

This is where the Ironwood Guards are stationed.

Lambert, who had just returned from a sneak attack, was talking to Anna.

"Miss Anna, I'm sorry, I couldn't save your people." Lambert said apologetically.

"No, no! Sir Lambert, please don't say that. It's because the other party is too strong." Anna waved her hands quickly and said.

She glanced at the two holes in Lambert's light linen coat and knew that Mr. Lambert in front of her had actually tried his best.

No one expected that there would be an epic strongman in the cultists' team.

Because of this, Bashalan's defenses were quickly destroyed by the cultists in a short period of time.

If Lord Lambert had not rescued her, her fate would probably be the same as that of the other tribesmen, being used as a sacrifice in a cult prayer ceremony. Therefore, she was actually very grateful to Ryan's friend, Lambert.

However, it was extremely difficult for Anna to accept the idea of ​​giving up on rescuing her people.

Because Aunt Dranna was also among the captured people, after her mother disappeared, Aunt Dranna was her only relative. In addition, although some pure-blood elves looked down on half-bloods like her, there were also many pure-blood elves who took good care of her.

Therefore, Anna is still feeling very conflicted at the moment.

It is almost impossible to rescue them by relying on your own strength.

But she couldn't bring herself to ask her friend Ryan to try to rescue them again.

"Miss Anna, I will go there again later. At least I can disrupt their rituals and delay their prayer time. As long as your people are alive, we will always have a chance to rescue them." Lambert said after thinking for a while.

"Also, I calculated the time. Lord Ryan should be here soon."

Because Lambert remembered very clearly that according to what Ryan had told him before, he set out a day later than him, and he should most likely be in Ferdinand Forest now.

In fact, Ryan might already be heading towards him.

When Anna heard Lambert mention that Ryan would also be coming, her beautiful eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of brilliance, but then she showed an extremely worried expression and whispered in a low voice:
"But if Ryan faces that person, I'm afraid..."

In Anna's memory, although Ryan was very powerful, he was not an epic-level warrior after all. He was afraid that he would not be able to deal with that person.

Most importantly, she didn't want Ren to take risks because of her or her people.

When the incident happened before, Anna wanted to send a message to Ryan immediately, but after thinking about it, she gave up the idea.

Because she underestimated the enemy's strength at that time, she thought that with the strength of the elves, it would be no problem to resist the opponent's attack, but she didn't expect the enemy to be so strong.

Later, after the battle, Anna never got the chance to send a message to Ryan.

Therefore, this is why Ryan in the imperial capital has not received any message from Anna.

"Don't worry! Miss Anna, once Lord Ryan comes, these difficulties will no longer be difficulties."

"That guy will be defeated, and your people will be saved." Lambert said confidently.

Although the epic warrior of the Secret Snake Cult was very powerful, Lambert had witnessed Ryan's battle against the incarnation of the Goddess of the Underworld in the Dragon Valley Secret Realm, so he naturally had great confidence in Ryan.

At worst, when Ryan arrives, he can take the opportunity to rescue all the elves.

"Sir Lambert, otherwise, please harass them here. I will go to Ferdinand City to report what happened in Bashalan."

"You see, my injuries are now completely healed."

Anna stood up and indicated that the injury on her leg had fully healed.

In the previous battle to protect the town of Basaran, she was injured in the tibia of her left leg. Otherwise, she would not have stayed in this relatively secluded place to recover from her injury first.

"Well, although your injuries healed quickly, your physical strength has not recovered." Lambert shook his head and said.

"Miss Anna, it stands to reason that such a major event happened in the southern part of the forest, but there is still no movement in Ferdinand City. Don't you find this strange?"

"In fact, if you think about it, you should understand that something must have happened in Ferdinand City. So, I'm afraid that it may be meaningless for you to overcome many difficulties and rush over there."

Lambert's words gave Anna some enlightenment!

In terms of combat experience and worldly wisdom, Lambert is naturally much better than Anna, who is like a blank sheet of paper, and he can see the problem very clearly!

"But" Just as Anna was anxiously thinking about what to do.

"who!"

Suddenly, Lambert's face became serious and he looked towards the side of the dense forest.

"clang!"

The next second, Lambert drew his sword like lightning and blocked something.

There was a "chi" sound and a short feather arrow was stuck on the ground.

“It’s really fast!”

At this time, a blond young man in aristocratic hunting suit appeared vaguely in the dense forest, with a long blowpipe in his hand.

But the opponent's sneak attack had already made Lambert quite angry. In addition, he clearly sensed that the opponent was the only one nearby. In this case, the battle venue could not be chosen here.

Don't forget, he promised Ryan that he would protect the safety of Miss Anna beside him, so it would be better to move the battlefield as far away as possible.

"Miss Anna, hide behind the Ironwood Guard!" Lambert said in a deep voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lambert disappeared from the spot like a gust of wind.

Minos, the 'Evil Snake', who was about to say a few words, suddenly had his pupils shrink. Lambert's two-handed sword was already at the gate of the city, and the opponent's speed was faster than he expected!

This made him tiptoe and fly back quickly.

From Anna's perspective, with just two 'swish' sounds, the two figures disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.

She only heard the rumbling sound of high-speed air flow and the sound of a large number of trees breaking and falling coming from that direction. The expected sound of metal clashing only appeared a few times.

Probably less than ten seconds passed.

Suddenly, a familiar figure flashed out from the dense forest. It was Lambert. Just when Anna's face lit up with joy, thinking that Lambert had defeated the opponent, her pretty face changed again.

Because there was a small green snake as thick as a thumb biting Lambert's left shoulder!

"Hey!"

Lambert, expressionless, swung his sword and instantly cut off a piece of meat along with the little snake.

However, the venom of this emerald green snake seemed to be very unusual. Although Lambert had handled it extremely decisively, the blood flowing out of the incision at this moment was bright red mixed with a strange light green fluorescence.

"Oh no! It's highly poisonous!" Anna hurried over, her face pale with fear.

Without waiting for Lambert to say anything, Anna immediately cast her first-level natural witchcraft "Healing", and suddenly, small green leaves emitting light green light formed a small tornado that wrapped Lambert.

And small green leaves, like moths to a flame, continued to rush into Lambert's wound, clinging to and quickly forming a green light film.

But to Anna's surprise, Lambert's wound did not heal and was still bleeding. Her bright green natural energy seemed unable to remove the dark green venom remaining on the wound.

Just as Anna was about to cast the spell again, Lambert waved his hand to stop Anna from casting the spell a second time, saying:
"The opponent's poison is very special. Miss Anna, there is no need to waste your mental energy. The most urgent task is to move immediately."

Although he did not know witchcraft, his strong physique was no less effective than ordinary witchcraft treatments. However, he was still unable to resist the opponent's toxicity. Lambert knew that the opponent's poison was very powerful.

Anna's next move had little effect, but being able to stabilize the toxicity was already great. "But."

"The other party was also seriously injured. He won't dare to come again in the short term. What I'm worried about is that person." Lambert shook his head and said.

Lambert is very confident in his own strength. As long as the opponent is not at the epic level, he will definitely feel uncomfortable if he is hit by his sword with almost all his strength.

In addition, although the two had just fought for a short time, they had already figured out each other's strength level. Moreover, Lambert also saw from the other party's techniques the close connection between the other party and the snake.

Obviously, the other party was a legendary peak powerhouse of the Secret Snake Cult, and was in the same group as the group of Secret Snake Cultists who invaded Bashalan.

After this analysis, Lambert naturally understood that he and Anna had to change places immediately.

"Well, Mr. Lambert, I know a secret shelter nearby that should be safer." Anna nodded and said.

A few kilometers away.

The condition of 'Evil Snake' Minos is also not very good!

"It seems to be the way of the Tide Sword Master. He is very powerful!"

Minos licked his lips, his face had an abnormal flush, and his right hand covered his abdomen. A long and narrow wound still emitted a faint white light. This was Lambert's sword faith entrenched on it.

Because of this, Minos' body was prevented from healing itself quickly.

After finding a safe place, Minos took out a bottle of medicine from his arms and covered the wound. Then, he immediately launched a flare into the air, and a firework signal of a small green snake immediately appeared in the air.

And Quileute, the deputy pope of the Secret Snake Cult, and his group, who were not far away, naturally saw Minos's flare at the first moment.

This made Quileute laugh, and he said, "As expected of the number one 'Evil Snake' among the Secret Serpent Masters, you found that guy so quickly."

"Yes, Lord Minos is very efficient." The members of the Secret Snake Cult nearby immediately agreed with a smile.

"Tell the search team to search in that direction and release the mutant flying snakes. Once they track down that person, immediately release a signal flare. As for the others, continue repairing the ritual."

Quileute said as he gave orders and stood up.

"As you command, Your Excellency the Vice-Pope." The other members of the Secret Snake Cult immediately bowed and said.

Just as Quileute decided to head for the location of the signal, he stopped after taking a step.

He suddenly looked towards the dense forest on the left, smiled, and said, "Huh? Looks like we have guests."

suddenly!

"Whizzing!"

The next second, dozens of feather arrows and javelins attacked the Secret Snake Cult members who were arranging the rituals, but in an instant, they were blocked by a huge light black film shield that suddenly rose up.

Although these feather arrows and short spears were very sharp and thrown with great force, they were unable to penetrate the black film. This showed that the attacker was not as strong as Lambert, who could split the shield with one sword.

At this time, the members of the Secret Snake Cult turned around and released their innate witchcraft to deal with it. They also saw clearly who was coming: a group of tall centaurs.

These centaurs were over two and a half meters tall, with a strong human upper body and a four-hoofed horse lower body. Most of them had brown or gray hair.

However, the one leading the group was a white Centaur over three meters tall, with a middle-aged male face, a moustache, tied hair, and holding a javelin and a shield, appearing extremely strong.

Just now, he was the only one who successfully used a javelin to kill a member of the Snake Cult.

"Foreign invaders, die!"

Seeing that the long-range attack was ineffective, the Centaurs who launched the surprise attack immediately shouted and rushed towards the members of the Secret Snake Cult with great momentum, as if they were planning to use close combat.

With four hooves, they are extremely fast. When dozens of Centaurs charge forward, it feels as if there are thousands or tens of thousands of cavalrymen charging!
The people of the Secret Snake Cult were a little confused when they first saw these centaurs, because these centaurs are almost never seen in the outside world. They are considered a vassal race of the elves and only exist in small numbers in the Ferdinand Forest.

The unknown means uncertainty about one’s strength.

Therefore, when the members of the Secret Snake Cult saw the power of the other side's charge, they showed fear for a moment!
"It's a Centaur? Good. I believe we will get more gifts in the prayer ceremony." When the Vice Pope Quileute of the Secret Snake Cult saw this scene, he laughed.

"Late legendary stage?" Looking at the white centaur Quileute, his smile became even brighter.

He flashed and the next second, he arrived at the center of the battlefield. A man appeared right in front of the charging Centaurs.

Facing the sudden Quileute, the charging white Centaur leader was stunned for a moment, but then his right arm suddenly expanded to twice its size, and he stabbed the Quileute in the javelin in his hand heavily!
In the Centaur leader's view, any enemy would have to dodge his charge, and he could take the opportunity to break into the enemy camp and rescue the elves.

But the result was beyond his expectations!

The metal javelin he thrust out was grasped tightly by the Quileute with a "snap". But that was not all. The next moment, in the horrified eyes of the Centaur leader, he found that the hand holding the javelin was raised up with one hand.

With one hand, the Quileute withstood the charge of the white Centaur leader, who was traveling at hundreds of kilometers per hour and weighed more than half a ton.

This kind of strength
For a moment, the Centaur leader had a very bad premonition in his heart!
Sure enough, immediately afterwards, a terrifying light of will radiated all around!

In an instant, a giant dark-patterned python as thick as a bucket suddenly appeared on each Centaur, and began to wrap around, roll and tighten at the same time!

For a moment, there were continuous screams, and these strong centaurs all fell to the ground. However, the centaurs were still fighting hard with the giant pythons, but the size of these giant pythons seemed to match the strength of the centaurs.

The stronger the strength, the bigger the python!
In particular, the giant python that the white Centaur leader was fighting against was as thick as a millstone and more than ten meters long.

"This is the realm! You. You are epic!"

At this time, the white centaur leader didn't understand! This inconspicuous hooded black-robed man in front of him turned out to be an epic-level strongman.

"You guessed it right, but it's too late!"

"Crack!"

As Quileute stretched out his right hand and clenched it, more than thirty Centaurs in the arena were strangled by the giant python that suddenly exerted force, and their tendons and bones were broken. The sound of broken bones could be heard throughout the arena!

"The Quileute Vice-Pontiff's python domain is becoming more and more powerful."

"Yes, this centaur leader looked very powerful, but unfortunately he was not able to resist."

"The strength of His Excellency the Vice-Pope is beyond doubt. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to capture the Elf Town so easily when we attacked it."

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Many members of the Secret Snake Cult immediately applauded.

"I've always heard that there is a tribe of centaurs in Ferdinand Forest that has long been extinct outside. This time I finally saw a living one."

"Go, arrest these centaurs and sacrifice them together during the prayer ceremony later." Quileute was in a good mood. He pointed at the centaurs lying on the ground and gave the order.

"As you command, Your Excellency the Vice-Pope."

The members of the Secret Snake Cult also had happy expressions on their faces and bowed in response.

Although the biggest beneficiaries of the prayer ceremony are the powerful and high-ranking members of the sect, the upper class eats meat and the lower class can also drink some soup, and those who also participate in the prayer can also get a significant boost in strength.

Of course, in terms of magnitude, it cannot be compared with the top leaders of the sect.

But it exists after all, isn’t it!

This is why, compared to practicing, they are more keen on holding prayer ceremonies, because as long as the sacrifices are of high quality, their strength will increase very quickly!
So, originally, in the eyes of most of the Secret Snake Cult followers, the various powerful creatures that appeared in the Ferdinand Forest were troublesome things that delayed their actions, but now it seems that this is not the case.

These are all the resources for them to improve their strength!

at the same time.

A slender airship as thin as a date pit suddenly flew in the sky dozens of kilometers away from the No. 7 outpost, which immediately attracted the attention of the logistics team left behind by Ryan in the outpost.

"Lady Beyonce, come and see, this airship seems unusual!" A logistics staff member who was responsible for lookout and observation on the airship said immediately.

Colonel Ian in the outpost also received a report from his subordinates at the first time, saying that an unidentified airship had appeared.

For a moment, everyone's attention was focused on this airship.

At this moment, the extremely streamlined airship suddenly began to slow down and slowly stopped in the air several kilometers away from them.

(End of this chapter)