The mage arrives

"Quick, it's now!" Gordon shouted, and with a flick of his fingertips, a large net composed of countless shining bright lines was instantly released.

Just as the shining net covering the past came into contact, the pitch-black evil spirit screamed, attacking with negative energy sonic waves, and immediately deciphered the four-ring spell.

Although Gordon was already mentally prepared for how powerful this evil spirit living in Strindberg was.However, he was still a little surprised to see that the other party had easily deciphered the spell that he had mastered extremely proficiently.

Fortunately, the 75 points of mana he spent on the instant spell was not completely useless, at least it slowed down the enemy's movements.

After receiving Gordon's order, the eight priests headed by Mrs. Dana immediately started the magic ceremony.

Although they are not experts in slaughtering undead who believe in good gods, these Lierya believers are still relatively good at dealing with undead as priests.

Nine graceful beauties chanted a prayer, praising the name of Goddess Lierya.Their soft and seductive voices seem to have a special magical power, which attracts the divine power of the goddess to descend.The magic circle drawn with magic powder on the ground began to shine brightly at this time, and the incense smoke rising around the priests seemed to come alive under the influence of divine power, transforming into forest deer, unicorns, swans and other sacred creatures. And beautiful creatures.

Mrs. Dai Na raised her hands, opened and closed out of thin air.A layer of light white transparent mask, as if falling straight from the high-altitude clouds, descended on the head of the evil spirit.Then trap it completely.

After the range of activities was restricted within the narrow range of the mask, the evil spirits also realized that something was wrong.It immediately and continuously hit the translucent energy layer, and also continuously made a screaming sound that seemed to be able to pierce the eardrum.

Those citizens in the square who were called by Gordon to watch the excitement.At this moment, they all covered their ears with pale faces.They looked at the evil creatures floating above the castle and their range of activities was firmly restricted, and they couldn't help but have doubts in their hearts.

Isn't it the spirit of the island that lives in Strindberg in the legend?Why such a horrible, evil creature?Could it be that the long-standing legends are all wrong?

Gordon stared at the midair solemnly, raised one arm high, and then swung forward violently.

After getting the order from the lord.The half-elf's pointy ears quivered with excitement, and he shouted, "Fire the arrow, shoot the arrow. Aim at that dark ghost and shoot freely!"

As soon as the words fell, he immediately took the lead in shooting a special arrow soaked in holy water with his beloved longbow.

A mask made by Lirya believers using divine rituals.Can trap undead.But it will not block any other attacks without negative energy attributes.So Yang Qi's sharp-eared arrow passed through the mask without hindrance, and then hit the evil spirit.

This powerful undead creature, the hidden energy contained in its body is so powerful that the entire arrow was quickly and completely corroded after being shot into its body.

However, the evil spirit still screamed in pain, and a wisp of smoke rose from its body.This shows that the holy water on the arrow had an effect, and the opponent was injured.

Yang Qi's sharp-eared arrow was just a prelude.Immediately afterwards, the redstone guards who received the order also aimed the loaded crossbow at the target.Then the trigger was pulled.

A hundred arrows fired.

The light trembling sound of the crossbow string is like a declaration that the undead are about to be wiped out.Although the black evil spirit tried its best to avoid these holy water-stained crossbow bolts, the range available for movement was too small.Under such a dense covering attack, it has nowhere to hide.

Crossbow arrows shot into the evil spirit's body one after another, and were completely melted by its terrifying dark energy, turning into piles of black powder.

As the sea breeze blew, these black powders were scattered one after another. From a distance, it seemed that a local black snow had fallen within the range of Strindberg.

However, although the bodies of those crossbow arrows were corroded, the positive energy attached to the arrowheads because of the holy water had actually caused damage to the evil spirits.

The damage caused by an arrow may be negligible, but if it continues to accumulate like this, it will be considerable.

While expressing the anger in its heart with screams of pain, the evil spirit rammed around, trying to break open the cage created by the divine ritual.Under its continuous attacks, the blackness of its body began to dissipate slowly, from the originally too thick ink color to a state that seemed to be covered with a layer of gray and white.

Even Gordon was able to see clearly that the evil spirit's face, which was originally covered in a layer of black mist, gradually became clearer, showing the outline of a layer of facial features.

"This is..." Quincy stood under the four gravity catapults—only distance could give him a sense of security when facing such a powerful undead creature.But despite the fear in his heart, this middle-aged knight, who was as curious as a child, still watched the battlefield with a telescope.

When the evil spirit revealed his face, Quincy recalled that before he came to Cloudscale City to take office, he had seen the portrait of Earl Sterling, the first special administrator of the Haiwen Peninsula, and found that the two were almost exactly the same .

"Although there are many unreliable legends about this castle, at least one thing is correct, that is, the evil spirit of the castle that has endangered the entire peninsula for many years is the incarnation of Earl Stirling."

Although Earl Stirling's evil spirit was unusually powerful, with Gordon's full preparations, the battle situation was still moving in his favor.

While paying attention to the situation in mid-air, the black-haired mage threw out one or two spells from time to time to cause a little more damage to the evil spirits.Although his various evocation school spells are not as capable of completely restraining evil spirits as divine spells, but at least arcane energy can cause damage to such spirit creatures, and will not be completely useless like physical weapons.

Seeing Gordon deal with that powerful evil spirit calmly, the female knight stood beside Xiona, thinking with lingering fear: "If I had followed my advice and honestly organized an elite team, and then entered the St. If you investigate inside Limburg, I'm afraid it will be dangerous now. This evil spirit lives in Strindberg, which is equivalent to having its own inherent domain blessing. Its strength is at least twice as strong as what you see now. Really Faced with such a powerful guy, I'm afraid everyone will die inside..."

In terms of strength alone, this evil spirit is probably at level [-], infinitely close to a legendary state.And this is when the sun is weakening during the day.If you are in the middle of Strindberg, with the blessing of your own long-term management domain, its threat may be comparable to that of a legendary creature.

Although Sigrid is very confident in her own strength.But he wasn't arrogant enough to think that with the addition of Gordon brothers and sisters, he could defeat the legendary creature.

Just when the female knight was secretly afraid, the battle situation suddenly changed.

The evil spirit that has been struggling frantically trying to break through the mask.Suddenly, countless blue-black light balls flew out of the body.Each of these light spheres is about the size of a coconut, and under the command of the evil spirit, they are connected in a string, constantly hitting the light shield to resist the arrows.And even more goosebumps.These balls of light actually laughed like little girls.

There was a trace of innocence in that laugh.There is no pleasant taste, but after listening to it, people feel cold from the soles of the feet to the scalp.

Gordon couldn't help thinking of the horror movies he had seen on Earth with elements such as "ghost dolls", "evil babies", and "spiritual children".

"Damn, what's going on here?" Gordon looked carefully, only to find that among those balls of light were little girls with transparent wings.

"Little fairies? How could they be controlled by these evil spirits?"

The goblin is a kind of fine creature formed by various energies active in nature.They actually have no gender.However, it usually appears as a little girl of eleven or twelve years old.These creatures have dragonfly or butterfly-like wings and are only about ten centimeters tall.Because their own attributes are different, their personalities are also very different, but there are very few evil ones, at best they can be regarded as naughty and annoying.

Seeing those balls of light glowing with blue light, Gordon believed that these goblins should be of water attribute.However, fine creatures like goblins who are close to nature generally stay away from cemeteries, tombs, and ancient battlefields where there is a lot of negative energy and where undead breed.

After all, creatures like undead exist against the laws of nature, and are inherently inconsistent with fine creatures.So when Gordon saw that the evil spirit could actually control the goblin, he found it inconceivable.

But no matter how unreasonable, the truth is always there.

The appearance of these goblins changed the situation of the battle.The series of impacts of the light sphere actually caused the mask to become unstable.With each impact, ripples of energy spread out in circles, making the onlookers jump in fear, fearing that the mask would burst suddenly, and then the evil spirits would rush out and kill.

Gordon noticed that the nine priests who were maintaining the magic ritual were all showing uncomfortable expressions, frowning, and struggling to support themselves.He immediately walked to the middle of the four runes drawn on the ground: Alur, Axie, Dorden, and Sluby, and then took out a holly agate from the inner pocket of the mage robe.

Along with a series of chants, Gordon started the magic ritual.

That's right, what he and Madam Dai Na have prepared for today is a double ceremony combining magic and divine art.

A divine ritual performed by a priest is used to trap that evil spirit.And the magic ceremony that Gordon started was used in case of emergencies.This magic ritual can improve the spiritual power and perception of everyone within a certain range.After the blessing of this magic ceremony, the nine priests not only had stronger willpower, but also could communicate with the gods more smoothly, gain more divine power, and strengthen the precarious mask under the attack of evil spirits.

As a result, the form is reversed again.The originally translucent white magic mask, after being strengthened, looks like a thick layer of oil is attached to the clear water.Even the white divine magic light became sticky, firmly blocking the attack of the evil spirits.

After realizing that his attack was completely ineffective and reduced to a futile struggle, the evil spirit became even crazier.Its face became clearer and clearer, as if it was a distorted face that had been tortured to death by countless illnesses, and it kept making sharp, short whistling sounds.

However, neither Gordon, the priests, nor the Redstone Guards were affected, and they still performed their duties.I am afraid that the most uncomfortable ones are the citizens in the temporary square.There are already many mentally weak people.Under the attack of the evil spirit's sound waves, she fell unconscious, foaming at the mouth, and twitching all over.

These people have long been in the mood to go to Gordon who dared to blaspheme the island spirit.I just beg that the newly appointed lord can show his might, wipe out that terrible evil spirit, and restore the peace of the peninsula.

The lord seems to have lived up to the expectations of these people.When the battle situation reached a stalemate, he made another move.

When Gordon raised his hand and flicked it, a ball of light that was particularly dazzling even in the daytime rose into the sky.Of course, this lighting technique has no effect on the evil spirits.

But 500 meters away.The four gravity trebuchets that had already razed the entire Strindberg to ruins moved again.

"Quick, the Lord Lord's signal is here. Hurry up. Replace the stone bullets with shotguns!" Dalinar, who was fully in charge of commanding the catapult, said hastily.

Under his command, workers loaded catapults with bales of stones bound with barbed wire.The size of these stones is similar to that of an adult's fist, and each of them is extremely smooth, with excellent ballistic performance.After launching.The hit rate is also high.

And the most special thing is that these stones have all been soaked in holy water for a long time, and the surface is covered with a layer of strong positive energy.

After readjusting the shooting angle and the counterweight of the trebuchet, Dalinar immediately ordered: "Fire!"

Four large packages of stones whizzed over the heads of nearly ten thousand citizens in the temporary square, and when they flew over Strindberg, the barbed wire that bound the stones burst open suddenly.

So, these stones soaked in holy water.They hit the evil spirit overwhelmingly.

This instant firepower density is higher than that of the crossbow arrows of the Redstone Guards.ten times higher.

After hearing Gordon's idea, Dalinar excitedly named this momentum "Holy Water Hail".The newly promoted first-ring mage continued his efforts and ordered the trebuchet to launch two more rounds.

Overwhelming stones flew overhead, and because they were too dense, Gordon couldn't even see the effect of the attack.It wasn't until Dudley gave the order to stop the attack that he saw that the originally pitch-black evil spirit had turned into a translucent form, almost indistinguishable from the spirit creatures he usually sees.

At this time, Gordon took out the Nesser staff calmly, and then fired all three powerful missile storms stored in it.

As the lord, and the planner of today's battle, he certainly has the right to make the final blow.

Under the continuous bombardment of standing energy, Earl Sterling's spiritual body was constantly torn, shattered, and then dissipated into pieces of translucent fragments, and then melted under the sunlight.

Gordon received a notification from the system that he had obtained 2000 experience points.

Although he didn't completely kill it by himself, but only completed the final blow, this powerful evil spirit still provided Gordon with such a huge amount of experience points.Coupled with the previous series of battles and the gains from reading books every day, now Gordon has stored 7669 experience points in his experience pool.It is already very close to the 9000 experience points required to upgrade to level ten.

The evil spirits have been eradicated, and the most obvious change is that Strindberg, which exuded a cold and biting aura, has no abnormality now, but has become a ruin by the sea.

Well, when Gordon was thinking this way, he suddenly saw many blue light balls with an astonishing number appearing in midair where the evil spirits were originally.

These are the goblins who were controlled by the evil spirits just now.At this time, the black evil energy covering them had dissipated, and they had returned to their original state.

However, unlike professionals like Gordon, soldiers can see changes at a glance.Yang Qi Jian Er had the quickest reaction, and immediately saw these little uninvited guests appearing in midair.He immediately yelled "Shoot quickly, there are remnants of the enemy!", and then hit the arrow and shot.

A round of arrows flew by, and these goblins screamed and ran around in fright.After finally dodging the arrows, he immediately fled into the ruins of Strindberg at lightning speed.

"My lord..." The half-elf seemed embarrassed by his rare miss, and looked at Gordon with a face of shame.

"It doesn't matter." Gordon waved his hand, "Those goblins have already got rid of the control of the evil spirits, and they are no threat to us. The most they will hate you, the villain who shot them, may run away while you are making out with the beautiful women in the future." Come and make a big fuss, just scare you so much that you won’t move.”

"This..." The half-elf also thought of those goblins who like to play tricks on people in the legends, and his expression became even uglier.

Gordon ignored the restless retainers and looked at the ruins of Strindberg: "I am afraid that there is more than just an evil spirit living in this castle. Why did the undead of Earl Stirling disappear in just ten years?" , can grow so powerful. Why those goblins also live in the castle, this is very interesting."

Gordon is sure that there are still things in the castle that are worthy of his own interest and to explore for himself.

"Yang Qi, you rest for a while. After lunch, let the Redstone Guards seal the castle. Then ask Dalina and Douluo's guys to explore the ruins of the castle. If you find anything unusual, come immediately. Find me." Gordon ordered.

Many of Douro's guys are retired adventurers, and they are naturally good at searching for ruins.Under Gordon's guidance, Dalinar also possessed considerable arcane and occult knowledge.Gordon believes that with the efforts of these professionals, the secrets in the castle will soon be discovered. (To be continued..)