Knight and Wand

Chapter 208 Destroying the Soul Bell
".The master's order. Do not disturb and protect the Soul Summoning Bell"

The corpse wizard sitting on the skeletal warhorse raised his lidless blood-red eyes and looked at the griffin flying in the sky.

Beside the forest hill, the armored warriors of Kantadar, who were silently lined up like sculptures, moved their shriveled and stiff bodies under the armor, raised their swords, spears, axes and hammers, and the roars of the dead souls came from under the helmets with human faces and beards.

The corpse wizard's broken jaw opened, and low chanting accompanied the shaking of the bone staff, and the bells on the soul-summoning carriage rang out more and more loudly.

——Boom! ——

The invisible sound of summoning spirits vibrates in all directions, and the magical ghost bells touch the soul directly.

The whistling devilish sound swept across the griffin's body, and the soaring Deathclaw suddenly let out a mournful cry, and the giant beast's consciousness stagnated.

Leon felt his griffin partner's head begin to feel dizzy and painful. He could no longer maintain the balance of flapping his wings and stumbled down from mid-air.

"Hold on!" he shouted to Olivia behind him.

Boom!

The griffin landed halfway and fell into the group of zombies. Its huge body knocked away a circle of enemies and crushed the zombies under its claws.

The Death Claw shook its dazed head and smelled the strange cries and stench of corruption all around it. It endured the headache and suddenly leaped up, using its huge claws covered in blood and minced meat to knock away all the zombies that were surrounding it.

".Lola, what happened to the Deathclaw?"

Leon gripped the saddle tightly, watching the griffin angrily pounce on the corpses below, wondering for a moment what it had just encountered.

".The bell sound containing the magic of summoning souls can attract souls to gather. When the magic power is increased to a sufficient level, it can even directly extract the souls of weak-willed living people from their bodies. Although this child is not that fragile, he is still a living thing after all. You don't know any protective spells, and it will be difficult for him to resist the pain of his soul being torn apart." Laura explained in Leon's mind.

Leon was puzzled. He also heard the bell, but he did not feel the mental attack. "Then why am I okay? Did you protect me just now?"

".Yeah." Laura did not deny it and responded in this way.

Leon turned around quickly: “Olivia, did you feel pain when you heard the bell?”

"Pain? What?" Olivia grabbed the bumpy passenger seat and shook her head blankly: "I'm fine."

Hearing that her voice through the mask did not sound like she was trying to show off, Leon felt relieved.

"Don't be afraid. This level of magical effect is not enough to affect the magical field in Olivia's body." Before Laura's words of comfort fell, she suddenly paused and issued a warning.

"After three breaths, move to the right! There is a spell locking onto the direction where the bell sound came from, a direct-hit spell."

Leon did not dare to delay. He turned his gaze towards the forest hills on the east side and conveyed the order to the Death Claw under him.

It happened so quickly, in just a few seconds of delay, a strange light flashed in the direction where the enemy spellcaster was suspected to be hiding.

The griffin flapped its wings, leaped forward, and dodged according to its partner's instructions.

An ear-piercing scream came instantly——!
The eardrum-shattering roar was like the screams of countless resentful souls. The dark green torrent passed through all the zombies that stood in its way, without any regard for the "friendly forces".

Bang! The magic that came straight at the Death Claw landed on its original location, and a large area of ​​ghost fire exploded and rose.

Just as Leon steadied his body on the griffin's back, he heard horrifying cries and screams coming from the ghost fire that was hit by the torrent of magic power.

A large amount of green fire suddenly rose up, condensing into dark green shadows flying all over the sky, turning into vengeful spirits that demanded the lives of the living.

Flying ghosts, holding translucent knives, swords, daggers, and even sickles and hoes, pounced towards the griffin.

Leon quickly activated the Molten Blade of the Magic Gun.

The simple-minded griffin had never seen this strange enemy before, and the giant beast instinctively swung its forelimbs.

However, the huge claws pierced through the spirit without causing any damage, while the ghost blades made the griffin's armor clang and even the exposed skin of the giant beast was cut with wounds.

The feathers were blown into a frenzy by the ghost, and the pain was like being bitten, making the Deathclaw scream in anger.

Leon immediately ordered the griffin to jump back quickly and lower its huge body.

The vengeful spirit chased after him, and the knight on the griffin's back raised his flaming blade and slashed out.

The blade of the magic wand flicked out a dazzling arc of flames, which blasted the incoming vengeful spirit to pieces.

The molten fire burned through the spirits, and amid the ghosts' screams, the hideous shadows once again disintegrated into pure soul fire.

Ordinary iron can hardly harm pure spirits, but the elemental fire condensed by magic power can effectively destroy the condensed energy state of ghosts.

While the molten flames were forcing the ghosts back, Leon pulled the reins and urged the griffin to gallop.

When the few are against the many, it is always the same truth that you must capture the leader first. You cannot waste time fighting with these ghosts for too long, as who knows how many more the enemy can summon.

Under the strange celestial realm, even if he dispersed the resentful souls, he could not make these undead souls fall into the Sea of ​​Death. Moreover, his magic power had not yet recovered to its full strength, and he was also unable to support a long battle.

The giant beast, having recovered a little, turned around, abandoned the group of resentful ghosts, and swiftly moved towards Lin Qiu, rumbling over the group of zombies that blocked its way.

Olivia turned her head while being bumped around, staring at the group of evil spirits that were getting closer and closer to her. She suddenly reached out to untie the saddle straps, and with a flip, she jumped off the back of the charging griffin.

"!!" Hearing the noise behind him, Leon's heart tightened. He pulled the reins tightly to stop the griffin's pace and looked back.

The strong breath of the living attracted almost all the ghosts like schools of fish in the sea.

The knight girl fell to the ground, raised her sword fearlessly, and concentrated her mind.

In an instant, dazzling gold bloomed in Olivia's eyes behind the visor. The extremely powerful magic element rose up to create an invisible force field, and a slight whirlwind blew around the petite figure.

A large group of ghosts swung their blades and attacked the girl who was standing there with screams.

call--

Before the shadows came into contact with the girl's body, they dissipated one after another like moths to a flame.

Olivia concentrated her mind to maintain the strength that filled her whole body, and slashed out with her sword.

The magic disturbance field wrapped around the sharp blade smashed the last few spirits that did not dodge or evade into pieces.

The girl turned around and slashed, the blade of the sword swept across the corpses that gathered around her and rushed towards her. With a flash of cold light, a circle of corpses were cut in half.

Before the corpses with bared fangs and claws fell to the ground, the girl turned around, took a step, dodged left and right, crossed the surging tide of corpses, and ran back to the feet of the griffin.

"We have to fight together! If you sit in the back, I will interfere with your magic." Olivia stood with a sword in hand, looked up and said solemnly.

Leon nodded without saying anything more, and urged the griffin to charge again.

Indeed, if the girl is kept by his side, the two of them will not be able to fight freely as they counteract each other.

As the most powerful champion knight in Avalon, the girl's abilities did not require him to take care of her in every way.
".Stop them."

Looking at the griffin that had already rushed through the zombies, calling on more zombies around to give up the siege and surround and delay the disruptive beast, the corpse wizard mobilized the dead soul guards in front of him, and advanced towards the enemy with a neat pace far superior to that in life. His five fingers like dead wood clasped into the eye sockets of the head at the top of the bone staff, and he chanted through his leaky teeth.

He pulled his hand out suddenly, pulled a ball of soul from the wand and threw it into the corpse cart, activating the bell again.

The resounding bell rang out with a wave of sound, and the shrill cry of an eagle was heard by the corpse wizard.

The wizard's festering face revealed a hideous expression that might indicate satisfaction.
It's very close.

Hearing the Deathclaw's even more painful screams, Leon had no choice but to hold the reins, frowning in guilt.

We cannot allow our valued partners to suffer further harm.

Facing the powerful necromancy magic, Olivia can be immune because she has Laura's protection, but the Death Claw can no longer hold on.

However.
Looking at the army marching forward, Leon saw at least a thousand undead warriors wearing heavy armor, more powerful than zombies.

Without the beast's impact force, he and Olivia were unable to break through an elite army of this size.

Is there no other way? At this distance, can Isha's arrow hit? I only have enough magic power to try to fire once. If it fails, I can only retreat with Olivia.

Before he was about to consider giving up, Leon looked at the wand in his hand and came up with an idea.

Giving orders to the griffin to assist Olivia in retreating to the rear, he untied the straps and jumped off the saddle, calling on the girl to cooperate.

"Olivia, throw me onto the heads of those undead with all your strength!"

Upon hearing this, the knight girl understood the proposal tacitly in the blink of an eye. The daily play and training between the two of them was the most effective means of breakthrough at this moment.

The girl stuck the sword into the ground, grabbed Leon's arm tightly, turned around with herself as the axis, and let out a delicate cry under the helmet.

With a bang, Leon was thrown into the air by the girl like a discus.

Flying high into the air, holding the magic spear upside down and feeling the sudden weightlessness, he leaped to the top of rows of heavily armored undead, his vision sweeping across the army of zombies.

Even Olivia, who possessed inhuman strength, could not throw herself across this array of troops. If she fell into it, she would undoubtedly be smashed into an evenly distributed iron-covered meat paste by countless swords, guns, axes and hammers.

But with half the distance and height of the leap, Flying Thunder God is enough to fly over!
His eyes were fixed on the conspicuous cart and horse-riding figures in the distance. Before reaching the highest point, Leon threw Gungnir with all his might.

The boiling power of the knight caused the magic spear with molten flames to streak across the heads of the undead like a meteor and fall deeply into the mound where the target was.

The drawn electric arc exploded on Leon's body in an instant, turning it into a streak of flying lightning.

Witnessing the javelin falling to the ground not far away, the corpse wizard was a little slow to react and hurriedly raised his bone staff to deal with the sudden change.

Urging his horse to retreat, he quickly cast a spell to summon skeleton will-o'-the-wisp, and swung it at the knight who was leaping towards him with arcs of electricity all over his body.

Seeing the wizard-like corpse casting dangerous spells, Leon quickly turned his wand over and used the clever cat-spin technique to change his falling trajectory.

He barely dodged the attack and caught the magic spear that flew back into his hand. However, the force of the fall was not fully cushioned and he had to roll over the instant he hit the ground, causing the mud to rub all over his body.

Before he could recover from the dizziness of the collision, he heard the sound of galloping horses and threw out a card with his left hand.

Throwing Canis's black card forward, he summoned the "meat shield" without hesitation to block the attack.

"! It's such a dark place again?" The young master of the Wolf family exclaimed in surprise in the flash.

--clang!

Before the magic particles of light disappeared, Canis swiftly raised his shield to block the sound of the wind.

The corpse wizard's bone staff slammed heavily on the kite shield, and the ghost sickle condensed at the end penetrated the entity as if it were nothing, but it could not withstand the interference when it came into contact with the wolf-patterned armor, and it turned into mist and dissipated with a crash.

The nightmarish corpse horses galloped past, and Canis was knocked back by the impact of the horses and fell heavily on Leon.

The corpse wizard pulled the reins and turned his mount around. Feeling that the shaping death sickle on the magic wand failed to work, the incomplete consciousness raised the bone staff in anger and mobilized the corpse ghost guards behind him to turn around on the spot and immediately come back to guard the soul bell.

Hearing the scream from the dead head, Leon pushed away Canis who was pressing him down and stood up.

Glancing at the corpse wizard sitting on the skeleton warhorse and the huge clock-shaped corpse cart, he decided to eliminate the primary target.

"Canis, stop that necromancer for me."

"Damn it, you should find a way to notify me before fighting next time!"

The young master of the Wolf family dispersed the shield spirit in his hand, drew his sword, and charged towards the necromancer riding on the corpse horse.

Leon rushed towards the disgusting ghost corpse car with the magic gun in hand.

Just relying on himself and Canis, they cannot kill the wizard before the Death Guards arrive. But with Deathclaw and Olivia, they can still fight. They must destroy the big bell that prevents the griffin from approaching.

The corpse wizard had no time to pay attention to the attacking Canis. Seeing that the ritual altar granted by his master was in danger, he hurriedly ordered the skeleton beasts pulling the carriage to flee, and cast a spell to release the resentful souls on the cart in order to delay the opponent.

But ignoring a Knight of the Order of Arms was obviously not wise, and Canis cut off the front legs of the skeletal warhorse with just one sword.

The young master of the Wolf family, who was also deceased, raised his sword sideways and slashed at the wizard who had stumbled off his horse in one continuous motion, easily chopping off the head of the corpse that looked no different from a dead person.

Watching the headless corpse tumbling to the ground, Canis felt a little relieved. Both publicly and privately, killing a wizard made him feel very happy.

But before he could feel proud for a few seconds, he found that the wizard whose head had been chopped off was crawling up again with the help of a bone staff.

Seeing that this undead was even tougher than the zombies in the forest, Canis cursed angrily, picked up his sword and continued to chop at him.
As the corpse cart sped faster and faster, an eerie green light emerged from the surface of the bell that desecrated all living things. The liberated resentful souls roared and rushed towards the nearest living being.

Leon waved his wand and ran madly to catch up with the car body. He used the Molten Blade to smash the obstructing ghosts one after another. He swung the gun blade with his backhand to cut off the sharp stakes that pierced the corpses. He jumped to grab the edge, stepped on the axle and climbed onto the truck bed full of corpses.

The mutilated corpse in the car grabbed Leon and opened its big mouth to bite the knight's plate armor in vain.

Enduring the bloody stench rising from inside, Leon used brute force to break free from the corpse that was pulling at him.

"The pedestal in the middle under the pendulum, destroy it, then jump out of the car."

With Laura's guidance, Leon had to ignore the pull of the dead souls, endure the shrill ghost screams, and quickly crawl under the bell, smashing down Gungnir to pierce the core of the ritual covered with runes.

click-

Seeing the dazzling green light spreading along the cracks, Leon remembered the power of Amon's wand exploding, and quickly drew back the blade and turned to flee.

He stepped deeply and shallowly on the pile of corpses on the cart, then stepped over the frame and jumped down.

The next moment, the violent explosion blew his body away, and the faint light on the bell spread out.

The out-of-control summoning magic was like a punctured sack, and countless wandering souls rushed into the sky from the corpse cart.

(End of this chapter)