Knight and Wand

Chapter 364: Foreign Lands Converge (It’s the beginning of the month, please give me some monthly votes)
Finally arriving back at the border of the Lion Scorpion Valley, Corvis rode his Hippogriff through the clouds and tilted his head to look down at the ground. When he saw the Undead army gathered outside the ruins of the town, as well as the Allied Forces soldiers and the Avalon flag stationed in the town, he was stunned.

Did Leon call the army here?
The eagle carrying the book bag suddenly flapped its wings and landed in front of a crater in the town that looked like it had been hit by a meteorite.

Azerien, Lohak, David and others, wearing armor and holding sharp weapons and looking anxious, immediately came forward.

Unable to contain his anxiety, Lohak pulled Corvis around the pit and walked towards the big clock in front: "You are finally back. None of us knows witchcraft. Come and see what is going on!"

Corvis was dragged by him and staggered a little. Seeing the Griffin Deathclaw leaning in front of the altar soul bell, as if guarding against something, he couldn't help but wonder why two of his companions were missing.

"Where are Leon and Olivia?"

Azerien, who was following behind, froze with a look of guilt on his face, and hurriedly told Corvis about the shocking incident of the two people's disappearance half a month ago.

"After you left that night, the Soul Clock of the Dead suddenly started in the middle of the night. We thought the enemy was about to open the Dark Gate to send out the Undead Army. When we were retreating, huge tentacles stretched out from it as if to welcome us, and entangled Leon and Olivia. When Angert and I gathered the zombie army from outside the town to support us, Leon and Olivia had disappeared without a trace."

The Blood Knight Angert at the side continued: "Those are the demon's tentacles. I have seen those tentacles before in Rolandar. The evil monster that awakened us had flesh and blood tendrils of that shape all over its body."

"What!" Corvis was shocked when he heard this, shook off Lohak's arm, and strode to the clock.

But looking at the soul bell, which was as dull and lifeless as scrap metal when he first checked it, Corvis could only frown helplessly and turned back to ask Azerien about the details of what happened after he left.

After listening to the story, Corvis recalled what he had gained in the Mage Tower and fell into deep thought.

Demon Soul Bell Teleport Magic.
The Other Dimension. Crane
"Akao, were Leon and Olivia captured by the corpse wizard of Aviut using some kind of dark door? Where should we go to rescue them?!" Lohak asked anxiously.

Upon learning that their best friend was in danger, he and David led the Jihad Army to the scene as quickly as possible. However, even after searching the surrounding areas for many days, they still could not find any trace of their missing companions. But he never believed that the two would be killed so easily.

"I can't be sure. After going back to study and read the ancient materials, I have some guesses about the truth of the Soul Bell Magic and the Dark Gate. If my guess is correct, they may not just be captured by the enemy."

Corvis calmed down his anxious mind and patiently explained to his companions:
"Remember those soul altars of all sizes scattered throughout the Undead Plague? I once... figured out by chance that the powerful magic ritual was intended to forcibly pull an alien dimension from another world into our world, allowing the two different realms to intersect.

I don't know what the purpose of the spiritual demon that caused the undead disaster was. After the Battle of Rolandar, I thought I had destroyed the magic ritual set up by the demon.

Now, the influence of the great magic ritual may still be continuing, but the efficiency and method have changed. The "Dark Door" used by the necromancers of Avilut and Atias may just be a means under the influence of their magic. I guess the disappearance of Leon and Olivia is also related to the great magic that attempts to connect the two realms. "

As he spoke, he looked at Azerien and said solemnly, "I'm going to see your father. It's difficult for us to investigate this matter in the south of Kantardar alone. This is not only related to the whereabouts of Leon and Olivia. If my guess that the great magic is still being carried out in secret is correct, then this matter is very important. No one can predict what will happen if the intersecting planes successfully merge with our world. Maybe there will be endless foreign monsters appearing on our land, and maybe the demons will take this opportunity to come again. Now, the Blood Baron must help us stop this conspiracy."

Before Azerien could reply, Angert touched his chin with his long, sharp fingers: "My lord is now obsessed with destroying the Ghoul Lord Avilut. It may be difficult for you to convince him to help you."

"These two things are not contradictory!" Corvis looked at the Blood Knight with a burning gaze: "You were able to regain your sanity from the control of the demons, all thanks to the fact that my Lord led the Crusade Army and the coalition forces of Heraen in Rolandar to banish those two rebellious spirit demons from this world.

But if the demons' intentions continue, once they have the means to return to our world, then Lord Shaleman, Aviut, and the Atias wizard Karazik who has turned into an undead, all the undead will once again become slaves controlled by the demons, and Lord Shaleman's revenge will never be completed!"

Azerien didn't want to delay any longer and said without hesitation: "I understand. I will go with you to convince my father."

"I'll go too." David stepped forward, pressing the hilt of his sword. "Lord Leon has encountered such danger in order to free my father. The Thorn Flower Family will not sit idly by. I have sent someone back to Glade County to deliver an urgent letter to my brother. In the name of my father, my brother will definitely send a large army to help. If it is really Avilut who has kidnapped Lord Leon and Miss Olivia, we will help Baron Shaleman march south to attack the Lord of the Corpses and rescue them."

Upon hearing this, Azerien's mind raced, and he turned and called out to the back, "Sir Treya!"

Not far away, the Swift Knight who was talking to the quartermaster turned around and responded immediately, running towards him with his pigtails swaying behind his head.

"Take some knights and rush back to Sobonitz Territory. Explain the situation to the alliance representatives of Baron Ivan and Princess Ines. Make sure to gather the alliance army and station them at the border of Shannan Territory. Be on the alert for any unusual movements of the undead at any time and wait for our next news. If the demonic conspiracy speculated by Corvis is still going on, I'm afraid a war will break out soon!"

The worried Treia's face turned serious, and she touched her chest and said, "As you command!"

Under the dark sky.

In the bloody mansion
The dense and rapid footsteps of military boots broke the silence of this secret blood sacrifice site in the wilderness.

Teams of soldiers wearing black bulletproof armor with blood-red symbols printed on them and wearing imaging devices on their heads quickly and nimbly broke into the courtyard of the mansion.

Armed with rifles, they searched every corner inside and outside the building complex in a well-trained manner.

On the avenue outside the courtyard, infantry fighting vehicles and tanks exuding ferocious momentum surrounded the place tightly, with black machine guns and cannon muzzles pointing at the buildings, as if facing a powerful enemy.

In the air, a propeller was flying quickly from far away, making a loud clattering sound.

After the pilot heard the safety message on the communicator, he slowly lowered the hovering helicopter gunboat.

The hatch opened, but no ropes were lowered. A group of figures in black coats jumped down from a height of almost three stories.

There were a few dull thuds, and the people who fell into the courtyard were unharmed.

They entered the mansion in silence, climbed the stairs amid the soldiers' salute, and walked into the front hall covered in scarlet blood.

The bald man in the lead had a pale and fierce look and scanned the corpses on the ground with bloodshot eyes.

Among these corpses, there are many big shots, all of whom were local high-ranking politicians and wealthy tycoons before they converted and were upgraded to bloodlines.

Of course, now they and their bodyguards have all turned into broken arms and limbs all over the ground, even more fragmented than the living sacrifices in the blood sacrifice ceremony.

Looking at the tragic scene of slaughter, the leading vampire glanced at it indifferently, and then focused on the strange traces of battle around him.

The marks left by bullets and explosive grenades were easy to identify, but the horrific dents on the walls, floors, and columns, as if they were hit and cut by industrial machines, as well as the remains of the blood guards, were difficult to identify.

The bald blood descendant walked to the end of a corridor on one side, squatted down, looked at the hole in the wall on the side, and then looked at the body of the guard on the ground that seemed to be split in half vertically by a cutting machine, and the body next to it that was cut in half and had its head crushed by something.

Is this really caused by cold weapons?

The flesh on the bald man in black's face twitched slightly, he bared his fangs and licked the protruding sharp teeth. If it weren't for the frightened words of those powerful people who survived and escaped, he would not dare to be so sure of his judgment.

The synthetic monsters in the laboratory may also have such power, but they obviously do not have enough intelligence to use weapons.

The bald man cast his gaze from the hole in the wall into the dim ceremony hall, staring at the grooves of the ancient magic patterns that had been pockmarked by bullets.

Did these people really summon something? Did they summon the Blood God's messenger?
But the blood god Skoosh hasn't responded to the call for a long time.

"Go to the monitoring room." The bald man in black turned around and led his subordinates quickly through the corridor to the building connected to the side wing.

Some soldiers had already kicked open the computer room of the monitoring room and adjusted the recording time back to several hours ago.

Now that the order of the old era has completely collapsed, the blood sacrifice ceremony no longer has to worry about being leaked. Even at sites of live sacrifices of this scale, security surveillance cameras are unscrupulously turned on to record these bloody scenes that must never be exposed to the world in the past.

After hitting the play button, the bald man in black crossed his arms and looked at the surveillance playback in the small boxes on the screen.

He didn't pay attention to the beheading and torture of the sacrifices during the ceremony. Soon, when he saw a spherical black ball of abnormal vision actually appeared in the ceremony hall, the bald man's eyebrows couldn't help but tremble.

Seeing that the blood sacrifice ritual successfully triggered a magical scene, he bent down slightly, pressed the pause button, and saw what the survivors said were two living men and women wearing antique armor who broke into the ceremony.

Why did these two living people suddenly appear in the sacrificial ceremony to summon the Blood God?
This puzzled the bald man even more than the fact that the Blood God finally responded to his believers again.

He continued to play the surveillance video, and what appeared next in the eyes of the vampires was a one-sided massacre.

The two knights on the screen seemed to have walked out of an ancient painting. Their extraordinary strength and speed made the bald man instinctively clench his fingers.

Dozens of bloodline veterans who came rushing over were torn to pieces by the two young men and women using cold weapons.

With just a brief comparison, he knew that even if he was at the scene, he would not have a good ending.

"Is this what they call 'magic'?" The bald man pressed the pause button again and looked at the azure arc blooming on the silver spear in the hand of the tall male knight.

Behind the bald man, a blood descendant in black said, "Sir, could it be that those guys who worship the 'alien god Valari' are behind this?" He really couldn't understand why two living people would jump out of the ceremony of sacrificing to the blood god.

The bald man in black shook his head and said in a nonchalant voice, "Whether it is true or not, we can't let them get away. Report to the Blood Nest and have the nearest troops dispatched to search for the two survivors. There is no need to capture them alive. If they are dead, turn them into blood slaves."

After hearing the order given by the leader in front, a man among the blood descendants in black looked at the picture on the surveillance screen.

He frowned slightly, as if he was weighing something, and after a while, he seemed to have made a decision.

Taking the opportunity to disperse with the others to search for clues and stay away from the bald leader, the man in black turned his back in front of a corpse in a corner, took out his communicator without leaving any trace, and quickly edited a string of secret words and sent it out.
In a small town on the highway one hundred and thirty kilometers away.

In the dusty house, the sound of water splashing could be heard in the bathroom.

Leon shrunk his huge body as much as possible in the slightly narrow bathtub. He didn't know whether the shampoo or shower gel in his hand had expired or not, he just squeezed it out and rubbed it on his hair, hoping to wash away the blood stains on his head as soon as possible.

Next to the bathtub, Olivia sat naked on a small stool, tilting her head under the shower, washing her blood-stained blonde hair with foam.

After cleaning the blood off his hair and face, Leon leaned against the bathtub with a tired face and took deep breaths to relieve the increasingly unbearable suffocation.

He looked at Gungnir leaning against the wall, and at a few Neti cards on the bathroom shelf.

As soon as the effect of the Boiling Heart wore off, he felt as if someone was pressing his head into water and suffocating. The painful reaction on his body was much more obvious than Olivia's, and the feeling of hunger continued to surge.

Leon retracted his gaze and used the cold pool water that wrapped around his body to relieve the fatigue and pain.

Now, he could be sure of one thing: the undead disaster here had not lasted more than two or three years.

Because in this abandoned town that looks like it's the end of the world, the water supply system has not completely failed.

In shops on nearby streets, many packaged and sealed foods showed no signs of spoilage.

Olivia used the shower to rinse her body and hair, then stood up and walked to Leon who was lying in the bathtub. She reached out and touched her husband's cheek, which was unnaturally red, with some heartache.

"Are you still feeling so uncomfortable?" the girl asked worriedly.

She was really scared when she saw Leon suddenly stagger and almost fall to the ground when he took back the Neti card.

Leon didn't want to make his little lion worry, but he couldn't hide his tiredness.

"The natural magic here is too thin. The magic in my body can hardly keep circulating in my veins." He smiled bitterly and said, "You should also pay attention to your physical consumption. Although your magic power is huge, in this realm, if our strength is exhausted, it will be very difficult to replenish it."

Olivia's eyes darkened, and she suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Then can I pass on my magic power to you like Akau did?"

Leon felt helpless, because Akao's magic transmission was accomplished through a special magic ritual, and Olivia, who was full of demonic attitudes, was obviously unable to complete this ritual.

He raised his eyebrows. He didn't want to make his wife worry, so he went over and whispered, "There really is a way to 'replenish my magic'. Maybe it can help me recover immediately."

Olivia blinked her green eyes and asked in surprise: "Really? Then what should I do?"

The man had a wicked smile on his handsome face, and continued to whisper teasingly in his wife's ear with ill intentions.
Although the girl's face flushed and her ears felt hot, she immediately stood up and nodded with a serious look in her eyes, pretending to step into the bathtub, and did what her lover said.

"Hey hey hey! I was just kidding! I was just kidding!"

Seeing that the girl really believed his joke, Leon couldn't help but be shocked by his wife's ferocity. It's not that he didn't want to, but with his current physical strength and condition, wasting energy on a "fierce battle" with his own little lion was definitely not a wise choice.

The girl who was riding on her lover's waist was stunned for a moment, her beautiful eyebrows twisted in anger, which was rare, and she reached out and pinched her husband's cheek hard.

"You big idiot, it's already too late to make such a joke~!"

After begging for mercy and being severely punished by the fingers that were like a small vice, Leon was helped up by the angry Olivia, left the bathroom, and hurried to eat.

On the table were some locally collected packaged foods. On the grounds that he had to ensure the strongest fighting power, Leon took the lead in "testing the poison" for Olivia and tore open a bag of food to try to eat it.

Although it was indeed risky to rashly eat food from another dimension, who knew what ingredients his body could not adapt to, but he was almost starving and had to replenish his strength as soon as possible. He had no choice at the moment.

(End of this chapter)