rune hunter

Chapter 58 The Darkness Before Dawn
Al fell headfirst from the tree, feeling dizzy, with black eyes and two trails of blood in his nostrils.He didn't care about wiping off the blood from his nose, he scrambled and fled in the direction he came from.

When he peeped at the huge monster in the distant Red Stone Ridge with the power of the rune, he also noticed the flickering teleportation light in the wormhole, but he didn't expect to be found halfway across the mountain.

The appearance of the war king worm has already made El terrified, and the spider woman who came later is even more terrifying.The moment he stared at the past, Langaria looked back as if aware of it.The terrifying mind shock fell from the sky thousands of meters away, and rushed directly into El's unsuspecting brain.

The wild intuition in the body issued an unprecedented alarm, which was a powerful force far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.At that moment, El clearly realized that the gap in strength between himself and the other party was vastly different, and that was the most terrifying existence he had ever seen in his life.

Stumbling and running for an unknown amount of time, El resisted the fear in his heart and stopped until he saw the faint bonfire in the village.The coercion from that powerful existence behind him has long since disappeared, but he can still vaguely feel that something is chasing after him.

"It's El!"

"That kid is back!"

The night watch soldiers found Al, who was almost collapsed, and ran to help him to the village.The desperate running almost exhausted El's physical strength. His hands and feet were weak, and his eyes were stinging unbearably, so he could only half-close them and let them manipulate him.After a while, he heard familiar and heavy footsteps coming towards him.

"I thought you were a deserter, boy."

Captain Coson's hard voice rang in his ears, and then a water bottle was handed to El's mouth. He grabbed the water bottle, took a few sips of clean water in embarrassment, and finally calmed himself down.

"No time, listen to me."

El licked the nosebleed dripping from his lips, breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly: "Do we still have horses? Find someone to remember what I said, and then go back and report to the general...or other adults in charge. "

"Romney, come here!" Captain Kosen nodded, beckoning to his vice-captain, "I don't know what the hell this kid has encountered, you should remember every word he said next."

"Okay, Captain." Romney agreed, and took out an old notebook and charcoal pencils from his pocket, obviously prepared for this situation.

"They built a thing bigger than a castle in Red Stone Ridge. You can see it after dawn. It is probably a portal. I saw several groups of regular troops coming out of it, all of them are elite...don't ask How do I know, they are all big guys, the ones we have seen. There is also a war king worm, which has begun to lay eggs."

Al quickly narrated what he saw, and Romney squatted on the side and moved his pen like flying, his face became paler as he wrote, and his fingers couldn't help trembling.

"What is the war king worm? It sounds like you know a lot." Captain Coson stared into El's eyes suspiciously and said coldly.

"Shut up, listen to me!" El couldn't care about other people's concerns at this time, and continued: "The most important thing is that the leader of the other party's legion has arrived! You can't imagine how powerful that monster is. After half a mountain was glanced at by her, it became what it is now. This information must be reported to Istaron immediately!"

"You mean you were discovered by the other party?" Captain Ke Sen grasped the crux of the problem keenly.

"Yes, that's right! There is something chasing after me, they are coming soon! Let Romney go, we are here to buy him a little time!" El struggled to stand up and said.

"No, you go with Romney." Captain Corson hesitated a little, and said

"What did you say?" El almost thought he had hallucinations in his ears.

"I don't understand what you're saying, and Romney certainly doesn't understand either." Captain Corson shrugged, looking at El with calm and composed eyes.

"There are still two horses, you two go together, go back and go directly to the military headquarters to see Master Stephen in the name of the 57th detachment, only he knows about these bugs."

"Those things that are chasing are not easy to deal with." El clenched his hunting bow, looked directly into Captain Coson's eyes and said, "Without me here, you can't hold off with these wounded for long."

"Then you don't need to worry about it, you bastard!"

Captain Kesen grabbed his two-handed sword and shouted to the soldiers who gathered around him: "Brothers! Keep your spirits up! Prepare to fight!"

There was a sound of rubbing swords out of their sheaths around, and the soldiers responded directly with actions.

When Al and Romney stepped onto their horses, a huge crimson firework exploded in the sky behind them.Under the fireworks, the warriors tapped their sword hilts on their shields and hummed in low voices the folk songs passed down from generation to generation in Istaron.

"Did this old bastard take the wrong medicine?" El said to himself, with the dozen or so remnants now, there was no hope of surviving.But before that, the bearded man still didn't like him anyway, so he didn't know why he gave him the chance to escape.

"I told you that the boss is actually a good person, but he does things too rigidly." Romney said in a low voice, "I think he thinks that your survival will be more useful to this war, that's all, so You don't need to take his favor."

As he said this, the vice-captain's voice was still a little depressed. He didn't turn his head to look at his comrades in arms, but pulled the rein of the horse and rushed forward.The friendship between men does not need to be expressed in words, and the time bought with life should not be wasted.

The night road in the forest is rough and difficult, and it is impossible to gallop on horseback.Fortunately, the two of them can return to the city of Istaren as long as they walk along the river.

After walking less than three or four miles away, El suddenly felt something, and he reined in the horse's head and looked back.In the direction of that village, the fire of human life has completely disappeared, replaced by the aura belonging to the landwalkers.

"It's almost dawn! We need to speed up!" Romney shouted from the front.El shook his head, remembering the bearded man's name in his heart, and followed closely with gritted teeth.

The two military horses are of pure blood and have good patience, even though they have been running at high speed for such a long time, they have not slackened in the slightest.The horse's hooves occasionally trampled in the puddles, causing large splashes of water. It seemed that there was still power left, but it was difficult to speed up again.For ordinary horses, stamina and explosive power are never directly proportional.

"We have to go faster!" Al yelled at Romney. He noticed that the pursuers hadn't stayed in the village for too long, and he rushed straight in his direction at an incredible speed. .

"Damn it! We don't have that set of knights! Hold on a little longer, I think I see the avenue!" Romney slapped his mount's ass furiously, cursing.

The trees in the forest ahead were gradually thinning out, and the flat road by the river could be seen in the distance, which was where they walked when they came out, and it was not far from the city.Moreover, I could vaguely see the flames on the road, it should be that the troops in the city were being mobilized, as long as they got there, the safety of the two of them would be guaranteed.

"Too late! Fireworks!" Al yelled, gripping the horse's belly hard.Turning around and drawing the bow, he took a white-feathered ebony arrow and shot it into the sky.A strange cry came from the dark mist, and some kind of flying monster landed in response.

Romney took out from his pocket the rocket that Captain Corson had given him before he left. He couldn't distinguish the color in a hurry, and threw it out in a hurry.The colorful fireworks exploded at the same time, turning half of the sky red and reflecting the pursuers.It was a half-human, half-praying mantis monster, holding a half-arm-long handleless blade with its hands behind its back. It looked very similar to the whip-using monsters it had seen before, and its strength would not be much different.

The sound of El's bowstring sounded one after another, and the fast arrows whizzed through the wind, shooting through the bodies of three Mantes scouts, while the rest of the praying mantis monsters dodged.They flew at an astonishing speed. After making a small circle in mid-air, they swooped down towards El with their bright and sharp long blades.

"Keep running! Don't look back!" Al yelled at Romney. He vaguely realized that the target of these mantis monsters had been locked on him from the beginning.

Al gripped the ax tightly, rolled over and jumped off the horse.He stared at the monster's eyes, and at the last moment, he slid a step to the side, dodging the imposing attack of the praying mantis monster in front, and the long blade in Scout Mantus' hand passed him by, only A few strands of hair were cut off.And he realized the defect of the volley dive in the next moment, the sharp steel deftly slashed across from the lower side angle, pierced into his abdomen almost effortlessly, and then used the reaction force of his impact to tear a hole. Huge wound.When his body fell to the ground, the blood under strong pressure had already taken his internal organs out of the nearly half-meter-wide wound.

This blow showed El's superb fighting skills, but it could not change the harsh situation he was about to face.The two long blades following behind stabbed at his body at the same time, without any buffer time.Every Mantes scout has the strength no less than that of a double-whip monster, and now they are so numerous that there is no hope of escaping at all.

At the last moment of life and death, El suddenly laughed.The light of the faint blue runes bloomed from his eyes and chest at the same time, and the brilliance soared into the sky.

"Since you are not willing to let me go, let's die together!"

　Today's recommendation ticket does not exceed [-], and tomorrow the protagonist will receive a chicken leg bento, so it's settled, huh huh

　　


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