Lord: I can see loyalty.

Vio's command ignited the battlefield instantly.

"Clear the way for Count Vio!" Albright roared, charging out from the flanks of the formation alongside Valerie.

Their goal was not to take the priest directly, but to crash into the barbarian warriors who were trying to form a defensive perimeter.

The objective was clear: to create an opening, disrupt the formation, and provide Vio with a path to kill the priest.

Having learned from their previous experience, they all understood that only Vio could quickly deal with this group of priests.

Albright wielded a powerful cleaver, targeting the enemy's joints to quickly incapacitate them.

Valerie moved elusively, using her superb hunting skills to weave through the gaps in the enemy's attacks. She didn't aim to kill the enemy with a single blow; she only needed to create chaos and attract attention as quickly as possible.

Gina, like a shield, followed closely to Vio's side, using her broadsword to parry and block all the barbarians who rushed in from the side.

Although her swordsmanship is not as good as Vio's now, her basic swordsmanship is extremely solid. Every strike is precise and efficient, and she does not waste a single movement.

Vio sped through the passage the three of them had painstakingly carved out, his sand breathing technique operating at full power, his skin turning a deep, dark black.

Speed, strength, and defense surged to unprecedented heights with each breath.

The world seemed to slow down in his eyes; the trajectory of the enemy's weapon swings, the ferocious expressions on their faces, and even the black mud splashing in the air were clearly visible.

His target was clear: those priests who were chanting and surrounded by an ominous green light!

The first to appear before him were two ordinary earth priests who were relatively close by.

They seemed to have underestimated Vio's terrifying speed, and hastily raised their wooden staffs to try to block or cast spells.

"Too slow!" Vio thought to himself, his figure blurring as he passed between the two, his Southern Will drawing two almost overlapping arcs in the air.

puff!puff!

Two heads adorned with bone ornaments flew up almost simultaneously, their murky eyes still holding a trace of astonishment.

The headless corpses swayed and fell to the ground, and the faint green light on them and some of the barbarian warriors instantly went out.

Vio didn't stop walking, his gaze fixed on the high priest of the earth at the very back, who wore a huge green patterned mask.

At this moment, the high priest's chanting seemed to have reached a critical juncture. His eyes beneath the mask burst forth with intense green light, and the black mud at the tip of his wooden staff writhed violently as he aimed at Vio.

"Woo-wa-wa!" The most burly totem warriors beside the high priest roared, the white patterns on their skin seeming to come alive, shimmering with a faint light.

They were already physically imposing, but now their muscles were even more bulging, like rock carvings. They held heavy stone axes and giant clubs, forming a human wall in front of the high priest.

Vio, however, neither dodged nor avoided. He took a deep breath and pushed his breathing technique to its limit, causing his dark skin to faintly gleam with a metallic sheen.

He needed to test the other party's level and also needed to intimidate them!

"Get out of here!"

With a sharp shout, Vio thrust his sword straight in, striking the side of a totem warrior's stone axe as it came down with full force.

"Clang!!"

A piercing clang of metal against metal exploded!

The stone axe was deflected by the longsword imbued with immense force. The totem warrior grunted and staggered backward, but his weapon did not fall from his hand. His arm trembled slightly, and there was some shock in the warrior's eyes.

His attack, imbued with the priest's blessing and powerful enough to shatter stone tablets, was actually blocked and even suppressed head-on?

Vio also felt a strong shock from the sword, his arm went slightly numb, and he was equally surprised.

These totem warriors, strengthened by the high priest, are far more powerful than ordinary barbarians, and even comparable to some formal knights who have trained for many years!

But this did not deter him in the slightest. He changed his footwork and his figure became unpredictable, dodging the giant club that swept in from the other side. At the same time, he swung his sword backhand and struck the arm of the third totem warrior who was blocking.

"Clang!" Another muffled sound.

The sword did not penetrate deeply into the flesh, encountering extremely strong resistance, leaving only a wound that was not completely severed!

The totem warrior roared in pain and, disregarding his injuries, opened his arms to try and hug Vio.

Vio frowned. Although the power from the breathing technique could suppress his opponent, the opponent's greatly enhanced physical defense was really troublesome!

Especially when the enemy outnumbers them and is not afraid of injury, if he hadn't learned the Dune Sword Technique and focused on a balanced approach as a knight, even with his superb swordsmanship, he would probably have been worn down to death by this group of "meat shields".

Just then, the high priest of the earth finished his spell.

He suddenly pointed his wooden staff at Vio, and the black mud on the staff exploded, turning into several sticky, foul-smelling green magic arrows that lunged at him like venomous snakes!

It was extremely fast and covered multiple angles that Vio could dodge.

Vio, however, suddenly exerted force with his feet, twisting his entire body at an illogical angle, and bursting out from the gaps between the green arrows at the limit.

When the green arrow misses its mark and strikes the ground or rock, it immediately corrodes a hissing pit and emits a pungent blue smoke.

"Protect Count Vio!" Albright roared as he broke free from the entanglement, ignoring the bone knife coming at him from behind, and threw a cleaver at the high priest!

Valerie then fired three arrows in quick succession, aiming them in a triangular pattern at the high priest's face and chest, attempting to interrupt his spellcasting.

The high priest snorted coldly, waved his wooden staff, and a faint green halo appeared in front of him.

With a few clangs, the thrown swords and arrows were easily deflected. His blessing brought an astonishing boost to his physical strength, even surpassing Vio's first-level breathing technique.

"I see..." Vio's eyes flashed, and he also saw the key to victory.

Although the high priest's blessing is strange and powerful, greatly enhancing the recipient's physical strength and defense, the high priest is not good at fighting, or rather, he disdains close combat.

His movements appeared slow and stiff to Vio, and he was only able to hold on thanks to the green light protection and the protection of his warriors.

Moreover, maintaining such a large-scale blessing enhancement and continuous spellcasting was clearly a considerable burden for him.

Vio noticed that after casting the Green Arrow, the High Priest's breathing became slightly disordered, and the green light on the surrounding totem warriors dimmed briefly.

This is an opportunity!

Vio no longer engages in combat with the totem warriors.

He pushed his speed to the limit, his dark figure almost blending into the shadows, weaving and darting among the totem warriors.

His goal was no longer to force his way in and kill the target, but to find that fleeting opening.

"Gina! Cooperate with me and draw the two on the left!" Vio shouted.

Gina understood immediately and launched a fierce attack on the two totem warriors on the left. Her broadsword moved with impenetrable skill, and although she could not break through their defenses, she successfully drew their attention.

At that very moment, the totem warrior on the right, whose arm had been slashed by Vio earlier, became distorted and sluggish in his movements due to pain and anger.

The high priest in the center seemed to be preparing to cast a second spell, his mind focused on Vio's extremely fast figure, and his protection of the blessing relaxed for a moment.

It's now!

Vio's power surged, all of which was channeled into his legs. He pushed off the ground with a mighty slam, and his whole body shot out like a cannonball!

He drew a strange zigzag line in the air, first pretending to rush towards Gina, causing the High Priest's staff to make a slight adjustment, and then suddenly changed direction at the extreme distance, rushing straight towards the High Priest's body!

"Whoa!" The last totem warrior blocking the way roared as he intercepted the attack, his stone axe crashing down with a fierce gust of wind.

Vio neither blocked nor completely dodged this time. He turned slightly to the side, using his left shoulder and back, covered by dark skin, to take the heavy blow head-on!

With a muffled thud, Vio's body jolted as a tremendous force surged through him, accompanied by excruciating pain. However, his torso, enhanced by his breathing technique, successfully withstood the impact!

He simply used the momentum to accelerate his forward movement, while at the same time, the magic ore on his right hand, which was imbued with the Southern Realm Will, glowed with a purple light!

call!

The sword pierced through the tiny flaw revealed by the spell, ignoring the pale green halo, and went straight for the throat!

The high priest's eyes, hidden behind his mask, widened in disbelief. He seemed to want to dodge and raise his staff to block, but his body moved erratically.

Those sluggish movements were meaningless in the face of Vio's explosive sword strike.

laugh--!

The sword pierced precisely through the ornate animal hide and the vulnerable neck, emerging from the back of the neck.

The high priest's chanting stopped abruptly, his body stiffened abruptly, and the wooden staff in his hand fell to the ground with a "clatter".

The green light that enveloped him and the totem warriors around him flickered violently like a dying candle before going out completely.

Vio drew his sword, drawing out a stream of dark blood. The high priest clutched his bleeding throat and slowly fell backward. His huge green patterned mask rolled to the side, revealing an old face covered with strange tattoos.

With the death of the high priest, the green light on the remaining totem warriors and ordinary barbarians completely disappeared, and their exaggerated muscles seemed to have atrophied somewhat.

Although his eyes were still filled with madness, his momentum had clearly weakened, and his movements had become clumsy again.

"The priest is dead! Follow me to kill the enemy!" Albright, covered in blood, raised her arms and shouted upon seeing this.

With the pressure suddenly relieved, the Southern Militia and Cooper Hunters were greatly encouraged and launched an even fiercer counterattack.

The barbarian warriors, stripped of their reinforcements, were repeatedly defeated and quickly divided and annihilated by the well-organized and better-equipped allied forces.

Vio slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, and the dark color on his body gradually faded. He felt a dull pain in the spot on his chest where the stone axe had struck him, but he was not seriously injured.

However, the burst of speed just now was a bit too much for him.

He glanced at the high priest's corpse on the ground and felt a chill run down his spine. If it weren't for the high priest's obvious lack of experience and skills in close combat, relying entirely on his strange abilities and the protection of his subordinates...

Otherwise, if I wanted to deal with him so quickly, I would probably have to pay a higher price... The closer I got to the source of the black mud, the more troublesome its claws and fangs became.

"Quickly clean up the battlefield! Treat the wounded, and those who can move should follow immediately!" Vio got up with Gina's help, and his breathing improved a little.

He didn't delay. The sounds of fighting coming from Jimmy's side in the distance seemed to be gradually shifting to one side, but they were still intense. "We must rejoin Jimmy as soon as possible!"

A few minutes later, leaving a few people to care for the seriously wounded, Vio gathered most of his remaining strength and once again headed at full speed towards the direction from which the sounds of fighting were coming from.

That's probably where their final battle will take place!