The knight in the abyss

Chapter 122 Return to the Surface
Everyone proceeded cautiously and entered a cave with a fork in the road.

The corpses of three Gnolls were lying on the ground, which was the source of the bloody smell.

"It's been dead for at least an hour. It should be the masterpiece of those devils." Old Rip squatted down to inspect the corpses and announced to everyone.

This was the first time Lancelot had seen these creatures that were said to be plague-like.Gnolls are very tall, standing more than 7 feet tall when standing upright, but they have a severely hunched back, with their spines bent at almost right angles.They had bestial hooves, humanoid hands, and a hyena's head around their necks, and death could not erase the fierce and evil expressions on their faces.

Their weapons and armor were obviously stolen from other creatures, but it was obviously not enough to fight the steel demon's cold iron sword.Judging from the wound that almost cut the corpse in half, these jackals had no chance of fighting back.

"The devils obviously knew about the existence of this secret passage, and they took care of these few guys blocking the way without any effort." Phil commented, "I thought this secret passage was so secret."

"There are still a few people who know this secret path. If the devil finds one of them, I believe they will not hesitate to sell this secret in exchange for any trivial reward." Old Leip sighed , "And maybe this person is actually a spy sent by the devil, and he has already figured out the situation in Oasis Castle."

"What about Twinbridge?" Brutal asked. "Are there any devil's spies in Twinbridge?"

"There must be, this is unavoidable, the devil is the master of seducing others to serve him, not to mention those bloody mercenaries, even the devil is stupid enough to be tempted by the devil." The werewolf explained, "But no matter how hard we try , there will always be new idiots working for the devils for a little gold, and the number of 'rats' caught every year is beyond count."

"And this guy has won many mouse-catching competitions. I always think it has something to do with his... keen sense of smell." Phil almost said the word dog nose again, but this time he controlled it in time own. "Shuangqiao Town, as an important arms supplier on the Tanari side, has always been the focus of the devil's infiltration. There is a joke about this, do you want to hear it?"

"Oh, no, that's too old a joke." Old Rip shook his head. "And they must have heard it."

"I haven't heard of it, I haven't heard of it!" Cora expressed Lancelot's inner voice, "What kind of joke?"

"It's like this. One day, Ms. Sonam from the mercenary hall begged to see Tijana, the lord of Shuangqiao Town, and said that she had caught a high-level devil spy, what should I do with it? His skin is peeled off and pasted on the city gate? Or should he chop off his limbs and put them in a jar for hissing?"

"Tijana was furious when she heard the words: Oh~ my dear Sonam, quickly bring this poor guy to me. If you kill him, who will tell us the exact output last month? ?”

The goblin vividly imitated the tone of the lizard and the succubus lord, which made everyone laugh and made the tense atmosphere a lot easier.

"Okay, okay, it's an old joke." The werewolf rolled his eyes, "Let's keep going."

"Which way?" asked the goblin. "I mean, which way to avoid the lair of those gnolls?"

"You can't avoid either side." The werewolf shook his head, "And judging from the smell, there are more gnolls ahead, the dead ones. The road on the left can reach the ground faster, if that's you concerned."

"Let's go to the left, we'd better get back to the ground as soon as possible." Lancelow said.Their mission for this trip has been completed, and they should meet up with Iados who is in charge of the response as soon as possible.

Everyone stopped talking and continued to move forward from the fork on the left.

Just as old Rep said, there was a shattered corpse of a wolf man every now and then along the way. The walls on both sides of the passage were spattered with blood everywhere, and the smell in the air was simply disgusting.

But the pain didn't last long.After continuing to walk for about 10 minutes, the top of everyone's head turned into an empty sky again.

Lancelow paid attention to the surrounding environment. The situation was similar to what he expected. There were many fresh fang fir tree stumps nearby, which were obviously cut down by the devils to make siege engines.But fortunately, there is no devil's breath nearby. It seems that the devils were not prepared for a long-term siege from the beginning, otherwise at least some people should be left to guard this 'resource point'.

They are only about three miles away from Oasis Castle. The flames soaring into the sky dyed half of the sky dark red, and the shouts of killing floating over are already very vague, but if you focus your true energy on your eyes, you can roughly see the situation of the battle clearly.

Several sections of the walls have been completely destroyed, but the demons still seem to be resisting.Lancelow also saw the devils' siege machines, which were some giant trebuchets, right in the middle of their grove and the Oasis Fort, but most of them had been burned down, leaving only a few still working.

It seems that the bone demon he killed was probably the backhand of the devils.Without the cooperation between the inside and the outside of the sea of ​​skeletons, the devils may have to pay a much heavier price than the original plan.If the demons were lucky enough to defend the Oasis Castle, the treasures looted from the Succubus Palace should be regarded as Molo's reward, Lancelot thought silently.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but it does make me a lot easier not to have a thousand-ton boulder on my head." Brutal stretched his body, "So, where is that Brezu named Iados?" ? Goblin, do you know how to contact that guy?"

"There's no need to look for that guy." Phil shook his head. "Let's just walk around, and he will come to us. If he doesn't show up, then we'll go directly to the backup pick-up location."

So everyone moved cautiously in the forest, but there was no sign of Iados around.Lancelot maximized his spiritual sense, and he also didn't notice the breath of Brezu's demons. It seems that most of them withdrew to the backup support point after discovering the demon army two days ago.

Lancelot had already expected this.It's not a big problem for Iados' men to ambush a wave of Oasis Fort's guards. If he is stupid enough to face the devil's army head-on, then his evaluation of Iados will have to be lowered several notches.

At this moment, his spiritual consciousness was suddenly touched, and he turned his head to look at the sky above the devil's trebuchet position.

A humanoid creature with two huge wings on its back is hovering in the sky.That creature is so beautiful, like a legendary angel.

But if you look carefully, you can find that it is by no means a sacred celestial creature.Her wings were a deep red to black color, like the wings of a vulture, rather than the pure white of an angel.

Although he knew little about devils, Lancelot had also heard the name of this creature.

It was an Enrias, more commonly known as Erinyes, Fallen Angels or their offspring.Although their beauty is not inferior to the succubus in the Tanar'ri, what dominates them is the desire to fight and kill, making them the most ferocious and disciplined warriors in the baatezu.

　Or change first and then change~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)