The knight in the abyss

Chapter 482
After everyone got on the boat and sat down, the boatman Duyinmo gently supported the bone boat, and the boat left the shore briskly.A comfortable breeze rushed in, and Shuangqiao Town quickly went away behind him. Although it was not obvious when sitting in the boat, according to Lancelow's estimation, the actual speed was several times faster than when he was riding Nightmare at full speed.

"Wow, we are actually going upstream!" Brutal exclaimed suddenly, and turned to look at Du Yinmo who was punting the boat. "Although your boat is a bit broken, it's quite amazing."

"Of course, no one understands the Styx better than us, and no one is better at maneuvering a boat than us." This Du Yinmo was obviously more active than the one hired by everyone last time, and he didn't ignore the dwarf's question, "Look carefully Look, are we really going against the flow of the river?"

After he said this, everyone noticed the abnormality of the water flow.Before hitting the bow of the boat, the water of the Styx River split left and right, and after bypassing the boat, two small vortices formed on the side and rear, pushing the boat forward rapidly.

"This is really a rare sight." Aramir commented with great interest, "But why does your boat have...an unpleasant smell? What kind of wood is it made of?"

"What kind of wood do you think can be used to make a boat and sail on the River Styx? Hahahaha..." Du Yinmo gave another ugly smile, "Of course it's a coffin, stupid elf..."

"I should have guessed it earlier." Aramir sighed, and turned his gaze to the scenery passing by on both sides of the river. "Can you tell us about your god? The Lord of the River Styx?"

"The great Charon is not a ridiculous god, he is also a Duyinmo, just like all Duyinmo." The boatman said in a disdainful tone, "A long time ago, Danden demons surrounded us It was Charon who stood up and repelled the Dandenmo's attack in Kaserli's stronghold, and we recognized him as the leader of all the demons."

"Dandon devil?" Kara Lin was very interested in this term, "I have only read this name in some rare literature, are they also native creatures of the Kaserli plane?"

"They are monsters born from the corpses of yugoloths. Do you think they are protozoans?" The boatman obviously didn't have a good impression of that kind of demons. "Those fat, ugly, smelly idiots think of themselves as The jailers of the Red Prison (Note: another name for the Karceri plane), but since they were defeated by us, they can no longer control the ships entering and leaving Karceri through the River Styx."

"I'm sure there are at least a hundred details missing from this story." Brutal whispered to Lancelot, "If Charon is so powerful, how could he be besieged in the first place?"

"...Now, every section of the Styx is Charon's territory, anyone who uses the Styx should pay, anyone!" Ignoring the dwarves' whispers, the boatman Duyinmo announced loudly.

"But what about the devils?" Lancelow couldn't help asking, "I heard that the second army of the Nine Prisons is a navy, and they seem to have their own fleet..."

"Bah! Those shameless thieves!" Du Yinmo's boatman spat green spittle into the Styx, "They will definitely..."

It suddenly shuts its mouth, because a strange tower appears on the bank of the river.The two-storey stone building looks very strong, it can be used as a watchtower to monitor the Styx, or as a small fortification.Even without the two purple-skinned Thorn Demons entrenched on the top, Lancelot could guess from the perfect hexagonal structure on the tower's exterior that it must be a building belonging to the devil.

Duyinmo boatman steered the boat without saying a word, away from the river bank where the tower was.Its caution was immediately proven justified, and a shower of arrows was shot from the slender window, but all of them fell into the river dozens of feet away from everyone.

"Damn devil!" Brutal looked at the tower angrily, "I bet there are at most a dozen enemies inside, if we hadn't been in a hurry, we would have wiped out all the devil inside!"

"How far are we from Shuangqiao Town?" Even though he knew that it was impossible to be shot at this distance, Karalin still lay down in the boat, only stretching out half of his head to observe the building, "The devil's army retreated. Have you made it all the way here?"

"It's already more than 120 miles." Lancelot immediately reported the number, "The speed of this boat is much faster than what you feel."

"That should be just a sentry post for scouting." Old Leip, who hadn't spoken much, said, "This is the border area between Shuangqiao Town and Volcano Fortress. Too likely to go around there and raid Twinbridge."

At this moment, Lancelot's ears moved, and he turned his head to look back.He heard a very low blast of a horn, and the source of the sound was the tower.

"You heard that too?"

Aramiel immediately noticed Lancelot's change.As an elf, his long ears allow him to pick up sounds that ordinary people would ignore.

"That's not a good sign."

Lancelot replied with a gloomy expression, and turned his head to search the river ahead.His worry was indeed right, within a few minutes, a brigantine appeared in front of him.The length of the boat was more than a hundred feet, and some kind of huge animal bone was used as the keel. The plank of the ship seemed to be pressed from countless corpses, and a statue of Erinite holding a long sword was hanging on the bow, ready to strike.

"Is that the devil's battleship?" Brutal squinted his eyes, trying to see the details of the coming ship, "Boatman, what are you going to do?"

Duyinmo answered the dwarf's question with actions.It slammed the pole, and the boat turned sharply to one side, throwing the unsteady dwarf to the ground.Some kind of magic current pushed their boat to quickly move sideways, but the devil warship opposite also showed amazing agility, maneuvering lightly to a route that could intercept them.

"I will go around, those Baatezi don't want to block me!" Du Yinmo said angrily, "On the River Styx, we are the best boatmen!"

Lancelow didn't refute his words, but just put his hand into the dimensional bag at his waist.After a while of digging, Frost Zhan appeared in his hand.Seeing his actions, everyone tacitly took out their weapons and prepared for battle.

"Brutal, don't just throw the hammer out after a while." Seeing the two boats getting closer, Lancelot suddenly said to the dwarf, "If you fall into the River Styx, maybe you will die." I can't fly back."

"Yeah, I know." The dwarf's face turned slightly pale, "I will try my best to remember."

Lancelot glanced back at him, raised his hand and pinched a spell, and suddenly a wooden thorn on the ship's plank suddenly began to grow, turning into a vine, tightly entwining the dwarf's forearm and his hammer.

"The hammer is quite expensive." Lancelow shrugged, "This should be more reliable than your memory."

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