foreigner's journey

Chapter 560 Skeleton Knight
For the villagers of Yilok Village, the legends of goblins and witches have been circulated since ancient times.

Maybe that's just what storytellers and parents tell their children, that there are people who claim to have encountered such strange things, but there is no clear proof.In fact, even among the natives of Yilok Village, fewer and fewer people believed in this legend.

As a subsidiary territory of the Kingdom of the Fawang Hall, the superior lord of Ilok Village kept imposing heavy taxes on the citizens under the pretext of war with the Kusha Empire.For the impoverished Yilok village, it is very difficult for the villagers to survive this winter safely without starving to death.

"So, you came to this village to find clues about the witch because you heard the story of the witch?"

An old man with deep wrinkles on his face like a ravine in the field sat on a tree stump at the entrance of Yilok Village, looking at the traveler in front of him.

What a strange person, it is clearly the cold early winter, but the person in front of him is only wearing a thin black hooded cloth robe.The hood covered most of the face, only the chin was exposed, a crooked long wooden staff was leaning on the left hand, and the right arm was empty.

Heather leaned on crutches and nodded: "Yes, I have always been obsessed with the legend of the witch, and I accidentally heard the legend of the witch haunting here in the Midland area, so I rushed all the way here, and it took me more than half a month. time."

"Then you may be disappointed, Traveler."

The old man rubbed his knee joints, which were becoming more and more painful due to the sudden drop in temperature, and sighed:
"For this Ilok village, the witch is just a story that has been passed down since ancient times. There has never been any evidence that the witch really exists. You have traveled all the way from Midland to come here, but Ilok village is too poor to receive foreigners. Traveler, please go back."

Turning sideways and looking in from the entrance of the village, Heather found that the village was really poor enough.There are not many stone houses, most of them are wooden houses.The people in the village can't be said to be skinny, but they are not energetic either. Their faces are pale and frowning, obviously bent over by the burden of life.

Looking away, Heather rubbed her chin and smiled, "No problem, I'll leave now."

After saying that, Heather walked towards the old street outside the village leaning on the wooden stick without hesitation.

What a strange person... The old man sighed in his heart again as he watched Heather's fading figure.It's not that Yilok Village hates outsiders, but that the village is really unable to entertain any guests. The people in the village have tried their best just to survive the winter.

True, some villages would go to great lengths to lure a single traveler into the village for the night and then kill him for money, but the old man didn't want to do that.He didn't know what other people in the village thought, so he could only try his best to persuade the lonely traveler not to enter the village.Alas... when will this kind of endless war and hardship be the end!
The old street outside the village is a product of many years ago. There are almost no traces of stone bricks, and only the solid dirt road is left.Occasionally, sporadic broken stone pillars can be seen on both sides of the street, with traces of time remaining on them.

It didn't take long before Heather saw a large dense jungle with no boundaries.The trees in the forest are twisted and treacherous. Even if the sunlight falls through the branches, it will only form strange and changing light spots, just like the dark forest where the villain witch lives in fairy tales.

"Is it here?" Qi Shi asked in his heart.

"That's right, Spirit Tree Forest. Without the witch's invitation letter, it is impossible to break through the blockade and enter the interior by ordinary means."

As soon as he entered the jungle, Heather changed his disguise as a weak traveler, and moved nimbly through the forest. Every time he jumped, he would pass several meters, and the tree branches and the wind kept rustling in his ears.

"If you burn this forest, maybe you can force that witch out." Rong Qi said the terrible plan as if nothing had happened.Since she left the sword language world she was in, in her view, all human beings except Heather were no different from weeds.Weeding, of course, should be dealt with in a neat way.

"Hey, hey, don't say things like setting fire to the forest in such a relaxed tone! My education doesn't allow me to do such things casually."

Heather, who was running in the forest, complained, and stopped suddenly.

In the depths of the deep forest, in front of Heather, a figure appeared at some point.

This is a knight riding a war horse, but its appearance is absolutely unmatched by humans.The whole body of the war horse is covered with hideous bone armor, and there are no eyeballs in the eyes, but gloomy light.And this knight's whole body was completely covered by a pair of hideous skeleton armor, and even his head was covered with a complete skull helmet. There was a scarlet light flickering in his eyes, and the cloak behind him slowly fluttered in the wind.

A long sword hangs on the side of the horse's back. The hilt is covered with thorns and spikes, and its shape is strange.

Heather squatted on the branch of the tree, holding a long wooden staff in her arms, looking at the strange skeleton knight from a distance, very quiet.

The skeleton knight's upper and lower jaws did not open and close, and the voice came from behind the helmet, a little dull:

"... You are not an existence in [The Principle of Time], where exactly are you?"

"Are you sure you want to chat here?" Heather tilted her head.

"I just came here to take a look, but I didn't expect to encounter such a [coincidence]. No, this is not a thread of cause and effect, but something more wonderful..."

Clang!The skeleton knight held the hilt on the horse's back and slowly pulled it out, pointing the tip of the blade at Heather:

"Your goal here is [Witch]?"

"That's right. Let me go. I'm looking for the main entrance of the witch's house. If I can't find it, I'll just burn the forest down."

"That won't work."

The horse's hooves jumped up from the ground, and the knight and the horse turned into a phantom as fast as lightning and rushed towards Heather!At the same time, Heather's figure also disappeared from the spot, and appeared more than ten meters away by using [Shave].

The branch where he was before, together with the surrounding trees, were silently cut into a smooth section, and the figure of the skeleton knight disappeared without a trace.

Using the wooden stick as a fulcrum, Heather jumped up high and avoided the sudden attack from behind.The domineering wooden stick could not even leave a single scratch on its surface, but it was split into two by the sword light.

"It's a pity, I liked that stick very much."

Heather rolled over and fell to the ground, and glanced at the broken wooden staff. It was not a physical attack of an ordinary level, but a higher level of power!You can't let this kind of attack fall on yourself.

Thinking of this, he clenched his left hand into a claw, and a gorgeously shaped cross sword appeared in his hand with the flash of fire, [absolute kingship]!
The sword-wielding wizard and the skeleton knight stood in the forest, facing each other far away.

(End of this chapter)