Mythical Card Master: Start with the Knight

Half a month has passed in a hurry, and the development of the Dark Land has entered a white-hot stage. Almost every day, five or six epic creatures will die in their hands.

Everywhere they passed was scorched earth, the black fog became thinner, and the sunlight was able to shine into the forest.

In order to prevent the fleeing dark creatures from forming a tide to attack the Eagle Horn territory, the witch knights at the border have already made preparations and will kill more than a hundred dark creatures that attack the border every day.

After the eradication, there are actually not many ordinary creatures left. Most of the dark creatures that remain are epic creatures, which are hard to crack and require a lot of time.

Chu Ming and the others first started from the area deep in the dark forest, close to the Tianqi Mountains, and finally gradually cleared an isolation zone to completely isolate the dark land they wanted to explore.

In this way, there will be no dark creatures emerging from the depths.

…

In the forest, a burning smell came. Chu Ming and others worked together to kill the three epic creatures and sat on the ground to rest for a while.

Edel rummaged through the bag and seemed to find something. He said to Chu Ming: "Narende, our dry food has been exhausted. It's time to return to the camp to replenish supplies."

Chu Ming nodded and stood up, "Then let's go back first. According to the current progress, this area will not need a month to be cleared. Let's go back for a few days to rectify it, and try to clear out the entire darkness next time. Burn the forest clean."

After saying that, he made a casual move, and the Demon Skeleton Dragon Vine rose from the ground, and he stepped on the Dragon Vine's body.

Everyone nodded, packed their things, and walked up.

The dragon vine swam, overwhelming the black tree, and walked out of the forest.

A few hours later, the dark fog gradually thinned and the sunlight gradually shone in. This relaxed the minds of several people who were tense in the dark environment and relaxed their brows.

After a while, the camp appeared in front of everyone, and the Demon Skeleton Dragon Vine swam out from the vigilant eyes of the knights.

"It's Sir Narender, Master Edel, and all the other gentlemen!"

The knights were stunned for a moment, with excited expressions on their faces.

The witchcraft was cancelled, the Demon Skeleton Dragon Vine gradually disappeared, and everyone fell to the ground.

Edel smiled at a knight and asked: "Sauron, nothing happened in the territory during my absence."

The knight named Sauron nodded, but soon there was a trace of hesitation on his face, "With the wizard and the witch knight here, several attempts by the dark wizard have been repelled, and the territory is safe and sound."

"But there is bad news from the southern border..."

With that said, the knight put a letter into Edel's hand.

"My lord, the earl, asked me to give this to you. Your lord has already set off for the royal capital a few days ago."

Hearing this, Edel felt an ominous premonition in his heart. He unfolded the letter and read it in front of Chu Ming and others.

"Dear Edel, when you read this letter, I should be on my way to the royal capital."

"A few days ago, bad news came from the royal capital. The aberrant plague spread by the black wizard in the southern territory has mutated and can actually infect some weaker knights."

"At the same time, the Truth Society is frantically attacking southern towns. I'm afraid the southern border really can't hold on this time."

"This news was a month ago, and it only came here in the past few days. The situation in the south may be worse than I thought."

"I will set off tonight to lead the knights to the royal capital for support. Edel, please guard the territory and wait for me to come back. I hope everything is fine."

"Put pen to paper, Brett Coutts."

After reading the letter, Edel's expression changed and he stood blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chu Ming just glanced at him, then took a deep breath and said, "Edel, I think I have to go to the royal capital."

"Isabel is still there in the royal capital. I'm not worried. I want to go there and see for myself."

Edel held the letter and raised his head suddenly, struggling internally.

Seemingly sensing Edel's inner hesitation, Chu Ming said, "The territory has grown, and the cleanup of the Dark Land will soon be over. I don't think you need to worry."

As he said that, Chu Ming turned to look at Allen and the other two, "I'll leave it to you guys for the territory and the development of the Dark Land."

Allen nodded cautiously, "Don't worry, Narender, leave the territory to us."

Chu Ming exhaled slowly, ignored Edel, mounted his horse and ran towards the wizard's cabin.

Although he seems to be calm on the surface now, in fact, when he thinks about Isabel's situation, he will feel uneasy inside.

Quickly running back from the border, Chu Ming returned to the laboratory and saw Pearly standing on the shelf.

Chu Ming took a breath, quickly took off the copper scroll, opened the letter and read it again.

"Dear Mr. Wizard, are you doing something powerful again today?"

"Let me tell you a little secret. In fact, I have broken through the epic level. How about it? I am also very powerful."

"When I see bad guys in the future, I will punch them one by one. No one is allowed to hurt you, hehe."

"Everything is fine with Isabel in the royal capital now. Don't worry about her. Maybe I will go find you soon."

"Put pen to paper, Isabelle."

When he saw Isabel breaking through the epic level, Chu Ming couldn't help but smile on his face, but the more he looked behind, the more solemn his expression became.

Isabel was not really free in the church. At least she would be rejected if she came to see him in the earldom.

If Isabel can really come to the Earl of Kutz to find him, it means that the situation in the south is really not optimistic, and maybe even the Life Church is starting to plan to move away from the royal capital.

When he thought of this, Chu Ming felt a little anxious. He quickly brought the necessary items and walked out in a hurry.

As soon as he opened the door, he suddenly saw Edel standing outside, seemingly waiting for him.

Edel said: "My father is going to the royal capital like this. I'm worried. Let's go there together."

Chu Ming just nodded and said nothing.

He waved his hand forward, and the Demon Skeleton Dragon Vine burst out of the ground, quietly overlooking the two of them.

"Let's go."

Chu Ming and Edel climbed onto the back of the Demonic Skeleton Dragon Vine.

The dragon vine roared and climbed up the mountain.

Ten minutes later, the two climbed over the mountains and looked south. After that, Longteng continued to move forward.

…

late at night.

In the Royal Capital Life Church, bursts of painful wails came from inside.

On the ground, the knights were covered with aberrant tissue and were unable to move.

Ever since the knights from the royal capital went out to support the southern earldom and were defeated, they had come back looking like this.

The priests were busy running among the patients. As bursts of light lit up, the pain on the knight's face eased a lot, but the abnormal tissue on his body still did not change.

Among the patients, Isabel's hands glowed with dazzling light. Unlike the knight, the aberrant tissue on this patient's body was fading away at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then turned into a pool of pus and flowed out.

The patient's ugly face relaxed and he fell into a deep sleep tiredly.

Isabel wiped her sweat and was about to take a rest when the knights beside her started wailing.

"Lord Saint, please save me."

"help me……"

The girl looked at the wailing knights around her, feeling a little at a loss.

In fact, she had been overloading her magic for several days in a row, and her spirit had already reached its limit. However, there were too many aberration patients, and she was simply too busy.

Just when the girl didn't know what to do, Maria came over expressionlessly and pulled her out.

"Isabelle, you should rest."

"But……"

Looking at those people who were wailing, a trace of unbearability flashed in her eyes.

She knew that if these people did not receive treatment tonight, they would not survive tomorrow.

Maria stroked her head and said, "Isabel, you can't save everyone. You should care about yourself and think about your wizard. He should still be waiting for you in the north."

Hearing this, the girl raised her head, finally nodded, and walked towards the attic.

As soon as Isabel left, there was a burst of noise from the aberration crowd.

"Lord Saint...please save me!"

"Damn it, my father is Count Blanc, you can't do this!"

"Life Church! You hypocrites!"

Insults and shouts arose one after another. When facing death, these knights lost their previous calmness and grace.

Maria's face was calm and she looked at the struggling knights silently.

Since the mutation of the aberration plague, the effect of divine magic on the aberrations has also weakened a lot. They have tried their best, but they still can't save these people.

Although the magic released by Isabel is still effective against aberrations, she will never allow Isabel to sacrifice herself to save others.

This can be regarded as her selfishness.

Maria stood quietly on the spot, and the knight's insults gradually targeted her alone, and he said all the ugly things.

After a while, she glanced at the busy priests around her and said, "Come back, they are hopeless. Save your energy to save others."

"Pastor Maria..."

Several priests looked up at Maria, with confusion in their eyes.

Maria continued: "If something happens, all the responsibility is on me."

The priests looked at each other in confusion and stopped working on the magic in their hands.

This move obviously angered the knights. They shouted angrily, cursed, and wanted to hold the priests back.

The priests were frightened and left the deformed patients one after another.

"You stinking bitch!"

"I don't want to die!"

"I won't let you go!"

Under the gaze of the priest, these deformed patients quickly swelled into balloons, burst suddenly, and blood and pus flowed out, leaving an unpleasant smell on the scene.

After watching this scene, Maria gave a few instructions, turned around and walked into the church.

In the church, High Priest Lysa opened her eyes surrounded by candlelight.

The old man spoke slowly: "Thank you for your hard work, Maria."

Maria shook her head, "High Priest, if the current trend continues, the dark wizards of the Truth Society will soon be able to expand their power near the royal capital."

"By then, more and more people will be infected by the aberration plague, and the church will soon be unable to support it."

"Should we retreat..."

High Priest Lysa stepped across the candlelight and sighed, "Silly boy, where else can we go?"

Maria hesitated and said softly: "Perhaps we can go to the Earl of Kutz. Lord Narender has already established a wizard tower there, and Isabel said that there are already five epic characters there."

High Priest Lysa smiled and said: "Narende is indeed a genius, but he still needs more time to grow."

"If the Life Church persists here for one more day, it will buy him one more day."

After hearing this, Maria quickly asked: "What about Isabel?"

The old man was silent for a moment and then said: "Isabel should not stay here with us. When Earl Burrett's knights arrive in the royal capital, I will ask him to take Isabel to Earl Kutz."

Maria breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "High Priest, I have no other questions."

High Priest Lysa looked into her unruffled eyes, "What about you, child? Where are you going?"

"I'm right here with you."

When the old man heard this answer, he didn't speak, but just shook his head silently.

…

Three days later.

Bad news came again. According to the descriptions of the knights who fled back to the royal capital, the Southern Territory had been completely occupied, and the civilians had all turned into pus after being infected with the aberration disease.

The entire southern territory has been reduced to a deserted place with only some dark wizards and dark creatures active.

And the dark wizards of the Truth Society are still heading north in large numbers, heading towards the royal capital.

In the church, Rebecca was lying on the ground covered with injuries.

Without the crystal staff, she is not strong enough to fight against the Truth Society, which has epic wizards.

Afterwards, she led a group of fleeing knights and priests all the way north and returned to the royal capital.

"Pastor Rebecca, how are you? Are you feeling better?"

Isabel withdrew the magic and looked at Rebecca lying on the ground.

Rebecca shook her head, "Your Highness Isabel, I'm fine."

The girl healed her wounds and asked, "How is the situation in the south now?"

Rebecca smiled bitterly and said: "The entire southern territory has been captured."

"The Society for Truth sent a dozen epic wizards. We couldn't defeat them at all, so we had no choice but to escape back here."

When Isabel heard this, her little face wrinkled.

After treating Rebecca, she walked into the depths of the church and saw High Priest Lysa talking with the guards sent by the royal family.

After waiting for a long time, Isabel couldn't bear the exhaustion and lay down on the chair.

After the guard officer left the church in a hurry, High Priest Lesa turned his attention to Isabel, who was dozing on a bench.

The old man asked kindly: "Isabel, what's wrong?"

The girl opened her slightly dazed eyes. After she regained consciousness, she stood up and held the old man's wrinkled hand. "Grandma, the high priest, can we lead everyone to retreat?"

The old man stroked her golden hair, "Why do you suddenly have such an idea?"

Isabel lowered her head and said: "The dark wizards will come soon, but we can't defeat them."

"How could it be?" The old man smiled and said, "Believe us."

The girl wrinkled her nose and said seriously: "Grandma High Priest, I am already an epic. When the dark wizard comes, I will definitely protect you."

High Priest Lysa sighed after hearing this.

Isabel is the priest with the best magical talent she has ever seen. It only took a few years for her to reach the epic level.

If Chu Ming hadn't been there, Isabel would have been the youngest Epic she had ever seen.

Gently stroking the girl's forehead, High Priest Lysa smiled and said, "Then I'll leave it to Isabel."

"Um!"

…

Ten days passed in a hurry, and Burrett and some other northern earls finally arrived at the royal capital with the knights.

Outside the walls of the royal capital, many dark wizards have gathered. They are hiding in the wild forest outside the royal capital, and they don't know what they are planning.

After entering the royal capital, Burrett first went up to the city wall to observe the situation. He looked into the wild forest, and after a while he looked back.

"Brett, how about it."

Suddenly, an old voice sounded from beside him, and a white-haired old man wearing a crown and gorgeous clothes looked at him.

Bert's heart trembled, he squatted on the ground, clasped his hands in his fists and said, "Your Majesty, why are you here?"

The old man in front of him was named William Strerman, and he was the current king of the Fengyang Empire - Streman XVI.

The old man sighed and helped Berrett up. "Berrett, if you can come here when the empire is about to survive, how can I not welcome you?"

Burrett solemnly said: "Your Majesty has spoken sternly. This is what I should do."

William nodded and said seriously: "At this moment of life and death, Burrett, are you willing to shoulder the heavy responsibility and fight to protect the royal capital?"

Bert was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized something, and couldn't help but secretly scolded the old man in his heart.

Even before he came to the Royal Capital, he had heard that William Streman was planning to abandon the Royal Capital and run away.

But when Berrett thought of William's heroic deeds in expelling dark wizards when he was young, he hesitated for a long time and decided to trust the old king for once.

Now it seems that the rumors are not rumors. The royal family really wants to run away and wants to make him a scapegoat.

After all, at this critical moment, the more concentrated the power, the better. The royal family actually wants to decentralize power to a border count who has not come to the royal capital for decades. No matter how you think about it, there is a problem.

Burrett sighed inwardly, no matter how reluctant he was in his heart, he could only agree to William Sterman temporarily.

He looked at the old man and said seriously: "Your Majesty, I will do whatever I can."

"good very good."

The old man patted his shoulder happily and said, "From today on, you will be the commander of the Dawn Army. In addition to the royal knights, you can mobilize other knights in the royal capital."

When Bert heard this, he looked "grateful" and said, "Thank you for your majesty's trust."

William smiled happily and asked politely: "Burrett, do you need any help?"

Borrett's eyes moved and he sighed, "If only His Majesty could provide the best spiritual crystal, then I would be more confident in dealing with the dark wizard."

The old king twitched the corner of his mouth and said perfunctorily: "Bolet, the knight doesn't need these things."

Burrett said with serious eyes: "Your Majesty, there happens to be a wizard among the knights I brought."

"In order to defend the royal capital, I will not hesitate to pay any price."

Seeing that Burrett was using the excuse of guarding the royal capital, the old king knew that his crystal inventory could not be saved. He sighed secretly and verbally promised Burrett that he planned to stabilize him first.

Of course, Burrett was not so easy to fool, so he persuaded the old king to give him 300 pieces of top-quality crystals in advance before he would give up.

The two of them looked friendly, but in fact they had their own hidden agendas.

After some chatting with the old king, Borrett waited for three hundred top-quality crystals, and then walked down with the box in his arms worriedly.

If he loses to the dark wizard, he will definitely run away. There is no way he will stay here and die just for a few words from William.

Moreover, he has to find a way to return this box of top-quality crystals to the territory and hand it over to Chu Ming. Maybe a few epic wizards will be born in the territory.

But before that, he had to find out the number of wizards in the capital and the priests of the Church of Life in order to prepare for the next battle.

After getting on the carriage, Burrett first visited all the wizard towers in the royal capital. After gaining superficial obedience from the wizards, at night, he came to the Church of Life.

Burrett got off the carriage and looked at the busy pastors in the church, his heart moved slightly.

"Narende has a close relationship with the saints of the church... Maybe I should help."

Thinking about it, Burrett walked into the church and met High Priest Lysa under the leadership of the priest.

High Priest Lysa smiled and said: "Count Burrett, I didn't expect us to meet again."

Burrett saluted the old man and said, "I am here to deal with the dark wizard."

The man chatted and soon started talking about the power entrusted to him by William Stearman.

Upon hearing this, High Priest Lysa did not express an opinion, but his eyes became much deeper.

The two chatted for a while, and Burrett learned about the number of pastors in the church.

When he heard that the church pastor had been exhausted by the patients, his eyes became a little cloudy again.

The two of them were not in a good mood until the end of their chat. Just when Berrett was about to offer to help the church, High Priest Lysa suddenly asked: "Count Berrett, when are you going to run away?"

"Ahem?!" Burrett, who had looked serious just now, was suddenly choked by these direct words, "High Priest Lysa, do you think I am this kind of person?"

High Priest Lysa shook her head slightly, "No, I just want to ask you to take Isabel with you when you leave."

Burrett was stunned for a moment and smiled: "The other purpose of my coming here is to protect Saint Isabel and escort her back to the earldom."

"Don't worry, High Priest Lysa, even if we lose in the end, I will retreat with the church."

In order to protect the data, I started to close the chapters today. From now on, there will be one chapter of 5,000 words.