Mythical Card Master: Start with the Knight

"Yeah?"

Crono scratched his head in confusion, and then he and Aiqi ran to check out the dark creatures buried in the soil.

Chu Ming stood aside and did not urge them. Instead, he was observing the surrounding environment to prevent any dark creatures from hiding in the dark and trying to attack them.

"Huh?"

Crono squatted in front of the pit and made a surprised sound.

Chu Ming and Maddie looked at each other, approached the man and asked, "What happened?"

Crono, who had been so nervous about the dark creature just now, actually picked up the dark creature that looked like a monkey or some kind of scaly reptile.

He said with some uncertainty: "I remember this kind of creature is called the Dark Green Ghost. It should look like a monkey. Why does it have scales?"

"Let me see."

Chu Ming took a closer look and carefully observed the dark golden scales on the creature.

"The scales do feel a little incompatible with the aura of its body." Chu Ming shrugged and said, "But it's not surprising for dark creatures to mutate."

Crono touched his chin and agreed: "That's true. Maybe it's just that this dark creature has mutated."

He buried the dark creatures again and set off with Chu Ming and others.

On the next journey, he encountered several more dark creatures. In the process, he discovered that even if Chu Ming did not know the types of these dark creatures, he could always accurately find out where they were hiding and analyze the weakness.

This made Crono realize that Chu Ming must have dealt with dark creatures all year round, otherwise he would not be so familiar with dark creatures.

This also answered his inner doubt - why Avis sent him to protect Chu Ming.

Maybe Chu Ming is some kind of master who studies dark creatures, and the tower owner sent him here just to let him study hard.

When he thought of this, Crono felt awe-inspiring in his heart, and he straightened his posture as a scholar. Along the way, he would ask Chu Ming if he had any questions about dark creatures.

Obviously, although Crono discovered some Chu Ming's secrets, he still misinterpreted Avis's thoughts.

The tower owner's idea is very simple. He wants the mage geniuses in his mage tower to get in touch with Chu Mingduo in the name of protection. There are always common topics between geniuses. If the Victoria Mage Tower can build a If he fell in love with Chu Ming, he would make a lot of money.

When faced with Crono's questions, Chu Ming answered as much as he could.

After all, he has been dealing with dark creatures for three lifetimes. Although he may not necessarily know the scientific names and types of these dark creatures, he can always rely on his combat intuition to quickly understand the habits and weaknesses of dark creatures.

For Crono, who spends most of his time in the Mage Tower, these are undoubtedly valuable practical experiences.

The more the two chatted, the more important Chu Ming became in Crono's heart. He also affirmed the fact that Chu Ming was a master of dark creature research, and lamented the good intentions of Master Avista.

But in fact, Ives really didn’t think about it that much…

…

A few people walked in the forest for about a day. When they were about to reach the village, a dark creature without eyes suddenly jumped out.

Before Chu Ming could take action, Crono waved his hand and shouted excitedly: "Master Renn, leave this little trouble to me."

After saying that, the man swung his staff and summoned several waves of mud to attack the dusky crow whose body was covered with dark golden scales.

"Ah! Ah!!"

The dusky crow made a pitiful cry and flapped its wings in an attempt to fly upwards, but the dark gold scales on its body restricted its ability to fly like a rope. It only flapped its wings a few times before falling to the ground.

puff!

With a slap on the mud wall, the dusky crow instantly turned into a puddle of flesh.

Chu Ming and the others stepped forward and carefully observed the bloody fragments, and he fell into deep thought.

Not surprisingly, this is the third dark creature with dark golden scales that he has encountered in this day. One can be said to be mutated, but this is the third one.

"These dark golden scales are like foreign things parasitic on these dark creatures. If it is like the first dark green ghost we encountered, it would be fine. The scales can also add some defense capabilities to it, but this Dusky Crow They are all affected by the scales and cannot fly.”

"Is there some kind of pollution source nearby that can make creatures grow scales..."

Being able to make different creatures grow scales seems incredible, but it is not impossible to do it in another world.

For example, the bloodline of a superior person can contaminate the bloodline of a lower person, just like Andrew absorbed the blood of a black snake and grew black scales.

Maybe some epic creature or above died nearby. After this creature's body was eaten by these dark creatures, its bloodline was contaminated.

Chu Ming told Crono his conjecture and asked: "Do you have any way to detect the bloodline in its body? Maybe this piece of information will also be useful to the magic army."

Crono smiled bitterly and said: "Bloodline detection is difficult to do even with the help of magic tools. It's not that we can't classify these bloodlines, it's just that we don't necessarily know these bloodlines."

"The bloodlines of dark creatures are too numerous and complex. Even if one-to-one correspondence is verified, it may take hundreds of years to produce results."

"But we can first collect the flesh and blood of this dusky crow and these scale fragments and give them to the epic mage in the stronghold. Maybe these things will be useful to them."

Crono took out the potion bottle from the bag and used tweezers to put part of the flesh and scales of the Dusky Crow into it.

"Just keep going."

Aiqi continued to lead the way, and the group continued to approach the village.

As they walked deeper into the forest, the number of dark creatures with dark golden scales gradually increased. They even saw a twisted tree man also covered in scales.

After walking for three hours, the forest filled with black mist gradually disappeared. The black mist in front became thinner and the outline of the village appeared in front of everyone. However, the number of dark creatures did not decrease at this time. They were even far away from Da Lao. I heard the roars of dark creatures one after another.

"What are the dark creatures doing here?"

Just as doubts appeared in everyone's minds, a human shout suddenly sounded in front of them.

"Quick, light the fire!"

Chu Ming looked forward. Flames suddenly lit up from outside the village. The black fog was dispersed a little. In front of him, there were figures of villagers fighting with dark creatures near the wooden wall.

"Is there anyone alive?!"

Chu Ming's heart was shaken, a faint invisible lightning flashed across his legs, and he ran quickly towards the village.

After Magic Knight Aiqi was overtaken by Chu Ming, he was stunned for a moment, but this was not the time to care about it, and he quickly followed.

Among the four, Cronuo's body was that of an ordinary person. After Mattie glanced at him, she also ran towards Chu Ming, leaving him alone.

"Wait for me."

Crono's face was startled, and he hurriedly ran, trying to keep up. However, before he had taken many steps, he was panting from exhaustion and waved his hands.

"Forget it, you better not wait for me."

…

Outside the village, dozens of dark creatures are crashing into the wooden wall woven with thick logs. The fire is burning under their feet, but the dark golden scales seem to have put on battle clothes for them. No matter how high the temperature of the flames is, these dark creatures can't stand it. As if he didn't feel anything, he kept hitting the wooden wall.

"Pierre, we can't go on like this. We must find a way to kill them."

On the crumbling wooden wall, an uncle dressed as a hunter gritted his teeth. He handed the bow and arrow in his hand to a young man named Pierre who was standing beside him, and jumped off the wooden wall.

"Uncle Steve don't want it!"

The village guards on the wooden wall screamed in surprise. They just watched the hunter jump into the flames and face several dark creatures.

"Roar!"

The dark creatures obviously noticed the human who jumped down on his own initiative, and they roared and attacked him.

"It's over!"

Everyone shouted in despair, as if they had seen Steve's miserable appearance being torn to pieces by dark creatures.

"ah!!"

Who would have thought that at this moment, Steve's body would erupt with powerful power, and with a roar, he would overturn a two-meter-tall dark creature.

Under the scorching flames, the man's clothes gradually turned into ashes, revealing the dark golden scales on his body.

When the villagers saw this scene, instead of showing joy, their expressions became even more frightened. "It's a taboo. Steve came into contact with the power of the taboo."

A village guard gritted his teeth and shouted: "Whatever the taboo is, let's deal with these dark creatures first!"

After the guards shouted, everyone finally woke up and picked up their bows, arrows and boulders to harass these dark creatures with tough scales on the wooden wall.

But Steve was still a little weak after all. Facing the collision of the dark creatures, he quickly became overwhelmed and leaned against the wooden wall, panting violently.

"Steph be careful."

The villager screamed, and before the man could react, the sharp claws slashed across his chest, penetrated the dark gold scales, and pierced into his fragile flesh.

"ah!!"

The man howled in pain and was lifted up by the dark creature on its claws. The monster opened its slender mouth and was about to swallow him alive.

But before it could take action, a sound broke through the air, and a bolt of lightning shot from a distance, breaking through the dark gold scales and penetrating the head of the dark creature.

"Uh...uh..."

The monster fell to the ground with the man.

When this sudden change occurred, everyone's eyes shrank and they all looked in the direction where the lightning roared.

"That seems to be... Lord Knight?!"

As the words fell, a faint flash of lightning appeared in the darkness. Before a dark creature realized anything, it was grabbed by the figure wrapped in lightning. With a click, its throat was crushed directly, and it was thrown to the ground like a rag. .

"Roar!!!"

The other dark creatures finally reacted, baring their teeth at the figure and letting out threatening growls.

"Are they all contaminated by inexplicable blood?"

Chu Ming whispered and walked into the flames.

"Let's just solve it all together."

Sizzle...

The power of blood flowed like a torrent, his eyes were filled with lightning, and black clouds floated around his body that could not be dispelled by flames.

The next second, Chu Ming only left an afterimage on the spot. Wherever the lightning passed, the dark creature was killed with one blow.

In the depths of darkness, as soon as Aiqi and the others arrived, they were stunned by the scene in front of them. The entire battlefield was like a thunderstorm. The dark creatures howled and were blown away, and their heads and bones were shattered into pieces.

Aiqi swallowed hard. He found it unbelievable that such a clean and violent battle could occur in the hands of a blue-level knight.

With this kind of speed and this kind of power, even he didn't have much confidence that he could catch it.

And such people still need him to protect them. Is this something wrong?

The battle ended quickly. When Chu Ming's figure appeared again, the corpses of dark creatures were everywhere.

Aiqi also quickly recovered from his daze. He quickly walked into the charred battlefield to check whether the dark creatures on the ground were alive.

As soon as Mattie arrived, she ran directly towards Chu Ming and guarded him.

"We are saved!"

Cheers came from the wooden walls, and the villagers hurriedly opened the wooden walls and went out to greet several knights arriving from far away.

At this time, Crono panted and just rushed to Aiqi. He looked at the corpses of dark creatures on the battlefield. He had no idea what had just happened. He smiled and patted Aiqi on the shoulder, "Aiqi." Why didn’t I realize you were so capable before?”

There was a strange look on Aiqi's face, and he quickly waved his hand and said: "These dark creatures are all taken care of by Lord Ren and have nothing to do with me."

Crono was stunned for a moment, and his face became a little embarrassed.

But when he thought that Chu Ming could deal with so many dark creatures alone, he was secretly surprised.

When Lord Avista assigned him the task of protecting Chu Ming, he never said that Chu Ming was so powerful.

You know, there are a lot of dark creatures at the deep blue level at the scene. Even if he wants to deal with these dark creatures, he has to do it one by one. How on earth did this guy do it.

Beside the wooden wall, Chu Ming ignored the villagers coming out of the village. He focused on the hunter named Steve lying on the ground.

The man's exposed skin was covered with dark golden scales, and Chu Ming could even feel a strange oppressive aura from inside. This power even lifted the hunter from an ordinary person to a deep blue level.

It seems that this hunter's bloodline has been more thoroughly polluted and he has gained some incredible power.

However, no matter how weird this power was, it could not heal the penetrating wounds on his body.

The flesh and blood on the hunter's chest squirmed and tried to heal, but because the injury was too severe, it didn't work at all. His breath became weaker and weaker, and even the flesh and blood gradually stopped squirming.

Pierre, the young man who had taken over the bow and arrows from the old hunter, hurriedly knelt in front of Chu Ming, cried and begged: "I beg you, sir, to save Uncle Steve."

"Although he came into contact with taboos, he did so to protect everyone."

Chu Ming glanced at Pierre, but he had no time to pay attention to what the taboo in the young man's mouth was. His right hand emitted a strong green light, and the greenness twitched, as if a new green leaf had sprouted in his hand.

Growing wildly.

He pressed his palm down on the old hunter's chest. In the shocked eyes of the villagers, the three wounds on Steve's body that were penetrated by sharp claws were gradually healing.

Half a minute later, Chu Ming dispelled the spell, and dark golden scales grew again and covered Steve's body.

The man's vital characteristics gradually returned to stability, his painful expression became peaceful, and he fell into a drowsy state.

After doing all this, Chu Ming stood up and looked at Pierre, "What are the taboos in your mouth? Also, why doesn't your village leave here?"

The joy on Pierre's face didn't last long before he was asked a series of questions by Chu Ming, and he was stunned on the spot.

"Ahem, Sir Knight, let me answer."

An old voice came from behind the villagers, and an old woman on crutches came out.

Chu Ming looked at the old man, "Who are you?"

The old man smiled kindly and said: "I am the village chief of this Boer village. My name is Afshan Azad. Sir, just call me Afshan."

"Several adults, please come with me into the village. It would be too rude to let the distinguished guests stand here."

Chu Ming nodded, waved to Mattie and the others, and walked into the village with the old man.

The wooden wall door slowly closed, and the unconscious old hunter was carried back by Pierre and placed in other houses. Chu and Ming followed Afshan to a wooden tile house at the end of the village.

Walking into the living room, the furnishings are simple, with only a few old sofas and a few cabinets.

The old man motioned for Chu Ming and others to sit down, then rummaged through the cabinet next to the stairs and found a document.

She handed the document to Chu Ming with trembling hands.

Chu Ming thanked him, took the document and glanced at it.

"Is this... left behind by the Magic Legion?"

Afshan nodded and said: "You adults don't know. When the dark beast tide invaded Thorn Flower County last year, our village was remote and blocked by forest trees, so ordinary beast tides could not enter, so we became the only survivors within a hundred miles. village.”

"But Thorn Flower County is full of dark creatures, and we can't escape because of the horde of beasts surrounding us."

"After the adults of the Magic Legion arrived, they swept away the beast tide here and asked us to keep an eye on the corpses of those dark creatures before leaving."

Chu Ming touched his chin and asked doubtfully: "Why didn't the Magic Legion just burn the corpses cleanly and let you guard them?"

Afshan smiled bitterly and said: "You don't know something, sir. The corpses of those dark creatures have been piled up to the size of a hill. Their bodies can retain most of their vitality even after death. No matter how they are burned, the corpses can grow back." .”

"But the legion was busy with tasks and obviously didn't have time to stay here, so they left in a hurry."

"In the beginning, we were guarding the corpses according to your instructions. After half a year, most of the corpses have turned into skeletons. Only some huge corpses have not started to rot. Among them, there is one that looks like an earth dragon. The corpse, even after so long, the golden scales on its body are still shining brightly."

"We didn't pay much attention to this matter before and reported to nearby legion bases as usual. But a few days ago, scaly creatures suddenly appeared in the forest."

"Once we realized something was wrong, the village itself was surrounded by these monsters."

"I suspect that these monsters changed after eating the body of the earth dragon."

After listening to the old man's statement, Crono shook his head solemnly, "I don't think it's that simple."

As soon as he said this, everyone couldn't help but look at him.