Mythical Card Master: Start with the Knight

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The hoofbeats of the horses faltered and the war horses neighed. Chu Ming led the knights in silver and black armor through the streets, attracting the attention of the citizens along the way.

Ten minutes later, the knights left the city of Sauron. As the reins twitched, blood appeared on the horses. A green wind appeared and lingered around everyone. The knights' forward speed suddenly accelerated.

"law…!"

With smoke and dust flying, the knights gradually entered the main road with few pedestrians and rushed towards the place where the battle was said to have happened half a year ago.

The knights ran all the way and saw almost no caravans. The only ones who came and went were the knights who went to the dark land to experience like them. As for the lone wolf knights, there were very few.

Ever since the boundaries of the Dark Land were pushed north of the Violet Kingdom, few knights from the Clinton Kingdom have seen the Dark Land and dark creatures.

The dark land appears near the city of Sauron. For the lone wolf knight, it is both an opportunity and full of unknown dangers.

The claws of dark creatures are sharper than ordinary creatures, and their fur has certain resistance to magic. Even the flesh and blood of dark creatures full of dark aura can be used to make bait, fuel, etc. It can be said that the whole body is full of treasures. Hunting a dark creature A living thing is worth much more than a beast.

But people are always vigilant when facing the unknown. Some cautious knights will not go to the dark land alone, but will form a small team and distribute items according to their strength.

Only a small number of knights who are desperate, need money urgently, or have confidence in their own strength will enter the dark place alone.

On horseback, Chu Ming asked Miguel to come to the front and temporarily lead the knights on his behalf. He took the opportunity to take out a map from the copper scroll on his waist.

This volume of map is a map drawn by the epic knights of the Brick family who delved into the dark place. After they handed the map to the knights' jury, the magic printing workshop in the City of Sauron processed it overnight, and printed it with thick ink. The breath map was sent to the major families and mercenary guilds in the city, and distributed to the knights.

Chu Ming was distracted and looked down at the map. On the map, this newly born dark land was divided into three areas by the Knight Tribunal with different degrees of danger.

On the periphery of the dark land, dark creatures that often appear include chaotic deer, flaming horses, prairie black wolves and other dark creatures transformed from prairie native creatures. Their strength levels are not high, and most of them are in dark green. level, only a few can reach the blue level.

In the middle of the Dark Land, due to the legacy of the battle, there are often blasphemous creatures with a strong chaotic atmosphere or knights and mages transformed into gray mist that persists for many years.

In addition, the dark atmosphere in the middle area is relatively strong, and some black thorn forests have grown on some destroyed grasslands. If the knights accidentally break into it, they will not only face the risk of thorns scratching the leather armor at any time, but also Be wary of dark plants that can use the power of the wood element lurking in the Blackthorn Forest and some white-footed devil spiders that have nested inside.

The strength of dark creatures in the middle zone is generally at the dark blue level, but epic creatures often appear there.

In the core area of ​​the Dark Land, where the battle broke out between Princess Katie and the family of the Gray Mist Evil God, there is a pitted basin. After the rainwater poured in, dark swamps were formed on the pits, where the weeds were tall. There are several meters, and some smaller dark creatures like to hide in it and attack passing knights.

Moreover, these dark creatures are also very powerful. Most of them either possess special bloodline abilities or have epic powers.

According to Milissa, who has been to the Dark Land several times for experience, she and her family's knights had seen many epic three-star dark creatures inside when they were exterminating the overflowing dark creatures. If you are not confident enough in your own strength, , never step into the core area, it is full of dangers, and only the epic knight can barely protect himself.

If Chu Ming came alone, he would have to enter the core area to take a look. Although he could not defeat the epic three-star dark creatures, in terms of escape, the running speed of the knight after Yunlei was strengthened was unmatched by other knights. of.

But now he has to bring a whole knight group inside. If he really encounters an epic three-star monster in the core area, even if he can escape, the knights of the knight group may not be able to escape.

So just in case, Chu Ming planned to lead the Knights to the middle area of ​​the Dark Land for training. As for whether to enter the core area, he would have to wait until he assessed the Knights' combat effectiveness after they broke through before making a decision.

…

The dark land filled with pitch-black color seemed to be right in front of them, but Chu Ming and others set out from the City of Sauron and advanced at full speed. It took them more than forty minutes to reach the outskirts of the dark land.

In front of the main road, a camp with dozens of wooden houses appeared in the thinner black mist. There were many tents inside. Knights were coming in and out, shouting loudly and wanting to trade items. There were merchants who purchased dark biological materials. , the alchemist who sells alchemical potions, the golem holding a long sword, the mysterious wizard and the wizard... and the most common knight in Sauron's city.

"It seems that the news of the dark place in Sauron's city has spread far, and there is an alchemist here."

After approaching the camp, Chu Ming gradually slowed down his horse's running speed and slowly stopped in front of the camp.

If you want to enter the dark place, you must obtain the permission of the Knight Tribunal. Just when Chu Ming was still thinking about how to find the Cloud Thunder Knight of the Brick family in the camp to obtain the permission, a joyful voice sounded in the noisy crowd, passed into his ears.

"Brother Ren, here!"

Chu Ming looked in the direction of the sound and saw Milisa wearing a pair of silver streamlined armor, waving to him in the crowd.

He ordered the knights to settle their horses and walked towards the woman.

Milisa also gave up arguing with the knights in the camp at this time and walked out to greet Chu Ming.

Chu Ming smiled and said: "Milissa, are you practicing here alone?"

Hearing this, the woman said regretfully: "Several members have left here, and the previous knight team has been disbanded. I am still looking for a new team."

After saying that, the woman looked curiously at the knights who were arranging things behind Chu Ming, and asked: "Brother Ren, did you bring the knights here to practice?"

She focused on the knights and glanced at the silver-black armor on the knights with confusion. She seemed to feel some changes in these knights.

Chu Ming smiled and replied: "They have made some breakthroughs recently, so I just want to bring them here to practice and get familiar with the new power."

Milisa looked directly at Chu Ming and suddenly suggested: "Brother Ren, how about I go in with you."

"I have been here for almost a month, and I am quite familiar with the dark place. If the knights have never seen dark creatures, they will be confused when they first start to deal with them..."

Before the woman finished speaking, she was interrupted by Chu Ming waving his hand. He chuckled and said: "Don't worry, they have already seen the dark beast tide when they were still in the Violet Principality, and they can deal with it easily."

"But since you want to enter the dark place with us, I very much welcome you to join. Anyway, I am not very familiar with the situation inside."

Milisa nodded and explained some precautions to Chu Ming when entering.

After all the knights were ready, Chu Ming waved his hand and led Milissa and the knights on foot into the depths of darkness.

After the group of people walked a few hundred meters inside, the thin black fog gradually became thicker, blocking the sunlight and making the light in the dark place extremely dim.

Along the way, Chu Ming found that there were many landmarks on the grass left by the knights when they explored the dark land. In this way, as long as there was a map, even if you lost your way inside, you could still find your way out through the landmarks.

Milisa followed Chu Ming closely. While she was wary of the dark depths with black mist floating around her, she asked Chu Ming: "Brother Ren, which area are you going to practice in?"

Chu Ming said without hesitation: "The middle zone."

Hearing this, the woman had a surprised expression on her face, "But there will be epic creatures in the middle area. They..."

She glanced at the knight behind her and whispered: "Isn't it a bit dangerous if we don't reach the epic level?"

Chu Ming shook his head, "Believe me, their power is definitely beyond your imagination."

Hearing what Chu Ming said, Milisa felt a strong curiosity in her heart, but she was embarrassed to ask, so she just said: "Then let's go to the grassland area in the middle zone. Compared with the black thorn forest, the grassland area is longer." It’s a lot safer, if anything happens, other knights can come over quickly.”

"Okay, I'll listen to you, then I'll keep going west."

Under Milisa's leadership, Chu Ming and others crossed the landmark, casually solving a few eyeless chaotic deer along the way, and entered the middle zone smoothly.

The more people walked inside, the more frequently dark creatures appeared, and the strength of these dark creatures also changed greatly. Soon, they were blocked by a group of blasphemous black wolves with bone spurs on their faces.

"Bah..."

Bloody lights lit up in the darkness, and dozens of dark blue blasphemous black wolves surrounded the knights with their bodies covered with bone spurs and rotting flesh. They grinned and looked fierce, as if they would attack the knights at any time. .

"I don't remember any black wolves roaming here."

Milisa frowned, and she subconsciously put her hand on the hilt of the sword, trying to pull out the sword.

At this time, Chu Ming held her arm down.

"Brother Ren?"

Milisa looked at Chu Ming in confusion.

Chu Ming smiled and said, "Let's leave these little troubles to the knights."

As he spoke, he turned his head and ordered the knight behind him: "Everyone is free to attack. I don't need to live."

The knights nodded cautiously. Their eyes were fixed on the dark creatures in front of them. Thinking of the friends they lost in the Thorn Flower County, their noses were sore for a moment, and their eyes were ignited with a burning hatred that could swallow the darkness.

Miguel yelled: "Brothers, kill these damn dark creatures!"

After the man finished speaking, he was the first to rush out.

The magic patterns on his body lit up quickly, and the golden fire burning on his body was dyed with the sharp edge of the golden element.

The fine steel sword in his hand glowed with dazzling light under the blessing of the ultimate power.

He waved his hands forward vigorously, and a black wolf that rushed towards him touched the sword body. It seemed to be melted by the high temperature. It was split in the middle of the head, and the body melted into two pieces, falling to the ground weakly.

The knights attacked the black wolf one after another. The golden flames burning on their bodies dispelled the surrounding darkness and reflected the blood-red pupils of the black wolf, bringing them extreme fear.

However, these black wolves were smart enough to know how powerful the knights in front of them were. When the first wolf roared, the pack of wolves ignored him and surrounded Miguel. They seemed to want to lure this man deeper into the pack. The knight was the first to kill.

"careful."

Milisa couldn't help but exclaimed when she saw this scene.

At this critical moment, Nathan, who had not participated in the battle, moved. He stretched out his palm and pressed it into the void. Invisible fluctuations brought a rich blood-like red color and quickly swept towards the knights.

Miguel's body lit up with dozens of radiant blood-colored stars. The blood colors were linked, and a pair of blood-colored armor appeared on Miguel's body.

The black wolf's sharp claws fell on him one after another. In just a moment, the newly condensed blood-colored armor withstood the tearing force of the claws and shattered.

However, the bloody armor had completed its mission and bought some time for Miguel. He swung the long sword shining with golden light around his body. The bone spurs on the six black wolves were broken, chopped into two pieces and fell to the ground. superior.

It’s just that the lives of dark creatures are too tenacious. Even if their bodies are broken into two pieces, they still don’t die. They lie on the ground and twitch, opening their big mouths full of chaotic fangs, trying to bite Miguel’s thighs hard. A piece of meat.

With a cold expression, the man stepped out and stepped on the black wolf's head. The metal boots directly crushed the head into pieces. Red and white things flew everywhere, and it was quickly burned away by the raging fire.

After Miguel escaped from the siege, the other knights quickly came over and mercilessly killed all these dark blue black wolves like melons and vegetables.

There was also a black wolf who was too frightened and broke away from the control of the alpha wolf, trying to escape into the depths of the black wolf. Unexpectedly, the knight's arm shook, and the long sword with golden flames came out of his hand, directly killing it. Nailed on the grass.

Gradually, the wailing sound of the black wolf disappeared. Milisa looked at the knights standing around the black wolf's body, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart.

Milissa has been in the mercenary guild for a long time. She originally thought she had a complete understanding of these knights, but the madness of the knights when they faced the dark creatures today made her feel shocked.

And after all, these black wolves are also top hunters at the deep blue level. I didn't expect them to be solved so easily.

Thinking of this, Milisa's eyes revealed a complex emotion.

Chu Ming glanced at the woman and said with a smile: "This is just a warm-up. Just these black wolves cannot let them use their full strength."

In fact, even without relying on the power of Burning Will, Miguel and the others are the top beings among the Dark Blue Knights.

Although they can't challenge the epic with the strength of Deep Blue like Chu Ming, it is still very easy to just bully the dark creatures below the epic.

Each of them individually has the strength of other knight leaders. One can imagine how terrifying a knight team composed of such knights would be.

Not to mention invincible, at least in the Clinton Kingdom where there are many extraordinary knights, he is also a very top-notch existence.

In the Clinton Kingdom, only the Brick family and the royal family have the capital to form the epic knights above the Burning Knights. The top knights of other small families cannot even compare with the Burning Knights.

Chu Ming walked up to the crowd, looked at the crowd who were gradually calming down, and said calmly: "Keep your fiery hearts, but don't let hatred blind your reason."

"This is the last indulgence I give you. Next, you are not allowed to attack dark creatures without my order. I don't want anyone to lose their mind by chasing dark creatures."

Miguel put the long sword into the scabbard. He bowed his head respectfully to Chu Ming and said, "Captain, I understand."

The other knights also lowered their heads and said, "Yes, Captain."

Chu Ming stared at everyone for a while and then said: "Very good, pack up the materials on the dark creatures and continue walking with me."

After saying that, he returned to Milissa and led the knights to continue walking into the depths of darkness.

Ten minutes later, they went deep into the middle of the dark land. The grass on the ground gradually turned yellow, and the black mist was gradually mixed with gray mist. Chu Ming felt an unfamiliar chaotic atmosphere in it.

"Brother Ren, wait a minute, there seem to be a lot of people over there."

Milissa pointed to the depths of the black mist, and she whispered: "In the dark place, there are often knights or knights who bully other weak extraordinary beings and ask them to pay protection fees. Some knights even ask for large amounts of materials. Start killing."

Chu Ming's mind moved, "Does the family not care?"

Milisa shook her head and said: "We Cloud Thunder Knights have always maintained order in the Dark Land, but there is no law and morality here, and there are only a few of us, so it is difficult to control it."

"Even if a knight is missing inside, without evidence that other knights took action, we will assume that the knight was killed by a dark creature."

"So if we encounter knights in the dark land, we'd better go and investigate the situation, maintain order, and reduce the occurrence of such incidents."

"Of course, we'd better not reveal the identity of the Cloud Thunder Knight, otherwise those guys with ulterior motives will run away when they see the lightning."

"Disguised as a knight with a lot of dark biological material, people with bad intentions will take the bait themselves."

Chu Ming suddenly understood and ordered the knights to fill the bags with soil and disguise them as full of trophies.

…

Deep in the darkness, in front of the black thorn forest.

Poof!

The long sword tore through the armor, and blood spurted out from the knight's body. The knight's mouth was covered, and his neck was wrenched with a click.

After the murderer finished all this, he threw the body on the ground like garbage.

A ray of fire rose from his fingertips, illuminating his scarred face.

He lit the pipe in his mouth with a flame and took a long breath of white smoke.

In front of the man, there were corpses of knights lying on the ground, and his knights were groping on the corpses.

After a while, a knight came forward and reported respectfully: "Reporting to Master Soba, we found some antlers of the Chaos Deer."

When Soba heard this, the scar on his face wrinkled up, and he cursed: "A bunch of useless knights have entered the middle zone with just such a small amount of junk, and they have wasted my time."

The man was furious, and the knight in front of him lowered his head and did not dare to speak.

Suddenly at this moment, a knight hurried to Soba, "Sir, it seems that a knight group is approaching us."

"Huh?" Soba brought the pipe and raised his eyebrows, "Are you from the Brick family?"

The knight shook his head and said: "I have never seen this knights in the dark land. They should be from the city of Sauron. They are well-equipped and carry a lot of materials."

Soba's gaze paused, "What do you mean, they brought a lot of materials?"

The knight nodded bravely and said: "Yes... but they look very powerful. The two leaders have terrifying auras. They both seem to be epic."

"As for the knight team behind, I can't see clearly. They should be pretty strong."

Soba's eyes narrowed, he pushed the knight away and walked in the direction of Chu Ming and the others. Looking far into the distance, he saw dozens of blurry figures in the black mist, one of whom seemed very familiar to him.

"That's the female knight of the Brick family?!"

This female knight had been active in the core area of ​​​​the Dark Land, but many of the raiding knights who encountered her were unlucky and were directly captured by the Knight Tribunal.

If this woman knew that they were killing knights here, she would definitely not spare them.

The man's expression changed, and he instinctively wanted to retreat.

At this time, a thick voice sounded next to him, and a knight who was more than two meters tall and looked like a little giant came over with a gloomy expression.

"Didn't you notice that this woman's knight team has been disbanded, and they only have two epics now."

"And there are four of us..."

Behind the giant man in the iron tower, two knights with cold faces walked out of the black mist.

Soba was stunned, "Mar, what do you want to do?"

The giant man sneered: "Don't you think this is an opportunity?"

"In the dark land, even if the epic dies, it is a normal thing."

"We just need to kill them and feed the corpses to those monsters, and no one will know that we did it."

A look of disbelief appeared on Soba's face, and he cursed: "Mal, are you crazy?"

He, Soba, only cares about money. He will definitely not touch such a risky thing. He is not stupid enough.

Mal stared at the man and persuaded him: "They have a lot of precious materials on them. After this job..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Soba's sneer, "Mar, I think you want to avenge your good-for-nothing brother who was captured and tried by the Knight Tribunal."

Mal was hurt by Soba's heart, and his tone became cold.

"Soba, either come with me and capture that woman, or die."

Soba's expression became gloomy. He looked at the two epic knights behind the man, and saw them staring at him with cold eyes as if they were looking at a dead person.

He cursed in his heart: "I shouldn't have cooperated with these guys if I had known earlier. This would be troublesome."

Now that the situation is stronger than human beings, Soba can only nod in agreement with a dark face.

Seeing that the man agreed, Mal's tone became gentle, "Soba, the matter is successful, we will share half of the materials with you."

"But if..." His tone became cold again, "If you dare to rebel midway, I will be the first to back you up."