The Wizarding Age

As the team slowly entered the poisonous swamp, everyone became more and more nervous.

Underfoot were soft and slippery water plants and duckweed, which made it difficult to stand firmly, but it was still much easier than everyone had expected.

A long rope of more than 30 meters long, woven from tough vines, strung everyone together, and the front end was tied to the waist of the old herbalist. A silver knight held the long rope in one hand and a long sword in the other, following closely behind the old herbalist, ready to lend a hand when appropriate.

After all, there are still a large number of scavengers and highly poisonous creatures living here, and there are also many monsters and ghosts that cannot be named, which are particularly difficult to deal with.

More than 20 paladin teams entered the swamp one after another, and the distance between each team was less than 10 meters, so that they could respond to each other. In this way, the possibility of being attacked by witches was reduced.

The seven golden knights near Black Mountain City had gathered here at the same time, escorting Reina and the little witch who had just been captured to the center of the team. With their team numbers and strength far exceeding their opponents, they were not worried about the witches' massive attack, but rather worried that the other side would flee and refuse to fight.

To be honest, wearing a full set of fine steel armor and trudging through the mountains and jungles to hunt down those extremely flexible and cunning witches was by no means an easy and pleasant thing.

Catherine held a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, following the team through the swamp.

Looking around, one could only barely see the five-meter range illuminated by the torch. Beyond five meters, it was a foggy, white expanse. The mist was floating around, making everything around seem like a thick veil, making it difficult to see clearly.

The mist was rich in water vapor, entangled with the flames on the torch, and a strange crackling sound broke out. And the road under the feet did not look like a "road" at all, but just a slippery footprint left by the teammates in front.

And the latecomers did not need to identify the road, they just needed to follow the footprints of the former.

What are the consequences of making a mistake in such a place? A young Black Iron Knight told everyone about the dangers here with his own personal experience.

Perhaps he was only looking around, or perhaps his mind was distracted, the Black Iron Knight stepped outside the "grass road" and immediately tilted his body and fell into the mud puddle.

And this was like lighting a striking torch, and the entire swamp began to boil in an instant!

Visible to the naked eye, the mud in the stinking pool was stirred, and ripples appeared. It seemed that some strange creatures were digging and restless below. And as the Black Iron Knight kept struggling in the mud, the restlessness in the stinking mud became more and more obvious, and clear water lines approached the drowning person from far away.

"Everyone, pull him up..." The leading Silver Knight shouted loudly, and the two closest to the drowning knight grabbed the rope wrapped around his waist, and suddenly exerted force, just like pulling a carrot, and pulled him out of the stinking mud that was getting deeper and deeper.

The ‘prey’ suddenly disappeared, and the monsters hiding in the mud were extremely furious and came out one after another.

For a moment, a large group of old ghost women and mud monsters emerged from the stinking mud around the team.

From the outside, the old ghost woman looked like a humanoid monster similar to a drowned zombie, with messy and dirty hair, dark and dark claws, and incomplete but sharp fangs. Their claws and fangs attack with terrible toxins, and the danger in the swamp is even higher than that of ghouls.

As for the mud monster, it is a low-level monster made of pure smelly mud and strange substances, with several special combat abilities such as ‘mud missiles’, ‘acid splashing’ and ‘splitting and multiplication’. The attack power may not be strong, but it is disgusting enough to kill people.

Facing the massive attack of swamp creatures, the Paladin team is not afraid.

As the "holy light bullets" rained out, every named swamp creature would have its soul purified in this almost holy pure light, and then the old hag would turn into a rotten corpse, and the mud monster would turn into a pool of mud and die.

As if they had noticed the difficulty of these intruders, the old hag and the mud monsters chirped and floated in the swamp, using the mud to avoid the other party's holy light bullets. In the long team of 3 miles, many old hags had rushed onto the grass road and started a close combat with the paladins.

If the guys who broke into the poisonous swamp today were replaced by imperial warriors, I am afraid that there would have been a large number of casualties and poisoned people by now. However, the paladins blessed by the holy light have unparalleled lethality when facing these low-level monsters and monsters.

No matter how sharp the claws and fangs of the old hag are, they can't penetrate the holy light barrier and the thick holy light armor outside the paladins. However, their hard skin, which they thought was as tough as old cowhide, was as thin as a piece of paper in front of the Paladins' long swords soaked in rich holy light.

Almost like cutting melons and vegetables, the Paladins chopped down the old ghosts who rushed onto the grass road one by one, and their souls were completely purified. However, facing the mud monsters with several long-range skills, the Paladins were a little embarrassed.

Mud missiles broke through the air and hit the holy light barrier outside the Paladins' bodies, and they would explode into a ball of extremely foul-smelling mud. The smell and the content simply made the clean Paladins mentally collapse and their noses were tortured.

It was a waste to use Holy Light Slash, Holy Seal Sanction and other means to deal with a group of low-level monsters, so the cheap Holy Light bullets fell on the sludge monsters like raindrops. How could the small sludge monsters withstand the purification of Holy Light? One by one, the sludge monsters exploded silently.

However, before the smiles on the faces of the Paladins rose, the rotten sludge-like body in the distance actually condensed again and split into three slightly smaller sludge monsters.

The next moment, more dense sludge missiles and acid splashes flew over.

What made the Paladins feel more frustrated was that an ordinary sludge monster could split twice, and each individual could split into three slightly smaller sludge monsters. In other words, it took nine full kills to completely kill an ordinary sludge monster.

Before that, these sludge monsters were enough to completely cover the area where the Paladins were with the stinking sludge and the strange strong acid brewing in their bodies.

For a time, the entire Paladin team was shrouded in a terrible stench that pierced the brain!

All the paladins were fighting and vomiting desperately. The funny and evil scene was simply unbearable to watch.

However, the strength of the paladin team was far superior to the strange monsters and demons in front of them. Therefore, although the situation was a little out of control, the paladin team had not suffered any casualties so far.

Whether it was the poison attack of the old witch or the acid splash of the mud monster, the slight damage had not accumulated on the paladin's body into visible damage before it was purified by the brilliant and sacred light.

The only pity is that the holy light can purify toxins and acid, but it can't purify the stench!

Therefore, the paladins who fell on the battlefield were not injured in their bodies, but were simply knocked down by the stench.

Catherine was mixed in the long team, silently chanting words of praise for the holy and great holy light, and ignited holy light bullets in her hands, swaying and smashing at the shaking figure in the mist.

Her face was pale and she could hardly breathe.

On the water, on the grass, and on my body, there was a sticky, slippery, disgusting acid. This "body fluid" that had been nurtured in the mud monster for many years would emit a glowing green smoke wherever it fell, smelling like the terrible smell of those dirty and filthy "waste" in the sewer after being fully fermented.

Catherine only sniffed it once and vomited out all the food in her stomach. In the end, she even vomited out the acid in her stomach.

Even if the paladins were weak in vomiting, they were still fighting bravely... no, slaughtering!

Groups of old witches and mud monsters rushed out of the fog on both sides of the grass road, and then fell under the holy swords of the paladins with a shrill howl.

Although the battle was "tragic", the paladin team was strangely without any casualties!

The paladin team, which stretched for 3 miles, all stopped and tried to purify this group of monsters. However, just as they were fighting hard, a group of giant lizards suddenly emerged from the swamp.

As the yellowish petrification rays shot out from the strange eyes of the swamp lizards, several unprepared black iron knights were caught and paralyzed on the spot.

Visible to the naked eye, a layer of blue-gray quickly spread on their skin. Soon, let alone the little finger, the paladin who was hit even had his eyeballs suddenly solidified, becoming a hard stone statue.

The swamp lizard pounced on them, bit the petrified paladin, turned around and dragged them into the swamp.

So the next moment, the whole swamp rolled, black water splashed, and the swamp creatures that swarmed in bit the paladin frantically, dragging him to the bottom of the deeper quagmire.

As for the long rope tied to the paladin, it was bitten off, and it could no longer be used to help.

"Asshole..."

Some paladins who witnessed this scene were extremely angry, and they rushed into the swamp with swords and fought with the swamp creatures.

But unfortunately, with their strength on land, one black iron knight could easily deal with seven or eight old hags. But in this special environment, two or three old hags could play with them and make them gasp for breath.

Relying on the parasitic monsters such as swamp monitors, the swamp creatures actually broke through the paladins' defense in some areas, dragging the paladins one by one into the swamp where they had no power to do anything.

Almost instantly, the paladins suffered double-digit casualties!