Chapter 42 – Knights of the Manor Alias
Chapter 42 – Manor’s Other Knights
One foot stepped into the courtyard, and the sky immediately clouded over.
Todd winced as he was stung by the chilly wind, but soon a large, warm hand was pressed against his back.
“Group, group leader?”
“It’s okay, new recruit, first time touching necromancy, right? Haha, just get used to it.”
Jason, the head of the regiment with a scar on his face, patted his shoulder.
“It’s all just scary stuff, nothing to be afraid of.”
The other party’s armor shone with a faint golden glow, imparting a holy and warm feeling.
That was one of the deposits paid in advance by the client, a set of defenses enchanted with Primary Holy Light Shelter and Barrier Power for 40 gold coins per unit.
There were also ten assorted weapons enchanted with the power of slight judgment, and centralized purchasing from the Lion King Trading House would also cost more than 80 gold coins, which was also a considerable expense for their mercenary group.
After pacifying the new recruits, Jason gestured to the crowd behind him.
“Purification Arrows, Holy Light Flasks of Ignition, prepare – release!”
In an instant, ten golden enchanted vectors shot out aimed at different areas of the wall, arcing light illuminating the night sky.
Bottles waving golden flames were also deliberately thrown towards the windows and terrace areas.
The sounds of falling and crashing were endless.
Dry vines and creepers were instantly set ablaze.
The mottled walls were instantly flooded with gusts of ghostly green light, like waterfalls trying to extinguish these flames.
The two forces pulled back and forth, devouring each other in a fierce battle.
Jason waved his hand:
“Go on – release!”
This time it was ordinary fire vectors and incendiary flasks, their home base couldn’t withstand that much building.
Orange flames blended into a pale gold color, raging together on the walls, and the screams of the wandering souls could be faintly heard as they were scorched.
After hitting three quarters of the reserves, the magic shell on the castle finally dissipated.
The roaring fire reflected the leaps of joy on everyone’s faces.
“Undead spells are nothing to be afraid of!”
“What haunted manor, nothing more than that!”
“Keep setting fires and burn them to death!”
Jason was satisfied while having a fleshly pain.
The commissioner this time was generous, and the value of the deposit alone exceeded a hundred gold coins.
So their Roaring Mercenary Corps wasn’t cheap and spent a huge amount of money on these consumables.
As a necromancer family that had been entrenched here for many years, Gitil’s manor was a small fortress in itself, and it was worth breaking the bank so much.
On the contrary, Dylan Gitil need not care.
Although he was a necromancer close to level four, after losing a blood golem and having the entire evil farm purified by this generous holy light, he was now a pheasant that had shed its feathers and had nothing to fear!
As for that what Heine ……
It is said that this person was fired from the Buried Bone Land only half a month ago, although I don’t know where he got a few weird skeletons, but what’s the use of that?
Skeleton wanderers that can sneak, skeleton warriors that have no fear of holy light ……
All are nothing more than skeletons.
Not worth mentioning in front of their mercenary group, which had a lot of combat experience and was well coordinated.
Recruit Todd was also in high spirits, but just then, he saw a slightly bloated figure appear on the third floor balcony.
He sneakily avoided the flames and quickly threw three or five canisters this way.
Todd immediately set up his bow and shot an arrow, but someone in the group was faster than him!
Whoosh!
The arrows cut through the night sky, and the jars exploded one after another above the heads of the group.
Seeing that the dust was about to fall into the pile of people, someone immediately unzipped a bulging pocket, from which a gust of wind sprang out, blowing the dust overhead backward all rolled into the fire.
“Hahahahaha ……”
The crowd roared with laughter, but it soon came to an abrupt end.
The flames quickly died down as the unknown dust was swept into the fire.
It was as if the crowd had been slapped in the face, and seeing that the momentum was blocked, Jason made a snap decision:
“The castle’s magic is broken, prepare for battle!”
A dazzling holy light aura surged out from his body, and he flew forward, kicking open the castle’s door.
In an instant, countless pitch-black bats with red pupils flew out from it.
He put his longsword up in front of him, standing firm like a reef in a torrent, and instead, those bats were churned to pieces by the holy light.
Although he could sense the holy light, he did not go to the Holy Light Church to receive baptism.
It wasn’t just a matter of not being in the establishment, he was also unable to transform his beliefs into the holy light that would never be extinguished.
A true paladin wouldn’t lack the blessing of holy light before his will to fight died, but he would have to store holy light like a mage stores mana, using one point less.
But it would be enough.
As Jason broke through the door like a sharp blade, incendiary flasks and fire vectors shot in like they were no money.
The first floor hall was instantly turned into a sea of fire as two dozen people surged in with vigor.
At this time, armor, puppets, and luridly shaped skeletons and rotting corpses possessed by wandering souls poured out from all directions.
However, in front of the rolling heat wave and the imposing mercenaries, they fell like mowing down wheat.
“All squads stay relatively centralized and dispersed, don’t move away from the large force!”
“Advance floor by floor, detect traps and evils before going up the stairs!”
“Keep detecting sneaks and beware of opposing Wanderer Skeletons!”
Jason commanded loudly.
The team methodically cleared Dylan’s inventory and killed the second floor with a bang.
Facing the deep, narrow corridor, Jason raised his hand and signaled to spread out along the sides.
He gestured, and a dark-skinned, diminutive Cornu came to the front of the corridor, flanked by two guards.
He pressed both hands to the wooden floor, and the stone string hanging around his neck began to quiver and glow an earthy yellow.
An earthy, intense glow gradually converged and surged forward abruptly as he chanted an awkward incantation!
Boom–
Waves of earthy-yellow qi swept through the entire corridor like angry waves! Traps, organs, prohibitions, and hidden wandering spirits ……
There wasn’t even half a bit of dregs left under the wash of the air wave.
The originally leveled corridor was also ravaged into a rugged cave.
The Cornu collapsed with a depressed spirit, while the teammates’ aura rose higher and higher!
Jason waved his hand:
“Search every room thoroughly, forward!”
“Yes!”
“Long live the Chief!”
The mercenaries shouted and wailed as they charged forward.
The lingering smell of earth and the cacophony of shouts washed away the fear, and they got more and more into the swing of things.
It would make them more alert, more agile, and more exhilarated.
But also more difficult to restrain.
The situation changed slightly at the moment when they were scattered in different rooms while Jason himself was on guard in the hallway.
“Gold! The candlesticks are plated with gold!”
“The walls are actually illuminated stones! This is too extravagant!”
“There’s actually dried hemolytic herbs on the shelves ……”
Even if Jason tried his best to control it, they couldn’t be as disciplined as an army.
He didn’t think of restricting it either, the battle had advanced so far that it did need some colorful prizes.
Just then, he suddenly heard a scream from the end of the line.
“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!”
“It’s that Wanderer Skeleton!”
“Where’s the trap? Didn’t we say we left traps?”
Jason shouted, “Shut up! You bunch of idiots! Told you to stay in formation!”
“Casters to the center of the line, where are the roamers? Where are our roamers? Find me that damn skeleton!”
But just as he finished speaking, a young man in black robes suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor.
“Heine Heinrich?”
Someone recognized him at a glance.
Jason’s eyes glowed, “This is the mission objective, go after it! Go after it!”
He always remembered that there were only three humans here.
Especially this guy in front of him, as long as he killed him, those three skeletons would also lose their fighting ability.
Jason rushed up ahead of him!
Suddenly, a blood-soaked figure appeared in the corridor in front of him, blocking his way.
Jason’s heart stuttered, but quickly realized it wasn’t Arthur.
If it was, he would have been cut in half by now ……
However, just as he lost none of his speed and charged straight at the guy, his opponent made a move he couldn’t get out of his head.
The opponent crouched slightly, then took a huge step forward.
Boom!
A large mass of golden flames spilled out from under the opponent’s feet, spreading everywhere in the narrow corridor, haloing away at least three to four meters!
From that flame, he felt a trace of familiar fluctuation.
As well as a searing heat ……
This is ……
Holy Light?
……
“Yes!!!”
A Devotion stomped out, and Catch the Goat yelled in excitement.
“Do you guys know how long dude has been looking forward to this day?
“Corridor stomping devotion, I’ve never even thought about it like this in my fucking life!”
Mr. Sa: “Is there a saying? I just remember the saying ‘don’t group paladins in manors’, so I never grouped knights in Haunted Manor, Nightmare Manor, or Crimson Manor.”
Mr. Xia: “Devotion in a small space will spread and extend like a fungus blanket that an isolation boundary can’t even cover. The characteristic of holy light is blazing and conspicuous, like a lamp in the night, it will pull over all monsters within a 20 meter radius spherical area whose perception is greater than the baseline value and are hostile to the holy light, it can be called the engine of mass destruction.”
Mr. Sa: “…… Grass, it’s a good thing I haven’t grouped Holy Rider.”
Catching Sheep: “Heh, you a hunter still have the nerve to talk about me? Sorry, I play cramped space copies also do not group hunters.”
Sa total: “You discriminate against the old man?”
Mr. Xia: “Falling star shooting smashes the floor, pop-up shooting drills the wall, if I say you two crouching dragons and phoenix chicks who don’t dislike each other, plus an ancestor man, shaking five daddies to bicker with each other, and soul fluctuations that can haunt the Tailed King from the roof of the building to the first floor.”
“Hahaha ……”
Mr. Sa awkwardly changed the topic, “That said, these people look quite professional, how is the situation inside you guys, buddies are already in position outside.”
Catch the sheep: “Heine’s hatred is a steady batch, it’s true that the big brother’s ass is the magic weapon to open the troupe, my side has taken over the enemy, and one man can’t open the door.”
“Where’s Mr. Xia?”
Teacher Xia: “I can only say invincible! Do you guys know how great it feels to be entangled by the bloodsucking vines? I’m Spider-Man right now! I have at least 14 points of agility now, what’s this concept? Messy Killing!
“They can’t even imagine that I can actually crawl around above their heads, I’m really crawling ah man! Plus level 6 sneaking, their wanderers are all dead, with the bloodsucking vines, the bodies don’t even hit the ground!”
Mr. Sa: “What’s the point of killing them indiscriminately, you can still jump from the top of your head into their piles and turn on peerless?”
Catch the Goat: “You don’t say, he really did it.”
Mr. Sa: “Huh?”
…
At this point in the hallway, just as Jason is stopped by Catch the Sheep with a kick of devotion.
Pop, pop, pop!
Discharged like a cannon, it was impossible to hear how many bottles were shattered against the walls, the floor, and the ceiling.
Yellow-green, gray-black, wet, dry, sticky, blasted ……
All sorts of powders, mists, and slimes instantly enveloped the entire hallway.
The screams of misery rose and fell.
(End of chapter)