Crimson Servant

The next day, John woke up and shared more information with his companions. Barnes and others easily believed John's story of being taught by a god in a dream. When he learned about the inverted mirror image, Barnes was surprised and asked if his inverted body was also one of the Knights of the Round Table, but Bella said she didn't know him.

"This is a great loss for the Knights of the Round Table!" Barnes yelled and banged the table.

A palm patted on Barnes' shoulder. John showed a rare smile and said to Barnes: "It doesn't matter, Barnes, if one of our enemies has your face, we will There will be no mercy.”

John took the opportunity to give the location of the sealed lake provided by Merlin, saying that taking out the sword in the lake could provide some help to the Daystar team. The adventurers who had no goals quickly decided to go to the Sealed Lake together, and Bella also raised her hand to show that she knew the general direction.

They left the village and headed towards Avenro in the west. Along the way, John saw many happy people celebrating the festival. They were singing and dancing around a huge fire, and in the fire was burning a tall human figure woven from wicker. The Wicker Man is a hollow cage burning quietly in flames.

Bella introduced the local customs briskly.

"Before the magic faded, the Druid Circle here had the habit of making wicker men as sacrifices. They would put the sacrifices in the wicker men and burn them with fire to please the gods and pray for a good harvest in the coming year. But the magic faded After that, the druids lost their magic power and lost their former credibility. Queen Morgan ordered the cessation of the sacrificial rituals of the druids, but the custom of burning the wicker man was retained and became a habit of celebrating festivals."

John looked at the flames pouring out black smoke, and gradually confirmed that the predecessor of this custom was a religious ceremony of human sacrifice, just like the sacrifice ceremony of the crimson god Vertis, and the strange tune of songs passed through his ears. Along the way, the adventurer team continued to move in the direction of Awenluo.

After two days and two nights of running, with Bella leading the way, John and the others arrived at a dense forest. Outside the woods, Bella blew the fairy dust to dispel the charm of several wild horses. The upper body of the Pixie poked into the horses' ears, whispering softly in return for the rewards of these beasts. Maybe it was a berry patch, or maybe it was a cool spring, and the wild horses galloped away happily.

Watching this scene, Barnes clasped his hands together with some emotion, and put the back of his right hand against the side of his face.

"Oh, it's like a fairy tale."

Raven carried the great sword on his back and walked away from him silently.

John was about to do so, but Barnes stopped him.

"John, aren't you touched at all?"

The warlock glanced at the captain and honestly expressed his true thoughts.

"Yes, I saw a dinner ran away. Leaving them can provide us with nutritious meat. We have been eating dry food for two days."

Behind John, Vivian was facing Bella's reproach. Two days of close contact was enough for the two women to develop a friendship as best friends, and Pixie was angry that his friend agreed to blackmail Galahad. Vivian was a little apologetic, but she felt in her heart that her idea was not wrong, so the reason she made up for admitting her mistake was confusing and inconsistent, which only made her child even more angry.

"Maybe Arlington will keep them for us," John said.

"Don't think about it, the Hell Guard will never leave a portion for us. Those are not enough for Arlington to eat alone." Barnes said.

Through the dense woods, the Daystar team saw the lake.

At first, it was just a tiny bit of light floating in front of his eyes, falling from the cracks in the branches and entering John's eyes. He mistook it for sunlight, but after crossing the last emerald green barrier, he found that the golden light turned into hundreds or thousands of pieces, flying on the water with the breeze, like dancing gold.

That is the lake surface of Awenluo. The smooth mirror-like water surface dances with bright luster, like a crystal lake.

The sound of branches breaking and leaves rubbing disturbed the tranquility here. The adventurers took out their weapons and looked at the surrounding enemies.

The branches and leaves form a crown. The cracked trees are a moving body. The equipment is a wooden spear and a wooden shield. There is only a faint light dust in the eyes. The heart is a hollow. When moving, the creaking sound of stiff joints can be heard from the hole. .

The woad tree men surrounded several adventurers. They gradually approached, and their steps also activated the vines in the grass. These monsters transformed from living people through druid rituals have the responsibility of guarding the Lake of Avenro and preventing adventurers from approaching further.

"Wait! Let me explain to them!" Bella quickly flew to the front of the team. After a few days of getting to know each other, she also had some opinions about this foreigner team. They were not like Galahad. He is so kind, but he is not bad to his friends. Pixie didn't think there was anything wrong with Galahad's wrong guess. The young knight was not an omniscient and omnipotent god.

Pixies are not good at fighting, but little Bella still wants to avoid disputes through her own efforts.

"I'm friends with many tree people, and I can convince them! They're just a little nervous." Bella smiled at John and patted her chest in assurance.

The Pixie flew towards one of the woad trees, stopped in front of it, coughed twice, and attracted the two confused groups of light powder.

"Hey! My friends and I have no ill intentions towards nature. We will not destroy your living environment. Please make a way for us to pass. We just want to take out the legendary sword from the lake and deal with all evil. Cameron Queen Morgan. Do you understand?"

The woads understood, and their answer was simple.

"For...the queen..." The woad tree man stretched out his hands towards Bella, trying to catch this enemy of Queen Morgan. Morgan chose to seal Merlin in this lake, and naturally placed guards around the lake. These woad tree men have surrendered under Morgan's rule.

Bella screamed and dodged a pair of dry and rough wooden hands, and several flickers suddenly rushed into Vivian's silver hair. She stuck her head out from Vivian's shoulder, her cheeks still stained with tears and blushing with embarrassment.

"Okay, you can deal with them now. Vivian, take revenge on me!" Bella shrank back again.

Raven raised his sword and slashed open the enemies beside him. Vivian used the chaos created by the warriors to rush into the enemy. Her short sword could cut off an arm of the tree man every time, and the snake vines on the ground had no time to catch her.

"Don't you go and have some fun?" John controlled the Sin Chain to chop the enemies beside him. The sliding chain hit the tree man's wooden body and moved quickly, instantly creating the cutting effect of a chain saw.

Barnes knelt on one foot, holding his sword across his hands to intercept the tree man's stick blows, and he gritted his teeth.

"Can't these wooden heads figure out which one is the biggest threat? Why are they looking for me?"

The evil chain penetrated into the hole in the heart of the woad tree, and formed a plug inside to fix it. The huge force transmitted from the chain dragged the tree man, swinging the whole tree man like a meteor hammer and beating him on the other side. On the tree man.

The two woad tree men smashed a dent into each other and lost the ability to move, but Vivian easily eliminated them.

"Who knows, just stick to the principles."