Knight with Wand

In the gray and dark forest, Leon led the way with a dazzling spiritual lamp.

As everyone moved forward, the light of the soul in the wooden cage dispelled the gloominess of the surrounding things. Where the light shone, everything restored their brilliance in the real world.

But as the area illuminated by the spirit lamp left together with Leon's footsteps, the original gray color once again covered the way back like a shadow.

After using the Earth Vein Spirit Lamp, Leon gradually understood the concept of time and space chaos that the girl's voice referred to.

When they kept moving forward impartially along the light of the spiritual lamp, the light would often dim suddenly, which meant that everyone had unknowingly deviated from the guidance.

Leon had to test around with the spiritual lamp and recalibrate the position where the light was strongest.

Sometimes it's left, sometimes it's right. Even to the naked eye, it's behind where they originally came from. This means that they have to suppress their sense of direction and their own common sense instincts, and back up the original path in order to go back to the correct "direction."

It is not the place where the soul in the lamp wants to go that is changing, but what is really constantly changing is the seemingly peaceful space and time itself beneath our feet.

The entire spirit-like field is like a maze with no rules to follow, and time and space are like a mixed paint that is constantly stirred and rotated in a bucket.

No wonder no one in the legend can get out of this so-called "cursed place". Leon sighed in his heart while standing and looking at the spiritual lamp in his hand that was constantly flashing light and dark. No matter where he was facing at this moment, the frequency of light and dark alternating was difficult. Stablize.

This is not the first time that this situation has happened. According to the suggestion of the girl's voice, Leon and others had better choose to wait where they are to avoid rushing forward and causing the route to deviate further.

It wasn't until the light of the spirit lamp stabilized again in the chaotic time and space that Leon and others turned to the stabilized direction.

The long sword crackled open the thorns blocking the road in front of them. Since the detour might inevitably lead them to the wrong direction, the three of them could only continue to climb over all the rugged terrain in front of them.

It was a difficult journey, but fortunately, except for the occasional encounter with a few living corpses of beasts and humans, there were no more disturbances. Although ordinary undead ghosts still posed some threats, the three teenagers held weapons and cooperated closely, so it was easy to deal with them. It's not difficult either.

Especially holding the knight's sword, Leon only felt that killing ordinary corpses with this sharp blade was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

I don’t know how long it took, and I don’t know how far I walked around in circles. Suddenly, everyone heard a burst of painful screams and cries from the front.

"What's that?"

Azarian and Rohark behind him immediately became alert.

The background of the voice was like an eagle's roar, but it was as loud and thick as a liger. It should be a ferocious beast.

What kind of undead beast turned into a living corpse?

Leon took a few steps forward nervously, pushed aside the dense branches and looked around quietly.

The sight in front of him surprised him. It was not undead.

Not far away, a huge beast lay on its side in a pool of blood on the ground, moaning mournfully.

This is the first truly alive creature the three of them have encountered so far!

I saw that the huge beast had the body, limbs and tail of a lion, but it had a pair of huge wings on its shoulders and back. One of its wings weakly fanned the wind at its side, and the other He was pressed to the ground, and his brown feathers were covered with blood.

When Leon looked sideways and saw clearly the beast's huge head and beak like a giant eagle, a word immediately popped into his mind even without anyone else explaining it.

Whether it is the memory of the original owner or Leon's own memory on Earth, he can recognize this fantastic creature.

——Griffin.

But at the moment, the condition of this huge beast is not as ferocious and elegant as described in traditional impressions. Instead, it is in a miserable state and covered with bruises.

There was a pile of broken forest trees beneath it. It looked like it might have been knocked down when it fell from the air. Of course, the injuries from the fall were not the reason for the griffin's wail. The chest and abdomen that could be seen in its side-lying position were all swollen. The tail of an extremely thick large crossbow arrow was exposed, and the blood flowing from the wound formed a pool of blood on the ground.

Azarian and Rohark also poked their heads out from the side.

"Do you want to take a detour?" Azarian turned to Leon and asked. After experiencing all kinds of monsters and ghosts, the boy was now a little numb. He would no longer make a fuss about anything that appeared in front of him.

"It seems to be dying." Lohark looked at the severely injured chest and abdomen of the legendary king of beasts, feeling somewhat sympathetic.

"I don't know who committed such a blasphemous atrocity." Azarian frowned, feeling confused in his heart. Those who can use large crossbows to attack griffins are obviously other intelligent beings, but the young man doesn't know who this griffin is. The injuries suffered in the outside world were the injuries sustained after accidentally breaking into the cursed land.

The reason why he felt blasphemous was because in the minds of the Serian people, the gryphon was a noble, pure and friendly being. Especially in the stories sung by the Church of the Holy Sun, it was endowed with a god that transcended beasts. sex.

Although this kind of sky overlord that nests on the top of a high cliff is at the top of the food chain, it almost never takes the initiative to attack humans in the wild. Therefore, in the hearts of the Serian people, griffons have never been the image of man-eating beasts. There are even some in the kingdom. There is a law explicitly prohibiting harming griffins.

However, now they are indeed not within the Kingdom of Serian, so who knows what the Kantadar and Orlanders think of the griffon. Thinking of this, Azerion can only accept the griffin's words with regret and sadness. He withdrew his gaze.

"Let's stay away. It looks like it can't even stand up. It shouldn't be a threat." Leon didn't have the same sentimental thoughts as his two companions. He just thought that the poor beast in front of him, which was about to die, couldn't hurt the three of them.

Slightly avoiding the route, Leon took the lead and quietly bypassed the griffin blocking the road from the side, and continued to move forward with the lantern.

Azerien and Lohak followed one after another.

The griffin in the pool of blood was still wailing and panting weakly. Its huge and sharp claws like barbs painfully left terrible claw marks on the ground again and again, grabbing the soil in vain.

The heavy injuries were slowly taking away its last strength, but the keen hearing and smell allowed the beast to perceive all the movements around it. He smelled the breath of humans close at hand.

The griffin struggled instinctively and tried to get up, fearing that the group of hateful humans who hunted him would track him to this strange land again.

However, even if it was just the movement of trying to get up, the endless pain of pulling muscles forced it to fall heavily to the ground.

——Bang!

Leon and the other two were startled by the sudden movement of the griffin, but when they saw the beast half-turned over and fell to the ground with a bang, they felt that it was a false alarm.

"Go, go." Leon hurriedly urged his companions behind him.

Just as he was in a hurry to get away from the dying griffin, he heard the existence in his heart suddenly say: ". You'd better go help it."

Leon almost thought he had heard it wrong.

"Help it? You mean. That griffin?" He stopped in confusion and looked back at the beast behind him whose cry was gradually becoming weak.

"Do you want me to help it end it and give it a quick death?" Leon hesitated and raised the long sword in his hand, gesturing to cut the throat.

"? Haha, great, then after you make your move, you will have to face an undead griffin that is seeking revenge on you~" The girl couldn't help but laugh.

"!"

Leon then realized what the other party meant.

Yes, if this beast dies in the spirit-like field, then later, there will be a giant zombie that is much more powerful and terrifying than the previous corpse knight wandering around.

And it may be able to fly!

Leon was immediately anxious. The three of them had a hard time dealing with the zombies of ordinary humans and beasts, and of course they couldn't fight against the zombie griffin.

"Then how to save it? I'm not a veterinarian. With such a serious injury, do you have a way?" Leon asked hurriedly.

"Don't be nervous, it's not that troublesome. Go and help it pull out the crossbow arrow, and leave the rest to its self-healing power. As long as it doesn't die before you go out, it's enough, isn't it?" The girl's voice said at the end, with some emotion: ". I hope that Master Holemond's creations will be as tenacious as before."

"Holymond what?" Leon couldn't hear the girl's whispered voice behind him.

"Do you want to hear a story? Or quickly eliminate the hidden danger in front of you?" The girl's voice was quite indifferent to remind.

Leon immediately threw away his extra curiosity.

He told his companions to wait on the side, and then ran to the griffin.

Azerien and Lohak looked at each other as usual, without raising any objections. Although they didn't know what Leon was going to do, he was sure that he was always right.

When Leon endured the instinctive fear of the huge body of the beast and approached carefully, the seriously injured griffin had difficulty making any extra reactions except for the slow and futile flapping of its wings.

He felt relieved and went around to the other side of the griffin's body. From a distance, he observed the thick crossbow shaft tail on its chest and abdomen.

The size of this crossbow arrow was too large. It was obviously not something that could be fired by ordinary crossbows. Even if it was not at the level of a siege crossbow, it was a weapon specially used to shoot large beasts.

To be honest, according to common sense, the location and depth of the wound that was fatal to ordinary beasts, Leon even thought it was a miracle that the griffin was not dead yet.

Following the griffin's body, Leon glanced at the huge and ferocious claws, and still felt a little creepy in his heart.

Approaching the griffin's chest and abdomen without any protective measures to help it remove the crossbow arrow, it would be fine if the beast appreciated it. If it didn't appreciate it, the hooked razor-like claws would suddenly attack, and he would be disemboweled in an instant.

Leon took a step forward tentatively with uneasiness.

The griffin's sharp and vigilant eagle eyes stared at the approaching human, and its claws were embedded deeper in the ground.

Leon looked at the griffin's taut claws, and immediately took back his steps and returned to the original place.

It didn't work, it was still too dangerous.

Inadvertently looking at the griffin's eagle head that turned to look at him, Leon looked at the beast with some distress.

"Relax, big guy, I just want to save you, can you not be so nervous? If you cause a doctor-patient conflict and kill me, you will die here too." He was so helpless that he began to try to talk to the beast.

Just when Leon felt helpless, I don't know if it was an illusion, he seemed to be able to read some complicated emotions from the beast's eyes?

"I say, you, holding a cold and shining sword and approaching, even if it was a human, they would be afraid of you." The girl's voice seemed to be laughed at by Leon.