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Chapitre 150: Finally Encountering an Adversary [Vol 5 Chapter 1]

"Watch out!" One of the Phantom Knight warned me to pay attention.

But I was not Superman, the Magic Fireball's speed was as fast as a falcon in flight, by the time I heard the warning, it was already too late for me to dodge! Luckily, there were Supermen standing by me! As I was still rather low level, I did not dare to unsummon the Phantom Knights, and got them to follow and protect me. The ambush had showed how sensible my decision was.

One of the female Phantom Knight (I hope no one forgot about it, the Phantom Knights consists of 5 males and 5 females) was faster to react and quickly pulled me into her bosom which resulted in the Fireball scraping past my body and flying straight into the Phantom Knight that was right behind me. This Phantom Knight did not reveal any signs of fear. I heard a snap as the Fireball was cut into two hemispheres and flew past him on both sides. As the Fireball had blocked my line of sight, what I saw was him inserting his sword back into the sheath, I did not even know when he had unsheathed his weapon!

"Master, are you alright?" Instead of worrying about himself, the Phantom Knight that had used his sword to cut through the Fireball asked if I was hurt!

I walked out from the other Phantom Knight's embrace and checked myself. "I'm fine!"

Right after I replied, the Phantom Knight that had pulled me to the side suddenly turned to my side while unsheathing her sword with lightning speed. By the time I noticed her, she was already wielding the sword and in a defensive posture. Her sword hand suddenly moved and produced a ringing sound as it deflected an arrow that had flown towards her.

The undergrowth ahead rustled and a few figures jumped out. The head of the Phantom Knights immediately brought the other Phantom Knights and formed a semicircle formation in front of me. All the Phantom Knights unsheathed their weapons in unison, the sound of the swords drawing completely in unison.

Five figures landed on the ground, in the middle stood a young lady roughly at the age of 17 to 18. Her blue Mage robes and the dark red staff revealed her identity as a Mage and was the owner of the Fireball because she was the only Mage among the five, or at that moment what seemed like so! The young lady looked…..how do I explain it! Arrogant, an air of arrogance from never admitting defeat. Her round cheeks reminded me of adorable dolls, this dollface lady also had a standard single-handed sword in her left hand, with droplets of dark green liquid flowing down from the sword tip to the ground. Although she had clearly chosen the race of White Elves*, I felt that her appearance had an extremely murderous look.

To her left was two young ladies, it appeared that the age gap between the five of them was not far apart. The two young ladies were warriors, human warriors. The two of them had the exact same equipment, posture and actually looked the same, it looked as though they were another pair of twins. They were not that beautiful, but leaned towards the adorable side, and gave others a feeling that they were very pure. But the battle-axes in their hands made them look more deadly. On the battle-axes were the same liquid, which meant they had just cut something before arriving!

On the Mage's right was a couple, the man was obviously a Battle Priest, but his fair and delicate looks could have him mistaken for a female! His religious robes and his bald head meant that his level was not too high, but definitely still higher than mine!

The lady yet to be introduced was an Archer, she looked like an Elf, but did not look like one as well, most probably a Half Elf! Her light green equipment flashed with a beautiful ring of light and the dark red bow that she wielded horizontally suddenly had three arrows. She half pulled the bowstring, which meant that she could release the arrows anytime. Based on the looks of the equipment, she was most probably the highest Level, and the arrow from before was definitely from her!

"I say, Missy, shall we avoid this? This group isn't something that we can handle!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" The dollface in the middle stared at ferociously. "Small Stream, [Battle Blessings]!"

"Orchid Jie**, I don't think this is good right?" The Battle Priest turned and looked at the Archer. The Archer's name was Orchid Blood in which I gained knowledge of from her PK status prompt when she shot an arrow at my Phantom Knight. Of course, I also saw the name of the girl who cast the Fireball, which was rather strange, Missy. The name that the Battle Priest called Small Stream had shouted was actually her name.

"Even if it isn't good, we have to go for it, if we don't, we'll die!" The Archer answered the Battle Priest with resolve.

I pushed my way out of the Phantom Knights ahead of me, although they moved aside to let me pass, they maintained their vigilance.

"What're you guys doing?"

Upon hearing my words, all of them were startled (During PK, the victim will receive notifications but the PK'er will not, thus they did not know that I was a Player.)

"F*ck! We encountered a high-level BOSS!" The Battle Priest Small Stream screamed in exaggeration. "We're finished, I told you guys not to come out, but all of you didn't want to listen to me! Now look what have we landed ourselves into. The majority of humanoid mobs are over level 400 while those who can speak are all above level 600, with their exaggerated and arrogant equipment, I reckon they are all above level 800!"

"So what if they're level 800, if we hack them down, there's bound to be good loot!" Both of the female Warriors spoke at the same time with the exact same words, as though they were both controlled by the same person. The both of them swung their two battle-axes at the same time, speed and angle.

Clank!

Without receiving any orders to attack, the Phantom Knights would remain in defense, both battle-axes were struck back in the same position and the two female warriors were thrown backward in the same exact motions. I truly suspected that the User had somehow split herself into two to control the two Characters, their movements were too perfect!

When the two Warriors made their moves, the three others decided to go for it as well. The Battle Priest's blessing was cast first, a pity the two Warriors were already flying away by the time the blessing had buffed them. The Mage called Missy unleashed a Fire Dragon which faced against the Head of the Phantom Knights. The gigantic Fire Dragon pounced with an immeasurable force, a pity it was dispersed with a strike from him, it felt as though the spell had a strong start but a weak finish! The slash from the Head of the Phantom Knight not only dispersed the Fire Dragon, it also flung Missy away.

The Archer called Orchid Blood unleashed three arrows in one draw. Most Heavy Swords' advantage laid in its ability to strike many enemies at once, but if it were to focus on one enemy, the focused power would only be immense (like a shotgun). The pitiful thing was that the Phantom Knight's level was too high, her arrows were instantly struck back by the Phantom Knight in two to three hits and even before she could unleash a second volley of arrows, the Phantom Knight had kicked away the bow that was in her hand. I extended my hand out and caught the bow in midair. I felt that the Phantom Knight had intentionally kicked the Bow towards me, they were truly intelligent and had even learned to take advantage of a situation!

The Archer had lost her bow and the Warriors' battle-axes were embedded into a large tree behind them, they had lost their fighting capabilities, the outcome of the battle fixed from the single confrontation. The Mage called Missy actually continued to chant spells under such a situation, and of course, the Phantom Knights would never allow her to complete her cast time. The best way to deal with a Mage was to prevent them from casting Spells. The Phantom Knights quickly drew out their spears and wielded them single-handedly in throwing postures.

"Keep her alive!" I barely managed to shout out when 10 spears flew out at the same time.

"AHH!" The Mage screamed out loud and retreated, the 10 consecutive thumps caused everyone to remain stationary. The Mage was stuck hugging a tree in a '大' position, with a spear each on both side of her neck, both drilled over 2 chi deep into the tree, revealing only the spear end that was still trembling from the force. Aside from the two spears, there was one right above her head, one on either side of her face. As for the remaining five, two were by her waists, another two at her underarms with the last one stabbed into her Mage Robes at her crotch area. These five spears were all within a centimeter from her body where the slightest deviation would have killed her.

It was unclear whether this adorable little Mage was shocked or what, her eyes were opened wide, but she did not cry or scream. I suddenly realized blood flowing down her face, and immediately pointed at her and shouted: "Why did you make her bleed! What happened?"

A female Phantom Knight immediately turned, raised her hand and spoke meekly: "Master, your order was given too late, I could only deviate my spear slightly when you ordered us not to kill her, but it seems I did not deviate it to my intended position!"

"Forget it, I was the one who forgot about it!" I walked over to the little Mage when Orchid Blood rushed in front of me with her secondary short blade, but from how she was trembling incessantly, I knew she was not stable at all.

"I'm not going to hurt her!" I explained myself.

Small Stream ran over. "Orchid Jie, let's hear him out! We can't fight him!"

Two female Warriors ran back at the same time, and both of them asked the same question at the same time: "Tell us, why aren't you killing us?"

"Why should I kill you?" I was confused, did I look that evil? Furthermore, my face was covered with my helmet, they should not be able to see my face!

"We killed so many of your little brothers, as a BOSS here, you're not going to take revenge?"

"Little Brother? My little brother is still here! Even if you guys wanted to kill them, you must have the capabilities of doing so!" I had the greatest confidence towards the Phantom Knights, it was practically impossible for Players to want to kill them, I was able to kill off Black Dragon Force 3000 elites and escape was because of the Phantom Knights that had sliced through 1000 Players as though they were cutting vegetables, scaring all of the Japs. It was not simple to want to hurt the Phantom Knights.

"Furthermore, I'm not some BOSS here, I'm a Player!"

"You're a Player?" In unison, the group of five exclaimed in shock.

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Small Stream laid on the ground as though he was paralyzed: "Holy mother of a pearl! You scared the hell out of me, I truly thought we were dead meat!"

"You're really a Player?" Orchid Blood was still skeptical.

"Have you ever met an NPC that will lie? If I'm an NPC, what I say can only be the truth, thus my statement of me being a Player is definitely correct; And if I'm a Player, then, there's nothing to prove!"

"So you're really a Player!" Orchid Blood finally kept her short blade. I returned her bow, they were not PK'ing me with any intentions, taking their items would not be good!

The two warriors were in the midst of helping the Mage down, a pity every single Spear had nailed into her clothes. To bring her down, they had to pull out all the Spears, but despite all their efforts, they could not pull out the spears. The Phantom Knight's Spear Throw ability had rotations, and whenever they drilled into something, the spears would screw in a ribbed pattern, it was impossible to just pull them out!

"Let me do it!" I spoke to the two Warriors. When they moved aside, I ordered the Phantom Knights: "Retrieve your Spears!"

"Yes!" The Phantom Knights went over and held onto their spears. With a bit of force, the Spears automatically unwound themselves. The spears were actually able to do such a thing!

"I'm Orchid Blood, this is Small Stream, the Mage is Missy, these two warriors are twins, one of them is Windy, the other is Fire."

"Windy and Fire? (Together, the four characters means energetic) Interesting names! I'm Ziri!" I extended my hand and shook hands with her.

Orchid Blood used her eyes and hinted that I had not introduced the people behind, to which I casually replied: "These are my Servants, they're not Players!"

"All of them!?" Small Stream looked at the Phantom Knights who had formed up again behind me and exclaimed exaggeratedly: "This is crazy, how did you obtain a series of humanoid Servants!"

"Nothing much, a brother gave them to me!" What I said was the truth, the Phantom Knights were half given half sold by Domergor, thus I did not know how to explain it to them!

"We are truly sorry for just now, we saw you as a Mob!"

"A mob? Do I really look like a mob?" I lowered my head and looked at myself, and no matter how I looked, I did not find myself like one! Indeed, the Dark Dragon Lord Set's appearance was certainly slight overboard in terms of its aggressiveness while the black and red Phantom Cape further increased the imposing aura emitted from my appearance, but I am definitely far from being a mob!

"What do you know!" The Mage that had finally been placed down ran over vivaciously. "Just now, we encountered an ambush of a Bone Army which was initially easy to handle because of their low levels, but after that, Zombies started to appear, and once we finished clearing the Zombies, we saw you appear. With your entire black outfit, we thought you were some Death Knight!"

"Then you guys ain't wrong! The 10 of them are Phantom Knights and belong to the same class system with the Death Knights!"

"Phantom Knights? You mean the class, Phantom Knight, formed from the fall of a Holy Knight? That Level 850 Monster?" Small Stream suddenly rushed forward excitedly.

"Are you an enthusiast or fan of theirs or something?" There were actually people who worshipped Phantom Knights, the world truly had all sorts of people!

"Eh? Have your Phantom Knights been upgraded?" Small Stream's sudden question confused me. He must have thought that I did not know about it as he continued: "I read it on the forums, there was a Player that saw some sort of humanoid BOSS that resembled Phantom Knights, with the name Apollyon Knight. Heard that he's Level 950. It is said that Phantom Knights can evolve with their final form being the Apollyon Knight."

"Even if they could, it's useless, after turning into Servants, you can't upgrade them, don't you know that Servants can't be upgraded?"

"Do you know something called the Energy Crystal?"

"Energy Crystal? What's that?"

"I don't know either! I heard that it is a product made from the Alchemist***, the Side Class advanced from a Blacksmith. it is said to allow Servants to be upgraded, but no one knows who has it. I heard that it was a foreign Player that managed to advance into the Alchemist Class made the item."

"Then there's no such thing here!" I was ecstatic after hearing that my Servants could be upgraded! But in the end, it was a Player from another country that had produced the item, which meant that even if he was willing to sell it to me, I had to find him first!

"Oh right, do you guys know of any suitable place here for leveling? It'll be great if the mobs are slow, I'm using these Knights to level, but my level is too low, the leveling speed is truly too slow!"

The twin warriors suddenly spoke up: "We know of a place. You can teleport to Holy City and head east from there. There is a dark forest there with undead monsters, there are plenty of them and they are very slow, you can have as many monsters as you want there!"

"Alright, thank you! I'll head off first!" Rose had given me a mission, leveling was the most important thing and could not be delayed!

After walking a distance away from the group, I used the Ring of Teleportation and arrived at Holy City. Upon leaving the Teleport Station, I was greeted by the sight of bustling crowds running all over the place, the City looked extremely prosperous!

Being in the City, I did not summon the Phantom Knights, they were too conspicuous. It was fine in the past, but I was too low level to show off in Holy City!

The City was huge, and only with a map and compass did I finally locate the East direction. Everyone on the road that saw me would turn back to have a second look at me as though I was some strange being, and even after half a day, I could not tell what was wrong with my looks.

Suddenly, the crowd of Players in front of me was separated to the sides and a unit of what looked like cavalry sprinted towards me. All of them were dressed in white religious robes with white 2-meter long battle staffs which seemed to be made from ivory! All of them rode on snow white warhorses, that were perfectly white without any blemishes. Although the horses looked good, they were not tall, it might have been because I had spent too much time with Night Shade that I felt that ordinary horses had become too short.

The man in the lead pulled on the horse reins. The White Horse neighed and stood on its two hind legs as it kicked out its two forelegs, which almost struck me! With loathe, I took a few steps back and narrowly avoided death. I initially thought that they were NPCs, but from the looks of it, such an arrogant man could not possibly be an NPC. Even the NPC villains were all gentlemen!

The Battle Priest in the lead used his staff and pointed at me. "Who are you?"

I looked to my left and my right to confirm that he was speaking to me. "Why should I tell you?"

"You want to die?" Another Battle Priest behind rushed up with his staff, he looked as though he wanted to knock me in the head. I retreated half a step back, causing the brat with the staff to trip even before hitting me.

"Phantom Knights!" I summoned the 10 Phantom Knights who stood behind me. The other party obviously wanted to bully me as I was alone, with the Phantom Knights scaring them, it could increase my chances and advantage in negotiation. "What are you trying to do? I'm just strolling in the city without obstructing all of you!"

Upon seeing my summoned Phantom Knights, the brat that rushed at me was so frightened he retreated back, even his mount had become restless.

"You even brought Dark Companions! Don't you know the rules of Holy City?"

"So what if I have Dark Companions? Also, what rules are you talking about? Is it the System Rules or rules you made up on your own?"

"Hahahaha! Don't tell me that you are unaware of the fact that Holy City is the territory of our Holy Angel Guild!"

"Holy Angel Guild? What's that? I've never heard of you!" I had been estranged in the ocean and Japan for too long, how did I have the time to care about the chaotic guilds in the Mainland, there were tens of thousands of Guilds in a single regional area in China, if I even knew of them, I'll practically be a God!

"You…...you…..!" The other party became even more agitated by my honest words. "Our Holy Angel Guild painstakingly defended the City for Three days before obtaining the second Player City, and you actually say you don't know? You dare to question our strength, just die! Brothers, fight!" The last sentence was for the guild members behind him. The three days that he had claimed they took to defend the City had coincided with my time in Japan, how could I know of such a matter! Right from the start, the man spoke to me while on his high horse, obviously, he considered everyone else beneath him. It was perfect that he wanted to fight, there were few that could defeat the Phantom Knights!

"Phantom Knights, block them!" I gave the order while retreating. The surrounding Players all gave space and observed us. The Battle Priest in the lead started activating his divine techniques. A white beam of light suddenly shot out from the tip of his staff, but unexpectedly, the Phantom Knights had used their hands to cover their eyes and were actually retreating. My heart instantly plummeted, ever since the Phantom Knights had started following me, they were never afraid of anything, but it was the first time they were being beaten back.

The few Battle Priests behind all started using their divine techniques, unleashing beam after beams of light. The Phantom Knights started to turn and run, while the head of the Phantom Knights easily pulled me, summoned his warhorse and we ran out of the city.

We ran for our lives, but the Battle Priests behind chased after us even more aggressively. I looked at the enemies behind and asked the Head of the Phantom Knights.

"What happened to all of you? What did they use just now?"

"He is a high-level Battle Priest, what he used was [Encompassing Divine Eyes], it is originally a large-scale illumination spell, but it is extremely harmful towards evil and dark powers! We are all terrified of it, if we had continued to stay inside the light, we would have turned into bats!"

"How can it be THAT powerful? You are all level 850!"

"We are, but….!" A white beam of light shot over and interrupted the head of the Phantom Knight's words.

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(*) The initial Ordinary Race of Elves might be differentiated into White and Dark Elves.

(**) Jie is elder sister in Chinese

(***) The previous translator actually wrote that Alchemist is the advancement of Pharmacists, but according to this chapter, Alchemists is an advancement from Blacksmiths, aside from Forgers. I believe there will be more class advancements due in the future, the class was written by Thunderstorm as the advancement of a Pharmacist is typically depicted as using a fan as a weapon, as for now, I will call the class a Luminary.


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Previously, I have written the class of Battle Priests as Sacrificers. Forgive me, but I have changed them in the chapter The Value of Trust

Chapitre 151: The Cursed Land [Vol 5 Chapter 2]

"We are, but….!" A white beam of light shot over and interrupted the head of the Phantom Knight's words. After being under the white light, the head of the Phantom Knight no longer said anything, but it looked like he was resisting the power of the light.

We were already out of the City's limits, but the pursuers were unwilling to let us go and continued to unleash beams of light on us. The Phantom Knights' mounts were only slightly faster than the white horses, and no matter how far we ran, we were unable to throw them off.

I decided to grab onto the Head of the Phantom Knight's left hand and shouted: "STOP!"

All of the Phantom Knights formed a straight row with their heads lowered against the enemy.

"Prepare and take aim with your spears, and get ready to run! Shoot!"

Although they were afraid of the white light, an order was an order, the Phantom Knights completed my order successfully as a row of spears flew out into the air. The pursuers that had caught up never thought that we would suddenly turn and fight back, resulting in the first 10 people to be stabbed and pinned into the ground as they turned into white light to be revived back in town.

"Turn and disperse!" I gave the next order, the Phantom Knights immediately turned and sprinted down the road. The front row of pursuers had fallen and with the spears that were in the ground had obstructed the road, causing the pursuers behind who caught up to all fall to the ground, and by the time they got up their mounts, we had already disappeared into the edge of the jungle.

It was my first time being chased so miserably by other Players, those damned Holy Angel Guild actually had anti-Dark attributes! The Phantom Knights were not even able to unleash half of their ordinary strength. Fortunately, the Phantom Knights were high level enough, each of their spears was enough to get rid of the vanguard and miraculously even blocked the ones behind! It was considered a huge win for us!

"Do you guys know what monsters are unafraid of them?" I asked the Phantom Knights.

The one who replied was still the head. "Actually, aside from Dark-type monsters, they are afraid of everything else! Darkness suppresses all other types of attributes aside from light, Light specially suppresses Darkness, and all of the other attributes suppresses Light, so we can't do anything!"

"You mean to say that I'll never be free to roam in the light? Just because I drank the Spring Water from the Spring of Evil*, my attributes turn all of my Companions into dark types, even if I can find an Angel, the Angel would only become a Fallen Angel, doesn't that mean I will forever be beaten by them?"

"No, Lucky, Epidemic and Crystal can deal with them!" The head of the Phantom Knights spoke with certainty: " Dragons are naturally highly resistant to all Magic, so no element of Magic or monsters can suppress the Dragon Race, of course, the Dragon Race can't dominate the other attributes as well. But generally, the grade of Dragons are extremely high, as long as you get Lucky, Epidemic and Crystal to a high level, it'll be sufficient. Furthermore, it is not as if we were truly afraid of them!"

"Then why the hell did you run?"

"We hate the Holy Light! The [Encompassing Divine Eyes' light will render us blind, and after that, we will turn into bat forms. But as long as we do not look into the Holy Light, it would not be a problem, but if we can't see, we can't attack, therefore we ran!"

"So you guys were just afraid of looking into the light!" If only I had sunglasses, that would definitely allow the Phantom Knights to fight freely in the light!

The Head of the Phantom Knights added: "In fact, Darkness is not truly afraid of Light, although, at the initial stages, Light dominantly suppresses Darkness, in the later stages, the suppression will gradually lose its effectiveness. Just like the spell cast just now, it deals devastating damage towards low-level skeletons and zombies, but to us, it can only banish us!"

"You mean to say, the Apollyon Knights of Mythal Legion are not afraid of Light Magic?"

"They are afraid of it as well, but not as much as us, they have a chance of avoiding the damage from Light Magic! In fact, Darkness by itself is the bane of Light, in any infected or evil regions, Light Magic will usually receive nerfs and become extremely terrible! But that Holy City from before had its surrounding areas baptized with Holy Blessing, our strength weakness in such areas, much less resist Light Magic!"

"Master, they are catching up with us again!" One of the Phantom Knight suddenly reported.

"Have we left their area of Blessing?"

"No, this place has been blessed as well!" The head of the Phantom Knights inspected the ground and replied: "I believe there is a large scale Shrine of Light inside the Holy City, that is why the power of the blessing can spread throughout the surrounding areas! In these areas, the Battle Priest will gain an increase in power!"

"Forget it!" I jumped down the horse. "Phantom Knights, pay attention! Close all of your eyes and listen to my voice, we will do battle!"

Since the Phantom Knights were not that afraid of the [Encompassing Divine Eyes], we could fight, so long as they did not look into the light!

The Phantom Knights obeyed my order and lowered their heads with their ultra long spears held parallel to the ground with the tip faced at the front. A large group of Light Knights and Battle Priests rushed out from the small path with their Leader maintaining the [Encompassing Divine Eyes] with his Magic Staff.

"Charge!" I suddenly screamed out loud!

The Phantom Knights suddenly rushed forward, the Holy Angel Guild members that were chasing after us never thought that we would suddenly rush at them, in truth, even if they did, it would not have mattered, the charge of the Phantom Knights was of a completely different level from them. The rushing Light Knights and Battle Priests were instantly dispersed by the Phantom Knights upon collision. That was how powerful the Phantom Knights were, their humongous warhorses were able to dismount their enemies in that brief exchange.

I continued to shout at the Phantom Knights: "LOWER YOUR HEADS! CHARGE!"

The formation launched its second attack, before the Holy Angel Guild members who were knocked off their horses could even crawl back up, they were faced with the second wave of attacks. The result was them being flung out over 10 meters into all the surrounding trees.

"Alright, open your eyes!"

The Phantom Knights opened their eyes and ran over to me. I quickly jumped up one of the horse and we ventured deeper into the forest.

After breaking away from those damnable people, we continued to move through the jungle where there were no paths, the surrounding verdant and lush trees that did not resemble any plants that grew locally made it look as though we were not in China. All of the trees were extremely large with their average trunks having diameters of 3 meters and above, the dense canopy formed from the dense branches and thick leaves had blocked out the entire sky. Because of this, the forest started to get darker with the occasional light that had forced its way through the canopies.

I moved according to the map that revealed a path ahead. Constantly moving through the forest was in fact really troublesome. After walking for a distance, we realized that something was wrong as the green forest started to transform. Initially, the leaves on the trees were green while the floor was covered with yellow or red dried leaves and the trunks were bright brown. But after a distance, the scene turned strange. The green leaves were slowly replaced by silverish grey leaves which became more apparent the further we walked until all the green leaves were replaced. The yellow and red dried leaves on the ground all disappeared and the soil became grey, as though a layer of dust had covered the ground. The surrounding tree trunks were no longer brown as they had all turned black! What struck me as the most bizarre was that the frequent small animals that we saw all disappeared, but more and more spider webs had appeared. Strangely, we did not notice that a faint mist had appeared in our surroundings. Although it was not dense, it made the dark forest became all the more terrifying.

After walking in silence for too long, the atmosphere scared me, which compelled me to engage in a conversation with the Phantom Knights. Firstly, I spoke to the Head of the Phantom Knights.

"Hey, after following me for such a long time, I haven't seemed to have caught your name? Do you have one?"

"Master, originally, I had already forgotten my name. But after turning into a Phantom Knight, My name is Scott."

"Scott? That's a good name." I extended my head towards the two Phantom Knights nearby. "What are your names? And take down your Helmets, all of your equipment is the same, I can't make out who is who!"

The Phantom Knights obeyed and took down their helmets and reported their names. To my left were 4 male Phantom Knights with the names Aragon, Cistern, Rayner** and Fullergor.

Aragon looked extremely young and I guessed that he was not older than me; Cistern looked rather cold, and felt like a cool elder brother; Cistern was buff, with a rather stout stature. Just his head alone made him look like a Warrior from the Dwarf Race; Fullergor looked exactly like a Doctor and made me imagine him as a Mage, who would have known that such a sophisticated man would actually be a Knight.

To my right were 5 female Phantom Knights: Meridar, Anna, Celine, Nina, and Vala. The five young ladies looked extremely young, the oldest Meridar was definitely not older than 30, and the youngest, Celine, looked as though she had not even reached the age of 18!

"Master, it seems that we have walked into an illusion!" Scott (Head of the Phantom Knights) suddenly warned me.

"Illusion?" I quickly opened up the map and took a look. "You're saying we took a wrong path?"

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"No!" Scott pointed to a location on the map. "We started from here, and according to our pace, we should had seen the road long ago, but we have not seen it yet! Additionally, the map states that there is a river here, but we have already passed through this location, yet there are no signs of any water bodies. So I think we have entered an illusion, the map is useless now. It will not pinpoint our location, and following it will deviate us even further!"

"You're saying this is a forest of Illusion just like the one outside Lost City?" I still believed that only Lost City, the evil and haunted place, would have an illusion to protect themselves!

"I think that this illusion is of an even higher level than the one outside Lost City! Us Phantom Knights have eyes that have many capabilities. Our eyes are specially called Spirit Eyes and have a degree of resistance towards illusions, for our Spirit Eyes to actually be unable to see through this illusion means that it is at a higher level!"

"Then what do we do now? Are we supposed to just stand stationary?"

"We definitely can't stand stationary, but we shouldn't advance further, why not we try to return to where we came from!"

"I have another idea!" I took out the Dragon Tendon Wires from my Bracelet and shot an arrow out with the Wire attached to it. The arrow shot forward and struck into a large tree far away with the Wire along.

"Alright, we'll walk this way!" We followed the wire and walked ahead and when we reached the tree, we continued to advance the same direction with the wire shot out in a straight line again. Each time the wire was insufficient in length or we reached the end of a tree, I would stop casting the Wire and recast it into a straight line again and again. Although this method was not too accurate, at least we were walking in a straight line.

As we advanced further, another transformation took place. Firstly, the number of trees started to fall, but the diameter of the trees increased. The trees got bigger and bigger with some having diameters of over 10 meters. These tree trunks maintained its strength and straightness 10 meters above the ground before suddenly spreading out with countless of branches. But this type of growth led the forest floor to be empty, practically the entire forest was empty except for the few large trees around with their exaggerated canopy that blocked out all the sunlight!

The thick fog had unknowingly disappeared and because of the sparseness of the forest, our visibility became better. Of course, it was because of our night vision capabilities that allowed us to view our surroundings, otherwise, it was so dark that even with our hands extended in front of us, we could not see a thing.

"Seems like we are leaving the boundaries of the illusion!" Scott announced after looking around.

"You mean to say we are out of the illusion?"

"I'm saying we walked further into it!" Scott's voice had turned slightly anxious. "The illusion is meant to protect this region, we have cut right through the illusion and entered its inner region!"

"Oh! That's even worse now! But since we're already in here, it'll be a pity if we don't take a look around, let us continue ahead!"

Under my orders, we continued to advance forward, but the mist that had disappeared came out once again, furthermore, it had turned green. Scott instantly placed my visor down. "Everyone put on your helmets, we are entering a poisonous miasma zone! Dismount and unsummon the war mounts, this miasma might be able to destroy our Death Warhorses!"

We were compelled to walk, the green miasma pervaded throughout the forest, and the further we walked, the denser the miasma. It turned to a point where our fingers could be no longer visible, thus we stuck close together to prevent anyone from getting lost. To summon the Phantom Knights again consumed a large amount of MP that was at that moment too much for me to handle, thus I could not take any risks.

Although the miasma was thicker than the mist, the area of it was not as wide, and we quickly passed through it. The world kept within the miasma shocked us, it was the same tall and large trees, but they no longer had any leaves. We could see the sky, which was sadly filled with dark clouds. The clouds were low and thick, which blocked out most of the sun, the bit that passed through were weak and dusky.

"I sense something! Some force! It is a very powerful force!" Scott suddenly took a deep breath and spoke out which scared me.

"Are you alright?"

"It's nothing! I've never felt so good before! This sinister power, there's even a hint of corruption and blood stench in the air! I can feel a powerful evil aura! It feels too good! It is to the point that even if the Battle priests are here now, I can swear that we will no longer be afraid!"

The other Phantom Knights suddenly knelt down and then started to lay down on the floor. "What a powerful force! This is an unholy land! Master, we are standing on a Cursed Land"!

"Cursed Land! Is it like the place outside Lost City?"

"It is not! The outskirts of Lost City is considered a land of eternal rest which belongs to a low-grade Cursed Land. But this place is an extremely high-grade Cursed Land, in terms of power, it is many times stronger than Lost City!"

"Why can't I feel it!" I knelt down and touched the ground, but yet I could not feel the power that they were talking about! But I encountered something hard, which was different from the other parts of the ground around it. I dug at it for a bit, which revealed something white. It looked like a bone of something, but the majority of it was underground, thus I did not know the specifics!

I continued to dig at the grey soil surface layer revealing the black soil beneath that was extremely damp with a heavy blood stench! As the soil was damp, it was easy to dig, and under two or three more scoops, I dug the bone out. It was a human bone, most likely the femur. I continued to dig along the bone, and as I had expected, there were even more bones which formed a perfect human skeleton.

"Master, what are you doing?" The Phantom Knights were still immersing and enjoying themselves inside the evil aura.

"I want to see what's inside!"

Scott pointed at the skeleton. With a wave of his hand, the skeleton actually climbed out of the hole itself. I retreated a few steps back in surprise, not because I feared the skeleton but because of the coolness of the skeleton, and retreated because of surprise.

"Scott, the Phantom Knights can summon skeletons? Why didn't you tell me earlier, if I had known you could do that, we would have summoned skeletons back in Japan to fight!"

Scott explained it to me slowly. "This is a Cursed Land, and only in such places can all evil or dark type monsters summon skeletons! It is like how Elves can instant revive in Life Forests. But we can only do it here, out of Cursed Lands, we don't have the spell!"

"That's some good news to hear at the very least!" I turned back and looked at where the skeleton came out from. "There should be more skeletons, right? How many skeletons can all of you summon at one time?"

"There are plenty of skeletons here, but we can only summon one each, after all, we are not Necromancers!"

"That's true!" It was a pity, if they could summon more, it would have been good for us, to be able to fight with a skeleton army sounded awesome! "Alright, we will continue heading in this direction, who knows there would be more evil aura for all of you to indulge in!"

"What's that?" One of the Phantom Knights pointed further into the forest.

I turned to look, there was indeed something moving closer. As there was still some lingering mist, we were not able to clarify what it was due to the distance. But it looked like a human silhouette, but in a place where encountering any others was not probable, most likely it was a zombie. Zombies and skeletons were common occurrences in Cursed Lands.

The thing gradually got closer to us, and its target became clear to us, it was indeed a zombie, even more so one that I had never seen before. The human exterior that it maintained had no signs of corruption and looked like a person sleepwalking. It was my first time seeing such a clean zombie. More and more of these zombies appeared, all equipped in armor. They were obviously soldiers. Their numbers were most likely due to them being in a unit, thus they still enjoyed staying together after turning into zombies.

Scott suddenly pointed at one of the zombies: "They're the troops from God City! He's wearing the Armor of God City!"

Celine pointed to another zombie: "Those are troops from Sky City! Even the emblem of Sky City is still engraved on his sword!

"Those are from Goddess City!" Another zombie was recognized.

"F*ck! The Game's Three Great Main Cities are joining forces here! For their forces to actually be here! How are we going to pass with them converging there! If I challenge one of them, will they gang up on me? Oh right, Scott, summon a skeleton and try and engage one of them!"

So long as one of my units were to engage in either man or monster, my [Star Gaze] could read the other party's stats, using the skeleton was the safest choice because if the zombies were to start attacking, we had the time to run!

The skeleton nimbly rushed forward without any weapon and bit down on the zombie. The data of the zombie immediately appeared, named Un-decayable Zombie, no wonder it looked so clean, it could never decay. It was Level 400 which was rather high, its damage rather average compared to other level 400 monsters, but its defense was extraordinarily high! Zombies already have an immense amount of HP, all of them were even equipped with armor, it was no wonder they had perverse defense! I looked at their speed, which luckily was comparable to ordinary zombies, they were extremely slow and practically any living thing could be faster than them!

The skeleton which I sent out was destroyed in two hits, but although the other zombies had helped to attack the skeleton, they did not come towards us, it looked like they were unable to leave their areas!

Although their stats were not overly exaggerated, their numbers were astronomical! Furthermore, all of them were practically standing in formation with their shoulders aligned with each other, it was impossible to cut through them. There were so many zombies and they were slow, it was the perfect match for my need to level. I summoned all of my Companions and got them to stand by the side since the zombies were unable to leave their positions, I could use ranged attacks to test it out. If they were still unable to move, it would definitely be the best!

I aimed an arrow at one of the zombies and shot. The arrow accurately shot the Zombie by its chest, but the zombie immediately opened its mouth towards me with a flash of red flickering in its eyes. I instantly felt something at my ankle, and I was suddenly being dragged towards the Zombie Horde.

"HELP!"

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(*) Spring of Evil from Quest of the Cave (part 3)

(**) Slightly cut short Rayner's name. The original Chinese Name sounds like Rayner Jin.


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