Chapter 57, Manticore

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This is a deserted manor. The former prosperous scene has disappeared. The ruins tell the story of the former richness and the current desolation. Looking around, the original fertile fields have been covered by ice and snow and withered weeds, and there are low houses and granaries. Most of them have collapsed, and the fences and walls are full of signs of fracture and damage.

There are ghouls and beasts wandering in the wilderness, as well as terrible undead. This is the case in this terrible world. If the dead are not buried in a proper way, they will turn into terrible undead at night, bringing their opponents with them. The nostalgia of life and the hatred of the living wander forever in the wild.

It was still daytime, and there was a loud noise in the manor.

"Boom!" The sound of heavy objects hitting gold and iron resounded through the empty manor, followed by the roar of beasts and the shouts of humans: "Come on! Beast! Try my strength!"

"Be careful! Ah Fu! Don't be impulsive!" Another voice shouted: "Teresa, it's heading towards you!"

"I know!" The calm female voice responded, and then she yelled: "Frost!"

"Pretty, now look at mine! Holy Judgment!" The white light flashed, and the beast roared in pain.

This finally gives a glimpse of the full picture.

In a barren and ruined field, three humans are fighting around a huge beast.

The human headed by a full-body plate armor, holding a large square shield in one hand, and a paladin-standard one-handed sword in the other. He has blond hair and blue eyes, with sweat running across his forehead, and the white light that belongs to the divine power of the God of Justice is constantly flickering , he tapped his shield vigorously with his sword: "Come on! Beast!!!"

"Dang, clang, clang!" The sound of metal and iron clashing made the monster extremely irritable.

The tall White Wolf Knight, wearing chain mail and breastplate, took the opportunity to attack the monster's right flank, and each of his attacks caused great damage to the monster.

"Ryan, be careful of its poisonous stinger!" A little farther away, a sorceress in a black leather outfit and holding a staff moved while silently chanting a spell.

Under the guidance of the sorceress' magic power, the stones on the ground and the collapsed ruins began to combine together, gradually forming a two-meter-tall golem composed of stones and wood. The surface of this golem was covered by thick frost. Under the command of the sorceress, he staggered towards the monster.

The whole picture of the monster was also displayed in front of the three of them.

This is a huge creature with the appearance of a lion. It has a ferocious face like a jackal, a fiery red mane, huge fangs and wings full of spikes. The most special thing about it is that its tail is very long , with a barb at the end.

This monster is exactly the manticore that makes people talk about it!

Even among the creations of chaos, the manticore can be regarded as extremely vicious. Stubborn and aggressive by nature, manticores will fight any foe for their territory. Facing giant eagles, griffins and even dragon kings that strayed into their territory, manticores have the same response: they will roar and rush towards the enemy, fighting bloody and brutally, you will live and die until one dies and the other survives. And if the enemy is not far superior in size and strength, the winner of such a fight is often a manticore. They will stand on the cliff and roar, showing their strength and determination.

"Damn it, I didn't expect the manticore to be so difficult!" The paladin Alfred moved sideways cautiously, looking for an opportunity to attack.

The manticore is so sensitive that it can always easily dodge the paladin's attack and immediately retaliate.

The professional characteristics of a paladin are slow movement, low attack ability, and good defense. Facing the attack of the manticore, Alfred always has a situation where he can't exert all his strength.

Because that beast's tail is so annoying,

The stinger soaked in green venom was always dangling around his head, constantly looking for opportunities to pierce his helmet. When Alfred's helmet was deformed by the stinger and flew out, The paladin had to carefully retreat to the second line.

The poison of the manticore is a poison that seals the throat when it sees blood, and the poisoning of ordinary people basically means death.

"Ah Fu, do you want to withdraw?" Ryan shouted from the side. He carefully avoided the poisonous stinger that pierced him. It fell back to the ground: "Don't force it, you have reached the conditions for an honorable retreat!"

Glorious retreat, one of the dogmas of the Church of Justice.

Aiming at paladins who often like to be hot-blooded and die for the sake of justice, the God of Justice has formulated this doctrine. When the strength of the enemy is three times or more than our strength, it is not a shame to retreat. , but an honorable thing, called an honorable retreat.

Since this teaching was promulgated, the death rate among paladins has been greatly reduced.

"No, I haven't used the Holy Shield today!" Alfred shouted.

"Okay, up to you." Ryan stopped talking.

Together with the Holy Light, the Holy Shield is known as one of the two holy guard skills of the Paladin. Alfred, who has advanced from the Paladin to the Temple Guard, can use the Holy Shield once a day. The power of the God of God will allow him to continue fighting while remaining basically invulnerable for a short period of time (almost six seconds).

Although the Holy Shield technique is not invincible in an absolute sense, it is enough to deal with Manticore.

The manticore swooped towards Ryan, splashing a lot of dust and snowflakes. Ryan easily rolled away, then rushed forward, hit the manticore's front paw with a hammer, and immediately dodged the manticore's poison Thorn chase.

"Ice Spear!" Teresa immediately condensed a long ice spear in the air. The ice spear pierced the sky and roared directly towards the manticore.

The Manticore dodged abruptly, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the Ice Golem immediately embraced it.

Seeing this, Ryan began to gather strength.

The manticore struggled with all its strength, its sharp teeth and claws quickly grabbed Teresa's temporarily summoned golem, and its slender tail flicked wildly. A hole was pierced in the surface, and rubble was scattered everywhere.

Soon, the joint between the arm and the head of the golem was damaged, and it seemed that the manticore was about to lose control.

But that's enough.

"Frost Nova!!" The sorceress yelled coquettishly, and the inside of the ice golem suddenly spewed out large streams of frosty mist. The Manticore was screaming miserably from the freezing mist, and it struggled to break free. The control of the golem was only under the control of the sorceress, and the golem held the manticore tightly and would not let go.

Gradually, the manticore's body stiffened, and the golem was completely transformed back into stone and wood under the manticore's onslaught.

"Holy Shock!" A white glow emerged from the paladin's long sword, and Alfred struck hard, leaving a huge gash on the manticore's back with his long sword.

Immediately afterwards, it was Ryan's attack, and the warhammer in the White Wolf Knight's hand burst into golden light, hitting the Manticore hard on the head.

Skull smash!

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo " , felt the extremely dangerous manticore finally got rid of the frozen state, it turned its head, fought shoulders to be hit hard by Ryan, with the help of the white wolf knight's great strength, slammed towards With Alfred pounced, the venomous thorn on the tail passed high above its head, and pierced fiercely towards the paladin's sky cap.

The old strength has gone, the new strength has not yet been born, and the paladin itself is not a sensitive profession, so Alfred immediately activated the magic.

A golden circle wrapped Alfred in it, and countless golden runes revolved around the paladin. The manticore's ferocious attack was completely blocked by these mysterious energies. No matter how hard it tried, it couldn't break through the periphery golden protection energy.

With the protection of the Holy Shield, Alfred immediately resorted to desperate tactics. Every move of the paladin was desperate for his life, and he didn't mind his moves being open everywhere. His long sword Every swing left deep visible bone wounds on Manticore's body, and soon, Manticore slowed down due to excessive blood loss and severe injuries, and entered a dying state.

Ryan laughed secretly.

The holy shield is such a rogue. When the holy shield is turned on and invincible, the paladin will use this style of play to maximize the value of the holy shield, so many people jokingly call the holy warrior in this state Charge for "Long Live".

He didn't need to make a move, because the battle was over.

Teresa came, and the sorceress stood outside the manticore's maximum attack range and stretched out her staff to release the terrible frost. The monster was slowly frozen into a whole ice sculpture, and Alfred first A sword cut off the manticore's head, and Ryan also rushed to it. With a slash of the psionic blade, the manticore's tail was separated from its body.

"It's done! We kept the body of this thing intact, and Ms. Dietlinde should pay us a good price!" Ryan laughed.

"It's over, it's over!" The golden circle surrounding Alfred also disappeared, and the paladin drew his sword with a smile, put his shield behind him, and stretched his waist: "I haven't seen you for many years, I didn't expect you to have changed, Ryan." Got so strong."

"How can you be your friend if you are not strong?" Ryan complained casually, and then put away the war hammer: "You have become very strong, Fu."

"That is, how can you not be worthy of the title of 'Sledgehammer' Ryan's friend?" Alfred laughed.

The two men looked at each other, feeling a deep understanding between each other.

Only the female sorceress standing aside rolled her eyes, wondering if it was disgusting for these two men to brag about each other?

"Ahem, okay, we've finished the kill, the manticore has fallen, it's getting late, let's go back early, Ryan? Al... Fred?" Teresa tried her best to look amiable .

Although the sorceress doesn't like paladins, Alfred is Ryan's best friend and childhood playmate, and she feels the need to make excuses.

"Speaking of which, Ryan, you asked me to do this... It really surprised me." Alfred sat down on the ground directly, panting: "So... well, I have a wish .”

"A wish?"

"Well, actually, when we entered the city, this Ms. Nora stopped us once in the street." Alfred smiled self-deprecatingly: "But she has no way to pay the fee, even though we have given the bottom line Yeah, so even though it's sad, we have to tell her that we can't do it, you know Ryan, Manticore is not a ghoul or goblin that we can easily deal with, we can't take risks Putting your life in danger to do that kind of thing for nothing."

"It's an uncomfortable feeling that the children are surrounding us, begging us to help Ms. Nora, but we can't do anything." Alfred said with dismay, "Occasionally I think, as paladins, we can't do anything." Shouldn’t it be to help the weak by picking up the strong and helping the weak? But I have encountered such things several times.”

"Oh, Ah Fu, you have to know that manpower is limited and precious." Seeing this, Ryan also sat down, and the man looked at the dim sky and sighed: "If justice doesn't require a price, then does justice itself have no price?" Is there any value? If you don't respect order, is there any point in the existence of order?"

"I know this too, and if you don't pay the price, the power of a paladin can easily be used by someone with a heart..." Alfred recovered quickly, he got up and wiped the snow and mud under himself, and recovered With a cheerful expression: "It's almost there, let's go back!"

"Go back first! I still have something to deal with." Ryan said that he still has something to do: "It's my personal business, so don't get involved."

"Personal matters? What are you going to do in this deserted manor at night?" Teresa felt very puzzled, her beautiful face was full of strangeness: "And why are you alone? Didn't we agree Shall we face it together?"

"It's different. This is my personal matter. I need some private space, okay?" Ryan shook his head, obviously not wanting the two of them to continue participating.

"you……"

"Okay, okay, Ms. Trovik, since Ryan doesn't want us to participate, let's go back first!" Alfred came out to clear the field, and the words of the paladin gave the sorceress a step down, Teresa Somewhat reluctantly, he glanced at Ryan, and said with red lips: "Then are you coming back for dinner tonight?"

"No." Ryan shook his head and walked towards the depths of the manor. The sorceress reluctantly used the space ring to put away the manticore's body, and returned to Mijoden Haven with the paladin.

The interior of the manor is already very dilapidated. It can be seen that after the manor was abandoned, there were few thieves or scavengers. It may have been deterred by the manticore. Ryan walked through an uphill path towards the collapsed to the manor house.

This type of estate is common in Nord. A typical estate consists of a large house or castle surrounded by fields, farmhouses, pastures and woodland, and is in most cases self-sufficient. Some of the remaining daily necessities can be traded with other manors to complement the deficiency. Generally, there are ten or more tenants in a manor, which are dedicated to the life and production of the manor owner.

The tenants depend on the situation. Some tenants will have more sharing and partial property rights, while some tenants are no different from serfs-not only do they need to pay 70% to 80% of the harvest, but they are also responsible for arranging and taking care of the daily life of the manor owner. and life.

Charlemagne was born as a tenant. The founder of the human empire herded cattle, planted land, cut firewood, and forked dung when he was a child. The great founder of the human empire was not only not ashamed, but proud of it. From tenant to farmer The story of the emperor has deeply inspired generations of poor peasant boys to bravely embark on the road of adventure.

However, the big house that appeared in front of Ryan has been severely damaged. There are various big holes in the door and wall of the big house. The roof has completely collapsed. You can vaguely see the smashed furniture and floors inside the second floor, and the snow has also fallen. Entered the interior of the big house.

"It really fits the definition of a deserted manor. It will take a lot of effort for Ms. Nora to move in again." Ryan snorted twice.

In fact, as long as the monsters are cleaned up and relative safety is ensured, Nora can rebuild the manor with the help of the Church of Life. As for the tenants... there are so many farmers who can't survive without land, and they want to recruit some tenants It's not a difficult task, as long as they can have enough food and not be frozen to death.

This is not the point, the point is... the ruins of the Old Sage are here!