I Also Want to Try

Chapter 46: I Want to Try Too

On the wilderness, a silver-white troop was galloping on horseback.

Both the armor they wore and the mounts beneath them exuded specks of holy light.

This was the Lyne Empire's Order of the Guilty Knights, a special unit composed of high-level Paladins, whose mounts were even Heavenly Warhorses summoned through divine magic.

They had all abandoned their original names, referring to each other only by codenames.

The Paladin in charge of leading the troop was named Fanxing. He had been leading the Order of the Guilty Knights for three days and three nights, solely to reach Alchemy City as quickly as possible.

This was the first time since the Order of the Guilty Knights was founded that they had an opportunity to directly confront a Legendary-rank Undead. Every one of them was so excited they couldn't sleep, wishing they could fly directly to Alchemy City and purify all evil in the name of holy light.

However, a vast distance separated the two countries, and the Lyne Empire's relations with other nations were not friendly. A powerful armed force like the Order of the Guilty Knights could not be directly teleported into another country's territory.

Fanxing had to lead his teammates on a long detour. Now, as long as they passed through the canyon ahead, the rest of the journey would be smooth sailing. However, according to intelligence, this canyon was occupied by a large Jackalmen tribe.

Jackalmen were cursed, twisted creatures, inherently evil and brutal. After occupying this canyon, they had slaughtered countless travelers. Fanxing was well-prepared, intending to clear out this Jackalmen tribe as a warm-up before facing the Legendary Undead.

Even though the Jackalmen tribe numbered over a thousand, and even though they had been galloping for days and nights, Fanxing believed that the ten of them were enough to eliminate all these Jackalmen.

Just as they reached the outskirts of the canyon, a teammate beside him spoke, "Fanxing, something's not right up ahead."

Fanxing looked closely in confusion and indeed found something amiss.

The canyon before them was covered by a faint mist.

"Death Cloud that hasn't completely dissipated yet?"

As the sworn enemies of the Undead, Fanxing was very familiar with common Necromancy spells. Death Cloud was a large-scale offensive Necromancy spell. The caster could create a cloud of poisonous mist to cover a designated area.

Death Cloud also had another name—a city-slaughtering spell.

If multiple Necromancers cast it together, they could create a Death Cloud covering an entire city, causing immense casualties in a short period.

But Jackalmen lacked the talent to become Necromancers, so they naturally couldn't cast Death Cloud in their own territory. This meant a Necromancer had been to this canyon before, and a battle had occurred.

"Activate Poison Protection, let's charge in and see."

With Fanxing's command, magical lights flared on everyone in the troop. Faint green magical patterns formed shields, allowing these Paladins to ignore the effects of most poisons.

Then, they rode their Heavenly Warhorses into the canyon.

The largely dissipated poisonous mist could no longer cause any harm, but as they charged into the crude camp within the canyon, everyone instinctively held their breath.

Dense Jackalmen corpses lay on the ground, their deaths extremely tragic.

Fanxing dismounted and cautiously examined the Jackalmen corpses.

Then, Fanxing discovered that these Jackalmen hadn't just died from poison. Many had their bodies pierced by weapons, their heads torn off by brute force, and some had large portions of their bodies missing, as if devoured by Ghouls... From these details, one conclusion could be drawn: the slaughter of the Jackalmen was not by a single Necromancer, but by a massive Undead army.

"Skeletons, Zombies, Ghouls, Death Knights, Abominations... traces of many high-level Undead." Fanxing worried about the traces he discovered.

The Jackalmen had not been ambushed unprepared; rather, two armies had clashed head-on. These thousands of Jackalmen were annihilated with almost no ability to fight back.

"Let's keep looking inside. No matter how powerful this Undead army is, it's impossible for them not to leave a single skeleton behind. These are thousands of Jackalmen, such a massive tribe, there must have been sorcerers, leaders... it's impossible they had no power to resist."

Fanxing's words seemed to be explaining to his teammates, and also to bolster his own courage.

The scene before them was too bizarre, giving him a bad feeling.

Continuing into the canyon, they still saw only Jackalmen corpses. At most, they could find some decaying flesh on the claws and weapons of these corpses, likely left from fighting the Undead.

But still, not even a single bone from a Skeleton soldier was visible. Instead, they saw many large hoof prints on the ground. These were the marks of Death Knights charging in formation. Their Nightmare mounts could ignore rough terrain and tear through Jackalmen troops directly.

It was evident that the Jackalmen sorcerers were impaled by the Death Knights' lances before they could even cast their spells, and then trampled into mud.

Moving forward, they finally saw a shattered Ghoul corpse. It was probably torn to pieces and thus not taken away. Near these Ghoul remains were hundreds of Jackalmen corpses, and a giant Jackalman, comparable in size to a grizzly bear, lay atop the pile of bodies.

This was clearly the chieftain of the Jackalmen tribe. Judging by its size alone, it possessed the strength to tear apart tigers and leopards, but this powerful Jackalmen chieftain had its body hollowed out, its internal organs from the abdomen and chest completely gone—a typical Ghoul attack method.

Fanxing examined it carefully and reached a conclusion.

This Jackalmen chieftain had been impaled by a Death Knight's lance, and its body was then thrown to the Ghouls as food.

It had been unable to inflict any damage on its enemies in life, as its giant axe bore no trace of blood.

As for the torn Ghoul, it was likely that the Ghouls had fought amongst themselves while fighting over food, resulting in the only casualty.

A perfect version, checked once, no errors!

What shocked Fanxing even more was that the Death Cloud was cast after the battle, likely just because they were too lazy to clean up the battlefield.

"They weren't here to collect corpses or for spoils of war. They were simply passing through, and they seemed to be in a hurry. These Jackalmen unfortunately blocked their path."

As Fanxing reached this conclusion, the expressions of all the Paladins became solemn. They were all experts in dealing with the Undead and understood what this battlefield represented. A massive Undead army had passed through here, heading towards Alchemy City.

This Undead army consisted of at least dozens of Death Knights, thousands of Skeletons, and other Undead troops like Ghouls. More importantly, there were quite a few Necromancers among them.

So the question arose: what kind of powerful being could command such an Undead legion, so powerful that they didn't even deign to take the Jackalmen corpses with them?

Fanxing looked in the direction of Alchemy City, feeling that this mission was more difficult than he had imagined.

"Everyone, prepare yourselves. This time, we might be facing more than one Legendary Undead."

Fanxing's reminder made all the Paladins tense, but soon a teammate reminded him, "Such a massive Undead army heading towards Alchemy City, are they planning to attack Alchemy City? If that's the case, perhaps we can use the power of Alchemy City to deal with this group of Undead."

This suggestion made Fanxing's eyes light up. It was indeed a good idea.

"Good, let's speed things up and bypass this army of Undead to reach Alchemy City ahead of time!"

Fanxing took out a scroll for Mass Flight. Before long, the group of Paladins streaked across the sky like meteors, very carefully avoiding the massive Undead army marching on the ground.

However, they didn't notice that much higher in the sky, an extremely large shadow was hidden within the clouds. Only after they had gotten far away did a massive dragon head emerge from the clouds.

A colossal Bone Dragon, thirty to forty meters long, descended from the sky and landed before a giant carriage. This carriage, crafted entirely from silver and pulled by sixteen hellish Nightmares, resembled a small palace, appearing incredibly noble and luxurious.

The Bone Dragon growled lowly at the carriage, "Sister Rose, why didn't you eliminate those annoying Paladins?"

A cool, clear voice came from within the carriage, replying, "Didn't you say that Gareth fell in love with you because you saved him in the Lyne Empire?

'I want to try, too.'"