Beholder monsters from another world are floating in the forest, moving slowly. Their eyes are open, and their huge eyes are staring at the speeding team below. Even at night, it does not prevent them from seeing clearly the situation in the darkness.
"Demon Pact-Maker", whose destiny was bound to these Beholder, issued an order in the darkness, and then purple-red particles gathered in the pupils, locking on the moving figure below, and emitting penetrating deep purple rays.
These Knight were not given time to react or dodge. In an instant, the bodies of five Knight were pierced by rays and they fell off their horses. Many of the remaining Knight were also injured, and even some of their limbs were seriously injured.
"Defense!" Nokton yelled urgently.
The gray light curtain rose, spreading from his feet and connecting with the surrounding Knight, like a Sturdiness city wall, protecting these Knight inside.
After that, the deep purple rays emitted again collided with the gray light curtain, bursting into intense energy sparks, and then extinguished.
Although the light curtain was weakened, it still held firm and did not let these Beholder cause harm to the remaining seven Knight.
At this time, Nokton glanced at the hillsides on both sides. He and Knight beside him temporarily stopped their horses and let the few people who were still intact rescue the injured members. He held the war hammer and stood on guard on the horse.
"Despicable Regas rat, will you only resort to this method?" His voice spread like thunder in the night, and people on the hillsides on both sides could hear it.
It's a pity that Hundred-Eye Cult people don't care at all about this kind of ridicule. They are all different Cultist people. Are they still afraid of such insults? Furthermore, most of them are not Regas people.
Seeing that no one responded, but the enemies in the darkness continued to shoot and attack, Nokton was furious, but also had a bad feeling.
This is not like the style of Regas people, or even if those rats in the gutter think about it, they don't have the strength.
Alien Star? There is also the aura of Distortion. The enemy on the opposite side may be coming with bad intentions.
Thinking of this, Nokton took out the special command arrow he carried on his waist, pulled the safety rope underneath, and then aimed it at the sky and fired.
A special arrow rushed high into the sky with a sharp whistling sound, and was about to explode, sending out a firework signal for rescue. However, a deep purple ray flashed through, destroying the arrow and shattering it in advance, leaving only scattered sparks scattered at low altitude.
Seeing this, Nokton felt his heart sink.
It only took 2-3 seconds from when he fired the command arrow to being crushed. Even if Archer or Ranger, who are good at shooting, saw it, it would be impossible to hit him in the dark, but the enemy on the opposite side did it.
Ray, such a precise and rapid attack method, is really hard to guard against.
The attack on the hillside continued. The deep purple rays shot out from time to time in the darkness weakened the gray light curtain little by little. After being rescued inside, the remaining seven Knight surrounded Nokton, holding shields and swords to form a temporary defense array.
As "Castle" Aspect Power, Transcendent, if they hadn't been attacked just now, they would be the Aspect Power among many Aspect Power who are the best at defense. The gray light curtain may seem weak, but it always blocks ray attacks like an iron curtain.
The situation fell into a brief stalemate. This place is about fifteen kilometers away from Valley City. It is not far or close. There will be Anti Kingdom cavalry from Valley City at any time to investigate and support.
Considering this situation, Hundred-Eye Cult on the mountain accelerated the attack frequency and sent some personnel to gradually approach the Knight team below.
"The other party is a little panicked." Nokton suddenly felt like joking with his teammates.
Since the other party is a little anxious, it means that they are not very sure, and there is still a lot of hope for themselves and others.
At this time, Nokton looked behind him. Knight, who was able to move, could basically stand up. Only one of them was leaning on the horse because he was missing a leg.
"Everyone is on horseback. If you have difficulty moving, others will help you and prepare to break out with me."
After all, standing here is waiting for death, so they have to take action.
"Yes."
A group of Knight followed him and got on their horses. Then Nokton turned their horses and broke out in the direction of Valley City.
"Let's go!"
The sound of horse hooves sounded again on the mountain road. Seeing that the group of Knight wanted to leave, the Hundred-Eye Cult on the hillside finally became a little anxious. They began to rush down the hillside quickly, and some people took out their crossbows to shoot, but these crossbows had no effect on the iron curtain beside Knight.
"That leading general is very dangerous." A figure who stood silently in the darkness for a long time spoke. Then he took off his hood, revealing a strange face.
Where the eyes were originally, there was now a pair of purple-red eyes above them. The four eyes were opened at the same time, which was particularly weird in the dark.
His four pupils were now shining with light, locking on Nokton who was rushing at the front below him. He raised his two hands and saw two eyes open in the palms of his hands.
The six eyes flashed a dangerous purple-red light at the same time, and then emitted blazing rays.
In an instant, the gray iron curtain beside Nokton was covered by Penetration, and six rays of light converged to drown his body.
A hoarse and angry sound rang out from the mountains, like the painful roar of an injured beast.
After a few breaths, the light dissipated, and the figure of Nokton was revealed again. The war horse under him had melted and died, his armor was charred and shattered, and his body was covered with bloody holes. However, the general still held the giant hammer with his hand and did not fall.
"General!" Knight behind him immediately rushed to his side, protected the general, and raised Sturdiness's thick barrier.
On the hillside in the distance, the Cult leader was attacking with a unhappy look on his face.
"He's actually not dead."
This was his full blow as "Level 4·Alien Star", and he didn't actually kill the opponent. It can only be said that Nokton is really tenacious.
After a brief stagnation, the progress of the breakout slowed down. The Cultist rushing down the hillside finally came to the mountain road and began to attack these Knight.
Of course, they did not choose close combat. Instead, they took out their crossbows, pointed them at the Knight below, and fired with the special Magic-Breaking Crossbow Bolt.
In this regard, Knights can either choose to resist passively or spread out to fight back.
If they spread out and fight back, they can indeed cause a lot of casualties to these weak Cultists, but their dispersed defenses will be weakened, and they will also be concentrated by the strange Beholders on the hillside.
Just when these Knight were in a dilemma, Nokton stood up again and glanced around.
"Break forward." He roared, then charged with a giant hammer.
The Cultist along the way were easily crushed like eggs under his war hammer, and were knocked away and broken.
Seeing that the leader was still so brave, the remaining Knight also had high morale and followed suit one after another.
The battle continued in the night, with Cultist rushing down from the mountain to join the resistance. Knight of this group of the Anti Kingdom also fought their way through the darkness and kept approaching in the direction of Valley City.