Chapter 0963: Poor Katie
Zora City.
This is a medium-sized city with a population of 50,000. It mainly trades fish from the nearby Lake Kaskala, and transports them to various parts of the Zambesi Empire through the convenient waterways here.
So, when Grimm came to the trade route leading to Zora City, he found that almost all the people coming and going here were loaded with fish.
In order to better conceal himself, Grimm also used witchcraft to slightly change his appearance.
Those eye-catching wizard robes and equipment have been hidden. He is now wearing a simple and plain leather armor and leather pants, with a two-handed sword on his back and a gray traveler's cloak on his body, looking like an adventurer who travels around.
As for his appearance, it has also changed slightly. The eye-catching dark red long hair and black pupils have disappeared, and he has become no different from the residents of the empire here.
On the road, he stopped a freight caravan and spent only two imperial silver coins to become a member of the caravan. He squeezed into a freight carriage full of fresh fish with the driver Old Tom and slowly headed towards the distant Zora City.
The closer to Zora City, the more caravans and pedestrians there were on the trade road.
In the busy traffic, the merchants and drivers who passed by each other kept shouting and greeting each other, with a warm and familiar posture.
However, just ten miles away from Zora City, there was a thunderous sound of horse hooves in front.
The carriages and pedestrians on the trade road hid on the side of the road, allowing a team of silver-armored knights riding tall horses to rush by, raising high dust behind them.
Although the caravan became a little flustered due to the appearance of the silver-armored knights, no one complained about the passing knights. Instead, after the other party disappeared without a trace, the caravan returned to the trade route, and the merchants and drivers began to discuss in a low voice the reason why the knights were in such a hurry.
"It must be because of the strange things that happened at Lake Cascara..." Old Tom waved the whip and muttered in a low voice: "It must be... something so terrible happened there, these paladins will definitely go to investigate!"
"The strange things at Lake Cascara?" Grimm asked in confusion.
"You don't know? From your appearance, didn't you just return from Lake Cascara? Didn't you...didn't you see the terrible flint that fell from the sky yesterday?" Old Tom looked incredulous.
"Oh, you mean the flint! This kind of thing shouldn't be considered so strange, there's no need to make such a fuss." Grimm answered with a relaxed look.
"You are an adventurer, and you may not be surprised after seeing so many things. But I, Old Tom, have been in Zora City for thirty years, and this is the first time I have seen such a terrible scene. You may not have seen it with your own eyes. After the flint fell, half of the lake was extinguished. The dead fish and shrimp floating on the water were densely packed. How scary it looked..." Old Tom was obviously a very talkative person. When he talked about the strange things yesterday, he was simply eloquent, as if he had taken out everything he knew.
Grimm also chatted with him casually, but his thoughts drifted to the group of paladins who had just galloped by. There were six first-level black iron knights, and not even a second-level silver knight. This made Grimm lower his expectations for the Holy Light Chapel in Zora City.
If the scale of the Holy Light Chapel in Zora City was large enough, Grimm would not mind doing another job here. But if the strength and scale were too small, it would not be worth exposing his identity and whereabouts for this.
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Natago was in a terrible mood at the moment!
Although he had been warned many times by the adult before coming here, saying that the young fire witch was unusually difficult to deal with and asked him to be extra careful. But facing a situation of three to one, Natago was still confident in his trip.
However, his idea of having a happy hunt was overturned by the cruel reality before it lasted for half a day.
That damn guy actually escaped in such a swaggering and arrogant way, which... was obviously challenging Natago's endurance.
However, just when he was furious and ready to chase him openly without caring about anything, a short message for help from across the air made Natago calm down suddenly.
The message was sent by the mechanical witch Katie who left alone, and the content was even shorter, with only two words "save me". And after the message was sent, when Natago and the other two tried to contact her again, they could not get any response.
What happened to the sword princess Katie?
The three newly landed wizards couldn't help but become a little suspicious.
Logically speaking, in a low-level plane like the Envik plane, a level 3 wizard can almost be regarded as rampant here. As long as they don't encounter those terrible level 4s, the rest of the level 3 paladins are just a group of fake "god sticks" without the blessing of gods in their eyes!
The so-called paladins seem to have the combat skills of high-level knights, and also have the holy light magic similar to that of spellcasters. They can be far and near, and practice both physical and demonic skills. But in the eyes of wizards, they are typical "rubbish professions" that are neither good at literature nor martial arts.
The wizards who came across this time are all combat wizards, and each of them has the identity of a hunter. With such strength, will they be in danger in this low-level plane? I'm afraid that even if the knife girl Katie was besieged by multiple level 3 paladins, she would be able to easily break out of the siege and escape!
The opponent was able to beat her so hard that she cried for help, and then was defeated quickly. This made the three wizards quickly think of the two famous 4th-level holy knights in this plane.
By the way, there are two 4th-level holy knights in this plane. One is besieging the witch tower in the south, and the other is seriously injured and recuperating in the empire. Could it be... could it be that the holy knight who was recuperating from the injury was thinking of making trouble again?
How could they know that in a forest 120 miles north of them, a tragic battle had just ended.
This group of holy knights who hurriedly came from the imperial capital had been injured and killed by more than half at this moment, and the forest they were in was also in a mess. Everywhere you can see broken ancient trees and energy gaps that cut through the soil.
The terrifying sword girl Katie had her hands and feet chopped off, and then was stabbed on the cliff by a huge long sword.
Even though the situation was so dire, the fierce Katie still shot out terrifying energy rays from her scarlet mechanical eyes, cutting the surrounding ancient trees and bushes into pieces, leaving a devastated scene.
The 4th-level holy knight who accompanied the team had a simple face and a resolute expression, with short gray hair standing straight up, looking majestic and powerful, just like a furious lion.
Seeing that the evil witch with two hands and one leg cut off was still so cruel, the 4th-level holy knight rushed to Katie in one step, stretched out his right hand, and was not afraid of the opponent's terrifying red energy rays at all. He poked and bent two fingers and dug out the two strange eyeballs that were half flesh and half mechanical.
Ah...
Katie opened her mouth and let out an extremely shrill scream. Five or six cracks appeared on her back, and several metal tentacles stretched out from inside, intending to attack the holy knight.
"Hmph, you don't know how to live or die..." The holy knight snorted coldly, stretched out his big hand, and grabbed several metal tentacles in his right palm as fast as lightning.
With the sudden force, Katie raised her neck and let out a more shrill and sharp roar. The metal tentacles connected to her spine were broken at the root, and several huge blood holes were broken on her back. Purple-black blood mixed with fishy blending liquid flowed out from inside, choking several paladins around her and retreating.
However, even with such a terrible injury, Katie still twisted her body and wanted to continue to fight back.
The holy knight finally became a little impatient, and stretched out his hand to quickly chisel several joints of Katie's body.
Cervical vertebrae, shoulder blades, sternum, lumbar vertebrae, coccyx...
This series of critical hits immediately caused the modified metal joints inside Katie's body to be seriously dislocated or burst, instantly paralyzing Katie's control over these mechanical parts and flesh and blood tissues.
Katie's body finally collapsed, no longer able to resist!
After restraining the ferocious mechanical witch, the Holy Knight looked around the battlefield, saw the ruined forest, and then looked at the Holy Knights lying on the ground, and his heart was shocked and angry.
What shocked him was the brutality and cruelty of these foreign invaders...
What angered him was their indifferent attitude towards the creatures of the Envik plane...
This 4th-level Holy Knight Ade Kalai was finally completely angry!
All wizards deserved to die, and they could not be allowed to continue to exist in the Envik plane...
The furious mood triggered the injuries on Ade Kalai's body, causing him to cough violently, and he coughed out a large pool of black blood in one breath. In the black blood, some organ fragments and flesh fibers could be vaguely seen.
This fully showed that the serious injuries he suffered in the witch tower not only did not stabilize, but even showed a slight sign of deterioration.
In order to reduce the casualties of ordinary paladins besieging the witch tower, Ade Kale once relied on his powerful strength to break into the witch tower and destroyed the inter-dimensional teleportation array there. And he, under the joint attack of the witch stationed in the tower, suffered a nearly devastating blow.
If the holy light in his body was not the best at healing and dissolving alien energy, I am afraid that Ade Kale would not be able to escape from the tower alive.
Although he escaped alive, the terrible injuries on his body tortured him deeply.
As a last resort, Ade Kale could only leave the battlefield and return to the imperial capital to recuperate, using the holy space at the Holy Light Cathedral to heal his injuries.
Unfortunately, just when his injuries improved, the omnipotent great holy light sent the strongest warning to his ears. According to the prediction of the holy light, there will be new enemies invading the north of the empire, and their arrival will also trigger a terrible catastrophe for the paladins!
It was because of this terrible omen that Ade Kalai led a group of paladins to the north of the empire at full speed. In order to save time, they even crossed the Averi Mountains, the Starfall Canyon and the wild jungle.
It is not known whether it was the correct guidance of the Holy Light or the bad luck of the enemy, but their team encountered this lone alien witch when crossing the Hammerfall Mountain.
So, after a bloody fight, this ferocious half-human, half-mechanical witch knocked down nearly half of the paladins, and was captured by the injured 4th-level holy knight Ade Kalai in one fell swoop.
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