Redi and another person had already turned and started running wildly, shouting towards the camp as they ran.
'Hu Que' immediately gave chase.
As he moved, his figure melded with the dark forest like a continuous shadow; not fast, but impressively quiet and skilled, as if this mercenary were a creature born of darkness.
But when Ben turned back, the dark woods behind him were already echoing with the sound of chains dragging on the ground.
"The Blackfire cultists have noticed the commotion here——"
"We need to change tactics."
At this moment, Antitina and Romantic had already taken light crossbows out from under their backpacks, the noble daughter nervously watching the forest. And needless to say, the other mercenaries also quietly drew their weapons, entering a state of readiness.
"Lord?" Antitina asked hesitantly.
Ben shook his head; he had already made up his mind——things were developing beyond his expectations; he had to act quickly to regain control. He reached into his chest, and when he extended his hand again, he was holding a light crystal for illumination.
The crystal was ignited in an instant——
A soft light radiated from the young man's hand.
"Lord?" Antitina's eyes widened.
"Ben!" Romantic was also stunned.
Everyone's gaze was drawn to the sudden light in the darkness, like a speck of fluorescence in the endless black, rapidly expanding before being thrown out.
The fluorescence traced an arc through the darkness.
The arc crossed a section of forest, then landed in a dense thicket, and even through the layers of cover, the light that passed through illuminated a small area nearby.
Three hooded humans in black robes stood there, their faces obscured. They were obviously unprepared for being exposed so suddenly and froze reflexively; but what made Antitina gasp was that beside each of them stood a terrifying creature, almost half the height of a human, with grayish-green skin, cloven hooves, and long horned fangs.
Their ankles were linked by a black chain to the wrists of the Blackfire cultists; their bodies covered with strange black patterns—these were the confining powers of contracts and spells——without a doubt, these were the underground visitors from Jogen Digan—the lowest tier of contracted demons.
"The advanced contracted demon is in the opposite direction!" shouted a Lubis mercenary from behind.
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But Ben knew them even better.
As soon as he saw these three, he raised his hand in the other direction. The silver ring on his index finger gleamed, and Ben immediately chanted the spell: "Oss!"
The airflow erupted forward within the visible range like threads, with a thunderous boom; the surrounding pine trees broke and fell outward in an instant, and everything blocking the path ahead turned to dust.
When the hurricane passed, the forest was gone, forming an open corridor before Ben.
The mercenaries couldn't help but show expressions of awe.
The noble daughter shrieked in fear, covering her ears and crouching down. At this moment, her mind was reverberating with a single thought, he is a wizard! He is a wizard! This young knight was actually a wizard!
Romantic, on the other hand, was used to it. The merchant lady tilted her head slightly, watching as Ben's figure blurred and then disappeared in an instant from where he had been——
Only the Lubis mercenaries saw clearly that, in that instant, Ben moved at least ten times faster, drawing a continuous shadow along the passage within a split second, then disappearing.
"That's the Sun Knight's charge skill!" immediately commented a mercenary from behind.
But they were not like those lax third-rate mercenaries. As soon as the words were spoken, someone immediately drew his long sword, stepping out from the mercenaries, and pointed his sword in the direction where the lighting crystal had fallen, commanding: "Now, as the deputy captain Roco, I am taking over command, and I order you to attack those Blackfire cultists immediately——"
Eleven figures immediately rushed towards the three stunned Blackfire cultists.
Meanwhile, Ben's charge skill allowed him to seize the thorny chain lord in an instant; the crimson demon was standing with its master—a man in a red-trimmed robe.