In the deeper darkness, there was suddenly a peculiar sound of a heavy object hitting the ground. And because it was a concrete floor, the heavy object made a cracking sound when hitting it.
It was as if a hammer was hitting the ground, breaking the concrete floor into pieces.
The sound was also quite heavy, coming from far away and then rushing towards them quickly.
This is indeed dangerous.
"Cavalry! Cavalry are charging towards us." At this moment, a Swadian recruit turned his head in astonishment and looked towards the dark where the sound came from. He tightly grasped the long-handled sickle in his hand and shouted to Zhang Caidong, the leader of the master: "We must run quickly!"
"Then run quickly, why are you still standing there?" At this time, Zhang Caidong had actually dragged Zhang Bo back, and those timid little monsters were following behind him and running towards the back.
Seeing that his 10 Swadian recruits were actually standing shoulder to shoulder in a square formation, raising their scythes in their hands, trying to stop the cavalry rushing out of the darkness, his face showed a bit of astonishment, surprise and complexity.
"Hurry up and get out of here. Don't stand there. Everyone retreat!" Zhang Caidong thought that those Swadian recruits wanted to stand there to protect him, the spiritual commander, and use their lives to create time for him to escape.
"Understood." Then the 10 Swadian recruits immediately turned around, holding their long-handled sickles, and quickly followed Zhang Caidong, Zhang Bo and the little monsters, rushing towards the bright place ahead.
Fortunately, they were not far from the place where the light was, and the holy light from Dehrim and the torch tower could effectively penetrate the darkness. Even if they retreated to a place close to forty or fifty meters, they could still see the faint light.
It allows them to find their way easily.
However, as they ran, they heard a heavy object hitting the concrete floor from behind, which should be the sound of a cavalry unit charging towards them, coming from far away and getting closer and closer.
So much so that Zhang Caidong and Zhang Bo's faces were filled with extreme anxiety, and their legs ran faster and faster.
They have already guessed what it is. It should be the elusive skeleton cavalry in the legend!
Generally speaking, these skeleton cavalrymen rarely appear in this area. They usually appear in the wild environment, and even if they appear within the city, they will immediately retreat and evacuate from the wild as if the city has some special taboos with them.
But now that they have encountered these skeleton cavalry, they need to hide away quickly. Otherwise, how can they possibly resist the skeleton cavalry among these undead monsters?
After all, they were just some infantry, and low-level infantry at that. Moreover, even if they had spiritual creatures, such as gnolls and spiritual followers at that time, they did not dare to confront these skeleton cavalry head-on.
After all, each of these skeleton cavalrymen looks like a skeleton warrior holding a spear and a sword.
The bones all over the body are as dark and shiny as metal, with a metallic luster.
From defense to combat power, they are stronger than ordinary skeleton warriors, not to mention the zombies and skeleton soldiers they usually encounter. There is no comparison at all.
How could they possibly have the ability to fight back?
"Wait! What's that sound in the darkness?" Just as Zhang Caidong and Zhang Bo were leading the Swadian recruits and the goblins running quickly towards the light, Bestur and those grassland bandit elites subconsciously raised their heads with smiles frozen on their faces. They had obviously also heard some noises.
"It's the cavalry." An elite bandit from the grassland spoke up immediately. He recognized the heavy sound as the sound of horseshoes hitting the concrete floor.
"Are there any cavalry coming?" Upon hearing the voices of these grassland bandit elites, the faces of the ordinary grassland bandits around them immediately changed drastically. They directly raised the nomadic bows in their hands with extremely solemn expressions.
"Scatter! Be on guard!" Best immediately waved his hand to signal the 15 prairie bandit elites who followed him and the more than 40 prairie bandits who gathered around to disperse immediately.
They are all lightly armed cavalry and have bows and arrows in their hands. As long as they disperse and keep their distance, as long as they do not encounter the same archers, they can use the bows and arrows in their hands and the grassland horses under their crotch to let the enemy know what the guerrilla tactics that the Kugits are best at are.
However, when they left, they did not forget to remind the Swadians and Blue Star humans who were still fighting the undead monsters to leave quickly.
"The situation is special now, you must leave here!" The Kugit grassland bandits called out to them one after another.
The senior and middle managers among the humans on Blue Star were looking at the Swadian civilians in bewilderment at this time, while the Swadian civilians were also looking at the humans on Blue Star in bewilderment.
Neither of them understood what was going on.
However, at this time, the Swadian civilians seemed to have heard something. They suddenly turned their heads and looked into the depths of the darkness. Their faces suddenly changed, and they also realized that the heavy sound of knocking on the ground came from the cavalry.
"It's cavalry! It's a cavalry unit! There are nearly thirty or forty of them! There are many cavalry units rushing towards us!"
One by one, they spoke up to remind the humans on Blue Star. At the same time, when the humans on Blue Star realized the seriousness of the matter, they quickly began to retreat.
Of course, these humans from Blue Star also understood the seriousness of the matter. At the same time, they also saw Zhang Caidong running towards them quickly from the depths of the darkness, with fear on his face, waving and asking them to leave quickly.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry up, hurry up, skeleton cavalry have appeared in the depths of darkness. This is not a small problem. It is not something we can solve now. We must rely on Lord Shen Mu's troops to resist." Just now I was calling on these people to hurry up and retreat.
"Let's go, let's go." These humans from Blue Star followed Zhang Caidong's footsteps and quickly left the darkness with their Swadian civilians. They looked at the light that appeared in front of them and then rushed directly in, completely getting rid of the undead rules, gray fog, and skeleton cavalry's pursuit in the darkness.
And just when they all left, after the darkness, a skeleton cavalryman riding a skeleton warhorse with a dark metallic luster all over his body immediately rushed out from the gray fog.
In one hand he held a shiny black spear, and in his left hand he held a scimitar that was also shiny black.
The dark blue soul fire in their eyes exuded an extremely strong cold aura, and the eyes of the skeleton horses under their crotch also exuded the terrifying power of the dark blue cold soul fire burning fiercely.
Even though they rushed out of the darkness and the area of the Undead Rule represented by the meeting, and came to the place where the Mount and Blade Rule was protected by the Holy Light, they did not die immediately, nor did they immediately burn with the Holy Light flame. "Zizizizi!" Instead, thick black smoke came out of their bodies, and black mist appeared in their bodies, as if they were in fierce confrontation with the Holy Light shining on the surface.
Even these skeleton cavalry still had some strength left. Looking at the Swadian recruits only seven or eight meters ahead, they wanted to instigate the skeleton horses under their crotch to rush forward and use the spears in their right hands and scimitars in their left hands to fight against these living humans and turn them into undead.
Just at this moment, a series of shrill sounds of breaking through the air suddenly appeared in front of them.
'Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!'
Right in front of these skeleton cavalrymen, black shadows suddenly appeared. They were the grassland bandits and grassland bandit elites who had dispersed at a distance of 20 to 30 meters in the distance. They picked up their nomadic bows and shot arrows at them.
The skeleton cavalrymen who were riding their skeleton warhorses to charge forward and fight were forced to stop their charge and passively raise their hands to block their heads, so that the arrows could not hit the soul fire in their heads.
These skeleton cavalrymen know where their vital points are and where to protect.
So, amid the crackling sounds, about four or five skeleton cavalrymen who rushed out stood in place and began to defend.
The feather arrows that were shot directly hit the skeleton cavalrymen, causing cracks on their bones that were shining with a dark metallic luster, and even knocking off some of the more fragile small bones.
However, these skeleton cavalrymen were not seriously injured. Instead, they looked at the gradually weakening rain of arrows, raised their heads and looked at the Kugit grassland bandits in the distance who were still drawing their bows and shooting arrows, preparing for the next round of volleys of arrows. They actually focused on the skeleton warhorses under their crotches, turned around and returned to the darkness.
Then the sound of heavy horse hooves hitting the ground gradually faded away.
They also disappeared near this area.
"Skeleton Cavalry." Bestur put down the nomadic bow in his hand and his face became a little ugly.
"Those guys don't seem to be afraid of our rain of arrows, but that's right, they are just some skeletons. As long as the soul fire in their heads is not damaged, they will not die." Just behind Bestur, several grassland bandit elites who had a good relationship with him also rode to his side. Looking at the nomadic bows in their hands, their faces were also rather ugly: "Lord Bestur, I think we should tell Lord Shen Mu about this matter. We should go back now."
"Well, that's true. Let's go." Bestul nodded with a gloomy face.
Before, they had only come into contact with flesh and blood creatures. Even if they came into contact with some undead monsters, they could easily deal with them with their strong combat power and flexible fighting skills.
This was the first time they encountered such strong skeleton cavalry, and he also discovered that the skeleton cavalry actually knew to raise their hands to block the rain of arrows, or to focus on the skeleton horses under their crotch to dodge.
If this was not the case, then some of their rain of arrows would definitely hit the heads of the skeleton horses or the heads of the skeleton cavalry, directly shattering their skull bones and piercing into their heads, destroying the circuits of their soul fire.
This is equivalent to killing these undead monsters.
But all this failed, and they watched helplessly as the three or four skeleton cavalrymen turned their horses around and left the place where the light was shining.
They returned to the undead rules that they were most familiar with, and the darkness that filled the place.
"Moreover, these skeleton cavalry seem to be able to move in places where there is light. They are much stronger than those skeletons and zombies that start to emit thick black smoke as soon as they come in and spontaneously combust after a while." A grassland bandit elite also spoke up about what he had seen and heard.
"That's true." Bestur also noticed it. He didn't say much in silence. After pondering for a moment, he immediately said to the grassland bandit elites behind him: "The grassland bandits you are leading now continue patrolling, and don't relax. I will go back to Dehrim to report to Lord Shen Mu. If you encounter those skeleton cavalry again, don't conflict with them, retreat behind the low wall immediately, and then maintain a certain frequency of patrols."
"We understand." These grassland bandit elites nodded immediately, then mobilized their war horses and continued patrolling with the grassland bandits.
However, compared to their previous relaxed appearance, they are now obviously much more serious.
After all, after seeing those skeleton cavalry, they were already worried.
At this time, Bestur shook the reins and rode the wild horse under his crotch towards Bestur. As for the Blue Star humans and Swadia civilians behind him, if they entered the place where the holy light was shining alive, then they would have completed their mission.
His most important task now is to patrol and detect the enemy. Now that he has discovered the enemy and found abnormal situations, he must quickly return to Dehrim to report.
Soon, Bestur arrived at the gate of Deheruw, and under the shouts of the Lake Rat Gang vandals who had already discovered his coming in the distance, he opened the city gate and let him in.
They arrived at the door of the noble mansion.
There was a Holy Tree Knight holding his spear, guarding the door as a guard. When he saw him coming, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture to stop him from moving forward: "Lord Bestur, Lord Shen Mu is resting, please don't come any further."
"I have something to report." Bestul said.
"Is it urgent?" asked the Holy Tree Knight.
"It's not urgent. I'll come after daybreak, when Lord Shen Mu wakes up." Bestul hesitated for a moment and turned his horse's head, heading towards the separate governor's residence next to the noble mansion.
Anyway, the governor's residence and the nobles' residence are actually one and the same.
Just take a short rest and report this matter to Lord Shen Mu directly after dawn. (End of this chapter)
