The man howled in pain and was lifted up by the dark creature on its claws. The monster opened its slender mouth and was about to swallow him alive.

But before it could take action, a sound broke through the air, and a bolt of lightning shot from a distance, breaking through the dark gold scales and penetrating the head of the dark creature.

"Uh...uh..."

The monster and the man fell to the ground together.

When this sudden change occurred, everyone's eyes shrank and they all looked in the direction where the lightning roared.

"That seems to be... Lord Knight?!"

After the words fell, a faint thunder light flashed in the darkness. Before a dark creature realized anything, it was grabbed by the figure wrapped in thunder light. With a click, its throat was crushed directly, and it was thrown to the ground like a rag.

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"Roar!!!"

The other dark creatures finally reacted, baring their teeth at the figure and letting out threatening growls.

"Are they all contaminated by inexplicable blood?"

Chu Ming whispered and walked into the flames.

"Let's just solve it together."

Sizzling...

The power of his blood flowed like a torrent, his eyes were filled with lightning, and black clouds floated around his body that could not be dispelled by flames.

The next second, Chu Ming only left an afterimage on the spot. Wherever the lightning passed, the dark creature was killed with one blow.

In the depths of darkness, as soon as Aiqi and the others arrived, they were stunned by the scene in front of them. The entire battlefield was like a thunderstorm. The dark creatures howled and were blown away, and their heads and bones were shattered into pieces.

Aiqi swallowed hard. He found it unbelievable that such a clean and violent battle could occur in the hands of a blue-level knight.

Even he didn't have much confidence that he could handle this kind of speed and power.

And such people still need him to protect them. Is this something wrong?

The battle ended quickly. When Chu Ming's figure appeared again, the corpses of dark creatures were everywhere.

Aiqi also quickly recovered from his daze. He quickly walked into the charred battlefield to check whether the dark creatures on the ground were alive.

As soon as Mattie arrived, she ran directly towards Chu Ming and guarded him.

"We are saved!"

Cheers came from the wooden walls, and the villagers hurriedly opened the wooden walls and went out to greet several knights arriving from far away.

At this time, Crono panted and just rushed to Aiqi. He looked at the corpses of dark creatures on the battlefield. He had no idea what had just happened. He smiled and patted Aiqi on the shoulder, "Aiqi."

Why didn't I realize you were so capable before?"

There was a strange look on Aiqi's face, and he quickly waved his hand and said: "These dark creatures are all taken care of by Lord Ren and have nothing to do with me."

Crono was stunned for a moment, and his face became a little embarrassed.

However, when he remembered that Chu Ming could deal with such a large number of dark creatures alone, he was secretly surprised.

When Lord Avista assigned him the task of protecting Chu Ming, he never said that Chu Ming was so powerful.

You know, there are a lot of dark creatures at the deep blue level at the scene. Even if he wants to deal with these dark creatures, he has to do it one by one. How on earth did this guy do it.

Beside the wooden wall, Chu Ming ignored the villagers coming out of the village. He focused on the hunter named Steve lying on the ground.

The man's exposed skin was covered with dark golden scales, and Chu Ming could even feel a strange coercive aura from inside. This power even lifted the hunter from an ordinary person to a deep blue level.

It seems that this hunter's bloodline has been more thoroughly polluted, and he has gained some incredible power.

However, no matter how weird this power was, it could not heal the penetrating wounds on his body.

The flesh and blood on the hunter's chest squirmed and tried to heal, but because the injury was too severe, it didn't work at all. His breath became weaker and weaker, and even the flesh and blood gradually stopped squirming.

Pierre, the young man who had taken over the bow and arrows from the old hunter, hurriedly knelt in front of Chu Ming, cried and begged: "I beg you, sir, to save Uncle Steve."

"Although he came into contact with taboos, he did so to protect everyone."

Chu Ming glanced at Pierre, but he had no time to pay attention to what the taboo mentioned by the young man was. His right hand emitted a strong green light, and the greenness twitched, as if a new green leaf had sprouted in his hand.

Wild growth.

He pressed his palm down on the old hunter's chest. In the shocked eyes of the villagers, the three wounds on Steve's body that were penetrated by sharp claws were gradually healing.

Half a minute later, Chu Ming dispelled the spell, and dark golden scales grew again and covered Steve's body.

The man's vital characteristics gradually returned to stability, his painful expression became peaceful, and he fell into a drowsy state.

After doing all this, Chu Ming stood up and looked at Pierre, "What are the taboos in your mouth, and why doesn't your village leave here?"

The joy on Pierre's face didn't last long before he was asked a series of questions by Chu Ming, and he was stunned on the spot.

"Ahem, Sir Knight, let me answer."

An old voice came from behind the villagers, and an old woman on crutches came out.

Chu Ming looked at the old man, "Who are you?"

The old man smiled kindly and said: "I am the village chief of this Boer village. My name is Afshan Azad. Sir, just call me Afshan."

"Several adults, please come with me into the village. It would be too rude to let the distinguished guests stand here."

Chu Ming nodded, waved to Mattie and the others, and walked towards the village with the old man.

The wooden wall door slowly closed, and the unconscious old hunter was carried back by Pierre and placed in other houses. Chu and Ming followed Afshan to a wooden tile house at the end of the village.

Walking into the living room, the furnishings are simple, with only a few old sofas and a few cabinets.

The old man motioned for Chu Ming and others to sit down, then rummaged through the cabinet next to the stairs and found a document.

With trembling hands, she handed the document to Chu Ming.

Chu Ming thanked him, took the document and glanced at it.

"Is this... left behind by the Magic Legion?"

Afshan nodded and said: "Everyone knows something, but when the Dark Beast Tide invaded Thorn Flower County last year, our village was remote and blocked by forest trees, so the normal Beast Tide could not enter, so it became the only survivor within a hundred miles.

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"But Thorn Flower County is full of dark creatures, and we can't escape because of the horde of beasts surrounding us."

"After the adults from the Magic Legion arrived, they swept away the beast tide here and asked us to keep an eye on the corpses of those dark creatures before leaving."

Chu Ming touched his chin and asked doubtfully: "Why didn't the Magic Legion just burn those corpses cleanly and let you guard them?"

Afshan smiled bitterly and said: "You don't know something, sir. The corpses of those dark creatures have been piled up as big as a hill. Their bodies can retain most of their vitality even after death. No matter how they are burned, the corpses can grow back."

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"But the legion was busy with tasks and obviously didn't have time to stay here, so they left in a hurry."

"In the beginning, we were guarding the corpses according to your instructions. After half a year, most of the corpses have turned into skeletons. Only some huge corpses have not started to rot, and there is one that looks like an earth dragon.

The corpse, even after so long, the golden scales on its body are still shining brightly."

"We didn't pay much attention to this matter before and reported to nearby legion bases as usual, but a few days ago, creatures covered with scales suddenly appeared in the forest."

"After we realized something was wrong, the village itself was surrounded by these monsters."

"I suspect that these monsters changed after eating the body of the earth dragon."

After listening to the old man's statement, Crono shook his head solemnly, "I don't think it's that simple."

As soon as he said this, everyone couldn't help but look at him.
Chapter completed!