Although Gorash has become rickety due to aging, it is still over 2.5 meters tall. When it dances the thick bone club easily and sends out a weird smile to its opponent, it is so ferocious that it makes people suffocate.

The reason why Bruce is unwilling to bring ordinary militia to encircle and suppress the cannibals is probably because ordinary people will inevitably feel fear when facing cannibal monsters. This is completely the natural fear of natural enemies in the blood, which makes it difficult to restrain.

In Victor's previous life, mankind had defeated all competitors and stood at the pinnacle of the earth. However, in this life, mankind has to face the challenges and slaughter of more competitors and even natural enemies. How far can it go in the future?

, Victor was also confused.

However, when he saw that the Bruce knight was like a rock in the face of the old ogre's powerful attack, he did not retreat even a step, and he felt a sense of pride. Yes, even in the face of natural enemies, humans will not lack the courage to fight.

,that's enough.

Bruce used the tower shield in his hand to block, shoot, or cut to resist Gorash's attacks again and again. The 40-kilogram fine gold halberd in his other hand whistled with a "Woo-Woo" sound.

He slashed at the old ogre's body.

If it were an ordinary ogre, it would have been scarred by the attack of Bruce's sharp adamantine halberd, but Gorash's attack was not as rough and clumsy as its compatriots. Instead, it showed amazing dexterity and extraordinary power.

Skills. Gorache can block Bruce's attack with a huge bone club every time, and use his height advantage to launch a ferocious counterattack against Bruce.

Victor noticed that for every time Bruce attacked, the old ogre would attack twice on average. The bone club in its hand was the skeleton of an unknown beast, but it could withstand continuous slashes from the adamantine halberd without breaking.

.

Victor once saw the battle between Baron Eskery and the Jackal leader Hogg. Facing the ferocious Jackal in a bloodthirsty state, Baron Eskery showed an overwhelming advantage and defeated the Jackal in a few rounds.

The leader is the owl. However, the Bruce Knight did not gain the upper hand at all in the battle with the old ogre, and even seemed to be suppressed, which made Victor a little worried.

Victor entered a super-sensory state, with a physical strength of 22, a mental strength of 17, a perception of 14, and a life of 8. This is the data of the old ogre Gorash.

Physique 23, Spirit 12, Perception 13, Life 16, these are the statistics of the Bruce Knight.

From the data point of view, Bruce Knight has the advantage in physical and life attributes, but the physical attribute is only 1 point higher. In addition, since the life attribute cannot directly improve combat effectiveness, this advantage is almost meaningless. On the contrary, Gorash has better mental and physical attributes.

The perception attribute is higher than that of Bruce, which can give the knight an advantage in battle.

"Master, the situation of the Bruce Knight does not look optimistic. Should we make some preparations?" Victor saw the hard ground becoming bumpy under the trampling of both sides of the battle, and said to Edwin with some worry.

Victor is confident that he can use the military heavy crossbow in the apocalypse state to deal a fatal blow to Gorash who is entangled with Bruce. After all, Gorash is not an ogre leader with a violent talent. As for the knight's attack on the old ogre

Victor didn't take the promise to heart, because he was not Bruce's subordinate, and even if he took action, it wouldn't be regarded as Bruce breaking his promise.

"Don't worry, Bruce hasn't used all his strength yet. He has been consuming the old ogre's physical strength. If the old ogre doesn't show other abilities, Bruce will end it." Edwin shook his head.

He shook his head and signaled Victor not to worry.

While the two were talking, an earthy-yellow air ball appeared on Bruce's body, and his physical value soared from the original 23 points to an astonishing 27 points. The physical attribute is actually the concentration change of the earth element in the living body. The most direct

The reaction is a change in strength, and the change in strength brought about by a 27-point physique is enough to crush the old ogre.

Bruce slammed the heavy tower shield in his hand at the bone club that was coming towards him. The huge force caught Gorash off guard. The bone club in his hand was directly knocked away, and his whole body staggered and fell backwards. Bruce took advantage of the momentum.

He slashed the adamantine halberd in his right hand towards the old ogre's neck. The blow flew across like a thunderbolt and was unstoppable.

Seeing that Bruce was about to kill the old ogre with his halberd, Gorash let out a strange scream and tried to lean his body to the right. The halberd that was supposed to hit the neck struck heavily on its raised left shoulder. The sharp halberd

The blade cut through the old ogre's hard skin and muscles, cutting half of the steel-hard bones, but in the end it failed to completely cut off Gorash's left arm.

Bruce suddenly pulled out the halberd that was stuck in the bone, and when he was about to give the old ogre the final blow, Gorash took a deep breath, and his belly bulged like a pregnant woman squirmed, and there was a burst of colorful

The filth spewed out from its mouth like a high-pressure water gun towards Bruce. Bruce quickly used a huge tower shield to protect his body, but the old ogre took the opportunity to escape into the bushes on the other side of the creek, and was gone in the blink of an eye.

No trace was left, leaving only a disgusting digestion on the ground.

It ran away.

Bruce's face was livid, and the huge tower shield blocked most of the filth vomited by Gorash, but his knees were still inevitably covered with sticky, disgusting, and stinky digestion.

"This old ogre has been severely injured by me. The four of you go hunting it together as a test. But you must remember not to be left alone. If you can't deal with it, send a signal and I will support you."

Bruce threw the tower shield on the ground and gave instructions to his four knights.

As a knight of noble origin, Bruce has always paid great attention to his appearance. He cannot tolerate being in such an embarrassing situation. Now he just wants to clean up the filth on his body quickly, and has no intention of chasing Gorash personally.

desire.

Just when the four trainee knights were checking their equipment and eager to try it out, Nicole walked up to Bruce, inserted the sharp sword on the ground, knelt down on one knee, and said clearly and firmly: "Sir Knight Bruce, trainee knight Nicole wants to

You request a life-and-death trial of hunting ogres."

Nicole's words silenced the entire audience.

The trial of life and death is when a knight challenges an invincible powerful monster alone in order to be promoted. He wanders between life and death, either dying in battle or being promoted. There is no second ending. It is heroic and sacred.

"Nicole! You must be crazy! You don't have to be like this!" Bruce's retinue, Calvin, shouted loudly.

The trial of life and death is extremely dangerous. In fact, most of the knights who held the trial died in the battle. Therefore, unless there is really no hope of breakthrough, few knights will choose the trial of life and death.

"Caven is right, Nicole, you are very talented. You have already achieved 10 elemental positions at the age of 22. I was promoted to the Bronze Knight when I was 27. You still have enough time to polish your fighting spirit and be promoted normally, and

You are the lady's attendant, not my knight knight, so I cannot agree to your request." Bruce said to Nicole in a gentle voice.

Generally speaking, trainee knights will only lose hope of promotion when they are over 30 years old. Young trainee knights like Nicole do not need to undergo a life and death trial of nine deaths.

"Sir, I am already 22 years old, which is why Madam asked me to follow you here." Nicole's calm voice made Bruce speechless.

As a female apprentice knight of the York family without a surname, if she does not become a Bronze Knight before the age of 22, she will become a tool for the family to win over powerful people or other nobles, and Nicole is no exception.

Most of the female trainee knights from the York family who were of low origin did not reject this fate, because they either became the companions of knights or the companions of nobles. This was definitely a good destination, but unfortunately Nicole was one of the few among them.

Bruce knew that after Nicole returned, her family would give her to the silver knight Lord Hanas as a personal maid. Hanas was originally a knight of another duke in the Eastern Three Provinces. After his master was hanged, he secretly took refuge.

York family.

Hanas is powerful, rude, and not aristocratic. He is not the type that Nicole likes at all. That’s why Sylvia let Nicole go with Victor to fulfill one of Nicole’s wishes, but the countess absolutely

It won't change the family's position, but Victor doesn't know all this.

"Nicole, as usual you have a whole day to prepare, but ogres can speed up the healing of wounds by eating flesh and blood, so I suggest you set out now. If you fail to come out after a day, we will enter the woods and kill you.

That monster will avenge you. During this period, you will not receive any assistance. I wish you good luck." Faced with Nicole's insistence, Bruce agreed to her request.

"Thank you." Nicole pulled out the long sword on the ground, stood up and walked towards the woods.

"Nicole! Wait!" Victor caught up from behind. Anxiety and confusion made him angry. He grabbed Nicole's arm and asked loudly: "Why are you doing this? What do you want to prove?

?!"

Looking at Victor's caring and angry face, Nicole gently hugged her lover and whispered in his ear: "I want to control my own destiny."

As she spoke, she took off her helmet and let her long chestnut hair fall down. She lifted the sharp sword from behind and cut off the hair on her shoulders. Her bright face suddenly became heroic, with a kind of

Breathtakingly beautiful.

The broken hair in her hand fell away in the wind. Nicole took a deep look at Victor, as if she wanted to engrave the appearance of her sweetheart in her heart, smiled slightly, turned around and left decisively.

Victor stared blankly at Nicole's slender and graceful figure disappearing into the trees, speechless and choked.

It was getting late, no one in the temporary camp spoke, only the campfire was crackling and burning, and the atmosphere was dull and suffocating.

Victor walked back and forth restlessly, and he said loudly to Edwin.

"We should do something!"

Victor once gathered people to go into the woods to support Nicole, but Bruce's four trainee knights blocked him like a wall.

Once the trial of life and death is interrupted, it will leave the trialist with an everlasting sense of frustration, which means that his path to knighthood will be cut off. This is an outcome more terrifying than death for the trialist.

"Victor, even if you are as humble as a slave or as noble as a king, you all have the right to choose to fight your fate. Even if you pay a huge price, you may not succeed, but this is the root of our miracles." Edwin looked at Wei deeply.

Ke has many eyes and his voice is heavy and powerful.

Suddenly, a cry came from the woods. It was the cry of a jackal on the verge of death, followed by howls one after another, making everyone's expressions change drastically.

"Damn it, that cunning ogre has enslaved the jackals. It has already set up a trap. This is beyond the scope of Nicole's trial. This is a death penalty! We must rescue her immediately!" Victor shouted loudly.

He shouted, aristocratic etiquette had long been thrown out of the window.

The four apprentice knights stood up and looked at Bruce nervously, waiting for Bruce's decision.

"As knights, we cannot interfere with the trial of life and death. If Nicole can break through, she will be safe and sound." Bruce gently stroked the adamantine halberd in his hand. If Nicole died in battle, he would use this weapon to avenge her.

Bruce's seemingly heartless words made Victor smile slightly. He raised his hand and a black shadow fell from the sky. With a "croak", it landed on Victor's arm. It was the alchemical crow Black Feather.

"Go." Victor took out Nicole's scattered hair and gave it to Black Feather to smell. Black Feather immediately flew into the air, circled in a circle, and then made a "croak" sound before flying towards the woods.

"As a lord, I have decided to eliminate the wolves and monsters in the territory. Tonight, Nelson, please prepare yourself and go in with me." Victor said to Nelson with a smile, calm and elegant.

"As you wish, my master." Nelson replied in a sullen voice. It was never the War Bear's style to sit back and watch his companions fall into dire straits.

"Guys, get moving, we're going to hunt the jackals tonight." Just when Nelson called the guards to enter the woods, he was stopped by Victor.

"No, Nelson, just the two of us will go." Nelson was stunned by Victor's words, and then his eyes showed gratitude.

Wearing leather armor to fight gnolls in the woods at night, even the powerful War Bear mercenaries would suffer casualties. Although the War Bears were not afraid of sacrifice, the lord's compassion still moved them.

"Sir! War bears are never afraid!"

"Sir, as long as you wait patiently at the camp, we will never let you down."

"Sir, don't worry! We have killed countless jackals!"

The guards' morale was high and they all asked Victor to fight.

"Sir, I can go in alone and rescue Miss Nicole, no problem at all!" Nelson persuaded Victor in a low voice.
To be continued...