The Fourth Volume Ice Road 001. Night Battle

  The moon didn't know when it was blocked by a rain cloud, and the ice field that still had some light originally completely darkened.

  A faintly perceptible wave of strange smell mixed with stench and bloodiness came from the air, making people feel nauseous.

  Du Fan only felt a slight chill all over his body, an extremely bad feeling surged in his heart, as if what he was about to face would be something incredibly evil.

  The stench and bloody smell grew thicker, accompanied by a low grinding sound. Faintly, Du Fan seemed to see the corpses of those unlucky guys who died in the trap being dragged back and eaten clean in less than a moment.

  Suddenly, a few points of faint green light seemed to flash on the opposite side, followed by a hoarse and mournful howl.

  Upon hearing this voice, the several guys who were originally panting on the ground all shuddered, and that person who looked like the leader, where was his ferocious appearance now?

  His upper and lower teeth chattered, and after a long while, he stuttered: "We're done for! Those guys have caught up with us...... This time...... this time......"

  The remaining few people all looked shocked, apparently they were really frightened. Two of them struggled to get up with a resolute expression, one holding the remaining half of their weapon, and the other seemingly without a weapon, only trembling as he pulled out a blue dagger from his leg strap, saying: "Captain... you... hurry up and run... we two will stay behind, if you can escape, that's one..."

  Du Fan saw their appearance and coldly laughed, saying: "Can you escape? If everyone knew how to fight desperately, even if you encountered many magical beasts, you wouldn't be in such a sorry state, would you? Now that someone is blocking your way, do you want to pretend to be brave? Just now, wasn't your captain shouting that even if he died, he wanted to pull us innocent people down with him as a shield? Well, now it's good, neither of us can escape, nor can we leave. If we have to die, then let's all die together!"

  Those two guys' faces turned red, and they suddenly couldn't say a word, looking at the fierce aura burning on Du Fan and others, they didn't dare to retort back, and could only shut their mouths obediently.

  Du Fan cursed and felt that he had vented a bit of his anger, then quickly took out the Silver Moon Long Sword from the spatial ring and held it horizontally in front of him. He said in a low voice, "Gentlemen, with your rich battle experience, can you guess what kind of demon beast we are about to face?"

  Several Knights Templar looked at each other, one of them shook his head and said: "Dufan, there are countless demons in this world. If we hadn't seen its appearance, who could recognize it? So, we also..."

  Just as Du Fan was speaking, a creaking sound came from the darkness. If Du Fan wasn't mistaken, this should be the mechanism he had ordered the Temple Knights to set up on the outermost perimeter of the camp. As long as any magical beast stepped on those things, it would make a noise, which had a warning effect.

  However, at this moment, the voice had lost its original purpose and instead told Du Fan and others that the group of magical beasts chasing those people earlier were getting closer and closer.

  Du Fan furrowed his brow, staring at the darkness in front of him, surrounded by an increasingly pungent smell. He gritted his teeth and pulled out a magic scroll from his storage ring, throwing it forward without even looking.

  All of a sudden, there was a loud "Boom" sound, and a huge fireball flew in that direction. The dark creature seemed to dodge the attack instantly, and the fireball landed on the ice field, still burning fiercely due to the magic.

  This is a fire magic scroll made by Du Fan for Chen Chen, and it's not cheap. He doesn't have many of these on hand either. If this one gets smashed, tens of thousands of gold coins might just disappear.

  Several Knights Templar looked at Dufan in surprise, seemingly unable to believe that Dufan's family was so wealthy. But after a moment's thought about Dufan's background, they also understood that people from such a large clan who came out to adventure would not possibly not carry some lifesaving items with them.

  Even the team leader who was still shaking looked at Du Fan's back and his eyes were also extremely complex.

  However, Du Fan didn't have the spare energy to bother with other people's thoughts. He took advantage of the fireball's light to glance at the opposite side and finally saw clearly the magical beast that had been chasing him all along. But as soon as he looked, he felt a wave of nausea wash over him. Despite his extensive experience and remarkable composure, he couldn't help but almost vomit.

  All he saw was about ten or so meters in front of Du Fan, three creatures that looked like wolves were crouching.

  They say they look like wolves, but in reality, the real wolves are a thousand times more adorable compared to these three.

  The flesh on their bodies was rotting, and the flesh was covered with all sorts of strange objects. Dufan even faintly saw that one of them had a half-eaten human head stuck to its back, and another had several human fingers hanging from its face.

  If you look closely, it can be discovered that the rotting flesh on their bodies seems to be composed of various human organs.

  It's obvious that these are all part of the people who were just "eaten" by them, but why they're hanging on their bodies is probably something only the God of Light knows.

  But these creatures, which looked disgusting to the extreme, all had a pair of huge eyes, almost as big as a human fist. The eyes on their heads moved back and forth, emitting bursts of green light from within.

  Apart from that, their teeth and claws are also astonishingly sharp, like fine steel, with black liquid constantly dripping from them. The liquid dripped onto the ice on the ground, instantly emitting a burst of cyan smoke, clearly indicating that the black liquid was highly toxic.

  Du Fan's scalp felt numb as he couldn't help but turn his head to glance at the people on the ground, saying: "Damn it... what the hell is this thing?"

  "I don't know..." one of the blood-stained men gritted his teeth and said, "These three things suddenly broke into our camp, ate...ate our deputy commander, and then...then we started to resist, but...but no matter whether it was a knife chop, or a gun stab, or an arrow shot, none of them could cause any harm to them. So we had to run. Our Snow Fox Mercenary Team originally had more than 30 people, but after encountering this thing, I'm afraid the Snow Fox Mercenary Team will be disbanded in the north from now on!"

  The man's tone was mournful and his companions nearby also looked dismal, it was clear that this sudden disaster had a huge impact on them.

  Du Fan frowned repeatedly as he listened. If these three things were immune to physical attacks, didn't that mean that at this moment, he and the few Temple Knights here could only await death?

  Several Knights Templar apparently also heard the words, one of whom stepped forward to Du Fan and said: "Du Fan, you quickly withdraw with others first, we don't have time, nor do we have manpower to waste here with this monster, we will think of a way to tie up these three things, you quickly think of a way to escape!"

  Du Fan looked up and found that it was Ferre who was blocking his way.

  He was slightly moved in his heart, but he snorted and said: "Ferry, what do you take me, Du Fan, for? Even if we want to run, it's not the right time. We haven't even fought yet and you're already running away with your tail between your legs. If others find out about this, even if we manage to return to the Imperial City alive, I'm afraid we'll have no face left to show to Lord Anthony."

  Ferré was stunned, seemingly wanting to say something more.

  However, at this time, the three unknown magical beasts had become even closer, these three magical beasts seemed to have a hint of intelligence, although they stared at the several big living people on this side, their mouths continuously drooled with saliva, but their approach was extremely cautious, just as if they were avoiding landmines.

  But the worst part is that most of the agency's traps were destroyed by those Snow Fox mercenaries who died earlier, and the remaining traps are clearly not enough to cause any harm to these three magical beasts.

  Those three magical beasts finally carefully avoided the traps on the ground, and were only a few meters away from Du Fan and his group. Looking at their prey in front of them, the eyes of the three magical beasts simultaneously revealed a greedy glow.

  Those snow fox mercenaries under the ground, their faces were already white like paper, wanting to climb but couldn't get up, but Ferre quickly raised his knight sword and slashed over.

  For a moment, only the fierce aura was seen, and several bright auras intersected each other. Under Fei Lei's tension, the momentum of these few moves was not weak at all. Compared to those useless young masters on the martial arts stage that day, it was unknown how much stronger he had become.

  All that was heard were a few "puffs" and several streams of Dou Qi struck the body of one of the demonic beasts. The rotting flesh on its body seemed to have been cut off in several places, but it didn't seem to be completely ineffective either. The demonic beast that had been hit let out a few miserable cries and retreated several steps back.

  The other Templars saw this and immediately raised their swords, and for a moment the small open space was filled with the aura of battle. These Templars had spent their lives practicing swordsmanship, and when they unleashed the Holy Light Cross Slash, it was incredibly sharp. The aura formed a light screen that blocked the three demonic beasts outside.