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At this time, Li Guang, who was digging a pit to bury his compatriots, suddenly said: "Of course we will kill them. Although I don't know what cult this is and I have no connection with them before, I will spend the rest of my life hunting down every member of the cult."
Xiao Bai asked: "How long is the rest of your life?"
Lizard Man: "Five years is always enough."
Xiaobai: "Then you should come with us, because you have no time to waste."
Li Guang was silent for a few seconds, then replied, "Save my people first. When we really wipe out the cult's stronghold, I will go with you!"
Chapter 164: It's not that easy to run away
The next morning.
The fire that had been burning all night finally went out, and the air was filled with the smell of freshly baked charcoal and burnt flesh.
After Wang memorized today's spells, he walked out of the tent and saw Li Guang kneeling in front of the newly built stone pyramid, praying devoutly.
Wang: "Do monks also believe in God?"
"Of course, but we don't believe in those personified gods. We believe in the common sense of the world and the rules of all things. We pray not to gain the favor of God, but to feel peace from all things."
Wang: "You looked very uneasy yesterday."
Li Guang: "Yes. My master once said that peace does not mean rejecting anger and hatred, but accepting them. I didn't understand it before."
Wang: "What about now?"
Li Guang: “I dare not say that I understand.
"But this past evening I was trying to identify the bodies before they were buried, and I was able to identify 180 of them.
"I recalled how they were when they were alive. We lizardmen have short lives and are cold-blooded animals, so we can't live as hurriedly as cat people. We can only try to make every moment of our lives count.
"Whenever I finished recalling, I took a stone from their doorstep and piled it on the pyramid. There are 180 stones in total, and I have already piled them all.
“I thought I was going to gain Fury in the process.”
Wang: “But you didn’t, did you?”
Li Guang: "Yes. I am unexpectedly calm. I don't understand this kind of calmness myself, but I know that now I can do many things that I never dared to think of before."
Wang: “For example?”
Li Guang stood up and faced the not-so-tall pyramid. Next to him were weeds that had grown wildly to his ankle height overnight.
The next moment, the dewdrops on the weeds rolled down naturally—
Li Guang caught the dewdrop with his hand. His movements were so gentle that they did not break the surface tension of the dewdrop. He let the dewdrop roll gently along his scales, and then caught it with his other hand when it was about to fall.
He let the dewdrops roll back and forth between his hands.
Wang: "You... Is this the monk's boxing technique?"
Li Guang did not answer, but after completing a full set of punches, he gently placed the dew on the grass on the other side of his body.
Then he looked at the king.
Wang: "Well, how much more powerful is this punch than before? Let's quantify it. Take the combat power of the barbarians in our team as 1. How much combat power did you have before? How much is it now?"
Li Guang looked at Wang: "We obviously have completely contradictory ways of understanding the world, but I always feel that I can get along well with you."
Wang: "Ah... uh, well, my teacher taught me to seek common ground while reserving differences and to coexist peacefully. So don't worry, you see, our team focuses on diversity. Our front line is actually a little thin, with only a barbarian and a shorty, and Marika is a guerrilla assassin. How about you join us?"
Li Guang nodded: "I also think I should join you and continue to cause trouble for the cult."
Wang: "I thought you were going to forgive the Order."
Li Guang replied: "I have forgiven them. But I cannot let them continue to cause suffering. This is not about personal hatred, but for the greater good."
Wang: "Are you sure you didn't find a high-sounding reason for your hatred?"
"It doesn't matter," Li Guang replied. "Whether you decide to be good after letting go or find excuses because you can't let go, there is not much difference between the two."
Wang stared at the lizard man for a few seconds. He was extremely sure that Li Guang's current expression must be the calmest among all the lizard men.
It turned out that the Lizard Man had been in a calm state. It seemed that he had indeed accepted his anger and transcended it as his master had said.
Wang: "Wait a minute, my teacher said that the power of a monk comes from meditation. A true monk master has a calm mind. Have you entered that state?"
Li Guang: "I don't know. I don't care."
Wang was shocked: "Well, we will know after we fight our way into the ruins."
As soon as he finished speaking, Marika's voice came from beside him: "If we want to go to the ruins, we'd better set off now. An airship appeared over the ruins. It seems that the cult in the ruins is preparing to retreat."
Wang: "Airship? A dwarf's creation?"
"Yes, it looks quite big, it can hold a few hundred people without any problem. When I left, they were guiding the airship to dock, and they will probably start hoisting cargo onto the airship soon.
"I think they will run away soon. By the way, although I tried my best to rush back, it still took a lot of time."
Wang was shocked: "This is difficult to deal with."
Marika: "It's possible that the loss of a core mage and a team of nine high-level wanderers yesterday scared the cult. What should we do?"
Wang did not answer immediately. After thinking for about ten seconds, he said, "I have a plan."
Marika: "You have a plan. You always have a plan."
Wang: "When you were investigating, did you see that they had prepared anti-aircraft weapons such as crossbows?"
Marika shook her head. “No. But there are a lot of archers on the ground. I saw warriors and wanderers carrying bows and arrows, not to mention rangers.”
Wang: "Okay, got it. No ballista, that's fine. Xiaobai!"
Xiao Bai pulled open the tent curtain and asked, "What?"
Wang: "Let's get ready to go. Wake up everyone else."
Marika: "Wait a minute! Are you going to go with Xiaobai alone?"
King: "What are you talking about? We specially asked the dwarves to build a dragon saddle. The whole team can ride on it, and Xiaobai is an extra transport. We are going to launch an aerial assault on the cult.
“From the fact that they didn’t even get any information about the lich, it means that either the cult’s intelligence gathering capabilities are lacking, or this branch lacks intelligence shared by the headquarters.
"I bet they never expected we would launch an air assault."
Marika: "...I will go and wake up Your Highness right away."
Xiaobai: "Aerial Assault!"
At this time, Flint also opened the tent curtain and came out: "What the hell? Fortunately, my magic is ready. What is the aerial assault?"
The king took out the scepter and said, "I will turn into a dragon and wear the dragon saddle. You sit on it and then we will go together to give the cult a surprise."
Flint was shocked: "Carlis Newman, are you really going to use that dragon saddle? What if you fall down halfway?"
Wang: "Indeed, the enemy might have defended against the dragon, but they certainly didn't expect that we were attacking more than just dragons and druids."
Flint sighed. "I can feel my holy symbol starting to heat up. Cailin really likes your idea."
At this time, Elizabeth rubbed her eyes and came out of the tent: "What's wrong?"
Wang: "We are going to surprise the enemy from the air. You can fire your scorching rays as much as you want."
Chapter 165: Monk Assault
A moment later, the giant dragon that the king transformed into flew up with the dragon saddle on its back.
The reason why it was a moment later, rather than immediately, was that the dragon saddle was a bit laborious to install. The dwarves, with their own unique pursuit of perfection, made the dragon saddle very complicated.
Among the rescue team, the only ones familiar with machinery were the dwarf Flint and the king himself. However, after the king turned into a dragon, he had only a pair of short hands and was unable to help install the dragon saddle on his back. So the main work was done by Flint, who directed the barbarian and Li Guang.
After the dragon saddle was installed, Wang only had forty-five minutes left to transform into a dragon, so he urged anxiously: "Hurry up! We still have to fly a hundred miles. Come on up quickly."
Marika held Elizabeth and jumped onto the dragon saddle, while Nini climbed onto the shooting pod on the other side.
Flint looked at the barbarian: "I know what you are thinking, don't! Don't do it!"
Barbarian: “Okay!”
After saying that, he grabbed Flint and threw him upwards, and Marika, who was already in the dragon saddle, caught him like a ball.
Flint: "Carlisle Newman! I'm so sad now, so sad!"
Marika comforted him, "But Kailin must be very happy. Maybe He is holding a small notebook and drawing circles for you. If you draw ten circles, you will get five rings."
Flint cursed: "If that's the case, I'm going to curse Karen to death. I'm going to curse Karen's horns and Karen's belly button right now!"
The king in dragon form said: "Is there a possibility that your scolding of Him has caused Him to draw one more circle for you?"
Flint: "What the hell? Are you all assuming that Kailin really did this?"
Elizabeth spread her hands and said, "After all... it's Kailin, right? We have already deeply understood the character of this god from you."
Wang: "To put it another way, you have faithfully completed your mission to preach to Kailin. You see, we all know this deity very well now."
Flint was silent for a few seconds: "That seems to make sense."
At this time, the lizard man Li Guang said, "I have a tail, so it's not easy for me to get on the dragon's back. After all, there are so many ladies on the dragon's back. It would be bad if they were touched by my tail."
Xiaobai: "That's easy. Later, Barbarian will ride on my saddle, and the King will hold you with his claws."
Li Guang: "That makes sense. Let's get going without further delay."
So, this strange team set off.
The team consists of a dragon and a griffin. On the dragon's back is a cage that looks like a Womar war elephant. Inside the cage are a bunch of people stacked in Womar style, including dwarves, elves, drow elves and humans.
Then the dragon held a lizard man in its claws, as if it was holding breakfast and was ready to bite off the lizard man's head at any time.
Behind the accompanying griffin sat a tall and strong barbarian, and the visual effect was similar to that of an orc riding a very small gray wolf.
The two creatures flew in the same direction under the instructions of the drow elves.
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Ruins, the branch of the Order, the branch director Lily glanced at the cargo being hoisted and urged loudly: "Hurry up!"
At this time, a soldier of the Order came over and asked, "What should we do with the prisoners held in the base? Especially the Lizardmen captured yesterday. There are too many of them, and they were not 'pre-processed'. I think they will cause trouble on the airship. I mean, it will be terrible if they cause trouble on the airship."
Lily ordered, "Only bring pre-processed samples. As for the lizardmen, use them to test the latest poisonous smoke of decay. If the test is successful, our ordinary soldiers will be able to achieve an effect similar to that of the Death Cloud by throwing poisonous gas bombs in the future. This is definitely a huge benefit."
The soldier nodded: "Yes."