Chapter 1 The Cracking

The moment this King Knight moved, a series of indescribable cracking sounds suddenly echoed in the air, as if an invisible shackle on his surface had completely shattered. You could even feel a large number of invisible fragments breaking bit by bit, scattering on the ground.

Immediately afterward, he straightened his lance and thrust it fiercely at the reef!

Before the sharp point even arrived, it was as if an insurmountable giant rock was directly pressing down, almost suffocating those nearby! Even more bizarrely, the King Knight's two dark, hollow eyes were like infinitely deep vortexes. The reef, being stared at by him, felt his mind instantly filled with angry roars—the loud rebukes of the King of Gondor throughout the ages. This caused the reef's speed to drop rapidly.

The King Knight's ability was now beginning to manifest itself: although his speed was not particularly fast, he could slow down the speed of his target, creating a huge difference in speed between the two!

However, what the reef held was, after all, the legendary shield, Grond's Stubbornness! Just as the lance was about to slip past the reef's defense and pierce his chest, Grond's Stubbornness suddenly deflected slightly, the warped shield face directly hitting the spear tip. A dark light instantly covered the reef's body, and he took half a step back, successfully neutralizing the attack.

It seemed that the King Knights also had their own principles: if an enemy violated the forbidden zone, then only one King Knight would be dispatched. Of course, this seemingly chivalrous behavior might also have been a setup to conserve energy.

Immediately afterward, Fang Senyan, the reef, Ronnie, and others joined the battle group, and the remaining King Knights were also unsealed. After being released, they dragged long trails of afterimages behind them during their movements, and those who participated in the battle were affected by the "King's Rebuke," reducing their speed.

Therefore, at first glance, the entire battle did not look like a mere five King Knights fighting, but rather like their phantoms were everywhere on the plaza, as if at least forty or fifty King Knights were moving and attacking. In essence, although the attacking side even had a numerical advantage, the situation seemed like dozens of King Knights were ganging up on the Ace Team!

With such terrifying lethality, it was no wonder that Sauron had specifically sent the Dark Messenger to remind them to pay more attention.

Of course, there was another way to break the King Knights' formation, which, although not necessarily faster, was more convenient: directly stalling for time and letting those Human Alliance guys hoist themselves with their own petard, forced to death by the rules they had modified themselves! Where could they find a thousand people to supply faith at this time? However, Fang Senyan was most afraid of unforeseen complications, so he was absolutely unwilling to take this path unless absolutely necessary.

After fighting these five King Knights for a while, the Ace Team slowly withdrew from the plaza. The King Knights did not pursue, but slowly returned to their statue state, once again guarding the White Tree.

Aziz said first:

"My attacks seem effective, but in reality, they are being absorbed. Even if they cause superficial damage, it can be healed quickly."

The reef took a few breaths and said:

"Quite troublesome. If we continue to fight, I will have to use medicine."

Zi and Aldaris said:

"Various abnormal states seem to be quickly recovered from. However, it seems that magical damage heals more slowly."

Fang Senyan said lightly:

"Disease is ineffective, or rather, it will take a long time for my virus to find a method to take effect on their bodies. However, I have currently seen two points. The first is that if these knights were born to protect the honor of the King of Gondor, then our Gondorian Emperor's Sword: Andúril should have a certain effect. The second point: I suspect that their power still comes from the White Tree! And this White Tree is said to be a descendant of the one that connects the realms of life and death (Galathilion), so it is possible that the power of these undead creatures also comes from the tree."

"Then we can consider focusing on attacking the White Tree?" Percival was the controller of Andúril at this time. This weapon was not only a symbol of identity for him, but also represented the future, so this old fox naturally did not want to take this risk, and was even afraid of being plotted against. Therefore, he simply did not respond to Fang Senyan's suggestion.

However, the current situation did not allow him to have any careful thoughts. Finally, after some discussion, Percival, after the reef guaranteed three times in a row that he would use the Hand of Divinity to save him after he made a signal, could only bite the bullet and agree to try.

After fighting like this, he suddenly realized that the King Knight's "King's Roar" speed reduction ability was ineffective against the holder of Andúril. Furthermore, when they were stabbed by Andúril, he could clearly feel that the caused wounds had an extra damage increase. With just a light touch, the wound penetrated the armor and went deep to the bone, similar to the wounds caused by Fang Senyan using Annihilation. Speaking of which, these King Knights were truly perverted. Even the wounds cut out by the Annihilation ability could be slowly healed.

Just when everyone felt that Andúril, this powerful legendary weapon, was effective, and thought that Percival was about to show great power and kill the King Knight, this guy began to continuously signal for the reef to attack. Previously, because there was an agreement between the two sides, no matter what the situation, as long as Percival made a signal, the reef had to save people. So, even though the reef was a little confused, he still pulled Percival back.

Everyone thought that Percival was being overly cautious. His own life value had not even dropped to one-third, and he immediately began to request rescue. However, Percival said with a pale face:

"The White Tower! Someone in the White Tower is aiming at me! It should be the weapon I used that angered these guys. If I had been pulled back a moment later, I might have already been dead!"

When everyone saw that Percival said it so seriously, although they did not believe it in their hearts, they still had to say a few words of comfort on the surface. However, under normal circumstances, if the people in the White Tower had bad intentions, then they really had a way to attack the Sacred Spring Plaza.

Next, everyone began to try to attack the White Tree, but it was useless. Even if the King Knights unlocked their statue state, there was still an invisible protective shield around the White Tree. Even Aziz's legendary firearms attack could not break it.

At this time, Fang Senyan suddenly saw the Dark Messenger next to him. His heart moved. What did Sauron call him here to do? He wasn't just here to watch the battle, was he? And looking at the Dark Messenger's twisted and terrifying appearance, after getting in touch with him, he knew that he was very magnanimous and gave people the feeling that he was definitely not an ordinary person. So, he took the initiative to walk over and said:

"Since the Messenger has pointed out the origins of the King Knights and knows all the details, it is of course impossible that he is just here to watch the battle, right?"

The Dark Messenger said frankly:

"Yes, I have a way to make the King Knights in front of me disappear into smoke, but to break the King Knights, you have to start from their roots, destroy the tombs of the Gondorian emperors throughout the ages. This overstepping behavior will inevitably attract the attention of the other hidden Maiar, and then produce some variables that may affect your vital interests."

"Variables?" Fang Senyan frowned and said, "What variables?"

"Although the power of the Maiar is not enough to save those guys hiding in the White Tower, they can control the luck in the dark. For example, Legolas can be killed, but the magical equipment on his body that is attached with great power will return to his tribe." The Dark Messenger said slowly.

Hearing the Dark Messenger's words, everyone's hearts tightened. To put it bluntly, the Dark Messenger's words meant that after using his method, killing people would no longer drop equipment (only for plot characters). But they had finally blocked Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and others inside, and they were already turtles in a jar that could be slaughtered at any time. If they did this at this time, then wouldn't their previous efforts be in vain? Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and others, not to mention anything else, could at least drop two legendary equipment!

However, Fang Senyan's reaction at this time was not as big as imagined. It could be said that he had made great contributions to the dark side being able to achieve such a situation. Of course, he wanted the huge wealth hidden in the White Tower.

However, under the current circumstances, everyone was eyeing the prize covetously. It was almost impossible for the Ace Team to eat alone. After all, it was definitely not an easy thing to surround and kill those plot characters who were trapped beasts still fighting. It was possible that someone was hiding some tragic method of perishing together. The final result would probably only be obtaining a legendary piece of equipment... Most importantly, Fang Senyan had always had an indescribable ominous premonition in his heart. Although he did not know where this premonition came from, it made him look forward to ending the battle as soon as possible, the sooner the better!

"Isn't there any other way?" Jax said unwillingly.

The Dark Messenger said lightly:

"Yes, that is to wait. At this time, the White Tower has lost the support of the believers' thought power, so even if Gandalf's magic is very powerful and he can extract the power of the former kings, he will definitely not be able to last more than two sunrises."

"Two sunrises... that's forty-eight hours?" Fang Senyan calculated in his heart, and the ominous premonition in his heart grew stronger. If he spent another forty-eight hours like this, then the variables would be too great! Although from the paper, the other party had no chance to turn the tables, but dozens of hours ago, when the Human Alliance's tens of thousands of troops surrounded his dozens of people in the Dark Spring Hall, did they think they would have a chance to turn the tables?