I, the Knight King, wield my sword for my myriad subjects.

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"Gawain, move to the left!"

Just as the Shadow Bear's powerful claws were about to strike, Gawain heard Arthur's urgent shouts from behind.

Gawain had no doubts about Arthur's orders and carried them out decisively.

He leaped and rolled to the left.

Seeing only the next moment.

Using the sword embedded in the shadow rhinoceros's back, Arthur actually rode on its back and controlled it to charge towards the enraged shadow bear.

Finally, the two shadow monsters collided.

Look at the shadow bear.

Its back was already severely injured by Gawain's blazing white dagger.

Now, with the addition of the Shadow Rhino's savage charge, it was unable to defend itself and collapsed to the ground.

"good chance!"

Seeing this, Gao Wen seized the best opportunity to kill the Shadow Bear after finishing his evasive roll and rushed towards the fallen Shadow Bear.

Without hesitation, he jumped onto the back of the fallen Shadow Bear and raised the short sword wrapped in blazing white waveguide once more.

Immediately afterwards, Gawain swung the short sword down, aimed at its neck, and launched a decapitation strike with lightning speed.

"Bah!"

As the silky sound of sharpening the knife rang out for the third time, the Shadow Bear's head separated from its body.

Shadow Bear collapsed to the ground and did not get up again.

Its jet-black body was no longer solid, and like the first Shadow Lion that died, it began to rapidly become ethereal.

The final result of the blurring was that the pitch-black body disintegrated in the breeze.

Thus, the second Shadow Monster, the Shadow Bear, is dead!

Gawain didn't let his guard down; he quickly focused his gaze on Arthur, who was still on the back of the shadow rhinoceros.

Because, as he predicted, the death of the second Shadow Monster would cause the strength of the last Shadow Monster, the Shadow Rhino, to increase once again.

as predicted.

The shadow rhinoceros beneath Arthur began to grow a second time, leaping to a height of three meters.

The fine iron sword that supported Arthur as he rode on the back of the Shadow Rhino was quickly ejected from the Shadow Rhino's body.

Seeing that he was about to be thrown off the Shadow Rhino's back, Arthur reacted quickly and grabbed the Shadow Rhino's unicorn weapon, which was over a meter long, with one hand.

Just as the two were beginning to struggle with how to deal with this giant monster, the Shadow Rhino did something that puzzled Arthur and Gawain.

It neither struggled nor tried to get rid of Arthur, who was still on its back;

It did not launch a savage charge at Gawain, who had killed the Shadow Bear.

After the deaths of its two Shadow Monster companions, the giant Shadow Rhinoceros seemed to be summoned by some force, and turned around and began to run in a certain direction from Qingfeng Village.

When Gawain saw the shadow rhinoceros making what appeared to be an attempt to escape, he was puzzled but had no choice but to give chase.

Arthur, still sitting on the back of the Shadow Rhinoceros, wanted to stop it from running, so he kept stabbing its neck with the sword wrapped in flames.

But no matter how he attacked, the Shadow Rhino did not stop running or change its direction.

Then look at Gao Wen.

He quickly caught up with the bulky, giant shadow monster.

Gao Wenxue recalled Arthur's previous tactics against the Shadow Rhino and unleashed a Blazing White Wave Slash at one of the Shadow Rhino's hind legs.

In combating the Shadow Monster, his Blazing White Wave Slash is far more powerful than Arthur's Flame Wave Slash.

After successfully hitting the shadow rhinoceros's hind leg, it instantly collapsed, exhibiting ethereal, severely damaged characteristics.

To Gawain's surprise, the Shadow Rhino did not show any signs of losing its balance due to the unequal mass after its hind legs became ethereal.

But soon, Gawain also understood why the Shadow Rhino hadn't lost its balance.

Because, at the moment its hind legs became ethereal, its entire body became ethereal to the same degree.

At this point, Gawain understood—the shadow monster was escaping!

But how could Gawain allow the last Shadow Monster to escape?

He was a knight determined to drive away the Shadow Monster scourge for the villagers of Qingfeng Village.

A knight lives to keep his promise.

Gawain would never let the last Shadow Rhino go.

Thinking like this.

Arthur, riding on the back of the Shadow Rhino, and Gawain, running on the ground, followed the Shadow Rhino to a desolate grassland in Qingfeng Village.

In the middle of the meadow, there was a dry well, its mouth covered with moss, as if it hadn't been there for a long time.

When the dry well appeared, the Shadow Rhino, whose size had doubled due to the deaths of the two Shadow Monsters, began to show signs of shrinking in size.

Riding on the back of the Shadow Rhino, Arthur sensed a subtle pulling force emanating from the rhino.

When the Shadow Rhino arrived at the dry well, it had shrunk to an even smaller size than before.

Arthur was finally back on the ground.

Gawain was three meters behind Arthur.

He watched as the shadow rhinoceros's body grew increasingly ethereal, and instantly realized it was about to escape.

So he quickly called out:

"Don't let it escape!"

When he arrived at the dry well, Arthur finally realized that the subtle pulling force he had sensed came from the dry well in front of him.

He instantly realized that he absolutely could not let the shadow rhinoceros touch the dry well.

So Arthur swiftly grabbed the shadow rhinoceros's horn and pulled it outwards.

As expected, the shadow rhinoceros that had been pulled away from the dry well finally began to resist.

It began to struggle desperately, trying to touch the dry well that was so close at hand.

"Go to hell!"

While Arthur was holding back the Shadow Rhino, Gawain was on his way.

But in the end, we were still a step too late.

Just as Gawain arrived at the dry well, about to swing his blazing white waveguide-wrapped short sword at the struggling Shadow Rhino to decapitate it.

It eventually touched the dry well.

next moment.

Countless dense purple runes appeared on the surface of the dry well in front of Arthur and Gawain.

At the same time, a powerful repulsive force was generated, pushing the two of them away.

Followed by.

Under their incredulous gazes, the last shadow rhinoceros transformed into a cloud of black mist, which began to spin continuously, eventually forming a pitch-black bead.

Arthur and Gawain watched as the jet-black bead merged into the purple runes that appeared on the surface of the dry well.

Then, in the blink of an eye.

The countless dense purple runes suddenly disappeared.

Also disappearing was the powerful, invisible repulsive force that had just pushed Arthur and Gawain away from the dry well.

For a while.

Arthur and Gawain, sitting on the grass beside the dry well, fell into a silent atmosphere.

They couldn't understand what had just happened.

just now.

Only one question echoed in their minds:

What is the origin of this dry well in front of us?

Chapter 38 Gawain's Foolish Righteousness

A few moments passed.

The two of them finally snapped out of their shock at the runes on the surface of the dry well.

Then, Gawain stood up from the grass and silently walked towards the dry well.

Arthur didn't say anything, but followed behind him.

Soon, the two stood before the dry well that had allowed the shadow monster to escape.

Arthur recalled Gawain's strange behavior during the battle and asked him:

"Didn't you encounter this situation when you fought these three shadow monsters before?"

"um, yes.

"My Blazing White Waveguide, while highly effective against them, only allows me to barely hold my own against the remaining two greatly enhanced Tier 2 Shadow Monsters after killing one of them."

Gao Wen nodded in response.

But he didn't seem discouraged by missing the chance to kill the last Shadow Monster.

After staring at the dry well for a while, Gawain turned to look at Arthur.

His handsome face once again revealed his usual cheerful and bright smile.

The smile of the blond young man who looked remarkably like him touched Arthur.

This made him think that if he had been able to hold onto that shadow rhinoceros for just one more second in the final moments of the battle, perhaps the outcome would have been different.

With this in mind, Arthur spoke apologetically:

"I'm sorry, it was my last moment of carelessness..."

But Gawain shook his head, interrupting Arthur's apology:

"Hehe! If it weren't for the fact that the lord was willing to fight alongside me, I probably wouldn't have been able to drive these shadow monsters to this point and see this dry well that is so closely related to the shadow monsters."

Therefore, I also want to thank you for giving me real hope of banishing the Shadow Monsters.

Having said that, Gawain stretched out a hand and placed it in front of Arthur.

Arthur chose to hold the hand; he could clearly sense that Gawain's favor towards him had increased.

Arthur also gained other benefits in this battle against the three shadow monsters.

At that moment, the system's indifferent voice rang in his mind:

[The host, fighting alongside Gawain, successfully killed one early-stage Tier 2 Shadow Monster and one mid-stage Tier 2 Shadow Monster. Iron-tier Knight experience +15.]

[Rank: Iron Knight (39/500)]

However, the message Arthur most wanted did not appear: the hint to subdue Gawain, who possessed the heart of a "zealous" knight.

"Based on your experience fighting the Shadow Monster many times."

Arthur realized that he might need to completely banish the Shadow Monster before he could subdue it, so he asked with concern:

"How long will it take for all the Shadow Monsters to revive and roam Qingfeng Village again?"

"It should take about two days."

Gao Wen replied:

"After I killed a Shadow Monster, Qingfeng Village was briefly safe for one night, but the Shadow Monsters all returned the next night."

"Two days?"

After hearing this, Arthur began to plan the next steps.

He had not forgotten his original mission in coming to Windpull Territory: to find an alchemist who lived near Qingfeng Village, to ask him to refine elemental essences, and to complete a transaction commission from the Thunder Badger Knight Lawson.