Harvina's disappearance quickly attracted a group of scholars from the Tower of Knowledge to investigate.

After three weeks of continuous investigation, the scholars had some suspicions, but no evidence. They simply couldn't find any incriminating evidence against Li Cheng Yi, and had no choice but to leave.

Not only that, but the White Tower mages' investigation team also lingered around for a long time, and summoned Li Cheng Yi to assist in the investigation.

But unfortunately, Li Cheng Yi had already gone to the barbarian front line, and officially began to fight against the barbarians.

According to imperial law, fighting the barbarians is the first obligation at all times, and all other miscellaneous matters must give way to it.

So the investigation was shelved.

Outside Green Screen Town.

Soldiers of the Black Fortress held heavy shields, with crossbowmen behind them responsible for aiming. They formed squares, constantly moving forward.

On the wide snow-covered plain ahead, groups of tall barbarians, similarly arrayed, also waited in formation.

The barbarians looked like primitive people, two and a half meters tall. They wore animal skin skirts, and both men and women exposed their chests, holding giant clubs simply made from trees. Most of them had protruding teeth and upturned nostrils.

Even from a distance, one could smell a strong stench of feces mixed with sweat.

"Kill!" Knight Milton and the other three knights rode on horseback, holding huge lances, aiming at the barbarians.

Immediately, the squares moved slowly towards the opposite side.

Each square had only ten people.

In total, there were only twenty squares. Spread out, they looked very different from the battles in Li Cheng Yi's memory, like children playing house.

But this was indeed the war in this world.

Li Cheng Yi stood in the distance, using a telescope made by the mages to observe the battle.

Although he didn't need it, his extraordinary eyesight had to be concealed.

Ordinary people in this world didn't have any extraordinary abilities, and there were no exceptions that exceeded the limit.

Only different races had huge differences in physical fitness, such as barbarians and ordinary Imperials, elves and Imperials.

The old butler Buck was by his side, with several guard soldiers not far away, protecting his safety.

"These are the barbarians? They look quite strong," Li Cheng Yi said thoughtfully.

After harvesting enough new knowledge from Harvina, the flames in his sword furnace had been further improved, and were very close to two-tenths.

"Yes, these are the barbarians. They are extremely strong, slow, and not very intelligent, but they have powerful beast instincts, making them difficult opponents," Old Buck replied.

At this time, the two armies had officially approached each other.

Ah!!!

The barbarians roared and rushed towards the Black Fortress army. They faced a rain of crossbow bolts, their bodies pierced by arrows from time to time, and they fell to the ground.

But these barbarians were fearless.

Although their powerful physique could not resist the piercing arrows, under the sharp crossbow bolts.

But the casualties and pain made them even more violent.

Without food, they would starve to death or die of illness. Rather than that, they might as well take a gamble and leave more resources for their offspring.

Plunder was the only way.

Clanging collisions began, accompanied by the muffled thuds of giant clubs hitting heavy shields.

The barbarians fell in pieces, but they followed one after another, completely ignorant of fear. Soon they took advantage of the gap when the crossbowmen ran out of arrows and pounced on them.

One by one, the heavy shield soldiers were smashed open and grabbed by the barbarians, who killed them by throwing them to the ground.

But the Black Fortress army were also local residents, and most of them had deep blood feuds with the barbarians. At this time, they also fought desperately, completely unaware of retreating.

Roars and barbarian shouts resounded as one.

Li Cheng Yi watched this scene, watching soldiers being lifted up with their shields and smashed to death, and his brows furrowed.

"Without the crossbows, we can't beat them," he said in a deep voice.

"The knights are preparing to charge." Old Buck was used to it and remained calm.

Soon, in the side gap specially left open, the four knights held their lances, accelerated and charged.

The horses were strong and sturdy. Under the full speed charge of the fully armed knights, plus their heavy armor, the overall impact force was enough to reach tons.

This first impact instantly killed four barbarians.

Dropping their lances, the four began to use the javelins hanging on the sides of their horses to create distance and launch attacks.

Javelins flew and pierced to death one barbarian after another.

The impact created by the four of them in a short period of time actually caused the momentum of the entire barbarian force to stagnate.

But the barbarians were not stupid either. They quickly wrapped stones in animal skins and threw them out fiercely.

One of the four knights was soon hit, and his horse overturned and fell to the ground.

The knight staggered to his feet, drew his sword, and retreated under the cover of soldiers.

Fortunately, knights were different from ordinary soldiers. In the short battle, even without a horse, he still used his swordsmanship to stab two barbarians to death.

"How many barbarians are there in total?" Li Cheng Yi frowned and asked from a distance.

"According to the scouts, there are about three hundred, and this is already half the number. But the key is that the barbarian warrior hasn't appeared yet," Old Buck replied in a deep voice.

"What was the situation before?" Li Cheng Yi asked.

"In the past, there was usually a barbarian warrior leading the team. A tribe would divide into many forces and attack many surrounding territories separately. We are just one of them. Mainly, the Viscount Disilan side would bear more pressure. Barbarian mages and the like would all go there," Old Buck said.

"Barbarian mages..." Li Cheng Yi pondered.

Boom!

At this time, faced with the knights' interspersed killings, although the barbarians suffered few casualties, their formation was obviously disrupted, and their rhythm was disrupted.

So they began to become chaotic.

At this moment, in the center of the barbarian battle formation, a tall, three-meter-tall, dark-skinned barbarian, wearing simple hard leather armor, a cow bone helmet, and holding a white giant shield inlaid with bone spurs in both hands, rushed out of the camp.

"Kill! For the tribe!!"

The barbarian roared and rushed towards here. Its huge size alone brought slight tremors to the earth with its sprint.

"Warrior! Warrior! Warrior!!" The barbarians cheered.

And the Black Fortress army mostly changed color.

"The barbarian warrior is here!"

Milton and the other three knights unanimously mounted their horses, adjusted their angles, accelerated and charged, crashing into the warrior.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!

The full-speed impact of the three knights only made the warrior take a few steps back before raising his shield to block.

Li Cheng Yi watched the knight and the barbarian warrior fighting from afar, observing his movements, moves, and reaction habits.

He had a rough estimate of his approximate strength, speed, and defensive power.

"About three times the strength of an ordinary person, a little more than twice the speed, and the defense is about the same as cowhide," he judged in a low voice.

Old Buck was a little puzzled, watching his lord talking to himself.

Bang!

With another loud noise, one of the three mounted knights was unable to dodge and was hit hard on the shoulder by the warrior's giant shield, kneeling on the ground, screaming in pain.

"Not good! Knight Hammer!!" Old Buck's expression changed drastically.

The territory's four knights were the cornerstone of the entire territory. Once one was lost, the territory would lose a lot of strength in dealing with the barbarians.

Although the barbarian warrior also had a sword in his chest and abdomen, stabbing out a hand-deep blood mouth, he casually grabbed a handful of dirt and stuffed it into the wound, blocking the bleeding, and roared and continued to fight.

The frozen soil in the snow was solid and hard, and it was cold and had a paralyzing effect, making people feel no pain.

Lacking a knight, the remaining three could only fight around the warrior as before.

"Forget it, too slow..."

Li Cheng Yi watched for a while, feeling that he had learned almost everything.

He walked forward casually and drew the double-edged greatsword from his back.

"Wait, Baron! What are you doing!?" Old Buck was shocked and hurried forward to try to stop him.

But a figure flashed before his eyes, and he suddenly lost track of Li Cheng Yi.

Looking back, he saw that Li Cheng Yi had already entered the battlefield in front, passing lightly through the Black Fortress army's battle formation, as if he were in no man's land, and no one could touch him.

Before long, he rushed out of the imperial army's formation and entered the edge of the first-line strangulation.

A barbarian roared and raised a giant club to sweep across.

The huge wooden stick brought a whistling cold wind,夹裹着风雪朝他劈头盖脸砸落.

"Seemingly powerful, but actually weak."

Li Cheng Yi moved his body to precisely avoid this blow, and slashed casually with the greatsword in his hand.

Chih.

The barbarian's chest and abdomen were suddenly torn open, and his internal organs flowed out.

Before the barbarian could scream and fall, Li Cheng Yi passed through and appeared in front of the second barbarian.

The sword flashed, and another person fell.

In just two seconds, two people died.

Then came the third, fourth, fifth...

His speed became faster and faster. At first, it was one per second, but later, he was almost sprinting past. As long as he touched the edge, he would instantly fall to the ground.

In the wind and snow, Li Cheng Yi was like a silver-gray thread, piercing straight through the entire barbarian army and soon arrived in front of the barbarian warrior.

"Everyone get out of the way!" He raised his sword and shook off the blood on it, stopping five meters away from the warrior.

Knight Milton and the other three were stunned.

Although they had previously estimated their lord's strength and talent, when they actually saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.

Too fast!

In just ten seconds, nearly twenty barbarians fell to the ground and died!

At this rate, wouldn't all the barbarians here be completely wiped out by their lord alone?

No one else needed to help at all?

"Milton?" The other knights looked at Milton, who was leading the team.

"Guard the surroundings, trust the lord!" Milton was silent for a moment, gritted his teeth and chose to trust his lord.

Li Cheng Yi was taught by him bit by bit, and he had been unable to see through his strength a long time ago.

Anyway, a long time ago, no one in the Black Fortress could force out the full strength of the lord.

In the Black Fortress, Baron Carlos's strength was like a mystery, unfathomable.

It could be said that Baron Carlos was the strongest knight master he had ever seen. The terrifying skills and physical qualities, as deep as a pool, made him choose to believe at this moment.

The other knights hesitated for a moment, and also obeyed the order to disperse and command the soldiers to fight against the remaining barbarians, so as not to interfere here.

At this time, Old Buck in the distance also clenched his hands, looking into the distance, extremely nervous.

Humans dueling barbarians... this was not without precedent, but most of them were ordinary barbarians.

Those who could duel barbarian warriors were basically the extremely powerful glorious knights in the empire.

There was also the title of Glorious Knight above Knight, which was an honorary title given by the empire to some extremely powerful knights.

And Glorious Knights were also called Grand Knights in many places.

They were masters whose skills had been honed to the peak.

But how old was Baron Carlos at this time? Even if his skills were talented, it was impossible for him to reach the peak.

Old Buck wanted to roar and shout at this time, and ask the other knights to help call the lord back.

But he didn't dare to speak, for fear of interfering with the lord and the barbarian warrior's duel.

He never dreamed that Baron Carlos, who had only agreed to come and watch the battle, would draw his sword and enter the arena without saying a word, and rush to the strongest barbarian warrior on the opposite side to duel.

If he had known this would happen, he would never have dared to bring the baron to watch the battle!

Unfortunately, it was too late now.

'May the ancestors bless... May the spirits of the lords of Okra bless, please let Lord Carlos come back alive!!' Old Buck trembled all over, muttering to himself constantly.

At the center of the battlefield.

Li Cheng Yi observed the barbarian warrior in front of him with great interest.

"Your physique is very good, do you want to follow me in the future? As long as you are obedient, I can guarantee that I won't kill you."

He spoke in a clear voice, but the words he said made the knights who were closer to him look at each other, not knowing what to say.

The barbarian warrior couldn't understand what he was saying at all, roared, and raised his big shield to smash down on Li Cheng Yi.

Shua!

Li Cheng Yi was as light as a fallen leaf, precisely avoiding the heavy blow of the big shield.

"Don't agree? Or can't understand?"

The greatsword in his hand easily turned out a sword flower.

And the response to him was still the barbarian warrior's angry horizontal sweep.

In the whistling sound, the giant shield swept across the position where Li Cheng Yi was, but did not hit anyone.

Li Cheng Yi flipped over, landing lightly behind the barbarian warrior.

A jump of more than three meters.

This exaggerated jumping ability made the surrounding knights and soldiers stunned.

"Unwilling? Then go to hell."

The greatsword in his hand stabbed backhand.

Puchi!

The leather armor on the barbarian warrior's body was like paper, and was easily pierced by this sword.

The tip of the sword pierced through flesh and blood and bones, protruded from the warrior's chest, and then was calmly pulled out, making a slight friction sound.

(End of this chapter)