The light of the morning light shines.

After successfully dealing with Hiroze’s dark ritual, Brian set out towards the Shadow Valley without stopping.

After leaving the Cormier border, he had already passed a long journey along the northern horse road.

This time he went to Shadow Valley, he was alone, not that he was reluctant to let the warlock lady accompany him. The main reason was that when dealing with the black dragon Despier, Karadna activated his warlock bloodline and injected all his power into the Chaos Wand to help him successfully kill the ancient black dragon, causing him to fall into a state of weakness for a long time.

Faced with this situation, he had no choice but to send him back to Susar Imperial City, and set out toward the Shadow Valley alone.

At this moment, from the map, it was only more than an hour left to reach Shadow Valley.

Although the end point is ahead, his mood has become inexplicably complicated.

He couldn't even tell whether he was nervous or looking forward to something...

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but slow down and recalled the series of subversive conspiracies by the Lost Lady Shar against the magic goddess Mistera in the game world.

In this long adventure, many famous forces from all over the world have appeared one after another.

This includes the Lost Lady Shar, the murder god Cirick, the temple and priests of the Dark King Bann, the Northland Rangers of the Santalin and the Harpists, the Elf Court and the Drow Family in the Dark Land, the ghosts of Sultanthar and the magical creatures who guard the ancient heritage of the Enoak Desert, and even the ancient guardians of Mith Zorno and the great arcane masters of the Netherel era, etc.

In particular, Shadow Valley will become the main battle site where many strengths gather here.

To be honest, Brian is not sure if he wants to complete the task of repairing the Magic Net in such a complex and powerful force.

So, he couldn't help but guess that this should be the fundamental reason for his expectations or nervousness.

He no longer thought about it and began to rush on his way with peace of mind.

On the forest road leading to Shadow Valley, thick leaves cover both sides of the road. The cleanliness of the middle of the road shows that although Shadow Valley is occupied by evil forces, there are still traces of civilians, adventurers or mercenaries.

When Brian's mount walked along the avenue toward the hillside, he suddenly noticed that there were countless thick smoke rising into the sky about half a kilometer to his left.

He moved his horse and drove his horse to a forest. With the help of the trees, he looked at the scene through Hawkeye's technique.

Soon he saw a small village located next to a small river surrounded by the shadows of oak trees on the hill.

This simple village consists of about a dozen families, and there is also a conspicuous water mill. Unfortunately, it has turned into ruins, and all the buildings are engulfed by fire.

A small group of fully armed humans and humanoid creatures occupied the open area, and around them, many unarmed villagers were upside down.

Although at this distance, Brian could not tell whether the villagers were dead or were just dying and unconscious, he unexpectedly discovered that the group of robbers, mainly humans and humanoid creatures, seemed to be in a confrontation.

Brian turned over and dismounted, used his spell to hide his figure, came to the vicinity of the bandits, and carefully observed the surrounding situation.

With his current strength, killing this group of people is very simple, but he is about to arrive in Shadow Valley, so he wants to learn about the specific situation in the valley through the information obtained by this group of robbers.

As he expected, he approached the bandits through invisibility, and was not noticed by anyone. Even the zombie ranger with a keen sense of smell did not feel anything strange.

After careful observation, he found that this small village located at the foot of Oak Hill was destroyed by two mercenary squads of the Santalin Society occupied the army.

Nine out of the 36 residents have died, seven are on the verge of death, and four are just in a coma, while others are bound to be strong and gathered under an oak tree.

The two teams of mercenaries attacked the village together, but then they had a breakup.

This group of mercenaries, mainly ogres, belonged to a mercenary group called Broken Tooth, which was named after their leader's two fangs that were broken by some kind of hard object.

They stood about 3 meters high, with dark brown skin, offensive stench, sharp, blood-stained teeth, and wearing very well-crafted leather armor and holding huge axes.

There was a rough blue ring on their chests, and the middle was a pattern of a crescent moon separated by a lightning bolt.

Standing at the forefront of the humanoid creatures, it seemed that their leader was one head higher than the others.

A particularly conspicuous point is that the handle of his axe was inlaid with a string of various teeth.

Humans are the local forces in Shadow Valley, the Skull Mercenary Group.

The mercenaries were all wearing half-armored armor, holding large steel shields, wearing long swords, and prepared short bows in their hands that could be shot at any time. The shield surface depicted a figure of a human skull being knocked down by a stick with a thigh bone style.

Seeing this pattern, Brian couldn't help but think of Milkor among the three gods of death, a god who was killed by the magic goddess in the catastrophe of the Saint.

Obviously, this should be the origin of their mercenary group's name.

Their leader was a gray-haired veteran with a short gray beard and a loud voice.

In the battle with the residents, the ogres lost two people, the humans lost four people, the wealth accumulated by the villagers for generations, copper coins and silver products, and family treasures accumulated on the open space between the two mercenaries.

Although the two teams of mercenaries attacked the small village together, they had conflicts in the distribution of the trophy.

"Has's men have the most efforts and must get the most spoils." The ogre leader carried the big axe and shouted at the human leader. "Don't force Haas to do it, Haas will even be afraid of himself when he starts."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! As soon as the words fell, the fierce humanoid creatures standing behind the ogre leader clenched their weapons and made an expression that was about to be black.

"We died four people. The most difficult paladin in this village was killed by my subordinates." The human leader frowned, "We should be the one who contributed the most. If you dare to do anything randomly, I will report this to Lord Sailuer."

That being said, Bryan could clearly see that the fear in the eyes of human mercenaries was not the opponent of this group of humanoid creatures.

It can be seen that they are on the verge of going to war. Just by provoking these stupid ogres a little, one of them can think that they are attacked by another team and internal fighting will happen.

If Brian did nothing at this moment and was just waiting for the situation to develop, then the more rational human mercenaries would probably rather suffer some losses on their own than reach an agreement with the ogres on the spoils and then leave separately.

Brian pondered slightly and showed up without warning. Before the mercenaries on both sides could react, the group of mercenaries, with a number of about 50 people, were all submerged in the bombing magic and died of untimely death.

At the end of the battle, Brian waved his hand, and all the ropes that bound the villagers fell off automatically, and those seriously injured or unconscious villagers were rescued by him through simple healing powers.

After the surviving villagers expressed their gratitude to him excitedly, a burly middle-aged man came over.

The other party seemed to have been an adventurer, but from his pace, he could see that he had a slight lameness, which was obviously why he lived in seclusion here.

"What's going on with these mercenaries?" Bryan asked, "What's going on in Shadow Valley."

"Great Mage, Mr. Mage," said the middle-aged man. "This group of mercenaries came to our village to loot under the name of "Bann's Fist."

The middle-aged man glanced at the body of a young paladin who was being carried away and said gritting his teeth: "Damn, since the Lord of Shadow Valley Moglin invited the troops of the Santalin Society to enter Shadow Valley, evil mercenaries from the valley, Sambiya and the Moon Sea areas have all gathered here. The two teams that attacked us are mercenaries hired by the Dark Intelligence Network, who seem to be pursuing a man named Azara Hawkhand."

"This man named Azara probably has something to do with Miss Dove who died in the Misty Valley." said an old man who walked over.

Azara Hawk Hand.

Brian is very familiar with this name.

The two voters, Storm and Himbu, led the elite troops in the valley, include this Melikay's ranger, Azara.

After the magic net was torn apart, Storm and Xinbu were unable to approach Shadow Valley due to silver fire, and were forcibly teleported away by the life-saving spell.

The troops they led were in a bad mood. Without the help of Storm and Xinbu, they suddenly became headless and isolated, so they had to hide and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

The first mission of Brian to the Shadow Valley alone was to find Azara, so that he could assemble an elite force in the Shadow Valley, and Azara could also help him contact the elves reinforcements from Comanso.

Storm, the leader of the Harpist Alliance, also told him that the leader of the reinforcements sent by the elves turned out to be the "Crown Demon" Ilseyvili, the future Elf Queen of Mis Zorno.

If you get the help of this elf queen holding the Ruler's Blade, then the pressure on his next mission will become much easier.

So, the main task he is to go to Shadow Valley is to find Azara first, and then contact the elves reinforcements and dormant elite troops.

Seeing that no detailed information was found, Brian guided the refugees a safe shelter and marched towards Shadow Valley again.

It takes about an hour.

When Brian saw the outline of Shadow Valley through the gaps in the woods, a wizard in a black robe appeared in his sight.

He rode a black creature with bat wings and flew down from the sky and landed on the ground.

The squatting posture of the black-robed wizard mount and its swelling body directly remind people of a toad with wings. It is about 6 meters long and 2.5 meters high. Its black skin is covered with irregular bumps, and its narrow and toothy face is also full of red eyes.

“Welcome to Shadow Valley.”

The black-robed wizard riding on the lazy toad saddle pointed a magic wand at Brian, his tone and expression were both arrogant.

"Now, report your name and reason to set foot on the territory of Lord Moglin, otherwise..."

"Otherwise?" Brian looked at the black-robed wizard who was about level 3 with interest.

The roadblocker who appeared in front of him was one of the members of the special organization of the Santalin Society, the Sky Mage Group.

Sky Mage is a special advanced profession that can only be mastered by joining the Santalin Society.

Any wizard or warlock who advances to this profession can bring his own magic pet to receive blessings in the Temple of Bann, allowing them to grow a pair of flying wings.

Whether it is a mouse, turtle, caterpillar, etc., all kinds of small animals can grow a pair of wings while increasing their size while helping the wizard fight.

"If you don't tell me the purpose of coming here, then get out of here before the Dark King's boots kick your ass!" The black-robed wizard raised his wand and showed a terrifying smile.

Brian raised his hand and pointed his hand in a calm expression, dispelling the magic and instantly removed all the opponent's spell protection. Then he made a dissociation technique, and the black-robed wizard, along with his magic pet, disappeared.

At this moment, any pilgrimage, messengers of foreign forces, messengers of hostile religious forces, and nostalgic people will be ordered to leave.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! And anyone who refuses to express his intention, refuses to leave when he is expelled, or openly provokes the authority of the Santtalin Society or the Lord Moglin will be attacked.

Only those who claim to be merchants or mercenaries will enter the valley without any trouble.

But in Brian's opinion, in order to let himself enter the Shadow Valley quietly, there is no more concealment than killing all the roadblockers.

After all, his Purple Dragon Seal has powerful anti-detection ability. Without mastering divine energy, it is almost impossible for a legendary powerful man to predict his whereabouts.

After quietly coming to Shadow Valley, Brian discovered that the residents of the entire valley were in a very disharmonious manner with the occupying forces of the Santalin Society.

All the residents were threatened. Although some surviving opponents formed the Shadow Valley Free Alliance in secret and occasionally gathered together to complain, they still did not work.

The occupying forces have viewed Shadow Valley as a base for wintering, facilitating new actions in the spring.

However, Brian could still feel that the drowsy appearance of Shadow Valley at this moment and the unsociable habits of the local residents, they might have numbed at least half a dozen enemies who claim to be conquerors, and made them mistakenly despise their goals.

According to the storm's instructions, Brian came to the largest Old Skull Tavern in Shadow Valley.
To be continued...