The trials of the Zakun expedition began when Shinas was ten years old, on average once every two years.

Those who excel in the Trials will receive a Zakun Helmet made from the fragments of the Zakun Stone Statue by the blacksmiths, alchemists, and potions masters of the Artisan Village.

Although the Zakun helmet looks very ugly, it is said that the Zakun helmet, which combines many top-notch technologies, has a great improvement on the wearer, and is likely to be around level 3.

And most importantly, the one who performs the best will be blessed by Empress Shinas!

You must know that among the hundreds of thousands of knights in the Holy Land, only nine have been blessed by Shinas, although the opportunity is only once every two years, but this is also a hope for permanent improvement in strength.

Since Michal joined the Holy Land when Shinas was nine years old, and when Shinas was ten years old, he had only just broken away from the title of Beginner (low-level warrior), and had only recently become a trainee knight, and had not yet been designated as the head of the Knights of Light.

Therefore, when Shinas was ten years old, only Irina and eleven would-be knights and twelve outstanding talents from the major forces participated in the Zakun expedition trial.

The result, of course, was an easy return, and Irina not only received a Zakun helmet for her outstanding performance, but also accepted the Empress's blessing with the unanimous approval of everyone.

Irina, who had become a Magus at the age of eighteen, sneered at Mihal, who was also known as a genius and was only sixteen.

Michal secretly swore that next time he would get Zakun's helmet and the blessing of Shinas, so that the woman who had no one in his eyes would look at him differently.

However, to Michal's disappointment, when he was about to go through the second expedition trial at the age of eighteen, he actually got stuck at the sixty-ninth level!

The minimum requirement for the Zakun expedition is at least seventy, and although level sixty is not impossible, the danger is too high. The main purpose of the Zakun expedition was to test, not to send the geniuses to their deaths.

So Michal didn't make it at that time, although his relationship with Irina eased at that time, Michal was still haunted, and even his usually gentle and sunny expression turned crazy.

It wasn't until Michal was twenty years old that he shocked the whole world of adventure. At the age of twenty, he became a level 120 knight, which was unheard of in the entire history of the adventure world. Even Irina, who had always been called the Holy Land Demon along with Michal, failed to become an archmage at that time.

Soon after Michal accepted the position of head of the Knights of Light, the third expedition trial began, and it was this trial that prevented many geniuses from returning, and even Michal was never heard from.

Although the diplomats of the Holy Land defended that there might be some temporary mission, the major forces knew that it was the Zakun Altar that had a problem.

Many forces went to the depths of the abandoned mine area of the frozen and snowy region to investigate the anomalies of the Zakun altar, but found nothing. The environment of the altar was no different from usual, and the gatekeeper Adubis also said that he could not come out after Michal and the others entered the altar.

The careful Nanhat detected through the scattered fragments of the Zakun stone statue that the Zakun that appeared in the Zakun altar this time was different from the Zakun that was about a hundred levels in the past, and it was very likely that the Zakun level encountered by Michal had reached one hundred and twenty levels.

Although level 100 and level 120 may not sound like much difference, they are worlds apart from both monsters and humans, let alone the Zakun monster with eight giant hands.

If each of its hands possessed a level one hundred and twenty strength, then the death of Michal and the others was also predictable.

The forces breathed a sigh of relief when they learned of this situation, because it was not a conspiracy of that force, it was just an emergency. As for asking the Holy Land for an explanation because of the loss of talent?

How dare they?

The average loss of his own forces is only one, and the loss of the Holy Land is eleven elite-level quasi-knights and genius knights of light like Michal. I'm afraid that no force can accept such a blow, let alone touch the mold of the Holy Land under such circumstances, isn't this looking for death?

Things seem to have slowly calmed down, and Michal, a former demonic figure, has gradually faded out of people's memory

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In Michal's memory, this was the case at the Zakun Altar at that time

The earth is trembling, and the magma is bursting

The scorching heat in the air made it hard to breathe, and Michal felt despair as he looked at the monster in front of him waving eight huge arms.

He's dead! They're all dead! Except for himself, the rest of his teammates who fought against Zakun were all dead!

There is no way for the high-level teleportation magic stone to escape from the enchantment set up by Zakun, and the magic crystal used for emergency communication cannot convey information to the outside of the enchantment.

Do you say you're going to die?

Michal can only subconsciously swing the sword in his hand in the face of the waving huge stone statue arm, if it is a direct blow from the arm, he will use the soul jump or elemental leap to dodge and swing the long sword to fight back, if it is a magic attack, he will use the long sword full of fighting energy to bounce away and use the rebound power of the shining chase to change the direction of the attack

These are just Michal's subconscious counterattacks, the title of knight is not so easy to get, not to mention that Gao Xiu is not only an ordinary knight, but a guardian knight who was awarded the position of head of the knight and the title of knight of light by the empress.

It's just that these seemingly glorious positions and titles don't seem to play a role in the battle with Zakun.

Michal dodged one arm and was attacked by the other, and as he fended off the heavy blow with his sword, another came at him

With a "bang", Gao Xiu was hit by the stone statue's arm.

Immediately after rolling on the ground, Michal jumped to his feet, and before he could wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, he dodged several more magical attacks with his soul jump.

Michal regained some of his senses after being hit by the stone statue's arm, and Michal knew that if he continued like this, he would be the first to fall.

Zakun is a gargoyle with eight huge arms, each with different abilities, some using individual magic attacks, some using group magic attacks, some casting seals or curses, some healing the damage of each arm and restoring the mana consumed by each arm, and some casting magic that increases magic, physical resistance, damage, and so on.

Before the Zakun crusade mission, Gao Xiu had memorized it well.

For the Holy Land and other major forces, Zakun is just a gargoyle monster that can be killed by a level seventy rookie team that knows how to cooperate.

Before fighting Zakun himself, Michal thought the same thing, but he knew he was wrong! Couldn't be more wrong!

For some reason, Zakun was not as weak as Irina had heard, but ridiculously strong.

In less than two hours, eleven would-be knights and twelve trialists from Treasure Island who came to the trial died one after another, and only himself was left.

For defeating the statue of Zakun, the predecessors have summed up a lesson - first destroy the sixth arm of Zakun, that is, the third arm on the right from top to bottom.

Because that arm knows how to buff and heal! As long as that arm can be shattered, the remaining arms will be resolved sooner or later.

Previously, most of the twenty-four of them were concentrating on attacking Zakun's sixth arm, but because Zakun suddenly became stronger, the rest of the people responsible for resisting Zakun's other arms were unable to resist, resulting in chaos in the battle.

What I am most afraid of in group battles is formation and tactical confusion. If the players become scattered in the case of equal strength, then the outcome of this battle can be predicted, not to mention that Zakun's strength is stronger than them.

Zakun's arms know how to cooperate, and the eight arms share a main body, so it's no wonder that they don't cooperate tacitly.

In this way, under the combined attack of Zakun's eight arms, the expedition was crushed, and in the end only Michal was left.

Looking at the cracked sixth arm, Michal saw a glimmer of hope. As long as the sixth arm can be destroyed, then the other arms will too

At that moment, Zakun's sixth arm glowed pale blue, and the fine rift was slowly healing

Abominable healing magic! Michal was annoyed, but he had to dodge Zakun's arm.

Michal has been attacking from the flanks of Zakun, whose eight hands grow on either side of the body and four on one side. And the joints of Zakun's hand have only one section, which means that Zakun's arm can only be bent once. And Zakun's body is fixed on the altar by the magic array when it is summoned and cannot be moved, so as long as you stand on Zakun's side, you will only be physically attacked by Zakun's four arms, and the other four can only attack with magic at most.

However, it was difficult for one person to resist the four huge gargoyle arms, and the gardolet arms would not flinch when damaged, so Michal could only find an opportunity to attack the sixth arm while dodging the rest of the attacks.

The ground shook again, and Michal seemed to sense something and immediately used the soul jump to jump backwards.

A huge magma fist slammed upwards from the ground, and the fist swung upwards against Gao Xiu's face

With his hair scorched by the scorching wind, Michal gritted his teeth and unleashed a soul slam on Zakun's sixth arm.

Almost instantly, Michal reached the vicinity of the sixth arm and swung his sword fiercely, and the four soul swords that were difficult to see to the naked eye flew away like arrows from the string like the sixth arm.

After three successive explosions and an even more violent pop, several more fine cracks extended from the deep crack in Zakun's arm, and just as Michal was about to take advantage of the victory, the attack of the other three arms was already in front of him.

Michal had to give up this great opportunity and used Elemental Leap backwards to escape the flanking attack.

Several times after that, Michal couldn't find an opportunity to attack the sixth arm.

After a burst of pale blue light, the few fine cracks that had originally extended out of the sixth arm slowly recovered and healed.

Moreover, one of Zakun's arms also has the effect of sealing the fighting energy, and each time the seal is sealed, Michal will delay a few seconds to drink the holy water to break the seal.

Michal kept dodging the attacks of his arms, and he knew that he must be the one who would be dragged down like this, although he said that he was not proficient in using this move, but if he could succeed, he might be able to reverse this outcome.

Michal dodged the flanking blow of his arm again in the air and landed smoothly to the ground, the Ascalon Sword in his hand emitting a golden light.

Countless greatswords that radiated golden light flew into the sky, and then shot at Zakun's eight arms like falling stars

Michal covered his head with a low snort, using this level of soul attack was indeed unbearable for himself who had just become a knight.

The Falling Soul Sword is a trick that specializes in attacking souls, and it is generally only used by knights above level one hundred and forty, and it can make the enemy unable to move due to a strong soul impact, and the stronger the enemy, the less affected it will be.

Michal knew that the pair would only have a few seconds of effective time, which would not have been enough time to kill Zakun, but it would be enough time to destroy one of Zakun's cracked arms!

The tip of the Ascalon Holy Sword pointed directly at Zakun's sixth arm, and in an instant, the Ascalon Holy Sword burst out with a dazzling light like the sun, and one after another brilliant soul beams shot towards Zakun's arm like arrows fired in unison with thousands of arrows