Most of the soldiers in the camp had eaten and drunk enough, and had taken time to take a bath in the lower reaches of the stream, and then slept in their tents. They have become accustomed to taking advantage of the gap between Chinese and rest, and as long as they are not assigned to the sentry and vigil tasks, they are falling asleep one after another.

In front of Richard's tent, a plate of roast meat prepared for him had already been placed, and a bowl of broth still steaming. As soon as he smelled the delicious taste, he knew that it was the work of the ogre, so Richard ate it bitterly.

Now he is completely relaxed, both physically and psychologically, but he feels energetic and is not in a hurry to sleep for a while. So he took out the structure from the Bear Knight and began to repair and rebuild. A small number of the structures eventually become unusable, but most can continue to be used.

So the night passed, Richard had five more primary forces and one primary defense, and the build increase ranged from 15% to 25%, which was a significant decrease compared to the original build effect. However, compared to the take-out structures that Richard was going to sell on this plane, they were artifacts.

In the end, Richard only left a 15% increase in power builds, and made all the other builds into plug-ins and loaded them into the Foot Knights. There were only five Foot Knights left, and the only Rank 11 Foot Knight got both Strength and Defense, while the youngest one didn't get anything.

Now, with the blessing of the construction, the combat effectiveness of this batch of infantry knights has generally improved, and it is completely stable at the level of level eleven.

With the team strengthened again, he walked in the vast mountains and forests for five days, and finally found Sinclair's forward base under the guidance of quicksand.

It was a huge base that looked like a small city, with a towering beacon of time and a cave gate engraved with the memorial of the Mensa family. But just like the advance base of Akmund, the base of the city is quiet, and through the city gate, you can see that the empty streets are empty, like a ghost land.

The base is located in the middle of a dense forest, in an abrupt clearing.

Richard did not enter the base directly, he thought of the situation he had when he first arrived at the Faro plane, so he stationed a large army in the distance, personally took his direct subordinates who were accustomed to fighting in the mountains and forests, and brought five wind fangs, and began to search the area around the base.

The search worked, and within a kilometer of the base, Richard found a small military camp with about a hundred soldiers, including five Templars and a young priest. Judging from the signs of the robes of the Templars and the Priests, they were all servants of Xerxes, the god of stability.

In the Bloodstained Lands, Richard spent a great deal of time learning about the knowledge and teachings of the gods of this plane. In a sense, they were Richard's mortal enemies.

Later, traces of portals and battlefield ruins were found on the other side. Although the battlefield has been cleaned up, the fierce battle of the day can still be imagined from some indelible traces. However, all the bodies were gone, presumably removed by the temple people.

Richard quietly returned to the camp until the dead of night, and then led his team to quietly surround the camp where the Temple troops were stationed, under the cover of night, and then waited until two o'clock in the night, when most of the camp had fallen asleep, before launching a surprise attack and capturing the camp in one fell swoop.

After the hard-fought battles in the Bloodstained Lands, this surprise attack was surprisingly easy, and the first reaction of ordinary soldiers who had just crawled out of the bed and saw the sword handed to them was to surrender on their knees. The Templars were as scrappy as ever, fighting their enemies with their fists, even if they got out of bed bare-bottomed. Although their will to fight is impeccable, the tide of battle cannot be turned around by willpower alone in the face of a fierce and brutal enemy armed to the teeth.

And when Richard stepped into the young pastor's solitary tent, he had just sat up from his bed, drowsy, and had not yet understood what was happening.

The raid was a resounding victory, with no one on Richard's side suffering even minor casualties, while the opponent lost ten men and the rest surrendered, including the young priest. Three of the five Templars were killed, and the other two were knocked unconscious before the battle stopped.

Seeing such a result, Richard shook his head helplessly. His subordinates have been sharpened to be fierce and fierce after many bloody battles on the front line of life and death, and their hands are extremely heavy, and they often can't hold back. Therefore, often in battle, the dead of the opponent are much higher than the wounded. Richard had the soldiers clear the battlefield and count the spoils, while he sat down in the barracks where the young priest lived, and then had the priest taken in and interrogated.

The priest who surrendered without a fight certainly had no strong will, nor did he have the idea of dying for Xerxes. He was unusually cooperative, answering all of Richard's questions quickly. As a clergyman, his practice would definitely affect his faith, and he would even lower his rank when he was strict. But compared to life, the level reduction is not so strict.

The priest's name was Cass, and his real age matched his youthful appearance, only twenty-two years old, and the priesthood rank was level five. In the system of gods in the Pharrow plane, a powerful god such as Xerxes can only be called a priest at the fifth level, a level that can be responsible for a matter of affairs independently.

According to Cass, during the Battle of the Invaders' Portal that day, the combined forces of the powerful god Xerxes and the middle god Neian suffered a crushing defeat, and the Battle Priests and Knights Templars were wiped out. This is almost all the power that the four great temples can draw out, so the vitality of the two major churches is greatly damaged.

Later, some time later, Xerxes's temple joined forces with the armies of the local lords of the Iron Triangle Empire to launch a second expedition, only to find that the powerful alien invaders had disappeared and only found a base from nowhere. At that time, a strong team of battle priests, magicians, Templars, and high-ranking officers of the local lord's army entered the base to investigate, but suddenly encountered an accident, from time to time some people suddenly lacked a certain part of their limbs, and some people suddenly aged and even died of old age.

Eventually, at the cost of nearly thirty lives, the team was able to withdraw from the base. Only then did they realize that this seemingly peaceful forward base was full of chaotic space-time forces, and any ordinary corner could be full of death traps, which were not at all human beings could fight. Even a Sanctuary powerhouse died from the effects of aging caused by the accelerated passage of time.

As a result, the High Priest announced that the base had lost its function and was classified as a forbidden place due to the impact of the turbulence of time and space. In the end, he sent only a group of soldiers to stand by the base.

Guarding the forward base in the inaccessible mountains is undoubtedly a chore, not far from being exiled. Therefore, the young and handsome priest Cass was obviously unpopular enough to be assigned such a job. The reason why he set up the camp a kilometer away was actually because he was afraid that the chaotic space-time power of the forward base would overflow and spread to the camp. No matter the power of time or space, even if there is only a trace of it, as long as it hits Cass, this fifth-level priest will definitely die.

After Cass finished saying everything he could, Richard looked into the young priest's eyes and said indifferently: "My name is Richard, and I am the pioneer knight of the Sequoia Kingdom. ”

"Sequoia Kingdom ......," Cass exclaimed, immediately aware of the crisis. The Redwood Kingdom, founded by legendary heroes, has a chaotic distribution of beliefs, and there are three temples of true gods spreading faith in the territory, but more than half of the nobles choose freedom or ancestor worship. And Xerxes is not included in those three true gods.

One of the reasons why Cass was extremely cooperative was that he could see that the other party was a nobleman, and he did not start the slaughter, perhaps because he occasionally ran to this inaccessible ghost place, and he had a great hope that he would be freed by redeeming the nobles' captives. Knowing that the other party is not from the Empire, the whole thing becomes complicated.

Richard groaned for a moment and said, "You should understand that I don't want anyone to know that I'm here, and I don't want anyone to know that I've attacked Xerxes's warriors. So now you have two choices, one is to be faithful to the faith now, and then sacrifice. The second is to convert to a new faith, and then you can live. ”

"Convert! Are you a believer in the evil god Gattuso?" exclaimed Cass, his face pale.

"You don't need to know who I am, and when you convert, you'll know who the true God is. ”

Cass rolled down his throat, showing a very frightened expression, and said with difficulty: "Do you want to burn divine power?"

Richard nodded and said, "Becoming a fallen priest is your only chance to live." ”

Cass closed his eyes and struggled for a moment before he nodded.