The Strongest Knight

Two hours later, in a grove, Gray was leaning against a tree stump with a wry smile on his face.

"Watching a play can be dangerous. If you're not careful, you'll end up being the main character!"

Hei Yu stood aside and looked at Gray's current appearance. A human-like look of worry flashed in his eagle eyes.

Gray's current appearance is indeed very creepy.

His body, from his hair to his face, and even the body inside the black robe, was divided into two colors down the middle.

The right half has normal skin color, blonde hair and black eyes, while the left half has strange gray hair and gray skin. Especially the expression on the left side of the face, with the corners of the eyes slightly half-squinted and the corners of the mouth raised, as if mocking silently.

It’s not that Gray didn’t want to change his expression, but the left half of his face seemed to be solidified. Gray couldn’t even blink, let alone change his expression.

"Damn it, this problem must be solved. Otherwise, whether I can see people or not is another matter. Am I going to have to eat and talk with only half of my mouth open in the future?"

Gray recalled what had just happened with lingering fear. He was just about to become a fallen monster.

The monster summoned by Robert in the cave should have discovered Gray hiding nearby as soon as it was summoned.

The ancient blood in Gray's body is obviously purer than Robert's, and he has condensed one more knight soul than Robert. Comparing the two, the ancient monster's initial target was Gray, and the blue light shot at Robert was just a cover.

Fortunately, Heiyu sensed that Gray was in danger, and appeared from the magic pet bag in time, breaking the layer of ice created by the ancient monster that restricted Gray, and interrupting the ancient monster from continuing to input strange energy into Gray's body.

Even so, Gray was almost controlled by the ancient blood that was purified dozens of times in an instant. Negative emotions surged out like a tide, and he became a fallen being.

The left half of Gray's body is a manifestation of depravity.

"Fortunately, the unknown first acupoint that I had been tempering suddenly burst out with a lot of vitality, diluting the influence of the ancient bloodline and stopping the continued generation of corrupt energy, allowing me, who should have been corrupted, to find myself again."

“The ancient monster summoned by Robert might actually be an ancient creature born in the ancient chaotic period.” Gray’s expression was solemn.

The tiny bit of energy transmitted across countless spaces has caused an impact more than ten times greater than the impact caused by the corrupt aura brought by the Fallen Robin last time. Apart from the real ancient chaotic creatures, who else has such great energy?

Fortunately, the ancient creature was unable to exert much strength after crossing countless spatial distances, and its bloodline sank after bursting out once, unable to arouse Gray's negative emotions and produce corrupted energy. Otherwise, the vitality of that dead body would have been exhausted, and if it burst out again, Gray would not be able to stop it.

In fact, basically every knight apprentice has ancient blood in his body.

In other words, those who possess the talent of a knight all have ancient blood in their bodies.

As the strength of the Knight Apprentice increases, the ancient blood in the Knight Apprentice's body will also continue to grow stronger. After becoming a mid-level Knight Apprentice, every time he condenses the Knight Soul, he can feel the blood from the ancient chaos.

Especially when the upper-level knight apprentice condenses the life cyclone to be promoted to a formal knight, the ancient bloodline will launch an attack for the first time, causing the apprentice to generate countless negative emotions in the process of promotion and forming a corrupted energy.

Some knight apprentices who have evil intentions, strong murderous intent, and have not found their own path will often degenerate into fallen monsters at this stage.

The probability of an apprentice falling into depravity during his promotion to a knight is as high as 10% in the Kingdom of Dru, where the honor of knights is supreme.

When a lower-rank knight is promoted to a middle-rank knight, his ancient bloodline becomes purer, which arouses more exaggerated negative emotions in the knight, and the probability of the knight's fall soars to 30%.

The probability of a middle-level knight being promoted to a high-level knight is as high as a terrifying 50%. However, if one really achieves the status of a high-level knight, he will also have the opportunity to remove the ancient bloodline from his body in one go.

“As for me, I estimate that when I condense the seventh knight’s soul, I will have to endure a blood pulse shock that is even more terrifying than this time. It may be even more terrifying than what ordinary people suffer when they condense their life cyclones.” Gray shook his head with a wry smile.

If he wanted to go further on the road of knighthood, he could only place his hope on the fatal points in his body. Gray sensed the three fatal points in his abdomen.

In fact, Gray was able to get rid of the corrupt energy this time thanks to the fatal point he discovered first.

Gray first discovered this fatal acupoint that could be used without hindrance after he was promoted to a mid-level knight apprentice. Whenever he used the knight energy to condense the acupoint, a trace of the knight energy would always disappear inexplicably.

This aroused Gray's curiosity, and he would take some time out from his daily training to concentrate the knight's energy on this fatal point and condense it.

And this fatal point has been silently taking away a bit of Gray's knight energy, and there seems to be no limit.

After more than half a year, Gray sometimes even forgot the purpose of condensing it, and just got used to condensing this fatal point.

Unexpectedly, this weak point suddenly exploded when Gray was in the most dangerous moment, saving Gray's life.

"Let me name you the Cave of Life!"

"Someone in the past once said that the human body is actually another universe, and this universe is truly full of treasures waiting to be discovered!"

"There are more than a hundred fatal points found in my body. As my strength increases, there will definitely be more and more fatal points that can hinder my movement. How many of them can have magical powers like the Point of Life? I'm looking forward to it." Gray murmured.

"There is still one hour left until the time agreed with Angele, so let's take a look at my own condition first." Gray's mind sank into the knight's soul in his body.

The souls of the Six Paths Knights, like their bodies, had three completely transformed into corrupted forms, making Gray completely unable to use them.

But even though there were only three strands of knight soul left to use, the energy level inside was still the quality of condensing six strands of knight soul. Otherwise, his strength would have dropped to that of a lower-rank knight with three strands of knight soul. Gray would have really wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Except for the expression on the left side, I can control both my hands and feet freely."

"It's just that the knight energy that can be manipulated is only half of that of an ordinary knight apprentice who has condensed six strands of knight soul."

Gray drew out his sword and slashed with ease.

"Am I in a semi-degenerate state?"

"I guess no one has ever been in my current state. I have corrupt energy in my body, but I haven't turned into a corrupt monster." Gray was not panicked. As long as he didn't really become corrupt and had his own self, he believed that he would have a chance to become normal.

His will has always been the strongest.

"It seems that as long as I don't let the ancient blood in my body erupt again, I should be safe and everything will be fine."

"It's less than an hour until the time agreed with Angele. Angele should be ready to launch the attack."

"We agreed not to contact him within three hours before the operation. It should be that Angele is next to the wizard councilor right now, and he is afraid that my initiative to contact him will attract his attention."

Gray calmed down and waved to Heiyu, who looked at Gray worriedly, then obeyed and got into the magic pet bag.

Looking around, Gray came to the tallest tree.

Grabbing the dry bark with both hands, Gray climbed up faster than a monkey and soon reached the top of the tree.

Facing the cold breeze of dawn, Gray stood on a protruding tree trunk at the top of the tree, looking towards the Red River Valley, quietly waiting for the arrival of the wizards.