Evolution game, nothing more than that!

"Is this the powerful being of this world, the so-called knight?"

Mai Sakurajima whispered, assessing the opponent's strength.

——He is indeed very strong. If I don’t use the power of shadow, I may not be able to defeat him!

Yes, although in terms of strength alone, she, who has alien blood, is superior to these two knights, but in terms of martial arts and swordsmanship, she is far inferior.

The assassination skills she obtained from genetic tracing were not good for frontal combat on the battlefield. If a fight really broke out, she might only be able to rely on her strength advantage to suppress the opponent in the early stages, but once the opponent seized her weakness, she would most likely turn the tables with more powerful skills.

Of course, this is without taking into account her regenerative abilities and shadow powers.

If these two factors were added together, her chances of winning could be said to be 100%—as long as the opponent didn't have any equally bizarre powers.

Chapter 163: Sun Knight Gawain

There is no doubt that the two knights on the battlefield below possess powers far beyond those of ordinary people and are true "superhumans".

Relying solely on physical strength and martial arts, any one of them would be a veritable "enemy of ten thousand men" if thrown into an ancient battlefield in normal time and space. It is not a delusion for him to defeat an army alone.

However, such a strong man can only lead an army of about a thousand people here. In a certain Eastern country, this scale is just the level of a village-level fight.

Either this world, at least the land of Britain, has a small population and insufficient productivity to support so many soldiers; or there are more than just two strong men like this, and there are more and stronger ones, so they can only bring so many soldiers.

Of course, the greater possibility is that it is both.

Yi Shen guessed the power level of this world while continuing to observe the battlefield below.

Unlike the cold weapon battles in the real world, which often last less than an hour before exhaustion, in this world, both ordinary soldiers and extraordinary knights are far superior in endurance. This battle has lasted for several hours and there is still no sign of it ending.

But Yi Shen soon discovered something interesting - as time went by, the power of one of the two strongest knights became stronger and stronger, and he gradually gained the upper hand in the battle.

By the time the sun rose to noon, the knight's strength had skyrocketed to several times its initial strength. He defeated the enemy's stance with just a few sword strikes, then stabbed the opponent's neck with one sword, killing him.

When the surrounding soldiers saw this scene, the morale of those on the winning side immediately increased and they cheered loudly, while the morale of the soldiers on the other side naturally dropped and they had no will to fight. In the blink of an eye, they fell into a disadvantage and were gradually defeated.

Soon, the news of the death of one side's general spread throughout the entire battlefield, and the morale of the two armies suddenly changed drastically. The unilateral retreat that had originally only occurred around the knight battlefield quickly spread to the entire battlefield.

The winner is already very clear.

The remaining knights of the defeated side saw that the situation was hopeless and had to fight and retreat. After sacrificing the lives of a large number of soldiers, they finally evacuated the battlefield with a small number of remnants.

The victorious side did not pursue the enemy, but cheered loudly on the battlefield.

Especially the knight who defeated the enemy commander was surrounded by everyone like a star surrounding the moon, with his name shouted loudly.

Yi Shen and the others heard that the soldiers were shouting - "Sun Knight Gawain!"

"Gawain? That Gawain?"

Yamasaki An's eyes widened when she heard the shouts from below.

Although she had seen legendary figures in past missions, such as Van Helsing, Van Helsing and Gawain were different - Van Helsing was a fictional character created in modern novels, while Gawain was a true historical legend.

"Yes, that's Gawain."

Mai Sakurajima nodded, appearing very calm.

She had seen so many historical figures during genetic tracing that she had long been desensitized to them and was no longer surprised.

As for Yi Shen, he looked up at the sun in the sky thoughtfully, then looked down at Gao Wen below, and understood the reason for the other party's sudden surge in strength.

Apparently, just as the legend goes, Gawain, who is blessed by the sun, will have power that changes with the rising and setting of the sun - the higher the sun is, the stronger the power will be, reaching three times its strongest at noon, and then gradually decreasing, returning to normal levels when the sun sets.

What particularly interested him was that when this amplification occurred, the energy inside and outside the other person's body in the elemental vision produced a strange fluctuation, or resonance. A certain power in the sunlight spontaneously merged into Gawain's body, causing his strength to increase little by little.

This reminded him of the path of "harmony between man and nature" that he had never been able to find.

Although the attributes of the power are different and it cannot be considered as true "harmony between man and nature", this method of using the power in the body to summon the power outside the body and amplify one's own changes still has extremely important reference significance.

At this moment, Yi Shen wanted to fly down immediately, grab Gao Wen and study him thoroughly from inside out.

But he suppressed the impulse in his heart.

After all, the mission of the evolution game is still there, and they must join King Arthur's camp. But they cannot offend the important knights under King Arthur before joining.

"Are we going down now?"

Yamasaki Anzu asked.

"No, wait a minute."

Yi Shen shook his head.

Now is not a good time to go down and meet Gao Wen.

After all, the other side had just finished a battle, and suddenly three unidentified people appeared and fell from the sky, which could easily cause a stress response and lead to a fight.

And to be honest, if you want to join King Arthur's camp, it will be difficult to gain the other party's trust by just going up to them, and even if you gain their trust, it will be difficult to get them to take you seriously.

They must find an opportunity to both make their position clear to the other party and appropriately demonstrate their own strength in order to gain recognition.

"We'll just follow them and see where they go."

Yi Shen said this and landed with the two girls in a forest not far from the army, observing them from a distance.

On the battlefield, King Arthur's army, which had ended the battle, began to collect the bodies of their own dead soldiers and bury the bodies of the enemy soldiers under the command of Gawain. At the same time, they also finished off the seriously wounded - both their own and the enemy.

After all, the medical technology of this era was still very primitive. For injuries caused by swords and weapons on the battlefield, minor injuries could be healed by simple bandaging and the soldiers' physical fitness, but there was really no good way to deal with serious injuries.

Although there are magic and miracles in this world, they are only limited to a few people. Compared with such a large number of injured people, it is still a drop in the bucket.

Originally, this was also an opportunity for Yi Shen and the others. If they could use some means to heal these injuries, they should be able to gain the trust of Gawain and then join King Arthur's camp through him.

But after thinking about it, Yi Shen gave up the idea.

After all, adding icing on the cake is not as good as providing timely help.

Treating the wounded is not an urgent need for this army. Even if they take action, it is difficult for them to gain real gratitude and attention. Instead, they are more likely to be used as tools.

In order to demonstrate your value, you must make a brilliant appearance when the other party is in an unfavorable situation or even at the end of their rope, and rescue them from danger with drastic measures. Only in this way can you fully demonstrate your importance.

And Yi Shen believed that the Vortigern side, which needed his help and others to defeat in the judgment of the evolution game, would definitely provide such an opportunity!

Chapter 164 Two Breads with Cheese

The opportunity Yi Shen had been waiting for soon came.

After winning the previous battle, the army led by Gawain did not withdraw, but continued to march forward and finally came to an abandoned village.

This village has not been abandoned for long, and you can even see some corpses that have not yet completely decayed. They are all the original villagers of this village.

Gawain looked sad. He first prayed for the innocent victims, and then ordered the soldiers to temporarily camp here for rest.

Under the urging of their respective lords, the soldiers who had temporarily switched from farmers began to clean up corpses, demolish houses, and build tents. Finally, they established a camp that looked rather shabby and crude to Yi Shen and his men.

There were no chevaux de frise, no trenches, no earthen embankments, no high walls, only a wooden fence of insignificant defensive power and a few watchtowers hastily converted from abandoned buildings.

There was no isolation zone inside the camp to prevent the spread of fire, and a fire could burn down most of the camp; there were no ditches or burial pits for centralized excrement disposal, and the soldiers could just find a corner to relieve themselves. Within a few days, the entire camp would become smelly.

If this kind of messy military camp were placed in Yi Shen’s hometown, it would be totally unacceptable in any era.

But in a place like Britain, which was on the frontier of civilization at that time, being able to build a proper military camp was already quite rare and was a rare symbol of "civilization".

However, the very next day after the camp was built, the enemy army appeared again.

The first to attack were a group of barbarian mercenaries wearing animal skins, with teeth and bones of various beasts hanging on their bodies, and various tattoos on their faces.

They rushed out of the forest and rushed towards the camp in a huge crowd, roaring all kinds of war cries, without any clear direction.

If it were a normal army, such a mob would have been slaughtered one-sidedly when facing the regular army with camp fortifications.

——No matter how simple the fortifications are, they are still fortifications; no matter how crude the wall is, it is still a wall. In the absence of large-scale siege weapons, the advantages they provide to the defenders should not be too great!

But in this world of extraordinary powers, this so-called "advantage" may not always exist.

The defending Gawain army responded immediately after discovering the enemy. A wave of arrows shot directly from the camp, falling sparsely among the barbarian army.

Although some people were shot down, the rest did not even look at them and continued to rush towards the camp without changing their pace.

Among them was a particularly tall warrior who led the charge, holding a giant axe in his hand that ordinary people could not even lift, shouting war cries such as "For Odin" and "For Tyr". When he rushed to the edge of the wall, he did not slow down, but rushed straight through it like a tank, instantly breaking through the simple wooden fence and opening a path for the barbarian soldiers behind him!

A brutal fight broke out in the blink of an eye near the broken wall, or it would be more appropriate to call it a one-sided massacre.

Those ordinary soldiers and even the knights' attendants were no match for this powerful barbarian. Every swing of the giant axe would take a life. The dead were either beheaded or had their bodies split in half, and their deaths were horrible.

Although the barbarians who rushed in later were not as exaggerated as this leader, their strength was generally stronger than those soldiers who came from farmers' families. Even the knights' followers who had received martial arts training found it difficult to fight against them.

In just a short while, the soldiers in this area showed signs of collapse.

All this was not reversed until the real knights arrived.

The knights led by Gawain, wearing armor and holding steel swords, charged into the battlefield and resisted the barbarians who tried to advance.

It has to be said that although in terms of basic combat power, ordinary peasant soldiers and even knight squires are not as good as the battle-hardened barbarian mercenaries, in terms of high-level combat power, a powerful knight like Gawain is stronger than the barbarian leader.

Although there is a difference in physique between the two sides, their strength is almost the same. In addition, one side is fully armored while the other side is only wrapped in animal skins, so the gap is obvious.

After just a few rounds, the barbarian leader was injured. The sharp steel sword cut bloody wounds on his arms, outer thighs, shoulders, waist and other parts of his body. The blood immediately dyed half of his body red.

But the barbarian leader seemed to feel no pain, and even became more violent because of the injury.

He roared "Odin is with me", and swung the huge axe in his hand. Gawain, who had been able to suppress his opponent, was suddenly suppressed.

This is the Berserker's frenzy!

Gawain knew that he had seen the same thing happen to many barbarian warriors.

Being injured does not weaken these formidable warriors, but rather enrages them, sending them into a state of extraordinary excitement, multiplying their strength and ability to withstand blows.

Although the user will fall into a weak period after this frenzy state ends, and may even die from exhaustion due to excessive blood loss, before the end of the battle, such a warrior is the most terrifying killing machine, and even a powerful knight like Gawain will have to fight hard.

Of course, there is also a reason. It is not noon now, and the clouds in the sky are still blocking the sun, so Gawain's strength has not been enhanced to the strongest state.

But only the weak would complain about the environment. As a strong man, Gawain would not complain about the disadvantages brought to him by the weather and time, but would only find ways to solve the problem.

He no longer actively attacked, but took a defensive stance, intending to delay time and wait for the opponent's frenzy period to pass. By the way, he could also increase his strength little by little with the passage of time. Even if it could not reach three times the strongest level when the sun was high in the sky, twice as much would be enough.

However, the barbarian leader on the opposite side did not seem to have lost his mind in his frenzy, and soon realized his intention. Seeing that Gawain no longer took the initiative to attack, he roared and chopped the others around him with his axe.

——Since you won’t attack, I’ll kill all your men first! His actions clearly showed his attitude.

Seeing this, Gawain's face changed. He didn't expect that the other party could still maintain his rationality in the frenzy and directly turned the tables on him. So he had to step forward to attack and prevent the other party from attacking other soldiers around him.

The tempo of the battle was immediately under the control of the barbarian leader. Gawain had to confront the frenzied enemy, whose strength had doubled, head-on in a state not at its peak, and suffered a great disadvantage.

But he didn't know that this was not the worst.

Just as the two sides were fighting fiercely at the wall and everyone's attention was drawn to this side, another army emerged from the forest on the other side of the camp where the defense was empty.

Unlike the barbarians who were like a mob, this army, although their clothing and armor were still messy, appeared to be much more orderly in their actions.

Led by knights one by one, the soldiers quickly overturned the unmanned wooden fences, and then rushed into the rear of Gawain's army with great momentum, forming a two-pronged attack with the barbarians in front.

Gao Wen's face changed drastically when he noticed the changes in the rear. This strategy of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, which seemed very simple to Yi Shen, directly pushed him and his army into a desperate situation.

Chapter 165: The Wizard from the Mysterious East Seris...

Seeing his army being attacked from both sides, Gawain became extremely anxious.

But the barbarian leader in front of him held him tightly, making it impossible for him to be distracted and look back.

Gawain's heart sank, knowing that if nothing changed, his army, and even himself, would probably be doomed!

In fact, he was not the only one who realized this. The knights and soldiers under his command were also aware of their dangerous situation.

The morale of the entire army almost collapsed the moment they found themselves attacked from all sides. Some soldiers who had lost their will to fight even threw down their weapons and tried to surrender, but were ruthlessly killed by the murderous barbarians, which further led to the collapse of morale.

Just as this army was about to be destroyed——

Rumble!

Suddenly, loud thunder sounded over the camp.

The next moment, thunderbolts fell from the sky, landing precisely on the heads of all the barbarian soldiers and the second enemy army.

Although the physical fitness of humans in this world far exceeds that of ordinary people in the real world, under the thunder and lightning, these slight physical differences cannot affect their final outcome.

The deadly lightning killed most of the targets almost instantly. Only a very small number of powerful knights and warriors could withstand this round of lightning and not be killed.

But even if they survived, they were all seriously injured.

Just like the barbarian leader in front of Gawain, he was struck by lightning and was struck by several lightning bolts at the same time.