Wizard: This witcher is neglecting his duties.

Chapter 284 The Soul Steed and the Controlled Warlock

After hearing Wayne's answer, Lani was silent for a few seconds before tilting her head and asking with some confusion:

What does "friend" mean?

"Are they allies?"

Wayne was silent for a moment upon hearing this. He hadn't expected that Lani, the Moon Princess, wouldn't even understand the meaning of "friend." He wondered what kind of life she had gone through in her long past to become the person she was now.

He thought for a moment, and instead of denying the ally's meaning, he added:

"That's about right. But friends are closer than allies. They don't have too many interests involved, and they would never betray each other. Only then can they be called friends."

Lani nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this, then suddenly spoke:

"My ally who will never betray me, do you want to be my husband, Wayne?"

Wayne was taken aback. There was a big difference between a friend and a husband. Although he wouldn't mind becoming Lani's husband, it was obviously impossible at the moment.

As a demigod from the borderlands, Lani couldn't possibly find a husband from another world right now.

Sure enough, before he could explain for even a few minutes, Lani's voice rang out again.

"Sorry, Wayne."

"To become my husband, you must be equal to me in strength and you must also pass some of my tests."

"Becoming life partners means taking on corresponding responsibilities."

"You are not qualified yet."

After hearing Lani's words, Wayne felt not disappointed at all, but even a little excited.

"In other words, once I'm powerful enough in the future, will you give me this opportunity?"

Lani looked at Wayne with her jewel-like eyes, not denying it, but saying in a somewhat evasive tone:

"If in the future you have the opportunity to come to my world and complete my test there, I can make you my husband."

"If there's enough time."

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After a night's rest, everyone's strength was restored by the next morning.

Wayne and Lani's chat didn't last long. The Moon Princess wasn't one for verbal communication; her favorite thing to do was to stay quietly in her magic tower and learn about the magic that interested her.

Her long lifespan has given her extraordinary patience. She doesn't care how long she stays in this world; what she cares about most is learning more about the world's laws and deciphering the golden laws of the borderlands.

After breakfast, Wayne and the others did not linger in the village. Instead, they chose to bypass the area where Karkstan had been ambushed, maintaining a defensive formation as they continued towards their destination.

Actually, when Wayne was on night watch last night, he was thinking that those fallen humans might come and raid the village, but they didn't.

Perhaps it was because his counterattack yesterday was too powerful, killing more than a dozen fallen archers by himself, which almost severely damaged their ranged attack capabilities. The terrain of the village was more suitable for defense, so these fallen humans were somewhat hesitant and dared not attack under cover of night, even though they knew their location.

However, now that they have left the easily defensible village, the possibility of an attack cannot be ruled out.

As Wayne had guessed, about half an hour after they left the village and arrived in the open wilderness, a series of howling and screaming battle cries suddenly came from around the group.

A hundred meters away from their line of sight, from all directions and from the thick fog, suddenly hundreds of fully armed human warriors rushed out.

Their equipment was a motley crew, including mercenaries, plate-armored knights, and ordinary militiamen. Their weapons were also inconsistent. However, their most striking feature was that these humans had fanatical expressions, were exceptionally strong, and had blue and red demon tattoos on their faces. They charged towards Wayne and his group at great speed.

Faced with the group of enemies rushing towards him, Calxton panicked and shouted "Enemy attack!" before looking at Wayne for advice.

Kayla remained remarkably calm at this moment. Seeing the enemies charging towards them, the sorceress spoke to Kalkstan:

"I will set up a magical barrier to block their attack. You will help me maintain the barrier so that they can't attack us."

"Lady Margarita will be responsible for using magic to attack the enemies."

After the warlocks had clearly defined their roles, Wayne addressed Letor and the others:

"You will also enter the magical barrier. As the last line of defense for the guardian sorcerers, you must protect several ladies."

"I'll go test the strength of these fallen ones and see how they differ from ordinary soldiers."

After saying that, Wayne took the magic bell from his waist, infused it with magic and shook it. After a tinkling sound as if it came from beside his ear, white light quickly solidified in front of him, and a white horse with a coat as dazzling as snowflakes appeared.

After being summoned, the warhorse named Udis first let out a loud neigh, and then turned its head to look at Wayne with great intelligence, as if waiting for him to ride it.

Seeing this, Wayne did not hesitate. He immediately mounted his horse, drew Excalibur in his left hand, and charged towards the enemy.

His riding skills, already at level ten, instantly created a close bond between him and Udis, as if they weren't strangers, master and mount, but rather partners who had worked together for a long time and were able to understand each other perfectly.

The feeling was magical, but unfortunately, since Udis was not his tamed mount, neither of them received any buffs from the taming skill.

However, Udis is very fast and agile. It can even perform a double jump in mid-air under Wayne's control, just like the warhorse in the game. It can fight across various terrains and is basically not limited by the terrain.

Moreover, its carrying capacity is also very strong. Wayne's body, including his equipment, weighs at least 150 kilograms, but after the Soul Horse carried him, he did not feel any burden. If this horse were to be given a set of sturdy armor, it would definitely be the best helper when charging into battle.

Faced with Wayne's command, Letor and the others did not try to be brave. Instead, they led the few surviving mercenaries to protect Kayla and the other sorcerers. They were all enveloped in a semi-transparent magical barrier, facing the charging Fallen warriors from a distance.

Without any more scruples, Wayne charged into the encirclement of the fallen human warriors and began the battle.

Without any hesitation, he first controlled the chaotic magic to create an enhanced Quen shield around himself to block the enemy's ranged attacks. Then, holding a two-handed greatsword in his left hand and a honeycomb bomb in his right, he avoided direct confrontation with the enemy's main force and instead used ranged bombs to harass them.

Using the agility of his Soul Steed, Wayne disrupted the enemy's formation with ranged bomb attacks while simultaneously reaping lone Fallen warriors with his sharp two-handed greatsword, quickly achieving considerable success.

His powerful attack made him not have a very intuitive sense of the Fallen Warriors' combat strength.

However, Wayne could still clearly sense that these Fallen Ones with demon tattoos on their bodies had greatly increased in strength and speed, making them stronger than ordinary humans, but far inferior to Witchers.

Unfortunately, the demonic corruption did not improve the war technology of these corrupted humans. On the contrary, the increase in power made their fighting style more like that of beasts, relying solely on their brute force to launch a headlong charge of death.

Perhaps such fearless and reckless attacks would be highly effective against ordinary human armies, but when they face a Witcher Master who possesses a variety of ranged attacks and magical abilities, and whose mobility completely overwhelms them, they are no different from those undead that only chase after their enemies.

Five minutes into the battle, Wayne had already killed more than twenty corrupted human warriors, forcing the opposing commander to send in even more men to deal with him.

To further restrict Wayne's mobility, they even dispatched all the Fallen Archers to surround and fire at him from all sides. The clanging of arrows struck Wayne's Quen shield, much to his annoyance.

The most troublesome one is still the Soul Warrior Udis.

Although this warhorse was highly mobile and had a beautiful, snow-white coat, it was no match for arrows. Even though Wayne had focused his attention on helping Udis defend against the arrows, four or five arrows still pierced its body.

However, as a spirit warhorse, Udis is no longer a normal flesh and blood creature. If such an injury were on an ordinary horse, it would have long since rendered it unable to move due to the arrow lodged in its body.

However, for Udis, ordinary arrows only cause it pain and weakness, and cannot cause any real damage to this spirit warhorse. It can recover quickly once it enters the bell.

They discovered that even their archers were no match for Wayne, while another group of soldiers were held back outside the magical barrier by Kayla and the others, only able to slowly deplete the enemy's magic power.

The commander of this group of fallen ones quickly deployed another of his trump cards.

With the neighing of horses, ten fully armed Fallen Knights rushed in from the mist, joining the warriors in the battle and using their mobility to surround and kill Wayne.

On Kayla's side, seven or eight burly men wielding shields protected a man dressed in a magnificent robe and holding a metal staff, who slowly approached the magical barrier surrounding Kayla and the others.

As Karkstan, who was doing his best to maintain the barrier and whose forehead was covered in cold sweat due to the tense battle, saw the group of men protected by the burly men behind him, he couldn't help but let out a gasp.

"Carlisle!"

"I thought he was dead, but I didn't expect that not only was he alive, he also joined the other side."

Hearing Karkstan's exclamation, even Margarita, who was casting an offensive spell, couldn't help but look over there.

When she saw the male sorcerer whose face was also covered with blue demon tattoos, she immediately said in disbelief:

"These monsters from another world can actually control our sorcerers."

(End of this chapter)