Chapter 27: The Weakness of the Strongest Knight
"Are there really vampires in Storm Fortress?" Nisol pinched a small, nameless white flower from the ground and put it to his nose and sniffed it.
"Hmm......" Grisenda didn't really want to talk about her past, because it would bring painful memories. But when she saw that the usual indifferent attitude on Nisol's face had not changed since she told the secret of the Storm Fortress, she suddenly realized that not everyone in this world had the same mentality as her.
Nisol approached Grisenda and told her to sit still under the tree, then gently inserted the little white flower deep into her hair.
"What do vampires look like?"
"It's white, it's thin, it's weird......," Glicenta had been afraid to recall the man's appearance, but now that she had said such a thing in front of Nisso, the face that had haunted her suddenly became less terrifying.
"Alright. Nisol sat facing each other under another tree, looking at Grisenda's long brown-orange hair and smiling. "You look more beautiful than usual. ”
"Hmmm......"
Nyso, noticing Grisenda's dodging eyes, leaned towards the tree, stroking his hair with his right hand.
"Tell me what you're happy about at Storm Fortress. ”
Grisenda kept pinching the grass next to her with one hand, and put the other hand on her thigh, as if she was very nervous.
"If I had to be happy," Grisenda had only happy moments in that fortress of terror were those quiet evenings with her sister. "I think it's time to go out to war. ”
She didn't tell her sister. She was afraid that if she said it, she would cry out of guilt and remorse.
"Go out to war, is it war with the Messians?" said Nysot removed the longbow from his back and placed it on his lap.
"You can't just fight them, can you...... Occasionally, Lonegar and New Anser will clash, and Baron Storm will send some soldiers to help Lonegar City. ”
"It seems that the kingdom is really chaotic now, and every city has to fight against each other, and you have to watch out for spies from the Messiah. Nisol whispered as he stroked the bowstring with his hand.
"Hmm...... I have heard the baron and his men talk about this kind of thing, and I have heard that the young king of Vasilia has no power to control all this, so the nobles rely on their fiefs to fight each other, including the baron's fiefdom of Lannega. ”
"Baron Storm must be a strange man. Nisol said. He could vaguely guess from Glicenta's attitude towards his past that Storm Fortress was not only mysterious, but also brought indelible psychological trauma to the powerful knight girl in front of him, so he deliberately did not speak in the respectful tone of ordinary people talking about barons, but slowly asked about Storm Fortress in his usual indifferent and indifferent style. Niso was well aware of human mental activity, but never had the idea of exploiting it.
"Yes...... Very strange, and I don't know much about him. Grisenda closed her eyes and clenched her right hand into a fist.
"That ......" Niso saw her in some pain and anger, and a cold sweat broke out on her back. "Tell me about the other two Storm Knights, how is your relationship with them?"
Glicenta breathed a sigh of relief.
"The two of them are nice, but they behave weirdly. I liked the big guy with the double axe, because he was always very gentle with his acquaintances. ”
"I heard that in that war three years ago, he rode a huge bear and carried two axes into the headquarters of the Messians, and with a wave of his hand he cut off the head of the archmage they had invited from Turan, turning the tide of the battle. ”
"He's fighting differently than he usually is. Grisenda waved her hand and touched the small white flower above her head, and smiled, her eyes shining with tenderness. "Having said so much about mine, I might as well tell me about your past life. I guess you must have been born into a family of very kind adventurers, either you grew up to be a hunter or a knight to save the world, didn't you?"
"Hahaha...... What you said is interesting, and I hope so. Nisol put his head in his hands and thought for a moment. "I came from a very ordinary background, a very ordinary family in a very ordinary village, located in the southeastern corner of the Cohen Peninsula, on the edge of the whole of Vasilia. ”
"I've heard the knight on the bear say that he seems to have grown up in Cohen too. ”
"I know, I can tell from his mount. Nisol smiled and plucked a stalk of grass from the ground, put it in his mouth, and said as he chewed, "Cohen is rich in two things, do you know what they are?"
Grisenda shook her head.
"The first one, it's a bear," he held out two fingers and dangled them in the air. "The second is the bear man. ”
"Huh, bear man?"
"I don't know when it started, maybe when I was born, this kind of thing happened. Cohen's bear began to mutate, becoming a kind of orc that could walk upright, had strong muscles, and was somewhat intelligent and social. They are very dangerous and surprisingly skilled at the craft of blacksmithing, making sheet metal armor, making metal sledgehammers, and even making some delicate crafts. No one knows why they came into this world, and it is said that some people have seen the process of ordinary bears gradually changing into bear people, but that doesn't matter anymore. ”
"The huge bear with a giant hammer and metal plate armor that can walk upright sounds a little scary. Glicenta said this, but she was still dismissive of the creature's strength.
"It's not a little scary, it's very scary. He said. The former king of Vasilia sent an army of 300 men to investigate the matter, but they were wiped out by Cohen. The only information I know now is that the army once found a mysterious black fragment in the bearman's palace, which they speculated may have caused the first bear to mutate. But before the matter could be fully understood, they were again routed by the bears who came from the counterattack. ”
"So ......"
"So Cohen went from a rich forest to a wild land that was rarely inhabited, and the village I lived in was completely destroyed by the bear people. Nisol spat out the stalks. "By chance, I got to know Ms. Scherer and she was very helpful, so I willingly helped her with the idea of building a city here. ”
"I'm sorry......" Grisenda was about to continue talking when there was a rustling sound in his ears, as if something was cutting through the grass and approaching faster and faster.
"Do you hear that?" said Nisol, holding his longbow with a carved pattern, drawing an arrow from the quiver behind his back, crouching up, and alarmed.
"Hmm. Grisenda quietly rose from the ground, his right hand grasping the hilt of the sword pinned to his belt, and calmly surveyed his surroundings.
"Something is coming. Nisol put the arrow on the string, walked over to a bush, and looked out. "Maybe it's the abominable Mormack bugs. ”
A pair of tentacles suddenly reached out from the depths of the woods. Nisol narrowed his eyes slightly, and quickly pointed the arrow in that direction. I only heard a "whoosh" sound, and a disgusting grunt sound was heard not far away, and a pool of red blood splattered out.
"It's them!" Nisol quickly drew another arrow, put it on the string, and spun 360 degrees to look around. He heard the sound of movement coming from all directions, and his heart became slightly worried. "Mormike has attacked us!Grisenda, defend yourself!"
Before he could finish speaking, a terrifying giant ant jumped out of the bushes. In addition to its huge size, half a human's height, it is also distinguished by red and blue stripes. There are so many of them that they can barely be killed. The damage to the colony was relatively low, with Lonas, the nearest city of Ilmari being the most damaged. The most effective way to attack them is to cut open their shells and crush their tender entrails.
"Quick! Slash their heads!"
Nisol confronted a Momike and shot an arrow through its body through its head. In order to conserve ammo, he had to remove the arrows from the disgusting slime, then rebuild his bow and continue to attack the next terrifying Mormichael. This giant ant is particularly terrifying in appearance, and its body is protected by a hard shell on its limbs. Nisso's arrows are specially crafted, and although they can't shoot far, they are extremely strong at close range, and they are designed to deal with creatures with thick skin and thick skin, but once they break through their defenses, they pose a low threat.
"Quick! Glicenta, draw your sword. Nisol defeated Mormike who rushed towards him, but he couldn't hear Grisenda's voice for a long time. In the middle of the battle, Nissel saw Glicenta. She was laboriously pulling her sword out of its scabbard, and then trembling as she faced the giant ants that were frantically pounced.
"You ......"
Nisol pounced on Glicenta with a horizontal jump, shielding her from one of the Momichaels who charged at her.
"Die!" Nisol took an arrow in his hand and slammed it into Mormich's head. Blood spurted out with disgusting slime, and the giant ant fell to the ground, a few legs kicking without a sound.
"I ...... I ......" Grisenda was flushed and trembling, unable to hold the beautiful sword engraved with blue magic runes.
"What's wrong with you, Grisenda, attack them or we're going to be eaten." ”
"I ...... I...... I can't ......"
Glicenta only shuddered as she spoke, and then collapsed into Nisso's arms.
"This ......" Niso gritted his teeth, looked at the giant ants around him, and then at Glicenta, who was unable to move, and killed one of them with an arrow, and grabbed Glicenta's soft body, and ran towards the gap between the attacks. He took out a vial of gray-white potion from his spatial storage stone, poured it into his throat, and then rushed out of the encirclement of the giant ants at an extremely fast speed as if he had gone berserk.