Chapter 8: Seven Years Later

The black nether petals flying all over the sky, a dark elf girl about 15 years old shuttled around, the red eyes were extremely sharp, the chest-length silver hair fluttered in the wind, the smooth violet skin exuded a little luster under the red light of the blood moon, if you look closely, you will find that each petal will be evenly divided into four sections before landing, ten minutes have passed, the petals in the sky have landed, the girl also put away the dark dagger in her hand, and her pretty face showed a joyful smile to a dark elf not far away.

"Brother, I finally practiced [Thousand Shadow Killing]. ”

"Well, it's still my Ariel. A dark elf boy who was almost 17 years old smiled and said, "How is the [Flower Dance] I taught you yesterday?" At the same time, he threw the black flute in his hand to the girl.

"Ha, I've been practicing for a long time. The girl smiled, and at the same time played the black flute in her hand, and the beautiful flute sound continued to echo in the valley of flowers, and this otherworldly version of the flower dance was quickly played.

The boy clapped and smiled, "Yes, I learned it so quickly." ”

"It's still good to be taught by my brother, are there any new tunes?"

"Well, not for the time being. The young man had a black line: "You have been looking for me to study music every day all these years, and I have already handed it over to you." ”

Time flies, and seven years have passed in the blink of an eye, and during these seven years, Ariel has been going to the Netherworld every day to learn assassin skills from Mentor Shaperina, and the [Thousand Shadows] she has just practiced is her mentor's original martial art.

It is said to be a fourth-order fighting technique, which can only be used by those who practice her special skills, and its power is comparable to that of a fifth-order fighting technique.

During this time, Ariel has also grown from a 1-meter-tall little Lori to a slim girl of 1.63 meters.

Ayton went to the forge every day to find Barin to learn blacksmithing and practice, or went to the library to find some dark elf martial arts to practice, or to practice magic, and at night he practiced flute playing or magic meditation with Ariel.

If it weren't for the miserable life of the slaves, life would have been a leisurely one.

"Yo, there's new music again. Mentor Shaperina's voice suddenly rang in Ayton's ears.

"Wow, good mentor. Ayton was taken aback: "Can the mentor not suddenly appear next to me every time, my little heart can't stand it." Ayton reluctantly said that over the years, he had found that Mentor Sapérina was not as unsmiling as Ryclano and Daisy, but was only strict in training, so he dared to joke with her or something.

"Oh, I've been here a long time ago, but you didn't even notice it. The mentor said disapprerovingly, "Ariel has made great progress, and she has comprehended the true meaning of the Thousand Shadows Kill so quickly." ”

"It's still the credit of my mentor and my brother. Ariel chuckled

"What's my business. Ayton wondered

"My brother's music inspires me a lot, and I always feel like the music you taught me in my head when I practice. ”

"Yes. Ayton touched his nose.

"But what do you think of all that music and flute? Shaperina wondered, "But it's really interesting, teach me if you have time." ”

"Well, okay, I'll teach you when I have time. ”

"By the way, the third-order test will be conducted tomorrow, now hurry up and adjust the state, although you have already reached the third-order level, but you still have to remember that you must be careful when testing, you know. The mentor admonished

Over the years, Ayton and Ariel have successfully passed the first-order and second-order tests, of course, there are some unlucky ones who failed to pass and were killed by the mentor, and they will take the third-order test tomorrow, but the two reached the third-order level a year ago.

"I see. The two replied in unison.

"Well, let's go. ”

"Goodbye, mentor. ”

After the two walked out of the Netherworld, Ariel immediately put her arm around Ayton and asked, "It's rare that the mentor let me go early, brother, where are we going to play?"

Seven years have passed, Ariel's chest has also become slightly bulging from the airport, Ayton felt a very soft touch on his arm, Ayton wanted to pull his hand out, but Ariel's hugging tightly, can only let her hold.

"Let's go to the library first and see if there are any martial arts suitable for third-order cultivation. ”

"Hmm. ”

The two came to the library, although the library of the dark elves is only on the first floor, it covers a large area, and there are all kinds of books in it, scattered and placed, and no one in the dark elves can write books.

Some of them would rather have knowledge rotten in their own stomachs than pass it on to their descendants, for fear that after passing on the knowledge to future generations, they will lose their usefulness and be abandoned, so most of the books here are plundered from the ground.

The library is unusually deserted, and few of the dark elves seem to like reading, they can be said to be cultivators, but they don't know that these books actually contain huge power, and Ai suddenly will come to read the books from time to time to learn about all kinds of knowledge on the ground.

"Is it Lord Ayton, you're here again, what book do you want to read this time? A shrill voice came. A short male dark elf walked over and said.

"Hey, slave, give me a death. The dwarf dark elf shouted at a wounded middle-aged female human slave who was kneeling on the ground sorting out a book.

He is the administrator of the Dark Elf Library, Barth, don't look at those administrators who look prestigious, in fact, their status in the dark elf society is very low, these administrators are some people with low talent, or who have been eliminated in training. Someone like Ayton who is young and talented has to be well stammered.

"Hey, who is she, why haven't I seen her before. Ayton asked, confused, he hadn't seen the slave before.

"Oh, this slave was rewarded to me by the hunting group yesterday, our blood shadow hunting group just came back yesterday, I see that they have captured a lot of slaves, including forest elves and wings, and there are a few extremely beautiful ones, I heard that they will be used as prizes for the duel competition the day after tomorrow. Barth flattered

The Dark Elf Duel Contest is to let people below the general have a one-on-one duel in the sacrificial square, and the prizes are generally slaves, and they can choose their favorite slaves according to the ranking, and each person can only choose one.

"I see, I'll see if there are any third-order magic or martial arts. Ayton said calmly

After they passed the first-order test, Instructor Rykrano and Daisy rarely took care of their group of children, but let them practice fighting qi and magic on their own, and occasionally instructed them in martial arts and basic magic, but if they didn't learn it once, they would be hit with a whip or a mental shock. Ayton mostly consulted Sharpina's mentor or came to read books.

"Third-order sword skills and magic, okay. Barth flattered, then turned to the middle-aged woman and shouted, "Slave, go to the place where the third-order skills are stored." ”

"Yes," replied the woman tremblingly.

"Barthes, it turns out that you didn't put the books in place, I said how can they be much more neat than before. ”

"Uh, yes. Barthes replied awkwardly.

Coming to the third-order book, Ayton waved his hand at Barthes: "Okay, you are busy with your work." ”

"Okay, take your time. Barth said respectfully, and left with the human female

Ayton looked at the departing back of the human female and sighed.

"Brother, what third-order skills do you want to learn?" Ariel's crisp voice sounded beside her.

"Hmm.... Let's take a look first. Ayton took out some third-order books and read them

Third-Order Martial Technique - Bloodthirsty: After seeing blood, the heart is extremely excited, and it enhances its strength and speed. The more blood around, the more effective it is. It's bloody, but it looks strong

Third-Order Martial Technique - Bloody Blade Flurry: Activates your own blood, attaches your fighting energy to the weapon, and enhances the weapon's attack power. You need to consume your own blood, but I've heard that only fourth-order fighters and above can attach fighting energy to weapons?

Third-Order Magic-Shadow Bondage: Condense dark energy to bind the enemy, the binding strength is related to magic energy, and it should be useful to control skills.

Third-Order Magic-Dark Blade Raid: Condense a huge magic blade to tear the enemy, the power is related to magic energy, condensation time, long charging time, high power, and large magic consumption.

After thinking about it for a while, Ayton still chose to be bloodthirsty for the time being, with bloody blades dancing and shadow binding.

The Dark Blade Raid felt useless one-on-one, and it was easy to be injured by the first-order magic Dark Blade during the charging process, and he and Ariel were not focused on magic cultivation, a warrior and an assassin.

It was already noon after coming out of the library, and after going to the dining room with Ariel to get food, Ayton was going to go to the old man in Bahrain to have a look, and along the way the two of them also met many new-faced slaves, including many with forbidden rings on their feet or necks, they were all struggling to resist the rule of the dark elves, but they were greeted with a severe beating.

"Why do these slaves have to resist every time they are caught, and they have to be beaten to be honest. Ariel said with a cold look at her.

"Ariel" Ayton looked at Ariel, "What would happen if I were taken as a slave by the men on the ground." ”

"I'm not going to let my brother get taken away. Ariel said seriously

"What if you were caught by accident. ”

"Then I will definitely go and save my brother. ”

Ayton touched Ariel's little head, her long silky silver hair draped over her slender shoulders, and said earnestly into her ruby eyes, "If I were taken away and treated like this, would you be angry?" At the same time, he pointed to the beaten slaves in the distance.

"Of course I'm going to be angry. Ariel clenched her fists and said angrily: "I will break those people to pieces~corpse~10,000~duan~." ”

"Uh, so I hope you don't be like them in the future, understand?"

"Oh, I see. Ariel nodded as if she understood. Because she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, it was difficult for this view to really change in her mind.

Seeing Ariel's cute appearance, Ayton took Ariel's small hand and walked towards the forging area.

In the Bahrain forging room, Bahrain was listlessly beating the iron in front of him, and when he heard the footsteps at the door, he immediately knew that it was Ayton coming, and immediately threw away the hammer in his hand and walked towards the two people at the door.

"Haha, boy, you're finally here. ”

"Well, I'm sorry, I spent a day practicing magic with Ariel in the Netherworld yesterday. Ayton smiled awkwardly as he handed the dwarf the wine in his hand.

The dwarf hurriedly took the wine bottle, opened the cap and took a deep breath: "Haha, it's fire wine, boy, you really understand me, I'm almost tired of drinking wheat wine." ”

"If you have wine, you will be content, no one else can even smell the wine. ”

"Boy, did you come to me today for something, my forging skills have almost been learned by your kid, and it is difficult to teach without a Warcraft spar if you don't have a spar. ”

"Can't I look for you if it's okay" Ayton glanced at the dwarf: "Ariel and I will participate in the third-order test tomorrow, and we want to build two Nether Spirit Iron Swords, and then after the test, we can go to the Land of Trials to hunt Warcraft and obtain Warcraft crystal nuclei." ”

"Two 'excellent' Nether Swords, haha, as long as you can get the Nether Iron, it's no problem. Bahrain said excitedly: "I haven't touched a crystal nucleus for a long time, hurry up and get some crystal nuclei for me to see." ”

The crystal nucleus is essential to the dark elves, and it is said that it is needed for the maintenance of the blood moon and the teleportation array.

"Okay, okay, let's have something to eat first. Beckoning to Ariel, the three of them sat down for lunch, then said hello to Silva and went to the warehouse to get the Nether Iron.

Silva is also an old acquaintance of Ayton, and the location of the forging area is very remote, and there is basically no one to visit it in normal times. He also saw that Ayton and Bahrain had an unusual relationship, and he had been more polite to Bahrain over the years.

Back at the forge room, Balin: "You see me build a Nether Sword with inlaid grooves first, and then you come back." ”

"Okay. Ayton replied, then stared carefully at Bahrain's movements.

Ariel also watched curiously, she and Ayton had been here a few times over the years, and knew that her brother respected this dwarven senior very much.

After half a ring, a delicate long sword was baked, the total length of the sword body was 70cm, the width of the blade was 5cm, the hilt was 13cm long, the sword body was made of netherworld iron, with a dark metallic luster, non-reflective, the hilt was made of a ring pattern, there was a metal weight ball at the back, and there was a groove in the center of the sword lattice, which was used to install the Warcraft crystal nucleus in the future.

Ayton picked it up and swung it twice, and then played a set of basic sword skills, which matched his current height of 1.75 meters.

"I made the sword for you just now, now you start to build it for your sister, you should know the length or something, remember to be careful with the forging grooves. Bahrain said with a little weariness that he was just an ordinary man now, and it was a bit of a struggle to build a good weapon.

"Hmm"

"This method of building the sword body first and then inlaying the crystal nucleus was invented by me, and no one else will be able to create a weapon that can be inlaid with crystals, which is just cheap for you kid. Bahrain said proudly.

"I see, it's not like I haven't forged before. Ayton said helplessly. The dwarves began to get proud at the mention of blacksmithing, wondering what kind of master blacksmith he was in the terrestrial world.

Ayton held the hammer, closed his eyes, and thought of Ariel's figure and the weapons she was good at using, and then opened his eyes, and the whole person looked confident.

The fire of the furnace burst into flames, and the Nether Iron that had been prepared began to heat up.

The sound of "bang" iron striking sounded.

Nether Iron, produced in the Forest of Despair, that is, the forest outside the Dark Regions, is black all over, does not reflect in the dark night, and is extremely hard, making it a good material for forging weapons.

The geographical advantage of the dark elves makes them have a lot of nether ores, but the reason for the lack of excellent forgers is that only a few elites can wear nether iron weapons, and the quality of a weapon made of pure nether iron is at least a rarity, and this weapon like the one created by Bahrain can actually be inlaid with magic crystals, which means that this weapon can also be upgraded in grade.

Towards the end of the evening, Ayton was also completed.

"Ariel, how's it going, do you like it?" Ayton handed the freshly baked dagger to Ariel, who watched in silence for an afternoon. The sword is 55cm long, 4cm wide, and has a hilt of 10cm, which just matches Ariel's current height.

"Thank you brother, I like it very much. Ariel thanked her, picked up her dagger and quickly kissed Ayton on the cheek, then ran out with a red face.

"Eh" Ayton froze in place, touched his face, where was there still the lingering fragrance of the girl, this was the first time Ariel kissed him in front of others.

"That little girl likes you very much. Bahrain quipped

Ayton smiled awkwardly: "Then Bahrain, I'm also leaving, see you tomorrow." ”

"Wait a minute. Bahrain said, "I saw today that your Blood Shadow Hunting Regiment has captured a lot of slaves. ”

“.... Yes"

"After all these years of getting along, I know you're not like those dark elves. Balin looked at Ayton and said seriously: "I heard that you dark elves can participate in the duel competition after reaching the third order, and the top ten people can choose a slave as their personal property, and those who are selected will end up very miserable, with your strength, you don't want to get the championship, the top ten should still be no problem." ”

“... I understand. Ayton said, "I'll be with Ariel." "With this powerful technique, the Nether Sword in his hand, and the advanced sword skills taught by Mentor Shaperina, even if they are only in the middle of the third order now, even against other dark elves at the peak of the third order, they still have the power to fight.

Bahrain patted Ayton on the shoulder: "Let's go." ”