Chapter 159: The Stranger in White
Time: 10/10/23/Blackgate/Location: Undercity VIP Guest House
Early the next morning, when we had packed our bags, we went to bid farewell to the Grand Dukes, who, without exception, refused to be received, apparently still haunted by our attack on the Queen. Only two generals, Finn and Kalentin, treated us well and sent us out of the city in person.
Kalentin was still unpredictable, he always seemed to be smiling, and everyone shivered when his gaze swept over everyone. Of course, Finn was more cheerful than him, and said goodbye to me, and said that after the deployment work at hand was completed, he would take the soldiers to the Eastern Plague Land for reinforcements, after all, the elimination of natural disasters is the first priority, and told me to be careful and not to give up my life.
Karen Ding unhurriedly put his finger in his mouth and whistled, and an old undead in the shape of a dwarf drove a carriage slowly through the secret door of the emergency flood channel.
Karen Ding was a young man when he was alive, and his mana cultivation was admired by both Abby and Yuna, what is his origin? This may not even be clear to the queen, but since he died near Lordaeron, he is probably also one of the archmages of Dalaran, but his reputation is not as loud as those old men. Both he and Finn were lifelike undead, and death had not left them with much decay or mutilation, and their faces were no different from those of ordinary people, only thinner and paler.
Karen Ding smiled and handed me the wheel of the carriage of the dead, saying, "This is a little bit of my personal heart, and I hope my friends will laugh at it." β
I stroked the vertebrae of the two skeletal war horses, squeezed out a smile, and admitted: "Thank you, Lord Meijihou, the last conflict was our fault, I hope you will convey my apologies in front of the queen." β
Karen Ding responded with an unpredictable expression: "I will, Your Majesty didn't complain about you, it's just that those martial artists don't know what to do, I will make some reasonable explanations, as for the two great pharmacists, as far as I know, they have a good relationship with you, and they are the biggest beneficiaries of yesterday's incident, so I don't think I blame you." It's just that they want to continue to do that gesture, so they close the door. β
"What about you, didn't you save me yesterday and increase your horses and cars today?"
Karen Ding: "Human words are not necessarily terrible, in the summary I am personally willing to be friends with a few heroes, in the general sense we are allies in the fight against natural disasters." I don't think anyone else can tell what I'm not. In yesterday's incident, Brother Finn and I tried to protect the king without hurting you, and perhaps this was the only correct answer to the king's problem. β
Fein said, "I don't understand again, isn't it better to counter the enemy on the premise of protecting the king?"
Karen Ding: "Then why didn't you make a move?"
Finn was choked up, and hurriedly explained: "Brother Yu is powerful and has excellent swordsmanship, I can't fight back!"
The sirens blushed and bowed their heads in silence. Anyone could see that Finn was not using his full strength at that time, he only used one hand, and did not use a single sword move.
Karen Ding did not expose Finn's lies: "Oh, you have a reason, I have a reason, no one knows what Her Majesty thought at the time, but she did not exude a trace of murder, if she wanted to kill someone, she would have done it herself, there is only one possibility for her to watch us fight with the heroes, and that is a test." And when the giant axe flew close to the head, the queen's left hand finally touched the handle of [Bliss] for the first time, and I guessed her attitude at once. "I couldn't help but be impressed by his insight, where a normal person would only focus on the axe flying in the air, while he could see the Queen's hand obscured by Faranier's body. At a glance, and then immediately cast a spell to knock down the giant axe, how fast did his brain turn?
Finn even asked all the words in his heart: "What is the origin of this guy?"
Karontin: "Didn't I tell you, Lord Oni, that I was just a cleaner and librarian in the Violet Tower. β
Finn shook his head and said, "Maybe it's because of this identity that the Lich King didn't take you seriously, and didn't bring you back to Northrend for reuse, otherwise it's really terrible to set up an opponent like you." β
Karen Ding: "Mutual friend, Brother Finn, please come tomorrow to tell the next story, there is something ... β
We said goodbye to the two of them, and set up a carriage and headed east, with which it was, of course, much faster than on foot, and in less than three days we had crossed the Beech Bridge over the Sodoril River, and also past the hidden sign of Dalonshire in the artemisia.
As soon as I crossed the wooden bridge, I saw a dwarf girl in a black and white striped robe holding a short cane on the side of the road, and before I could beckon Minna and Bestler to rein in the horses, she was already quietly sitting next to Xiaoxiao, both of whom had a pair of bright and huge eyes on their small faces, like a pair of young twins.
Abby exclaimed, "Xiaoxiao, you made this out of paper?"
Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "How do you think she just jumped up, right?"
"Uh~~~ She's the bronze dragon princess Chromie. I hurriedly explained.
Cromi stroked her long silver hair and said to Abby, "We've met, in Andorhar." β
Abby: "The giant girl?"
Chromie pushed Darwin's head hard and complained, "It's all your fault, I've been so big for half a month!"
Darwin deliberately tilted his eyes to the side, and blew a string of whistles that pretended to be lighthearted.
"Why are you here, are you going with us to save the Chapel of Light's Wishes?"
Chromie swayed his little calf dangling under the chair: "I'm more concerned about the fate of a little sister. β
"Where is she?"
Chromie: "Stop, she's in Talon County." β
Half an hour later, the carriage was locked to a broken red pine by Minna and Best, and we took our respective luggage and headed out into town.
Before the invasion, Talon County was the largest grain producer in the kingdom of Lordaeron, and the wheat supply from {Statum City} in the north, to my hometown {Tallenmere} in the south and {Southsea Town} all came from Talon County, and the Hillsbrad Farm next door to my hometown only produced apples, pears, grapes and other fruit crops. It is ridiculous that the head of the village committee, headed by the town mayor, the women's director and others, and even the ordinary villagers did not realize the severity of the war at that time in such a critical situation, and simply thought that Lordaeron and Dalaran were impregnable, and the war could not harm Hillsbrad. Thinking about it now, it was so stupid at the time, as long as you evacuated, there would be no casualties.
Thinking of this, it suddenly occurred to me that everything was secretly planned by An Shibai, and even if I hid for a while, my fate might not change much. What I want to do is to change the fate of more people, such as the little girl I want to find now.
Chromie told us that she was a lively and cute little girl, she had saved the girl's life in Andohar, her name was [Pamela], she was about six years old this year, and she still spoke with a milky smell, but she was kinder than many people at the moment, even before the zombie who attacked her was pulled off by Chromie, Pamela pleaded for that thing, she said, "Don't kill, Doudou Bear thinks it's wrong to kill someone." β
The scarecrow poked in the field shook its arms by the wind, its torso was black, the color of the dried blood, and the endless white and red pressed down on the artemisia grass that should have grown wildly. Between the two ridges, there was a dilapidated windmill, and seven or eight fan blades were chained, and seven or eight charred human figures were tied. In this place where the heavens can't bear to look at it directly, there are endless fiery clouds rolling in the sky, and sometimes the clouds suddenly cast a flash of lightning when they pass slowly, and the drink makes people frightened and chilled.
The mountains in the distance are continuous, and the light of the sun can only reflect the red of the farmland through the burning clouds, but it does not shine on the low buildings that cannot be seen as far as the eye can see. It was a reflection of the city of vain, with farmhouses and dwellings charred by fire, large walls standing strong and abrupt, every door and window in them gone, and green ghostfire running through them. The last farmland near the town was littered with rusty blades and broken staffs, and a towering banner stood in the middle, embroidered with a red heart entwined in snakes, and the colorful python's body embroidered with the spelling of Redpass. The surface of the banner was cut to shreds, and it was also stained black with internal organs and blood.
Chromie: "Redpass is the family name of the little sister, a great surname, in the battle of the Scourge to capture Talon County, only the family troops of Redpass stubbornly resisted the Scourge army and fought to the last man. β
The siren suddenly said to himself: "Ha, the 73rd generation guardian of [Mixed Wheel Heavenly Decision], but I can only give you a funeral, and I have no chance to compete with you... β
"Siren, are you talking about a good sword?"
Siren: "Not only a good sword, the seven deaths of the sage, its benefits are the strongest." It's the [Mixed Wheel Heavenly Decision], which belongs to the 36 Divine Swords, and is one of the seven most powerful of them. Its trait is that when it is stained with the blood of the enemy, it has a half chance to directly infuse the will of the Grim Reaper, directly turning the opponent into a puddle of pus and blood. β
"With such a strong artifact, I'm afraid it has already fallen into the hands of the natural calamity. Wouldn't it be too tricky to have such a thing in the world?"
Siren: "It's not as exaggerated as you think, the user must at least have a certain degree of swordsmanship in order to give full play to its characteristics, otherwise your sword blade will not touch the enemy's blood at all, and it will be completely useless." The second point is that even if you hit the opponent, there is a 50% chance that it will not produce a blood transformation effect, and the outcome is still unknown. Therefore, the sword intent of this sword is all in the word "Heavenly Decision", and it has lost the purpose of putting swordsmanship first. In my words, it's nothing more than a bastard's sword. β
Chromie: "That Excalibur slashed countless undead natural disasters, and in the end, Joseph, that is, Pamela's father, was also turned into pus by his own sword, and his bones were gone, and the green liquid under that banner was probably him." β
Together with the siren, I asked, "What opponent can take his sword?"
Chromie's deep, resentful gaze swept over the banner: "It wasn't taken away, but it was just a move that swung back to the heavens, causing the blade to sweep through Joseph's own veins." β
Without the siren explanation, I can also surmise that the enemy's brawl and swordsmanship are 1 or 2 levels stronger than [Joseph Redpass], otherwise it would be impossible for a swordsman to be killed by his own sword. After the Battle of Andohar, although the losses of the natural disaster are huge, but when you pinch your fingers, the only one who can be named is Best's stepmother - Queen Spider [Maxner], two unknown flesh and blood giants, a bone dragon, Black Widow Farina. The week that followed, three Druid Masters and the War Tree slaughtered the Abomination General Parchwick, and we destroyed the Cursed Cult's lair in a crushing victory. But the natural disaster has not hurt his vitality, Kel'thugad is still alive in the world, I don't know how many lives Anubarak has left, that guy's vitality is like an unkillable Xiaoqiang, it's a headache. We know very well that the natural disasters in the Eastern Kingdom are only the tip of the iceberg, and the endless army is still fighting against several large unknown forces in Northrend, and no reporter dares to go to the Northrend front in person, so the local resistance movement does not know whether it is winning or losing, judging from Hule's battle report, when he landed on the Extremely Cold Continent five years ago, the natural disaster did not have a trace of defeat, and even completely suppressed the rest of the forces. Although Bester was born in the kingdom of Eldraine, he has never traveled far away, and he does not know the true face of the Northrend Resistance.
We moved forward with our own sorrows in our hearts. Suddenly, Chromie said lightly, "It seems that we are not alone. "I immediately followed her example, looked around, and didn't make much of a difference. I saw that under the dark foothills in the southeast, two people in white clothes were floating quickly, the two of them held hands, seemed to be jumping, every time after sliding dozens of meters, the person in front of them would touch the ground with one foot, and then take off again and continue to glide towards the county, looking like two vigorous birds, the person in the head was obviously a man, and the one behind was full of blonde hair, it was a young girl, they both half-covered their faces, and they couldn't see their facial features clearly when they were too far away.
On the other hand, there were several obscene black shadows in the northwest, a total of five people, judging from their movements, they all received extremely heavy spell damage, and as if they were evading someone's pursuit, they crawled to the outer wall of Talon County. Less than a hundred meters behind these men, a figure in black clothes and black armor slowly followed, he was a cat that was catching mice, but he wanted to swallow their trembling bodies after their prey had been tortured. The guy was farther away from us, and we could only see a terrifying shadow.
I whispered to my companions, don't act rashly yet, the situation here is complicated, and you must not act rashly. Before I could explain clearly, there was a loud noise of hundreds of horses galloping behind me, and we turned sharply to look back, and the sight before me was suddenly frightened on the spot.
How could it be? Hundreds of horses and their knights, along with the black-pressed infantry battle regiment behind them, quietly galloped to a distance of less than a meter from us.
"[Endless Winter]!" the three staffs plunged into the ground at the same time, and the monstrous waves of frost condensation rushed towards the army, and in an instant, the things in front of them were covered by ice mist, and when the fog dissipated, the army disappeared from the place where they had just been.
Chromie: "Silly girl, why do you spend precious mana? It's just a flashback of time, often on the battlefield. β
Abby's eyes widened in anger, "You!no!early!say!"
Yuna quickly reached out and held the poisonous hook of the scorpion on her mouth, these days she has to do this every time she eats or wants to talk to avoid being stung by the scorpion, but this spell is really unsolvable, after returning to the Undercity, we used various ways to try to remove the scorpion, but in vain, and finally proved that this little scorpion is not a creature, but a pure soul power spell, before I contact Lilith, it is estimated that it will not be able to take it off, but even in such an embarrassing situation, she still has to complain about Abby:" If someone had learned the power of the arcane earlier, why should they worry about not having enough mana?"
Abby: "You're going to let that thing sting, maybe we're going to shut you up completely." β
"Don't quarrel yet! Look at the mast in that town, the white flag has been raised. "There was a flagpole in the village that was bare just a moment ago, but at some point a huge flag with gold on a white background was raised, and the pattern was a golden six-pointed cross.
Minna and I looked at each other and said, "Is this the arrival of the church?"
I shook my head and stared at the flag, "No, the Archscopal of Lordaeron has long since been destroyed, and the banner of the Silver Dawn is not like this. β
Best: "So that's not a sign of the church?"
"Yes and no, this is the symbol of the Church more than twenty years ago, and the Holy See changed the logo once after the Second Extermination War, and this graphic is a graphic that even I have only read in books. β
As we were talking, we were already in front of the town gate, and the man in white jumped up on the mast in only three or two steps, and he stepped on the round head of the pole with one foot, and curled up easily in the socket of the other leg with the other, and the robe was torn by the wind, and the wavy folds of the robe, and the high collar under his neck was raised, and the golden trim neatly covered all the edges of the white robe, and between his collar was an imperceptible piece of white cardboard, which was the Roman collar which was necessary for a priest. Most of this man's face was covered by a mask, revealing only long shawl hair like frost and snow, two eyebrows were black, and a pair of eyes were like the water of a blue pool, exuding vitality, and although the bridge of his nose was covered, it still could not hide his height. The two cheekbones arched a warm pink on his face, and he might be smiling at me.
Abby: "It's not good, this guy's magic is a black hole of holy light, it's endless!"
"How is it better than the one in Stormwind?"
Abby stared, beads of sweat rolled down her forehead, and her little face collapsed instantly: "It's not an order of magnitude, if it's a river, this person is the sea!"
"What about me?"
Abby replied without hesitation, "River ditch!"
I almost vomited blood in anger, but looking at Abby's serious expression, it seemed like she wasn't joking.
The man waved at me from the flagpole, and I made a Mass gesture with a thumbs up to my lips. He nodded, grabbed the flag, and the holy light rushed out from his fingers, and the blazing flames ignited the cloth, and then with a wave of his long arm, the entire banner shattered into bits of gold, like falling rain, and the golden rain poured down, covering the figures of several people.
I immediately reported that he was provoking! He was saying that the Light was dead!
A loud scream erupted in one of the houses in the middle of town, and we all shook our eyes, and when we looked up at the flagpole again, the man in white was goneγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγ (Rabbit pen Kang slugging cow)