002 Mystic Mask
On the pitch-black surface, there is a serpentine pattern, and then there is nothing else. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Danen stared curiously at the magical serpentine pattern, this mask was nothing special except for a strange pattern.
Dann put the mask on his face and compared, only to hear the hoarse voice again: "Bring it on......"
Dan En just put the mask in front of him and tried it, and the mask was like a magnet that attracted Dan En to his face. The scene began to change, the night turned into day, and the small houses became huge palaces.
The gaze kept moving, from the opulent palace to the foul-smelling prison cell. Through the crack in the door of the prison cell, Dann saw a pair of cold eyes.
The mask was violently removed by Danen, and those eyes made Danen feel a little uncomfortable, and he stood up and gulped down cold water. Dann found that his heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of his chest.
Dann didn't know what kind of creature was behind those eyes, and at most he said it was a creature, because Dann didn't think it was a human eye, and the copper eyes barely saw the eyeballs. Dann put the mask back on, then lay down on the bed and went to sleep.
Danen slept very badly, and in a daze, he always heard someone calling his name. In the dream, it was no longer the hoarse voice, but a dark hole, and it was so cold that Dan En shivered at the thought of it.
The next day, Old Bull woke up early in the morning, found the bread on his bedside, and guessed that Dann might have returned late the previous night. He put on a fur coat and went to Dane's room, which was cold and felt much colder than the air outside.
Old Bull opened a window to let in the fresh air outside, and it felt better. He walked to Dane's bed, found Dann's brow furrowed, guessed that he must have had another nightmare, so he gently put his hand on his forehead, and after a while, Dann was no longer in pain.
He woke up slowly, saw old Boer, and said good morning to him.
"It was late last night, you shouldn't have come back from a night walk, there have been wild beasts lately, you better be careful." Old Boer said earnestly that he knew that Dan En was worried about himself, so he would come back at night.
"Don't worry, I'll be careful, today Merry has a day off for me, I haven't eaten barbecue for a long time, I'm going to hunt a few rabbits and come back." Dann said as he got dressed, he was always thoughtful.
Old Bull looked at Dan En with a complicated expression, he knew that it was useless for him to say more, "I hope you don't get eaten by wild beasts"
"When I came back yesterday, I met His Highness Opal, and as you know, I know this forest better than anyone else. If the beast is really nearby, I can also provide some help to His Highness Opal, and I really hope that they can find and destroy the beast as soon as possible. Danen said lightly, grabbing a piece of bread before leaving: "The best bread in Urum, I wish you a pleasant breakfast!" ”
Dan's purpose today is not just to hunt, he also has to go to the place where he found the mask yesterday, maybe there was something nearby that he didn't find because it was dark yesterday. The mask surprised him far more than he could have imagined, and he wanted to make sense of what was inside.
Dann soon came to the grove where he had found the mask yesterday, but he had been wandering around the woods for a long time, but he had found nothing else. Eventually, Dann left the woods and went to the place where he used to hunt, where there were several traps he had designed.
Often walking mountain roads, Dan'en walks very fast, and his small body seems to be never tireless. Because they heard that there were wild animals in the vicinity, the farmers who often went up to the mountains to hunt did not dare to come out, and they walked for most of the day without meeting a single person.
Suddenly, Dann faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves, so he quickened his pace and walked in the direction where the sound of horses' hooves had come from. But the sound of horses' hooves sounded chaotic, one moment here, the other there.
Finally, Dann saw Prince Opal and a dozen of the valiant knights beside him. And they were gathered in a circle, and in the middle of them was a wolf beast, and the wolf beast bared its fangs at them. The wolf beast sniffed the scent coming from the air and looked at Dann, who looked at it too.
A hoarse voice came from the air, and Dann looked at the wolfbeast uncertainly, and when Dann heard the voice here, he was sure that the source of the sound was the wolfbeast.
At this moment, His Highness Opal drew his sword and slashed at the wolfbeast. The wolf beast jumped up and pounced on Prince Opal's horse, and in the face of such a beast, it was difficult to be stable even on a good war horse. The frightened horse threw His Highness Opal off his horse.
Fortunately, Opal was very good and did not get thrown to the ground, and he quickly got back to his feet. Without the war horse, he was at a disadvantage, and the tall wolf beast could easily jump over him. Several knights gathered around Opal, and the rest of the knights attacked the wolfbeast.
But the wolf beast didn't seem to want to fight the knights, so it went around them and pounced on Opal. Prince Opal leaped forward, dodging the wolf's attack, then quickly turned around, and stabbed the wolfbeast's hind leg with his sword before the wolfbeast could turn around.
The wolf beast screamed, and then quickly attacked, Opal didn't expect the wolf beast to be so agile that it would fight back instantly, and before he could come back to anything, the wolf beast was already close at hand. Just as the wolfbeast's fangs were approaching Opal's throat, Dann stabbed the wolfbeast into the side of the neck.
The blood was like a gushing column of water, all over the body, and the disgusting smell made Dan En almost faint.
After disposing of the beast's carcass, Opal stepped down to Dann, who was still retching, and handed him a water bladder.
"It would be better to drink some water"
Danen turned out the water bladder and drank all the water in it in one go, and then he felt that he had some more.
"Thank you, it's much better," Dann said, returning the bladder to Prince Opal
"I should say thank you to you, if it weren't for you just now, I might have been in the belly of the wolf beast by now." Prince Opal doesn't look much older than Danen, and he is also young, but Opal has a kingly demeanor on him. Even though he was almost bitten to death by the wolf beast just now, he still looked relaxed, as if what he had just done was just a small mistake.
"It was really dangerous just now, your horse ......"
"Looks like my horse needs to be honed and honed a little more, otherwise I can't guarantee that I will meet a good helper like you every time." Opal said half-jokingly
"You're going to ride that horse, it almost killed you." Dann said worriedly that he didn't think Opal's decision was a good one.
"That horse means a lot to me," Opal said indifferently, looking into the distance, which was left to him by his mother, and he would not give it up no matter what.
"Good luck then," Dann said with a smile, wishing the Prince Opal good luck all the time.
"Thanks, you'll always be there for Merry in the future, right?" Opal asked after a while, this thin-looking boy seemed to have an infinite strength in him. The sword just now seemed to be easy, but if it weren't for a well-trained knight, it would be difficult for an ordinary person to pierce the rough neck of the wolf beast. There is another point that can also prove his strength, and that is Merry. Although the Meri people are simple, they have unimaginably high requirements for iron art, and if it weren't for the fact that he fancied Danen, even if it was a prince and general, he would definitely not accept it.
Dan En nodded, "Merry is a good master, I will always learn wrought iron from him"
When he came to the wrought iron shop the next day, Merry enthusiastically pulled Dan En to his side, "Yesterday, His Royal Highness Opal told me in detail how you rescued him, and I am proud of you." ”
Dann had never been praised so bluntly, and with some embarrassment, he took the sword from his waist and gave it back to Merry. Merry shook his head: "No, this sword will belong to you in the future, you used it to kill the wolf beast, this is its glory." ”
Dan En wanted to refuse, but Merry said that the sword was a scrap metal if he stayed by his side, so Dan accepted Merry's kindness. Being able to have a sword of his own has always been Danen's wish. The sword that Merry gave him was not as good as the swords of those princes and nobles, but it was still much better than ordinary swords.
Merry's sword was not actually forged by himself, but was given to him by a mysterious guest a long time ago. At that time, he forged a blunt sword for the mysterious guest, and the mysterious man had no money to pay at the time, so he gave the sword to Merry as a reward.
Although Merry forged a sword, he did not have a sword of his own, and Danen was in a hurry to return at night, and it was only in a hurry that he remembered the sword that had been sealed for many years. It should also be Dan'en's luck, this sword now belongs to him.
A year later, Dann learned the art of swordsmithing from Merry, and was able to forge a good sword on his own. He may have learned something from Merry, and he has always been cautious in the face of strange guests.
On this day, a masked man in black came to the wrought iron shop and asked to cast a blunt sword at any price. Dann was alone at the time, and Merry went out because something was wrong. Considering that Merry never forged swords for people he didn't know, the masked man in black in front of him, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly, Dan En was almost certain that Merry didn't know him.
Dan En was just about to open his mouth to refuse, but a breeze blew, and the veil of the man in black lifted a corner, although it was only a corner, but it was enough to surprise Dan En. Under the veil, a pair of copper-yellow eyes, the eyeballs are not visible.
Dann remembered the mask that had been forgotten by his subconscious for a long time, and the eyes that were breathtaking.
"Who are you?" Dan En looked at the man in black with some horror, and the man in black did not answer Dan En's question, but picked up Dan En's left hand and printed a snake pattern in his palm. The cold touch made Dan En shudder.
It was a April day, but Dan En felt the cold that even winter could not reach. The pattern was imprinted, but because of the cold, Dann didn't feel a trace of pain. When he looked up again, the man in black was gone, and only the cold air could prove that he was standing there.
Dann looked at the snake pattern on the palm of his left hand, and the snake's eyes were red, not the copper yellow he had seen before. Danen stared at the pattern for a long time, and suddenly, Danen seemed to see the pattern move.
A young brown snake slowly crawled out of Danen's palm, wrapped around Danen's thin arm, and after a while, the little snake seemed to be familiar with Danen's breath, and then returned to the position of the palm. During the whole process, Danen didn't dare to stare at the little snake, and as it moved, Danen only felt that his skin was cold and piercing.
When I got home in the evening, Old Bull had already prepared dinner, roast rabbit meat and pumpkin soup. Danen quickly finished his portion, and then couldn't wait to say goodnight to Old Boer, and then went back to his room.