When he reached the river, Bran grabbed a handful of sand and looked at the many muddy but translucent grains of sand scattered between his fingers, and felt satisfied.

Zoya walked up to Bran, followed Bran's example, grabbed a handful of sand, and asked, "What's here?"

"Phoenix. ”

Zoya chuckled softly, "You're lying to us again." ”

Bran was very serious, and lowered his voice, "Really, be in awe of this land. ”

Then he looked up at a young man who was about to come to the river and shouted, "Come back, are you looking for death!?" Then he quickly picked up a stone and threw it towards the river in front of the young man, and a huge figure lay there, twisting and leaving.

Bran scolded in his heart, this is not good. The teenagers who stood with Dolma were all good, but their training was not comparable to that of the Northland and the Dragoons, even if it was Bran's training in the water. The difference in the natural living environment creates a huge contrast in the perception and response to danger. Next to the small river in the royal capital, the noble lady can walk around with peace of mind, and the child can play with peace of mind, so the first reaction when you see the river is a sense of security, and it is a place to rest. But this is the Northland, and to rush to the water source is to seek death.

Looking at the pair of little dragoons beside him, and then at Zhuoma's group of teenagers, he gestured to the river and said, "Who opened their eyes?"

Aiman said, "I'll come." ”

After saying that, he drew his sword, walked to the river, and then stood there quietly. The teenagers around him looked at him nervously, and they were really startled by the huge black shadow in the river just now. A dark shadow slowly swam over, if it weren't for the nervous attention of the teenagers, I'm afraid it would really not be easy to find. As the shadow approached the shore, it fell to the bottom of the river and continued to get closer. There was a slight pause when his entire head was almost touching Aiman's feet, and before his head was about to rise, Aiman stabbed his sword out and inserted it between the shadow's eyes, and at the same time let go of his sword and leaped backwards. At this time, the beast power in the river burst out, and the whole body swooped upwards by inertia, sending his dead body to the shore.

Now the teenagers can clearly see that it is a six-legged beast several meters long, similar to a crocodile.

Bran clapped his hands and complimented, "Awesome." ”

Zoya, as if to demonstrate, walked up to Bran and asked, "How is it better than you?"

In the face of Zoya's question, Bran was a little speechless. Because the little girl took advantage of her fists and feet, she took it for granted that she was better than Aiman, who took the guy, and wanted to help herself fight for face. Looking at Zoya, who I am optimistic about you, and then looking at Erin who was smiling on the side, this matter is embarrassing. If I can win the, will I tell my sister to beat him?

Bran hurriedly diverted the topic: "We civilized people don't talk about these fights and killings, my little girl should be gentle and generous, and take you to see the real secrets of the Northland." ”

......

The word secret touched everyone around her, and even Erin, who wanted Bran to not be able to get off the stage, stopped following up.

"Remember that story, right?"

"That broken bird on your wall again?" Erin was annoyed.

"There was a nameless fire in this sandy area that burned for days and nights. Bran began to have no door on his lips, "So there must be an image of the phoenix here." ”

Erin sneered, "Liar! I asked, my dad said there are no bullshit phoenixes in the Northland." ”

Bran showed a helpless expression that you were really stupid, and retorted, "This shows that you still believe it." ”

Erin gripped her sword and took a step back to distance herself, ready to teach Bran a lesson. Aiman intervened just in time, separating the two. Bran spread out his hands and generously said that he didn't care about Erin, but the gesture had the opposite effect.

So, Bran saw Ayman take a leap and avoided him. Erin took the opportunity to swing her sword over, and Bran scolded me for really just trying to show that it didn't matter. As the teenagers watched, Bran lunged forward, trying to snatch himself into Irene's arms. A pair of short knives jumped into their hands at the same time, and with a silver starlight, they slapped away the oncoming swords. But Erin, who had been on guard, also avoided backwards, and slashed Bran staggered with two consecutive slashes.

Erin, who wished to see the silver starlight, was even more excited. She loved the light of the knife, the scattered points of light, the dreamy feeling that seemed to be something she could hold with her hand. So she swung her sword faster and faster, causing Bran to dance in front of her.

A cat's howl behind her interrupted Erin's excitement, and she felt a chill in the back of her neck, forcing her to take a step to the side, leaning sideways to put her sword in a defensive stance. Bran's dagger was put away as soon as she stopped, then spread her hands and shouted, "Tie, draw." ”

Looking at Bran's outstretched hands, Erin felt a sense of sullenness. And because he was in a state of being caught between the black cat Huahua and Bran, he was really a little hard, so he was a little unsatisfied, a little regretful, a little helpless, and reluctantly responded: "Let me let you go this time." ”

......

Bran clapped his hands, and when the interference did not occur, he continued to speak: "This is the Northland, not the realm where the dragoon bird doesn't. It was a good breath, and Bran had a feeling of getting back on the field. "There are many ancient presences, ancient secrets. ”

Bran bewitched: "And now an ancient secret is at your feet, and it is very likely that you will discover it if you bend down a little and pick up the sand of the river under your feet." Even if you don't find out, what do you have to lose? It's all worth it compared to the search for ancient secrets. ”

With that, Bran ignored the teenagers, pretended to find a safe spot away from the river, and began to dig a sand pit. Digging a sand pit by the river or sea is a lot of fun, and you'll come across all sorts of beautiful stones, shells and even amber, and if you're not too lucky, there's always a catch or two.

So on the river beach, the teenagers who were skeptical at first kept exclaiming, and kept showing various discoveries in front of others, and the atmosphere became more and more high.

The little dragoon brother and sister were very close to Bran, and the two talked in a low voice, "How is it?"

Erin smiled and said, "I'm not as fast as him, but he's not as strong as mine." I suddenly turned up the speed as fast as I could, and he took it easily. ”

"How bad?"

"It's a lot worse, his knife is weird, he actually keeps slamming my sword away, which doesn't hurt the speed, but he still seems to be relaxed.

Then, I increased my strength and disrupted his rhythm. His skills are different from those of the Northlanders I've seen before, when the strength increases to a certain extent, the result of the collision is as if he is just passively accepting, and there is not much resistance, which makes you feel like the power is empty, and he is more like he is using the inertia brought by the weight of the weapon itself to resist my blows. But he wasn't easy, and from his reaction, it was a bit reluctant to keep up with me.

His use of weapons is more interesting, more like throwing them at breakneck speed. ”

Speaking of this, Erin casually threw a stone at her brother. "That's it, when you want to shock him back by blocking and other methods, he is basically disengaged from the weapon, and he himself will not be visibly shaken.

At first, he almost suffered a loss, so he pressed him with a hammer and asked him to take it if he wanted to.

Against him, as long as he is not attacked by sneak attacks at first, he can basically be pressed and beaten. ”

Speaking of this, I couldn't help but smile and look at my brother, who was a little embarrassed. "Don't you think Bran's movements are a little too much like the women of the Northland?" and then he laughed, without any image, and patted his brother on the shoulder from time to time, causing the boys on the beach to look at them in unison.

At the mention of Bran, the siblings' eyes turned to him, and their eyes began to widen. At this time, Bran was carefully lifting the egg the size of a human head, with a fluorescent surface reflecting from the sand pit, clear and transparent. Facing the sun, Bran held the egg above his head, and the siblings saw a golden shadow composed entirely of light in the egg. Then, for the first time, Aiman knew that his sister could still scream when she was laughing, and in the midst of the scream he heard her slightly unfamiliar and unbelieving, surprised tone: "Phoenix!"

Then, he saw Bran take the egg in his arms and protect it, all light and shadow disappeared, and he felt an unspeakable sense of loss.