Chapter 297: The Vortex That Can't Be Escaped
Located in the southwest of Querofi, at the foot of the famous Serola Mountains, the Saarland Estate is covered with lush camphor forests, which are still green even in the harsh winter, and the clear water flowing from the mountains trickles down like a silver snake into the rippling blue waters of the Yue'er Lake below, and the air is surrounded by the faint fragrance of plants and trees to give a relaxing and unforgettable heart, and the renovated Saarland Manor is naturally quiet and wonderful.
Every spring and summer, the people of Quirofi will especially love to go to the foot of the Serola Mountains to go on a hunting trip, in the wonderful and quiet nature can always wash away and purify the tired soul, although the area around the Salland Manor is not allowed to approach, but the adults of the Serola Mountains have a lot to go, but everyone will more or less look forward to the beautiful scenery in the Salland Manor.
The distance between Querofi and the Salland estate is not far, and it can be reached in half an hour if you are quick to get there, and it only takes about an hour if you take a horse-drawn carriage and enjoy the scenery along the way, because Viscount Morroen once opened a wide and flat road directly to the Salland estate.
After identifying the direction of the Guards, Barrett was able to immediately determine where the other party was heading because there was only the vast Serola Mountains outside of Salland Manor, and it was impossible for the Guards to go out lightly in the middle of the night, so it only meant that they must have been given a confidential and important mission.
Unfortunately, he was no longer able to return to his proudest Guards.
The silent dispatch of the Guards did not alarm the sleeping people of Quirofi, after all, not all of them drank and chatted in the middle of the night on the high part of the attic, like Auden and Barrett.
After the Guards disappeared into the slowly opening gates in the distance, Barrett came back to his senses to see Auden still staring in the direction of the Guards' departure.
"Hey! Buddy! What are you thinking? ”
Barrett shook his body and reached out to pat Auden on the shoulder and said drunkly.
"Oh. Oh...... It's nothing. It's just that I suddenly felt a little emotional. Barrett's pat on the shoulder immediately cleared Auden's head.
"Emotion? How? Remember your previous military career? Haha...... "Barrett knows about Auden's past. At the same time, he knew that even if the man in front of him had degenerated into a mercenary and wandered around, his heart still longed for the days when he once commanded the army, everyone had their glorious times, and that time was often the place they were most worthy of nostalgia and pride.
"Maybe, don't say it, don't say it, drink and drink!"
Auden smiled bitterly as if he had felt something, and in a moment he shouted at Barrett with a hearty smile.
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Dirt paved compacted on a wide road. The bitter cold of winter froze the earth even more, and a silently marching procession suddenly appeared silently, wearing pitch-black armor that enveloped their bodies, with a finger-wide dagger hanging from their waists, pulling the reins of horses in one hand, and holding sharp spears standing upright in the other.
And the most striking thing was a man at the front of the line.
His back was majestic, his blood-red cloak whistling in the cold wind, and the helmet he wore obscured his appearance. Only a pair of narrow and deep eyes were revealed, although he was silent on the horse. However, there is a certain mysterious temperament in his hands and feet, which is awe-inspiring.
He is Eckhart, known as the Blood Cross, and the deputy commander of the Guards under Viscount Moron.
His origins are as unknown as the Radiant Knight Alonsos, and no one knows when they appeared to serve under Viscount Moron, but suddenly one day, they appeared like this, and became the strongest help for Viscount Moronne to sweep all directions.
Time passed slowly, passing through the fragrant camphor forest, passing by the moon lake reflecting the hazy moonlight, and in the distance, the outline of the Salland Manor was in front of me.
Eckhart didn't give any orders, the team kept moving forward, according to normal times, the average general would start to disperse the team to form an encirclement as he got closer to the target in an attempt to prevent the target from escaping, but Eckhart didn't, maybe because he was confident and conceited, maybe he was ...... I don't think it's necessary.
When he was still dozens of paces away from Salland Manor, Eckhart finally raised his hand, and the Guards behind him suddenly stood still.
Eckhart jumped out of the group alone and rode in the direction of the gate of Salland's manor, for he saw two men, two men who dared to stand in their way.
One is familiar, the other is unfamiliar.
Suddenly, he stopped his horse, rolled over and jumped off the horse.
The distance between the two is only ten steps.
"Frank. Xia Lan? ”
Eckhart's voice was very low, even a little hoarse.
Xia Lan stood beside Pandelia, holding the "gale" in one hand, and he could imagine his caution towards the person in front of him, but his face was as indifferent and calm as ever.
"Who are you?"
He asked.
"Mutin. Eckhart. ”
Eckhart's hand under his cloak slowly lifted up until he paused in his chest, and a wide blood-red cross-sword suddenly appeared from his hand with a violent glow.
"Bloodcross Eckhart?"
Xia Lan's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Blood Cross is the name people give me, but I never admit that I am Eckhart, not Blood Cross!" Eckhart stuck the blood-red cross-sword in his hand into the ground, and his hands rested on the hilt of the sword.
"Hehe-"
The corners of Xia Lan's mouth suddenly hooked up a subtle arc.
"Maybe you forgot to tell me your other identity, a devout Templar who serves the Radiant Temple!"
As soon as the words fell, Pandelia, who was beside Xia Lan, suddenly looked at Eckhart with wide eyes full of incredulity, and then she looked at Xia Lan and trembled: "Your Excellency Xia Lan, are you telling the truth?" Is Lord Eckhart really the most combative Templar of the Radiant Templar? ”
"You should ask him this question, not me." Charland Road.
He wasn't wrong. I am indeed a Templar belonging to the Third Order of the Far West Branch of the Radiant Templar! ”
Eckhart opened his mouth in surprise.
Xia Lan was not surprised by this. Because he knew the style and spirit of the Templars.
Geng's outspokenness was part of their oath to join the Templars.
Especially this old-fashioned Templar. They almost never tell a half-lie.
It's just that it's strange that Eckhart told him in such detail about his origins, maybe this can show that he doesn't mind that Xia Lan knows his identity at all, and even the Guards and Pandelia behind him don't care.
"You're here to kill me?"
After a moment of silence, Xia Lan spoke.
"Yes, today you must die." Eckhart said.
"Viscount Moron's order to kill?" Xia Lan asked.
"Yes." Eckhart said.
"No leeway?" Xia Lan asked again.
This time, Eckhart didn't answer.
I see, it seems that I guessed correctly.
Then. He pulled Pandelia beside him in front of him at once, and the "gale" in his hand stabbed directly into Pandelia's back with lightning speed, and the half-cut sword body glowing with blue light pierced out of Pandelia's heart in an instant.
"Do you think Viscount Moron still wants to kill me now?"
Xia Lan said as she stared at Eckhart in the distance with an expressionless face, ignoring Pandelia, who had collapsed in pain and shock in front of her.
Eckhart was silent, his gaze fell on Pandelia on the ground, blood gradually stained her heart, her face and breathing became paler and weaker, she bit her lip tightly, her fists clenched, and her pupils began to dilate. But she didn't want to let out a groan of pain until she died, gradually. She closed her eyes......
"She's not dead."
Eckhart said suddenly.
"Yes, but if you forget that she bleeds too much, she will really die, and your time is running out." Xia Lan said calmly.
"Are you willing?!" Eckhart said in a deep voice.
"You should ask Viscount Moron about this." Xia Lan smiled weirdly.
"Withdraw!"
Without saying a word, the blood-red cross-sword that Eckhart held in his hand disappeared immediately, and he turned back to the horse, jumped up, pulled the reins and turned the horse's head and left!
The Guards, who had remained silent, did not say anything, but simply separated a passage for Eckhart to pass through and left after him.
Charan stood motionless until the Guards and Eckhart's breath were out of his sense and he was sure that they were really leaving, and then he picked up the bloodied Pandelia and quickly turned back to the manor.
On the huge bed, Xia Lan cleanly stripped Pandelia, revealing her graceful and seductive snow-white **, and the position of the sword wound in the heart, so he could not avoid seeing the two tiny reds on her snow-white breasts.
Xia Lan's eyes trembled slightly, and there were suddenly two more bottles of red potion in her hand, one bottle was liquid, and the other bottle was powdered, the liquid medicine was poured directly into her mouth, and the powder medicine was poured and smeared on the bloody wounds on her chest and back, and with the common healing of the airflow in his body, her wounds no longer bleed, and her weak heartbeat and breathing gradually stabilized......
After wrapping the prepared white bandage around her chest, Xia Lan, who had done this qiē healing work, was immediately relieved, and as soon as the futon was covered, he left directly from the side of the bed.
"They withdrew?"
Not far away, Serrala, who was sitting on the sand, looked at Xia Lan who came in high spirits and smiled reluctantly, but her legs on the sand trembled slightly from time to time.
Xia Lan came to the sand and sat directly beside Serala, and said with a slightly solemn expression: "There is no trace of their aura in the perception, and it is not excluded that they have the ability to conceal the aura, especially Eckhart, even if I condense the perception, I am afraid it will be difficult to detect his existence." ”
"Don't worry, they should have evacuated." Serala reassured: "Eckhart's decisive evacuation shows that he must have explained something before he left. ”
"You've been watching from the windowsill?" Charland Road.
"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't be able to judge something accurately." Salara said softly.
"Is your body okay?"
Xia Lan looked at Serra and tightened her slender white legs.
Serala blushed slightly and lowered her head and said, "No problem, but my body is still a little weak." ”
"Really?"
Xia Lan's fingers flashed, and a bottle of potion appeared in his hand and handed it to the other party.
"Drank it."
"Healing potions?"
Holding it in her hand and observing the medicine bottle in her hand, Serra pulled out the bottle and drank it all, and soon, she felt a warm breath in her body from the inside out, and her tight legs also stopped trembling slightly, perhaps because of the strong medicinal effect, a sleepiness made her drowsy, and after a while, she fell asleep on Xia Lan's shoulder.
After taking out a futon to cover his body, Xia Lan's body moved, and the whole thing disappeared into the room.
"I didn't expect you to come back!"
In the hall of the manor, Xia Lan came from the darkness, her eyes fixed on the tall and majestic figure in the center of the hall.
"Don't worry, I'm not here to kill you! I came back just to ask you a question! Eckhart carried Charanda on his back.
"Say!"
"How did you know my identity?" Eckhart said.
"Confused, isn't it?" Xia Lan suddenly smiled and said, "It is undeniable that you have well concealed the aura of the Templar power in your body, but those who are familiar with the Templars' way of acting can see the clues revealed in you, besides, the fact that the Templars support Viscount Moron is not a secret in the eyes of some people!" ”
"Are you the one who was discussed by the ancestors?" Eckhart finally turned to face Xia Landao.
"It's not!" Xia Lan said dryly.
"Tower of Magic?" Eckhart asked again.
"It's not." Xia Lan still denied it.
"Enemies?"
"There are no eternal enemies in this world, only eternal interests."
"I'll bring that to the viscount."
With that, Eckhart walked straight out the hall door.
"Wait."
Suddenly, Charan opened her mouth and stopped Eckhart.
"Sometimes, maybe you can consider a better puppet."
Eckhart glanced back at Charan deeply.
"I'll take that back with me as well."
"I hope it's a pleasure to work with." Xia Lan smiled.
Eckhart didn't look back, and the next moment he disappeared into the darkness.
"I wonder if the seed planted today will be able to sprout in the future?" Xia Lan muttered: "If we don't show our strength, I'm afraid it will be difficult to stir up their internal relations at all, if the ancestors also participate in the meeting, tsk...... It's really something to look forward to. ”
Their strength is too weak now, so weak that it could dissipate and perish at any moment.
However, they still have a chance to fight for a chance to survive in such a desperate situation!
O people of Western Sinia! Your poor and pathetic princess awaits your deliverance! (To be continued......)
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