fifty-four
"Captain, the small force that the enemy is chasing has already joined the ranks behind the large force!" Guderian was leading his team on foot towards the Asgar City Wall under the scorching sun, when a cavalryman caught up from the rear and stopped in front of Guderian and hurried. The team stopped with Guderian for a moment, and all looked at Guderian. Guderian had a big quarrel with the general over the abandonment of the fortress of the Asgar Mountain Road, so that the entire squadron was not treated well by the general, and was sent to open the way and take charge of the chores of camping. At this time, Guderian's team left the main force for about ten miles, and after hearing the news, Guderian estimated that the position of the enemy's battle with our army was probably in the area of the old road of the dry river. After thinking for a while, Guderian gave the order to the team: "Throw away all kinds of tools and unnecessary loads, and return to the rescue at full speed!"
When the team arrived at the battlefield, the large army that had just caught up with the enemy and the dragon guards were charging each other. The scouts sent by the dragon guards in both the north and south directions also shrank back. So the repetitive dream continued to repeat itself in the charge......
...... When Guderian woke up, he found himself tightly held in Natasha's arms. The confusion of his memory made Guderian stunned slightly, and then sat up straight from Natasha's arms.
"What's wrong?" asked Natasha with concern. The two of them had already bypassed Pearl City and arrived at the underground river along the dark passage that the lich had spoken of. The eagerness to return to the surface made the two of them quicken the pace of their journey, and it was only after finally getting closer and closer to the surface that they had a rare good night's sleep. At this time, the two of them were in a cave on the right side of the river, and the sound of the raging river washing over both sides of the river outside was endless. The small cavern was illuminated by Natasha's light spell, and the two had been hugging each other and leaning against the corner of a blanket. Perhaps because of the river, the temperature here is relatively lower than in the underworld, and it is slightly colder.
"Hmm...... It's okay. Guderian smiled at Natasha, but the smile was sad and bitter. The battle of the entire Asgar Mountain Road Fortress to the Asgar Plains was clear in his mind.
"I remember the battle between the Dragonguards and the Plains in the Asgard Mountain Path. Soldiers, partners, generals...... They are all dead in battle......" Guderian smiled with tears streaming down his face. Although he personally escorted their bodies and ashes after amnesia, he was also sad, angry and unwilling at that time, but it was not mixed with the emotions between him and them at that time. Now that he remembered the bits and pieces of the time he had lived and fought with them, he had gone from an outsider to an insider, and the impact was completely different.
Natasha gently hugged the man who had survived the battlefield, wiped the tears from his face with pity, and said softly, "You are all heroes. "Natasha had read the military newspaper and knew how lucky Guderian was to survive. In that decisive battle, there was no one on either side except for the surviving Guderian, and even General Lyon hated it, so you can imagine how tragic the battle situation was at that time. This made her feelings for this man even more out of control. What woman doesn't want her lover to be a hero who stands up to the sky? Guderian's battle on the Asgar Mountain Road and the plains is a hero's performance.
Of course, in the propaganda of the kingdom, the most glorious image of the generals of the army is Rogris. His personal strength and merits are actually similar to Guderian's. It's just that the commander Odin with him, whose military rank is not stuck like Guderian, and coupled with the early control of the awakened blood and the handsome and mighty image, he naturally became the spokesperson of the kingdom's army. The heroes in the minds of the people are still the portraits of the uniforms that can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of Rogrisna.
"When I'm back on the surface, I'm going to get the dragon guard back over. Guderian put his face on Natasha's face, and her gentleness became his safe haven.
"Hmm. I applied to the military department to be transferred to the Dragon Guard to be your military mage. Natasha's face turned hot and red again. I thought that I could get along day and night in the future......
Guderian and Natasha looked at each other, and the amount of tenderness and sweetness hidden in them was immeasurable.
"Thank you. Natasha. ”
The two got tired of it for a long time and started to hit the road again. The tunnels along the river were so rugged and sometimes steep that Guderian would have had to go into the water and rush over them in order to continue without Natasha's presence. When the two noticed that the river was slower and wider, they knew that the end of the river was not far from them.
Finally, in Natasha's light technique, a huge vortex appeared in front of the two of them. It is a cave with a radius of no less than 200 meters, and the gentle water in this cave converges into a lake with whirlpools. The whirlpool is about fifty meters in diameter, like the mouth of a monster, silently devouring the lake.
"The master said that going out of the whirlpool is the junction between the Inca Empire and the kingdom. I just don't know how deep this whirlpool exit is. Natasha stared at the whirlpool.
"I can probably breathe for more than a quarter of an hour, and even if I have blood control, I can't last long. And water pressure is also a big problem. Guderian looked at Natasha with some embarrassment.
"Have you forgotten who I am?" Natasha smiled lightly and gave Guderian a blank look, "I'll just bless us with an anti-stress shield." As for breathing, I don't have to worry about breathing, I pump the air from the water all the way into the shield. As long as my mental strength is not exhausted, we don't have to worry about drowning. ”
Guderian really didn't know that magic had such a function, and couldn't help but wonder: "Wouldn't the mages be able to dive into the deep sea to do intelligence reconnaissance for the sea clan?"
"It's not impossible to dive into the deep sea, but the bottom of the sea is wider than the land and the terrain is more complex, and no mage can do this task. In addition, even if you find the settlement of the Sea Clan, you must beware of their mages, and in the event of a battle, the spells that human mages can use in the sea will be dwarfed. Natasha explained.
"I've always wondered what magic is, I can feel the power of magic, but I can't feel it in detail. Guderian asked.
"In addition to cultivating spiritual power and learning more knowledge to understand the principles and structures of various spells, the mage himself has no magical power. Magic is a substance that exists everywhere in nature and has a very high compatibility. The generation of magic is to use mental power to drive magic power to construct and derive elements that need to be filled in the magic structure. For example, in the ice spear technique, the spiritual power drives the magic power to fill the spell structure, and after the magic power is derived, the water element will be derived and then condensed into ice, where the role of the magic power is a kind of intermediary or lubrication. Rather than directly composing the final form of the spell from the substance of mana. In the absence of the attributes of the spell model and qualitative model constructed by the spiritual power, it will not play any role if the spiritual power is used to communicate the magic power. The appearance of magic, if you have to describe it specifically...... Well...... It's just not there. It does not exist in any known form, it can be said that it is ethereal and ubiquitous, and its existence can only be perceived when the spiritual power reaches a certain level. Natasha spoke in detail, so that Guderian could hear the clouds, but he still roughly understood what magic was and what its properties were.
"Since the mage himself has no other power except spiritual power and knowledge, he can also train his physical body. Guderian said.
"Of course. Mages are not synonymous with physical weakness. In the initial stage, each mage is not much different from the physical training of a warrior. It's just that with the improvement of mental power, there are too many knowledge and spell models that need to be learned, so there is not so much time to continue to improve the physical strength of the training and the learning of melee martial arts. Natasha said proudly, "I'm also a qualified warrior!" and said as she looked up at Guderian and drew her sword.
Guderian couldn't help but smile, put his arm around Natasha and rubbed her long fiery red hair and said, "Alright, my warrior, it's time for us to go." ”
"Good. Natasha enjoyed Guderian's movements, blessed the two of them with an oval transparent shield, and then turned down the brightness of the light technique in the shield and said, "Let's go, hold on to me." ”
Guderian picked up Natasha horizontally, then floated up like a transparent shield and floated towards the center of the whirlpool. The shield gradually disappeared from the center of the vortex with the two of them in the slightly dimmed light technique, and the water could not penetrate the shield......
All around is a swirling stream of water. Through the shield, Guderian and Natasha could still feel the tearing force of these swirling currents. The light technique in the shield revealed a radius of more than ten meters in the shield, but the rotation of the water flow was too intense and high-speed, and the vision was not clear. Natasha controlled the shield all the way to the center of the vortex, spinning away with the vortex. It was the shield that was spinning, and the two were not affected.
At first, Guderian felt sink for a few minutes, then began to move laterally, then the current eased a little, and an overview of the river appeared in his vision. Under the Light Technique, he moved horizontally and entered a circular passage about twenty meters wide, and the rock walls around the passage had been washed away very smooth. The passage goes up and down, left and right, zigzags forward. There are no living things or plants in the water, except that the water is the stone wall. Guderian and Natasha watched with curiosity. When they were washed away by the current in this passage for nearly half an hour, their horizons suddenly widened, and they suddenly saw a large area of blue outside the light technique—to the sea!
The violent current rushed the shield and the two of them out of the tunnel nearly two hundred meters away from the exit of the passage. Guderian and Natasha looked back from the shield, the exit was on a cliff, and they looked down at the blue with an unfathomable black appearance, and they didn't know how far from the bottom of the sea. Natasha lay in Guderian's arms and happily controlled the shield to float, and about two hundred meters in a straight line rose to the sea level - in the midst of the heavy snow, a man and a woman came from the sea under the steep cliffs on the ice of the coastline......