Chapter 268: Change and Violence
My name is Akatosh,
As soon as Hakong thought about it, I wanted to laugh.
β4E, 201, Moon of the Fire, 12th, 12:55 p.m.
"Your men are in a hard fight, aren't they?"
In addition to the superficial buildings, the Drift Shadow Shelter is also built on the mountain with complex and large underground spaces, and in these underground spaces, there are many empty coffins, and it is clear that their "occupants" have been summoned to the surface to intercept the intruders.
Among the underground rooms filled with empty coffins, there is a distinctive dΓ©cor of the rich aristocratic mansions of major cities, but beneath the richly decorated and elaborate exteriors, there is a faint smell of coldness, cruelty, and death.
The speaker was a middle-aged man with curly black hair and a beard sitting on a high-backed chair in the middle of the room, he was dressed in a fine aristocratic costume with red trim on a black background and many gold decorations, dark red gloves, leather boots, a sword at his waist, a fur cloak, and most notably, he also carried a gorgeous longbow with a transparent pale gold color and a clear elven style on his back, making the middle-aged man look like a rich lord who was about to go out hunting- If only his eyes weren't glowing dull yellow.
"It's planned, isn't it?"
In response to him, sitting across from him, a much younger-looking dark-haired woman, wearing a quirky hakama with a dark red background, a mix of velvet and leather, seemed to be trying to balance beauty and convenience, but the effect was not good, although the yellow light in her eyes was not good-looking, but judging from the barely curved eyebrow line and the relatively cold and hard facial contours, she was a resolute and confident "person".
"According to your plan, if I do this, the 'sun' will go out and the 'eternal night' that belongs to the vampires will come, right?" The middle-aged man took off the ornate longbow from his back and flicked the bowstring twice in the direction of the ceiling.
"That's it, Maharaja Hakon," the young woman replied, "and with the watchmen in hiding for many years, if the backbone of the Brother-in-Arms and the upper echelons of the Silver Hand are wiped out here, the remnants of their forces will surely fight each other at all costs, and after they have won the victory, we can easily wipe them out, and without the Brothers-in-Arms, Xueman will not be able to continue to maintain it." Neutral's stance, the Imperial Legion and the Stormcloak will engage in a fierce clash for control of it, and at that point, no force will be able to stop the rise of the Bloodline. β
"Seriously, Hestra, aren't you at all resistant to designing your former comrades? If your plan succeeds, they, and indeed the comrades, will be history. Hakong raised his hand and drew an arrow from the air that was covered with a faint black mist and placed it on the bowstring, and then looked at her with a smirk.
"I think you should have confidence in your own transformation," Hestra's expression did not waver, "deliberately infiltrating the group of comrades to infect me and implying that I would offer to be an undercover agent, and then forcibly convert before any plot began, and then pass back the ridiculous excuse that 'I can only simply provide information because I am watched too closely', and those stupid dogs actually believe it." β
"Well, judging from the way you easily destroyed and controlled the upper echelons of the Silver Hand, if you wanted to destroy our 'Vampire Alliance' at that time, you would have succeeded long ago." Hakong continued to make small talk, as if he was not going to shoot his bow and arrows as planned.
"Position determines height, identity determines position, and now you are beginning to suspect that I have arrangements for you," Seeing Hakong's suspicions, Hestra showed a mocking tone: "I have not done anything by myself over the years, and any plan must be studied repeatedly by you before it is approved and executed by your retinue and servants, has there ever been a problem?" β
"I am the only one left in the first batch of vampires with the blood of the Maharaja, which is enough to prove that my caution is important and very necessary," Hakong looked at the ceiling, as if looking through it as he looked at the ground in battle: "If this arrow goes down, there is no doubt that they will all die, but is the consequence really like you say?" β
"You can extrapolate for yourself." Hestra didn't answer.
"Obviously, if the plan is successful, the future will indeed be as you said, and there is nothing wrong with the plan itself, but now I have found out a little," Hakong took aim for a moment, and directly took the beautiful longbow to his back, "In the final steps of this plan, there are two variables that have never been part of the plan, 'I' and 'Ariel'' Bow. β
"That'sβ" "No, you don't have to explain. β
Hakong interrupted Hestra and continued: "The 'Bow of Ariel' was obtained after the plan was proposed, and the need for 'me' to make a move was due to the unexpected increase in the strength of the other party, so there is no doubt that it has nothing to do with the original intention of the plan, and if there was no unexpected 'third point', I would have really done it." β
"What 'third point'?" Hestra frowned slightly.
"Lord of the Vampires, King of Cold Harbor, [Morag Barr] was badly damaged not long ago." Hakong stared at Hestra with yellow eyes, "The reason is that he is trying to harvest the soul of a 'Stendhal Warden'. β
"This ......," Hestra was momentarily speechless.
"Although the information of Marcus has not yet been transmitted, the only one who can severely damage a demon god is the Holy Spirit or other demon gods." Hakong patted the longbow behind him: "'Ali-E' is the pseudonym of the head of the Eight Holy Spirits [Akatosh] in the elven race, if I really use it to attack the members of the comrade-in-arms, there is no doubt that it will be discovered by the demon god or the Holy Spirit who is targeting us, and the consequences will be unpredictable, even if the sky is chaotic as expected, it will probably have nothing to do with us." β
"How do I knowβ" Hestra frowned tightly.
"So, there's nothing wrong with your plan, it's just that the steps to achieve it need to be changed," Hakong laughed, with deep malice: "I'll leave first, and you'll be in charge and kill them all with your own hands." β
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[Oath and Sword of Victory]!
After confirming that there were no more vampires hiding in the headquarters, the golden sword, which had been used as a normal two-handed sword, was held high by Arthur, and the bright gold color flooded the hall like a raging tide.
"Nope! It's not the same as saying yesβ" The three vampire lords screamed in the light before disappearing completely.
"Although he is an 'elven killer', he is also very easy to cut down the undead...... Wells gasped against the wall, and because of the battle against a melee lord who could restore his strength through damage, almost none of the three brothers could stand properly, and Farkas even threw himself directly to the ground - fortunately, along with the vampire corpses all over the ground, he was also purified by the "witch slade".
"Hah, 'Your life is like a candle in the wind'? Where do these guys get their confidence? Ella stood on the high ground in the hall with Kalia with her bow, "The pressure they caused didn't even turn over a few of our hole cards. β
The so-called "hole cards", there are only two transformations left, Arthur glanced at her with a long sword, Ella's werewolf transformation was almost useless in that kind of besieged situation, and his own dragon transformation could not be used in this narrow place at all.
However, in view of the presence of Kalia, who was not yet familiar, he did not say this, the fact that the high-ranking members of the comrade-in-arms group are werewolves should be roughly clear to the people with higher status among the various forces in the sky, but the fewer people who know about their dragon transformation, the better.
"Are they the leaders of the Silver Hand? Could it be that someone is quietly hiding, waiting for this opportunity? Farkas said weakly, "I'm kidding, hahaha......"
"'Crow's Beak' Farkas, you're still the same as always," a cold and indifferent female voice sounded, "It seems that when I volunteered to go undercover, you also said 'what if I don't come back', so should I kill you first?" β
"Hestra!" Ella snapped her bow and aimed at a young woman who had walked into the hall through a secret passage.
"It seems that the comrades-in-arms have not grown at all over the years, and their style of acting is still stuck in 'kicking the door', completely ignoring whether there are traps behind the 'door'." Hestra looked at Ella with a sneer.
"I've confirmed, no." Although Kalia only joined temporarily, out of confidence in his professionalism, he opened his mouth to argue.
"It's hard work to join this all-reckless team, Miss Thief, Old Mage," Hestra nodded to Kalia and Septin before turning to Arthur, "and the saints and elect of [Akatosh], Mr. Arthur Pendragon." β
"What? I don't...... Not. Arthur was surprised and wanted to retort, but inexplicably ...... Don't want to refute.
"What the hell are you here for! Hestra! You're the boss behind the Silver Hand! Then we are the enemy! Ella shouted without letting go of her bowstring.
"Me? Of course I'm here to kill you," Hestra said lightly, words that made everyone instantly vigilant: "Originally, my plan was to let the Maharaja personally destroy you all while you were fighting with those broken Maharaja's bloodlines, but the Maharaja doubted my true purpose at the last moment, so he ordered me to kill you with my own hands, as a direct bloodline, I can't refuse his order." β
"Straight?" Ella frowned: "That's why I ...... in the first place"
"So, the strange actions and motiv......es of the Silver Hand," Wilcas muttered.
"I will not, and cannot refuse the Maharaja's orders, so you had better fight with the aim of killing me, if you have luck or ......mercy," Hestra instantly turned into a flock of bats and flew in front of the seriously injured Wells: "Will die." β
Bite! Bite! Two arrows prevented her from grabbing Wells' claws, and the rest of her comrades re-entered the fight.
Hea-Hea-
Hestra's figure was slumped, her long hair covered her face, but it could not hide the sudden bright yellow light in her eyes, her body trembled, her teeth and nails became sharp, and she exhaled bursts of hot steam from her mouth, but on the whole it did not change the ugliness of the previous Maharaja.
Shapeshifting abilities seem to have special treatment for women? Arthur was slightly distracted by the werewolf transformation of Ria and Ella.
"Cry! Call it! Then just die! As soon as the sharp roar sounded, Hestra had already rushed to Arthur with an afterimage.