Chapter 55: The Knight's Armor
Rein watched the hollow knight's armor slowly turn his head, as if he was about to make the next move, he immediately made a decision, ran forward and pulled Tia, and shouted, "Hurry up!" β
Rein pulled Tia and ran forward.
The knights' armor on both sides of the corridor, which was originally the same decoration, slowly woke up like puppets. They shook off the dust from their bodies, revealing the dull silver glow of their armor, and they all moved slowly, as if they were regaining the feeling of what they had been doing.
The armor that launched the attack at the beginning, dragged the sword, and chased after it. Looking at its movements, it seems to be recovering the physical memories of the original killing of the enemy step by step. It sets its goals and pursues them in hot pursuit.
"What are these?! Wow-" Tia's voice was distorted, and she was almost hit by a knight's armor that came out of the recess of the wall.
Rein pulled Tia tightly and ran forward.
On the road ahead, a pair of knights' armor had already reached the hallway, and when he turned his head to look at them, Rein ran, and as he passed, he punched the knight's armor on the head, knocking its helmet straight awayβand under the helmet, there was nothing.
These are really just some knightly armor! There's no one in there! But why do they move? Don't...... Is there really a ghost at work?
Lei Yin broke out in a cold sweat, and his heart was furious, and he was naturally frightened in the face of these unknown things. But at this time, in addition to escaping, he also had to pull Tia, who was more afraid than him, and he couldn't stop here, otherwise he wouldn't know what would happen later.
Rein finally ran to the end with Tia before the knight's armor could stop the hallway, and on either side of the end, he saw the stairs going down. Rein panicked and pulled Tia towards a staircase, the farther away from the strange knight's armor corridor, the better.
They had just walked down a few stairs, and four knights' armor came out from the bottom of the stairs, and they heard the sound of someone coming downstairs, and they took the knight's sword, and turned their heads to look up the stairs.
Rein and Tia hurriedly stopped, not daring to go any further. Turning around to go back, the knight's armor on top surrounded me again.
"What to do?!" Tia panicked by this dilemma, she grabbed Rein's hand tightly.
Rein himself was scared, but he had to endure and find a way out. He looked up and down, and there was only one way of stairs with no other exit, and he looked down the outside of the stairs again, and found that below the stairs was the corridor of the next level, about three meters above the ground.
Rein suddenly had a plan, pulled Tia down a few steps, pointed outside, and said, "Jump!" β
Tia stretched out her head to look and saw that she was going to jump down, and suddenly she had the idea of retreating.
"I'll go down first, and I'll answer you below!" Rein let go of Tia's hand and jumped down.
Rein stood firm in the hallway and turned back to Tia, "Quick! Jump off! β
Tia stood by the stairs, not daring to jump down. In the past, there were always two people who went up and down to answer her, but now she wants to jump down directly, and there is no bottom in her heart.
"I'm ......" Tia stopped talking, and at this time, the knight's armor at the top and bottom of the stairs had slowly approached, and on the side of the underground corridor, there were also two knight armors that began to walk towards Rein.
"Jump down, or you won't be able to go!" Rein urged, "Trust me, I'll catch you!" β
Tia couldn't help it, so she finally mustered up the courage to close her eyes and jump.
Rein hugged her underneath, not to mention, with Tia's figure, the weight is still a little. Rein couldn't help but scream, glad he was able to catch it.
Putting Tia down, he grabbed her hand again and ran.
They had no idea what was going on in the castle, so they could only see the way, and in a moment they came to the middle of a corridor, which was blocked by knights' armor in front and behind.
"There's no way out...... Tia looked around in panic and realized that there was no way to escape this time.
Rein also knew the current situation, the right side of the corridor was a floor more than thirty meters high, and the left side was a wall without a single door, and they could only walk in front and back. Rein gritted his teeth, took out his magic wand, and said, "Follow me, let's go over!" β
"Ah......h When Tia heard this, although she didn't want to believe that it was this choice, she also knew that there was only this choice now.
Rein was covered with sweat on his forehead, and he said to Tia, "Keep up!" Then he rushed out first.
"Hazaka !!"
A shockwave erupted from the wand and struck one of the knights' armors, which fell backwards.
Although Tia was out of state for fear of the ghost, she was a third-year student and saw Rhine use magic to knock down the knight's armor, and she also waved her wand and used magic to attack.
These knights' armor was as if they had just woken up from their slumber, and their movements were sluggish, and they were quickly killed under the combined attack of Rein and Tia.
Rein pulled Tia and ran all the way down.
After a fierce battle, they came to the three-story level, and the stairs down were damaged, and it looked like they had been broken by a boulder, and they couldn't go any further, so Rein had to pull Tia to find another way out.
As they walked forward, they heard the sound of a large amount of metal colliding around the corner, more than the number they had just come across.
Rein and Tia suddenly changed color, this must have met an army of knights and armor. Rein looked left and right and saw a hidden door, pulled Tia and pushed it open and walked in.
They hid in the room, and Rhine carefully fastened the door, and the uniform sound of steel boots on the ground could be heard outside the door, apparently a group of knights with records and commanders, very different from the knights who had just woken up and had difficulty moving. Rein was a little glad that he had dodged in time with Tia.
Rein and Tia sat down exhausted as they leaned against the door, exhausted by the series of flights.
When the footsteps behind the door finally faded away, Rein dared to let go of his breath. He whispered to Tia, "What's the matter with those armors?" What are they? β
Tia closed her eyes and rested, saying, "Those are supposed to be the 'Guardian Knights' awakened by the guardian magic, and they will attack outsiders indiscriminately. β
"Yes, you should go."
An ethereal voice peeked through the darkness of the room.
"Hmm!! Who?! β
Rein reflexively took his wand and pointed to the darkness of the room.
The room was suddenly silent, as if all sound had disappeared, and Rein could clearly hear his heart beating. His hand holding the wand was cold and stiff, and his body reacted with full alert to the unknown presence in the darkness.
The voice from the front sounded again with a faint blue light: "Don't be nervous, I won't hurt you." β
The voice was ethereal, as if it were coming from all directions, and it was certain that it was a female voice, and there was no malice in her tone.
"You...... Who are you? β
After all, it was an unknown existence hidden in the dark, and Ray was so nervous that he couldn't even speak clearly.
"I'm Vera, the princess of Mirror City, and I'm Vera's soul to be precise." The voice introduced itself and continued, "Those guardian knights outside have all awakened from their slumber to protect me from being hurt by you, so get out of here." β
Princess of Mirror City...... Tia, who was hiding behind Rein and didn't dare to look directly into the darkness, muttered the name, and Rein looked at each other, knowing the question in each other's hearts: "This princess Vera, is it the princess in the story?" β
When Princess Vera saw that they were there, she said, "Go quickly, and when the Guardian Knight arrives, you won't have to go." β
Tia has always been a fan of this story, and when she told this story to Rein, her tone revealed that she longed for this kind and brave princess to love, and now that the legendary princess actually appeared in front of her, how could she let it go.
Gathering her courage, she came out from behind Rein and said into the darkness of the room, "That...... Hello, my name is Tia, may I ask, are you the princess in the story who fell in love with the wandering mage Char? β
A surprised voice came from the darkness, and then Vera's somewhat timid voice sounded again: "How do you know Char's name?" β
Tia was a little excited, but she didn't expect that the characters who only existed in the story actually existed, she grabbed Rein's clothes, suppressed the excitement in her heart and said, "That...... Your story is very popular, and I also listened to my grandmother. Unexpectedly, it turned out that the story was true. β
Vera was silent in the darkness for a moment, then added, "Our story...... Do we still have stories out there, can you tell me about the stories you've heard? β
So Tia told the story of Mirror City again.
After speaking, Tia added: "I've always been curious, after the mirror city sank to the bottom of the lake, did you and Char meet again, can you tell me?" β
Rein saw that Tia had completely forgotten the trembling appearance just now, and now looked like she was ready to listen to gossip, which made him feel that women are really emotional animals.
In the dark, Princess Vera listened to it, was silent for a while, and said in an emotional tone: "This is just a story made up by others, and the truth is not like this at all......"
"Huh? So what is the truth? Tia urges like a reader chasing an update to a novel.
Vera said: "I didn't go to dominate the country back then, it was made up by good people. They're just trying to make the story more twisty and bizarre......"
"Char is not a wandering mage, he is the guardian mage of our Mirror City, he returned after training, and he was supposed to marry me, but he was destroyed by the hegemon. Mirror City was besieged by the overlord army and was about to fall, it was indeed Char who used the "Mirror" magic to hide Mirror City in the reflection......"