Chapter 160: My Lord and My Father (II)
Kurdila didn't know the origin of the male human who called himself the Demon Hunter, or what he meant to be the Lord. All he heard was that he was going to rescue his partner, so he took action.
The two men sat opposite each other by the campfire and drank a cup of medicinal soup, and Kurdila felt much better, and he had many questions to clarify.
"It's a whispering demon, a thousand faces, a lucid dream. Looking at it, or listening to it, will cause the walls of reason to collapse. ”
"What is the wall of sanity?"
"Let the self be the self of the self."
"I don't understand."
"If you lose it, you're not yourself."
"I understand, what is your Lord?"
The human who identified himself as Arno Dorian in Kurdila's eyes was dressed in a hooded robe with leather armor underneath, and armed belts full of potion bottles (Stallone-like cartridge belts), armed with two hunting crossbows, and a ranger's twin swords at his waist. He looks like a capable veteran, but he can't be trusted.
"The Lord is the Lord, the source of order, against all things that are distorted." Dorian replied.
The flames burned the faces of the two men, and the atmosphere was suddenly silent, and Arno Dorian did not take the initiative to speak, he used a wooden stick to pluck the firewood to make the campfire burn better.
"Why did you find me?" With a crackling sound, Kurdila asked again.
"For you have been inspired by my Lord."
"Enlightenment? That dream? ”
"I don't know what kind of dream you're talking about?"
"Why didn't Fianna and I go crazy?"
"The walls of reason will be strengthened by the power of order, Fianna is a priest, and you have been enlightened by my lord."
"Enlightenment? I didn't feel any difference? ”
"No, you are different, your walls of reason have been protected by my Lord, and you are one of the forces against the twist."
"Tell me how to rescue Fianna."
Kurdila and the male human wander through the forest, awakening from their military muscle memory. He ran through the woods like flat ground, and so did Dorian. "This human must have been trained as a ranger, too," if Kurdila hadn't seen his face, he would have thought that he was a High Elf acting with him.
As he tracked down the monster, Kurdila began to believe that he had been enlightened, that his body did not feel tired, and his vision gradually saw something abnormal, something like white cotton wool, floating in the forest between the trees.
"Those are the fragments of the spirits of nature," Dorian explained, "the collective consciousness that animals and plants gather after their death, but it is too early to have wisdom, and it will disappear on its own in a short time." ”
The two men are tracking down a hill and finally see the target that needs to be saved. As the monsters climbed the foothills on the opposite side, Kurdila saw Fianna imprisoned in a pale inky magic shroud, waves of light on her body fending off the ink.
"The monster is really twisting her sanity, we have to hurry." Dorian said to him.
The monsters also spotted the two men, leaving six of them behind, and the rest moved northeast with a priestess and a quick hand.
"Smear this on your weapon."
Kurdila received a bottle of potion and took out the ointment and applied it to the Ranger Twin Swords, and the magical aura penetrated into the blades.
"Forged by will, this is the sword of order."
Hearing Dorian say a word, in an instant, an incomprehensible spell climbed onto the blade of the twin swords.
"What is this?" Kurdila asked.
"This is my lord's curse, and you should too, go on."
The human named Dorian ran, and Kurdila followed.
In the middle of the foothills, the two caught up. The bolt activates, and a monster is hit by a fire bolt, becoming a burning fire, but the flames don't seem to kill it in time. At this time, the shadow energy also began to fly around, and the human named Dorian either turned around or leaped, calmly dodging these shadow arrows, keeping a distance so that the crossbow arrows could not be killed.
At the same time, Kurdila cut through the cracks of this battle. The monster teammates who had turned into monsters felt as if they had been devoured by a fungus, their bodies covered with thick shells like mushrooms, and their hands and heads turned into disgusting tentacles. As soon as she made contact, Kurdila found that she could see the monster's movements clearly, and her body was unusually light. At the limit, he let the tentacle slash pass by, and then the twin swords sliced through the monster's limbs like paper. He saw that the monster was wounded, and it retreated, and the severed limbs turned into black water.
The twin blades converled, the sword light flickered, the arrows flew like locusts, and the six enemies were dealt with in a dozen breaths. The two big men continued to pursue, but the monster disappeared as if it had cast a concealment spell to the naked eye.
"Twisted marks are visible to my eyes," Dorian read, and then reaffirmed the direction of the pursuit, and Kurdila could only follow.
The enemy ran faster and faster, and the two met five times in three days, and by the fourth day, they all came to a bad conclusion: the kidnapped Fianna was getting farther and farther away from them, and another wave of monsters had joined in the middle of the way.
"I can't save the pastor with just two of me. I probably know they're going there, Kuldila is running out of time, we need to find more allies, and you have to learn how to use my lord's gifts. ”
Emotionally, Kurdila had to rescue Fianna even if he was alone, but reason told him that emotion was nothing. He scrubs the blade and decides to act with Dorian for a chance to save Fianna.
Dorian led him on a journey through the Secret Forest, where they found two allies: a tribe of bears who lived in seclusion in the mountains and served the Druid's Way; One is the spirit of nature, Arcturus the bear.
Kurdila then learns that those monsters have other purposes: to resurrect the legendary World Tree Vodahir, and to bring the ancient demigod, the giant bear Usok, back to the world.
Spirit Ursa and the Bear tribe immediately agreed to join and form an alliance against the monsters. For more than ten days, Kurdila and Dorian also learned the art of the Demon Hunter. Only then did he believe that he had indeed received some kind of enlightenment, that he had extraordinary powers, but that he had no sense of faith in Dorian's 'Lord'.
Kurdila asked his question.
"The Lord doesn't care."
"Is that so?"
"Exercising the power of demon hunting is the sword of the Lord's order."
The two replied to each other.
Together with the bear monster, a team of several hundred people finally arrived at the decisive battle. There was a dead World Tree, and around the dead wood was a tribe of bears, and at this time, the bears all grew black thorns on their bodies, as if they had broken away from the category of animals and became a distorted half-plant.
"This piece is polluted and can't be saved," said the ally, Elder Bear. Kurdila also saw a large amount of inky light in his newfound vision.
A peregrine falcon landed on Dorian's shoulder, and Kurdila recognized it as the Ranger's Hawkeye companion: 'Dorian is trained as a Wanderer, and he may not be human. ’
"I saw Ursock, and Pastor Fianna, and the newborn Wodasil seedlings." Dorian said, "I'm going to deal with Vodasil".
The seedlings are planted in the hollow trunks of dead wood, guarded by the most powerful bear monsters, and naturally the most powerful people are in charge.
"I'm going to cleanse Ursok," said Arcturus the Bear, "and I can feel that all that is there is Ursok's contaminated shell. ”
"My tribe is going to kill their fellow contaminated people," the Bear Elder said.
"I'm going to save Fianna," Kurdila said.
The improvised alliances each have their own goals.
"Pastor Fianna is in the settlement north of Deadwood, and she's still alive."
Dorian spoke, his cloak waved, and he turned into a ghost in the night, wandering almost against the ground.
The rest of the people watched him go, and before long, a fire broke out inside the dead wood, and Kurdila naturally thought of the effect of the potions.
Then Spirit Bear departed, and the Bear Monsters were killed.
Kurdila drew her twin swords: "Forged by will, this is the sword of order, Fianna, I'm coming"