Chapter 113: The Crystal Palace
The city of Ambrey, north of the River Styx, is enclosed in a towering enclosure that is rarely seen by outsiders.
It has been said that the Ambri people raised newborn babies with young beasts, and that the two would develop a deep friendship and no longer contradict each other. When the baby grows up, it is infused with the soul of a beast so that it can obtain a powerful warrior.
This is no longer true, but the neighboring Tallinn people have detailed the specialties of Ambri, such as sour wolf meat and bear paws, and delicious and poisonous insect soft meat in scorpion shells, which correspond to three of Ambri's best warriors, such as werewolves like Bane, powerful but sleepy bearmen, and sandworms who can shuttle through the dirt with highly corrosive and poisonous paws.
More than a thousand years ago, the city of Ambri was destroyed by infighting, but few mercenaries dared to scavenge because it was too dangerous.
The towering walls were toppled down from the inside by the mad Ambri, who, as if unable to control the furious beast souls in their bodies, rushed out like crazy, retreated into the jungles and wastelands, attacked all living creatures in their sight in droves, and even stormed the surrounding city-states in groups with an unsatisfied desire to kill.
But there are also sane Ambri people who choose to stay in the city, living by picking up the city's garbage, as if there is some kind of calling in the city that makes them reluctant to leave, and Bane's parents are one of them.
Bane showed great talent as a warrior from an early age, so his parents gave him plenty of food to thrive on, hoping to escape from the ruins. Bane also lived up to expectations, and with his good skills, he was able to get more food from the city to feed his family.
However, hundreds of years ago, the Assassin forces of the Tallinns swept away the Templar base camp hidden in the ruins, killing many innocent Ambri in order to go unnoticed. Perhaps this was manslaughter, or perhaps it was deliberate, no one can say for sure, and the dark side of human nature will be infinitely magnified when war comes.
Many innocent people have been quietly taken to their lives, and they don't even know what the Grim Reaper name is. Bane was also orphaned in that upheaval.
The pain of losing his loved ones and his disgust with the ruins led him to overcome the silent call of Ambri City and travel to the south of the River Styx alone, but since leaving Ambri City, his wild instincts as a wolf have been constantly interfering with his sanity, and several times he has eaten a lot of raw meat due to bloodlust in the process of hunting monsters, which makes him even more disgusted with himself.
He later met Sherlock's grandfather, who was still young at the time, and the two made a deal to protect the family as a bodyguard, and the latter to provide him with herbs for his healing needs, a contract that lasted until the destruction of the Sherlocks.
Unlike Celio, who is also a guard, Bane is not simply obedient, he has his own thinking and opinions, so he gradually changed from a guard to a housekeeper, and later, Sherlock's grandfather also took her hand and carried out a "trust".
Of course, Togu did it twice, and this is how Sherlock was handed over to him.
The long years of housekeeping and the troubled mundane affairs made his memory of Ambri City much indifferent, perhaps there was an element of active forgetting, and as a person, he couldn't even remember what kind of call Ambri City had for him.
"The only thing that impresses ...... I remember my father once mentioned some mythological story," Bane recalled with a frown, "I can't remember the specifics, but I had a strong impression that when I first heard the story, I felt incredible, and even thought it couldn't have happened......"
He thought about it for a while, but in the end he still didn't get anything. Mu Yan and Glazer glanced at each other, and had no choice but to give up this breakthrough.
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In Belica's Crystal Palace, Amacer, who was accustomed to seeing elven architecture, was also dumbfounded.
When building buildings, the long-lived elves often start from aesthetics, philosophy, religion (belief in the two moons), and also closely integrate with nature, so most of the buildings are dominated by cold colors, and the preservation period is long, which looks rich in connotation and solemn and mysterious.
But in front of this ...... It's just piled up with countless gold coins, but it doesn't look vulgar at all.
Belika's home is in Midtown Vadan, but the land is also much more expensive than the fortune neighborhood where the Sherlock family lives. From the outside, it looked like an upscale inn, like ice crystal carved crafts, magnified countless times, reminding him of the Rime Garden of Silvermoon City, the iconic castle of the Night Whispering family.
Walking through the silver door studded with blue rhinestones, it was as if you had arrived in another world, a space that was at least three times larger than the one from the outside.
Amather realized that there was something strange about the door just now. Moreover, even the surrounding walls are shining with looming magic patterns, and only after careful identification can you find that the magic patterns are not carved in the later stage, but are built out of special bricks of different sizes and shapes at the beginning of the construction of the wall, just like the lines caused by the scales on the body of a fish.
Although he didn't know the price of the city of Vadan, he knew that the arena in the very center, where the sun was making money, could not afford such extravagant things, and now, they were just outer walls......
The gravel path under his feet was paved with the grey crystals of the Dementors, which was the thing with a drop rate of 7.14% for Mu Yan, and it was filled with negative emotions like a muddy mist, providing nourishment for the Soul Flame Grass on the surrounding lawn. The color of this plant changes from white to green with the growth period, and finally a small lilac flower blooms at the top, which is very beautiful, but also surprisingly expensive.
Further inside, the fountain is made of magical adamantite gold, with a layer of silver plated on the sharp edges. The lake-blue liquid flowing inside seemed to be the blood of some kind of demonic beast. The cubs of the blood-beaked ravens fluttering back and forth in the sky are about 10,000 times cuter than when they grow up......
Each adult blood-beaked raven in Vadan City costs as much as a private jet on Earth, but here, they're just ornamental pets......
This woman, how much money does she have?
Amacer's constant and stunned look around made Belica very satisfied, and although she was used to seeing these things and didn't think it was new, the other party's reaction was still very useful to her.
"Amathe, is our home pretty?"
"Beautiful." Amatho replied briefly, "You can buy it, a lot of Amacer." ”
Belica smiled and said, "You are different from these things, and there is only one Amacer. ”
The elves remained indifferent, as if the other party was talking about something that had nothing to do with them.
But after saying this, he felt the air around him suddenly become viscous, and there was a faint pressure rushing towards him. He looked at the others and saw that they all looked the same.
Seems to be directed at me alone?
Feeling the inexplicable hostility, the elf guessed that it was caused by Belica's attitude, and immediately showed it bluntly.
He lunged up to Belica and reached out to block her.
"Yes, dangerous. Stand, behind Amacer! ”
It turns out that a sensitive creature like a woman can always be moved by such trivial things, and Belica felt that her cold heart was warmed a little more, and her beautiful eyes were tactful.
"That's enough, Siegfried, Amacer is his own." She said, and then an emaciated figure appeared in the air in front of her.
The man was disheveled, half of his face was covered by a mask, and his expression was gloomy, and the look at Amatho was particularly unfriendly.
"His identity is not secure, master."
Siegfried said, his voice as creepy as his eyes, like a forked branch scratching through the gravel.
Amacer rolled his eyes in his heart, and really made Eric right, Mr. Writer said that if he is too "favored" in the Crystal Palace, there will definitely be dissatisfied, and even a drama of "competing for favor" will be staged, and Mu Yan also proposed a term called "palace scheming". However, this characteristic vocabulary of the Celestial Empire is a little difficult for them to understand.
Belica could see through what Siegfried was thinking at a glance, and she had no intention of joking with her own safety.
"I know what you're worried about, he's treated the same as you."
Hearing this, Amacer noticed that Siegfried's pupils shrank slightly, and then looked at him a little more...... Schadenfreude and contentment?
As if to say, "Since you are treated the same as me, then I have nothing to be jealous of".
In addition, Belica refers to "you" instead of "you", and this Siegfried is obviously different from the other guards behind her.
Sure enough, he can't escape the identity of "slave", Amacer secretly wondered. Fortunately, for the upcoming events, the director and the chief screenwriter have also designed a response plan, but they are more demanding in terms of operation.
The elf clenched his fists, feeling that the battle spirit that had been dormant for a long time was surging again.