Section 4 Signs of Evil
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A group of assassins who were more than twenty steps behind Ash were also trying to resist the biting cold, and at the same time they were wary of the unknown runes that emitted a light blue glow.
The leader of the Assassins gritted his teeth and turned his head to beckon to one of his henchmen, motioning for him to go up and complete the mission.
Unable to resist the deep menacing gaze in the leader's eyes, the henchman drew his dagger and slowly approached Ash. The others stopped in place for the time being, and even for the people of the Ice Kingdom, the vicinity of the stone mound was too cold.
The approaching Assassin gritted his teeth and raised his right hand holding the knife high, constantly cheering himself up in his heart, and once he stabbed down, he would get the greatest credit for the trip. No problem, it's just a defenseless little girl, and if you want to blame it, it's only their family of orphans and widows who occupy the position that adults have been waiting for for a long time!
'Whew'!
The assassin slammed his right hand with the short blade, the blade slashing into the unsuspecting Ash's back with a cold wind. The Assassin leader had unconsciously held his breath, his eyes shining with excitement.
'Boom'!
The Assassin's short blade slashed at a stone unexpectedly.
But when he came behind Ash, Princess Ice's slender white hands just touched the rune stone that emitted a mysterious light. And the moment her hands touched the rune stone, the strength of her whole person suddenly began to recover quickly, and she could clearly feel the short blade full of malice behind her.
Under the rotation of his mind, Ash used a movement several times faster than usual to accurately block the rune stone in the path that the short blade must pass in the last moment of the short blade's body. Then came the dull sound of the two objects colliding.
The rune stone struck by the short blade glowed with dazzling light, blinding the eyes of the Assassin who was caught off guard in the vicinity. The rest of the Assassins in the distance, those who reacted quickly just closed their eyes, and those who reacted slightly slower could only use their hands, in vain to cover their eyes that were whitened by the flash.
The strange thing was that Ash didn't seem to be affected by the light in any way, and the rune stone, which was originally as big as a skull, suddenly turned into three unknown rune letters, one large, two small, and injected into her body along her hands holding the stone.
She then noticed that one part of the mound had vanished in the light, revealing something that had long been hidden at the base of the mound unbeknownst to the mound: an ornate bow carved from ice.
Ash's hands almost subconsciously grasped this longbow with beautiful ice crystals. At the touch of a button, the frost that swirled on the Ice Bow quickly seeped into her fingers and caused a sharp pain that almost made her want to scream.
But at the same time, the Ice Bow was torn apart from its resting place by the conditioned reflex of Ash's limbs under the influence of great pain.
The moment the Ice Bow left the bow base, a chill that could make people's blood clot quickly flow from the bow body to Ash's body. And the coldness that was enough for the blood of others to clot did not freeze her, but even felt awakened to a great ability that had always accompanied her, but had never manifested.
Ash turned, feeling the leap of joy coming from the bow.
Guided by the cold ice bow's emotions, she slowly raised the hand holding the bow.
The other hand rests on the bowstring as if it were a normal wooden bow, but the Ice Bow actually has nothing in that position.
Once again, something amazing has happened!
As Ash's hand snapped on, a bowstring made purely of energy appeared. Not only did the bowstring appear out of thin air, but the Ice Princess's slender fingers only made a movement of pinching one arrow, but nine ice arrows appeared on the bowstring at the same time!
"Stop her!"
The Assassin leader, who was the fastest to escape the effects of the flash, opened his eyes to see the beautiful and dangerous weapon, and also saw the scene of nine arrows appearing out of thin air. Although he couldn't immediately think of Freljord's legendary bow, he immediately realized that Ash must not be allowed to manipulate that weapon freely.
Unfortunately, his men were either just getting rid of the effects of the flash, or they were still rubbing their eyes vigorously.
Everyone was trying to quickly grasp the leader's order, but it was destined that nine of them would never have a chance - most of their chests were submerged by the pale blue arrows, and only a few of the arrow's tails remained outside their bodies.
Eight after one, nine Assassins slowly fell to the ground.
There was no pain, no dripping blood, everything was frozen the moment the light arrow entered the body.
The Assassin Leader's back was chilling at this time, he had already seen the superb archery skills of the half-sized girl in front of him in the pursuit, and now that he had a mysterious weapon, Ash's archery skills were no longer surpassed.
At present, it is obvious that the most difficult time has come, and the only way to fight to the death is to fight. He rushed towards Ash as soon as he could, and in the face of the archers, the Assassin's only chance was to fight as close as possible.
The other four killers who survived also finally reacted. If they fail to assassinate the princess of the kingdom, not only will they have no place to die, but the master behind them and the family members controlled by the master will never be lucky. Without a word to spare, the four quickly dispersed and gathered around Ash.
'Squeak', 'squeak', 'squeak', 'squeak', 'squeak'.
The arrows made of ice slashed through the air and made a strange sound completely different from that of wooden arrows, and after each sound, one person stopped. Finally, after the fifth sound, the Assassin leader looked down at the ice arrow in his chest.
It wasn't until he was dying that he recognized the skill Ash had been using, "Nine Swords of Ice, Avarosa?" ……”
The words were closed, and the weapon that had been clenched in his hand slipped off.
'Phew'! The stiff corpse, with no trace of life, fell to the ground.
Avarosa - The bow used by the ancient queen of Freljord, the legendary weapon of Valoran. The power of the blow is too terrifying for ordinary people to resist, and the price is that Ash feels that his whole body strength has been drained at this moment, and it is difficult to lift a finger.
'Click, click' Ash felt so tired for the first time, and just as he was about to pass out, new footsteps were heard under the platform.
With all his might, Ash could only bite his tongue and use a great feeling of pain to try to keep himself awake to the last of his heart.
At the corner of the platform, Rod's tall figure appeared. The white wolf skin cloak that he usually regarded as a treasure was long gone, and there were scattered sword marks on the leather armor, and the wound on his left arm was haphazardly bandaged and soaked in blood.
Stepping onto the platform, Rod's eyes were already roaming the corpse of the fallen Assassin. The pale blue ice arrow was easy to spot, and although Ash's strength was exhausted, her momentum was stronger than ever.
"Rod, have you betrayed the kingdom too?"
"No, Your Majesty, please forgive the sin of being late for Rode's escort! We were intercepted by killers on the road, and we had to break through under the bloody battle. ”
Rhodes is not a mistake, all the clues on the scene and the weapons in the hands of His Highness Ash all show one thing, it is not an ordinary thing, but the legendary weapon of the ancient queen of Freeljord, which has disappeared for hundreds of years.
And this weapon is now in the hands of His Highness, which means that His Highness must have been approved by it. Thinking about His Highness Ash's fervent hope for Freljord to unite again, Rhodes couldn't help but feel for a moment that the flame that had been extinguished in his heart was burning again.
"Your Majesty, Border Patrol Group 1 is loyal to you and will go where your arrows point and slay any enemy for you!"
"Whew, whew, it's really hard for me to be old for such a long road...... It's time to have a good drink. ”
"Get out of the way, get out of the way! Where's that chirping bird? The bears are now hungry enough to eat a dozen! ”
The fat and the bear who had just rushed to the platform under the moonlight completely ignored the two people who were standing and kneeling on the platform, and the atmosphere was quickly destroyed by one sentence.
Rhodes, who had 10,000 grass and mud horses running through his heart, had to briefly describe how a fat and a bear suddenly appeared and helped him break out of the siege, and captured a large number of assassins, and why his surviving soldiers were guarding these prisoners in the camp and treating the wounded, causing him to come alone.
At this time, Wallybel, the bear-man with a keen sense of smell, was already shaking his head around looking for an imaginary supper. At the same time, he kept arguing about Ash's figure and the barrel, "No, that little girl is too thin, look at her waist, it's not as thick as the bear's arm, why do you think it's good?" ”
"It's really good-looking, in my Zu'an hometown, I can probably be a queen."
The barrel whispers next to the bearman, in an attempt to correct the bearman's distorted aesthetic. After saying that, he moved a stone away, pulled out the ice crystals pressed under the stone, and licked it with a 'swish', but stuck his tongue to it, and exhaled hard to get rid of the entanglement of the ice crystals.
"Don't you hear that the little girl is angry? Rod just called her Your Majesty, even if she is not in good shape, she is already higher than your hometown...... Hey, what is it? Is it an egg? Such a big man! ”
The bear-man sniffed around and found the huge egg, which looked at least the size of the barrel of the 'keg', in a hidden hole that had collapsed next to the stone mound. He tried his best to remove the stones from the hole, and then clumsily carried the egg out, apparently ready to find a good place to talk.
"The bear-people's... Thank you very much for your help to the Ice Kingdom, Lord Volibel. I, Ash. Ice, princess of the kingdom, on behalf of the kingdom of ice, would like to invite your distinguished bear-people friends to the royal city, and let me express my gratitude. ”
For some reason, Ash saw the bear-man take the egg-like object out and prepare to eat it, so he was nervous and hurried up to try to divert his attention.
"That's nothing, don't be so polite, little girl. The bearman just happened to know Rod, the lucky guy, because we used to eat roast wolves together. Although his barbecue skills are not very good, he is still a good person, and he only ate one wolf leg. All those who are willing to share the food are sincere in their hearts, and the bear people think so......"
Volibel apparently didn't turn his attention in the slightest from a possible supper to the beautiful girl beside him. While sitting on the ground with the egg in his arms, he tried to take a bite from time to time, while recalling the experience of meeting Rhodes.
Obviously, the standard of the bear people is not to eat and not to know each other, and they have not had the experience of gnawing meat with the little girl in front of them, and they are not very interested in her invitation.
And as the princess of a country, it is difficult for her to say in front of the bear people that she will exchange a few meals of food for this life-saving egg. Because it was so embarrassing, in the end, Ash squeezed a solution out of his somewhat dizzy brain.
"Well, Uncle Volibell, this crystal egg seems to be interesting, I, can I touch it?"
I don't know why, but Ash feels that if she can touch the egg, she may be able to solve some of her doubts. Without being objected to by the bearmen, Ash slowly stretched out his hand to the ice crystal egg. I didn't notice that the bear man was not acquiescing at all, but his face was full of thunder blackening, and at this moment only one sentence echoed in the bear man's mind: Uncle Voliber, uncle, uncle......
The bear man has selectively ignored the cry of the little girl because of his little girl, although in fact he was referring to the size of the volume, not the size of the age. Obviously, this doesn't sound like this to Ash's ears, only the elders of the family will call her little Ash from time to time, which is really a big misunderstanding......
'Goo ......'
When Ash touches the crystalline egg, the shell begins to become blurry and soft, and the cooing of birds can be heard from inside.
Soon, the crystal egg that was originally held by the bear man disappeared completely, and a half-human-tall ice crystal bird spread its wings and flew in the mist. Breaking out of the bearman's claws, he came to Ash's side, and flew around it several times, each time he flew around, his body became a little larger, until he was in the same length as the bearman, and then slowly fell to the ground again.
"My name is Avinia, and I was born to protect Freljord, fearless of life and death, and eternal cycles. I foresaw in my dream that demons were invading the land beneath my feet, and all the creatures of Freljord had to unite to resist the invasion of evil......"
Ice Crystal Phoenix - Anivia.
It is not a pure being, but an unconscious object born in the bitter winter, a mystical embodiment of ice magic, originally worshipped by the primitive tribes who lived above Freljord.
Anivia is worshipped by all tribes and is believed to direct all the energy and anger of the land, summoning snow and cold winds to use against those who harm her homeland. Legend has it that she is a kind and mysterious creature, whether she lives, dies or is reborn, Anivia never sleeps, and it is her eternal mission to protect Freljord, because she is inextricably linked to Freljord.
Thus, tribal legend says that Anivia exists as old as the endless frost of Freljord. At the same time, the ice crystal phoenix with the power of a demigod also has a permanent life form of a demigod, and Anivia has experienced countless lives and deaths in the bitter winter long before humans moved here.
The beginning and end of her eternal cycle also heralded a dramatic change in the Land of Ice, from the subsidence of the roaring storm to the rise and fall of the Ice Age. Legend has it that when the ice crystal phoenix dies, it is the end of an era; And when she is reborn into the world, it will inevitably be the beginning of a great new era.
Although Anivia's memories are blurred by eternal rebirth, she knows her mission: she must protect Freljord at all costs.
During a recent rebirth, Anivia witnessed the rise of a powerful and united human clan - the powerful clan that called the kingdom it had established was Alvarossa.
She proudly protects their land as human beings thrive, but this unity will not last forever. This great clan is now divided into three tribes: the Ice Clan, the Winterclaw Clan, and the Frost Guardian Clan.
After the great upheaval, Freljord's former guardian, Anivia, who was about to enter a new round of Pane, could only watch as the people of Freljord were mired in war.
And instead of quelling the civil strife that had divided her homeland, Anivia sensed a new and great threat: an ancient demon had invaded and tried to take root in the land.
What worries her even more is that she feels that the pure ice and snow magic is beginning to blacken and corrupt, like blood seeping into the water source, and the darkness spreads into Freljord.
Her fate was inextricably linked to the power of the land, and she knew that if this demon took root in her homeland, the same darkness would find its way into her immortal body. Therefore, she started a new round of Pannia as soon as possible to accumulate strength, otherwise she would no longer be able to serve as the guardian of the land of ice and snow.
Ash's assassination was also a coincidence of fate, when Anivia was at the last moment before Panne's appearance, the legendary weapon Ice Bow, who had accompanied her for hundreds of years, suddenly sensed her new owner and found her in danger. So she did her best to warn her, and only then did Ash stand on the stone platform and listen to her tell about it.
At this time, the moon was already in the middle of the sky, and the platform at the high point was reflected by the ice crystals around it, and the light was strange and poignant, and Ash and Rhodes were shocked beyond words when they heard Anivia's story.
The princess of the Ice Tribe has become the chosen ally of the legendary Ancient Guardian at this moment - because the reborn phoenix has not been able to regain its full divine power, and many tasks to fight against evil need to be undertaken by capable people.
After the reborn Anivia promised Ash help, she could no longer maintain her current incarnation state, shrunk her body and spread her wings to the sky, and after dozens of breaths, she could no longer be found in the dark night.
Walibell the Bearman was equally shocked, for ever since Anivia began telling stories, the bear-man had been sitting on the ice with his palms sunken over his chest, his face full of love: a good midnight snack flew away in front of his eyes. Although the ice may not taste good, you must at least let Master Xiong take a bite and try it.
As for the spread of darkness to Freljord, when you return to the Clan, you must ask the Elders to take it seriously, just as they do with food.
The four of them then found a sheltered valley to rest in the middle of the night, and as soon as it began to lighten, they said goodbye to each other - the beer merchant was going to continue his journey in search of the perfect water source, and the bearren refused Ash's invitation to keep an eye on the beer merchant as needed.
Because if you appear in the Ice Clan, you may be mistaken for a bear man who has no quarrel with the world and has fallen to a certain faction. And Volibel, who knew that he could not represent his people, of course, could only leave with this funny reason.
Ash bred up and led Rhodes back to her previous camp, and when she displayed the Ice Bow, Queen Alvarossa's once iconic and legendary weapon, all the surviving Border Patrol soldiers bowed their allegiance to Rhodes. Some of the Assassins also chose to confess their crimes and the mastermind behind it, Elder Willow.
To the surprise of the honest Assassins, their honesty turned into surrender.
Ash pardoned them for their felony of treason, and freed some of the Assassins who could walk on their own so that they could go and tell Elder Willow and his men on their behalf to unite and fight against unknown evil.
Rhodes applauded the little girl's decision in his heart, and the treacherous and cunning Elder Willow could guess that the assassination had failed without getting the reward for the successful assassination in time, and then he was unwilling to be captured, and he would definitely mobilize the forces controlled by himself to protect himself.
Rather than further divide the clan, these Assassins should use the mouths of these Assassins to announce to the tribe the return of a tolerant Lord of Freeljord, and any further excesses by Elder Willow would have alienated him from his men.
In between, thinking back to the confrontation on the horse yesterday, enthusiasm, determination, bravery, wisdom, and self-confidence......
With so many good qualities coming out of the same person, such a person is a natural leader. The former Border Guard patrol captain was now certain that the day they returned to the city with Her Royal Highness would be the time when the entire Ice Tribe would return to glory in unity, and that Freljord would soon have a new Majesty......