Act 168: The Choice of Mortals
The illusions of a qiē are gone.
The battlefield was back on the platform in the abyss, but it seemed to be quiet all around, little by little, and time was not passing. Veronica still kept flying under the platform; Gray Sword Saint Mephistopheles held a giant sword, standing tall; The spark of spell in Charles' hand suddenly bloomed, frozen in that moment; On the surrounding cliffs, the falling ice seemed to be forever stagnant, and in the ice cave, the four black knights kept raising their bows.
Only on the platform, Brando and Dark Cohua each occupy half of the space, still and moving, as if two diametrically opposed images. Brando was slowly rising from the ground, shirtless, blood slowly sliding down his forehead, along his neck, over his shoulders, upper arms, forearms, and through his wrists, as if outlining a crimson tattoo.
Rose-colored blood beads slowly dripped down the black and heavy body of the Sword of the Earth, falling to the ground, raising layers of dust.
Brando looked silently at the dark Kouhua who was kneeling directly in front of him.
She was giggling loudly.
As if crazy, he trembled with laughter, and then coughed violently, curled up in a ball. The girl's forehead and face were full of wisps of blood, not hers, but Brando's, the bright and blazing lightning had faded from her, the color of her pupils had regained its gentle light red, her long black hair was like sandalwood, her skin was pale as if she had just taken a bath in milk, and a pitch-black robe was like a blue orchid, quietly blooming on the platform.
"Hahahaha...... cough cough cough ...... Hahaha"
Dark Kouhua coughed and laughed happily, her shoulders jerking violently, and she looked up again, looking at Brando with a resentful, gloating look, somewhat like a wolf. The eyes are gloomy.
"Haha...... Ahem...... Should you feel it? ”
Brando didn't say a word, and in his field of vision, the borders around the platform were gradually turning a light silver, and these silver areas were gradually expanding, slowly approaching the center of Kouhua. They are expanding faster and faster, one by one. Standing quietly in the dark Kou Hua, which has a vitality and extends to the center, he can also feel an ancient, as if it were a new breath, growing and slowly blending into this world.
The Law of Divine Power of Milos.
"Hahaha, ahem...... It's too smart, human," Dark Kou Hua's eyes lit up with pleasure, and he gasped before shaking his head indifferently; She sat on her knees. Like a weak girl, she even looked at Brando a little weakly and said, "You're almost on the verge of success, but it's a pity ......"
"You've become a god."
Brando replied lightly.
The laws of this world are being recalculated, and the entire time and space outside the eternal resting land of the gods have come to a standstill. And in the endless void, a flame is rekindling, as if with the birth of this light, the threads of laws from ancient times began to light up again, and there was a voice. Calling the name that sleeps in the dark abyss.
Milos.
Father of the Frost Giant.
It's just a thin line, and Dark Kou Hua has finally achieved the god position. Crystal tears still hung on her cheeks. But she smiled brightly, "What's the matter, do you think you still have a chance?" As she spoke, she tilted her head and looked at Brando with a curious gaze.
It's just that there is a deep hatred in that curiosity. Dark Kou Hua was smiling, and Bai Sensen's canine teeth loomed.
Brando looked at the silver area that was encroaching away.
"Five more minutes," he replied quietly, "I have five more minutes to kill you." ”
The girl giggled, laughing so hard that she couldn't help coughing again.
"Ahem, ahem...... Indeed, if only you were mortal......" she coughed violently. While looking at Brando with tears in his smile, as if he had heard some big joke, his blood-red eyes were full of regret: "It's a pity, the gods have made a pact with the crystal to put the power to choose the future in the hands of mortals." ”
"Brando," Dark Kouhua smiled so sweetly that he was almost a little charming, "as the heir of the Dark Dragon, as a god, you can't kill me." ”
"Only mortals can kill me."
"And thanks to you, giggles, only the people of God can move freely in this realm—"
"See, there's no one here to stop me," she replied softly, "thousands of years later, humanity has once again chosen their fate, and this time, no one can change it." ”
Brando didn't say a word.
But a voice answered the question for him.
"Brando can't change it," the voice replied crisply and firmly, "and it's up to me to change!" ”
Brando's and Kouhua's faces changed color at the same time.
It's just that one is surprised, the other is stunned, "Who is it!" The smile on Kou Hua's face faded, and she screamed nervously. Suddenly, on the opposite side of the two, a faint blue light seemed to form a gate, and a girl wearing a knight's uniform and a lionheart sword slowly stepped onto the platform.
She looked up at the dark Kohua and replied earnestly, "I don't understand where Brando came from, or why he couldn't stop you, but I at least know, Goddess-sama, I still have a choice." ”
"Because of me," she replied word for word, pressing her hand to her chest, "from Buch, I am the mortal of your mouth." ”
At that moment, the expression on Dark Kou Hua's face was extremely wonderful, as if all the expressions were frozen in that moment, "No, it's not true," she said, shaking her head: "No, you have to think about your choice, it is related to the future of this world." Listen, little girl, it was Master Martha who gave you a qiē, and you must not be ungrateful—"
She saw Freya slowly pull out her long sword, the light of the sword almost dazzled her eyes, and her face suddenly became a little snow-white, "No, I can make you a demigod, you will be able to be with him forever, and together we will return this world to the glory of the classical era." ”
She babbled, but the knight girl didn't seem to hear it. She slowly drew her Lionheart sword, then looked back at Brando.
Brando smiled at her.
"Freya."
"Brando."
He raised the Sword of the Earth, "Let me see what you've learned at the Royal Knight Academy?" "In Milos's realm, everyone's power has been completely excluded at this moment, even Kohua himself. They still had five minutes, before the Silver Realm was completely connected to the Dark Korva -
Within these five minutes.
The winner will be determined by experience and skill alone.
Both of them were at peace in their hearts. Kou Hua also seemed to have lost the ability to speak, and her face stiffened a little, because she had already seen the pale blue figure behind Freya.
"Why, Milos!?"
"This is my agreement with Crystal, Kou Hua, we should give them more choices." A voice seemed to reply.
"You're partiality!" She gritted her teeth.
"Kou Hua, you and I belong to different camps, and we each believe in different truths, but I only have one thing to ask you about - at least to make the choice of history more just." The voice replied, "If you think that chaos is the only truth in this universe, then you must not be afraid that it will fail, right?" ”
The voice stopped, and replied with some pride, "Me too." ”
Dark Kou Hua snorted softly, but only kept her mouth shut, she looked up and looked at the man and woman in front of her.
Both men had already made their pre-attack stance.
The blade of the Sword of Earth trembled slightly, and Brando closed his eyelids. It was like a summer night, in the dark. The bright galaxy that stretches across the sky. He began to step forward, feeling the step, and with him, Freya began to move forward, and the two of them set off in unison, almost in unison.
Black blade. The silver blade shook slightly.
"Remember the battle of Bouchi," Brando asked, without looking back, "the battle of the Golden Orchard." ”
Freya was slightly stunned and immediately nodded.
"This time," Brando replied, "I'll continue to cover for you." ”
He leveled the sword of the earth.
"Freya."
The Charge skill is activated again. Brando stabbed at Kou Hua with a streamer, this sword, has nothing to do with the law, has nothing to do with the elements, and even the strength has been suppressed to the lowest level by Milos's domain, this is a simple, life-and-death battle. Dark Kohua's eyes burned with rage, she stepped back, reached out to block Brando's blade, and did not react in the slightest, purely in terms of combat experience, she was not inferior to Brando.
But alas, Brando is not alone.
"Alternate attacks!" Brando roared.
A light blue figure appeared behind Brando, and Eruin's knightly uniform stood out in the eyes of the eldest daughter of Isis, and the silver lionheart sword stabbed at the goddess as if it were truly like a lion's fangs. Nimesis had hoped that the sword would change the fate of a kingdom, and to this day, it is indeed changing the fate of some.
It's just these people, and their number is all over the entire Vaynd continent.
The dark Kou Hua roared angrily, Freya's swordsmanship seemed to her to be almost unsightly, she couldn't bear it anymore and went directly to the knight girl's claw, but the next moment, a black and heavy sword blade really blocked her path. "That damn guy!" She looked up, and sure enough, seeing Brando's smiling expression, she had to grab Brando's blade, throw it away, and then back away, avoiding Freya's sword.
But how could Brando let her get her wish, just throw away the sword of the earth, and grab her wrist with his backhand.
"This bastard!" Kou Hua was secretly angry in his heart, and without thinking about it, he thrust a knife in his left hand into Brando's lower abdomen. As soon as she made a move, she realized that it was not good--she suddenly remembered that the guy in front of her was an outlaw at all, and Dark Kouhua looked up, and sure enough, his heart was cold to see Brando smiling strangely at herself.
Finished! Isis's eldest daughter felt nothing but a blank in her mind at that moment.
With a soft snort, she felt her hand thrust into Brando's abdomen without hindrance. The expression on Brando's face was almost twitching, but as if he didn't feel pain, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her hard, pulling her away. Brando then grabbed her, then forced her to turn around and face Freya.
"No!" Kou Hua screamed.
That moment.
Freya and Dark Kouhua's eyes widened at the same time.
It's just that the dark Kou Hua stared at the lionheart sword inserted in his heart in a daze. She opened her mouth, but she couldn't make a sound, only the blood foam couldn't stop gushing out from the corners of her mouth, and the girl frowned in pain and gasped for breath, she seemed to look at this qiē with great unwillingness. Looking at the platform that was supposed to bring her glory, looking at this barrel-shaped abyss, looking at Freya, and finally turning back with difficulty.
He glanced at Brando hatefully.
"Kou Hua, that's the answer......"
"Despicable." She replied weakly to the voice in the dark.
Freya almost shuddered as she watched the goddess in front of her close her eyes, and she easily opened the sword in her hand, opening her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but a thousand words. all turned into a worried sentence: "Brando, you ......"
"I'm fine." Brando breathed a sigh of relief, and Dark Coward's body was lightening in his hands, as if it was beginning to become nothing. Time and space around him seemed to begin to flow again, and he glanced back to see that the silver area at the edge of the platform was dissipating.
The laws of Milos are retreating back into the dark void.
This is a good sign.
He let out a long breath and replied a little weakly, "Thanks to you for avoiding the part of the heart. As he said this, he couldn't help but cough. A wave of weakness and fear came to my heart, as if the battle was over. He just began to feel weak, and he couldn't help but shake and was about to fall.
But someone hugged him.
Freya hugged him tightly.
……
The normal order of time seemed to be restored in a moment after the death of Dark Kohua, and Haruzer's eyes widened as he saw the black knights in black cloaks raise their bows and walk to the edge of the ice cave. And the Black Knight's movements are so natural, as if for them. They didn't notice that there was such a long pause in between, or even the changes that took place on the platform, and in the blink of an eye, as if by inertia, they raised their longbows according to the original plan.
This time. The ice that had fallen in mid-air a moment ago fell under the cliff with a 'thud'.
The Black Knights took aim at Brando and Freya on the platform, and the time was so short that they didn't even realize where Freya came from, and never thought about it, but instinctively recognized that Freya was an ally with the Count Toniger.
Then they spread their bows.
Haruzer gasped sharply twice, and he opened his mouth, but Shiduo beside him seemed to notice his move first, and Miss Scholar's eyes widened and she shook her head desperately, signaling him not to be impulsive. But the little prince only remembered the safety of the teacher in his heart, he was innocent by nature, and he still remembered his own situation.
The knight let go of his finger and snapped.
Long arrows come out of the string.
"Teacher, be careful! It's the Black Knights, they're coming! ”
The little prince also shouted heartbreakingly.
The leading black knight reacted immediately, pulled out his sword and rushed over to this side, he raised his sword, and subconsciously wanted to put it on the neck of the little prince. But it was at this moment that he suddenly realized that he could not move, and in fact all the black knights in the cave froze at the same moment.
The thread of golden rules spread through the ice caverns, wrapping around everyone.
And the black knights, who had just released an arrow at the entrance of the cave, were also stunned to find that their arrows had all been blocked by a behemoth.
It was a dragon.
With their wings outstretched, their scales shining with dazzling golden light, their golden pupils like blazing flames surrounding them, their heads held high, two pairs of dragons with horns raised high, condescendingly watching them in mid-air. The creature, which seemed to come from primeval times, had only raised its wings on the other side of the canyon a moment earlier, but as if in the blink of an eye, she had already appeared in front of them.
"Lord Aloz!"
Shiduo's excited and disbelieving voice finally sounded.
"Haha, now you can be saved!" This is the cry of Filas.
And beside him, Laurenna was also relieved. In fact, among all of them, even the eldest son of the Cruz Emperor, who had always kept his face shut, could not help but let out a sigh, but he looked back and saw that the little prince had already passed out after giving that reminder.
"If I were you," Aloz warned, but full of her peculiar playfulness, she narrowed her eyes dangerously and said to the sword-wielding leader of the Black Knights, "--Just put down your sword obediently." ”
The knight was obviously completely unaware of the appearance of a dragon in front of him, and he was slightly stunned for a moment, but then sighed, raised the sword in his hand, let go of his hand, and then clanged and dropped the sword.
In the ice cave, the black knights looked at each other, but after a moment's hesitation, the clanging of swords was heard.
……
Brando looked up as the dragon's shadow swept through the air.
He rested his head on the girl's lap, feeling as if he had been drained, but he pursed his lips and smiled in his heart.
(PS: The trajectory of change is almost over here, and there are probably one or two chapters left; From the next volume, Brando is really going to go to a bigger stage, go to Cruz, fight against Madara, and really change the fate of Eruin~~ Thank you for your continued support. In addition, the disaster of the help sunspot came and asked for a vote, and in the first month of his new book, everyone supported it. (To be continued......)