Act Eighty-Six: God's Gift
The stars shone brightly in the night sky, and Brando stared at the rooftops of the noble council hall and the Chamber of Commerce building for several minutes, waiting for the harpies to fall for the third time, and finally gave the order, "Do it." ”
With a flash of light between Flo's fingers, the four harpies a hundred meters away from her were each pierced by a dark blue arrow, which pierced through her heart and instantly turned them into ice sculptures. The battle wizard could draw spells from the Ring of Spells, casting spells extremely quickly, but the elves were half a beat slower, and Tia's reaction was even slower, she struggled to read each byte of the spell, and with a push of her hands forward, everyone saw an invisible ripple cross the entire square, sweeping over the bodies of the harpys who were scattering and fleeing, and in an instant, they were torn apart and fell from the sky in a rain of blood.
Tia didn't expect her spell to have such a big effect, and couldn't help but stick out her tongue at Brando apologetically.
"Agas Storm Blade," Brando muttered to himself, "Is it necessary to fight the three-headed Harpy with the Seven-Ring Spell......"
At this time, the cavemen in the square were already alarmed, although they could not see, but they could hear the sound, the cavemen at the entrance of the temple panicked and grabbed the weapons at hand, and then a wave of crossbow arrows flew out of the darkness, and these poor creatures fell down in unison as if they had hit an invisible wall, and before the remaining three or two cavemen could react, they were pierced through the heart by the flying white lion guards, and fell on their backs on the stairs.
The next unfortunate thing was the patrol, which Yuta himself intercepted, and the mercenary group's long flaming hair was like a striking banner in the night, and it flew up and down with the movements of the mistress - in contrast to the crimson tongue of the fire raven—Brando was slightly stunned when he saw the sword, and then remembered that the sword had been given to the mercenary leader's lady, and the tongue of the fire raven seemed to be given life in Yuta's hands. She raised her hand and turned her long sword into a flaming whip, the golden-red whip swept out a distance of thirty-four meters, rolled up four or five fleeing cavemen and turned them into a cloud of ashes, and the remaining cavemen were powerless to resist, and one by one they were cut down to the ground by the White Lion Guards. It was quickly slaughtered.
Cooper, who was on the side, looked at the sword in Yuta's hand, and then at the proud figure of the female mercenary leader, and couldn't help but look back at Brando with envy, thinking that the young man was really a blessing.
At this moment, there were only two razor-like boars left in the square, this beast from the underworld was extremely large, almost like a cow, and they had four pairs of fangs side by side, each pair was more than half a meter long, like a bright scimitar. Hence the name razor; Domesticated by the Sadr troglodytes, they were caged with metal masks and blindfolds, further reducing their weaknesses, making them veritable war beasts.
Fierce creatures are known killers in the underworld, but their brains seem to burn out with the heat of the moment, their IQ is extremely low, and wild razor boars are ready to attack enemies that enter their territory - sometimes even their mates, even after being domesticated. The only thing they did was to choose a target, the Tametrist, when all the cavemen in the square had been killed. The two razor-boars came to their senses, and their first choice was not to howl loudly to call for their companions, but to immediately bury their heads in their field of vision and rush towards the humans who appeared in their field of vision.
Walton and Brando stood in front of the two razor-boars, one left and one right.
Walton has been famous in Ludwig for a long time, and in addition to swordsmanship, his strength has also reached the peak of the Golden Rank, but he still doesn't dare to be too careless in the face of this kind of thing that goes crazy at every turn. When the razor-boar rushed at him, he stepped aside and slashed at the big creature with a blow of his sword; The razor-boar broke off on all fours, and as soon as it hit its head on the ground, it opened its mouth to let out a terrible howl. But before the sharp air could rush out of his throat, he was pierced through the throat by Walton's sword, which caught up with him, and was sealed in the stomach, and the tragic sound of killing pigs finally became the sound of the clucking and unconscious air flow hitting the ruptured trachea, and the dirty blood gushed out.
Walton couldn't help but nod his head in satisfaction as he looked at the razor-boar lying on his back and was dead, obviously extremely satisfied with the way he handled it, and being able to settle the battle so cleanly showed that his understanding of swordsmanship had taken a step further.
However, he was a little strange that the young Earl's side had not yet sounded, and it stands to reason that whether he won or lost, there had to be some movement, and even if he handled it so cleanly, the razor boar still made a lot of noise when it hit the ground. Of course, Walton didn't think that Brando might be more powerful than himself, he followed Cooper's side, he didn't hear much about the rumors about the Earl's strength, and he had heard about the other party's impulsiveness, irritability, arrogance and rudeness, when Brando captured the Black Sword Fortress, the Imperial side only said that the Count had a real archmage by his side, if Brando was a sword master in his early twenties, Walton would not believe it anyway.
But when he turned around, he saw a scene that stunned him, Brando stood still, and not far away, the razor boar was lying on the ground and shaking like chaff, so frightened that he didn't dare to take half a step forward.
All the young men of the White Lion Guard, even the female mercenary leader, looked at their lord with a reverent gaze at the moment.
Walton was not ignorant and naturally understood what was going on.
The might of the Juggernaut –
There are only a few creatures in nature that are powerful enough to be coerced, such as dragons, or mythical creatures beyond the elemental boundaries that cannot be described in words. But for the people of the Black Iron, there are those who are strong enough in a certain realm, and even have mastered the supreme principles of the law, in order to produce coercion—the power of the law, the power of the sword—and the only condition that must be met to achieve this step is the side of truth.
Brando did feel the existence of the law between heaven and earth at that moment, and even he didn't know what was happening, and at the same moment when he drew his sword and pointed it at the razor boar, a mysterious knowledge responded from the sword of the earth, and at that moment he seemed to understand the meaning of mountains, rivers and earth, eternal immortality, but this was just a story that happened in an instant. It was as if for a moment, he had truly stepped into the realm of the side of truth, but after a moment, he had returned to the peak state of elemental civilization.
However, on the side of truth for such a moment, the coercion that naturally emanated from his body was enough to make the razor-boar who lacked intelligence frightened the six gods.
Brando had a vague premonition in his heart. He withdrew his sword, glanced at the razor-like boar lying on the ground, and said to the others, "Leave this thing alone, it won't be able to react for a while, and it will attack the temple quickly." ”
As he said this, he looked up and silently glanced at the dark night sky.
I don't know when the dark clouds obscured the starlight—
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I don't know if it was because of the blessing of the pottery god Calidas or for some other reason, the battle to storm the temple was so smooth that the caveman warriors stationed inside the temple did not anticipate the changes outside. When the White Lion Guards attacked the Temple, they were caught off guard and lost the initiative at the first time, and the rest of the battle was almost a one-sided slaughter, although the Tars' Bear Goblin Guards fought back fearlessly, but these fourth-order creatures from the underground of Jorgandegan were obviously better at fighting in caves than on the surface, and under the offensive arrows of Juta, Nimesis and Walton, the White Lion Guards almost wiped out these Tamper Guards at the cost of only one minor injury.
The battle ended faster than expected.
The Tamu is the lord of the Sardell troglodytes - but that's about it. The caveman was originally the lowest level of existence in the Jogandigang, only slightly higher than the status of the earth dwarf - one of the most famous things in the Underworld was that the Tatamer had a minotaur as a slave. With this sixth-order creature, it has taken over a small territory on the edge of the Silent Lands, established prestige among its fellow citizens, raised an army, and become a lord, but with his power. It is also slightly stronger than the expelled Tajib kind of storage zài.
And this time, the minotaur it had been relying on only took a few moves in Walton's hand before it was beheaded by a sword, and the stinking blood sprayed it as it hid behind. It almost scared the hell out of me.
When Jutta pulled this guy out of the temple, the lord lost all his former majesty, but shivered like a rooster in water.
"My lord, this guy doesn't know much, but he has said everything he can say," Yuta asked, "Why don't you ask it yourself." ”
Brando glanced at this guy, but shook his head, and replied a little anxiously: "Don't waste time, what it said, you can sue me directly." ”
Juta was slightly stunned and gave Brando a strange look.
Nimesis, who came out on the side, didn't have so many concerns about the mercenary leader, and she also noticed the abnormality in Brando's tone, and asked directly, "What's the matter?" ”
Brando shook his head slightly, he vaguely felt that the sword before was a little unusual, and the feeling coming from the earth was definitely not his own perception of the law, but some kind of connection, he just happened to feel this connection. He remembered the legend of Jogandigan, who before the Great Schism, had indeed worshipped the same god as the lionmen of Toquinine, and this legend made him feel a little uneasy, as if it were vaguely connected with some doubts of the past few days, but he could not find that key point for a while.
There was another point that puzzled him, and that was that the previous sense was clearly descending from the sky, but the sky was not the traditional territory of Jorgane, which made Brando unclear for a moment what he was feeling.
Juta looked at the female knight, and then at her lord, but she didn't dare to let the latter wait too long, and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid even this guy doesn't know how big this invasion is, but Lord Lord, according to some of its descriptions, I'm afraid it won't be too small." ”
This was originally expected by Brando, and Yuta's words only confirmed his guess, and Brando threw away the messy clues in his heart, and asked a little clearer: "There are a few of the Jorgane troops stationed in Graystone Town, and it should know who the main force of the Jorgane army is in this direction." ”
"There are only two Jorgantigan troops stationed in Greystone, and the other lord is called Guko, Brother Brando." Tia replied first.
Juta nodded as if testifying, indicating that the servant's words were actually translated by Tia.
"Grukou?" Brando felt as if he had heard the name there, but he thought about it. only to find that this name does not seem to be any well-known lord of Qiaogendigang, and it is not even comparable to the reputation of Tan Servant. The Taman is one of only two lords of the Shadr trocavemen, and with its minotaur slaves, it is somewhat famous in this regard. What made him feel strange was that the lord who had theoretically heard of the name would never be nameless.
Brando couldn't help but begin to wonder if his memory was wrong. He turned back to ask Nimesis for help, only to find the female knight frowning as if she was thinking the same thing as him.
"What about the other question?" He asked again.
"The lord who is marching towards Asaph now seems to be a guy named Moksha, but this guy can't say clearly, it's really useless!" Tia glanced at the servant and replied.
"Moksha!" Brando was slightly stunned: "It turned out to be it, the king of the lizardmen, it is also the lord of the underground second only to Geralt and the king of Medusa, if it is the commander of the containment force of Qiaogendegan's attack on Asaph, then the force of Qiaogendigan's invasion of the surface world this time is probably not too small." At least to the south, there will certainly be a true king of the underworld. ”
The Wild Elf sister smiled slightly and replied, "Brother Brando, you guessed it right, the Qiaogendigang Legion that is attacking Rokozy at this moment - the Broken Sword Mountain Fortress Group is an army from the Venom Swamp. ”
"King of Medusa." Brando reacted immediately, but he wasn't too nervous in his heart, anyway, it was the empire that had a lot of fun now, and it had nothing to do with him, even if the king of Medusa was powerful, it was impossible for him to turn north from the Rokozy Plateau to find trouble with him.
He asked a few more questions. Tia answered them all, but as Juta said. There are very few things that the Tamper level of the Servant knows, and it doesn't even know what the real reason for Qiaogendigan's invasion of the surface world is, as for why it appeared here, it was also forced to participate in the war by the more powerful lords - this is a common thing in the underground world, and Brando is not surprised.
Eventually, Brando asked about the whereabouts of Count Orcons and his party, the hapless Imperial nobles who were imprisoned in the catacombs of the Temple. At this moment, Sir Cooper had already led people to rescue them, but it is conceivable that the caveman did not have such a superfluous thing as aristocratic bearing, and it was almost conceivable what would happen to Count Orcons and others if they fell into his hands. Even if it's not dead, it's estimated that it will have to peel off the skin.
When he spoke of this, Brando couldn't help but maliciously think that if the Earl had known about this, he might have surrendered to him on his own initiative, and would rather be a prisoner of the Eruins.
At the same time, Tia's description of what happened to these Cruz nobles also confirmed another premonition in Brando's heart.
The fact that the Sardell troglodytes paid so little attention to these Cruz captives meant that they were not going for Count Orcons at all, which means that Lord Count was simply captured by these troglodytes.
But Brando didn't have time to sigh for the hapless Earl, and he immediately looked at Nimesis and asked, "Did you find that thing?" ”
Nimesis nodded.
Then take out one thing.
It was in the palm of her hand, not even the size of a palm, a bit like an enlarged platinum coin - this kind of gold coin is widely used in the Faenzan region, because of the special casting process, so the surface is smoother and brighter than ordinary gold coins - but the metal disc in the hand of the female knight is even smoother than the average white gold coin, almost like a sparkling gem with metallic qualities, but there is no obvious crystalline structure, and when you look closely, You'll even notice a faint glow of flame in the metal disc.
Anyone could tell at a glance that this metal disc was anything extraordinary, because no single piece of metal or forging technology in the mortal world could make anything the same, and even a similar one seemed unlikely.
Yuta was attracted to the first sight of the metal disc, she looked at things as if she was fascinated, and it took a long time for her to react, and she subconsciously blurted out: "What is this, it's so beautiful!" ”
Hearing this, Brando couldn't help but smile bitterly, such a thing, in the eyes of Yuta, was just beautiful, and to anyone who had ever known it, it was the treasure of this world.
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Vauld had two things that no mortal could reach.
The first is fate, and the second is the law.
But Martha eventually gave mortals the power to change a qiē.
The master of fate lies in the key of amber, and the words between heaven and earth are recorded on the stone tablet.
- Poetry of the Firmament. Section IV, paragraph 3
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(PS: Three more, stupid Miss Silly ~~~ In addition, ask for a monthly pass, everyone, see that I am working so hard today, I hope you don't skimp on the tickets in your hand!) (To be continued......)