"I know, Your Highness the Princess, if you listen to me, I won't joke with my life. But I have a plan, and I'm willing to give it a try. Brando said in a tone that is unique to a player who is eager to try anything. Princess Griffiin looked at him with a frown, "Really? ”

The half-elf princess's suspicious appearance is really cute in Brando's eyes, and she has a girlish posture that she rarely has in her body. He nodded, "Of course, if we can sneak around under Qiao Gendigang's nose, why don't we find a way to dismantle the Flame Gate?" ”

"But not to mention whether we can destroy the Gate of Flames, you are so confident that they can really lead us away from the army of Chogandigan? Mr. Brando, they are witches, and they are the best at using words to deceive people. Her Royal Highness made no secret of her wariness, only this time she was on Brando's side, and there was a clear expectation in her bright silver eyes that she did not want Brando to be in danger.

"Your Royal Highness, Princess of Corcova, I became a witch when your grandfather, Obergu Sr., was still on the throne. The witches know that their words will be overheard by ravens, so they are cautious in what they say and do, and you still trust them compared to the nobles. Babasha grinned, like an old crow, and replied in a hoarse, deep voice.

"Bold people of darkness, who allowed you to call the former king by his name!" Her Royal Highness the Princess scolded coldly, and with a soft sound, the narrow and bright blade of the sword trembled slightly in the darkness.

Brando hurriedly pressed her hand, "Babasha." ”

"I lost my words. Your Lordship. The old witch glanced at Princess Griffiin with eyes that were as cold as beads of wood.

"Babasha, the princess is not wrong. You're the best at playing with people's hearts, and witches never lie, but they leave back doors. I want you to swear to the goddess of the pillars of hell that you will not betray me, and you can do it? Brando pressed Griffiin's hand with one hand and asked coldly.

Babasha slumped deeply. With some awe, he said, "Lord Lord, it is really clear. We swear to the Goddess of the Pillars of Purgatory, and swear not to betray the Lord of Tonigal. Brando, our master, if he disobeys, will let the blind and lame Diath drag us into the abyss."

Princess Griffiin saw Babasha put her hand to her heart. She had vaguely heard the witch's oath to 'go straight to the heart'. But she realized that the oath seemed to be extremely terrible to the other party, and the old witch even trembled slightly at the last sentence. She knew very little about witches, and it was hard to believe that these cunning women would take an oath so seriously, and she looked at Brando in bewilderment.

There was an answer in his silver eyes.

"Don't worry, Your Highness Princess, they won't deceive us now." Brando took advantage of her inattention to remove the sword from her hand and gently put it back into the other's scabbard, while replying, "Modesty, the goddess of pillars, is their faith, and legend has it that Modesti was the first witch to steal dark magic from the sea of magic. She passed on such spells to the first generation of the Twelve Witches. But then she was caught by the demons and nailed naked to the iron-thorned hell to be tortured for eternity. Blind and lame, Dias was her first student, obsessed with darkness and degraded into a monster, where witches who broke Modes's oath were dragged into eternal darkness by those who crawled out of the abyss. This is not a legend, but a real thing, falling into complete darkness and losing the five senses, which is the most terrible punishment for a witch. Since Babasha has made such a vow, she will never deceive. ”

Seeing that Her Royal Highness the princess was still puzzled, Brando added: "These are the secret knowledge of witches, and few outsiders know about it. ”

"And how do you know?"

Good question. Brando didn't expect Her Royal Highness the Princess to be able to keep her head clear at this time, so she hurriedly found a reason and said: "Because Your Royal Highness the Princess, you also know that I have read the knowledge of wizards, they are the same ancient existence as witches, although they are not enemies, but at least they are competitors, and they know each other's secrets more or less. ”

Princess Griffiin will be skeptical. She looked back, "So how sure is she that she will keep us from being discovered?" If it were just a witch's spell, I don't think the commanders of Jogandigan would be unguarded against this, and I've heard that there are more witches in the underground of Jogandigan. So whether as enemies or allies, they won't be unclear about the witches' methods, will they? ”

Brando once again felt the calmness of this half-elf princess, this question was actually thought of by him, but on the one hand, it was Her Royal Highness the princess who didn't even know the common sense that there were only 'lords' and no 'commanders' underground, and on the other hand, he knew Qiao Gendigan well. Judgment based on only a small amount of knowledge is a superior score.

He also looked back at Babasha, hoping for an answer. His plan was still an idea, but more details were needed to see if it could be implemented, and he knew that no war was won by patting his head.

"Her Royal Highness is obviously much wiser than your dumb grandfather, and the truth is as you guessed," Babasha said of Obergu VI again, and the half-elf girl pursed her lips to suppress her anger, witches are so dismissive of worldly power, and in fact this is one of the reasons why they are ostracized by the world. However, she was puzzled that the old witch was very respectful to Brando, and she did not know how Brando had helped them, and she listened to Babasha continue: "But in addition to our spells, we have some secret knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation by witches, and one of these secrets mentions that there is a hall under Ampesel that has been abandoned since ancient times, and this hall is hidden between the crevices of the fjord, which leads to the hills north of the harbor. ”

"This is impossible," she finally said, "it has been nearly seven centuries since the Ancestor Eck built the port of Ampesel here. For more than seven centuries, the Ampesel explored the terrain around the harbor and underneath it in order to re-survey whether the foundations of the Great Sanctuary of Under-Defreux had been loosened. But there have never been rumors of ancient ruins. ”

"But Her Royal Highness the Princess has to admit that this place was no longer a terra nullius long before the Eruin built the port. In addition to the Silver Elve, other civilizations have long lived here, and the reason why a secret is a secret is because it is not known. Babasha laughed.

"I remember, you're not talking about the seeping ancient passage." Brando remembered that there was such an ancient ruin near Ampesel. However, it has long since weathered over time, leaving a passage through the underground cliffs. There's a spider mother who lives for an unknown number of years.,It's a level 57 wave ss.。

Let's be honest. He didn't want to mess with that thing at all, if he could. With a giant spider mother with the strength of the Truth Side in a narrow terrain, coupled with her countless children and grandchildren and ubiquitous cobwebs, Brando is creepy to think about.

The point was that he had never heard of that ancient passage leading to the hills north of Ampesel. All I know is that one side of the ancient passage goes deep into the mountains of Anlek.

"My lord, we don't know what's going on down there." Hearing Brando say this, Babasha is even more sure of his identity. As the prophecy says, the secrets of the witch are like a big open book in his eyes, which can be read at will. "But since the lord also knows about this passage, it means that it must be a zài."

Princess Griffiin believed it this time too, because Brando certainly wouldn't lie to her. She looked back: "Brando, is she telling the truth?" ”

"I've heard of such an ancient passage," Brando's forehead was sweating, and he almost showed his stuff again. He couldn't help but scold Babasha, these old witches, for using a so-called 'witch's secret' to trick him. "But does this really lead to the hills north of Ampesel? …… Kindness. There is no mention of this in the wizarding literature. Brando felt that if this continued, the materials on the previous forum would really become a repository of wizards.

"It's a secret that we've passed down from generation to generation, and you can't go wrong. The road connects the mountains on one side and the hills to the north. ”

"That's right, it's basically the same as what I know." Brando was sure in one fell swoop. There may be a secret passage underneath that ancient passage. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be very curious, in the past, because of the proximity to Ampesel, there were not many players who explored this ancient passage, and none of them had discovered this other secret passage in decades.

You must know that it is impossible to set up a secret passage in the game inexplicably, and there must be corresponding benefits in it. Thinking of this, a fire of anticipation burned in Brando's heart, there are too few secrets that have not yet been discovered in the Land of Order in Amber Sword.

I didn't expect to meet him today.

He looked up. "Babasha, if I'm not mistaken. The entrance to that underground passage must be some distance from here, right? ”

"Yes, my lord." Babasha replied respectfully, "That entrance should be east of Jeantin's foothill estate." ”

"Who has the map?"

"I have," said Count Outing, who at once removed a wooden cylinder from his waist, unplugged it, and took out a waterproof roll of parchment maps. The accompanying knight then spread it out, and the parchment map, almost half the size of a man, was the whole of the area around Ampesel.

This kind of high-precision map was not common in this era, and even in the military it was the most important and highly secret, and it was worth tens of thousands of dollars on the black market. Back then, players didn't have such a bullish thing in their hands, and Brando didn't expect Outin to carry this kind of thing with him, and couldn't help but praise: "I didn't expect Count Outin to carry such a good thing with him, he was really well prepared." ”

Earl Outin glanced at Princess Griffiin a little embarrassed: "Her Royal Highness the princess asked the old minister to bring it." ”

Brando suddenly glanced at the half-elf girl on the side, but unfortunately Her Royal Highness the princess didn't have much expression on her face, and even frowned slightly. He couldn't help but sigh and look at the map. On the map, there was a place called Silverpinnacle on the east side of Jeanding's foothill manor, and if he remembered correctly, the secret entrance to the ancient passage should be near there. ”

But until then, there's a problem.

"If I'm not mistaken, the secret entrance to the ancient passage must have been sealed by ancient magic. Can you find a way to break that seal? Brando looked up at Babasha.

"Naturally, it's the witch who closes the ancient passage, Lord Lord." Babasha replied a little smugly. She does have a lot of pride, the witches have a very long tradition in Vaynd, they once followed the dark dragons, and held a lot of dark secrets and history that no one knows. "It takes a ritual to open that secret door, and only twenty people can pass through it at a time. However, once the passage was passed, it was up to the lord to decide whether to go north to the hills north of Ampesel or to the mountains of Anlek to the south. ”

"That is, we have to enter that ancient passage no matter what?" Princess Griffiin asked.

"Pretty much, unless we're willing to fight our way out, but there's little hope," Brando said. But Princess Griffiin still frowned, "But they don't know what the specific situation is under the ancient corridor, and whether there will be any danger below, which is also a matter of uncertainty." ”

"It's better than sitting back anyway," Brando added stiffly, "Besides, I know what's down there, at least I'm pretty sure." Believe me, Your Highness the Princess. ”

Her Royal Highness the Princess glanced at him and finally nodded: "Okay, I believe in you." ”

"One more thing." At this time, Count Outing, who was on the side, suddenly said. Under the gaze of the people, he walked up and pointed to the parchment map, which was full of splashes and said, "We are still some way from here to that place, and we have just seen on the top of the hill at least more than one army of Jogandegang entering the forest, and we will not run into them head-on if we pass in this direction." ”

Brando looked at the map and frowned deeply. He knew that Count Outin was right, and that he had seen a spark on the top of the hill outside the port of Ampesel, and it was only the glow of lava and torches. They continued to advance north like this, but they were afraid that there was a good chance of bumping, not to mention that there were countless harpies overhead.

He pursed his lips and frowned as he exchanged glances with Her Royal Highness the Princess. Both saw the same meaning in each other's eyes:

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