A cold wind swept into the house, and Count Brill saw that the light of the candle suddenly dimmed.

"What's wrong?" He looked back at his old friend who was sitting next to him—Ambunar, who was holding the Bone Staff and in a gloomy state that disturbed him.

"Huh?" The Duke slowly opened his eyes, a hint of dark red appeared in his blue-gray eyes, he lowered his head, silently looked at the bone staff in his hand surrounded by black mist, and then easily opened his hand, the bone staff seemed to be held up by an invisible force suspended in mid-air. The Earl of Brill on the side frowned deeply at such a scene, he didn't like this thing, this dark treasure had no good end to no one in history; He also didn't like the undead of Madara, and the battle would cause considerable trouble for his realm, and although the Silver Queen would compensate him afterwards, he was more worried about his old friend, who he felt had become much more gloomy these days.

But the Count understood that his old friend was a soldier, and he was only the lord of Ovehin, and there were some things that he could not interfere with.

The Duke of Ambunard suddenly stood up from his chair, turned and walked to the stone hole window, where the black staff was left in place, up and down - outside the stone hole window was half of the port of Ovehin, which was now completely frozen in ice, and his gaze was over the city wall, and the dark place was the winding shore of the Silver Valley.

"What's wrong, old man?" The Count felt as if the temperature in the room had dropped several degrees, and he could not help asking, and he saw that even the fire in the fireplace had dimmed, and the blazing flames had turned into tiny flames.

"Something is wrong," replied the Duke of Ambunar gloomily, "and I feel that a bone staff suddenly cannot be sensed. ”

Outside Ovekhin –

The army of the undead is coming to a standstill.

At Brando's orders, Crott damaged the bone staff in his hand. A black light shot out of the damaged bone staff and went straight into Brando's chest. Brando knew that there was a lot of mess in his body, and this black light seemed to be inseparable from the dark orb described by Bai, so he didn't show any fuss, but only checked his state slightly, and sure enough, he didn't find anything unusual.

There was nothing but the blood of the Dark God or the power of the Dark Orb in his body. There should also be the soul of the holy sword Odysphes, according to Sidney, that is, the power of the orb of flames, but the coexistence of these two powers in the body does not show any signs of conflict. In fact, apart from the effect of the blood of the dark god on the elemental pool, Brando could not feel its existence at all, and the same was true of the soul of Odysphes, which he did not sense until he had previously mobilized the latter into the fragment of the Flame Blade, and he would not have been able to detect it at all on a normal day. Not even the impact on his fire elemental pool is owed.

As for why one can affect the elemental pool and the other can't, Brando vaguely feels that the difference between the two is that one of them has self-awareness, while the other does not have self-consciousness - Odysphes is the sword soul of the Flame Blade, and in "Amber Sword", the so-called sword soul is actually the faction tendency of the holy sword under the influence of its owner and experience, although it is not comparable to true wisdom, but at least it has the ability to judge, while the dark orb has been in a state of division into two for a long time. The portion of the Dark Arcana that was in control was obviously a smaller part, and the blood of the Dark God (another version of the power of the Dark Orb) that had been infused into his body in the first place was even more rare. There is no possibility of self-judgment and consciousness.

The powers of the Orb of Darkness and the Orb of Fire are obviously unique, they are different from any of the powers known to Brando, and in Vaughnde, most of the power and energy is manifested on the outside, and it will literally increase your energy level, the energy level (Oz), and change your external or internal power, the three pillars of your body. Strength, dexterity, physique or the three pillars of the soul, perception, will and blood. Elemental orbs have historically demonstrated miraculous powers—such as the Blade of Fire and the Frost Whisperer's terrifying lethality—you can't sense their energy levels.

They are like magical objects without any energy, which sounds like a paradox in itself, because in Vaund's world, the definition of a magical object is 'an object that contains some kind of power, or energy'.

Not only are the Elemental Orbs themselves, but even the 'power' they contain seem to have such properties.

After the bone staff was damaged, Yuta and the others, who were standing behind, immediately noticed the changes that had occurred in the skeleton soldiers around them-

Layers of thousands of undead stood still on the snow-covered shores of Silver Valley, and a ripple of turmoil spread around them, and in an instant, the army of the undead melted like ice and snow; At the same moment, Brando, who was silently watching in the direction of Ovexin, moved slightly, as if he felt something, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

He gestured to Taru beside him, and the young wizard immediately cast a spell, a ripple of water rippling through the space around him, shielding the breath of the living.

A little farther away, some of the undead who smelled the breath of the living in the wind staggered to a halt, and the army of the undead was crumbling, scattering in twos and threes, like lonely ghosts roaming the wilderness.

"My lord, I don't quite understand, why destroy the bone staff, wouldn't it be better to order these undead to attack the port? They're vulnerable, but at least they can be used as cannon fodder, aren't they? ”

Taru looked at the scene in front of him in bewilderment.

Brando smiled and shook his head.

Thousands of bone frames that had not been strengthened by the undead secret method were useless at all, and he didn't need such a weak attack, he had just infiltrated here to confirm one thing, and now he had the answer.

The port of Ovekhin is not a military fortress like the port of Fatan, as an important commercial port in the northern sublime inland sea, after hundreds of years of development, the size of the port has long been different, due to the expansion of the urban circle, the merchants in the port have long since demolished the outer city walls - in the hinterland of the empire, the most stable area, and the garrison of the White Legion, Ovekhin does not need these defenses at all - for tax reasons, the city's rulers Brill family chose to acquiesce in this behavior. As the city expanded, Ovekhin gradually crossed the original border, the Turquoise River, and formed two districts on the east and west sides of the river, the eastern part is the old town, the earliest gate of Ovekhin and the wharf are on the east bank of the turquoise river, and the western area is the new town. There are neat workshops and handicraft workshops, as well as two markets.

It is worth mentioning that Ovehin's later newly built fortress of Kongwei is also located in the northern part of the city, which stands on the north bank of the turquoise river, and is like a silent ghost in the many lights on the north bank.

At this moment, Brando was feeling a strong sense of inspiration coming from this fortress, and there was no doubt that the dark treasure of the white mouth was located in this fortress, and it really had some kind of control over all the fakes made with its power. That being the case, the Duke of Ambunar, who has mastered it, must not be too far away.

He easily suppressed the impulse in his heart, for him, who had mastered nearly two-thirds of the power of the Dark Orb, the so-called 'Dark Treasure' in the hands of the Duke of Ambunar was simply not worth mentioning.

The other party should have already discovered his deposit.

But it was too late.

Brando pulled out a gem-like object from his bosom, a 'gem' that was dull and crescent-shaped, like some kind of feldspar, or obsidian. He only glanced at the thing and threw it forward. The gemstone draws a flat arc. Falling into the beach, but at this moment there is no sand on the beach on the shore of Silver Valley, only layers of thick snow, and the gem falls into the snow and sinks deeply.

Above the head -

The sky was dark, and the twelve moons were dim.

In just a few hours. The outer sea of the sublime inland sea seems to have completely changed its appearance, the sea surface is lightning and thunder, and the intertwined electric light reflects a hideous scene, and the entire sea surface seems to be boiling, and in an instant hundreds of feet of huge waves like mountains are rolled up. and surging down, one after another, like moving mountains, or giant beasts fighting each other.

Far away in the sky, the glaciers froze the coast, the ice fields stretched all the way to the depths of the sea, huge icebergs suspended on the raging sea, cracked, frozen, and then disappeared into the depths of darkness, the whole sky and the earth were shrouded in a torrential rain curtain, and the rain line hanging from the canopy blurred the boundary between the sea and the sky, blurring the whole world together, forming an impermeable water world.

Yet a silver fleet was passing through the rain.

On the 'Breaking Waves', the wizard on duty Thalman looked at the sea with some uneasiness, mortals often think that wizards are omnipotent, and there is nothing to surprise or frighten them, but this is often not the case, Thälman is twenty-one years old this year, before becoming a wizard, he was actually only the son of a peasant in the countryside of Toniger, he was fortunate enough to know a few words with a wandering wizard, so he was taken by the first batch of students of the Shire, became the third batch of students of the Charles Wizard Tower, he is very smart, and he is a quick learner, he became a wizard apprentice a month ago, and was later selected by Buga (it is really a short man who pulls out the tallest among them) , becoming one of the official wizards aboard the newly built escort cruiser of the Breaking Waves.

Although nominally hung on the title of official wizard, in fact Thälmann was still a half-apprenticed wizard, and he did not learn much, far less than those who were really orthodox apprentices - it usually takes five years for a tower wizard to train an apprentice, and although the apprenticeship period of a buga wizard is short, it usually takes ten years or more before they are officially exposed to magic - that is, from birth, they are exposed to the basics of magic - Therefore, although Thälmann has a preliminary understanding of the world of magic, he is far from being in touch with the real side of this world.

What is the world?

This is an unsolved problem for many knowledgeable wizards, let alone for Thälmann, a trainee wizard who has not yet left his identity as a peasant son.

He looked at the scene in front of him with some trepidation, as if he saw the scene of the end of the world, in fact, this was not his own idea at this moment, in the whole ship, or even the entire fleet, there were many people who held the same idea as him, and the situation in front of him had gone beyond the scope of the civil war of the empire they knew, or even the scope of the holy war, at this moment many people had a faint guess in their hearts.

Maybe this time the Four Great Temples are really going to be in trouble.

They didn't know that this guess was extremely accurate, and the consequences were far beyond their imagination, but the militarized management and training that the Bugas had temporarily requested before the formation of the fleet finally worked, so that Thälmann did not have the mentality of escaping, he at least remembered what kind of duties he was currently shouldering, and what kind of responsibilities the Breaking Wave shouldered as the vanguard of the fleet.

Suddenly, Thälman saw the crystal ball in front of him light up and flickered slightly, and when he saw the words on the crystal ball, he jumped up from his chair in shock, and even stepped on one of the boots on his feet, but he didn't bother to pick up the boots, but immediately rushed out of the room with one bare foot.

Behind the young wizard, a small line of numbers on the crystal ball was glittering.

X—3321；Y—4211；Z—0311

……

Brush, brush, brush, the sound of low, uniform footsteps echoed in the snow in the dark, and the sound of rustling rang for a long time before finally stopped. Outside the city of Port Fatan is the easy to defend sea cliff mountain road, at one end of the mountain road there is an inward valley, in clear weather, from the walls of the fortress outside the port in the direction of the valley, often can see several miles away, but at this moment, only a dark can be seen.

But if you look closely, you can see rare flickering spots of light in the darkness.

In Eruin, the veterans of Butch and Karasu only need to jump up in shock at a glance, recognizing that it is the characteristic glow of the soul fire of the undead army on the march, but at this moment, the troops stationed in the fortress are nothing more than the port guards under the orders of Baron Ludwig, these soldiers have never seen the undead, not even the bandits.

Death seemed to be looming silently.

In the snow, Thork watched the progress of the undead army coldly, and through a faint reflection, it could see that the undead were approaching the fortress walls on the sea cliff path, and the corpse witch had already arranged the two rows of skeleton archers in front of him, and the port of Fatan was still unresponsive, presumably those guys decided that it was impossible to be attacked in such bad weather.

What's more, this solar eclipse was originally 'accidental' for them.

Thinking of the solar eclipse, a trace of gloom suddenly rose in Soke's heart, if even the solar eclipse can be artificially created, the future days may not be as stable as imagined, not to mention that the current weather is really not as simple as a simple solar eclipse. The thought of the signs that had recently taken place in the empire did not seem to bode well for the absence of that one.

Troubled times have come—

Such a thought rose in his mind for no reason.

…… (To be continued......)