Act 159 War Slate: Dragonskin V
The gray fragments of the law dissipated behind Brando like withered petals, and he glanced at Bai who was unconscious on the ground, and silently put the sword of the earth back into its sheath. Another battle ended at the same time, Andreg and Mordface each held a pitch-black sword and pointed at the location of the soul fire that burned in the hollow chest of the Moon Knight, standing by its side - although the former was far stronger than either Andreg and Mordfes, after all, it was not an opponent for the two of them, not to mention that there was also a Hipamela who held the power of mountains and rivers next to him.
Brando turned and walked towards the Moon Knight - he knew that Shiro would soon wake up, the undead themselves would not really be unconscious, and Shiro's current state was nothing more than a state of suspended animation that the soul fire was too weak to fall into, and this state would not last long, either quickly recovering or dying out completely. He had dealt with this black knight of Mardala more than once, and he knew that the other party was difficult, and the large number of things she had said before were obviously trying to attract his attention, and he would also plan it, and he might not believe a single sentence out of ten. However, it is at least certain for now that Shiro is a silver elf and is familiar with Metisa.
Although Medisa mentioned that this woman had used mind reading on her, mind reading could only read the superficial mind, and these deep memories could not be stolen, that was the realm of the gods.
But as for whether she is the eldest princess of the Silver Elf Empire, it remains to be verified.
After all, this woman is very good at seducing and shaking people's hearts, making you fall into anger or confusion before doing it, and she is particularly fond of using spells such as mind-reading, which is also very clear by her nickname in addition to the Black Knight, 'The Impartial Inquisitor'. A fair judge, justice is not just, but she claims to be a judge, tortures the sins in people's hearts, shakes people's unfirm beliefs, and is good at taking advantage of the vulnerability of human nature.
He had to do everything he could to get something useful out of that Dead Moon Knight. Otherwise, he would not have thought of getting any news in front of this woman, unless he was ready to torture him separately, but he didn't have this condition here, and he didn't have this time.
Rorison's ghost still stands in the middle of the hall. Motionless, like a stone statue.
Brando approached the Moon Knight, and soon found out that he was an old acquaintance - Krotten Krot, one of the Three Knights of Decay, who and his Bone Knight had invaded Eruin during the First and Second Wars of the Black Roses, and died at the hands of Freya's sword at the end of the Second War of the Black Roses. In the middle of the Second War of the Black Roses, he had also made a mission about this guy, but at that time it was surrounded by a large army, so it could only be said that it was a distant face. Krot is a dark nobleman in the Sea of the Dead Moon, born as a mercenary. Unlike Kabais, he is a more warlike undead lord, but he is not a diehard loyalist of the undead monarch who wields a mercury staff, and can only be regarded as a wall-riding faction at best.
He thought about it for a moment and was relieved, which undead lord he didn't know with Madara?
Come to think of this. He glanced back at the skeletons lying on the ground, and sure enough, he knew them all:
Gray Staff Trassa, commanding the Gray Fort of Lift, most of his subordinates are corpse witches, good at blood rain techniques, and his political stance is that of the wall-riding faction.
Bone-eyed Karen. The lord of the Withered Woodlands, with an army of Pale Hunters at his command, specializes in undead cavalry tactics, and Trolley's famous wall-riding faction.
Bakken, wall-ridden faction.
It's all wall-riding.
The Rotten Knight Krot had died once a long time ago, but he was still afraid of death. Or to put it another way, the fear of 'true eternal sleep', in other words, the tone is not very tight. As soon as Brando threatened, it confided the truth. Tiamas ——,, this is the real name of the Black Knight White, this name sounds like the name of an elf, in the previous life, some players speculated that she may have been a wind elf or a wild elf when she was alive, but I didn't think it was a silver elf, because there were too many bad years - sure enough, they lied, and they didn't come here for the purpose of some Rorison's undead - but for the war slate.
But it is not easy for the undead to enter human territory, let alone to pass through several lines of defense without alarming the army in the current situation, according to Krot, they sail from the port of eternal darkness and board at Silver Sands6, and as soon as they get off the ship, humans arrange their itineraries, and they arrive in the four-leaf clover field in a carriage, and there are people on the way to the field of clover.
Brando immediately guessed that these people were from the Cruz Empire, and even from Crot's description, they came from the White Legion, or more closely, from a certain high-level knight order of the White Legion: the White Legion has three direct knights, the Gray Wing Knight who rides the gray griffin to fight, the White Dragon Knight who rides the Earth Dragon and the Silver Pegasus Knight, and the person who receives these undead should be the people of the White Dragon Knights, because Crot once saw the badge under the human cloak, which is a white dragon head emblem, This is the emblem of the typical White Dragon Knights.
Although the possibility of blame is not ruled out, it is not very likely, after all, the Cruz people do not know that Krot will fall into his hands.
The White Legion is Constance's staunchest supporters, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are also the most loyal supporters of the Mercury Staff and the backbone of the reformers, which means that these undead entered the Empire to obtain the War Slate is likely to be instructed by Constance and the Dark Monarch, and Brando immediately felt that there was a strong smell of conspiracy in it.
He looked at Bai Jia, who was listening quietly next to him, and the senior sister also showed the same look in her eyes.
It is not surprising that the monarch with the mercury staff knew in advance about the existence of the war slab, which was originally the emperor of the world once in a thousand years, and the mercury scepter in his hand had the supreme ability to predict the future, and through the mercury scepter for some future fragments it foreshadowed, it may have seen the day when the war slate was born. As for the Silver Queen, as the dark dragon of this era who has obtained most of Odin's inheritance, the black prophecy originally mentioned that the dark dragon has almost omniscient and omnipotent abilities, and it seems not surprising that some ancient knowledge and inheritance are known about the war tablet.
Strangely, these two people are now coming together. Throughout history, the opportunity to turn countries and countries, forces and forces into friends is nothing more than common interests or enemies, and to say that the enemies of Her Majesty the Queen, in addition to the army of twilight and the monsters she identifies assumed, it seems that only herself can be regarded as the enemy of the other party. But Brando doesn't think it's worth bringing the two empires together against him.
Then all that remains is the interest.
The benefits of Madala were predictable. Being able to snatch the tablets from the Empire would certainly do no harm to them, but what good could the Silver Queen gain from it? Set the fox to keep the geese? Just in exchange for the support of Madara? It doesn't seem to be necessary, not to mention that Madara herself is still not right, and the four major temples are except for a small number of people in the Fire Temple. There didn't seem to be any objection to what Constance had done, and she didn't have to worry about having anything to do with the bones.
Brando is convinced that if an event seems more absurd and illogical on the surface, and it is true, then there must be an untold truth behind the event.
He suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility.
Historically, the Empire has allowed and even encouraged Mardala to attack St. Osor and Eruin, will such a thing happen again today? Although it was an event born at the end of the First Age, in this world, even the Great Demon Tide was so much in advance, and Queen Constance did not play her cards according to common sense at all, so it made no sense that this event could not have been born or appeared in advance.
"What are you looking for this for?" Brando asked suddenly, pointing to the pile of rubble with the tip of the war slab hovering.
Sure enough. The Undead Knight looked blank, and there was nothing to be seen in the soul fire that pulsed in its eyes, and Krot clearly didn't know anything about it. This was not unexpected, the War Slate had only begun to descend on the world half a month ago, and the Rule Fragment had only appeared a day earlier. The undead didn't know what it was, but the scepter with the mercury staff might have described the shape of the thing to them, and asked them to take it, and they came to take it.
The power of the Mercury Staff was well known, so even such a request would not arouse anyone's suspicion, and the undead had long been accustomed to their monarchs being one step ahead of others.
"You think of the war of 422?" Bai Jia suddenly asked in a low voice.
Brando nodded, and the hero saw the same thing. The War of 422 preceded the Battle of Siphah, in which the Empire signed a secret agreement with the envoys of Madara, which was essentially a disastrous agreement that would not increase the Empire's forces in the Saidar region, or even withdraw its troops - in effect, allowing Madara to attack Eruin and St. Osor, and soon after Madara entered its heyday. It was also the prelude to the demise of Eruin, and even the wind elves of St. Osor were greatly injured in the war, so there was the later Battle of Alkash.
I didn't expect the history to be so similar, although the emperor of the empire was no longer the taciturn Lenaret, Constance also made a surprisingly unanimous decision. Brando couldn't help but think at this moment that this was really a mother and son.
But Brando still didn't understand why Constance had let the undead go deep into the Metz region to grab the slates, and what was her point in doing so? The territory of the empire is so vast, and there are fragments of rules and slabs of war in this land, why is it the port of Fatan? Was it the one who held the mercury rod who asked for it, or was it the queen's own idea? Could it be that the woman could have foreseen that he would come to this place? That sounds a little too creepy.
A somewhat weak voice interrupted his train of thought, "Remember what I said to you, human lord. ”
Brando turned around, and now Shiro had woken up, a little earlier than he had imagined. The metal mask on the Black Knight's face had already been shattered in the impact, revealing half of her beautiful face, and the silver silk proved her pure silver elf blood, but there were no silver gem eyes as beautiful as Metisa's in those eyes, but instead a pair of eyes that danced with golden flames.
But her eyes had lost the vividness they had had used to coax him, and had reverted to a look of indifference and emotion, and her voice was no longer undulating, full of hollow metal echoes, and it was not even a woman's voice.
In fact, this is what Brando is familiar with, she appeared in Madara about a hundred and fifty years ago (the first sighting recorded in the literature, perhaps earlier, but it is unknown), and no one knows where she came from or why she appeared in Madara, but she appeared in Madara as soon as she appeared. He is already a powerful undead lord.
By the time the player becomes familiar with the Undead Lord, she has already received the blood of the bone dragon Orhin, and has been crowned one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by the Staff of Mercury. In history, Bai is always dressed in a heavy robe like this every time he appears. While the style and pattern of the robe may change, most of the time it is painted with ornaments such as crosses and scales - unless she wants to hide her identity. But in either case, she wears her iconic building, a half-crying, half-laughing metal mask.
Players, not even those of Madara, have never seen the knight for what she really is, and there is no way to tell whether she is male or female - although this makes no difference to the undead - but players are still happy to guess this, although judging by the name, the player prefers the latter guess.
And the facts prove that it is so-
After listening to the black knight's words, Brando asked rhetorically, "It's not the first time I've dealt with you, and you've obviously said more than one word to me. I don't know what you mean? ”
"Ancestors—"
"You are an ancestor, a human being, and you and I both know this deeply."
"What are the ancestors?" Brando frowned, this was indeed the second time the woman had mentioned the word, and it was referring to him as well. But he was puzzled. Brando's origins are clear, neither he nor his grandfather are ancestors, and although the Sword Saint Darus is famous, the ancestors of this family are just ordinary Eruins.
"You know us as well as you know the boundaries of human knowledge, just as you know my real name, you know where I come from, even if I didn't tell you this when we first met. But I know you've known a qiē for a long time. Two months ago, I was secretly sealed in the Temple of the Dead Moon, a secret that never left Madara, but you already know, and I'm sure you even know why I was sealed, that my power comes from the spider mother Thaleth—"
"Spider Mother Therais? Your power doesn't come from the bone dragon......" Brando was stunned. Suddenly realizing that it was not good, he saw the woman looking at him with a sneer, and said with a mouth shape:
'The Lord of darkness will return, who will see the heart and make all things clear—'
"Put away your tricks." Bai Jia interrupted her coldly: "I will kill you at any time, if you dare to do it again." ”
Brando patted Senior Sister's hand to stop the other party from continuing, and he asked rhetorically with such a look: "So you said that Medisa sued me before, and this is also to lie to me?" ”
This time Shiro didn't answer.
But Brando didn't care, and continued to ask, "You still think I'm the Dark Dragon?" But time has passed, and now others don't necessarily think so, and there is a person in the empire who deserves this title more than me, doesn't he? ”
"Darkness shall be born out of the inhuman, and the people of honor shall pass away from the flames."
This sentence is the original words of the Black Prophecy.
Bai Jia shook his head: "A person whose age is forever fixed at the age of fifteen can still be regarded as a human being." It is human, talent is not human, and the silver queen Constance is obviously more satisfied with this, she saw what secrets on the final battlefield, inherited the power and will of the dark dragon, and with the blessing of these powers, she has already become an inhuman being. ”
"No," Bai replied, "mortal wisdom is forever limited to this, and I never said you were the dragon of darkness, it was just a self-righteous misunderstanding of the little girl of Metisa." ”
Brando, who had lost interest in listening to her nonsense, asked, "What is your relationship with Metisa?" ”
"I don't have anything to do with that bastard." This time Bai replied coldly.
Hearing this, Brando was slightly stunned, and then looked at the woman with a sullen face, and when he heard this, he confirmed the identity of this woman, she was indeed Metisa's sister - just as Metisa described in that dream. He turned his head and didn't look at the woman anymore, he had enough information, he looked at Krot, "Krot, as far as I know, you are not the most trusted courtier, why did it appoint you to carry out this task. ”
This is just a euphemism, in fact, it is not as simple as not being close, the so-called wall-riding faction, to put it bluntly, is because of the power of the mercury staff to submit to the dark nobles under the supreme, these old nobles are the most unpowerful group of people in this emerging empire, such as the important task of the Cruz Empire, it is absolutely impossible for them to take their turn.
In fact, Crot himself was at a loss on this point, but he looked at it with some fear, and was unwilling to answer.
From this simple glance alone, Brando and Bai Jia had already got what they wanted.
"If I'm not mistaken, she took the initiative to ask the one to allow a few of you to join, right?" Brando asked.
The fire of Krot's beating soul was clearly filled with consternation.
Brando thought to himself that this was indeed the case, and that the few attendants brought by this woman were all wall-riding, and that she herself was the most loyal knight of the silver-wielding staff, and it would be too much of a coincidence to say that there was nothing to say about it. Generally speaking, things gather people in groups, and if he were to perform this task, he would definitely choose a few like-minded helpers who could be trusted; Or is it that these people are hand-picked by the one, and there is no room for Bai to speak, but this is obviously unlikely, why should that one offend his most reliable subordinates for a few wall-riding soldiers, this is obviously unreasonable?
And when he asked, he really found something unusual in it.
Why did Bai choose a few wall-riding factions who had no loyalty to the mercury staff as teammates? Others may think that she is trying to cultivate her cronies and circles and buy people's hearts, but Brando is very familiar with this woman, she is alone in her life, except for those bones with no wisdom at all, and she has no henchmen at all.
Although the world has changed, Brando has never seen a historical figure whose temperament has changed greatly because of the future context.
He believed that Shiro would never be an exception.
He wanted to ask anything more, but the Black Knight Lady had already angrily interrupted him: "Don't ask again, what do you want to know, Human Lord, let's make a deal." ”
Sure enough, Brando couldn't help but take a deep look at Rorison's undead standing aside. The tall skeleton knight remained motionless to this day, like a stone statue.
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