Act Twenty-One: The Warlike Knight I
The gold in the river is not the gold buried under the mud and sand at the bottom of the river, but the magical gold that flows quietly beside Elaine, which is one of the most precious treasures in the world, and is often used by witches as a medium for witchcraft to change the future, so it is also called the witch's gold. In the countryside, greed is often mentioned in fairy tales
The gold that the witches have worked tirelessly to gather is actually talking about the same thing.
It's an extremely rare magical mineral, worth as much as a fingernail and worth as much as a castle. In the game, the witch's gold also has an important use, that is, to break the thread of fate, simply put, it is necessary to step from the highest stage of the realm of the elements of civilization - the realm of sages to the realm of perfecting the body
to use as a medium to cast transcendent sanctification spells.
Prior to the Slate Wars, Brando had never even heard of this fabled mineral, and only occasionally mentioned it vaguely in certain books. The first time Vaynd players unearthed the witch's gold was after the end of the Holy War, in the year of the Spark, when the first stone slab was discovered in the White Mountains on the border of St. Osor, after which the player began to enter the Black Forest on a large scale, the witch's gold
It was the first time it appeared in the player's field of vision.
But this kind of gold, even in the Black Forest, is extremely rare, and to put it simply, it is slightly less likely to occur than the Fountain of Youth.
And for every Valkyrie resurrected, there must be as much as a pound of gold in the river—a full pound! Brando even had the heart to kill Babu, so it would be better to tell him that he couldn't resurrect the Valkyrie. In comparison, other materials are much simpler. Cutting off the teeth of the future is Fenrir's teeth, and of course its offspring are counted, but Fenri
Er's offspring belong to the Twilight Monsters. In other words, they will only appear in wolf plagues, and they must be on a relatively large scale, such as the one in the Ring of Trade Winds. Often, the appearance of Fenrir's offspring in a wolf plague means the complete destruction of an area, accompanied by disasters and carnages, and very few of their teeth remain as trophies. Anyway, probably
It is equivalent to the meaning of a thousand gold.
As for the blood of the hydra lizard, this is the best thing for him to obtain, because he has the egg of the five-headed snake lizard in his hand, as long as he can cultivate the snake lizard's nest, then the blood of the hydra lizard will naturally be as much as he wants.
The singing silver at the end can only be found in the Singing Fountain in the Black Forest, and its rarity is second only to the gold in the river, but fortunately there are very few people in this world who know how to use this magical metal, and most people regard it as a kind of collector's item. As a result, it does not fetch much money on the market, and occasionally even in the auction houses around Ampesel
You can see that as long as you pay a little attention and are willing to spend your blood, it's not impossible to collect singing silver.
But even if these are resolved, it still doesn't compare to the last condition.
The lair of the Pony of the Wind.
In just one sentence, Brando can explain how frustrating this condition is: "Because it's a sixth-level creature." "That's right, the Pony of the Wind is a sixth-level creature itself, and it's one of the more precious sixth-level creatures. It is only occasionally caught in the wind elemental plane, as far as its lair. No one has ever seen that. He hadn't even seen a nest, so he relied on fur to build it
Thing's lair, huh? Unless Valhalla itself can provide the nest of this thing, it is basically delusional, but he has repeatedly asked Monica, who also does not know, the light girl is still the same - what she knows is based on Valhalla's limitations. As soon as the Valulen Warrior Hall was established, information about the Valkyrie entered her mind, but as for
Other information - no know!
However, she did give Brando a compromise, which was to buy the Wind Horse - a hair with a market price of only 1.2 million tors, which is Tonigel's total income for half a year. When Brando heard this, he wanted to put the Miss Light in a drawer. Save her from continuing to ramble in his ear.
He couldn't help but sigh deeply, there really wouldn't be pies in the sky, whether it was forging the silver ladder or awakening the sleeping Valkyrie, at least now it seemed to be an unattainable thing. Fortunately, when the Valulen Warrior Hall was completed, there were also several more famous Valkyries, such as Brunhilde and her four lieutenants, Shygargul, Grey,
Poetry, Lace Grace, these are all famous Valkyries in history, except for Brunhilde, who is the strength of the peak of the ninth-level biological element civilization, the others are also stable quasi-ninth-level strength, and in terms of strength alone, they are all more than Brando himself.
But the combat effectiveness is far behind, Brando has fought them one by one in private, among them, the strongest fighting power Brünnhilde, he can only defeat with the Wind Queen Jiuyao and the Flash Sword, as for the others, he can easily win with his terrifying combat experience alone. He even made a slight estimate that if the ability of the Brigade Mage was more mature, plus the ability of the Brigade Mage, even if it was these five
The Valkyries joined forces, and he also had the strength to fight. However, Brando didn't think about it, his battle won great respect among several Valkyries, the heroic spirits in the Valulen Warrior Hall respected the strong, and his strength as a lord was obviously unanimously recognized by Brünnhilde's several people, and even Babu's attitude towards him was a little more respectful.
It's a pity that this respect doesn't mean anything, Babu actually told him that Brünnhild and they can't leave Valhalla to fight now, the reason is that Valhalla can't afford their mana consumption, Brando almost had a dark eye when he heard it, it turned out that before the Dawn Temple was built, the Valkyries' daily action consumption all came from Valhalla's reserve of mana, if only in Wa
Patrol battles within the range of Erhala, then the cost is still very low. According to Báb, there are only a few hundred to thousands of units a day, that is, the magic power of a dozen or so moon crystals, but once they leave the Valhalla range, the consumption increases exponentially, and the four of them leave Valhalla for a week, and the amount of mana they need to consume is about the same as the first stage of Valhalla
The sum of the magic power, that is, a little more than 130,000, which made Brando a little toothache.
Like this war with the Blood Staff. Even if it is a relatively small-scale civil war and border conflict, but it will drag on for at least a month, and after a month, he needs to pay thousands of moon crystals, although he can't afford it, but this is obviously not cost-effective. And if the war is prolonged as soon as it is prolonged. The money flowed out like water, so Brando made a decision to let Bren
Hilde and the others stayed in Valhalla, on the one hand, they were not needed in this war, and their claws were still the sharpest when they were hidden, and on the other hand, Brando also understood that these Valkyries were mercenaries to Valhalla now, not to mention the many restrictions, and they were expensive to death.
All in all, no. You don't have to.
He sighed, and could only think of it.
He looked up—
A light rain fell in the sky, and the weather began to cool after the autumn twilight moon, and the rain carried a bleak chill, staining the skin and soaking the bones. In the cool and humid weather of the rolling hills of the Chablis region, he was looking down from the top of a hill. In his field of vision, there seemed to be countless figures in the forest at the foot of the mountain moving in shadows. Beneath the jagged branches of the Eluin oak, or under the fine clusters of the blue oak's leaves, a multitude of figures in gray cloaks marched one after another; Not everyone hated the rain, and some lifted their hoods to reveal their beautiful faces underneath, their long blond or green hair sticking to their slender necks and smooth foreheads. Sideburns
Beside him was a pair of pointed ears and a wind-shooter bow one size larger than an elven longbow, one by one through dense thorny bushes or wild strawberry bushes.
It was the third day since he left Valhalla, and for three days, news of the battlefield in the Syllman region had been passed through Curvin's eyes to Calglis, and then to him. He then sorts the information into categories. Selectively revealed a certain part to Her Royal Highness the Princess, because he knew that most of this military information was to be provided to Viero
With the lords and generals of Lantonilan, there were no eyeliners and spies among them, and he was reluctant to reveal his relationship with the King of Silman, lest he attract the attention of Denel and the Blood Staff. Of course, in his private correspondence with Her Royal Highness the Princess, Her Royal Highness already knew about the existence of this group of 'Silman's Bandits'.
It can be seen that she does not trust Kewen and them very much, which is determined by her position. She was born in the royal family, so she naturally represented the interests of the aristocracy, and it was impossible for a mob like Kewen to attack the aristocratic territory to make her feel identified. In fact, Her Royal Highness the Princess advised him more than once not to have the heart to take these people in, because it would be extreme
Big damage to his prestige among the nobility. However, for the advice of Her Royal Highness the Princess, Brando often can't laugh or cry, what kind of person is Kewen in history, he naturally knows how he can give up the opportunity to make friends with such people for the sake of those pedantic nobles.
That was the king of Jean Denel in history, who overthrew Jean Denel from scratch, and was recognized by all parties with his strength in the chaotic balance of power in Eruin at that time, and became an independent king. Even before the Battle of the Sloping Forest, even Madara recognized his status, and for a long time he existed as a buffer between Madara and Eruin. Eruin
After the fall, he assisted Aylara in fighting Madara, but by that time Eruin's players had fallen apart, and he didn't know what happened next.
But such a person will definitely not be such a simple person as a bandit and bandit.
The battle on the front line was very stale, and after the Blood Staff defeated the White Wing Cavalry Regiment in the Silman Valley, the deputy commander Walter had been confirmed to have died on the battlefield that night, which was equivalent to announcing the total annihilation of the White Wing Knights, and it was equivalent to saying that the entire Golan-Elson passage was now exposed to the thorns of the blooming black rose of Madara. The Van Mill Legion really had to be divided
After a few defeats, the remnants of the human army had been forced back to the southernmost part of the Manowell region, and according to information from the front, the army of the undead had already driven through Slofa, which was about to become the most prosperous area of the Golan-Elsen.
Although the place is already full of panic now, it seems like a scene of the end of the world.
Grand Golan-Elson sent men north to ask for help from Karasu, but in the eyes of outsiders, the nearest army was still in Lantonilan, the private army of the Grand Duke of Canonon. Not to mention the armies of Viero and Carasu, which are basically far from being able to solve the close fire. There is no hope for anything that is now recognized by both the Blood Staff and the others who are watching this war
For Madara to win again this time, even in Ampesel, some of the Cruz envoys and the sacrifices of the Temple of Fire that had not yet been evacuated were all watching with cold eyes, and they couldn't help but gloat in their hearts. It is foolish for the Eruin to make the same mistake over and over again.
But in fact, only the few who are planning this war understand that a large army has sneaked under the nose of the blood rod, and that a real war is about to begin.
Brando looked down at the Wind Marksman troop, then turned his gaze to Quinir, who stood silently beside Metissa and Finny, the Dryad leader who had traveled from the Ring of the Trade Winds day and night after hearing about his war plans. He stood in the rain. He folded the letter paper made from the leaves of a huge oak tree and smiled slightly: "Thank you for bringing me little."
Greetings from the girl, Queenier, help me to convey to our little princess Funia, and we have not forgotten her, until she becomes a true priest of the forest, and welcomes her back to help Tonigal. Queenier glanced at him, "Your Excellency." Brando waved his hand: "Let's call me Mr. Brando, it sounds more pleasant." ”
Queenier frowned, "Mr. Brando." The elders expect you to keep your promises, and we rarely deal with humans. Some rumors about you......"
"I naturally understand that some unscrupulous merchants and even nobles have indeed ruined our reputation, but I am different, and the changes in the Ring of Trade Winds are evident to this day." Brando replied, "The Great Elder should understand that human beings are greedy and curious, and that is what drives them to explore the unknown. I'm just giving it to him
It's just an opportunity. But only I know what to do, and I can't afford to be frustrated with the development of the Black Forest, but once humanity tastes the sweetness, our work today will no longer be based on one lifetime. It will bring a tradition to all civilized nations – the development of the wilderness, a new era in which civilization will no longer be curled up in a corner as it is today. ”
Quinir nodded, it was precisely because Brando's words persuaded their Council of Elders in the first place, otherwise, even if the young man in front of him ignited the fire of the Ring of the Trade Winds, the always neutral druid would never get involved in the strife of the human world. But now, Brando's ability to show itself does prove that only he has the ability and courage to open up the boundaries of darkness, and therefore virtue
The Ruins must stand with him and support him in taking control of this ancient kingdom, and Brando has drawn a tempting pie for them, and once the scene in that picture is realized, it will be a dream of the druids for generations.
So majestic and magnificent, Quinil was a little puzzled why a human, a superficial aristocrat of humanity, could have such ambitions.
He looked at Brando and replied, "I will relay your words to the Great Elder, and my children will be handed over to you, please be kind to them." ”
Brando nodded solemnly.
He wasn't keen on war, but Eruin had to live, and sometimes people had to fight. "Mr. Earl." At this time, little Pelo, who had been standing aside, finally spoke, Veronica asked them to stay in Valhalla to protect His Highness Lenaret, and the young people of the Knights of the Folding Sword inherited the best qualities of the Imperial soldiers - loyalty and obedience, which naturally did not
The slightest objection. However, they are currently a little embarrassed, the Knights of the Broken Sword cannot exist as an independent force of Toniger, and Pelo Jr. and Brende also know this in their hearts, so they are nominally subject to Brando's control, but as for how to control it, they are very particular.
If His Highness Reinarat had only stayed here in general, then they should have been the personal guard of the eldest son of Emperor Cruz, in which case Brando could limit their range of activities and powers, but could not command them directly. On the other hand, His Royal Highness Lenarat is here to ask for asylum, and in this case, in addition to the personal guards, Crown Cruz is the Crown Cruz
It is clear that the prince cannot have private arms, but Veronica did not make it clear to them about this matter, and the current situation seems to be that His Royal Highness the eldest son is seeking refuge, but the lord of Tonigel did not directly order them to disband and return to the empire on the spot, which is a bit delicate.
A few days ago, at the invitation of Brando, they accompanied the emperor's eldest son to participate in that military meeting, and the information revealed in this was very evocative. The Legionnaire did not tell them exactly what they were going to do here, so to speak, neither in approval nor in hindrance, but it was clear that the lord intended to involve them in the war, or at least to show them the truth
An attitude. As for how the Knights of the Broken Sword will choose, little Pelo actually knows very well that the belligerent blood flowing in their bones has helped them make a choice, and of course they want to participate in this war.
…… (To be continued......)