Chapter 4: The Stone Wilderness
The chamber of the palace, in contrast to the solemnity of the past, was filled with an atmosphere of oppression and irritability. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Have you really decided?" Lac Dianan asked in disbelief as he looked at King Leorik on the high throne.
"Rak Dianan! How dare you question my decision! I am Leorik, the ruler of Canduras! Leoric's complexion was getting worse and worse, his eyes were sunken, his eyes were cloudy, and his cheeks were bloodless and pale as snow.
He stood up angrily, trembling his weak body and roaring.
"Your Majesty, the duty of the Knights of Light and Guardian is to defend Canduras. You have said in your reign that any decision to send troops will require a vote of you, the Archbishop, and the Knights, so I cannot follow your decision. Lac Dinan said in a desolate voice.
Where's the kind and wise King Leorik? Is he really too old to be mediocre?
Damn!
Rakdainan was pained that his idol in his youth, the wise and powerful Lord Leorik, had degenerated into what he was now.
"Rak Dianan! You! I'm going to sentence you to hang! Guardsman! Guardsman! "King Leorik is getting mader and mader, like a clown, dancing on the throne.
Lac Dianan almost gritted his teeth, his trembling hands tied behind his back, he raised his head, his eyes staring directly at King Leorik with indifference.
The guards who heard the order stood stiffly at the side door, hesitating, they were also knights, and they did not have the courage to arrest the knight commander, even if it was under the king's orders.
"Your Majesty, please calm your anger, Commander Rakdenan is the pillar of the country, and the army cannot do without him in its westward expedition." Archbishop Lazares spoke up, his eyes as flat as water.
"Humph!" King Leorik then sat back on his throne and bowed his head in silence.
"This war, I am against it!" Rakdinenan looked around at the crowd with sharp eyes and announced loudly.
At this meeting, three high-ranking members of the Order were present, namely the head of the Order, Lac Dinan, and the deputy leaders, Glaci and Wright. Wright is one of the five Grand Knights of the Order and has been in charge of guarding the palace.
"Rakdenan, you dare to disobey me!" Leorik stood up again, "I, the great Leoric, must start this holy patriotic battle!" β
"Your Majesty, Wright follows your decision!"
Wright, who was also the captain of the palace guard, said respectfully.
"Wright! You're a knight! Lac Dinan said angrily.
"I am a knight of His Majesty!"
Wright lowered his eyes and did not look at Lac Dianan.
"I'm against it."
Archbishop Lazarez smiled at Lac Dianan, temporarily calming the other man's raging anger, which also surprised him.
...... LΓ‘zares
"Two-on-two, Glaci, you're the only one left!" Lac Dianan said excitedly, whether this war can be waged or not, the initiative is in the hands of the Knights!
"Me!" Grassie's hideous face twitched slightly, and the horrible scar turned blood-red.
"Agreed!"
"Good! Ha ha! King Leorik laughed wildly and patted the armrest, pointed at the stunned Lac Dianan and sneered, "Do you have nothing to say now?" Cowardly knight! β
Lacdinenan was much older at once, unable to stand up with his body on his back, and he turned slowly and walked out the door.
"Grahi, you're a knight, you're out of the pack!"
His figure disappeared into the gray light.
"Early tomorrow morning, the whole army will set out. Avenge our dead soldiers! King Leorik roared excitedly, waving his fists.
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"Where the hell?"
Wu Liang was a little irritable, and the sudden trance and the long-lost target made him doubt his direction.
Half an hour earlier, he had lost his clear direction, and the traces of his movement had spread out like a fan after entering the mountain, and he was immediately confused.
"Is this thing useful?" Wu Liang couldn't wait to drop the skeleton in his hand, because it didn't move at all from beginning to end, and he now longed for the ranger's tracking ability.
Wu Liang, who had nothing else to do, looked at the unbroken demon footprints under his feet, and set out on the road again with a cold face.
"Since there are traces, there must be an end."
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"Sure enough, did it fail?" A tall player looked at the secret letter handed by his subordinate and muttered to himself.
"Tristram is one of the several major game centers in the Dark Sanctuary, and its strategic position is extremely important, because of its obscure city profile, it is the place where the competition is the least difficult and the easiest to get a head start in the early stages, so [January] sent me here to rule everything."
As he spoke, the man suddenly became a little annoyed, and a thick color appeared in his eyes, and he drew his sword at the thick trunk in front of him.
Yikes!
The sword is sheathed, and the tree is ...... It's okay.
The saber player rubbed the rough bark of the tree and said softly: "I just didn't expect such a good opportunity to be snatched away by a novice, and it also allowed him to successfully gain a huge plot advantage." β
The player suddenly pushed the trunk of the tree, which immediately fell backwards, and the huge canopy smashed into the courtyard, crushing many valuable flowers and plants.
"He must die! Only in this way can we get a hundred and pull the plot back to the same running line. β
The player turns, looks at the knight kneeling on one knee in front of him, and commands, "You go and inform Wright, just say that I accidentally messed up his courtyard, and await his punishment." β
The knight got up and left, while the player looked at the mirror-smooth trunk and smiled coldly.
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In the game, it was already a starry night, and Wu Liang was sitting in a strange rocky place, eating his dinner depressedly.
In order to prevent the demon he had been looking for all day from being easily discovered, Wu Liang did not light a fire, and ate the roast rabbit meat that was specially left over at noon.
"All the traces of the march converge here, but then disappear into thin air, hell!"
Wu Liang didn't go back to the city to take refuge because it was dark, and it was useless to say that people were unlucky enough to go back to the city, maybe there was an NPC with convulsions waiting for him to throw himself into the net. And Wu Liang tracked all the way and didn't know where he went, he saw that there were huge rocks all around, so he named it "Stone Wilderness".
Although there are deep mountains here, Wu Liang did not find a nocturnal animal, even if there were occasional eagles in the sky during the day, they immediately drew an arc and hurriedly swept away, revealing weirdness everywhere.
Wu Liang threw the skull in his hand boredly, and was hesitating whether to complete the routine training, and then go offline from sleep.
Hmmm!
Suddenly there was a sharp pain in his hand, Wu Liang hurriedly went to check, good guy, the skull was shivering like crazy, and his upper and lower jaws couldn't stop closing.
Wu Liang, who suddenly realized that the situation had changed, pulled out his red and swollen fingers and lay straight on the boulder.
Suddenly, Wu Liang found that the stone under him lit up, flashing a faint glow, and when he looked up, he actually saw that the boulders in the entire wilderness were fluorescent, like huge crystalline gemstones, stretching out of sight.
The luminous light gathered, suppressing the white moon.
"I'll you!"
"This is the teleportation array!" Wu Liang finally realized that he happened to be in the place he had been looking for, and muttered to himself, "The teleportation array leading to the underground graveyard!" β
Hint: You have completed the quest, [Investigate the Trace], please reply to Grand Knight Grassie as soon as possible to receive the quest reward.
However, at this moment, Wu Liang did not have a trace of excitement and joy after completing the task, but only suppressed to the extreme.
Lying on the boulder, he clearly saw thousands of demons emerging from a small fluorescent area of the stone field, while the rest of the place was silent.
Wu Liang didn't know how many demons there were in the catacomb, but if they could really cover the luminous area, it would be an astronomical number that he didn't dare to imagine.
Destruction, screaming, death...... Wu Liang's mind involuntarily produced such a picture.
"Lacanihu!"
There are countless ** demons wielding war knives, and there are also hundreds of ** demon wizards and giant whip-wielding monsters, Wu Liang immediately held his breath, hoping to avoid the detection of demons, but fortunately, these demons did not have the heart to check the environment, and after they appeared, they stayed in place, as if they were waiting for something.
Wu Liang could only watch quietly, in this case, it was a dead end for the hero, and watching the changes was the only choice.
The teleportation array stopped in a few moments, the glow vanished, and the moonlight filled the land again. What made Wu Liang almost bite his tongue in shock was that the last creature to walk out of the teleportation array was actually not a demon, but a human wearing a black cloak and holding a silver scepter.
"How could humans get involved with demons?" Wu Liang secretly reasoned in his heart, "There must be someone in the palace who has taken refuge in the demons, otherwise it is impossible to explain the situation that so many demons are wantonly killing but not being detected for a long time." β
"Is it really King Leorik? It seems that he is the only one who has the ability to keep the Light and the Guardian Knights in the dark. Thinking of this, Wu Liang couldn't help but shudder, the kings of a country have fallen to this point, so what hope can the people have?
Wu Liang didn't dare to think about it and continued to look.
The human slowly walked to the front of the demons, raised his staff and began to dance, shouting words of unknown meaning in his mouth, and when he moved, an indescribable strange momentum emanated from his body, which made Wu Liang very disgusted, but made all the demons fanatical.
"Demon Language?" Wu Liang said in his heart.
The cloaked man stood still, reached into his hood and seemed to wipe his sweat, and the demons swarmed in one direction. Wu Liang had never set foot in that direction, and he didn't know who would be poisoned by the demon.
Suddenly, the man walked towards the boulder where Wu Liang was hiding, making him subconsciously think that he had been discovered.
"Damn it!" Wu Liang stared at the cloaked man deadly, ready to strike first, but the man actually stopped next to the boulder he was on...... and.
"I'm ready to cut you, but you're showing me this!" Wu Liang was helpless and relieved at the same time.
"Filthy and stupid creatures, and that awkward demon language, I just used it yesterday, and I came again today, and it had to make me tired half to death every time!" The man set the scepter aside and began to grumble.
Wu Liang on the boulder licked his dry lips and slowly put his hand on the hilt of the sword. Knights' weapons are basically blades or high-destruction types, while fragile blunt weapons such as scepters are generally used by clerical and legal professions.
So Wu Liang speculated that he was a priest, but he didn't know the professional level, but in this case, he didn't care about it anymore, so what about the official priest?
Can a head be harder than steel?