Act 85: The Tale of the Turbulence and the Fish (7)
Brando's gaze fell silently on the quiet valley below, but not gone.
When the shepherds inevitably hit their group with their counterparts, he was also looking for a way out. Suspicious, Makaro the Maned Wolf managed to fool him, the Tree Shepherd, and even the players who had been working on the story in the past, and skillfully sent the Duke of Lune's only son out of danger.
The cunning fox is a good chess player, but after having enough information, the young man is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He paused and tapped his chin with his knuckles, confident that his wisdom came from the accumulation of previous players, and that the wisdom of a group of people is always better than that of one person.
The water is muddy, but the fish don't necessarily go with the current.
Makaro could never have dreamed that in the quiet boreal forest, an altar of order that had been abandoned for two hundred years slumbered.
But as Brando had told Antitina, the altar wasn't the first to be discovered.
As early as the First Age, before the year of the division (100 years), the monks of the Temple of Eruinflame discovered the altar. But less than a century later, the altar mysteriously disappeared from a qiē record, as if it had never existed.
It's just that the player is the player, and the people who carried out this plot back then were just a little clue that finally unearthed the whole 'story' from the dusty history - but they didn't expect that a series of investigations they did with interest would eventually cheapen Brando.
Sensing that the lord was wandering, Antitina followed his gaze to the canopy of the shaggy forest below, but she looked at it for a long time, but found nothing.
The noblewoman's daughter looked back at Brando, noticing the seriousness and sternness on the young man's face, and wisely did not speak again.
She also guessed that Macaro was willing to go into the pit even with his own people, and there was no reason why he should not drag them into the water. She snorted in her heart, and subconsciously classified the nobles represented by the Duke of Rune into the list of undesirables.
The group gradually descended into the valley.
Two Lubis mercenaries walked in front of the way, the recurve knife slashing on the drooping branches with a clanging sound, and occasionally the blade refracted the starlight, and the bright light flashed in front of everyone's eyes.
Brando paid 2 fortune points from his resource warehouse to keep the 'Mercenaries of Lubis' card on the field. Then he looked at the resources available to him - including 10 water elements in a few weeks' memory, and close to 150 wealth - and that was enough. He looked up and narrowed his eyes.
The young man saw that his 'summoned creature' in front of him had stopped.
The two mercenaries looked at each other in disbelief at what they were seeing, and they stopped and looked back at Brando. "Lord Lord, there's a ...... ahead"
"What's there?"
Tiger Sparrow asked sternly, these two mercenaries were the most junior young men in his team, and he intended to let them exercise, but he didn't expect their cousins to make him feel so ashamed. As he spoke, he strode up to separate the bushes in front of him, as if to make up for the fault of his men.
But the next moment, he froze.
Behind the dense woods was an open meadow the size of three football fields, and a shrine covered with vines stood quietly in the middle of it.
The tiger sparrow took a breath before subconsciously looking up, he could almost imagine how magnificent this majestic structure used to be in the light of the sun, because even now he could still see the former glory of this shrine under the dense foliage.
Its structure is simple, a cylindrical sanctuary with a curved vault that shimmers in the moonlight.
But its height and size were more than enough to make up for the shortcoming of simplicity, and it was nearly sixty feet tall, and stood like the shadow of a giant in a clearing.
Brando paused to inspect the temple's exterior from the outside. From the stylistic point of view, it belongs to the elven goddess, but it is a pity that this era has already turned into the stars in the sky according to its own wishes, and what is left in this world is only their will and law to transform this world.
The gods rarely intervene in the mortal world, and it is for this reason that these noble beings are revered by the creatures of the earth.
However, after losing the protection of divine power, this shrine inevitably lost its former glory. Brando saw that the southern corner of it had collapsed, and he didn't know how many years it hadn't been visiting.
"Ahh
"It's ......," Antitina was stunned.
"This is the temple of the Silver Elves," Brando was accustomed to the ornate and majestic buildings of the games of the past, and the elves, dwarves, and winged people were natural builders, and their cities were breathtakingly majestic - so he just lost his mind and came back from his surprise at the first sight of the shrine: "This was originally the royal burial ground of the Silver Elves, and even later humans have not remodeled this place." ”
Unlike the Forest Elves, humans have always regarded the Silver Elves as their strongest allies, and this sentiment has been maintained from the defeat of the Dark Dragon in the Battle of the Sages to the lower levels of civilians today, which is why it is so precious.
"The King's Tomb?" Antitina looked back: "How could the king's tomb become an altar?" ”
"Because the ancestors of the Silver Elves made a great oath before their deaths, and they were willing to protect their homes with eternal life. The elven goddess Saya communicated with Lord Martha and let their spirits stay here forever. ”
"A nest of Heroic Spirits?" The aristocratic daughter asked.
Brando nodded.
"How did it get scrapped?"
"Ostensibly because of the war. In fact, it was because the elven kings were unwilling to participate in the war between humans and men, and the Eruin almost angered Martha in this matter, so the whole truth of the matter was covered up," Brando looked back at Antitina and Roman, and replied, "You will not find a single record of this in any of the kingdom's literatures. ”
The two girls nodded in unison, they didn't ask Brando why he knew, so they knew that the answer must be 'the truth about history recorded by the wizards'
"There may be room for this altar to be reactivated." Brando seemed to be speechless, and when he opened his mouth, he startled everyone again.
"What?"
"Don't get excited, it's just a possibility." But only he knows it, if the strategy is not lying. The probability of activation is one hundred percent. It's just that due to the limitation of the story mission, the 'creatures' generated from it can only be stored for thirty days, but thirty days is more than enough for a task.
But Brando said so, how could Antitina and the tiger sparrow not be excited. This is a biological nest, even if it is only possible to activate, but the interests represented behind this 'maybe' are too great.
The news is like a glittering treasure chest in front of everyone, which may be full of gold, silver, jewelry, or empty. But in the face of such a treasure chest, I'm afraid most people can't keep their composure.
Tiger Sparrow licked his lips and asked in a low voice, "How do we do it, Lord Lord." ”
Brando looked back at them, raised his hand and pointed at the two mercenaries behind him and asked, "You two are elementals, aren't you?" ”
"Yes, sir." The two mercenaries nodded in unison.
"And are there crossbowmen?"
"Yes." Tiger Sparrow immediately named four people from the team: "Is it enough?" ”
"That's enough." Brando said as he took out a roll of rope from his backpack: "Come and go, four people will go, and I will arrange the tactics." ”
Antitina frowned: "Is there a fight?" ”
"Don't worry, it's just a little ghost rider." As soon as Brando finished speaking, he saw the tiger sparrow's face turn blue, he was stunned, and subconsciously asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”
"Your lord, you say, 'Little ...... Ghost Rider'? Tiger Sparrow asked with a strange expression.
Brando coughed, and then remembered that the ghost knight was not worth mentioning in his opinion, but he was a real level thirty-five elite undead, and even the strategy had repeatedly solemnly instructed that there must be at least twenty or more level twenty players with reasonable class matching to use warriors to deal with this 'little boss' that can be said to be in this plot copy.
However, that guide is a product of the game's pre-Ageual era, and by his time, the player's mind had already changed. The special way to deal with the ghost knight, he has nine if he doesn't have ten here.
Thinking about this, Brando comforted: "Don't worry too much, Ghost Knight has a fatal flaw, and it will not be difficult to deal with it after listening to my orders for a while." ”
Tiger Sparrow looked at his lord in disbelief, if it was an ordinary mercenary, he would have turned around and left at this moment. Ghost Riders are some of the most terrifying creatures in wilderness lore - they are rumored to be running through the forest like a shadow under the moon, silently taking the lives of the living, and below the Golden Swordsman, it is only a matter of face in its hands.
Not to mention that they are twelve mercenaries in the middle and upper rank of the black iron, even if they are twice as much, they are estimated to be slaughtered.
However, this is also the reason why the average person has too little contact with these legendary creatures, after all, they are not like players, and they can be resurrected after death. You can use your lives to pile up experience, and NPCs are inherently less advantageous than the player in this regard.
But the sparrow was summoned by Brando, so he nodded.
This made Antitina look more confirmed her guess about the noble retainers, but she didn't point it out. Instead, he asked, "Isn't this the tomb of the elf king, and is it protected by Martha, how can there be evil spirits?" ”
Brando snorted, "Back then, the monks of the Flame Sanctuary wanted to keep this lair, trying to forcibly change the vows made by the undead. As a result, the forces of chaos took advantage of the void, and the altar of order was polluted, leading to the appearance of evil spirits - legend has it that Martha was also enraged by this, and indirectly led to the change of dynasty of the Xifah dynasty. ”
The aristocratic girl nodded, she didn't expect that there was such a legend in it.
"My lord, are you talking about that ......" It was at this time that the mercenary who had been monitoring the direction of the shrine suddenly turned his head nervously and pointed in that direction.
Brando subconsciously turned his head.
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