Act 116: Ambush II
When Adney and her party returned to the Storm Shadow Inn again, they had already heard of the farce of the afternoon. All the onlookers who witnessed the scene in the square at the time relished the strength of the 'young man' in the inn in the battle with the lord's knights and the Rozarin guards, which, according to the knights' wishful thinking, was actually a one-sided crush. However, Adney insisted that Brando was in big trouble, claiming that it was fortunate that she led everyone away quickly in the afternoon, otherwise she might have been drawn into the center of this vortex of strife.
The knights laughed, and no one pointed out the fact that it was Naquil who was the first to let everyone leave in the afternoon.
But when the golden elf, with the longbow on his back, inspected the entire ruined inn and asked her if she wanted to continue looking for Brando's party, the deputy head of the Winged Knights of Ra was in a dilemma.
"Well, are you sure that the sword in his hand is really the Sun Holy Sword?" Adney had a look of embarrassment on her face, and after pondering there for a long time, she asked hesitantly.
But the hesitation in her emerald green eyes was evidently not due to the fact that she was unsure of the genuine Odysphes in Brando's possession, but simply to ask the others—to be exact, Naquil, who was frowning tightly: she couldn't make up her mind, what to do next?
Naquil glanced at her and replied, "My Scarab Insignia was slightly hot at that time, and the Scarab Insignia of the Captain is not a fake, right?" ”
"How," Adeney grinned. She took out a necklace from her bosom, and the pendant of the chain was a gold scarab with turquoise ornaments depicting the texture of the beetle. Lifelike. "The temple elders gave it to me themselves."
Naquil was very suspicious of how the other party became the deputy leader of the Knights of the Feathered Wings of the Upper Pull, or because the other party was particularly good at settling accounts, and she was appointed as the captain of this expedition, perhaps for the same reason - because of the annual drought in Lubik, many places around the desert have almost lost crops this year, and the temple can no longer afford to support such an elite expeditionary team.
Thinking of this, Naquiel's mind calmed down a little. If it weren't for Adney's careful calculations along the way, even if they barely made it to Rosalen, I am afraid they would have to suffer a lot. Whether the team can be maintained is still unknown.
All of this was caused by this disaster, and in the central areas of the worlds such as Jiufeng and Vaynd, the effects of the demon tide had not yet begun to appear. But on the edge of the desert kingdom. People have been struggling with life and death for a long time. In order to survive, they had to seek this glimmer of life, to find all the ways to end the catastrophe.
Naquil sighed and replied, "We've been here in Rosalin for a long time, and we've been trying our luck until now, and now that we finally have a clue under the guidance of the omniscient eye, how can we give up so easily." Are we really going to go back to Lubik like this and tell everyone that the plan has failed? And then let the temple lead the people to the north? ”
Hearing this, the knights silently showed a serious look. No more talking. "How can that be?" Adney also frowned rarely, and categorically vetoed: "We must not fail, otherwise we will ......"
She clenched her fists, Lubik is a kingdom built on large and small oases in the desert, what is the experience of leaving the oasis to migrate in the vast and boundless desert, although the legend says that the north is a paradise world, but the truth is that no one has ever reached there, most of the time migration means death, countless people will die on the way, it is not a set of data recorded on papyrus, but living people.
Adney had seen towns that had been ruined by a food harvest, and that in a short time the whole city had completely lost order, and that humanity had become like wild beasts, strong and powerful youths—or rather robbers and bandits, who had become masters of the fate of others, old men killed, women and children turned into commodities...... Even food.
She had also seen towns that had to migrate because of the disappearance of the oases, entire clans dying on the way, the entire southern part of the kingdom of Lubik seemed to be slowly but surely disappearing, and under the pressure of the catastrophe, the cultists took the opportunity to spread rumors in the kingdom that their only true god would save the whole of Lubik at the end of the world, and the people bewitched by the cultists were in turmoil everywhere, making the already stormy kingdom even more difficult.
When Adney became a knight, she had no chance of such a tragedy under her own sword, so she managed to convince the elders of the temple to make up their minds to send this expedition, which few people knew, so she did not hesitate to sell the sword that had been passed down from generation to generation in order to scrape together all the funds for the expedition.
So there must be no failure.
Thinking of this, her expression also relaxed, and she said to everyone: "I'm sorry, Naquil, in fact, I know what you guys think of me, I am indeed more like a butler than Captain Taha. As your captain, I may be a little incompetent, so Naquil, if you have any ideas, please let them know, and I will delegate it to you. ”
"Captain......
"Captain, you don't have to say that." The knights were startled and hurriedly said so.
But Naquil glanced at her silently, and only nodded: "Captain, our goal is to recover the Emerald Heart and make it one with the Holy Sword." After that, the elders will open the temple and call for the Emerald Staff, which gave the Rubik everything in the beginning, and I believe it can do the same today—"
"In order to achieve this goal, we followed the prophecy of the Temple to the east where it promised, all the way to the land of Rosalin, after all, the Emerald Heart has disappeared for thousands of years, and no one has ever seen it for what it really is, and it will be very difficult to find it, which we all have anticipated."
"But we've been here for so long, and there's no clue to anything other than to find out that Jiufeng's legend once had a blue dragon heart. And the last time the Blue Dragon Heart of the Nine Phoenix people appeared was more than two thousand years ago, and its significance to the Nine Phoenix was no less than the meaning of the Emerald Heart to Lubik, and there were also countless Nine Phoenix people looking for its whereabouts, but they also found nothing. ”
Naquil frowned, as if this was already his knee-jerk action, and slowly recounted to his companions, "Until today, we have met a man who carries the Sun Holy Sword. ”
He stopped.
After a while, he continued: "The Sun Sword has nothing to do with the Staff of Nature, but I once heard a legend that in the calendar of the Holy Aida people, whenever the era turns, the holy relics will descend into the world and even favor the hands of one person, and when this happens, the holy relics will automatically combine and appear in different forms, and open the door to the future. ”
"Is there such a legend, Naquil?" Adney couldn't help but interrupt with some surprise.
"You know that I am the gravekeeper of the Desert of Wisdom, a guardian of secrets. Bury the secret guards. ”
Adney glanced at him and nodded silently, she knew Naquil's identity, if it weren't for the fate of this expedition team to save the entire desert, as a member of the tomb guards, Naquil might not have taken a step out of the wisdom desert in his life.
"And then?" Someone asked.
"Actually, the omniscient eye of the god Ra is such a holy thing, which appeared in Lubik three thousand centuries ago and witnessed the end of that era," Naquil said silently, glancing at the knight, "There is no longer a word of legend about that era, and the prophets learned all this from the information left over from the omniscient eye." ”
The knights, including Adney, seemed to be stunned, and looked at Naquil speechless for a long time. In the legend of Lubik, Ra's all-knowing eye is its artifact, a holy relic formed from one of its eyes, which integrates all the wisdom of Lubik's supreme master, the god of the sun, omniscient and omnipotent, and legend has it that it can see the past, present, and future, and can even usher in an era.
It is said to be miraculous, but in fact very few people have actually seen it, except for a few distant legends that mention that the all-knowing eye was kept in a temple in the heart of the Desert of Wisdom. It is an absolute forbidden area in the very heart of the desert, and any outsider who dares to set foot in this land will die at the hands of mysterious grave keepers, each of whom has sworn to die as long as the hunt begins.
In fact, in the minds of most Lubiks, Ra's omniscient eye is not a physical being, but more of a symbolic symbol, a symbol of the sun god's former presence in this world—similar to the feelings of Vajnd's mortals for the Azure Spear of the Firmament, the holy spear that opened up the age of the earth.
It was like a god who guarded this mortal age, and few people know exactly where it went there after the war of the Fifth Age with the Azure Knights.
In contrast, the legendary Sun God's sacred sword, which is also a god, is more like a weapon that the Sun God promised to mortals.
Adney opened her mouth slightly, and said with straight eyes, "Naquiel, you said that the holy relics will be combined with each other to form different forms?" The all-knowing eye of the god is just one of these forms? ”
…… (To be continued......)