Chapter 7: Those Old Things
When he clenched the long sword and rushed towards the hideous and strange monster, Gawain had no nervousness, no hesitation, and no fear, if he had to say something, it was probably just a little trance and unreality.
He still vividly remembers the moment when his plane crashed.
He also vividly remembers the hundreds of thousands of years that hung high in the sky of this world.
He hadn't adapted well to Gawain Cecil's identity from the sky.
However, at this moment, he clenched an ancient family sword and pounced on a strange monster that didn't know if it was a demon or an undead.
Bang!
A huge impact came from the blade, and all the distractions in my mind vanished in an instant.
Dodging the monster's sweeping claws with an almost instinctive reaction, Gawain twisted his upper body in a small half-circle, and the swinging blade slashed through the air with a streamer, slashing at the monster's shoulder on the side, and while the blade slashed down, he tried to mobilize the power contained in this body and channel that power to the long sword in his hand.
The faint red at the base of the blade bloomed with a brilliant red light under the stimulation of power, and spread rapidly along the blade like a flame, and even the surrounding air distorted under the scorching heat.
The three-meter-tall monster sensed the threat from the heat of the blade, and suddenly fell back with agility that was completely inconsistent with its massive size, only to miss Gawain's slash by a fraction of a second.
The first time he unleashed this kind of supernatural power like magic with his own hand, Gawain inevitably felt a moment of excitement and excitement in his heart, probably it was this momentary excitement that made him not grasp the rhythm of the first attack, but he quickly adjusted his mentality and re-infused his power into the long sword.
The skills and knowledge from Gawain Cecil in his memory are really all available, and this body has not yet declined to the point where it is completely unable to exert its strength, although I don't know how much strength it can exert, but Gawain has added a lot of confidence at this moment.
He began to immerse himself in the battle, and tried to convert the combat experience in his mind that was not his own into his own usable power as quickly as possible.
On the other side, Byron is already in a bitter battle.
This middle-level knight is one of the best masters of Cecil's collar, and his combat career before serving the Cecil family has also allowed him to accumulate extraordinary combat experience, but he has consumed too much energy when the monster attacked the castle before, coupled with the erosion of the monster's strange magic, the dark wound in his body further reduced his combat effectiveness, which made the knight's ten percent combat power only four or five percent.
At this moment, in the face of the monster's repeated onslaught, he could only clench his long sword and try to remain undefeated, while conserving his physical strength as much as possible, while trying to find the opponent's flaws.
Rebecca gathered her magic power, and a scorching fireball the size of a skull flew out from the tip of the staff, colliding violently with the shadow arrow of the spell-casting monster in the distance, and erupted into an earth-shattering explosion, then she took a breath, and immediately noticed the dangerous situation on Byron's side, and immediately shouted to the territorial soldiers beside her: "You three, go help Byron!" β
One of the soldiers hesitated: "But Lord Lord......"
Rebecca shouted as she condensed a new fireball spell, "It's okay on our side for the time beingβbut if Byron falls, it's over!" I command you to go as a lord! β
The three soldiers were only given orders to fight with the Byronic knights against the terrible monster.
Gawain was gradually immersed in the battle, and the memories and experiences that did not belong to him in his mind were rapidly transforming into his own things, and improving his ability to control his new body, the process brought him a full sense of accomplishment, and when he woke up from this immersion slightly, he found that the monster in front of him had been crushed and beaten by himself.
The distorted bodies surging with "sludge" are not invulnerable, they will still be injured if they are cut, and they will still die if they are cut too much, although they are infinitely powerful and have the advantage of size, as long as they master the method of confrontation, the human body can still destroy them.
This is a lesson left over from seven hundred years ago.
The monster's claws swept overhead, Gawain was short, and stabbed his long sword into his opponent's thigh with his backhand, who finally let out a muddy roar, and his body fell uncontrollably to the side, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Gawain shouted to Byron: "Try to attack their abdomen and lower limbs, don't worry about the chest, these guys don't have hearts!" β
Then he took advantage of his opponent's loss of balance, twisted around the opponent's side and back, raised his long sword and stabbed the monster's lower back: "In addition to the abdominal cavity, their other weakness is in the back!" Back waist! β
Listening to the guidance from the ancestor of the Cecil family, Byron suddenly perked up, and with the cooperation of the three soldiers, he quickly restrained the monster's movements, and at the cost of fighting shoulder armor and being pierced by sharp claws, he drilled directly under the opponent's crotch, and hit the key point with a reflexive sword.
And a second before Byron could finish the enemy, the monster in front of Gawain also fell heavily.
After taking out the enemy, Gawain immediately raised his head and looked at the monster in the distance that was blasting at Rebecca's fireball with the Shadow Arrow, but just as he was about to rush over and face it, the monster suddenly let out a terrible roar, and then fell down in spasms.
Amber's figure appeared behind the monster, turning a hardened steel dagger in each hand: "Poke chrysanthemums, I'm good at it." β
Rebecca put down her staff, her cheeks slightly flushed from the continuous casting, she gasped twice to calm her breath, and then corrected solemnly: "The ancestor is talking about the lower back, not the chrysanthemum. β
Amber spun the dagger in her hand twice quickly, and the dagger didn't know where she was hiding, she stepped over the monster's corpse, and pouted as she walked over, "Cut, no sense of humor at all." β
When the monsters died, they began to disintegrate rapidly, the muddy material that was constantly flowing from their bodies first stopped flowing, then gradually dried up, solidified, and appeared in a large number of microscopic cracks, and as the deformed "flesh" of the mutant flesh fell off, they would quickly turn into a massive, twisted blood-colored skeleton.
Gawain stood next to the monster he had killed, looked down at the process, and said as if to himself, "So these things attacked Cecil's collar......"
Hetty looked at him curiously, "Ancestor, do you know the origin of these monsters?" β
Gawain had already shown a deep understanding of these monsters in his previous battles, and even instructed Byron on how to fight them, so naturally he couldn't hide this, and he didn't want to hide it himself.
"If you stay here, you may still encounter them, let's go to the dark passage, there are things in the dark passage that suppress those monsters, they will not enter easily," Gawain said as he walked forward, "I can tell you the details on the way." β
It wasn't until he had made his way into the ancient underground passage that Gawain broke his silence, "I did deal with them back thenβin fact, that's what we were dealing with back then. You should know about the collapse of the Gondor Empire and the history of the Second Frontier, right? β
"Of course I know," Rebecca nodded immediately, these histories can be said to be a compulsory course for her as a noble child, "More than seven hundred years ago, there was originally only one human kingdom on the Loren Continent, and that was the Gondor Empire located in the center of the continent. History records that it was the most powerful empire on the continent at that time, and even the silver empire established by the elves in the south of the continent did not dare to easily oppose it, but then the turmoil in the Aether Sea that enveloped this world caused a catastrophe called the 'Dark Demon Tide' in the Loren Continent, and the flashpoint of the disaster was in the heart of the Gondor Empire - almost overnight, the capital and a third of the territory of the Gondor Empire were swallowed up by the demon tide and disintegrated by the surging elemental power......"
"It didn't happen overnight, in fact it took almost a month - the court mages of Gondor didn't do nothing in front of the demon tide," Gawain interrupted for a moment, then motioned for the other party to continue, "but the results are pretty much the same, you continue." β
"Oh...... Oh," Rebecca blushed, more cautiously as if she was being checked by a parent, "After that, the tide of demons in the heart of the Gondor Empire continued to spread in all directions, and eventually completely destroyed the entire kingdom, which was the collapse of the Gondor Empire. And after that, as the Aetheric Sea gradually calmed down, the power of the demon tide began to decrease, and the surviving remnants of Gondor began to rebuild their civilization, because the central area of the continent has been eroded and no longer suitable for human existence, so they left the empire that had become ruins under the guidance of a group of pioneers, and opened up in four directions, southeast and northwest, known as the second expedition. Ancestor, you were one of the most famous pioneer knights of the year. β
"Well, the history is good," Gawain casually complimented, "then you've probably heard that despite the end of the Tide, the ruins of the Gondor Empire are still inhabited by a large number of monsters born in the Tide, and those monsters were one of the greatest threats to humanity during the Second Frontier." β
Hetty's eyes widened: "You mean ......"
"That's right, those were the things that fought us back then," Gawain sighed, "They were born out of the Demon Tide, with human-like silhouettes, but they are definitely not human. After the collapse of the Gondor Empire, a large number of such monsters poured out of the ruined hinterland of the empire, and continued to spread in all directions, hunting down the survivors of the time, so the first half of the second expedition was more of an escape than a journey. And even after we broke away from the wasteland of the empire and established a new kingdom on the edge of the continent, those monsters did not stop, and they continued to pour in from the direction of the imperial wasteland, frequently attacking the defenses of the civilized world...... For the first 10 years after the founding of the Ansu state, I worked with them almost every day. β
Rebecca's eyes widened, as if she had been fascinated by these ancient and legendary stories: "Ah, then those monsters will no longer appear after ten years of Ansu's founding?" β
Gao Wen smiled, stretched out his hand and stroked the girl's hair, showing a smile when he looked at the stupid roe deer: "Silly child, after that, your ancestors will hang up......"
Rebecca: "......"