Chapter 343: [Gaiden] Soul Knight
The height of the iceberg is about 6,790 kilometers, and every warrior of the Gosat clan has to cultivate from the foot of the mountain to the top from a young age, and some of the cultivators of the Gosat clan will not be able to reach the summit in their lifetime, and Augustine is one of them.
He was not only a qualified warrior, but also a genius among warriors, and began to climb icebergs at the age of 6 and reached the top at the age of 16, which is a great honor for a Gosat.
It's just that I don't know that after so many years of not returning to my hometown, my father still denies that he was a famous teenager back then.
Naturally, the Landwalker did not need to stop at the foot of the iceberg, allowing the passengers carrying it to climb the iceberg again in the face of a typhoon mixed with blizzard ice, and it crossed the countless snow-filled settlements and directly approached the Gosart Knights' Soul Temple at the top of the iceberg, a strong and well-defended fortress that was one of the military centers of the Iruka system.
When the Landwalker was close enough to the fortress, the passengers on it had not even discovered where the fortress was, it was built so hidden that it almost blended into the mountain, and Augustine could only rely on memory to find it.
But that doesn't mean the Gossath knights didn't spot them.
A communication connection request came, and Augustine hurriedly granted the request, a rough voice and a bronzed face informed the unknown people in righteous words: "You have invaded the sacred land of the Gosart clan!" Please identify yourself as the person who came, otherwise you will be killed! β
"I am the Soul Knight of the Gosart Clan, Augustine. Mo! Augustine replied in an equally hoarse voice.
"You're Gua. Mo's son?! The Gosats was surprised and said, "Come in!" β
As soon as the words fell, Augustine found that a mountain avalanche had fallen, revealing a secret and great landing runway, and he immediately controlled the Landwalker to stumble into it, and the wind on the top of the mountain was worthy of a 13-level typhoon.
After entering the passage, the wind and snow stopped abruptly, and after flying a few kilometers along the long runway with inlaid indicator strips, the Landwalker arrived at the Soul Sanctuary Harbor, which was built inside the mountain, and after completing the docking, entered the fortress through the exchange pod.
The architectural style is very different from the Pegasus galaxy, the Gossatic architecture fully combines the sleek arc with the rigid edges and corners, and any string gallery wall looks like a mysterious totem, and the Gossatic warrior holding a spear can be seen everywhere on the string gallery wall.
The ancestors of this family, in the days of extreme scarcity of resources, had to rely on simple cold weapons and their own strength to fight against the native creatures on the Iruka Ice Comet, the atmosphere of the Iruka Comet is not suitable for any creature to live or even breathe, but the oxygen hole inside the iceberg is a paradise.
The ancestors of the Gosats and the Snowman fought against the huge cold-blooded creatures inside those confined and huge oxygen holes, and the traces of the oxygen holes can still be seen in the interior of this solid iceberg.
Several Gossatic knights approached him, they looked very young, dressed in the traditional costumes of the Gosart clan, wrapped in white robes made of giant ice snakes or six-legged fairy skins, holding spears or short blades in their hands, they should have just climbed from the bottom of the mountain, and had not yet become soul knights, so these young knights were very polite to Augustine, the soul knight: "Brother clan, welcome home!" However, with all due respect, the Angered Stars around you cannot go along. β
Augustine naturally knew the rules of the clan, and the Soul Temple did not allow outsiders to enter and leave at will, so he could only apologize and ask Asura and the others to leave temporarily: "Brother Asura, please deign to go to the foot of Mount Iruka, where the Bounty Hunter Brotherhood is located, and I will go there to join you later, and it will be more efficient for everyone to act separately." β
"Okay." Asura answered, turned around and left.
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After Asura and the others left, Augustine, led by several young Gosatt knights, went to the left side of the temple city, this mountain fortress is composed of three parts: the left and right side of the temple city and the temple city, Augustine is the soul knight from the left side of the temple city, since he is back, he naturally has to go there to say hello.
In one of the main halls, Augustine met a middle-aged chief of the Gosart clan, who seemed to be the new leader who had only been in office for a few years, otherwise Augustine could not have been impressed.
Augustine bowed politely, then looked at the 200 Soul Knights on either side of the staircase of the main hall, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, and it was here that he reached the end of the stairs at the age of 16 and accepted the title of Soul Knight from an older clan chief.
"Augustine. Mo, Gua. Mo's son, come up! The middle-aged clan chief waved at Augustine and said, "You may not know me well, but I do know you, I don't know your father who died in battle, but your name has spread all over the Grimm Sky." β
"Thank you."
"You're from Pegasus?"
"From the New Chicago System."
The clan chief stood up and said to Augustine, who was getting closer and closer to the end of the stairs, "Return or pass by?" β
"I need help." Augustine stopped, raised his head to look at the middle-aged clan chief, and replied neither humbly nor arrogantly. He stopped because he felt the temptation of the clan chief, and he needed to know if the chief would allow him to continue climbing the ladder.
"Keep coming up!" After the clan chief spoke, Augustine opened his legs and continued walking, listening to the clan chief continue to ask, "What kind of help do you need?" β
"Find someone."
"Name?"
"Li Xinglu."
When Augustine finally climbed to the end of the stairs, the middle-aged clan chief also assigned a new order to the soul knights to find Li Xinglu, Augustin knelt down on one knee in front of the clan chief, lowered his head, and the clan chief touched Augustin's shoulder and said, "Your brothers will do their best to help you find the owner of that name, and you can wait here until you find the news." β
Augustine nodded.
The end of the staircase is actually very wide, and even a destroyer can be parked, not only is the main seat placed on it, but also many stone statues are displayed, there are as many as 17 of them, Augustine squinted his eyes and swept around, and the stone carving in the third position from the left is his father Gua. Mo.
"Father, please bless me to find Li Xinglu as soon as possible... The love of a Gosatic man is worth a lifetime of pursuit, isn't itβ" Augustine thought silently as he gazed past the statue of his dead father.
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Three days later, Augustine, who was sitting cross-legged under the statue of his deceased father, finally got the news from the soul knights - they failed to find the slightest clue related to Li Xinglu.
The soul knights looked at Augustine's back apologetically, and the leader said: "Clan brothers, we will do our best to continue to search, if Li Xinglu is in Iruka, it is the three miles of ice digging, we will also dig her out!" β
Augustine was silent, he felt disheartened.
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Another 3 days passed, and Augustine had already ignited a flame of helpless anger in his heart, of course he knew that the starry sky was so big, the journey to find Li Xinglu must be difficult, and he overestimated his ability to endure setbacks.
Or to put it another way, Augustine thinks that he can't do the matter of looking for Li Xinglu with a normal mentality, he just hides the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart, and as time goes by, this forced emotional suppression has become more and more ineffective.
He even had to dig his nails deep into his palms to relieve the pain in his heart that no one else could understand.
"Li Xinglu, where the hell are you?!" Augustine cried out in his heart, helplessness and anger gradually swallowing the man's gritty heart, and he felt at a loss.
"Augustine. Mo, your Angerer Star friends are back, and they bring good news! Just as the Templars were at a loss, one of the knights scurried up from the bottom of the stairs, shouting as he ran, echoing through the vast hall.
Augustine froze for two seconds, feeling his empty heart filled with hope once more, and he bowed to his father's statue, then galloped down the high staircase.
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After meeting with Asura and the others, Augustine learned that the Crimson Warriors had not found any information about Li Xinglu, but they had found Erin's trace with the help of the local Bounty Hunter Brotherhood.
The group of 12 hurriedly bid farewell to the Gosats, re-embarked on the Landwalker and launched the starship on its way, along the way, Asura told Augustine that Erin. Feng. Tarence is in the Iruka system, and after many twists and turns, the bounty hunters finally found out that Erin, who has been renamed "Linda" according to her bloodline, is an Aryan and her bloodline does not lie.
Erin, who has hidden her identity, is currently in the "St. Louise Dungeon" established by the "Louise Church", and she has joined the Louise Church and has become a senior member of it.
"The dungeon is beneath the Forgotten Basin, not far from here." Asura said to Augustine, "Go directly? β
"Go straight ahead!" Augustine nodded heavily and said, "If you find Erin, you can find Li Xinglu!" β
After nearly 10 hours, the view outside the porthole suddenly widened, and the heavy wind and snow were replaced by quiet air, and a huge basin covered in ice and snow was greeted by a huge expanse of snow and ice.
The size of this basin is the size of an asteroid, and in appearance, it is almost a sinkhole formed by an asteroid impact.