Chapter 81: The Meaning of Equestria
After the red-robed mage retreated with the Cellar Knight, who was the bodyguard, and the serpent for the sacrifice, the slave soldiers who had been left behind resisted.
"Your master has fled, lay down your arms and surrender!" the paladin's persuasion to surrender had no effect, and she continued to wield her spear and quickly kill the enemy.
Thomas knew that Mina would not be soft in battle, but if he kept his mouth alive, it would be inconvenient to torture him in front of the paladin. In addition, the miscellaneous fish know limited information, so it is better to kill it to save trouble.
The unicorn refuses to touch the wicked, the gnome simulates the use of a wand of rejuvenation, and the female mage has woken up coughing.
"Keep your tongue!" was her first reaction to the battlefield, but the Ranger shook his head at her and stepped up the finishing touches.
The words of the paladin and the mage seem to be similar, but in fact, the intentions are completely different. Mina really thinks about sparing them, and Kurgal wants to torture the enemy before killing them. He didn't want the enemy to live and it was inconvenient to use torture or magic to extract a confession, so the ranger wanted to listen to neither.
Most of the slave soldiers are of low rank, and their ability to resist attacks or protect themselves is insufficient, and it is easy to annihilate them.
The Drow Assassin's teleportation was long overdue, and he looked around blankly, about to join the fight. Thomas shouted, "Do what Kurgal said, knock that gnoll out of the way!"
Seeing that the female mage did not object, the Drow Assassin drew his stick and rammed his target over.
Flowers cut the throat of the last enemy, looked around, and said to Thomas in the Psychic Link, "The sacrifice here is too unprofessional, the god of the evening wind will be angry!"
"Well, they don't believe in the gods of your hometown, so they didn't dig out their hearts......"
One of the evil gods in Aztec known as the Warbringer, the Hearteater, and the Impermanent Wind is the god of the night, the night wind, the war, and the jaguar, and the flowers that are proud of their race naturally worship him.
Thomas dragged the unconscious gnolls out the door, and after waking him up, the gnome's mind spell quickly broke through the fragile mental defenses.
"There's no valuable information, they were brought here directly from Cell, by the red-robed mage named Mashantag!" "For Mina, a great humanist, it is not against humanitarianism to use spells to invade the gnolls' minds or to send them away with a final sword.
"It's not easy to do, after mastering error-free teleportation, the maneuverability is too strong to be tracked. Thomas sighed.
"Yes, he can go home at any time to eat and bathe, and when he is ready, he will come with a new wave of men. Kurgal gritted his teeth: "And the places where I can teleport are not safe, and the enemy may follow me at any time, it's too unfair!"
"I do know that there are absolutely safe places, like Avanshor. But you need to teleport first, and the distance shouldn't be enough?"
"If you can teleport to, you won't go. Where the Helios Holy See is, shall I go in and die?" Kulgal glared at him, intently observing the magical energy around him with arcane vision.
After examining and rescuing the victims who still had the possibility of survival, Mina endured her nausea and scanned the surroundings for signs of evil except for the female mage and the cat ninja. The gnomes and flowers carefully searched for mechanisms and subtle signs.
It does seem to be a temporary stronghold for the enemy, and probably a less important one, and nothing of value has been found.
The dwarf pulled out a crumpled and smeared piece of waste paper, and after piecing it together, he finally barely recognized the scribbled text in the red robe: "Snake...... Blade ...... Entropy...... The war is just a pause...... Orochi...... Devouring ......"
"Entropy in the multiverse is always increasing......
Matter, energy, and even time and thought will eventually be attributed to entropy. ”
"He's talking about the laws of thermodynamics?" Kurgal frowned and gritted his teeth, "I don't know which traverser's head was dug up, maybe it's me." ”
"It seems that some of the doctrines and requirements of the object of his sacrifice ......," the dwarf said.
"It seems that he sacrificed to the demon and not to the evil god," said the Ranger, "after all, the demon claims to be the embodiment of entropy." ”
The serpent and the blades of the magic circle, as well as the word "entropy", reminded him of a demon who liked to make esoteric statements.
The others looked at him in amazement, and Mina said, "What you say reminds me of some scholars from hundreds of years ago, if you don't just mean chaos by entropy. ”
"In fact, I suspect this may be a demon I've seen before," Thomas said hesitantly, "a great demon that wanted to attack Icewind Dale more than two hundred years ago was even more difficult to deal with than Brother Poquelien. ”
"Two hundred years ago?" Mina said, "I only know of a great demon who used the power of the Shattered Demon Crystal to attack the Eastern Exile Lands, and was later defeated by some great adventurers. It is said that Pale Justice first appeared in that battle, and there is a sword that claims to be stronger than it and has slain the White Dragon Queen - but what does it have to do with you? You've only been in this world for a few years, and you're not even thirty years old. ”
"Uh...... Some people think I'm the hero who saved Icewind Dale!" Thomas said humbly, "Actually, I feel like I'm ...... too."
Mina stared at him for a while, sighed and shook her head: "Young man, it's good to have ideals. As long as you try to stay on the path of goodness, you will one day be called a greater figure than those heroes. ”
"Young man, take care of it, don't dream. The dwarf said. Thomas regretted teaching him all sorts of buzzwords.
"That was eight years ago," said Oedipus at the same time, the red-robed man, who had healed his injuries, "you weren't born then, and I wasn't the head of the project yet." That year, there was a master of prophecy who studied astrology, and based on the trajectory of Comet Casautotek, he calculated that a strong man would come to this world, just like more than two hundred years ago...... But we didn't have a meaningful target at the time, and this time he discovered that a ship had landed from space in Cat City. ”
"He gathered a large number of men, the teachers of the schools, the knights under them, and the summoned demons...... Raid Cat City. It was a battle where I witnessed the power of the Protective System. The protection system is the most dangerous school, and the invincible spear demon Duncan's Great Crack and the strongest shield, the Rainbow Orb, are all in this school. ”
He looked pained and yearning: "In just an instant, all of the mighty ones who could pose a threat were knocked down by that legendary mage, and the enemy began to slaughter the rest unhurriedly. I saw the opportunity early, and I didn't pose much of a threat, so I got away with it...... The vast majority of others died there in vain, their attacks completely ineffective, their defenses easily torn apart......"
"Who, then, is the opponent?" asked the knight of Cell.
"It's probably the legendary mage of the Dragon Conferral Department!" The red robe said, "I fled back to Cell, concentrated on studying and researching, and finally ......"
"You're bald and stronger?" said the knight boldly, knowing that the master's hair was not shaved.
"Yes!" Although the red-robed mage was melancholy at his bald head, he was not annoyed: "Wait until I become the head of the protection department...... I'm going to order everyone to shave their heads!"
In Brinshand, after coming out of the sacrifice site, Kurgal had been absentmindedly muttering: "Why? Why was he knocked down in one fell swoop, shouldn't he be?" ”
"Didn't you just say that the opponent is a protector. The protective spell is like a sword-breaking style, and the mana of the red robe is strong. The moves are not as good as the opponent, and the internal strength is not as good; It's normal if you can't beat it, right?" said the ranger on the side.
"That's why I said it shouldn't be, shouldn't the protection system be a defensive spell, and the plastic energy system should be very powerful. ”
"I was thinking before, where did you learn the basics of arcane, Yin Soul City!" Thomas couldn't help it: "The plastic energy system is the last insurance for defense, and the protection system is the most aggressive. Didn't your teacher say that?"
"It's strange that you're not what I've learned. Kurgal stretched out his foot to kick him, but was easily dodged: "No matter how it sounds, it is a bit of a deliberate contradiction...... Besides, you're a ranger, and I'm a mage!"
"Don't worry, wait for the 6th ring and you will have the most important spell of the Mage Plastic Energy System, with it, you should be very safe. ”
"How can I not be in a hurry? the enemy could come back at any moment and kill me in one blow. Dharma protectors are specialized in restraint and companionship, and I know that. It's just that I didn't expect it to be so powerful, and I can't beat it at all. She said bitterly.
"It's okay, the protector is only targeting the caster, so don't be afraid if Mina is there. You fainted today and didn't see it, she and Baihua still had an easy time taking down the Naser Knight. ”
"Hehe," he laughed disdainfully, "Infernal blood? ”
Kurgal felt that his lower abdomen was not very comfortable, as if some painful memories came flooding back from the bottom of his heart. The appearance of the Cellknight and the greedy gaze that looked at her always reminded her of the painful experience of being used by the red-robed mage to conduct breeding experiments with monsters.
"I wonder what it would be like if we were left on Earth?" she looked up at the sky, the snow still falling diagonally.
"Are we going to leave our homes and come to the big city with great aspirations, only to live like pugs under the fence? The money we earn is not enough for what we need, not enough to eat and rent a house...... Not to mention that in the future, I will get married, have children, buy a house, see a doctor, and provide for the elderly...... To this world, power is like the money and power of the earth, without power, it is impossible to move an inch, and people with power still hate me very much. ”
Her tears finally couldn't hold back, they flowed intermittently, slowly freezing on her face. The advantage of magic disguise instead of PS makeup is that it will not be washed into a big face.
Looking at his experience points of crawling forward again, Thomas muttered, "Everything will be fine, just be patient." ”
"It's ugly. Kurgal sobbed: "You look like you have nothing but a boyfriend with empty bills; And I'm an ex-girlfriend who is greedy for vanity and materialism, the kind of ...... who wants to be slapped in the face by a young man."
The mage tugged at the Ranger's coat tightly, her head tilted, her face crimson, her eyelashes and eyelids trembling nervously.
Baihua looked at this with a cold gaze on the side. Thomas sighed slightly, and stretched out his fingers to gently flick the tears off Kurgal's face.
"There is no future in sight. She thought.