Chapter 82: Lost
"Happy families are always alike, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes. Thomas felt the same way, and suddenly woke up: "No! Bah, you and I are not family. We just happen to be from Earth, and we knew each other before, and that's it. β
"Yes, we're just fellow villagers in the same boat," Kurgal was a little gloomy though he was mentally prepared not to be in a hurry: "Shivering and huddling together for warmth in this dangerous and cold world." β
She felt that the spell was almost unable to resist the cold, and the cold of winter had indeed reached her heart.
I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, she said to herself. Whether it's his ex-girlfriend or the cat, they are tough enemies that they can't defeat under normal circumstances. But if you live and die together at this critical juncture, and with the friendship when you are on Earth, maybe there is still a little possibility of victory.
The unicorn flicked its tail as irritably as the cat, showing the great wrath in the small chest of her master, to whom she was connected.
Just as Pegasus can be twisted into nightmares by evil forces, so too can red-robed mages and Bane followers blacken unicorns with dark magic and torment. Mina was convinced that the witch who came from the same world as the Ranger was the Bane cultist, and was about to corrupt and pollute the pure hearts of the goddess cultists.
The paladin kept a smile on his face, and there was a "creaking" sound of metal grinding between the armor glove and the handle of the star-iron gun. From the time she set off with the caravan to the present, she has always wanted to find evidence of Kulgal's guilt and then shoot him to death. It's a pity that this female mage has not left any evidence of her guilt, and she has been polite and thoughtful, and she has been very decent, and she can't find an excuse to turn her face.
It can already be speculated that she is a villain who signed a contract with the soul scar, but it cannot be directly executed on this charge, and people often do not know enough about the dangers of the soul scar. And Thomas's various side hints, saying that the greatest legendary paladin in the 5,000-year history of the Dragon Empire in another world died on "trumped-up" charges, which made her pay attention to the impact.
Although it depends on the owner's face to beat the dog, Mina generally doesn't care, but Thomas is different from others...... Even if she knew that she would not really retaliate against him as a human being, the goddess would not blame him for it. But thinking that in the next few years, decades, hundreds, or even the foreseeable time, he might be invisibly inferior to him, Mina's pride could not bear to kill the female mage hastily.
She looked down at her destitute breastplate, and then at the witch's lewd flesh that trembled as she walked. In fact, she looks okay, but she is a little darker and fatter and a little older, but Mina has also pushed many half-aged, hundreds of years old elves, and metal dragons who are much older than Kurgal......
"Very well, since you think whoever has big breasts makes sense, I will quietly collect evidence. Thinking that Thomas, who had stolen the food, would be personally captured by his reasonable girlfriend, Mina couldn't help but smile expectantly on her face.
Even the Drow Assassin, who had never looked at other people's faces, sensed the cold atmosphere between the four females, and the dwarf didn't care about this at all, poking at the vegetables piled up in the yard: "If you let so many vegetables freeze into ice, the red-robed mage must have given him a lot of money as compensation." β
"At best, it's a bit of a nutrient drain, it's not that it's completely inedible, and the weather is just right for storing food outdoors. Thomas smiled and began the story in the usual form of a dwarf: "I was home alone during the winter vacation that year, and it was snowing outside the window..."
The dwarf's eyes lit up and he leaned over with a grin. Except for Baihua, who was completely disobedient, the rest of the people silently stayed away from them.
Back at the shop facing the street in front of the yard, he woke up the shopkeeper who had been knocked unconscious. Seeing the paladin shopkeeper, he was shocked at first, and then shouted: "Is there any law in your eyes?" rushed in and stunned an honest and trustworthy merchant for no reason, has the paladin fallen into a house robbery with the dark elves!"
"First and foremost, a paladin is justice. Mina said, "Then, you are suspected of providing a place for the red-robed mages to operate and assisting them in arresting, hiding, and killing others, so please take a trip to the Three Holy Temples." β
The Temple of the Three Saints, the god of justice, the god of courage, and the god of suffering, is militarized like most of the other monasteries, with a considerable number of priests and armed forces in addition to the paladins who have gone to the Melting Ice. Because of the shroud of the true gods, in a place where there is no king's law in Icewind Dale, there may be more power than the spokesperson.
"I don't know what a cardinal wizard is, you can't take me to that place! You can't use magic on me! Any kind of magic that forcibly controls the mind, reads the mind, and screens lies is a violation of the right to human freedom! I want to see the deputy mayor!"
This attitude of no silver three hundred taels here made Thomas laugh out loud: "I can't see it, you are quite knowledgeable." β
Kurgal applauded lightly: "Well said, this right is what we should pursue and defend at all times." β
With the blessing of magic, her figure is fat and radiant, and there is a dangerous temptation of an evil witch.
The shopkeeper looked directly at the black-haired beauty, and immediately noticed that her mage robe was arcane Brotherhood style, and "Goo" swallowed his saliva, and his body trembled slightly.
"Listen to your accent, I'm from Luskan to do business here. I don't know if I miss my wife and children at home?" said Kurgal with a smile, "Gantt and I have about the same mana, and he is in his forties this year. I'm thirty years old, but I've only been studying arcane for a few years. β
She lifted the shopkeeper's chin with a folding fan and asked lightly, "How many years do you think it will take me to become the lord of the North Tower?"
The shopkeeper didn't say a word, and knelt down.
After leaving the store, Mina was about to go to the speaker's quarters, and Kurgal sighed, "Alas, there are too many enemies. The Gantt guy actually supported the Red Robe against me, and I can't get back to Luskan to join himβbecause the Arcane Brotherhood is in chaos and worships the jungle!"
"That's why evil is invincible, although our church is more chaotic, but it doesn't fight. The organization you joined is really too bad, just like the sect of Xiuzhen novels, it is inevitable that there will be all kinds of infighting and plots. Removing you, the rival of the North Tower, will be beneficial to him in controlling Icewind Dale. The red-robed mage is just coming at us, and he won't be here for long. However, he shouldn't know that we are traversers, and he simply wants to kill us with the hand of the red robe?" said Thomas.
"I think it should be, the red-robed mage won't leak information. Kurgal looked at him worriedly and said, "But I may have troubled you." β
"Why, aren't we in the same boat?" Thomas smiled at her, "But what spell did you use today, it looks beautiful, and your speech is also very moving." β
"Really?" said Kurgal, "some of the spells that have been learned from Ewell's observation are of little use in battle, except that they can bypass the wariness of ordinary people against enchanting spells, and impress them with words. But as the saying goes, using words can be more dangerous and vicious than magic. β
"Still, I think it's too meaty, it's not good. β
Kurgal rolled his eyes: "Are you jealous? β
Thomas hurriedly skimmed out: "Phew, I remember that when you used to write a book at the beginning, you liked to show the protagonist's wife and concubine to outsiders, I suspect you have that kind of fetish!"
Even if Kurgal wasn't a man, Thomas didn't want to have a deep relationship with her. He felt disgusted just thinking that he would be in the same path as many people and monsters, and sure enough, she was still a pure girl.
"Mina said that there is not enough evidence to win the deputy mayor, so I can only do my best to think about you?"
"Well, she went to the spokesman, but I was afraid that it would be in vain. After all, the spokesman is too young, and Gantt is a mage after all, and he is cautious enough not to leave a fatal flaw. β
"But then again," said Thomas, "why are we collecting evidence? This is not a society governed by the rule of law, and Icewind Dale is a place of lawlessness." A few of us sneaked over and killed him, and it was kind of a hassle!"
"Hey, I thought you were a goddess of games addicted to the dead house, and you couldn't extricate yourself from NPCs, and you couldn't wait to kneel and lick it!"
"How is that possible!" cried Thomas, "she doesn't like me, and she doesn't have big breasts and long legs, how can she lick ...... Well, it's still a little bit. β
Kurgal: "So...... Do you like old ladies or little girls?"
"Ahem, I don't like Mina very much, and she doesn't like me either, so if you don't rely on her, don't rely on herβit's best to help her a little bit and get rid of it sooner. Besides, whoever assists the Red Robe is against us!"
With the bald mage, Kurgal, and the gnome wounded and dropped, Thomas prepares to ask someone to make a magic item: "By the way, give me some of your hair." I'm going to use it to make a Ranger gear for arcane spellcasters. β
"What kind of country magic is this, it looks like folk superstition and witchcraft!"
"The druids are the old faith, and the rangers are similar to them, of course, that's all?"
"Ah, yes. Kurgal remembered, "I remember reading Amuro's Gundam novel with Char's sister, and he asked for a pilot's amulet...... "She reached into her mage robe."
"Is that where G3 comes from, it seems like it's the ending of Amuro being killed by a stray bullet and Char opening a Gundam......"
Thomas took a few strands of black, shiny curly hair, and was so embarrassed that he ran away with his tail between his legs.
Smiling and waving goodbye to the Ranger, Kurgal led the Drow Assassin back to the stables of the Temple of the Sun, pulling out a large mirror from the straw.
It was a mirror fragment with powerful prophetic energy found after killing Kaisso, and Kurgal instructed Schalke to take it for him, carrying it to the Melting Ice and then to Brinshand. She had intended to use it for all sorts of map-opening and path-finding spells, but found that there were other uses.
Relying on the mirror's mana bonus and the flesh left behind by the red robe's injury, Kurgal successfully cast a spell to detect him. The location where the red-robed mage was located seemed to have a distinctly Cell-style style, and she was well aware of it. At first, nothing out of the ordinary, but Kurgal noticed that although he appeared uneventful, he did not go near any locations and scrolls of books that might reveal secrets.
"I said, I want to trick Lao Tzu. Indignantly, she stopped the spell and began to call softly, "Ice Witch, Ice Witch." β
As she called, the mirror revealed a blonde woman with a deer's head and white fur. Kurgal knew that she was calling for the wind and rain to make winter come earlier and more violently, directing animals, monsters, and barbarians to attack the caravans and the Electors of Olull, the deer tribe.
After obtaining the mirror and wanting to use it, the Ice Witch appeared in the mirror and contacted her, convincing Kurgar to become her subordinate instead of Kaisso, so that even the secret spells of the Church of Orur could be taught to her. But the female mage had always been suspicious, and she didn't even dare to pick up the Black Ice Staff.
But now is the time to burn the brow, and even the smallest and most dangerous force must be cherished. Kurgal believes that with his willpower, he is enough to control the black ice!
"Arcane is nothing in the face of God-given power. The Ice Witch said, "What is the red robe, and what is the paladin? The ancestors of the sect who practiced both magic and arcane arts relied on the gifts of our lord to create spells, even the paladin can be knocked down with just one blow, and the red-robed mage is absolutely unable to resist. β
The Ice Witch is also a headache for Mina, who goes on a rampage, kills the Bear Chieftain and shatters the Ice Death Simulacrum of the White Dragon many times. Especially after she heard that Mina was fake and serious on the surface, she actually flirted with men, and she couldn't help but instigate the female mage to fire and merge with the paladin.
"Hmph, when I learn the spell, not only Mina will die, but you will also die!" Kurgal faked a smile on his face: "A god stick still wants me to be a subordinate, in the next life! Even the elect is just a dog of the gods, and it is not as strong as the elect of the goddess of magic, weak and explosive!"
During her days in the Icemelt, the Ice Witch tried her best to woo her, so that Kurgal learned the details. For the voters to ascend to the sky in one step, she is naturally envious, jealous and hateful.
But what the Ice Witch didn't know was that when she took Kurgal to visit the ice corpse, perhaps because of the white dragon corpse, or the thirst for power, or the longing for the strong man, or the hostility and contempt for the gods, Kurgal's "electric waves" were matched with a peerless powerhouse who had been defeated a hundred years ago.
It is said to have had a leg with the Goddess of Magic, delved into the divine power of the Goddess of Magic's chosen people, the "Silver Fire" of the Chosen One, and then used it to resist the siege of the three Chosen People, and even wounded the avatar of the Lord of the Dawn in mortal form after killing a large number of harpists and priests.
Kurgal has been in awe of this powerful and insanely talented mage for a long time. It is said that when the dragon madness was defeated, it should have been completely erased by the light of dawn.
But the powerful will of the legendary mage and the fanatical faith and worship of some people left it with a trace of soul residue.
Out of admiration for Kurgal, Samast taught her several spells, such as the Thunder Lance, developed by the old man he hated the most, which the mage could use to protect herself.
But the horrible necromancer and lich didn't formally sign a contract with her, because it was asking for something that was too difficult to do.
"I've heard that the old shaman who banished me liked him very much. Maybe he's a nice guy indeed. The Ice Witch seemed to remember the past, and smiled softly and sadly at Kurgal: "So with all due respect, your strength is not enough to protect him. β
The Ice Witch across the mirror held out her hand, and she held a fist-sized piece of black ice.
"This is the Black Ice Core, the part of the Black Ice that preserves the most power of the Shattered Demon Crystal. It was with it that Akar was able to make the leap from apprentice to full-fledged mage. β
"But for you who already have a good foundation, the growth may not be so exaggerated. The Ice Witch cocked up her finger, "And because of its enormous magic, it will have a more real effect than other black ices - although I believe that with the willpower of a mage like you, it is enough to overcome it, but you should be careful without the help of the priest." β
The Ice Witch handed the Black Ice Core to the mirror, and it appeared in front of Kurgal, and the mage cautiously caught it in the air.
"You'd better just use the Black Ice Staff, contact me when you need to use the Black Ice Core, and let me use my divine power to help you. Ice Witch said earnestly.
"Thank you. Kurgal felt a touch of emotion in her heart, she nodded, and said sincerely, "I will use it carefully." β