Chapter 129: Desert Island Escape
Aldrich nodded lightly and raised the hammer of Thor in his hand: "That's right, in the old era, Odin God was the theocratic weapon of the Thunder King, and it was probably the only surviving artifact in charge of the realm of destruction and rebirth. ”
Martin Opry saw the Fourth Horseman's expression calmly, and he didn't seem to know the true power of the Thunderhammer and the meaning behind it: "I said, it's okay to get close to you, right?"
Tris casually hung the artifact on his belt and spread his hands: "Come on, I'm not a terrifying sea beast, why are I so trembling?"
The chief knight came to Aldrich in a complicated mood, looked his inquiring eyes up and down, turned left and right back and forth twice, and made sure that it was him, and then let go of his worries.
If it were someone else, with this kind of undisguised and aggressive eye inspection, Triss would never allow it, but in order to regain trust, he could only endure it speechlessly: "Did you find anything? ”
"Lord Triss, it's not what you think! Maybe you don't know about the gods of the old times, even the most ordinary oracle weapons can only be held by the god's earthly spokesmen or elects, and you don't even need the powerful church to take action, just the gravity of the artifact itself that interferes with fate can make you die easily. Some evil gods often attach terrible curses to their artifacts, such as the Soul Gathering Coffin of the Deep Sea Queen Colybuso and the Gold Doom Coin of the Plague Maiden Pandora, which are not available to mortals. ”
Aldrich smiled and nodded: "I see, you are worried that I will be cursed by Thor's hammer, and you have a heart." However, Lord Opry, you may have forgotten that this is no longer the old age of gods. Even if this artifact was the authority of the Giant's enemy, it was only an ownerless thing, mysterious and powerful at best. ”
"I can't convince you, Lord Triss. However, I hope you will keep in mind that the artifacts belonging to the immortal gods are definitely not something that mortals like us can touch. ”
Aldrich was noncommittal, perhaps he remembered something, "This sentence is familiar. Not long ago, the Storm Knight, who was lying on the ground, had said something similar. ”
"Storm Knight!" Martin Opry followed Tris's gaze and noticed the young Harold lying on the beach, with red hair, plaster-like pale powdered skin, a burly body like a statue from the classical era, and angular muscles, all indicating his noble origins.
Aldrich then briefly revealed the secret of the abandoned temple on Levotine Island and the descendants of the gods of the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea who had been trained by Thor's hammer to have the power of the storm that called for thunder and lightning, and was promoted to "Storm Knight".
"Reviving a badly injured and dying drake is indeed the right choice, and protecting this deserted island that is rarely populated will be the biggest obstacle for eligible Harolds to meet Thor's hammer. However, your hard work is only the difficulty of restoring the test to its original cause, the key is to dispel the thunderclouds that envelop the temple, and even ...... this artifact that has reappeared."
At this point, Opry was silent, but even the most cerebral could understand what he meant. Aldrich nodded slightly, then shook his head: "The thunderclouds that the atmospheric elves have almost materialized, there is nothing we can do, but let the hammer of Thor disappear, or hide it temporarily, I think we can take a risk." ”
The chief knight glanced at the "big guy in the dock area" in surprise, the person in front of him who had been very familiar with him for many days, suddenly became extremely strange after saying this, and he could dispose of the artifact, even if it was an ownerless divine weapon, it was too amazing.
"Do whatever you want, I'll have to take the adventurers with me to rummage through this Levotin Island and see if there's anything else of value. ”
Aldrich understood that Martin Opry didn't want to get involved too deeply, and nodded lightly to allow him to leave, and the status and momentum of the two unconsciously completed a complete transformation, Tris became the person in charge, and the chief knight invisibly dwarfed himself and was demoted to the "first mate" of the Penguin.
Hearing that there was going to be a great plunder on the island, the adventurers who accompanied the ship, whether they were wounded or unharmed, as long as their legs were not broken, they all rushed into the Levotine like a swarm, and one hundred and eighty men demarcated their own areas and cultivated all the land with great ploughing.
As a result, the three Storm Knights, who had large raptor mounts, had already packed up all the suspicious or valuable things that could be dug up on the island and handed them over to the Elder Sacrifice Order, and the gray-robed Gundafu with a staff was in charge of the matter.
After the idlers had gone away, Aldrich went to the ruined temple, put the hammer of Thor back in its place, and prayed silently for a long time, he took the red sock from his belt and prepared to put the artifact in the space bag.
Thor's hammer spontaneously resisted, and the Red Socks couldn't swallow it in one gulp, and Tris showed a look that was indeed so.
I didn't get discouraged, I didn't give up, I tried to stretch the opening of the space bag to the limit, and then forcibly lassoed the hammer head on one side and slowly pushed it in.
The main god in the top five in the Odin god system, the divine weapon of the king of thunder, the enemy of the giant as brilliant as the sun, how can the king of the reindeer who is as bright as the stars dot the sky be able to accommodate, the two sides have fallen into a long stalemate, but the situation is inadvertently tilted towards the latter.
After all, the reindeer king, revived by Pumpkin Jack's thorn, has been restored by Aldrich Triss's efforts, and there is an immortal source behind the Red Sock, albeit a faint one. On the contrary, Thor's hammer, turning a page in the new era of history, the gods of Odin have long been silent for many years, with no signs of recovery, and the brilliance of this ownerless thing is gradually consumed in the tug-of-war, and finally the space bag engulfs the hammer head, and the short handle held in both hands is easily engulfed in it.
Losing Thor's hammer, the atmospheric spirits that envelop the island of Levotin Island, even if they are too concentrated and substantial, do not have the ability to recycle, they can charge up to three Storm Knights to make up for the consumption, and it won't take long to disappear.
After finishing this important matter related to the rise and balance of power between the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea and the Western Continent and even the West Continent, Aldrich Triss let go of the boulder that had been hanging in his heart, feeling physically and mentally exhausted but full of heartfelt joy.
This is the negative effect of the burning and consumption of the source of faith, the emptiness in the heart needs to be filled by a new source, he gathered up and stood up and left the abandoned temple, looked back at the ruined buildings, seemed to imprint everything in his mind, and then the fourth knight walked towards the shallow waters of the beach, the parked Penguin was the only hope of returning home, and he had to bring the most useful talisman of "captive" Granar.
The Storm Knight, who had not yet woken up, was carried onto the ship by Tris, and as the number of adventurers returning to nothing, Martin Opry, the captain of the Penguin, immediately ordered to return.
Everyone erupted in cheers at the same time, knowing that the sea journey home would not be an easy one, but the fourth knight with an artifact on the ship gave them great confidence.
However, it was too early to rejoice, because the adventurers had been searching for Lewotin Island for too long and missed the right time for the tide, and now it was low tide, and the fat penguin in full armor almost ran aground, and even if the sail was lowered and the oars were used, they could not go backwards back into the sea.
"What should I do?" Most of them couldn't help but look at Aldrich, hoping that he could turn the tide again at a critical time, but in the face of the situation in front of him, Tris had nothing to do.
"Disembark, all the people who can move will go down with me and work together to push the Penguin back into the sea. ”
The Fourth Knight led by example, and soon attracted the conformists, who jumped into the sea like meatballs, pushing the slippery bow and gunwales covered with seaweed and shells, and working together to hold on to that glimmer of hope.
Little by little, the Penguin retreated, like a turtle crawling on the ground, barely keeping up with the ebb tide, but no matter how hard it tried, it was stuck between the shallow water and the sluggish sand.
At this moment, the dragon beast that had once rammed into the attacking warship quietly surfaced, like a dragon and a snake, and its huge head made everyone tremble.
At the critical moment, this giant beast with no lack of wisdom came to make trouble again, obviously trying to leave them all on this desert island, and it is estimated that it will not be long before the Storm Knights who fly to Levodine Island to charge them will be wiped out.
"......Shh Shh
Instead of attacking again, the drake made a soft cry like a penguin's courtship, and Aldrich poked his head out of the bow of the ship and saw the beast he had saved, as if he understood its true purpose and purpose.
"Don't panic! Calm down! It is not our enemy, but here to repay the favor and help. After the reminder, Triss raised his head and shouted to the former captain at the helm, Buckner One-Eye, "Helmsman, throw the cables on both sides of the ship, to the back of the ship." ”
The halberd, the chief knight Martin Opry, who led the henchmen of the city guard, prepared a defensive line against the possible invasion of the dragon beasts, but did not come to his senses for a while, but the old captain of the Penguin, accustomed to the anecdotes of the sea, immediately understood Aldrich's idea, and quickly did as he said.
Throwing two arm-thick cables into the sea, the drake swam happily, opened its mouth to hold on, and then swam towards the deep sea, its huge paddle-shaped tail swinging vigorously, and the force of the traction and the push of the adventurers led by Triss did not take long to make the disoriented fat penguin return to the sea.
But immersed in the joy of towing a warship, the sea dragon clan almost forgot about the adventurers in the shallow waters. Had Aldrich not noticed that something was wrong, immediately climbed the gangway and boarded the boat, and threw dozens of ropes down with the wounded, a good comedy would have turned into a tragedy.
The Penguin, which took away Thor's hammer, touched the inexplicable law, and the weather around Lewotin Island became unpredictable, not only the wind direction was wrong, but even the ocean currents changed from time to time, if it weren't for the dragon beast not giving up and dragging it all the way to the deep sea, the warship would not have been able to break out.
"All of this is thanks to you, Your Excellency Aldrich Tris, if you hadn't revived the mortally wounded beast, we would have been trapped and killed on this desert island. At first, I was skeptical of your decision, but now I finally understand the gap between you and us. ”
"Captain" Martin Opry paid his respects to the Fourth Knight, but Tris waved his hand repeatedly, as if he did not want to accept the heavy praise.
It wasn't until the Penguin left the confines of Levotine Island and burst out of the disorienting fog to the melting ice floe that the sea dragon family repaid their debts in return for their favor let go of their mouths, swam to the side of the ship, nodded to Aldrich Tris, and then rolled over and dived into the depths, the tail of the oars tumbling and splashing a large splash of foam.
The icy sea breeze gently shook the penguin with its wings, and with the rhythm of the ripples, Storm Knight Granal woke up slowly, first reached out and touched his red and swollen neck, glared fiercely at the culprit who almost pinched him to death, in exchange for a helpless sorry smile, and a rusty iron chain.
He shook slightly, making a crunching sound, and it was clear that the Fourth Knight had no ill intentions, nor did he intend to treat him well.
"You...... Not really!"
"I haven't forgotten that you are now full of devastating storm power, and you can take out the dragon beast with a single blow, and if you find the opportunity to call for thunder and lightning, it will be enough to kill us all. ”
The Storm Knight still couldn't muster up the strength to fight, he was silent for a moment, and his voice was unusually hoarse: "You were chosen by Thor's hammer...... I really misread you. ”
"Your Excellency Granar, I ask you to cooperate with me...... That's right, take off the gorgeous armor and put your two hands close to your body one after the other. ”
The standard treatment of a prisoner, the chains, the Storm Knight of the Three North Seas, silently endured the humiliation and did not say a word from beginning to end, which made Aldrich Triss a little curious, but he only smiled, did not say superfluous nonsense, and maintained a certain respect.
When he was bound to the bow of the ship, everyone looked away and went about their own thing, and his tongue quietly rolled up, licking a silver eagle whistle from the roof of his mouth, and gently blowing three times with a certain rhythm, listening attentively.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for his own mount, the Eagle Eagle, which had escaped far away, to fly in the sky again, hovering high above the clouds, staring at the Penguin, which had an obvious target.