Chapter 186: The Glorious Path
Three days after the empress ascended the throne, a huge explosion occurred on the outskirts of the southwest of Muni City, and the next day the Wizards' Association spread the news that Thorne** Master was seriously injured, and the body of the Blunt Sword Master was revealed outside the city, and his body had become charred black.
The Knights of Punishment withdrew from the city of Muni and returned to the Holy City.
In the northern provinces of the empire, Prince Fanst, who had mutinied with the Dragon Wrestling Legion and disappeared for a long time, appeared in everyone's field of vision, saying that the empress's accession to the throne this time was completely manipulated by conspirators, and the Northern Province and the Dragon Wrestling Legion did not recognize the result. Decided to crusade against the rebellion.
The Temple of War, who had been silent during the incident, expressed his opinion, did not want the Drew Empire to be torn apart, did not want the country to be in a civil war, and the Janissary Guard, the captains of the major legions, and the Noble Alliance all expressed the same opinion.
Prince Fanst no longer said that he did not recognize the result of this accession, but the situation of semi-secession of the northern provinces was formed, and Empress Caroline acquiesced.
In the northern province ruled by Fanst, the Church of Light was given a great deal of room to operate.
At this time, the monk was still on the way.
At the beginning of the ten-day trip, Hui Gang was still on guard, and when he was halfway through, he was relieved. The western border of the Drew Empire is a mountain range that is the natural border between the Drew Empire and Odan, connected only by a road that cost a great deal of manpower hundreds of years ago.
The closer you get to the border, the more people begin to thin out. Unlike Hui Gang's previous life, the people here did not dare to live too close to the side of the mountain, because there were too many unpredictable dangers in the forests and mountains, such as demonic beasts.
Hui Gang didn't know what had happened in the city of Muni and the various provinces of the Drew Empire, but he felt it in the places he passed by and saw the soldiers gradually becoming more vigilant, but this was no longer his business.
As the forest approached, I don't know if it was the innate instinct in the orc, the werewolf spirit, and the spirit of the wind suddenly improved a lot, and the monk was not a guard prisoner. Therefore, for the werewolf, except for getting close to Fei'er, the matter is basically in the state of herding sheep, and the werewolf is usually on the carriage except when he is on duty.
The rest of the time I spent myself in the forest for a long time, not knowing what to do.
After replenishing their food and supplies in a town near the border, the monks and their journey again, according to the map and the words of the shopkeepers in the town, this town is the last gathering place in the territory of the "Endless Mountains", Drew, and the next step is to walk through this mountain range for nearly seven days.
And the man who told them the news said that it was best not to go down this path now, because this is the time when most of the monsters mate. These vicious animals are too frequent and extremely dangerous, because at this time, in addition to the appetite and killing of demonic beasts, they are also extremely strong.
At this time, except for large merchant groups of more than a few hundred people, it will be dangerous to walk in the mountains, and even large merchant groups will transport goods to the port of Odan, through the ports of the city-state of Havel and the Duchy of Lan, so that there will be no danger.
Therefore, at this time, there will be basically no people on the roads in the Endless Mountains. Even if you want to unite with big businessmen, it is very difficult, and it is estimated that you will have to wait for several months.
The dangerous Demon Beast Hui Gang made a decision without any hesitation, and if you want to say that the danger is probably more dangerous than the combination of metal golems, winged lions, and werewolves, or the latter ones.
Of course, the danger of monks is probably the highest.
The shopkeeper's statement was quickly verified. A day after Hui Gang's carriage entered the town, there was no one to be seen on the road except the peasants and hunters of the nearby towns, and almost everyone who saw them would come up to persuade them.
The content of the words is much the same, and now it's the season of mating of Warcraft. If you enter the mountain, the danger is too great, and there are dozens of mercenaries guarding the merchant group of a large chamber of commerce in front. After entering the Endless Mountain Range in this season, more than 300 people were torn apart by demonic beasts a few months later.
Hui Gang naturally laughed and ignored it, if there were thousands of troops in front of him, he could also consider being cautious, and some demonic beasts were afraid that he would do something.
But as the journey deepened, the mountains on both sides of the road became higher and higher, and the horses were often a little uneasy, but Fei'er was very excited, and often talked to the monk about the things that happened when he left the gravel town, passed through the town and came to the big rainforest of the Principality of Lanji.
met Morton and Henry, and found the little winged lion monk, and when he heard this, he was also in a good mood in his heart, and occasionally the shadow of the elf Jiani at that time surfaced in his heart, as well as those games in the Grand Duke's Mansion.
Werewolf Tempest was a little silent, always looking around nervously along the way.
As the journey deepened, we finally came to the front of a stone bridge, which can be described as a spectacle by the standards of this world.
When the monk walked the rivers and lakes in his previous life, he had seen more magnificent arch bridges and stone bridges in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places in Fujian, and he was not very surprised by this, but Fei'er and Werewolf Hurricane completely grew up and looked at all this in front of them.
A deep stream about 200 meters wide, the water below is very slow, and the color of the water is very dark, and it is obviously extremely deep. There is a huge stone bridge across it, and on both sides of the bridge is about half a person, and on both sides of the bridge is about half a person, and the wall is carved with exquisite stone carvings.
The bridge deck is a wide stone face, although from the blur of the relief, the stone bridge is extremely long, but there are few weeds on the bridge deck, which shows the tightness of the joints of the stone slabs.
Fei'er on the side suddenly shouted excitedly:
"This is the 'Bridge of the Glorious Path', Brother Huigang, I learned this when I was at Uncle Omok's house, and the teacher told me about it at that time. ”
Fei'er was smart and studious, and the tutors she invited when she was in the Marquis's Mansion were all praised.
"Look, you see, there is a commemorative stone pillar here, and the flower-style characters on it are now only used by nobles. ”
The excited girl dragged Hui Gang to the front of the pillar, which was engraved with a text in solemn font, and the legend of Aerte said that the border between the human world and the underworld was a very deep and wide canyon, and the name of this canyon was called Aerte in ancient language, which means unsurpassable place.
The text on the stone pillar says that the king of Drew and Odan moved millions of people to open up the road in order for his people to move freely, but stopped in front of the deep stream, and when the two sides were in a dilemma, the gods threw huge stone pillars from the sky as bridge piers.
This miracle bridge was built, and the monk looked at the deep stream on the side, and saw that the pillars were indeed unprocessed, and there were even small trees growing on them, and they were not straight and were inserted into the water a little crooked.
Turning his head to look at this inscription, there was an extremely strange problem, where the god cast the stone pillar, the word god was slightly blurred, and it seemed to be a little different from the surrounding words, and the monk was a little interested, and if he came to see it, the place where the inscription was now was obviously lower than the surroundings.
Looking at the rest of the text, everywhere the god is mentioned, it is similar, and the monk is slightly surprised in his heart, it is obvious that this is to hide something.
Since the werewolf came to this bridge, he was also extremely curious, walking around and enjoying the shock of his heart, but he didn't know when he began to stop, staring blankly ahead.
The werewolf's stunned movements quickly attracted the attention of the monk, and Fei'er got along with the werewolf for a short time in the past few days, but the impression between them was much better.
Seeing the wind like this, he immediately shouted a few times in worry, but the wind didn't react at all, and Hui Gang felt strange. Walking behind the orc and patting it gently, the werewolf seemed to be very frightened, and jumped up suddenly. caught the monk and Fei'er off guard.
The werewolf's furry head seemed to have a cold sweat, and his breathing was also a lot heavier, Hui Gang was puzzled in his heart, and he was just about to ask the wind himself, and he spoke first:
"It's horrible, it's too noisy and bloody. ”
Now the edge of the bridge is extremely quiet, except for the occasional splash below, there is no other sound at all, the monk carefully looked at the werewolf, and the god of the other party did not seem to be fake.
At this time, he suddenly heard Fei'er behind him scream, and Hui Gang was shocked, but then he put his mind at ease. The girl there said with some panic:
"Furball, what's wrong with you, don't fly around, come down. ”
Although the winged lion is now the size of a kitten of three or four months, and can fly very tall, since the girl took it out of the egg, it rarely leaves the place ten meters away from Fei'er's side, and treats Fei'er extremely obediently. The monk looked back and saw that the snow-white lion had left the girl, far away, and was flying up and down in great anxiety.