Chapter 746: Elven Ruins
Because the team did not go fast, they did not make it to the next town before dark, and the caravan leader, who was familiar with the area, quickly found an elven ruin suitable for setting up a camp.
When they arrived at the elven ruins, it was already dark, and most of the convoy stayed in the ruins to set up camp, and several attendants of the knights' team said that they would go outside to hunt some prey, and Leo and Sylvia also took the initiative to stand up and join the hunting ranks.
After some chatting during the day, the rest of the team already knew about Leo and Sylvia, two knights from foreign countries, but they didn't think that the two were knights, because they didn't wear knight armor, knightly swords and other standard equipment, and there was also a woman among them, which was too different from the knights that people knew, so even if no one in the team accused the two of being liars, no one recognized the knightly identity of the two.
However, those wandering knights did not deny Leo and Sylvia's self-proclaimed knightly status, they had also fallen as wandering knights, and it was not uncommon for them to sell their armor and knightly swords for a living, and they also knew that there were indeed female knights in some countries, and they had also been in contact with many nobles, so they could see that Leo and Sylvia's conversation and clothing were definitely not ordinary ordinary people. This also makes them suspicious of Leo's words.
Now Leo and Sylvia offered to go out hunting, which made the old knight a little suspicious, because he had also encountered things like bandits disguised as wandering knights before, and then sneaked up on knight patrols at night, so he secretly ordered the squires who also wanted to go out hunting, so that they could secretly observe their every move, so as to determine whether Leo and Sylvia were lurking dangers.
Although the old knight's command was very low, both Leo and Sylvia could easily hear his voice, and they did not show any abnormality in this regard, but were happy to see it, because only in this way could he reassure the wandering knight, otherwise no matter how much he explained the wandering knight, it would be impossible for the wandering knight to rest assured about the origin of the two.
Leaving the elven ruins, several people came to a wood, several squires began to set traps, took out bows and arrows, looking for prey, but they saw Leo and Sylvia standing in place empty-handed and did not move, one of the squires couldn't help but laugh: "Mr. Leo, Miss Sylvia, don't you Farnes need tools to hunt? Or do you Farrans have special abilities like warlocks, which can make prey run into your arms?"
Leo ignored the ridicule of these people, turned to Sylvia, and said, "Are you coming, or am I coming?"
"I'll do it!" Sylvia said, pulling out her crossbow and firing two arrows at a dark spot in the woods, seemingly casually, before rehanging it on her waist as everyone looked at her bewildered eyes.
Leo strode towards the dark woods, and after a while he saw him come out with four fat rabbits, and the two arrows that Sylvia had just fired pierced the heads of each of them.
Seeing this scene, the throats of all the knight squires couldn't help but swallow dryly, they felt a little chill in their necks, and there was a hint of awe in their eyes when they looked at Sylvia.
"Everybody, please continue. Sylvia took the rabbit from Leo, turned to the knights, and walked with Leo to the camp.
Not long after Leo and Sylvia left, they walked back with four prey, which naturally surprised the people in the camp, but unlike ordinary people, who paid attention to the prey, those wandering knights noticed more of the wounds on the prey, all of which were an arrow through the two rabbits, which means that the person who shot was definitely not a coincidence, and had absolute strength to complete it.
"Is it a man?" said a wandering knight in a whisper.
"No, it's a woman. On the other hand, the wandering knight, who had good eyesight, gestured to the crossbow hanging from Sylvia's waist.
"They use bows and crossbows, and they call themselves knights, I think they're liars!" said a wandering knight who had just joined the Knights.
When the other wandering knights around heard this, they did not echo or refute it, only one of the wandering knights patted the man on the shoulder and went about his business, making the man look inexplicable.
Capello, the veteran knight who is the leader of this team of knights, did not explain anything to this newcomer, some ways of thinking need to be experienced to be able to change, otherwise it is useless for others to say more, because this is his personal experience.
As newcomers who have just become wandering knights and have not really experienced the cruelty of the world, they still have in their minds the knightly glory and rules that they did when they became knights, such as knights must face the enemy directly, knights cannot use bows and crossbows and other rules, but only those who have been wandering knights for many years know that survival is the most important thing, as long as they can survive and fight in that way, if necessary, knights will even use pitchforks, which seem to be vulgar, but are actually powerful magical weapons.
It is not that there are no knights who will always abide by the rules of knighthood and behave according to the rules of conduct of knights, such people will either die on the way forward, or they have become a model of knights and stand above everyone's heads.
Leo and Sylvia ignored the knights' concerns, and they would hand over four rabbits to the caravan's cook, two of them as payment for their disposal, and the other two for their own consumption.
After solving the food problem, Leo found a relatively flat open space in the ruins, swept away the dust on it, found some hay, and spread it on the ground.
At this time, Sylvia seemed to be fascinated by the reliefs on the ruins that originated from the elven kingdom.
After taking care of the rest camp, Leo walked over to Sylvia's side, staring at the beautiful-looking patterns on it.
"Have you ever heard of elves?" asked Sylvia in a deep voice.
In the world of Vilon, there are legends of spirits and fairy stories, but there are no species like elves.
In the past two days, when Sylvia practiced the language, the most common question asked the others was what kind of race the elves were.
It's just that the answers given by the locals are all different, and most of them use hostile titles such as pointy ears to replace the name elves, so all the information she finally got is that this was once the location of the elven kingdom, the elven kingdom was destroyed by the elves, and even the elves were killed, the people of the tousents hated the elves, and the touscent had no elves and so on.
Although the elves have become almost synonymous with inferiority from the words of the locals, Sylvia can see from the architectural form of the elven ruins and the exquisite ornamentation on the ruined walls that the elves have a very unique understanding of beauty, and it is definitely not as unbearable as the local population.
"This pattern is to imitate the movement of vines, it is only a decorative pattern, but ......" Leo looked at the pattern on the ruined wall, analyzed the contents, and followed the trend of the pattern to the end, and the end was not a flower, but a symbol, and said: "This symbol is somewhat like the rune of Lake Town, if it is not damaged, there should be some supernatural power here." ”
"Being able to use extraordinary power in architecture, it seems that the elven kingdom here should have a high level of transcendent civilization, and there should be many transcendent beings among these elves. Sylvia said with a puzzled face: "But why were they defeated by the people of Tousent, or even slaughtered by the tribe? There don't seem to be many people with extraordinary strength in Tousent, can they be easily eliminated by just relying on these knights? Even if there are more than a hundred such knights, just with you and me, they can be easily eliminated." ”
Leo was stunned for a moment when he heard Sylvia's words, turned his head to look at her, and asked, "Isn't there any influence on you?"
"Impact, what impact?" Sylvia looked at Leo in confusion.
Leo asked again, "Is it because the power on his body is limited or something?"
"No?" Sylvia replied immediately, but perhaps felt that some of the answers were too hasty, and after carefully examining her body, she shook her head affirmatively and said, "No, there are no restrictions." Your power is limited?"
"Some of them are restricted. Leo replied simply.
He found that he had some misunderstandings, because he had entered other worlds more than once in the past, and he was accustomed to the fact that the power in his body would be more or less restricted, for example, in his body, all the powers that belonged to the divine imprint of the Velen world could not be used, including the power of the True Eye, and in addition to the spiritual energy, the only thing that could be used was the power of nightmares and the power of a few outer gods.
Under the effect of inertial thinking, Leo also thought that Sylvia's strength was also limited, and Sylvia didn't say that he was afraid that he was worried, but he didn't expect him to completely misunderstand, Sylvia's strength was not limited at all, so naturally there was nothing to say.
This also made Leo a little inexplicably embarrassed, which seemed to be somewhat similar to the self-inflicted amorous sentiment mentioned in the book, and in order to alleviate this embarrassment, Leo diverted the topic and said, "Do you want to explore?"
"Exploration?" Sylvia saw that Leo was a little embarrassed, but she didn't know why he was embarrassed, and now that she saw him divert the topic, she asked casually, "Did you find any secret rooms in the elven kingdom?"
"There's a secret room. Leo nodded.
"Isn't it? Sylvia immediately became interested and asked, "Is there any treasure in the chamber?"
Leo explained, "I don't know, there's some power in the chamber, and I can't sense what's going on inside. ”
"Let's go, let's see!" Sylvia immediately became excited.
At Sylvia's urging, Leo asked the caravan men for two torches, and although the recorder in his hand could create light, it was difficult to explain if it was seen.
After getting the torches, the two turned and walked out of the clearing where the camp was, and walked around the edge of the ruins to the other side, a place like a courtyard, where there were not only some broken stone benches, but also many broken statues, and a large number of vines covered them, which made people feel an inexplicable gloom.
Leo and Sylvia's actions were not hidden, and naturally they were also watched by the wandering knights, and they also guessed what they were going to do, but the knights did not send someone to follow to see if the two could find any treasures such as the inheritance of the elven kingdom, because they felt that the two were doing useless work.
Over the years, not only have the officials of the Duchy of Touscent repeatedly searched and found everything of value that could be found, even the statues have been removed, and even some treasure hunters, bandits, and destitute knights have repeatedly looted these elven ruins to take the last bit of fish that slips through the net.
Like the current elven ruins, which happen to be next to the main road of the principality, where bandit bandits once were stationed, how can there be anything valuable in such a place.
Therefore, all the wandering knights, including the old knight of Capello, think that Leo and Sylvia are two foreigners who are curious about the elven ruins, and when they see the elven ruins, they think of the stories that the bards have said, thinking that they are the protagonists of the stories, but in fact they can only find a pile of dust, which also makes them wait for the joke when they see the two foreigners return with a disgraced face.
In the small garden of the ruins, Leo's spiritual network penetrated into the surrounding underground, carefully perceiving the situation underground, and said: "These elves not only have mastered extraordinary powers, but also know how to make some exquisite machinery. ”
As he spoke, he saw him walk up to one of the broken statues, crouch down, find a relief on the base, put his fingers into the eye sockets of the monster relief, pull it out with a slight force, and then pull the relief out, and then rotate it twice and press it back into the groove before.
Then there was a faint shaking sound from the ground, and two strange noises came from the pool in the middle of the garden, and the water in the pool quickly descended, and soon the bottom was visible.
As the water ran out, a large and intact stone in the middle began to slowly sink, revealing a pit and a ladder going down.
Because the ladder was wooden and had completely decayed over the years, Leo motioned for himself to go down and explore the way first, and jumped straight through the opening, and soon landed on the ground, while he used the power of nightmares to imitate the witcher's sigil and lit the torch, shining a light on the surroundings.
At the same time as the light appeared below, Sylvia above also saw the situation in the secret room clearly, and without waiting for Leo to speak, she couldn't wait to jump down from the top and landed steadily beside Leo.
"Even after all these years, it's still full of energy. Leo looked at the scene around him, exclaiming, and tried to use the spirit web to explore his surroundings. As a result, he found that there was a large amount of energy around him that interfered with the spiritual network, so he no longer forcibly used the spiritual network, but handed over the task of exploration to the perception of various parts of the body.