Chapter 2: The Lost Findrun
In the Green Valley, a scattered team of horses drove the road as it went. Everywhere is full of greenery, and the weather is not at all like December 24, the birthday of the gods of the seven tribes.
"Seeing that there is no in the towering spire ahead, that is the destination of this time, and you can get there twenty hours before the hourglass, don't be lazy with the bitch for me, hurry up. β
Kasan, the leader of the team, is said to be a silver-armored marksman who has awakened the talent of strength and advanced precision, and was once loyal to the Empire of Arissanret. With a temper as big as her chest, she was kicked out of the Silver Armor after shooting through the ears of the logistics officer, and began to wander the tavern, becoming a mercenary.
No one in the tavern had ever seen Kasan shoot a chain of arrows, no one had ever seen her wear silver armor, and the first time she went to the tavern and was teased by a swordsman as a drunkard, Kasan kicked the swordsman over, and before the angry swordsman could get up and draw his sword, a vulture-tailed arrow grazed her neck and nailed to the floor, and since then, no mercenary in the tavern has dared to underestimate her. Later, the hapless swordsman turned out to be one of Kassan's loyal followers.
Findren is the closest city to a magical rainbow in the elemental city-state, three hundred years ago, there were even rumors that Findren already had a magical rainbow, but many mages above 3 stars scoffed at this statement, if Findren had ever had a rainbow, he would not be the first victim in that "God War", although it was the legendary hero magic elemental envoy - Paris who was stationed in Findren at that time.
Eventually, the city collapsed under conspiracy and death, and became a lost city now full of ruins and greenery.
"Do you really think the Ring of Life will be here?" asked the swordsman Darrah with an unhappy face, and the convoy had been walking for two weeks from Carouston to the present, and finally arrived at the place.
"Catalpa!" Kasan pinched the horse's belly, ignoring him, raising her hand to block out the somewhat harsh midday sun, squinting at the broken city-state in front of her.
According to the history books, Findrun, with a population of nearly 100,000, was slaughtered by the undead army three hundred years ago, and the undead lord Phoenix Wilma also personally performed a fifth-level spiritualism. Later generations called it "the Findren who buried the bones".
Although Findron is long gone, three hundred years later, the vast majority of caravans and armies are still reluctant to pass through this ominous city-state, preferring to spend two or three more days on a detour.
"Captain Kassan, Stanlini, remember your courage and spirit of contract, and whether or not you find the Ring of Life this time, you will be a guest of Stanlini. The old man's voice suppressed excitement and anticipation, and the old butler's deep eyes were full of exhaustion.
The last Stanlini family is located in the southwest of the Duchy of Zereva, and it is also the most marginal area of the aristocratic circle of the Duchy of Zereva, the only viscount is also seriously ill and bedridden, and his life is dying, and the three sons are all mediocre, after his father is seriously ill, he barely manages the city of Carouson, and he is helpless against his seriously ill father.
In order to cure her father, the daughter of the strong viscount ignored many taboos, and asked for a passage in a secluded and mysterious divination tree house outside the city: "The corpse rainbow god is born, the earth ruins, and the ring of life is returned." The only four-star priest in Carroston read this passage, and after accepting 100 gold coins, he pointed to the water and wrote the words "Findrun".
Looking at the daughter of the viscount and the old butler with deep circles in her eyes but with a resolute face, Kashan didn't take this praise to heart, the old butler had to nag several times a day and so on, in her eyes, the friendship of the Stanlini family, which had fallen to the point of only one viscount, was not as practical as giving 20 more gold coins, this trip could bring her 100 gold coins, so that her small team could live comfortably for a while, as for the "Ring of Life"? It wasn't something that anyone could finger at it, she hadn't thought she would find it, a ruined city to find a ring, the kind of thing that only a naΓ―ve viscount's daughter would believe.
"Jessila and Ken, take up their positions, pitch their tents and build a campfire before dark. Miss Vivien asks you to stay here with Old Butler Cade, and the rest of the people will be divided into 3 groups and scattered to search, and do not let go of anything of value. Kasan began to command loudly. This is a very wide earthy yellow stone ladder altar, surrounded by a lot of abandoned stones, and along an inner city river, very suitable for stationing, as long as a sentry is left on the ladder altar at night, there are slightly larger wild creatures can be seen approaching.
"Uncle Kade, what was this altar used for?" the Viscount's daughter stood on a stone staircase more than a man high, and looked at the large expanse of the staircase.
"My young lady, this is not a lady at all, so be careful. The old butler stretched out his hands and begged under the stone staircase, who cared about what this dilapidated altar was used for, and the old butler was only worried that his young lady would not accidentally fall from it.
Although the large ladder altar has been dilapidated, the stone staircase more than one person high has four floors, and such a large altar Kasan is also the first time to see it, the crescent-shaped stone pile in the center of the altar does not look like an ordinary ruin, the stone pile vaguely exudes some mysterious spiritual coercion, the closer the distance, the clearer.
Kasan quickly circled the entire ladder altar, a deep suspicion suppressed, but she couldn't tell what it was? β
As soon as the words fell, Kashan suddenly remembered something, looked at the crescent-shaped stone pile in the center, and sighed in her heart, this ladder altar that had been abandoned for three hundred years may be the extremely mysterious spiritual element descending altar of the ancient city of Findren Elemental, or even a higher-level magic element altar - the place where the elemental human race used to communicate with the magic elements of the different interfaces.
Kashan had never seen a spirit elemental, but she had heard many rumors that this group was a sixth-level elite lifeform comparable to the cavalry of the Divine Domain, not only was it not afraid of all psychic magic, but it also possessed a powerful mental concussion attack capable of killing and injuring all targets at close range, extremely difficult, and possessed an extremely powerful talent for group combat.
The magic elemental envoy is an even rarer sixth-level legendary lifeform, whose combat power is no less than that of many seventh-level legendary lifeforms, and the magic immunity talent and mental concussion talent are extremely terrifying, and in the eyes of excellent battlefield commanders, they are not even weaker than some seventh-level lifeforms.
The faint and real spiritual coercion of the crescent stone pile, the huge ladder altar around the eyes, the quiet and mysterious recounting of Findrun's former glory, Kasan was blindfolded, she couldn't imagine it.
"Chief, you didn't notice anything, this altar is only stone and sand. Darla bumped into the others, apparently noticing anything.
"Well, that's clear, tonight so the people take turns to take turns to rest, and after sunrise they start searching the whole area!
"Clear!"
"Yes, sir. β
Before sunset, seven or eight tents in the camp surrounded three bonfires by a tall stone staircase wall, and the light of the fires pressed under the iron pot shelves, bright and warm.
The old butler stirred the pot as he poured the carrots and dry cereal into the pot, and after a while, he opened a box of oak lacquered with black oil from the pile of bags, and took out a delicate little silver bowl and a silver spoon with a trimmed edge.
After a thick soup boiled in butter and dried mutton, with the sweetness of carrots and the softness of cereal, the taste was excellent, and it was the favorite dinner of the Viscount's family.
The daughter of the viscount, who had been active all afternoon, ignored the hunger in her belly, and drank the soup slowly, spoonful, quiet and elegant, drawing many eyes from the other two places, and the old butler ignored those rather aggressive glances, no matter how the Stanlini family declined, it was still the nobility of the Arissanrite royal family.
The other two mercenaries on the campfire took off their movable helmets, spun the iron skulls on the top, washed them in the river water and scooped the soup to drink, and their pots only contained mutton boiled mutton in mutton bone soup, and a stack of wild bracken collected nearby, which was a rare thing to eat in this season.
The mercenaries were talking loudly around the campfire as they ate, and it wasn't always possible to eat lamb in lamb bone soup, and Dara had suggested to Kasan for several days to have such a meal. This trip has been out for more than a month, quite smoothly, encountered several waves of thieves, but none of them became a climate, the only few unlucky eggs were scratched by stray arrows, but they were only flesh wounds, and it didn't seem to be a big deal.
The dilapidated Findrun was one of the top large-scale elemental cities in the Elemental Kingdom three hundred years ago, and it is said that the mysterious Immortal Fire Storm even has a fire phoenix guarding it, and the fifth-level magic guild towers into the sky, and countless war elementals are stationed in the castle, and now only the ruins remain, and the fifth-level magic guild more than 100 meters high is only an empty shell.
"Miss Vivien, Findron can't find the Ring of Life, tell us about your plans. Cassan sat down beside the Viscount's daughter and was silent for a long time, before she finally spoke.
She always felt that the ethereal Ring of Life would not be in Findren at all, and even if it had been here, the battle that destroyed everything had taken away everything from Findrun. Countless scavengers have visited this ruined city for hundreds of years, and not even a single silver coin can be found here.
Vivien bent her legs, her hands on her cheeks, and her elbows on her knees to give Cassan a smile: "I'm sure I'll find a way to save my father." β
Kashan looked at the clean face, sighed, and nodded silently: "Lord Viscount will be safe, may the Holy Spirit bless you." "All she can give the daughter of the viscount is cheap blessings.
Legend has it that the war across the nine clans caused the long-eared elves in the forest barrier to lose the vitality vial, which is the most important part of the artifact "sacred blood vial", and the other two rings full of vitality of the artifact are held in the hands of two elven queens with different ideas, and the elves have since split into two races, one of which adheres to justice and the other of which adheres to neutrality.
For hundreds of years, there have been rumors about the Ring of Life or the Ring of Vitality, which is the moon in a well, seemingly close but far away.
"We'll go there tomorrow and look for it. Vivien pointed to a spire not far away that towered into the sky and faded into darkness.
Kashan looked in the direction of her fingertips at the minaret, and before the Viscount's daughter had finished speaking, as if in response to her words, a dazzling emerald green rose into the sky, dyeing a large area of night clouds emerald green, and a breath of life radiated from the spire, and the whole sky was verdant and green, and everyone in the camp looked up in shock at this strange sight.
"There's work to be done. Kasan looked at the green spire and grabbed the short bow beside her.