Chapter 035: Focus

My palms are a little sweaty, if I say one end, I can barely support it, two ends are in danger, and three I can only run for my life. I turned my head and asked Melva, "Can you kill one?"

Melva's voice trembled a little, and I could hear her upper and lower teeth fighting: "Eat...... Trolls ...... Trolls ......"

I figured it out, and rushed forward with a swing of my greatsword.

The trolls were visibly shocked at my charge, they had never seen a man dare to rush in front of them, and they even wondered if the man in front of them was frightened, but they instinctively feared the greatsword in this man's hand, as if it had slaughtered thousands of their kind in ancient times.

So they were all stunned at this moment.

Naturally, I won't wait for them to recover, and I pounced on it to sweep away thousands of troops with one move, the snow bright sword light drew a beautiful arc in mid-air, the first troll's head was cut off, the second trolle subconsciously raised his hand to block, and a wrist was cut off, and the third trolle woke up from the shock and smashed a stick at me.

I thought, it's over! At this moment, a seven-inch-long black light suddenly shot into his eye, and my heart immediately relaxed.

One twisted in mid-air, and then with a move like a seal, he slashed the second trolls in two from his right shoulder to his left waist. The third trolls swung their sticks frantically, and I followed with a sword to slash Huashan and cut him apart from the middle.

After using these three swords, I felt fluttering under my feet, and I couldn't stand steadily, and I didn't have the strength to pick up the sword again. The light from my father's greatsword slowly faded, and the hall fell silent again, except for Melva's gasps of terror and the thumping of my own heartbeat.

Suddenly, Melva said, "Is there anyone else coming in besides us?"

I said, "Theoretically there is only a dryer, what's wrong with you?"

Melva's voice trembled a little: "At that moment just now, I saw another person in the hall......"

All at once my hairs stood on end, my torches were gone, and my scythe was gone. I tried to raise my father's greatsword, but it didn't shine at all.

I shouted, "Someone, don't be sneaky, show me up!"

The hall was still dead silent.

At that moment, I felt a cold touch resting on my neck, and my intuition told me that it was an incomparably sharp dagger.

My head almost jammed. has been mixed in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and the color has been hung and the arrow has been hit, but no one has ever put a knife on the neck. I immediately calmed down and said calmly, "Melva?"

I heard Melva say "um" to my right, sounding at least three or four meters away from me.

She said, "What are you doing? I've dropped the flint, so come and help me find it." ”

I said, "Don't look for your flint yet...... I was about to say something more, when suddenly the dagger tightened and my throat was almost slit.

I quickly shut up.

A hand suddenly reached from the left side and reached into my chest, groping for it.

I thought, this guy is going to eat my tofu? and then immediately reacted, he was looking for the Hero Badge.

The mind suddenly became clear, since it was to find the hero badge, the goal was of course the revelation of the jewel fire in this underground church. Seventy percent of the people who came were members of the Dark Order, and the remaining thirty percent were probably thieves who were lured in by legends.

I was no longer nervous, my spirits were very high, and I was already confident.

The old man who taught me kung fu at that time not only taught me three strokes of swordsmanship, but also taught me a set of fist and foot kung fu, which is said to have also come from the mysterious East, and is most suitable for hand-to-hand grappling, called the thirty-six road small grappling hand, of which there are twelve moves about grabbing the white blade with empty hands, and there are also four moves to grab the knife when someone is strangling the throat with a knife.

The old man said that originally there were seventy-two ways in this set of grapplers, and after he improved it, there was a difference between size and size, and the size restrained each other, the key depends on the level of the user, but now you are the only one here who can do it, so in this field of close combat, no one will be able to surpass you for the time being.

That hand had already touched the badge on my chest.

At this moment, the force of her dagger lightened slightly, and she leaned forward a little, and the two soft things gently pressed against my back.

That's where the opportunity came.

I didn't move the upper part of my right arm, my lower arm was raised, and I pushed it from the inside out into the hand holding the dagger, and my thumb was inserted from the bottom up, clasping the opponent's thumb, and then, pressing my wrist against hers, twisted diagonally upward.

The dagger fell to the ground with a thud, and I heard a woman's voice scurrying "oops".

The hand was also withdrawn from my arms, and a soft body lay directly on my back, hair hanging down to my ears. It smells so good!

Familiar scent.

I grabbed her elbow and sank it down, and at the same time I threw her body to the right with a force from my shoulder. With his right hand, he lifted her wrist directly and put her head behind her back. Stretching out his leg below, hooking it at the crook of her knee, pressing her to kneel on the ground with a "bang".

I said, "Tell me, what are you from?"

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking through the air, and something like a sharp arrow flew towards me. I subconsciously leaned back, and the thing slammed into the wall.

I immediately rolled to the side and picked up my father's greatsword, but I didn't hear anything more.

Melva was surprised, "What's the matter, sir?" So saying, a little fire lit up in the darkness, and Melva found her flint and lit the velvet.

There was only a short knife less than twenty centimeters long on the ground, with a strange pattern tattooed, one side open, and the ridge of the knife undulating in waves. I've seen this undulation, such a shape that allows the knife to be more stressed without breaking. I picked up the dagger from the ground and rubbed the patterns with a strange rough feeling. Such a knife, I have only seen once in my more than ten or twenty years of mercenary career, and the shock of that time I still remember, it was a small knife no more than sixty centimeters long, held in the hand of a big man with a black face, and when we all laughed at his poor short knife, he used that knife to easily cut the steel plate armor of the opposite knight, without any effort. It was a Salander who proudly said that the sword was of the same origin as the saber of Saladin, their greatest Islamic god of war, and I have remembered a term ever since******!

As I carefully examined the Damascus dagger in my hand as I told Melva about the attack, her face pale.

"You mean, the people who attacked you just now were Salanders, but isn't the Salander Sultanate in Kugit and further south, why did the Salanders appear here for no apparent reason?" Melva said.

I said, "I don't know, let's take it one step at a time, but be careful!"

Melva nodded, "What do we do next?"

I said, "Keep going, but pay attention to concealment, you have been a thief for so many years, there should be a way to conceal it, right?"

Melva smiled a little embarrassedly, pulled two leaves out of her waist bag, and said, "This is rosemary." All I know is that trolls are very afraid of this smell, and as soon as they smell it, they will turn around and leave. ”

I said, "It's amazing, but are they going to come and check it because they smell it?"

Melva said: "No, trolls are actually still animals, they like the smell of human flesh, but they hate rosemary, we use rosemary to cover up our taste, trolls will only instinctively run away, and they won't come to check if they are killed." And he added, "Unless we are very unfortunate enough to drive an ogre into a corner, then it will go mad." ”

I have to say, Melva's rosemary works really well, and several times we heard the roar of the trolls coming from the other side of the hallway, but when we got closer, we heard the snorting of the trolls, and then they sneezed and ran away.

It's an artifact!

We went up the hall to the third floor of the church and from the third floor to the fourth floor without any danger. There were a lot of burnt torches in the walls on the fourth floor, and occasionally we could find one or two that were still usable, and soon we were walking through the corridors with fires in hand, no longer having to fumble around with fear.

The fourth floor seemed to be so big all of a sudden, I don't know what kind of genius the people who designed the underground church in the first place, but in my opinion, the fourth floor was at least twice as large as the third floor. But it's unscientific, magic or something is too!

Melva studied it and said, "Maybe it's an optical illusion caused by the position of the light source, and I tell you you you don't understand it, but the designer must be a genius." ”

I said, "Okay, even if I understand." This mummy is so exquisitely made. ”

Melva said, "Mummy, what mummy?"

I said, "This is the mummy." As I spoke, I poked the mummy on the side with my sword. The mummy blinked.

Melva's little face turned green, and her voice was distorted: "This is a mummy, this is a mummy, this is an ancient Nord ghoul ahhhh......hhhh

As he spoke, he ran away.

I said, "Ancient Nord ghouls, what is this?"

Then I saw the mummy suddenly come out of the humanoid coffin in the wall and pull out a huge two-handed sword from behind his back.

My eyes widened all at once. Anyone who sees a mummy coming down a wall will react like I did. I yelled, "What kind of person is pretending to be a ghost!" and slashed straight down with a sword.

I'm 100% sure that this mummy must have been someone in disguise, maybe the one who attacked me in the hall. Therefore, a sword went down, driving the whirring wind, and the sound was magnificent. The mummy raised his hand to block, and a loud metal crash echoed through the hallway.

The mummy and I each took three steps back.

Now I'm even more sure that this guy is pretending to be a person, who has ever seen such a sturdy mummy? I felt my physical strength, and then estimated that it was quite mysterious with three deadly moves, so I raised my father's giant sword in my hand, and stabbed straight into the middle palace. This is a trick I learned when I was a mercenary in the Swadia Empire, born out of the lance charge of the elite knights of Svadia. This sword pierced with the power of my running, although the speed is not fast, but the strength is absolutely not enough.

The mummy swung his sword in block, but it didn't block it, and the sword picked off its weapon and stabbed it in the abdomen.

At this time, I felt that the hairs on my body stood up, and this guy was not bleeding.

Even if there was no bloodshed, the feeling of stabbing it was different from what I was used to before, more like passing through the shroud and stabbing it directly into its bones.

The mummy took a few steps back, swung around, and pounced again. I yelled, turned and ran. I'm not afraid of fighting people, but I'm stumbling to the death with a mummy that can't be killed, and I panic when I think about it. I turned a corner, and when I saw Melva, who had fled earlier, running back towards me, I was overjoyed, and said, "I know that you are righteous and will not leave me alone!"

But Melva's expression was terrified, and she held the torch in one hand, and even the crossbow in her hand was gone, and she ran wildly, shouting, "Run, there are so many ghouls ahead!"

I saw that she was followed by at least twenty mummies, step by step, they were very slow, but they could step at least two meters in one step, making people wonder how they stepped out.

But I wasn't in the mood to guess at this time, so I turned around and ran after Melva.

Rushing out, he saw a huge trolls turning their heads in confusion.

I was barricaded in a hallway, with an ogre in front of me and a bunch of unkillable mummies behind me. Melva is gone!

Are you kidding......

I gripped the hilt of my father's greatsword tightly, my palms already sweating.

Suddenly, I regretted not bringing Peter in.

My emotion was not over, when suddenly a rope hung down from above, and when I looked up, I saw only a deep floor slab, which was hanging from a beam. Someone is helping me. Melva? I didn't think much of it, grabbed the rope, kicked my foot against the wall, and climbed up in a few clicks.

The trolls saw a living person suddenly disappear from front of him, followed by more than twenty mummies coming menacingly. I think he must have been furious, for he immediately roared and rushed into the mummies with a big stick, and there was a terrible sound of broken tendons.

After a while, the trolls staggered back, and I saw that his great stick had been broken, and that he had two great swords and several bone arrows stuck in his chest, and that one of his great swords had broken and was half stuck in his back. Green blood was pouring from the wounds all over its body, and it leaned against the wall for a moment before collapsing to its death.

I hung on the rope and listened to the movement of the mummy with my ears sideways, and found that there was no response.

I jumped off the rope. A fire suddenly lit up at the end of the corridor ahead, and Melva's head spoke: "God, you're all right!"

I said, "What, you want something to happen to me?"

Melva immediately looked pitiful, and her big watery eyes looked at me innocently: "Why, I don't know how much to worry about you, but I can't get along with this trolls here." ”

I said, "Okay, this time it's a life, you can quickly find your way to the fifth floor." ”

Melva nodded and said, "I've found it, it's not far from here." As she spoke, she pointed to the deeper hallway ahead, where the faint sound of breathing could be heard from time to time in the darkness.

I said, "What's there?"

Melva said: "The door that leads to the fifth floor...... And a monster who doesn't know what. ”

With that, the torch suddenly went out.

I said, "What's the matter, why did your torch go out all of a sudden?"

Melva didn't answer, and suddenly from the darkness came a short exclamation, and I quickly took out a fire knife and flint, and hit a fire velvet.

In the faint light of the fire, I saw Melva with a feathered arrow stuck in his right shoulder.

Her face was pale, and her big eyes stared at me with great resentment: "Quickly put out the fire, in this darkness, someone is ambushing us!"

I blew out the fire: "I know, I almost hit him in the hall." How's your injury?"

Melva gasped and said, "It's okay, just shot in the shoulder." It's the first time I've been hit in so many years since I debuted. ”

I said, "Take out the arrow, in case the arrow is poisonous." ”

Melva said, "I ...... I don't have the strength to do it. ”