Chapter 12:
"I want to hear about it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Although Jubei didn't intend to find out the truth, he wanted to get some clues from the news brought by Qinglong, so Qinglong began his story......
"Two weeks ago, I met Maitreya Natsuhiko in this nameless valley, and as fellow practitioners here, we can only enjoy the natural landscape together except to exchange knowledge. During this time, he mentioned you, and he also knew that you would go to the altar of the goddess of death as planned, so let me bring you this ......"
After saying a few words, Qinglong took out a letter, the red wax on the paper was not missing, proving that no one had read it, but Shibei directly tore open the envelope and began to read the contents of the letter, his eyes constantly changing.
"Although he was practicing, it was a bit surprising to me that he had secretly collected so much information...... However, Xia Yan's suspicions were unreasonable, everything he knew was just scratching the surface. He folded the letter again and put it in his pocket.
"Alright, the news has arrived, and I should finish the last thing he told me...... Pick up! Ten Soldiers! No...... The Knight of the Black Seal of the Flying Needle!"
Without warning, Qinglong swung his fishing rod and swung it towards the Ten Soldiers, but he dodged the whipping faster, stomped the fishing rod in Qinglong's hand, and said, "A fishing rod without a hook? is it just to teach me a lesson, or is it trying to kill me with this kind of thing?"
"Maitreya wants to stop your fall, so he decided to kill you, but I don't intend to kill a warrior who is still confused, because I trust your spirit!" Qinglong still disdainfully glanced up at him, only chuckling softly.
"It's not worth laughing at, or is it that you don't have the confidence to overcome me...... Huh, are you sure it flashed just now?" as he spoke, a bloody gash opened his cheek.
"Sure enough, the hand-to-hand duel is quite weak...... Maitreya Natsuhiko is really not wrong, it seems that not only are you not as good as me, but even a fishing rod can hurt you, it seems that our martial arts are not at the same level, let's go quickly!" After snatching the fishing rod from the hands of the Ten Soldiers with a speed like the wind, Qinglong shook his head again.
Shibei knew that he was powerless to compete with Qinglong, so he turned to leave, but Qinglong called out to him and asked, "Just leave, don't you plan to make up for something?"
As if he remembered something, he stopped and said, "If you still have a chance to meet Xia Yan, bring him my message." ”
"As you wish, please speak. Qinglong nodded in agreement.
After obtaining Qinglong's consent, he thought about it for a while, and then said, "Tell Xia Yan that the path taken by my Ji Shibei is different from his, but the purpose is the same. I'm sure he understands...... If you can't find him before darkness falls, go to the famous Wings of Liberty Brigade and bring this message to a girl named Shoey Ogtst. In return, I won't bother you fishing!
At this moment, Qinglong's hat was shot by a flying needle and landed at his feet, and Shibei also disappeared in an instant, leaving only a few grass carp with a few tail fins pierced by flying needles in the bamboo basket, and Qinglong who focused on fishing without changing his face.
"It's really a magical flying needle technique, deliberately missing the target unintentionally, and then using the second round of unexpected rapid attack to shoot the batch of flying needles that were missed before, so as to attack from different angles at the same time, right? It seems that the fellow villagers you meet here are not fuel-efficient lamps......" Qinglong sighed, his cold appearance and jet-black messy hair particularly showed his sense of vicissitudes, as an oriental samurai with the same background as Shibei and Natsuhiko, he smiled proudly.
"Alas...... You don't want to be the food of human beings, go back to nature!May the one take the bait and become one with the flowing water in nature, that is the way of my Qinglong warrior......" He removed the needle that pierced the tail fin of the fish in the basket and put it into the clear stream. Smiling, he put on his hat again and continued to fish with a rod without a hook to carry out his practice.
On the other hand, the Ten Guards traveled for dozens of miles through a rocky valley until they arrived at an ancient abandoned altar where Delacro and his two knights with the Black Seal were waiting for him at the altar of the goddess Valkyrie......
"You're late, Jubei. After a few days of not seeing each other, Delacro was the first to send a greeting.
"Nothing, now it's time to talk about it?...... the real reason for meeting here," he climbed the altar and came to Delacro's side.
Delacro nodded and explained, "The goddess who lifted the seal and controlled death restrained the souls of the two ancient heroes, making them reincarnate. And in order to achieve our ultimate goal, it is necessary to break its seal!"
"It seems that the stigmata of the Lord of Darkness has made you fearless...... I'll follow, but can you tell me who these two heroes are?" he confirmed one last time in order not to help the abuse.
"There's a ruby on the idol's shield and a black crystal on the knight's spear, and if you swap them up, you can open a secret passage under the altar, so ......" Delacro ignored his questioning and ordered Asfar to activate the mechanism.
Ten Guards felt a little displeased, and shouted excitedly, "Answer me! Victor! I need to know what you really plan to! Tell me the truth!"
"You understand when you meet them...... Come with me, I need your strength. ”
After the four of them reached an agreement, Asfa activated the mechanism, and the three pairs of wings behind the colossus began to swing up and down, and the idol moved backwards a little, revealing a staircase entrance where the two of them could pass side by side.
"Looks like it's deep enough...... Let's get out of the way!" Odysseus gazed into the darkness inside the passage and lit the torch in Asfar's hand with a flint.
"Let's go, we don't know what awaits us in the depths of the darkness, arm ourselves and be vigilant at all times!" the black sword emerged from a cloud of black air, a gesture that proved the anxiety in Delacro's heart, and the threat in the depths of the cave also affected him.
"Understood, we'll pay attention, let's go!" the two Black Seal Knights took out their weapons together and stepped into the darkness.
"Are you absolutely sure?, or let them come back, and I'll lead the way!" said the Ten Guards worriedly.
"Believe in their abilities, you just have to follow me, let's go. Delacro patted him on the shoulder and entered the underground passage with him.
When the movement of the four disappeared from the altar completely, the idol returned to her original position, and in an instant the altar was brightly lit, as if it had been brought to life by the will of the gods. A number of black-robed ghosts appeared in the void, and the shadows of these hand-held oil lamps pierced the ground along with the blades in their hands, trailing Delacro and his party......
The stone steps beneath their feet became particularly messy, and the group had reached the depths of the abandoned chamber, where Asfa lit several oil lamps on the stone walls with torches, illuminating the ancient stone chamber covered in cobwebs and corpses.
"Hell...... This is not the place where people should be!" Odysseus crushed his skull and complained about the terrible environment.
"Delacro, what to do now, it's the end, are you sure the key to breaking the seal is in this forgotten corner?" Asfa asked his master.
"Of course, it only takes a little time to get used to it, so that I can use the power of stigmata to completely uncover the dark curtain hidden here......" With that, the black sword in Delacro's hand flashed with dazzling purple light, and his body rose above the stone chamber under the effect of the Ascension stigmata, but at this moment, the enemy who stood in his way had already arrived, and a dozen or so black-robed ghosts who came through the wall and ghost soldiers who appeared in the bones all over the ground jointly attacked him with knives.
"Asfa, Odysseus, don't let Victor be disturbed and deal with these lonely ghosts!"
"Roger, let's finish these guys!" they replied, drawing their weapons and joining the fight against the black-robed ghost.
The black-robed ghosts that wander around the altar and the ghost soldiers who died in the secret chamber are said to be evil spirits formed by mortals who were dissatisfied with Valkyrie's death judgment and fought unsuccessfully, so they died with a strong sense of revenge. These spirits have only one common purpose, which is to curse the goddess forever, and of course they will attack those who come to the altar, which is one of the main reasons why this place is abandoned by the world.
When the flying needles of the Ten Guards pierced through the black cloak, knocking down the blades held by the ghosts, he could feel the cold consciousness of these revenants, and the vengeful anger that supported them to barely stay in the human world.
Towards the end of the battle, he stopped the two beside him and said, "Enough, they are not worth killing, just because they are no different from us in life, and the spirit of the samurai does not allow me to kill them indiscriminately, but then their desire for revenge is still not quenched...... Let me, then, put an end to this endless curse and bestow on these unjust deceased...... The eternal sleep you deserve!!"
"The Needle Technique-Mystery Technique-Hook Ten Words. ”
Consistent with the moves used in the battle with the green dragon, at some point, the Ten Soldiers had already hit a large number of flying needles in the air behind the opponent, and then shot a second round of flying needles to hit the remaining flying needles of the previous wave, causing them to reverse and turn like a boomerang to hit the enemy's dead end, and more than a dozen silver flying needles with exorcism effects pierced through every black cloak and rusty iron armor almost at the same time, and the silver plating dispersed the souls of the dead inside. Just as the ghost's protective gear landed on the ground, the trio's surprise slugged at Delacro, the knife just a stone's throw from his heart.
"Oh no! It's too late!!" the three of them were in a mess, completely unable to imagine what would happen next.
At this moment, the black qi surrounding Delacro suddenly changed slightly, forming a dark wing in his back heart as if he had consciousness, and in an instant, the dark wing fanned a burst of black mist fluctuations and bounced the black-robed ghost away, and the glass blade of the black sword instantly pierced the ghost's rag clothes.
"I'm not like you, Jubei. Needless to say, this kind of inferior species that should have disappeared a long time ago......" The black sword swirled along his palm, and in an instant, the ghost was torn apart like a meat grinder.
"Well, I hope the accident doesn't disrupt your plans. Ten Guards did not dare to have any scruples, so they had to give up discussing the gap in faith.
"I've found my target, now I just need to clean the field. "The dark wings of Delacro flying in the air fluttered, and the black gas storm caused by it swept aside all the dry bones and wreckage on the ground. After clearing the ground, the two stone slabs that shimmered with purple light in the ancient stone chamber were finally revealed.
"That wing...... What the hell is it?" Unlike the others' concerns, the Ten Guards began to question Delacro's Dark Wings.
"I seem to be more suited to the power of stigmata, maybe I will reach a more perfect form, so stop there!" With Delacro's consciousness, the dark wings behind him turned into black gas and flowed back into his body.
After dispelling the doubts of the Ten Soldiers, Delacro reached out to the two shiny tiles, separating them from the ground with telekinetic power, and bringing out two old sarcophagi that had been eroded by time.
He easily opened one of the heavy sarcophagi, and what appeared in front of the four of them was a familiar ancient corpse.
Ten Guards carefully looked at the dried corpse in beige heavy armor, in addition to a few strands of short beige hair that were vaguely left on the head, there was also a huge shield and a war knife as burial goods, and he shouted in great surprise.
"Durahan!?How is this possible?Why is his body here?"
"It was this corpse that was killed in the Holy War, and the Holy Church sealed it with only his resentment. Valkyrie feared that his resentment would still carry with his body to the next reincarnation, so he imprisoned him at the altar. Delacro explained, looking at the dry corpse's hollow eye sockets.
"And who is this guy?" On the other side, Odysseus also opened another sarcophagus, revealing a corpse with half of its body bound by a black belt.
Delacro withdrew the black sword, stepped forward to check the situation under the corpse's black clothes, and said, "As far as I know, he was called Ascalon during his lifetime, and he was the legendary dragon slayer of Drua, and like Durrahhan, he was also a dark hero in the holy war. Because of his great power, he refused to take it into Hades, and was imprisoned by the goddess, and was not allowed to be reincarnated. ”
"Okay, it's just a corpse, what are we going to do next?"
"It's up to me to destroy them, don't interfere, it's a relief for their souls, for me...... This is the test of strengthening oneself. Delacro's eyes appeared Stigmata-Ragnarok, and he magically lifted the two corpses into the air, followed by several terrifying dark blades around him.
Suddenly, Durahan's corpse moved, blocking Delacro's Dark Blade with the dragon bone shield in his hand, and at the same time breaking free from the shackles of telekinesis and raising his knife to slash down.
"Victor, can you handle it?" shouted the Ten Guards, who knew Durahan's strength.
The effect of the Scar of Punishment produced an incomparably powerful shockwave, and in an instant, Durahan was bounced to the wall by the power of Delacro's left palm, and he replied confidently: "If I can't even resist this kind of broken corpse, then I don't deserve to be called a Stigmata Knight, I will deal with this guy with my own hands." ”
Even though he had the strength of a thousand horses in his lifetime, his weak soul and decaying body were no longer able to support Durahan's strength, and the powerful impact caused the dry bones hidden behind the dragon armor to break one by one, Delacro succeeded in paralyzing Durahan, and at the same time, he also used the abyss mark in his right hand to open the entrance to the edge of hell, and several bound spirits stretched out their claws from the window of another world and dragged Durahan into the endless abyss.
"Now that Durahan's soul and body have been liberated, it's time for the Dragon Slayer Hero!" After taking out Durahan, he turned his gaze to Ascalon, who had not yet awakened.
"My body is too overwhelmed to be used, and I don't understand why a mortal like you, with your divine powers, would come here to liberate us, but as I said, you can only free my body at best. A voice came, echoing particularly harsh in the cramped space.
"What people!" The Ten Guards had already set up a needle trap around them, but they didn't find anything foreign.
In response to the situation, Delacro re-unfurled the Wings of Darkness behind him, causing a black whirlwind to make it difficult for everyone to see, and after all the lights were extinguished by the storm, a glowing spirit appeared in the darkness, his clothes almost identical to that of the dead Ascalon.
"Don't hide, Ascalon. You want me to purify your soul, unfortunately I'm not a warlock and can't do this, but I can dispel it......" Delacro wielded his black sword and slashed his soul in two, and the severed ghost disappeared directly in front of the eyes of the four.
"That's how you do it...... I see, let you see the power of my love knife, Ascalon...... Dragon Slayer Sword!Summoned!!" At Ascaron's call, a dragon slayer sword that shone with the brilliance of the white night appeared above his head, and he immediately raised his hand to grasp the prohibitive super heavy sword.
Before Delacro could take a closer look, he stepped forward with his sword to grapple with him, but the weight of the giant sword was completely beyond his imagination, and Ascalon only smashed Delacro's black sword with a slight wave, and also bounced him out entirely, relying on the ability of the Dark Wings to regain his situation, Delacro suddenly felt unprecedented pressure.
"Shatter your weapon with just a single stroke?pray! the real attack is coming!" he removed the dagger from its blade and held it in one hand, holding it in his left hand, which was equally radiant.