Volume VIII, Chapter XXVIII
Evan Pam and his contract dragon Miller appeared in a canyon on the north side of the Burial Sky Range, and even in the space teleportation, Evan consumed half of his mana in order to maintain his balance. This caused him to lose his balance when he landed, and without Miller's help, falling from such a high altitude would have broken several of Evan's bones.
Miller spread his wings in time and lifted his master up with a gust of wind. After the strange sensation of spatial teleportation, Miller immediately began to look around, very curious about the switch of strange scenes that suddenly appeared around him, and his master was different, Evan pulled out the map in his pocket at great speed, and then compared the valley in front of him, found a more striking object, a dead tree, set it as the coordinate origin, and then quickly made a simple plane coordinate system on the scratch paper.
"Thank you. Don't be so loud and concentrate. Evan whispered, and Millet immediately put a finger to his lips to signal silence.
Evan immediately remembered his mission this time. In a few hours, in the direction of the advance of the Imperial Legion of Shinas, hundreds of thousands of strong troops would line up and pass through the valley at a uniform speed, and then cross the Burial Heaven Mountains to the open Grivar Plain, forming the first layer of encirclement of the Black Wing from the east.
Such a large-scale plan is difficult to conceal, and it is difficult to show up in the actions of such a large army that can make all kinds of tricks and tricks work with ease. Therefore, the corresponding response can also be said to be orderly, and the Black Wings divided 70,000 troops in the east and west directions, stationed in the Burial Heaven Mountain Range and the Ariante blockade line.
The gorge was only 100 meters wide at most, and it would take a few days for several armies totaling 600,000 to get through guò alone. And according to common sense. The main force will not appear when the army passes through Guò, and the first thing they need to do is occupy the Burial Heaven Mountains. Provide a safe passage for follow-up troops.
Therefore, Lord Orka personally used spatial magic to send them silently through the Burial Heaven Mountains, with the purpose of interfering with the key passage of destroying the Holy Land Legion. Extrapolated by common sense. The Holy Land Legion doesn't choose the only pathway, but that one must be the most important.
The heavy backpack carried by Miller was filled with stone-like objects, and Orka only instructed Evan and Miller to sprinkle these things that looked like ordinary rocks inside and out in the canyon before leaving. Spiritual power is already outstanding among his peers, and although Evan has used his spiritual power back and forth many times, he has not found that these stones, which are indistinguishable from the stones here, have some kind of internal structure.
However, Lord Orka's order can be carried out, after all, he volunteered to join the Black Wings, maybe the outside world's impression of the Black Wings is very terrifying and terrifying, but he and Miller have completely opposite impressions living in the Black Wings Black Style City.
Orka used all his strength to temporarily use his fifth-level power and use spatial magic to send the five people to the holy land north of the Burial Heaven Mountain Range and the five marching routes of the Holy Cult army, and they were ordered not to confront the enemy, let alone die in battle. After all, these five people are the elite of the younger generation. are the five candidates to succeed Francis in the position of senior cadre. The completion of this mission will determine their future in the Black Wings.
"People are far away, and we have a lot of time. Evan said coldly, and with the amount of body that had been passed to him by the Mileton Guò contract, he leaped ten meters away and threw the first stone into the pile of rubble that could be found everywhere in the valley, and immediately even he could not separate the stone that had just been taken off from the pile of rubble.
"It's good to roughly line up the shape of a six-pointed star, master, don't be so careful. Miller said cautiously. Evan was about to pull out a piece of paper. Calculate the location of the next drop point against the military map.
"Excellence in every detail, is the motto of Lord Orka. Evan said without looking back, "Miller, you should listen to it." ”
Evan was fast on paper, but it was a full four or five minutes. He found the next coordinate in the newly created coordinate system.
"No one has come yet?"
Mi Le nervously felt the spiritual fluctuations around them through the spiritual power transmitted from the guò contract, and they didn't dare to use any magic equipment at all, for fear that the mage group that was dozens of kilometers away would be able to feel the abnormal fluctuations here. Now they can only use passive probing methods. Feel the unique elemental fluctuations of the life forms around it.
"Yes, it should be the scout team that accompanied the army. They're using probing magic. Millet's voice was even lowered. "Hurry up and hide......"
Evan nodded in agreement, and Millet stretched out his wings from his humanoid back in good agreement. Wrap the two of them together. In an instant, the colored spots on the wings became exactly the same as the rubble around them, and unless you looked very closely, you would definitely not notice them. Even Evan's life fluctuations were obscured by this strange layer of wings, and their fluctuations were as strong as the bushes beside them.
The five scouts who rode their horses skillfully walked across the rugged ground, and in addition to the sound of horses' hooves, their personal life fluctuations were also masked in a way that Evan would not have been able to discover if it weren't for the Onyx Dragons' innate sensitivity to the elements of life. His position is exposed, and the mission is half lost.
The scout team rushed straight ahead, and despite their keen eyes and perceptions scanning the surroundings again and again, they couldn't find a flaw in the concealment of Millet's wings. Seeing them walk away, Evan whispered to Miller, "We have no problem eating them." ”
"Well, master, that's—"
"-Just kidding!"
One man and one dragon remained motionless, waiting for the departing team to turn back. After about half an hour, the scout team rushed back to the valley from the south through a puff of smoke. Perhaps after checking security again, the scout soldiers apparently relaxed their guard around them, their expressions less stern, and began to talk and laugh. Evan couldn't hear it from such a distance, but Miller's dragon sense was able to transmit their scattered conversations into Evan's mind through the power of the guò contract.
“...... Those people in the headquarters really eat rice, and if they don't come, they will just stay idle!"
"It's also here, what do you dare to say---Talking about His Majesty's personal expedition, that is the first time since the Swan Emperor's history......"
“...... When you say it, it tastes bad. Your Majesty is here, let's relax......"
"You don't want your military salary?!"
"Now our tickets are real?! There are flying boats patrolling the sky every day. It's our turn! I run errands every day, and I haven't bumped into any situation yet. And pretend to be high!"
“...... Don't worry about these details, just know what you're wearing. ”
The last sentence was said by the person who ran at the front and looked like the captain, judging from his tone, he should be not young, and his life fluctuations were much stronger than others in the senses, maybe a strong person who had reached the third level.
Scouts are a very dangerous profession after all, and strength is the guarantee of survival. In many legions, the average strength of the Scout Brigade exceeds that of the main battle unit. But despite this, after every big war. Scouts' losses remain high.
"Shinas...... She hasn't come yet?" waited until their life fluctuations were no longer felt by Miller before he whispered to Evan.
Evan, like all the other children who had lived in Victoria, had an almost faithful veneration for the Holy Emperor, and although his life in the Black Wings had changed his opinion a lot, when the name of Sinas was mentioned, he still subconsciously reminded: "Say Majesty Sinas, Millet." ”
"Oh-"
If His Majesty had been in the army, it would have been impossible for us not to be discovered. She is the only fifth-level powerhouse on the continent now, and sensing hundreds of kilometers is probably not a difficult thing for her. Evan said with some gloom. It was because of Shinas's presence that Orka was determined to use spatial magic, which was very expensive for herself, to send the elite of their five younger generations to the north of the Burial Heaven Mountains. As one of the witnesses to this magic, the bleeding skin that Orka had oozed in front of them a moment ago had added a bit of a negative impression to Shinas.
"Oh...... Go ahead, master. I'll watch for you. ”
Evan nodded expressionlessly. Pull out the scratch paper and continue the calculation, and after ten minutes, the exact coordinates of each drop point have been determined. But not everywhere in this valley is covered with gravel, and some of the ground is overgrown with shrubs. If you put a mysterious stone like that in that place, you might find it because it is a bit abrupt in comparison.
Evan was absolutely unwilling to let any accidents happen. He is a standard perfectionist.
Fourteen years ago, Evan Pam was born in a peaceful town in the province of Victoria. He has no interest in the farms and animal husbandry that his family has relied on for generations, but has a penchant for traveling the world to explore the untouched and mysterious land south of the frozen mountains of Osiria. Fortunately, he is the second son of the farmer, otherwise the pressure brought by the family would have caused him to suffer more setbacks than his peers. With an older brother who inherited the family business steadily, Evan grew up in a relaxed environment until he was eight years old, when a chance encounter completely changed his life.
He still suspects that the woods where Millet, who was still in the dragon egg, did not exist in this space. When he learned a little bit about the concept of space from the Black Wings, he became even more convinced of it. Under some guidance that he could not yet explain, the young man made a pact with the dragon egg, which shimmered with the blue glow of agate.
At that time, Evan Pam believed that he would be the one who would change Osiria in the future, and this almost strange event greatly strengthened his confidence. For the next two years, Evan waited for the dragon egg to hatch, and Evan could clearly feel the process of Mile gradually taking shape in the dragon egg. In the past two years, he has been able to disguise himself perfectly in his warehouse, and no one has found the world's last agate dragon egg. It wasn't until after his ten-year-old egg hatched that Evan announced to his family that Miller was in storage, because the onyx dragon needed meat after it came out of its shell, and Evan himself didn't have the guts to quietly stage a few disappearances for his livestock.
Perhaps Evan's parents really didn't want Evan to help the family farm in the future, so they had been allowing and even supporting Evan's adventures all along. It was easy to raise a small dragon that was only one meter long at the time, but they didn't expect that the power of the contract could make the agate dragon grow at the same rate as a human. This, even the heroes of the previous generations. Dragongod Fried didn't even notice this, after all, when he signed the contract with the Dragon Emperor Avellier. Avlier is already an adult powerful agate dragon.
The little agate dragon that Evan named him "Millet" didn't know he was the last agate dragon in the world, but his rapidly growing size soon made his huge appetite a burden on the farm. Now. Evan finally had a reason to leave the house and reach out to the world he had been looking forward to for his entire childhood.
But the road was not as smooth as Evan had hoped, and almost no one in the world could recognize the former dragon royalty anymore, so everyone who had seen Miller would have thought that Miller was a member of the Argonian race, not protected by the laws of the Empire as a non-intelligent race. Therefore, under the temptation of killing a wurm to obtain a good financial gain, Miller has been threatened with his life several times, and Evan has been determined to live and die with his contractual partner, until the blackwings give Millet the transformation technique suitable for the dragon, and his life threat is considered to disappear.
So, of course, Miller and Evan joined the Black Wings. The education of the Black Wings may be the closest to the truth of all things in the world of Osiria, but such an education is absolutely intolerable for an imperial power that needs to rule the Holy Land of Osiria with the power of thought. During the four years of studying and working at Black Wing, with the joint efforts of Miller and Evan, coupled with Evan's absolute perfectionism, he got the highest score in the assessment again and again, and finally became one of the young elites of Black Wing, and after Francis's resignation, he became one of the candidates for the new Black Wing cadres.
In the study of the Black Wings. He also learned that there was also a great magician in history who had an Onyx Dragon as a contract partner, and that the Onyx Dragons had become extinct. But Evan does not look forward to the powerful man who is considered a hero by mankind, because his heroic deeds, like all other heroes, follow the iron law of history of winning and losing. Standing on the bones of countless corpses and enjoying the admiration of others.
Moreover, he was stronger than the magician. Ryujin Fried is a motivation, not a goal.
Evan hurriedly and carefully scattered a pile of stones in their rightful place. So that the stone that Orka gave him no longer seemed abrupt when it fell into the bushes. It was a much easier job than calculating the location, and it didn't take Evan ten minutes to finish his job. Millet did her best to follow Evan and watch out for movement around her.
In addition to his appearance, Miller's way of thinking, value orientation, etc., have long been no different from human beings. He doesn't even know as much about dragons as he does about humans. For him, Evan is an out-and-out brother, and even in the composition of the brother, there are elements of the role of a father.
"Done. Evan checked his surroundings one last time to make sure there was nothing out of the ordinary, and said calmly, "Now I'm ready to climb the mountain." Mind you, this is the most dangerous moment, as long as we can climb safely halfway up the mountain, our task of the receiving point will be successfully completed. ”
Mi Le raised his head and looked at the towering Burial Heaven Mountain, and couldn't help but shudder. Even halfway up the mountain, it's about 2,000 meters high. It's not too difficult to use wings, but if you use your legs and feet to climb......
Evan threw a pair of hiking boots to Miller, who relented and hurriedly changed his shoes. "Run slowly along the valley, we're still a few miles away from the foot of the mountain, don't be in such a hurry. If it is really discovered, it is not too late to implement Plan 2. ”
The second plan is that Miller switches to the main state and flies directly with Evan...... Even if the mage was fast, it would be dozens of kilometers away, and by the time the mages arrived, they would have already run away. Miller always found this plan to be simple and efficient, much better than Evan's plan one.
Evan could sense Millet's confusion as he put on his gloves and said, "Our goal is to make them not even know that we have been here. If we implement Plan 2, they'll look closely at what we're doing on this road. Although we don't see anything strange about the stones that Master Orka has given us, there are also powerful magicians among them, and if discovered, the four of them could be exposed. In that case, we have a great responsibility. Miller, the plan you said will only be implemented as a last resort, and it is important to complete the task perfectly. ”
Miller nodded, and the last sentence was often on Evan Ke's lips.
Beneath the Burial Heaven Mountains, the cold air pouring down over the mountains and the warm air from the north converge, bringing plenty of precipitation here. In early spring, a cold rain had just passed, and the corners were coated with a thin layer of hoarfrost. Evergreen coniferous bushes were the main vegetation here, and through these cool dew drops, Evan felt the water stains seeping into his socks, making him feel uncomfortable. In normal times, a small amount of water magic could suck these water droplets away, but under the premise that he was strictly forbidden to use magic, he could only frown and calmly run ahead of Miller. The amount of body transmitted by the power of the contract gave him agility and strength that surpassed that of ordinary humans. On the side walls of the valley, which looked very steep, he and Millet used their hands and feet like monkeys, hurrying through the shrubs and pine trees that sloped the mountain wall.
A man and a dragon heard a small discordant sound at the same time in the sound of the blades passing by, and the movements of the two people came to an abrupt halt, and under the powerful mental control, the heartbeats of Evan and Mi Le even gradually became lighter.
"Aren't you two afraid of the cold hurting your body?"
Evan and Miller, who live in human society, have never heard such a crisp and moving sound. It was a girl who spoke, and her voice reverberated through the valley filled with cold and humid air, but it seemed to be as harmonious and natural as the songbirds that have lived here for thousands of years.
The ubiquitous elements in the air vibrated with the sound and passed through their bodies, the six-element synergy that Evan had hoped for, the most perfect form of the fluctuating elements of the abstract circle.
"Lord, master......" Mi Le let out a few frightened sounds, the owner of this voice was already so powerful that he couldn't understand Cheng dù, just the elemental harmony that floated from the sound silently formed a folding circle around them, and what this circle released was actually the spatial fluctuations they had just felt from Orka.
The muscles at the corners of Evan's mouth tensed for a moment, then he turned around and grabbed Miller's arm and jumped straight off the hill. At the moment of landing, he finally understood from the power of the contract that Miller was referring to by his master, and he was surprised to get down on one knee when he landed, just like Evan.
"It's rude, Your Majesty. ”
"Hurry up, don't ...... like this" Sinas actually reached out directly to help Evan and Millet up, and the moment Evan looked up, he finally knew that the perfect appearance really existed.
The star-like dreamy blue and moon-white ribbons shrouded the body of the Lord of the Holy Land in a perfect arc, and the long light golden hair was neatly bound by several light-like ribbons, and this qiē was far inferior to her master's dreamy and gorgeous battle suit.
Aqua blue eyes looked at Evan with a smile, and Miller, who had been instilled with a human aesthetic, was also in a daze like Evan. Shinas, who had long been accustomed to this expression, smiled sweetly, and touched a little in the air with a white finger, and suddenly a cool and refreshing wind blew through the spirit of one man and one dragon, and the two intelligent creatures finally recovered from their sluggishness.
"Yes, yes, yes...... I'm sorry, Your Majesty ......," Miller stammered, looking at Evan for help. Evan's reaction was much more gentle, he only said sorry, and then asked straight to the point:
"It's really an honor for us to meet His Majesty, but we still have important things to do, can we be allowed to leave first?"
Millet looked at his master with some astonishment, and if it was possible, he would definitely be willing to spend the rest of his life savoring the beauty and gentleness of the strongest man of Osiria.
Shinas is not tall, even a little shorter than Evan, but standing in front of Shinas Evan and Millet have the same feeling, that is, Shinas in front of him seems to be the sky above them, even if he is strong, he can't overlook the sky. (To be continued......)