Chapter 21: Grantham (4)
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Despite his bad attitude, Link had some eyebrows in it.
Alex didn't say that he had to go, but let him show his strength, which doesn't mean that if he can prove that he can be useful, he can stay. Even if he used the craftsman as a disguise before, he didn't 'face' me so much, why did this old man suddenly change his attitude?
Unbeknownst to Link, while he was in a coma due to the excessive use of divine powers, Samuel, the commander of the cavalry, had already told Alex the whole story.
The cavalry retreated with the scouts, but Samuel, who was the commander of the regiment, stayed. He was badly wounded, and estimating that he would not be able to hold out to the fortress, ordered his men to go first, and he wanted to stay and see how Link dealt with the enemy.
It's unclear why the Dead Rider wants to duel Link, but Samuel is really sweating for Link. It was a very terrifying enemy, it didn't participate in the charge, but Samuel could feel the terrifying aura emanating from his body even if he stood far away, and the black long sword in his hand was like a legendary magic sword that could absorb people's souls, the closer it gets, the faster the body will be lost, and Samuel, who originally wanted to help, could only wait and see, he was afraid that he would die because he would not see the end of the battle due to the rapid loss of life.
Unexpectedly, Link not only became more and more courageous, but finally suppressed the opponent in turn, and what shocked Samuel even more was that the dead rider who was originally watching the battle had lost the upper hand, and actually violated the rules of knight dueling one-on-one, and launched a death charge towards Link. The nightmare flew so fast that Samuel didn't even have time to ride his horse to help, and the Death Knight came to Link in the blink of an eye, and when he saw those black spears stabbing Link, he couldn't help but cry out in his heart, but the events of the next life made Samuel unforgettable for the rest of his life.
Time stopped, I should say that time stood still around Link, including the spears and the knight who held them. All objects wrapped in the cyan light that suddenly lit up around Link froze, like statues, in a sprinting posture.
[Time Interference? This cannot be ......]
Before the Death Rider finished speaking, the cyan enchantment suddenly burst out with a dazzling pillar of light and soared into the sky, and the Death Knight and the Nightmare instantly turned into ashes, and the Death Rider was too close to be affected and involved. The pillar of light lasted for a few seconds before vanishing. When Samuel lowered his blind-covering arm, he was surprised to see some fluorescent spots of light floating around Link, large or small, a small part of them floating towards him, and the moment he sank into his body, the wound healed to a degree visible to the naked eye. The remaining points of light flew in all directions, and then he could clearly feel the thick aura of death in the air begin to fade.
Samuel hurriedly ran over to check on Link, and although he had many wounds, he had not yet reached the fatal level. Samuel had wanted to take down the sword that had no thunder light. It was convenient for him to get on the horse's back, but the strangely shaped weapon seemed to have taken root, and he couldn't pull it out. Fortunately, the Knights went back and assisted him in taking Link to the fortress together. According to the rest of the Order, their body wounds had also healed, and if it weren't for the shallow scars on their skin, they wouldn't have believed that they had just gone through a mortal battle.
After listening to the report, Alex asked about the appearance of the Dead Rider and asked about its weapons in detail.
Samuel was impressed by the Black Sword of the Dead Rider. The white bone is the handle, and the soul is the blade. If you don't wave, you will make the enemy fearful.
Alex waved him away, and the commander frowned at Samuel who hadn't seen him in years.
It wasn't until the army of the undead arrived at the foot of the fortress that Samuel knew that the dead knight leader who dared to chase after the five thousand Overwatch Fort troops with dozens of horsemen was actually one of the three major lords of the undead empire, the lord of the death knights. He was glad that he had survived the attack of the Death Knight Lord, who was second only to the Lich King. At the same time, I am also deeply worried about this large-scale attack of the undead. One of the three major leaders is only dispatched in the form of a vanguard, and the one who commands in the rear can only be Frost, who is known as the henchman of death. The Overwatch used to be a small group of undead, and never directly confronted the Undead Empire. This time, I'm afraid I won't be able to run away.
Samuel, who was standing in the arrow tower and observing the battle situation, suddenly heard the Grand Duke next to him shout Link, and when he looked back, he saw the master who had been missing for many days carrying a sword and walking up to the battlements. Suddenly I was overjoyed, I thought that this person had been evacuated with the civilians, but I didn't expect him to be there.
"I'm going to stay. β
Hearing Link say this, Samuel had a look of joy on his face that couldn't be concealed. Whatever god he believed in, he was a powerful helper to them.
Seeing that Link had no intention of leaving, Gonzalez dragged him to Samuel's arrow tower to avoid the incessant arrows of the skeleton shooter below.
"You don't know anything about the situation here, today is the fifth day of the undead siege!" Gonzalez said, pointing to the sea of bones below.
"I slept for five days?" Link was surprised, looking at the sky, he thought he had only slept for a few hours.
"That's not the point! People need to rest, but the dead don't. They are fighting non-stop, we are getting more and more wounded, both soldiers and priests are already at their limit. β
Link noticed that Gonzalez was covered in blood and looked like he had been through a vicious battle. Then, he saw Samuel staring at him with bright eyes, and there were some soldiers in the tower, all of whom had more or less blood stains on their bodies, and most of them had chapped lips and pale faces.
"I've heard that the Children of Nature are not afraid of fire and water, so instead of staying here and consuming unnecessary bodies, you might as well go underground and help us deal with that pesky water monster. "Blake touched the Arrow Tower at some point, he was one of the few people here who knew Link's identity.
"Water monsters?"
"It's a bit like an octopus, it's not clear how big it is, but one brachiopod is as thick as three people. It occupies the underground lake, the water source of the fortress and the city of Sander, and if it is not defeated, the people here will die of thirst before the undead break the city. β
Seeing that Blake reached out to him, as if to shake hands, Link hesitated slightly, then switched Storm Fury to his left hand and stretched out his right hand.
Gonzalez couldn't stop it, and could only watch as his hands clasped together.
"If you don't know anything, you dare to contact me. The corners of Blake's mouth went up, but there was no smile in his eyes.
Why, isn't this handshake still a strange custom in another world?" Link hurriedly cast an inquiring glance at Gonzalez.
"He has the seal of punishment on his right hand, and anyone who has evil thoughts or bad intentions will be burned by the flames. Fortunately, nothing happened, Gonzalez glared at the Vengeful Leader. Do you need to go inside at such a critical juncture?
"Don't get me wrong, I just want to make sure, if he is really a punisher, I can't hurt him with the level of the holy seal in my hand. Blake said so, but not in his heart.
"That water monster ......," Link reminded in the middle, "Are you going to deal with the undead or the water monster?" β
"Water monsters!" Gonzalez and Blake both replied in unison.
"Come with me. "Blake let go. Turn and walk out of the Arrow Tower and follow the stairs towards the second wall located on the inside.
Link turned his head to look at Gonzalez, why didn't he object to him staying?
"Anyway, you're hard-hearted, is it useful for me to persuade you?" With a casual wave of his hand, Gonzalez told him to hurry away and deal with the water monster that had put the entire fortress and the dwarven city in a drinking crisis.
When Link is gone, Samuel asks Gonzalez why he didn't let Link stay, as a powerful help like his is necessary to deal with the undead.
Gonzalez looked out from the archery port of the tower, and the sea of skeletons would make the faint of heart and despair: "It is because he is an indispensable force against the undead." I had to let him go. To give him more time to grow, the true child of nature is by no means what you see, it is nothing but divine punishment, the manifestation of the divine spirit transmitting its own huge energy to the main material realm. β
Samuel was impressed by the scene of Link holding the lightning sword to annihilate the undead, that is not very powerful, what is the real child of nature?
"Transfiguration, the core of the Child of Nature is transfiguration. "Unlike now, which is almost extinct, there are some books or legends about the first generation of divine messengers in the illusion. Gonzalez still remembers what he heard from Dante that he was chosen by the gods to qualify. Only those who pass the guΓ² tester can gain the true power of the Child of Nature - Transfiguration. Link hasn't shown a single transformation since he came to this world, which means that he is only a beginner-level elector, not a second-order apostle, but the true power of the children of nature can only be used when it reaches the apostle.
Gonzalez kept persuading Link to leave, hoping that Link would not give his life in vain in this battle where it was unknown how many people would survive. Maybe before the reinforcements arrived, the fortress would have been breached.
"But if he stays, maybe we'll make it until reinforcements arrive......" Samuel didn't give up.
Gonzalez blows the silver whistle and summons his exclusive mount. Synths rise into the air, wielding a scorching flame spear. Begin another round of battle to annihilate the Spirits. These things that can penetrate masonry are the most troublesome, always sneaking up on wounded soldiers and sleeping people, and they are so fast that it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to catch up with them, and only dragoons and rangers with accurate archery skills cannot make them as sharp as they can deal with skeletons.
Following Blake, Link entered the inner city where civilians lived, which was already empty, leaving only a place of various living utensils that could not be taken away, quite like the common apocalyptic scene in movies on the other side of the earth, bleak and withered.
In the middle of the spacious square there is a circular pool, and the water in it is somewhat muddy and smells foul.
Blake pointed to a locked sewer not far away with a large iron bar: "That side is the passage leading to the bottom, because the undead have blocked it not long ago, you can go straight down from here." β
The water was so smelly that Link stood on the edge of the pool and inhaled, and immediately dizzy.
"What are you waiting for, go down. β
I don't know if the blessing of being able to breathe in the water is effective in the illusion, Link took a deep breath and jumped into the pool, suffocating for more than ten seconds, there were no gills, the air entered the body through the skin, fortunately, I couldn't feel the smell. He floated up, pinched his nose, and told SΓΉ Blake that he didn't know how long he would stay down, but did his best to complete the task.
Watching Link's body dive quickly, Blake breathed a sigh of relief.
If the Child of Nature is really as powerful as the legend, it should be easy to solve a magical beast......
The further down you go down, the less smooth the rock wall becomes, slowly turning from a straight line to a curve. Link descended on a light source formed by the condensation of the elements, and the spring leading to the surface was actually not very deep, and Link estimated that it was at most fifty meters. The narrow waterway suddenly turned around and turned into a sudden opening of water. Coming to the surface and panting through his nose felt more tangible than breathing through his skin, and Link wasn't used to this non-human approach.
As soon as the air was inhaled into his nasal cavity, Link almost vomited, and the stench here was even stronger. Enhance the light source. The water had turned dark brown and had a strong rancid smell.
No, there is no death. Is it the stench carried by the water monster itself??
Link swam along the source of the smell, he gave up breathing through his nose, or his skin was at least shielding the smell.
Boom!
Strange noises suddenly sounded in the tortuous underground cavern.
How can there be drumming underground?
Link sped up, and his voice grew louder and louder.
Knock knock knock...... It was accompanied by shouts of killing.
Due to his talent, all languages sounded to Link to have only one language, and he couldn't tell which was human language. Or the dwarven language that is said to live under the fortress.
"Retreat!"
"Withdraw quickly!"
A rough voice shouted hoarsely, and then Link heard a hoarse laugh.
"Hahaha, you stupid dwarves, no matter how many comes. β
The voice was different from the average person's speech, it was deep and muffled, and Link felt a bit like a dead rider.
Hmm~ This is the water monster.
Extinguishing the light source, with the assistance of the wind element, Link sped up his swimming. At the next corner, I saw the water monster in Blake's mouth, which really looked like an octopus. The whole body was orange and red, and more than a dozen wrists and feet hit the rock wall at the top when they waved, making a dull thumping sound. That's how the 'drums' came about......
A group of dwarves stood on the shore and fired incendiary bombs at the monsters in the water with their ballistas, but their skin was so thick that the iron arrowheads coated with burning grease could not be pierced. The grease fell into the water, and the smoke from the burning of the floaters caused the dwarves to burst into tears and snot.
By the light of the fire, Link saw the floating objects in the clear water and the vomiting sensation immediately welled up in his throat. It was a highly decomposed corpse, and the stench was from them, and Link who breathed through his skin was not good at all.
Due to his limited knowledge, he couldn't recognize what this octopus-like monster was. If it had been changed, Blake would have been able to call out its kind. Trollope, also known as the multi-legged fish, is a magical beast in the Abyss Demon Domain, the level is not very high, but the skin is tough, and ordinary metal swords can't cut it at all, and it is a good material for making leather armor. It's a pity that although it occasionally sneaks into the surface along the rift, it is difficult to catch because of its large size and only appears in underground water domains, and as a magical beast, it also uses magic. These dwarves who don't know magic can't deal with it at all, and it's also very cunning, never close to the shore, even if there are strong people among the dwarves who can kill this monster, it is impossible to swim over, and most of the revenge army is not waterproof, and the lower-level soldiers can't use it at all in the underground lake dozens of meters deep, and several attacks to drive away or kill this monster have ended in failure.
"There's a living creature coming!" a shrill voice sounded over the beast's head, and Link squinted at it, it was a human, no, a scrawny humanoid object to be exact.
Link's mind flashed first with the Corpse Witch, and then he immediately reacted, it was the voice of the Tong GuΓ² voice, it was a living person! It was just so thin that people couldn't help but think it was a dead person.
Blake guessed correctly, this is indeed a ghost made by the undead, and it will take at least half a day to reach the underground lake without taking the straight road of the spring, and it is expected that he will not venture out of the station himself, so he only sent a necromancer to deal with the underground water source.
[Hmm, why didn't I feel the breath of a person?] Warcraft Trollope turned his head, a pair of yellow bulging eyes swept over, and he was stunned when he saw Link, [How is it a human?]
The necromancer also saw Link, a human floating on the water.
"Probably fell from above, kill him. The necromancer didn't pay attention to Link at all, he even ignored the beast's questioning opening words, and didn't feel the breath of a human.
Trollope stretched out his wrist foot, but Link didn't dodge, allowing his wrist and foot, which was thicker than a python, to scoop himself out of the water. Rather than struggling to swim through, it's easier to let it roll itself through.
The dwarves also saw Link, and they tried to rescue the poor human with their ballistas, but a few arrows were bounced off by the elastic skin of the wrists and feet.
Trolope opened his mouth, which was usually hidden under his wrists and feet, and wanted to throw the human, who was only enough to stuff his teeth, in order to scare off the dwarves on the shore, and a scene that no one expected. Link summoned the Wrath of the Storm, and after five days of hibernation, his physical strength had regained.
Seeing that Link suddenly had an extra sword in his hand, the necromancer raised his staff and released the spell stored in the magic crystal, and several ice arrows shot out.
Z -
The lightning turned the demonic beast from the Abyss Demon Domain directly over, and the necromancer on top of its head could not maintain its complete shape like a rough-skinned demonic beast, and directly turned into a mass of pitch-black charcoal.
The dwarves looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, and in the end it was their leader who let out a loud shout to suppress the commotion.
"Avengers?" the captain of the guard of Sander City shouted at Link, although the thunder and lightning could not be linked to the morning light, but it was a person, a little far away, he only saw that Link had a silver-white thing in his hand discharged, maybe it was a mage.
Link crawled along his wrists and feet to the familiar water monster floating on the water, and he died, and he really didn't need to be beaten. Hearing the dwarf behind him shout, he replied vaguely, thinking that this underground lake was an important source of water for dwarven cities and fortresses, and he hurriedly asked how long it would take for the water to recover enough to drink it directly.
"When we salvage and clean up the body, and then clean up this big guy, it won't take half a day. "Arriving at the beast's corpse on the raft that had been placed on the shore to get close to the beast, the captain of the dwarven guard saw Link's face and the storm fury that was constantly radiating blue lightning in his hand, and his face changed slightly.
Not a mage!(To be continued!)