Chapter 19: The Game of Chess (3)

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I have to admit that Malik does have a set of rumors and telling right and wrong. In just half a month, rumors spread all over Kronberg that Doyle had returned to his hometown to challenge Herbert's inheritance, and the reason for the incident was that Dawn received information that the undead in Kronberg were frequent, and the lord had secretly taken refuge in the undead empire. The people, who were already suffering from the high taxes, hoped that someone would replace Herbert, which further intensified the spread of rumors.

In a tavern in a village on the northern border, listening to passers-by caravans and locals babbling about the recent situation, Orlando shook his head helplessly, "No matter when and where, human beings can't change their gossip nature. ”

"You also have half human blood. Doyle interjected coldly, for some reason, she hated the flamboyant bard.

"Yes, yes, you have taught you, Lord Knight. Orlando begged for mercy, but his eyes glanced at Link.

Since leaving Buñan, the Knight of the Dawn, disguised as a man, has changed her inseparable object from the High Priest to Link.

At first, Orlando teased Link, but as time went on, the half-elf now Doyle was not a man and a woman, but simply dependent.

Link calls this unusual behavior the fledgling plot, Doyle was raised by the high priest, and suddenly learned of her tragic background, and she was at a loss to subconsciously rely on the only person she could trust at the moment, and it was understandable that he insisted on dragging Doyle out of the fire pit.

Receiving Orlando's call for help, Link gently knocked on the wooden table, and Doyle immediately stopped the rebuke that had already reached his lips.

"Poof—"

Seeing this scene, Orlando couldn't help but laugh.

It is like a well-trained hound, which immediately executes the orders of its owner as soon as it hears them.

Doyle's laughter provoked Doyle's anger, and she slammed the table to her feet, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

"I said you two, if you want to fight hand-to-hand, please go out, I don't want to see extra money on the bill. Link picked up a piece of bacon and put it in his mouth.

It's so salty!

In the Middle Ages, when there was no refrigerator, non-fresh meat was too salty to eat, and I really missed Finn's barbecue......

Orlando naturally wouldn't go to the tavern with Doyle, who was born in close combat, to fight it out with his fists. Doyle, who had struck up to attract the attention of others, also sat back in his chair. The sun emblem of the Dawn Church in the back drew a lot of buzz.

"The mark of the dawn. ”

"Could it be ......?"

"Shhhh ”

"One, two, three, four, five, the number roughly coincides, I wonder if it's really them. ”

Link put down his knife and fork and gave Orlando a look.

The tables in the corner were clearly not here to eat and rest, and from the very beginning, the eyes of those people never took their eyes off their table. The thick hood and cloak obscured the face and figure, and it was impossible to distinguish between mercenaries and regular soldiers.

Not wanting to engage in a useless fight, Orlando picked up the mandolin on his back and plucked it gently, and the clear sound immediately quieted the noisy tavern. At the end of the song, everyone in the tavern fell asleep.

A few silver coins rested on the table. Link stepped out of the tavern first. As a token of gratitude for saving their lives, the merchant Uke sent them a carriage. He also patted his chest and promised that if he went to Voran in the future, he would definitely visit his house and would be entertained as a guest.

Cronberg is lush with life-saving herbs, and Link learns from Orlando to identify herbs and make zuò potions. Considering that he may disguise himself as an ordinary person again in the future, how can Link drive a horse and ride a horse. He recorded what he had learned, and everyone expressed great curiosity about this strange book.

On a night in the wilderness, Doyle asks to take a look, and is immediately teased by Orlando, who is a priest but does not know the rules that only the holder of the holy relic can use, and the two of them do not like each other.

Link graciously summoned Senluo and handed Doyle the thick tome. She couldn't break it with all her might, and even if Link helped her turn the pages, all she saw was a blank slate.

As the holder of the holy relic, Alysina has a high opinion of the Mori Luo Vientiane, however, she does not consider it a holy relic, even if it contains strong divine powers. In this regard, Link did not explain in detail, Senluo Vientiane is a destiny treasure unique to the Life Weaver, which is naturally different from holy relics, and he doesn't want to reveal too much Senluo Wanxiang's ability.

The carriage had not gone far from the village when the men in the tavern rode after them.

Orlando stopped the carriage and cast an inquiring look at the principal, and before Link could react, Doyle jumped out of the carriage with a calm face, and rushed towards the mercenaries surrounding the carriage with a stick in his hand.

"Tsk~ I originally wanted to save them, but I didn't expect them to die in such a hurry. ”

This is not the first batch, every time a human settlement is visited, there are always some self-defeating guys who find fault, and at first Link only thinks that these are ruffians who are looking for outsiders. After several defeats, the outcasts became mercenaries, and their equipment and abilities gradually improved. Link speculated that this should be cannon fodder hired by Herbert to probe the strength of several of them.

A few minutes passed, the battle continued, and Orlando's expression had changed from pity to solemnity.

Link leaned out of the carriage and saw Doyle and the men in a hard fight.

"They are not ordinary, they are all well-trained fighters. ”

The half-elves saw that these people were different from the earlier mercenaries, not only were they fast, but they also had a tacit understanding, and they not only did not lose when dealing with the master-level Doyle, but gradually gained the upper hand.

Knowing Doyle's temper, he will use the sect's abilities if his ordinary moves are useless, and his divine power is huge, and he has no chance of surviving if he is beaten. Link picked up the longbow and shot an arrow at random, and the mercenary who heard the wind turned around and wanted to use a move to grab the arrow with his bare hands to scare his opponent, but he didn't want the arrow that had reached his back to suddenly explode, and the wood that spread out in a radial shape pierced the soldier's back, and he screamed in pain, and then fell. Although he is not dead, it is impossible to fight again.

Link drew his bow again, but Doyle took advantage of the slackness of the besieging soldiers to shout, "Be careful! they have a godly ......" and her warning was interrupted by a combined attack.

Apotheosize?!

Alysina and Orlando were both stunned, they were all users of divine arts, and once their divine power was sealed, it was almost equivalent to being a wasted person.

Orlando plucked the strings, and the music sounded, but to no avail. He put down the mandolin and pulled out the dagger he had with him.

Link raised his hand to block Orlando. "You stay behind to protect the High Priest. He jumped out of the carriage. No more arrows were drawn from the quiver, and a strip of flame appeared on the open bowstring.

The enemy immediately realized that the rangers were very strong, and they divided half of their numbers to rush towards Link.

Whoosh -

The fire bolts that were shot split into several strands halfway through, flying towards the attacking enemies, and the cloth cloaks were instantly ignited, and these guys of unknown origin could only quickly take off their cloaks, revealing their true faces, which were actually night elves!

Link unhurriedly casts a masking spell to prevent the Night Elves from revealing that he is holding Malik's emblem.

Did the Night Elves participate simply as Assassins, or did they also want to eat the Adamantite Mine that they had coveted for thousands of years? or...... The Goddess of the Night is also going to intervene in Cronberg's strife?

He thought of several possibilities. Malik was the only one who didn't count it. There are many gods and goddesses of the night elves, but the ones that really dominate this species. Only the goddess of the night. Just like the effect of the morning sun on glow.

The Night Elves didn't expect the Ranger to be a magic archer, and they came to prepare a canonization technique specifically for dealing with the priesthood.

Link didn't intend to continue staring at the Assassin, he pulled his bow for the third time, and three flames appeared on the bowstring, which did not explode after being fired, but like magic missiles, these elemental arrows would follow their targets. No matter how swift the night elves were, they couldn't get rid of it and were shot in the leg.

The Night Elves never fought unprepared, and after one glance at each other, they quickly slit the throats of their wounded companions, leaving four corpses behind and fled.

Link stepped forward to probe his pulse and breath, he had no skills to recover, and now he could only sigh at the night elf's ruthless style in order to master the resurrection technique of resurrection.

Doyle, who was finally able to catch his breath, crouched down. The bodies were searched and nothing was found.

"It's Nightblade. The well-informed Orlando, on the other hand, has never deduced that he was the most elite assassin of the Night Elves, and that the name is often associated with the god of shadows, the conspiracy and the assassination of Malik.

The Night Elf left, and Link undid the masking spell, "It's not him. ”

"What do you mean...... Dark Night?" Alysina also came over, Night and Dawn are mortal enemies, both the priesthood and the camp are absolute opposites, and it makes sense for Nightblade to assassinate the high-ranking priests of the Dawn Sect, but it ...... Why did you choose this juncture?

"Do you think it's possible...... Was it Herbert's high-paying hiring?" was just Link's inference, and he didn't have any evidence.

Orlando felt that Link's idea was also possible. Nightblade also occasionally receives commissions from humans, especially for the Cult of Dawn and the Dwarves.

"It's too early to tell, but one thing is for sure, next time, they'll even bring the Demon Seal. Doyle concluded, she glanced at Alysina, and finally fixed her gaze on Link: "What are your plans?"

"Without magic and arcane, I still have the law of cause and effect to work with, but doing so would risk revealing my identity. "Link had asked the Wood Elf King not to reveal his identity, the human nobles were all wine bags and rice bags who only cared about themselves, and if their identities were revealed, they didn't know what these nobles who secretly traded with the undead would do.

"What then?"

"Go to the Guardian Land, you are a child of nature, I have the blood of the Doyle family, Orlando is a mixed race of wood elves, and the high priest is a believer in Dawn, there is no reason not to let us in. "Doirtiyì went to the place of protection to avoid the limelight.

Before Link could speak, Jafar sharply refused: "No, you can't let any factor that would endanger the pillar come close!"

The atmosphere froze at its words.

Orlando's gaze scanned back and forth between three people + one wolf, and it seemed that something interesting happened that night.

Link was about to ease his nerves when he and the archpriest turned back at the same time, looking at the village that had just left.

"What's wrong?" Link's perception reopened, farther than Orlando's elven eyes could perceive.

"There's a situation!!" said Link, running to the carriage, and the rest of the group followed him back to the village.

In just a moment, this quiet mountain village has changed, with corpses strewn all over the field and screams incessantly. Low-tier skeletons run amok, killing every living person they see.

"The Light Shines!"

The High Priest threw a cloud of golden flame and landed in a clearing in the center of the village, the flash of the explosion turning the nearby undead into ashes.

Link threw down his longbow. Directly activate the magic barrage. Countless white light bounces shoot out, bypassing buildings and trees to attack the undead.

Doyle summons the Dawn Lightsaber to join the fray, each of its devastating blades leaving deep marks on the ground and walls.

Some villagers who had heard the fight or seen Link and the others fighting ran out of their hideouts and ran towards them with rolling and crawling. Orlando uses music to soothe the men's broken minds.

The number of undead is increasing instead of decreasing, and seeing that the white expanse in the distance is approaching the village, Link asks Doyle to take the rescued people first, and there are still carts of merchants in the village, take all the living away, and he leaves the queen of the palace.

"Can you do it?" Doyle hesitated when he heard that Link wanted the palace.

"I have my own way out of it. You will not be besieged to death, you go first. I'll hold them back. Let's go!!" Link grabbed Doyle by the hem of his coat and threw him away.

"Link!" Doyle, who landed steadily on the roof of the carriage, turned around and saw that the sea of bones had surrounded Link, and she wanted to save people, but was stopped by Orlando, who was also standing on the roof of the carriage.

"Let go of me!"

"Don't be rash, we are not here, he can wield his strength. Instead of worrying about accidental injury. ”

"You ......"

"He's got to a tie with the sage, what are you worried about, getting out of here as soon as possible is what we're going to do. ”

Doyle calmed down, jumped into another carriage, grabbed the villagers who were afraid of whipping their horses, and took the reins from him.

Orlando took the bow and arrow that Link threw at him, and shot down several skeletons in hot pursuit. It's a pity that there are too many of them, and in a few moments, the arrows in the quiver are used up. He couldn't make the elements manifest like Link did, so he had to turn back into the car. The High Priest was using his magic to heal the injured villagers, and only a handful of them were unharmed.

Seeing that the tavern owner was also there, Orlando asked him what was wrong?

"No, I don't know...... When I realized that a group of skeletons had rushed into the tavern, killing many people in the blink of an eye......" His limbs trembled uncontrollably, and the tavernkeeper's memories were disrupted by Orlando's lullaby.

Orlando was in a state of self-reproach, and if it weren't for his self-righteous actions, the villagers might have escaped more.

"What about him?" Alysina looked around, but didn't see Link, and there was no breath of him in the two carriages nearby.

"Let's go first, he stays behind. The half-elf picked up the mandolin again and soothed the feelings of everyone in the carriage with music.

Alysina turned back, and the village had turned into a small black dot. The strength of the Child of Nature should not be in any danger, right......

Returning to the small village where there are no living people, only the human form remains, and Link who has actually evolved into a creature that does not know what kind of creature to belong to is surrounded by dense low-level undead, this scene is like a ferry, and at that time, he was also facing countless times the undead, the difference is that this time Link does not need to hide his identity.

Sensing that there were no living people here, Link raised his hands flat, palms outward, and rotated the soles of his feet at the same time, and the cracking beam disintegrated the skeleton to the wooden village, except for the click sound of the skeleton moving, only the sound of burning.

All of them were reduced to powder under the attack of the crimson beam, and the seemingly terrifying army of the undead was almost wiped out in a few moments, with only a few remnants.

Odd...... Where did so many low-level undead come from? each armed with a weapon, clearly controlled by a lich.

Link, who had spent a lot of divine power to clean up the undead, looked around and saw that the village was completely in ruins and there was no place to hide, and there were still no lichs. Unbeknownst to him, on a hill not far away, a group of Death Knights riding Nightmares were peering into the village with the spell of the Guò Lich.

[Thanks to my extra heart, if I had gone there rashly, I would have turned into ashes like those low-level skeletons now.] The lich's body is swollen, and the insects keep falling to the ground, and it looks like a new corpse that has just completed its transformation.

"What are those beams?" the leader of the Death Knight was curious about the cracking beam released by Link, neither light nor fire, not only the undead, but even the building quickly disintegrating, a magical spell that had never been seen before.

[Judging from the effect, it should be a spell of cleavage or dissociation.] The lich's rotten fingers swirled around the crystal ball floating in the air, observing Link and the red beam he released from multiple angles.

"Spells, isn't he a ranger?" the Captain of the Death Knight was even more puzzled.

[Ranger can also use some simple arcane, like this level, has reached the master level.] 】

"That is, he is not a ranger. ”

[I haven't seen a Ranger so skillfully perform a splitting technique that is difficult for even a master-level mage to handle. The Lich stares at the destroyed house in Eagle Eye and is lost in thought.

Strange, cleavage is usually used to disarm magic, and it's not surprising to eliminate the undead, but why is it that even wooden buildings that have nothing to do with magic have been destroyed?

"What now?" the Death Knight didn't want to fight an enemy like that, even if it didn't have the fear of it, and it didn't want to do useless work, knowing that it would lose.

The lich stretched out his hand, and a bat made the demon appear out of thin air, flying in the direction of Link.

Confused, Link felt a faint breath of death approaching, and looked up to see that it was a vampire bat. A voice that didn't resemble a human voice rang out in the empty wilderness.

[The Duke invites you to meet you at Volan.] 】

"What if we don't go?" Link frowned, Herbert was so blatantly working with the undead......

[Then, the tragedy here will also be born in other parts of Kronberg, villages, cities, everywhere you go, it will inevitably be accompanied by the footsteps of death. 】

This sentence finally forced Link to change his plans, and it seemed that Voran and his party were inevitable: "How do I know that you will abide by the agreement?"

[It's not an agreement, it's an order, you don't have a choice. With that, the bat exploded into a cloud of blood on its own.

When Link caught up with the convoy and stopped with a fishy smell, everyone's faces were not very good-looking, but they didn't expect Herbert to take the life and death of the people in the territory into account at all, I am afraid that what he wants is more than the pure gold deposits of Eagle Peak Mountain.

ps:

The end of the first two chapters is a bit messy and slightly revised.