Chapter 55: Severe Winter (3)
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Because of the necromancer, a few months have passed in the illusion, and the tomb is still the same as the last time Link came. Without the erosion of dead air, not only the moss crawled all over the rock wall, but even the insects and snakes made their home here. In the innermost chamber, the stench of rotting corpses that came into contact with the air gave off a foul smell.
"It's a woman. Hull only glanced at the sex of the corpse.
Woman, could it be a golden rose......
Holding back the irritating rancid stench, Link reached for the faint elf attached to the Dawn Sutra. With the activation of Divine Knowledge, the whole person is pulled into the past time. The location was the Assassin base underground, where Link got the lucky rabbit's feet, before the Night Elves slaughtered the base, and the treasure chamber was filled with only Golden Rose and the former president who had also been dead for many years. Link didn't know his name, but he knew that he was Su Wen's successor, and sent a letter asking Golden Rose to make an appointment with Thunder from Longyan Fort on the ninth full moon.
The living man looked younger than the corpse, in his early thirties, with a well-trimmed mustache and a shrewd and cunning eye, looking more like a mercenary merchant than an assassin. Wearing a black suit that matches the class, the most striking thing is not the deadly dagger around his waist, but the mythril chain that hangs around his neck like a tyrant, embellished with a gold coin slightly larger than a normal coin.
Malik's Lucky Coins!
Link looked down at the man's feet, which were just ordinary shoes, not the lucky rabbit's feet that he would find on his feet later.
The Golden Rose reacted in the same way as Link, and her face turned pale when she saw the gold coin, which symbolized Malik's favor.
"You're a wise woman, you should know what that means. The former president seemed pleased with the other party's expression, "It's time to change your allegiance." ”
It was obviously a soft tone, but it made Golden Rose's body tremble involuntarily, and she blinked her long eyelashes: "You're just acting as a ...... temporarily"
"Hehe~ temporary...... You still don't understand? It's not that Rod gave up Malik, it's that Malik gave up Rhodes. He has invested too much time and energy in chasing women. The god of shadows wants a messenger who can spread fear, not a playboy who only thinks about women all day long. ”
The Golden Rose took a few steps back until it was the wall.
"You mean...... This qiē was a conspiracy from the beginning?"
"It's a bit too much to say that the conspiracy is a bit of a stretch, and the gods just discarded useless pawns. ”
"Eric!" Golden Rose shouted with fear, causing Link's hair to stand on end.
This man is Eric from Suvin's diary?
"You're his follower, and you have a different heart...... Before she could finish speaking, Golden Rose's jaw was pinched by a man who was about as tall as her.
"I followed him because he was the best Assassin and had the favor of Malik. But now it's different, he has lost his divine favor, and you should almost die, you have no future with such a man, and ...... He doesn't like you at all. Men are not interested in what is at their fingertips, and it is best not to get it. ”
Golden Rose broke away from Eric and ran out of the secret room, looking at her back as she rushed away, Eric snorted coldly, reached out and rubbed the gold coin hanging on his chest, his cold eyes full of undisguised ambition.
The scene shook violently as the Golden Rose ran, and when it calmed down again, it was actually the night of the accident. Due to the angle, Golden Rose only saw Thunder's spear piercing into Su Wen's chest.
This time, Link's attention was focused on the Golden Rose, making up for the details that had not been seen last time. I saw that her mouth was wide open, her feet trembled, and she finally leaned in, but the female demon summoned by the magic circle exploded Su Wen's corpse into a mist of blood. Although he didn't speak, the desperate and painful look in his eyes confirmed Link's previous suspicion that Golden Rose liked Su Wen and not just the respect that his subordinates had for their superiors.
With a scream, Golden Rose turned and ran wildly in extreme shock and fear, and she ran back to Longyan Castle, where she said that Thunder had killed Rhodes and Lena had transformed into a lich.
Due to the fatal poisonous gas, Golden Rose's body quickly collapsed, she had an incurable high fever, babbling all day long, and was so thin that she was not human, and she couldn't see that she was once a glorious peerless singer. The innkeeper who kindly took her in called the pastor of Dawn to pray for the poor man who was about to die.
"I ...... Guilty...... I hurt him......" The return of light brought her to her senses, and for the time being, she said goodbye to the nightmare that she could never get rid of. I couldn't say a few words, and I couldn't cry anymore.
The priest was a kind elder who leaned down and gave the weakened confessor a healing that would make her feel a little more comfortable.
"Pastor, will God forgive those who have made mistakes?" Under the work of healing, Golden Rose's spirit was much better.
"Everyone makes mistakes. ”
"Because of my own selfishness, I have killed innocents, and his soul is still imprisoned in the hands of the Lich. I can't save him ...... I can't save him."
After making eye contact with the innkeeper at the word lich, the priest leaned down again and whispered in Golden Rose's ear, "What are your unfulfilled wishes?"
"She'll come...... I knew she would come. Eric won't let the world know the truth, he'll come and destroy the evidence...... Hehe......" After a sharp cough, Golden Rose took a letter from her bosom with a trembling hand and handed it to the priest. Before the priest could take it, she withdrew her hand again: "No, it doesn't prove anything. Pastor, bury this with me. If one day the truth-seekers can find it, they will be able to uncover the ...... buried in history."
The scent of the golden rose faded, and the priest closed her unclosed eyes in a prayer in praise of the morning light, and placed a thick scroll on the golden rose's breast, pressing it down with her thin arms. Time passed, and Link woke up from his senses, looking at the corpse that maintained an exact posture, and his heart was mixed.
After confirming that Link was awake, Hull asked, "What do you see?"
"Is the former leader of the Thorn of Shadows named Eric? Knowing couldn't be mistaken, he asked Hull for confirmation, but Link wanted a definitive answer.
"That's right, how do you ask about that?" Hull wasn't a witness to the incident, and heard a lot about it from Iris. If it weren't for the Night Elves who cleaned the old base of the Shadow Thorns, he wouldn't have known that the slain Shadow Thorns would not only be the Altyns near the Guardians, but also the earliest followers of Rod.
Eric has a whereabouts, but how did he catch up with the harsh winter?
Link scratched his head in annoyance. That's right...... Isn't his body still there? Maybe you can find some clues from it.
"What happened to that abandoned base near the border?" Link prayed to the Birdman not to set fire to anything.
"Buried in earth, does he have anything to do with frost?" From Link's words, Hull already had the answer.
"Aidan was introduced to Rhodes by Eric, and if Frost wants to erase the traces of the past, it will inevitably kill everyone who knows it. The Night Elves' attack on the Assassins' Guild must have been Malik's instigation. "As to why the Night Elves attacked the Thorn of Shadows, Link had already thought about it. Malik himself is a second-generation god born from the night elves, just as the glow elves also believe in the forest god Lorian, many night elves will choose the god of shadows as their faith.
Rushing to the abandoned underground base that has been completely blocked, Link summoned the earth elemental to dig out the soil again, and in order to save Eric's corpse, which he didn't know where it was, he specially divided the earth elemental several meters high into ten parts. By the time the vault was cleared, where a large amount of gold and silver had been hidden, the spell slots had been renewed, and the corpse of the former president was still lying on the mountain of coins, slightly older than Link had seen with his senses, about forty years old.
It seems that it took a lot of time to completely abandon the harsh winter of the past and gain a foothold among the undead, otherwise it should have started to die as soon as it turned into a lich, rather than let Eric live for a few more years.
Using Divine Perception again, this time Link was presented with an old tavern. Thunder, Lena, and Suvin sat at a table in the corner, discussing something with Eric. The wooden door of the tavern was suddenly pushed open, and the sunlight shone in from the outside, and the face of the person who pushed the door could not be seen clearly, but the outline of the body was unusually clear, and the very thin body made Link suddenly realize that this person was the harsh winter!
He closed the door and moved to the corner table. The facial features are delicate, the skin is fair, and it looks gentle, giving a good impression. The white robe was embroidered with a wheel of emblems symbolizing the sun and light, and the characteristics were obvious, the priest of the morning light.
"You're the priest recommended by Eric?" said the female mage first, and Lena raised an eyebrow at the thin young man who was only up to her shoulders.
Su Wen, who goes by the pseudonym Rhodes, gives Eric a look, and the followers who know how to read words and emotions take the owner of the part-time bartender with him when he withdraws, and there are only four people left in the entire tavern.
"How long have you been playing?" Thunder was the second to speak, his expression much kinder than Lena's.
"Three years. Yan Dong's answer made the three of them stunned.
Su Wen circled around him: "I really can't see it, it feels like a novice." Hey~ What is your rank?"
"Just past the master. The thin boy's answer was once again surprising, and the three exchanged glances.
"Just him. Ignoring Lena's reconsideration, Thunder chooses Bitter Winter to join the Circle Alliance.
"Won't you test my strength first?" Yan Dong was also surprised, he didn't expect to pass just an interview.
"No, Dawn is a god of order, and his priest's heart is not too bad. In Link's view, Thunder's words are more of confidence in his own strength.
After that, the covenant ceremony of the Circle Alliance, where the four men cut their fingers and filled in their names with their own blood in the simple Edgar Ring, vowing not to turn their backs on their companions and to live and die together.
"What's your name?" Lena was always hostile to her new companion.
"In the game, it's called Aidan, if it's his real name...... My name is Severe Winter. The young man who was about the same age as Su Wen said with a smile.