Chapter 167: Delacro
On the western border of the continent of Calradia, a visitor is welcomed in a barren rocky mountain near the sea......
"Victor, what are you planning, let me see the ten guards. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Near the top of the mountain, on a gravel slope full of strange rocks and difficult to stand on, the figure of Jubei appeared, accompanied by a young man with a fishing rod and a hat.
"Jian, after this hill, go west along the valley to the end of the Valkyrie altar, I can't imagine that people like you will have something to do with heretic gods. The man pointed to the rocks not far ahead, and did his duty as a guide.
"It's been a hard time for you to accompany me all the way, Mr. Qinglong. Since I'm almost at my destination, I'll see you later!" After recognizing the crunch of running water, he said goodbye to the man named Qinglong and walked towards his destination alone.
"Wait a minute, you come with me, I have some news that you might be interested in. The green dragon shouted to the departing Ten Guards, jumped into the air on the rubble, and disappeared on the other side of the mountain.
By the time the Ten Guards arrived at the ravine below, the green dragon was already sitting on a boulder fishing, and the clear water was punctuated by schools of fish swimming back and forth.
"You're here, it's slower than I expected, and the Flying Needle Messenger's fame is no more than that......" Qinglong glanced back at the Ten Guards with disdain, but took out a spare fishing rod and threw it at him.
Ten Guards took the fishing rod, sat down next to Qinglong with a smile, and asked, "You don't just want me to fish with you, do you?"
"Alas...... Don't say anything, just live in the moment and enjoy the breath of nature. I'm sure you'll start to reminisce about it all in the near future......" Qinglong lifted the hat on his head, still in a carefree tone.
"What do you mean? If the dark ages were coming, I would have known about it. As he spoke, he threw the line into the distant water and joined the fishing.
"You're still carrying a promise, I wonder if you still care about it?"
"Of course, do you want to tell me the news...... It has something to do with Maitreya Natsuhiko!?" he seemed so surprised that he almost broke the rod in his hand.
The firm eyes under the Qinglong hat swept over the expressions of the ten soldiers, and he whispered, "Calm down...... Calm down...... It's going to scare the fish away. And you guessed right, he asked me to bring you a letter, which can be regarded as an ultimatum to say goodbye to you. ”
"I want to hear about it. ”
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. (To be continued.) )