Volume VIII, Chapter XXVI
"I've already lost a Blade brigade, and there is no point in sacrificing meaninglessly. ”
"Are you afraid of the Knights of the Silver Mistletoe?"
"Yes. Violet replied without hesitation, "I don't know why the Silver Mistletoe would be in the opposite position to us, but if this order of knights were to stop us, perhaps you wouldn't have suffered as much as I did if you were prepared, but completing the task would have become more difficult than you expected." ”
Alec's face was gloomy, and it took a moment before he replied, "You and I both know that the Knights of the Silver Mistletoe have left the province of Edelstan at noon, and no matter how fast they are, they will not be able to reach the mines of Lebans before the hour. Violet, you're overhearted. ”
Violet continued to stare at the Leban mine in the distance, which seemed to never change, and still said coldly: "Even if the combined forces of you and me successfully complete the mission, have you considered how to face the long-term revenge of the Black Wings? ”
A mountain-like force suddenly surged from Alec's body, and the powerful force poured into his mount, and the horse let out a few deafening snorts, and the plate-sized hooves stomped the ground, spreading out a few deep cracks. The guards standing around Violet immediately raised the staff in their hands, and a strong wave of earth elemental fluctuations condensed outside of him, forming an incomparably solid cage.
"Violet, don't say anything you want!"
"You're overestimating. Or are you underestimating the Black Wings?"
A cold male voice rang out from behind him, and a cold, slippery feeling of a poisonous snake climbing up his back rushed onto Alec's back. Alec's unsheathed saber froze and slowly pushed it back. The cold glow of the blade vanished. But the chill in the air grew more and more biting.
A tall figure in a black evening dress appeared behind Alec, as if every cell in his body was interpreting the word "elegant", and not a single fine raindrop fell on the spotless man. Short pure black hair, handsome and pale features, the same citrine color as Violet, and a pair of pointed ears sticking out of the sideburns-
"Brother, aren't you doing Duth?" Violet's tone finally changed, and her expression was no longer as cold and indifferent as Alec's conversation.
"Just got back, Verin. The cold half-blood demon looked around, and all the raindrops turned into bits of ice and scattered away as they fell on him, "You really want to take this risk with the Red City Crown?"
"How to say. Make an appearance, too, don't you?" said the mercenary leader, who was the leader of the Historical Sect of the Earth Saint Sect, not caring that Alec was right next to her, "but I also had a little hope. ”
Joshua Chris Vista, a strategist known for his ruthlessness and efficiency in the mercenary world, known as the "butler", nodded and said indifferently: "That's Verin's problem, Joshua doesn't have much to say." I'll go and do what you left me, see you later. ”
It wasn't until Alec watched Joshua walk away that he snorted coldly and pushed away the earth-based magic elemental cage that had not completely dispersed. Riding away from the heights of fear of Joshua that he could not resist no matter what.
Verin continued to look at the black L'Bains, letting the raindrops wet her again and again.
The gloomy canopy continued to dim, making the unlit plain even deeper. Listen quietly, in the unfathomable darkness of all directions. There was a ghostly smile full of temptation. A creepy sense of loneliness engulfs people in an instant, and the icy raindrops come from a dead sea that engulfs a single living being.
There was not a single light. In order to avoid the detection of the black wings as much as possible, every qiē light source was extinguished. All around is darkness that you can't see your fingers. In the absolute darkness, the lights of the villages of Does, far away, were even visible. The ghostly blurred dots of light were scattered at the limit of the line of sight. The sound of rain has been transformed into a strange tone in people's minds.
In a common tent of the Shawn Mercenary Regiment, Verin and Joshua stand side by side in front of a huge map. The faint blue light barely illuminates the complex route on it. But no one focused their attention on the golden-red points of light that represented the Red City Crown and the Xiao Long Mercenary Corps.
"Your Highness has returned. ”
"I have already seen His Highness, although he was still in a coma at that time...... Do we need to contact the people of the Frozen Snowlands?"
"Huh...... After all these years, it's finally time for a change......"
Dozens of shadows were clinging to the ground, and in the darkness with no references, it was hard to tell how fast they were. The dark magic tower not far away is slowly growing larger in the sound of the rapid wind in my ears. Several sensitive mages could already feel a wave of dark elements slowly approaching in the south, which was the last flying ship of the Black Wings.
A few strands of blonde hair swept out of the edge of the hood, and Alec carefully straightened his hair, looking down at the dull watch and the display on it.
It was less than twenty minutes before the flying ship arrived, and it was just the time for the sentry to change shifts. In order to obtain information about the change of shifts, they did not know how much sacrifice they made to find the pattern from the seemingly disorderly shift change schedule.
But this can only give them a few minutes of advantage, but in a battle against a terrorist organization like Black Wings, even a second can make the difference between life and death.
The first cordon was crossed, and sure enough, the piercing sirens immediately resounded through the L'Bains mines. The sentry, who had just been put on duty and was not in the best state of spirit or strength, grabbed the short crossbow in his hand.
But it was only a grab, the sound of glass shattering was faint in the sound of the alarm, and the silent pike dart deftly pierced through the bodies of the two sentinels and nailed to the wall behind them, so fast that it didn't even bring up blood.
A group of people quickly swept into the small sentry post, according to the plan. They quickly destroyed all the complex communications equipment here. While Black Wing's communications network is an extremely efficient cellular network model, the disruption of one point has little to no impact on the overall situation. But at least they hope to give themselves a little bit of time through these means.
Several well-learned magicians looked at these electronic communication devices, which were more complex than they could comprehend, and saw with great regret their destruction. But in the formation of a time clocked in seconds. It is impossible for them to sit down and study, and it is absolutely forbidden to take samples away.
The first barrier was destroyed, and almost all the squads successfully crossed the first cordon, after all, the average strength of almost every team exceeded level 3.5, and it was the cutting-edge force that the Xiao Long Mercenary Group and the Red City Crown Mercenary Group put together. Under the premise that the strength of the opponent is not clear, a flexible and strong squad may have the best chance of survival.
The sirens were still sounding, and Alec looked into the distance as he hurried towards the Magic Tower, and the flying ship was already less than five hundred meters away from the Magic Tower, but with the sound of the alarm. It slowed down and seemed to have a tendency to turn the hull backwards and leave.
"Put a flare, and plan to compress it for 300 seconds. ”
Alec's face tightened, and he whispered to a man beside him who was wearing the same non-reflective matte black glass silk burqa as everyone else.
The man silently threw an indiscernible object into the distance, and a few seconds later, a bright red ball of light shot up into the sky a few hundred meters away. But just as it was halfway to its maximum brightness and height, several cold swishing sounds rang out from the highest magic tower, and the bright ball of light did not react to the attacker. It disappeared into the darkness like a lighthouse extinguished in the distance.
"They can see it. Keep going. Alec suppressed the wisp of fear that had just been raised, and a powerful force field of spiritual power enveloped the entire team, and under the drive of Alec's fourth-level high-level, their speed increased sharply. It had been passed almost before the second layer of cordon attacks arrived.
However, Alec still felt a little uneasy in his heart, although compared to the previous times, their raid power was an order of magnitude stronger than before. But the spirits of the commandos who had disappeared into the darkness of the mines like a flare seemed to hover around them. Warn them not to continue their journey towards hell.
The seeds of fear burst out of the ground at the sudden silence of the siren, and the flying ship in the distance suddenly flashed with a pair of small but bright guiding lights. In the darkness of the night, the seemingly bloated flying ship appears to be a vampire bat that has already seen them as its prey. A faint blue glow loomed over the towers in the distance, and faint elemental fluctuations slowly radiated from the periphery of the towers, and the sound of disappearing sirens seemed to suggest that the danger to them had been lifted, that all the attackers had been eliminated, and that they were moving on because they did not yet realize that they were dead.
In the tense silence, only the still-lingering rain gave Alec a little comfort, and he jerked out a flare and threw it far away. A moment later, a small green dot of light rises, a signal to ask if a teammate has survived, and if they are still alive, the same flare should be released.
Alec's central team nervously waited for a response from the other teams, and they had already prepared a third, if not all, sign of survival. In fact, everyone is still vaguely expecting in their hearts, that is, after the attrition reaches the limit of one-third, they can immediately decide to suspend the operation and return the same way.
The next few seconds may decide everyone's fate. Alec had never felt that the power he was proud of was so helpless, but the other corner of his heart was whispering, as a fourth-level powerhouse, he didn't use these sneaky means at all, and it was the most direct and easy way to solve a qiē directly with his powerful strength.
But the darkness in front of him, without a three-dimensional sense, made the voice always whisper, never clear. The dark tower of magic still shimmered with a fluorescent blue color, and the calm, harmless dots of light seemed to hint at the perfect enjoyment of their success.
"Wow-"
A scene that made everyone's minds go blank suddenly happened, and around them, almost at the same time, dozens of green balls of light suddenly rose! They only had ten teams in total, why did there be more than fifty flares?! Under the miserable green light, I couldn't see everyone's pale faces, but under a completely incomprehensible scene. Inexplicable fear and inexplicable courage came to his heart, and Alec struggled to advance and retreat. He jerked off his burqa and drew his sword. The bright flame fighting qi overwhelmed the miserable green used on all sides for a moment, and he lunged forward, bringing up a long flaming red flame tail.
"Rush! Compress the time of action, compress it all-roundly!!--rush!!--kill them all!!-"
Alec shouted frantically, but the dark tower of magic responded with silence, which in his eyes was a ridiculous mockery of their sense and power. A sickly anger forcibly overwhelmed a qiē fear, and under the drive of his momentum, the average strength of the entire body had reached level 3.9. The central team of three fourth-level powerhouses leapt into the sky in unison, cutting through the dark land of the Lebans Mountains in a straight line, heading directly towards a towering magic tower between the mountain passes.
The greatest fear of the unknown quietly dissipated with a few silent magic arrows, perhaps with the boss's madness, the other squads that were still hiding also threw away their disguises, pushed the growing fear in their hearts with the same loud slogans, and rushed towards the dark magic tower together.
The L'Bains Mountains remained silent except for their slogans and the sound of magic arrows breaking through the air. Not far away, the flying ship that had docked in port flashed with sharp eyes like flying foxes. stared indifferently at this group of incompetent Terrans.
In the frenzy of vindictiveness and magical light, Alec finally saw the rest of the team. At this moment, only eight of the ten squads remained, and two of the weaker teams were really killed in the silent attack of the Dark Magic Tower. But the confirmation of this information reassured Alec, after all, the sight in front of him that was convinced by his own eyes was the most reassuring to him.
Our strength is still strong. They didn't expect us to make a desperate attempt to storm the Magic Tower with such great force. Flipping over a huge wall of fire and burning a cluster of magical arrows in front of him to ashes, a sense of accomplishment and confidence caused Alec to pull out a scroll with bright light and toss it high into the sky.
The fiery red flames of magic formed a huge crown. The symbol of the Red City Crown was so dazzling in the dark sky, and the bright red instantly hid the omnipresent darkness.
A few seconds later. The whizzing dark elemental magic arrows shattered the fiery crown to pieces, but Alec didn't feel any pain. He knew that the signal had been given, and it was a signal for the battle group to rally and charge. Listening to the faint roar in the distance, one flare after another rose into the air, and the mercenary team standing behind him gave him the last of his confidence. His speed went to the next level, and the flames turned into a long rope of fire, which was accurately inserted into the tower of the magic tower not far away, and then he pulled it hard, and the flame fighting qi exerted his strength, and he rushed straight up like an arrow against the tower body.
Only then did he realize that the glowing blue light on the tower's body was nothing more than some glowing fungus, not some kind of magical material at all. He smiled self-deprecatingly at his oversensitivity, and threw an exploding scroll into each window of a magic arrow. The loud roar greatly satisfied his desire to fight, and looking at the magic tower that began to tremble in the explosion, he showed an elegant smile that belonged only to Alec.
The mage behind him had already begun to attack the flying ship, and so far, it was only the flying ship that seemed too calm to displease Alec - but he must have been the first to board the enemy ship. With this sense of dignity and joy in battle, Alec leapt to the top of the tower, and on the empty platform of the tower was only a small magician who was struggling to maintain a few weak defensive circles.
Alec clicked on the platform at the top of the tower, and the huge flame fighting qi reversed, turning into a flying death scythe and rolled towards the emaciated-looking magician.
But in the midst of the lightning, Alec's smile suddenly stiffened, and the magician with weak magic fluctuations was able to slowly turn his head in such a short period of time - fast and slow could merge in this instant, and the strong visual deviation suddenly exceeded the processing power of Alec's brain, making him feel sick.
The magician, dressed in a purple-red gold-patterned mage robe that showed no skin, turned her head, her long gray-white hair blocked her eyes, but the two grayish lips that were not covered by the gray hair smiled at him in this extremely slow and extremely fast contradictory visual impact, with a deep soul-deep pride and sarcasm.
This was an unbearable moment for Alec, as the massive flame scythe shattered her defensive barrier after a moment of pause, piercing through the purple-robed mage's emaciated body, splitting her in half without hindrance. The broken upper body rushed into the air with a strong fighting spirit, helplessly falling off the magic tower, and the lower body left on the platform at the top of the tower quickly turned into a cloud of flying ash in the flames.
A few drops of cold sweat slid down Alec's forehead, and he didn't know why, but at that moment, it was not this strange magician who seemed to be cut in two, but Joshua Crisvista, who had always been inexplicably terrified of him. As his broken upper body flew into the air, his thin lips still pursed a sneering smile at him.
Behind him, the flying boat slowly floated up, and a blinding flying fox-like guiding light was projected on his back. The space that was still filled with the shouts of his teammates and the charging slogans of the distant mercenary team suddenly turned into the first absolute silence, and the sprouts of fear that he thought they had been extinguished grew rapidly at this moment, and the thorny vines strangled his heart.
"Die!!—" Alec roared, and the flame scythe snapped back into the eye-like light. The lights went out, and courage returned to his fragile heart, and in the debris of the explosion, Alec and a few of his men who had been cultivating martial arts with it rushed to the empty deck full of linoleum-covered cargo.
Can't be silent any longer!!—Alec yelled at himself, raising his hand and smashing the nearest window with a blow, but there was no one inside, only a wooden crate covered in a layer of dust.
"Wheelhouse!It's down there, Carl!--you go to the rear, Theodore, you hold here--Mr. Jamie, rush down with me!-" Alec ordered loudly, watching his men finish executing the order before rushing into the cabin of the flying ship with a strong man of the same fourth-level Xiao Long mercenary group.
They all ignored the qiē wooden door, and the strong fighting qi flame completely shattered the qiē barrier in front of them. Alec rushed forward, turning many partitions into pieces, but it was only in the destruction that he was able to suppress the fear of being empty on the eerie last flying ship.
The thorns of fear wrapped around his internal organs, and a bewitching flower of fear was waiting to bloom in his mind.
The shattering sound suddenly stopped, and Alec found himself standing in a spacious, golden corridor, with an elegant and peaceful piano music coming from behind a luxurious door carved from crystal and gold. Nobles dressed in evening gowns walked proudly among the courtesans, and waiters with silver plates sometimes walked out of the lavish hall through the door, the crystal liquor releasing an intoxicating sweet fragrance.
The flower of fear bloomed in an instant, and at the center of the flower was Joshua's handsome face, which was eternally gracefully inlaid with strange magic patterns.
"Ahhh The glorious corridors around and the lavish halls in front of them are like a dream from someone, extremely illusory, yet extremely real.
"Mr. Jamie!--where have you been!!-" His scream made him unbelievable, and the flame fighting spirit instantly smashed the luxurious crystal door in front of him, and the noblewomen and ladies in the puffy skirts, as well as the aristocratic gentlemen in velvet dresses, all turned their heads in an instant, and countless pairs of eyes softly locked on him.
Countless pairs of citrine-colored eyes-
The Flower of Dread lowered its head, its petals falling off, and spit out a pure white fruit.
"Can you finally see clearly?—"
"Are you finally seeing clearly?"
"You're finally seeing—"
"You're finally ......"
“...... See ...... clearly"
“...... ......" (To be continued......