Chapter Twenty-Three: The Capture of Merlin

Edinburgh, Restoration Army Settlement.

In a makeshift dwelling in the northeast corner of the camp, it was dim, the sky outside the window was as blue as water, and the mountain wind rattled through the trees.

Merlin lay flat on the bed, his staff resting behind his head, his eyes closed, his chest rising and falling slightly with his breathing. A translucent blue soft light was wrapping around his head, like a mass of viscous gelatin, constantly twisting and fluctuating.

The soft light looked unusually steady, increasing or decreasing as time passed, silently sticking to the skin of Merlin's head.

I don't know how long it took, but the mountain breeze outside the window gradually showed a slight change.

There was only a soft click, and the translucent halo on Merlin's head suddenly collapsed, and he immediately opened his eyes and sat up from the bed, a thin layer of sweat on his face.

"Lilith betrayed me. โ€

The old mage sighed, quickly rolled out of bed, drew his staff from under the pillow, and walked briskly out of the bedroom.

The outer hall was quiet, without a sound, and in the bright light, some fine dust slowly drifted. He rushed to the right corner as fast as he could, dug through the brown floor, and dug out a wooden box filled with precious metal.

"I didn't expect that after so much painstaking incubation, I would lose my efforts at this time...... I can only wait for the owner of the sword in the stone to be born, and then find a chance to get close to her. โ€

Merlin glanced at the precious materials in the wooden box, glanced at his house, and felt a slight emotion in his heart.

A large amount of dignified bloody qi came from the wind, captured by his reconnaissance spell. Combined with the recent series of actions of the Rosevians, and the life breath of the Dryads, Merlin knew that he must have been betrayed.

Although he also expected such a day. But I didn't expect it to come so soon.

Lilith, a stupid woman, is really not enough, if she is not the birth mother of that person, I vow to make her suffer a little.

Reaching for the bag at his waist, he gently pulled the string that tied the bag tightly, and Merlin pinched and took out a light blue pearl.

"I had to leave first. โ€

He breathed a sigh of relief and tossed the blue pearl in his hand casually. Without looking, he turned and walked out of the room.

The pearl fell lightly on the red carpet and snorted. It suddenly turned into a circle of pale blue flames, slowly spreading in all directions.

Whew, the blue flame touches everything from blankets, desks, bookshelves, chairs, and accessories. Everything, everything. All were ignited in an instant. Crimson flames violently filled the entire mansion.

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In the flames, Merlin chanted a spell, picked up his staff, and slammed it hard against the floor.

Boom!

A layer of water-blue ripples surrounded him, forming an eggshell-like translucent barrier that cut off the flames, and led the mage's figure to fade in the firelight, and finally completely disappeared.

The dwelling burned brightly in a fierce blue flame. All the mana fluctuates, and letters come and go. All of them were burned by the flames of the blue flames, including the remnants of Merlin's breath in the house......

"Come on, Lord's house is on fire!"

"Come on, come on, come and put out the fire!"

"You go to stop the fire first, I'll go find the ice goblins!"

Soon, most of the Restoration Army, who had surrendered their weapons and been recruited, rushed to the fire source with buckets, and a few of them even ignited their fighting spirit and rushed into the fire to find Merlin's traces.

"It's a step too late......"

The fire was near the top of the towering gray and white arrow tower, and Lydia's eyes reflected the dancing blue firelight, silently watching this scene, with a hint of coldness on her white face.

After the army of the Governor's Palace, who was ordered to cooperate with her to capture Merlin, rushed to the fire, they looked at the steaming charred ruins, and showed annoyed expressions one by one.

The female knight jumped to the wreckage of the dwelling, and with her hands behind her back, she searched the ruins step by step.

The army of the Governor's Mansion also seemed to know that she was looking for clues, and they all distanced themselves one by one, silently.

Walking through the smoke-filled ruins of her dwelling, Lydia felt the crunchness of the charred ground step by step, and her ears and spirits were all released. Suddenly, the chirping of birds and insects in the woods, and the crawling of rats and small animals were all included in her perception.

The images reflected by these voices also appeared in Lydia's mind one by one.

Now she has a feeling that after hearing the sound, the images of insects and animals crawling in the grass and underground on the eaves are also "seen" along with the sound.

Listening intently, the knightess even felt the image of a toad sticking out its tongue and preying on a fly in a well twenty paces away from her, as if her eyes were moving.

Is this a sign that your physical strength has been strengthened to the limit and you have begun to feed back your spirit, and you have begun to awaken to the origin?

Lydia's heart thumped, knowing that such a clear perception must be a sight that can only be seen by a surge in mental power, and when the spirit and body reach the peak at the same time, they will gradually awaken to the origin.

Suddenly, an extremely slight rhythm woke the female knight from the joy of awakening the origin.

"It's been hiding where it is...... I almost got cheated by you. โ€

Lydia raised her head, her eyes flashing with pinpoint-like sharpness, and she raised her right hand like lightning, and her scorpion-tailed scarlet index finger shot straight ahead.

Whoosh!

The dark red light flashed in the space, and the hula pierced a blackened wooden beam, and in the space twenty steps away, suddenly a burst of sparks burst out, and at the same time, there was a crisp sound of glass colliding.

"You can find me in this situation...... The Governor's Mansion is really strong. โ€

With an old sigh, in a violent light and shadow floating in the space, Merlin held the figure of the wooden box and slowly appeared in the encirclement of the guards.

"Sure enough, it's you, Master Merlin, the Governor has something to see you, so you'd better cooperate. โ€

Unlike when she was still in the Black Seat, Lydia, who had been honed many times, was already a high-ranking knight who had already been able to take charge on her own, and her expression was condensed. has its own domineering spirit.

"I can perceive that my aura is close to nothingness, so you must be close to the origin of awakening, right?"

Merlin's old voice reached the ears of the female knight, and it sounded very gentle. But in the midst of the mildness, there is an elusive and deep feeling.

"You know too much. โ€

A hint of anger rose in Lydia's heart, but her beautiful features remained motionless, staring at the other party's slightly clumsy body.

"It's a pity...... Even a fully awakened knight of origin, Lord Paddy, died at my hands in the end!"

Suddenly, a mountain wind blew, blowing the ruins and broken walls of the ruins to the ground. The sun shone on Merlin's walnut-skinned face, motionless.

Whew!

There was a sudden soft sound, like the sound of a match being rubbed and ignited.

Merlin's right shoulder is faux. In an instant, a burning blue flame bead appeared, and the fist-sized blue flame bead slowly burned and rotated, but it did not release any heat at all.

"Old fellow!"

A deep chill escaped Lydia's eyes, and her body tensed like a bowstring. Suddenly. Spanning a distance of twenty feet in one step, the scorpion's tail-like index finger instantly pierced the opponent's right shoulder.

"Hehehehehe......"

With a low laugh, Merlin raised his head suddenly, and his robes suddenly burst into flames, emitting a thick blue flame. His whole person instantly turned into a humanoid torch, and then quickly shrank into a fireball, and with a bang, the fireball expanded and exploded, forming a flame giant dozens of yards high.

Flames burst into the sky. The figure of the female knight disappeared into the flames in an instant.

"Prepare for the hunt!"

Two hundred guards all wearing demon-resistant armor, even their heads were wrapped. Instantly ignited his fighting spirit!

The figures of the thirty guards at the front instantly bent their backs into a bow, and the sound of their bent backs, bowed bodies, muscles and muscles in their bodies, and bent bones could be directly heard in the air.

In the midst of this sound, thirty crimson flames accumulated, and then erupted and released.

Qiang!

Thirty demon-breaking long swords, flashing with dazzling red light, were pulled out at the same time, dozens of people drew their swords, as if one person drew a sword, there was only one voice, and the cooperation seemed to be flawless.

At the same time, bow the body, burst, draw the sword, dash, encircle!

In an extreme amount of time, they had completed five movements, their bodies dragging the flames of light to spread out in an arc, and the blades of their swords swept twenty paces, intertwining into a dense sword net, forming a circle from front to back, covering the flame giant in the middle.

Whoosh Whoosh - !!

More than 100 other soldiers of the New Army immediately raised the rapid-fire cannon in their hands, and the burning flame quickly solidified.

Roar - !!

A deafening roar came from the flame giant's throat, long and long, and its body bulged at the same time, as if it were full of air.

Boom!

The Flame Giant's body expanded and increased by about two, and a blue flame aura immediately separated and spread, and the air flow in the air exploded violently, slamming into the thirty Demon Breaking Swords.

With a single blow, the Flame Giant's body retracted into its original form, but the flame aperture that had detached itself swelled in the wind, and the thick layer of dirt on the ground was baked to black, and the flames slammed into the guards.

Boom!

The entire resettlement camp seemed to sink downward, and looking from above, it could be clearly seen that the two apertures, one blue and one red, expanded and contracted, fiercely repelling the light of different colors.

The sand was swept up from the ground by the shock wave, forming a concussive fog area, and the flying pillars of fire were like meteorites, and they roared through the air.

Boom boom boom!

A series of shelling sparks continued to splash sparks on the Flame Giant, and the blue flames rose high, and as they fell, they burned the ground like rain.

Roar!

Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the 100-shot rapid-fire cannons, the Flame Giant's body shook violently, and just as it was about to collapse, a long, deep sound erupted from its body, vaguely mixed with an obscure and lengthy incantation.

Its entire body regained strength, and its size expanded again, faintly emerging a layer of hazy crystalline armor, which was only shattered under the covering attack of the rapid-fire cannon, but did not collapse.

Boom!

The Flame Giant followed the burst of light and rushed towards the encirclement, stretched out his flaming left hand, dragged a tail flame from top to bottom, and pressed hard against a row of new troops who were in the way.

Merlin is well aware that the use of the Lava Giant is too loud and must be broken away as soon as possible, and no more time can be wasted!

Bang!

At the moment when the giant palm of flame struck the new army, a cloud of scarlet flames suddenly erupted from the giant's shoulder, causing its movements to froze instantly.

Bang bang!

Immediately after, from the right shoulder to the abdomen, eight flames burst out in turn, and this series of explosions connected into the shape of a scorpion tail, which was shocking in the huge blue body of the flame giant.

Whoosh!

Lydia, armed with the Plague, burst out of the scorpion's tail and fell to the ground with her back to the giant with her back to the giant.

"You-!"

Merlin's flaming pupils stared at the female knight, her face made entirely of flames suddenly distorted, the light turned from light to darkness, and then the massive body quickly disintegrated, collapsed, and swept in all directions in a roaring rain of fire.

"You're overconfident, old fellow. โ€

Lydia shot behind her without looking back, instantly piercing through layers of smoke and stabbing the old mage who had returned to her human form in the right shoulder, and the scorpion venom that was just right immediately paralyzed his body.

The four guards quickly rushed forward, took out the Demon Sealing Chain and directly tied Merlin Wuhua Da, and dragged out the scorching fire with their shoulders.

"Take it back. โ€

The female knight disarmed the natural calamity, glanced coldly at the paralyzed old mage, took a step, and left the camp with the army.

......

The King's Study.

Aree turned his head to look out the window with feeling, and then looked at Kenneth, who was silent:

"I have a series of materials on the Imperial Battle Suit in my hand, you may use it, there is no limit to funds and materials, but within half a year, I want to see the Big Mac device that can be used. โ€

"Then there will be no Big Mac, only enhanced combat suits...... Thank you so much for this woman's business. Kenneth turned his wheelchair and moved to the exit of the study, giving Lilith a faint look:

"Let's go, it's not easy to get a life back, don't get in the way with me here. โ€

"Okay. โ€

The queen hurriedly got up, walked forward quickly, pushed her future husband's wheelchair, and left the study with a sense of relief.

โ€œ......โ€

After the black-haired knight watched their figures disappear, he picked up a small glass bottle from the table, carefully examined the flour-like medicine inside, and his eyes flashed slightly:

"This medicine must be worth a lot of money when used in medical treatment. โ€

This time, in order to atone for her sins, Lilith spent almost all her blood, in addition to the huge compensation of 30 billion soles, and even the formula of stimulants was sent out.

This potion of infinite value was the main reason why Yalei forgave her.

He believed that if it was put to good use, it would bring in a lot of money, and the Governor's Palace, which had been on the verge of collapse, would be relieved.

Compared to the development of the Doge's Palace, a puppet queen with her wings cut off is irrelevant. (To be continued.) )