Chapter 21 Decisions

Ask for collections, ask for recommendation votes!

Jacob plays for the Totoro family in Afterglow. The Afterglow City www.biquge.info is located in the middle of the Scarlet Plain, where the Scarlet Plain is blocked by high mountains on the east and west sides, and is divided into two parts, north and south, which look like the upper and lower parts of a gourd.

Afterglow City is located in the middle of the gourd, at the top of the gourd mouth in the north, blocking the convergence of the Sierra de CΓ΄te d'Ivoire and the bay of Polynia, opening a gap in the chevron contact between the mountains and the bay, through which all the way to Ansara.

At the very bottom of the southern Scarlet Plains, at the bottom of the gourd, is the city of Barisan of the Cleveland family, an ancient name that gave it a new name after the Kingdom of Constanta was founded, the city of Deathknell.

From the bright Ansara, to the mouth of the gourd, to the city of Afterglow in the middle of the Scarlet Plains, and finally to the city of Death Knell at the bottom of the gourd, and then to the dark land of the dead, Constanta.

The afterglow and the death knell are actually the two nails that Constanta has entered the Scarlet Plains, and it is only after mastering the Scarlet Plains that he has the initiative in the war against Ansara. Due to special reasons, it is difficult for a large number of undead creatures to exist here for a long time, and the Totoro and Cleveland families are mainly the forces of the living, and there are almost no undead creatures, which allows the two families to help Constanta firmly occupy these two important strongholds for a long time.

Somewhere in the Scarlet Plains between Hulukou and Afterglow City, there is said to be a passage to the capital of the dead. However, both Ansara and Constanta don't seem to have much interest in this rumor, and the Four Kingdoms of Light led by Ansara and Constanta of the Dark Camp have fought countless battles here for 10,000 years. Afterglow, and even Deathknell, have been lost several times, and the Kingdom Alliance and the Knights Templar chant the name of the Lord of Radiance, crossing the Bone Swamp and into the depths of the Dark Kingdom's heartland.

Faced with the strong Ansara Alliance, Constanta was mostly on the defensive, and the blood of both sides stained the steppe red. I don't know when the newly grown blades of grass turned bright blood red, which is also the origin of the name Scarlet Plains.

Constanta has Youtan as the national flower, which is equivalent to the meaning of the family emblem to a family, so it is also known as the Kingdom of Youtan. Compared with the Ansara Alliance, the Youtan Kingdom is small and weak, both in terms of national strength and manpower, it is far below the Alliance, if it were not for the massive undead army, it would have been destroyed by the Alliance long ago.

It's just that the particularity of the Scarlet Plains makes it difficult to station a large number of undead armies in peacetime, and often in the early stages of the war, it can only rely on the two cities of Afterglow and Knell to defend itself. With the power of two cities against the chariots of the four countries, the blood of the two families continues to be drained, if ordinary soldiers and generals can be replenished from the rear, then the direct clansmen of the two families themselves, once they die, there is no way, unless they are transformed into undead creatures. Strangely, no matter how difficult it is, the chinchilla and the hibiscus family (Cleveland uses the hibiscus flower as their family emblem) did not choose to resurrect their dead family members as undead.

Although they are allies who depend on each other, because of their different locations, the Chinchilla family on the front line has to suffer more casualties, and the people are even more withered. From generation to generation, year after year, war after war, even lip and tooth will have times of fighting. The pressure of war, the imbalance of casualties on both sides, and the contradictions that have accumulated unconsciously, erupt between two patriarchs of a certain generation who do not get along very well. When the first step of bleeding begins, it is very difficult to stop, and it will only flow more and more until one side has shed the last drop of blood.

Not long ago, the Iris Mercenary Regiment was hired by the astrologist Ferdinand, who secretly carried a holy relic to Knell City via Afterglow. Stalker Master Colin My Neighbor Totoro discovers the clue, but he underestimates Ferdinand and is discovered by an alert astrologer. However, both sides had some scruples, and the battle scene was not too hot, and in the end the battle ended with both sides being wounded.

Colin Sr., the helmsman of Afterglow City, is not an easy person to give up, especially now that Ferdinand's destination is Deathknell, the territory of his old rival. So he sent his daughter Melantha to lead an elite team to secretly infiltrate Deathstroke City to investigate what his old rival was up to, after all, no one would believe that an astral mentor would come to Youtan for a vacation for no reason. Such people usually stay in the Radiant Church headquarters to enjoy themselves, or stay in the Inquisition to do something that pushes the limits of humanity!

My Neighbor Totoro is a silver-level assassin, commonly referred to as a high-level assassin, unlike her father Colin, which is another branch of the thief profession, killing people is what she is best at, and most of the elites she brought out this time are also assassins who are good at killing.

It didn't take much effort for the Assassins in Afterglow to spot Ferdinand's whereabouts, and the Iris mercenaries didn't seem to know that they had provoked such a group of Assassins, but Ferdinand was a nuisance to hide in the Iris Residency all day, and I heard that the sheriff of Deathknell City was very suspicious. Although Melansha does not care about human life, as a commander, she has to think about achieving her goal at the lowest cost.

Fortunately, with the help of moonlight rats, these cunning little creatures can spy on information everywhere, which is much easier to use than human thieves, and ordinary people will not pay attention to these small things that can be seen everywhere.

A perfect raid, the Iris mercenaries, led by Clifford, quickly succumbed to the threat of death and the lure of gold. It's a pity that Ferdinand, an astral magician, moves very fast, even the moonlight mouse can't find his traces, this person seems to have suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and the only useful information is that what Ferdinand brought is "Angel's Tears".

"Angel tears?" Konstantin touched his beard, trying to find the term in his memory, "as if it were a memory carrier?"

"Yes. Tang Mo was also surprised by the appearance of this kind of thing.

At the end of the Mythical Age, due to the betrayal of the minority led by Aurora, Anastasia, the Old Dominator, planned a war to counterattack, and a great war broke out between the coalition forces and the majority of the Radiant Lord at the Rainbow Bridge.

Although the coalition was eventually repulsed, and Aurora and Anastasia disappeared for tens of thousands of years, there is reason to believe that the Battle of the Rainbow Bridge greatly depleted the strength of the majority. Exhausted by the Lord of Light and his godly and subordinate gods, they created angels to augment their armies for future wars.

Ordinary angels are just upper realm creatures with the light element as the core, and they are not a good choice in terms of strength or cross-border combat. Later, the majority came up with a new idea and created a real angel. In the long wars, prisoners were occasionally captured, and the powerful ones were thrown into prison, and now these prisoners have a new use.

Their bodies and souls were stripped away, their souls sealed, their bodies crafted into weapons of war, and souls infused with powerful light elements into them, and from these shells, powerful weapons were crafted.

Souls are not easy to peel off, and the more powerful the creature, the more difficult it is to seal. Among the enemies of most factions are some legendary demigods, demon lords, dukes of hell, and even true god-level beings, for these powerful beings, in order to effectively seal the soul, the soul must be cut.

Cutting is an elegant way of saying, simply put, it is to break the soul roughly, and the more it is broken, the better. But the will of the demon god is so strong, it is not easy to break it, which leads to new problems, and in the end, I don't know who came up with a more brutal method - to extract the memories and wisdom from the soul.

Without memory and wisdom, the soul loses the will to resist, and it can be easily shattered and sealed, and the remaining body can only become a glorious puppet. The shape of the extracted memory crystals is not fixed, and it is said that the first crystal is in the shape of tears, and later these memory crystals are called "angel tears".

Most of the people were pleasantly surprised to find that Angel Tears had an additional role through which they could effectively control the body. The absence of a soul makes the muddy memories numb to obey orders and manipulate their original bodies, which is even more effective than infusing the light elemental soul!

Konstantin's face became ugly, he clenched his fists and asked in a deep voice, "So, this is the Angel's Tear in our hands?

"If nothing else, it could only be that person. Tang Mo simply analyzed: "The defeat, the tears of the angels, the power of nature, and the ruins of the underground temple, although they are incredible, there can only be one conclusion. ”

Konstantin's teeth rattled, he was silent for a while, and finally made a decision: "I will personally take people down, no matter what is in the ruins of the temple, it cannot be allowed to be desecrated." ”

"Also, I'll order Julian to step up the city's defenses, and there's no problem with Justin's assistance. As for you......," the Count hesitated, "you still need to step up your studies, you have just begun the path of a mage, don't let the chores take too much away from your energy, maybe I should find you a teacher." I don't know where you got the ancient inheritance, but there will be some changes in the development of magic over time, and it is always safer to have someone to guide you, so I'll talk about this when I get back. ”

Tang Mo was a little surprised by the earl's reaction, no matter what happened in the ruins, what did it have to do with the Hibiscus family? Even if that temple was destroyed and this power was lost, it wouldn't be a big deal if the undead creatures could be stationed in large numbers on the Scarlet Plains, right? After all, Totoro and the Hibiscus people withered, if they could get the support of the undead army, would it be a good thing, right? Could it be that they were worried that the control of the territory would be taken away by those undead? Tang Mo thought about it, it didn't seem impossible.

"You don't understand. At last the Count said, "Anyway, the matter is decided, I will take the box with me, and you should stay in the city and not run around." ”

Finally, the earl patted Tang Mo on the shoulder: "Read books and practice spells well, financially, at least you don't have to worry about it before the high level." Don't follow those adventurers, run to messy places all day long, practice hard, if one day the Albiscus family can also produce a legendary mage, it is no longer a luxury to revitalize the family. ”

Tang Mo looked at the earl leaving, and suddenly laughed, do you want Julian to inherit the family business and concentrate on the promising profession of mage? This was originally his own idea, but he thought this in his heart, it was always different from being decided like this, no matter what, he still felt a little unhappy!