6. The Donkey and the Knight
"Jingling, jingling~Xia Feng'er, so noisy~Jingling, jingling~My heart~~Jingling, jingling~~"
On a scorching summer day, in the wolf wilderness where the kingdom of Bled meets the gray plains, a donkey is walking alone, and the heat of the scorching earth distorts the air, making everything on the ground void and reality, but in this reality, one or two strange songs that are not pitched at all are accompanied by crisp camel bells, and they are heard far and wide in this almost uninhabited land, like the ghostly sound of a strange story about parents scaring their children. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Da, da, da, I don't have horns on my head ~ horns ~ horns ~, I don't have a tail behind me ~ tail ~ tail ~~ lala la la"
Lying on the donkey, Elevan was humming a messy song weakly, and his eyes widened and he scanned left and right, he desperately hoped to find a passing caravan or horse caravan, and it was not impossible for bandits who really couldn't go out to do things, but since he walked out of the Duchy of House and entered the kingdom of Bled, his good luck was like a wife and daughter abandoned by a wild man, and he ran out a long way with a swish, although he didn't have to worry about eating and drinking now, there was no doubt that this hellish climate and thousands of miles of uninhabited loneliness were enough to overwhelm anyone who dared to walk alone。
But if you look closely at the lazy guy lying on the donkey's back like a corpse, you can find that this guy who looks like he has only one breath left is actually amazingly good, he doesn't even have a drop of sweat on his face, and a few centimeters away from the surface of the guy's body, there is always a thin layer of invisible cold air floating, and this cold layer even envelops most of the donkey's body, which gives the white-billed donkey that he finally found in the horse pen of the Bordeaux estate have the motivation to continue walking.
Suddenly, the noise of horses mixed with human voices caused the donkey to raise its head and bark, and Elevenn lay on the donkey as usual and pretended to be dead, allowing the mad donkey to scurry around with him, looking for the sudden noise.
In a short time, a group of ornate horsemen appeared on the hills not far away, in their seemingly scattered formation was an absolutely luxurious carriage, even the horsemen who drove were as many as four, eight sturdy Nord horses sweating in the sun, under the whips of the horsemen, galloping towards the discovery of Sam City, the cavalry that surrounded the carriage was shining silver, all covered in steel armor like iron cans, with towering feathers on their heads, and the shields of the horses also wearing thick armor depicted with elephant-shaped red dragons, and the knights held the reins in one hand and held the flying banner in the other, which is also outlined with gold and silver threads with the dancing dragon logo, at a glance it is a hundred battle elite soldiers, absolute elite heavy armored knights.
The mad donkey was also shocked by the murderous aura that came to its face, and it stood under a dying tree and did not dare to come forward, just like a runny child staying on the side of the road, watching with envy the galloping horses running by the side, his eyes were full of envy, and then a black shadow flew in, and then the donkey howled in pain.
At first, those elite knights saw a donkey suddenly appear on the vast hills, and they must have stepped forward to check, but seeing that the donkey was standing still unusually sensibly, these arrogant knights who had galloped thousands of miles naturally did not want to do much, they roared and escorted the carriage away, and this matter was over, but a young knight without a helmet who fell behind the carriage did not know whether it was because he was dizzy from the sun, or because he was in a bad mood for other things, and looked at the donkey standing there in a daze, and grabbed the horsewhip without thinking about it, and gave the sluggish donkey a beat, this time it also seemed to vent his anger, watching the donkey swaying from side to side in pain, he laughed and urged the war horse to catch up.
"Hey..."
Elivan, who was pretending to be dead, seemed to be awakened by the painful upheaval of the donkey, he looked at the knight who was far away, and then at the bleeding scar on the donkey's face, and while touching the donkey's head, he whispered in the donkey's pricked ear,
"Pretty unwilling, right?"
If anyone else was here, they would have thought that Elivan was crazy, how could a stupid donkey understand human speech, but Elivan ignored the donkey's crying and continued to say in that towering ear,
"You want to catch up and bite that crumb, don't you?"
The donkey fell silent, and Elivan smiled and flicked the donkey's ear,
"I don't know why, but I know you can understand me, you damn stupid donkey, do you really think I picked you in Old Hall's stable? ”
The pierced donkey lowered his head and began to nibble on the dead grass on the ground, as if he did not want to deal with Eleven, nor did he want to listen to his mocking laughter, but Eleven's straightened the collar of his trench coat and stroked the cowboy hat on his head, his voice was solemn, like a knight ready to go,
"Well, as long as you can catch up with the guy who pumped you, I'll be responsible for helping you get revenge, how about it?"
A trace of anger flashed in the donkey's big green eyes, and then he raised his head and howled twice, then shook off his four hooves and began to run, which is definitely a speed that a donkey has never had along the way, this guy can really understand human words!
"Hey, donkey, donkey, run!"
Elivan was pressing his cowboy hat while shaking the reins, in fact, he was completely pretentious, looking for the feeling of a western cowboy, the donkey knew how to run, and naturally he would not throw him down, in fact, he just lied to this stupid donkey, at first when he planned to come to Sam City in person, he went to say goodbye to old Hall and deal with the matter of gold-studded roses by the way, and then old Hall said that he would give him a good horse as a mount, but Ellevin couldn't ride a horse! The lazy fellow spent almost all of his time on alchemy and elemental meditation, and in the end Old Hall had to settle for a supposedly docile donkey for him.
But just out of Bordeaux City, this docile donkey began to fight against Elevenn everywhere, at first Elavin thought it was just the nature of the donkey, but occasionally after he saw the human emotions flashing in the donkey's eyes, Elavin had a vague judgment, but the donkey pretended to be crazy and stupid from time to time and made him not sure of his bold conjecture, until just now, the crazy knight threw a whip to the donkey, and let Elevan, who was lying on the donkey, see the trace of hatred in the donkey's swaying eyes, so he began this temptation, and finally determined that this magical donkey can really understand human speechand it seems that there should be no less wisdom than that of a human child.
From this point of view, Elevenn really has to thank the knight with a hole in his brain.
So Elevenn returned the favor almost immediately!
The donkey quickly approached the knight of the pit in the head pit who fell behind the carriage with all his might, to be honest, from a close point this guy is simply amazingly handsome, with a hearty short blond hair, with a hard face, bright eyes, probably to show his manhood, he also has a small mustache, quite chic, but the haze that flashes from time to time in those blue eyes seriously reduces his impression in Elivan's eyes, this is a despicable villain who will do anything to achieve his ends!
Eliven pursed his lips and reached out to make a thumbs-up gesture to the knight who turned his head to look at him and his donkey, and before the knight could react, the silver revolver in his other hand was aimed at the head of the knight's crotch.
"Hey, knight, cover your face, it's going to make you pee your pants, don't look!"
With Elivan's mocking laughter, the trigger slammed to the end.
"Bang!"
Driven by the huge energy, the magic crystal bullet easily pierced through the cortex of the Nord horse's skull at the speed of sound, and the already extremely fragile solid magic circle engraved on the bullet's body shattered after hitting the horse's hard skull, so the remaining energy exploded in an instant.
"Boom!"
The head of the Nord steed, which was worth a thousand gold, burst open like a bag full of tomatoes, and the splatters of blood and gray brains sprinkled the knight's body on his face, and then the feeling of falling around his body and the sudden severe pain in his lower body made the knight let out a wail, and it turned out that the weight of the horse's whole body was pressed on the knight's legs, so that he could only lie there and could not move.
Elivin urged the donkey with a smile in his eyes to walk to the knight's side, grabbed the whip made of thin cowhide and jute rope with one hand, and threw it at the wailing knight, with the blessing of 20 points of power now, the whip almost danced out of the afterimage, and the knight's face was also densely covered with red scars, but Elivin also left room for it, the injury looked scary, but it was only a skin injury, and it could be recovered after a period of cultivation, otherwise if it was really a dead hand, even if the knight was lucky enough not to die, this handsome face would be ruined。
He had come all the way to Sam to do business, not to make a feud with the Holy Del Empire, which Eleven knew very well.
"What are you arrogant as a knight squire who doesn't even have a rank? Tut-tut, the hussar knights who attacked with thousands of horsemen and broke 30,000 orcs back then have also degenerated, and even your kind of waste is included, tut-tut. ”
Elivan taunted the unfortunate man with a venomous tongue while smoking, and the donkey kicked the fainted knight's face with his hind hooves from time to time.
The unlucky knight let out such a loud wail, the whole convoy naturally stopped a long time ago, Elevenn naturally noticed this, he has been worried that these knights who don't look easy to mess with will surround the ****, but unexpectedly, the knights just coldly surrounded him and the unlucky knight in the middle, no one dissuaded, no one spoke, the well-trained war horses occasionally snorted, but the hussar knights whose faces were all shrouded in steel helmets were motionless, like statues made of steel.
Elivan couldn't help but think of a sentence that Sass often said when he recalled the past,
"The hussars raised their banners, the earth roared, and when they began to charge, the sky trembled!
He originally thought that it was just a glorification of Sas's memory, but now when he was really faced with a dozen hussar knights, Elivan realized that Sass was not lying, and the pressure on him from that row of human walls was completely not input to Belmons, who had killed in the bloody night, and even more than that, he couldn't imagine what it would be like for thousands of such knights to appear on the battlefield for a while.
"There's nothing wrong with killing the horse because Ned struck your donkey without permission, and whipped him because he offended your honor, but what is the purpose of humiliating the hussar knights, this gentleman?"
A somewhat vicissitudes of voice came from behind the human wall, and the motionless knights immediately urged their horses to make way for the comers, it was an old knight in old black armor, his shoulder armor had even worn out to see the original shape, the front plate armor was full of scars left by the sword, and the helmet that had been pulled apart had long since lost its bright feathers, but was a bare spear tip.
He carried a black two-man heavy sword on his back, which seemed to crush his waist completely, and his crotch was not the pure-blooded Nord horse of the tall horses of other knights, but a plain variegated horse, except for a diamond-shaped red scale on the horse's forehead, which was quite attractive.
But the moment he saw the war horse and the old knight, the whip in Elivan's hand stopped, without him, because the old guy in front of him put too much pressure on him, in his keen perception, what existed in front of him was not an old knight riding a thin horse at all, but a round of bright sun, and a strange beast that looked at him with disdain, in short, the momentum of the two was amazing, but they were suppressed in their bodies, and it seemed that only he could feel it present.
Then the identity of this old man is naturally clear, the kind of terrifying deterrent with divinity, there is only one possibility, this is a paladin, since it is related to the hussar knights, then it is definitely the paladin of Tyr, the god of justice, as for his horse, hehe, it is definitely the unique dragon blood war horse of the First Empire of Northern Xinjiang, and it is said that there is a trace of dragon blood in the body.
The young man immediately jumped down from the donkey, stood respectfully aside, and in the face of the old man's question, he thought for a moment and replied in a low voice,
"Because my ancestors fought with you, for some reason I can't tell his name, but his battle mage squad has faced the attack of millions of orcs with the hussar knights, he has seen the fearless charge of the knights countless times, I have grown up in your story almost since I was a child, but now, I have found that the perfect knight of my dreams does not exist, please forgive a young man for his disappointment, but I really don't think that a person who relies on the prestige of a hussar knight can whip others at will and humiliate others, this is not pride, just a shame。 ”
The old man tilted his head and looked at Elivan with interest, but then he waved his hand, turned to face the dozen knights who were looking at him, and said in a loud voice,
"Do you hear that, little cubs, people have begun to question you after that war, but this is understandable, after all, it is you who made mistakes, so I hereby declare in the name of my god Tyr that the trial of the knight Ned-Schmidt has failed, and the trials of the others have continued!"
Then the old man turned around, looked at Elivan who was frozen in place, and then looked at the donkey that had been shrinking behind Elivan, and said with a smile,
"You see, no one has ever said that wearing the armor of a hussar knight must be a guy of the hussar order, boy, I am the only one in this team who is an official member of the hussar order, and the others are all candidates for this year's knights, thanks to you, we have removed a coward, but your father didn't tell you that a real hussar knight who travels at high speed will never take off his helmet?"
After saying that, the old man openly escorted the convoy away with the other reserve knights, leaving only a few servants of the convoy to take care of Ned Schmidt, who had fainted.
And Elevenn stood in place, his heart was shocked, such a strong army is just a reserve knight, how strong is the damn hussar knights? Is this the real strength of the First Empire in the Northern Frontier? That old man is at least a legendary knight, right? It's amazing.
After a few minutes, Eliven turned around, reached out and hit the head of the dodging donkey, and turned on his horse with a curse, oh no, he turned over the donkey,
"Look how much trouble you've gotten into for this idiot! You know we almost died!"
The goblin donkey surprisingly didn't refute this time, shaking its head and running in the direction of Sam City, but it raised its head from time to time and looked at the dust raised in the distance, and there was still a flash of envy in its eyes, how nice it would be if it was born with a dragon's blood horse.
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The galloping carriage was as gorgeous as a small palace, except for the maids and servants who served the master, a little girl of seven or eight years old was sitting upright on the throne, and in front of her was a large plate full of all kinds of fruits, and the fresh fragrance attracted people's greedy fingers, but the girl's face was full of curiosity, she blinked at the returning old knight with big eyes, and obediently handed over a peeled red dragon fruit, and then asked,
"Uncle Yodel, is Brother Ned really eliminated?"
The old knight unceremoniously took the bright red dragon fruit, bit off the small half in one bite, and then said with a smile,
"Yes, the children of the Schmidt family are becoming more and more uncompetitive, and Ned's playboy will not be able to pass the assessment for three years if he has half of Sophia's strength, but it's a pity that Sophia's girl actually chose the way of a warrior, otherwise the sword of my god Tyr will be three points sharper. ”
When the little girl heard the old knight's words, her eyes rolled involuntarily, and then she continued to ask,
"What about that weird young man, he's riding a donkey, hahaha, he's going to laugh to death. ”
The old knight named Yodel also laughed, but when he had finished laughing, he said mysteriously to the little girl,
"Don't underestimate that little guy, even if there are a few children as small as him in the empire who can resist the momentum of a dozen reserve knights head-on? And if I'm not mistaken, it should be an old man, and he has probably seen a lot of blood at a young age, well, maybe he is still a mage, but his magic is a little strange, anyway, oh, yes, and that donkey, hey, hey, little Leah, you guessed wrong this time, that donkey is very unusual. ”
The ears of the little girl pretending to play with the Rubik's Cube immediately pricked up, but seeing Yodel's smug smile, the little girl Leah snorted and continued to twist her Rubik's Cube, this thing is said to have come to Bordeaux City in the Duchy of Prides, a place called the gold-encrusted rose, is her second brother, the most famous prodigal prince of the Holy Del Empire, David Weifu paid a private visit, and brought her back one of the many toys she liked the most when she traveled to the mainland, in fact, this is also one of the three gemstone cubes made by Elivan himself, specializing in the luxury of local tyrants, the black squares are pure black onyx, and the white squares are white jadeThe other colors are naturally made of a variety of different gemstones, which are priceless, and only the princess of your country like Leah can use them.
"Okay, okay, I won't tease you"
Yodel finished eating his red dragon fruit in a few bites, picked up a handkerchief from the table, and said while wiping the juice,
"That donkey, you can understand human speech!" Ruhl told me that it may have been that the donkey ate some strange things not long after he was born, which opened up his intelligence, and then with his own growth, the donkey's IQ gradually grew, and now it may have the intelligence of a teenager!"
Speaking of this, the old man's eyebrows raised, and he smiled and pointed at Leah, who was stunned there, and said with a smile,
"In other words, that donkey is smarter than our little Leah~"
"Nasty, Uncle Yodel! I'm ignoring you!!"
For a while, the shrill cries of the children and the laughter of the old man spread far and wide, and even those somewhat tired knights couldn't help but show a smile when they heard it, after all, it was Xiao Leah, the little princess who could make the entire Holy Del Empire love.