Prologue: The Beginning
"Is that here, Moore?" asked the self-proclaimed King of Mercenaries, raising his hand as he unfurled, and behind him, an army of mercenaries stopped. This is Jeglo's army, and he has become a veritable king of mercenaries with this army.
"Of course, if you don't believe me, open the book "The Fall of the Djinn" written by our elves, and there is a picture attached to it, so you can see it clearly. Elf Moore said as he pulled out a book and flipped through it to throw it to Jeglow, but the sound of the orc's strong shield behind Jeglo warned Moore that he would be beaten badly if he did.
Moore coughed, withdrew his hand to drop the book, walked over to Jeglo, handed him the book, and began to explain: "The greatest messenger in ancient legends, and the king who once ruled the entire world of Machinaru, the original king Ma crossbow disappeared one day, but in fact he made a mistake, was ordered to be expelled, and was stripped of his power, which was sealed in a skull-like mountain, and that mountain is right in front of your eyes!" Moore said, turning to look at the mountain in front of him.
"It is said that this is his head. A female voice rang out.
Moore turned to look at the two men next to him who were not part of the army, Maas and his wife, and it was Maas's wife, Lilia, who spoke. After he looked at it for a second, he grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, which made the couple feel a little disgusted, it was almost impossible for an elf like Moore to exist in an elf, but now, a negative teaching material in an elf stood in front of them.
"It seems that you know very well, most people will not be interested in this cave that exists in the deepest part of the Phantom Beast Forest, since you have a good understanding of this place, then what you want to get must not be simple!" Moore laughed after speaking, and Jeglo, who was comparing the pattern on the book with the appearance of the mountain, heard Moore's words, and suddenly raised his head to look at the Maas couple.
"Don't worry, we're not interested in what you want, and besides, it's up to you to go back, we just want to find a way to unravel a curse. Maas said. He didn't lie to Jeglo, and he didn't dare to do it.
"But isn't there a curse in this, how can we get in if we don't break the curse, if we can't get out if we get in......," Ijinna, who is a living soul clan, suddenly asked, as a living soul clan, he was born in a half-soul and half-human state, so what he was most afraid of was the curse with the strongest destructive power on the soul, and the soul was directly cursed, which was a feeling that was thousands of times more painful than the flesh being cut by a knife.
Moore turned his head to look at Izina again, looking at his somewhat transparent but living person for a while before saying: "You don't have to worry too much about this problem, the curse of this cave, I have asked a spell soul master to help us experiment with the Elven Dynasty, it is also a kind of illusion spell, it may have been originally used to make the crossbow sleep in a dream forever, but this curse has been broken a long time ago, I think everyone will do it." β
"You mean we add knives to ourselves when we encounter a curse until we find the spell!" said Jeglo as he slammed the book shut, the strong shield behind him slamming the rhombus axe on his shoulder, and a small pit appeared on the ground.
Moore glanced at the small pit on the ground, and was shocked and quickly waved his hand: "No, of course not." Jeglo, I have a better way, I secretly learned the Aki Spell Solving Technique in the Bissi Inner Court, and the principle of the Aki Spell Solving Technique is also the magic to remove this curse, but the curse used to deal with the crossbow will definitely not be so simple, I used the closest animal to the human brain to do the experiment, and raised the Aki Spell Solving to a higher level. However, there is one more thing to use this spell unraveling. β
"What's it, hurry up!" asked Jeglo eagerly.
Moore grinned again, turned to look at Lilia and said slowly, "Woman's blood." β
Jaglo and Strong Shield looked at Lilia at the same time, and Maas pulled Lilia behind him and asked Moore, "I heard that Aki's spell solving is a spell that can be activated without any conditions, why did you ask for a woman's blood when you came here, why does it sound more like a curse ritual?"
As soon as Jeglo heard Maas's words, he looked at Moore with a gloomy face. Seeing that the situation was not right, Moore hurriedly explained: "Aki's spell solving technique really doesn't need any conditions, but Ma Crossbow's curse represents death, and I strengthened Aki's spell solving technique not to dissolve it, but to void the life forms that have entered the range of its curse, so that the curse can't find us and can't feel the existence of any life forms!"
"Mas, Lilia, you also heard, I know that you have just given birth and your body is very weak, but the opportunity to make a fortune is in front of us, we can't miss it, you came to us to go to this place first, in order to come here, I also lost nearly half of my brothers, and you, just lose a little blood, not too much!" said Jeglo before Mas could speak.
Maas and Lilia were speechless. Indeed, this is the deepest part of the southern side of the Machinaru world, the most cruel place in the world, the Phantom Beast Forest. In order to enter this forest, inhabited by all kinds of magical beasts, Jeglo's mercenary group lost half of its men. If it weren't for this self-proclaimed mercenary king, the two of them would never have wanted to set foot in here for the rest of their lives, and this time I really wanted to thank them, but what Elf Moore said was too much like a curse, which made the two of them a little uneasy.
"yes, just a little bit of blood is enough, and I promise there won't be any after-effects. Moore said as he held out his hand, holding a small bottle containing an unknown liquid.
Maas groaned for a long time, but finally compromised, it was they who persuaded Jeglo and Moore to come, if they didn't hand over that little bit of blood, Jeglo probably wouldn't let them leave here, not to mention, their purpose this time was for their newborn son. When their son was born, they found a mark on him, and it was strange, like a sword chained by countless chains, and the mark was so large that it covered almost his entire back. Later, Maas found this mark on watching "The Fall of the Djinn", which is a curse, a curse that imprisons the soul, and will continue to be born and die with the soul, and the soul under this curse generally does not live for twenty years before dying, and the two of them don't want their children to die as soon as they grow up, and after discussion, they decided to come to this place to find the answer.
Seeing that they agreed, Moore opened the lid of the bottle and let Lilia drip a few drops of blood into it, then he said a few elven words to the bottle, stretched out his finger and dipped his finger in the bottle, walked up to Jeglo and said, "We can't bring too many people in, otherwise the magic will lose its effect, only two more." Ritowa, Shaku (may the god of deception protect you)!"
Moore wiped Jaglo's forehead and walked over to the shield. Jeglo turned around and found two people in his legion, one was Camille the Magician, and the other was Wu Meng, the Blader. In his legion, in addition to him and Strongshield, there are Camille, Wu Meng, and Izina. Camille was born into a poor family, but he loved magic, self-taught, and was later accepted as a student by a wandering magician, and he mastered all kinds of magic as a clever man, while Wu Meng was a thief, and after discovering that he was fast, he turned into a bounty hunter, small and agile, and very fast with a short knife; Needless to say, as a half-human, half-soul, he was not afraid of magic and weapons at all, even if he stood still, not many people could do anything to him.
When all the prerequisites were completed, Jaglo glanced at Camille, who walked out of the cave with his scepter, recited a spell in his mouth, and with a wave of the scepter in his hand, a burst of golden light lit up at the entrance of the cave, and then golden lines appeared on the walls of the cave, and these lines lit up for a few seconds and then quickly extended towards the depths of the cave.
Seeing the golden light disappear, Jeglo looked at the black cave and said, "Although there will be no creatures that threaten us inside, you all have to pay attention to me, I don't mind if there are fewer people when I come out." With that, he was the first to walk towards the cave, and Strongshield glared at the other people who were about to enter the cave, and followed Jeglo into the cave.
"Remember, we have magic protection, but don't touch things!" Moore said with a smile as he entered the cave.
Seeing that everyone else walked into the cave, Maas and Lilia glanced at each other, grabbed each other's hands and walked into the cave, those who did not have to go into the cave began to unload their burdens and rest in place, Moore's student Shizhu finally breathed a sigh of relief, the teacher's wish was finally coming true, this cave not only existed in treasure, but also hid the power of the crossbow, legend has it that he was the only student of the magician Zukodis, he got the lifelong learning of Kodis, and separated this knowledge to different people, but it is said that he also left a magic that was not given to humans to learn, it was a kind of death magic, and no one knows what the specific effect isγ
"Whew-" A Mick later, a howl suddenly sounded from the cave, and everyone stood up at the same time, the voice just now didn't sound like a human cry at all, like a giant beast awakened, the sound lasted for a few seconds, and everyone didn't even dare to move, and Shi Magong was already so frightened that he sat on the ground, because he saw something more terrible, he trembled and stretched out his finger, pointing to the sky above Skull Mountain, and someone noticed the appearance of Shi Ma, and also looked in the direction of his finger.
"Look there!" a frightened voice sounded in the crowd, everyone looked up, only to see a few black mist floating out of the mountain, straight to the sky, floating for a few hundred meters and then suddenly stopped, in the air converged and turned around, and the speed became faster and faster, black lightning appeared in the air, the wind howled, everyone squinted, looking at the black mist in the sky that kept spinning.
The cries of various monsters sounded in the forest, and Shi Zhu turned his head to look at the forest, fortunately, the sound of those monsters was getting farther and farther away, but this made him even more frightened, because this meant that the scene in front of him was a hundred times more terrifying than those monsters.
"I can't stay here, I still have my family. Shi Masonry looked at the people around him, and now everyone was frightened by the sight above, and he was lying on the ground now, and no one noticed him, and now was a very suitable opportunity for him to leave.
Shi Zhuzhu crawled in the crowd and wanted to get out of this terrifying place quickly, and a terrifying cry sounded in the cave behind him, and there was a suction, and several magicians were instantly sucked into the cave, and many mercenaries reacted, either sticking their swords into the ground to support themselves, or holding the things next to them. Stone was horrified by that scene, he had never seen such a terrible thing, maybe it was the resurrection of the crossbow, and now it needed to eat, and they were its meal.
The stone masonry crawled forward hand and foot, and the people behind him were sucked into the cave one by one, and he knew it as soon as he heard a scream, but he didn't dare to look back, let alone save them, and now as long as he could live, he was already very lucky. But the suction force is getting stronger and stronger, and gradually, Shi Zhu feels that he can't hold on, and he can't move any further, just when his whole person begins to retreat, a hand suddenly grabs his hand, Shi Zhu's eyes are full of tears and looks forward, only to see a man in heavy armor pulling him hard.
"Hold on to that tree, hurry up, I can't catch you for too long!" The man who spoke was a heavy swordsman who had always taken good care of him, probably because he was an elf, and the elf would not be hated wherever he appeared, except for his teacher.
Stone Masonry hugged the tree, but saw that the heavy sword that the heavy swordsman had stuck in the ground was moving towards the cave little by little.
"Disimida!" Ishi-maju recited the spell of the Stone Solidification Technique, and reached out to grab the heavy swordsman, but the heavy swordsman only had time to look up at him before the whole person flew towards the cave.
The wind stopped, the fog was gone, the suction was gone, and the stone masonry sat down on the ground, staring blankly at the clearing in front of him. Now everyone else is in this hole of death, except for him.