Chapter Forty-Eight: Dark Magic
There are two possibilities for causing chaos among magic elves, one is large-scale natural factors, such as earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, fires, etc. www.biquge.info One is the loss of control of super-large magic, the mixed magic of multiple high-level magicians of different departments is very difficult to control, and one accidentally will cause the attributes of the magic elves to be restrained, thus causing the collapse of the entire magic. In history, large-scale magic elf chaos will invariably cause the destruction of lives, especially the surging tide of magic like a flood in the second year of the Dragon Han calendar, which not only made users pay a heavy price, but also rewrote the historical trend of the entire Shusyari continent.
-- "Compulsory Education Curriculum Standard Experimental Textbook and Magic"
"Brother knight, please inform the marshal quickly, something big is about to happen!" Bert grabbed the knight who was guarding his door, and he couldn't care about being polite when the situation was critical.
The young knight was startled by Bert's sudden outburst, and did not look like he was joking with him, and immediately turned around and ran to the marshal's room, where the lights had just been turned off.
"What's the matter? I ask you what's going on? Who answered me!" a roar of rage roared across the wilderness under the night sky.
Maxim grabbed the fallen soldier by the collar and sprayed spit directly on the face of the equally confused soldier.
Maxim threw him on the ground again. A little farther away, in a huge magic array, thirteen corpses lay in pools of blood. Three mages, ten high-level mages, all of them are the top figures of the empire! Lying in front of him like this, each of them is the most important person in the empire, even the entire expeditionary force of 300,000 people combined is not as important as a few of them, how can this be explained to the king?
"Marshal, there are still living people here!" shouted the soldier who was examining the corpse in the distance. Maxim hurried over in three steps and two steps.
"What the hell is going on? What's going on?"
Maxim recognized the magician, a lecturer at the Imperial Academy of Magic, a magician who had taught the soldiers in the barracks how to fight the enemy in the midst of the chaos. And now he spits blood from his mouth, and his white hair has long been covered with blood.
"Conspiracy...... This...... It's a conspiracy. That Darkness...... Dark Mage...... He took advantage of our ......" After saying this, the Archmage, who had been in the sky, swallowed his last breath.
"Bastard!" Maxim stomped his foot angrily, "Someone! Someone! Find me that dark mage!"
"No need to look for it, I'm here. Everyone turned around at the sound of the voice, and a huge teleportation circle appeared from the darkness, and a black-robed magician slowly floated out of it. His tone was faint, as if the corpse lying there had nothing to do with him.
"Who the hell are you, and why did you murder the Imperial Mage?" Maxim's finger slowly fell from the dark mage in the air, and everything in front of him was enough to prove that he was a traitor sent by the enemy, deliberately planning to murder the Imperial High Mage. The soldiers behind him drew their swords one after another, and surrounded the dark mage.
"It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is that the new century is about to begin, so what about the people who sacrifice so much? Those who are willing to obey the Lord of the New Century will gain unlimited power and endless glory and wealth!" The voice of the dark mage hovered above the magic circle, as if bound by an invisible force, unable to escape.
"Fool the crowd, take it for me!" At the sound of an order, the long swords of the three soldiers slashed at the magician with a roar. The Imperial Marshal's Guards were all the best among the human warriors, and the three soldiers were very strong in small cooperation, and the three long swords attacked from three angles at the same time. Even if the opponent is a magister, they will not be able to resist attacks from three directions.
Everyone waited for the sound of the sword entering the flesh, and Maxim was still regretting whether he had taken too hard of a blow, and he still needed to bring him back to the imperial capital to ask for his guilt.
The magic array in mid-air shook very briefly, and a figure flashed, and the three long swords of "Ding Ding Ding" all fell to the ground. The soldiers looked at the short sword in their hands in disbelief, and they didn't feel any impact of the collision just now, and the long sword filled with dark steel was cut off. What the soldiers couldn't believe was that the moment the long sword broke, there was a sudden heat in their chests. When I looked down, I saw that a two-centimeter-wide wound was bursting with blood.
Before they could make a sound, the three soldiers fell to the ground with a bang. The man standing in front of them was a muscular man, but not tall, holding a curved scimitar in his hand, and his black hair was pulled back into a ball.
Surprised, the remaining seven soldiers quickly gathered in front of Maxim. "Hehe, I haven't moved my body for a long time, let me meet you. Gently pushing away the soldiers in front of him, Maxim drew the saber at his waist, a faint purple light flashed, and the sharp-eyed soldier recognized the dove feather sword that King Satya had given to Maxim.
It is rumored that this sword was made thousands of years ago by the dwarven casting master Ou Yezi, although it is not the most famous sword he created, but the master's sword-forging skills are superb, and the swords forged are all treasures in the world. Legend has it that Master Ouyezi went deep into the swamp and found a strange ore in a quagmire emitting poisonous gas. The master saw at a glance that the ore was a rare variety, so he brought it back to the workshop for processing. Later, it took a full decade to forge and a legendary weapon was born. When this sword is unsheathed, because of the properties carried by the ore itself, it will reflect the purple light of the dotofeather, so it is called the dovefeather sword by the world.
As soon as the Hatoha Sword came out, it coincidentally flowed into the troubled times at that time and was obtained by a righteous hero. In the end, the hero relied on this sword to cut down all the traitors in the world and bring a hundred years of peace to the world. It's a pity that although the sword is not blunt, people are old. Decades after the hero's death, the world has long forgotten the hero and the dove feather sword, and the troubled times have started again. Over the next few thousand years, cavalry and spears became the mainstream weapons of the battlefield, and knightly swords replaced swords, and swords were completely reduced from mainstream weapons to ornamental objects. Wearing a long sword became a style of the literati.
In the last hundred years, the rise of light infantry has allowed the longsword to exert its rightful abilities, and more and more knights and adventurers have chosen the light and dexterous longsword as their lifelong companion. The knights also carried a long sword with them in place of the slender and fragile knight's sword.
Perhaps because of the change of the times, after the rise of the long sword, the Hatofeather Sword reappeared in the eyes of the world. Later, after many years of change, the Hatofeather Sword became the sword of the king of the Satya Empire. The contemporary Satyan king bestowed the sword on Marshal Maxim, who had made great achievements for the Empire.
It was also the first time that the soldiers had seen the Havefeather Sword, after all, it was a reward from His Majesty the King, and Maxim would not have taken it out until the critical moment. However, the enemy's weapons are obviously several notches higher than the Imperial weapons, and perhaps only the Hatoha Sword can resist them.
"Make a move. Maxim stood with his sword crossed, but the death of the soldiers calmed him down, and he quietly waited for the other party to make a move.
The other man did not speak, and slashed from top to bottom with a knife in both hands, and slashed at Maxim's head. Maxim did not dare to take it hard, and the consequences of overconfidence without knowing the opponent's weapons would be the same as those three soldiers. Maxim dodges sideways, and the opponent's attack path is wide open, and if the attack is dodged, he will have plenty of room to counterattack.
However, the opponent's skills are also good, and the blade turned his hand after a brief pause in mid-air, and changed from a slash to a waist slash. Maxim then turned to attack, his sword slashing from the bottom up to his hands.
The corners of the opponent's mouth smiled slightly, and his body floated backwards as if it had no weight, dodging Maxim's attack, and at the same time stopped his own attack.
"Well, that's it. Maxim stopped defending and attacked, a purple glow that shot straight into the heart of his opponent like a meteor.
The samurai on the opposite side didn't seem to be good at hand-to-hand combat, the one-meter-and-five-meter-long sword only had one blade, and the hand-to-hand combat was not as flexible as the eighty-centimeter long sword. Maxim immediately drew his sword and stabbed again, using the knight's sword's stabbing technique on the long sword. Maxim tried his best to avoid the confrontation with the opponent's weapons, hoping to win with his years of combat experience.
Both sides spotted each other's weaknesses, and the samurai roared in anger and slashed at the Hatoha sword at the moment of Maxim's stabbing. Maxim didn't have time to draw his sword, so he had to raise his sword to meet it. Only a sound of gold and jade was heard, and both weapons were bounced off. There were no cracks between the Hatofa Sword and the sword, and it seemed that the two weapons were of equal strength.
The samurai had considerable strength in both hands of the sword, and the slash just now caught Maxim off guard, and he almost let the sword fly out of his hand. Seeing that the Hatoha Sword was intact under the opponent's full blow, he let go of the stone in his heart and began to play with all his might.
However, the samurai on the opposite side had already begun to panic, and the warrior in front of him was obviously a veteran of a hundred battles, both in terms of physical fitness and martial arts talent. The advantage of his weapon has been wiped out by this fuchsia long sword, and he has begun to be powerless.
Sure enough, after ten encounters, Maxim slashed the samurai's arm with a sword, and the samurai threw away the knife in his hand in pain. Then the soldiers behind Maxim immediately rushed up and crushed the samurai to the ground.
"This is what you call the Lord of the New Century?" Maxim pulled a handkerchief from his bosom and wiped the blood from his sword. "I advise you to surrender obediently, and go back to the imperial capital with me to confess your crimes, and maybe I can ask Your Majesty to leave you a whole corpse. ”
Maxim threw his handkerchief on the ground, and with a wave of his left hand, three soldiers surrounded the dark mage.
"Haha...... Hahahaha...... Hahahahaha. The dark mage under his robes began to laugh out loud.
"What are you scheming about? Even if you're a magister, my guards can kill you before you cast your magic. Maxim inserted the sword into the scabbard with his backhand.
"Maxim, you're still too naïve. Do you think you can beat me? The dark mage pointed to the mage lying on the ground.
"Your Magisters have volunteered to be sacrificed to my Lord. ”
Everyone was shocked, sacrifice? Suddenly, the teleportation circle in mid-air began to vibrate continuously.
"Kill him!" Maxim sensed that something was wrong. But it was too late, the figure of the dark mage gradually began to blur, and several figures suddenly appeared in the teleportation array.
Several people dressed like the samurai just now appeared from the teleportation array, each wearing a very peculiar sword. Moreover, the teleportation array continued to absorb energy from all around, and more people kept popping up behind the teleportation array.
As warriors, they didn't know how to stop the operation of the magic circle, and could only watch them keep coming out of the magic circle.
"Withdraw!" Maxim is not stupid, if the warriors who came out of the circle are all as strong as that warrior, he and his guards are not their opponents at all, and this is at least dozens of kilometers away from the barracks. Withdraw to the camp first and consider the long term.
But it was too late, a long knife pierced the chest of the Imperial Marshal from behind, and a samurai stood behind him with a blank face, and a mouthful of blood gushed out.
"Marshal!" the soldiers were furious, and their swords slashed at the sneak attacker.
After only a few breaths, there were no more Imperial soldiers standing in the clearing, and the body of the Imperial Marshal lay there. The magic array kept vibrating, and more and more warriors came out of it, as if it was endless, never ending.