Chapter 144: Seclusion (5)
Life in the Colorful Village was comfortable, and it reminded Aluka of the days before she became a god sprayer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info There are indeed a lot of monsters, they came out of thin air, and Aluka personally experienced the earthquake, but he didn't know where these monsters came from. Monsters are like beasts, and they don't easily approach areas where there are traces of humans, unless they're hungry and crazy. They are sensitive to unnatural buildings, as if they can sense that they are the territory of another species. Monsters prefer to hunt beasts or other monsters rather than attack humans.
Aluka stayed for a few days, only striking once, and taking out a flying bird monster. This monster looks similar to a petrified demon chicken, and should be a close relative, but its skin is covered with scales instead of feathers, and it also has lizard-like vertical eyes, which is more ferocious than ordinary monsters, with sharp teeth and sharp mouths, but no special abilities. The demon pig can still breathe a few breaths of fire, and this lizard-bird combination will only attack with its limbs.
This made Aruka a little worried, according to this frequency, he wanted to earn enough money to return to the Rhine Kingdom in the distance. He still remembered the terrifying red dragon in the Hermit Forest, maybe as powerful as the main god, and there were many more creatures he hadn't seen before. If you want to travel through a place like the Hermit Forest, without a companion taking turns to keep vigil, you are asking for your own death.
From the main road, you have to think about food and accommodation, and it is not difficult to steal chickens and dogs with his skills, but it is a pity that Aruka is resistant. But he is not so pedantic, it's a big deal to rob the rich and help the poor, but the poverty is himself.
In addition to earning more than a dozen senals, Arouca has two more gains in the past few days.
The first harvest was that he found that the village chief's house had a study, which was full of precious ancient books. The Duchy of Guy is influenced by Lucas, and it is more martial than the south, and it doesn't care about any history and culture at all, otherwise these ancient village chiefs will definitely not be able to keep it. It was cheaper for Aluca, who could read ancient texts without any problems, even if they were written in the dialect of the Principality of Guy during the Heroic Age.
According to ancient records, the ancestors of Wucai Village did come from the Mukden Empire, not because they were fleeing, but because they came to pursue the mysteries of magic. The Mukden Empire has no magical heritage, only the West. What lifted Aluca's spirit was that the ancient books also recorded the extraordinary power possessed by the Mukden Empire, called "Immortal Arts". In the Heroic Age, it was also known as Oriental Immortal.
The ancestors of Wucai Village are likely to be big names in the Mukden Empire, and the records left behind are very detailed. Eastern immortal art is divided into many systems, which are more complex and esoteric than magic with only four elemental branches. However, both have their own merits, with magic focusing more on lethality and creativity, and immortal art focusing more on the exploration of the mysteries of the universe. One is pragmatism and the other is idealism.
Exorcism, the Five Elements, the Detention of Spirits, the Style of God, and the Thunder Law are the five most important branches of immortal arts. Aluka remembered that the Great Sun Detention Spirit Array used by Alexander to lead the Divine Magic Army, whether in terms of name or effect, it was likely to have something to do with immortal arts, and it seemed that the Mukden Empire was not completely isolated from the world, at least it had a certain cooperative relationship with the Rhine Kingdom, such as commercial exchanges between the two countries.
After several days of research, Aluka discovered that the supernatural powers of the East and the West had something in common. Not to mention the similarities between the five elements and the four elements, Lei Fa is actually a divine art. The four elements do not contain thunder, but there are abilities such as thunder spears in divine arts. However, the details are naturally different, in general, magic is more valuable in actual combat, but immortal art is more mysterious. It's like two enemies meeting in a narrow way, one side is holding a dragon stick, playing a dazzling tiger and a tiger, and the other side is holding a pistol and ending the battle with a shot.
As for the divine arts...... This depends on what the god of faith does, the believers of the god of war are naturally more powerful, and the believers of the god of light, in addition to the backlight courtyard, are still based on non-lethal magic.
Another gain was to learn some news about the Duchy of Guy through the merchants.
Merchants are a profession with low social status, but no one will take the initiative to embarrass them, because they have the protection of the Chamber of Commerce, even the Hill Empire will not provoke the Chamber of Commerce, which is equivalent to provoking delicious and tempting gold coins. Therefore, in the midst of war, the merchants who are not afraid of death or have no choice are still engaged in opportunistic reactionary acts, and the army will not embarrass them, but only the attacks of robbers and deserters will be worried.
In the past few days, two merchants have come to Wucai Village, and the first one has brought news of El City. After the death of Grand Duke Lucas and Brandon, the Knights of the Burning Sun and the Guy Army were leaderless, and a cardinal priest called a meeting of the army's top brass, and after a meeting that lasted 3 minutes and 20 seconds, the army top brass made a decision. They first contacted one of Lucas's cousins, elected him as the new Grand Duke, and then announced the surrender of the whole country. The Knights of the Sun disagreed, but they couldn't bear to attack their allies, so they had to break away from El City and take the initiative to meet the Imperial army. The result can be imagined, at this moment, they should all be corpses everywhere.
The second merchant brought news from some further afield. After the surrender of the new Grand Duke Guy, some of the collateral descendants of the Guy family claimed that they would live and die with the Rhine Kingdom, and that the royal city would not surrender until it fell, and they also encouraged a large group of gray-clad priests to spread their bravery and loyalty.
It didn't take much time for Arouca to guess the intentions of these people, and took the opportunity to become independent. The collateral descendants of the Guy family are also lords, with heavy troops, and there are still twelve principalities to fight in the Hill Empire, and they don't have much energy to pay attention to these small things on one side, and it is even more impossible for the family to go out to quell the rebellion at this time, and since then the Guyy Principality has been divided into many small principalities. If you really want to live and die with the Rhine Kingdom, why don't you send troops to attack the Imperial army? What does it mean to defend your own one-third of an acre? Aluka could see these things, but he couldn't worry about them.
The situation in the Duchy of Guy today is not optimistic, and the new Grand Duke is a teenager, basically a puppet of the top of the military. An old bastard named Alexander disappeared after a meeting, leaving the mess behind. The top brass of the army is in cahoots with the Imperial army, and the people are still from the Duchy of Guy, and their hearts are already eager to be reincarnated as the dogs of the Empire. As a result, the Knights of the Cathars, a team not much different from bandits and bandits, are rampant in the land of the Duchy of Gay.
The Bright Crusade only has military rules and regulations, and the Knights of the Apologetics only have regimental rules, what is the use of regimental rules? Knights have knighthoods and will not be sentenced by the court, and burning, killing, and looting all depend on their mood. According to the grapevine, if it weren't for the Bright Crusade hearing about what the Knights of Cathar had done, they would have threatened the Cathedral of Light by refusing to fight, and the Duchy of Guy might have turned into a human purgatory.
Is it better to fight a bloody battle, or to surrender? Aluka now finds himself still too naïve, thinking that the surrender of the Guy army will be over. People are swords, I am fish and meat, nothing will be good. If you don't surrender, you will lose your country, and if you die, you will die again. Those who surrendered were no different from slaves, and life was worse than death.
With this mixed feeling, Aluca ushered in the fourth game of the God Slayer.