Chapter Fifty-Eight: Evil Emerges
The voice was abrupt and resolute... Essusyan clenched the delicate hilt of his sword: Danger is coming, and I wander here impartially, like a lonely traveler who has strayed into a mysterious cave.
However, the source of this voice just proves that my action this time is indeed significant...
Can't be wrong, there's really someone here...
Ai Suyan's eyes gradually revealed some long-lost warmth, just like the people who have been blessed with glory show when facing the bright starry sky.
Justice lasts forever, as long as you are there, there will never be ice that cannot be dissolved and solid stones that cannot be bypassed.
In front of Ai Suyan, five young men, naked and only leaning together, were looking at him curiously.
And the sentence just now is now impossible to distinguish the specific source.
Essusan watched in silence: the five men were all tied with ropes, and on the other side of the chamber, a large pile of sturdy, dimly lit swords and armor was displayed haphazardly and disorderly, looking like a rudimentary version of a small armory.
This is a strange and strange place, and I am afraid that only the gods have no fear of it.
"We are soldiers in the walled city, and a soldier named Armu betrayed us, who imprisoned our bodies here in the hope of using our flesh to complete the deal with the demons. His voice was hoarse and powerful, but his breath was slightly exhausted.
"Please, soldier, please lift our ropes, and the great sun god will surely add glory to your fighting career. His voice suddenly fell low again, and Essusyan pricked up his ears to make sure there wasn't much movement outside.
Then his fingers began to deftly weave around the veins of the rope, and he was familiar with the road, without the slightest wavering or hesitation.
"Everything here has actually been corroded by the Orb of the Undead. One of the soldiers in front said unexpectedly as soon as he stood up.
Ai Suyan was taken aback: "Undead Orb?"
The soldiers nodded, and the current one said, "I'm a local who was ordered to guard the 'Guardian Library' for several years, so I'm lucky enough to learn about it, from the casual conversation between the two scholars. He lowered his voice and said word for word.
"Four thousand years ago, the magicians of the human world united with the powerful power of the elves to launch a thorough cleansing operation against the vampire family 'Raghuude' hidden in the shadows in almost all habitable areas of the entire continent. ”
But the vampire family, who were already undead, claimed that they could not abandon the glory of their ancestors, and they rose up to resist, and the power of necromantic magic spread like a poisonous mist, and devoured countless innocent lives. Everywhere he went, everything turned into a feast of fear and despair and bones. ”
"Humans and spirits are at a loss, the world is in despair, church bells are ringing like the whispers of the powerless, and the age of hell is about to descend on the homes of the living. ”
"Yet no one could have predicted that in the dark ages, the hope of mankind would rise like the morning star. ”
"The vampires' misuse of magic has depleted the dark magic of the undead realm, and their kingdom has begun to decline from prosperity to decline, and with it, the stale undead guardians have been wiped out by the iron hooves of the human army. At the same time, the elven mages of the Kingdom of Ilil have developed the 'Orb of the Dead', which is a masterpiece, and hopes to imprison the vampires' undead souls through the pure magic energy within them. ”
"Fifty years later, the last vampire castle in human territory was razed to the ground, and many warriors and mages were sealed in the orb, and the remaining members of 'Raghud' had no choice but to retreat to the 'Rotten Plains' to the east of the Silent Glades, a forbidden place where all living people were forbidden, and they settled down here. ”
"After the war, the Orb of the Dead was handed over to humans for safekeeping, but for some reason, the Orb was suddenly stolen and scattered everywhere, and it was not until two days ago that I learned from Armu that one of them was located in the cave where we were at this moment. ”
After saying that, he sighed softly: "Only enough human warrior souls can awaken the sleeping undead, and then the world will be destroyed... It's an old legend, and now, they're close to success for their vampire family, and we're at stake. ”
Ai Suyan nodded, looking into the warrior's eyes with a trusting gaze, and the latter's expression suddenly became as surprised as if he had seen a blue sky deep underground.
"Please tell me, when will their people be left alone?" said Ai Suyan in a clear tone.
"Every half hour, their people come and make rounds, and I think the time has come. The warrior said in a calm tone.
Before he could finish speaking, Ai Suyan had already drifted around and unexpectedly hid in a dark corner.
He then gestured for the warriors to continue sitting in place, and a clear sound of footsteps began to be heard from the cave.
The chambers were pushed open, and a tall, thin man in a black cloak entered, suddenly excited after witnessing the resentful expressions of the warriors.
I saw him drop the black scroll, put one hand on his waist, and the other hand pointed at the bridge of the current warrior's nose, and then laughed wildly as if he had lost his heart.
"Look at you miserable and miserable people, Empire bears, even if you beg me for mercy, you will never survive!" his tone was flirtatious and foolish: "The sacrifice of the soul... Hahaha! Great necromancy will give me eternal life!"
He turned his head and glanced behind him with a lingering glance: "You are doomed. Then he chuckled a few more times, shook his head in a pretentious gesture, and tried to stretch his legs out of the place where the gate was.
However, a dark shadow sped behind him in an instant, and with a shining silver light, his eyes suddenly lost their brightness, and he collapsed to the ground motionless, like a lifeless pile of wood.
Ai Suyan breathed a long sigh of relief and put away the sword he held horizontally.
"He has fainted, and I will put on his cloak to steal the orb. After a while, I will use the reflection of the sword to remind you of the action. He gently picked up an ordinary-looking soldier's saber and put it in the soldier's hand, then said in a calm tone, "When the time comes, please be sure to go and support my operation, and then we will leave here with the orb." ”
After hearing this slightly serious remark, the warriors nodded in unison.
After some time, Prince Aisuyan, dressed in a black cloak and holding a magic scroll, walked into the cave and greeted the wizards in the cave seemingly cheerfully.
"Huh, Raguddo, why did you come back so late, did those guys want to buy their lives?" said a tall wizard with a laugh, "but you can't be swayed." Because the chances of eternal life are always more important than money. ”
He pulled Essusyan's arm, a smell of decay emanating from his body, and Essusyan's expression was slightly touched.
"As long as the power of blood is summoned again, the endless distractions of heaven and earth will no longer be sufficient to limit our freedom, except for the undead highness to whom we have sworn allegiance. Our lives will become happier and more glorious than the heroes in the legends!" his eyes flashed like an unknown glimmer.
"Alright, get to work. As long as Armu brings three more soldiers from the barracks tonight, we're done!" he glanced at Essusyan, then turned his back.
After a while, Ai Suyan frowned: The time should have come, right?
He lifted the corner of his cloak, and in an imperceptible way, gently opened the scabbard, revealing a sword body that shone with cold light, and the cold blade swallowed an elegant light, reflecting on the stone pillar, and the cave seemed to suddenly jump as if a spirit of light had suddenly jumped.
And the effect was tantamount to lighting a torch in the darkness, and the men in the cloak looked sideways, and one of them said sharply, "This must be the light of a sword!
However, in the midst of their panic, the five Imperial soldiers who had been unrestrained were holding swords and rushing towards the crowd of cloaked men at an extremely swift speed, as if a fire would hit them at any moment.
The wizards stepped back in unison, panic with a hint of incomprehension, and a faint gray mist gradually began to condense in their hands, obviously a rare magical power.
Ai Suyan smiled slightly, taking advantage of the chaos here, he approached the stone platform in the center and slowly stretched out his right hand to the orb in the center.
After all, this trip wasn't for nothing... Essusyan's heart seemed quite satisfied: only when evil ceased to exist, the defenders of the fortress city could calmly march into the fallen kingdom of kings.
His eyes seemed to sense the rhythm of the soul in the orb, the distance between his fingers and the orb became closer and closer, and the sound of the soldier's sword still lingered in his ears, and everything seemed to have entered some kind of imminent critical stage.
However, just as his fingers touched that faint layer of brilliance, the orb suddenly disappeared.
He turned his head, only to find that the tall wizard was looking at him with a smile on his face, with an imperceptible provocation in his eyes. 、
"I knew you were going to plot something wrong, so I was prepared. The wizard spread out his hands, and the gray orb lay silently there, shimmering with an eerie light.