Volume III Adriel 151: Historians
The two comers attacked indiscriminately.
Fang Nuo subconsciously slid from the back of the ice crystal giant deer to its side, fixed his body with silver-blue strings, and then used the giant deer's body as a cover, secretly observing the two humans who suddenly arrived.
They knew about the "hideous", and even knew that the beastmaster was here.
But it's a pity that both humans seem to have white eyes, and they actually regard the inanimate and spiritless ice sculpture as the beastmaster himself.
The body of the Ice Crystal Deer was supported by majestic spiritual power, and with the small fight between the two of them, it could not break through its surface at all, so Fang Nuo let them hit this "target" with all their might.
"Hideous ......"
"Hideous ......"
The surviving dryads muttered in the language of their race, chanting the name "Hideous".
It's as if they want to use the name of this old enemy to call the object of their admiration to this place.
At this time, Fang Nuo saw one of the black-clothed humans stop attacking and take out a gold-trimmed card from the air, the front and back of the card were completely blank.
He immediately thought of the way the Holy Cross had treated the orcs.
The two of them may not have been able to break the defense of the ice crystal giant deer after taking turns to strike, and they want to seal it before they have made any results?
Fang Nuo silently loosened the silver-blue rope and gently slid one of the deer's legs to the ground, hiding himself among the weeds.
In fact, the weeds were part of the body of some of the dryads, but he believed that the dryads would not expose them even if they were still hostile to each other not long ago, when faced with a common enemy, the Holy Cross, which had been indiscriminately sealed and killed by the orcs.
It's a big deal, and he's turned into a dryad.
Having just absorbed the spiritual power of the dryads, it was not difficult for Fang Nuo to do this.
"It seems to have fled, brother." The human who conjured the card said to his companion, "Only a shell is left here." ”
A white flash of light shot out of the card, and the moment it touched the surface of the ice crystal deer, it suddenly expanded, turning into a ball of light that completely enveloped it inside, and then, turned into a ray of light again, and returned to the card.
The original blank card surface also appeared on the pattern, which was a white moose lying on the ground, with its head slightly drooping, facing the card holder's eyes closed.
"Do you want to bring it back to Mr. Hakubashi?" Another human dressed in white asked in a very soft voice.
"Good idea, brother, but ......," the black-clad human glanced at the card in his hand, which was getting colder, "forget it." ”
He directly tore the card to shreds.
"Ah, Gelt, you ...... this"
"It's just a soulless shell, brother, and tearing it apart only destroys the beast's body, not completely destroys it." The man in black who was called "Gelt" sneered and said, "After we go back, we will tell Mr. Hakuhashi the truth, saying that he abandoned his body and fled. ”
"I'm really looking forward to it, what kind of expression will Mr. Shirahashi show when he hears about this?" The corners of Geert's mouth couldn't help but grin, revealing a somewhat vicious smile, "But, brother, this beast is most likely the one who put a curse on our country, this time ruined its body, and next time, I will destroy its soul as well!" ”
The strange brothers sang and said cruel things by the door, and then casually unleashed a miracle to clean up the scene, and then turned and left...... Fang Nuo came out of hiding place, and pushed aside the rhizomes of the plants that were attached to him with a look of disgust, and watched them come and go like the wind.
"What the hell are they here for?"
"Do you want to give me a clue that the Holy Cross knows the beastmaster?" He glanced at the nearest tuft of weeds and saw that many tiny, tiny feet had grown from underneath it, slowly moving away from him.
Fang Nuo fished back the dryad who wanted to escape:
"That White Bridge seems to have something to do with a lot of vicious things, and it seems that I need to go to the Holy Cross Headquarters in Kesda for the next stop."
"Do you have what it takes to communicate with the Kao?" After talking to himself, he moved his gaze back to the dryad he had clawed on.
He received an affirmative answer from his defeated general.
Fang Nuo didn't stop them from calling for reinforcements, he was going to leave this place soon anyway, but he didn't forbid the dryads to spread out their next "travel arrangements", he wished that all the characters related to the past would appear - himself, Hakuhashi, the Flower Emperor, and even better if there were two rulers of human countries.
Putting down the dryad in his hand, Fang Nuo took a moment to collect the card fragments that the humans had "cleaned" into the indoor space, and restored them to their original shape.
The pattern of the deer has disappeared, and it seems that once the "carrier" is destroyed, the death sentence of the creature sealed in it is also pronounced.
However, the Ice Deer is just a moving ice sculpture, and even if it has a few remnants of consciousness left by its inside, it is not called a "living entity".
Fang Nuo clapped his hands tentatively, and immediately saw countless ice slags levitating from the ground, slowly condensing together, and then reorganizing into a new ice crystal giant deer.
The spiritual power he had stored in the past with its body as a carrier had not been lost due to the previous actions of humans.
Probably because those spiritual powers had always been connected to his soul, Fang Nuo speculated casually, and waved his hand to let the Ice Crystal Giant Deer return to the secret realm of Huangxian Ridge.
"Hideous ......"
The surrounding plant monsters began to call again, as if they had not yet grasped the lesson that "Fang Nuo could understand them".
Fang Nuo smiled and sighed, letting his body float again, and then rode the wind towards his new destination.
……
The darling of heaven and earth, the child of nature, responded to the prayers of mankind by sending blessings and curses with his own hands—blessings are what humans expect, and so are curses.
He was only helping in accordance with the wishes of mankind, but at some point, the malice from humans came like sharp arrows, and even the hard skin of his pride could not resist them.
Those who wish others to be cursed cannot accept that they have been cursed by others, and those who wish to bless others refuse to admit that the other person wants to curse them, and in the end, they blame all the blame on the children of nature who allowed these things to occur and develop.
But the children of nature have an incomparably strong heart made of ice and snow, and the malice of the people who help it cannot be shaken, and only the most sincere enthusiasm can melt it.
Therefore, he could not understand the complaints of human beings, and continued to use his ability to help every life in need as much as possible before his interest diminished over time until it reached zero.
Do you want to curse them? But I promise you.
Do you want to bless them? However, this seat has already made it happen for you.
"Anyway, it's all a lie that the False Beast easily promised." The masked Bishop of the Holy Cross closed the book in his hand, turned his back, and turned his back to the members of the "Seven Virtues" who had come to wait for the order, "His power made it all a reality, and so that the corner of the 'real' began to be eroded by the 'false', and the flower emperor who represented the real and the 'evil' that symbolized the false became mortal enemies. ”
"But, Mr. Shirahashi." The one who spoke was Silver, who had been separated from her fellow adventurers, "I still don't understand the past of the brothers you told me earlier...... According to the Church's available sources, the contents of Alternate Plane: The Other Age were compiled by the False Beast, which envisioned every concept that might arise in the future and wrote an introduction to it. ”
"The orcs spread the curse, infecting most of the humans in the land of Kasrano, and left a way to unravel the curse in his book, ultimately saving the country."
"That may not be his subjective desire to do so." Bai Qiao lifted the mask and replied without looking back, "I mean, save humanity." ”
"Was that curse also the result of some human wish?" Silver gnawed on her nails and asked a little distractedly, "Someone wants to destroy Casrano?" Was it Aderiel, who was facing internal and external troubles at the time? ”
"Is the enemy of the Brothers Grimm and Geert an entire country?"
"Don't be influenced by your own thoughts, 'gentle.'" The Bishop tilted his head slightly, but Silver could only look at the seam between the mask and his cheek, not knowing what kind of expression he had on his face at the moment, "That's the Child of Nature punishing greedy humans, who are asking for him in vain and even coveting the Isle of the Beasts, who thinks we must be taught a lesson." ”
"At that time, the woman surnamed Fang leaked the secret of the 'Guardian Beast' to the Emperor of Caslano, and we learned that Adriel had actually been connected to the most secret beast island a long time ago." Bai Qiao stretched out his hand to summon a diary, and instead of opening it, he spoke as if he was reciting its contents.
"The head of the Norvi family found the totem symbolizing the child of nature in ancient texts and engraved it on the family seal, forming their family's 'Guardian Beast' Seal, while their neighbor, another nobleman, made a contract with the True Beast...... Even then, when a group of madmen summoned the beast with the remains of a human, he would have developed a crush on a foreign nobleman he had never recognized. ”
"The nobles of Adriel frantically searched for clues about the ancient beasts in various ancient books, trying to forcibly form a contract with them through the air, and finally made them succeed a lot." Bai Qiao chuckled, as if mocking the predecessors for being very good at using their brains, "They also became outstanding historians one by one, and then they broke the taboo and found the secret hidden by the ancient royal family and the beasts. ”
"Mr. Shirahashi, do you mean that you ...... too?"
"That was a long time ago." The Bishop of the Holy Cross sighed, "At that time, when Girium was still alive and the Flower Emperor had not yet arrived, a history buff named White Bridge was invited to a gathering among the nobles of Aderiel, and he became acquainted with many historians whom he admired. ”
"It was a good time." He said.
"After that, their correspondence became frequent, and more and more historical materials were unearthed, and one day, a research partner known as 'Norvi' mysteriously told Shirahashi that he wanted to take him to see something."
"So, they infiltrated the icy hell that only criminals were locked up in at that time." Bai Qiao hissed, and the mask almost slipped off his face, "When I got to a deep, deep place, I saw the ice crystal beast that was 'sealed' inside. ”
"He said that it was part of their family's guardian beast, that he knew a lot of lost history, and that he would teach him everything if anyone could be recognized by him."
"Mr. Whitebridge......" Silver, visibly frightened.
As a member of the Human Supremacist Church, she had never imagined that their bishop would have such a past—it sounded like a lot of connection to the Orcs.
"Of course we all failed."
Shirahashi said lightly the end of the story.