Chapter 34: The Guardians
The city of Eagle Castle is heavily guarded, and dozens of patrol guards in the city rotate every two hours, weaving a tight net to be ready for possible emergencies at any time. On the city walls, there were also three times as many guards as usual, closely monitoring any disturbances outside the city.
In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the wilderness, and the guards suddenly became nervous. On the eastern horizon, the figures of several knights gradually became clear. Since they came from the east, they are from the heart of the country. The guards breathed a sigh of relief, there should be no problem with the people from the hinterland of the kingdom.
Eagle Fort City is a fortified city built on the Eagle's Beak Mountain, and the top of the hill is the Eagle Fort, which was used as a military fortress in the early years, and now it is basically idle, and the military camp has long been led to the bottom of the mountain. At this time, in the well-defended barracks, at this moment when manpower was tight, there were dozens of people guarding outside a building. These soldiers were warriors, but they all felt like they were in their backs at this moment, because the strange smell and disgusting smell emanating from the building behind them made people chill.
In one of the rooms in the building, Dante instructed the living dead named Mordo to stir a large pot in which the green viscous soup bubbled from time to time, and the room tasted strange but had a strange aroma.
"Five pairs of dark-blooded bat wings, twenty fanged spider legs, and a few ...... rotting moss," Dante muttered to a recipe and asked Mordo. "Looks like it's all in place, right?"
Moldor rolled his not-so-bright eyeballs, tilted his head and thought, "It seems to be ...... Let me taste it. As he spoke, he scooped up a spoonful of piping hot soup and drank it directly, not afraid of being burned at all. "I swear by my tasteless tongue that something is missing. β
Dante was amused and said, "You can tell bad jokes, you are becoming more and more human." "Mordo is resurrected from the dead, which means that his body organs are no different from those of a dead person, and there are no five senses for him.
Moldor tasted it again, smashed it, and said, "I really tasted it, and the less ingredient is...... It is the brains of the dying man. β
Dante looked at the "gourmet" Mordo in amazement, and asked unconvinced, "Are you sure it's not a delusion?"
Moldor was about to answer when he heard a knock on the door by a guard. Dante said unhappily, "Didn't I say that, don't disturb me while I'm doing my research!"
"Master Dante, a messenger has arrived from Cologne, and the Lord of the City has invited you to the council chamber. β
"Cologne?" asked Dante. "Is it someone sent by Archbishop St. Martin?"
The guard hesitated for a moment, then replied, "Yes, and judging by the appearance of the messenger, it seems that the situation is not good. β
Dante instructed Mordo: "Look at it yourself, it's what you're going to eat anyway." With that, he departed and went to the council chamber.
The sky was bright, and although there was no sun, it was like day.
Odyssey followed the guide Sikun to the shore of a lake, and when he looked up, most of his body was already exposed by the colorful promotion tower. What is more surprising is that in this cold world, this lake is not frozen. There was a man fishing quietly on the shore of the lake, and Sikun led Odyssey to the man and waited.
After a while, the angler finally spoke: "Speak quietly, don't scare my fish away." β
Odyssey nodded and whispered yes.
"Ahead is the Tower of Promotion, and there is no way back after crossing this lake. The angler said. "As the guardian here, it is my duty to tell you what you will face if you enter the tower......"
"Hahaha! Thren, Sikun, Huh?" Someone suddenly interrupted the angler with a loud voice. "Who is this kid?"
Odyssey immediately understood that the angler's name was Thuren. He looked up in the direction where the voice came from, and saw an old man with a white beard flying with the sound of breaking the air and the wind, and he was very happy to see the old man's appearance.
Thorren, who was fishing, threw away his fishing rod and roared at the sky with a fist, "Kander, you old immortal! How many times have I told you, be quiet, don't scare my fish away!"
Kander was unimpressed by Thurren's anger, and came to the air with a sudden brake, floated in the air, poked his head out and asked, "Fish, do you want fish? I'll give it to you!" As he spoke, Kander beckoned, and the visible cold air rushed towards the lake, and a huge lake froze instantly. Immediately after Kande's volley, something that made Odyssey stunned appeared, a lump of ice as big as half of Huadu City rose from the lake, and there was only a big pit left in the place where the lake was originally on the ground!
Kander smiled brightly at Sren and said, "Do you want canned frozen fish?"
Thren's nostrils were violently opened, and he was whirring like an angry bull, and he roared madly: "Look at me if I don't pull out your hair and beard today!"
Boom! A thunderclap suddenly rang out. Tren jumped suddenly, like a cannonball out of the chamber, and jumped directly into the ice lump dozens of meters in the air. He threw a punch at the lump of ice, only to hear a boom, and the huge ice exploded, and countless pieces of ice flew down in all directions.
Odyssey looked at the overwhelming ice and said that he had nowhere to hide, and he was going to be buried alive here.
The guide Xikun sighed helplessly, and said angrily: "It's really a headache, it's a mess!" As he spoke, he took out two scimitars from his waist, unhurriedly relaxed his muscles and bones, and then crossed them together. I saw Xikun suddenly swing a knife, rolling up a gust of wind, and then another, knife after knife, the wind continued, and finally a storm was formed, blowing all the falling ice back into the lake.
Occasionally, a few pieces of "ice that slipped through the net" fell and smashed onto Odyssey's body, and he smelled a fishy smell. When I touched the top of my head, I found a piece of "sashimi".
In the sky, the old man Kander took the time to throw out several mischievous spells as he fled. After SΓΈren rose into the air, he lost his strength and could only fall back to the ground again, and he violently relied on his physical strength to chase after the flying Kand. The storm that Sikun had created swept furiously towards the two men who were chasing and fighting, and the storm grabbed them like living creatures, slamming them firmly to the ground.
"Have you two had enough trouble!" Sikun reprimanded angrily.
The old man Kande still didn't think it was big enough to make a big deal and said as if it didn't matter to him: "It's almost enough." β