Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Boiling Black Market
Ice flowers climbed every inch of the wall, and sparkling frost flowers grew on the wooden pillars, and the whole house looked half covered from the bottom up by frost from the outside.
Kane searched back and forth for an exit, but every place where he could get out was sealed with ice by Corah, and the ice was almost crawling up to the building where they were, the cold air invaded and the hoarfrost spread.
"Gotta find a way to get out, or we're going to be frozen into ice sculptures by this thing." Luther exhaled white air from his mouth, knowing that these ice cubes were made by magical elements, but his cluster blades were powerless at the moment. In the battle just now, the Blades were already full of all the magic elements, and the saturated space could not absorb a little.
"Damn! The guy had blocked everything we could get out with ice, and we seemed to be trapped here, and it would be hard for us to get out unless they ran out of mana. None of us are mages, and there's no way we can break through this damn ice prison. ”
"If there is fire, you can get out, and the fire element can unravel the ice." He said to Luther, "Don't you have a lot of poisons with the element of fire? Hurry up and try to see if it works. ”
Luther only reacted at this time, and he took out a bottle of saliva from the Fire Source Dragon Lizard and sprinkled it on the frost that slowly spread upwards below.
The fire elemental collided with the ice elemental and sent out an elemental magic explosion, and the solid ice blocked by the door was squeezed out from the inside by a powerful wave of air, and Cora reacted the fastest, and he quickly hid behind the cover on the side. The remaining wizards also scattered in all directions, and the two unlucky wizards dodged and were impaled by the ice.
Kane wasn't injured and was still nimble, so he wasn't stabbed by the ice that came his way. Luther, on the other hand, was not so lucky, his abdomen was pierced by ice, and the ice element burrowed into his body through the wound. A string of ice flowers slowly grew on Luther's arm, and he pulled out the ice and threw it away.
Then he scraped off the ice flower on his arm through the Forbidden Demon Bush Blade, and scolded: "Lao Tzu must repair your group of damn miscellaneous pieces and fill your mouths with fire ant poison!" Kane advised him not to move and then bandaged his arm.
"Can it still work?" Kane asked Luther.
"Don't worry, it's no problem at all, hurry up and get out, don't let these guys run away!" Luther gritted his teeth, and he used his dark green pupils to quickly find Cora's location.
"You go deal with those little ones, I'll catch Cora!" Luther's blades were as sharp as clay, and Cora, who was hiding behind the wooden pillar, was almost cut off with a single sword, and the entire pillar was cut in two.
Korra magically created an ice shield in front of him, and threw a few ice arrows in his hand, bending down to lower his body in order to escape. As everyone knows, Luther's eyes seem to be able to locate automatically, and his movements are all seen by Luther.
The blade swirled and slashed at his ice shield, and ice slag and ice chips flew everywhere. Luther's steps were unhurried, and the two of them were like cat and mouse. After Korra released the last ice shield spell, there was not much magic left in his body, and he didn't dare to cast any more attack spells, because he still had to rely on the last bit of poor magic to maintain the ice shield in his hand.
Luther's blade broke through Cora's ice shield and crossed his leg, severing a tendon in the back of his foot. Cora screamed in tears and sat down on the ground.
Luther bent down and gave him a cruel smile, giving him goosebumps and cold sweat running down his back.
"You guys in the North are very skilled in the use of ice elemental magic, I have some good things for you to try here, it should be interesting for ice elemental magic to meet fire poison!" He took out the crystal bottle of fire poison and flicked the stopper.
Ignoring Corah's pleas for mercy, Luther grabbed Cora by the neck and pinched him apart like a chicken. Poison fire poured into Korra's throat under his terrified gaze. The powerful fire elemental burned furiously in his throat, the smell of burning coming out of his mouth with a spark.
Cora's entire throat was burned to charcoals, and then his entire body was on fire. In a few moments, Cora was burned to ashes.
At the same time, Kane was also dealing with the remaining escaped wizards, who had just frozen the entire house and trapped Kane, and their magic had already been almost exhausted, and they were lambs to the slaughter. Kane easily took their lives.
There was a wizard who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape, and he happened to see Carlo hiding, and he was surprised to ask Carlo for help. Unexpectedly, instead of saving him, Carlo called Kane and grabbed the guy who escaped. Before he died, his puzzled gaze stayed on Carlo, who had betrayed him by his former companions.
"Well done, you're loyal now." Luther patted him on the shoulder, and Carlo smiled awkwardly, a little unnaturally. As Kane and Luther searched for the wizard's belongings, he slowly walked over to the recently deceased wizard.
Carlo helped him close his eyes, with tears in them and a touch of pain in them, and he whispered, "I'm sorry, Nile, I have to go back alive." Even if you go down to hell and curse me, I will still do it, and I can only blame us for coming to the wrong place. I hate it here, I want to go back, I want to go home. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. He apologized again, tears falling uncontrollably.
With mixed feelings, Carlo removed the pendant around Niel's neck, a lucky wood carving carved from a piece of black wood. Nielle once boasted to him that it was a token from his fiancée in the far north.
She told Nile that the wood carving would bring him good luck. In the process of searching for the holy relics, he can bless him to return safely in a foreign land, and marry her home with the honor bestowed by the tribe.
Carlo remembered that Nile had a happy look on his face when he said this, and he was very envious. At the same time, there is a warm place in his heart, and his family is also waiting for him to return.
Carlo put the pendant in his pocket, wiped away his tears and said to the cold corpse, "I hope you can forgive me for my selfishness, I will take you home, and we will go back to the tribe together." ”
Kane, who had just finished searching a body in the distance, saw Carlo's movements, but he didn't come forward to check on him. It is extremely cruel to sell one's own companions to gain the right to live, and the guilt in their hearts is enough to break their hearts.
It's cruel, but that's what war is. As invaders, they should have understood this long before they set out, and they should have thought that any cruel situation would befall them at any time.
There is no mercy on the battlefield, betrayal, deceit, and the survival of the people who want to live, these are the common things. Luther stood beside Kane and said calmly, "There is nothing to be emotional, they should have known that they would have such a day on the day they invaded Harness." After you've been working at Hammer for a long time, you're used to this kind of thing. When the time comes, you will find that the kid's approach is human nature, compared to his own life, anyone can be betrayed, and the brotherhood of the past is the cheapest. One day, I will betray you in exchange for my own way of living. ”
He turned his head to look into Kane's eyes, meeting those dark green pupils, and Kane knew he wasn't telling a lie, and that this guy should have looked more ruthless.
"Don't think about it, for the sake of you just saved my life, I will think carefully before betraying you in the future, I won't betray you until I have to, be happy." Luther suddenly smiled at Kane again.
Although this sentence is a good promise for Kane, he can't be happy at all, after all, no one thinks that a teammate who may betray him at any time is a good teammate.
"Despite your words, I still can't be happy."
"Hahaha, I'm a little sad when you say that, if Cyrus hears me say that, he probably takes me to the tavern for a drink to solidify this rare friendship." Luther laughed rarely.
"Don't try to cheat me out of my hard-earned money." Kane also made a few jokes.
The two did not bother Carlo, who was saddened by his betrayal, and not only that, but Kane also suggested that Luther do a good deed, using the poison of the fire element to help cremate the body, and finally put his ashes in order for Carlo to bring his companion back home.
The guilt in Carlo's heart did not lessen much, and he did not say a word, and continued to walk with Kane and Luther in silence, even though he knew that Kane and they were going to deal with his remaining companions.
Even so, he has chosen this path, he has betrayed, and now he is on the opposite side of his companions. Any friendship is illusory, and it is real to return to your hometown alive.
With this in mind, Carlo's heart was quietly changing.
Abides, who hadn't taken advantage of Hank Street, was sitting in a small space at the moment, and in front of him was a weather-beaten wooden table, the legs of which had been eaten by insects so much that a cup could cause it to shake slightly.
The wrinkled old woman sat across the table, adjusting a bottle of dark green potion, and said without raising her eyelids, "I told you not to go too far, now Harrlens is in conflict with the black market." It will take some time on Kakireć's side, Hank's dark altar hasn't been opened yet, and our plans have been completely disrupted, all because of you! Maybe you need to explain to him why. ”
"That's what he meant?" Abidis asked.
"Of course, we waited so long for this day, and almost lost all our efforts because of you, shouldn't we explain?" The old woman lifted her eyes, her cloudy eyes staring at Abides.
"Haha, the shaman said before I came, I am in the same position here as him, and he is now serving me, the holy relics should be brought back by us, all you have to do is to obey our dispatch and provide us with the necessary help." Abides responded with a smile, her eyes full of lightness.
His attitude caused the old woman to be dissatisfied, "The shaman asked us to help you get the holy relics, but he didn't say that we would help you provoke a war here!" They died because of you! The old woman's tone was angry.
Abidies waved his hand and said: "If you want to get the holy relics, war and death are inevitable, I just advanced him a little earlier, even if it was to test their strength in advance." Besides, we don't have the only way to get the relics back, and it's faster and safer to use the power of the Harrence royal family than to use the power of the black market. ”
Hearing Abidis say that he wanted to use the power of the royal family, his eyelids jumped and said, "What do you want to do?" Don't play with fire! It's not good for us to involve too many forces! ”
The old woman was so excited that she almost stood up, but Abides still said easily: "I have my own measure, if it wasn't for the stupid fire demon in the south last time to stop me, I would have buried those mages in the belly of the ice beast." He got up and said, "I'll open Hank's dark altar again, so prepare your own container for the relics." ”
After saying this, he left the old woman's drugstore, and the old woman was dissatisfied, "The young man is still too rampant, why would the shaman send such a person." Ay. The old woman sighed at last.