Chapter 166: The Fountain Elf
Shining in the moonlight, on the shadow cloth stone. The spring elf stood by the spring and gazed at the spring like a statue.
As mentioned earlier, the "Spring Elf" in front of him is very large in every sense, and his height is more than 2.4 meters, about 2.5. The heavy armor showed no gaps, only the lower half of the face, the elongated ears, and the blonde hair that fell from the back of the helmet.
A white deer, a gold-armored man, a girl pushing a bicycle, and a Shang Luo. The strange procession came out of the dense forest, but it didn't attract the attention of the elves.
"That's it." The white deer turned around and returned to the forest. As the "guardian" of this heroic parade, she personally led the way for Shang Luo for a short time, which is already quite face-saving.
However, there may be another reason, that is, Shang Luo's progress is much slower than others. Bailu hoped that everyone could finish on time, so he led the way for Shang Luo.
"Hmm," Shang Luo calmed down and listened to the rest of the forest first. Lu Liang's side was quiet, and Wen Yuan's side was silent, and only occasionally a "strange" gunfire could be heard - the sound was unusually loud, almost like a cannon. Shot after shot, and before each shot rang out, a rainbow of colored light could be seen shining through the forest. The light lasted only a brief moment before it faded away, followed by gunfire.
In addition to the gunshots, the biggest movement was Han Xingzhi in the north. But not the sound of a fight, but the roar of some strange engine.
A little uneasy, he still dialed the phone.
"Strange sounds? What strange sounds? Everything is fine on my side. Han Xingzhi asked rhetorically. But a strange roar had already been heard along the channel.
"Are you alright?"
"It's okay, I'm fine. It's just that I didn't succeed in sneaking up on the elves just now.,It seems that the threat of the qi practitioner is too high.,I'm hard.γ Be careful, wait, Mr. Fox has something to do with me. Ah, understood, turn left ahead. Did you hear that? Turn left and be careful not to press the cypress! He shouted, as if to order something.
The other side does seem to be working fine. It seems that only the immediate problem has not been solved.
"Okay, get ready to do it."
He glanced back at Karin first, "You know how to fight later, right?" β
"Understood, it's the moon. While Mr. Titus was explaining the strategy to you, I was listening next door. β
The most important thing in the strategy is the moon - even now, the elves are staring at the moon in the water, looking at it in fascination.
The battle with the Fountain Elf is simple. All she had to do was look up to see the moon, and she would stand still, and then take the opportunity to cut off her fingers.
Shang Luo saw the target: the finger of the Fountain Elf. Different from humans, as 2.5 meters tall Lothian elves, they have a pair of "elven hands" that are repeatedly mentioned in legends. And those hands, each with six fingers.
There are no deformities, no mutilations, but flawless six fingers, as natural as the 5 fingers of a human form. With the help of six fingers, the Lothian elves can use the harp to play the "elven song" that is difficult for humans to play, and the elven sword dance is also based on the six fingers. And the most important difference is magic.
The Elven Song and the Elven Sword Dance can barely be learned. But the elf uses six fingers to cast spells, and the six-finger gesture cannot be done with five fingers anyway, so it can only be imitated as much as possible. As for the sign language used by the elves to converse with each other, it was even more of a wind language that the Romans could not fathom at all.
That finger is not only for practical purposes, it also has a symbolic meaning. It is a symbol of the elves themselves: prehistoric humans used ochre as pigment to create murals in caves, and they imprinted their handprints on the walls of the caves, which have survived to this day. It was Homo sapiens who left the traces of five fingers, and if there were traces of six fingers, it was left by the Lothian elve.
According to the strategy summarized by the Romans. With just a finger cut off, the human will can be slightly awakened. Cut off two, and the spell that the elf placed on the body will be invalidated.
In addition, after slashing, the elves will no longer use the sword dance to fightβwith the blessing of Fury, they can be three times stronger even if they use random slashes.
"The extra finger is between the ring finger and the little finger." Karin replied, "Actually. I can feel that finger once in a while. I also occasionally have phantom pain in my hands because of the missing finger. β
"Good. So do you carry a weapon? β
"Nope." Karin shook her head, "But I'll help you grab her hand." I had a feeling that mine should be able to hold her hand. But I don't want to see blood terrible. And knives. So after I help you catch it, I'll ask you to deal with it. She didn't even dare to say the words "chop" or "cut."
"Okay. So. Who's going to open the blame? β
The Fountain Elf does not actively attack. Because she's only here to protect the Forest King, she's even going to protect lost humans. If they don't take the initiative to attack, the Fountain Elves won't stop them from passing through at all, and will only be summoned by the Forest King when he needs them.
Karin didn't answer. She was a little scared.
Apollonia was pretending to look at the scenery.
"You're on." Shang Luo tugged at Jin Jia's arm.
"Okay, I'll get on." Apollonia took a step -
Suddenly, the elf's head turned stiffly.
"Eh, it's really not good, this armor is too threatening. You're all there to be. β
The Fountain Elf is not unconditionally defensive, only defensive, only seemingly harmless. Han Xingzhi knew that this was the case before, and he didn't need to ask the other two as well, and Jin Jia couldn't get close. But only Shang Luo can open the blame.
"Okay, I'll do it."
He slowly walked behind the Fountain Elf and walked over slowly.
The moon shines as brightly as day. He doesn't need additional lighting to see the road under his feet.
Although he knew that the other party could not have any reaction, Shang Luo still had some. Nervous.
He peeled off the clumps of parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme on the ground on his tiptoes, and slowly walked behind the spring elf. Waterfall blonde hair hung down her back and down to her waist.
"Offended!" Shang Luo shook off the flap, lit the blade of his sword, and stabbed at the elf's right hand - the "sixth finger" flipped out, and the wound was not bleeding, but was burned and closed. The elf shook violently, and his whole body collapsed, and he was half-kneeling beside the spring, but he held his left hand to his chest.
There was no time to aim at the other finger that was hidden, it was useless to cut off the hand, and the sixth finger had to be cut off accurately. Aiming less than the sixth finger, he withdrew his sword, and before the elf could get up to fight back, he slammed forward. The blade of the sword sliced through the elf's heavy armor like a hot knife through butter, piercing through the chamber.
This is the standard process of opening the blame. Sneak attack from behind, cut off a finger, and go directly to the second stage. Of course, if the action is fast enough, such as recruiting some invisible assassin to cut off two six fingers at the same time, the process will be over directly.
The elf fell silently towards the spring, but rolled over in the air, poured it into the spring on its back, and disappeared into the clear moonlight.
"Prepare to defend! It's weird! He ran back to the group.
It will come out around 12 noon later, and there will be others in the afternoon
(End of chapter)