Volume IV Behind the scenes III
From the place where the Dragon's Tooth Knights' fleet anchored in Onyx City to the Imperial Capital Prison where the riot took place, the upper knight looked back at the mage's table after arriving at Onyx City, and found that the blazing fire had been reflected in his face. Unable to analyze why the mage Hess claimed that demons had appeared in Onyx, but had never been able to do anything, Isis began to look around.
A large number of heavily armed knights have surrounded the Imperial Capital Prison. Judging from the white armor on their bodies, all of them were knights of the Holy Light Knights, and there were also many Green Leaf Cultists wearing white robes who were also standing in the crowd of knights, and one of the Holy Light Knights was standing in front of the lifting gate of the Imperial Capital Prison with his waist straight. The superior knight Isis immediately recognized it as the Archbishop of the Green Leaf Church and the head of the Knights of the Holy Light, Zeni Keamo.
Although there were hundreds of dragon tooth knights following behind him, it really took a lot of effort for the high-ranking knights to approach the Imperial Capital Prison from the periphery of the crowd. The excited knights of the Holy Light did not intend to give way, and even drew their long swords at their waists, or raised their spears to aim at the knights of the Dragon's Tooth Knights, making an appearance that they would not hesitate to fight. Although no weapon was actually waved at the Dragontooth Knights, Isis still had to keep an eye on the mage Hess beside him during the process of breaking into the crowd, knowing that the mage's robe was not like the armor of the knights, which could withstand the attacks of various metal weapons.
Thankfully, when Archbishop of the Green Leaf Church, Zeny Keamo, looked back, he spotted the approach of the Dragontooth Knights, and motioned for the Knights of Light to stop. Otherwise, it is likely that the streets around this area will immediately turn into battlefields. The reluctant Knights of the Holy Light pushed each other for a while. Finally, a passage was made for the Dragontooth Knights, which was only large enough for two horses to walk side by side. The two high-ranking knights of the Dragon's Tooth Order also came to the archbishop.
At this moment, the archbishop is wearing the all-white armor of the head of the Knights of the Holy Light, and the archbishop of the Green Leaf Church is also the head of the Knights of the Holy Light, which is an eternal tradition, and Zeni Keamo has also received a lot of training in combat since he was a child, and the archbishop's face still seems to be peaceful and peaceful. "What about the Count, we must go in at once to protect His Highness and let the guards and your Dragontooth Knights open this floodgate." The head of the Knights of Light tapped his fingers on the heavy iron railing in front of him, which was part of the lift gate that separated the inside and outside of the Imperial Capital Prison.
Isis, the high-ranking knight, couldn't help but secretly admire the craftsmen who built the imperial capital prison back then. In addition to the prisoners who committed serious crimes in Onyx, the felons who were escorted from all over the country to await the verdict of the National Assembly were also held here, and as the saying goes, "the prisoners in the Imperial Capital Prison have killed at least three people each", so both the walls and the lifting gates in the Imperial Capital Prison are extremely strong. Unless the heavy construction machinery used on the battlefield was brought in, the swords and spears of the knights would never be of any use. Isis also saw several dragon tooth knights and guards who had belonged to the Imperial Capital Prison in the railing through the railing, their faces were either bruised and swollen or stained with large areas of blood;
Seeing that Isis did not immediately answer his words, the archbishop looked at Isis and Hess, who were leading the team of dragontooth knights: "Are you ...... Where the hell is Count Brad Klein, the superior knight of the Dragon's Tooth Order?"
"The Count did not come here. There were other events that made the Count inseparable. Seeing Isis busy checking his surroundings, Hess answered the archbishop's question on his behalf.
The archbishop's eyes fell on the mage Hess, and Zeny Keamo had heard the news of the Dragon's Tooth Knights recruiting mages to form a mage group, but he didn't think it was strange: he himself was in the Knights of the Holy Light. The vast majority of knights are members of the Greenleaf Church, which usually teaches the cultists some healing or purification spells. "There are Green Leaf Cultists who have reported to me. Tonight, the Blood Gryphon Knights will break into the Imperial Capital Prison. We must go in and protect His Royal Highness Prince Verdor Klein. Wherever the Count is, let the guards open the floodgates. The archbishop weighed it, and he didn't think that a clash with a large number of dragon tooth knights would help things.
Before the two high-ranking knights of the Dragon's Tooth Knights could answer, the guards of the Imperial Capital Prison, who were looking out through the railing, had already preemptively shouted: "No! Unless Lord Count Brad Klein comes in person, neither the members of that knight will be allowed to enter tonight!"
The archbishop stared at Isis with wide eyes, they had met several times in the national parliament, and the archbishop knew Isis's status in the Knights of the Dragon's Tooth. Isis thought about it, and immediately affirmed what the guard said: "Yes, this is an order from the commander himself. Lord Bishop and all of you of the Knights of the Holy Light, can you wait here for a while, our Captain should come over as soon as he finishes dealing with the other matter. ”
Although Isis knew what had happened tonight in the Knights of the Light's stronghold, the Green Leaf Church, according to the personal judgment of the superior knights, he felt that suing the Archbishop at this moment and letting a large number of the Holy Light Knights here rush back would only make the situation in the Green Leaf Church more chaotic and uncontrollable. Hess, who understood Isis's thoughts, immediately added: "The Dragon's Tooth Knights have also specially sent additional men to join the guards of the Imperial Capital Prison tonight, I think there should be no problem with the safety of the prince, as long as the guards are not all attracted by the commotion outside the door." ”
The archbishop's gaze wandered over the faces of the two superior knights of the Dragon's Tooth Order, and for a moment he seemed to be unable to decide whether to continue to try to rush in or follow the advice of the two superior knights to wait for the time being. At this moment, the Green Leaf Cultists and the Knights of the Holy Light on the periphery began to exchange ears, and the commotion seemed to tell everyone present that something was going on somewhere.
Ride on horseback and gallop along the south bank of the Lena River. Let the evening breeze blow on your hair and face. It should have been quite pleasant, but at the moment Count Brad Klein was not in any easy mood. On the contrary, from time to time, a strange premonition came to my heart.
"Maybe it's because the armor is now being scraped, not by the gentle evening breeze, but by the bitter cold wind of the night? Earl Brad Klein thought that he had never felt this way even when so much had happened. It was a strange fluctuation that gently but endlessly touched the Count's nerves, and it occurred to him that perhaps he would go to the Green Leaf Chapel on his way to the Green Leaf Chapel, or meet the demon that the leader of the Dragon's Tooth Knights, the mage Hess, had mentioned, and the Count did not know why he had such a sudden thought. "Maybe it's all the preparations Hess has made against demons in the past few days. Let me be infected too, and I feel like the devil is around. The Count muttered to himself unconsciously.
Demons are terrifying creatures. Unlike most of his knights, Count Brad Klein knew a great deal about demons, and the memories of that knowledge were still etched in the Count's heart. It was in an old castle many years ago.
Count Brad Klein was only a ten-year-old boy at the time, and he had neither the title of Earl nor the glory of the head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights, but what made Brad the leader of his companions at that time was his taller stature and brighter mind than that of children of his age. At that time, the earl's father, Grand Duke Karen, sent his son to this castle to receive knowledge and etiquette about the nobility, and many children of the nobles of the Holy Asserr Empire were sent here by their elders.
In the cold winter. The nobles were reluctant to let their children endure the cold, so they took them back to their castles, but the Grand Duke of Cullen only sent clothes and food to ward off the cold. Grand Duke Karen, who was fighting in the southern seas, felt that it would also be a good experience for his son to face the wind and snow.
And that's when tragedy struck. One winter morning, Brad and his two companions of the same age found a small cellar in the forest outside the castle, and a huge magic circle was painted on the floor of the cellar, and some messy bones were scattered around the magic circle, and the smell of decay spread in the cellar. Curious children rummage around in the cellar and find a letter. The yellowed letter dated the letter, and Brad looked at the letter with curiosity:
"Ertu, if you guessed it right, it's the demon's real name. Just pronounce the following spell and the demon's true name, and you can destroy the demon miè. Don't live up to the union's expectations of you. ”
Then came a mouthful of old texts, which Brad did not have time to read, as his companions began to quarrel. The two lads find a bag of glowing beads, and over the question of who found the bag first, the two boys argue and then push each other. Brad was not much taller than his friends, but under the personal supervision of his father, Grand Duke Karen, Brad's combat training from a young age made Brad much stronger than the other partners, so Brad easily separated the two boys who were scuffling.
Brad's solution was actually quite fair, he saw that the bag of beads was the first of the young men, but the other young man who did not get the beads pulled out his dagger and stabbed Brad in anger. Brad, who felt a pain in his arm, easily knocked the young man who had attacked him down, only to find that the blood flowing from his arm was spreading along the handwriting of the magic array on the ground.
Brad felt as if his blood was being pumped out of his body by some kind of force, and in fact, even though his companions had come over to help him hold down the shallow wound, the dazzling blood kept pouring out of Brad's body and dripping onto the magic array. In the blink of an eye, the magic array was covered in blood red, as if someone had repainted the magic array with blood-red paint, and a thick white mist poured out of the magic array, and then gathered in the magic array to condense into a hemisphere.
Brad and his companions were stunned by what they saw, and they noticed a small black circle in the middle of the mist, which was constantly expanding, and from the circle came different shades of red light, and the hemispherical fog that enveloped the circle was reflected red, and the smell of blood surrounded Brad and his companions. Brad suddenly noticed that there was no more blood coming out of his arm, and was about to open his mouth to ask his partner to release the hand that was holding his wound. A strange, hoarse voice floated out of the circle: "Yo! I thought it was ...... The children. Why would you disturb the sleep of an old man like me?"
A dark red head protrudes from the circle, and he looks like some unknown beast, with two long, sharp horns on his head. The voice continued in his mouth: "It is a very serious sin to disturb my sleep!
Although ordinary people know very little about demons, the appearance of demons is appropriated by every family, and many parents will scare disobedient children to describe how terrifying and ugly demons are. Brad and his friends immediately recognized a legendary demon in front of them. And the demon with scarred dark red skin was slowly rising from that circle. Brad remembered the contents of the letter just now, and quickly replied: "Er...... Ertu?Demonic ...... Mr. Demon, I miss you, your name is ...... Ertu. ”
Following Brad's trembling voice, the demon saw the boy who had answered, and the old piece of paper he still held in his hand, and the demon's eyes seemed to flash with a sparkle on his face, but there was a hypocritical expression on his face: "Ah, wise boy, I don't know how you guessed right. Yes, I'm Ertu. But you should call me Mr. Ertu, especially when I taste your muscles and bones!" The demon suddenly reached out and grabbed one of Brad's companions and pulled him to his mouth.
Everyone knew that the "click" sound echoed in the cellar was the result of the bones of their companions being chewed in the demon's mouth, especially when large strands of blood were spurted on them. It's just that these young men, who usually dare to rush at the ferocious boar, are now weak-footed, and none of them have the strength to escape; Brad reluctantly opened his mouth to question the demon, "Er, Mr. Ertu, didn't you mean...... If...... If we knew your name, would you, would you, would you let us go?"
"What a naïve little boy. "Most of Ertu's body is already on the ground. His bite was unbelievably fast, and there were only a few bones left in the upper body of Brad's companion who had just been caught, and Ertu reached out to grab Brad's other companion as if he couldn't get enough of it: "I have forgiven you, and the flames of the abyss will not come to you." But it is your human duty to provide food for the Venerable Demon Lord!"
Another stream of blood poured down, and Brad watched his companion's neck break under the bite of the demon Ertu, and young Brad's heart suddenly rose with courage, and his feet didn't seem to tremble anymore: Brad drew his short sword beside him and pounced on Ertu.
It was clearly an act of striking a stone with an egg, and the demon didn't pay any attention to the future leader of the Dragon's Tooth Knights, but just pointed a finger at Brad, and the long, clawed finger that immediately pierced Brad's body. The demon threw away the corpse of Brad's companion in his other hand with one hand, and looked at Brad through his claws, and his eyes rolled, as if he was thinking about something, Brad only felt that his whole body had lost strength, and the short sword in his hand fell to the ground with a "clatter".
The demon Otto removed Brad's body from his claws, gently placed it on the ground, and pressed a palm on Brad's forehead, and began to chant a series of incantations. I don't know how long the demon's spell was pronounced, but a thunderous shout not only attracted the demon's attention, but also woke Brad from a blood loss and fainting.
"Bastard, let go of my son!" a robed figure burst through the cellar door with a heart-rending shout, and slashed at the demon with the faintly white sword in his hand. Perhaps it was because of the reason that he was focused on the spell just now, Ertu only had time to dodge backwards, and the long sword cut a deep wound in the demon's chest, but the dark red blood that flowed from the wound seemed to have evaporated immediately, and the exposed wound sizzled.
Feeling the pain, Ertu immediately spread the huge wings behind his back and flew up, the cellar seemed to have been prepared for this to happen at an unknown time, and the man who broke in found that there was enough space for the demon in front of him, who was almost twice his size, to fully extend his wings.
Brad immediately recognized it as his father, Grand Duke Karen. Archduke Karen, who had come from thousands of miles away and wanted nothing more than to spend the night with his son, had no surprise. In the mountains, he encountered a demon who was attacking his son. Therefore, he did not wear the armor of the head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights. but an attendant who came in with the Grand Duke. Relying on the protection of the sturdy armor on his body, he raised the long sword in his hand and went back to the demon that stopped in mid-air. Ertor sneered, and a roaring circle of flames suddenly encircled his body, and a long whip of strange style appeared in his left hand, while the demon's right hand stretched out and turned into a jagged greatsword. The greatsword attached to Ertu's right wrist glittered like a bolt of lightning, and with a single swing it split the dragontooth knight and sword in half as he rushed towards him, while the whip of Ertu's right hand flung at the door of the cellar, where another of Grand Duke Karen's attendants was peering into the cellar.
The retinue, clad in the armor of the Dragon's Tooth Knights, barely escaped from Ertu's whip, which cut off his left hand with sharp edges, but his face immediately changed. He screamed as if he had been stimulated by something, turned around and ran away. Ertu's whip didn't stop there, but turned back to Archduke Cullen, who was trying to lift Brad up from the ground. Grand Duke Cullen shouted angrily and raised his sword to the whip, and Ertu's whip snapped in response, but the terrifying force that came from the whip knocked Archduke Cullen aside, and the archduke's sword flew out of his hand.
When Brad woke up, he saw his father fall to the ground next to him, trying to reach out and grab him, but found that he could not do anything, Brad's hand hung limply, but he just touched a piece of paper on the ground that had been soaked in blood. Brad had an idea, and quickly turned sideways to pick up the piece of paper and began to read out the above sentences. He finally remembered that there was a spell written on the piece of paper that could destroy the Miè demon.
"The wind of bone cutting is above, and the water of annihilation is below. Where is the source of strength? Where is the source of the destruction...... Brad's voice did not tremble anymore, perhaps this spell was the last chance for him and the Grand Duke of Karen. Ertu heard Brad's incantation come with a panicked look on his face, and the long whip that was only half in his hand swung in Brad's direction.
Despite being knocked away, Grand Duke Karen did not lose his senses, he reached for his sword and tried to find his sword, but only to touch a small cloth bag on the ground, and saw the demon's long whip swing towards his son, Grand Duke Karen did not hesitate to throw the bag at the demon in order to attract Ertu's attention so that his son could finish the spell.
However, the bag did not seem to have any effect, and before it could touch Ertu's body, the bag had been burned by the flames surrounding Ertu, and several small glowing beads fell out of the bag, and one of them flew towards Ertu's body. Ertu's whip struck Brad's letter with unmistaken accuracy, tearing it to shreds, but Brad had memorized the spell and uttered it in its entirety:
“...... The flames of the earth will also be used to destroy the existence of the earth, just as the demon named Ertu was created and destroyed!"
"You white ...... Ahhhhhhhh Archduke Karen, who struggled to crawl towards his son, took Brad's hand and found that Ertu's long whip had broken the letter with the spell on it with unusual accuracy, but it had not hurt Brad in the slightest.
The demons behind the father and son seemed to have happened at this moment, and the small beads surrounding Ertor hit Etul's body one after another and exploded, and when the last bead also turned into a glittering dust and scattered, Ertul's body was already covered with wounds, and countless dark red blood dripped from the wounds to the ground, as if strong acid corroded the ground into pits.
Grand Duke Cullen and Brad weren't too aware of what happened afterward. After Bled finished reciting the incantation, he suddenly felt a strange breath blowing through his body, as if all the strength of his body had been taken away by this breath, and saw his son fall to the ground weakly, and Grand Duke Karen, who leaned down to try to help his son, only felt a violent vibration behind him, and immediately pounced on Brad. Countless stones and wood fell from the cellar ceiling, and Grand Duke Cullen and Brad both fainted before the cellar collapsed completely.
When Brad awoke, he found himself lying on the big bed at home, when he heard a loud noise and the retinue of Grand Duke Karen, who had remained in the castle, arrived and dug him out. The powerlessness that had enveloped Brad since he had recited the spell that destroyed the demon lasted only two weeks, and then Brad felt as if he had an inexhaustible strength in himself, and only a ferocious aura had been with him ever since, and today, Count Brad Klein had to restrain the bloodthirsty impulse in his heart all the time, just as the Count was at this moment. (To be continued......)