On one side were twenty heavily armed Valkyries.

On the other side are two epic adventurers and a ferocious dodo.

yes, that's not fair. The poor ladies don't know how backward they are.

Victor examines the flock of birds and realizes that many of them have been killed on the island. Yet they formed a battle line in front of him. "You yourself can be resurrected." The minister guessed. "That's why you know I captured her soul."

"We Valkyries can collect worthy warriors who wish to fight forever in the halls of Lord Wotan. This is our (Ei

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capacity. "The new leader of the flock, a dark-haired girl wielding a spear of light, landed on the beach in front of the Prime Minister. She pointed her weapon at his head. "But you've trapped Sigren, and we can't bring her back. I let her go right away. ”

"I don't understand everything, but it's useless for you to threaten me." Kia raised her sword, and there was light all around.

"It's none of your business, human." Valkyrie replied, completely forgetting [Paladin's] true identity. "We didn't quarrel with you."

Kia and Victo

I don't think so. With Golenich and Winkel nearby, their group had the upper hand. Even Dodorian looked at the sheep calmly, calmly and serenely.

Still, Vizier wanted to avoid a fight as much as possible. "I think we all need to calm down."

"Let our sister go, and we'll be on our way," the Valkyrie's leader insisted, "and we'll take her back by force if necessary." ”

"Wait," Victor understood. "Are you willing to negotiate peace for her release?"

The female warriors exchanged glances, and their leader frowned at him. "Why don't you resist and give her back?" The concept of peaceful discussion was almost foreign to her. Apparently she made this request only out of politeness.

"I don't know, because threats and violence don't solve everything?"

The charm test is successful!

"And what do you want, dragon slave?"

"I know your master is alive." Victor said. He had learned from Ahnapep that no matter how tightly sealed, every buried demon would escape at some point. "I hope he doesn't come to us again. Persuade him not to do so. ”

"Impossible," the woman shook her head. "Lord Wotan swore to the fairy queen that he would bring her the dragon's head."

"Once he made a promise, he would never break it." Sigren's shadow proudly added that only Victor had seen him. "Not like you cunning mortals."

A venerable fairy? Very well, the Prime Minister will agree. "What's the exact wording?"

"Give me the head of Bane the Knight, and I will give you the soul you desire."

As he thought, he found an obvious loophole. "Well, that's my condition." Victor said. "I will release the soul under three conditions. First of all, you want to answer all of our questions as best you can. Second, when we are over, you are to leave the island peacefully. Thirdly, if Wotan comes to us again, I want you to convince him to negotiate instead of attacking him as soon as you see him. If he's going to fight Van Kerr in the future, he's done, but I want him to sit down and talk to us for ten minutes. ”

Charm Check......

Successful!

The Valkyrie's leader carefully considered his offer before answering. "I can't guarantee that adults will listen, but I don't...... We assure you. "We'll answer your questions, get out of here without hurting anyone, and we'll send your message to Lord Wotan. As long as you let our sister go. ”

Finally, a villain with common sense has appeared.

"Are you sure, Vic?" Chia whispered to him, too low that even the fairy slaves could hear him. The paladin didn't let up at all, her sword firmly pointed at the flock. "We can beat them. If you release that soul and let them go, it means that there will be problems later. ”

"Maybe, but we won't have many opportunities to learn about the actions of our predecessors," the prime minister replied. "I think it's worth the risk."

"Stop whispering and ask questions." The Valkyrie leader commanded. "I don't want to stay on this island anymore except for the necessary time."

That's right, that's right. "What's your name?" Victor asked the team leader.

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.”

"Brynnhilde, who is the fairy queen who sent your master to chase us?" He had already guessed the answer, but he wanted to confirm it and see if the ladies were lying to him.

"We know she's Mel Audius," Brynnhilde replied truthfully. It is clear that while the Valkyries were loyal to their masters, they did not care at all about the other ancestors. "She looks like you humans, but not at all. She is a cruel beast with great power, and many fairy lords have made her queen. ”

"It is only during the war that the people elect a common leader," Kia noted. "They are too proud to stand in front of a higher authority. What do you mean by many?"

"Many of the fairy lords of Prydon and Mistral are on their knees, in addition to our own lord Baba Yaga, and lone rangers like Jack of the Lanterns. She sent messengers from north to west, from east to south, all over the world, to find you

Seelie, Yokai and

aksasas, power in exchange for loyalty. ”

"For what purpose?" Victor asked solemnly.

The entire Valkyrie group looked at him as if he were an idiot to ask the question. "Exterminate humanity."

He walked straight into that.

"But Lord Wotan said no," Brynnhilde admitted.

Victor frowned. "He refused?"

"There's no honor in killing creatures that can't kill you in turn." She replied with great pride. "The value of a true warrior is determined by the courage of his enemies."

"Lord Wotan coexists with the people of your Winter Kingdom." Another battle girl added. "As long as they don't bother him, don't interfere with his dragon hunting, he won't bother them."

"You wouldn't make me believe that a robot would care about humans," Kia countered.

"Lord Wotan doesn't care." Brynnhilde admitted. "But he also doesn't like to kill your kind. He seeks only the blood of dragons and other enemies. As his kind attacks civilians to gain ranks, he hunts lizards and dragons in preparation for yours. ”

Victor speculates that, as on Earth, not all psychopaths are genocidal serial killers. "In the volcano, I heard him talk about the expedition of Baraul. He said it was a threat to his own race. ”

"Yes." Brynnhilde nodded, and at this point, Kia stiffened. "Lord Wotan thinks this war is pointless, and time has proven him right. There used to be very little, now even less. Unlike you mortals, they can't easily replenish their numbers. Since he was unwilling to kneel or serve her army, the fairy queen asked him to hunt down your dragon king as her gift. ”

"So, if I follow," Kia said. "This Odius can somehow give ancestral souls and thus enter the system in exchange for their services. How did she do it?"

"McGonagall Mayer, the father of Odeus, created a new crown from the blood and bones of a dragon: the Soul Crown. It gives our Lord the power of the soul"

Bones and blood?" Kidnapped dragon!" Kia immediately guessed the obvious reason.

"Grandpa told Van Klehl that the magic of ancient dragons can create souls." Victor grumbled, a hand in his hair. "Damn, Mag Mayer must have reworked it somehow."

"I'm not familiar with the word," Valkyrie admitted. "I don't know how it works. I leave the magic to the caster. ”

"How many soul crowns does Odeus have?" Victor asked.

"One. But unlike the badge of your system, it can be given to as many fighters as needed. ”

Victor didn't know what was going on. On the one hand, reliance on an artifact means that destroying it could weaken the fairies' war efforts. On the other hand, this item can reasonably give the entire pre-race access to the system for a short period of time. "Where's that badge?"

"I don't know," replied Valkyrie. "I've only seen it once in a stone circle in Praitan, and that was during our lord's soul sending ceremony."

"McGonagall Mayer probably kept it handy all the time." "In the past, many of his experiments have backfired, and it has not been possible to keep this artifact out of sight."

"Do you know what Odeus is planning?" Victor inquired about the news.

"She said she would summon the 'Arrow of Light' on Sahain's Day, the night when fairy magic was at its peak. The metal man fires arrows with his great bow and burns all the enemies of his ancestors to ashes. Mistress Wotan ignored her, so I didn't know the details. ”

So the slime prophecy prophesied. It is likely that Victor has found the "hateful man" whom he was supposed to help Winkel defeat. "What are they going to do with these arrows?" The minister asked. "Attack Ga

demag

e ?”

"Not Gadmani." Brynnhilde said, looking directly into the Chancellor's eyes.

…

"Beep beep".

"You declared war first."

"Where's Odeus?" Kia asked, frowning when Wotan's servants didn't come up with an answer. "Mag intervention?"

"Probably Pledan." Brynnhilde replied vaguely.

"Can you give us any clues?"

"We do know the whereabouts of their relative, Merlin the Piper. The fairy queen puts him in charge of a place where orcs can level up quickly, just near what you call the Jade Empire. I think it's a stable. ”

“(Exp Fa

m)， B

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hild

," said the other Valkyrie. "That's what it's called."

Somehow, the title sent chills down Victor's spine. "How much do you know about that place?"

"It's just that Lord Wotan doesn't want to have anything to do with it."

"That Mel Lin is probably the pied piper who helped the Nightblade and let them die," Kia said. The two asked for more details, but Valkyrie didn't know much. As it turned out, Wotan's attack on Winkel was only a one-time favor.

Since the proud Lord of Lightning never swore allegiance, Odeus did not involve him in her plans. The Valkyries knew nothing about the defenses of Praitan, the army of the Fairy Queen, or even the abilities of Odeus.

"Do you have any questions, mortal?" Brynnhilde asked, growing impatient with the cross-examination. Victor and Kia exchanged glances, as worried as he was, but they didn't know what else to ask. Valkyrie has given the team a lot to think about.

"We kept our promise," the Valkyries pointed their weapons at the two, "and now it's your turn." ”

A part of the vizier, the one who often went to Shurammans to deal with the devil, felt no obligation to fulfill a deal made with an organization that tried to kill him. Now that they knew enough, he and Kia might be able to slaughter the group now, and never have to fight them again.

On the other hand, I thought of something else, if there was the slightest chance of achieving it......

"Well, Sigren, I would have said we had a great time," the Chancellor said to the soul with a scythe, "but that was a lie. ”

"I wish Audius killed you," the ghostly Valkyrie replied without remorse. She made Victor miss Frebon more than ever.

"Great, but she's already done it."

Using the techniques she learned in Shilin, Victor set her soul free, and the ghostly shadow turned into a small point of light and escaped from prison. Brynnhilde immediately grabbed it with his free hand, silently looking at [Death]. "Accidents? He asked her.

"A little." Brynnhilde replied, clutching his sister's soul tightly in his hands. "But the next time we meet, it won't be as friends."

"Are we really leaving, Brynnhild?" A girl asks her captain about reversing like Victor. "He and his accomplices could kill us forever."

"Regarding the 'leave' part of our agreement, I have a way for you to comply......" Victor cleared his throat and shouted loudly. GORYNYCH !”

"Yes, master!" The horse immediately rushed towards the beach, and Manuacher struggled not to fall off his back; Just as he appeared, the rain began, blocking out the sun, much to Kia's chagrin.

The three-headed dragon noticed the Valkyrie, and its tail immediately stood up, like a dog spotting a rabbit.

Victor pointed at the terrified female warrior. "Princess!"

Faced with a close relative three-headed dragon rushing towards them, throwing sand everywhere, even the fearless Valkyrie flinched. "Retreat!" Brynnhilde fled, as did her companions, and Golenich chased them with wings outstretched, throwing Novacher off his back in a hurry. "Retreat!"

Congratulations! Successfully engage in a non-violent exchange with a slave and gain valuable information, and you will gain +2 charm points.

"So?" Victor asked, watching his mount chase the Valkyrie in the sea of whiskey.

"It's bad." [Paladin] replied. "It's really bad. Samhai

The festival is Halloween, so we ...... What, two months before the Former Clansmen attacked the Whisperers?"

"Unless we can catch Odeus and nip this new century war in the cradle," Victor said, Kia gave him a strange look, "I'm sorry to stay with the devil for too long." ”

"Where do we start?" We don't know where she and McGonagall Mayer will be when they leave Pleidan. As for that one (Exp Fa

M), we may spend years exploring the continent of Serica and not find its location. ”

“B

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hild

Yokai was mentioned. ”

Kia took his words into account and put her hands on her face. "I hate Japan."