Chapter 6: Snatching Love [I.]
I want to die in this chapter, the code is about 3000 words, a flash of inspiration, a better plot appeared instantly, and then various modifications, tossed for nearly two hours, hehe~ finally full. Chapter 6 is presented!
The Thur Silver Fortress, after a long period of time and energy, the dwarven ancestors finally built an impregnable steel fortress in the Howling Wind Canyon, the most dangerous dead place in the Noah continent. With the danger of the towering Silisus Mountains on both sides of the canyon and the fierce combat power of the dwarves, the Thorium Fortress has experienced countless baptisms of war. After gaining a firm foothold, under the leadership of the legendary dwarven patriarch Dugal Divine Light Battle Axe, with the strength of five groups of infantry, it took three years and two crusades to sweep through the Rocky Canyon and the Forsaken Desert, open up the connection channel with the Holy See of Miruphas, and use the Holy See as a transit point to sell the iron weapons of the Dwarven Race to the entire Noah continent. This period of history, known as the "glorious epic" of the dwarves, has been imitated by countless dwarven patriarchs in the future.
When the first rays of dawn appeared on the majestic walls of the Thorium fortress, Cohen and Rachel appeared at the gate of the thorium fortress with their slightly tired bodies in tow. Running all night long, the two of them almost reached the limit of their physical fitness. After taking a short rest in the Battle Song Square of the Thursilver Fortress and eating something to replenish his physical strength, he ran towards the core of the earth in the central area of the Thursilver Fortress.
When Rachel found the dwarven patriarch Clement in the council chamber, he held a piece of mineral similar to a crystal, and discussed something with several dwarven elders with a serious expression, and after learning that Cohen and Rachel had arrived, he put down the mineral in his hand and said to several old men: "Let's talk about this here today, I have more important things to deal with, and the rest of the things will trouble a few wise men." ”
Several old men nodded at the same time, bowed to Clement, and left the council chamber.
It didn't take long for Cohen and Rachel to come to the council chamber under the guidance of an attendant, and when Clement saw the two, he took the flask and poured a full glass of golden pine nut wine for the two, and after the two sat down, he said: "I won't say polite words, I called you here so urgently to confirm two things with you." Friends of the elves, it is purely an accident that this matter involves you, and I hope that after you learn some truths, you will not leak it to anyone else except for the elf patriarch Carter, who has the right to know. Can you do it?" asked Clement, in a loud voice.
"I, Abigaiah Cohen, swear in the name of Sanjara Weis, the goddess of the earth, that I will follow your wishes, Patriarch, and will never tell anyone what happened today. With that, he knelt down on one knee towards Clement, raised his palms upward, and prayed and admonished clearly.
Clement nodded in satisfaction and said, "Very well, in that case, let's get started." I know you have a lot to ask me, especially Rachel. Before I do that, I'll give you a rough overview of the current situation. I'll answer your questions again. Without waiting for the two to reply, they took out a roll of parchment from their bosoms, spread it out on the table, and said, "Come and see!" Cohen and Rachel stepped forward, only to see four strangely shaped weapons drawn on the old parchment, each with a small text underneath.
"What is this?" Rachel and Cohen asked, looking at each other.
"What you hear next is a secret of the entire Arad continent: in the torrent of history, the truth of many things has been gradually buried, and what has been handed down has been distorted and processed. This parchment scroll truly records the four continents of Noah, the Void Continent, the undead country Britias, and the Chosen One country Milandaas in the era of the gods. Clement paused, pointed heavily at one of the weapons with his big hand, and said excitedly: "After the dwarven prophet brought back this parchment scroll from a certain plane, it took a lot of time to decipher the words on the parchment scroll, but unfortunately no progress has been made. It wasn't until recently that the discovery of an ancient inscription by the Holy See in the Forsaken Desert made a breakthrough in our deciphering work, and we finally learned the location of the weapon on the Noah continent, and also the name of the weapon: The Breath of the Shining Stars!
Following Clement's instructions, Cohen and Rachel saw an oval-shaped disc on the parchment. I don't know if it's because of the age of the parchment roll, or because the weapon was the way it was, the whole disc looks pitted, like a piece of cheese with countless small holes.
The Chosen One's strongest weapon has actually fallen in the Levor Mountains!
Cohen and Rachel had a feeling of suffocation in the moment, the Chosen One, actually the Chosen One. Every bard in Noah's continent has a common lyric in it:
Four brothers and sisters lost their mother's protection,
Wandering in the torrent of years.
They prayed for their mother's mercy and mercy.
They prayed for their mother's forgiveness and understanding.
The mother feigned anger and left them.
But before leaving, he buried the most delicious delicacies under the coarse bread.
They searched everywhere, but to no avail.
They were hungry and ate and drunk.
A white lamb with a tender green thorn grass in its mouth appeared before them.
God has given you thorns to reflect on your sins.
The four of them repented silently, and the years passed, and sharp thorns tightly surrounded them.
A pair of warm big hands, bleeding and tearing apart the thorns, led them home.
Arad!
Follow the whispers of my chosen one, and I am a lamb and a thorn.
I, too, are your mother!
......
Now that the worn-out parchment scroll in front of him actually recorded the location of the Chosen One's weapon, Cohen calmed down slightly, glanced at Clement, and asked in awe, "Lord Clement, why do you want to tell us this?" With Rachel's and I qualifications, it's almost impossible to get access to this level of secrets. ”
Clement sat down slowly, took a sip of golden pine nut, and said, "Because I believe you can keep your oath, Cohen!" As he spoke, he waved his hand and motioned for the two to sit down, and continued: "Not long ago, when this parchment scroll was deciphered, the subhuman spies took advantage of our celebration and succeeded in obtaining a draft of the parchment scroll.
Cohen and Rachel were all in a spirit, and the two of them stood up suddenly, exclaiming in unison, "What, ghost-level black-clad assassin?"
Clement looked at the inexplicable two and asked, "Is there a problem?"
Rachel hurriedly told Clement everything that had happened in the Rock Rat Tunnel, especially the physical characteristics of the black-clad assassin, for fear of missing a detail.
After hearing Rachel's news, Clement's brows furrowed tightly, and he muttered: "I didn't expect the sub-human race to move so quickly, not only planting spies in the digger's passage, but also going straight to the digger's passage as soon as they stole the parchment scroll draft, I still underestimated their ambitions, hey!" After speaking, he let out a long sigh, picked up the golden pine nut, slowly walked to the window, looked in the direction of the Levor Mountains, and pondered.
After a moment, Clement turned around and suddenly smiled: "The breath of the shining stars was definitely not snatched away by the black-clothed assassin, how could I forget such an important matter, halu ha!" Then he poured a large sip of golden pine nut wine, walked back to the table quickly, and continued: "In the process of deciphering the parchment scroll, we learned that the only condition to awaken the breath of the fallen Chosen One's weapon Shining Star is to bombard the ultra-high purity earth element to seal the enchantment. If he had gotten his hands on this weapon, the entire Levor Mountains would have collapsed under the brunt of this devastating force. ”
"Rachel, I urgently summoned you back this time just to confirm one thing, the earth element of the digger's passage is rampant, is it that you are desperately practicing the high-level earth element compression technique in the passage?" Clement slightly accentuated his tone, and a sense of majesty of a superior person, like walking on thin ice, instantly spread throughout Rachel's body.
"Yes, Master Clement!" replied Rachel cautiously.
"That's right, when you kid accidentally stumbled into it, when you cast a high-level earth elemental compression technique, it may have resonated with the sealing enchantment of the weapon, so it easily caused the earth elemental to run wild, isn't that so?" Clement said his conjecture, as long as this was confirmed, the breath of the Chosen One's shining stars would definitely be in the direction of the Rock Rat Mine.
Rachel slapped his head and said, "That's true, as long as you practice the high-level earth elemental compression technique in the rock rat tunnel, it is easy to gather a large amount of earth elementals, while in the other three mines, it takes a long time to brew the elemental amplification, and the power when you cast it at the end of the day is not half of it. Patriarch, do you mean that the excavation direction of the Rock Rat Mine is very close to the place where the Chosen One's weapon was sealed?"
Clement nodded and said, "Now we can only wait for news from Anita, I hope he can bring back good news!"
Seeing that Rachel and Clement's conversation was over for the time being, Cohen took out the letter from the Elegy of Life ring that Carter asked him to turn the corner to Clement, as well as the bottle of confinement. Then he said to Rachel, "Rachel, I have some very important things to talk to Master Clement alone, about the future of the elves and dwarves, can you avoid it?"
The dwarf looked at the two things in Cohen's hand, stood up, saluted Clement, and said to Cohen, "Okay, call me, I'll wait for you outside." There's something I want to ask Mr. Clement, too. After speaking, he closed the door for the two of them and went out.
Seeing Cohen's solemn expression, Clement asked with a serious expression, "What are these?"
Cohen told Clement in detail what had happened and what Patriarch Carter had ordered. He then used vegetation manipulation to open the container containing the letter, and then carefully handed the bottle of imprisonment to Clement. Clement's brows furrowed deeply when he heard the words "green devouring", and he turned around and took out a large metal box from the cabinet and placed the bottle of confinement containing the poison.
Clement sighed: "It's really a wave of unevenness, wave after wave, and the miscellaneous of the subhuman race will not stop at all!" After speaking, he picked up the wine glass, drank it in one gulp, and continued: "The matter of the alliance, I can't answer you now, I need to discuss with a few elders in the clan to make a decision, and then I will personally visit Carter in the elven clan." As for this new toxin, I'll let the dwarven sages crack it with all their might, hoping to find an antidote. ”
"Patriarch Clement, on behalf of Patriarch Carter, I thank you for your help to the Elven Race, I believe that as long as the two races work together to fight against the Subhuman Race, the final victory will definitely belong to us. After receiving a definite reply from the dwarven patriarch Clement, Cohen said excitedly.
Clement waved his hand and said, "It's too early to say victory, there are too many things involved in this war between the elves and the sub-humans, especially the hatred of the sub-humans against the elves is almost impossible to resolve. If you really want to talk about it, you can't finish it for three days and three nights, so I won't talk to you here. Cohen, what are your plans for that? Are you going to go straight back to the Elven Forest?"
Cohen shook his head and said, "I can't go back yet, Patriarch Carter has other things for me to do." After a short rest here, I will rush to the Holy See of Mirumis to hand over another sample of the toxin to Cardinal Joseph Crane. Patriarch Clement, is there anything you need me to do?"
"Originally, I wanted you to tell Carter about the Chosen One's weapons so that he could be prepared, but since you still have your own mission, I won't force it. I had to make Anita work harder and make an extra trip to the Elven Forest. Clement smiled and said helplessly.
"Patriarch, I have one more thing I need your help with!" Cohen paused, then recounted everything he had encountered in the digger's passage from beginning to end, and asked, "Patriarch, is Liz credible?"
"Do you suspect Leeds of collaborating?"
"It's possible!"
"It's a bit alarmist, to suspect Leeds based on the scent alone, and Rachel has determined that the female assassin is a beautiful woman comparable to Leeds. Maybe it's a coincidence!"
"Since Patriarch Clement thinks I'm alarmist, then I haven't mentioned it!" Cohen was a little disheartened.
Clement stood up, walked up to Cohen, patted him on the shoulder, and smiled: "I don't mean to blame you, don't worry, I'll tell you the reason slowly." Liz has a special identity, her father is a dwarf, but her mother is a Terran, and she grew up in the city of the War Lion Crusader. When she was seventeen years old, she followed her father to the Sesilver Fort to open a tavern, and once I accidentally drank the strong liquor Dragon Burn there, and I was very drunk, and her personality and style of conduct were quite to my liking, so I accepted her as a closed disciple. She was also very angry, and she was promoted to the Silver Tomahawk level in three years. Four years ago, I received news that someone in the Excavator's Passage was selling weapons to the Asians, so I arranged for her to go to the Digger's Passage to open the Battle Hammer Tavern, aiming to find the black sheep; ”
After listening to Clement's story, Cohen was confused, was he wrong?
"I know that what I just said is not enough to dispel your suspicions, do you think this is good, Leeds, I will tell Anita to pay more attention, and I will not give you any guarantees, I can only say that it is a precaution and a precaution, and a rainy day. Clement hesitated for a moment and said.
Cohen thought about it, and with the current situation, he had to do that. He nodded and said, "I know that my request is a bit vexatious, thank you for your understanding. ”
"Well, that's the end of this matter for now, is there anything else? Cohen!"
"No, I'll help you call Rachel in, he should have something to do!" Cohen said, bowing to Clement and walking towards the wooden door.
"I remember Carter saying that elves who have not undergone a coming-of-age ceremony will never be skewed in their recognition of scents, is that true? Cohen!" Just as Cohen was about to reach the wooden door, Clement suddenly asked.
"Yes, Master Clement!"
"Oh, Zhilu, you can help me get Rachel in!" Clement said, turned around, looked through the window, and whispered two words: Liz!
It wasn't long before there was a slight knock on the door, and Rachel gently pushed open the wooden door and walked in, sitting uneasily in her chair. glanced at Clement, and stopped talking: "Patriarch, I ......"
"I want to ask why I asked Anita to teach you the Advanced Earth Elemental Compression Technique, isn't it?" Clement smiled and said, "It can only be said that it was a whim, I remember that day you violated the clan rules and challenged Alexandra Black Iron Tomahawk for a ridiculous relationship, and the result was a fiasco." When you knelt in the arena and cried helplessly, I couldn't bear to let Anita teach you advanced skills, and then throw you into the digger's passage to do coolies, hoping that you would forget those unhappy things. Rachel, now you tell me, let it go?"
Rachel didn't say a word, his eyes were fixed on Clement, his body trembled slightly, his hands were slowly clenched, and after half a sound, he said: "Patriarch, I can't let it go, I really like Ashley!" Rachel lowered his head, and his fists made a crisp sound like popping beans.
Clement sighed and said slightly angrily, "But she's already Arisandra's wife!"
Rachel jumped up and roared: "I don't care, my parents died in the battle of Baikal, and I have been bullied by my clan since I was a child. I swore in front of my father's grave that I would marry Ashley and take our children to lay flowers for him!" Rachel began to weep silently, and fell to her knees, her right fist slamming desperately into the floor.
"As long as I win against Arisandra, Ashley will like me! she'll love me!" Rachel repeated as she slowly stood up. Clement couldn't stand it anymore, and went up and punched Rachel in the abdomen, and the dwarf flew out, knocked down a few chairs, slammed into the wall, and lay limply on the floor, his mouth still repeating.
Hearing the violent collision sound coming from inside, Cohen hurriedly pushed open the door, just in time to see Rachel lying on the floor, hurriedly rushed to the dwarf's side, helped him up, and asked, "How did this happen?"
Clement shook his right hand and said, "It's nothing, help him out of the way and let him calm down, this bastard!" After speaking, he picked up the wooden cup, poured a full glass of golden pine nut wine, and drank it in a big gulp, never looking at Rachel again.
Cohen glanced at Rachel worriedly, helped him slowly out of the council room, and whispered to Clement before closing the door: "Lord Clement, if Rachel has any offense, don't blame him, he is also very bitter!" After saying that, he closed the wooden door and helped Rachel towards the core of the earth.
When a dull closing sound came, Clement slowly put down his glass and sighed, "I don't blame him, I just blame myself, if it wasn't for my fault, Rachel's parents wouldn't have died." It's a pity that Rachel didn't have a chance to hear this.
Cohen helped the walking dead Rachel to sit down in a random tavern in the core of the earth, and ordered a large glass of black iron beer for the dwarf. After the two sat down, Cohen said, "If you have anything unhappy, just say it, I will accompany you today, and you won't get drunk or go home!" After speaking, he raised the barrel cup and poured a sip of black iron beer.
Smelling the tempting aroma of beer, Rachel instinctively raised his glass and drank it with his head held high, the smooth beer mixed with bitter tears, which made the hatred in the dwarf's heart run wild. After taking a sip of beer and letting out a long sigh, Rachel took out the last three gold coins from his waist bag and yelled at the counter, "Beer, finish drinking here!" and threw the three gold coins into the counter.
It wasn't long before two dwarves approached with a large log barrel and placed it firmly beside Rachel, expertly pulling out the cork and stuffing an iron wine extractor into it, and with a gentle pump, the black iron beer slowly flowed out of the pipe.
Rachel picked up his glass, poured a glass of black iron beer, raised it high, and shouted: "First glass, to the great rock god Adelaide Bur!!r!" Many dwarves in the tavern also raised their glasses and shouted in unison: "To the great rock god Adelaide Burr!"
Wiping the wine foam from the corner of his mouth, Rachel poured himself another glass, and roared loudly: "Second glass, to all the warriors who died fighting for the honor of the dwarves!Including my parents, drink !!!" This glass, all the dwarves in the tavern, including the boss, raised their glasses: "To all the warriors who fought and died on the battlefield for the honor of the dwarves!" The neat roar resounded in everyone's ears like a war drum, and a stream of blood rushed to the brain, Cohen also raised his glass, roaring mercilessly.
Rachel laughed, two large glasses of black iron beer in a row, the depression in his heart was swept away, he filled his glass for the third time, jumped on the wooden table, raised his glass high, and the tavern was suddenly quiet, and everyone looked at Rachel. Rachel bent down suddenly, exerting all her strength, and roared hoarsely, "Third cup, to all the lovely dwarven girls!"
Rachel drank the third cup of Black Iron Beer contentedly, and was about to jump off the table when a magnetic voice sounded behind him: "Rachel, when are you back?"
Rachel suddenly felt that time had stopped flowing, and she could no longer breathe, so she turned around with difficulty, looked at the woman in front of her, and muttered, "Ashley!"