Nicola frowned: "I don't understand, the Whiteblade Guards gave you everything......"

Monty shook his head and sneered, interrupting him, "Of course you don't understand. ”

"You are the man chosen by Kaslan, the future commander he has high hopes to cultivate, and the being who can carry the entire battle flag for the White-Bladed Guards. ”

His breath became rapid, his right hand pressed to the ground, dragging it tightly, and his eyes were full of pathos and resentment as he looked at Nicolai: "Seri Nicolai, you are a glorious blade with a shining blade, how can you understand me as a filthy raven that eats scavengers?"

"Yes, the White Guards gave us everything, but they didn't give us a choice. ”

Listening to the other party's inexplicable words, Nicolai's heart was angry: "You-"

But Monty continued to speak to himself, choking the words of the Meteorite in his mouth.

"It was the second day we officially joined the team. ”

Monty said lightly: "Kaslan suddenly told me that he thinks I am very talented in scouting, it just so happens that after the death of 'coward' Laiken, the guards are very short of such people, and there is a secret mission at night, do you want to try it?"

Nicola's cheeks twitched slightly—he remembered it, and he remembered the envious expressions and sour tones of the others when Caslan said it, and the irrepressible excitement and excitement on his big face.

But......

Nicolai looked at Monty's emotionally complicated eyes and subconsciously closed his mouth.

"That night, there was no moon ......"

The Dead Raven spoke softly, feeling like he was telling the children a lesson from a long time ago: "Kaslan took me, along with a few other guard elders, to cover my face and do my first mission after joining the team. ”

There was a shiver in his eyes that made Nicollet shudder: "A merchant has something that the king is interested in, and we are going to find it secretly, by the way......"

Monty paused for a moment and ended the sentence in a nonchalant tone:

“...... Kill his entire family. ”

The sun was obscured by a cloud, casting a shadow between the two.

Bring a cool feeling that is not there.

"What?"

Nicola's face turned pale: "You?"

Monty's shoulders trembled, his facial features trembled, and he laughed out loud against the rock:

"Hahaha," his breath was extremely unsteady, and his speech was fast and slow, like a man who had just been rescued from drowning:

"It's hard to imagine killing people and setting fires in the middle of the night, right? Especially for the majestic Captain Nicolai - the White Guards are so beautiful. Guarding is your most sacred duty. ”

Nicollet didn't speak, he just stared blankly at the ground.

"The moon was so dark that night that even the human blood was black, and I couldn't see the faces clearly. ”

Monty took a deep breath, trembling slightly, his pupils trembling slightly: "I'm looking at the wind, I don't have to do anything." ”

"But Kaslan, Dominic, and others...... The revered seniors of these guards, standing in the pile of corpses, torch in hand, numb eyes outside their masks, left me with a privilege of the most special rites of all: to kill the last alive. ”

"An old woman in a hospital bed, dying. ”

Nicolai, who was listening quietly, only felt a slight chill in his heart.

"They probably think I'm a newcomer, so I'm going to start with something easier and get used to it — she's dying anyway. ”

Monty laughed dryly:

"But Kaslan didn't know that when I went under the knife, her expression before she died was completely different from my grandmother's expression before she died. ”

"Of course, maybe I'm mistaken, after all, I've been through so many ...... The memory of the first target is already very vague. ”

But Monty's smile still faded, and his eyes were calm: "But they don't know." ”

"They don't know. ”

Nicolai didn't speak, he just stared at the other party blankly, as a white-bladed guard who was supposed to protect his brother, the meteorite at this moment didn't know how to reply.

Monty took a deep breath and watched as the clouds above him drifted away, the scorching sun casting back into the light.

"In this way, thorns, in front of the bright moon, in the presence of the heavy snow, you raise your white blades, drink the spirits, swear blood vows, and become white-bladed guards. ”

The Dead Crow said lightly:

"And I, I, I, in the deepest darkness, in front of the faint torches, in the deep gaze of my predecessors, also held up the blade, with blood as wine, and with skull as evidence...... became another kind of white-knuckle guard. ”

"I don't even know if the handle of my knife is the snow-white color that I used to do when I joined the team. ”

"Because it was so dark that night, so dark and so dark, that I couldn't see the color—I couldn't even make out the old woman's blood on the neck, and I didn't know if it was a white blade in my hand. ”

Nicolai took a deep breath: ". ”

"It took me a long time to realize that the white-bladed guards of Longxiao City had been doing this kind of work in secret for a long time, earlier than we thought - outside of the shiny and tough snow blades, someone had to throw away the bottom line, get their hands dirty, and do the rough work—these were the exact words of Kaslan. ”

Monty gasped twice, and the bloodshot in his eyes grew:

"But they are old, and the ugly side of the White Blade Guard, which is secret, also needs to be renewed, and Kaslan needs fresh blood and a successor. ”

"It's not about being an elite scout and a frontline sentinel, it's about being a killer who is not afraid to be stained with blood, a cold, ruthless and unshakable blade, a tool with no limits and no principles. ”

The Raven slammed its head up!

He reached out and slapped his chest weakly.

"And out of so many, Kaslan picked me. ”

Monty gritted his teeth and looked miserable:

"Picked me. ”

The wind whimpered.

The two seriously injured men faced each other silently.

"From that day on, I put down my snow blade, put on my crossbow, and put on my mask," Monty said, facing Nicola, with his half-burned face and teeth shaking, "to become an ominous crow chasing death and carrion." ”

Nicolai pressed to the ground: "Why, big mouth, these things...... Why didn't you tell me?"

"Tell you?" the Death Crow took a sharp breath and looked up to the sky and laughed, the laughter desolate.

"What can you do?

"Come with me, or do you want to beg Kaslan to let me go, as if nothing that could be known to anyone else had happened?"

Nicolas closed his eyes tightly.

On the other side, a comatose Tails let out a groan of pain.

Monty sneered faintly: "You don't know...... It's not as simple as enlisting the lord's guard in the countryside, as long as you stand guard and sweep every day, accompany you to hunt, and occasionally send a letter to run an errand. ”

He struggled to clench his right fist:

"Nunn is a very ambitious man, and he doesn't want to be just a king in Longxiao City, but the neutral, limited-function dark room can't meet his expectations - what he needs is not eyes and ears, not guards, not even soldiers, but a blade, a black hand, a ruthless mercenary who has no bottom line, no reason, and is absolutely loyal to him, to fulfill his ambitions for him. ”

"Kaslan is one of them, and I am his successor. ”

Nicolas was silent, constantly thinking of Kaslan before he died.

I think back to that complex iceberg—the stern iceberg, the laughing iceberg, the sad iceberg, and, before death, the relieved iceberg.

He had wondered if he hadn't matured fast enough to share the burden on Kaslan's shoulders.

It was the tragedy that finally led to that.

But he suddenly understood today.

There is another person who bears the burden of Kaslan.

"For ten or twenty years," Monty looked at his fist deadly, "you can't imagine where I've been, who I've seen, what I've done, and what blood I've stained." ”

"Killing people is only the most insignificant part of it. ”

"Remember when we were each wounded after the Battle of the Deep Valley and drank in the barracks of the Freedom Alliance," the Death Crow smiled bitterly, "You complained that you were guarding the palace gate all day long, it was too boring, and you envy me for being on duty all day long......"

Nicolai frowned: "I ......"

"But what do you know......" Monty shook his head.

"Every day, every night, every minute, every second, I have to wear a different color mask, put on the same black cloak, walk in the shadows, run through the blood, kill, kidnap, cheat, plunder, threaten, spy, snipe, poison, provoke, rape, abuse, torture...... Done almost all the dirty stuff he could!"

Monty's face tightened, and his right fist swung hard.

"From Commas to the stars, from the Golden Corridor to the Thornlands...... An undercover agent who blends into the crowd, a scout who patrols the front lines, a robber who kills people, a prisoner who has committed a lot of crimes, a killer who snipes at his targets, a sentry who infiltrates enemy camps, a spy who provokes war, and I become whatever he needs for King Nunn, all in the service of power—especially after Kaslan's retirement, my work has only intensified. ”

"It turned out that I was the most excellent instrument of all who had abandoned my conscience and morality, and in the years of my service to the White Guards, I had sniped countless political enemies, created countless opportunities, provoked three wars, and Nunn was so pleased with me that he even handed me over to Prince Surril in the hope that I would become his coronation arm and assassin to his royal family. ”

Monty lowered his head, but raised his gaze, glaring at Nicolas with the whites of his eyes, and gasping like a man before he was hanged:

"Do you understand? ”

"You don't understand Kaslan, Thorn, because I'm the closest person to him. ”

Nicolas was in a heavy mood and could not say a word.

The Crow slowly raised his left palm, covering the left half of his face.

"The man you admire the most, Kaslan Rumba, King Nunn's most trusted, has two faces around power. ”

A relaxed smile spread across the right side of his face, with the usual ruffianism and rudeness of the open-mouthed brown-haired knight, as it had been all those years ago: "Under one face, he holds a white blade, guarding the kingdom and Longxiao City. ”

Monty gently moved his left palm, covering the right side of his face, revealing his left cheek, but the smile gradually disappeared, his eyes were cold, sharp and angular, and with the charred left chin, he looked extremely hideous: "Under the other face, he was covered in blood, spreading darkness and shadows. ”

Nikolai looked at him in amazement, and couldn't help but let go of the stone in his pocket.

He remembered the words carved into the stone.

【Caslan Protector Talia】

Monty gently lowered his palm, no longer showing any expression on his face.

Appears cold and stiff.

Not at all popular.

"Under the banner of 'For Exeter', Kaslan was tormented between these two faces for the rest of his life. ”

Nicolas shuddered slightly.

Monty snorted coldly: "Maybe he doesn't want the tragedy to be repeated, maybe he's had enough of everything, so he ...... Hum...... He's passing on the White Guards, training the last of the newcomers......"

He stared at his old friend in front of him:

"'Shake the ground' Kaslan, the invincible Kaslan, he puts the contradictory self and the two-faced self...... Alive, bloody torn in half. ”

Nicolai's breath was faltered.

The Death Crow slowly stretched out his index finger and pointed it directly at the Meteorite.

His eyes focused on it earnestly, as if it were a pre-sniper aim:

"He has given you the bright and shining half. ”

With a serious expression, he raised his voice and said, "Seri Nicolai, the meteorite who made a great contribution in front of the Broken Dragon Fortress. ”

"The leader of the White-Bladed Guard, the unfallable battle flag, the impregnable iron wall—you are the junior on whom he has high hopes, leading the future of the White-Bladed Guard like the head wolf of the wolf pack, and protecting the Northland in the wind and snow like the wings of a snow eagle. ”

The Meteorite didn't say a word.

The breeze blew again, and a thin cloud invaded the path of sunlight, and the earth was dark, and the shadows of the two people facing each other were more than enough.

Monty withdrew his fingers and slowly turned halfway through, pointing to his chest.

Although the man pulled the corners of his mouth, the emotions that erupted in his eyes were incomparably complex and unfathomable:

"And he gave me the dark and dirty side. ”

He smiled and whispered, "Ned Monty, the crow of the dead who survives in the boundless hell." ”

"Killers without names, beasts in human skin, cold-blooded and merciless blades, and bloody dregs, like shadows under the clouds, cover the throne's ladder of power, and chase carrion and stench like earthworms in the gutter. ”

The dead crow's smile widened.

"The two of us are the two sides of the legendary 'Earth-shaking' Kaslan. ”

"Inheriting his supreme glory......" Monty took a deep breath on the scorched ground, as if tasting the freshest air:

“...... and endless iniquity. ”

Nicola's expression was bitter, his mood was complicated, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Monty just smiled and looked at the sky.

As if there was his homeland there.

"Forehead ......"

Not far away, Tails groaned in pain like a dream, as if he was going through embarrassing torture.

Nicolai frowned at the prince.

At that moment, Monty's right hand jerked!

"Poof!"

With a loud thud, a pitch-black crossbow flew through the air, pulled by a very thin iron wire, pulled from Monty's back over the boulders, and flew into the hands of the Death Crow.

The Meteorite suddenly changed color!

"Damn it!"

The battle resumed, and the two of them, who had recovered their strength slightly, moved almost at the same time!

Nicolas struggled to his feet from the ground, sabre in hand, and limped towards Monty.

The crow sitting on the ground gritted his teeth, put his foot into the pedal of the crossbow machine, and wound it with all his might, despite the injuries on his hands.

The Starfall rushed to a meter in front of Monty, but the Death Crow rolled on the spot with one leg as the axis, and dodged Nicolai's first knife with great difficulty!

He also kicked up a large cloud of dust, and Nicolais's eyes narrowed slightly.

Monty looked ugly and rolled to aggravate his injuries.

Just listen to the sound of "da", and the winding is completed.

The Death Raven calmly pulled his foot out of the bolt of the ballista.

Nicola's heart tightened!

Worst.

The Starfall didn't drag, he unleashed what little finishing power he had left, and roared and pounced on the Death Crow in the smoke and dust!

Monty, on the other hand, struggled to raise his crossbow and turned to the Meteorite with a long bolt that had been erected on it at some point.

One sits on the ground, the other flies, and the two people at the end of the crossbow have hideous faces, no more than a meter apart, and the blades and crossbow arrows are facing each other!

The next moment.

"Bell!"

It's the sound of a blade hitting a crossbow.

Nikolai stared at the enemy in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief: he finally hit Monty's weapon before his opponent could shoot his crossbow arrows.

In the face of the Rising Japanese saber, the black crossbow mysteriously did not break, but after all, it deviated from its direction.

"Huh!"

It's the sharp sound of a crossbow bolt.

A whizzing bolt deflected off the side of Nicolai's face and shot into a place no one knew.

"Boom!"

Nicolai slammed his knee into the ground, spitting blood from his mouth and throwing him back to the ground, his only crossbow flying off his finger.

"!"

The Starfall roared in frustration, limping backwards, holding on to the rock wall before falling:

"You just don't give up, do you?"

On the ground, Monty, whose face was covered in blood, tried to raise his head and smile.

Looking at his expression, Nicolai suddenly felt that something was wrong!

"Whew!"

Without warning, as if he had been pushed by an invisible arm, Nicolai slammed into the rock wall and stuck to it!

"Dangchang!"

With a few crisp sounds, the Rising Japanese saber flew several meters away and fell to the ground, the reddened blade gradually cooling.

"Ahh

The Meteorite let out a cry of pain!

He looked down in disbelief, only to see a bolt that was slightly longer than its peers, first through his left forearm, then through his left upper arm, and finally into his left shoulder, pinning the Meteorite firmly to the rock wall!

This is...... What's going on?

Feeling the sharp pain from his arm to his shoulder, which made him almost unable to move, the cold sweat Nikolai looked at the crossbow arrow in astonishment, and then looked at the smiling Monty: He obviously missed?

I'm not...... Didn't I run away?

"Ahhhh ”

But Monty looked at Nicolai, who was crucified by the crossbow arrow, and still snorted coldly, pointing to the inconspicuous-looking black arm crossbow in the distance.

Following his gaze, the Meteorite's face changed.

"This. ”

"There's never been anything it can shoot," Monty snorted, looking at the crossbow lying on the ground, as if with great disdain, "and never a prey it can't shoot—it's there to torment every master." ”

"Legendary Anti-Demon Forces,"

I only heard the death crow slightly dissatisfied:

"The Crossbow of Time. ”

(End of chapter)