Sword of Dawn

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This is not a pit for teammates, but a normal procedure for the team to explore the ruins.

Just as Soldering was guarding the edge of the platform, a group of vague shadows suddenly emerged from the circular pit.

The high-level elf ranger immediately raised his hand: "Be alert—"

Amber's figure quickly took shape in the blurry shadow, and as soon as the half-elf lady landed on the ground, she immediately rushed out like a spring on her feet, shouting as she ran, "I'm attracting monsters! !!"

Immediately afterwards, there was a series of panicked and incomprehensible shouts, such as "I saw the big news", "it's a big deal", and "my information is worth at least two hundred gold coins from the old rice dumpling" and so on.

Soldering didn't even listen to what was shouting behind Hu Po. He had already seen another figure emerging from the circular pit, so he ordered loudly again: "Everyone prepare to explode and shoot!"

The figure in the pit completely emerged, it was a stranger wearing a robe of stars.

"emission!"

Solderling swung his hand down vigorously, and then he also untied several specially-made heavy grenades from his body at an astonishing speed, and threw them into the pit forcefully.

The figure in the Starry Robe had obviously reacted immediately, but before he had time to prop up his shield, the surrounding Iron Ranger combat teams had already pulled the triggers of their launchers—accompanied by several consecutive beeps. With a sharp detonation, four heavy-explosive grenades wrapped in a light blue magic halo have already flown towards the target almost in no particular order.

Afterwards, there was a powerful explosion that even Solderling hadn't expected. The four explosions in a row almost sounded like a single sound, and the strong explosion even sent Solderling flying!

Explosive shooting, a common skill for rangers, one of the release methods is to compress the powerful arcane energy in the arrow, and use the arrow as a carrier to cause a big explosion in the target area - the second method is to stick a heavy grenade on the enemy's head .

The second release method is currently limited to Cecilland.

Wei!force!huge!Big!

During the huge explosion, Clement felt as if he was being carried by a gust of wind and lost his balance. Even his five senses became chaotic. It was a kind of magic that was completely different from any normal magic, formed by the most primitive and violent energy. The impact was tearing at his own protection, the attack he received was too sudden - based on his life's spellcasting experience plus one piece, he never thought that there was any high-level spell that could be released so quickly without the slightest magic fluctuation , In the case of insufficient preparation, his shield failed to open, and instead, the two body armors on his body were automatically activated to help him resist at least half of the damage.

But as a high-level transcendent, he still survived with difficulty.

He is not the real "Legendary Mage Duke", but he is still a high-level powerhouse, and he is the fallen druid who is best at saving his life among all extraordinary professions. In this brief moment, he saved his life.

This might be a trap. After realizing this, Clement immediately chose to get rid of the current uncontrolled situation. At least, he had to figure out who was attacking him.

Solderin was astonished to see a man covered in blood rushing out of the flames of the explosion, and he was even more astonished that this man covered in blood and wearing a mage's robe appeared from under the torn robe. Instead, it is a layer of taupe "skin" like bark.

Accanthus, a druid's ability? !

With a thought in his mind, Soldering moved even faster. Facing the fast-moving enemy grenade, it was no longer very useful, so he took out the short bow that he was good at, and raised the three bows with his right hand. On the string, as three sharp arrows emitting arcane gleams flew towards the target, a series of sounds of the rune trigger being pulled and the light beam piercing the air came from all directions, continuous scorching rays and small arcane missiles like Rain down on the enemy!

Several attacks fell on Clement. The high-level druid endured the severe pain from all over his body. After stopping by a pool, he immediately raised his finger in the direction of Solderin: "wither !"

The feeling of the body's vitality passing immediately surged up, and Solderin found that his hands were being quickly covered by an ominous gray-white layer. He had to stop shooting and began to use the magic power in his body to resist this spell, but other steel players The cavalry members were not idle—during this short interval, the grenade shooters had quickly completed reloading, and aimed their launchers at the bleeding enemy by the pool.

Clement's hair stood on end at this moment.

But at the next moment, a greater sense of crisis surged into his heart.

Solderin and the Iron Rangers also stopped all their movements in an instant.

The pond behind Clement surged violently. Accompanied by a strange sound as if some kind of mollusk was stirring in the water and a series of tumbling foams, several thick tentacles suddenly protruded from the water and engulfed them. A horrified fallen druid.

Afterwards, more tentacles protruded from the water, wrapping around Clement one after another, and at the same time, there was an angry voice from the water: "I'll just sleep! Why are you standing next to me?" Blow it up with a howitzer?!"

Chapter 0385 An Eventful Night

Dark brown tentacles twisted and squirmed above the pool. It was difficult to reproduce such a spooky and terrifying scene in any sensational nightmare. Clement, who was already seriously injured, was helpless in front of these tentacles, almost In an instant, his hands, feet and torso were tightly entangled by more than a dozen tentacles, large and small, feeling the slippery and cold soft limbs tightening himself little by little. This man who often deals with all kinds of terrifying dark magic The believers of the death of all things actually felt a chilling terror in their hearts!

And with these tentacles floating up from the water, there is also a female upper body—Tyer's body "squeezed" out from between the tentacles. The appearance of this siren at this moment is completely different from the past. A large piece of skin is covered with a layer of fine scales, and there are membranous objects with coquettish patterns connected with the surrounding tentacles. Her appearance at this moment is as described by the most superstitious sailors in the eastern part of the mainland after being drunk It's just like it is: a coquettish and beautiful girl, but it looks like a sea monster. The contrasting posture is enough to drag people into the sweetest but deadly dreamland.

Till came up from the water, and the scene in front of her was reflected in a pair of eyes that had turned pale golden vertical pupils. She looked at the stunned Iron Rangers in full armor, and then at the strange old man who was caught by her, and blinked. : "Why is there one more person when I sleep?"

Solderin was taken aback just like the Iron Rangers. Till's current posture was completely different from the usual lazy sea caterpillar, but he quickly calmed down and was about to answer Miss Siren's question. question——but just when he was about to speak, his eyes swept over the tentacles that were constantly wriggling on the water.

Some of the tentacles are covered with twisted and weird patterns beyond human understanding.

Solderin's consciousness was in a trance at this moment. Those patterns seemed to carry powerful magic power, and contained hidden truths that should never be known to ordinary people. He felt that all his rationality was shaken at this moment. , a large number of indescribable and inaudible low-pitched murmurs rumbled in his mind, rumbling and rumbling stirring his thoughts, and countless bizarre and absurd visions appeared before his eyes.

Solderin finally realized that something was wrong. He had gone to the detention center with Gawain a few days ago to see the god's flesh and blood samples, and experienced the feeling of facing the god from a safe distance. His feeling at this moment is the same as that at that time. So close...he is looking directly at the mysteries related to God!

The high-level ranger struggled to control his mind, but soon he realized that it was futile. He had already seen those patterns and established a connection with certain gods in his mind. This knowledge cannot be erased. He felt that his thinking was affected and infiltrated a little bit. After a long time like a century, he gradually recovered his thinking ability, and then he was shocked to find——

He didn't become an idiot, he didn't lose his free will, and he wasn't driven mad by the whispers of some god, in fact, he felt that his mental state was better than ever, and his heart was full of positive optimism: he had never been so happy in his life Pass!

Not to mention negative emotions, he felt that he was at the peak of his mental state right now, not only had a happy comparison, he even wanted to dance in ecstasy.

What do you mean by dancing in ecstasy?

Solderling finally realized that this kind of emotion is not right now, and quickly shook his head to get rid of those happy emotions that kept coming out for no reason, but his mental state is still not good—in any case, at least it’s nothing Harmful, he controlled himself not to look at those patterns as much as possible, and said to Tyre: "Miss Till, control that person! He is the enemy!"

"Ah? Ah... oh, oh, got it!" Tire seemed to have not woken up too much, and he realized it after a moment of stupefaction. He quickly pulled out a few tentacles from the water and wrapped them around Clare, who was about to pass out from being strangled. Mente, "Then I'll wrap him up tighter..."

"Don't try too hard, don't strangle to death..."

Although the process seems to be different from what I imagined at the beginning, the final result is good anyway. After confirming that the old man has no ability to resist, Amber finally came out of the shadow stealth state. A special tentacle, at this time seems to be particularly energetic (in fact, the surrounding Iron Ranger fighters are almost the same, the positive and optimistic spiritual healing effect even made everyone forget the little feeling when they just saw the form of Tyr sea devil. Fear), she walked quickly to the water pool, and first looked up at Tyre: "You look like this...you are amazing...you sea monsters can still become like this?"

"Refer to the appearance of the giant squid," Till twisted his other tentacles triumphantly, "How about it, isn't it scary?"

". . . it's really scary--if you don't wriggle like that. You're wriggling so funny."

"Tch..." Till curled his lips, then looked down curiously at Clement, who was bound by him, and patted the other's face with a tentacle, "By the way, where did this person come from? I Just slept for a while, what happened—how did you even use that thing called a howitzer?"

Looking at the enemy in front of her, the amazing scenes she saw flashed through Amber's mind - the assassinated king, the prince who obviously participated in it, and the shadow ring on the king's hand. Her expression became more serious than ever before. : "Something has happened—if it's correct, I brought this man over from the eastern border, and he just killed the king in front of me!"

"Oh, I thought it would be a crime to sleep while exploring the ruins, and you will be bombed with howitzers." Tyre was relieved when he heard this, and then he realized it belatedly, "Ah——then what do you say?" This matter seems to be very serious? Do you want to inform your lord immediately?"

"Of course!" Amber said as she quickly turned her head to look at Solderling, "Ranger, help watch here, I'll go back and report!"

In the gorgeous lounge of Longwind Fortress, Prince Edmund took out his mechanical watch and glanced at the time on it.

It seems that the "Master Clement" will never come back.

He had heard a long time ago that those who rashly enter the Shadow Realm will face great danger. Throughout the ages, many shadow masters have found the door to enter the Shadow Realm, but more than half of them died in the end. In the twisted corresponding world, crazy and twisted creatures will tear apart all intruders, and the power of those creatures in the shadow environment is unimaginably powerful...

"Is everything perishing... People who have been brainwashed by cults really don't have very good brains." Edmund closed the watch cover, and finally looked down at his father who had completely lost his life. Finally, a faint expression appeared on his face. A trace of sadness comes.

"Father, this is really a regrettable ending...but for the sake of the re-glory of the Moen family and the revival of this kingdom, I can only ask you to go first," Edmund said in front of the body of Francis II He bent down and said softly, "You once said that the most important thing to know when you are a king is the art of compromise. In the past 100 years, every king of Ansu relied on compromise to secure his throne...

"But times have changed, Father, and the compromise is over."

The young prince straightened up and walked out of the house unhurriedly. He came to the corridor and saw Duke Silas Loren quietly waiting for him.

"It's really troublesome tonight." The Duke of the Eastern Realm whispered expressionlessly.

"The King of Anzu has been assassinated," said Edmund Moen. "The assassins from the capital have killed our king."

"The Wilder family has been dissatisfied with the situation that the descendants of Moen have gradually escaped their control for a long time. Now that the most capable person among the descendants of Moen has finally left the capital, there is only one pawn that can be controlled in Silver Castle. Of course they I can't help but do it so that neither the king nor the heir apparent can return to the castle," Silas Lauren looked into Edmund's eyes with a calm expression, "It's a matter of course."

"That's right, that's the case," Edmund nodded slightly, "Grand Duke Silas Loren, my most trusted man, go and choose soldiers and horses—the rotten Ansu needs a battle of blood and fire." Baptism is the way to rebirth."

"Of course, my future king," Duke Laurent bowed slightly, and took a step back, "but before ordering soldiers and horses, there needs to be a big fire here to see our king off."

Edmund nodded slightly, but when Duke Laurent turned to leave, he stopped him again: "Duke, you are loyal to me, right?"

"Of course, the Loren family will always be loyal to the Moen royal family," the Duke of the East Territory stopped and looked into Edmund's eyes and said solemnly, "We are by no means the greedy mountain wolves in the north."

On the western horizon, there was a faint red light, which was the direction of the Changfeng Fortress built by the Ansu people.

The weather was clear at this moment, and the night was getting dark. Even in Winter Wolf Castle, the red light was clearly discernible.

On the tallest tower of Winterwolf Castle, Rosetta Augustus stood in front of the clear crystal window, quietly watching the little red light rising from Longwind Stronghold—the red light was rapidly growing larger, In a short time, even the sky in that direction showed a little red.

Even though there was a small plain in between, and even if the entire tower was shrouded in a magic barrier, Rosetta Augustus still seemed to be able to smell some burning smell from the air.

Footsteps came from behind, Rosetta Augustus turned around, and saw the girl from the Wendell family hurried into the room - he recognized this girl, she was a very good high-ranking knight, aged He took over Winter Wolf Castle lightly, and made a lot of contributions on the border.

The Wendell family has excellent blood, and the heir never disappoints.

"Your Majesty," Andersa Wendell quickly saluted after entering the room, and then said quickly, "The eagle-eyed sentinel observed the flames rising from the Ansu people's Changfeng Fortress, and something seems to be wrong."

Emperor Typhon nodded, his tone was calm: "Got it."

"Your Majesty, do we need to..."

"No, that's the Ansu people's own business," Rosetta interrupted Andersa, a gloomy man with a rare smile on his face, "We have signed a peace agreement with the Ansu people, isn't it Is it?"

Seeing the meaningful smile on the emperor's face, Andersa couldn't help but feel her heart tremble.

After a brief silence of two seconds, the young General Wolf took a breath, bowed and retreated: "I understand, Your Majesty."

Chapter 0386 Gawain's War Preparations

When the fire in Longwind Fortress was on fire, Gawain was about to end the connection with the satellite.

Although he couldn't see clearly, he could confirm that the border negotiations had ended. Judging from the failure of the two groups to fight, the negotiations had not turned into a national war even if they were not successful. Therefore, after the king returned to Changfeng Fortress, Gao Wen Ready to end focus on that area for now.

Then, the flames rose up.

It was a fire that started inside the fortress, and there was no sign of any external attack from the satellite images. The fire spread in the western part of the fortress, but it never spread beyond the western part-it looked menacing, but Seems to be the result of human control.

problem occurs.

Gao Wen immediately made a judgment, and then tried his best to adjust the focal length of the satellite lens, but no matter how much he adjusted, due to the aging of the satellite lens itself and the blockage of smoke and flames, he couldn't see clearly what was going on down there. One thing is certain—tonight, something earth-shattering is going to happen.

Without hesitation, he called Hetty who was still asleep, and summoned Byron and Knight Philip who were about to rest.

Seeing Gawain's serious and gloomy expression, Hetty was taken aback. She abruptly stopped wanting to yawn, and looked at Gawain curiously: "Ancestor, you summoned us so late. What happened?"

Gao Wen was slightly stunned. It seemed difficult to explain the source of the news to others, but after a brief hesitation, he decisively said: "There is a situation in Changfeng Fortress, I suspect that Francis II is in danger— — deadly danger."

"What?!" Byron was so taken aback that his jaw almost clicked. The middle-aged knight stared wide-eyed, "Lord, your news is reliable... No, how did you know this news?!"

This place is thousands of miles away from Changfeng Fortress, and it is impossible for the situation there to reach Cecil so quickly—Byron heard it clearly, and what Gawain said was that Francis II was "in danger" in his tone. It was as if he had just seen something with his own eyes!

"Special news channel," Gawain glanced at Byron with his expression unchanged, and decided to use the most unreasonable logic of "I am your ancestor so I know everything" to ignore this detail, "In short, we have to do Good preparations for the death of the king - even preparations for the death of Prince Edmund."

This astonishing turn of events left the three people in front of Gawain stunned. Knight Philip put his hands on his chest subconsciously and recited the name of the God of War: "Kyle, the God of War... what's going to happen tonight..."

"If the king dies on the eastern border...Anzu will definitely face a war," Hetty began to deduce quickly, "The key now is the relationship between all this and the Typhon people..."

Before Hetty finished speaking, the window of the study was suddenly pushed open by a pair of invisible hands, and a gust of cold night wind swept into the room. Gasping for breath, it was obvious that he rushed all the way back at the fastest speed.

In fact, in order to rush all the way back to the Lord's Mansion from the southernmost point of the Rebellious Fortress, she squeezed her shadow power to the limit for the first time in her life. I ran almost a day and a half in less time!

Amber obviously didn't expect that there would be Hetty and others in Gawain's study, and she swallowed back the information that she was about to shout out, but after noticing Gawain's serious and questioning expression, she still put The words came out: "The king is dead! Prince Edmund killed his father!"

It was Byron who was shocked by Gawain's source just now, and now it was finally Gawain's turn to shock other people's sources. He looked at the half-elf in amazement: "How do you know?"

Is it possible that there is a geosynchronous orbit satellite hanging behind this shame of all things?

Amber gasped for a few breaths, trying to catch her breath, but when she spoke, she suddenly struggled with what to say about this matter—what she saw was too bizarre, traveling from a space rift in the Shadow Realm to the border of the Kingdom, Then one of the kingslayers was brought back to the southern border from the border of the kingdom, and then Solderin and Tyre beat him half to death in a daze... It would be dramatic to pick out any one of these things alone It's like a joke, but it happened!

Finally, she finally sorted out her language: "We found an ancient space rift in the Shadow Experimental Field—the rift is located on the side of the Shadow Realm. I went to check the situation, and I went through the rift to the Changfeng Fortress. Then I saw the king being killed. An old man was killed, and that Prince Edmund was watching, apparently accomplice--then I was discovered and had to evacuate quickly, but I didn't expect the old man to follow, but Solderin was there The Shadow Experimental Field was ready to deal with it, so the old man was shot four times by Soldering's Iron Rangers, and now he is still tied into a ball by Tyr..."

"What is this..." Gawain stared dumbfounded at Balabala's amber, and then quickly realized, "Wait a minute, you said you brought someone here? And caught him alive?!"

"Yes! That's why I'm here to tell you to hurry over and see what's going on!" Amber slapped her head, "You'd better hurry—the old man was tied up by Tyre, but Tyre's posture is a bit scary, I'm afraid that That sea caterpillar ate the old man!"

Gao Wen really wanted to say loudly to BB what a mess this night was, but in order to maintain his image as an old ancestor, he had no choice but to suppress all the complaints in his bronchus, and nodded with a serious face: "I'll go there right away." .”

Then he turned his head to look at Hetty and the others: "Hetty, you go to sort out the list of wartime status immediately, I will try to come back before noon tomorrow, and before that, you call the heads of business, agriculture, and industry in the territory to prepare for an emergency meeting .Byron, Philip, the first regiment of the Combat Corps has entered the highest level of combat readiness, and is ready to upgrade to the state of war at any time. In addition, Philip, you will go to Kant tomorrow and send an order to Knight Walder Peric to order the Second Corps to strengthen its defenses. , especially pay attention to whether there is any change in the aristocratic territory in the northern region, and if so, report it as soon as possible."

The northern part of Kant Territory is Carroll Territory, the main gateway to the Holy Spirit Plain, and it can also be regarded as a buffer zone between the hinterland of the kingdom and the southern border. Based on the fire inside Changfeng Fortress and the information brought by Amber, Gawain believes that this I am afraid that it is an appalling court struggle, and its danger may even exceed the civil strife in the Brumaire that year-all the nobles in the kingdom will probably be caught in a mess.Although he believed that the southern border, which had been on the edge of the kingdom for a long time, might not be involved in this turmoil soon, he still had to find a way to guard against the threat from the Holy Spirit Plain.

Of course, another reason is that he wants to let the Second Corps, which is not yet stable, have something to do, so as to prevent those knights who have just pledged their allegiance and the former Kant soldiers who have just started training in Cecil's military system from causing problems when the situation changes.

Seeing that Gawain was about to get up and leave, Hetty couldn't help asking: "Do you need to find something for Rebecca? She is Cecil after all..."

Rebecca is currently the only heir of the Cecil family. Although she is neither good at internal affairs nor military, Hetty's traditional aristocratic thinking still makes her feel that Rebecca should also participate in these matters.

Gao Wen took a deep look at Heidi: "Let Rebecca take a good rest, go to the Institute of Magical Technology tomorrow as usual, and continue to develop vehicle chassis or printing machines - the things she does are as important as preparing for a war. "

Then he added: "Hetty, times have changed, and a person's responsibilities should be determined by ability, not blood."

After putting down these words, Gao Wen and Amber left the Lord's Mansion together.

……

In the shadow experiment field, Solderin and his soldiers were guarding around the water pool, while the sea monster Tyr still maintained a terrifying and refreshing "sea monster" form, controlling Clement's actions with a large number of tentacles.

But in fact, even if she didn't bind the hapless guy with the tentacles, the latter would hardly have the strength to resist or escape.

The power of the four explosive shots is no joke—after the forced life extension effect of echinoderm and life conversion ended, the unprecedented weakness almost directly killed Clement, if Tyr hadn't discovered his " The "prey" was slowly dying, and by this time Clement was probably already a corpse.

"Let me tell you, don't die," Tire kept patting Clement's face with a tentacle, waking up the tranced enemy again and again. Miss Siren's tone was full of Worried, "If you die in my hands, I will never have to count on those 'biscuits' collected by Gao Wen..."

Apparently, the Siren lady still hasn't given up on killing the corpse of the "God of Nature" in Gawain's hand...

With a strange expression, Solderin watched Tire hang the prisoner with just the right healing technique time and time again, and used his tentacles to interact with the prisoner in a weird way, and couldn't help asking: "You really don't think you Can this form itself scare people to death?"

Tyre looked down at his scale-covered upper torso and the hideous tentacles of his lower body, with a mask on his face: "I don't think so—our sisters all know this..."

Solderin muttered helplessly: "...What kind of aesthetics do you sea monsters have..."