The Amber Sword

When everyone saw that lonely tree, Brando was talking about the golden apple tree, and they naturally thought about it? And the mercenaries immediately recalled what Brando had said, that the legendary fairy queen lived beneath the golden apple tree, and when they saw that her mortal man was doomed to never get out of the valley in his lifetime, they couldn't help but fight a cold war.

These people couldn't bear to look unconsciously immediately, afraid that they would accidentally be trapped here forever. They escaped from Madara's army of the dead, not here for the rest of their lives.

But what they didn't expect was that Brando wasn't worried about the golden apple tree. Players like him had turned this valley over a long time ago, a valley that seemed mysterious to others, with no secrets in his eyes, from here all the way north to the mouth of the valley on the other side, with no fur but bare surfaces and fog.

No monsters, no treasures, no living things, no anger at all. As for the legendary golden apple tree and fairy queen, it is nothing more than a myth spoken by NPC, which the players have never seen before.

But what surprised him was the lonely tree, and he repeatedly confirmed that there was no such tree in the game.

This valley, which he has walked back and forth many times, should not be misremembered, because every thing in the valley is the embodiment of the king's idealisation, and even if it changes during the day, it will be restored to its original state at night - Brando remembers clearly that the landscape will change only if the drama or the flow of time itself changes in the valley.

But there shouldn't be any task in this valley. Are you saying that the fairy country that exists in this moment of view is not the one in the game? A conjecture immediately arose in Brando's mind, unless someone was hiding his experience, or the fairy land had changed before the player entered.

But it should be that kind of thing.

The former seems possible, but if you think about it, you'll find doubts about it. For players, it is often difficult for a person to discover all the secrets of a place, so even if the first person conceals them, the chances of everyone going together are low. But then Brando thought and didn't rule out that it was a person who came back and forth many times, and although it seemed a little idealistic, it wasn't impossible.

He recalled that the first person to discover this valley was supposed to be the theologian congressman of the Star Guild, a player named 'Cranbow’. The second is a knight, the third is a KOK female player, but the time intervals between the three are only a few days apart, and the possibility of concealment is unlikely.

Brando shook his head, not for that reason. So that's the second one, and this valley has changed before the players entered. This is not possible in the game - but this aspect is also two factors.

One is dramatic change, and the other is NPC exploration. He couldn't help but frown, without the player involved he wouldn't know too much about the task. Unknown - this is a big problem for him.

But Brando stared at the tree, and he couldn't help but be interested, just like every player, in the pursuit of a secret task, just as an unknown treasure could not help but attract people to pursue it.

It's like a task involving too much ancient knowledge. Must not be too ordinary?

He immediately made a gesture to the others to stop the refugees. Anyway, the night in the valley stops relative to the time outside, and the night will last for three days and three nights, as long as he has time to explore the valley before they finish their food.

In fact, back and forth in the valley is this big. It's only a matter of hours before you run back and forth, it doesn't take three days at all.

He saw Rhetto staring at him with confusion, which pointed to the tree and said, “There seems to be some problem. I'm going to go ahead and check it out. ”

“Need help?” Bar owner Letto, although a veteran of the November war, was as helpless as anything mysterious, and he had to rely on his own experience to ask.

Brando does need people.

But he looked at the mercenaries and didn't trust them very much. After all, this could involve some legendary treasures, and the same dangers. He doesn't want to share secrets with these people, and he needs to find someone he can trust. He looked at Charles first, and this young magician was never his best choice —— as a summoning creature, he could almost share a secret with this young man —— but Charles had exhausted his powers in the battle that night, and now he was only a little better than a normal man.

He looked at Roman again, and the businesswoman was not very qualified. Although she was acutely perceptive, she was too weak to take risks with him.

Roman looked at him and blinked.

Brando knew that the businesswoman was pretending to be such a good girl to take her on an adventure with her, but Brando wouldn't fall for it, and he finally turned around and looked at Freya, who was distracted.

“Freya? ”

“Ah? Ah--!” Freya looked up at him, stunned for a moment and blushed.

“What's wrong with you?” Brando was stunned to see her like this, and in his original impression Freya was supposed to be an autonomous, self-absorbed girl, but how she had been feeling a little strange since Xavier Hills Road.

If the Pokémon Sword hadn't reacted to her, Brando would have wondered if she had been replaced by Madara's dead spirit.

“No, nothing, Brando. What can I do for you?” Freya had just thought of Brando's weird request and was panicking, which would scare the other person into seeing through her mind.

“I'm going to look in the front, and you're coming with me. ”

Freya nodded for a moment: "Okay, okay. ”

“I'm going too.” The businesswoman twisted her horse around.

“You stay here and learn how to ride, I'll let Charles teach you, but if I come back and see you tie yourself to the back of the horse, I'll drag you over and tie you to the back of my horse.” Brando glanced at her and answered harshly.

“But I can't learn.” Roman simply replied.

Can't you be modest? Brando couldn't help shaking his head: “It's okay, there's plenty of time, riding is a simple thing. You always have to take risks with me. You can't ride a horse. ”

“It's okay, Brando, I can tie myself to the horse's back, I don't feel sick about it.” Miss Merchant thought about it and replied with a serious answer.

“There is no inevitable link between the relationship and how comfortable you feel.” Brando glanced at her without paying attention to the complaints of the future merchant lady and simply went to Leto alone to explain what might have to be noticed, grabbed a spare crossbow, and called Freya to leave.

In Brando's memory, the most likely drama in this valley is the western branch. But the more secretive places players search, the more Brando actually goes once or twice, but ends up with nothing.

Only now he remembers all the grass, all the mountains, all the stones.

The two of them left the team and Brando watched out for some of the surrounding scenery, and after about 10 minutes of running around, he finally confirmed his assumptions - that the fairy land and the game were absolutely different at the moment, and that something had changed unknowingly in the months that followed.

But seeing him spinning around a rock, Freya in the back got confused and couldn't help but catch up and ask, "Brando, what are you looking at? ”

“I'm looking for the entrance.” Brando was constantly turning his horse's head around, looking out of a messy white boulder, at a time when he seemed to find something, suddenly rolling down his horse and walking towards the rocky ground.

“Entrance?” Freya followed down the horse and went after him and asked.

“Well, right here, come with me--” Brando answered as he pulled out the Pokémon Sword, stepping towards a narrow gap in the middle of two sharp rocks.

He remembers that this is called a "fork in fate", and there are hints in the system log when he walks here in the game, but there are obviously no hints in the world, and he can only rely on experience.

He remembered that behind that rock there should be an open iron box with a tablet, a must-have prop that entered the fork of destiny, but could not take it out of this valley. Someone tried to take that thing out in a dimensional bag, but it ended up disappearing somehow.

It can only be explained that the tablet was originally part of the idealization of the world.

He thought about it, bypassing the rocks, but didn't expect a strong wind to hit him. Brando's senses were quite acute at the moment, and his mind had not yet reacted, and his body had responded subconsciously - retreating, crashing with Freya, and the next moment a golden arrow almost flew over his nose tip.

The two fell backwards, while Brando raised his head at the last minute and saw only a golden figure instantly disappear behind the rock, which was still his rapid reaction, otherwise he could not even see where the attack came from.

“Who...!” Brando subconsciously tried to climb up from the ground and chase him, but he pressed his hand and felt the soft spot where he had gotten it, slightly, and then finally reacted and couldn't help but feel a blank in his head.

Not one, is it?

He turned around and saw that his hands were impartial and placed in an unwanted position in front of the girl's chest. Freya was completely caught, her bright light brown eyes stared at him, and she didn't know how to say anything.

But the future goddess of martial arts finally reacted, pushing Brando aside and climbing up quickly, keeping her head down and silent.

Brando reacted, and he couldn't help but get up embarrassed and pretend to look in the direction of the previous golden man's retreat —— of course, there was no ghost there long ago.

“I'm sorry, that...” He thought for half a day, squeezing out just one dry sentence.

“Well, who was that?” Freya lowered her head and blushed like a drop of blood.

“I don't know. I saw a golden figure, and the fairy wasn't like that. More like a summoning creature.” When it comes to expertise, Brando's thinking is much clearer.

“Are you hurt?” The girl's voice sounds like a mosquito.

Brando looked at her and shook her head. He paid particular attention to the previous golden arrow, which found a deep hole only on one side of the rock sidewall.

Light arrow?

Brando looked at the hole and frowned. It was a premium weapon effect. But at least to confirm that what he just saw was not a hallucination, and that he seemed less powerful than Alberton in terms of the speed of the other party, he relaxed a little, so long as he was vigilant, he shouldn't have too much trouble.

He has confirmed his strength in the battle against Alberton, and his best efforts can barely reach the silver level, and his enemies below the silver level will not be too scared now.

After checking the battlefield, Brando gave Freya a vigilant gesture, then grabbed the Pokémon Sword and touched inside.

He remembers that the golden shadow escaped through that gap in the north, and behind it was the entrance to the fork of destiny, so where did they come from? Never heard of anyone being attacked in the game.

He immediately saw the iron box behind the rock —— it was born on a white stone platform, as if it had been set up by someone. If there's more power than the gold level, it can destroy the box, but it doesn't make any sense, because the next night, it automatically returns to its original appearance.

Brando looked around and now he can't believe his old memories. At least that golden figure has changed something discretionary in his memory, not only biological, but also hostile.

He opened the box only after making sure there were no enemies around. But as soon as he opened the box, he couldn't help but stand still.

In addition to having a tablet in the box, there is a pair of earrings.

What the hell is this?

Brando hesitated for a moment and feared that there might be a magic trap in the box, although there was none in the game, but who could tell now? However, he has a simple test method, he leans against the Pokémon Sword, and there are often simple precautions between inspirational magic objects, he just needs to see if there is a reaction.

This approach, while not always effective, is at least better than nothing.

Brando quickly came to an outcome - no response.

He just picked up the pair of earrings, took a quick glance, and immediately threw them back as if they were hot: “Infinite Ice Earrings, Intelligence +2, Will +1.” Brando couldn't help but grunt and unconsciously cover his head, as if there were a thousand needles stabbing his meninges at this moment.

“Brando?” Freya freaked out and rushed up to hold him.

“I'm fine, you be careful around.” Brando held the iron box with one hand and gasped loudly, whilst cursing in his heart the person who put this earring here. Of course he knows what's wrong with him, it's not a trap he's hit, but simply because the magic backlash is too intense - and of course the biggest problem is - how could this ring at least be 95OZ equipped to somehow appear in a place like this!

His first reaction was to hallucinate himself, and his second reaction was still impossible. Butch is also a novice area at this time of year, and most encounters do not exceed level 50, and this ring is far beyond what is tolerable, reaching at least level 70.

So when Brando would use his will to retrieve the ring, there would be a strong magical backlash that would leave his mind blank for a moment.

And such a powerful magic object appears in a low-level area.

Rather, this omission will not occur in the game.

There may be some changes in the world, but Brando doesn't believe it's going to go against the game. He finally waited until his headache was reduced and he calmed down and realized another problem:

What if this saint's remains were set up for the NPC to complete?

The more he thought about it, the more likely it was, after all, that the first time he discovered the valley itself was shortly after the beginning of the game and about two months after the end of the first Black Rose War. If there was nothing left, the designer had no intention of involving the player in the play at all.

Brando couldn't wait for the pair of earrings to jump straight in his heart, a hidden mission of over sixty? Is he going to mix the water and touch the fish? Or get out of here?

The risks are, of course, unimaginable, but the gains can be unimaginable as well. Brando has also completed only three concealment missions in the last sixty levels and above, once acquiring fantasy weapons, once acquiring intermediate skills and once acquiring nearly 100 million torres of wealth.

Only by virtue of his experience with these three missions did he rank among the upstream players.

But how risky is the sixtieth level? It's like putting a sword in front of Brando. The sixtieth level says gold power. Even the elements have evolved into more than ten levels. If you want him to face a general monster of the sixtieth level, it's estimated that the other party will give him a second look.

Brando pressed his hand against the iron box for a moment and couldn't help but hesitate to make up his mind.

Because there is also a key question that at some point in the next three months everything in this valley will cease to exist, that he may have abandoned this adventure today and that he will not have the opportunity to choose again tomorrow. For a moment this dilemma wandered in his mind like a shady ghost, urging him to take risks again and again.

What's he gonna do?

The young man couldn't help but take a breath and look back at Freya.

“Brando?” Freya looked a little strange at Brando and couldn't help but ask carefully.

“Would you like to come with me if I chose to take risks?” Brando asked in a somewhat dull voice.

“I might, but I don't want you to risk it, Brando.” Freya thought about it and said so.

Brando hesitated for a moment, nodded and exhaled.

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(PS: More than 5,200 words, sort of make up for yesterday.) (To be continued, please go to www.qidian.com for more chapters, support the author, and support authentic reading!)