The Amber Sword

“Brando, where the hell are we going? ”

The metal members hanging from the two horses roared loudly, walking back and forth in the woods. The knight on the back of the horse held the reins in one hand and looked around with some apprehension. The still forest is like an oil painting that exudes the greenery of the hearts from the depths of the background, and the sun passes through the tree crown, scattering beams of light on the dead leaves.

The silence of the ravens in the forest, the light rustling of the dead leaves on the horseshoes and the sound of metal collisions make hair hairy.

Freya's face was a little white, although she suffered only minor injuries on Laurena's hand, which did not stand in the way after Merriam's treatment. But her long journey on the horse's back after the loss of blood made her a little overwhelmed.

“Tired?” Brando looked back at her and asked with concern.

“No, but... but it's getting dark. If you go any further, you won't be able to go back to Chevrond.” Freya said in a tone of anxiety that she did not know why Brando had suddenly called her to travel with her to Chevrond and into the hills of Grahar.

A little further forward, is the Black Forest.

“It's okay,” Brando laughed on the horse's back and didn't seem concerned: “It's getting dark and we can camp in the wild. Are you still worried about me? ”

But Freya's face turned red: "But, but we only have one tent. ”

Brando liked the future goddess of martial arts, so he was not in a hurry to answer. When the latter stared at her violently, he laughed: “Actually, it's a lie, it's almost there. ”

Freya relieved herself and realized she had been tricked. She took a deep breath and finally endured the urge to punch her in the face with a bad smile - but saw that the latter had tightened the reins, made a gentle appeal, and sat down as one of the horses stopped. Brando weighs the surroundings carefully, like he's confirming something. Then he ‘wow’ and rolled over his horse and slowly walked forward with one hand pressing the handle of the sword and dragging the cape.

Seeing Brando like this, Freya also had to put away her original angry look, a little curious. She saw him walking sandy under a dead leaf - she naturally didn't recognize the scientific names of the trees on the labels in the thick literature of scholars, but she knew that the giant trees with the dark sinking trunks were commonly known as ghost trees in the mouths of Mount Eruin. “Brando, what are you... looking at? ”

Brando looked up at the wood, and he was very familiar with the tree species, just as he had seen them again many years later, with a faint sense of kindness. He was silently thinking about things, things about the past, things that had become oblivious, but memories were still like flashing pieces, occasionally flashing in his mind, like picking up shells in the sand sea.

Then he looked away and found the gray-white boulder not far from where he remembered. This boulder is like a giant egg slanted into the ground, and his eyes look up along the uneven surface of the rock pit, stopping once every step up. After the third time, he saw a crack in the shape of a star that looked like a fork.

And then he said, "Nothing, we're here, Freya. ”

“Got it?” Freya couldn't help but look around, and after half the afternoon, the lights in the mountain forest grew more gray, and she saw only an empty space made up of dark green canopy, twisted joe trunks, staggered tangled roots - the forest looked more like a semi-enclosed cave, staggered tunnels leading in all directions.

Unlike elsewhere in Tonigal, Goran-Elson is rare in the Haragal Mountains, where the common black coniferous forests around Denel are covered with vast evergreen broadleaf forests, as if there were a mysterious magic that moisturized this ancient forest underground.

“What is this place? ”

“This should be the border of the Black Forest in this direction," Brando said, taking a few steps forward and opening up a large area of shrub. He found that it was almost the top of the mountain, looking east from here, and the black ridge in the clouds went from south to north, like a couple of dorsal ridges of giant dragons. And he reached out and pointed in that direction, and said, "To the east, is the Forest of Eternal Songs. Have you heard of it? ”

“Chablis mountains?” Freya asked curiously. The mountains of Chablis are a famous landmark in the southern realm of Eruin, and the scenic Yongko Forest has always been a place for travellers, so even in Butch she has heard of it.

“Well," Brando nodded, "but it should be precisely the junction of Tosancado Forest and Yong-go Forest, where the Fang Fortress is situated, which is the southern border of Eruin. ”

After that, he stared in that direction silently. The clouds are surrounded by vast mountainous areas, with black forests scattered around them, the most rare victory for the explorer - any player will have ambition in front of such a scene - like a sailor conquering the vast ocean.

“But why are we here?... Brenda, what are you doing?” The Knight Girl felt a little strange. She didn't understand why Brando had brought her alone to this rare place, but she saw Brando suddenly take off his cloak, take off his jacket and walk back to her. She couldn't help but be frightened. Her overcoated men clicked consciously on the handle of the sword and stared at each other nervously.

Brando stopped, and he looked at the future goddess a little strangely: "What are you thinking? ”

“You, you, why are you undressing? ”

“Of course I'm going to climb down here, where do you think you're going," Brando answered in a disgusting manner. "Am I that bad for you to trust? Come and get my clothes and wait here for me, you idiot. ”

Freya's face turned red like blood and she lowered her head as if she wanted to find a stitch to drill down on the ground. However, after hearing Brando's request, our goddess of martial arts took half a day to unbuckle all kinds of leather buckles and climb down the back of the horse. If she disembarks at this speed in the college, it is estimated that the riding test will be scored negatively. Then I picked up the coat from Brando with some shivering hands.

“... where are you going?” She glanced at her clothes and asked cautiously like a clumsy waitress.

“You'll see. ”

Brando replied. Then she looked up and saw him walking aside, dragging the rope out of the bag on the horse's back, tied to the previous' ghost tree '. She saw him let go of the rope a little bit and slowly walked towards the edge of the mountain wall over there, then glanced down and threw down the back half of the rope.

“Brando, what's down there?” The goddess of martial arts was slightly stunned and finally realized what Brando was going to do.

Brando looked up at her in that direction and shook her head at the girl from Bucci countryside with his fingers up on her lips, then he grabbed the rope with one hand and jumped suddenly down--

“Careful! ”

Freya couldn't help shouting.

But the scream in Brando's ear was like being dragged further and further away. The cold wind above the cliff made him squeeze his eyes. After he could not help but distinguish the scene in front of him, he felt the cloud under the cliff approaching himself for a moment, like the illusion of approaching the surface of the water when diving.

Then he shouted and felt himself fall into the fog. Brando hurriedly grabbed some rope, with his golden strength, naturally didn't have to climb down the rope a little bit, but the last time he came to this place was at least 10 years ago, even more so in the game for nearly a hundred years, he feared he had the wrong position, so he also took the rope with him for insurance.

After all, he could not soar in the sky until there was a real element of enlightenment.

Brando stared closely at the mountain wall, but for a few seconds, a platform that protruded outward from the bush swept through his sight. He reacted extremely quickly, his palms tightened, and the rope in his hand immediately snapped - a powerful reaction pulled him around in the middle of the air, with a smell of scorch on the rope, but Brando didn't feel anything unusual.

The physical qualities of the golden class have long been beyond what normal people can imagine.

He looked up and saw that the platform was not much different from his memory, more than a dozen meters from him. But that distance was almost non-existent to him, and Brando gently swung the rope close to the mountain wall and grabbed those intersecting rocks and climbed up like a monkey.

The bush platform was almost exactly the same as he remembered, and Brando looked around, and the rock that protruded from the waist of the hill was about half the size of a basketball field. But it was actually much wider, except that the dense trees and vines covered most of his gaze, and he carefully walked in one direction, following his memory, and then tore apart the thick vines with the wrong roots.

With the sound of dirt and sand rolling down, Brando didn't use much power to tear apart the dead leaves and reveal a tapered slate underneath. This tablet is about as tall as he is, two people wide, kind of like the Smart Stone Statue (1) that is common in forests everywhere, but it doesn't depict the magic and storm weaver Misokay, it's a round of black moons.

The moon of silence, the seventh moon of Eruin. The moon will never be seen in the sky, but it has existed in history.

Without a word, Brando cleaned up the vines on the platform and revealed eleven other similar tablets below. On each tablet there is a circle of moon, which in turn represents the source of destiny and magic flowing over the sky of Eruin.

This place is the hall of destiny.

Or what the players call a transfer home.

Brando has checked information that these tablet formations were built in the past by a nation that was longer than the Minors, and that they appear to have been built to stabilize the original Tiamat laws of Martha, and that such tablet formations exist in many places throughout the Vaughn continent, but are built in extremely hidden places.

This one, like Tonigal, was built on the border of the Black Forest of Mount Grahar, not knowing how many years it had been buried. But when Brando went to these places in the game, these rock formations had long been cleaned up by the players in front of him, and not so much time was wasted on them as it is today.

He carefully weighed the thin veins on the ground in the center of the tablet array, then raised his head and looked at them as they extended towards the center of the platform. These lines and veins of metallic light make him very familiar, very similar to the energy transfer matrix he saw underground in Valhalla, as if from the hands of a civilization.

This doubt flashed through Brando's heart. Then he stood back and walked towards the center of the platform, and while there were secrets in these stone formations in Warnde, they had only one function in the game.

That is to give players their own element development tasks. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote on recommendations, monthly tickets (qidian.com), and your support is my biggest motivation.)