The Amber Sword

When a pedestrian enters the forest, the blue light curtain slowly closes behind the crowd, as if it had life. They soon discovered that the two worlds were completely inside and outside the light screen, and that it was still after noon, but the light screen was already twilight, as if there was a blue screen hanging from the sky and a few stars hanging from afar, like the view after dusk.

And a hundred steps away, the woodland is a gloomy place.

The enormous contrast made everyone vigilant, with Nimatis and Freya gently pulling out their swords and looking around. There seems to be some uneasiness hidden in the air that makes the vest cold.

Brando looked at the strange woodland, already in a valley, with overlapping hills in the distance immersed in the night. In the north, the sky is as dark and purple as a lonely night. This hill, known in The Sword of Amber as the ‘Dusk Hill’, should be the southwest corner of Milos' breath in his memory.

At the entrance to this area, there should be a nest of twilight dogs, an ancient subspecies of dog terror. Warnd has long been extinct, but there is still a small distribution in some black forests.

“Count, as you said, which direction should we go now?” Laurena interrupted his mind and asked.

“The strategy mentions that there should be a trail leading to the 'courtyard',” Brando recalls silently the text on the strategy: ‘Dusk Hill is the best entrance into the direction of Milos, and the gatekeeper's lair is a phobian dusk dog, stretching north through the passage through the dusk dog's lair to the' courtyard ’, with a treasure site at points A and B, respectively, explored by the' Winged Brigade ’and the' Crystal Apple 'Guild in 385 and 387.’ If this is the first time this copy has been explored, then the location of the treasure mentioned above may still exist. His eyes searched the forest, and suddenly he realized that this ever-growing valley was just a passage. Brando's gaze stretched forward, and the inky green hills stretched north on both sides, which also matched the strategic description.

After confirming this, Brando intends to: "We march along this valley, carefully swimming spirits, trying not to use magic or activate magic items. Lighting uses a flame, and lighting crystals are forbidden at one rate. ”

While spirits are not difficult creatures to deal with, they can attract more once the magic is dispersed. One player once said that the Spirit was the alarm in this copy of Milos' Breath, and that was not hollow.

“Do you understand? ”

“Understood." Everyone nodded.

Brando was somewhat satisfied, although his knowledge of the copy also remained only tactical. But he knew that in the unknown, people were always willing to be partial to people who looked like bamboo. And as the most experienced person in the team, he should not be allowed to assume that responsibility.

And he goes on to say, "Cee, Metisa, you two go. Miss Laurena, please hang up after. ”

“Yes, Lord.” Metisa nodded instead of Cee.

“No problem." Laurena also lifted her sheathed sword to her chest, a knight's etiquette from Cruz - a sign of willingness to lead.

Since no one had any objections, the team quickly divided the work well. Sy and Metisa walked forward as the team's eyes, both carrying long guns through the dense coniferous forests, and soon they noticed that the sky was getting darker and darker as the team went deeper and deeper through the layers of overlapping gaps.

From the light red of the first evening to the light blue, then the dark blue, gradually hung with stars and became a view of the silent night. It's like walking in the woods for just a few minutes, and the sky changes from dusk to midnight.

The fact is that this is the hallmark of Dusk Hill, which is a transitional area of the Evening Forest until it reaches the very heart of the forest. The surrounding area gradually became dark, but Sy lit the torch, and the light extended in all directions, dragging the dense and numb cedar trunks out of the forest, but where the light could not shine, the darkness appeared to be deeper and deeper.

As the team advanced for about half an hour, Metisa suddenly noticed that the star dots began to shine in the deep darkness, and she immediately recognized that it was the magic that floated between the woodlands.

She grabbed Sy and put her fingers up against her more than a "watch out" gesture.

“What's that?” Sy also noticed the lights in the woods and asked softly.

“Probably a demon. ”

“So many!” Sy freaked out. In her view, that number was a little too much, and the fine numbers were at least a hundred. She looked at the plankton spirits and was a little nervous.

“Don't worry," Metissa said softly, "the spirits, though terrible, are famously blind. Light is invisible to them as long as they do not use magic. As long as we pay some attention, there should be no problem. ”

Syd nodded his suspicions. And in fact, Brando's vision of Metissa as a team was to draw on her vast combat experience and the genie's innate acumen, and Brando's intention was actually to partner Shea to protect the former; Metissa was washed together with Charles into the first level after he advanced to his official position as a travel magician, and although they can now upgrade by gaining experience like him, it took less than a month of experience, and now her strength has only just returned to the silver beginnings.

Brando had to act with caution because the Brigadier creature had irreversible defects.

Sy looked in that direction again and looked back with some confusion, which seemed to mean -- “What now, Metisa? ”

The Silver Fairy Little Princess looked down and whispered, “Shh, see if you can get around on both sides. ”

Xi slightly glanced, some foxed at her. Theoretically, Metisa is not strong enough to see this far. But it seemed to detect the suspicion of a mountain girl, and Metisa quickly explained, “This place seems to have some kind of limitation on our spirits ——”

She blushed and blushed herself. If it wasn't too hard to explain that her ‘rank’ had been washed away, she would have lied badly. But to be honest, even she hasn't figured out what this level is yet, and why it's related to her strength.

Luckily, in the light of the fire, I didn't see any blush. She nodded back, but her eyes swept across the valley and found that the demons in the forest seemed to have blocked all the way forward.

She looked closely and shook her head slightly.

“Can't you?” Metisa silenced herself and immediately opened her mind and sent a message back to Brando. Shortly afterwards, the bushes behind the two girls were split up and Brando's walkers had come out of there.

“Metissa, Sy. ”

After Brando got word from Metissa, he probably guessed what was going on. He came out of the woods behind him and looked up and saw the light of the stars in the darkness.

The Everlasting Forest is a huge area where the monster distribution is very random, but after the players' exploration, many of the patterns have been identified. Until then, the road he led for Metisa and Sy was in fact a very remote path that, according to the tactics, avoided most of the unnecessary fighting.

Brando had to choose this path because it had been delayed a long time before in the Alasse Forest. But the road is not safe, and there are two monster nodes that cannot be bypassed along its path. One of them is a place called the Pool of the Spirit, and the other is stuck at the last entrance to the courtyard, where they have to face the Dusk Dog and the Hick Demon.

At a glance at the incredible number of demons in the forest, Brando probably identified the location of this place - the Pool of Demons, although not a nest of demons, which in some ways is more like a nest.

In Amber Sword, the Spirit is a true gold-class monster. Normally, so many of these things have to be destroyed. No player in either regiment thinks about it. But Brando happens to know an abnormal way to deal with these spirits, and in copies that have been thoroughly touched by the players in the later stages of the game, the odd tactics are not too much.

But he looked over there, and then he retracted his gaze. He has two more things to do before he gets ready to go through here.

Brando judged the direction and looked somewhere in the darkness, where he did see a giant cedar that took two or three people to wrap around.

“Metissa, how tall you are.” He whispered.

The Silver Fairy Princess was slightly stunned. Unexpecting her lord to ask this strange question, she hesitated for a moment and was somewhat embarrassed to tell Brando the answer in her heart contact.

Forgive me, but she still heard Charles laughing. Brando glanced at it so hard, and he said, "Almost there, you come next to me. ”

“Hmm?” Metisa was a little confused, but still did as she was told. All of us had no idea what Brando was doing, but to look at the Silver Elf Princess with some curiosity and walk up to Brando, "Lord, what can I do for you? ”

“Now you're on me.” Brando looked at the cedar and said.

“Brando, what are you doing?” Freya's a little strange, but everyone's just as strange as he is. If it hadn't been for her to ask, Phyllis, who had jumped back to try, would have planned to.

“Wait and you'll see.” Brando replied.

Metissa hesitated for a moment before proceeding one step further, and now she is almost face-to-face with Brando, even feeling the faint breath of Lord Lord. She blushed and had never been this close to her master since Brando had summoned her.

But Brando was not satisfied, and he pressed her on his shoulder and reoriented her. Metissa was frightened, and several times her nose tipped into Brando's chest.

“Brando!” Freya stared at Brando, and if she didn't think the enemy was nearby, she would have stabbed him with a sword.

But Brando never heard of it, only for this moment, he felt like he was back in the game, opening a deserted copy with a trusted companion. He stared at the giant cedar and whispered to Metisa:

“You start with me now, take ten steps back and tell me what you feel. ”

Brando's words sounded a bit like riddles, but Metisa's trust in him had reached the point where she could do everything without asking why, and she nodded slowly and retreated.

Everyone saw her quit ten steps and stopped.

“Tell me what you feel under your feet.” Brando asked.

Metisa's eyes were slightly bright and strange: "… I felt weak magic, like a magic mark. Lord, how did you know there was something here? ”

But Brando obviously had no intention of answering her question for the time being, and he took the torch from Side Shea and photographed it against Metisa. The fire immediately printed the silver elf princess's shadow on the ground, and the others stared at Brando and were stunned.

Because they saw the shadow behind Metisa, and they distinguished a pair as if they were translucent wings.

“Is this…?” Phyllis couldn't help but be a little stubborn.

But Brando's heart screamed ‘Sure’. Of all the people, only Laurena sensed his facial expression sharply, and the knight immediately asked, "Mr. Count, do you know anything? ”

Brando took a sigh of relief, and nodded and replied: "The spirits will not gather somewhere for no reason. The origins of this place are actually so slightly different from those of the black tower wizards of Karasu. ”

“Black Tower Wizard?” Even Charles was slightly stunned. You know, he used to be part of the Black Tower Wizard.

Brando smiled a little, and this time he wasn't lying, which was just a coincidence. The background to this place in the game is indeed the Black Tower Wizard, “the largest organization of wizards in Eruin, who, like many others, have an unparalleled curiosity about secrets and knowledge. Like the Buga Wizards, the tracks of the Black Tower Wizards are spread throughout every relic of the kingdom in search of those lost secrets. Naturally, this mysterious forest is no exception. ”

“Lord, you mean the Black Tower Wizard sent a fact-finding mission into this forest, and here..." Laurena reacted.

“Same as your guess, but slightly different.” While recalling the tactical record of this place, Brando replied: "Black Tower wizards have entered the forest more than once in centuries of history, and apart from the dangerous area of the center, they can say that they already know the area. ”

He looked at Laurena and added, "You don't think that guy from Anrik would rush into this forest at his own risk. Like me, there must be someone familiar with this forest. Maybe he's also a black tower wizard. ”

“But Blacktower Wizard and Highland Knight are not allies, Brando you...” Freya asked somewhat incomprehensibly.

“The forest is big, but not all birds have, and not all black tower wizards adhere to the Tower Agreement.” Charles explained immediately.

“Exactly,” Brando continued, "but this is not the subject of our discussion. The Black Tower Wizards were supposed to come here to destroy a very powerful demonic object, and they wanted to destroy it once and for all with the help of a magical array here ——"

He paused: "But there were traitors in the ranks at the time, and some wizards were tempted by the power of the devil, and eventually the whole operation was lost. The demonic objects are said to have exploded violently on the battlefield, blasting the accompanying hundred black tower wizards into flying ashes, whose souls have been eroded by dark magic, gradually forming spirits wandering here. ”

“Nearly a hundred wizards?” Laurena took an incredible breath of cold air, and she could totally imagine what a tragic scene that was.

Other people's faces also reveal a bit of a heavy divine color.

But Brando just laughed, and the whole thing wasn't as horrible as they thought, and if Blacktower Wizards hung up on nearly a hundred official wizards at a time, the organization would probably be close to breaking apart. There were actually only twelve official wizards, most of them apprentices, including that traitor.

But the legacy of the demon is true, and he continues: "Of course, the demon object is said to have been extinguished in the explosion, but the Black Tower Wizard still built an observation post in the area for safety. The post is said to have been in use for nearly a hundred years and was not abandoned until the last century. ”

“Observation post?” Phyllis was stunned and couldn't help but look around. “Why didn't I see it, it had been removed? ”

“Of course not, the witches' observation posts will naturally not be the fortress towers you see on weekdays.” At this time, Nimaisie, who never spoke, suddenly spoke: "Brando, were you looking for the location of that outpost? ”

Brando nodded.

“That magic landmark is a guiding point, and the wizards' literature says that the post should be next to that cedar, behind Metisa, in the direction of the shadow of the wings. ”

“But I didn't see anything.” Phyllis looked over there: “Is that thing in the sky? ”

Brando glanced at this guy a little silently, and now he's starting to believe this guy's shit luck. I didn't expect the other party to say it randomly, but it actually made sense.

And he looked up, and he said, "Yes, the real tower is in the sky. We have to find a way to summon it down. ”

“Summon it down?” Laurena frowned: “I see. It can help us deal with these demons, right? Now that the wizards have built such a tower, their own role is to guard against these demons. ”

“Exactly,” Brando said with some compliments. But he understands that the knight lady from Cruz is not quite right, and in Amber Sword, there is often more than one way through many of the dramatic areas. He also had a way of sneaking past the valley without drawing the attention of those demons - but Brando didn't intend to give up such a great deal of experience, especially if the record of the offensive was not false, and the tower should be one of the treasure sites in this copy.

This task is supposed to be an additional reward.

But naturally these words cannot be said, and he turns back and says, "Charles, you should know the spell of the Black Tower Wizards who summon the Wizard Tower. ”

Charles nodded immediately and replied in his heart: "I forgot a lot after the transfer, but at least I remember one or two of them. After all, the Black Tower Wizard was originally part of the Buga people. ”

“That's good," Brando glanced at the distant spirits and began to give orders: "It takes a while to summon the towers, but once the magic begins, the spirits over there will find us. So when Charles summoned the tower, the task of the others was to protect him from the task. ”

Brando's voice dropped, like a battle signal, and Nimatis, Freya and Laurena and their guards pulled out their swords immediately, as did Sy and Metisa. Everyone subconsciously arranges a half-circle around where Princess Fairy is now.

Brando shows satisfaction and pulls out the sword of the earth, reminding: "Demons attack in simple ways, they rarely know how to beat flesh, but pay attention that their attacks can penetrate the body's armor; and watch out for their spells, Metisa, Sy, you stay to protect the doer and Haruze, others find a way to approach them quickly. ”

“Understood.”

“Charles, you start putting. ”

The young magician's attendant nodded, and he stood behind Metissa and felt the position of the magic mark, then raised his staff and began to recite the spell that summoned the Wizard Tower. And this not so high spell is like a glaring signal in the dark, and all of a sudden, everyone sees a slight stop in the light of the star dots in the forest.

Then they suddenly rose halfway up, as if looking for the source of the spell, circled over the forest, and turned around and jumped this way.

“The literature says that spirits, although most of them were brilliant wizards in their lifetime, have long forgotten their profound knowledge. Their specialty in spells is simply the use of pure dark magic. These disordered powers do not last too long, and they typically carry out the first wave of spell attacks a hundred feet away.” Metisa looked at the light clusters and was the first to make a sound warning.

The spirits floating in the darkness are fast, and by this time they are near. When people see their images, these luminous luminous groups in the dark, they look like a naked human being or elf. They almost retain their lifetime appearance, except that the face and chest are covered with dark magic erosion pattern, there are no eyeballs in the orbit, only a pitch of black.

This horrible appearance impressed everyone, and His Royal Highness the Little Prince shouted in dismay.

“One hundred and forty-one feet, to be exact.” Brando stared in that direction, raised his sword, "and measured the distance himself. ”

The spirits have stopped at the edge of the forest, no less distant than Brando's memory, and that is precisely the furthest range of their spells. These twisted creatures raise their hands, and their hands become ugly, pointy and long because of their magical twists, and suddenly a black flame erupts from these elongated fingertips.

These black flames are interwoven like tentacles, and at that moment it was like a pitch-black mesh overhanging from the sky, covering everyone with the eyes.

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