The Amber Sword

Blue as a dream, full of sky.

Behind Charles, a sparkling summoning array is emerging in turn, from which precisely those creatures, such as dreams, that should only exist in legend; a life made up of purely energy, between the entity and the non-entity, which exists neither in the material world nor in the material world, which constantly changes its properties and morphology, every moment, every second, beyond their borders, which is the Ethereum.

They have dragon-shaped, yet manta wings that are transparent, like soft glass, jellyfish suspended in the air, yet they are unstable and constantly changing as if they were a rainbow with a blue base.

The Krutz wizards, one after the other, stopped the spells in their hands because they found that their spells had no effect on these strange creatures, which themselves were part of the energy, that seemed not to exist in the present world, sharp lines of law, that the manic elemental magic tore through these fantastic creatures, but that they could not harm them at all, as if they had been struck by an illusion, passing through their transparent bodies.

Everyone discovered this fact one by one, that their attacks could not harm these dragons in any way, and that the entire battlefield gradually fell into a strange state of stagnation, and the wizards, the soldiers of the Empire, stopped at a glance, some quietly watching it all, watching this magnificent landscape.

But eventually someone realized what it was.

“These are…”

“Ethereum...”

“I had no idea that they actually existed, and the Fanour record was not an absurd legend. ”

Witches steal whispers and secretly convey secret knowledge that only they know. And the Imperial Commander above the Black Sword barrier is jumping like thunder. He has no interest in these so-called knowledge and legends, but the wizards left their posts without permission and let the density of fire over the battlefield drop dramatically for a while. At this moment, he was moved back by the Stone Ghost. He found the wizards' captain, pointing to the strange creatures and shouted: “I don't care what they are, but now your task is to drive them all out, and I don't want to see any of these messy things on my walls! ”

He had a temper and found the wizards looking at him strangely. “What, did I say something wrong? ”

“Those are the elves from the Ethers, Commander, who are in themselves symbols of pure energy. Our spells cannot harm them in any way. Have you ever seen water droplets drown in the ocean, and for us they are the real oceans?” The Wizard Commander answered politely.

The Knight Commander grabbed his head: "I don't care who the droplets are or who the ocean is, but you have to tell me how to deal with these things, right? I don't want my soldiers to die in vain. ”

“Commander, you don't have to worry at all that if the Fanulls are not lying, the greatest characteristic of the Ethereum is that they exist in both worlds at the same time - their changing form of energy maintains the connection between the Ethereum and the material world, and if you can't fight them in both domains at the same time, your attacks will not damage them at all.” The Wizard Commander looked at the beautiful creatures outside the walls with an appreciative eye, but the Knight Commander was clearly very dissatisfied with his gaze, at least he thought it should not be the gaze of the enemy.

Of course he doesn't understand that Ethereum is the symbol of magic, and their blue has become the color of the Buga flag, although Buga is called the Silver Alliance, and when their emblem is an eye on the blue sea, it symbolizes the bipolar - knowledge and magic - of the magician world.

“Then why don't we just surrender?” The commander of the knight answered without courage.

“Why do you say that, Commander?” The Wizard Commander pretended to look at the Cavalier Commander with some surprise, but his heart was filled with disdain for this poor man who had no idea of the essence of the world.

“They can attack me, but we can't attack them. Can this fight go on? ”

“Commander, I don't think you have to worry about that at all," said the Wizard Commander, smiling slightly. "Ethereum is a fragile and beautiful creature, it's not as powerful as you think it is, and although it looks enormous, it's just because energy will naturally dissipate in our world. And these creatures are actually very weak, and while they represent energy itself, they are unable to hold the law of neutrality, which is, for example, that humans represent a life, but they are equally unable to manipulate it. Just like that, you and your soldiers cannot attack it, because it cannot attack you. ”

The commander didn't understand at all, but at least he understood the last sentence and couldn't help but frown and ask: "Are you saying that these things have no attack power at all, then why do our opponents summon them out and pretend to be ghosts? ”

“I'm afraid not, I mean, they're not incapable of attacking you, but the Ethereal realm and the material world is a parallel world, the two worlds don't affect each other, and if they want to affect our world, they have to be transformed into our world ——”

“Wait, I get it.” The commander interrupted this self-righteous guy, and he said out loud, "You mean I can attack them when they turn into our world, right? ”

The Wizard Commander looked at this guy with some surprise.

The Knight Commander couldn't help but grunt, thinking about these self-righteous guys, and if he could, he was too lazy to deal with these god-dagging guys. But he had one last question, and just before he left, he said, "Mr. Wizard, since these things are so fragile, I'm sure those who summon them won't be able to go there. I think you should be able to deal with him, and don't let him do anything else. ”

But this time, he didn't get the answer he wanted.

The wizards in the room looked at Charles in the sky with palpitations.

“You are wrong, Mr. Commander, that the Ethereum itself stands for more than you can imagine. Ethereum cannot master the law, but he can. We don't know who this master really is, but we can be sure that he has a deeper rule, and that all of us here can testify to that, and just a moment ago, we all felt that kind of shock from the Sea of Magic. ”

The Wizard Commander shook his head with a granular shake: "You may not understand this, Commander, but I have a suggestion for you, you'd better use your soldiers to cause him some trouble, otherwise we may not all be his opponents. ”

“What,” the commander surprised: “But he looks much younger than you. ”

“The world of wizards is long based on the power of knowledge, not age.” The Wizard Commander replied.

“Are you sure?”

“I'm not sure,” the Wizard Commander shook his head: "It's just a guess, but you can bet I'm wrong, Commander. ”

The commander looked at the wizards in the robes and thought, hopefully, wrong guess.

And he didn't know that everyone here had the same idea.

……

Vana looked up and saw exactly this scene.

She saw the Jedi counter-attacks by the soldiers of the Empire, that blue ocean that looked so eye-catching but incredibly overwhelming, that the Ethereum's offense was far from dazzling without their appearance, and she could clearly analyze that the power of these strange creatures would not exceed the silver peak, and that most of the Imperial Knights on the walls of the city would be just between them. And it's gratifying to note that when Ethereum attacks, which were not previously capable of causing harm to them, quickly took them down from the air for the first time when they switched to the physical world, although half-sky Ethereum creatures tend to end their lives in a strange way.

It seemed like a dazzling self-destruct, with their transparent shaped diameter crashing against the walls and then blowing into a light blue ripple. Under the ripple oscillation, the Imperial soldiers were intact and the walls were not damaged at all. The only change was that the magic of the Imperial Wizards had begun to dilute and pull up; the lady had a hidden idea of what had happened, but she was surprised that the number of Ethereum dragons had decreased very quickly, far more than they had died, and they seemed to have occupied the entire sky before, but only a few moments remained.

Where are the Ethereum?

She felt something was wrong, but the problem was there, and she didn't really understand it. But what really begins to make Ms. Vana a little confused is that's what Brando showed her? So that she could appreciate how he failed, but she obviously didn't see this frustration in the face of this Darius descendant, and Brando always smiled and looked halfway into the sky, that confident look of God, never faded away.

Ethereum in the sky finally disappeared one by one.

But that's not good news for the wizards of the Empire.

They are saying that they have never really seen these legendary creatures, nor did they expect to burn magic after the other party's death, so that only one result is that all the overwhelmed wizards were burned out of magic in the first place, and a few slightly more senior old wizards were okay, but the apprenticeship classes around them were almost all pale and distorted at the moment.

Ethereum upgrades to self-winding juvenile dragons and spiders, a characteristic that also holds true.

But soon someone discovered a new problem:

“They disappear at an incorrect rate. ”

“No, it's not vanishing. It's moving into the Ethereum, sir! ”

Wizards were much more knowledgeable than a swordsman in a neighborhood like Vana and immediately realized the problem.

But at this moment, Charles is turning the deck, and the magician's law is like a spark, burning in his body, like lighting his eyes, making the same silver light shine in them. He looked down at the Cruz fortress, as if two different consciousnesses had been divided into his mind, one thinking about the war scene and one consciousness counting in detail - after the imperial wizards had muttered, the Stone Ghosts had begun to regain the upper hand, and while they still had to face the troubled archers of the Empire, at least they did not have to face the risk of being torn apart by terrible spells anytime, anywhere.

Moreover, the magical defenses on the Black Sword barrier are gradually diminishing, infusing them with magical wizards, and the magic is burning away at this moment.

In Charles, the previous attempt to summon Ethereum to consume all its empty power is slowly recovering a little bit, as if it were gradually accelerating with the disappearance of Ethereum.

And these rising magic powers were reinjected into Ethereum's cards.

Then a whole new batch of Ethereum appeared in the sky.

The Krutz are looking up to the sky, and quite a few of them have even opened their mouths.

“Look over there, over there too! ”

“This way too! ”

“Kill them! ”

“They disappeared again! ”

“There's another monster! ”

Chaos over the walls, imperial soldiers, wizards, staring at the Ethereum appear and disappear, disappear and appear, but each time they disappear, they bring new companions as if they were geometrically increasing. No one understands what is happening, but it seems that Ethereum has really gathered into the ocean, and when they last attacked, that horrific tsunami-like scene eventually came, and even the proudest Krutz couldn't help but lose some of their weapons in the face of tens of thousands of countless enemies.

That was no longer a meaningful battle.

Charles mastered this magical sea full of power, the sea blue spell energy was gathered at his feet, the commander of the Empire did not not want to attack him, but it was pointless. Whenever they were about to achieve their purpose, a sterling silver shield appeared in front of Charles, a blessed hymn, which belonged to the Hippamilla Mountains and was constantly derived from the power of Etheron to support her in choosing this spell many times.

The last scene Vana saw was that the blue ocean completely obscured the walls of the Black Sword barrier, a spectacular scene she had not seen, but it was in the midst of jihad, in the face of the most powerful wizards of the Saint Osor.

She seemed to finally recognize the young wizard.

“Turns out it's him! ”

The lady seemed to mumble to herself incredibly: "He didn't die, the genius of centuries among black tower wizards, as I should have known, he has always been this unexpected. ”

Brando glanced slightly, which seemed to be the second time he had heard something like that, and he couldn't help but look up at Charles in the sky.

But by this time Vana had regained her sight, the Cruz had failed completely, and the backup in the fortress had not yet arrived, and she could already imagine what had happened. “You win," she replied calmly, “I just didn't think that, 40 years later, he really became a great wizard… The Black Tower Wizard finally had another wizard leader a thousand years later, and those who made the decision at that time certainly couldn't think of today. But Darius' grandson, what have you got, nothing but the hatred of the Empire? ”

Brando knew that the lady named White Shadow Swordsman must have misunderstood something. She actually thought that Charles had crossed the extreme plain to become a great wizard, but he did not unravel such a misunderstanding, which was what he needed at the moment.

And what he got...

He looked at the blue reflection in the sky and shook his head gently. What he got, the Empire would never understand.

……

Count Tony Gale has gone mad.

Whether in Fort Swallow or in Gray Wind Harbor, from the north of the kingdom to the south of Ambesseur, or in the dense forests of the Goran-Elson, anywhere that anybody lives, noblemen, civilians or even unidentified and tested people, none of them is happily discussing this message from Balta since the cold started in the north and it fell for a little snow or two.

The Royal Party is almost insane.

Everyone, except Makaro and Ser Wolf Ovewell, acted like a bloody shark, and they were already dissatisfied with the Count, who had fingered them, at a moment when that dissatisfaction had apparently erupted in some way. A secret letter was transmitted to the true masters of the royal parties in Makaro through their hands, and every word written on it was enough to show the most courageous radicals how to fight.

It's filled with words of advice, verbal abuse, harshness, questioning and even defamation.

Makaro could laugh at Ovewell for it, and it was so obvious that he couldn't help but question the intelligence of his colleagues, but what made him doubt his intelligence was the other part of the letterhead stacked on the desk. The letterhead is not defamation, but a letterhead from further north that conveys some kind of message.

The words on the letterhead in red are enough to make anyone who reads them think they're watching some ridiculous story ——

On the 25th of the month of the Frost, Count Tonigle broke down the Black Sword Barrier, a battle in which few casualties occurred except for the statue ghost that the Count himself had lost, after which Count Tonigle forced (or bailed) the entire Imperial Army to hold a grand welcoming ceremony for the Eruin mission he led, followed by the release of all Imperial soldiers and, as a courtesy, compensation for the repair costs of the Knight's Gate.

On the 27th day of the frosty month, Count Tonigle and his envoys passed through the Torro Valley, knocking down a number of provocative Krutz local nobles.

On the thirtieth day of the frost, Count Tonyger and his envoy attacked Torreaux and released all the nobles after extorting a large ransom, which they called ‘honour damages’ and ‘moral compensation'.

On the seventh day of the winter harp, Count Tonigle defeated the Cruz Summer Solstice Knights.

On the 15th of the month of Winterchin, Count Tonigle and his envoy defeated the Anzeluta local legions.

The 19th of the month of the winter harp, Count Tonyger...

……

Makaro and Ovewellmer read the last sentence on this letterhead and placed it gently in front of Princess Griffin, and were somewhat tired to ask, "Well, Princess, could you please tell me what Count Tonigle is up to? ”

Princess Griffin also looked at the letterhead somewhat vainly and smiled reluctantly at her two closest cousins: "I think... Lord Count, he would have a point. ”

“Is that right?” Makaromer looked at Her Royal Highness in silence.

……