The Amber Sword

The Great Glacier...

This is a world frozen forever, with intersecting glaciers, like stacked glass, that makes up a crystalline world. The cold wind caught the ice and snow all year round, like a sharp, stinging edge, with deep scars on the smooth ice, day after day, forming a rugged and strange landscape. However, in such a harsh and harsh environment, there are still outsiders.

Shadow, an old wizard in a silver robe walking hard in the snow, one holding an ivory cane, one pressing on a pointy wizard's hat as if it were about to be blown away at any moment, a snowy white beard dancing wildly in the icy wind, one step deep and light in the snow near the knee, the cane in his hand is called 'Tir’, which means knowledge, the Bukas own

Three keys to truth - knowledge, wisdom and reason - yet this artifact is now used as a cane.

The old wizard proceeded slowly along the valley, tiny as an ant, crossing the blue ice and stopping in an open and empty space.

This is a huge valley where black rocks protrude from beneath the snow, forming precarious mountain peaks, and between the peaks, the snow and wind become much smaller. The old wizard looked around, and there was an artificial building in the valley, which was supposed to be a tower suspended in the middle of the sky, kind of like a beautiful square tower, all snowy and hundreds of feet tall, but it was already there.

Fractured and crashed in the valley, some of its remains have been buried beneath the snow and its surface, which was covered in mysterious patterns, has been frozen, apparently not in the near future.

“Third seat.” The old wizard shook his head and said to himself.

As if in response to his words, there was a scornful cold hum in the cold wind, a woman's voice, mute, but full of majesty and power: "William, I told you you would come back here, how, as you should have noticed, the boundaries of order are fading faster, the fragile laws are collapsing, everything is as described in the prophecy.

And your ridiculous efforts are simply futile. This time, no more fools will come to your rescue-- ”

The old wizard —— or one of the highest in the world, one of the twelve silver rings, the master of Kanaki, the king of time and space —— did not change color, or even smile slightly: "Dear Lord Fusia Case, or should I call you King of the Seven Poles, or Evil Lotus, or Dallas Steele, the dragon woman of storm and time.

”- [sic]

“Huh!”

This cold hum is like a storm, making the valley sky ice breeze. The woman's voice replied coldly, "How could you imprison me in this place if you had so much respect for me? I've seen through my eyes for three thousand years. Since you chose to betray me, I've waited here, waiting for you to taste the fruits of your misery, and now you're back here, telling me

What are you thinking now? ”

“Lord Fusia Case, no one has ever regretted it.” William answered loudly in the face of the snow and wind.

“Have you seen the waves of magic in the ocean, William, and guess what it was that was conceived under the calm of the surface?” The voices were disgusting.

William raised his eyebrows slightly: “I understand you know, Lord Fusia Case, that I am here today to ask you, what exactly happened in the east? We're feeling that Tiamat's laws are changing at a rate that hasn't changed in a thousand years, and we don't know exactly what happened, and the tide of magic is rising day after day, and the fall of the Moon of Magic.

The reflection is that the surface of another world is beginning to become volatile, but we cannot find the reason behind it. ”

“What do you see?” Fusia Keith asked.

“In a short month, we have lost 30 observation points, and, as you said, the borders of order are fading faster, and we have lost three holy towers in the Great Glacier alone. ”

The woman's voice grinned with disdain: "When I saw the spark go out, I knew you would come here. ”

“So tell me, what else do you see? ”

“During the Harvest Month, our wizards observed the Black Moon-”

“Black Moon,” Fusia Case smiled softly: "Thirteenth round of the moon, she finally showed up, how is it, isn't it beautiful? ”

“She destroyed Carletta, and the people there observed the vision that day. ”

“What kind of vision? ”

“The tall tower, as if immersed in a black night.” William replied.

“Babel's reflection.” Fusia Keith replied, "But this is still not the root cause and purpose of your presence here. ”

William looked up at the mountains surrounding the valley, and then he said, "I feel that all the observation points in the entire east are offset at the same time ——”

“You suspect I did it? ”

William didn't answer.

“Ridiculous,” Fusia Case chuckled, “I'll give you a piece of advice, William. ”

“The moon, lost...”

……

Even in winter, the day's temperatures were somewhat abnormal and the sun was far away in the middle of the sky, but after crossing the midline, it shook straight to the ground, making everyone a little agitated while waiting. Count Jean, along with his army, surrendered for some time. Brando thought it was a trap at first, but after trying.

But it seems that the other party is sincere. Though he did not know what the Krutz nobles were up to, he nevertheless successfully grounded their weapons and temporarily held this noble army over the Red Pine Ground, and now he just wants to make one thing clear - what exactly the Count was taking wrong.

Count Jean, however, was reluctant to see him personally. He had to ask Princess Magdalene and Charles Delaux to wait a while before he finally waited for Charles to come back from the Red Pine Forest, and the young wizard attendant gave him the first sentence: "Lord, we have found out what is going on. ”

Brando looked at him and his face was calm and he did not speak in a hurry, although that was the answer he had long wanted.

Charles said, "The Moors and the Coopers, the Walkers, and the Earl of Alcons, they weren't ambushed around here, and in fact, since this morning, no, since last night, Count Jean has been unable to reach them. ”

“What do you mean?” Brando didn't understand this answer for a while, and he frowned slightly, asking back.

“It is not clear, nor does Count Jean make it clear, that according to his description those people are like missing, that he thought we did it, and that is why he was forced to surrender to us.” Charles replied with some amusement that the Count had apparently already spooked his nerves in his view.

“Missing? ”

Brando asked, almost for a moment, “What does that mean? ”

“Literally, Moore's and Cooper's forces began three days ago and were stationed in Tieshan Town until yesterday, Walker's troops were stationed in Valgus Town, and Count Olkons was stationed near Forest Avenue, but now all these armies are missing, at least Count Jean can't reach them.” Charles replied.

“Is that possible?” Brando thinks it's fantastic: “Make sure it's not a trap. Has our Stone Ghost ever searched the neighborhood? ”

He asked that the sentence was actually a piece of crap, and long before that they had searched the surrounding area several times, convinced that no sign of the enemy had been found before coming forward to accept Count Gene's surrender. Besides, this is a trap, and the Count across the street will certainly find a way to tell a lie at least a little more in common sense than to make up such a story.

The more outrageous things are described, the more reliable they actually prove.

Sure enough, Charles shook his head gently: “It didn't look like a lie. You didn't see the Count. He seemed really frightened. He didn't want to see you, mostly because he was afraid that you'd do him a disservice. ”

Brando shook his head incredibly: "Did you send stone ghosts and scouts to Tieshen, Vargas and near Leaf Avenue? ”

“You have to ask Ms Methisa and Mrs Nimmasis, Lord, I am not responsible for this.” Charles replied.

Brando just remembered that he couldn't help but pat himself in the head, thinking that he had been completely dizzy by this strange situation at hand. So he hurried to Methisa, who was arranging for the settlement of the Cruz prisoners, who were now almost the largest group of prisoners on their journey, enough to accommodate 1,000 people, and many of them were not.

Nobility, mercenaries, farmers, craftsmen, soldiers, these people are much more troublesome than nobility because they have to be fed. According to Charles, these people simply let go. Brando is heartbroken about this proposal, but he understands that he must not be so hasty, because then his intentions would be too obvious.

When Brando found Metissa, he asked about the scourge and the stone ghost, and the little princess of the Pokémon seemed to have expected him to come to her, and she immediately replied, “Lord, Vargas Town and Forest Leaf Avenue are a long way from us, but the stone ghost sent to Tiesuguan Town has returned once, indeed, as the Count said, there is no one there, nor

There are no signs of fighting. ”

“No sign of battle? ”

Metisa nodded.

Did Brando get weirder and weirder, or did the Earl of Alcons get any wind of it beforehand and leave Count Jean alone? But that sounds ridiculous, because if he runs alone, then there's no need to bring the Moors, Coopers, and Walkers, knights and lords big and small, but if he's capable of notifying others to run with him, then not necessarily.

Leaving Count Gene, even to sell his teammates, his first choice should be for the powerless little nobles, and Brando can't really see what the other side needs to turn his back on the Gene family.

But it would be even stranger if it were other possibilities, because there was no reason to make any sense at all.

He asked Charles to ask the Count a few more times, but all came to the same conclusion, which led him to a period of confusion, although it was a rare good thing to say that he was able to win without a blood blade. But the thing is, it's kind of creepy right now, thousands of troops, dozens of miles around, overnight.

What kind of situation is this when the space disappears?

Without help, Brando could only allow the mission to stop and wait for the Stone Ghost and scout to return the message from Vargas Town and Forest Avenue. From Count Keane's description, he felt hidden that something was wrong, which was like an instinct for a feeling of danger, that he had experienced all sorts of abnormal conditions in the game, and that experience had provided him with a wealth of experience in dealing with various

All kinds of emergencies.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Stone Ghost was still unable to return from the town of Vargas and the forest leaf avenue, yet at this time Nimatis finally returned to the White Lion Guard from the Mission, her main task being to bring the Little Prince and the rest of the Mission, including the noble prisoners of the Krutz, here to join the Grand Army, where Brando had felt earlier that the battle had been somewhat problematic,

That's why we sent this more reliable knight to do it.

And in general, it's run by Miss Merchant Roman and Delphiry.

Upon returning to the White Lion Guard, Nimmasis heard the description of others and immediately frowned: “How far is Rococci - the Swordbroken Mountains Fortress? ”

When Brando heard what she was thinking, including the previous generation, the two of them worked together for a long time, sometimes with just one eye, one word could understand what the other was saying, and he shook his head immediately: “This is not far from Rokozy, the nearest fortress to the Sword Breaking Mountains Fortress, but far from Tokenin, this is the cloudy hill, according to the nearest disappearing

Rest, the Lions of Tokenin are still south of the Anzeluta Mountains, and even as we get the news, they break through the fortress, day and night, and they can't make it here. ”

“Besides, they're still there.” Charles added.

Brando nodded, but added: "It is not excluded that the nobles have given us false information. ”

“What good will it do them, Lord?” Charles asked.

“No good,” replied Brando, "Cruz nobles cannot stand by the Lions, and they have no point in lying to us about it, but the question is, what if the information they get isn't accurate in itself? ”

But this time, Metisa shook her head: "Lord, we have been collecting similar information in captivity for days, as Nimatis commanded, but the rumors are similar, unless the Lions deliberately deceived the Empire, what the nobles said should be true. ”

“Unless the Lions intend to deceive the Empire? ”

Brando suddenly caught this sentence sharply, and he glanced at Nimatis, and according to their earlier analysis, the Lions were stationed south of the Rococci - Broken Sword Mountains Fortress, unless there was any internal disagreement or deliberately deceived the Empire's border regiment. And the former is unlikely. The lions are a clan kingdom, of chiefs and high priests.

Under the leadership, if there were no contradiction between the two, there would hardly be any disagreement within the army, and perhaps there would be some minor contradiction between the clans, but none of it would hurt grandeur. As for the Great Sheikh and the High Priest, there is less chance of problems.

In this era, Toquinin was led by King Orr of Lions, a famous monarch, a student of this generation of high priests, who had never heard anything unpleasant between them.

But if not the former, then it would only be the latter.

But before that, Brando didn't have enough information, so he had to put the lion's movements on hold for a while, but at this moment, as Metissa reminded him, he immediately remembered and subconsciously said, "Sister, is there an ancient dwarf tunnel underneath Anzeluta? ”

He suddenly lost his breath and shouted out his name for Sister Baiqiao in another world, but luckily the others around him didn't seem to notice the details. Only Nimaisi glanced at him lightly and shook her head:

“Dwarf attacks do occur underground around Anzeruta, but the Toquinin Lions are unlikely to avail themselves of them. ”

“Why?” Brando asked slightly.

……