The Amber Sword

“There is an ancient dwarf kingdom beneath the mountains of Anzeruta, a part of the Broken Sword Mountains, which accidentally dug through the Bumblebee Hive while digging down the tunnel, then filled with monsters underground, the kingdom then perished, the remaining dwarves migrated west, and the map of the underground kingdom was lost. Now in that dark labyrinth, there is an unimaginable risk of passing through it, and even if these difficulties are ignored, it would not be possible for the dwarves to dig out a passage from beneath the hard rock to connect these lost tunnels.” Nimaisie replied.

After a reminder from Nimmasis, Brando remembered the same thing. After all, he was unfamiliar with Cruz and that's why he asked.

After listening to the strange events that had taken place with Count Jean, he first suspected that the nobles were playing a trick, but then thought about what the Lions of Tokenin had done, bypassing Rococci - the Fortress of the Broken Sword Mountains had attacked the Empire as in history, a hunch that had been lurking in his heart for a long time, but now that the discussion had revealed no possibility, so that the clear-cut ideas had returned to chaos, he had to pause and wait for further information.

Twenty minutes later, the first stone statues to Vargas arrived, and Metisa found him with a demonstrable crystal removed from the stone statues and answered with words: "My lord...”

“What's wrong? ”

Unlike Charles, who shook her head slightly, this little Silver Elf princess never spoke loudly or packed her tickets, but only handed Brando the film crystal: “My lord, you must see for yourself. ”

Brando took on the film crystal - a recording crystal that was not uncommon in Warnde, but it was not ordinary. It recorded sound images for three to five minutes, kept for years to decades, and the Bukas dared to place them on every stone ghost, enough to prove the fortune of the magicians - and he injected magic into it, and the crystal emitted fluorescent light, and it showed the image of a stone ghost flying at height, where the forest was like a thick carpet, with some shades of land on the edge, a farm, a red roof dotted with stars in the fields, a barn, a windmill, or some other building.

No one spoke, Nimatis and Brando had recognized that this was the countryside of Vargas, an imperial countryside, but then they saw a strange scene, and the stones flew over the town, and the red roof began to become dense, and several roads crossed the flourishing market like veins, but there was no pedestrian in a town in Nodak, and no scattered birds could be seen in the dense shade of the forest, as if it were a ghost town. Then they found strange things in Vargas' square, like sporadic gravel scattered between them, and Brando distinguished them carefully, recognizing that they were human beings or similar creatures, except that they stood motionless in the square, like stone statues.

“What's going on?” Charles was stunned: “Is it true that there was a sudden monster attack near Vargas and that the entire area was attacked by Dead-Eyed Flying Dragons or Petrified Lizards? ”

Brando shook his head, Dead Eye Flying Dragon is not a herd creature. Most of them act alone outside mating period. Petrified lizards are more territorially minded creatures, and will not rush into the human world. Neither of these monsters is likely to turn a human town into a ghost. The only possibility is an organized attack. He already has a candidate in his heart. He looks back at Nimaisis and sees the same speculation in the other person's dark eyes.

“It is the people of the serpent, the eternal cursed. ”

“Medusa.” What did Charles say? “How did they get to the surface so easily when they weren't underground in Jorgendigan? ”

It is true that the inhabitants of the underground do not travel easily to the surface world, passing through the hummingbird's nest above the 'dome' and then across the underground cavities of the 'shallow surface' and the rivers infiltrated by the groundwater, a long and dangerous journey. Tajib and his people had walked down that road, where countless cavemen had died as a result of disappearances, demonic attacks and the most terrible diseases and starvation, but they had proved to dare to make such attempts, if necessary, which were characteristic of the resilience of the underground people.

“I remember," Brando exclaimed: "The inhabitants of Jorgendigan are also goddesses of the earth, aren't they?”

“That's impossible!” Charles replied somewhat surprised: "The inhabitants of the ground believe in the goddess above, and the inhabitants of the earth believe in the goddess below. Although they share a common denominator, that was a thousand years ago. Since the great division, the dwarves and lions of the earth have ceased to interact with the dwarves and other peoples underground. How did they get together, especially in such a short time? ”

Before the Great Split Age, it was true that there was a goddess on the surface and underground, but since the Battle of the Saints, because of issues such as the loss of faith, the Temple of the Earth today was no longer the same, even the three holy objects of the original Temple of the Earth in the Sword Mountains have disappeared. Since then, many denominations of the original goddesses of the Earth have been in contention, the two largest of which - Tokenin and Jorgendigan - have long since been separated.

Brando certainly knew that, but at this moment he was spinning a darker thought: what are the lions waiting for on the side of the Rococci - the Fortress of the Broken Sword Mountains?

He nodded slightly as the knight glanced at Nimmasis.

“How sure?” He asked pointedly.

“If the attacker is indeed from Jorgendigan, then eighty-nine of the Lions' strange acts are linked to it.” The knight replied calmly.

Everyone silenced and calculated in their hearts whether this line of defense would hold if the Golden Lions of Tokenin, together with the underground inhabitants of Jorgendigan, clamped against the Rokozy - Broken Sword Mountains Fortress. “Rokozy - The Fortress of the Broken Mountains is probably in danger.” Even when Charles himself said this, he was frightened. Though he was self-evident and knowledgeable, his knowledge was silent. The strength of the empire in his eyes was solid data, analysis and rational thinking, as if a feather-woven, powerful Krutz Golden Eagle, slim, but sharp claws and beaks showed you how powerful it was.

ROCKOZI - The Fortress of the Broken Sword Mountains is an imperial line of defense. Between the Chongshan mountains, the frost and snow of the highlands make up its strength. The rocks of the mountains are its knives and blades, and the harsh weather of the year tells of its ruthlessness and indifference; it is an insurmountable heaven, even if the Lion can plunge one or two of the fortresses, but to break the entire line of defense, it is a mild joke in anyone's heart.

But it seemed extraordinarily calm to fall into Brandonie Maisies' ears, something they had long anticipated, the first and second shocks being quite different, and they had witnessed the invasion of that indelible line of defense in history, so they were now calm. “Although it's just a speculation, we're going to do the worst we can, assuming it's all true, where the Georgendigan army is now, how big it is, the loss of the Rococci - the Fortress of the Broken Sword Mountains, and we're all going to reassess it, and the key is whether the immediate threat - the Georgendigan army that wiped out Count Olkons' army - is now aware of our existence, and we're going to first identify the dangers surrounding us.” Brando thought about it and said so.

Nimmasis glanced at him and nodded in agreement.

Charles also looked at his lord in surprise: "Martha, lord, almost always thought you were a graduate of the Knights College. These are the knowledge of the mercenaries, my lord. When did you learn this from Utah? ”

And Brando couldn't help but say, "There's so much you don't know. ”

“Well, why else would you be Lord, and I'm just a little sidekick?” Charles smiled slightly and nodded carelessly.

Metissa smiled, too, and then asked, "Lord, what do we do next? ”

“Call the others first. It's a big deal. Let them know first. ”

“Otherwise, the Duchess will say you have no respect for them.” Metisa replied with a smile: “It's authoritarian, it's just for your own use. ”

“Yeah, I'm getting bored with her.” Brando sighed and answered helplessly.

The little princess couldn't help laughing.

……

“Get the fuck down, motherfucker! ”

Rogers roared at the caveman's chest with a sword stab, then lifted his boots and knocked it down the stairs, but because of the excessive force, he couldn't even pull out his sword and could only watch it roll down the black-painted corridor with the disgusting creature. But between moments, he saw one or two flashes of light flashing in the darkness. He hurried to lower his head and bang twice. The two spears had been plugged into the frame of the door above his head. The tail of the spears was still slightly trembling. He was frightened and couldn't get his sword back. He hurried back one step, closed the door and dragged the cabinet and bed next to him to the house door.

A moment later, two heavy objects crashed through the door, followed by a squeaky scream.

Rogers was relieved and turned around bloody, smiling bitterly at the four people left in the empty room, among the twelve, and now there are only a few of them left. Since the Nederweyne era, the Krutz royal family has planted secret agents and ears and eyes throughout the empire, and they, the knights of the inner court stationed in the Hillat Hills, are not tasked with local defense. At present, these monsters simply do not know that they are coming out of there to haunt them. The other side is so numerous that overnight they lose so much that they have to flee to this farm in order to protect themselves.

But in fact, everyone else understands that self-preservation, I'm afraid, won't last long.

A tall, curly-haired man was leaving the window, and he put down the curtains, and the light in the room immediately dimmed, and he shrugged his shoulders and said to the others, "Dude, they've surrounded the outside, and it looks like they're going to give us a good look, Rogers. You killed a lot of these damn things, and I don't think they're going to let you go. Do you have any last words that I might be lucky enough to engrave on your tombstone...”

“Lord Rogers, Sikun, he can't do it anymore.” Around the corner of the house, the knight with her fellow man covered in blood looked up and said sadly, the knight in her arms had a deeply visible bone mouth on her chest, but it was not a fatal wound, a fatal wound to his back of the head, where the knight was holding one hand, blood running down her armor like a stream.

“Pray for him, Natha.” Rogers sighed.

The only person in the house who didn't speak was a young man in a robe, who was intentionally putting parchment in the middle of the house in a pile of fire, with his head down and his dark eyes showing only the light of a bright flame, as if the matter were an incredibly sacred task for him.

Rogers looked at the young man, shook his head, and asked the others, “Do you see what that is? ”

“You know, it's like a meteor —— hey, it's just a shame I didn't get to make a wish," the tall man went on to say, "but we met these cavemen halfway across the street, and I doubt there's any connection between them, and this shit doesn't usually come to the surface. ”

Rogers was silent and said with certainty: "I don't think it's that simple, we have to find a way to inform His Majesty. ”

The female knight silently whispered a prayer of comfort for her companion, and the young man who burned the document raised his head and looked at the others, answering concisely: "I can't do it. ”

“Can't do it?” Rogers stared inexplicably at this companion, Quinn, the most distinguished wizard of their group, who was always able to deliver magical messages under any circumstances.

The young man did not speak, stretched out only five fingers, and everyone saw a flash of fire flashing between his fingertips, but instantly passed, leaving behind a few light golden and red lines, which then disappeared into the air.

“What's going on here?” Tall man can't help staring: “Your tricks have failed? It can't be, Quinn, you're the best. ”

The young man looked at them and replied, "Magic disorder. ”

“What do you mean?” Rogers frowned.

“Something is interfering with the law. ”

“What is it? ”

“More powerful spells, artifacts, or certain unknown beings.” The teenager replied.

Rogers' face got a little heavy: “If all the coincidences come together, it's probably not a coincidence, Kui, Nasha, Trevor, I think it's probably the worst. ”

“What could be worse than right now?” Asked the tall man.

Before he finished, he heard a loud banging sound coming from outside the door, followed by a crisp screech and a cracked mouth on the wooden door. He stared in that direction, while the others looked at him in disgust, and the latter could not help but stare at the stall: "Okay, I'm a crow's mouth, forget I said it! ”

Rogers, on the other hand, removed the sword from the knight who was seriously wounded and said to the others: "We must try to break through, Your Majesty awaits our news. ”

Saying, he pulled out the long sword.

……

Brando's order begins with an order that the perimeter of the mission's perimeter be broadened first, with stone ghosts flying at all times in the sky, in case of that potentially present army of Jorgendigan. However, the vast hills surrounding the mission were no different from the forest areas, and Brando further expanded his search and dispatched young guard cavalry attached to the White Lion Guard to Vargas and Forest Avenue, whose efforts were not in vain, and who soon discovered truly valuable intelligence.

The cavalry avoided the road and entered the area of Vargus and Forest Leaf Avenue along the hills of the cloudy hills, without hitting any Jorgendigan army, but as they passed from near a village called Tuya near Vargus, they ran into a small group of cavemen surrounding a nearby farm. The captain of the sentry cavalry was a cadet who graduated from Wang Li Knights College, and when he had the opportunity to determine that there might be survivors in the estate, he immediately led his men back to the cavemen and rescued them.

Brando met these people very quickly.

That was a line of four men, three men and one woman, who, when brought to Brando by the guard cavalry, looked somewhat more or less feeble —— dressed like the offspring of the most ordinary village gentleman in the empire, wearing thick woolen coats, feathery hats, and deerskin boots, but with a very stubborn look on their faces, two of whom, although stained with blood and dirt, were not slightly injured, did not look scared or overwhelmed, just a little tired. Then Brando second glance noticed that all of these men were wearing long swords. Although the swords were available in a variety of styles, their sword posture was very standard, not like the flower shelves of gentlemen and nobles, not like the soldiers of the Empire, but like the knights of the inner court.

With a moment of silence, Brando understood the identities of these men, and he couldn't help but think that his guard cavalry was lucky enough to bring them back several agents of the Cruz royal family, but then he thought and explained that it was only these martial arts inner knights who were more likely to survive this sudden attack and support it to this day.

And while Brando was measuring these Nautical knights, Rogers was also measuring the Count, and seriously, he didn't know each other - quite the contrary, he knew exactly who he was and where he was coming from, and even what had happened since the Black Sword barrier until his arrival here. In fact, the news of the arrival of the Eruin envoy was delivered to the White Rose Garden with a sealed wax sealed in the envelope bearing the crest of the Seven Flames and stamped with the seal of the Hillat Hills.

In previous battles, he had thought he was bound to die, but had not expected to be rescued at the last minute by the Krutz scout cavalry. The first time he saw those dressed as strange cavalry, he understood each other's identities, but before he really saw Brando, he had only heard rumors of the Count. Even he did not think that the head of the Eruin envoy was so young that he was inevitably a little confused. The Eruin were relieved to let such a young man be the head of the envoy?

He suddenly had some understanding of the causes of a series of troubles that the Count had caused before.

With that in mind, Rogers bowed a little to Brando with several of his colleagues, a knight whose courtesy had nothing to do with inferiority, simply to thank the Eruins for the help they had given them.

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