The Amber Sword

Brando smiled slightly and had gotten the answer he wanted, looking back at him, just opposite Nimaisi's gaze in that direction, who looked sharply like a knife and nodded gently at him.

At this moment, the sun has begun to sink into the inner sea of the Empire to the west. At the last minute before sunset, the surface of the far west burns and becomes a whole piece of pure gold, but as the last rays of light also sink beneath the sea level, the golden waters are rapidly dissipating, leaving only a dark red colour, as if it were a gradually cooling cast. From west to east, the gray stone town is surrounded by undulating hills. On a clear day without clouds, the view is extremely wide at height - especially the Anzeluta Mountains, which run east and west, together with the endless plains to the east, form a magnificent view, but after the twilight falls, the mountains in the distance seem to cover a layer of twilight, become hazy, and an impressionist of oil painting, the edges of the heavens and the earth surrounded by an orange circle of light and cloudy Xia, become blurred.

But it all ends up in the silence of the night.

After the light dimmed, accustomed to the darkness of the biological horizons, the eagle witches circling over the town seemed to find movement on the nearby hills for a long time, squeaking and screaming, but before they attracted the attention of others, there seemed to be a sudden riot in the gray stone town, the noise came from several streets, the noise and noise reappeared the attention of these flat animals, and they turned their heads and flew into the town.

In Gray Rock Town, cavemen are hunting hidden residents, imperial soldiers, adventurers or other dangerous elements who are not used to daylight, so search operations began in the evening and soon became chaotic in the city.

On the second floor of the Niu Frog Ming Inn, the smelly searcher had just left, a cloak suddenly opened between a bunch of clutter, like a door on the wall revealed a small figure from behind, the dark room of the black paint first revealed a pair of lake water green eyes, big eyes, the interior was clear, it blinked slightly, then revealed a relieved divine color. This is a little girl in an inky green cloak, but the cloak on her looks a little weird - because it's obviously an adult travel cloak with only a trimmed hem to make it fit her little one and not drag it to the ground, but the huge hood can't change, so the little girl has to hold the edge of the hat from time to time to keep it from drooling out of sight and making it look ridiculous.

Under her huge hood revealed light silver ends, the little girl tied her hair into two short ponytails, not behind her pointy ears, as if it were the only identity on her body - generally only in the northern part of the Greyhews Knights, and even further north, Ellanta, could see a half elf with wild elf bloodlines like this - and she was carrying a crossbow almost half her height, wearing a pair of short leather boots, each with a feather glued to the left and right of the boots.

With her toes up, the little girl just dropped her chin on the window and raised her head to stare at the hawks in the middle of the sky - until they flew away again, she climbed to the desk again, kneeling down and pushed the window open, looking quietly at the street below.

The caveman has gone far.

And she closed the window, and she said, shaking, "Shanny, is it far? ”

A tiny voice asked curiously: "It seems so, they didn't find us! ”

A tiny, triangular head appears under a wide hood, and this tiny thing is a little bit like a giant dragon that's shrunk thousands of times, even with the same horns and pointed teeth, and a cohesive pterygoid, but it's not a dragon after all, it's a pseudo-dragon, and Warnde has very little record of this peculiar species, only a few legendary stories and biographies of them. Scholars on the shores of the abyss consider them elves of books and knowledge, and they do often accompany book volumes, but only to satisfy their great curiosity about the world, for the same reason that they venture everywhere with mortals.

“Pokémon are scared, this place is not fun, these people are broken, they are not friendly to Pokémon at all! ”

“You shouldn't expect them to be nice to you from the moment you break their catapults.” Shanny answered in a bad way.

Pokémon looked a little palpitated, panicking and arguing: "I haven't seen anything like that, I just want to touch it! ”

“Then you don't have to cut that rope either. ”

“But I think if I cut the rope, something terrible will happen. ”

Shanny replied angrily and screamingly, “It did happen, and then we became wanted! ”

“Until then, we didn't have to hide in Tibet," Pokémon raised his mouth: “Before coming, Shania didn't tell Pokémon that there are these strange things here, didn't you say this is the kingdom of mankind? ”

“It was before I left last time. ”

“When was that? ”

“About 300 years ago. ”

“Forget it," Pokémon slammed Shanny off her head and stuffed her in her pocket despite the latter's protest: “Did you really see that guy? ”

“I really saw it, the bad guy pulled us out of the sky, she turned into ash, and I knew it," Shanny escaped from the former's claw, and she poked her head out of her pocket and replied, “If you hadn't made such a big move, I might have caught up with it. ”

“I'm sorry.” Pokémon replied grievously.

Shanny replied proudly: "Luckily, Miss Ben was smart enough to put a magic mark on the guy. As long as she didn't leave town, I could find her.” She scratched the elves with her paws a few times: “Let me see, hey, she's not far away, she's near us! ”

“There, where is that guy? ”

“Lift me up.” Shanny ordered.

The elf took her out of her pocket and held her hands to the window. Shanny looked out into the street and pointed at one of the roofs and said, "Well, you see, the roof of the house to the east, she's in the attic there ——”

Pokémon lay on the window for a while before suddenly realizing: “Oh, I see. Turns out she's hiding in that candy store ——! ”

“What candy shop? ”

“That's the day we went to the candy store, the fat boss, and there were four strange arrows on the sign on the door, remember? ”

“Oh, I remember,” Shanny said, "but that's not a candy shop, that's a bakery, those four weird arrows are compasses, 'Robes's compass’, you see, I remember the name. Oops, crap —— two blocks from here to there, and I remember one of those streets had a sentry post for those smelly guys. What to do, if you show up, they will definitely catch you, they will prepare a big pot for you, cook soup with the elves, and put salt, onions and carrots in it. ”

“It's okay, if we go that way, they won't find us. ”

“Which way? ”

Pokémon climbed down from the desk, lacquered the hotel with no light, but her green eyes glistened in the dark, unaffected. She opened the door, crossed the corridor, followed the stairs to the first floor, and entered the kitchen, which had a cellar covered with thick wooden slabs filled with cabbage and potatoes. “What is this place?” Shanny asked.

“There's a secret passage down here that leads to the candy shop across the street. ”

“It's a bakery,” Shanny corrected, but she asked, "Why is there a secret passage to the bakery in the hotel? ”

Pokémon shook his head: “I heard the owner talking to a woman. ”

“Woman?”

“A beautiful woman, she also gave me a sugar. ”

“You mean you eavesdropped on them and she gave you a sugar?” Shanny asked incredibly.

“No, I stood far away, they thought I couldn't hear, but the elves could hear me clearly. ”

“Don't you feel a little guilty? ”

The Pokémon obviously didn't have that kind of excess, and she pushed the cabbage and potatoes off the boards a little bit, knocked them off the floor, and then lifted the boards, revealing a black hole staircase.

There really is a secret passage under the cellar, the entrance is hidden behind a row of wine racks, this one is long and dark, it's crooked, I don't know how many bends have been turned, and then up and down, some places have accumulated water, ticking and answering, but the elves aren't scared at all, and I'm curious to look east, as if it were an adventure - it's actually an adventure.

But the long passage also ended. Soon, one dragon at a time reached an iron door, the iron door closed to death, without a stitch.

Shanny was about to fly to the door handle to do the spell, but the elf grabbed her tail, “Wait, there's someone behind you! ”

“Ouch, don't grab my tail!” Shanny screamed.

Pokémon put a finger up on his lips and said, "Shh.”

A moment later, there was a rumbling sound coming from behind the iron gate, as if someone was dragging something, and the murmurs lasted for a while before they stopped and then a footsteps. “One, two, three, four, five, six.” Pokémon meditated. Six men went into that room one after the other, followed by the sound of the door closing. Shanny startled: “Are they coming in? ”

The elf shook his head and answered in person: "They didn't come. ”

As if to prove her words, the door was quiet for a moment, and then a voice came out, talking to a rough middle-aged man: "Miss Delphine, we didn't come at the right time and nobody knew where those ghosts were coming from. Take an idea, we can't stay here anymore. We know there's a secret passage in town that leads down the galaxy, but if it's too late, we're afraid the secret passage will be found by those monsters. ”

A gentle woman replied: "I know where these things came from. The man had a caveman's guard on his territory, and I can see that his relationship with Jorgen Deokang was extraordinary. They had been plotting these schemes for a long time, but nobody thought he would dare to attack the Empire. ”

Pokémon heard this voice on this side of the secret tunnel and said to Shanny, "It's her. ”

“Is that the woman? ”

Pokémon nodded and she thought for a moment and suddenly said: “I know, she must be the owner of the candy shop. ”

“In your hometown, do people call you Miss?” Shanny grinned.

“She's in the candy store, of course, the owner's wife. ”

“Good logic. ”

At this point, a young voice-interface behind the door said: "Mr. Ellman, he must have discovered this man's conspiracy in the rings of the wind before he could be hit! ”

“Thank you, Mr. Effie, that man is insidious and cunning, and I'm sure that's true. I asked Andersa if he hadn't intentionally left them, she wouldn't have had the chance to do it. The woman was hateful, but some hypocrites deserved to be tried. He swore to protect me his whole life, and now he's gone, but I'm still his wife, and I must avenge him. ”

The first sighs: "Hey, Miss Delphine, well, don't worry, we'll stay and protect you no matter how long you stay here. ”

“Thank you, Mr. Sollins. ”

“You're welcome. ”

“The cavemen attacked the North Mountain post today, and that place was of no value to them, and if they were headed for Buos, it might be past that, but it turns out they just attacked the North Mountain post,” the young voice said. “The cavemen don't do meaningless things, but I heard Count Olkons was there where he had his revenge with the aristocrats of the south of the empire, so I guess he was most likely with these cavemen. ”

“Our men did also hear that there has always been a mysterious human being beside the temple servant.” Heavy male voice replied.

“Eighty-nine of those ten are him, and how can the average person be with those monsters, especially this time of year?” A new voice said it was a somewhat dull accent.

“Can you pinpoint the servant and his whereabouts?” The woman's voice asked.

“It's not difficult, these monsters are probably accustomed to underground holes, very ill-adapted to our buildings, and we have easy access to their sites. ”

“Well, find a way to arrange an ambush on his way through. Don't get too close. The man is amazing. ”

The young voice rang again: "If he is strong enough, he cannot hide from the Murder Gun. ”

“Be careful not to make a big mistake.” Heavy male voice cautioned.

Then the others talked to each other a few more words, mostly related to something that had happened recently. Shanny and the elf lying on the door quickly lost interest, the conversation behind the door gradually went down, and then the noise of dragging the groceries, finally with a heavy closing of the door, everything returned to calm.

“Are they gone?” After a while, Shanny asked.

Two people pushed the iron door carefully, behind the door was a small room filled with all sorts of clutter - crates, barrels, damaged cabinets and iron shelves, and the elves looked around for a week and whispered, “Do you understand what they're saying? ”

“It's just revenge on each other. I've seen a lot of humans, all of them.” Shanny fanned a few wings and fell on the elf's shoulder, answering.

“They're so boring, we don't care about them, we go get revenge on that bad guy ourselves. ”

“I always thought you scolded us too. ”

“How could we, we are just revenge, different from them. ”

“Where is it different? ”

“No more talking, Shanny.” The nearest Zhu is the nearest to the dark, and the Pokémon has learned the skill of being ashamed and angry.

Two people walked up the stairs in the basement, they pushed silently through the door of the basement, the door was still a black-light corridor, and the talent of the Cruz people in the building seemed to be limited to connecting the aisle, the room to the staircase and finally the exterior wall, nothing creative, they passed carefully through the ground floor of the bread pavement, but nobody lived on the ground floor, and the rooms everywhere were empty, as if they had experienced a sweep - leaving behind the odor characteristic of the cave dwellers.

“Do you know how to get to the attic?” Shanny asked, clawing her nose.

Pokémon didn't care at all, sniffing and sniffing with their pointy little noses, like a little hound dog. And she said, "Of course I know. ”

“How do you know you've been here? ”

“Well, I snuck up there once. ”

“When?” Shanny asked in surprise.

“When you were away, there was a wild grape rack behind the house, so you could climb up,” the elf replied softly. “But then you accidentally hung up by the curtains, fell down and crushed the grape rack, and then you couldn't get up again. ”

“Later? How many times have you been up there? What are you doing up there? ”

Pokémon replied, "I want to go up there and see where that fat guy hid the bread. ”

Shanny snorted at the answer: “Are you trying to steal bread? ”

The former blushed slightly: “Who told him not to sell it to us--”

“Have you ever seen something you don't pay for? ”

“But Pokémon don't have money. ”

“Oh!” Shanny grabbed her face with two little paws: “Poor thing, let's talk about it. ”

“What?”

“If you get caught by Aquisa this time, don't say I brought you out. ”

“Why?”

'Cause I don't want to die yet. ”

……