The Amber Sword

The wind smelled of nitrous smoke, the flames seemed to remain in the sky, the torn clouds were burning cotton flocks, scattered in the sky, behind the clouds an unknown layer of golden light, diffused towards the four fields.

Tulaman's hair glistened in the sun, and he smiled slightly: "They didn't want to hide it at first, except, you know, it's the wizards' bad problem, they like to play word games, play smart, and have fun with it. ”

“I'm in a particularly bad mood right now because it shows that they're far smarter than mortals, and unfortunately nobody wants to be a fool. ”

“Don't worry, you could have gone to their trouble and William and I would have stood up for you. To be honest, Darius had a much worse temper than you, and you were far less than your grandfather, Brando. ”

Brando doesn't move. “Lord Turaman, what role did the Bukas play in that year, His Majesty the Emperor and the Sword of the Dragon, and what exactly are you going to do? ”

The pale brown eyes reflected silver sails, the floating fleet was like a fish in the air, travelling through the airport, and at least a little bit of the Cruz harbour officials were not wrong in judging - Port Rune was indeed unable to withstand this vast fleet, and it was conceivable that long after the war it would be difficult for the harbour to recover its former sights.

But this is something that local people need to worry about, and at least until now, not even Count Olkons himself has thought about it.

Tulaman was silent for a moment.

“You know,” he replied, "it's a long story. The wizards didn't really play a glorious role back then, but it all started with the war in the Arkash Mountains. ”

Touraman raised his hand to draw a silver symbol, ‘Giseet’, which represents the meaning of the night, with a clear corrugation covering the heads of the two, separating the surrounding voices. “I will no longer repeat the course of that battle, and I'm sure you've heard of countless versions, but later the story was very different from the one circulated outside, and the two warring parties found something in Arca. ”

“It has to do with the Dragon of Darkness. ”

Tullaman wasn't surprised that Brando would guess that, and he nodded: "In fact, what they found was the battlefield of the last battle. ”

“The battlefield of the last battle? Only dragons and quivals were involved in the final battle, which turned out to be really in Arca.” Brando finally moved a little.

“You know about the last battlefield? ”

“Knowing something, the Four Wise Men defeated the Dragon of Darkness in the final battle, which was said to contain countless secrets," Brando understood more about the history of the Battle of the Brigadier Master, which came from the mouth of Elijah and still seemed to be in sight: "The battlefield of the final battle had no record after the Battle of the Saints, as if it had mysteriously disappeared - the only people who knew, the Silver Pokémon, had retreated into the hidden mountains and the dragon no longer appeared on the earth, and the rest was the Wizard - the Buga. ”

He looked up at Tullaman. “The Silver Coalition is watching what happens on the earth, and it is hard to believe that a man can get close to Arca and find the final battlefield without the permission of one side. ”

The shrine of Tulaman looked at Brando in complexity, and the four wise men defeated the dragons of darkness, sealing countless secrets in order to preserve them - the only two silver communities and dragons who had fought in the battle in that year could not escape.

“How do you know these secrets, little guy? ”

“Through some legendary traces, and speculation, I have some experiences that you can't imagine, just as I later reappeared as a highland knight," Brando replied half-heartedly, “I know more than the Bukas think. ”

“You can see," Turaman sighed, his wise eyes sweeping through Brando's side face: Darius' grandson was very similar to him when he was younger, which made Turaman look as if he had seen that man appear before him again. Unfortunately, mortal life was too short, after all, as if he remembered the past of Eruin's younger days: “Now it seems that William's most pertinent to you, and that others still look at you in the shadows of Darius, but you have already come out. ”

It wasn't just myself, Brando thought, it was more like a coincidence. When Sophie's extraordinary soul appeared in a world mindset, the integration of the two was like an opportunity for them to hold each other out of the shadows of the past. Long after a dream under the golden tree, he was no longer the young man who could only hesitate in front of the sword of the past.

“William appreciates you, and neither I nor he agree with the congressional plan, but I'm glad to see that the old man thinks you can do more, and I'm not as confident as he is at this point, but I have to admit that until I see you again today, I'll probably have to say that I rarely looked away and made a must-lose bet. ”

“If you disagree, why are you happy? ”

“Because William thinks you've had human abilities, you've had experiences different from anyone else, you can't have adults, there are things you can't do - things that I, he and His Excellency the First King couldn't do, but William thinks you might be able to do. ”

“How could I, Hood?” Brando's slight flashes and heartfelt feelings seem to have something to say in this assessment, which is different from what anyone else's experience means, whether or not they have seen what each other has seen. It sounds kind of crazy, but for William... PISTER - At the height of power, it doesn't seem absolutely impossible for a handful of people to use magic to see the future.

But what does this have to do with the first King Acme?

Brando frowned and concealed what he felt he was holding onto, but he was still in a misty maze and could only occasionally open the corner of the cloud to peek at the truth.

“Do you want me to act as an agent and fight the Empire?” He suddenly remembers what the Wind Elves did back then. That's how the Delira dynasty of the Elves promised the First King Eckhart. Do the Bukas want to repeat the story of the previous dynasty by sending a fleet with a big banner?

“You think too much, little man. ”

“Isn't it? ”

“You can rest assured that war with the Empire will neither benefit us nor be necessary. ”

“There has to be a reason to do this. ”

“I have already mentioned the reasons. ”

“So, is it related to the war in Alca? ”

Tulaman nodded softly: "Yes, we missed the topic, and it was the war that was the subject. ”

Brando glanced around, Tulaman's juxtaposition still divided the interior and exterior into two worlds, completely isolating the voice, suddenly he felt a little funny about his skeptics, the magic of the owner of the Secret Silver Castle would fail early, and he had a hidden feeling that the conversation that followed might not be so simple.

“You have not answered my question, Lord Turaman. ”

“On that question, I can only say that you were half right. ”

“Half? ”

“Because no one has ever done anything deliberately to conceal the battlefield of the last war, the space in the Alkas has not been secure, the place disappeared into thin air after the last war, or devoured by the sea of magic, the entire space has been swallowed by the energy of the hustle and bustle, and the Alkash Mountains have suffered several successive earthquakes since then, after which the terrain of the entire area has changed completely, and no one knows where the battlefield has been buried. ”

“Disappeared? ”

This answer was unexpected by Brando.

“Not all of it, it was not an ordinary earthquake, but a spatial turbulence formed after the destruction of solid law and order, and chaotic laws created a strange area in Arca where common sense did not apply. In fact, for thousands of years, the battlefield of the last war appeared several times in the eyes of the world, like a ghost, suddenly emerged and disappeared without a shadow. On one occasion, it was discovered by an exiled Minor clan, and on another occasion, descendants of an ancient dwarf broke into the area. ”

Tulaman replied slowly that his voice was not undulating, but the description was bizarre: “There were several subsequent flashes, but none of them were known to the world. To monitor its trail, the Bukas built countless observation points on this rift belt. ”

“Wait, are you talking about this crack belt? Is there another crack belt? ”

“Naturally, our world is whole. Tiamat's law, once cracks occur, inevitably creates a chain of reactors. In fact, this crack leads south to an area of Anzeluta, where strange things often happen, and it breeds large areas of black forest, then south is the rings of the wind, north is the great glacier, forming a standard arc. This line is too long to observe its end point, even with the capacity of the Bukas. It can only be speculated that if this circle had a circle heart, it would have been on the Great Plains of the East - the Great Plains where the Gold and Silver Folks roamed on the wilderness of the thorns before the chaotic era, only in legend, but never before seen. In addition to this major fracture zone, there are some smaller fractures, such as, as you know, the Death Frost Forest. ”

How long has Bran been silent, even counting his experiences in the game, and this is the first time he's heard such alarming news that if this esteemed college man hadn't lied to him, it would have implied something, that legends in the game that exist only in the background, are likely to be true. And Brando already knows that Tullaman may not have lied, because there is no need for him to use this obviously disintegrating lie, especially since some of his experiences have implicitly corroborated some of its contents.

He almost immediately remembered a more creepy thing, in which players had studied the fate of the unforgettable lost people in the Dead Frost Forest, those who had lost their memories, their identities and even their own —— between people and their souls, who had always lined up to advance in the forest and lure more ignorant souls into it, who would enter the dark waters on a coast north of the Dead Frost Forest, as if they were always moving in a huge arc that cut off the north coast of Eruin.

Players used to hang their brains out to study this mysterious route, but ended up with nothing, which could only be attributed to the game designer's malicious taste.

At this moment, however, a new possibility appeared irrepressibly in Brando's mind.

Those who lost their name, it was along that rift in Tulaman's mouth, but what power, what reason drove them to do it, what really got them lost?

Brando couldn't help but fight a cold war when he thought of those skin-colored, hollow, overwhelmed travelers. He suddenly remembered Viscount Tester, who met him in Pragues, and took him with him, perhaps, the same people. What exactly did that guy want to herald for himself, unfortunately, at the time, he had no idea of the situation and had missed the opportunity for nothing.

It took a while for Brando to force himself to throw these thoughts out of his mind, sort of digesting the news, and he looked up at Tulaman, and his forehead was already slightly sweaty.

It's just the beginning...

“So… both sides of that battle in the Arkash Mountains... went into the final battlefield? ”

“We are still halfway into the battlefield of the last battle, or rather it appears to us like a ghost. It was your grandfather who commanded the Temple of Fire coalition at the time, and I, as his deputy, immediately felt the seriousness of the problem, and our adversary, the Pokémon of the Wind, had no shortage of able-bodied men. We soon decided to truce and intend to withdraw from the battlefield under the coordination of a Buga envoy.” Turaman replied softly, as if it were a memory of the day, how strange it was for Brando to imagine an ancient battlefield appearing silently in the mist between the two armies.

“What happened then?” He asked that he understood that if, as Turaman had said, the parties involved in the war had peacefully withdrawn from the battlefield, there would probably have been less to come.

“We made a mistake, in fact, an omission. ”

“Negligence? ”

“You said before that mortals can get close to Arca and find the final battlefield, must have been given permission by one side, and I said you were half right. And the other half is, yes, but it's not the Buga--”

“… but dragons. ”

“Dragon?” Brando was surprised.

Tulaman looked up and looked silently at the sky: "Like the Minors, the dragons are bleeding with gold, and not all dragons are on the side of the Four Wise Men in the Battle of the Saints, you should know that. ”

Brando knows this, but the dragon is still divided into two systems of good and evil. The source is the rupture of the wartime of the saints. No one knows why. Why does the dragon fight alongside mortals, just as few can understand the sacred covenant between the Buga, Quival and mortals. Why does the silver and gold generations give up their time and fight for the age of mortals?

It is because of a promise of the Tianqing Knight, for the age of mortals in that prophecy.

I'm afraid not.

“One of the dragons is Odin-Dark Dragon's steadfast ally. ”

“You mean Seven Dragon King, Evil Dragon Fusia. ”

“It is precisely after the Battle of the Saints that, as the fate of the losers, Fuchsia Keith was sealed under the Great Glacier by Winrose and Theoscraz. ”

Brando knew the two most famous names behind him, the last generation of dragon kings, known as the near-divine\ 28048; Winrose, the reigning lord of the sky, and the latter the famous dragon of heroes, who later helped mankind defend itself against the twilight invasion in the wolf scourge. However, he did not speak, but continued to listen to Tulaman: “However, Fusia's fall did not eradicate the dragon's ambitions. In fact, to this day there are still some dragons hidden in the world of mankind who remember the last era. As a result of my negligence, the three dragons named Obstein, Atacatha and… Gwendolyn have joined the coalition, lurked alongside the Empire's last generation of old emperors for many years, accompanied by His Royal Highness as a knight in the Holy War… I'm sure you already know who they are. ”

“The princess… is…”

Brando just felt a buzz in his brain, and a few important clues were like lightning in the night, drawing bright lights in his mind, a pitch of dark, and the truth seemed to have surfaced.

“You're right. Her name is Constance, the flower of the princess, the palm of His Majesty the Emperor. ”

……