The Amber Sword

The golden flames in the white eye split the layers of flame like flowing lava. She squeezed a few words out of her throat: "What are you talking about? ”

“Because of this.” Brando raises his hand, a crystal crosses a beautiful arc, makes a crisp sound and hits the ground, then the bones roll to the white feet. After a moment of hesitation, she leaned down and picked up the object, a glossless black crystal with a cold smell in her hand, and the colour of its center was removed, revealing an ugly blank.

After a moment of careful observation, Bai finally identified this crystal as one of the culprits of her previous reckoning, and her eyebrows wrinkled deep. “Is this a soul crystal? ”

“This is the soul crystal.” Brando replied, "It once stored a spell called the Spike of the Soul, a dark magic. ”

“What does this have to do with me? ”

Brando raised his head and gauged this empty hall. The tall vault is engraved with thorns, shadows of light and darkness, the stones stand on the stone columns in gloom, and each stone column is said to engrave a prayer such as’ Atshsvon ’, glorifying the glorious Lord, the Sun God Perkin- architecture can show the shadow of the light that precipitated the time it belongs to, and this hall is filled with centuries of history. “It really shouldn't have mattered.” He said, "But how could a follower of the Sun God do dark magic and hide such evil things in his holy place? ”

The white eye revealed the divine colour of thought, and she saw the whites behind Brando come out again. He smiled politely at her, taking Brando's words in a gentle tone: “Sir Rorison was a true devout, a righteous and noble knight, but he also had his own story. Many may not believe that this righteous knight has never been disconnected from the word cult in his life, but it is true that he has also been banished for this stain and cannot return to his homeland and family for the rest of his life. Of course, it was a deeply buried secret, and everyone thought that the jazz had run away because he was tired of competing for power, and that his family, naturally, would do everything in their power to hide the shameful truth about the family, so true history was forgotten day after day, just like this hall, where all the dust of the past was sealed under dust. But history is silent, and time tells everything, burying deeper secrets, and inadvertently reappearing. ”

“A long time later, a Ranger named Green found a diary in the ruins of a castle in Granu. He opened this diary with a red sheepskin cover, and on the first page of the diary, he wrote down the name of the diary owner, Grace. Patty, her real identity is exactly what Rorison's wife was, and she's a treeherder. ”

She stopped here and did not intend to go on. Brando went on to say, "I've been thinking about this question before, no matter how the magic wave growls, it raises waves all over the sea, but how can Perkins tolerate so many dead spirits walking in his sanctuary? But when I saw this hall, I understood that it was not the Prayer Hall of Perkins, but the Holy Cellar, where the followers of Perkins used to seal evil monsters on the altar beneath the earth. So the reason why the dead are here is so simple, because they've been here a long time ——”

“Even so, nothing can be said. ”

“That's true, but the problem is that you revealed your tail yourself, and don't forget that what you used to do to Rorison was enlighten witchcraft. ”

“It's not surprising," he said coldly, "that I am Madara's dark lord, searching for powerful dead spirits as his men is too normal. ”

“Then you can command the Dead Spirit. Why should you enlighten Rorison? ”

“That's because the high-ranking spirit of wisdom is stronger. ”

Brando shook his head. “Theoretically so, but Rorison's dead spirit still retains the heart of the saint, the true soul of the saint, and even if it wakes up bound by the powerful magic of Enlightenment and cannot attack you, it chooses to destroy itself, and what you get is not a mighty follower, but a pile of dead bones. The Spiritual Scroll is invaluable, the Maddala Empire is not powerful enough to be squandered at will, and you dare to do so because you need Laurison to restore your memories, and only as the designer and builder of this cellar itself will it be able to provide you with what you want - that is, the way to unseal this cellar and release Grace. Patty's soul. ”

“I almost always admire your wonderful hypothesis that human beings, I didn't expect you to know about the dead spirit of the Holy One. Your understanding of the world of the dead is certainly deeper than I thought. I'm curious, you're only about twenty years old. What prompted you to go to the secrets of the dead? If you're a wizard who specializes in dead spirit witchcraft and dark magic, I believe, but you're just a swordsman, or the youngest swordsman of the millennium. To put it bluntly:" Unfortunately, the hypothesis is ultimately a hypothesis, which may have many coincidences with reality, but after all, it is merely a subjective speculation, and you still have no evidence to support everything you say. ”

“When does the human nobility need proof to convict people,” Andrig said suddenly, impatiently: "In my opinion, this is bullshit, you can't resist anyway. Whether this man wants you to go to the gallows or go to bed is a sentence, why waste your time so fake? So what you know about humans, that's all, is far less than me. ”

Brando was not nearly choked to death by this phrase. I really don't know whether this phrase is a compliment or an opportunity to say bad things about himself, but the vampire princess looks serious and seems to take her words very seriously. But he laughed and laughed. “People may do this, but I know your lord won't. ”

Brando knew it was intentional, but he didn't care. He shook his head: "I have reservations about your opinion, and in certain specific circumstances I will not care what the means are, otherwise I will never hear another word from a cult like you. But at the moment, I'm not going to pull myself down to the same level as you, and I say you're a tree herder, and naturally you'll have accurate proof. After all, you handed this evidence to me yourself. ”

White looks a little ugly. Anyone described as so vulgar would be angry, especially someone she's so proud of, but she's not angry, at best she's just a little dissatisfied.

Brando continued, “Miss Tiamas, do you remember what you said to me earlier? ”

“This question sounds familiar," White Answer: “And my answer is pretty much the same. I have a lot to say to you. I wonder which one your Excellency is asking? ”

“The sentence itself doesn't matter, except that you mentioned Amman when I came up with the Dementor Cone. ”

White changed her face. “So how dare you kill a high-ranking priest of the Temple and the Imperial Land appears in the Empire? How dare you! ”

“Why go around the circle again, Miss Tiamas, if I mention that name, you should understand that I already know another identity of Amman, a high-ranking member of the community of all things, and I dare say that there are no more than ten people in the world who know this man's dual identity at the same time, and that includes me. But you can name him in the first place, indicating that you knew he had died in the ring of the wind and what he was doing in the ring of the wind. ”

Madara's black knight face sinks like water. “That idiot!” She whispered a curse while happily acknowledging everything Brando had hypothesized. Her pride did not allow her to continue to deny it, because she understood that it was pointless, that some things could be described as coincidences, but that coincidences did not explain all the problems. Looking at Brando with his golden eyes, he asked curiously, "I have one more question. Amman is a member of All Things Together. Why did you bite me into being a herder or one of the twelve shepherds? ”

Brando hesitated for a moment, or replied: “Actually, the reason is relatively simple. That is because all things return to one without accepting the dead spirit. All things return to one member always look down on the dead spirit and the psychic technique. They think that it is just a corrupt path bewitched by dark magic. They are pursuing the truth of chaos, which is true eternity, and by no means the bone skeletons of Madara can be compared. The state of Amman made me wonder, and while it only meant that he was secretly practicing the Dead Spirit Prohibition and converting himself into a Dead Spirit before dying, it was enough to attract my attention. Later I thought Amman was going to the Ring of the Wind for the Dark Dragon's inheritance, and it was not until you called out his name that I suddenly realized one thing. His purpose is the same as that of Andersha, for the blood of God on the dragon of darkness, the blood of the true descendants of the people of God, which cannot be spoken on the same day as the blood of the garbage gods that you cultivated. ”

Brando didn't say one more thing, that he knew it personally, and he definitely had a better voice than everyone else. And as for why White is the Patriarch, that's another story, one can hide a secret for a moment, but it's hard to cover up a lifetime. In fact, in Amber Sword, there are many players who suspect White is the Patriarch, the Reaper of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Patriarch who holds the power of life and death. Although White, as the Black Knight of Madara, has shown her skill in the field of the dead most of the time, including her ability to manipulate people's hearts and minds, many of her cards have never been revealed, and her ability as a lone warrior to hold this position at the end of the Apocalypse Four Knights is enough to illustrate many problems.

So White is the Patriarch, but it's just a tentative speculation of him. At the moment, this speculation seems to have been confirmed. Brando can imagine that this title must also be inherited from the blood of the evil dragon, as can be seen from this inherited name, which is also a kind of blood of God.

White completely silenced down, about when few cards were fully exposed, making her a little uncomfortable, she silenced half a dozen times before slowly asking: “Now that you know who I am, I choose to cooperate with you, can you set me free again? ”

“Of course not.” Brando replied frankly: "But all you said to me before was that you wanted me to create trouble for Constance and that one, because ‘you’ don't want to see civilization and order reunited in the name of an empire. Only chaos meets your demands. You are paving the way for the dragon of dusk, and everything will come back for a while. In that case, why not be cheerful and hope that I will become a stumbling block to the revival of the Maldos Empire? Why not expect me to do more. ”

White Gods looked at him sophisticated: "Do you think you can fight those two? One of them, a dragon of darkness, was born on this earth, the true master of fame in the prophecy, and the other king, Maddalene, who waited a thousand years, she will surely bring an era that belongs to the Moon of Death. The two of them are the echoes of this order of times. This is the great momentum of civilization. No one can fight but dusk. Do you not feel that you are too arrogant, man? ”

“The more arrogant I am, the better for you.” Brando replied.

“That's true. ”

“So if you want me to cause enough trouble for Constance, please let me know in more detail. ”

“That's good,” he grinned. “What do you want to know? ”

“I said, all of it. ”

“Well, you can relax for now, humans. The Silver Queen has not yet planned to mobilize the dead spirit in the Alkash Mountains, and she has no such capacity for the time being, but in the eastern part of Metz, which has been the traditional sphere of power of the pastoralists since hundreds of years ago, there is a vast dark force hidden here. Laurison is just a victim of the struggle between the dark forces and the Church for the past 100 years. The relationship here is too complicated, I will not repeat it, you just need to know a little. There's never one person like Rorison's wife in this place, and they have many identities, dark wizards, cults, or anything else. A hundred years ago, the Church suddenly launched a great cleansing, and the end result was that our power here was uprooted, and everything was traumatized for a while, but we didn't get the temple well, and then decades of strife and then the jihad between the three great empires was started by us.” White said with some pride. But the audience next door felt the cold behind it, and the controversy between light and darkness eventually led to the bloodshed of the entire continent, which was nothing more than the ambition and revenge of a few people, and Brando had made a secret decision that the woman, as well as the treeherder, must no longer exist.

Even if she might really have something to do with Metisa.

White may have seen his intentions and may not have noticed them at all, but she did not care, continuing: "Back in that great cleansing a hundred years ago, a small group of people were executed in the dark forces that were uprooted, but most of them were held in secret or sealed, as in the case of Rocclaire, the bloodstained lord, who was caught in prison at that time. The reasons are complex, but mainly because dark forces have completely eroded the aristocracy of the empire, and if the scar is to be completely lifted, the empire will not only become scaly, but may even bleed to death. The result was a rebound of nobility caused by the Church's deliberate isolation, when clandestine strife within the Empire, the truth and lies were intertwined, leading few people to truly understand what had happened to the Empire during that period. In short, the result was a fall in the influence of the Church and the return of the imperial power to the right to worship with the support of noble forces. ”

This is how Brando understood the truth behind that struggle between the Church and the Crown. Perhaps from that moment on, the Cruz Empire began inevitably to go downhill, so that all things could penetrate the nobility and even the Church without any hesitation. Everything in the world must have its causes and consequences, and nothing can be exempt.

“… the end result, in short, is that most dark creatures are buried deep underground - with the secret of the absence of light by the nobles, just like this holy cellar. And those who were eroded by the darkness, and the saints who were corrupted in the struggle, died the most easily transformed by the magic of darkness into the dead, and the Silver Queen obviously knew that long ago, and I came here to find power for her by that man's command. ”

“Powers? ”

Brando doesn't quite understand the word.

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