The Amber Sword

“Here, where...? ”

The flames burned, Mars danced, and the distorted heat waves blurred the scenery in front of them, as if it were a street, not a spacious street filled with stone slabs, with two trenches for the carriage, two or three floors of tall brick structure on both sides of the bears, but most of it left a frame.

From time to time, the sound of the collapse of buildings is heard, as well as the sound of slaughter, the screaming of people in despair, the sound of crying and cursing, the flames of the sky reflect a flame of red, the soot rises to the sky, forming a thick dark cloud.

“Is this West Mina? Prague...? ”

“Why is that? ”

The mind was full of nightmares, as if there were countless voices haunting each other, like talking in high voice, arguing with each other, talking in low voice, chattering, sometimes men, sometimes women, sometimes the elderly or children.

“Shut up! Shut the fuck up! ”

Tester shook his head and shouted out loud:

All the sounds have definitely stopped.

He saw another scene, a world of pitch-black silence, where he seemed to have a field under his feet, a group of people dressed in white robes, emitting fluorescent light, walking forward, people with neither face nor hair, and he seemed to have to follow them on his own.

“Tester, Tester! ”

A ghostly voice called his name through the void.

That voice reminded him of his childhood, in the countryside of Winomar, where he hid in a stable, across a thin wooden wall, and the nanny called his name.

And then the door was brutally pushed open, and he saw the face that often appeared in his dreams that he would least like to recall, his father in name, the Duke of Goran-Elson, and the Duke looked at him as cold as he remembered.

That face quickly changed to look like his brother despised him.

“I'm gonna kill you, Tester. ”

“No...”

Tester shouted in horror, but the voice quickly changed the tone in his mind, as if it had become his first woman - his maid's voice, the poor woman who had died of an epidemic, and he thought he didn't have much memory of it.

“Tester, Tester! ”

“No, shut up, you goddamn ghosts, and stay away from me. ”

He blushed.

He retreated back, his eyes hallucinated, and the pale figures disappeared, and he saw a vast plain, a black land, a bloody sky, the shouting of the sky, pouring into his head like a tidal wave.

“Ah--”

Tester screamed and covered his ears, and he stared painfully at the scene in front of him - a fierce war.

Countless creatures, countless monsters, who could not be named, killed each other on the battlefield.

The side of the battle, as if it were a human being, but he had never seen such a powerful human being, who could summon all kinds of weapons and pour out the power of the Last Day on the battlefield for an instant, where a fire fell and monsters died in pieces on their hands.

They create several bright suns between the heavens and the earth, as if they absorb all the light around them, making them pitch-black - when they are born, all the monsters around them are instantly vaporized into smoke.

They also descended from the clouds through thick black clouds, leaving several golden and red lines perpendicular to the ground, then causing a series of explosions and roars on the battlefield.

But there are still too many monsters...

As if endless.

Burning crystal debris crosses the dome, falls into a human camp, smashes a giant pit, and then giant crystal monsters crawl out of the pit, and they can easily kill powerful humans.

And then the bugs, the bugs that lay the ground, the countless bugs that had died before they approached those humans, like dust and smoke, but also like dust and impenetrable, and more bugs landed on human positions, and the mighty humans, after a brief resistance, began to retreat.

Tester saw giant wolves, huge as hills, slaughtered into the human front, and the retreat of powerful humans quickly collapsed.

A feeling of despair overshadowed his heart.

As if those powerful humans had some kind of blood connection to him, he saw them fail, and suddenly he understood that this was the last war in the world.

They lost.

“No, no...”

Tester muttered to himself, kneeling on his knees, and couldn't help but cover his hands.

He was terrified to see a silver and white monster appearing on the horizon, a small number of which humans could not do anything about, as if a silver line had crossed the battlefield and humans had fallen apart.

A silver-white monster landed not far from him, then turned around and looked at him.

Tester opened his eyes and his whole body was twisted by the tremor of Cesar.

“Don't... don't kill me...”

His eyes reflected a bright, snow-white blade that slipped straight into his throat.

“No!” Tester shouted desperately, feeling an icy throat, everything in front of him quickly twisted and then blended into the darkness.

……

‘Snap. ’

‘Snap. ’

When the snow was squeezed together, it made a teething sound, and a pair of deer leather boots with a stern strap strapped to their shoelaces strolled deep and shallow in the snow near the Shana Forest.

Its owner suddenly stopped.

The owner of the shoes wore a common hunter costume around Fort Eagle, a thick cotton jacket, tightly tied leather trousers, two fingers of deerskin gloves, a bow and an arrow bag, a bunch of messy things on the strap, and two catcher clips, about the age of sixty-seven, only at the age of Warnde was he raised, dark skin, and at first glance he knew that he was a seasoned hunter who had been looking for a long time in the wild.

The man had two hounds in his hand and the hounds did not live on the ground sniffing traces, although the first snow battle after late autumn in the North interfered with their judgment and made them seem hesitant.

It took a while for one of the hounds to raise his head and bark in one direction in the forest.

Lin fluttered a little and dropped a lot of snow powder.

A team of horseback riders came out of the woods behind the hunter, and the elderly knight, who was the head, strangled the horse and asked: "What have you found, Peris? ”

“There's something in the forest, my lord. ”

“Could it be the deer herd? ”

“No, my lord, there's no sign of deer herds passing around here. ”

“Maybe a rabbit, or some other little animal.” A young knight said.

“No, the hounds are disturbed, and only bears in the forest are so disturbed, but bears are now hibernating and you can't possibly see them.” Piris answered with great certainty.

“Perhaps there are one or two guys who are less afraid of the cold, and the snow is not too thick yet, and they have to hurry out to stock up on food. ”

The Duke of Schofman waved: "Believe me, Pearis, he's the best hunter in the neighborhood. Pull out your swords, boys, let's go inside. ”

“No, my lord, let me go in first. I'm familiar with this forest, and if there's anything strange, I can at least get a message. ”

Piris replied in a silent voice.

The Duke of Schofman nodded looking at the old hunter.

Soon the forest became quiet and the young knights seemed a little nervous - there were many ancient legends about the forest, an oak forest engraved with the faces of many elderly people, who had once been the owners of the forest, but who had long been lost in the depths of the forest, leaving behind mysterious accounts.

Not only humans, but horses also seem a little disturbed. The horses in the Ten Cities region come from the Ice Bay further north. They are cold-tolerant species, tall and overgrown. Wild horses have fought the wolves for many years. Therefore, they are violently brave and wild.

But these Ice Bay horses are now sniffing, spraying temperature-bearing white mist from their nostrils, solidifying around their cages, scratching the ground with their hooves, as if something in the forest was making them nervous.

The knights appealed to their companions, but the Duke of Schofmann was full of serious divinity.

According to the tradition of Fort Far Eagle, after winter the forest is frozen, legend has it that the ancient spirits will be cruising deep in the forest this season, so neither farmers nor hunters will enter the Shena forest in winter because it offends the ancient spirits and causes curses.

Had it not been necessary, as the traditional owner of the land, he would not have been willing to enter the forest at this time.

He was in charge of Fort Far Eagle for 63 years, counting his equally long youth years, and he lived here for almost a century, as an elderly man, knowing very well that these traditions and taboos were inviolable.

But for a reason, a strange thing that happened in the forest two days ago forced him to come here and investigate everything.

Speaking of which, this has to start before the end of the brief summer in the Ten Cities area. That happened three months ago —— the Wild Pokémon came across the sea, landed in the Ten Cities area, and then headed east across much of the North, one of them just reaching Fort Far Eagle.

The Duke of Schofmann had received orders from the Holy See long before that, knowing that the elves would not stay on his territory for too long, so that they could be stationed outside Fort Far Eagle. Not long after that, perhaps a week later, the elves left east and disappeared into the Shana Forest without a trace.

The only place to go after crossing the Shinan hills to the east of the Xiena Forest is the endless glacier, and before the glorious return year, the pioneering knights from Finzan expanded east along this road, where they hit the border of an orderly world.

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