Chapter 2 What Happened?
Between the mountains and hills shrouded in darkness and mist, countless rotten bones were buried in the dust by fallen leaves, and bloodstained stones and broken weapons and metal were scattered in every corner of the forest. Broken armor, countless notched swords, and spears without spears stood in the cold wind, as if telling stories of what had happened here in the past.
It was late afternoon, the dim sun was sinking in the west, and the wind was getting colder and colder, as if it could penetrate the bone marrow and freeze the blood.
But, in the mist, suddenly a little light lit up,
The light was faint and dim, but it was incomparably firm, and under the light of this light, the mist dissipated, the darkness retreated, and as the light advanced, a caravan of horses could be seen hurrying on the mountain path, as if it was running away from something terrible.
"Quick, faster!"
A middle-aged woman riding a tall horse at the head of the group scolded the carriage and rider behind her with a rough voice that did not match her gender, her face was full of fragmented scars, and there were many scars on her throat, it seemed that this was the reason for her rough voice, and hearing the leader's urging, all the carriages and riders immediately increased their speed and ran quickly towards their destination.
The convoy consisted of nearly thirty men, most of them horsemen, and the remaining five carriages seemed to be filled with supplies, moving quickly along the rugged forest paths under the hard pull of the horses, and the riders were armed with long swords and flails, as well as finely crafted chain mail, and they were no less well-equipped than the regular armies of most countries.
But even so, this group of riders desperately fled forward as if they were still trying to escape something.
And the heart of the leader, Davien, is sinking like a stone in the deep sea.
- The sun has set, and night is coming.
Somewhat annoyed, she pulled out the saber at her waist, and slashed through the air with a blow to cut off a big tree blocking the road, the female knight showed a strength that cannot be underestimated, but she muttered to herself with some fear: "No, I can't go back to the village, those monsters are about to appear......"
"If you can't do it, fight with them!"
Immediately behind the female knight, a knight with a thick helmet said in an angry male voice: "Sister Davian, when the time comes, you take the carriage back to the village, and I will take them to cut off the queen for you!" ”
"Idiot, you junks can stop the 'Dead'?" scolded the other party mercilessly, and the Knight Vivian couldn't think of a solution for a while, so he could only grit his teeth and continue: "**, no matter how much he is, all speed up!" ”
"Yes!" The riders echoed in unison.
The shadow of the dead, as the name suggests, is the shadow of the deceased.
Since the cataclysm 27 years ago, the world has changed. As long as there is a place where life has died, then when the sun goes down and the night falls, there will be the shadows of the dead, these monsters with a part of the power in front of the dead, like dark shadows, are strange and terrifying, they eat the flesh and blood of living things, and attack all life indiscriminately.
How many lives have ever died in this world? There are probably dozens or even hundreds of times the number of people who are currently alive. Almost every corner of the world has been trodden, so the footsteps of the dead are everywhere and cannot be avoided.
"I can only hope that the shadow of the death encountered this time is weaker and can allow us to break through and leave."
Many thoughts flashed through Davien's mind, it wasn't the first time she had led a team out and fought the Dead, after all, there were many reasons in the outside world to delay returning to the village. Looking at this scarred body, you can know that this female rider can be said to be experienced in many battles.
She really thinks well, between the shadows of the dead, there is also a difference between strength and weakness, if they are just ordinary civilians and beasts in life, then after turning into the shadow of the dead, they are weak monsters that can be blown away by the wind, although there are many of them, but it is not impossible to break through and leave, but the forest of autumn water, where the horse convoy is now located, was an ancient battlefield hundreds of years ago, and under this forest, it was where the bones of countless elite soldiers of the two empires were located.
If you meet those elite of the Empire......
Davien didn't think any further.
Because night has fallen.
The light of the sun completely disappeared above this world, and the dark mist began to envelop the jungle, even if the convoy was lit with clusters of torches that shimmered with warm light, their field of vision suddenly narrowed to more than ten meters in front of them, and the speed of the convoy suddenly slowed down.
"Don't slow down!" Davien roared angrily: "Falling to death will also be eaten by those monsters, the men of the Astorea family, pull out your weapons for me!" ”
Faced with the infinite hazy shadows that had begun to emerge from the dark mist, the female rider shouted in a hoarse but extremely determined voice: "The light of the blade, the glory will not be extinguished!" ”
And all the riders also shouted in unison: "Immortal! ”
"Charge!"
All the riders had a sparkling light on their bodies, these lights were of different colors, but they all had the same effect - I saw that under the drive of this light, the flow of the wind began to speed up, and the originally tired war horses all regained their spirits one by one, and began to neigh and gallop forward, and the speed of the convoy suddenly became more than a step faster, as if it had really become a wind in the mountains and forests.
And the shadows in the darkness are also completely condensed.
It was a dark humanoid in every corner of the jungle, a weary warrior and knight in broken armor and a broken sword, a war horse that had long since been disemboweled, or even a warhorse with severed legs hidden in the mist, these dead who had long since died but were unwilling to wake up in the darkness, opened their scarlet eyes, and they stared at the caravan that was hurrying away, and then let out a silent roar.
Whew—In the array of the dead, a tattered flag was raised, and the mournful sound of the horn resounded through the night sky with the cold wind, and with the guidance of the flag, the call of the trumpet, they also began to charge.
Spanning hundreds of years of time, and the ravines of life and death.
At the end of the convoy, a taciturn, stout rider noticed the movement of the dead coming behind him at a speed that could not be understood by humans, the man snorted, then raised a heavy sword from the side of the horse, his strong arm muscles knotted, and then drove the horse to turn, turning into a fierce wind and charging the enemy in reverse.
Bang ————
The sword clenched, the steel roared, and the rider rushed into the enemy line alone, and a light blue light surged up and down his body, which was clearly visible even in the dark mist, and with the power of this light, the rider slew several of the dead with a single blow, and the blades flew around, and he killed more than a dozen of them.
But how many are the Dead? In a matter of seconds, the knight's figure was completely submerged, and although a pale blue light could still be seen, it quickly disappeared with the sound of flesh being pierced.
But even so, the deceased's army was stopped for a few seconds, and the convoy was left behind for a long distance.
Davien noticed this, the heart of the female knight was as cold as stone, and she did not make the slightest wave, she only hated her own incompetence a little, and that's it.
In front of the team, there are also undead shadows, but these dead figures are just some civilians, or scattered adventurer souls, Davian drew his sword, the sword wind roared, and the monsters that stopped in front of the team were instantly overwhelmed by the vertical and horizontal air blades.
"We're about to get to the shelter of the village!"
Completely banishing the dead in front of her, the female knight shouted loudly, "Don't let Hand's sacrifice be in vain! ”
The convoy was silent, but it was a little faster.
But it was another poignant trumpet.
At the front of the line, a tattered flag was raised, and faintly, the angry howls of wolves could be heard.
Three hundred and eighty-two years ago, the armies of Bohar the Iron Slayer and Su Enzan the Wolf Shepherd met in the Autumn Water Forest, and the two evenly matched powerhouses began a never-ending battle with their evenly matched armies, and the result was that the blade of the Iron Slayer broke, the wolves of the wolf herder died, and no troops on either side survived.
Now, three hundred and eighty-two years later, in the dark mist, the dead are alive, and the flesh-and-blood general and the headless knight are far away in the center of both teams, their armies staring at each other, and the scarlet light even illuminates the forest.
Without words, in the next second, the war between the dead began again.
Sandwiched in the middle was a convoy of horse-drawn carriages at a loss.
- Dead!
Even Davian and other heroines can't help but feel cold, the situation in front of them is the abyss of despair, no one can climb out, under the charge of the armies of the two powerful men hundreds of years ago, the people present have no chance to escape at all, they will only be cut off by the blade, and then devoured by wolves.
In the aftermath of the Cataclysm, the Shadow of the Dead descended into the world, and the heroes and heroes of the past turned into ominous monsters, crisscrossing the darkness, armed with the magic weapons of the past, using the simple but powerful spells of the past, and gradually oppressing the world of the living into the corner.
The Heroic Soul has fallen, the Demon Soul has awakened, and the master of this continent called Grandia is no longer immersed in the glorious human civilization, but awakened from their bones, the dead.
The sound of steel resounded through the jungle, and the riders used the wagons as a barrier to resist the onslaught of the armies on both sides, and the clash of blades burst into dazzling sparks that illuminated the dark jungle.
Davien stood on the ground, she swung her sword, and there was a dark blue light flowing in her arm, in front of the female knight was an endless army of undead, but they could not break through Davien's blade, only to see a flash of silver light, the air blade was horizontal, and more than a dozen dead figures were knocked away, and then disappeared in mid-air.
On her side, the other knights also roared and fought, their strength was not as strong as their own leaders, but it was not difficult to deal with these weak dead, and after everyone held together, they actually resisted the onslaught of several waves of military power.
But this is only temporary. Davian understands that the current situation is because these two newly awakened dead armies are fighting each other, they continue the war before their lives, and they have no time to take care of the team of living people on their side, but even the aftermath is not something that their thirty people can bear, and after dozens of minutes, everyone's strength is exhausted, and the knights will no longer have the strength to resist.
At that time, it will only be eaten alive by these dead figures.
Davien couldn't think of a solution, so her heart was being swallowed up in despair little by little, but it was precisely because of this that a wave of anger called 'him so much' rose from the heart of the sturdy female knight, and she, like her companions, began to roar and wield her sword qi, harvesting these black shadows in pieces, and this scene even attracted the gaze of the two leading undead in the center of the two armies.
Since there is no solution, don't think about it!
Since it must be the end of death, let's fight!
Before you die, kill more enemies, and the people of the Astoleia family do not have a bad breed to surrender without a fight!
And just as the female knight made up her mind, suddenly, above the sky, a thunderclap exploded.
Thundered!!!
A low, loud bang suddenly sounded above the sky, accompanied by the agitation of qi waves visible to the naked eye, and the faint blue light enveloped the entire heaven and earth in an instant.
Davi was startled as she looked up at the sky.
In the darkness overhead, above the Autumn Water Forest, thick clouds receded layer by layer, and the dim light of the blue moon was completely overshadowed, leaving only a faint gap that suddenly appeared above the sky dome, this gap was bright and uncertain, as if some behemoth was walking, and the shaking sky appeared like ripples like flowing water.
Strange, runes that had never appeared on the continent of Grandia swirled in layers, folding back and forth between the blue light, and the humming sound of gears snapping and running sounded, which made everyone uneasy.
"This ...... What the hell is this......"
Not only the female knights, but everyone present, even the resurrected undead, all watched in amazement at the vision that appeared above the sky dome - the majestic magic tide tore through time and space, how spectacular was this scene? Coupled with the terrifying momentum that faintly came from the gaps, many riders who did not change their faces even in the face of the dead showed fear on their faces.
"Could it be...... This was once the burial ground of some great hero?! ”
Dawei was shocked beyond measure, and she couldn't help but speculate: "Now the Heroic Spirit is about to awaken and cause the Heavenly Dome to shake?!" ”
It's ridiculous. Despite this thought in her heart, the female knight still showed a wry smile, such a powerful heroic spirit awoke from its resting eternal sleep and turned into a demon soul capable of destroying everything, which was terrible news for this already shattered world, let alone their small group of riders.
But what happened next surprised everyone.
A person, stepping out of the cracks.
The faint blue light dissipated in an instant, and was replaced by a red light as dazzling as the sun.
The light was so dazzling that no one could look at it directly, and the terrifying radiation of life energy spread out in all directions, and the endless shadows of death on the earth were simply swept away, as if they had been illuminated by the light of the morning sun.
Davien stared ahead with incredible eyes—in front of her, an endless army of the undead, completely destroyed in an instant by the red light, leaving no ashes behind, and the black mist dissipated as quickly as the dew in the midday sun, and finally disappeared, while their weary riders did not suffer any damage, but felt their strength regained.
At the center of the army, the Praetorian Knights and the two leaders held on for a little longer—but only a little longer—and under the constant and powerful life radiation, these souls from the past were put to rest, purified and vanished inch by inch.
"This ...... What the hell is going on?! "Everyone looked confused.
What just happened?
And Joshua Van Radcliffe came to this unknown world in the confusion of everyone.
Landing from the sky with Hotaru and Rin to the earth, the warrior didn't even notice what the energy radiation around him had done, he just slightly restrained the power of possession that he instinctively lifted in the space-time channel, and then probed the power in his body with a serious face.
As an Extreme Warrior who controls everything about himself to the extreme, Joshua is naturally able to detect all the abnormalities that happen to him.
With a common sense fist clenching and a sonic boom, he frowned and whispered to himself, "The power is bound." ”
This is actually a very normal thing. The worlds around the Mycrof world are actually somewhat similar in terms of origin, otherwise there would be no natural space-time passage to open up, but in this distant world, the essence of the power of steel is a little different, and the warrior is keenly aware of this.
"Yes, master."
The silver-haired girl behind her nodded in response, she also noticed this, Hotaru looked at her somewhat virtual figure, and said dissatisfiedly: "My psionic body can't fully manifest ......"
Rin on the side also touched his chest, and he also nodded: "That's right, master, there are many differences between the energy flow in this world and the Microf Continent, and my sister's psionic bodies and I have been suppressed. ”
"Understood, you will first change into weapon form." Nodding, Joshua said, and the Shenji siblings simply turned into a giant sword and a giant axe, levitating behind the warrior.
At this time, Joshua was looking at the system that was constantly refreshing the information in front of him, and he grabbed the most important pieces of information.
【You've Arrived in Another World: Grandia】
[Because the steel power of the base structure is different, your power will be suppressed]
[Current degree of power liberation: 32%]
It does seem to be suppressed. The warrior thought so.
But it's also an opportunity.
Joshua understood that his own power would be bound, which meant that his path was still not complete, and in his imagination, the body that perfectly carried the power of steel and the life force that had been turned into the power of steel could not be suppressed by the different energy essences of the other world, because that was the most primordial power at the beginning of the founding.
But now, through the suppression of this other world, he has found his incomplete strength, as long as he breaks through this level, the power liberation has reached 100%.
Then it's time for the warrior to ascend to the legend.
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