Act 40: The Summer War

After the smoke cleared, Brando's first sight was the palm-length card on the ground. He picks up the card, and the front depicts a tree in a painted style, tall and magnificent, with mysterious veins continuing from the trunk to the canopy. There's a VII written in the top left of the board, but there's no crystal indication of the elemental attributes. He was stunned for a moment, but now that he knew what to do with this kind of thing, he immediately opened the attribute number jù and scanned it.

The description of the cards is changed in a different way:

The Sacred Tree

(Elven Forbidden Land VII)

【Basic Land - Forest】

Generate 1 water element per week to enter the elemental pool.

Tapped: Construct forest terrain.

'My soul returns, my soul returns to my hometown'

"This deck is called the Elven Forbidden Land?" Brando was stunned for a moment, as the card description didn't spell out the conditions for the card to work. Could it be that just entering his library will naturally produce a little water every week? But what if he doesn't have an elemental pool?

Tapping this card to construct the forest is also debatable, and of course he certainly won't be doing it here now. Although as soon as the Golden Demon Tree falls, its servants will scatter as birds and beasts, and will soon wither due to the loss of mana supplies. Maybe one of them could re-establish himself in another forest and continue the ecosystem, but that has nothing to do with Brando.

Brando's concern was that the stoneworm would come to trouble the three of them after absorbing the scattered earth elementals and mana below, and the elemental creatures were not full.

He put the cards away, remembering the magic echo from earlier, and there must have been another card that belonged to the Knight deck. It's a pity that the magic echo is natural, and it can't be activated repeatedly, otherwise he can use this method to search for it. Brando asks Freya and Roman to collect some Golden Tree acorns, which can be used to make high-grade magic potions, which are also the most extravagant consumables in the game.

It's a pity that a Golden Demon Tree is only seven or eight mature acorns at most, and it is impossible to do it once and for all.

He walked somewhere, turned over the leaves, and found a pair of gloves wrapped around the aerial roots. He recognized the glove as a protective glove by looking at the glove, which provides 2 points of protection in the game, but requires strength. Brando vaguely remembered that it was 2.5 energy levels, and he felt heavy as soon as he started it, and he was sure that he had guessed a ** not far from ten.

He threw the glove to Freya and tried it, hoping that the latter would be more fleshy, but the pony-tailed girl took both hands and sank straight down. It's too heavy, there's no way, the future Valkyrie can only return it with a pity.

"It's a pity," Brando shook his head, "If you wear this, and with the half of the body armor behind the wind, a swordsman below the Iron Rank will basically not be able to hurt you." ”

"I'm sorry."

"What's there to be sorry for, even those people in the garrison, I think only a few people can wear them." Brando said as he put on his gloves. The pony-tailed girl noticed this detail on the side, and couldn't help but be slightly shocked - so Brando is already at the level of the best in the garrison?

Of course, she didn't know that even Breson was not enough to see in front of Brando at the moment.

The three of them rummaged clockwise along the fallen canopy, Roman found a dexterous dagger with dexterity + 0.1 energy levels, and Freya found a priceless 22oz enchanted ring that could attach a layer of fire to her sword with a little mana activation.

As for the rest, most of them are waste products whose magic has long since been lost. Brando alone used the Elven Sword to peel off the skin of the Golden Tree and find the Heart of the Golden Tree - much to his disappointment, the Heart of the Oak Tree was still in the form of a tree crystal because of the three-year difference between the game time.

Of course, the quality is much purer than ordinary tree crystals.

But materials are materials, equipment is equipment, and there is an unbridgeable gap between them. This unexpected discovery reminds Brando that he can't look at things from the perspective of many years in the game.

After all, this is a real world, and history moves slowly.

And when Brando took out the Heart of the Golden Tree, it was as if he felt a breeze sweep through the valley - the Golden Demon Tree was dead. He looked up and saw eight silver balls of light flying out of the trunk of the tree and merging into his chest.

800 experience.

Brando couldn't help but froze for a moment. is both a leapfrog and a boss, and 800 points of experience is really not much, but it gives him a real impact. After all, the experience in this world is real, and it is a force that can make oneself stronger and stronger. As a result, he is more excited every time he gains experience than in the game.

He could clearly feel that he was growing from one battle to the next.

He was immersed in his thoughts, but he saw Miss Merchant, like a treasure, running over and carefully holding an object in both hands to show Brando, the equipment they had found had been identified by Brando, and the young man could tell what it was, what it came from, how it was activated, and whether it had magic or not.

Therefore, at this time, Brando has become synonymous with omnipotence in Roman's heart.

"Brando, you're looking for this, right?" She asked cautiously, holding the card.

Brando looked down at her hand, and the card was gray with a depiction of a tall knight and his robed servant, and the color of the card happened to be the same color as his own holy sword card. Brando immediately realized that this was the card he was looking for, and he took it and looked at it—sure enough!

The highlands are subordinate

(Knight IX)

Water element 1

[Biology - Human/Scholar, Level 8 Biology]

When the Highlands are entered, they provide prestige 1 per week.

Maintenance Cost: This card pays an additional 1 water element for every 1 day it is on the field.

'Plateau Courage'

This one is a summon card. Brando even guessed this moment. This highland servant, a scholar by profession, is described in the following card as the courage of the plateau - presumably it must be an apprentice of the Karasu Plateau, and the wizards and knights of Karasu have been allied with each other for two centuries.

Level 8 scholars, say strong or not. However, using it well at critical moments is a big help. He couldn't help but look at Roman, who was looking at him with an expectant gaze, and smiled, "Thank you, this is very useful for me." ”

"You're welcome." Miss Merchant said happily.

But at this time, Freya ran back from the north alone, and said with a worried face: "Brando, Roman, I see that the stone cone worm seems to be coming from the north, should we avoid it?" ”

"Stoneworm?" Brando was stunned, he wanted everyone to rest and recuperate, but he didn't expect the stone cone worm to come so quickly. Although the Stoneworm will not necessarily attack them, in this case most people will choose to take the safe approach.

He nodded: "You go first, I'll arrange it, lest that thing catch up." ”

Stonecones use their sense of smell and tremor to determine the location of their prey, so they can be attracted with escaped magical items. Brando waited for Roman and Freya to leave, then took out the bottle of Holy Water No. 5, made a hole in the bottom with the Thorn of Clear Light and placed it in a crack in the rock on one side, then he glanced left and right to make sure that there was nothing missing before retreating to the west alone.

He thought that because of the previous magic echo, maybe Madara would send a team to investigate the situation. But when the time comes, the stoneworms that stay here will teach those skeletons a lesson that they will never forget, and they will be able to avenge Bresson's group.

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It's June, the year of flowers and summer leaves, and history is moving in as much order as Brando knows.

The envoy of Madara arrived at Wintertalon Castle, and King Obergu VI of Eruin accepted the refusal of the Marquis of Jinghua to receive the envoy, so the First War of the Black Roses soon entered the second phase.

On the frontal battlefield, the province of Karasu was facing a serious threat from the two legions of the 'Winter Solstice' and the 'Black Crow' of Madara, and Grand Duke Ogujin even sent messengers to cry that if there was no support in the short term, the morale might face a complete collapse.

Meanwhile, farther north, between the mountains of the Kelman Mountains and the sea, an army of the undead is secretly advancing lightly.

In the southern province of Golan-Elson, the Van Meer fortress is being attacked day by day by the army of the Instaron. The flanks of the Buchi region, on the other hand, fell into an eerie dead silence. The commander, Count Pra, sent a letter to the 104th Swordsmen Regiment stationed in Rydenburg, and the last reply he received was:

"One qiē is good."

The time is June 1.

At this time, Brando and Freya were passing through the secret passage under the forbidden orchard, hurrying to Ridenburg. In fact, they had already spotted traces of undead activity along the way, but on a small scale, and it looked more like the undead scouts were approaching in the direction of Ridenburg.

This made the atmosphere in the team tense, and they were one step ahead of the main force of Madara, but no one can say how big this step was.

At midnight that day, Brando led Freya and Roman through the last section of Xavier's Trail. When they reached a small hill called Mount Finddeck south of Riedenburg, they faced the night wind and saw the endless alluvial formation of the Yusong Valley at the confluence of the Yusong River and the Merriam-Webster River. The lights of Lydenburg are like a brilliant jewel embedded in the darkness, lying quietly a few miles away under the valley, lighting up an entire stretch of the riverfront.

Freya and the merchant lady were a little breathless when they saw this scene, they kept guessing what kind of place Ridenberg was, but they didn't expect that the spark of civilization in the darkness could be so beautiful.

But at this time, Miss Merchant's poked Brando's back and whispered, "Brando, we have an army behind us. ”

"The army?"

"Well, look north from here. In the valley we passed through in the afternoon. See? ”

"It's more than ten miles away, it's so dark, how can you see it clearly! My eldest miss, don't joke with me at this time! Brando was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily.

"But I saw it."

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