Act Eighty-Nine: Redemption IV
History is quietly reflected in the starry night sky, those dazzling new stars, the legend is the heroes of the past, they overlook the earth above the sky, and look at today's world with the eyes of history. The wind over the pine forest never stopped for a moment, but it was not violent, but gently stirred the needles with an invisible hand, making them sway neatly and rustle.
It's like a dream, telling the story of the forest's past.
The edge of the world collapsed as the dream progressed, and the woodland seemed to be swallowed up by an endless mist, but only this small world remained in the void - the mountain wind passed through the forest, the meadow, the carriage, the assassinated elven girl, and Brando's party formed this static picture.
The moonlight spreads over the mountains, and the time flows quietly with the stars and fields like a river, and the bright moon is like a hook, rising in the west and setting in the east.
For all, this is the end of the dream, but it is not a line; Brando looked up at the forest, his gaze through the overlapping tree trunks and the dark carriage, and he shouted, "Caddle, I know you're here, come out and show me your tricks." ”
There was silence for a while, so quiet that you could hear the pins falling.
A pale figure appeared in the carriage, swaying slightly, like a ghost, glowing as if shrouded in pale phosphorus fire. He was dressed in crisp aristocratic attire and wore an elven sword at his waist, but he had no face, and only a pair of glittering eyes remained on his face as flat as a slate.
Without mouth, there can be no communication. The Miner people say that language is the bridge between people, but the nameless have long since fled into their own dreams. Lost forever, so that there is no need for ears and mouths except to 'doubt' with the eyes.
The pale ghost appeared at the door of the carriage and silently stared at Brando, and it said nothing, and neither did Brando.
It seemed like a long time before the ghost slowly spoke, "Why are you challenging me? ”
Although it does not have a mouth. But the sound seemed to echo throughout the forest, like thunder, rolling from the sky. Haruzer turned pale with fright. Involuntarily shrank behind her sister's back, but the princess and her party were unaware, and they looked blankly in the direction of Brando's conversation. As if there was nothing there.
"You should know what you have to do, and what you are trying to protect here is nothing but illusions, and you should go back to your own world, not waste your time here. Otherwise, you will be immersed in dreamlike dreams and will never wake up. Viscount Cadell said slowly. But you came here to show me your weak choice, your choice to stay here forever, to indulge in the illusion of the past? ”
If you can't threaten, do you come to 'follow the temptation'? Brando sneered and drew his sword. Pointing to the pale shadow: "What is weaker than weakness?" You are nothing but a crippled personality, and resentment and jealousy have long since destroyed your mind. In the experience of wandering in the forest for a long time, the human nature that paranoia has long consumed you, how can something like you understand what salvation is? ”
He let out a sigh. Showing his bright teeth, he replied: "What you have forgotten is not only your reputation, but what you have forgotten is more important, it has long been lost on the long road behind you." Viscount Kadeer, the starting point of that qiē. The source of remorse is hidden under many scars, but I will also find it out to you—"
"The reason why people learn to cry is to protect their pain, and you have long forgotten it. Because you can't be called human anymore. ”
The blade of the sword of the earth, dark as a dream, pointed straight ahead, towards the chest of the pale shadow, but also like a dividing line in the forest, separating the worlds from this side and there.
The ghost's face had an exasperated look.
The next moment, a trace of fire reflected in the depths of Haruzer's silver eyes, and the flame burned out from the carriage behind Viscount Kadeer, and the flames spread behind Viscount Kadeer, turning the woodland into a sea of fire in an instant. Viscount Kadeer's eyes sparkled, and he waved his hand indifferently, letting out a shriek-like voice: "Okay, I'll see how hard you can be—"
"In your heart, the so-called persistence is nothing but fragility."
"All hearts are vain."
The pale ghost stretched out his left hand, his fingers had turned into pointed claws, and a hole suddenly opened in his featureless face, which looked like a mouth, and was silently mocking everyone.
Then a sea of fire enveloped the entire forest, and in the light of the fire, a thick fog rose, and the surrounding scenery changed again. Brando felt that the flames were still burning around him, but he looked around, and the pine forest was long gone, and what appeared in view was a straight corridor, and on one side of the corridor was a large floor-to-ceiling arched window, outside which the manor and palace stretched out to the brilliant lights in the distance.
But the shining pearl that sits on the plain is now covered with dust, and the whole city is burning, and the flames are everywhere, and Brando and the little prince beside him see the flames spreading along the palace and burning to their feet, and everywhere they look, there is a sea of fire.
The glass of the arched window shattered in the heat, and from outside poured in countless skeleton soldiers, skeletons of bones staggering with swords, and their eyes were surrounded by phosphorous fire, light or dark.
Above those pitch-black swords, the black roses blooming in Blomandor were so dazzling that they were like a spike, and they made Brando's pupils constrict.
What a familiar scene, the undead surging in a sea of fire, the palace burning, the city collapsing, and the army of the undead swept through the homeland, leaving only scorched earth everywhere they passed.
The glorious banner of Eruin was finally reduced to ashes on this night. It was the last night of the last night, and the sad song in the hearts of the Eruin players reappeared in his memory.
Menstros's final battle-
Viscount Caddell's shrill laugh echoed in the air, only with jealousy in his laughter: "You think it's so easy to make a choice?" But reality will always force you, you will face a desperate situation, life or death, you must choose one or the other. In the face of the power of fate, what is mortal? ”
But Brando didn't pay attention to him at all, he felt that his strength was still only at the level of the silver peak. He immediately turned around and said to Haruzer beside him: "Take your sister to retreat to the Jinteng Palace, and find a way to get to the White Fortress from there, you should know that there is a secret passage that leads to the underground river." ”
"But what about you, teacher?" Haruzer asked as one hand was held tightly by Princess Griffiin, who couldn't help but raise his head with some concern.
"Of course I'm retreating with you, what are you thinking?" Brando replied angrily, "But I have to deal with these skeletons, you can't tell me to keep pulling your sister, right?" ”
Princess Griffiin was slightly startled, only then did she notice that Brando had been clutching her wrist, and hurriedly broke free with a red face. "I know the secret passage, the secret passage is under the bed in the room where the queen lived, come with me." She replied with a pretended calm.
Haruzer stuck out his tongue and hurriedly covered his sister to retreat into the hallway behind Brando. Brando turned his head, although the speed of those bone frames was slow, but they were also close, he knew that the struggle with these low-level undead creatures would be endless, and when he looked up at the structure of this corridor, he raised his sword to the left and right, and cut off a row of pillars on both sides of the corridor, and the corridor that had lost its support suddenly collapsed, crushing all those shaky undead below.
With two or three fish left to slip through the net, Brando kicked them back into the ruins one by one, then put away his sword, turned and ran.
The palace was completely in flames, but at least it was about the same as the one he remembered, the cloister leading to the inner courtyard was heavily made of stone buildings, so it was well preserved in the fire, and they crossed the road to the White Fortress, and it didn't take long for the silhouette of the Cruz-style castle to loom in the night.
The White Castle was built before the Golden Hoof, and its earliest owners were the Cruz, but it was given to the Ancestor and his subjects along with the land. The castle was destroyed by a fire after the Apocalypse and was later rebuilt along with the Kinten Palace, and it is now the rebuilt castle that Brando sees.
The castle was the last fortress of the palace of Menstros, and the last fortress to fall in the Third War of the Black Roses.
"The drawbridge of the castle must have been pulled up, and now you can only walk through the back door from the kitchen." Her Royal Highness reminded as she ran.
Brando nodded, it was about the same as he expected, there was no way out of the kitchen, but there was a way to transport food, and once he entered the inner city, there was a way to escape from the Kinten Palace. But as for going there after leaving the inner city, he didn't think much about it.
Now the time has come to make an all-or-nothing bet.
They had just rushed into the grove in the courtyard in front of the castle, when suddenly a group of black-clad knights appeared in front of them, and Brando couldn't help but frown when he saw the knights who were covered in armor and glowing with cyan phosphorus fire under their steel masks.
Black Knight.
He almost groaned in his heart, in this era, these should be the elite knights of the golden rank in the army of the undead of Madara. If he still had the original strength, it would be easy to deal with them, but now, it would undoubtedly be a life-and-death battle to break through their defenses.
Because of the manipulation of Viscount Kader, the black knights also noticed the trace of the princess and his party almost immediately, and they turned the dead horses that sat down to kill this side, and raised the pitch-black long knives in their hands as they rushed forward. (To be continued)
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