Part Two: The Human World Chapter Sixty-Two: Killing
The Kalundo Basin is located in the southwest of the empire. To the west of the basin is a large area of deep mountains, and to the north is Bracada, the border between the empire and the wild highlands.
The mountains around the basin have actually been the open-air part of the Stone City of the Dwarf Empire since ancient times. More than three hundred years ago, some humans crossed the mountains to avoid war and settled here. In the past hundred years, mountain roads have been dug due to the development of commerce, and they are nominally home to
Arriving in the Ironfast Empire. However, this is strictly the territory of the dwarves, so the humans in the Kalendo Basin are actually completely autonomous. The long-term closed life has kept a dull and rigid atmosphere inside.
and lifestyle. Like the tent in the sky that is formed all year round by soot and dust mixed with clouds, it is groggy.
But the situation here has been greatly improved in the past year. After the orc city of Orfu was established in the wild highlands, a road was immediately dug into the mountains in the northwest of the basin. Here are the highest quality ores in the continent and the weapons and weapons refined by the dwarves.
Instruments can be traded directly to the entire continent through Oufu, instead of being exported only to the empire as before. Trade has quickly made the basin prosperous and lively. There is an additional shortcut to Oufu, and those in the empire heading towards the basin
There are caravans every day, and several small towns at the entrance to the mountains on the outer edge of the basin have also prospered.
At noon, the town at the foot of the mountain welcomed another caravan. The merchants and bodyguards and mercenaries, some riding horses and some sitting in carriages, happily talked about the orc city they were about to go to. Only the last one
On Carriage Mountain, there were two people wrapped in tattered cloaks leaning against each other as if they were tired. These were the two wanderers the caravan met on the way. They both seemed to be suffering badly when they met them.
It was said that they were injured because they were being chased by bandits. With their entreaties and the price of a few silver coins, the caravan agreed to take them to Ofu.
When the caravan first arrived at the entrance of the town, a cry echoed in the clouds and mountains above. In the distance, a black shadow waved its wings and flew out from the depths of the basin. A huge black shadow landed in front of a cave on the mountain far away opposite the village.
On the platform, there was an entrance to the dwarf's dungeon. There seemed to be two or three figures on the black shadow.
Most of the people in the caravan saw this kind of thing for the first time and exclaimed. A businessman who had been to Eufu explained to everyone this strange and huge creature domesticated by orcs. The caravan slowly walked into the town, and they
After resting here, you will enter the Kalundo Basin and go through the northern mountain road to Ofu.
As soon as the caravan entered the town, it stopped because the road was blocked.
The thing blocking the road is very strange, or rather it is not an object, but a tea table and two people drinking tea.
Judging from their body shape and hair color, these two people are an old man and a middle-aged man. Both of them are dressed in ordinary clothes, but they both wear a very beautifully made silver skull mask on their faces, which completely covers the upper half of their faces.
It stopped, leaving only one mouth.
These two strange people have been sitting here since morning. The town's sheriff once came to ask for intervention, but the old man just waved his hand, and he was immediately thrown up high like a ball, inexplicably.
He fell half to death. So no one dared to ask questions anymore. The townspeople also stayed away from here.
The caravan hesitated in front of these strange two people. The leader was an old businessman who didn't want to cause more trouble. After looking at the two strange masks and their posture, he decided to take a detour.
Just when the caravan was about to turn around, the old man sighed and said in a very weird voice: "If you don't come out by yourself now, do you want to injure more people? It's a pity that even everyone in this town is willing to do so.
Even if I act as your human shield, you will never be able to escape."
The old man's cold voice was not loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.
In response to him, a clear female voice came from the caravan and chanted loudly: "Great God of all things, give me the grace of your life to drive away evil and darkness."
Three green rays of light shot out from the caravan and shone on three trees on the roadside. The trees made a strange crackling sound, and actually grew thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then trembled. The deformed thick roots and branches probed.
Out of the ground, the three trees actually stood up like people and walked towards the two of them.
But the two people were still sitting. A thick white lightning flashed from the old man's hand, and instantly extended to the three changed trees. There was a crackle of electricity and an explosion of broken trees, and the three trees immediately
It turned into sawdust all over the ground.
But just as the old man raised his hand, a slender figure suddenly jumped out of the caravan's carriage. He held a short bow in his left hand, but what he held in his right hand was not an arrow. It seemed to be an arrow that had been broken off from the carriage.
A long wooden stick. He had already bent his bow and put it on the wooden stick in the air. As soon as he landed on the ground, the wooden stick had shot out from the string. The whole movement was as smooth as silk, like a fish flipping and turning around in the water.
It was done in one go without any hindrance.
The bow is not strong, and the mediocre wooden stick it shoots is not powerful. The wooden stick even twists on its own in mid-air. But the wooden stick twists more and more violently, and it twists very fast.
Several branches and even a few green leaves and spikes sprouted from the ground. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a weird twisting vine like a living snake, and it swung towards the old man with its fangs and claws.
past.
No arrow can be more lethal than this poisonous man-eating vine. It doesn't even need to be shot, as long as the vine feels the life emanating from the flesh and blood around it, it will rush towards it, desperately trying to find a way.
It penetrates the flesh and squeezes into the internal organs, and even a strong ogre cannot resist the paralyzing poison attached to the surface of the vine.
The middle-aged man let out a strange sigh, tilted the tea cup in his hand, and the tea inside spilled out, and then quickly turned into a small blue fireball and flew towards the man-eating vine in the air.
This small fireball was not even as big as a fist, but just before it came into contact, the man-eating vine turned into a ball of black ash before it even had time to generate flames. The fireball passed over the ashes left by the man-eating vine in the air and continued.
Fly towards the person who shot the arrow.
When the man shot a strange arrow, another person jumped out of the caravan carriage. After the middle-aged man poured out the ball of flame from the wine glass, he immediately stretched out his hand and a ball of flame
A fireball with a diameter as large as a person flew out from in front of him, roaring towards the small pitiful blue flame with a power commensurate with its size.
A loud roar echoed in the surrounding mountains. The two fireballs, which were so different in size and momentum, collided evenly. A large part of the house on the street collapsed, and flames flew everywhere. But the two people sitting still remained
Sitting at that table, not even the teacup on the table was knocked over.
The caravan was already overturned. The merchants and mercenaries got up and hurriedly turned around and ran away, cursing the two unlucky guys they picked up on the road. Unexpectedly, they were the ones being chased by the great magician.
The two people who jumped out of the caravan did not run away. The turbulent air flow blew away the tattered cloaks on their bodies, revealing their true colors. A young human man and a stunningly beautiful elf girl. The elf girl held her hand tightly.
There was a piece of emerald green leaf, and the green light emitted by the leaf slowly soaked into her body, wrapping her in it.
"It turns out that the leaves of the World Tree are so effective in the hands of elves. The natural magic used by them is of such a high level. No wonder Master Aiden can't deal with them alone." The middle-aged man looked at that one
The sawdust on the ground nodded, and then looked at the man who fired the fireball. His voice also seemed strange, and he had the same feeling of being held back in his throat like Master Aiden. "Is this the kid? It turns out he's just a guy who doesn't know how to use it.
Magic idiot. It’s just a pity that the effects of sunlight baptism and the leaves of the World Tree are useless.”
Ten days ago, Master Aiden finally found Asa and Asa who were quietly heading to Orfu. Without saying a word, he immediately took action and prepared to kill people. Without the magic amplification of the Sunwell, under Master Aiden's superb air magic,
There was a huge difference in combat power between Asa and him. But what neither of them expected was that the elf girl Luya on the side used the leaves of the World Tree to use a lot of incredible natural magic. Master Aiden was caught off guard.
Although the two of them were seriously injured, Asa was also bitten by a magically mutated poisonous spider. Asa took this opportunity to use a lose-lose tactic to repel him and took Luya to hide in the forest. He was poisoned.
Master Aiden did not dare to pursue them, so he had to retreat temporarily and at the same time called for his companion Asri to search for them in another direction.
Now that the target has been found, Master Aiden slowly stood up.
"Wait a minute." Asa suddenly shouted.
Master Aiden did not wait. There was already lightning shining in his hand. He was here to kill, not to talk. The two top magicians on the continent joined forces, and even if the other party had a magical object in hand, there would be absolutely no room for struggle.
Not to mention what terms to negotiate.
"I will tear this thing apart if you don't stop." Asa suddenly snatched the leaf of the world tree from Luya's hand. "I heard that this thing is useless if it is torn into pieces."
Master Aiden's movements suddenly stopped. The eyes behind the mask burst out with light as sharp as his lightning, but his tone was still as calm as before. "If you dare to tear this thing off, I will definitely find a way to make you regret it.
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"I'm going to die anyway, so what's there to regret?" The veins on Asa's hands were exposed.
"No, you won't die." The veins behind Master Aiden's mask also appeared. But Asa couldn't see it. "I will catch all your familiar relatives and friends in front of you and let you see it with your own eyes.
The flesh on their bodies will be peeled off piece by piece, and finally I will turn you into a living zombie."
"Would you like to make a bet?" Asa's eyes looked directly into the eyes behind the silver mask, and his tone was equally calm. "Do you want to bet on whether I can tear it apart?"
After a long time, Master Aiden said calmly: "Why do you want me to wait?" His strange voice sounded like he was sobbing.
Asa could tell that the two necromancers had voice-changing magic props in their mouths. Each of these members of the Necromancer Guild was a well-known person in human society. Not only were masks necessary, but also
His voice also needed to change. He asked calmly: "I just have a few questions to ask. After asking, we can discuss everything."
"ask."
"Didn't you invite me to join your Undead Guild?"
"So Widnina has already told you?" Master Aiden sneered. "But it's not us, it's just Ms. Widnina's own wish."
Asa breathed a long sigh of relief. Although he had already thought of this after confronting the Necromancer in the Whispering Forest, he didn't dare to be really sure about it until now. He was secretly glad that he had not used the teleportation scroll to kill himself before.
He threw himself into a trap. At the same time, he felt a little disappointed in his heart. He didn't expect that the escape route in his fantasy was just a fantasy after all. He paused and asked again: "How could you know that we would go here and still be waiting for us here?"
"Do you still dare to run around with the leaves of the World Tree? Since you don't go back to the Magic Academy to find Ronis, then you can only go to the Tularion Forest in the west. And this is the closest road to the west.
, we have been waiting here. I will feel the divine thing like the Leaf of the World Tree as long as it is within ten miles, so I will just drink tea here and wait for you to deliver it to my door."
"You want to kill me, does Widnina know?"
"It doesn't matter whether you know it or not. This is a joint decision made by all members except her."
Asa took a deep breath. His expression was a little twitching. He still looked at Master Aiden's eyes under the silver skull mask and asked: "What do you want to do with this thing..."
"Stop talking nonsense. He is probably stalling for time." Another necromancer who had been silent for a long time slowly stood up. "His breathing was not disordered and his heartbeat was normal. He was not panicking and seemed to have everything in mind. But
The gap in our strength is obvious. So the only explanation is that he seems to be waiting for some reinforcements."
"Reinforcements?" Master Aiden seemed to have heard a joke, and even his mask moved because of the smile underneath. He raised his head and glanced down at the town, as if it was just a pile of anthills under his feet.
"Dear friend Asri, what reinforcements can we get here? Will the dwarves send an army? What kind of army or magician can deal with our two necromancers?"
But Asri did not answer, but looked at Asa and said: "Tear it off if you want. Once the leaves of the World Tree are broken, they will turn into the source of life force and return to the Sunwell. It will be the same if we wait a few more years to get it.
"." As he spoke, the magic fluctuations around him became more and more violent.
Asa's face darkened. He returned the leaf of the World Tree to Luya, and then stood down facing the two of them. The light of fighting spirit began to shine on him.
The eyes under Master Aiden's mask regained that electric sharpness.
Asri put his finger into his hand and bit it, and drops of blood dripped from the earthworm-like curved finger. When it fell on the bluestone floor, it automatically drew a magic circle, and then he chanted a spell: "
The flames of destruction hidden in the abyss of hell..."
Asa suddenly stood up and rushed towards the two necromancers, the light of fighting spirit pulling out a subtle light and shadow behind him.
Luya clasped her hands on the leaves of the World Tree, and a burst of green light instantly covered her whole body. Countless small branches and leaves began to pour out from the ground at the feet of the two necromancers.
A ring-shaped electric light spread from around Master Aiden, and those small branches and leaves were torn to pieces by the electric light before they could grow up. But he didn't pay attention to this, and kept his eyes locked on Asa, who was rushing over. But right there
At the same time, he suddenly heard a clear sound coming from beside him, and the figure of his companion who fell down appeared in the corner of his eye.
Asri's worm-like lips were still moving, still reciting the powerful spell but without making any sound. Because his neck had been completely twisted. When he was concentrating on activating magic, he suddenly found that he could see
On his back, his mouth suddenly opened wide, but the scream was stuck in his throat like a curse, and then he fell down limply like a snake with its spine twitched.
Master Aiden's surprise only lasted for half a blink of an eye, and he immediately used a reaction that was extremely disproportionate to his age and appearance. He converted all the magic power originally used to defend Asa into flying skills, and stood up like a frightened vulture.
As he stood up, Asa's punch just grazed his trousers.
As soon as he was in the air, he lowered his head and looked down. But he didn't see anything. He only saw that the table on which he was still drinking tea was getting bigger in front of his eyes at a very fast speed.
That's not magic. There is no magic that can turn a table into a cannonball like this. It's pure power. The real sound of the wind from the table is more thrilling to Master Aiden than any fluctuation of magic. At such speed and power,
Even if the wood was not very hard, hitting him would definitely be enough to completely shatter all the old bones in his body. He waved his hand hurriedly, and a wind blade drawn by vacuum struck the table.
The table shattered in response, and wood fragments exploded all over the sky like fireworks.
But the sound of collisions and cracks could not conceal another, sharper sound. Even the sound of the fastest crossbow arrows breaking through the air would not be so loud. After the tabletop was broken, Master Aiden saw a section of table legs below.
However, this smaller piece of wood approached him with ten times more force, faster, more violently, and more force than the table just now. The table that blocked his view was originally intended for him to break into pieces.
The momentum of the instant flight spell can no longer be changed, and no matter how advanced the magician is, he cannot condense the third spell in such a short moment. He looked at the small piece of wood in front of him that was about to penetrate a transparent hole.
, Master Aiden tried his best to use the air magic he had mastered all his life to force his body to move a little to the side in this short moment.
With a soft whirring sound, Master Aiden's entire arm was scattered into debris all over the sky like paper. He screamed, but his body did not stop at all and continued to fly upwards, spreading blood all the way.
The flower queen disappeared into the dark and low clouds.
But in just a blink of an eye, one of the two top magicians was seriously injured and escaped, while the other was turned into a corpse and lay there.
Asa looked at the person next to him and said with sincere admiration: "You are still so awesome."