The gray mist spread much faster than it seemed. Seeing that it was no longer possible to escape with his legs alone, Blofeld could only grab Tina and hand over the Noxian one-handed sword he had just picked up on the road. To the female shield guard,
Blofeld himself picked up the Noxian two-handed sword that he was not familiar with. He did not expect that the Noxians would just throw things away. You must know that soldiers in Demacia need to accept this kind of situation. Judgmental.
"Judging from the speed at which the gray mist spreads, we shouldn't be able to escape. Please hold my hand tightly. If anything weird happens in the gray mist, we can take care of each other."
Nodding, Tina pointed to the Noxian buckler not far away.
"There's a shield there, we still have time."
"good."
There were no armored stomachs left by the Emerald Leader soldiers nearby. They had seen some of them on the road before, but unfortunately they didn't fit well. In addition, the time was tight, so the two of them could only simply pick up their weapons until the gray mist like a wave emerged from them. Rolling behind them, they were swallowed up.
The moment he was sucked into the gray mist, Blofeld held his breath and tightened Tina's hand. A strange repulsive force dissipated, and the two did not separate.
Different from being unable to see anything as imagined, the visibility in the gray fog can reach about ten meters. Deadly and dangerous auras came from all directions. Blofeld squinted and looked in front of him. He always felt as if he was in the gray fog. Something is peeking at me.
"This mist is like some kind of evil magic. You must not be careless."
As if to warn himself, and to remind Tina, Blofeld took a deep breath to calm down his nervousness, and looked down at the arrow drawn with a long sword on the dirt ground.
"This is the west, let's try to move in this direction and see if we can get out."
After just walking about ten meters, Blofeld found that he had lost his sense of direction. Strangely, Tina beside him also felt confused. The two discussed it and started to turn around again, but they couldn't find it at all. At the beginning, the arrow and even the surrounding environment became unfamiliar.
Along with the disoriented sense of direction, the concept of time also seems to be affected in some way.
As a last resort, the two of them could only choose to move in an unknown direction.
The two formed a two-person battle formation one behind the other. Tina, who was holding a one-handed sword and a round shield, was in front on the right, one position ahead of Blofeld to prevent sudden arrow attacks, while Blofield held on tightly. With swords in both hands, he is always ready to charge and launch a fatal attack on the enemy.
The two people who were prepared for a rainy day soon encountered the first accident. As a looming figure walked out of the gray fog, Blofeld could recognize the heavy armor and stomach unique to the Emerald Collar. The man patted the woman on the shoulder to signal her to stop. .
"Someone is here, it seems they are Noxian."
"Blofield, I think there's something wrong with that man."
Nodding, Blofeld said loudly.
"Friends of Noxus! Are you okay? It's so strange here. Do you want to join us?"
The face of the visitor looked a little strange. The emerald collar soldier who was smiling but not smiling was holding a bloody emerald collar sword in his right hand. He was walking unsteadily. As if he heard Blofield's voice, the soldier suddenly quickened his pace, his face full of disapproval. The malice of both men.
"Another... living prey..."
"Tina! Get ready to fight."
"clear."
There was not much time left for the two of them. Facing the charge of the soldiers from the Emerald Territory, Tina took the lead and blocked the soldiers' horizontal sword slashes with her iron shield. What was frightening was that she had already blocked the attack. , but there was a shallow crack on Tina's left hand. It looked like a big hole but no blood flowed out.
Regardless of her own injuries, Tina roared and took advantage of the opportunity of the Emerald Leader soldier to retreat and drew out her one-handed sword. The blade hit the Emerald Leader soldier's exposed left arm. The imaginary cut in two did not appear. The Emerald Leader Soldier The soldier just staggered to stop his decline, and raised his knife to attack Tina again.
Blofeld, who found the opportunity, stepped forward and kicked the Emerald Leader soldier in the abdomen.
The first sword struck the iron armor to repel the Emerald Leader soldiers. Blofeld quickly added the fatal second sword, and used the decapitation move of the Fearless Vanguard when the soldiers fell.
The two-handed sword struck the soldier's neck with a sound of breaking through the air. A horrifying scene appeared before the two of them. They saw that the Jade Leader soldier's 'weak' neck was not split open by the sword, but his body was like broken porcelain. Countless bloody cracks like spider webs opened up, and then the soldier's body festered in a few seconds, and together with the armor and weapons on his body, turned into ashes floating in the air.
Suddenly, Blofeld felt that the gray fog around him was getting thicker. The battle-experienced Demacia Dauntless Vanguard First Shield Sword Captain had his mouth wide open, as if he had just entered the military camp and saw soldiers killing people for the first time. Chicken newbie.
"What, what's going on? Why did this happen? Tina, you saw it, right? I should have chopped off his head. Why didn't his head fall off, but his body was broken? , turned into ashes? What kind of evil magic is this?"
Tina was also a little shocked by the unconventional scene. She seemed to have thought of something. Tina looked down at the strange crack on the back of her left hand and felt a chill in her heart.
"Captain Jian, look at this, does it look like the cracks on his body?"
Tina's helpless voice brought Blofield back to his senses. Only then did he notice the porcelain-like crack on the back of the woman's left hand. His heart tightened. Blofield took the initiative to hold the woman's hand and stroked it gently. The scar touched It feels hard and has no body temperature at all.
"You were hurt!? When?"
Faced with Blofeld's question, Tina shook her head.
"No, I'm pretty sure I successfully blocked his attack with my shield, but something happened to my left hand, like, like..."
"Like what?"
In Blofeld's serious eyes, Tina expressed her first inner feelings.
"It's a bit unbelievable to say, just like his attack can bypass my shield, I can't achieve perfect defense at all. No matter what, as long as I am attacked by him, I will be injured... If this crack can be regarded as a 'wound' if."
After patting his face to wake himself up, Blofeld let go of the female shield guard's hand.
"...Wait a minute, let's reorganize our thoughts. It's really weird here. There are many things that cannot be judged according to principles... First of all, we can be sure that our attacks in the gray mist will not cause fatal damage to the enemy. Injury will not cause the disabling effect of severed limbs, it will only increase the degree of 'fragmentation' of the enemy's body.
Even beheading won't work. If you want to kill the enemy, you have to do it unless the body is 'broken' to a certain extent that it cannot sustain life, right? "
Forcing her eyes away from the crack on the back of her left hand, Tina nodded.
"Yes, our attack made the Emerald Territory soldier unable to maintain his body, and then he shattered and turned into ashes."
"And depending on your situation, it is very likely that we cannot defend ourselves in the gray fog. No matter whether we block the enemy's attack or not, as long as the enemy's knife strikes us or touches us, our bodies will be affected. There will be more cracks, and if we are hit hard or fatally wounded, there will be more cracks, until our bodies are as shattered as that weird Emerald Collar soldier."
"The only way to defend is to avoid attacks perfectly so that the enemy cannot hit us."
"Tina, otherwise you'd better stop holding the shield..."
"If I don't hold a shield, once I can't dodge the attack, I will be hurt more seriously.
Captain Blofeld Sword, what I learned in Dauntless Vanguard is the one-handed sword and shield. In this battle, I have no choice. At least I can block some of the unavoidable attacks and give you a chance to attack.
If one of us is destined to return to Demacia, I hope it is you. Only you can make the Demacians understand the current situation in Leinland. I am afraid that with these gray fogs, Noxus in the Emerald Territory People don’t have the time to do any small tricks. "
The atmosphere was a little heavy. Blofeld nodded and looked directly into the female shield guard's resolute gaze.
"I don't like such depressing words. This time the two of us are going back together. Anyway, you try to avoid attacks from now on. I will be the main attacker and you will support me from the side. Tina, don't underestimate Dema." The Sword Captain of West Asia is now a captain, and I don’t need you, a little girl, to take care of him.”
Gritting her teeth, Tina nodded in agreement.
The road in the gray fog is farther and more desperate than imagined. The unchanging scenery is as boundless as the gray sea. The silence and darkness can wear away the last trace of patience.
From time to time, a few delirious people would rush towards the two of them shouting murderous words. Fortunately, after knowing part of the gray fog rules, and by using the environment and obstacles, the two of them could work together to deal with ordinary madmen without any harm. Only Only the armored soldiers of the Emerald Territory would put some pressure on the two of them. During this period, some soldiers' equipment did not turn into ashes. This allowed Blofield to find a pair of hand armor and a suitably suitable half-breastplate.
I don't know how long it took, but the two people, who were unaware of their hunger and thirst, saw the castle in front of them. The fragments of the steel gate of the castle that had been blown up by explosives were piled up not far away. After walking for a long time, they actually circled back to the starting point.
"It seems that no matter which way we go, we will eventually come back here. According to the Noxians, the source of the gray fog may be here."
Blofeld picked up a set of Noxian dragon lizard knight's saddle from the ground. Apparently a dragon lizard died here, but he didn't know if the owner of the dragon lizard was also here.
Looking up at the castle in front of her that looked like a giant man-eating beast, Tina noticed that her body was a little stiff.
"Are we going in?"
"Do you think we have any other options?"
With a wry smile, Blofeld touched the crack on his arm.
"If we don't work hard, I'm afraid we really won't be able to get out."
…
In a closed room in Leinland Castle, Milton, whose arms were already covered with cracks, sat on the ground with a sullen face, silently sharpening the edge of his favorite knife with the whetstone he carried with him, surrounding Milton's More than a dozen Emerald Territory soldiers were all injured, with some hideous cracks on their bodies.
The short Meimi holds the Eternal Catalyst Stone tightly in her left hand, and uses an obsidian crystal staff in her right hand to control a fire elemental bird made of magic elements. The fire elemental bird is looking for the next step in the maze-like castle. On the way forward, the other two surviving mages sat cross-legged on the ground and meditated at a faster pace.
It wasn't until Meimi removed the magic that the cold sound of sharpening the knife stopped, and Milton set his sights on the female mage.
"How's it going? Have you found a suitable road?"
Nodding, Meimi took the paper and pen and began to draw the next route.
"This is the route with the smallest number of 'lost people'. You can't see it further away, but I can be sure that we are not far from the lord's main castle, because I saw the lord's kitchen at the end of the corridor.
Milton, more Lost Ones are moving in our direction, we must move forward now. "
While they were talking, an Emerald-collared soldier who was taking a nap in the room suddenly began to twitch. The soldier murmured an inaudible language, and the expression on his face looked ferocious and terrifying.
Milton didn't need to say anything, and two Emerald soldiers slashed at their comrades with swords. The long swords hit their necks and hearts. They watched their comrades shatter into pieces and turn into ashes on the ground. The surviving soldiers There was a look of disappointment that was difficult to conceal on his face, and a strange atmosphere was pressing in everyone's heart, as if the next person would become a 'lost person' at any time, and be killed on the spot by his companions while murmuring.
In any case, burying a comrade who has lost his mind with his own hands is still a huge blow to morale, and no one wants such an ending.
Milton stood up, holding a long knife, and looked at each soldier with a solemn tone.
"Everyone, please remember that we are the most elite warriors in the Emerald Territory. It is our highest honor to hold our sword high and die on the battlefield. We will continue to fight until the moment we stop breathing. Death is not terrible, but death is terrible. It is we who are overcome by fear. That is a mentality only cowards have, and it is our greatest shame.
If I lose my mind, please kill me without hesitation, and Andrew will take over the command. If Andrew also dies in battle, Rex, the highest-ranking military officer, will continue to command, and so on. "
Having said this, Milton's eyes gained a touch of blood, and the magic steel sword in his hand trembled slightly, as if it resonated with its owner.
"All living people must protect Master Memi at all costs and cooperate with Master Memi to continue moving forward until we destroy the culprit who caused the gray fog.
In the dictionary of the Emerald Territory, there is no retreat at all. We must become crazier and more terrifying warriors than the lost ones.
Follow me and kill all enemies in sight. "
The strange feeling of loss was swept away, and everyone stood up and clenched the weapons in their hands.
"If you can follow Lord Milton and die on the battlefield, you will have no regrets even if you die!"
