The girl slowly walked through the priest's reduced to ashes body, but she didn't even look at him, she just walked forward quietly. Wherever she passed, the foot-deep snow melted automatically, exposing the dark rocks below.
Only then did Fang realize that the other party was stepping on sharp rocks with his bare feet, and blood seemed to be flowing and spreading under his feet. But if you look carefully, you can see nothing. Everything you saw before is like an illusion.
But this scene was enough to make the valley quiet. Looking at this girl, the big cat people and the Dulon City Guards in the distance stopped fighting.
"is her……"
The city guards whispered, their faces turned pale, and they suddenly separated and retreated. The noble knight didn't care about the others. A thought flashed through his mind, and he raised his sword solemnly and pointed in this direction uneasily.
But the girl ignored it and continued walking forward. At the end of her destination, it was the direction of the dark fairy tale. The latter was still holding Delice and was shocked when he saw this. He had not forgotten the tragic situation of the priest and Aille. He knew something was wrong and subconsciously wanted to retreat and escape from the girl's path.
However, the next moment, Dark Fairy Tale was shocked to find that he could not move and was standing in the snow with his feet rooted to the ground. But the little girl finally broke away from his hand and ran away.
"Be careful!" Sophie shouted.
The little girl fell down in the snow, but immediately got up again gritting her teeth.
Sophie subconsciously wanted to pull him up, but suddenly her expression changed slightly. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Silver Vislan felt that the pale flame in her hand was so heavy that she actually took her hand and inserted it into the snow.
She tried to hold on firmly, but her fingers seemed frozen to the tips of her fingers and remained motionless. Exactly the same state as in the dark fairy tale, Sophie also found that she had lost control of her body.
The girl continued to move forward, approaching the two of them step by step.
When she passed by Dark Fairy Tale, the latter finally couldn't help but let out a heart-rending scream. Sophie saw that the other party seemed to have melted. The right eyeball was the first to turn into a ball of black molten wax and fell out of the eye socket.
Wherever the wax juice passed, the skin and flesh burst open and dripped with blood, but as soon as the blood met the air, it immediately ignited a black flame. In the flames, the dark fairy howled and turned into ashes. During this process, he could not move at all, just like a burning stone statue.
Sophie watched helplessly as the stone statue burned and then turned into pieces of ashes. It was true that she had never seen life and death before, but she could not imagine how much pain the other person suffered before he died in such a tragic state.
The black-haired girl walked through the corpse of the dark fairy and walked towards her again.
At that moment, Sophie could almost hear the sound of her own heartbeat. She was not afraid of death, but this feeling of being unable to control her own destiny was really unbearable. And that kind of death state also made her a little nervous.
But surprisingly, the imagined situation did not happen.
The other party didn't even look at her, he just passed her and walked to Delis. The little girl took a step back in fear, raised her head and looked at the black-haired girl: "Who are you..."
The black-haired girl lowered her head and looked at her without answering. Only then did Sophie realize that Delis didn't seem to be affected, and she raised her head and looked directly into the other person's eyes - the little girl also had a pair of golden eyes, but they were clearer and brighter - and looked at her with some worry. other side.
Looking into each other's eyes, Delis also had a hint of curiosity in her heart. As long as she can remember, there has never been anyone like her among her friends and relatives. Adults always say things to her about "the fire of Venus, which is an omen of uneasiness".
Although she was still young, she could see that everyone looked at her with some fear, and among everyone, there were only Sisters Siesta, Sylvide, and the strange black-haired girl in front of her.
But the girl didn't look at her for too long.
The other person looked at it for a moment, then turned around and walked between the three people - two people and a corpse. She walked straight forward, reached a position, and then quietly turned back and looked in the other direction.
Sophie couldn't move and naturally didn't know who she was looking at.
But Delis could see clearly that the black-haired girl was looking in that direction.
On the other side of that gaze, Fang felt a sudden jump in his heart - from the moment the girl appeared, he fell into a situation where he could not move like everyone else, as if it was a nightmare that suddenly restrained his body. Hands and feet - but at this moment, he clearly felt that the other party's An Ranrusu eyes were falling on his heart.
Under the breastplate and coat, there hung a necklace with a ring as a pendant. The ring had been faintly hot since they entered the valley, and at this moment, it became extremely hot.
Fang? almost felt as if a ball of fire was about to burst out of his chest and turn himself into ashes, but he suddenly heard a disturbing whisper coming from his ears. It was not a voice lingering in his ears, but the words of countless people, which converged into a torrent and swept into the depths of his soul...
There is a woman's voice.
There was a man's voice.
There is an old man's voice.
There are also young voices.
Weeping, howling, groaning, and shouting, the strong wind swept the flames and made a fierce sound, like the sound of another building collapsing, coming from afar. For a moment, it seemed that he was in the same place thirty years ago. Dorifen, but people's language is somewhat different from Dorifen.
He heard a questioning voice, the clash of swords, and the man's evil smile, all of which turned into a soft 'ding' sound.
Only then did he realize that the pendant on his necklace had fallen off at some point. It had passed through the heavy clothes and landed in the snow. Before it even hit the ground, layers of snow melted away, letting it roll down onto the dark rocks.
The exposed sharp rocks were so charred that they glowed, as if they had been burned by a sea of fire. The traces left a hundred years ago are still deeply engraved on this land.
Fang? As soon as he lowered his head, he suddenly realized that he could move again. He suddenly raised his head and looked into the valley, but there was no black-haired girl in that direction? Only Sophie was seen kneeling in the snow, holding her chest.
Delis on the side walked through the snow that was almost waist high, came to her, and asked cautiously: "Sister Knight, are you okay?"
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Silver Veslan shook her head and couldn't help but smile when she saw the little girl's well-behaved look.
"What about her?" she asked quietly.
Delis looked in one direction, which was the depths of the valley, and then shook her head slightly.
Sophie turned around and looked there. It was quiet in the valley, with only a path of melted snow extending deep into the valley. It’s just the exposed dark rocks that remind everyone that what happened before was not an illusion.
And the black-haired girl had already disappeared.
The three of them looked at it for a moment, feeling a little confused.
Only Fang? knew who that girl was. There may be a slight difference between the eyebrows, but it is clearly Nicol Bolas Doriphan in human form, only much younger. Or should we say the other way around, is this what Nicol Bolas really looks like?
Is she the girl before she turned into a dragon?
Fang? bent down to pick up the ring on the ground. The ring became cold again and had no abnormality at all. Even the looming lava pattern on it was dimmed again at this moment.
Fang held the ring in his hand.
The question in his mind was, was that Nicol Bolas before, or was it an apparition?
If it was said to be phantoms, the three people before him actually died in front of him, and their deaths were tragic. And the melting snow in the valley seemed to indicate that everything that happened before was not an illusion.
But if it was true, how could Nicol Bolas be here? And he hasn't forgotten the last scene of Dolifen, the resentful look in his eyes, the dark dragon appeared in this place, how could he let them go?
He looked deep into the valley, in the direction where the snowmelt road left.
Before leaving Grande, the old knight asked them to go to Ash Mountain Forest, Idos and the Dragon Country in the sand sea of Istania respectively. Ash Mountain Forest was the first stop, and this was where the Dragon Witch was born a hundred years ago. The place where the legend ends.
It was here that Nicol Bolas fought his final battle with the hero Jothud before falling into this valley, his blood turning to fire and burning the place to ashes. The fire lasted for three months, followed by a week-long downpour. After the heavy rain, the valley became what it is today.
This is a local legend, but there is also truth in the legend.
Fang? looked at the ring in his hand. After the experience of Elmao Castle, he realized that this ring might really allow him to find out some truth about the history of the Dragon Witch from the ruins of the past.
But he didn't expect that he would encounter such a scene when he fought with the city guards just after arriving in Ash Mountain Forest.
He had a vague feeling that the girl was unlikely to be Nicol Bolas's true form——
So what exactly is the other party?
He turned around again, thinking that he might not be the first person to see this girl.
Because at the exit of the valley, the previous scene had already frightened the soldiers of the Dulum City Guards. These people could no longer care about anything and turned around and ran away. From a distance, they looked like a group of people fleeing in the snow. groundhog.
The young noble knight could no longer stop these people. In fact, he himself looked solemn, stepped back step by step, and then turned around and ran away.
The big cat man did not make things difficult for these people. He took a look from a distance and saw that Fang Fang and Delis were safe, so he stepped aside to allow these people to escape. Speaking of which, these people are still their mission targets, but the way to complete the mission is obviously not limited to one.
The valley became quiet again.
Only bodies were left on the ground.
However, the people who died at the hands of the black-haired girl, including Aille, the priest and the dark fairy, showed no signs of the starlight disappearing. The corpses were turning into dots of white light and decomposing in the snow.
This scene confirmed Fang's thoughts. Everything that happened to Dolifen thirty years ago told them that people who died at the hands of the dark dragon would not be resurrected and would appear to have disappeared.
But in Dolifen's vision, those who died at the hands of the Shadow of Nicol Bolas turned out to be alive. This shows that the phantom of the dark dragon does not have the same abilities as its body.
The current scene clearly shows that the black-haired girl from before should be an existence similar to the Shadow of Nicol Bolas - it is also the refraction and projection of the power of the dark dragon here.
I just don’t know what the significance of this shadow is here?
Not long after, Luo Yu also brought back the statistical results. In this battle, the opponent had a total of 21 killed, and his own casualties were almost zero.
It was almost because Parker accidentally stepped into the ice cave and fell half to death. As a result, there was no sound in the second half of the battle. In addition to the fighting, two workers were injured due to the snow falling in the valley. This was probably the only 'casualty' on their side in this conflict.
On the other side, including the elderly noble knight, the natives lost eight people. Except for the alchemist, there were a total of twelve people who were selected. The entire army was destroyed, and the death rate could be said to be 100%.
The casualties of the Dulun City Guards here were much lower than those of the Chosen Ones, also because the big cat people did not kill them. Firstly, the opponent was their mission target, and secondly, those city guards of more than ten levels had no intention of killing the big cats. There's not much of a threat to people either.
But Luo Yu was obviously focused on another thing.
"There is something concerning." The young man brought back the body of one of the selectors and laid it down in front of everyone.
That was the priest who lost his fighting ability after being punched by Siesta at the beginning. But although the latter was seriously injured, he did not die directly. After receiving treatment, no one had time to touch up the wound, so he should not die in battle.
But Luo Yu told others that when he found this person, he was already dead.
He didn't even die of severe cold and hypothermia, but the death condition was similar to that of a dark fairy tale. The body was in a burnt form, and its original appearance was almost unrecognizable. "It's not just him," Luo Yu placed the corpse in the snow and replied, "Almost all the chosen ones, including those killed by us, have corpses like this..."
Fang Yu and Sophie couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this.
That's it for Dark Fairy Tale, Aille and the last priest. They watched the black-haired girl walk past them, and then the three of them turned into ashes in different ways of death. But the Shadow of Nicol Bolas clearly did not pass by the other side of the battlefield. How could these people and these corpses become like this?
"What about the Aboriginal people?"
"No," Luo Yu shook his head: "Including the knight and other soldiers, there are only external wounds on the body, and there are no other changes."
This is the most surprising part. Fang? Hearing this, he couldn't help but be startled.
He subconsciously recalled the previous scene. When the black-haired girl passed by him, Delis and Sophie, she only chose to attack Dark Fairy Tale and the other two. At the time he thought it was just a coincidence, but now it seems there was something else.
They are all Chosen Ones, so there shouldn't be any difference in Nicol Bolas's eyes - and even if there is any difference, logically Nicol Bolas should deal with them, not Dark Fairy Tale and others.
If it were him alone, it might be explained by the Ring of Golden Flame, but this reason obviously cannot be applied to Sophie and Delis. And judging from the distribution of corpses in the valley, it seems that the other party is really serious about taking action, and Luo Yu and Jita cannot escape either.
So what is the other party’s reason for targeting these chosen people?
"Could it be related to their mission?" Jita asked in a low voice.
"That little girl," she replied hesitantly, "she also seems to have black hair and golden eyes..."
But Sophie shook her head.
"Logically speaking, those Duron City Guards should perform the same tasks as those in Ragnarok." Her Royal Highness the Princess of Silver Vislan said: "If it is because of the task, then the indigenous people should be killed in the same way. .”
This reason is irrefutable.
Jita thought for a moment and could only nod.
But whatever it is. Regarding the little girl named Delis, Fang actually has many questions in his heart at this moment...
The little girl was not injured in the previous battle, but she caught the cold. Together with the young man named Uncrowned Crown, who was bruised and swollen from the cold and almost dying, they were sent to Mr. Gray Rock's back, and Aitila was temporarily taken care of. Miss care and treatment.
Since there was already a sick lady in the infirmary, the elf girl could only open up another room for the two of them as a temporary care place. Fortunately, there was a spare room reserved on the ship, and when we left Grande, we had prepared bedding, blankets and other things to keep out the cold.
It comes in handy at this moment.
When Fang saw the little girl again, a red stove had been lit in the room on the platform. Siesta and Sylvide were both in the room, and the little girl was sitting on a small bed. The young man named The Uncrowned Crown was sleeping on another bed, behind the curtain, and had already passed out.
Delis was not afraid of strangers. She looked between the ship officer and Siesta, and glanced at Fang with some curiosity with her golden eyes. She coughed lightly, and then asked: "Sister Sylvide, is this your captain?"
Sylvide only smiled slightly and looked at Fang? with her curved light blue eyes.
"How's it going? Do you like Delice?" Miss Ship Officer turned around and asked with a smile.
"Quite ordinary, not as handsome as Brother Wumian." The little girl thought for a moment and replied seriously.
Fang's face darkened.
However, he had earlier seen the scene where the little girl called Siesta through the clockwork fairy's vision. As Sylvide's maid, Delis's acquaintance with the ship officer did not make him feel uncomfortable. How strange.
He was just curious about the other party's identity.
"Sylvid," he asked in a low voice, "who is she?"
"Deris Silinspica."
Sylvester replied: "That is her name."
Silin Spica.
Fang? was startled for a moment.
This strange pronunciation has its own meaning in the Kaolin-Ithurian language.
In the southern part of the Kaolin continent, people use this term to refer to a kind of flower - a plant of the genus Rosa originated in the lowlands of Nordinni. Today it is common in Aitaria and is widely distributed in various continents.
Red and black roses.
Rose Workshop's family crest.
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