"What are those fiery red lights? Are they the guards of the tomb?"
Wild Boar El alertly raised the six-edged hammer in his hand, which was the size of an adult's skull. Ed noticed that his hands were shaking.
Fire demon, of course he recognized these strange and cruel spirit servants.
There are at least ten fire monsters in front of them. Unless the fortune teller known as "Crow" has unknown strength, this ragtag team of bounty hunters will have no chance of winning.
Even if all the members of the East District team were to appear, it would be difficult to escape from the flame demon of this magnitude, not to mention... Elder Issyk.
"Shut up, we were ambushed." Hofende glanced at the crow with an unkind expression.
A familiar, deep and old voice came from the shadows obscured by the flames:
"Before I put my sword down your throat, take off your mask and answer me—"
The tall and thin figure was gradually lit up by the firelight, and the shadow was stretched and deformed. The purple robe was dancing fiercely, and the huge flaming sword that was as high as a person was like a deformed iron stake nailed to his back.
"Are you a friend or an enemy of the Nirvana Order?"
Sure enough, it seems that Issek neither knows the identity of the crow nor the method of opening the tomb, Ed thought to himself.
If it was clearly known that the necessary condition for opening the tomb was the blood of the Voluni royal family, a devout fanatic like Elder Issyk would never say " Put a sword in your throat."
And if the necessary conditions for opening the tomb have nothing to do with blood, there is no need for Elder Issyk to stand up and chat with them in a big way. The best option is to directly attack them and kill them to seize the treasure.
A more reasonable guess is that Issyk knew the approximate location of the tomb through ancient documents, but did not know how to open the tomb.
But after witnessing the crow using blood to open the hidden stone wall, he probably came to the same guess as Ed - the method of opening the tomb is related to blood, and the "crow" may be a descendant of the elf royal family.
That's why he took the initiative to negotiate with the group, leaving room for negotiation instead of directly attacking them.
"..."
The crow wordlessly and seemingly provocatively took off his hood. Under the hood were pale bone-like hair and... human ears.
Humanity?
Even a hybrid of Erythion (human) and Volunian (elf), the ear contour will still retain some of the slender characteristics of "elf ears".
The founding monarch of Lyrea, "Sunfire" Howl, is the most famous half-human, half-elf hybrid. His statues or portraits all retain elf ears, and some are deliberately made longer to highlight Hal's elf blood. part.
Did I guess wrong? The method of opening the tomb has nothing to do with bloodline?
Almost at the same moment when this thought flashed through Ed's mind, Issek sneered. The blade of the threaded giant sword was already burning, and was thrown like a lead ball by the huge force, like a flaming pendulum.
The blade of the sword whirled, and a terrifying wave of heat hit his face, causing the space in front of him to become somewhat distorted.
Hofende let out a strange roar, his muscles suddenly expanded and deformed, and his hair grew. Elze took several steps back, looking left and right as if looking for an escape route.
As for the crow, he didn't make any movement for a long time. He stood there as if he was confident, with no expression on his metal mask.
Faced with this situation, Ed also did not panic. He just quietly took a few steps away with El and hid behind El.
He was not worried that "he" would be "killed" by Issik. After all, he killed Fitz himself, so how could he die here.
Just like the audience who already knows the ending of the movie, no matter how turbulent the plot is, it will not cause too many waves in their hearts.
Sure enough, just before the whirling sword hit them, a silver-white thick fog rose out of the air, like a thin veil, gently blocking the flames.
The secret text of "Dense Fog"?
From an effect point of view, these silvery thick fogs can not only block the field of vision but also reduce some damage. They are somewhat similar to the "Lake" secret text.
It must be a crow trick. Ed has never seen anyone use this secret text, which is a small gain for him.
The intense firelight was obscured by the mist, the loud noise turned into a distant roar like a whale song, and the temperature that originally caused the lungs to burn became more tolerable.
The huge impact generated by the explosion of the flaming giant sword was converted into rolling air waves, lifting the body of Mouse Fitz almost flying.
I don't know whether the shock wave rolled out the things in the tomb, or whether the things on the crow were blown away. A leather scroll was pushed in front of Ed by the shock wave, and a corner of it was opened to reveal strange writing.
Secret text. Ed recognized this as the scroll he found on Fitz the Mouse.
There was a roar of killing in his ears. Ed looked back and saw that El had already taken advantage of the chaos and fled into the fog, escaping in a panic toward the fork outside the tomb.
Escape? I see……
He finally understood how the wild boar El had survived such a melee in which he was outnumbered. Issyk's first goal must be to prevent crows or jackals from approaching the Eye of Mentilosa, and he will not waste his energy
As for this "Crow", judging from his performance in resisting Isak's attack just now, he should have at least the strength of a third-level extraordinary person or above. It was also difficult for Issyk to finish him cleanly and quickly.
If wild boars and rats choose to escape at this time, there will be at most a small number of fire monsters blocking the road, and rats' packs can also work wonders in such an underground maze.
The space in front of him gradually became dim and blurry. At this moment, the scene here no longer existed in the memory of Wild Boar El, and Ed could not see more details in the tomb.
That's enough, let's stop here.
Ed did not choose to chase El, but allowed the darkness to envelope him.
His vision gradually recovered, and his consciousness left the controlled dream of Ilna.
