A gust of cold wind blew into the room, and Count Brill saw that the light of the candle had suddenly dimmed.
"What's wrong?" He turned around and looked at his old friend, Ambunal, who was holding a bone staff and was in a gloomy state that made him uneasy.
"Hmm?" The duke slowly opened his eyes, and there was a hint of dark red in his blue-gray eyes. He lowered his head and silently looked at the bone staff in his hand. Then, he gently let go of his hand, and the bone staff floated in the air as if it was held up by an invisible force. Count Brill frowned as he looked at this scene. He did not like this thing. No owner of this dark treasure in history had a good ending. He also did not like the undead of Madara. This battle would bring considerable trouble to his territory. Although the Silver Queen would compensate him accordingly, he was more worried about his old friend. He felt that his old friend had become much gloomier these days.
But the count understood that his old friend was a soldier, and he was just the lord of Ovechin. There were some things that he could not interfere with.
Duke Ambunal suddenly stood up from his chair and turned to the stone window. He left the staff, which was shrouded in black smoke, floating up and down. Outside the stone window was half of Avezzin Port, which was now completely frozen. He looked beyond the city wall and saw the winding Silver Valley Coast in the dark.
"What's wrong, old friend?" The count felt that the temperature in the room seemed to have dropped by a few degrees, and he could not help but ask. He saw that even the fire in the fireplace had dimmed, and the burning flames had turned into small flames.
"There's a small problem," Duke Ambunal replied gloomily. "I suddenly feel that I can't sense one of the bone staff."
Outside Ovechin City.
The undead army was standing still.
Under Brando's command, Crotte broke the bone staff in her hand. A black light shot out from the broken bone staff and went straight into Brando's chest. Brando knew that there were a lot of things in his body, and this black light seemed to be related to the Black Pearl described by Haku, so he did not show any signs of fuss. He just checked his condition and found that there was nothing wrong with him.
In addition to the power of the Blood of the Dark God or the Black Pearl, there should be the Soul of the Holy Sword Oderfeiss in his body. According to Sidney, it was the power of the Flame Pearl. However, these two powers existed in his body at the same time without any sign of conflict. In fact, between these two powers, Brando could not feel the existence of the Blood of the Dark God at all except for its influence on the Elemental Pool. It was the same for the Soul of Oderfeiss. He only felt its existence when he transferred the latter into the fragment of the Flaming Blade. Normally, he could not detect it at all, and it did not even affect his Fire Elemental Pool.
As for why one could affect the Elemental Pool and the other could not, Brando vaguely felt that the difference between the two was that one had self-awareness, while the other did not. Oderfeiss was the Sword Soul of the Flaming Blade. In The Amber Sword, the so-called Sword Soul was actually the alignment of the Holy Sword due to the influence of its master and experience. Although it could not be compared to true wisdom, at least it had the ability to judge. The Black Pearl, on the other hand, had been in a state of being divided into two for a long time, and the part controlled by the Black Pearl was obviously smaller. As for the Blood of the Dark God (another way of saying the power of the Black Pearl) that was injected into his body at the beginning, it was even thinner, and there was no possibility of it having self-awareness and self-judgment.
The power of the Black Pearl and the Flame Pearl was obviously very unique, and they were different from any power Brando knew of. In Wohnde, most of the power and energy was shown on the outside, and it would actually increase your energy level, which was the Energy Level (OZ). It would change your external or internal strength, such as the three pillars of the body, strength, dexterity, physique, or the three pillars of the soul, perception, will, and bloodline. Although the Elemental Orbs had shown powerful miraculous powers in history, such as the terrifying lethality of the Flaming Blade and the Frost Chant, you could not feel their Energy Level.
They were like magical items without any energy, which sounded like a paradox in itself, because in the world of Wohnde, the definition of a magical item was' an item that contains some kind of power, or energy '.
Not only the Elemental Orbs themselves, but even the 'power' they contained seemed to have the same nature.
After the Bone Staff was destroyed, Jutta and the others who were standing at the back immediately noticed the changes that happened to the skeleton soldiers around them.
The thousands of undead that were still on the snow-covered shore of the Silver Valley suddenly rippled out, and in an instant, the undead army melted like snow. At the same time, Brando, who was silently looking at Ovechin's direction, felt something and narrowed his eyes.
He gestured to Taru, and the young wizard immediately cast a spell. A water-like ripple spread out in the surrounding space, shielding the aura of the living.
A little further away, some undead that smelled the aura of the living in the wind staggered and stopped. The undead army was collapsing and scattering in twos and threes, like lonely ghosts wandering in the wilderness.
"My lord, I don't understand. Why did you destroy the Bone Staff? Isn't it better to order the undead to attack the harbor? Although they are weak, they can at least be used as cannon fodder, right? "
Taru looked at the scene in front of him in confusion.
Brando smiled and shook his head.
The thousands of skeletons that had not been strengthened by the undead's secret magic were useless. He did not need such a weak attack. He only sneaked in to confirm one thing, and now he got the answer.
Ovechin Port was not a military fortress like Fateen Port. As an important commercial port in the Northern Sublime Inland Sea, after hundreds of years of development, the size of the port was no longer what it used to be. As the city area expanded, the merchants in the port had long torn down the outer walls. In the hinterland of the Empire, the area with the most stable order and the White Legion's garrison, Ovechin did not need these defensive facilities. For the sake of tax revenue, the city's ruler, the Brill family, chose to acquiesce to this behavior. As the city expanded, Ovechin gradually crossed its original border, the Turquoise River, and formed two districts on the east and west of the river. The Eastern District was the old district, and Ovechin's earliest city gate and wharf were on the east bank of the Turquoise River. The Western District was the new district, and there were neatly organized workshops and handicraft workshops, as well as two markets.
It was worth mentioning that Ovechin's newly built Fort Kongwei was also located in the Northern District. This fort stood on the north bank of the Turquoise River, and it was like a silent, dark ghost in the midst of the lights on the north bank.
At this moment, Brendel felt a strong calling coming from the fortress. There was no doubt that the Treasure of Darkness that White spoke of was located in this fortress. It indeed had some sort of control over all the fakes that were created using its power. If that was the case, then Duke Ambunar, who was in possession of it, should not be too far away.
He easily suppressed the impulse in his heart. For him who had more than two-thirds of the power of the Orb of Darkness, the so-called 'Treasure of Darkness' in Duke Ambunar's hands was not even worth mentioning.
Ambunar should have already discovered his existence.
But it was too late.
Brando took out a gem-like object from his bosom. This gemstone was dull and crescent-shaped, like some kind of feldspar or obsidian. He only took a glance at it and threw it forward. The gemstone drew a flat arc and landed on the beach. However, there was no sand on the beach at the moment, only thick layers of snow. The gemstone sank deep into the snow.
Above his head.
The sky was dark, and the twelve moons were dim.
In just a few hours, the outer sea of the sublime inland sea seemed to have completely changed. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled on the surface of the sea, and the intertwining lightning reflected a ferocious scene. The entire sea seemed to be boiling, and in an instant, huge waves of hundreds of feet in the shape of mountains rolled up and surged down. One after another, it was like moving mountains, or giant beasts were slaughtering each other.
Far in the horizon, glaciers froze the coast, and the ice field extended all the way to the depths of the sea. Huge icebergs floated on the raging sea, cracking, freezing, and then disappearing into the depths of the darkness. The entire sky and earth were shrouded in a curtain of rain. The line of rain that fell from the sky blurred the line between the sea and the sky, blurring the entire world together, forming an impenetrable world of water.
However, a silver fleet was sailing through the curtain of rain.
On the Breaker, the wizard on duty, Telman, was somewhat uneasy about what was happening on the surface of the sea. Mortals often thought that wizards were omnipotent, and that nothing could surprise or frighten them. However, this was often not the case. Telman was twenty-one years old this year. Before becoming a wizard, he was actually the son of a farmer in Tónigel. He was fortunate enough to learn a few words from a wandering wizard, and because of that, he was chosen by the first batch of students in The Shire Wizard Tower and became the third batch of students in the Shire Wizard Tower. He was very smart and learned very quickly. A month ago, he became an apprentice wizard. Later, he was chosen by the Buga to become one of the official wizards on the newly built escort cruiser, the Breaker.
Although he had the title of an official wizard, in reality, Telman was still a half-baked apprentice wizard. He had not learned much, and was far from the real apprentices. The wizards in the wizard tower usually trained an apprentice for five years. Although the apprenticeship of the Buga wizards was short, it usually took them ten years or more before they were officially exposed to magic. In other words, they were exposed to the basics of magic from birth. Therefore, although Telman had a preliminary understanding of the world of magic, he was still far from being exposed to the real world.
What was the world?
It was a difficult question for many wizards who had seen a lot of things, let alone for Telman, who was still a novice wizard who was still a farmer's son.
He looked at the scene in front of him with some fear, as if he saw the end of the world. In fact, he was not the only one who thought this at the moment. On the entire ship, and even the entire fleet, there were many people who had the same thought. What was happening in front of them was beyond their understanding of the civil war of the Empire, or even the scope of the Holy War. At this moment, many people had a vague idea in their hearts.
Perhaps this time, the Four Holy Cathedrals were really in trouble.
They did not know that this speculation was accurate, and the consequences were far beyond their imagination. Before the fleet was formed, the temporary military management and training that the Bugas had requested finally worked. That was why Telman did not have the mentality of running away at the last minute. At least he remembered what he was currently shouldering, and what the responsibility of being the vanguard of the fleet was.
Suddenly, the crystal ball in front of Telman lit up and flickered slightly. When he saw the words on the crystal ball, he was so shocked that he jumped out of his chair and even stepped on one of his boots. But he did not have the heart to pick it up. Instead, he immediately rushed out of the room barefooted.
Behind the young wizard, a small line of numbers on the crystal ball was shining.
X — 3321; Y — 4211; Z — 0311
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Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. A series of low and uniform footsteps echoed on the snow in the dark. The rustling sound lasted for a long time before it finally stopped. Outside Fattan Port was a cliff mountain road that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. At the end of the mountain road, there was an inward valley. In clear weather, looking into the valley from the walls of the fortress outside the port, one could often see for miles. But at this moment, only darkness could be seen.
But if one looked carefully, one could see faint flashes of light in the darkness.
In Erouine, the veterans of Bucce and Karsuk only needed one glance to be shocked and recognize that it was the unique light of the soul fire of the undead army when they were marching. But at this moment, the troops stationed in the fortress were only port guards who took orders from Baron Ludwig. These soldiers had not even seen bandits before, let alone the undead.
Death seemed to be closing in on him silently.
Sauk stared coldly at the progress of the undead army in the snow. With the help of the dim light, he could see a large group of undead approaching the fortress wall on the cliff. The liches had already arranged two rows of skeleton archers in front, but there was still no response from Fathom Harbor. Those fellows must have thought that it was impossible for them to be attacked in such a bad weather.
Moreover, this solar eclipse was originally 'accidental' to them.
At the thought of the solar eclipse, a hint of gloom suddenly rose in Sauk's heart. If even a solar eclipse could be artificially created, his future days might not be as stable as he imagined. Furthermore, the current weather did not seem as simple as a solar eclipse. When he thought about the various signs that had happened in the empire recently, it seemed that none of them were good omens.
Troubled times were coming.
Such a thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
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