Brando swore that if he had known what it felt like to be buried under sand, he would have surrendered rather than run away.
At first, he felt his body falling rapidly in the darkness. Countless objects fell around him, accompanied by the sound of the wind. There was only a faint light above his head, which should be the direction of the collapsing underground hall.
About a second or two later, he felt a violent impact.
A normal person would have been smashed to pieces under such an impact, but it was nothing to a peak Gold-tier physical strength. Brando only felt that he had hit a slope, and then rolled down along the sharp rocks. He tried to grab onto something, but it was futile in the darkness. A large amount of sand rolled him down until he hit a flat rock.
Brando felt the first impact, and then the second impact was a soft body hitting him. He immediately realized that it was Scarlet. More rocks and sand were falling from above. Brando hurriedly pulled the girl down, and then turned around to block in front of her.
In just a split second, there was a loud rumble as several huge rocks smashed heavily onto his body. Of course, this was nothing to Brando. It felt like he was hit by a few sticks, but the large amount of sand made him suffer.
He coughed, and his mouth was full of sand.
But this was not the most tragic experience. The key point was that when he lowered his head and subconsciously wanted to spit out the sand in his mouth, he met a pair of bright eyes. It was a pair of quiet, curious, and shy eyes. Obviously, it belonged to a mountain girl who liked to keep her hair in a long ponytail. Scarlet was under Brando's protection, and she obediently looked at her lord without moving.
For both Brando and Scarlet, it was not difficult to see in the dark. Both of them could clearly see each other's state.
But fortunately, it was not the first time they had encountered such a situation. The last time they were chased by the Misty Nightmare in the Loop of Trade Winds, they had experienced almost the same situation. After the first experience, at least the second time was not as awkward.
"My Lord," Scarlet whispered and blinked: "Thank you."
"Wu wu." Brando's mouth was full of sand, and he was unable to speak. His face was almost touching Scarlet's. He couldn't spit sand on her face, could he? Rumbling sounds were still coming from outside. It was clear that the collapse would not end anytime soon.
But Brando did not answer, and the mountain girl looked at him carefully. After a while, Brando suddenly felt Scarlet move, and then gently leaned her forehead against his chest.
This seemingly unintentional action made Brando's heart skip a beat. He subconsciously lowered his head and saw Scarlet curled up in his arms like a child.
"Wah … Qian?"
"I'm sorry …" Scarlet seemed to have been awakened by his voice. She was startled and quickly let go of his hand. Brando looked at her carefully shrinking back and couldn't help but feel sorry for her. "Actually, it's okay … Are you scared?"
Scarlet frowned and shook her head slightly.
Brando was silent for a moment. To be honest, he could not tell what this girl was thinking. Since the battle of Ampere Seale, Makarov had come to see her a few times, but she had rejected him. Scarlet was usually quiet and only occasionally accompanied the Roman – but according to the other members of the Grey Wolves Mercenaries, she was not like this in the past.
He thought for a moment and felt that he was not suited to guess a girl's thoughts. After all, he was a complete loser when it came to that in his last life. He shook his head and decided to change the topic. "Scarlet, how did you break through Ovina's Element?"
"Hmm?" The mountain girl paused and looked up at him curiously.
"You don't know?" Brando was stunned. Of course, he could see that Scarlet's expression was genuine.
Scarlet shook her head in confusion.
"That's strange …" Brando was even more confused than Scarlet. He knew the power of Ovina's Element of Fate. Ovina's Element of Fate was similar to a Speech Spirit, but it was much more powerful. If you could not break through your own fate, then you would never be able to defeat her. You might not even be able to attack her.
But the problem was, as a Gold Level being, it was an impossible task to break free from the Element of a legendary hero who had mastered the Power of Existence.
Even the Silver Storm, Master William, would not be able to do it, much less him or Scarlet.
Could it be because of the dragon bloodline? But he had never heard of a Gold Person being able to challenge someone of a higher level. It could only be said that they were more talented.
Brando frowned and couldn't figure it out. But at that moment, he suddenly felt something. He looked up and realized that the sound of the falling rocks had quieted down. This was undoubtedly the best news for him at the moment. He hurriedly threw away the messy thoughts in his mind. He stretched out his hand and easily lifted the rock that was pressing down on him. With another push, the gravel rolled down into the darkness along with the sand and sand.
Brando climbed out of the rubble in no time and then rescued Scarlet from the rubble. The two of them finally reached a flat rock. They looked around and realized that the collapsed hall had formed a giant hole. They were in the middle of this hole. Above their heads, any signs of human activity had long disappeared.
Brando looked around. In theory, when the hall collapsed, besides him and Scarlet, William and Ovina should have been caught in the mud and sand. The others were bound to the wall by the Lightning Cage and shouldn't have been in too much danger. But Brendel strained his eyes to find William and Ovina's silhouettes in the darkness, but he couldn't find any of them.
"That's strange." He paused slightly. According to Ovina and William's powers, they should have been able to escape earlier than he was. The collapse from before looked dangerous, but for beings of their level, it shouldn't have been much trouble at all.
"My Lord, look over there!" Scarlet stood beside Brando without saying a word after being dragged out of the rubble. But as a half-dragon, her eyesight was obviously much better than Brando's.
Brando looked in the direction she pointed. After a while, he saw a dot of light flying out of the darkness. But when the light came closer, he realized that it wasn't a dot of light at all. It was William flying in midair, holding a glowing staff in his hand.
And when he got closer, Brando suddenly saw that the old magician was carrying a person in his hand — from the platinum body made of lightning, who else could it be but Ovina?
William's flying spell was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, he was right in front of Brando. He descended, his long robe fluttering in the air, and then landed firmly in front of Brando. He reached out and threw Ovina in front of Brendel.
"She's unconscious?" Brendel's jaw dropped as he stared at Ovina, whose eyes were tightly shut. He couldn't believe that this was the mighty Lord Heroic Spirit from before. Normally, as long as one's body was complete, even if one fell from a height of several thousand feet, one shouldn't have fainted. This was too degrading.
"You guessed right, little one. After leaving that hall, her power weakened rapidly," the old magician replied. "When I found her, she was at most an upper Silver level. And her magic was still draining away. I can foresee that if this continues, she won't even be able to maintain her original form. "
"I see." Brando paused, but then he felt a little troubled. He couldn't help but look at the lightning girl on the ground and say, "So what's the situation now? Did we win or lose? This girl isn't going to go back on her word, is she? "
"Ahem … What do you take me for!" Brando had just finished speaking when the unconscious Ovina on the ground suddenly woke up. Although she still looked a little weak, she still glared at Brando and said, "Although I hate opportunistic people the most, a win is a win. I won't deny it!"
The girl panted, and then her face became much rosier. Brando and William both frowned slightly, because at the same time, they realized that Ovina's power seemed to have increased.
"You can still recover your power?" Brando couldn't help but ask, "Wasn't that hall destroyed? Wait, you … "
He narrowed his eyes, as if he realized something.
But the silver magician leader was one step ahead of him, and a look of realization appeared on his face.
"Hmph, at least you have some smarts," Ovina snapped. Ovina replied in annoyance, "It's just as you guessed. My power doesn't increase the closer I get to the hall. Instead, the closer I got to the Holy Lance of Heaven, the closer my power was to its peak. I'm sure you've guessed it, I'm not some Azure Knight – I'm the Heaven. "
"Ha …" Brando felt as if he had been punched in the face. "So you're saying that everything that happened before was a self-directed act?"
"Not entirely. As a Divine Artifact, of course I have the right to choose my owner." Ovina lifted her chin and answered proudly.
"Alright, that has nothing to do with us anyway." Brando shrugged. It wasn't the first time he had seen a magical equipment with a soul. The Ring of the Wind Empress on his hand had a Heroic Spirit sealed in it during the War of the Holy Saints, not to mention that many famous magical equipment in The Amber Sword had similar mechanisms. However, it was the first time he had seen a Heroic Spirit sealed in a ring that was so powerful.
But the more it was like this, the more it proved the value of the Heaven. He thought for a moment and continued, "No matter what, you admit that we won before, right? So now you can choose who your owner will be, right?"
"Yes –" Ovina answered through gritted teeth. "But before that, I have a question."
"Hmm?"
"I want to know how she was able to pierce through my Elemental Power!" The girl in lightning form looked at Scarlet on the side, her face once again filled with disbelief. Like Brando, she couldn't figure out how a Gold Rank could ignore the influence of her Elemental Power of Fate.
Brando glanced at Scarlet and thought for a moment. "Maybe it's because of her dragon bloodline?"
"Impossible!" Ovina denied without hesitation. "She's just a Gold Person. Since when did their bloodline have such power? Unless some genetic mutation happened in the past ten thousand years, but the chances of that are too small. "
"Genetic mutation?" Brando chewed on this word word by word. Did The Amber Sword have such a setting?
But the girl in lightning form only snorted coldly and didn't answer him.
The darkness seemed to fall silent again until the Archmage William thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I know why?"
"Hmm?" Everyone turned to look at him.
"In our history, there are some things that can allow people to change their fate and break free from the shackles of fate." The Archmage answered slowly. "Brando, you know that little girl Aloz, right?"
"Ah!" Brendel suddenly exclaimed with a look of sudden realization: "So that's how it is, I got it!"
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