Brando's gaze went past Francis' Grip and stopped on the fourth item. It was a small mirror with a silver handle, and the frame was engraved with a very delicate wavy pattern, a bit like a lady's item. There were hundreds of millions of pieces of equipment in Amber, and except for some very famous ones or ones he had used before, it was impossible for him to recognize all of them. He picked up the mirror, and a pale green screen unfolded on the mirror. Reading the words on it, Brando couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
"So it's this thing …"
"What's this?" As Brando's gaze fell on the small mirror, Filas also noticed the most delicate gadget of all the items. As a noble, he still instinctively prioritized gorgeous appearances.
Brando raised the mirror –
Valora's Dressing Mirror.
[Fantasy]
Health + 20
Triple Slash Level + 1
Additional Skills:
The Shadow of Truth – Valora's Dressing Mirror duplicates all lies. Using Valora's Dressing Mirror to select a target can duplicate the previous ability used. This ability will be stored in the mirror in the form of a real illusion. The user can use this ability once and pay one-tenth of its cost. (Cooldown time, one day)
The Goddess of the Night's Dressing Mirror. This mirror was a very interesting prop in "Amber." It could duplicate abilities, but the abilities used were presented in the form of an illusion. It was just that this illusion was a real illusion – as long as the subject believed that the spell was real, then he had to bear all the corresponding effects.
But if he didn't believe it, this spell would be as simple as an illusion to him.
Therefore, using this mirror required a lot of skill. If the skills you copied were too bizarre, most people wouldn't believe it. But there were also people who did the opposite and specialized in learning some very exotic skills – for example, swordsmen who learned the skills of Elementalists. Often when you didn't believe it, control spells such as Frost Claw would really fall on you.
[I've heard of this mirror before, but I've never seen it in person.] He took the mirror and explained it to Filas. Of course, he did not go into too much detail. He only said that it was a relic left behind by a beautiful female Knight, and that the mirror had the ability to replicate illusions.
Unexpectedly, his words made the latter's eyes sparkle. He couldn't help but ask, "Wait, I have a presumptuous request. Count, can you give this mirror to me?"
Filas might look sloppy on the surface, but deep down, he had received an aristocratic education. In terms of aristocratic etiquette, they had found the skeleton together, but Filas knew very well that this was just Brando doing him a favor.
For the nobles, inviting the other party to inspect the spoils of war during a winter hunt was already the highest form of courtesy. Filas was not naive enough to think that he had the right to share these spoils of war. He could see that Brando could find his way here without bringing him along. However, he did not mention the word 'buy'. In their circle, such a question was undoubtedly very rude and even somewhat insulting.
Especially since Brando's current status could be said to be higher than his.
Filas' words actually meant that he would return the favor in the future. Brando also heard the implication of this sentence and looked at the other party with some surprise. He did not understand why this mirror was so important to the other party that he needed to repay it with a favor.
After all, the higher one's status, the less one liked to owe people favors. Filas himself was just an apprentice Knight, but don't forget that he would become a prince of the Cruz Empire in the future.
Seeing that Brando was a little confused, Filas then explained, "Count, you mentioned that this was a relic of a beautiful lady when she was alive. I feel that it must be worthy of Laurenna, and I've always wanted to give her a gift. "
"So that's how it is." Brendel finally reacted. He did not expect this guy to be so romantic. He looked at the silver mirror in his hand. To be honest, this thing was a good magical artifact. Even if he used it himself, it would be of great use. But on the other hand, it was indeed a good choice to gain the favor of Laurenna and Filas.
He had offended a lot of people in the Cruz Empire, especially the killing of Williams, although Wood had covered it up and described it as the deputy commander's death under a sneak attack by a demon. But these statements could only fool the general public; Williams himself was a descendant of a large family in the Cruz Empire, and his relatives and best friends were all powerful people at the time. Even if they did not trouble him for a while, it was inevitable that they would have malice against him behind his back.
Not to mention the recent inexplicable addition of the Prime Minister's daughter to the blacklist. Brando had never seen the Prime Minister's daughter in Amber, but the famous Prime Minister of the Empire was a very influential figure in the game. And his faction was very different from Williams' Temple Faction, which meant that he had offended the two major forces of the Empire at the same time.
So he had to consider winning over the moderates in the Empire. After all, a sage in Erouine had once said that when it came to the politics of Erouine, the Empire and the Wind Elves couldn't be avoided. Although this was somewhat helpless, it was a true portrayal of this ancient kingdom. Not to mention that the Princess's party had not yet unified Erouine, even if they were fully fledged, the geography of Erouine made it impossible for Brando to completely separate the kingdom from the influence of the Cruz Empire and the Wind Elves.
Although he kept saying that he wanted to break with the Holy Cathedral of Fire, Brando was actually very clear in his heart. Before Erouine really became an empire, the best choice was to remain neutral between the Holy Cathedral of Wind and the Holy Cathedral of Fire.
His opinion also came from that sage.
The sage's name was Valatiran, and he was Tuman's teacher in the mortal world. He was an important minister of the kingdom for nearly a hundred years from the establishment of the Corvado Dynasty and the ascension of 'White King' Edward to Anson the Eleventh. He was also the founder of the Renaissance Era. If it was said that Tuman and his own grandfather Darius were under the shadow of this sage.
Brando's promise to help Veronica was not without this consideration, and the families of Laurenna and Filas also had considerable influence in Cruz. The key was that Filas' family and Vahina's family had a good relationship, and if he could rope in these two families at the same time, the empire would have the power to counterbalance those potential enemies.
Of course, the most important point was. Brando had a good impression of Filas and Laurenna. Although both of them were descendants of great nobles, they did not act arrogantly. Compared to these two, he had to wonder about the family education of the so-called Prime Minister of the Empire and the Archduke of Flower Leaf.
Fortunately, although Vahina was rude, she was not bad in nature. He really didn't dare to compliment the Prime Minister's daughter.
Brendel had always believed that personal character could determine many things. If Firas and Laurenna were the same as those unsightly nobles, no matter how powerful the families behind them were in Kirrlutz, he would probably not give them a second glance. Although he had long said goodbye to everything about his past, Brando had always maintained the last line of arrogance and pride of a gamer in his heart. Otherwise, if he could compromise, he would not have gotten into so much trouble today.
After all, Erouine had nothing to do with him.
He glanced at Filas and threw the mirror over. "You are guests, I am the host, and it is only right for the host to give gifts to the guests, no need to be so polite. Besides, these things are ownerless to begin with, and maybe Lady Laurenna is the owner it has chosen. "
"That's true." Filas' eyes lit up, "But Count, you are really the most generous gentleman I have ever met. Please come to the Cruz Empire when you have the chance, and I will definitely treat you as my most distinguished guest."
Brendel smiled faintly. This guy was basically treating him as someone worth befriending. But he nodded without too much concern. This was just an opportunity. To truly form a close relationship, benefits were still needed.
But he had plenty of opportunities, so he was not in a hurry for the moment. Brando had the idea of developing the Black Forest. The Black Forest had the most precious goods in all of Wohnde, and with specialties that were hard to come by, he did not believe that the nobles of Cruz could sit still. Even the nobles of the Empire had to feed their families, and the larger the family, the more shocking the expenses. Which nobles of the Empire did not have their own properties? Especially the upper class of Cruz, who pursued an extravagant lifestyle, when the time came, the things in his hands would definitely arouse their interest.
Filas indeed had the spirit of a scion of a large family. As a noble, he certainly understood the value of the Goddess of the Night's dressing mirror, but when he put away the mirror, it was as if he was putting away an ordinary mirror. Then he looked at the other things on the ground and asked, "Count, you should also recognize these things, don't you?"
Brando nodded slightly and introduced him to the Ring of the Double Ringed Serpent and the Grasp of Francis one by one. But of course, he did not go into that much detail. He only pointed out the approximate value and history of these two magic items. In fact, he knew very well that nobles like Filas would not be very interested in the practical use of these things. Instead, the background of these magic items was more attractive to them.
After telling the story of the Grasp of Francis, the "unjust Knight," Brando's eyes fell on the last item. It was the tooth he saw before. It looked a bit like a wolf's fang, but when Brando took a closer look, he found that it was actually a bone dragon's tooth.
This was an incredible item. The bone dragon's tooth was one of the most precious materials in Amber. Using it to cast armor could give one the special ability to resist the curse of aging. Embedding it into a weapon could give the weapon the special power of the curse of aging.
In his previous life, the price of a bone dragon's tooth was as high as hundreds of thousands of Tor each. Brando had tried his best to get one, but at that time, the weapon made from this thing was not very useful to him, because it was recognized in Amber that it was most suitable for players with the Time Element.
The reason was simple. The triggering rate of the curse of aging provided by the bone dragon's tooth ranged from a minimum of 1% to a maximum of 2.5%. Depending on the effect of the forging, the triggering rate could be said to be quite low. This triggering rate was somewhat useless for the average player, but it was different for players with the Time Element, because having the Time Element meant having the active elemental effect of Elapse.
The active elemental effect of Elapse was described as "as long as the Lines of Law tend to be stable, the user's attack can affect the enemy and cause them to age rapidly." In fact, it was actively triggering the curse of aging. And this effect could be stacked with the effect of the bone dragon's tooth itself, which meant that with the bone dragon's tooth, when the Elapse effect was turned on, the curse of aging was basically doubled.
As one of the few high-grade items that he had experienced in his previous life, Brando had always remembered the effect of this thing. And here, he had the space-time attribute that was one level higher than the Time Element. It was as if this thing was specially made for him.
When he picked up the tooth, the look in Firas' eyes couldn't help but soften a little. This was simply the God of Fortune. If he brought this guy with him every time he went into a dungeon, wouldn't it not be long before he could graduate with godly equipment?
Of course, he also knew that this was just wishful thinking, and that Firas and Laurenna were unlikely to stay in Erouine forever. Presumably, as soon as Arreck died, they and Veronica would return to the Cruz Empire.
"Eh, this is a bone dragon's tooth?" Firas seemed to recognize the thing in Brando's hand.
Brando was slightly taken aback and a little surprised. "You know it?"
"Ah, I've probably heard of it," Firas replied with a little pride. "I heard that this thing was a tooth taken from a Humerus Wyrm in Madara, right?"
"No." Before Brando could speak, Haruz interrupted him and said in a childish voice, "The Humerus Wyrm in Madara is just a monster assembled from the bones of a wyrm. The real undead wyrm is a dead adult dragon, and only a few wyrms in Wohnde have been transformed into undead. Their power is almost the same as when they were alive, and even His Majesty the Emperor with the Mercury Staff respects them —"
"Eh." Brando shifted his gaze to the little prince, whose face was slightly red, his soft curly hair sticking to his forehead, and his eyes shining in the dark against the light of the illuminating crystal, looking very feminine. But he still insisted, "My sister told me this."
"Your sister, Princess Gryphine?" Firas reacted.
"My sister said that Madara is Erouine's mortal enemy. Although you Cruz people have been trying to manipulate the power of the kingdom, you won't let the kingdom fall into a sea of fire. But for the undead, the boundary between life and death is easy to break … "
Haruz looked at Firas as if he was holding his breath. "But I've always wondered, we're all humans, why can't we work together to deal with those monsters in the dark?"
"Well …" Firas was a little embarrassed and couldn't help but scratch his hair.
Brando looked at the guy with some sympathy, and he couldn't explain to Haruz that Madara's skeletons were not, strictly speaking, monsters. After all, the undead were also part of this world, and they were not truly immortal, but just another way of existing.
In fact, in Wohnde, the undead of Madara, like the humans of Cruz and the wind elves of Saint-ausol, all believed in Martha, who symbolized order. It was just that one worshipped the order of darkness, and the other had a heart towards the light.
But it couldn't be said that Princess Gryphine was wrong, the boundary between life and death was very fragile, but the two were, after all, very different existences. The undead had invaded the eastern part of Erouine for thousands of years, and there were many examples like Bucce. As a human, it was really difficult to think of things from the perspective of the undead.
He sighed and rubbed the little prince's hair. "Did your sister tell you all this?"
"Lady Maynild also said some …"
This was similar to what Brando had guessed. But he didn't intend to continue on this topic, and patted the little prince on the shoulder. Then he turned around and pulled the armor from the skeleton with a crash, tearing the already decaying skeleton apart.
"Mr. Brando, you …" Firas was startled, and Scarlet, who had been standing at the back, also stared at her lord in surprise. The mountain people, like the nobles, had great respect for the undead.
But Brando looked at the armor and explained, "As you can see, the average person wouldn't carry a bone plate with words on it or a sword with a curse. There's only one kind of existence that would use them. "
Firas was slightly startled, but reacted quickly. "Wait, my lord, you mean …"
Brando nodded. He could basically confirm that this thing was a skeleton when it was "alive." It was more likely a Skeleton Knight. He had been influenced by the player's strategy guide, but now that he thought about it, the strategy guide was a very early product. Things like the Bone Plate of the Secret Runes were only known to everyone in the later stages of the game when the status of the players in the game gradually increased. Therefore, it was entirely possible that the strategy guide had overlooked something.
This reminded him that because of the different time periods, some strategies were likely to have limitations, and he himself had to come up with his own experience to judge.
Brando handed the armor in his hand to Firas. "This is a set of enchanted armor. The magic armor of the Skeleton Knight has no special power, but its defense is shockingly high. Take it and put it on later, there won't be just demonic spirits from here onward. "
Firas frowned at the dirty, dusty armor in Brando's hand. Magic armor was a very rare and precious magic item even in Amber, and he certainly knew that. But for him to wear something that had just been pulled out of a dead person, it was really a little …
Firas swallowed and replied dryly, "Well, I'll find a way to wash it." In fact, he also knew that he was basically the weakest existence in the team on this trip. Brando gave him the armor so that he wouldn't be such a burden to the team in the future.
But in any case, he gave Brando a grateful look, and then took the smelly armor with a bitter face.
Brando turned back again, and he estimated that it should be almost time outside, so he quickened the movements of his hands. This time he pulled out the Skeleton Knight's weapon from the pile of broken bones — a flame-shaped sword.
As soon as he pulled the sword out, Haruze behind him couldn't help but let out a cry.
"What's the matter?" Firas, who was now very familiar with the little prince, immediately asked.
"This is …"
"This is the Lion's Tooth." Brando looked at the sword in his hand with some appreciation, and said with some surprise, "It was the sword of the guard of the late King Erik, and the method of forging it has long been lost for hundreds of years. It seems that the identity of our Mr. Knight has some history — "
"Yeah." Haruze nodded heavily.
"Is there something wrong with this sword?" Firas looked at Haruze's sparkling eyes and couldn't help but be a little curious.
"No, it's very appropriate." Brando raised the sword under the faint light of the illuminating crystal and smiled slightly, "The eleven Knights of the late King Erik were all people who shone brightly for a time. Oh, by the way, do you see the knight beside Freya who hasn't made a sound or made a move? "
Firas nodded inexplicably, of course he saw the Knight of the Lake who had been outside the crowd.
"They're all legends …"
Brando sighed as he turned the blade and handed the hilt to Haruze. He smiled at the little prince of Erouine and asked, "What do you think?"
Haruze stared blankly at the Count's actions.
"Count, Count … You're giving it to me?" He was almost in disbelief.
"The historical texts say that the Lion's Tooth belongs to the truly brave. In your previous battle, you may not have been an excellent warrior. But those who can overcome themselves are true warriors — "
Brendel replied: "Are you saying that it's not worthy of you? Your Highness Haruze? "
"No … I, I just …" Haruze was surprised and a little excited, his eyes were as beautiful as silver gems, and he couldn't help but blush, "But this is a hero's sword, I, I just think …"
"You just think you're not worthy of it?" Brando shook his head, "If you think you need to be braver, then all the more you should pick up this sword and prove yourself."
"Besides, you're not just going to prove yourself for a sword —"
Brando handed the sword to him, "This is your trophy, legend has it that the mountain men are declared adults when they get their weapons, so this sword is your responsibility from now on."
As Brando said this, he looked up and saw Scarlet nodding slightly at him not far away.
"I, I understand, Count …"
This was Haruze's almost inaudible voice.
…
(PS: Today's six thousand words. Boohoo, looks like I'm going out again tomorrow, I'll see. So annoying. Fortunately, it's over on the fifteenth. This year has been a nightmare, and I'll continue to ask for monthly votes.) (To be continued. If you like this work, you're welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for recommendation and monthly votes, your support is my greatest motivation.)
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