"Who is that little girl?"
Such a question suddenly popped out from the crowd, causing everyone to be startled for a moment. The lively discussion also stopped as everyone turned to look at Baba En. "She seems to be the countess's maid," Babarn replied absentmindedly. Babarn replied absent-mindedly. His mind was filled with thoughts of how to ask Count Trentheim for her. He didn't know if he would agree, but he probably would. The Count wouldn't mind having another friend, especially if this friendship came from within the Empire. Babarn was full of confidence.
The nobles were a little disappointed. She was just the countess's maid. It was not important. Usually, they would have teased her, but now they were not in the mood to do so. The topic quickly turned back to the possible retaliation from the Cecil Family. They started to sigh again, but people were not willing to sit still and wait for death. Very quickly, someone said, "This matter is not our responsibility. If it wasn't for that country bumpkin count bringing us to this damned place, this matter wouldn't have happened."
This statement was immediately echoed. They had completely forgotten that they did not have to follow in. Veronica could not restrain them, and Brando was more than happy to bring them along. But the person who suggested this was now a cold corpse lying on the ground, and they did not dare to put the blame on the heir of the Cecil family, so they simply chose to ignore this point.
But everyone knew that this kind of complaint was meaningless. The Cecil family might vent their anger on the Count Tónigel, but this did not mean that they would not cause trouble for them. This kind of behemoth did not care about the feelings of small shrimps.
But in the midst of all the sighs, a voice asked tentatively, "What if Teal and Jon are right?"
This suggestion was like a devil's temptation, and the valley under the glacier suddenly quieted down.
Everyone was frozen in place, and only their eyes were rolling. No one dared to speak. Their faces were a mixture of fear, realization, disbelief, and a little hope. Teal and Jon were the two heirs of the Cecil family who had become stiff and cold. Of course, they were one of them. As for what they said was right, everyone present knew.
After a long while, someone said dryly, "This, this may be a way, but if it fails, we will have to face the wrath of both sides."
"What's the difference between one side and two sides? Can a person die twice?" With someone taking the lead, the others were emboldened.
"But where is the evidence?" Someone asked cautiously.
"Evidence? What evidence do we need? We are the Officers' Observation Group. We are the evidence. "The person who spoke looked at everyone and said gloomily," You saw it with your own eyes. That Ash Blademaster, he is our enemy, but he saved her life. Why? His duchy is still in the Empire's territory. Would he be willing to let it go? There must be a conspiracy. "
In fact, everyone present thought that Mephisto was just being a gentleman. The Ash Blademaster hated the Empire, but he did not need to play tricks in this place. With his character, he would only defeat his enemies fair and square. But this time, no one refuted. Someone asked carefully, "You mean, Veronica and him are plotting to restore the duchy?"
"But what good does it do her? It doesn't make sense. Her Majesty is not a fool." Someone shook his head.
"You've all forgotten one thing," the man encouraged. "Mephistopheles is that country bumpkin count's teacher, and Veronica is very close to that count. They must have some secret deal."
"But how can we know the inside story of the deal? Her Majesty will not only listen to our words. She is the real commander of the legion. Without concrete evidence, the Empire can't do anything to her."
"It is because she is the commander that Her Majesty is more suspicious. As for the inside story of the deal, we do not have it now, but we will soon."
The man looked at the direction where Scarlet disappeared and smiled coldly, revealing his white teeth.
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A prismatic platform lay in the darkness, like a lone island on a pitch-black lake. Countless pipes extended from all directions, connecting to the base of the platform.
Brando was fixed there as if he was under a spell. He clearly remembered that when the Frost Devourer rushed out of the cliff, he looked back and saw a bottomless abyss behind him. But at this moment, this strange platform seemed to appear out of thin air, less than 300 feet below him and the Frost Devourer King. But what was this place? There was absolutely no player in the game who found such a place. Moreover, how did this damn platform appear?
Was it because he was too nervous before and saw wrongly? No, it was impossible. Brando suddenly thought of something. He climbed up the back of the giant worm with his hands and feet. After running for about ten meters, he suddenly felt as if he had passed through a thin layer of water curtain.
This is it!
He looked back, and there was still the unfathomable abyss behind him. He took a breath and slowly returned to the back of the water curtain. At the moment when he passed through the water curtain, the scenery in front of him seemed to ripple. When his vision became clear again, the platform appeared in front of him again.
There was no doubt that this was an illusion! There was a huge illusion hidden under the cliff! An uncontrollable shudder swept through Brando's body. He knew even with his knees that the scene hidden under this illusion was definitely not an ordinary place. This must be the Eternal Rest of Gods mentioned by Ko Hua, which was the real location of the hidden BOSS in the game, Surash.
But he immediately calmed down. The question now was whether to go back the way he came or go down to have a look. Logically speaking, the little female dragon should have gotten the star-shaped stone, and Arreck's scheme should have been completely thwarted. Now was not the time to complicate things. It was best to get out of this place as soon as possible, find Freya, Scarlet, The Shire, and the others, and meet up with Erouine outside. Not only would he eliminate the potential threat of Erouine, but he would also gain a favor from Cruz's people. It was already a great deal.
But Brando glanced at the abyss below. There was also another voice in his heart, like a demon tempting him to go down and have a look. Martha above, this was such a rare opportunity. The secret that countless players had spent countless hours to find was now right in front of him. He only needed to take a few steps back, and the legendary BOSS would appear in front of him.
Brando took a deep breath and glanced at the platform one last time. But this was no longer a game, and he only had one chance here. Once he made the wrong choice, it would be too late for regrets. What's more, he was no longer alone at this moment. In this temple, there were The Shire, Metisha, and Freya waiting for him. And outside the temple, his fate had already been linked to everyone in Abies.
He only understood one thing, and that was that he could not disappoint those who relied on him.
Although Brando's heart was extremely agitated, he finally calmed down. He secretly sighed and turned back to climb up the Frost Devourer's back.
But it was at this moment, a slightly contemptuous voice sounded in his heart.
"What a coward."
Brando was slightly stunned. This was definitely not the voice of Saint-ausol. He subconsciously turned back to look for the source of the voice, but he saw an unexpected scene. At that moment, it was as if a circle of strange ripples was rippling in the darkness in front of him.
It was like an isolated water wave, starting from a point, expanding in all directions, and quickly passing by him.
In the space where time was almost still.
Brando suddenly looked up. At that moment, he smelled the power that once appeared on Ko Hua, but it was more majestic and invincible. It was above the law, the power of existence — the power of god. Wherever the ripples passed, the Lines of Law disintegrated. Brando almost watched as the needle on the dial hanging on his chest began to slow down automatically, and the time around seemed to start flowing again.
The elapsed needle automatically failed!
The wailing of the Frost Devourer still echoed above the abyss, and he was still falling. Brando was shocked. He already understood that he might have been targeted by the Awakening God. Only the power of existence could easily suppress the power of the Lesser Divine Artifact.
Almost without time to think, with a loud bang, the Frost Devourer King had taken him down from a height of hundreds of feet and landed heavily on the solid ground of the square. The impact of the demonic creature's weight of hundreds of tons directly tore open its back. The sound was like tearing apart cloth, and then blood gushed out, revealing the bloody body below. Then it bounced up high and fell heavily again, making a sound similar to a deflated rubber ball hitting the ground. Just like that, it collapsed on the ground like a lump of rotten meat, motionless.
Like a water pipe bursting, countless blood gushed out from large and small cracks, converging into a blood stream around it. This once insufferably arrogant demonic creature had come to the end of its life at this moment.
Brando was not much better off.
Just at the moment when the Frost Devourer King landed, he wanted to use his Elemental Power to make himself fly up, but unfortunately, the Lines of Law had already been scattered after the baptism of the power of existence and could not be activated at all. As a result, he and the Frost Devourer King fell heavily to the ground together, and the impact immediately sent him flying. Fortunately, he did not have the terrifying weight of the Frost Devourer King, and he had the latter as a buffer, so he was only thrown heavily to the ground. Brando adjusted his posture at the last moment of landing and rolled a few times. Although he was dizzy from the impact, it was nothing more than that. At most, he had some scratches on his body.
Of course, this was also because of his own strength. If it were an ordinary person, he would have been smashed into a meat patty, but for the existence of Elemental Activation, hundreds of feet in the air was nothing. If he had been prepared in advance, he could have jumped down directly without the need for a buffer, and he would not have been injured.
But this time, it was unexpected after all. When Brando staggered up from the ground, he felt dizzy and uncomfortable as if his brain had been hit by a hammer. He tried several times before he could stand up again. He only felt that his mind was in a mess. The only thing he remembered was that the person who pulled him back to this square must be an enemy, not a friend, so he immediately raised the Halran Gaia and put on a defensive posture.
"Who is it!?" He shouted.
"It's me."
A woman's voice said in the square.
"Ko Hua!" Brando immediately recognized the voice.
"You call my sister Ko Hua, and you call me Ko Hua. You don't seem to be sincere at all." The woman's voice replied.
Brando was slightly stunned, and immediately realized that the woman was probably the dark side of Ko Hua who had escaped before. Since she appeared here, this was most likely the Land of Eternal Rest of Gods. He calmed down and looked around, but other than this bare square, he did not see where the so-called Awakening God was. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and answered the woman's words, "Then what should I call you, respected lady?"
Brando was still a little dizzy, so he talked aimlessly to buy some time so that he could recover to his best condition as soon as possible. The elapsed time needle had ended, and he quietly checked his status. The system had automatically deducted some of his experience, but fortunately, it seemed that he was the one who killed the Frost Devourer. The boss's experience was a generous reward, and it made his experience much more than before.
The woman's voice snorted softly, as if she was sneering. Of course, she saw through Brando's intentions, but she was too lazy to care. She only asked jokingly, "Weren't you very brave before? Why are you suddenly so timid, Mr. Human?"
This human's tone was exactly the same as Ko Hua's, as expected of two different existences. However, Brando was a little puzzled. Why did he feel that Échis' eldest daughter was targeting him? He looked up in confusion and asked, "I don't know what you mean."
"You're the one who called out my name in the Spiral Hall and almost ruined all my previous efforts, aren't you?"
Ko Hua's voice was cold.
Brando's mind buzzed, and he thought to himself, "Oh no, I didn't expect her to see it." Ko Hua's dark side was famous for being vengeful. No wonder she would stop him. It seemed that she was ready to settle the score. His back was covered in cold sweat, but he was too lazy to say more. The other party was the hidden boss here, and now that he was in this square, it was inevitable that he would have to fight. He simply held Halran Gaia tightly and waited for the other party to make a move.
But it was at this time that a dark flame suddenly appeared above the square with a whoosh. Brando looked up and saw the flame split in the middle. A girl with a similar figure to Ko Hua slowly walked out from it, but her whole body, including her clothes, was made of burning black flames. She floated in the air and looked at him condescendingly.
"I'm curious, how did you recognize my human form?"
"Don't use your clumsy excuses to brush me off. Even the Bugas have never seen what I look like." Brando was about to speak, but the girl seemed to have seen through his thoughts and blocked his way out first. But then she muttered to herself a little strangely, "How strange, I can't see through your origin. Who are you?"
Brando was shocked. "You can see my thoughts?"
"I'm a god after all."
The girl's voice echoed in the darkness.
"You're a god?" Brando reacted. "No, this is not your power, this is Milos!"
"Clever." The girl smiled, but Brando could not feel the naivety and innocence of Ko Hua at all. He only felt that the other party's smile was eerie. "Didn't you ask how you should call me? I'm Surash, the only god in Wohnde after the Year of the Fallen Stars. But I'm no longer the Awakening God — I'm the Awakening God! "
Dream on, Brando thought. If you're a real god, how are the players going to play? After all, this is a level 5 or 60 dungeon. Although it's a hidden boss, as long as it's a boss, there's a chance of defeating it.
Brando suddenly thought that this self-proclaimed Surash, Ko Hua's' sister 'who seemed a little muddle-headed, seemed to have the same idea as him. She was also stalling for time. It's conceivable that Milos's true form has not fully awakened yet. This is not a very short process. Brando suddenly thought of the huge wreckage they saw on the glacier. What the true form of the Giant God was like was already obvious.
"Brando." Just as Brando was full of complaints, Saint-ausol's voice suddenly sounded in his mind. "Someone is approaching from above."
"How do you know, Great Sage?" Brando was slightly startled. Since when did this elf have the function of radar? He had never heard of it before.
"Stupid, I feel Angelique and the others."
"Yaruta and Peya?" Brando looked up at the endless cliffs above. "The two siblings can't fly."
"The two siblings can't, but someone else can. It should be someone carrying them. It's very fast, and it's probably your teacher."
"Mephisto?" Brando's heart skipped a beat. If there were two people, then the remaining one was probably Veronica. Although he didn't know how they found this direction, if these two could join the battle, he would be more confident in dealing with this fake god, Surash. Thinking of this, he didn't intend to immediately expose the other party's lie. Instead, he continued.
"In that case, Lord Surash, what's your purpose in bringing me here? Although I almost ruined your plan by accident, as a god, it seems that you don't have to be calculative with a mortal like me, do you? "
"Naturally, I won't be calculative with you." The girl's voice laughed coldly. "On the contrary, as my first guest, I'll show you a good show."
"A good show?"
"I'll show you how a god comes back to life, and from this moment on, the history of Wohnde will be changed forever. You should be honored to be able to participate, mortal."
Brando didn't feel honored at all. On the contrary, he picked out the other party's faulty wording and said, "Aren't you an awakened god, Miss Ko Hua? Isn't that a bit contradictory?"
"Pfft —" Brando heard Saint-ausol's laughter in his spiritual world.
Ko Hua was also a little angry. She blushed and gritted her teeth. "Shut up, just watch."
Brando shrugged. Anyway, he had already confirmed his previous guess, and that was enough. As long as Ko Hua wasn't a true god, then there would be a way to defeat her. Saint-ausol laughed and said to him, "You're too ungentlemanly, Brando. How can you correct a girl's slip of the tongue like that?" The two whispered to each other, but they were also paying attention to the girl's every move. As soon as she finished speaking, an extremely strange buzzing sound came from the darkness. Brando looked in that direction and suddenly saw that the dense pipes in the darkness lit up one by one, as if something was flowing inside and gradually approaching the platform.
The next moment, the whole platform shook.
No, Brando frowned. It wasn't the platform that was shaking, and it wasn't even coming from the abyss below. It was the whole cliff and the whole valley that was shaking. His expression gradually changed. This was the resonance of the mountains. He could almost feel that the trembling came from the glacier in the center of the Dead Frost Forest. At this moment, the glacier was awakened, and it was making its own sound.
After thousands of years, that sound appeared on the ground again.
And something was beginning to change.
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