The Black Knight creaked as he walked on the ice and filed in. Laurenna, Firas, Lenarette, and Shido raised their hands one by one, each with a black crystal-like longsword resting on their necks. The sword-wielding Black Knight had a long black velvet cloak and an expressionless face, like a golem made by a wizard.
The ice cave was a mess, and the crisscrossing sword marks on the ice proved the fierce battle that had taken place before. The Black Knight dragged the bodies of two of their people out, leaving a dark red mark on the ice.
One of the particularly tall Black Knight came to Ko Hua, and the girl looked back with her pale silver eyes without fear, but she could only see a pair of particularly bright eyes under the shadow of the other party's hood, as well as the thin lower half of his cheeks. The Black Knight stared at Ko Hua's snow-white neck for a while, as if considering whether to put his sword there. "Please step aside." Ko Hua said in a crisp voice.
"Miss Ko Hua." The Knight put his hand on his chest and bowed slightly to Ko Hua, the heavy armor rubbing against the chainmail below making a clattering sound of metal colliding.
"Are you going to do to me what you did to them?" Ko Hua glanced at Shido, who was biting her lower lip in fear, and asked calmly.
"I wouldn't dare." The Knight replied with his head lowered.
Ko Hua smiled slightly. She knew that these people were believers of the Dusk, and they respected her mostly because of her 'sister'. Perhaps they thought that was Échis' eldest daughter, the leader of the monsters of the Dusk Legion. If mortals worshipped gods and Martha, then these people's fanatical idols included Darkness Ko Hua.
Although she was simple-minded, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, understanding that they just wanted to believe the 'truth' that they were willing to believe.
"Then I beg you to let them go, okay?" She asked softly.
"I'm afraid not."
"Aren't you guys afraid that I'll get angry? I'll tell my sister." Ko Hua's face hardened.
"Ko Hua -sama won't blame us for this. These people —" he turned around to look: "are all your enemies."
"I will not fight with anyone. They are not my enemies."
"At least it belongs to your sister, right, our little princess?" The Knight's lips curled up.
Ko Hua shut her mouth. She glanced at the trembling Shido and said, "Then at least let her go. She's just a child, she's no threat to you."
The Knight turned around and nodded. The black Knight beside Shido sheathed his sword, and the scholar slowly slid to the ground as if paralyzed. She then burst into tears. The knight frowned and glanced outside. However, the battle outside was still going on fiercely, and no one was paying attention to the noise here. He breathed a sigh of relief, then turned back to Ko Hua and said, "Please stay here, Miss Ko Hua."
Ko Hua glanced at him, neither answering yes nor no. She just stepped back and sat down. She looked at the crying Shido and gave her a comforting look. The latter looked at her gratefully, and her sobs gradually subsided.
The Knight nodded with satisfaction. He raised his right hand and gestured to his colleagues. A small team of black Knights with longbows came up from behind. They passed by the Knight's position and cautiously approached the entrance of the cave. Haruz watched this scene in a daze. When he saw the black Knight approaching the entrance of the cave, he suddenly realized what they were going to do. He suddenly panicked and opened his mouth, pretending to shout. But before he could do that, two feet suddenly appeared in front of him. He raised his head and saw the knight looking down at him. "If I were you, Your Highness, I would keep my mouth shut."
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"What is he doing?"
The little female dragon and Metisha lay side by side under an ice crevice. Not far from them, Arreck was limping towards an exit in front. He seemed to be seriously injured, and every time he dragged his feet for a while, he had to stop to rest. He now looked more like a beggar than a duke. His fluffy silver-gray hair was messy, the wrinkles on his forehead were tightly knitted together, his face was gray, oily, and sweaty. His chest rose and fell rapidly like a broken bellows. He rested for a while, then struggled to get up with the wall and continued to walk forward.
But he didn't go far before he fell on the slippery and cold ground. He struggled to crawl for a distance, then stopped again. This time, Aloz and Metisha watched him stop for a long time, at least a quarter of an hour, before he sat up dejectedly. After a moment of silence, he stood up shakily and continued to walk in the direction of the exit.
"He seems to be going somewhere."
"Where?"
"I don't know."
"He seems to know the way here."
Aloz and Medissa looked at each other and nodded. Then, they climbed up from the bottom of the ice crevice and sneakily followed him. Arreck did not notice that he was being followed. After he walked out of the exit, he continued to move in a certain direction along the winding paths and corridors. He seemed to be familiar with this place. Every time he encountered a fork in the road, he only hesitated for a moment, and then chose the direction.
Metisha used to be the commander of the Silver Elves and had a strong sense of direction. After a few times, she judged that Arreck should be heading north. Not long after, the traces of man-made buildings in front of Arreck disappeared. What appeared in front of Arreck was a naturally formed glacier crack. Aloz and Metisha saw him resting for a moment at the entrance of the glacier. He took out something from under his clothes and took two bites, chewing with difficulty. Aloz's eyes were sharp and saw that it was probably a piece of jerky.
"He's replenishing his strength." She said with some excitement, "This means that we should be reaching the destination soon. He didn't do this before."
"Why is he replenishing his strength?" Metisha was a little puzzled.
"Who knows." Aloz was as carefree as ever. "Let's follow him and find out."
"Should we restrain him first?" Metisha thought for a moment and felt a little uneasy.
"No —" Aloz shook her head. "What if we're not there yet? This guy is very stubborn. He definitely won't lead the way for us."
The Silver Elf Princess thought about it and agreed, so she nodded.
Just as the two were talking, the duke had already wolfed down the food in his hand. He took out a handful of snow-white powder from his pocket and held it in his hand for a moment. Then he frowned and swallowed it with difficulty. Aloz and Metisha both saw clearly that it was snow. Arreck must have preserved it in the ice crevice earlier. Fortunately, the temperature of the ice layer did not melt it. But this further confirmed Aloz's guess.
After drinking the snow water, Arreck coughed twice at the top of his voice, obviously a little unbearable. But he still stood up slowly and without much hesitation, walked directly into the glacier step by step. Seeing this scene, Aloz was excited again. She hurriedly waved at Metisha and the two girls followed behind her.
The glacier was very long and narrow, with a faint blue light. After walking for a short while, Aloz suddenly turned around and patted Metisha on the shoulder. "Metisha, do you hear something?" In the dark environment, her golden eyes were particularly bright and sparkling. Metisha glanced at her and nodded. Thanks to her long pointed ears, the elf's hearing was very outstanding. She had already heard the sound from the other side of the glacier.
"It's lightning."
"That means we're in the right place," Aloz replied with a little excitement. "He must have some tricks up his sleeve. But Lady Martha is obviously on our side. He's dead meat."
Metisha's expression was a little strange. She looked at Aloz and showed some anxiety. "Anyway, let's go quickly. Sister Aloz, I'm worried that we'll be late."
"What's wrong? What are you worried about? "
"I … I think I heard the voice of the Lord."
"What!?"
The exit on the other side of the glacier was located on top of the cliff. Outside the exit, there was a deep gorge about twenty to thirty meters long. At this moment, outside the gorge, lightning seemed to have weaved into a terrifying storm, wreaking havoc in the entire gorge. And because of the gorge, it was difficult to see the exit in this direction from the platform where Ko Hua was in the dark. On the contrary, standing at the exit, Arreck could see the situation below.
His pale, skeleton-like claws were clasped tightly on the ice. With a cold face, he looked down at the fierce battle between Veronica, Mephisto, The Shire, Brando, and the others and Ko Hua. A cold smile appeared on his pale face, as if the previous depression had been swept away at this moment. But suddenly, he felt his heart beating violently again. He hurriedly pressed his hand to his chest, his face full of cold sweat, as if he was receiving instructions. He nodded cautiously, nodded again, shook his head again, then frowned, and finally nodded again.
"I understand, Lord Ko Hua."
"Yes."
Finally, he muttered these two words as if to himself. Aloz and Metisha, who were hiding behind the crisscrossing cracks on the glacier, saw him pull out a dagger from his boot, and then began to carve and draw on the ice. After a short while, they saw clearly that he was drawing a circular magic circle.
"It should be Ko Hua who summoned him here. No wonder he could distinguish the maze-like path below," Metisha said in realization, "Sister Aloz, can you recognize what magic circle he is drawing?"
"It seems to be a channeling magic circle."
"A channeling magic circle?" Metisha saw the critical situation below and was nervous. She could not wait to summon her unicorn and fly down to fight side by side with Brando. But fortunately, she still knew what was more important. The Lord had not discovered Arreck at this place at all. It was easy to block an attack in the open, but difficult to block an arrow in the dark. She had to restrain Arreck.
"You have seen those large-scale magic circles, such as the War Teleportation Circle of the Silver Elves. Large-scale magic circles cannot be activated by a person's magic alone. This kind of channeling magic circle is a kind of ritual circle that automatically gathers magic to activate the large-scale magic circle. "Aloz's eyes flashed with golden flames, she licked her sharp canine teeth with her tongue," I understand. Cruz's Door of Flame, the stolen materials must be on him. Ko Hua wants him to open the portal here and summon the demons to fight for her. "
"We must not let him succeed." Metisha could not help but blurt out.
"Of course."
The little female dragon sneered and nodded proudly. If she had a tail, it would be in the sky now.
Arreck panted as he finished drawing the first circle. However, for a large teleportation portal like the Door of Flame, one channeling circle was definitely not enough. He wiped off his sweat and walked to the side shakily, ready to start drawing the second circle. But it was at this time, he saw a pair of shoes. To be exact, it was a pair of light brown calfskin boots, the tips of the boots were inlaid with iron and silver-plated. He was very familiar with this pair of boots, because it was the owner of this pair of boots, who took the 'Heart of the Dragon' from him. He would never remember it wrong.
He suddenly froze there.
"Keep drawing." The little female dragon's voice was smiling, "Why did you stop drawing, I think your magic circle is not bad."
Arreck suddenly trembled, as if he was possessed, he roared and pounced on Aloz. But the latter did not move, just looked at him with a smile. Before he could take two steps, he saw that his foot was tripped by something and fell solidly on the ice. Arreck screamed, and then he felt something on his neck.
He did not need to look back to know what it was, because he had already seen the long silver shuttle on his cheek.
"Human, do you feel very regretful now?" The little female dragon was very proud, she simply put the star-shaped stone on the ground, then sat on it, and looked down at the battered Arreck, and said with a smile, "But you can rest assured, your life will not be in danger for the time being, I will use you to make a deal, haha, let's see what Brando will do now!"
The little female dragon was proud, but Metisha was not as optimistic.
In fact, the little Silver Elf princess called out with some concern, "Sister Aloz —"
"What's wrong?"
"Look over there."
"What?"
"Is that the Black Knight over there …?"
… …
After Brando settled Hipamira, he did not directly return to the platform, but went around the crisscrossing pipes under the platform to the back of Dark Ko Hua. He knew that Ko Hua had automatically removed the Divine Barrier at this time, although her attack power had increased by a thousand times, but her defense was greatly reduced, after all, the opponent was not a true god, and there was no real absolute gap in the true sense.
And at this time, Dark Ko Hua finally realized that there was one less person on the battlefield in front of her, she subconsciously looked back, but only saw the moment Brando's figure disappeared in that direction.
At that moment, she instinctively felt danger.
As if subconsciously, the dense lightning quickly converged from the front half of the platform to the back half of the platform. Although even Ko Hua herself could not tell why she felt that Brando, who had just Elemental Activation, was more dangerous than the Sword Saint in the Ultimate Domain above her head, but after all, she was once a demigod, and now she had Milos's domain and priesthood, her perception was a thousand times sharper, and her premonitions were a thousand times more accurate. Most gods believed in their own premonitions, just like how Martha could see the twilight of the gods and the world at the beginning of the creation of the world.
The dense white light beams converged together like a wall of electricity, crackling and hitting the platform, forming dozens of dazzling golden lines in the entire back half of the platform, as if even the platform was about to melt.
But these crisscrossing lightning bolts could not stop Brando.
Everyone saw that Brando's figure was like a ghost, disappearing and reappearing continuously. The lightning passed through his figure, like passing through a broken phantom. In an instant, he had passed through the storm of lightning and arrived in front of Ko Hua. Previously, when Brando attacked The Shire, no one had noticed the subtle details on the battlefield, but at this moment, it was no longer clear.
"Flash Strike –" Veronica almost blurted out.
And in the ice cave, Lenarette and Shido could not help but show a look of great surprise.
Brando had already slashed his sword at Ko Hua.
But at this time, Dark Ko Hua breathed a sigh of relief. She stared coldly at Brando's sword that was getting closer and closer to her, and her tone was so cold that it was almost terrifying, "The Dragon Clan's skill in manipulating space is also derived from the Twilight Clan, and you dare to show off in front of me!" As soon as she finished speaking, countless bolts of lightning interweaved in front of her. It was as if even space itself was trembling, blocking Brando's sword.
At that moment, Veronica, Lenarette, and Shido were all stunned.
The Flash Strike Sword Art was blocked.
This was almost unimaginable. Flame King Gretel's Flash Strike Sword Technique was a sword technique that was worshipped as a god in Kirrlutz. Once this technique was passed down from the Dragon Clan, its target would either be hit or dodge in the thousandth of a second after the blade appeared from a crack in space. There was almost no third possibility apart from that.
However, right in front of them, the Flash Strike Sword Art was interrupted halfway.
The space trembling amidst the thunderbolts was akin to the trembling souls of everyone present — what kind of strength was this?
However, among all of them, only Brando could maintain his mentality. Although he was slightly surprised, he understood that the Flash Strike Sword Art was just a secret skill of the Dragon Clan. In fact, there was still a big gap between the Dragon Clan and the existence of Échis' daughter. Therefore, he was not surprised that Ko Hua had the skill to counter the Flash Strike Sword Art. After all, the Dragon Clan and the Twilight Clan were old rivals.
But just when everyone thought that he was going to return empty-handed, Brando suddenly retracted the Halran Gaia, and then slashed at Ko Hua again.
"Again?"
Dark Ko Hua could not help but laugh in anger when she saw that this guy did not know what was good for him.
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PS: This is the first chapter at the end of the week. There will be another chapter around 20 o 'clock. I wish everyone a good weekend.
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