Pale Emblem

58 Response to the call
How many beings on the Prime Material Plane can "hear" the cry in the ocean of pan-consciousness?

A very small number of individuals.

When Victor's cries echoed in the ocean of pan-consciousness, the individual beings were aware of the strangeness in their hearts.

Jinshui River, the largest river system in the main material plane.She is the place where all the rivers meet, and no one knows where their source is. The mighty river runs through the east and west, dividing the vast land into two continents, north and south.

If someone gets lost in the vast wasteland of the Southern Continent, they just need to find a river flowing northward, and follow the river, and they will always see the majestic Jinshui River.

The discovery of Jinshui River by lost travelers means that they have found their way home.

At this moment, somewhere on the south bank of the Jinshui River, under a snow-covered low hill, a simple camp consisting of several animal skin tents was lying in the cold wind.A tall and burly strong man tore open the small tent with a spire and rushed into the blizzard, dancing happily and laughing "ho" and "ho".

He was 2.4 meters tall and rushed out of the warm tent, wearing a pair of leather shorts all over his body. His muscles exposed in the air were strong and strong, as if he was made of densely twisted steel wires. His body was solid. It was like an iron chopping block, like the legendary ancient giant, surrounded by an invisible force field, and the snow particles wrapped in the north wind slid away immediately before it landed on his skin.

The giant man's body contained infinite power, and waving his arms at will can make the wind and snow roll back, forming a cyclone more than ten meters long, as if the extension of his arm, collided with the north wind, making a burst of muffled thunder .The scene where he stirs the wind and thunder is simply appalling.

Others in the camp heard the movement of the giant man venting his emotions, thinking that a strong enemy was coming, and all ran out of their animal skin tents with weapons.

"Aka, what are you doing crazy?"

The last middle-aged man who got out of the tent was the first to scold the giant.He looks ordinary and is wrapped in a thick animal skin coat, but he can only shout from a distance, for fear of being swept away by the wind, thunder and blizzard swung by the giant man.

No one can get close to the giant in this situation.Until he calmed down, a blond, blue-eyed and beautiful young woman asked worriedly, "Aka, what happened?"

"Mrs Charlotte."

Compared with his daunting strength, the giant man's temper is actually very gentle, his eyes are as innocent and simple as a child, and he does not hide his joy at all. He was calling me just now, and he asked me to find him quickly!"

"What? What did you say?"

The blonde beauty narrowed her eyes, stepped more than ten meters in one step, and jumped in front of the giant man in a flash, and eagerly asked: "Caligula, is the master calling you? Is it... Victor?"

The giant nodded again and again and said, "It's Master Victor. He's calling Akka Akka."

"Where is the master?"

"Well, in the west, it's far, far away from us... Akka runs hard, it will take three months to arrive." Caligula pointed to the southwest, and said in a loud voice.

When the others heard it, they immediately fried the pot and started talking nonsense.

"Thanks to the supreme Lord of Glory, the honorable Lord Randall is really fine... My daughter Bertina should be with the master, right?"

"Damn me... I thought the master and Bertina would go east along the south bank of the Jinshui River, but the master stayed in the southwest, it should be somewhere upstream of the krill river. I took everyone in the wrong direction... "

"Now is not the time to blame ourselves, we should set off immediately to find His Royal Highness Randall."

"Since Akka has sensed the master's location again, we can find the master. The problem is that we have spent more than a year along the banks of the Jinshui River, searching for the trace of the master in the east, and the distance from the master's current position is closer. It takes three months for Akka to find his master alone, so don’t we spend half a year chasing after him?”

"……it's all my fault."

"Also, Akka said that His Highness called him on his own initiative and ordered Akka to find him quickly... Could it be that the master is currently in a very dangerous situation?"

"How is this possible? Your Highness is a strong man in the sanctuary..."

"Shut up for me!"

Mrs. Charlotte, who has always been gentle and kind, gave a violent shout, and the people present immediately stopped discussing and closed their mouths tightly.

Charlotte raised her head to look at Caligula, and asked eagerly, "Aka, can you still sense Master Victor now?"

The giant shook his head slowly and said angrily, "A-Ka could hear the master calling me just now, but now I can't sense it anymore...A-Ka, it's really useless."

Mrs. Charlotte's beautiful eyes suddenly formed a layer of water mist, and she forcibly restrained her emotions so that she did not shed tears.She could imagine that the master she was serving must be in a situation before calling Caligula, the most powerful squire in the family, but Akka couldn't sense the master's position now, which was undoubtedly the worst news.

Charlotte did not dare to think any further, and said to the giant Akka: "Caligula Randall, the chief squire of the Randall family, I order you as a sworn knight of His Royal Highness Randall to go immediately. Support the lord, find him, and protect him."

"Oh." Akka nodded quickly and turned to leave the camp.

"Aka, wait." The middle-aged man called Aka, caught two little mice with red eyes and white hair from his arms, stepped forward, handed them to his hand, and said, "Take my Pets, feed and water them once a day. Just keep them alive and I can find you."

After taking the two little mice and stuffing them into his arms, Caligula turned and ran to the southwest. His tall figure soon disappeared into the vast snow field.

Charlotte withdrew her gaze and said to the middle-aged man: "Your Excellency Imerson, we have to set off, before the wind and snow cover Akka's footprints, track him, and find the master. I believe that Bertina is also there. side."

"Yes, ma'am."

The middle-aged man saluted respectfully. When he straightened up, his eyes glowed like flames, and he shouted loudly, "All pets, wake me up!"

Small snow packs bulged in the surrounding snow, and hundreds of hideous-looking monsters burrowed out from under the snow.They look like ligers, with mouse tails trailing behind them, flat heads and razor-sharp teeth in their split mouths.

Immediately afterwards, the low snow hills next to the camp began to shake violently, and large swathes of snow cracked and fell, revealing a giant beast the size of a hill.It has curved horns, raised its head like a crocodile, and made a low and distant roar, as if it came from a super-giant monster in the ancient wilderness.

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Niujiao Village, a remote and remote suburb of Xibang, the city of Waiheke.

The village chief's family, together with the guards, a total of more than a dozen people hid in the temple of the goddess of the earth and shivered.This is the sanctuary of Niujiao Village, with solid stone walls and a [-]-centimeter-thick cast-iron gate.When the villagers encounter irresistible danger, they can always persist for a while as long as they hide in the temple.

However, the Earth Goddess Temple built by the village chief Robert did not give them much sense of security.At the foot of the statue of the goddess Cyresta, the village chief's wife and her pet slave girl looked horrified and covered their mouths. Robert and several guards also held their breath and did not dare to make a sound, for fear of disturbing the wandering in the village. monster.

With heavy footsteps and the bear's low roar, he slowly approached the direction of the temple. Village Chief Robert seemed to be able to see the terrifying monster coming to the outside of the temple.

The village chief's face was pale, he held a heavy crossbow, and whispered to the guards who were also bloodless: "Don't worry, they can't get in..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud "bang", the whole temple was shaking, the dust on the beams fell, and the beautiful wives and concubines of the village chief's family were screaming in horror.

A trace of violence flashed in Robert's eyes, and he turned around and slapped the slave girl who was screaming the loudest in the face.The woman's neck was immediately broken, her head turned behind her, and she couldn't make a sound.I saw her using her trembling hands to straighten her crooked head again, and no woman dared to continue screaming anymore.

The temple returned to deadly silence, but it didn't take long before the enemy outside the house slammed into the door again.The iron cast gate let out a painful moan, but it was finally endured.

"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", one after another fierce impact, in the desperate eyes of the refugees, the cast iron gate bulged and deformed, and finally collapsed together with the threshold of the wall, hitting the ground heavily, setting off a soot.

A huge bear head poked into the temple, its body was extremely huge, and the broken temple door was only enough for it to put its head in, and roared at the half-elf inside.

This terrifying giant beast is by no means flesh and blood. Its body seems to be composed of black smoke, between half-empty and half-solid, with two burning flames in its eye sockets, opening its bloody mouth full of fangs, sending out earth-shattering sounds. With a roar, he desperately squeezed into the temple, and the solid walls burst into cracks under its strange power.

Village Chief Robert and several guards took advantage of the gap when the black smoke giant was stuck in the doorway, and used powerful heavy crossbows and javelins to shoot the bear's head, hoping to repel the monster.But this is meaningless. The crossbow bolt and javelin shot into the giant bear's head, which did not cause any effect, but completely angered it.

The giant bear raised its paw and slapped the wall violently.The ground of the temple shook, and it was about to collapse. The violent giant bear suddenly stopped hammering, and a light and pleasant voice came into the house from outside: "Sugar bowl, you knocked down the house, how can I get in? Yes, your butt is so big, it's time to lose weight!"

The giant bear turned into thick black smoke, rolling violently inside and outside the temple, obscuring the vision of Niujiao Village and others.When the churning black smoke condensed and dissipated, they saw that the strange bear blocking the gate had turned into a chubby, chubby cute bear cub.

A slender and graceful figure walked through the broken and deformed doorway with the wind and snow and walked into the temple.This is a stunning girl with black hair and black eyes. She is wearing a silver-white professional suit and small leather boots with half-high heels.

"Hi, everyone, we've met again." The beautiful girl who looked like a fairy in the forest shook her hand at Mayor Robert and the others, and said with a smile, "Re-introduce, I'm Bertina Rand, Queen of Miracles. Er. Well, you can also call me Countess Randall... oops, you're all going to die anyway, so it doesn't matter if you call me Countess."

The village chief's wife looked at Bertina with envy in her eyes, her beautiful face was twisted and deformed by resentment, and looked particularly ugly, she screamed at Bertina: "You devil, we kindly entertain you, give you Food and warm rooms, you killed the whole village. May Goddess Cyresta punish you, maggots eat your face, and your face will rot..."

With another slap, Robert knocked his mad wife to the ground, turned his head and begged the girl, "Lan... Madam, please..."

"It's Countess Randall, read with me, Lan, De, Er, Countess..." Bertina blushed, and corrected the village chief's awkward pronunciation a little embarrassed.

"Countess Randall." The village chief said in a low voice with a sad face, "For Cyresta's sake, please show kindness and spare us ignorant people."

"However, you had bad intentions for me first." Bertina said hesitantly in a good mood now.

Feeling hopeful, the village chief quickly defended: "It's all because of those ignorant villagers who covet the bounty offered by the Adventurer's Guild of Torrent... Countess Randall, you have already killed all the slaves who offended you, they deserve to die, But this matter has nothing to do with us... Countess Randall, don't you want to go to the dark place? We can be your guide and prepare supplies for you. You see, it's still useful to keep us."

Bertina tilted her head and thought for a while, she looked playful and cute, and finally nodded and said, "Okay..." The village chief and others just breathed a sigh of relief when they heard her say, "However, I have a question."

Robert put on a humble gesture, nodded and said, "You can ask, and I will answer honestly."

Bertina's pink lips curled into a sly smile and asked, "Don't you know that you are a monster?"

More than a dozen half-elves were all stunned, only the wind and snow echoed in the temple.After a long time, the village chief Robert murmured, "How can we be monsters? We are residents of Niujiao Village."

Bertina looked at Robert sympathetically and asked again, "How old are you this year?"

"Me? I should be, maybe... 74 years old this year?" The young and robust village chief Robert wrinkled his forehead, his expression gradually turning gloomy.He shook his head, his eyes were blank, and his voice was hoarse: "I'm not a monster. You are a monster, or a wanted criminal of the Disa Alliance... You are Bertina, the wolf shepherd witch. Where is my guard? she!"

The village chief's wife and pet, along with several half-elf guards, opened their mouths, revealing sharp and pale canine teeth, and rushed towards the delicate girl at an astonishing speed.

Bertina raised her slender and fair palms to block her pink mouth, and let out a breathless sigh.Staggered lines of cold silver light appeared in the void, and the mutated half-elf collided with it, immediately ripped apart, rolled on the ground and howled miserably, and a small amount of black blood flowed out of the wound.

Psionic Flying Blade: Level 1 psionic spell, instant cast, magic power 3-10 breaths, very low mana consumption, attack radius [-] meters, a total of [-] psychic power fields cause cutting damage to the target, ignoring element resistance, damage The effect is inversely proportional to the toughness of the target.

Watch me cut you to pieces - Miracle Queen Bertina.

The psionic flying blade is not deadly enough to mutated half-elves, but unpredictable magical attacks cannot be dodged in advance, and their muscles and eyes are cut by the flying blades, temporarily incapacitating their ability to move.

At this time, the village chief of Niujiao Village began to mutate, and the swollen body squeezed through the skin and clothing, revealing the black colloid inside, covered with evil patterns, clinging to the bones, like a long worm with a smooth surface .An octopus tentacle protruded from its left shoulder, dancing frantically in the air, the air crackling.

The village chief has lost his human form, Bertina frowned and said with disgust, "It's disgusting, go to hell!"

She swiped the index finger of her right hand, and the void in front of the fingertip gathered a semi-circular arc light, which lasted for a few seconds, and flew towards the village chief who was turning into a monster.

Psionic Slash: The upgrade spell of the psionic flying blade, level 4, the casting time is 10 to 6 seconds, the magic power is 12-30 breaths, the magic power consumption is average, the attack radius is [-] meters, and the several psychic power fields are condensed into one, and the target is attacked. Inflicts cutting damage, ignoring elemental resistance, and the damage effect is inversely proportional to the target's toughness.The longer the Psionic Slash's momentum, the higher the attack power.

Not moving, everything in two halves - Bertina, Queen of Miracles.

The arc light like a moon blade passed through a distance of more than 20 meters, and the rock statue of the goddess of the earth was cut off from the middle, but the sharp psionic slash hit the monster village head's chest, leaving only a deep scar, which did not cut him. into two halves.

The black colloid on the village chief's body is unimaginably tough, and endows it with terrifying strength and speed.Just when Bertina opened her mouth with an incredulous look on her face, the half-elf village chief completed her transformation.It was like a pitch-black beast, crawling on the ground, with three dancing tentacles on its back, screaming at the girl in a frightening manner, its thick recurved legs violently, and the slate floor instantly collapsed, with a speed that could not cover the ears. jumped over.

It seemed that Bertina was about to be torn apart by the claws of the monster.The chubby little bear cub let out a milky cry and rushed towards the monster bravely.

One of the monster's smooth tentacles blasted out a sonic boom like a whip, pumping the cub into a thick cloud of black smoke.However, the black smoke spread instantly, wrapping the village chief monster, and condensing into a normal-sized giant bear.It was also a giant beast with a shoulder height of 2 meters and a body length of 4 meters.

The monster struggled desperately in the body of the giant bear, roaring mournfully.The giant bear simply lay on the ground, as if he had just had a full meal and needed to digest the food well.Black smoke seeps into the monster's body, continuously extracting its vitality, making it weaker and weaker, until it turns into a dry corpse.

This is a battle between demons and the undead. Although the village chief has the strength of the fourth-order black blood demon, the "sugar bowl" of the Queen of Miracles is a legendary undead.

Village Chief Robert has a demonic physique and extremely tenacious vitality, but he has no chance of winning against the "sugar bowl".However, it takes a lot of energy for Bertina to maintain the "sugar bowl" form.

The other demon minions healed their wounds in a very short time, regained their fighting ability, and rushed towards Bertina again.They are controlled by the village chief, and they only know to kill Bertina in order to save their master.

Bertina was stunned. She seemed to hear a sound and suddenly let out a cheerful cry.More than a dozen demonized half-elves only felt that the sound was extremely harsh, and could tear their own souls to pieces. They covered their ears and squatted on the ground.

Psionic Scream: Level 10 psionic spell, instant cast, magic power 30 breaths, high magic power consumption, cooldown 400 hours, attack radius [-] meters, causing double damage of sound waves and mind to group targets, resulting in dizziness, imbalance negative The effect, as well as the positive effects of uplifting and frenzy, determine the enemy and friend according to the caster's will, ignoring element resistance, and will be subject to saving throws from the strength of the mind barrier.

My voice is beautiful, and it's your loss if you don't like it - Bertina, Queen of Miracles.

"You disgusting bastards, don't stop me from finding the master, and die for me!"

Bertina stomped her feet, dexterously weaving various beautiful shapes with her hands, generating more than a dozen colorful orbs out of thin air, and accurately hitting each out of control enchanted half-elf.

Chaos Orb: No-level psionic spell, casting time 4 seconds, magic power indeterminate, medium mana consumption, cooldown 80 minutes, attack radius 60 meters, inflicting indeterminate elemental damage to multiple targets, with the weakest element Mainly resistant, can be avoided.

Whatever you don't like - Bertina, Queen of Miracles.

The enchanted half-elf was hit by the chaotic orb, and the body suddenly ignited an unquenchable flame, and in the tragic cry, it turned into a coke corpse.

"It's over, it's over, Master Victor is gone again, that place is so far away from me... No way! I have to hurry over there. White bread, come here, we're leaving!"

Bertina turned around and ran out of the temple in Niujiao Village, turned the "sugar bowl" into a puff of black smoke, retracted her body, and hurriedly found her pet mount.

She didn't notice at all that the withered demon village chief fell to the ground, and the tarnished black colloid was still slowly squirming.

(End of this chapter)