Shadow Covenant

Chapter 177 "Soul Crystal"

"This is……"

The knowledge about the Kalia Knights flickered in Woody's mind, but he couldn't find any items related to the ancient weapons.

Didn't she send it out in the last life?
Woody couldn't help but cast a glance at Princess Qunxing who was standing aside, her eyes seemed to have some deep meaning at this time, as if she was expecting him to take over the ring.

"Your Majesty, this should be very important to you, right?"

Woody didn't take back his hand, but looked at this ancient item that was still shining like silver under the light of the stars, and asked.

Although it was hard to imagine that it could be turned into a weapon, his restraint as a senior adventurer in his previous life made him restrain the idea of ​​using it.

"This is something left by an old friend. You should have noticed it! The iron gauntlet on your hand must have that pattern."

"Holy sword and stars."

Lani's slightly melancholy and soft voice rang in his ears, and the chant-like tone when talking about the emblem reminded people of the long years.

"That's right, but I remember it's from the Kingdom of Kalia..." Woody's vigilance didn't disappear. He didn't understand why the princess in front of him wanted to give him such a precious thing. There is no free lunch in the world. of.

"Then there's no problem! This old friend of mine just told me to hand over this ring to someone like you."

Lani directly interrupted what Woody hadn't finished speaking, and changed her previous heavy tone, but she breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, Woody's fingertips seemed to have touched ice and snow, but the coldness carried a kind of driving away the inner excitement. Woody looked up, but found that at some point, Lani's right fingertips had touched the hand holding the ring, and then slowly closed it with negligible force until it was pushed back.

"Take it! Woody, I originally thought that I would throw it away if I couldn't give it away. Unexpectedly, I met you here..."

Immediately afterwards, Lani's half-true and half-false words followed, as if the words of the elders, but she probably didn't even know that when she looked at the strange adventurer in front of her, there was some kind of expectation in her eyes.

Woody felt this expectation, thought about it again, and finally remained silent, without saying too much, and accepted the ancient ring.

As a player in the previous life, he clearly knew that this ancient item did not appear in the player's eyes, otherwise it would have caused an uproar, and it may be true that she lost it...

But there are also a lot of knight equipment in the Kingdom of Kalia, right?

Why do you say you only met him...

He was still a little entangled in the conflict between Lani's words and his own memory, but in the next second, he suddenly realized.

Oh yes!
He took it for granted.

The long-term memories merged and merged, and Woody realized that because too much time had passed, the timeline had confused him.

The equipment of the Kalia series did not appear in the world in piles until the arrival of the corrupt mother tree turned the undead creatures underground in the Kingdom of Kalia into abnormal monsters.

Before that, everyone's impression of the Kingdom of Kalia was just a relatively safe kingdom with a longer history.

Generally, combat adventure players don't like to stay there. The monsters in the wild and the commissions from the adventurer's guild are hard to satisfy a team of adventurers who are at their peak, but it's good as a novice village. Gain a lot of experience points...

But that being said, there is no problem.

It seems that some extraordinary emergencies happened by accident.

The acquisition of this ancient item made him feel a little heavy in his heart. Originally, the first ancient weapon he wanted to obtain in his memory should be lying quietly in an unknown valley at this time. Unexpectedly, he arrived in advance like this. in front of him.

But Woody is not timid. Now that he has already obtained it, and Lani's words are so clear, he will not pretend to be arrogant, saying that everything depends on his own efforts, and it is best to accept it directly, and then sincerely thank you respond.

Hearing Woody's thank you, Lani seemed really relieved, and said simply in a calm and peaceful tone.

"The ring is given to you, how to use it is up to you."

"Now, I won't bother you anymore. The crisis has been resolved, and you can go to the Northland step by step."

The first sentence was naturally addressed to Woody, and the latter sentence was exhorted together, including Cecil and Donnie.

Cecil and Doni naturally had no objection, while Woody watched Lani whose body gradually became transparent, turned into starlight particles and dissipated in the evening wind, and fell into deep thought.

Everything that happened tonight was too slow, as if it had been a long time, from the discovery of the anomaly in the town to the defense against the invasion of monsters, and finally the arrival of the demon projection, everything was deeply remembered and vividly remembered .

"Goodbye, Your Majesty..."

Cecil was a little bit reluctant, but her status was destined to make her unable to say words to persuade her to stay. She could only look at her disappearing figure with hopeful eyes.

"We'll see you again in Komi Blue in a little time!"

These words were addressed to Cecil, but they seemed to be addressed to Woody as well. He stood silently until Lani's figure completely disappeared into the bleak night, and then he stopped rubbing the ring called Virtue, and fell into a In the memory of the past, finally gently said goodbye to the evening wind blowing by.

……

The stars dimmed, and the night came to its darkest hour.

At this moment, Green Creek Town is brightly lit, the monsters have receded, and the faces of the living people have the smiles of the survivors, but if you listen carefully, you will find that there are many mourning and crying bursts in the darkness There are many people who died, but I don't know which family he/she belonged to, husband and wife, children, parents.

Most of the Angry Winter Merchant Group remained silent. Compared with the various appearances of the townspeople, they were more simple as adventurous travelers.

At this time, in an open space in the convoy camp, dozens of corpses wrapped in white cloth were displayed on the bloody soil. Preparations for the funeral began immediately after the war. I am praying for these people.

Many other people also sang along. This should be a unique funeral custom of the Northlanders, implying that these brave warriors should return to the embrace of the mountains.

Woody leaned under a poplar tree not far from the funeral site, and with the light of the bonfire, coupled with dark vision, he could clearly see everyone's vivid faces.

He was also a little silent. The white cloth was covered by his own eyes, and there were a few familiar faces inside, which he carried out from the rubble or monster piles. After parting with Cecil, he simply tidied up On the battlefield, he has been doing these seemingly meaningless things outside of going to the location of the pharmacist of the merchant group.

In the previous life, every time the aborigines in the team disappeared, Woody couldn't help but sigh.

After all, they are people who once fought side by side. They have their own thoughts, and they will talk about which tavern has the strongest wine during the journey, and what is the difference between the southern girl and the northern girl...

At this time, he saw a familiar person, it was Grim, the man from the north whom he met just now when he went to the north of Green Brook Town under the guidance of Sengu.

"How is Sengu?"

Woody asked softly as he passed him.

Grim was slightly taken aback at first, but when he turned his head and found that it was Woody who was asking, he immediately put on a grateful face.

"It's you, it's all right! Thanks to you, Sengu is resting in the carriage now, and the therapist from the business group is healing his wound. I'll come out and get him something to eat."

Since Woody and Cecil came down from the clock tower together, and following her orders, Woody's status in the Fury Winter Merchant Group has risen, and coupled with his outstanding record in this battle, almost everyone in the group They all admire him.

"That's good."

Woody didn't want that iron man, so he just disappeared.

Since he can survive, according to the wealth of the masters, as long as he is still valuable, then the recovery of limbs is actually just a matter of course.

The two chatted for a while, and then Grim left. Looking at his back, Woody's sadness brought about by the scene of the funeral not far away was also diluted a bit.

As long as you are alive, there is hope!
What's more, death is actually a reincarnation in essence.

If any other players were here, they would definitely say that Woody is hypocritical.

After all, this world has souls, just like Terra, where the aborigines, after death, all souls will arrive at the soul habitat, where they wait for the angels of the gods to guide them to their respective kingdoms of God, where Get eternal life.

Just as Woody was gradually breaking away from the memory of the innocent lives that died in the battle, there were some footsteps behind him, which seemed to be coming towards him.

He turned his head and saw that he was a quite familiar apprentice of a business group mage. In the tavern, he was also in the ranks of questioning the butler. Generally speaking, their status is much higher than that of ordinary guards, and they rarely let They run errands.

I saw this apprentice stumbling around in the jungle, looking around, and when he saw Woody's pair of golden vertical pupils that were particularly bright in the dark night, his whole body became excited. He greeted him with a smile on his face. Said happily.

"Master Woody, I finally found you. His Royal Highness Cecil is looking for you and asked you to go to the baron's manor."

He seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"what happened?"

Woody's steps in the forest were relaxed and free, and he was not affected by the obstacles on the ground at all. On the contrary, he walked very steadily with every step, and walked in front of the apprentice very easily.

The sorcerer apprentice strenuously pushed aside the vines and branches wrapped around his silk robe, and said in an unabated tone.

"It seems to be related to rewards. She asked me to notify you to go there. I searched for a while and found you here after hearing Captain Grimm's words."

"understood."

Woody glanced at the still dark sky and nodded.

Cecil told him about the loot when he was on the clock tower, but it hadn't been sorted out at that time, and he wanted to help, so he didn't get involved in this matter right away. I didn't expect it to be a while The work has already been sorted out.

Following behind the mage apprentice, it didn't take long to return to the flat stone brick road of Long Street. Many buildings on both sides were affected by the battle just now, and they were damaged to a certain extent. Someone was cleaning up the rubble brought by the collapse. , ready to wait until tomorrow morning to repair the house, while others squatted on the roadside steps with red eyes, not knowing what to think.

There were also a few children playing on the long street, their laughter was extremely harsh.

But no one stopped them. Their smiles when they were playing were as clear as spring water in the mountains. Although their faces were dusty, there was no cloudiness in their eyes. These were innocent faces unique to children.

Most of them were hidden in the cellar by their families, and they were released after the battle. They didn't know the situation on the ground at all. They were well protected, but the people who protected them...

Woody sighed silently in his heart, this is an unavoidable life and death, if everyone is afraid of death before the battle, then most people may not see the dawn of the next day in the end.

Although his heart seemed to be as hard as iron, every time he saw the people after the disaster, he still couldn't help the ripples in his heart.

He resisted not to look at these gazes, buried his head and left this slightly noisy long street, and came to the baron's manor filled with candlelight. It was very different to leave just now, and more noise came from inside, but when Woody walked to the gate of the manor, an accident happened, a blazing fireball burst out like a volcanic eruption, and then burst open instantly. Come, and with the explosion of the fireball, the hustle and bustle inside the manor seemed to be baptized by the fire rain, and became quiet.

……

Woody, who was outside the door, looked at the roof of the manor with a big hole, and the fireball that exploded like fireworks under the deep night, and was speechless for a moment.

Then he pushed open the door and walked through the corridor to the most spacious hall.

There were neither too many nor too many people in the hall, but everyone's faces were not good-looking, and there was a little bit of fear and panic mixed in.

And several guards of the Angry Winter Merchant Group who acted as servants were putting some things in front of them one by one. Although their faces were slightly strange, they could no longer resist. On the other side of the hall was Sisi who was still dressed as a mage. Er, different from being weak and full in front of Lani before, her expression here is indifferent, and she is even more majestic at a high place.

And Woody was not in a hurry to go in and disturb her, until the people in the hall moved their things away, and then slowly stepped into the hall that fell into silence again, and just happened to see Sisi who was sighing with his forehead you.

"tired?"

Woody looked at her and couldn't help but smile. Needless to say, he understood the situation just now. It must be the impact of the uneven distribution of spoils after the battle. If no one calms down, the fight will probably start on the spot.

"Yes!"

Cecil looked up at Woody, and said weakly that she had cast too many spells tonight, and she was already physically and mentally tired. She didn't expect to deal with this matter after the battle, and she directly experienced physical and mental exhaustion.

"Then don't worry about it next time, let them fight and grab it by themselves."

"That can't be done. If the battle starts again because of this, wouldn't it be that so many people were sacrificed in vain." Cecil retorted.

"That's fine, don't pay too much attention to these, just do your best."

Compared with the mourning of the dead, he has a very high tolerance for various behaviors of the living. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that he has experienced too many intrigues in his previous life. There are foolish ways to deal with stupid people.

"Obviously younger than me, the words are like an old man."

Cecil wrinkled his nose noncommittally, neither objecting nor agreeing.

"By the way, I left a copy for you, take it."

As she spoke, she pointed to the conspicuous open boxes piled up beside her. The gold and silver coins in the boxes shone under the candlelight, just like jewels.

"I don't know what to leave for you. These are all contributed by passing passengers. The wealth of the lords of this trade route is not low, and they can almost catch up with me."

Cecil smacked her lips, she herself felt a little unbelievable when the house was raided this time.

"I've already taken part of it, the demon and the body of the baron..."

Woody said that it's a lie that he doesn't love money, but before he came, he went to the pharmacist. In order to make a potion for improving skill immunity to twigs, he turned the body from the baron's purgatory and the abyssal ape , and took a lot of rare organ materials. It doesn’t matter if he killed the ape demon, but the baron was solved by Cecil and her guards. Although he asked Cecil for his opinion, he still I think I have already taken what I should have taken.

"Do you want?"

Cecil's face remained unchanged after hearing this, and he just repeated.

"alright."

Woody looked at her expression, but didn't insist, after all, it was only a few thousand gold coins.

But just when he thought this was the end, Cecil said again.

"You pick another one from here."

He turned his head and saw that there were still several items and a strangely shaped stone on the long table in the hall.

Among them is a cross sword with flames burning in the lines, the grade must be much higher than his curved sword, it may be a +2 magical wonder.

Woody lifted it slightly, then let it go, which didn't suit him.

As for the remaining necklace with a protective effect engraved on it, he skipped it directly. Maybe he needs protection, but basically it can beat him, and this kind of protection is useless.

There was also a mithril long dagger that seemed to be captured from a prisoner. After Woody knew it was some kind of soul-replacing ceremony, he stopped looking at it. He didn't need it, and it was unnecessary.

So, he quickly set his sights on the fiery red ore lying quietly on the long table.

He was a little puzzled at first, but when he touched the data that came out and the distorted face spewed out from inside the fiery spar, Woody's face couldn't contain his joy.

Because, his natural shrine was saved.

This is... the "soul spar" from hell.

(End of this chapter)