above the ring

Chapter 14 The Rose of Blood

PS: Written earlier, this chapter has a lot of conjectures about the Blood King and Mikaela. There is no evidence to prove it. It is just speculation and reasonable guesses based on the scene. After all, when the Blood King is mentioned, there will definitely be a lot of discomfort. place, I try to write better, please forgive me.As for the specific relevant content, readers, please refer to the DLC that may be released by the French Ring in the future.

This time Lear was wiser.

In order to avoid getting lost, he chose to touch the soul tree first. He saw golden footprints emerging on the ground, but no soul appeared. Lear felt that something was wrong.

There will obviously be a villain with a soul in the game, and he will lead the guide to the depths of the foggy forest.

Although he didn't understand why the soul didn't dare to show up, Lear still walked forward along the footprints.

The footprints are golden, so they are more clearly displayed on the brownish-yellow and light green road surface. Now it is daytime at the border, the light of the golden tree can penetrate part of the fog and project on the ground, which temporarily makes Lear feel Not bad, at least the sense of direction has not become disorganized.

When the footprints reached the end of the path, the light of the golden tree stopped there. The thick fog in the depths of the foggy forest drowned most of the golden light, and only the golden footprints could be vaguely seen, still moving forward.

After walking in the mist for a long time, Lear couldn't remember the way back. The golden footprints turned many turns and bypassed many huge trees. Finally, Lear saw the depths of the foggy forest, covered with moss relics.

This is the ruins where Brother Wolf was before. A huge rune bear is sleeping in the middle of the ruins, and it snores when it sleeps.

In order not to disturb it, Lear squatted down and followed the steps of the golden footprints, bypassing the ruins.

After passing the ruins, not far away, a sudden gust of wind blew up, whistling and swirling in the deepest part of the foggy forest, rolling up the fallen leaves and dead grass on the ground, and instantly disappearing the golden footprints.

Lear raised his left hand, half covering his face, the swirling fog of the strong wind affected his observation of the front, but he knew that this was probably a sign that he was about to walk out of the foggy forest.

Sure enough, after walking a few steps, a wide road with obvious traces of man-made felling and construction appeared in front of Lear, and in the distance, a glowing suggestion appeared by the side of the road.

Lear hurried over and touched Jianyan on the ground.

"It's doing business."

In terms of advice, the classic dress of the wandering merchant appears in the advice.

The tone is still very playful, well, this is probably a talkative wandering businessman.

This was the message left by the merchant in the foggy forest, but Lear looked around and saw that the fog in the forest was still quite thick at the moment, so he decided to go south first and wait until he reached Fort Hyde.

Mainly the fear of getting lost.

In the game, when Lear came to Fort Hyde for the first time, he rode a horse and ran all the way. It was worth his attention that the demi-humans roared along the road, and in Fort Hyde, soldiers used bows and crossbows to attack The condition of Lear's shooting.

Along the way this time, although I saw a few sporadic demihumans, they were afraid of the huge saber in Lear's hand, and the mighty suit of Kaidan mercenaries, so they didn't stand in the way. Things.

Going out of the foggy forest and looking at Fort Hyde in the distance, Lear found the spirit outside the foggy forest.

Before he died, he left a message, which reads as follows.

"Master Kenneth, where are you?

The group of demihumans whose mothers had been kidnapped rioted.

That knight is crazy about blood."

The spirit body calls Hyde a lord. It looks like Hyde's servant, but the clothes look more like a dignitary. It should be Hyde's vassal and the resident of Hyde Fortress. The content provided by this spirit body is quite different from the clues provided by Hyde. not bad.

It seems that the ins and outs of the whole incident are very clear.

Under the leadership of the knight, Grek's soldiers stationed at Hyde Fortress carried out Grek's order to seek corpses for the forbidden technique of "grafting limbs", so they kidnapped the demihuman mother, the demihuman queen in this area .

During this process, the army led by the knight inevitably clashed with the demi-human group protecting the queen, so bloodshed was inevitable. However, the knight was lured by the power of blood and killed the demi-human queen, so the demi-human group People rioted and fought with the soldiers.

The people who used to live in Hyde Fortress must have suffered unreasonable disasters because of this. They died and fled. The soldiers also lost their minds in the process of fighting the demihumans.

The number of demi-humans in Ningmgfu is quite large, and their tribes are almost all over the entire territory of Ningmgfu. They began to gather outside Fortress Hyde, but their current number was not enough to attack the fortress.

This team led by Knight Greck should not be low in combat power.

Hyde Fortress is a very magnificent fortress. It stands on the sea cliff and is in the violent sea wind. There is only one path leading to Hyde Fortress. That place has been filled by roadblocks and repelling horses. The other places are steep cliffs that are difficult to climb.

Lear remembered that there was a blessing point around here, and as expected, it was just under the cliff on the right side of Fort Hyde.

Touching the blessing unlocked the new teleportation anchor point. As Lear expected, there was still no guiding picture in his mind, and no other guiding light beams appeared.

In order to avoid the bow and crossbow above the fortress, Lear equipped his shield and walked up the path. After bypassing the Juma, outside the fortress, Lear saw the golden tree buds.

Where there are seeds of the golden tree, there are buds of the golden tree. It is said that it is the phantom golden tree reflected by the golden tree species.

Gregor's soldiers surrounded the golden tree seeds. They lost their minds, their eyes were red, they waved long swords, and shouted some vague words, like a group of disgusting guys who had sucked too much.

An arrow shot at Lear's feet, which was missed by the soldier above. Lear quickly raised his shield and faced the top of Fort Hyde.

However, there was another noise from below the path, and several demihumans rushed up, startling them.

It's hard to tell whether these soldiers who have lost their minds are living people or animals. After hearing the cry of the demihumans, they got up quickly, but then they looked like wild beasts that smelled blood and were about to hunt, and headed towards the path. Go down, the pace is slow and heavy.

However, the originally slow-moving soldiers were stunned for a moment when they saw Lear, and then rushed towards the demihumans below with loud shouts.

In Lear's eyes, their actions are no different from lunatics, utterly irrational.

The only thing Lear can be sure of is that Kaidan mercenaries are also allies in the eyes of these Grek soldiers.

But why would that creep shoot me?
Lear looked up again.

The little soldier turned his crossbow and shot at the demihumans.

strangeness.
Lear noticed that the arrow had been shot in front of him, the one leading to the gate of Fort Hyde.

He's keeping me from approaching?
"Ahhhh-"

Sudden!A soldier with a brass-colored pumpkin head rushed out from the fortress. His figure was strangely thick, his joints were twisted and deformed, and his body was also more swollen than other soldiers. He held a flail in his hand and rushed out screaming.

This guy had no consciousness at all, and he couldn't even tell his allies apart. On the way to charge, he knocked down two Grek soldiers with a flail, and then charged straight towards Lear!

"when!"

Lear used the shield's counter-bounce technique.

The frontal defense of the central shield cannot prevent the impact of the head hammer of the crazy pumpkin head soldier. The pumpkin helmet is actually one of the weapons of this type of soldier.

Of course, the unloading force is the unloading force, but the pumpkin-headed soldier's head hammer and shield have the same effect. They are both blunt powerful impacts. The impact surface is wide and the force is large. It is very difficult to bounce back. But it's hard to bounce back.

Lear also did not choose to bounce back forcefully, but after using the rebounding technique to unload the force, he threw out his right hand and hit the soldier's back with a knife.

The big saber was heavy, and it struck the back of the pumpkin-headed soldier, directly pulling out a long wound, and the force of the knife also caused the crazy pumpkin-headed soldier to be smashed to the ground.

And the amount of bleeding from this soldier is simply unbearable.
This soldier was much bigger than Lear, so his agility was much lower. While the soldier was crying in pain, he raised his knife and fell, and the soldier who hadn't gotten up was killed by Lear.

But Lear discovered a terrible and disgusting thing.

The blood on the dead pumpkin-headed soldier was extremely thick, and the blood under the wound splashed out like an explosion. The blood did not flow out like a normal person, and it spread out on the ground in a short while. lakes.

The skin that lost the blood also became thin and transparent, and under the pale, the blood vessels were knotted, as if it had been artificially modified.

The thick volume of blood is why this soldier looks so swollen in appearance, and once the blood is lost, he becomes a shriveled skin sac that shrinks immediately.

Sniffing the smell in the air, Lear didn't smell a strong smell of blood, but what he smelled was a rose-like fragrance.

This aroma is very heavy and deep, as if it has been brewing for a long time, and the fragrance is long and lingering.

Lear realized that the crazy pumpkin head soldier was probably the product of the blood king's conspiracy.

The Blood King, that is, the Blood King, as the name implies, is the king who manipulates blood. He can not only make people who have been given his power thirst for blood, but also develop and improve the blood in living things, allowing them to produce terrible destructive power.

Lear has seen the scene when the Blood King appeared. Mikaela's hand stretched out of the egg-shaped hotbed, and a lot of blood flowed out from the egg along Mikaela's hand, and the blood turned into a pool of blood on the ground. , and finally turned into the Blood King Menggewen.

Since ancient times, the secret magic of blood and flesh has been called "rose", and some ancient worships even specially set up similar teachings.

Lear once read a very powerful novel called "The Lord of the Mysteries", in which the users who are good at using flesh and blood as raw materials to perform secret arts seem to believe in a man named real rap, er, is it called "true creator" " the deity of
Um?and many more!

What is the name of the god that Blood King Mongwen spied underground?

Mother of truth!

Good guy!
interesting.

When we return to reality, we can look up the information on this aspect.

Lear found himself more and more interested in this blood-forged dynasty.

Moreover, it is foreseeable that the influence of blood on the border land is far greater than that of other gods. If the Valkyrie and General Ratan hadn't confronted each other head-on, the scarlet and corrupt flowers would have bloomed, and Galid would have been transformed from a fertile land. The fields and fields turned into a red barren wasteland, and the power of scarlet corruption has been hiding in the ground until now.

However, the power of blood had already planted the seeds when the Shard Wars began.

Now, this seed is beginning to take root and sprout, growing bigger and bigger, like this crazy pumpkin head soldier, there are many in almost every sphere of influence, even in the faded camp, there is no lack of worship fighting and killing, lost in " People in Cursed Blood.

Meng Gewen is the blood king, who is proficient in blood, how could he not be able to control flesh and blood?

Then
Lear had a bolder conjecture.

Is it possible that the egg wrapped in Mikaela is the body of Menggewen?
In order to make Mikaela more "comfortable", or to force Mikaela to submit, Menggewen has long turned his own flesh and blood into an egg-shaped hotbed, as if warming some kind of plant—you know, What can represent Mikaela, in addition to the "holy tree" that he cultivated carefully and expects to heal his younger sister Marenia, and two "Water Lilies" that look the same and have similar names.

These are plants!

If this is the case, then Mungwin is really spending "good time" with Mikaela in this way, he thinks that Mikaela is a flower in his heart, and then he is watering that flower People even do not hesitate to use their own bodies to water.
What can grow after watering?
Maybe he wants to plant a new golden tree?Oh, that should be the blood tree.

"Hey~", what a disgusting love story.
Lear thought of another key point, assuming that the blood in the pumpkin head soldier's body would boil
This thing is a fucking human bomb!

Thinking of this, Lear quickly put away the golden tree seed, and then went straight to Hyde Fortress.

The top priority now is to kill that blood-advocating knight as soon as possible. In case this guy turns into a guy like the crazy pumpkin-headed soldier, he is a knight after all, and the power of the explosion is definitely much stronger than the soldier!

As soon as the seeds were harvested, the Phantom Golden Tree disappeared without a trace. Lear, who turned his back and entered the fortress, ignored this strange phenomenon and went straight to the upper level of the fortress.

As soon as they entered the gate of the fortress, the corpse of a demi-human queen lay across the gate, and several mice were nibbling on it.

Obviously, this is the kidnapped demihuman queen, and also the mother of those rioting demihuman groups.

Several servants of Lord Hyde were standing and wandering on it.

They also lost their minds.

Lear found a kind of flower named "Blood Rose" around the corpse of the demi-human queen. These flowers bloomed on the flesh and blood, delicate and charming, like lovers in love, clinging to each other, they sucked the blood in the flesh and blood. Nutrition, blooming with terrifying but bright beauty.

Lear picked one and sniffed it with the tip of his nose.

That's right, it's the taste.

Fragrant and heavy, it stands alone among the stench of rotting corpses.

Lear felt sick.

He didn't want to touch roses again in his life.

girlfriend?Next life!

Lear angrily walked up the wooden ladder inside the fortress, and dealt with several Hyde Fortress servants who were blocking the way. He saw standing quietly at the top of the fortress, with his back to Lear, dressed as a Grecian knight, but with blood He daubed the badge and mark that belonged to Greg on his body, and drew a symbol that Lear was very familiar with.

This symbol is also on the badge of the pure blood knight!
Lear summoned this badge from the mind space.

Getting this thing is like getting a rune bank card with unlimited storage. It is impossible for Lear not to study it, but after researching and researching, he finally found that he can't use this thing at all.

In the game, when the fader gets this badge, he can teleport to the underground Mengwen Dynasty, but Lear can't activate the teleportation switch life and death.

So, the careful Lear found a key point in the strategy video released by others - before he was awarded the badge of the pure blood knight by Fan Lei, the fader was also given a thing called "pure blood blood finger" by him , that thing was directly implanted into the fader's finger!

Therefore, Lear is guarding this golden mountain but can't use it, which is quite sad.

But now, he encountered the same symbol again.

An idea came to Lear's mind.

So, he put away the big saber, held up the badge of the pure blood knight, and sang: "O people lost in endless blood, in response to the call of the king, witness your miracle!"

The knight turned around, staggered like a walking corpse, and finally knelt down in front of Lear.

Eh?Seems to work!

Then this will save a lot of trouble.

Lear put the shield back, changed the badge to the left hand, and called out the big saber with the right hand, ready to give the knight a knife and let him escape from the sea of ​​suffering as soon as possible.

However, the knight suddenly said a word: "My king in the blood, the rose born in the blood"

And the rose born in the blood. Uh, this metaphor seems very unique. Are you talking about the strange appearance of Menggewen's face with horns?It doesn't seem too bad to say it this way, after all, roses have thorns, and it is quite reasonable for the horns to become thorns.

However, the next paragraph made Lear puzzled.

"My king, my king who threw himself into the dark blood, the rose that blooms in the flesh and blood, it is your subjects calling for your return to the past, you are the brightest pearl of the dynasty, you are the most delicate flower in the world, the future , you will shatter the power of the stars and throw yourself into the endless scarlet, when the icy fire of bone is burning in the void city tunnel. You will return eventually. My king."

Lear's mind is a little down, this passage has too many elements and a huge amount of information - the first half seems to be some kind of suggestion, and it is more like a fanatic of a certain god singing about the past glory of their master; the second half But Duan seemed to be making a terrible prophecy, predicting the return of something like a god!
Accompanied by the knight's words, Lear immediately felt some unexpected changes in the badge in his hand.

It stirred the blood in Lear's body!
Lear felt that the badge had turned into a living thing, although the badge didn't seem to move like a living thing, but it kept conveying a thought to Lear's mind: Give me blood, give me blood!

With a backhand knife, Lear directly sent this knight who had somehow become a repeater and had no self-awareness to death. After hesitating for a moment, he threw the badge into a pool of blood.

The emblem began to drink blood, the blood of this knight obsessed with the power of blood.

Lear clearly saw that something like a mist, very similar to a soul, was sucked in by the badge.

Since then, the badge has been silent.

Carefully picked up the badge, and along with the badge, a reminder appeared in Lear's mind.

【Ashes of War: Blood Slash】

The following is the introduction to the ashes of war, which is somewhat different from the introduction in Lear's impression.

"The power shared by the blood king is one of the blood alliance's combat techniques. It can be used when wearing the blood knight badge without the need for battle ash. Lower your body and fill the sword with the blood absorbed from the badge, tearing the enemy in a wide range blood blade."

The Blood Knight Badge is no longer a dead thing like before, and now, Lear, who is holding it, also has a reminder in his mind.

"The badge of the blood knight awakened by abnormal power, activate it to meet the king of blood."

The next few words that were similar to ridicule were erased, and now only this sentence is left on the Blood Knight badge.

"After activation, you can meet the blood king, and the first half of the sentence is a wake-up reminder?"

Lear couldn't help murmuring, thinking about the meaning he wanted to express in this sentence.

Suddenly, Lear seemed to understand.

"Isn't this the introduction when the Blood Knight Badge was launched? Wogan! The old man doesn't want to go underground now."

But the reality is beyond his choice.

A bloody light appeared, and Lear once again saw nothingness in the world.
He was teleported!

(End of this chapter)