Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 130 Ceremony
Jiatu was ups and downs in the rapids.

He barely opened his eyes in the current.

Among the countless bubbles, Tie Lian's long gray hair was vaguely seen.

He stretched out his hand, grabbed Tie Lian's arm, and dragged him from behind to swim to both sides of the valley.

However, the turbulence of the river valley pushed them all the way in the direction of Razor Town.

By the time he dragged Tie Lian to the river bank, he had already left Tianhuo Peak and East River Valley, and came to a black forest between East River Valley and Razor Town.

Jiatu spat out the small fish in his mouth and barely dragged Tie Lian ashore.

Even if he already has the strength of the silver middle class, it is not easy.

There are countless floating corpses and helmets floating in the stream behind him.

And Tie Lian also paled and passed out.

The wound that had already gradually healed also leaked faint bloodshot.

Jiatu leaned down, blowing out the accumulated water in Tie Lian's lungs mouth to mouth, and began to give him heart compressions.

After pressing dozens of times in a row, Tie Lian suddenly spit out a mouthful of stream water and woke up.

"I am..."

Tie Lian looked at Jia Tu weakly, and touched her waist subconsciously:
"Who are you?!"

Jiatu touched the makeup on his face and realized that under the impact of the water, they had peeled off a lot——

Even though the make-up artist of the Second Corps who applied Jiatu's makeup assured him that he was using waterproof makeup, under such a turbulent water flow, not many make-up cosmetics could withstand this level of impact.

So he nodded and stood up:

"An ordinary person passing by."

Jiatu turned around and was about to leave, but heard Tie Lian's unbelievable voice:
"Tujia?! Are you the door opener?"

Jiatu took a breath, turned around, and nodded slowly.

"Why did you save me..."

In Tie Lian's concept, the door opener should be on the side of the tree wolf clan. Even if he won't take the initiative in the war between the empire and the tree wolf clan because of the contract with the empire, he shouldn't risk his life or death. save him-

It should be.

"I think you're a nice guy."

Jiatu also nodded, and said frankly:

"If people like you can be more involved in the military and political circles of the empire, maybe they can have some good influence on the empire—for example, in terms of attitudes towards other door openers."

"Then I think you're thinking too much..."

Tie Lian smiled wryly, not knowing what to think of.

He sat up, rolled up his sleeves and showed Cato:
"If you don't mind, can you come over?"

"what?"

Jiatu asked in surprise.

He saw some very strange sword-shaped lines on Tie Lian's right arm.

"Artificial circuit—I think you've heard of this."

Tie Lian looked at Jiatu and said calmly, "I probably won't need it anymore, so I plan to give it to you."

no... i haven't heard of...

Jiatu really wanted to say that, but seeing Tie Lian's solemn expression, he realized that he didn't intend to harm himself.

So he walked over silently and handed his right arm to the other party.

Tie Lian overlapped her right arm with Jia Tu's.

With a faint tingling and flash, the iron-gray lines on Tie Lian's right arm crawled from his arm to Jiatu's arm as if they were alive.

Jiatu stared at this scene with a bit of stupefaction——

He felt that the main brain in his body was like a living thing, making a euphoric cry, entangled with the lines on his right arm.

When everything was over, Tie Lian let go of Jiatu's right hand, as if running a marathon, her whole body was exhausted.

"You go..."

He looked at Jiatu with a miserable expression and said:

"This is the imprint of my family... It's better to give it to you than those bastards from the Beloved Department..."

"...Is it really okay for me to accept it?"

Jiatu realized belatedly that he seemed to have accepted something very extraordinary.

But Tie Lian just nodded silently:

"Don't worry, you are the door opener, and they dare not touch you without doing anything to us..."

While speaking, many figures appeared in the forest unknowingly.

They have imperial wizards in black robes, and explorers in gray robes.

Their figures intertwined, staring at each other with stern eyes, but neither of them took the lead.

Jiatu looked up, and in the gap between the woodlands, he saw the tiny black dot of the rotor drone.

"But if you give this to me..."

Jiatu looked at the beloved wizard beside Tie Lian, and vaguely realized something.

"From the very beginning, they never intended to let me go."

The iron-gray long-haired young man leaned against the withered tree roots, and waved at Jiatu——

"Let's go, hurry up and go..."

Jiatu looked at Tie Lian with some hesitation.

Don't know what's about to happen.

It's just that there is a very bad premonition faintly.

And Wu Ning also stepped forward and grabbed Jiatu's arm:
"Don't conflict with the 'Four Departments' of the Empire..."

Noticing Wu Ning's admonishing gaze, Jiatu took a step back while clutching his still aching right arm.

He looked at the iron lily lying under the root of the tree, took one last look, and then grabbed the female explorer in the form of a giant wolf and disappeared into the forest together.

"Tie Lian Wu Hua...do you know what you did just now?"

With Wu Ning's departure, the shadowy explorers in the forest also disappeared again.

And it wasn't until this time that the judges belonging to the Beloved Ministry of the Empire dared to step forward and surrounded Tie Lian.

"Anyway, it's my own family's inheritance imprint, whoever I want is my freedom..."

Tie Lian raised her head reluctantly, and glanced at the five men in black robes:
"You're not going to let me go anyway, are you?"

"As the general of the defeated army, you have desecrated the noble blood of the empire. It is your honor to be able to use waste to serve the empire!"

The black-robed wizard said gloatingly, and waved his hand:

"Put the magic bag on him!"

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"General Shao Le, you already know, right? Your army has failed."

"In the face of a barbarian tribe in a border world, you actually lost a third of the troops that the empire entrusted to you... I am afraid that even the emperor will not be able to protect you when you return to the empire?"

Inside the underground ceremony hall of Nordwald Castle.

Shao Le Wuhua faced the four imperial wizards in front of him with a stern expression.

Although he had known for a long time that it was no good for the other party to invite him here, he still didn't expect that it would be such an obvious Hongmen banquet.

"I still have two-thirds of the troops, and there is no problem in taking down the tree wolf village!"

The middle-aged man with iron-gray long hair emphasized himself.

He faintly clenched the hilt of the sword at his waist.

Although his witchcraft aptitude is only slightly better than normal people's ten elven circuits, but if he counts the six "sword veins" given to him by the high priest of the Wuhua clan, he also has the ability to barely fight these imperial wizards .

So the wizards of the empire are also very aware of this.

If they had no choice, they didn't want to tear themselves apart with Shao Le Wuhua.

So upon hearing Shao Le's emphasis, the black-robed wizard from the Beloved Department just said with a strange smile:
"The only lesson humans have learned from history is that they never learn from—"

"Minister Shao Orchestra, did you check the expedition records of the Imperial Border Guards before you set off?"

"what do you mean……"

Shao Le suddenly thought of a possibility, and his face turned cold.

"What do you think, if the mission of this expedition is so simple, why did the Imperial General Staff send our Ministry of True Love to go with you?"

Hearing what the black-robed wizard said, even Bavant and Sir Cavendish showed stunned expressions.

Only Hannett, as always, is there.

All developments seem to have been accounted for.

"You guys..."

Shao Le suddenly turned his gaze to the ceremony field below, and suddenly understood what——

"You guys actually?!"

He instantly pulled out the long sword at his waist, and wanted to rush into the ceremony.

But was stopped by the black-robed wizard with a sneer:

"Think clearly."

The black-robed wizard stared at Shao Le and said slowly: "You were the first to cross the line—— Baron Nordwald and the others were just fighting back."

"Or, are you going to disobey the rules of the empire and slaughter us?"

Shao Le glared at the black-robed wizard, and squeezed out a few words from his teeth——

"Lauru... you deserve to be hacked to pieces..."

"Please call me by my title in the Ministry of Beloved—Master of True Love."

The black-robed wizard smiled, and pushed back the scabbard that Shao Le had pulled out:
"That's right, take back your anger and show your loyalty to the emperor with the sacrifice of your own people—just like you have always done."

The black robe wizard laughed loudly:
"I will definitely put in a good word for you in the Ministry of Beloved report—"

"It's all thanks to the sacrifices of Minister Shao and the Wuhua tribe that we can completely capture the village of the tree wolf tribe!"

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Wendy looked wearily at the quarrel above the viewing platform.

Since those wizards from the empire came to Nordwar Castle, her witchcraft training courses suddenly became more frequent.

When Tie Lian was around, she could recover a little by looking forward to the small but brief tryst under the window sill.

However, about a week ago, even Tie Lian was kicked out by her father.

She resisted, and she also stayed behind closed doors.

But in the end he was forced out by Baron Hannett——

He used the engraving punishment that he had never used before——

He activated the inheritance engraving on Wendy's body. This kind of witchcraft pattern can transmit the engraving to her body at the moment of Baron Hannett's death. It can also cause pain on the heir when the inheritor needs it——

For hundreds of years, the wizard nobles of the empire have used such cruel and inhumane methods to turn their successors into cruel and ruthless inheritance machines like themselves——

For the wizards of the empire, nothing is as important as inheriting the family imprints and making them stronger.

Even Baron Hannett was no exception.

Wendy glanced at the black magic lines on her body with some disgust.

Those devilish tentacles only made her thin and pale body more disgusting and disgusting.

"Miss...Master is calling you over."

Behind Wendy, the newly recruited ceremony maid silently handed over the ceremony suit——

More than a dozen scalpels and planing pliers of various types.

"I see……"

The girl in black nodded, put away the tiredness on her face, and walked into the ceremony hall with a stern expression, carrying a long skirt like an heir to the Nordwald family requested by Hannit.

Facing several figures on the viewing platform, she bowed her head and saluted. The black ritual demon turned into a large black mist, setting off her long black dress.

Make her look weird and noble—

Just like Jiatu and the others released their main outfit, the mako, the large and full amount of demons also changed other people's impression of her.

Like a real witch, Wendy walked to the victim of the ceremony with An Jie behind her.

As always, it was a tall man with a hood on his head.

His body seemed to be corroded by something, bloody.

But facing such a bloody scene, Wendy just thought silently:
"Are you going to increase the difficulty again?"

She thought with some disgust, took a deep breath, picked up the scalpel in An Jie's hand, thought for half a second, entered the ritual state, and cut open the body of the sacrifice without hesitation.

The sacrifice was trembling all over, but he didn't let out a scream. It should be that his tongue had been cut off.

Wendy thought silently. In the early ritual training, in order to prevent her from overreacting to the sacrifices, Baron Hannett would also arrange sacrifices for her to lose her voice.

But compared to those dumb, the reaction of this sacrifice is undoubtedly much smaller.

"Is it because of the previous wounds and blood loss, has exhausted too much energy?"

Wendy's slender and fair fingers brushed lightly over the victim's liver, and she really felt that the victim's body temperature was lower than usual.

"Give me this kind of sacrifice that is about to die... What the hell are they doing, father?!"

Wendy thought impatiently.

Once the victim dies in the ritual, all previous efforts will be for naught.

Since three years ago, she has done it more than a hundred times without fail.

She won't let her winning streak end here.

So she speeded up the movements of her hands, instead of observing the reaction of the sacrifice, dismembered his internal organs one by one, and put his liver, stomach, lungs, heart, kidneys, spleen and intestines into the corresponding place of the ceremony. position.

By the end of the ceremony, the sacrifice was nothing but an empty shell.

Relying entirely on the support of the ritual itself, he did not die completely.

"Okay, it's done."

Wendy picked up the rag in An Jie's hand, wiped it vigorously, and looked at her work with some satisfaction——

Thanks to the weakness and patience of the sacrifice itself, her ceremony this time was more successful than any previous one.

It was only when she cast her eyes on the head of the sacrificial offering that was covered with a magic bag that she suddenly felt a little strange——

Why, under the thick black mist, she still felt so familiar with the pair of iron-gray eyes in the hole dug out by the magic bag.

Why couldn't she see any expression of the sacrifice except those eyes.

But suddenly so flustered and uneasy.

Why did she feel a burst of joy and pain sprouting from the depths of her heart the moment she realized those gray eyes.

Her mind was in disarray and she couldn't think at all.

He just walked forward subconsciously, and covered the sacrifice's cheek through the magic bag——

"...Master Tie Lian?"

　It's time for a knife.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)