Heart of the Castle

Chapter 24 Part 5 The Angel with Broken Wings
The Earl of Ansair prided himself on his good judgment, but today proved not to be his lucky day.Just after several rangers entered a wooden shed, they uttered miserable and terrified shouts, so loud that one couldn't help wondering whether they had directly seen the scene of hell.

Hearing the voice in the room, Earl Ansair raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Your men seem to need to strengthen their will training, Kane." He said to the Ranger Captain in a half-joking tone . "Otherwise I'm worried about how loud they're going to make when they see real hell."

Captain Kane was blushed by the Earl's ridicule, "Yes, Your Excellency, I must strengthen my training, strengthen..." He gritted his teeth, and walked towards the barn with his hand on the hilt of his sword. Ansair The count followed behind him.

The smell inside the shed was very unpleasant. It seemed that there was a strange smell of being burned after a corpse that had been placed for a long time decomposed.Earl Ansair frowned, and a layer of transparent vindictive light bloomed from his body, keeping the strange smell out.Although Captain Kane possesses the power to dissipate fighting spirit, he can't do the subtle application like Earl Ansair, so he can only cover his mouth and nose with his hands.

Two corpses... or two scorched black armors were scattered in the shed. The rangers who came in earlier stood beside the armors, their faces pale and in a trance. Even Captain Kane and Ansai Count Earl walked in and didn't notice.Captain Kane's eyes were filled with anger, and he went up and punched hard, waking up all the rangers who were in a daze.

"Ah, Lord Kane...and Your Excellency the Earl...Sorry, we just..." Hearing a ranger's stammering excuse, Captain Kane's anger burned even more, and he growled at the ranger . "Shut up, don't you think it's embarrassing enough? What did you just see?"

The sound of gasping came from behind Captain Kane, he turned his head in surprise, and saw Earl Ansair's face became very surprised, and there seemed to be a faint taste of panic, his eyes were fixed on the scattered objects on the ground. Armor, motionless.

"My lord, what's the matter?"

"It's unbelievable, it's really unbelievable." Hearing Captain Kane's voice, Earl Ansair came to his senses and shook his head repeatedly, revealing that he was quite shocked in his heart. "Kane, come over and take a look at these armors, did you find any problems?"

Kane came over and bent down. At first, he didn't see anything from the scattered armors. He only saw that the armors were quite heavy and plain. There were no decorative patterns or badges on them. It was nothing like black steel plates. different.On the surface, these armors did not seem to have suffered any damage, as if the knight wearing the armor took them off.

But soon he frowned tightly, and could hardly close his mouth from ear to ear in surprise, "My lord of light..." he murmured, "The original owner of this armor was...a death knight? "

"That's right, the other one is also a death knight who has reached the level of a high-ranking knight." Earl Ansair said, the look of surprise on his face slowly faded until now.

"The combat power of death knights is extremely terrifying. Ordinary weapons can't harm their bodies at all, so it is usually measured according to the level of a higher level. Death knights of high-level knight level can at least compete with great knights. How could they die here? , and where did their bodies go?" Captain Kane's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally choked in his throat.

Earl Ansair carefully inspected the scattered armor, finally straightened up with a low curse, pinched a pinch of black powder from the middle of the armor with his fingers, and put it in his palm. "Kane, this is what the death knight left behind."

The black powder exuded a strong stench of burnt corpses. Captain Kane looked at it closely and was immediately dizzy from the smoke. "Your Excellency, this is... a dead body?" His tone was somewhat disbelieving.

"That's right, the two death knights were killed in an instant. Look at the marks on their breastplates?"

Captain Kane found the thickest breastplate from the armor scattered on the ground. Every knight can be regarded as an expert in appreciating weapons and equipment. Of course, he could tell that it was forged from a kind of black steel. The sheet metal armor is completely resistant to chopping with a sword and an axe.However, a palm-wide hole suddenly appeared in the center of the breastplate, and the edge unexpectedly melted slightly, as if the steel had suddenly turned into soft mud.

"This is... Flame Fighting Qi?" Captain Kane said uncertainly.

"As far as I know, there is no flame fighting spirit or flame magic that can reach this level." Earl Ansair snorted, "Flame is indeed the death knight's Achilles' heel, powerful fireball or other flames Magic is indeed a good way to fight against death knights. But the power of fire is mainly burning, the penetrating power will not be so strong, and it will not be so concentrated, unless it is..." The earl with the name of sword dancer grew a In his tone, it seemed that the next judgment even made him feel funny, "...the fighting spirit is sanctified!"

"How is it possible?" Captain Kane exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be that His Excellency the Marquis Osiris, the green lion, came here in person and beheaded two death knights?"

"No, not Osiris." Earl Ansair shook his head and said, "There are other people who killed these death knights."

"But apart from the Marquis Osiris, who is the head of King Arthur's iron guard and also the head of the Knights of Ashes, how can there be another sky knight who has mastered the sanctification of fighting spirit in the Kingdom of Arthur?" Captain Kane insisted.

For this young man who has reached the peak level of a high-level knight and can undoubtedly continue to advance, Earl Ansair admires him very much, so even if he was questioned like this, he did not show displeasure. Explain patiently.

"The Marquis of Osiris can certainly easily kill these death knights, but as a member of the Nine Pillars family, I am no stranger to his vindictiveness. It is a kind of vindictiveness that is biased towards natural power, although it can also simulate the power of fire , but definitely not so pure.”

There was a moment of silence in the shed, and for a while there was no sound except for the heavy breathing of the rangers.Captain Kane was shocked by that amazing conclusion, and Earl Ansair, although he made a judgment, was also lost in thought.

"My lord, we searched all over the manor, but found nothing except dead people." A few rangers came in from outside the shed, and bowed to Earl Ansair and Captain Kane.

"Is everyone here dead?" The Earl of Ansair sighed. "So the son and daughter of Sir Merefis also suffered? Where are their bodies now?"

"Your Excellency..." the leading ranger said with some hesitation, "We only found the corpses of a few maids in the manor, and there were no young women among them. turn up."

"Didn't the bodies be found? Did they escape the massacre, or were they taken away by those death knights?" Earl Ansair twisted his well-trimmed beard and thought about it, even pulling out a few by accident. Did not notice.

"Your Excellency, maybe the mysterious man who easily got rid of the two death knights rescued them?" Captain Kane speculated.

Earl Ansair shook his head, denying this guess. "The mysterious man came too late, or there is an opponent among the death knights who can make him very afraid. In short, if the mysterious man made a move from the beginning, even Sir Mirefis would not die."

As the earl spoke, he raised his head and issued an order to Captain Kane. "I want you to take someone to check this manor thoroughly," he said in a heavy voice, "every bush, every river, and every stone within a five-kilometer radius must be searched carefully. If you The number of rangers under my command is not enough, I will call in three more squadrons of city guards to help in the search. Be sure to find out the whereabouts of the children of Sir Mirefis, and I will see them whether they are alive or dead. If traces of those death knights are found , Don’t make your own claims, you must notify me in time, understand?”

"Yes, Your Excellency the Earl!" Captain Kane knocked on his breastplate and replied loudly, "I will definitely do my best!"

(End of this chapter)