Heart of the Castle

Chapter 602 Battle Dance Arena, Master-Apprentice Showdown (Part [-]) Please don’t misunderstand, the words in brackets are just chapter numbers, not the keynote of this book...

The battle dance arena is located in a lake in the northwest of the Yueyu Forest. The main body of the arena is made of solid pumice stones. It is connected to the shore of the lake through dozens of thick steel chains. The chains and the arena are densely engraved with countless elven characters, and the strokes are extremely dense. Rigid and sharp, it is like a clump of dagger blades standing in the jungle, which is quite different from the gorgeous, complicated, elegant and smooth writing style of the high elves.

This is the sacred place of the wild elves.

For thousands of years, generations of wild elves and dancer masters have confronted each other, honed their swordsmanship, and inherited martial arts in this arena. The blood flowing down from them has already dyed the surface of the arena into a deep purple.To this day, no matter whether it is the wind or the sun or the torrential rain, it is impossible to fade away the blood that has accumulated on the ring for thousands of years.

More than 20 wild elf elders waited early on the shore of the lake. The dense and complicated patterns on the faces of these elders made it difficult to accurately identify their ages, but their tall and straight waists showed a kind of personality that was by no means inferior to that of young elves. A sense of neatness.Each elder wears two daggers with scabbards around their waists. There is no decoration on the simple scabbards, and the thin vines wrapped around the hilts show signs of old wear and tear.From this point, it can be seen that these short swords are not some kind of status symbol, but a real sharp weapon for killing people and drinking blood.

Every wild elf elder is served by a senior war dancer who has passed the battle dance arena. This is also the rule of the wild elves that has never changed for thousands of years.Many of these elders were veterans who had participated in the Dragon War, so although they had been waiting for quite a long time, they did not show any impatience.

Compared with the brutal battle that is about to happen, waiting is undoubtedly a relaxing thing for the spirit.

Those wild elf elders were whispering to each other, and even the patterns on their faces couldn't hide their worried expressions.

The elders of the wild elves have learned about the disappearance of the master of martial arts, Unicon Fizeld, from different channels, but they are also helpless.The identity of the wild elves was still the slave labor class in the elven kingdom before the dragon war. Although they were mercilessly enslaved and oppressed by the high elves, their relationship with the elves' civilians may not be any better.

Although after the Dragon War, the wild elves got rid of the tragic fate of the slave labor class and became free people who could sit on an equal footing with the high elves and elf commoners, but hundreds of years were too short for the elves. At least the wild elf elders who had been enslaved could not forget the difficult years in the past, so that they cherished the free life in front of them too much, and cared for the hard-won power in their hands with the care of the newborn elves.

Or it should be said that for the disappearance of Master War Dancer, some elders even have a happy attitude.

Uniken Fizeld is a veritable martial arts genius among the wild elves, and also the most powerful war dancer master in the history of the elves. Including Sama Fenglanqi, the owner of the semi-artifact Moon Crack, no elf in the Moonwhispering Forest could withstand the violent storm-like attack of Unicenfizerd.

Perhaps only one elf has ever done it, and that is the ex-Crown Prince Lothien White Grenothirdanron who has been sentenced to expulsion.

The wild elves, who admire the strong, love this genius master of martial arts with unprecedented fanaticism, but for the holders of the existing power - the elders of the wild elves, Unicon Fitzgerald is undoubtedly a Extremely dangerous person.Even if his qualifications are not enough to enter the elders, many young wild elves are more willing to obey the orders of the war dancer master. Make him the uncrowned king of the wild elves.

If it was just this, perhaps the elders of the wild elves would not be so worried.The wild elves do need a strong leader, and Unikenfitzeld fully possesses the ability and prestige to become such a character, but his position is very firm on the side of the former crown prince who was expelled On the one hand, he made no secret of his contempt for the high elves who still held most of the power.

In the minds of many wild elf elders, this is simply the behavior of a lunatic.They were afraid of Unicon Fizerd's tough attitude and lofty prestige, and even more afraid that the wild elves would go to a dead end against the terrible high elves under the leadership of this master war dancer, so they surrendered before Sunsinger. When Gui sent his subordinates to contact them, many wild elf elders even felt a sense of gratitude.

Most of the wild elf elders had a blunt feeling of deliberately making worried expressions, and only a few elders were sincerely worried about the safety of Unikenfizerd.These elders are relatively young, and their stance tends to be as tough as that of the war dancer master. They hate the restoration of the high elves, and believe that the way out for the wild elves lies in their own efforts, rather than waiting for some big man—whether it is the elf queen Or the merciful grace of the Sun Chanter.

Flandara's golden face gradually shifted to the west, but the sunlight that fell was still extremely strong.The appointed time for the second round of the ceremony of peace is approaching, but apart from the gathering of more and more wild elves and elf civilians who came to watch, neither the elf royal court nor the human kingdom envoys have appeared.The elders of the wild elves also began to feel a little uneasy. They stopped talking in low voices and glanced around over and over again.

Suddenly there was an exceptionally clear eagle cry in the distance, high-pitched and sharp, like a steel wire thrown into the sky, and like a cold blade cutting through everyone's heartstrings.A few days ago, there had never been such a high-pitched eagle cry in the sky above the Moon Whispering Forest, but now many elves knew exactly what could make such a sound.

"Here we come!" A wild elf elder declared redundantly, "Those humans are coming riding a Gryphon!"

The speed of the Griffin is not inferior to that of the Silver Pegasus. In less than [-] breaths, these beasts with the characteristics of both a lion and an eagle flapped their wide wings and fell from the sky. The fierce airflow rolled up the broken grass around the lake. The fine sand also forced the elves who watched the excitement to disperse the empty field and let the griffins land.

This approach is obviously a bit rude, but the elves don't have much anger in their hearts. "What a perfect mount, more powerful than the silver Pegasus and more beautiful than the Hippogryph." More than one elf thought so, looking at the body of the male griffin so hotly that the leader of the griffin Wang let out a low cry, raised his front paw and looked suspiciously.

Li Wei patted the head of the Griffin King lightly, "Are you okay, Mao Tuan?" He said softly, and then he got a weak whine from his mind, "This name is too bad, Lord City Master... …I just thought my front paws were burnt."

Since no one from the elf court came, the elders of the wild elves looked at each other at a loss. After exchanging eyes for a few seconds, they made a decision and went to the kingdom envoy together.Walking in the forefront is the current Chief Elder of the Presbyterian Church, Dinin Dagnar. This venerable wild elf elder was once the former Sunsinger—Haldir who "blew the dragon's death knell"— The captain of the slave guard is a well-known moderate faction among the wild elves, and has always followed the attitude of respecting the dominance of the high elves.

It is conceivable that Dignin Dagna and Unikenfitzeld's positions are opposite to each other, and their relationship with each other is bad enough.In the minds of those young wild elves who are one or two hundred years old, this chief elder is simply too servile and spares no effort to curry favor with his high elf master; but in the minds of the elders who have experienced the dragon war, Dininda The chief elder of Genna is a stable and decent leader. In comparison, Unikenfizerd seems a bit too sharp-edged, and his contemptuous attitude towards the high elves is even more disturbing.

Like other wild elf elders, Dinin Dagna was once a brave and sturdy senior war dancer, his personal strength was only a hair's breadth away from the title of martial arts master.Although he is about to be eight hundred years old—for the wild elves whose lifespan is not as long as that of the high elves, eight hundred years old already means entering old age, but his movements are still as agile and vigorous as a young elf who is one or two hundred years old , and has the coordination and stability characteristic of an excellent and experienced fighter.

So when the other wild elf elders saw that the chief elder of Dinin Dagna suddenly stepped on something, staggered a few steps to the side, and almost fell, their surprise could not be concealed, and they couldn't help but scream .Some elders had ghosts in their hearts, and even thought that the human mission had discovered something and attacked the chief elder. After overreacting, they flashed out the two daggers at their waists.

The sound of metal rubbing from behind awakened Chief Elder Dinin from extreme astonishment. He suddenly turned around and roared in a low voice, "You guys, what are you doing with your sword? Are you trying to break the ancient rules of the gift of peace?"

Those elders who overreacted put away their weapons awkwardly, and one of the elders couldn't help asking in a slightly surprised tone, "Chief elder, what happened just now...are you not injured?"

"Injured? How come?" Dinin Dagna frowned and replied, then pointed to the figures jumping off the backs of those griffins, "I was just very surprised to see this scene."

The scene they saw afterwards made all the suspicions in the hearts of the wild elf elders disappear, and was replaced by a more exaggerated surprised reaction than that of the chief elder Dinin. Those who can stand in place but cannot close their mouths are already considered Very calm, more than one elder's legs softened, and he knelt down on the ground neatly.

Those who jumped off the back of the griffin were not only members of the human mission, but also a group of strange wild elf war dancers. A delicate, gorgeous and complicated quaint tattoo.Two exquisitely shaped epees were hung crosswise on the sword belt behind them. There was a faint sense of deterrence like needle pricks on the blades, which made people clearly perceive that they were two very powerful magic weapons.

What shocked all the elders of the wild elves was that the skin of this powerful war dancer was not dark and rough, but white and tender like fine cheese; a thick golden hair flowed down from his head like molten gold, From the end to the shoulder, there is a beautiful luster of life in the sun; his eyes are extremely pure green, comparable to the top-grade emerald green, and there are traces of golden veins in the pupils, which turned out to be a A royal family of high elves whose blood is so pure that it can no longer be pure.

In contrast, those equally unfamiliar war dancers behind him seemed less strange.From the black hair and black pupils of these war dancers, it can be seen that they are all of the standard blood of wild elves, but although their movements can be called agile and fast, they have a kind of frizzy feeling unique to young people, which is different from war dancers. The identity of the dancers doesn't seem to match.

Several wild elf elders with more delicate thoughts have already started to frown, because they found that although the tattoos on the war dancers seemed to be inappropriate at first glance, but if you carefully identify them, they are not the same as the tattoos that have been passed down among the wild elves. Not exactly the same, the patterns in some places are obviously distorted and mutated, with an indescribably awkward feeling.

"Could it be that there is another group of wild elves living outside the Moonwhisper Forest and living in the human kingdom?" The chief elder of Dining Dagna thought in this way, then suppressed the shock in his heart, and took two quick steps forward, looking He didn't even look at the Griffin Lord Levi Stone who was walking in the front, but bowed deeply to the war dancer who had the blood of the high elf royal family.

"I would like to extend...sincere respect to you, the great...royal family, the inheritors of the ancient blood, and the natural master of the Moonwhispering Forest." The chief elder Dinin said in blunt high elven language, although he was once the former sun chanter After serving for hundreds of years, he has been exposed to high elvish language even more times than ordinary elf commoners, but he really can't master the complicated vibrato and coloratura, and he feels deeply uneasy about it.

The voice of the other party's answer made him feel familiar, and he spoke fluent wild elf slang. Dinin had never imagined that vulgar wild elf slang could be interpreted in such a dignified and decent way, and he was deeply shocked by the meaning in the words.

"I salute you too, Chief Elder Dinin Dagnar, freeborn of the wild elves."

"Aylala, you are..." Dinin suddenly raised his head, and almost looked at the face of the high elf royal with some disrespect, and then it was as if he was shot in the chest by an invisible sharp arrow. , his face suddenly turned pale, and even his voice became very difficult, every word seemed to be squeezed out of his throat, "...His Royal Highness, Crown Prince of Luoxienbai Grenoter Danlun!"

For the first time since learning the news of the disappearance of the martial art master Uniconfizerd, Marquis Osiris showed a happy smile from the heart, and the patterns painted on the corners of his mouth with alchemy potion moved accordingly, admiring his handsome A strange and cold taste was added to his face.

"The Chief Elder of Dinin Dagna," he said softly, and at the same time inspecting the stiff expression of this wild elf chief elder who was called untrustworthy by Uniken Fitzeld, "My Shalafei suddenly disappeared Now, do you know where he is?"

"Yes, I know... no, no, I don't know." Dinin replied incoherently, "His Royal Highness, I mean, I know about the disappearance of Unicenfitzeld, but I I don't know where he is now."

Marquis Osiris narrowed his eyes dangerously, his gaze was as sharp as a freshly sharpened razor.Elder Dining's explanation is reasonable and reasonable, but it is purely superfluous, and instead wants to cover up the obvious.He is now completely sure that the chief elder of the wild elves must have played some disgraceful role in the disappearance of Unikenfitzeld, and among the wild elf elders with terrified faces behind him, there are also some Many people are involved in this matter - at least there are not a few people who know it!
"Girnash." Marquis Osiris softly called the young elite sword dancer's name, and the latter stepped forward quickly, "His Royal Highness, please give me your instructions."

"Elder Dining Dagna probably knows some inside stories about Shalafei's disappearance, but he is old and his memory is not good. Can you help him recall?"

"Yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince." Girnash replied without hesitation, and then waved his hand, leading the young wild elves whose bodies were painted with war dancer patterns to approach.

Only then did the wild elf elders see the true identities of these strange war dancers. Seeing those young wild elves approaching, a trace of shame and anger flashed across Dinin Dagna's face.Just when he was about to yell, an irritable wild elf elder beside him roared angrily, and pulled out two swords from his waist like lightning.

"You little bastards, you want to turn the world upside down!" He yelled in hoarse wild elf language, and at the same time greeted Girnash, the leader, "Don't think that some layman painted a fake If you look at the pattern, you can regard yourself as a real war dancer, you are still very young!"

The prestige of the wild elf elders was still there, and those young wild elves couldn't help showing hesitant expressions on their faces, and they hesitated to move forward, but Girnash's footsteps did not stop. Although his face became a little pale, but But he resolutely walked towards the elder, and at the same time wiped his hands on his waist, and the two daggers gleaming with cold light slid out of their sheaths, only making an extremely slight rubbing sound.

"Elder Enbibi, you have always been a supporter of Master Unicon, so please get out of the way." Girnash tried his best to make his voice as cold as possible, but the slight trill at the end of the sentence fully revealed the tension in his heart . "This is the heir identified by Master Unicon, the order of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Lothien, I don't want to confront you head to head!"

"You're still a kid, so you're ready to show your prestige? Little Jill, let me teach you a little lesson!" Elder Enbibi spat to the side, his swords crossed forward suddenly, and two cold lights pointed at Jill. Shi's wrists were scratched.

It could be seen that Elder Enbibi's subordinates were merciful, even if Jirnash couldn't dodge the blow smoothly, at most he would be slightly injured.However, what most people didn't expect was that Girnash barely dodged it with a slightly hasty gliding step, while Elder Enbibi blindly raised his two swords as if he had been enchanted suddenly. , launching a series of quick strikes into the air.

Elder Enbibi's dual-sword sword fighting skills are extremely high, worthy of his name as a senior war dancer. His slashing is fierce and vicious, his stabbing angle is tricky, and his defense is impeccable. The two short swords are almost spinning in his hands. A storm of blades.However, even with ten times stronger swordsmanship, attacking the air would not be able to achieve any results.Even Jirnash couldn't help being stunned when he saw this situation, and then jumped forward, tentatively leaning over and sweeping, and the two swords attacked Elder Enbibi's waist from the left and right sides.

This was just an ordinary tentative attack. Elder Enbibi reacted very quickly. First, he blocked it with his two swords. However, his judgment obviously went wrong. Girnash's blade swept forward.Fortunately, he reacted very quickly and had rich combat experience. As soon as he realized something was wrong, he immediately pulled back decisively and jumped far out of the attack range of Girnashi's twin swords.

"What the hell!" Elder Enbibi yelled hoarsely before he could stand still, "What kind of strange tattoo is that? After it moves, why can't I tell where his figure is?"

Compared to Elder Enbibi's confused mind, the well-informed Chief Elder Dining Dagna's face was even more difficult to look at. The blue color was almost mixed with the tattoo on his cheek, and it was difficult to distinguish them from each other. "War dance pattern? It's the original battle dance pattern? Wasn't that already lost during the Dragon War with the destruction of the 'cruel' Danan and his team of war dancers?"

Marquis Osiris was actually full of surprises in his heart. Mr. Dish's confident old face flashed in his mind, "What Master Frederick said...is actually true..." The green lion muttered in a low voice, and then raised his voice so that every wild elf elder could clearly hear, "Since you know this is a battle pattern, then let's just grab it. Elder Dinin, you should know, no Any war dancer who can resist the power of the war dancer's battle pattern is the killer weapon used by the 'cruel' Danan to deal with the war dancers who try to rebel, unless it is..."

The voice of Marquis Osiris suddenly stopped. He turned to look at the eastern sky. There was a group of silver Pegasus knights soaring over there. A mysterious figure whose whole body is wrapped in a black cloth robe, with only his eyes exposed.

However, Osiris was fully aware of that person's true identity, so the second half of his sentence escaped from between his tightly clenched teeth.

"...my Shalafi, Master Sword Dancer Unikenfiseld!"

(End of this chapter)