Transcendent Noble

Barbarian’s camp is not far from Raven Town. It’s just that the mountain roads are rugged and winding, half a meter of snow obscures the mountain trails. If you don’t pay attention, you will get rid of it and roll into the valley. Deep groove.

Fortunately, Victor, Pastor Kent and several followers are not ordinary persons. The Legendary priest with two ruling warriors, four mid-level Paladins, Wind Travel archer and two elite guards are enough to cope with the dangerous environment of the overwhelming majority. The performance of Caligula makes people clicking one's tongue in wonder even more.

The stupid big fellow carried hundreds of pounds of metal ingots and walked at the forefront of the team. He seems to regard snow shoveling as a game. The long stick used to detect snow has long been gone. As long as Pastor Kent points out a direction, he will step on two thick long legs and forcibly plow the snow into a road. , And then, with a smirk on his face, stood a hundred meters away and waited for the team to approach.

Legendary Fighting Priest walked on the snow road opened by Caligula, and said with emotion: "Your Excellency, your follower is not an ordinary person."

This strength alone And physical fitness, Caligula can mention on equal terms with Barbarian warrior. He chose the path very accurately, as if he knew by nature that there was a road and there was a pit.

The maximum radius of Victor’s blindness is 2.2 meters, but it cannot penetrate objects that shield the air. The air in the snow is thinner, and Victor can perceive the road conditions under half a meter of snow. If you don't stimulate the Wind Travel innate talent and lose weight, he is impossible to run like Caligula on the snow in the mountains without losing his footing.

It can only be said that Caligula's intuition is extremely keen. To describe it with the theory of Golden Toad Secret Shape, it is the realm of "reflecting scenery with the heart".

Victor was half jealous, and shook his head half concealed: "It's a pity that he is a cowardly fool who dare not kill cows. I haven't learned how to pray."

The Pastor Kent really treated Cary. Gula lost interest, and the youngest Paladin even showed a look of contempt and disgust.

In the eyes of the priest, an idiot who can't pray is equal to a lamb forgotten by the Lord. If the priest cannot redeem him, then he must be guilty of original sin. The church should allow these people to fend for themselves. Viscount Randal took in a stupid big fellow, mostly for his strength, and by the way, he advertised the benevolent virtues of the nobility.

Victor actually has high expectations for Caligula. His intelligence is developing in sync with his teeth. In case, Caligula gets rid of that day, maybe even Nelson is not his opponent.

Of course, even if Caligula cannot overcome his cowardly and cowardly character defects, it doesn’t matter. After spending so many days together, Victor has established a master-servant friendship with this kind and simple stupid big fellow. At least he has the brute force and intuition comparable to ogre, and the ability to find roads and avoid danger is also invaluable.

Caligula opened the road ahead, and Victor entire group arrived at the Barbarian gathering place in just two quarters of an hour.

The camp is located on the top of the highest hill without fences. The huts built with logs are like snow bags, sitting on a thick snow blanket. The two Barbarians saw the team from a distance and greeted them. They all wore only a pair of animal leather pants, naked and sturdy chests full of tattoos and scars, the knotted muscles seemed to contain infinite power, and the sturdy necks were hung with a string of animal teeth necklaces, most of which belonged to the jackals. teeth.

Since Barbarian lived in Skylark Mountain on the west side of Raven Town, the surrounding wolves crowd have been considered to have fallen blood mold. Paladin led Barbarian to try the Jackal, and Viscount Negus easily occupied an area of ​​2,000 square kilometers of wilderness. In a sense, this is the result of the alliance and cooperation between mankind and Barbarian.

Pastor Kent is obviously familiar with these two Barbarian Sentinels. He left the team alone and talked cordially with them in Barbarian. Caligula shrank behind Renault, seeming to want to hide his 2.3-meter-tall body with Renault's 1.9-meter-tall body.

When this guy saw Barbarian who was taller and stronger than himself, he immediately persuaded him.

Over there, two Barbarian warriors exchanged a moment with Pastor Kent, then turned and led Victor and the others into the camp.

In the camp, the sound of hammers beating on cutting boards is endless. Most Barbarians are busy forging weapons. Only some Barbarian women are active outside the house. They are in groups of three or four and form a small circle. Wipe the newborn's body with snow continuously.

Compared to human babies, Barbarian’s newborns are oversized, with obvious muscle lines on the small arms and legs, and the icy snow touches the red skin, which arouses bursts of whiteness. fog. Such a cold environment is too harsh for Barbarian babies. When a baby’s cry ceases to be loud, the female Barbarian will pull a panting red-haired bison, knock the over 3,000-pound wild beast to the ground with a punch, take out the sharp axe, and cut it open. Tucked the dying baby into the bloody abdominal cavity, leaving only his head outside.

At this time, an older Barbarian woman sang softly to the baby in the belly of the cow. It was purely a syllable that did not express meaning, but was full of mysterious power. She didn't turn to the next target until the baby snored smoothly.

Victor perceives the singing of the vibrating baby's heartbeat and the warm blood of the bison, and realizes the continuous resonance of the two, forming a full range of stimulation inside and outside the baby's body.

"Kajin the singer, a female Barbarian who masters mysterious power. It is said that this kind of ceremony can help Barbarian children absorb the vitality of wild beasts, making them stronger, more tenacious, equivalent to the human secret warrior To reshape the body." Pastor Kent introduced to Victor.

The animal tooth necklace and newborn ceremony represent Barbarian's tradition, and iron forging represents Barbarian's innovation. Victor had a vague guess, nodded, and followed Pastor Kent to the largest wood house in the center of the camp.

"You stay outside."

Pastor Kent gave an order and opened the reindeer skin curtain. Victor slammed Renault and Shak nodded, motioned them to follow the priest's arrangement, and turned to enter the house. The Barbarian sentry took the large wooden box in Caligula's hand and followed him. The alchemy militia and Caligula were led far away by Paladin.

The orange flame leaped in the firepit, illuminating Barbarian Elder's scarred and muscular body. He sat on a rough, ugly, but absolutely durable oak stool, holding a piece of shiny obsidian, polishing the giant axe in his hand. He lifts the head, the blue eyes of Cornflower looked towards the visitor, and a heavy mountain-like oppression is ready to emerge.

Victor runs X-3 to dissolve the pressure on the mind, and the dark pupils become deep and cold, like Bottomless Abyss that can absorb all the light.

Harald eyes slightly shrink, a convergent imposing manner, and said in common human terms: "Young elves, I can feel the sharp and ruthless power in your body. You are qualified to be my enemy, or Friend."

Pastor Kent's eyes flickered like a flame, and he took a step forward and said in Barbarian language: "Harald Elder, this is Sophia Urusa’s husband. He is not you. The enemy."

"I am not an elf either."

Victor said in fluent Barbarian: "Harald Gorsa, you seem to be hostile to the elf?"

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Pastor Kent was taken aback, turned his head, and asked in surprise: "Your Excellency Randal, do you speak Barbarian?"

"I only learned it in the last three months." Victor answered flatly. road.

Kent was speechless. He came from a family of vassals in Tatun dukedom. He began to deal with Barbarian Yamashita as a teenager, and it took him 5 years to master Barbarian's language. Victor was able to speak Barbarian fluently in only three months.

Why is the gap between natural transcender and ordinary person so big?

With the powerful memory, analysis and induction functions of X-3, as long as the structure of the vocal cords is similar, Victor can easily master any human language. In fact, he has only three afternoons to study Barbarian. The classroom is in the carriage, and the teachers are Sophia and Natalia.

"I know you, but I'm not sure if you are Sophia Urusa's spouse or Ms. Sylvia's spouse?" Barbarian Elder said in confusion as he sharpened his axe, "I have never been able to understand. Your humans have a complicated family relationship."

Victor looked embarrassed and didn't know what to say. Pastor Kent slowed down and explained dryly: "Uh... this, Knight is not an ordinary person, especially female Knight. They are responsible for raising the Knight bloodline of their children to prevent the Knight bloodline from declining, so they will share the bloodline. A strong partner."

"Barbarian is the same. The strong have multiple female Barbarian spouses, and the weak are not qualified to reproduce offspring."

Harald looked up and said, "But In Raven Town, I see that many obese and weak men and aging men have multiple wives. Those strong youngsters have no spouse... Ordinary person men seem to decide who has the right to have offspring according to different clothes... This way Will the human infant be strong?"

Pastor Kent was dumbfounded and choked for a long time before saying: "Uh...I think what Gorsa said is very reasonable."

"Really A strange race." Barbarian Elder shook the head, continuing his work.

Victor gave a dry cough and asked: "Harald Gorsa, why are you hostile to the elves?"

"The elves recruited the mountain dwarves, and I had to leave the great The harsh Mount Harlottes."

"Can you tell me more about it?"

Harald concentrated on polishing the weapon, the obsidian and the axe continue to rub against the fire star. The harsh sound echoed lonely in the house.

"I brought a gift to Barbarian."

Victor turned around and opened the wooden box. Inside were stacks of light purple metal ingots. "There are 500 pounds of doped fine gold. The iron essence ingot can create a strong and sharp adamantine weapon."

Harald stood up, his tall back covered half of the wall, and he said: "What do you need the son of Arrett do for you? "

"I want to help Barbarian friends." Victor shook the head, said with a smile: "The natural environment of Southern Continent is different from that of the Yarete Plateau. I see Harald Elder let clansman learn Human production technology should be designed to allow clansman to survive and multiply in Southern Continent. You are not very sure about finding sacred relic, it may take hundreds of years, or even longer... or it may never be found. "

"I am willing to help Barbarian find sacred relic. Although it may not be successful, there are many human beings. With our help, you have a better chance of retrieving sacred relic. Perhaps you can find sacred relic in your lifetime. Return to Arrett’s hometown."

Harald glanced at Pastor Kent and asked: "Your king has promised to help me find sacred relic. Is he going to abandon his promise?"

Pastor Kent winked at Victor, but Victor shook the head and said, "Of course the promise of the king and the church is valid. I just came to confirm the appearance of the Barbarian sacred relic." With that, he took a piece of Salon from his pocket. The magic iron ore was handed to the Kent priest beside him.

Kent looked at the ore in his hand and asked in surprise: "This is black iron ore? Where did you find it?"

Victor moved in his heart and shook his head nonchalantly Said: "I don't know what mineral it is... My swamp scout found this mineral in the lizard swamp. I think its color is similar to the rune in the Barbarian sacred relic painting book provided by Lord Constantine, so I took it. Come here and let Harald Elder identify it."

"It's called ferrite? But I've never heard of ferrous iron."

Kent weighed in. Saron’s magic iron ore, tossed it to Harald, explained to Victor with a smile: "Black iron only existed in the Chosen One era. It has the property of transmitting the elements of the void. Ancient Knights used black iron, mithril and fine gold. The equipment created is more superior than the current Mithril equipment. However, smelting dark iron ore requires extremely high temperatures, and our current furnace cannot meet that requirement. The forging method of dark iron equipment has been lost. The Nakhtigal family’s The light of dawn may be the only one existing long sword of black iron."

Harald looked at the ore in his hand, nodded and said: "This is indeed the favorite black of mountain dwarves. Iron ore."

Victor added relevant information to X-3 and asked: "I heard that Harald Gorsa has a sacred relic counterfeit in his hand. Can you give it to me? Take a look?"

Barbarian Elder opened the animal skin carpet, took out the imitation from the underground compartment, and threw it to Victor.

This is a semi-circular metal creation, entirely made of Mithril, and the black rune on the front and back is carved with Saronian magic iron.

"It looks like a part of a device?" Victor tentatively stepped forward and returned the counterfeit to Harald.

"The style, size, material, and pattern are the same as sacred relic, but it is not sacred relic." Harald put the imitation back into the dark compartment, sat down and said, "The mountain dwarf made the sacred. We always thought it was a sacred relic, until the mountain dwarf asked Harlots for the sacred relic, we and the dwarf knew it was fake."

"The dwarf asked you for sacred relic. Ask for sacred relic? Isn't sacred relic Barbarian's?" Victor asked confusedly.

"No." Harald shook the head and said, "Barbarian has no sacred relic, no prophecy... Both sacred relic and prophecy are dwarves... The son of the mountain owes a promise, and the mountain dwarf leaves Let's go."

Victor settled down, sat down on the box, and asked: "What happened to Arrett more than eighty years ago? Why did the mountain dwarves migrate?"

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"Over eighty years ago, I was not born yet." Barbarian Elder brushed his rough thumb over the axe blade, lightly said.

"..."

"I heard from Great Elder that more than 80 years ago, a few elves came to Arreit, and they asked the mountain dwarf king to abide by the ancient covenant. The Dwarf King asked Harlots to hand over the sacred relic that was kept by Barbarian for generations. But the sacred relic is fake. The Dwarf King can’t hand over the source of power. He can only abide by the ancient covenant and lead millions of mountains. The dwarves migrate with the elf messengers."

Harald dropped his axe and continued: "Before the Dwarf King left, he accused Harlots of failing to abide by the oath and kept the sacred relic for the dwarves. He. Ask the sons of the mountain to go to Southern Continent to retrieve the missing sacred relic, otherwise the Barbarian clan will suffer the consequences of breaking the oath."

Victor touched his nose and asked Pastor Kent: "What is going on here? "

Pastor Kent hesitated, and finally said: "Based on the historical documents of the church and the narrative of Harald Elder, we have inferred the course of the event..."

"About 9,000 years ago, Pantheon organized an army to invade the land of the forbidden law-Yarete Plateau, in order to seize the sacred relic that Dwarf Race gave to Barbarian for safekeeping. Pantheon's expeditionary army was almost completely destroyed, but their Legendary Knight was in a duel. Barbarian Elder, who defeated Harlots, won the sacred relic. The Legendary Knight handed the sacred relic to the Paladin family to surrender to Enoch Your Majesty."

"We don’t know. The meaning of sacred relic to the dwarves and Barbarian, but we guess that a certain dwarf craftsman at that time created a counterfeit and gave it to Barbarian for safekeeping. The real sacred relic, or the dwarf’s source of power, is in the treasure house of the church, and finally It was stolen by the wizard... There are signs that the sacred relic finally ended up in Southern Continent. This coincides with the divination of the Dwarf King."

"Now the mountain dwarves and Barbarian don’t know the truth. ……Elf Race may be in trouble. They sent messengers to ask the mountain dwarves to abide by some ancient covenant and hand over the sacred relic. The dwarf king could not make it, so he could only lead the clansman to help Elf Race fight."

Kent paused , Took a look at Barbarian E Lder said embarrassingly: "This...The Yarete Plateau lacks firewood, and the mountain dwarves use underground fire to forge armor and grow cave mushrooms. After the dwarves migrated, the Greylo sheep occupied the dwarven tunnel...you know, Barbarian was so tall that he couldn't enter the dwarven tunnel at all. Sheep monsters use terrain and eat dwarves’ cave mushrooms to gradually multiply and grow, which has threatened Barbarian’s survival. "

"This is the consequence of Barbarian's betrayal of his oath! "

Harald touched the scars between his chest and abdomen, and said, "The glory that the Greylo Goblin has left me." "

Victor looked at the huge scars of Barbarian Elder horrible to see, and said in amazement, "It seems that the wounds were caused by some kind of large monster...How can they enter the dwarven tunnel?" "

Pastor Kent explained: "Grelow sheep monsters are divided into dwarf vegetarian sheep monsters and giant meat-eating sheep monsters. There are a large number of vegetarian sheep monsters, and they develop to a certain extent, and there will be an omnivorous sheep queen and many meat-eating ram monsters in the race. The queen sheep and the ram monster breed vegetarian goat monster cubs. When the cubs grow up, they eat some of them. The queen sheep and the carnivorous ram monster grow bigger and bigger, and the baby goat monsters have more and more births. many. "

"The big ethnic group in the tunnel split into small groups, expanded outside the cave, and new sheep queens and meat-eating ram monsters appeared. Those meat-eating ram monsters are 2.8 meters tall, stronger than the meat-eating monsters. They spread everywhere, coincident with Barbarian’s safari route, and even desecrated the Barbarian warrior’s cemetery, took out the weapons and armors that were buried with them, and hunted down the reindeer and beasts of the Arret Plateau. "

Harald said in interface: "My clansman lacks prey, lacks weapons, and the young children of savage clansman do not have enough beasts to hold a newborn ceremony. Frail children died of hunger and could not stand the test of the cold wind. Although we killed countless sheep monsters, it is still useless if we don't kill the sheep queen in the tunnel! "

Pastor Kent whispered to Victor: "The flesh of the Grelo Goblin is poisonous... Barbarian who eats the Goblin will become stupid. In just 80 years, the number of Barbarians has dropped sharply by half..."

Victor's expression at the moment was very serious, and he was silent for a long time before he asked: "ogre, goblins, and jackals all have the same behaviors of eating the same kind. . But they don’t have to be as a last resort, and they will never use the same kind as food... Is the Greylo Goat Monster really a natural evolutionary monster? "

Halotes was silent for a few seconds, and said: "The son of Arret guards the Holy Mountain for generations, and our clansman hunts around the gap. Legend has it that there is the entrance to the hell, and the Grelo sheep monster is the descendant of the monsters of hell. Without Barbarian's protection, the mountain dwarves can't deal with Greylo. Without the mountain dwarves, Barbarian cannot guard the great Mount Harlots! "

"I must find the source of Dwarf Race's power! "

Kent priest loudly said: "Brave Gorsa, please believe that humans can help the barbarian clansman to guard the Holy Mountain!" The Greluo Goblin is our common enemy! "

Harlots showed a rare smile on his rough face, swung a huge battle axe, and said: "Priest, I have seen the hope that mankind brings to Barbarian, but Barbarian's ancestors used to Betrayal of the oath, I can not evade duty. "

Victor silently nodded, said: "I will do my best to help Barbarian regain his glory and dignity. Harald Elder, let’s say goodbye. "

Leaving the Barbarian camp, Victor felt heavy and did not speak on the way. When he came down the mountain, the Pastor Kent pulled Victor aside and whispered: "Your Excellency Randal, about the Greylo sheep monster Don’t tell the story about it. In fact, both His Royal Highness of Human Kingdom and Sophia knew the inside story, but everyone swore that they would never disclose it to the outside world. We are preparing to transfer population to Tatun dukedom and establish a solid line of defense. If the refugees know that there are several millions of monsters on the Yarete Plateau, they may rush down at any time, and they will just scatter in a rush. "

Victor shook the head, said solemnly: "Perhaps... it wasn't just the Grelo Goblin who threw down." "

"Yes, maybe more than 300,000 Barbarian rushed down first. Pastor Kent sighed with emotion.

Victor frowned and asked: "The church has never thought that there might be an abyss monster under the big rift?" "

Pastor Kent pursed his lips, was silent for a moment, and said firmly: "The Supreme Lord is here, no matter what is in the rift in Yareta, we must unite Barbarian!" "

"Yes...I hereby swear to the Lord of Radiance of Supreme that I will never spread anything about the Greylo Goblin. "

Victor drew a triangular gesture representing the bright Holy Mountain on his chest, lifts the head, stared at the fighting priest with scorching eyes, and asked: "Since only the Highness of Human Kingdom can know the truth, why does Lord Kent? Agree to take me to see Harlots Elder? What did you discover with the divine technique? "

Pastor Kent laughed, mysteriously said: "I found everything... If you have any questions, you can ask Your Highness Sylvia." "

Victor looked at the direction of Golden Water City, with a gentle smile at the corner of his mouth, and secretly said:

"Don't ask, I know. She does not allow others to interfere with my choice, whether it is an elves or a human. "