Transcendent Noble

Eagle’s Nest Mountain is extremely eye-catching. Like a giant mushroom made of rocks, she stands alone in the center of the primitive forest. The tall trees are like clusters of grass under her feet, and people will only see her peculiar and majestic silhouette at first glance.

The stone pillar mountain is a unique geomorphic spectacle in the northern wilderness. Legend has it that the giant dragon once occupied the top of the mountain and arrogantly overlooked the weak creatures. The forest at the foot of the mountain is their territory, and the monsters living in it are all Their servants. Anyone who covets the treasure of the giant dragon must first break through the monster in the forest. When they defeat the dragon's servant and try to climb the cliff, the giant dragon will send them into the arms of Death God with their wings and breath.

Relying on the dangers of the stone pillar mountain, the ancient giant dragon without worries unscrupulously attacked the city-state villages of humans, elves and Barbarian Race, stealthily stealing, blackmailing, and transporting the plundered wealth back to the nest.

The greed and dominance of the giant dragon angered the ancient Chosen One. The Legendary wizard united with the elves and the Barbarian Race to attack the largest dragon nest at the time, triggering a mythical and epic dragon war. In the end, Chosen One won the war, forced Dragon Clan to sign a covenant, and built the most prestigious human city-state-Dragon Flame City on the Dragon Nest.

If the legend is true, the huge stone pillar in the northern wilderness can support a human city-state, which shows that it is huge and without friends.

The Eagle’s Nest Mountain is obviously small compared to the legendary Dragon Flame City, but it is also more than 300 meters high and covers an area of ​​nearly 4 square kilometers. The almost vertical cliff wall cannot be climbed even by a flexible mountain ape. Climb to the top of the mountain.

The silver moon hangs high, and the moonlight is like a gauze covering the fields. Victor is like a tangible ghost. The dragon lizard leather boots lightly touch the cliff wall, and the air current supports him to rise more than ten meters. The trees quickly became smaller in the field of vision, and only a few dozen blinks, they boarded the top of Eagle's Nest Mountain.

Victor's heart is full of free joy. With a light body and Wind Travel, most obstacles in the world can't stop him, and he can enjoy the scenery that ordinary people can't see.

The area of ​​the top of the mountain is much larger than that of the hill camp of Randal. It is mainly composed of rocks and the soil is relatively scarce. There are only a dozen shrubs with shallow roots clustered, and the light-colored flowers are silvery white by the moonlight. , Has a quiet beauty. There is a deep water on the west side of the center of the mountain. It is midsummer and the water level is low enough to see the rock formations. However, the area of ​​the water pool is more than 2,600 square meters, and the water volume is enough for 300 people to drink until the rainy and snowy season.

This is a natural reservoir, as long as there is a stable water source, life can thrive. There are a considerable number of bird’s nests by the water pool. They are distributed on raised rocks or artificial stone walls. They are obviously the masterpieces of kobolds, but the kobolds moved away from the Eagle’s Nest Mountain, which became a habitat for flying birds. .

Victor didn't disturb the overnight birds, and made a quick circle on the top of the mountain, but found no trace of the kobold digging a pothole.

This made him greatly disappointed. Alchemy Tower was built at the place where the four elements meet in balance. He didn't understand what element intersection was. He only knew that there were water sources near Alchemy Tower. There is water on the top of the Eagle's Nest Mountain, but he did not find the digging pit left by the kobolds, and there is no trace of the digging, indicating that the Rare Item crystal was not unearthed here.

X-3 has subtle insights, there is no trace of man-made digging on the top of the mountain, and Victor will not find new discoveries after many laps.

Where are the remains of Alchemy Empire?

Victor sits on the highest rock and takes out the Rare Item crystal from the leather armor belt pocket. With the help of the cold moonlight, he carefully observes the characteristics of the crystal while secretly thinking about it:

The shape, hardness, and size of the crystals are astonishingly the same as the Rare Item crystals of the misty mountain range. The red round beads inside seem to be the blood of some kind of creature, and the color has a metallic feel... Is it a seal crystal? Dragon Vein kobolds have the treasure hunting talent given by the giant dragon. They collect this crystal, which means that the Rare Item crystal is equivalent to the treasure of the giant dragon. The point is that Dragon Vein kobolds’ collecting habit makes them wander around. This Rare Item crystal may not have been dug near Eagle’s Nest Mountain.

However, the remains of Alchemy Empire may come by with luck, but not by searching for it. It is no accident that Caligula found Rare Item crystal among so many treasures, and even presented the treasure in front of me!

The development of the matter should be like this... The Radiance Knight regiment does not use big prophecy against the Blackhoof Centaur tribe, King Lane will not die, and Baron will not go to Centaur Hills. Naturally, I can’t. To get a new life in him, there is no activating No. 7 golden tower.

Another line, the outside of Eagle’s Nest Mountain was originally the territory of the Blackhoof Centaur. If the Radiance Knight regiment did not use the big prophecy to defeat the Blackhoof tribe, drive away the Centaur, and turn it into East development collar. The kobold lord never dared to leave Eagle's Nest Mountain at the risk of being killed by the Centaur tribe, and would not migrate to Maverick Village with treasures including Rare Item crystals.

Naturally, the Rare Item crystal will not fall into my hand.

I got the Rare Item crystal, which is a kind of destiny at work. It is an extraordinary attraction unique to Alchemy Empire successor. Therefore, the probability that I found the Alchemy Empire ruins near Eagle's Nest Mountain is quite great!

Victor clearly knows that this idea of ​​his has fallen into the trap of fatalism, but he now has the confidence to get rid of the arrangements of fate, the strength of the Legendary order, the secret technique of the bloodline of the soul, the power of his Royal Highness, and the huge influence of the Golden Group Power can make him refrigerate No. 7 Alchemy Tower. However, he suspects that if he rejects the legacy of Alchemy Empire, there will be other arrangements to accept fate.

Therefore, he can collect the relics of ancient alchemists and not use them, but he cannot let others get the inheritance of Alchemy Empire.

Victor gathered the crystals and walked along the periphery of the top of the mountain, looking at the forest landform below.

This primitive forest radiates from the foot of the mountain to all around, from dense to sparse, elliptical distribution, about 670 square kilometers. It was night now, and Victor couldn't see the entire forest clearly. He stood on a high place, first divided the forest into different areas with X-3, and then explored separately.

If you search for ancient ruins aimlessly in the forest, Victor may not be able to find the target after half a year. He planned to look for traces of kobold digging pits by the water source according to the law of Alchemy Tower's approach to the water source. This work is relatively simple for Victor. It can be completed in about half a night, but the core of the earth has the magical properties of accumulating soil and turning it into stone. He didn't have time to spend on Eagle's Nest Mountain, so he could only determine the suspicious location first, and then leave some alchemy militiamen to dig one by one. It was really impossible. He could also mobilize the mercenary group controlled by mercury to help.

The light from the edge of the forest caught Victor's eyes, and he couldn't help but stop and wait and see.

Firelight is located on the east side of Eagle's Nest Mountain, 11 kilometers away from Victor as a straight line. Randal's guard and combat priest camped on the west side of Eagle's Nest Mountain, and the light was obviously not the campfire they lit.

Victor did not hide his breath when he entered the Eagle's Nest Forest. If there is a powerful and violent monster, he will already be far away from the forest by this time. Regardless of whether it is a human or a monster that raises the bonfire, once Victor has seen it, he must go to investigate. He slid off the cliff, and the airflow supported the light body to change direction in the air. After falling for more than 10 meters, he was adsorbed on the cliff wall. Repeatedly, he quickly descended to the ground.

With the map of X-3 memory, Victor swept towards the firelight silently. After a while, he approached the target 2 kilometers and landed on a big tree, listening to the movement ahead.

The sound of dialogue, footsteps, the sound of armour rubbing caused by actions, and the sound of breathing heartbeat were passed into his ears without omission. X-3 quickly sketched out a picture, the location of the hidden pile, and the personnel The number of monsters and the captives of the monsters are clearly presented.

Is it her? Interesting... Victor's mouth raised slightly, and then stealth a distance forward, easily bypassing the hidden pile, and seeing the silhouette of Chuuchuo under the bonfire.

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Andria Barcelius stood by the campfire, quietly watching the wizard cast spells.

A man wrapped in black robe stood in front of two centaur captives. One had turned into a cold corpse, the other was dying, with one and a half inserted in its flanks. The open round tube, blood is gurgling out, and flows into a big jar along the semi-circular tube.

The black robed man's chest is surrounded by a circle of red mysterious rune, slowly turning in the void in a strange rhythm.

"You followed the tribe to the east of the territory, what did you see?" The black robed man actually asked the centaur in human language.

The centaur's mouth made a weird chirp, and answered the black robed man.

Its voice gradually lowered, and after a while, the eyes solidified, and the undulating chest cavity finally subsided. The red talisman text faded away, and the black robed man trembled, as if he was about to fall to the ground.

Two warriors wearing leather armor held the black robed man on the verge of collapse in time, and helped him to sit down in front of a tree stump.

Andria waited for the black robed man to slow down, and asked coldly: "Wood, is there any result?"

black robed man shook the head, took the guard The cup that came over, took a sip of mead, and said feebly: "My lord, this centaur knows very little. It stayed in the eastern part of the Sidon Khanate for ten days and saw countless likes gathered... there is nothing else. Content."

Andria nodded without comment, and said almost to herself: "The centaur scouts we caught in the Eastern Frontier are of low status and can’t ask for value. Information... It seems that I need to capture a violent centaur scout alive..."

"Clean up and camp here tonight. Tomorrow, we will go east again to see if we can Don’t touch the fierce centaur."

Andria raised her slender hand and straightened out the hair that was tossed by the night wind, her dark blue eyes suddenly condensed on the swaying bonfire, and the flames danced with each other. Her hair was flowing in the opposite direction.

The violent wind Dame raised the Mithril bow very quickly, and the sharp Mithril arrows gleamed with blue brilliance, pointing to a certain part of the forest.

"resounding"

The guards in the camp pulled out their long swords and scattered them into a circle. Their sharp eyes scanned the forest where the shadows of the trees swayed. There were more than a dozen sturdy ones. Under the command of the owner, the red-haired war dog drove towards the woods pointed by the countess bow and arrow from different angles.

The night wind blew the leaves wu wu call sign, which obscured the rustling sound of the war dogs' footsteps. Everyone was on guard. After a while, the war dogs returned to the camp one after another, and the atmosphere of horror spread in everyone's heart. . Andrea's beautiful eyes turned into ice blue, like a freezing storm. Her voice was calmly instructed: "Call back the guard posts and we will leave immediately."

A man with a firm face The prime-age Knight blew a whistle like a rock cricket. In the woods, crickets screamed in response from different directions. Twenty-three guards wearing blue and black leather armor returned to the camp one by one.

"Everyone is here...Are you waiting for me?"

A sweet voice came from behind Andrea, she sighed faintly, and the Mithril bow Throwing the mithril long sword on the ground together with the mithril long sword at his waist, he turned his body gracefully, and commanded the enemy's subordinates: "Put away all the weapons."

The guards obey the countess. The command, the sword returned to its sheath, and the crossbow was put down. They saw a slender and well-proportioned silhouette strolling from the east. He is wearing an exquisite leather armor with two long swords hanging from his waist. He has a handsome appearance, and his eyes are shining with golden streamer, like mist and rainbow, appearing mysterious and noble.

Andria came forward and bowed her knees to salute: "His Royal Highness Randal, good night. Didn't expect, we will meet here."

Victor slightly smiled and said "The beautiful Wimbledon countess, the encounter in the wild is really amazing, why not come by my side?"

Gently bit her lower lip, Andrea moved to Victor’s side. Half a shoulder behind, the two are less than 1 meter apart, and they look quite close.

Knight's melee combat is sharper than their ranged attacks. Andrea keeps in mind the golden eye count sword slash ogre warlord's style. At this distance, she has no chance to escape or counterattack.

Victor has a satisfied smile at the corner of his mouth, the golden streamer in his eyes quickly dissipates, and the dark golden eyes are restored. His gaze swept over everyone in the camp, paused for a while on the black robe wizard, looked at the red-haired war dog lying on the ground and kept quiet, and commented: "The dog is well tamed and doesn't bark."

Andrea is coldly snorted, Victor turned her face sideways, said with a smile: "I didn't expect, you are actually a core member of the Barcelius family."

Barcelius family It’s not surprising to raise the wizard. Augustus also raises the wizard, but none of the four kings of Blinol, the Hou Family clan, has access to the kite castle wizard. Andrea is not yet the prince of Barcelius, she wanders in the wild with the wizard, which really surprised Victor, so she tentatively spoke.

Andria said reservedly: "Each of them is my vassal, including the war dog you praised belongs to the Wimbledon count house."

"That's easy to do. Victor raised his eyebrows and turned to black robe wizard, instructed: "Take off your mask."

Black robe wizard hesitated obviously and looked at the guards on the left and right. Andrea frowned her slender and straight eyebrows, clenching one's teeth and said: "Wood follow His Highness's orders, otherwise, we will all die."

"Baby, everyone except you …" Victor glanced at Andrea, with a frivolous tone, but his eyes were cold and sharp, "If you speak again, I guarantee that they will all die."

The vassal wizard, who was adopted by the lord since childhood, was particularly in awe. The system of the Knight aristocracy will not fail to understand the Peak figures of the kingdoms. Andrea, who claims to be the owner, has been obediently surrender, and the black robe wizard dared to look around at Victor's order, which shows the strangeness.

The black robe wizard takes off the metal mask, revealing an ordinary face. Victor jot down his characteristics and asked: "What is your name? Who do you work for?"

"I...I am Wood, I am loyal to Master Wimbledon count." The black robe wizard replied nervously.

"When did it happen?"

"Recently...oh, no, it was a year ago. We were originally tenants of Pioneer, the orcs invaded Pioneer, Lord count’s The men rescued me and my family." Wood said obediently and honestly.

"What is your witchcraft?"

"My lord, I can temporarily gain an ability from a dying person... or a monster, and I want to know For example, I use witchcraft on a dying owl. I can have the hearing of an owl and last for a big hourglass, but I can’t become an owl and fly in the sky. I can also ask a question to the owl , Understand what I want to know, and it also knows. If the owl does not know, then there is no answer to the question."

Wood took a deep breath, spoke smoothly, pointed to the centaur on the ground, and explained "I just used witchcraft to temporarily understand the Centaur language, but this is only incidental. I followed the master’s instructions and asked what it saw in the eastern part of the Sidon Wilderness. It answered my question, even if it couldn’t speak. , I can also know the answer it knows."

Victor watched the whole process of Wood's spell in secret, and the facts he said were basically consistent with Victor's judgment.

Slightly nodded, Victor suddenly asked: "What nameplate do you use in Masked Brotherhood?"

"Masked...what will? Nameplate?" Wood looked blank and thought. Thinking, yelling: "My lord, I don't know...I haven't heard of masks..."

There is no stress change in heartbeat, breathing, and blood flow rate. It's not a lie...Victor Feel relieved for the time being, and said to Andrea: "Duke Barcelius also suspects that there is no orc king?" Countess said with a cold face, "I don't know what His Highness is talking about? I just do what I should do. Things."

The Sidonian Centaur will not unite to attack the Eastern Frontier of the Sasan Empire for no reason. If there is no external pressure from the orc king, then the biggest driving force behind this war is very likely. It is the Radiance Knight group. Sooner or later they will fight the Sidon Centaur to the death in the northern wilderness, and sooner or later they will run into the orc king. To be precise, the pressure of the human army will give birth to one, two, or three orc kings.

The half-human Ma Dajun seems to understand the shortcomings of the human defense line, but their raids seem to be accurate, but they have been unconsciously in desperation. The Radiance Knight regiment ignited the red smoke beacon, mobilized the army of the entire human kingdom, and completed its work to completely annihilate the Sidon Centaur, and Sasan Empire became the biggest beneficiary.

Of course, the Iron Mountain nobles led by Barcelius also benefited from it, but they don't want to be deceived by the Radiance Knight regiment and become losers on the battlefield.

Andria tried every means to detect accurate information, but she would not deny the existence of the orc king in front of the hall of the southern kingdom.

For Victor, he will do the same. Coincidentally, he ran into Andrea in the wild, and he also caught her holding the handle of the wizard. Since he is strong and weak, he can't let her pass easily.

There are many people in this camp. Although Andrea can bring these people out with the wizard, they should be her confidants, but Victor is not sure about their relationship with the Duke of Barcelius. , Even if they are not the secret guards cultivated by the Barcelius family, as long as they are humans, it is difficult to be truly tight-lipped.

There are more than one mouth opened by the Mercury spy with the psychedelic potion, and only the homunculus can never reveal the secret.

Victor followed the consistent style of the nobility and covered up his true intentions with ambiguous personal feelings. Even if Barcelius asked Andrea, she had a grand-sounding excuse.

Anyway, Golden Eye count is notorious, occupying the Viscountess of Beria, and hooking up with King Gambice's fiancee. It is not clean in the past, and adding another stain to seduce the wind Dame is irrelevant.

X-3 picked up Baron’s body language and smiles that pleased the women in his memory, Victor leaned slightly, and courteously and politely invited:

"Master count , I admire your beauty and nobility, is it an honor for me to walk and roam in this forest with you, only two of us."

His Royal Highness Randal’s courtesy is impeccable, but he each minding their own Walking into the woods businessly and waiting in front, the attitude of non-rejection seemed tough and rude to a noble silver Dame. It's just that his movements are like quiet moonlight, gurgling brook, flowing breeze, natural and close, making it impossible for people to feel sick.

A faint blush flashed on Andrea’s beautiful and exquisite face, and then disappeared without a trace. She turned her head back instructed: "You are here waiting for me."

Usually eyes high above Wimbledon countess of the top followed Victor into the depths of the forest, her confidant guards looked at each other in blank dismay with a well-behaved and docile appearance.