Goddess Wanhua Mirror

But just as they dragged the bodies of the seriously wounded and their dead companions to quickly evacuate the scene, a bald monk suddenly ran over and told everyone one good news and one bad news.

The good news is that the big snake was killed, and two black dragons who claimed to be "guardians" rushed to the reinforcements in time to help them destroy the big snake.

The bad news is that the high-ranking priest Narad-sama unfortunately sacrificed his precious life in this glorious and tragic battle between good and evil.

"What! The priest is dead?"

"Ah."

The bald male monk nodded sadly, indicating that his master's body is over there now, and he came here to convey the news, and secondly, he wanted to find a stretcher to collect his mentor's body.

The time went back to 15 minutes ago. Because of the arrival of the giant dragon, the giant snake fell into an embarrassing situation. The other little snakes also left their ancestors and fled in all directions because they felt the dragon power released by Ned Hogg.

Seeing that the scene was under control, Lude lifted the barrier of holy light.At this time, Aina noticed an object in the shape of a "snake man" lying not far away, so she quickly pointed out her finger to Lude.Everyone leaned over to take a look, and found that it was Narad who had been swallowed by a giant snake for most of his body.

Because Narad was not within Lude's barrier before, he was overwhelmed by the surging "snake tide" and became food for the snakes to fight for.

Thanks to the old tradition of God of War, priests all wear strong "sacred clothes" under their robes, and as a high-ranking priest, Narad is also the favorite student of Bishop Geralis, so the suit he wears is extraordinarily high-end , so although he was torn apart by the group of snakes, his body did not become "pineapple pineapple da".

However, even with the protection of the enchanted armor, Narad only ensured that he was not torn apart by the snakes. When Lude and others found him, he had been tossed to the last breath.

When the other party's consciousness was dying, his mouth was whispering as thin as a mosquito.

"Butt... hurts..."

After saying these words, Narad tilted his head and swallowed his last breath.Lude touched his carotid artery, and silently shook his head at Eru and Manann.

"Too late……"

Seeing that Narad was dead, Lud stood up and looked towards the giant snake. Nidhogg and Tawawa were not in a hurry to kill it, but asked the local snake, is there any treasure in this place?

Dragons like to collect gold and silver treasures and plunder beautiful human princesses. In fact, most of them are stories fabricated by bards.

But the dragons are actually not interested in human girls and ordinary gold, silver and jewelry. What can really arouse their strong possessive desire are high-quality magic crystals and magic props that can emit magic fluctuations.They really like to lie down and sleep around this kind of thing, because it has a nourishing effect on them, similar to the magnetic therapy beds that many middle-aged and elderly people like on the earth.

Facing the questioning of the two giant dragons, the giant snake could only tell everything he knew with a bitter face in order to survive.

This dungeon built by the dwarves was abandoned 300 years ago during the war of gods, but the evacuated dwarves did not leave anything valuable in the city, almost leaving an empty city.

Not long after the dwarves left, the giant snake followed the underground waterway and lived in the dark lake in the cave at the bottom of the dungeon. Later, more than 100 years later, the Lizardman Grayscale tribe came. They found the giant snake and worshiped it. For the snake spirit.

Because the giant snake really felt the power of faith provided by the lizard man, it accepted this cult-style symbiotic relationship. The two parties lived together for hundreds of years and got along very well. It betrayed it without warning a few weeks ago.

The giant snake doesn't have the habit of collecting treasures, but it knows that those lizardmen have a treasure room on the fifth underground floor, and they seem to have stored a lot of good things there. As long as the giant dragon is willing to let it live, it will take Nidhogg and Tawawa go to ransack the vault.

"I beg you two, I was also tricked by those lizardmen!"

The giant snake curled up into a ball and pretended to be pitiful. Ned Hogg, a dragon alien raised by humans, was not interested in the so-called treasures, but his wife Tawawa was very interested, so he could only stay with him with a blank stare.

However, at this moment, the giant snake suddenly turned into a blue light and disappeared without a trace. This time it was the turn of the two giant dragons to be confused.

"What's the situation? What about the big snake just now?"

"No, I don't know..."

Facing his wife's question, Nid Hogg shook his head a little dully, in exchange for Tawawa's eyes.Lude on the side knew what was going on, so he coughed lightly and took the initiative to intervene.

"Two guardians, thank you for your righteous help."

Deliberately pronouncing the word "Guardian" particularly emphatically, Ned Hogg and Tawawa remembered that they agreed to Lude and had to cooperate with him in a very interesting play.

It has to be said that compared to Ned Hogg, who has a good reading throughout, Tawawa's acting skills are more than one level better than her husband's.The two sides sang together and showed the play to Elu and Manann who were on the sidelines.

The two of them were still in the shock of the dragon-snake battle at this time, and they were stunned and stunned the whole time, and they didn't doubt him at all.

So under Lude's arrangement, Elu and Manan split up to contact other adventurers in the city, and gathered all the surviving companions.

In addition, he also signaled to the two that it is best not to tell the real cause of Narad's death, but to say that he died heroically in the battle against the big snake.Lude's behavior of taking the initiative to take care of Narad's reputation and face immediately won the favor of the two of them. In addition, he had saved his life before, and he already believed that Lude was a man of high moral character. nice guy.

Especially Eru, apart from being grateful to Lude, he also felt a little bit of guilt in his heart that he couldn't explain clearly.Because he knew a lot of tricks that his tutor secretly used to run on the God of Medicine Sect.So being rescued this time made this young man in his early twenties, whose conscience had not been completely wiped out, feel very ashamed.

"Thank you, esteemed master."

"You're welcome, hurry up and call for someone. I'll help Lord Narad tidy up his appearance first, at least make it look decent before others come over."

End of this chapter

Narad is dead, and there is an unlucky big snake attached to his lower body that choked to death because his throat was stuck by the plate armor. This makes Narad look like a snake man at first glance, and his remains can be said to be quite indecent .

The three of Lude worked together to cut open the big snake's mouth with a small knife, and then pulled Narad out of the snake's mouth.

Because he might have been swallowed by more than one giant snake pill before his death, Narad was covered in foul-smelling mucus, with multiple fractures in his limbs, and his facial expression, with his mouth and eyes closed, became extremely distorted and ferocious due to suffocation.

Looking at such a sad Narad, Lude couldn't help but sighed.This guy can be said to have been "destroyed" by himself. He set up this trap, step by step to lure the God of War missionary group, many adventurers, and the entire Greyscale clan to this situation.

Thinking of the lives lost because of this, Lude couldn't help feeling a little guilty, but thinking about it carefully, in such a world, unless Lude is really willing to obediently surrender, otherwise these conflicts are inevitable.

You must know that the War God Sect is not a religion that advocates "peace". From the very beginning when the missionary group led by Narad set foot in Pine Tree Village, they never thought of co-existing with Lude's sect on an equal footing.

They're here to grab territory!They are here to compete with the God of Medicine Sect for believers!If Narad hadn't taken a fancy to their sect's ability to make medicine and wanted to accept them as younger brothers, I'm afraid the methods used before would definitely get worse!

This is like the relationship between China and the United States on this side of the earth. We can't really turn ourselves into a big Japan or South Korea just because the old and the United States hypocritically offered their so-called "peace conditions". Salted fish!

"rest in peace!"

While talking, Lude took out a bottle of high-concentration holy water from his arms, and then opened Narad's mouth and forced it into it. This can effectively prevent Narad from turning into an undead after death, and prevent him from Unwilling, he turned into a ghost and came to Lu De to claim his life.

At this time, Aina leaned over while pinching her nose, pointed at Narad and asked.

"Master, do you think people from God of War will use the resurrection technique to pull this guy back up?"

"I'm afraid it's too late. There are conditions for using the Great Resurrection. It must be used within seven days of death. And the priest who can use this magic must be at least the level of the archbishop. Hume said before that the entire God of War Cult , there are only NO.13 people who can use this trick."

As one of the three sects with the largest number of believers in the world, the God of War Sect divides their sphere of influence into eleven large parishes according to the country and region, and each major parish is further divided into several sub-parishes.

The only ones capable of using the top divine art of the Great Resurrection were the archbishops of these eleven dioceses, plus a supreme priest who stayed in the base camp of the "Aegis Capital" and the chief judge of the order who patrolled around.

With the current background of the God of Medicine Sect, Lu De and the others had to go around as much as possible when they encountered any of the above thirteen big shots.

Therefore, the road to obscene development still has a long way to go!

The three briefly cleaned up Narad's appearance, and at this time Eru returned with a group of adventurers from the other side of the underground palace hall.

As soon as the group came over, they saw two black dragons, a male and a female, squatting next to them. Even though Eru told them that the two giant dragons were "friendly troops", they still couldn't help but feel nervous.

Fortunately, Ned Hogg and Tawawa ignored these adventurers. According to Luther's script, the couple showed their face in front of them, then turned their heads and prepared to leave, continuing to maintain their mysterious veil as "guardians" .

"Humans, our family will abide by the ancient covenant and continue to guard the seal on this land, but you'd better remind your fellow people not to disturb our lives all the time."

"I will keep it in mind, two guardians."

After the performance of the two giant dragons, they both kept their serious faces and flew away. Although the human beings present were confused, they all felt a feeling of "unknownness".

"My lord, those two giant dragons are..."

"Don't ask too much, child, curiosity should be in moderation."

"Uh……"

Seeing that Lude pretended to be mysterious and refused to answer, the adventurers present looked at each other in blank dismay, but considering the current situation, everyone sensibly suppressed their curiosity for the time being.

Everyone simply cleaned the battlefield. Except for a few dead, the rest of the wounded, regardless of severity, recovered quickly after taking the recovery medicine distributed by Lude in advance.Everyone was overwhelmed by the super curative effect of this potion, and they also developed faith in the God of Medicine that Lude believed in.

Bringing the remains of the victims, the group prepared to leave the dungeon.

On the way back, when everyone passed through a passage, they accidentally ran into Hume here.The other party seemed to be "seriously injured", his abdomen covered with his hands had been soaked in blood, and his face looked as pale as paper.

Seeing this, Lu De quickly took out the potion and fed it to Hume himself.

"Thank you...Master Priest...I almost..."

"Hush, don't talk, you are very weak now, let's get out of here first."

Hume nodded, and Shanisi on the side took the initiative to carry her up.While no one else was paying attention, Hume quietly made an "OK" gesture to Lude.

Following the winding stairs, a group of people quickly returned to the ground. At this time, it was already bright outside, and they successfully merged with the rest of the people guarding here.

Since Narad was killed in battle, and the other two priests of the God of War Cult were not enough to convince the crowd, Lude became the new leader of the Rangers.

Everyone counted the number of people on one side again. Before departure, there were a total of 150 people in the ranger, 37 people were killed and 59 people were missing.Among these missing persons, some may have died, but their bodies have not been found yet, and some of them fled away and never came back after the team was dispersed by the giant snake.

Considering that the main force of the Lizardmen was only lured away and would probably come back again, Lude decided to leave here as quickly as possible.

After everyone evacuated from the ancient city, the large force returned directly to Songshu Village, and sent several agile adventurers to contact the main force responsible for attracting the attention of the lizardmen.They had moved forward slowly with great fanfare as planned, and they didn't know if they had fought against the main force of the lizard people.

On the way back to the city, everyone was non-stop, and it only took nine days to return to Songshu Village smoothly.

At first, the villagers saw that thousands of them went out to fight, and only fifty or so came back alive. Almost half of the horses were covered with corpses. They thought that some accident happened to them in the forest, and only the dead These.

Some village women whose sons served as militiamen in the Self-Police Corps cried so loudly that they almost passed out.

Fortunately, Lu De quickly explained that the situation was not what they thought. They were just moving in two ways according to Priest Narad's plan. The large force was still behind them at the moment, and it would probably take a few days before they came back. The villagers Only then did our emotions stabilize a little.

Five days later after Lude came back, the large team finally returned, but it seemed that after a fierce battle, the team of nearly 800 people shrank by nearly a quarter.However, there were quite a few members of the Pine Tree Village Self-Police Corps, and the main ones who died were adventurers and those refugees who made up the numbers.

As soon as Ron, who led the team, came back, he excitedly announced the good news to Lude, saying that they had encountered several thousand lizardmen (exaggerated) night attacks in the forest. Phalanx" to fight, the lizardmen who killed were throwing away their armor and armor, at least killed more than half of them (still exaggerating), and they themselves died less than ten!

After listening, Lude nodded with a smile and praised Ron a few words.Xin said that the "Roman phalanx" she asked Hume to teach them was indeed useful at a critical moment.

Lu De reckoned that the actual situation that night should be that more than 1000 lizardmen attacked 800 humans who were not unprepared.The three hundred militiamen led by Ron formed a hedgehog formation with spears and shields according to their usual training.

The lizardmen had nothing to do with them for a while, so they would naturally turn around and attack those adventurers and refugees who were easier to deal with.

In this battle, both sides have their own injuries, and the exchange ratio may be close to one to one. Even the lizardmen took advantage of it, but they failed to defeat the main force of the human side, and the Rangers on the other side had already taken the opportunity to steal it. The hometown of the lizard people, so in the end there is no doubt that it is the victory of humans.

However, in order to get this victory, they did not come without a price!

In this "village-level war" in the border area, although the gray scale tribe of the lizard people was severely injured, they were not wiped out by them. After that, they will definitely lie dormant for a period of time, and may wait for an opportunity to retaliate against humans in the future.

On the human side, the biggest loss is undoubtedly Narad, the high-ranking priest of the God of War Cult. When the captain of the knights and the priest of the main force learned that their immediate superior had died in the battle to wipe out the cricket lizardmen, the two People's first reaction was disbelief, and then they wondered whether the pagan priest named Lude had "black hands" on Narad behind his back.

However, this speculation of the two was immediately opposed by witnesses such as Elu and Manann.Because they didn't find out that Lu De was doing bad things secretly, and even contributed a lot in the whole battle, saving the lives of many of them.

What really led to the death of Mentor Narad should be a mistake in the early investigation work. They didn't know the existence of the terrifying giant snake.

What moved them even more was that not long after they came back, Lude personally participated in the wake ceremony for the victims, and wrote a touching eulogy for Narad. tears.

However, a few outsiders don't know that Zhuge Liang from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on the other side of the earth cried for Zhou Dudu in this way!

End of this chapter

On the third day after the return of the Valiant Army, a noble army of hundreds of people suddenly came to Pine Tree Village. They held the flag of the Earl of Lumley, but it was obvious that there was a whole team of apologist knights from the God of War Cult in the team.

The two leaders are Lude's familiar face, Jie Gang, the deputy head of the Silver Wing Knights who once assisted the great magician Hamilton in stealing dragon eggs, and the other is wearing a pale gold priest's robe and a high horned hat. The middle-aged priest, the other party belongs to the standard outfit of the bishop of the God of War sect.

Just like the police in many old-fashioned film and television dramas, the army of the nobles is also long overdue.When the hundreds of them rushed to the local area in a hurry, the whole incident had already been settled, and it could basically be declared over. Even Narad's "first seven" were over.

Therefore, after learning that he came a full month late, so that the locals solved the problem on their own, Captain Jie Gang suddenly felt very embarrassed, and at the same time cast an angry look at the War God Bishop who came with him.

It was only later that Lude learned from other sources that the request letter he secretly sent to the Earl of Lumley had a problem at the last ten meters from the Earl's desk.

As the top three feudal nobles in the Kingdom of Duran, Earl Lumley naturally has a branch of the God of War religion in the territory, and it is treated at the parish level. Many temples have been established in various places. The capital of the territory, Wolfhelm City There is also a bishop resident in the temple.

However, the sects and lords were friendly on the surface, but the bishop knew very well that the Earl actually did not like these sects.This guy is the current king's most trusted iron buddy, and both of them are playing the same routine - religious balance.

In Wolfhelm City, in addition to the people of the God of War Sect, there are also the Goddess of the Four Seasons, the Holy Sect of Light, and several small and medium-sized sects. There is a street of large and small temples.

The earl deliberately made them check and balance each other, and did not give any one of them a chance to become bigger in the local area, while he himself benefited from it.

Therefore, in such a situation where the two sides seem to be in harmony with each other, apart from the wooing on the surface, the God of War Sect will inevitably resort to some small tricks behind the scenes.Thanks to their unremitting "efforts", a secretary in the earl's mansion was tricked into teaching and secretly delivered information to the bishop who personally baptized him.

But this time it was even more tricky. The secretary deliberately divided the request letter sent by Songshu Village into unimportant official documents, and pressed it to the bottom of the file pile.Therefore, when the earl learned that the pioneers on the northern border might be in trouble, he had completely missed the best time to rescue them.

After the incident happened, the earl was very furious and keenly aware that there must be a "twenty-five boy" in his official residence who was eating inside and outside, so he did a little investigation and found out the secretary who had secretly joined the church.

Considering the power of the God of War Cult, and the fact that his family and the other party can't really tear their faces apart, the earl didn't ask the teacher directly for the crime, but fired the secretary, and then asked him to take the letter of pleading for help sent by Songshu Village to the local God of War Bishop to express his dissatisfaction.

We must know that the earl is so concerned about the northern border. In addition to his sense of justice and responsibility as a nobleman, he also has thoughts about this land. He hopes to strengthen the influence of the Lumley family in the local area so that it will be included in his own name in the future. .

As a result, the War God Sect secretly played tricks and helped his old enemy.

But as the old saying goes, only comparison can hurt.

Although the army of the Earl of Lumley came late, they finally came, and it was better than the duke in the southeast who didn't even look at anyone!

After learning the whole story from Lude, Captain Jiegang looked at the Bishop of God of War not far away who was also inquiring about the situation with his own people, and then whispered to Lude.

"Master Priest, let me tell you some good news quietly, these people from the God of War Sect will get out of here soon."

"Huh? Did the earl put pressure on them?"