Civilization Guardian Front

"But, you can trust me. No matter what, I won't have the heart to hurt Riko..."

"Because, we are the same... We, who also lost our parents, are each other's family from now on."

family...

This thing that once belonged to Riko but has been lost is far more attractive to her than the word "friend".

Almost at the moment of hearing the young man's words, Riko's heart tightened suddenly.

yes...

Two people who have lost their loved ones form a new home together.

No one can stop them from licking each other's wounds and using each other's body temperature to keep warm.

Even God will surely bless them...

"Hmm..." A pair of slender hands hugged Chios, the girl buried her head in the young man's arms, and her immature voice responded with unprecedented firmness:

"I believe you. "

...

Inside Robin's House...

Looking around, there was only complete darkness.

"Have you spent all this time in such a dark room?"

Walking into the gate led by Riko, the young man looked at the ubiquitous darkness around him, and sighed helplessly.

Chios poked the face of the girl walking in front with his finger, and Chios added:

"This can't work, look at your skin, it's almost turning pale."

"Mmm..."

Unable to refute, Riko could only protest with a nasal hum.

But she herself knows it won't work...

The intimacy of youth, no matter how excessive, is so desirable compared to the loneliness and emptiness day after day.

Even, she herself was unwilling to refuse.

The two turned right at the porch and came to the living room of Luo Ping's mansion.

The crystal lamp hanging down sadly, the velvet sofa silently facing the fireplace, the curtains closing the outside world...

Just looking at the scene in front of him, Chios can imagine what kind of life Riko has lived in the past month.

It's the coldest period of winter, and there's no firewood for the fireplace...

Most of them are hiding in their own rooms and covered with thick quilts to resist the pervasive cold.

"You don't need the trees in the garden, do you?"

"Ugh? "

Unable to understand Chios's sudden question, the girl opened her dark amber eyes and looked back at the young man behind her.

After thinking about it carefully, I really couldn't think of the function of the trees in the courtyard.

Riko nodded, affirming the other party's question.

"Wait here for me, I'll be right back."

After leaving this sentence, Chios turned and walked out of the house.

However, it was hard to regain the family's Lizi, and he was not willing to let him out of his sight.

Seeing the young man walking towards the courtyard, the girl followed behind him, afraid that the other party would disappear in the next moment.

The sound of Riko's footsteps was too obvious for Chios to fail to notice.

However, he just smiled with his back to the girl.

Riko's reaction just proved how deep the impression she had left in her heart.

(Try the new rune trick by the way...)

Approaching an oak tree, the young man held his right hand in the air, and a long sword with a broad blade over four feet long appeared in his hand.

The index and middle fingers of the left hand are brought together, drawing a scarf-shaped cross line in front of the eyes.

"Ground"

The next moment, he grasped the rune in front of him with five fingers.

hum...

The rune held by Chios instantly shattered, and the soil-like light suddenly enveloped his whole body.

The next moment, the young man swung his sword towards the oak tree in front of him.

Chapter 190 VII? Armed with Runes

As a source executor, he has created and studied the source magic for more than a thousand years. Although the core nine runes of rune magic are the foundation, the derivative skills developed from the foundation are also extremely important.

"Rune Armor", "Rune Overlay", "Rune Engraving"...

These skills developed by Odin, the creator of rune magic, require the rune users to have the corresponding source power in order to meet the conditions for learning.

Among them, 10 points of source power just meet the minimum learning requirements of "rune arming".

Normally when rune magic is used, the hand that draws the rune must maintain control of the rune at all times to keep it from dissipating.Because of the relationship between casting magic, one hand cannot be used for combat, and the impact on warriors who use weapons with one hand or two hands is not small.

Rune arming is a magic technique developed for this defect.

By crushing the rune full of source power, all the power gathered in the rune can be fed back to the user in one breath, even if the rune is no longer drawn, he can obtain all the abilities of the rune in a short time.

For example, the "earth" runes currently used by Chios have the effect of softening or hardening minerals and temporarily giving metals extra quality.

When the "earth" armament wrapped his whole body, Chios could strengthen the sword of the King of Scotland in his hand with just one thought, and even increase the quality of the sword at the moment of swinging the sword.

And now, that's exactly what he's doing...

The broad-bladed long sword already weighed 3kg, but the moment it was dyed with a khaki-yellow light, its weight suddenly tripled, and the steel blade also acquired a hardness comparable to obsidian.

The heavy metal blade was suddenly thrown out like a cannonball.

brush!

The yellow sword light crossed the oak tree with a diameter of one meter without hindrance, and easily cut it in half.

At the same time, the light of the rune on the young man's body also dimmed a little after this blow.

Until Chios withdrew his sword, the oak tree in front of him seemed to have reacted at this time, and slowly slid down along the traces of the sword.

Two or three seconds later, the thick trunk with no support finally couldn't bear the weight of the branches and leaves above, and was pulled by gravity and fell to the ground.

boom!

An oak tree that could only be felled by a grown man who would have to sweat profusely for a long time with an axe, just fell weakly in the courtyard of Luo Ping's mansion.

"Okay... that's great..."

Riko, who walked out of the house following the young man, saw her oak tree being cut in half by the opponent's sword without any resistance, her nimble eyes and small mouth couldn't help but open wide at the same time.

(It works fine...)

Feeling the power of the remaining runes on his body, Chios estimated that he could roughly swing the same sword five times, and the power of this set of rune weapons would dissipate due to complete exhaustion.

But he was quite content with that.

After completing the main quest 3 and Baixue's side quest, Chios gained a total of 3 points of source power, which was finally the minimum condition for reaching advanced rune skills.

Before he had time to delve into this magical skill carefully, he went on to open the second calendar and came to Etretta in 2001.

Today, it was his first experiment with the effectiveness of rune armament.

Because the power of the rune is attached to one's body at one time, the source power of this rune is limited, and the length of the existence of the weapon will be determined according to the way one uses it.

Even though it is not a permanent effect, but at the moment of crushing the rune, he did gain the power to manipulate metal minerals at will. Without the need to maintain the rune with one hand, he can still harden the long sword and endow it with extra quality.

Although, with his current source force value, he can only give himself one source force weapon at a time.

How to choose runes is bound to become a key issue.

Even so, he has great confidence in his newly learned skills.

this means...

In future battles, Chios will be able to respond to the situation at any time and choose the appropriate magic to fight against the enemy without wasting the use of one hand.

After the test, Chios didn't waste any more time and chopped the fallen oak tree into several pieces with his long sword soaked in yellow light.

In just one minute, he cut the thickest tree in Luo Ping's house into pieces of firewood of moderate size.

Putting the long sword and firewood into the emblem space together, the young man just turned around, and saw the girl at the door of the room staring straight at him with a pair of clear and bright eyes.

"Why..." Smiled at Lizi, Chios moved slowly, and came to the other side in a few steps, put his hand on the girl's small head and asked:

"Scared by my magic?

"It's a lie, that's not magic..." Riko, who felt that she was fooled by the young man, frowned, curled her lips and replied:

"That's a super power. My mother once told me that some people in the world can use super powers, which have the same effect as magic."

"Okay, okay, since you said it's a superpower, it's okay to treat it as a superpower..."

Without refuting the other party's words, Chios shrugged and brought up the topic with a few simple words.

Indeed, as Riko said, there are many characters in the Scarlet Bullet world who can display superpowers. Usually these people are descendants of great figures that existed in history. The reason for being able to use superpowers is generally related to color gold.

Crimson-colored gold, Ruru-colored gold, and Lili-colored gold...these three metals are the source of most superpowers in this world.

However, these superpowers have relatively single abilities... Most of them control specific types of energy, phenomena, or manipulate certain substances.

For example, Chios's own background identity, the superpower of the Marshall family blood is thunder, which can be regarded as explaining the reason for his use of supernatural power.

But if you want to cast various types of spell effects like rune magic, probably only those who hold a lot of color gold can do it.

In this world, the existence of superpowers is like common sense, and magic still belongs to the category of fantasy.

Therefore, Chios didn't intend to argue with Riko at all, and walked into the house.

Coming to the fireplace in the living room, the young man took out firewood from the heraldry space and stacked it.

The index and middle fingers of the left hand point together like a sword, draw a vertical line, and draw a slightly shorter oblique line from the line to the lower right corner.

"fire"

The red light, like burning red metal, gathered in the center of the firewood following the direction of the sword.

boom!

In an instant, the firewood in the fireplace burst into a high-temperature flame, and the tongue of flame climbed up the chimney above.

After cutting off the power supply of the runes, the ferocious fire from the previous moment immediately calmed down, forming a warm fire.

The living room of Luo Ping's house has finally escaped from the long-standing darkness, and the furniture such as sofas, chandeliers, wall panels, and wallpapers have been given their due colors again.

"Finally it looks like a home..." Patted the little dust stained by the firewood in his hand, Chios sat on the sofa, patted the seat beside him, and said to the girl who closed the door and walked into the living room:

"Come here, Riko."

Chapter 190: Becoming Riko's Family

The fine sparks are accompanied by a slight popping sound, and the firewood in the fireplace is burning vigorously, spreading the warmth through the orange-red fire, gradually driving away the coldness in the living room.

Riko stands on the edge of the fire, reaching out to feel the warmth from it

For a girl who neither wants to leave the mansion nor has the strength to chop firewood, the only way to resist the cold winter night is to hide in the bed and shrink her body into the shape of a shrimp.

Even so, it is still unavoidable to avoid the coolness from the floor climbing to the mattress on the bed, and the damp and cold air that penetrates into the crevices of the bedding.

The body temperature generated by her thin body alone is not enough. At night, she often trembles all over, forcing herself to fall asleep by will.

Unlike the fireplace in front of me, which continuously emits light and heat.

Riko only got close to the fire for a few seconds, and her cold and almost numb hands and feet regained feeling.

Just as the girl was staring at the flames in a daze, a young man's gentle call came from behind: