"..."
"What's the matter, sir?"
"It's nothing, it's just... you were in the Snow Spirit Fantasy Ice competition just now, right?"
"Yes."
In the northeast of Tania City, between the overlapping buildings, two black figures were moving forward silently, passing through the intertwined sights of countless yawning guards, and came to the higher terrain in the northeast of the city.
Beside the high hills - if the aristocratic district in the west of the city is a rare area that players rarely pass through, then the higher ground and the trapezoidal buildings in the north of the city are a no-man's land that no one has ever been to. This is
Not only because the location of this area is too remote, but also because the guards here are stricter than other places, and the things being guarded have not been paid attention to by the players for a long time. As the war approaches, the defense here seems to
It has become closer and closer. Except for good people like Duan Qing who came here specially, few people can go to such a place at this time, follow the ascending stairs, and explore this church-like place.
The truth about the place is revealed.
What's more, this high place, which is even more remote than the library, is now guarded by groups of people in black.
Passing over the gradually rising houses, Duan Qing, who was walking in front, turned his head from time to time to pay attention to the movements around him, and then stopped in front of the church that was blocked by hills and walls. He kept following.
Behind him, Ciyu Ninglan stopped quietly next to him, and then with his usual smile, answered Duan Qing's inexplicable question: "But... according to the current time, the game should probably be over."
"Really?" Duan Qing, who was hiding in the shadows, shook his head slightly, and then looked away in a certain direction in the city: "Well, maybe it's my illusion... Hmm."
"It seems...it's different from the description in the intelligence."
"What are you referring to, sir?"
"According to Hank's information, this should be the ruins left over from the ancient city of Tania. Although there is no danger, it is too conspicuous and not worth exploring." Looking at the courtyard covered with weeds behind the iron fence.
, Duan Qing reached out and pointed towards the dark church in the distance, and then explained in a low voice: "Now... it is also the place where the president used to live when he was recovering from illness. Why..."
"Not a single guard?"
"Isn't the President already back? There is no need to guard this place, right?"
"But there should be a lot of guards here."
Duan Qing's voice lowered along with his gaze: "Although there is nothing to see, this place can be regarded as a ruins, so it once attracted a lot of players to come and explore. Over time, this place was regarded as a ruin by the principality.
The city guards have been protected, euphemistically called to protect Tania’s ancient heritage..."
"Why don't you protect it now?" Duan Qing curled his lips and smiled: "The legacy in the past was a legacy, but the legacy now is not a legacy?"
"Perhaps it's because the troops defending the city lack manpower." Encrypted Ninglan raised her finger and echoed, "So all the guards here have been transferred?"
"Then what happened to the layers of guards when we came here?"
Looking back at the curved steps that went downwards and gradually disappeared into the darkness, Duan Qing shook his head: "First there were the city guards, then the black-clothed guards... I don't believe there are none here.
Nothing is hidden."
He took a deep breath, and then looked into the courtyard again: "Anyway, let's go in and take a look first, and see if we can find... any clues about Horsman."
With the maid's head movement in agreement, he looked up at the fence, then jumped up in the quiet atmosphere around him, and climbed over the iron fence. The sound of the collision of armor and the sound of breaking through the air immediately covered the courtyard.
He held up a patch of weeds with one hand and tried his best to suppress the sound of falling to the ground. Then he slowly turned his head while staring closely at the surroundings of the courtyard, and reminded behind him: "Xinyi,
don't want……"
His voice paused - outside the iron fence behind him, the codeword Ninglan who was supposed to be standing there had disappeared out of thin air, as if everything that happened before was an illusion.
Teleportation? Illusion? Or just a common deception?
Thousands of thoughts suddenly passed through his mind. Duan Qing suddenly put his hand on the hilt of his sword, and then raised his eyes to observe the surroundings as the night wind blew through the courtyard.
Jingjingyuan didn't seem to have any changes due to his arrival. He took two deep breaths, then leaned on the edge of the courtyard and leaned towards the church door one by one: "What other tricks can you use to pretend to be a ghost..."
"Just use them all!"
In the rotunda with flashing red light, the two figures who were entangled together rolled down to the other side of the light pillar, and then dispersed in the direction of each other amidst the loud shouts of a woman.
The white-armored figure below was obviously flying further away than the opponent, but with some firm will, she climbed up from the ground earlier than the opponent, then held the trembling sword in her hand and moved toward
The warrior slashed his sword in the direction: "Drink!"
The warrior at the other end of the light beam was half-kneeling on the ground, with his arms folded in front of him. After a while, he looked at the front where nothing happened, showing a strange expression.
"Oh... James St. Ma seems to have been taken aback. He thought Xue Ling Huan Bing would use his sword energy to attack." An unscrupulous solution outside the venue immediately raised the microphone and shouted loudly: "The result
But he was deceived by the other party!"
"Sister Xue... I still haven't learned it yet." Mengzhu at the side of the stage clasped his hands with a low expression: "I originally thought there was a trump card for making a comeback..."
"Her sword... is shaking subconsciously."
Staring intently at the center of the stage, Wuyu Liushang commented to himself: "In such a critical situation, if time allows... maybe there will really be a breakthrough."
"Wha, what?"
"Unfortunately, the biggest enemy is time."
Ignoring the girl's slightly anxious doubts, the woman in the lavender dress leaned back and sat peacefully on her sofa: "Whether it was the threat from the other party or the countdown, she didn't have enough time.
To understand all this, if you don’t see hope in four minutes, then..."
"She may have to wait until next year, the next UEFA Cup, to continue to prove herself."
call--
Another heavy sword whistling sound passed by Xue Ling Huan Bing's ears. She barely dodged another killing blow, and then staggered to the side and fell to the ground in the red light.
She fell down. However, the heavy slash from the soldier did not hesitate at all, and slashed towards the fallen woman with the force that had been accumulated. She struggled to turn over and dodged with a deafening sound.
He started this pursuit, and then just before the opponent's third consecutive earthquake wave was about to arrive, he stabbed the ground next to him with a sword.
Amidst the groaning sound of the ice-blue sword bouncing back to its feet, the woman's body pressed against the floor of the stone hall and suddenly slid out into the distance. After a while, it stopped in the obstruction of the circular wall, leaving a trace on the ground.
There was a long scratch.
[Countdown remaining: minutes.]
"There is not much time left, destruction is coming!"
The flower blossoms in the solution channel were still shouting at the top of their lungs: "This is the doomsday judgment, this is the punishment for delaying the game! If the winner cannot be determined in the last three minutes, no one can imagine the final result! We
The warrior players must show their true skills to deal with this last enemy, no matter whether they win or lose... Oh, he changed his weapons! He really has a back-up plan!"
On the stage, a warrior in full armor wordlessly took off a sledgehammer from behind, held it in his own hands, and then waved it with all his strength, creating a translucent light curtain. He bent his knees and swung out a sledgehammer.
The sledgehammer was in front of him, and the almost transparent light curtain gradually stabilized amid the flickering red light around it, and then continued to extend to the surroundings, finally connecting the light column in the center of the rotunda with the surrounding walls.
Together: "This, this is..."
"Is this a barrier?"
At the old gate outside the church, Duan Qing, who had just withdrawn his vigilance, looked at his hand that was blocked in the air and murmured: "What is this, a seal?"
Stretching his head and observing behind the almost transparent air wall for a while, Duan Qing immediately gave up the idea of seeing clearly from the air, and instead studied the barrier in front of him. In front of the church at night, there was an earthy yellow light.
It started to flicker from time to time, and then slowly disappeared as Duan Qing gradually sat down: "Well..."
"Have you ever gone to the Mages Council for appraisal?"
"No, sir."
A gentle female voice then appeared behind Duan Qing, who was sitting on the floor: "But... Ninglan can still tell the flow of magic hidden in this place."
"...What's the conclusion?"
"It should be a phantom wall belonging to the wind element." The maid's voice became deeper: "Using the density change of the gas to refract the surrounding light to achieve the purpose of disturbing the line of sight... Although it is very clever, such refraction
It can only affect a small part of the distance, so the church we see is still real, but the area close to the fence..."
"There is nothing there now." Duan Qing took over what the other party said: "Maybe there was something hidden before, maybe there was nothing there before. Who can know clearly about such things as ruins?"
"We should be able to get some clues by investigating the adventure records that players have revealed recently." Ningyu Ninglan whispered: "In addition...if we can know who arranged these magics..."
"Then we might as well check it ourselves."
Sighing and shaking his head, Duan Qing focused his attention on the barrier in front of him again, and then stretched out his hand to touch it while motioning to the maid behind him: "What about this? With your... sense, what is this thing?
?”
"This...should be a wall condensed from the wind element."
In the rotunda on the stage, facing a wall of air raised by the warrior who was gradually advancing, Xue Ling Huan Bing, covering her chest, muttered in a low voice: "This Wind-Binding Sacred Hammer...
It’s a weapon sleeping in the Imperial History Museum, how did you get it?”
"...There are some deviations in your strategy."
Since the start of the game, the player named St. James finally spoke his first words, but the content of those words had nothing to do with the problem of Snow Spirit Fantasy Ice: "From the beginning of the game, you have
He has been avoiding fighting and just running away..."
"You can't defeat me with this kind of fighting spirit alone."
"……I know."
Looking at the mountainous barrier approaching again, the woman gasped and replied: "But... you didn't leave me any other choice."
"There are only two minutes left." Looking up at the ceiling here, St. James shook his head slightly: "The person who can delay this for so long... you are the first."
"Why, is this why you use this hammer?" Xueling Huanbing showed a sarcastic smile: "Use this fragile barrier to kill me?"
"Your health volume is not much, but my health volume is still 1oo%." The warrior held up the huge barrier and began to run along the circular hall: "The moves attached to the weapon naturally also need to calculate the power of the weapon.
Cheng, so..."
"If I hit you with this hammer, you might die."
A cruel smile appeared on his face. The warrior lowered his head and assumed a charging posture with a shield raised. Then he used the wall as a shield and sprinted in the direction of the woman. An icy blue light immediately appeared in front of the woman.
Then, as she swung her sword and retreated, she left an icy blue sword shadow in the air, but before the icy blue trajectory fully unfolded, the invisible barrier had already emerged from there.
Crushing through the space mercilessly, the blue trajectory was smashed into a dazzling ice crystal: "Snow Spirit Fantasy Ice used Frost Fall! But the opponent's wind-binding barrier seemed not to be afraid of elemental attacks, and it was about to
It was swept in front of her! The game has finally reached the last moment, there are still fifty-eight seconds before the end! If there is no other way..."
"It seems..."
In front of the church, Duan Qing sighed and climbed up from the ground, then turned around and showed an indifferent smile: "This problem can only be solved through violence."
"But sir, this will make a lot of noise..."
"Isn't it just running?" Duan Qing stood in front of the gate, then raised his sword and passed by, the black sword edge trembling slightly in the air: "We are warriors, not professional magicians, so...
…”
"Problems that need to be solved with magic can only be solved with swords."
In the red light, the woman with heavy steps looked up at her status bar, finally stopped her escape, then suddenly held back her heavy breathing, and once again raised the sword that had never stopped shaking.
He stood up and said: "...there is one thing I must clarify."
"I have never thought of procrastinating." Her eyelids drooped as if seriously injured, but a dazzling light flashed in her eyes: "I have been waiting for the opportunity to deal with you."
The colorful beam of light gradually expanded in the stage, illuminating the woman's face as white as snow. She exhaled her last breath, and then slashed it down with a sword.
boom!
"alright."
Duan Qing straightened up, looked at the big crack that was cut in front of him, turned around and made a V sign to the snickering maid: "This level of air wall is simply an insult to my strength... let's go."
gone."
"Before you are discovered, hurry in and do the three times."
This chapter has been completed!