Before entering hand-to-hand combat, a wave of flying axes thrown by the pirates had knocked down several defenders in front of Ella. The bloody scene scared Ella, and after she clearly realized the meaning of the battlefield,
The previous recklessness suddenly disappeared. The pirates following her pressed up from both sides and fought with the defenders.
The narrow passage behind the city gate was originally helpful for the defenders to defend with a smaller number, but now it helped the pirates who charged with Ella. In the narrow terrain, their numerical disadvantage compared to the defenders was greatly reduced.
The number of pirates decreased, but the bravery of the pirates far exceeded that of the defenders. Even before the large pirate force from the rear came forward, this small group of pirates had already pushed the battle line beyond the passage!
Ella was stunned and pushed forward by the pirates who kept coming up from behind. What was unfolding before her eyes was a one-sided massacre: the infantry of the "Barbarian Alliance" could be regarded as sheep in the army of the Seven Hills Empire.
wolves, but these pirates from the northern tribes are stronger than grizzly bears. They use violent fighting methods to tear apart the defenders' lines, and use even greater strength and fighting skills to easily kill everyone who dares to challenge them.
The defenders. The axes in their hands will hit the opponent's raised shield with an almost crazy frequency until it is completely shattered. They seem to never know what retreat is, what cowardice is, and what death is. They only know how to chop down the enemy.
Then, no matter how many wounds there were on their bodies, they would rush to the next target without hesitation. In comparison, the defenders of the Qiqiu Empire only saw their comrades in the front row fell a few cents, and their morale plummeted.
, the front collapsed.
Not even half a day later, the castle was captured.
——It’s not an army on the same level at all.
Ella finally understood why Hestein dared to be stationed in Brusis openly. The pride that the name "Baselisa" brought to her was completely shattered. Before, she was just worried that she didn't have the right relationship with "Baselisa".
" Commensurate strength, but in front of the crumbling army of the Seven Hills Empire, the name "Baselisa" itself has become a shame. She thought with fear: If Hestein is not for plunder, but for
After conquering the land of the empire, would "Baselisa" have now become a synonym for a high-end pet with a crown? When she thought of this, an unprecedented sense of humiliation poured into her thin chest, which was higher than she had ever seen before.
The humiliation at her uncle's hands was ten times worse!
After that, she desperately searched through the castle, trying to find clues about Mamelkus's crime. It seemed that only this could give her a glimmer of comfort. But she tried her best, but she couldn't find any clues about Mamelkus's castle.
to discover more.
Dan cursed and found Ella in the castle.
"What were you trying to do to me just now! Do you know how precious the knowledge in your head is? If you keep moving like this, I will chop off your hands and feet and carry you around like a backpack!"
But before grabbing Ella, Dan suddenly noticed something and started to smell it vigorously with his nose:
"I smell the smell of sulfur, the beginning of all metals. Besides me, there is another inheritor of Hermetic skills here!"
He sniffed left and right, and finally put his nose against Mamelkus, who had become a prisoner. Then, he grabbed Mamelkus's clothes and looked up and down:
"I found traces of sulfur and mercury in you, as well as salt, alum, and ashes - you are unmistakable, you are an alchemist! Come on, give me everything you know at once! Everything
!”
Hearing Dan's words, Ella was surprised. Alchemy is expressly prohibited in the Qiqiu Empire. It's just that Dan is from another country, this Mamelkus is a noble of the empire!
Mamelkus looked at Ella with confused eyes. He knew that Baselisa was investigating the source of his wealth, and he had met Baselisa several times because of this. So he would never admit his mistake - even though his hair color was different,
But the woman in front of him was the ruler of the Seven Hills Empire, Ella Cornelius Scipio! But no matter what, he couldn't figure out why Baselisa would hang out with a group of pirates. In order to investigate him,
Bribing pirates to act together? Dying her hair to hide her identity? But this group of pirates defeated the First Field Army and plundered Brusis! How could he be a Mamelchus, so Baselisa did not hesitate to pay
Play him at such a cost!
In any case, practicing alchemy cannot be admitted in front of Barcelona. So he shook his head firmly.
But lies have no meaning in front of Dan.
"You cannot deceive the apprentice of Hermes. Let me find out what is in your heart."
Just like when he read Ella's "Jade Record" before, Dan put his hand on Mamelkus' head, then closed his eyes and looked up into the void. After a while, he suddenly opened his eyes and said nothing.
Walking towards the interior of the castle. Ella knew what Dan had discovered and quickly followed him.
"Hey hey hey, clothes, clothes..."
Amy's unintelligible voice sounded behind Ella, and then became farther and farther away.
Dan finally stopped in front of a very ordinary-looking wardrobe. He opened the wardrobe and roughly threw the clothes inside to the ground. He saw a strange sculpture close to the wall in the wardrobe: the overall shape was a human hand.
, from the little finger to the right, there are keys, lamps, the sun and stars on each finger respectively, but a knuckle is broken at the thumb, exposing a hole. A fish is carved in the center of the hand.
Dan deliberately tested Ella's alchemy knowledge and asked: "Little girl, do you know what is missing in this hand?"
An ordinary person would definitely answer "thumbs up". But Ella's answer was "Crown and fire."
"The hand is missing a crown. Crown, star, sun, lamp, key, fish and flame. These are the seven secret symbols of alchemy. The one corresponding to the thumb is the crown, and the fire should be engraved on the palm. These are
The symbol symbolizes the seven substances that are crucial to alchemy. The flame is sulfur, the fish is mercury, the key is salt, the lamp is alumite, and the sun is sand. But I don't know about the stars and the crown.
What does it symbolize?"
Ella answered honestly. This was one of the secrets of alchemy that she had not cracked, which often made her blame herself for her stupidity. But after hearing this, Dan only had a surprised expression on his face:
"Little girl, you really shocked me, especially after learning that you don't know the symbols of stars and crowns - because it means you are not an alchemist - yes, alchemy is forbidden in the Kingdom of Seven Hills, of course you don't
It's an alchemist - you have to know that the secrets of these seven symbols are guarded by alchemists with their lives. You are so young, but you have already cracked five of the seven secret symbols!"
Dan took out a white powder from his bag.
"The crown is the saltpeter, which is the king and master of all salts. It is the mill, through which everything that passes is ground. And as for the stars—well, I cannot let a man who is not an alchemist know them all."
As he spoke, Dan poured the white powder from the hole of his thumb, and then used the candle in his hand to heat the entire sculpture. After a while, gas came out of the small hole, and after a while, there was a sound coming from inside the wall.
There was a sound of a mechanical spring beating. Dan pushed the wardrobe and a door appeared where the wall should have been, revealing a secret room in front of them.
