When there was a little light in the darkness, Viscount Elman was the first to pull out his long sword and pointed in the direction of the sound with a clang, "Who is there?" He raised his right eyebrow and asked with a vigilant look on his face.
"Hehehe."
What answered him was a series of light laughter. The laughter came from not far away, and then Elman actually saw a woman slowly walking out of an ancient oak tree - the woman had a pair of pointed ears.
She put her hands behind her head and gently swayed her upper body, letting her long purple wavy hair flow down behind her ears like a waterfall.
The woman has a pair of light purple eyes with slightly longer eye shadow, which gives people a sense of enchantment. She has a beautiful oval face and purple lips, which can attract people's attention at the first sight - but her entire body is completely made of
Made up of vines and roots, bunches of thorns spread along her naked upper body, wrapping around her round and full breasts, extending to her neck and the edge of her cheeks.
She smiled slightly, pointed at the long sword in Elman's hand and said, "Young man, what do you expect this thing to do? To hurt me? Or to protect yourself?"
Elman frowned and pointed his sword at the woman, but did not answer; this woman obviously had bad intentions, and judging from her performance, she was either a madman or someone who had someone to rely on.
Mr. Viscount prefers to believe it is the latter.
Rono's reaction was only one step slower than Elman's, but the black-haired boy couldn't help but blush when he saw this woman. He was stunned for a moment before he reacted. He raised his sword-like eyebrows and asked sternly: "Who are you?
This is Eruin’s envoy, you’d better not try to trick us——”
The woman chuckled: "How cunning."
She walked slowly towards several people as if she hadn't seen the sword in Elman's hand. When she walked, the branches that made up her lower body squirmed, like a huge insect, which made people's scalp numb after looking at it.
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"Rono, Master Heyman's apprentice, Cruz's genius alchemist - title, Wolverine; once seriously injured eleven companions and killed two in a conflict at Cruz's Royal Conjuring Academy, with a shy appearance like a teenager
Hidden underneath is a wild heart."
"As for this - Faina, the earl of the golden collar, the little princess of the mosaic collar, the apple of the eye of the Grand Duke of Mandhir, and the only legal heir to the principality," the woman turned back and looked at the remaining two people leisurely.
He said with a smile: "There is also Viscount Elman. Although he is a descendant of a noble family, he is still outstanding - but who can see your ambition clearly?"
When Elman heard the word concubine, he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
The last woman said: "As for the last little girl, she is indeed from Eruin, but she is insignificant. But I am somewhat interested in her lord, that interesting young man."
"If you are interested, you can go find him," Faina stared at this woman warily. As the heir to a great noble family, she was most afraid of being called out by strangers: "Shameless woman!"
She turned back: "Rono, what are you still looking at!"
The black-haired boy blushed and turned back to look at Faina innocently: "Now is not the time to talk about this, Faina."
"Humph," Faina gritted her teeth angrily, "None of them are good!"
Among the four people, only Tiya, who stood at the back, did not speak. She was just secretly prepared for defense. As a mercenary, although this wild elf girl was still inexperienced, she still knew some basic common sense.
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"So," Elman watched the woman getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but get a little frustrated: "Ms., what exactly do you want to do?"
He tried to block the opponent with his sword.
Unexpectedly, his words only made the woman laugh. She approached the Viscount and touched the tip of his sword with her fingers: "As I said, you humans call this a sword, right? A sword is
Weapons can protect you, but they can also be used to harm others——"
"Because in your opinion, the human body is fragile, but metal is solid. Using tools is the specialty of civilized creatures."
"Unfortunately, in my opinion, this thing is just like you, fragile, because everything will decay and wither, and only chaos will last forever."
She raised her eyelashes and looked at Elman with her purple eyes. Following her soft words, purple roses sprouted from the long sword in Elman's hand. As the rose petals withered in the wind, this
The long sword of Mr. Viscount actually seemed to have gone through thousands of years of history, just like wind and sand, passing away with the wind.
"Cultist!"
As soon as the words "Only chaos lasts" came out from the woman's mouth, the faces of the three people present immediately changed. However, this was nothing compared to the shock they felt when they saw the long sword in Elman's hand shattered inch by inch.
Elements of decay.
In the entire Warend, there was only one person who was both a cultist and possessing elements of corruption that they could immediately think of.
"Wither... wither... wither..." Faina's face suddenly turned pale. She pointed at the woman with wide eyes, and was so frightened that she couldn't say a word.
Elman stepped back and immediately drew out his spare dagger. The moment he realized the opponent's identity, he understood that there was no way to be kind. In this case, there is no point in talking nonsense, and it is only right to strike first and gain the upper hand.
The black-haired boy next to him reacted no slower than him this time. Almost as soon as the woman finished speaking, more than a dozen alchemy bombs were already thrown at the woman.
It's a pity that the woman reacted faster than him. She raised her right hand from front to back, and a vine net rose up with a "swipe" sound from the ground. The alchemy bomb hit it and was detonated in advance, almost injuring Rono himself.
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The black-haired boy covered his face and rolled back. He stretched out his hand, and the magic devices on his body immediately rose up one after another and began to draw the magic circle.
What only made him stunned was that the metal surfaces of these magic devices began to rust before they flew halfway, and then became dull. They fell from the air with a 'snap' sound and fell into the puddles in the forest.
No more magical connection is felt.
At this time, Viscount Elman's attack had just begun, but his target was not that terrifying woman, but Faina beside him.
The noble daughter was stunned when she saw Elman suddenly charging toward her, but she still instinctively drew out her sword to block it. The power of the elements entered from her body into the rapier, and white light intertwined with the sword to create a beam of light.
shield.
Unfortunately, this improvised magic sword skill was obviously no match for Elman. Elman knocked the long sword out of Faina's hand with a backhand sword, then grabbed her neck, went around behind her, and put the sword on her neck.
superior.
The whole process happened in a flash of lightning. Don't say that Luonuo and Tiya didn't react, even the woman was surprised.
But at this time, Elman had already put the sword on Faina's snow-white neck. Then he looked at the woman, took a breath, and said calmly: "Your target is her, but I want a dead principality.
I’m afraid the heir is of little value to you?”
Faina was startled, as if she had just reacted. She took a breath of air and her body couldn't help but tremble. She didn't know whether it was because of this desperate environment or because of the betrayal of her companions.
Yes, she suddenly thought - Viscount Elman did it on purpose, it must be like this, he was using this method to save other people.
Thinking of this, the noble daughter felt a little better, but when she thought of Viscount Elman's cold gaze when he knocked the sword out of her hand, she still felt a little trembling subconsciously.
Ronno looked at Elman in surprise, but he seemed to have thought of going with Faina and endured it without speaking.
However, Tia cast a spell when Faina was kidnapped. She shot an ice dragon forward from her palm, and the ice "clicked" and solidified the air and shot straight at Elman, but Elman just threw Faina towards this.
As soon as the direction was blocked, the noble daughter who had just felt at ease was immediately frightened and closed her eyes and screamed.
Tiya was also startled and quickly removed the spell in her hand. The icicles burst with a 'crash' and instantly turned into a stream of sparkling smoke in mid-air.
"You're crazy!" Faina screamed with her eyes closed: "Viscount Elman."
"Shut up," Elman said coldly: "If you want to survive, stop talking!"
"You..." The noble daughter almost choked to death. She wanted to say something else, but she felt the cold edge of the sword on her neck tighten. She was so frightened that she swallowed the second half of her sentence: "Then, that hateful country bumpkin, ugh
Woohoo, someone come and save me...!" I don't know why, but this was the first thought that came to the mind of the aristocratic girl who was almost crying at this moment.
The woman not far away glanced at Tiya: "Oh? The water elementalist, but the elementalist seems to have no mental ability, right?"
Tiya's expression changed: "It's you, you blocked the telepathy between me and Brother Brando!"
"Oh? His name is Bran?" The woman smiled slightly: "Thank you, little sister!"
Tiya was so angry that she raised her hand and shot an ice arrow at the woman. Unfortunately, the ice arrow turned into ice dust and disappeared before she could get close to the woman. The woman smiled slightly: "Order is short-lived, and it is better to return the magic power."
The original appearance is better.”
Then she raised her hand, and countless vines spread over Tiya. Although the younger of the wild elf sisters tried to resist, she only cast a few spells and was tied up tightly.
"Woman," Elman watched helplessly as Tiya was tied up, as if it was none of his business, and then he asked: "You haven't answered my question yet."
"Your problem?" The woman turned back and sneered: "Do you think you can fool me with those little tricks of yours?"
"Do you think I really don't dare to kill her?" Elman asked coldly.
"You might as well give it a try."
The sword in Elman's hand moved horizontally, and a conspicuous blood mark was cut on Faina's snow-white neck. He raised his head and looked at the woman: "What now?"
"You're crazy!" Ronno shouted loudly, but he stared at Elman but did not dare to act rashly, for fear that the lunatic might accidentally do something crazy.
The woman was slightly startled. She originally thought that Elman was trying to use a torture trick, but she didn't expect that the other man looked really crazy.
She couldn't help but smile: "Interesting, do you want to live?"
Elman nodded.
"Okay," the woman said with a smile, "I'll give you a chance to kill him, and then come with me." She looked at Ronno and said lightly.
Ronno was startled, and before he could react, he suddenly lowered his head and groaned - he looked at the crossbow arrow inserted in his chest in disbelief, and then looked at Elman.
Of course he knew that the crossbow arrows were poisonous, and he had prepared the poison himself, saying it was to deal with monsters in the forest, but he didn't expect that he would be the first to be the test subject.
But what he didn't expect was that Elman would take action so decisively.
He looked at his companion with a puzzled look, and then fell backward.
"Rono!" Faina could hardly believe what she saw. Her eyes immediately turned red: "You are crazy, Viscount Elman, what have you done!"
But Elman didn't look at her, he just put the sword in his right hand against her neck, then threw away the crossbow with his left hand, and looked at the woman again.
The woman watched this scene with great interest, and finally clapped her hands: "As expected of Viscount Elman, he is clean and tidy, and he has the potential to join us."
She tilted her head and looked at the young imperial noble, and said with a smile: "So, what's your opinion?"
Elman had no doubt that as long as he said no, the other party would immediately let him die without a burial place. He hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.
The moment he nodded, his tense nerves finally relaxed. He thought that no matter how scary this woman was, she would not attack a companion, not to mention that as a newcomer in the high-level aristocratic circle of the empire, he believed in himself
There is still some value in the eyes of the other party.
However, these thoughts only existed for a moment and disappeared, because just as he nodded, a vine pierced his throat from behind like a ghost.
A blood arrow shot out and splashed Faina's face.
Then the noble daughter felt that the person behind her who had been holding her slowly fell down and fell heavily to the ground.
But she was stunned at that moment, too scared to move.
Then he knelt down with a 'crash' sound and couldn't say a word.
Not far away from her, the woman didn't even look at her. She just waved a tough vine whip from her hand with a backhand. This whip brought up a sword wind brush that was almost the same as Brando's White Crow Swordsmanship.
It swept past the ground with a sound.
The sword wind passed by Faina, then cut the body of Viscount Elman behind her into two pieces, and flew far away with a rain of blood.
The woman retracted her whip, then rolled up Viscount Elman's dagger on the ground, and swung the sword towards Tia on the other side. The dagger pierced her heart, Tia struggled for a moment, and then lowered her head.
The woman then smiled with satisfaction and sighed: "You are really stupid, do you think that I am just like those weak guys at the Unity of All Things, who cherish the power in this world so much?"
"Power is nothing but an illusion. One day, the throne will turn into sand."
She glanced at Faina and smiled: "But as for you, little girl, you are of some use to me. Let's go, I will take you to make a good deal - but, deal, I
I like the idea of human beings.”
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(***: It took me a while to find someone to correct it. Thanks to Yantu and Tianqi.)