Dust of History Chapter 62: Sniper

The Calendo Basin is located in the southwest of the empire. To the west of the basin is a large area of ​​deep mountains, and to the north is Bracada, the border between the empire and the wild highlands.

The mountains around the basin were actually the open-air part of the Stone City of the Dwarf Empire since ancient times. More than 300 years ago, some humans came to settle here because they escaped the war and crossed the mountains. In the past hundred years, due to the development of commerce, mountain roads have been dug, and they have been included in the territory of the Ainfast Empire in name. But strictly speaking, this is the territory of the dwarves, so the humans in the Kalendo Basin are actually completely autonomous. The long-term closed life has kept this dull and rigid atmosphere and way of life inside. Like the tent in the sky formed by the mixture of soot and dust all year round, it is drowsy.

But the situation here has been greatly improved in the past year. After the orc city Oufu on the wild highland was established, a road was dug in the mountains northwest of the basin immediately. The best quality ore in the whole continent and the weapons and utensils refined by the dwarves can be directly traded in the whole continent through Oufu, and they can no longer only be exported to the empire as before. The trade made the basin flourish rapidly. There is an extra shortcut to Oufu. There are caravans heading towards the basin in the empire every day, and several small towns at the entrance of the mountains on the outer edge of the basin have also prospered.

At noon, the small town at the foot of the mountain ushered in another caravan. Some merchants and bodyguards and mercenaries rode horses and others sat in carriages, happily talking about the upcoming orc city along the way. Only in the last carriage, there were two people wrapped in tattered cloaks leaning against each other as if weary. These are the two homeless people that the caravan met on the way. They both seemed to be seriously injured when they met them. It is said that they were chased and killed by bandits. At their request and the price of a few silver coins, the caravan agreed to take them to Oufu.

When the caravan first arrived at the entrance of the town, a call sign echoed in the clouds and mountains above. In the distance, a black shadow flapped its wings and flew out from the depths of the basin. A huge black shadow landed on the platform in front of the cave on the mountain far away from the village, which was an entrance to the dwarven dungeon. There seemed to be two or three figures on the black shadow.

It was the first time most people in the caravan saw this kind of thing and exclaimed. A businessman who had been to Oufu explained this strange and huge creature domesticated by orcs. The caravan slowly walked into the town, and after they took a rest here, they would enter the Karondo Basin and go to Oufu through the mountain road in the north.

The caravan stopped as soon as it entered the town. Because the road is blocked.

The thing blocking the road is very strange, or it is not a thing, but a tea table and two people drinking tea.

These two people are an old man and a middle-aged man in terms of body shape and hair color. The face is completely covered, leaving only one mouth.

These two strange people have been sitting here since the morning. The sheriff of the town once came to inquire and interfere, but the old man just waved his hand, and he was immediately thrown high up like a rubber ball, and fell half to death inexplicably. So no one dared to ask again. The townspeople also avoided here far away.

The caravan hesitated before the strange two. The leader was an old businessman who didn't want to cause trouble. After seeing the two weird masks and that posture, he decided to make a detour.

Just as the caravan was about to turn around, the old man sighed and said in an extremely weird voice: "If you still don't come out by yourself, do you want to hurt more people? It's a pity that even everyone in this town Everyone is willing to be your meat shield, and you will never be able to escape."

The old man's cold voice was not loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.

Responding to him was a clear female voice from the caravan chanting loudly: "Great God of all things, grant me the grace of your life to drive away evil and darkness."

Three green lights shot out from the caravan and fell on the three trees beside the road. The trees made a strange rattling sound, thickened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then trembled. The deformed thick roots protruded from the ground, and the three trees stood up like people and walked towards the two of them.

But the two remained seated. A thick white lightning flashed from the old man's hand, and instantly extended to the three changed trees. There was a burst of electric crackling and the explosion of the trees breaking and smashing, and the three trees immediately turned into sawdust all over the place.

But at the same time as the old man raised his hand, a slender figure suddenly jumped out of the caravan's carriage, with a short bow in his left hand, but not an arrow in his right hand, as if he had folded it from the carriage casually. A long strip of wood underneath. In the air, he had already bent his bow to hit the wooden stick, and the moment his footsteps landed, the wooden stick shot out from the string. The whole movement is as smooth as silk, like a fish swimming in water writhing and turning around in one go without any hindrance.

The bow was not strong, and the ordinary wooden stick it shot was not sharp, and the wooden stick even twisted itself in mid-air. But the wooden bar twisted more and more violently, and during the twisting, several branches grew rapidly, even a few green leaves and spikes all over the body, and it became like a living snake in a blink of an eye. Twisting the weird rattan, he swung his fangs and claws and rushed towards the old man.

No arrow is more deadly than this poisonous man-eating vine. It doesn't even need to shoot, as long as the vine can feel the anger emanating from the surrounding flesh and blood, it will rush there by itself, desperately trying to find a way to get into the body and squeeze into the internal organs, and the paralyzing poison attached to the surface of the vine Not even a mighty ogre can resist.

The middle-aged man let out a strange sigh, tilted the tea cup in his hand, and the tea in it spilled out, and then quickly turned into a small blue fireball and flew towards the human-eating vine in mid-air.

This small fireball was not even as big as a fist, but it was just approaching and hadn't touched it yet. The Human-Eating Vine turned into a mass of black ash before it even had time to produce flames. The fireball swept past the ashes left by the Man-Eating Vine in the air and continued to fly towards the person who shot the arrow.

When the man shot a strange arrow, another person jumped off the caravan's carriage. Immediately after the middle-aged man poured out the ball of flames from the wine glass, he stretched out his hand, and a fireball with a diameter of a person's size flew out in front of him, facing the little boy with a rage commensurate with its size. The poor blue flame rushed away.

A loud boom echoed through the surrounding mountains. These two fireballs, which were so disparate in size and momentum, collided evenly. A large area of ​​houses on the side of the street collapsed, and flames flew everywhere. But the two people sitting still sat at that table, and they didn't even shake the teacups on the table.

The caravan has already been turned on its back. The merchants and mercenaries got up and hurriedly turned around and ran, cursing the two unlucky ghosts they picked up on the road. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the person who was hunted down by the great magician.

The two people who jumped out of the caravan did not run away, the turbulent air currents blew the tattered cloaks off their bodies, revealing their true colors. A young human man and a beautiful elf girl. The elf girl held a piece of emerald green leaf tightly in her hand, and the green light from the leaf slowly soaked into her body, enveloping her in it.

"It turns out that the leaves of the world tree have such a great effect in the hands of elves. The natural magic used by them is of such a high level. No wonder you, Master Aiden, can't deal with them alone." The middle-aged man looked at it. He nodded at the sawdust on the ground, and then looked at the man who fired the fireball. His voice is also weird, with the same feeling of being held in the throat like Master Aiden. "Is this the kid? It turned out to be just a fool who can't use magic. It's a pity that the sun baptism and the effect of the leaves of the world tree."

Ten days ago, Master Aiden finally found the two Asa who were quietly going to Oufu. Without saying a word, he directly shot and prepared to kill. Without the magic boost of the Sunwell, under the superb air magic of Master Aiden, Asa and his fighting power are completely far apart. But even the two of them never expected that the elf girl Luya on the side used the leaves of the world tree to use a lot of incredible natural magic. Although Master Aiden was caught off guard and severely injured the two of them, he was also bitten by a magically mutated poisonous spider. Asa took this opportunity to repel him with a tactic of losing both sides and took Luya to hide in the forest. Master Aiden, who was poisoned in his body, did not dare to chase, so he had to retreat temporarily, and at the same time called for his companion Ashri to search for them in another direction.

Now that the target has been found, Master Aiden slowly stood up.

"Wait a minute." Asa shouted suddenly.

Master Aiden did not wait. There is already a flash of lightning in the hand. He's here to kill, not to talk. Two of the top magicians on the mainland teamed up, even if the other party had a fetish in hand, there was absolutely no room for struggle, let alone any conditions.

"If you don't stop, I'll tear this thing up." Asa snatched the World Tree leaf from Luya's hand. "I heard that this thing is useless if it is torn apart."

Master Aiden's movements stopped abruptly. The eyes behind the mask burst out with a light that was as sharp as his lightning, but his tone remained as calm as before. "If you dare to tear this thing up, I will definitely make you regret it."

"I'm going to die anyway, so there's nothing to regret." The veins on Asa's hands showed.

"No, you won't die." The veins on the back of Master Aiden's mask also floated. It's just that Asa can't see it. "I will catch all your familiar relatives and friends in front of you, and let you watch their flesh being sliced ​​off piece by piece, and finally I will turn you into a living zombie."

"Do you want to take a gamble?" Asa's eyes looked directly at the eyes behind the silver mask, and his tone was equally flat. "Will you bet that I will tear it?"

For a long time, Master Aiden said lightly: "What do you want me to wait for?" His weird voice sounded like he was sniffling.

Asa could tell that the mouths of the two necromancers had something like magic props that could change their voices. Each of these necromancer guild members is a well-known person in human society, not only the mask is necessary, but even the voice must be changed. He asked leisurely: "I just have a few questions to ask. We can discuss everything after asking."

"Ask."

"Didn't you invite me to join your Necromancer Guild?"

"So Vidnina has already told you?" Master Aiden sneered. "But it's not us, it's just Ms. Vidnina's own wishful thinking."

Asa breathed a sigh of relief. Although he had already thought of this after the Whispering Forest confronted the necromancer, he didn't dare to be sure of it until now. I was secretly glad that I didn't use that teleportation scroll to throw myself into the net before. At the same time, I felt a little bit lost, and I didn't expect that the retreat in my fantasy was just a fantasy after all. He paused, and then asked: "How did you know that we would go here and still wait for us here?"

"Do you still dare to run around with the leaves of the World Tree? Since you are not going back to the Academy of Magic to find Ronis, then you can only go to the Tularion Forest in the west. And this is the closest to the west. We have been waiting here for a long time. I will feel the leaves of the world tree as long as they are within ten miles, so I can drink tea here and wait for you to come to my door."

"You want to kill me, does Vidnina know?"

"It doesn't matter if you know it or not, this is a joint decision of all members except her."

Asa took a deep breath. His expression twitched a bit. He still looked into the eyes of Master Aiden under the silver skull mask, and asked, "Do you really want to take this thing..."

"Stop talking nonsense. He should be stalling for time." Another necromancer who had been silent all this time stood up slowly. "His breathing is not disturbed, and his heartbeat is normal. He doesn't panic, as if he has a plan in his chest. But the gap in our strength is obvious. So the only explanation is that he seems to be waiting for some reinforcements."

"Reinforcements?" Master Aiden seemed to have heard a joke, even the mask moved because of the smile underneath. He raised his head and glanced down at the town, as if it were just a pile of ant nests under his feet. "Dear friends of Asri. Can there be any reinforcements here? Have the dwarves sent troops? What kind of troops or magicians can deal with our two necromancers?"

But Ashley didn't answer, but looked at Asa and said: "Tear it if you want. When the leaves of the world tree are broken, they will turn into the source of vitality and return to the sun well. We just have to wait a few more years It's the same for getting it." Following the words, the magic fluctuations around him became more and more violent.

Asa's face darkened. He returned the leaf of the World Tree to Luya, and then stood facing the two of them. The light of fighting spirit began to shine on him.

The eyes under Master Aiden's mask regained that lightning-like sharpness.

Aisri stretched out his finger into his own hand and bit it, and drops of blood dripped from the bent finger like an earthworm. When it fell on the bluestone slab, a magic circle was automatically drawn, and then he chanted the spell: "The flame of destruction hidden in the abyss of hell..."

Asa got up suddenly and rushed towards the two necromancers, the light of fighting spirit pulled a subtle light and shadow behind him.

Luya clasped her hands together on the leaves of the World Tree, and a burst of green light instantly covered her whole body. Countless tiny branches and leaves began to emerge from the ground at the feet of the two necromancers.

A ring-shaped electric light spread from Master Aiden's body, and those tiny branches and leaves were torn to pieces by the electric light before they had time to grow. But he didn't pay attention to these, his eyes were locked on Asa who rushed over. But at the same time, he suddenly heard a clear voice from the side, and out of the corner of his eyes, he saw the figure of his companion Zaidao.

Asri's worm-like lips were still moving, still chanting the powerful incantation but no sound came out. Because his neck has been completely twisted. When he was concentrating on casting magic, he suddenly found that he could see his back, his mouth opened wide, but the exclamation was blocked in his throat like a spell, and then he was like a snake with its spine throbbing Fall down limply.

Master Aiden's astonishment only lasted half a blink of an eye. Immediately, with a reaction that did not match his age and appearance, he turned the magic power originally used to defend Asa into flying, like a frightened vulture The same rises from the ground. Asa's punch, who was rushing towards him, just wiped his trousers.

As soon as he rushed into the air, he looked down. But he didn't see anything, only saw the table on which he was still drinking tea grew larger in front of his eyes at a rapid speed.

That's not magic, there's no magic that can turn a table into a cannonball like that, that's pure power. The actual sound of the wind from the table was more thrilling to Master Aiden than any wave of magic. With this speed and power, even if it is not very hard wood, hitting him is definitely enough to completely shatter the old bones of his body. He hurriedly waved his hand, and a wind blade formed by a vacuum slashed towards the table.

The table shattered ~IndoMTL.com~ Wood fragments exploded like fireworks all over the sky.

But the sound of crashing and cracking could not hide another sharper sound, even the fastest crossbow bolts breaking through the air would not be so vivid. After the table top was broken, Master Aiden saw a section of table legs underneath, and this smaller section of wood was approaching him faster, more violently, and ten times more powerfully than the table just now. It was given to him to be broken.

The momentum of the instant flight spell can no longer be changed, and no senior magician can condense the third spell in such a short instant. Seeing the small piece of wood that was about to pierce himself into a transparent hole in front of him, Master Aiden tried his best to use the air magic that he had refined all his life to forcefully move his body aside in this short moment. little bit.

There was a soft 'wheeze', and Master Aiden's entire arm was scattered into debris all over the sky like paper. He let out a scream, but his body didn't stop for a moment and continued to fly upwards. After spraying blood all the way, he disappeared into the dark and low clouds.

But in the blink of an eye, one of the two top magicians escaped with serious injuries, and the other turned into a corpse lying there.

Asa looked at the person beside him with sincere admiration and said, "You are still so good."