"Give us a second choice." The girl said as she looked at the map. "None of us agreed to Agor's request directly. Of course, he must have thought that there would be no changes in this matter. But with this map, if... I mean, if we reply to Agor tomorrow that we don't want to go together, then where should we go next and how to go? This map is crucial. I even suspect that the old man will follow us."
"What's the point?" Xia Yibing felt inexplicably irritated. To be honest, she didn't like the way Luca looked at the girl.
She didn't care what kind of goodwill it was, whether it was for the student or for the master, there should be a good impression, right? If there was a good impression, she would feel uncomfortable, and she didn't want the two people to have too much contact.
"Maybe we underestimate the science of perfume making..." Hitzfeld frowned and carefully recalled what Luca said at that time.
[Your qualities are the only ones I have ever seen in my life. I can feel that there is some mysterious power hidden in your body.]
[Generally speaking, it is most appropriate for people who give me similar feelings to me to take that path, but it is not ruled out that some people may have sudden ideas... Anyway, if you change your mind, you can go to the capital to have a look.]
I think I remember correctly...so why did he abandon the honorific title?
Does it represent some kind of intention to get close, or is he not saying the latter part as a blood mage, but as the chief of the Blood Mage Guild?
Hitzfeld frowned and remembered... When Luca spoke the latter part, his voice was very low, so low that even Captain Shude and others who were nearby could hardly hear it clearly.
She recalled and analyzed the action of him taking out the letter countless times, and she found that he had deliberately placed the snow-white side on top - he didn't want anyone to see what was on the other side of the letter in public.
He immediately picked up the envelope on the table and stared at the strange blood seal.
"Did you find anything?" Xia Yibing tilted her head, not knowing what she had discovered.
"Does the experience you inherited and your memory include... the characteristics and symbols of the Blood Mage Guild?" Hitzfell asked.
"Not included. You know, there is no blood mage in those things. This is 100% a new system discovered by Xina."
"What about the Blood and Bone Mage Society?" The girl looked up, with an unknown light in her eyes. "Do you have any impression of this organization?"
Xia Yibing originally wanted to answer no, but she shuddered suddenly and suddenly found that there were some unprecedented ciphertext information in her head, which she didn't know when it came in.
"[Blood and Bone Mage Society] is the other side of [Dark Raven Knights]." She recited the lines mechanically, "Blood is the form of darkness, darkness is the shadow of blood... They all offer everything to the great king - the Anatomical Queen Zachariah."
As she spoke, she caught a glimpse of a vast black shadow in her memory.
There were crowds of people, at least tens of thousands of knights wearing armor, riding horses, holding huge spears and shields, piling up and moving slowly forward.
This was a huge army, and from a distance, the team had no end in sight. They were like a long dragon on the ground, moving freely and gathering, but their tacit understanding could still be seen, which confused Xia Yibing.
Because she couldn't see the messenger.
The weapons they carried were spears... some were cone-shaped, wooden knight's spears, only wrapped in a circle of iron sheet; some were spears with handles, plus shields and swords, it can be seen that they were wearing cold weapons.
Hot weapons... There were hot weapons as well. Some knights carried muskets on their backs, which were very ancient and primitive structures.
The woman also saw artillery in the queue. They were placed on some tracked vehicles, similar to the self-propelled artillery invented today. All this fully demonstrated how primitive their way of fighting was. They were probably in the transition between the cold weapon era and the hot weapon era.
So how could such an army be without messengers?
Even modern armies cannot do without messengers - the headquarters can indeed carry telephones and telephone lines with them, but there won't be too many of them, so not every unit can use them. So if you want to convey messages accurately, it's impossible without someone to shout, so this position is very important.
But she just couldn't see anyone giving the order.
This is a solemn and murderous army, but also a silent army.
No one spoke, not even the neighing of horses could be heard. They were like corpses, with death giving orders in the dark.
The second strange thing she discovered was that the armor and weapons they wore were unusual.
The armor does not include shoes, but is connected to the saddle armor.
Saddle armor is chain mail or plate armor. A thick layer of metal is draped over the horse's back, and all the weapons she can see are worn and hung on both sides of the saddle armor, as if deliberately keeping a distance from the knight.
What does this mean?
As her mind turned, she actually understood the meaning of it.
Because the image of [Alien Army] is not fixed...
The horse you see may not be a horse, and the person you see may not be a person... They can swap identities at any time. If the armor is too closed, it will be a constraint...
Hearing this, Xia Yibing's expression changed drastically.
What the hell... there is such an army in the world???
There is no need for messengers because everyone is connected.
There is no need for traditional armor, as the identities of the knight and the mount can be swapped at will.
They have several times more endurance and impact than ordinary cavalry. And if, as she guessed, those who pledged allegiance to the Anatomical Queen Zacharia were all Latadians... the ethnic group that first studied "fusion", these soldiers could even further change their forms and instantly gain the ability to wade or even fly.
What a bullshit floating city... All the fortresses she had seen were too weak in front of this army!
There is no place in heaven or on earth that they cannot go!
Her brain suddenly stabbed with emotion.
Good... I may understand a little bit what Aisuen feels when he has a headache...
Dimly feeling a pair of soft hands holding her, Xia Yibing simply closed her eyes and put all her mind and attention into perceiving this memory.
The army's advance was not endless. Soon, they arrived at a wasteland and stopped in front of a mound, looking at the only human figure standing on it.
Xia Yibing tried her best to see her clearly, but couldn't... At most, from her figure and curves, she could tell that she was also a woman. She was wearing a tight long windbreaker with a collar tied outside the windbreaker. Her black hair, which was longer than her, was tied into a ponytail and fluttered in the air.
She had her back to the setting sun and was looking down with the light behind her. All views were from below, making it difficult to see what she looked like.
But Xia Yibing suddenly realized that this was probably "Zachariah".
The king to whom all Mimics, Latadians, and the Kingdom of Latadia are loyal.
"Are you here to die?"
The dark shadow on the mound spoke softly.
"We come after you."
Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people - including the horses under their crotches, spoke at the same time, combining into a deafening storm of sound.
"I said I don't need you, so it's useless for you to come."
"We come after you."
This time the voices were louder than before. Xia Yibing felt that anyone could hear... the determination in these guys' words.
But "Zachariah" was very unhappy. She raised her hand and pointed to the distant west: "Go back."
"We're going to follow you!!!"
The storm expanded and spread in all directions, countless dust was blown away, and even the clouds in the sky were washed away and dispersed.
"The three chances have been used up..."
Xia Yibing still couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but based on her tone, she guessed that this guy was very happy.
"Let's go, then? Let's see how far we can go before she comes back..."
"You have come at the right time. Come with me to witness the reappearance of the eternal power on earth..."
After saying that, she swung out her right hand. It was impossible to see how she did it. It seemed as if a cluster of black liquid emerged from her palm and instantly formed a dark spear in her hand.
"I command you in the name of Harwin."
The woman gripped the spear tightly with both hands, turned around to face the setting sun, and slammed the spear shaft heavily onto the ground.
"Release the 'Flesh Realm'."
"Release the blocked power of 'Blood Origin'——"
woo-
The vibration of the horn could be heard from time to time.
It should be someone playing in the rear army.
woo-
But there were also vibrations coming from the front. As the view zoomed out and rose higher, Xia Yibing gradually saw... behind the mound where the woman was standing, there was actually a huge deep pit, like a bottomless pit lying on the ground.
This... this is not an ordinary deep hole.
Thousands of meters in length and width are not enough to describe its vastness. The most bizarre thing is its edge. The edge of the pit is actually wriggling all the time. It is actually made of some kind of flesh and blood!
The horn-like response should have come from inside the cave. Before Xia Yibing could react, she saw some tiny silk threads... some unidentified objects similar to broken branches and fishing nets floating out from it.
Is this...meat?
The bright red appearance naturally makes people think like this. She saw that these things became more and more numerous and denser, gradually interweaving in midair, and the quantitative change quickly led to a qualitative change, as if countless nerves, blood and flesh gathered into a complete shape, and actually formed the outline of a giant tree above the deep hole.
Another tree...
Xia Yibing's scalp began to feel numb. She was now a little allergic to all strange plants.
But everything that happened next made her realize that she was too conservative - the outline of the giant tree was even just a skeleton. Soon, countless flesh and blood spread and grew out from the deep pit, quickly wrapping around the skeleton of the giant tree, desperately trying to fill itself in, and in just a blink of an eye, this huge blood tree took shape on the ground - this is simply a miracle of life!
"Xia? Xia?"
Xia Yibing was shocked here, while Hitzfeld was running around anxiously outside.
She didn't understand what was happening. Of course... If it happened to her, she would understand. Isn't it just that her consciousness suddenly became drowsy and she seemed to be in a hallucination? Hitzfeld did this kind of thing many times.
But Xia is different? She is not a God-Erosion, and there is no God's organ in her body. If there is any abnormality, shouldn't I be the first to experience it? Why did you find her alone?
After much thought, the biggest special thing about Xia Yibing is her identity as a "Latadian".
Is it the sea of time?
Hitzfeld quickly thought that a similar situation seemed to have happened to Alvin.
The history of the sea of time, those illusions were pulled back by her and merged with reality, which resulted in some lost mysteries being spontaneously found by the corresponding people in the form of "memory awakening".
Elwin is the heir to the divine blood, more legitimate than me, so she is the one to bear the memory.
Correspondingly, Xia is a Latadian.
So is this the root of the problem?
Why is she the only one who can use the hero bone fragments like that? Why is she the only one here who has inherited the memory... Is this all because of her race? Aisha Continent was once the location of the Latadia Kingdom? Is the ancient history here related to the inheritance of this race?
For a moment, Hitzfeld didn't know whether to be worried or happy. She felt that this was most likely the case, but she was still worried that this kind of inheritance was risky.
Since I can’t wake him up, I might as well go in and try it myself.
Right? You can't just leave this eye in vain...
Trying his best to calm himself, Hitzfeld took off his shoes, climbed onto the bed, and laid on top of the woman.
Silver-gray hair fell down, and the heterochromatic eyes reflected the woman's tangled face.
She seems to be in trouble...
Then, there is no time to hesitate.
Thinking of the inherited mystical knowledge and the "contact" necessary to intervene in dreams, Hitzfeld hesitated for a moment, then leaned forward shyly.
boom--! ! !
No warning, no buffer.
Her consciousness was forcibly pulled in, that was true, but right afterwards, she happened to see the towering blood tree rising from the ground, with endless flesh and blood roots invading from the trunk in all directions, as if to drain the nutrients in the ground and expand the shadow of the book crown infinitely until it completely blocked out the sun!
What is this...?
Hitzfeld is considered to be knowledgeable. She has even seen the Death Tree, but to be honest, the Death Tree is far from comparable to this thing.
One is the size. This blood tree is much larger than the tree of death. If you let the tree of death grow in its complete form, it will also have its limits - it can only poison a certain area at most, and will die on its own after reaching that limit. However, this blood tree gives Hitzfeld a feeling of "infinity".
There is no limit to it.
It can continue to grow like this until the earth is assimilated into flesh and blood, until the tree canopy covers the entire world and turns into the sky.
It has this potential...it can become "the world" itself!
"enough."
A cold rebuke exploded in my ears.
"What do you want to do... you failed beast?"
"I didn't release you to let you run wild like this... Remember, the time you represent has already failed - you are just an insignificant one among countless possibilities, a loser!"
"I came to you because we share the same origin. After all, we are all born in the 'local' world... We are naturally hostile to those 'outsiders'."
The blood tree was undoubtedly enraged.
It shook its body, causing the connected heaven and earth to shake as well. Countless flesh and blood roots shuttled through the ground like the earth's blood vessels, and at this moment suddenly contracted and tightened in a spiral shape... Countless human figures condensed on the trajectory of each thread, with bloody bodies and skeletons facing the tree trunks, frozen there in a posture of reaching out or running, with their mouths wide open, as if making a silent cry.
And then...the air was filled with blood.
