Sharp Ice Front Fortress.
In order to keep it secret, Link, who was wearing a low-level magic robe, was standing outside the gate, shouting to the guards on the outer wall: "I am Mulhouse, a magician from East Valley School of Magic, and I am enlisted to join the army."
"Prove your identity!" It was the captain of the guard on the city wall who replied, but he had not received any news that there would be a magician joining the army recently. If it was an ordinary soldier who came, he would ignore it. If the opponent came too close, he would order to shoot arrows, but the opponent was a magician, so he seemed a little more cautious.
Prove your identity? Link was a little embarrassed. After thinking about it, he replied: "I know Mr. Mark, the magician who is a disciple of Dean Anthony. If you don't believe me, you can ask him."
Although he came here in secret, King Lane had already arranged it. In fact, the name of Mulhouse he just reported was not a nonsense, it was an alias they had discussed earlier.
The captain of the guard hesitated for a while. Of course he knew the magician Mark. The other party knew Mark, so it should be no problem. If it was before, then he would have let it go, but now, the situation is serious, who knows if this person might be a spy of the dark elves.
After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said to Link, "Wait, I'll go find Your Excellency Mark."
He turned around and walked towards the magic watchtower in the fortress, Link naturally could only wait under the high wall.
After about ten minutes, the magician Mark appeared on the high wall with a confused face.
Mulhouse? Who is this
The day before yesterday, he received news that Donggu would come over a young magician named Mulhouse. He was very surprised at the time. He didn't understand why Donggu would send a magician here alone. If this magician was very powerful, he would Nothing to say, Ke Mulhouse... Could this be the name of a magic apprentice
Standing on the high wall, Mark looked down and saw a young man standing under the city wall, looking at him with a smile on his face.
After a glance, Mark was taken aback. He had black hair, black eyes, and was very young. There was only one such person in the academy, and that was the newly promoted master of magic, Link Moleney!
After all, he is a level 4 magician with a deep heart. Although he was extremely surprised in his heart, he didn't show any expression on his face. He just said to the captain of the guard: "It is indeed from Donggu, let him in."
With his testimony, the captain of the guard was relieved, and the guard on the other side said, "Open the door."
There was a sound of "click click", and the suspension bridge was lowered. Before Link could enter the door, the magician Mark came out quickly.
When he arrived at Link's side, he looked around and saw that no one was looking at them. His lips trembled a few times, and he whispered excitedly: "Master, I have already received news that a battle mage will come, but I didn't expect that you would be such an eminent person."
A man who was promoted to a master at the age of 18, and who once controlled the level 9 magic represented by the peak power in the world, and killed a level 8 demon with his life, Link is already famous in the magic world.
Under his dazzling aura, Vivier in the south, Ailette who was promoted to level 3 magician in half a year, and other so-called geniuses in other magic academies, big and small, were all bleak.
Link smiled lightly and corrected him: "I'm not a master, I'm a level 2 magician Mulhouse, have you forgotten?"
"Ah, yes, yes, it's Mulhouse." Mark nodded hastily.
Link walked towards the fortress, and the magician Mark followed him step by step, like his servant.
"Where is the Sword of Dawn? Take me to see him." Link didn't want to delay for a moment, because he knew that every minute he stayed, the possibility of revealing his identity increased by one point.
He was a thorn in the side of the dark elves, and he even killed the Star Broken Swordsman of the Norigan family. It would be strange if the dark elves didn't try to kill him if they found out that he had arrived in the Black Forest.
Unexpectedly, Mark hesitated to speak, and the faint worry on his brows suddenly became very obvious.
Link was slightly taken aback: "Why, what happened?"
Mark whispered: "The vanguard barracks was breached by the Dark Elf's Black Fang Legion, and the entire army was wiped out. Canoxiu chose to stop and disappeared. For this reason, the Duke sent a search and rescue team, and even Princess Anne followed. "
Link was startled, and stopped in his tracks: "When did this happen?"
"It was less than an hour before you came, and the search and rescue team had just left, but there were ghosts everywhere in the forest. I'm afraid this time..." Mark didn't finish, but the specific meaning was already clear.
Link grabbed a word he said and asked, "Dark ghost? Is it something that has been wreaking havoc in the Black Forest recently?"
There was a trace of fear on Mark's face: "Yes, it's them. They are too powerful. They are so powerful that they make people desperate. They almost block the entire Black Forest!"
Hearing this, Link remained silent and stopped where he was. At this time, there was a 'click click' hinge sound behind him, and the suspension bridge was slowly being retracted.
"It seems that I have to act now, Mark, let someone lower the drawbridge, and I'll start now." Link turned and walked towards the gate of the fortress.
"Lin... Mulhouse, you... you alone?" Mark stretched out his hand to signal to the soldiers to put down the drawbridge, and walked a few steps quickly, following behind Link.
"No, I will catch up with the search and rescue team and act together with them. The Duke's choice is correct. The Excalibur of Dawn cannot be unknown. He'd better be alive!"
To deal with the demonized dark elves, he needs the power of the Dawn Excalibur.
Ten years later, this Dawn Excalibur will still be the number one fighter in Ferroman's world, and at that time, the other party will grow into a legendary peak sword master. Saint is the pillar figure of the human race.
These two reasons are enough for Link to try his best to rescue him.
At this time, the suspension bridge had been lowered again. Link blessed himself with a cheetah swiftness, and after a few strides, he rushed out of the gate, and then blessed himself with a 0-level lightness spell. With two auxiliary spells, He strode more than 50 meters away with one lunge, and his body fluttered down the hillside to the north of Bingjian Peak, and quickly headed for the Black Forest to the north.
After a while, he arrived at the edge of the Black Forest, and was about to enter the Black Forest.
On the city wall behind him, a group of soldiers watched Link's disappearing figure, all of them dumbfounded.
"The magician went into the Black Forest in the north alone? Is he crazy?"
"Is this suicide?"
"Have you noticed that this magician casts spells very fast?"
"What's the use of being fast? He's alone!"
The captain of the guard had already walked down the city wall. He walked up to the magician Mark and asked in an incomprehensible tone: "Sir, what is going on with this Mulhouse?"
What the hell is going to the Black Forest just to the north
Mark watched Link's back finally disappear into the black forest, and shook his head: "Soldier, this is not something you should know."
If the Dawn Excalibur is a monument in the hearts of all warriors in the Norton Kingdom, then Link, who once defeated the great demon Taluvis alone, is a myth in the hearts of all battle magicians.
If even he can't save Dawn Excalibur, then it's even more impossible for others.
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black forest.
Thirty-five elite scouts in blue and black leather armor opened their hidden emblems and cautiously rushed towards the vanguard barracks. They will rush to the third legion in front of the Ice Spike Fortress, and then join the scouts in the legion, and then sneak into the vanguard camp together, looking for the Dawn Excalibur.
The eyes of the scouts were all very indifferent, like death, without a shred of hope in them. From the moment they entered the Black Forest, they were ready to die.
'Quack~~croak~~~croak~~~'
A crow yelled and flew over the heads of the crowd, as if mocking the group of human scouts who were overwhelmed.
'Gaz~Gaz~' This is the sound of people stepping on the snow, which makes the forest more quiet.
Among the scattered scouts, four of them gathered together. The one in the middle was Anne Abel, the only daughter of the Iron Duke. She was closely protected by the three scouts around her. Block the fatal blow for Annie.
This was her father's arrangement, and Annie was a little ashamed, but she couldn't resist and could only accept it silently.
In this battle in the northern black forest, all her subordinates were killed, and she herself also escaped death. When she was in danger for the last time, her cronies and friends frantically broke up for her and used their lives to fight for her chance to escape.
At that time, she saw with her own eyes that Aldivan was beheaded by the dark ghost, and the blood from his neck spurted out nearly one meter high. On the flying head was a pair of eyes full of unwillingness and anger. At that time, she saw with her own eyes that Jasmine's petite body was torn into tatters by the dark ghost, but she hugged the dark ghost's legs with all her strength, even though she had already lost her life. She saw with her own eyes... too many sacrifices, but she was still alive.
Inadvertently, Annie turned her head to look at the scouts beside her. What she saw were three pairs of young people's eyes. Like Aldivin and Jasmine, they were all young people in their prime.
Looking at these three young men, Annie felt another pain in her heart. The tragedy of that night once again appeared in her mind, and her heart twitched intermittently, as if bleeding.
She only hated that she was born in a duke's family, otherwise she would definitely be like them, fighting the dark ghost to the last drop of blood.
It's better than living with endless pain right now.
Suddenly, the captain of the scouts in front raised his arms and made a motion to stop his advance. The scouts immediately stopped and at the same time quickly searched for a hiding place.
Annie also hid behind a fallen dead tree.
The forest became more and more silent, the chirping of birds, beasts and insects disappeared, only the whistling wind remained, as if all the life in this black forest disappeared in an instant.
Annie glanced at the dead tree beside her, just in time to see a small lizard, this lizard moved extremely strangely, it quickly burrowed into the dead tree, as if something terrifying was chasing it behind.
No, not only lizards, ants, dead leaf insects, spiders and other small animals are frantically fleeing and avoiding.
Anne had seen this sight once before, and she knew what it was about.
Her heart was beating like a 'thump, bang, bang', and she tightly held the dagger. The dagger was smeared with holy water. Although she couldn't use the holy water to kill the ghost, it could make the opponent fearful.
The atmosphere in the forest became extremely oppressive. Annie saw that the young guards around her were all holding the daggers in their hands tightly, and one body was still trembling slightly. This was not because of the excitement before the battle, but because of fear.
'Huh~' The wind in the forest suddenly picked up, and immediately after, a black shadow moving at high speed appeared in everyone's sight.
Annie let out a long breath, but calmed down instead.
They were discovered, and the dark ghost came, and this would be her last fight in this life.