It's about 10 miles away from Songye Town, not too far away. The battle just now was quite noisy, so this place is no longer safe.
"Nana, drag him, let's go." Link said.
"clear."
Nana went up, took back her sword first, checked it carefully, and after confirming that there was no problem, she stretched out her hand to pick up the dragon warrior.
Afterwards, Link led the way, and Nana followed behind him. The two ran all the way, running more than ten kilometers, to the depths of the woods.
The forest here is very dense, even if the dragon warrior shouted his throat, he didn't have to worry about the sound coming out.
The two stopped at a big tree that was as thick as at least three people hugging each other. Link said, "Cut out the tendons in his hands and feet."
This guy is a high-level dragon, with power up to level 8, and amazing resilience. If he recovers his strength, and Link comes up with a sneak attack while he is slack, he may really be turned over by him.
This is inevitable.
Nana naturally complied, and cut off half of this guy's hands and feet with a few "shua, shua, shua" strikes... In this case, the tendons in his hands and feet must have been broken. Grove, who was in a coma, groaned in pain. A few times, but his injury was really serious, and he didn't wake up because of it.
Link was not in a hurry, pointed to the dead leaves under the big tree, and said to Nana, "Take off the leather armor, and lie down."
Previously, Nana and this Dragon Warrior fought head-to-head with each other several times. Although a few blood holes were opened in each other's body, the power of the 8th-level powerhouse is not a joke. Nana's hands and feet have been slightly deformed. Made adjustments.
Nana is just a puppet, so she naturally has no concept of shyness. She took off her leather armor a few times, and then lay flat on the dead leaves. Link walked over and checked her right arm first.
This arm is the strongest part of Nana's body. When she punched the Dragon Clan, the damage can be clearly seen at this time, and each joint is slightly deformed. Although the metal that makes up Nana's body has the function of memory recovery, this The function is very limited, and if the key structure deforms too much, this function will be powerless.
Holding Nana's wrist joints, Link activated the transformation magic to restore the deformed joints and crooked and broken runes bit by bit.
Nana was lying motionless, with a pair of big pure eyes looking at Link without blinking, with an innocent and innocent look on her face, Link couldn't help smiling. Although this is just a puppet, it is indeed a very loyal and powerful His combat partner helped Link a lot.
His movements became lighter and more detailed.
The deformation of the arm was not serious, and it was quickly restored by Link, followed by the right leg. The strength of the dragon warrior's leg was much stronger than that of the arm, and Nana raised her foot in a hurry to deal with it, so the deformation was very serious. The lower leg bones can be seen to be significantly bent, and the knee joints, hip joints, and even the spine are slightly deformed.
Link intensified the strength of the transformation magic, pinching the bones bit by bit.
While busy, Nana suddenly asked, "Master, is Nana injured?"
"It's an injury, but it's not a big problem, it will be fine soon." Link replied with a smile.
"This target is played in a strange way, and Nana has never met it before." Nana pointed at the dragon warrior and said.
She was punching and kicking the one who was clearly holding a saber, and all kinds of tricks and scheming, both seduction and threat, she almost couldn't handle it, if it wasn't for the speed, she would have died several times.
"You have to learn, there will be more and more opponents like this in the future." Link said.
This is the difference between a combat master and an ordinary fighter. The former not only has a terrible fighting instinct, but also has various small skills and means, which may even look a little sloppy, but they are often very effective. Faced with such a complicated situation , Nana couldn't bear it anymore.
'Nana is still not strong enough, melee combat is an absolute weakness, but how to change it? ' Link mused.
In such a battle, Nana's speed advantage was greatly weakened. If the opponent confronted her head-on, she might be able to deal with one, but in the battle, her body would be severely damaged, and the second might be powerless.
After thinking about it, Link suddenly turned his attention to the dagger tied to his leg. In today's situation, if Nana's left hand is not Whisper in the Wind, but this dagger that claims to be indestructible Cut off, then this dragon warrior was defeated early on. Even better, the dagger is light and flexible, and it is more suitable for close-to-hand combat than the dagger.
Thinking of this, Link took out the chopping dagger and handed it to Nana: "Whispering in the Wind won't be used in the future, use this dagger, if the target punches again, use the dagger to poke him!"
Nana was still lying motionless on the ground while Link repaired it. He stretched out his arm to take the dagger, played with it, and returned the dagger to Link: "The dagger is too ugly, Nana doesn't need it."
"..." Link vomited blood. This puppet has shown this kind of petty temper several times. She seems to have a sense of attachment to things from the past. For example, she insisted on wearing battle skirts before, but now she wears leather armor for a long time. Let's not mention this.
But this also reminded Link that such a powerful puppet uses such an ordinary-looking dagger. Isn't this telling the opponent in disguise that there is something special about this dagger
However, the shape of the dagger can be changed.
At this time, Link had helped Nana recover. He took back the dagger and took out a small piece of arcane gold, which was left over from the last time he made the big musket. He melted the arcane gold ingot with magic. , tiled on the broken dagger, and then modified it, adding some simple patterns, leaving only the sharp edge of the broken dagger exposed.
In this way, this simple dagger changed drastically and became quite beautiful.
"Is it okay now?" Link handed the dagger back.
The corners of Nana's lips curled slightly, a smile appeared on her face, she took the dagger, like Link, tied it to the side of her thigh, she still didn't give up the whisper in the wind of the sword in her off-hand.
At this time, a painful moan came from beside him, and the dragon warrior woke up. He felt his injury, and his eyes were on fire when he looked at Link: "Who are you?"
'Ding' Without Link's orders, Nana had already drawn out her sword, and she arrived in front of him like lightning. The tip of the sword pointed at the man's heart. As long as the other party made any abnormal movements, the tip of the sword would pierce the man's heart.
Link walked over and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is what you want to do? I am very interested in this, and Her Majesty the Queen also wants to know very much."
At first, the soldier seemed calm, until when Link said Her Majesty, Link saw the soldier startled slightly, and his pupils shrank.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" he replied, which was enough to express his guilt.
Link smiled, and took out the cowhide envelope from the soldier: "You don't need to pretend, why do you think this envelope appeared in the mailbox at No. 92, Qingshi Road? Because I put it in."
"..." Grove looked at Link with fearful eyes. He was very cautious this time. In fact, he found an envelope in the mailbox two days ago, but he was afraid of accidents, so he resisted taking it. , waited for two days, and did not act until he was sure it was safe, but he didn't expect this person to be more patient than him, and he had been waiting by his side, just waiting for him to take the bait.
He is like a fish in the water, seeing a piece of food, lingering for a long time, finally confirming that there is no danger, swallowing it in one gulp, the result is a deadly bait.
After a long silence, he said in a hoarse voice: "I have no choice but to do so, so you don't have to ask me, because I will never say it anyway... I can't... say, I can only... choose to die... die..."
After saying this, a lot of blood gushed out of this guy's mouth. The blood was not red, but black, and it was smoking.
This guy actually decided to commit suicide by taking poison. It is estimated that the poison has been kept in his mouth.
He laughed miserably, and finally said, "May the queen be safe and sound."
Then he died.
Is it so decisive
Link frowned. The other party committed suicide too quickly without warning, and he had no time to stop it. In this way, more than half of the clues he had just obtained were cut off.
However, although this soldier can't speak anymore, the things on him can also point out the clues for Link's next step.
Link gently sniffed the cowhide envelope he took out from the soldier's arms. The envelope was warm, but there was no smell of lilac on it.
This shows that it was not the soldier in front of him who issued the mission to the ordinary Dragonborn Polot that day, but someone else.
Link checked the dragon warrior's weapon again.
This is a very good dragon sword, and the workmanship is very good, but the opponent is very cautious and erased all the marks on the sword. Naturally, there is no way to find out the origin of this sword.
But the clues don't stop there.
Link began to check the boots on the dragon warrior's feet. No, it wasn't the boots to be precise, but the dirt stained on the bottom of the boots.
This warrior obviously traveled a long way. The soil is divided into many layers, and the differences between them are very small. It is impossible for ordinary people to find the difference between these soils, but this is not a problem for the magician.
Link observed carefully, and finally used detection magic, and he got the specific breath of these soils.
That's not all, Link released another 'guidance technique. '
This is a very simple level 2 occult magic. Link learned it to track people. Because the magic is relatively low-level, it is not very effective when tracking high-level magicians and high-level fighters, but it is used to track the dirt on the boots of a high-level warrior. However, the reliability is very high.
After the magic was cast, Link felt that he was in a trance, and immediately after, a faint mist line appeared in front of his eyes, which was pointing him to the direction of this advanced dragon.
"Nana, give him a slap in the heart, and then let's go."
"Understood." Nana poked her sword through the heart of this high-ranking dragon, ruled out any possibility of suspended animation, and followed Link's footsteps.
On the next road, Link kept walking for a full 30 kilometers, and then he came to a forest. When he came here, the clues were completely broken, but Link was not in a hurry. He carefully observed the surrounding environment.
The forest is quite high, and from here, one can see a beautiful stone castle built on the field in the distance.
There is a stone tablet at the entrance of the stone castle. Link blessed himself with an eagle eye spell, and saw the words on the stone tablet: 'Duke of Oshoris'.
There are many farmlands around the stone castle, and many ordinary dragon descendants are working hard. The whole duchy looks calm and peaceful, and everything seems to be normal.
However, there was a sight that made Link instantly sure that this was the place where the conspiracy started!
He saw that purple lilacs were planted on both sides of the rocky road from the stone castle to the stone tablet, and in the flower beds inside the stone castle, and the flowers were in full bloom.
Seeing this, information flashed in Link's vision.
Task: Black Hand completed.
Player Freedom Points +100
Trigger the second step of the series of tasks: investigation
Task content: Enter the Duke of Oshoris, investigate the real purpose of the Duke of Red Dragon, and obtain key evidence of the Duke's betrayal. Be careful, don't be noticed by the Duke!
Task reward: 200 free points.
Now, Link has 660 free points, and this step of the task shows a blood red color in Link's vision, which indicates extreme danger.
In this way, the Red Dragon Duke is very likely to be a legendary powerhouse, at least a level 9 powerhouse. He must have many subordinates. If he is alarmed, Link will definitely die.
After thinking about it, Link still chose to accept it, but he had to plan carefully.