The countless spiky towers of Beaumari Castle pierce the sky, and the ancient rose pattern engraved on the towers has been wiped away and reappeared under the light of the sky.
Almost all of General Vulture's soldiers and Lantoft's soldiers died in the infighting yesterday. General Sheehan led his troops to conduct a comprehensive cleaning and search of the castle, and the king saw the Vulture who had been loaded with the Vulture. The "treasure" of the general's carriage.
It was a metal box of unknown material.
It is said that many of Rantoft's soldiers died in order to unearth the box.
The Marquis of Chavos reported to the king what he had discovered. This box was taken by Lantoft from the ground of the tower in the middle of the castle, but there seemed to be a strange curse in that tower. Soldiers would die within three days. If Lantoft hadn't taken his own life to fill that tower, it is still unknown whether yesterday's infighting would have succeeded.
On the night of the infighting, the Marquis and General Vulture snatched the box from Rantoft's personal soldiers.
The whole body of the box is dark gold, but it gives people an unusually gorgeous feeling. On the dark gold box, there are countless roses that are about to bloom. On the front of the box is a relief ridge, and the ridge is etched with ferocious and strange lines - that is a giant dragon entrenched on the ridge. Roses are coiled around the bones of the dragon. The first time you see this box, you will be reminded of ancient and absurd legends, and the breath of ancient times will blow your face.
At a glance, you know that it definitely has a crucial connection with the Qiangwei family.
"Have you heard of it, this is a treasure that can make angels come to bless you."
The king walked around the heavy box, looked up, and looked at the marquis with a slight smile.
The old marquis smiled bitterly: "General Arlu and Rantoft are still young and energetic, and have the strength to toss. An old man like me just wants to be able to hunt and walk in the territory."
"Sir's territory seems to be near the dense forest and snow field? I once heard that the scenery of the snow field is strange." The king reached out his hand and tapped lightly on the box, making a dull sound.
"The snowfield is like that all year round. If Your Majesty is willing to come, it is the glory of Chavos."
The old marquis chose his words carefully, the king in front of him was not easy to deal with. The Marquis is a little uncertain. The purpose of the king's question is whether he wants to take advantage of the situation to wipe out the Chavos state. You must know that Legrand is unstoppable in the current situation.
The king glanced at the old marquis: "Is it too hot in this room?"
"Legrand regained Beaumarie, restored the glory of Beaumarie that had been ashes for a long time, and even dispelled the severe cold of winter." The old marquis replied with a smile, he raised his hand and wiped his forehead, "This is not a problem. , even an old bone like me is sweating."
The king smiled but withdrew his hand: "Newcana and Balbo will become Legrand's new county towns. Next, the stability of the northern snowfields will depend on Chavos."
The old marquis bowed: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Chavos State is at your service."
After exiting the luxurious hall, the old marquis stood outside, shivering when the wind blew. At this time, his back was covered in cold sweat, and the king was clearly beating Chavos country just now. The king's seemingly random words already contained enough shocking news.
The two most powerful states in the rebel alliance this time will no longer exist.
The Legrand Empire will no longer have the State of Newcana, nor will there be any more State of Balboa, and instead will be the counties of Balboa and Newcana. The old marquis couldn't help but think of the military castle built by the Rose Royal Family in the Northland. At that time, the castle was directly named after "New Cana".
This can't help but lead to some conjectures:
Was Legrand already determined to recover its lost lands and put it under the rule of kingship
The old marquis took a deep breath, the cold air filling his lungs. He seemed to see a chariot, a steel chariot slowly moving forward, and all obstacles would be crushed into pieces. The young king is driving this chariot with terrible wrist, it is the monarch of Shunchang rebellion.
Next, Chavos, what should I do
in the hall.
A thick black mist surged from the corner like a tide, and the devil in a black dress walked out with a red rose pinned to the collar of the devil. He bowed gracefully to the king: "Good day, my dear majesty."
"This is the treasure you said?"
The king tapped the box with his fingers and asked.
Rantoft and General Vulture had obtained this heavy box one after another, but the king had just walked around it and found that the box seemed to be one whole body with no keyholes in it, as if the box had been made from the first day it was cast. No plans to open it again.
The devil approached: "Of course not, it's just a key to unlock the treasure, Your Majesty."
"key?"
"Perhaps you can take it to the tower where it was unearthed, and use the rose family's ring to open it and the real treasure." The devil did not answer directly, he looked down at the picture of the keel on the dark gold box What is the tattoo like thinking, "A little merciless request, when you open it, can you allow me to watch?"
The king looked at the devil, and the devil's face was still smiling like a mask.
He retracted his gaze and nodded slightly, agreeing to the devil's request.
"Then, let's go there in a more convenient way." The devil said briskly, he snapped his fingers, and the nightmare carriage walked out of the dark fog. The devil added, "Please believe me, Your Majesty, the things you are about to open may not be very suitable for ordinary people to see... Of course, your rose iron cavalry is probably not in this range."
Bet with that stupid crow of Munra, the king's rose cavalry is simply a bunch of fanatics brainwashed by his majesty. Nothing builds a bond of trust and loyalty between a monarch and a knight more than a life-and-death battle together...
Why! It's a pity that this point doesn't seem to be able to be placed on him and His Majesty.
Thinking of this, the devil half-jokingly said in a complaining tone: "My dear majesty, you are so fair and just, so can I implore you to put some trust in your loyal hell knight?"
"If the knight was not full of lies, forged with intrigue and cunning," replied the king.
The devil spread his hands helplessly.
This is really difficult.
The Nightmare carriage, carrying the heavy chest and the king, passed lightly through the solid black stone buildings. The king noticed that the devil seemed to be very familiar with Beaumari Castle. When he drove the king through this ancient castle, he gently hummed an unknown tune.
The minor melody is strange, revealing a kind of gloom and beauty.
The king listened, and soon, the nightmare carriage stopped in front of the high tower in the center of the castle, and General Sheen had sent the Rose Rider to take over all the towers in the city. The devil graciously lifted the curtain for the king, and reached out to help the king down.
The king looked up at the tower.
Unlike other castles, all Rose family castles were designed and built without a church. In fact, almost all the churches in the royal castle of Legrand were built after the "Battle of God's Punishment" and the expansion of the Holy See's power. Beaumari Castle is no exception.
The tower in front of the king is the tallest tower in the entire castle.
The minaret towers high above the black stone, with slender and sharp edges and lines, giving the impression that it is the horns raised high by a dragon. Other high and low towers. The sky light fell on the dark-colored rock, and even the light was absorbed by it.
No wonder the Marquis of Chavos believed that this was a "cursed place", it really didn't look like a human creation.
So cold, so gorgeous.
The devil guides the king with a heavy box.
The tower has two basements, and the box was excavated from the bottom basement. In the basement, you can still see the traces left by the previous excavation, as well as some faint smells of blood.
In the middle of the basement, there is a dark room that has been cleaned out. The soil has been removed. In the middle of the dark room is a stone platform with intricate reliefs. The devil places the box on the stone platform, and then bows slightly, indicating that the king can open it. .
The king stepped forward and put the rose ring in his hand on the box.
The devil straightened up and stared at the next scene.
At the moment when the king's rose ring was attached to the box, the red color of the roses on the ring seemed to rush like a river in an instant, burning on the rose buds on the iron box, followed by the metal gears on the box. Internal turning sound. That should be countless fine gears, they turn in an orderly manner, and the sound of friction is like a melodious music.
The scarlet flowed from the ring to each of the dark gold rosebuds, as if the magic of time was fading, all the rosebuds on the box revived at the same time, and they regained their lives. When the last flower bud was stained with blood, the melody of the gears broke out to a climax.
It was a trick that even the best magician in the world could not recover.
All the roses were in full bloom at the same moment, and the bright red roses seemed to form an ocean, submerging the keel on the ridge.
At the moment when the roses were in full bloom, the stone platform turned, and the walls of the entire underground darkroom began to rustle down dust, and a dull vibration came from under the feet. In the sound of the boulders rubbing, the wall facing the king slowly rose. A long passage was revealed.
Indeed it is...
The devil sighed in his heart.
He had just opened the black umbrella, covering the dust falling from the top of the king's head.
Air poured into the passageway that had been covered in dust for too long, and as the air flowed in, candles lit up on both sides of the passage. It was a black iron candlestick inserted on the wall of the passage. I don't know what candles were made of which remained the same for such a long time. Those candles lit automatically, as if the heroic spirits in the dark were illuminating the king's progress. the way.
"His Majesty."
The devil walked with the king and stopped at the entrance of the passage. He bowed slightly.
"Please be prepared."
He seemed to know what was hidden behind the passage, and thought he should not have stepped in with the king—it was something that belonged to the Rose family.
The king glanced at him and walked into the passage.
The devil straightened up and watched the king's back melt into the warm firelight, the flames swaying slightly, as if rejoicing.
The devil smiled slightly and followed.
…
At the end of the passage is a black iron gate, which is engraved with a dense array of magic circles, which is exactly the same as the magic circle in the Rose Palace. The king vaguely felt that behind the iron gate, there was a corner of ancient history hidden.
He reached out and put the rose ring on the black iron gate.
The door is open.
A strong airflow surged out from the inside, and the king's robe was rattled by the wind. The sound of the wind was like the galloping of war horses, the shouting of heroic souls, and the resurrection of the dead army.
The king's pupils were illuminated by the cold light, and in the huge space behind the iron gate, pale stone pillars stood vertically, as if supporting another space hidden here. Just as the truth of the Rose Palace was revealed in front of the king, now, the age of ancient legends has crossed over once again.
In front of the king, in the underground space, is an army.
It seemed like an army that the most insane bard could compose. The combination of heavy armor and pale skeletons formed a terrible army that existed only in nightmares. The armor of the Gulundi heavy cavalry is ferocious enough, but in front of these armors, it seems to be the difference between a beast and a hound. All the armors are engraved with complex and exquisite formations, and the light flows on the formations, illuminating the entire space.
The king looked up at the armor.
Skeletons, cavalry, armor, magic circle...
All this is obviously so terrible, but it makes the king feel so warm.
Where does this warmth come from
The devil behind him sighed softly: "As expected, the Qiangwei family was preserved."
The king turned his head to look at him. The devil no longer smiled. He also stared at the sleeping skeleton army, and said in a low voice, "It should be said that the Rose family are dragon killers and guardians."
"Remember the ghost ship owned by your pirates?" The devil turned the black umbrella in his hand, and he spoke as if he had experienced everything himself. "This is the power left by the people of the legendary era for the later generations."
The "ghost ship" owned by the Walway Pirates is actually a relic of ancient alchemy. At that time, the king learned that in the legendary era when the Holy Court had not yet expanded, the alchemists had not disappeared from the earth, and the half-life alchemy and magic boats traveled over the Abyss Strait.
What is the age of legends
There are dragon slayers, and there are half-life living ships... Is it beautiful and romantic
"The alchemists of the Age of Legends tried to transcend the taboo."
said the devil.
In the Age of Legends, there were mortals who received their powers from the gods. But mortals themselves are too limited, and the power they gain is very limited. So some people tried to use knowledge and wisdom to make these powers play a greater role. Those people were the alchemists at that time.
It was they who made the half-living ships contracted by today's Volway pirates.
The alchemists of that era were allies of the dragonslayers, and together they fought against the gods and all extraordinary powers.
At the end of the legendary era, the first "Millennium Kingdom" came, and the kingdom of God, hell, and the world were all swept into the flames of war. The first head-on resistance of mortals failed, so the age of legends completely turned into legends, the laws spread across the world, and the alchemists withdrew from the stage of history.
Originally, the most powerful among the mortal rebels was not the dragon slayer represented by the Rose family, but the alchemist. But the power of alchemists originated from the gods. They did not expect that their power could be easily taken away by the gods, so in the war, they became the first mortal rebels who sacrificed.
Since then, there has been no alchemist on the earth.
"The power of these armors comes from their own souls, not gods."
The devil raised his umbrella and said lightly.
In that failure, the alchemists finally understood where they were wrong. The power bestowed by the gods was a Pandora's box full of lies. The rest of them produced the last batch of alchemy results, and the current batch of armor is part of it.
They cast themselves as part of the armor, and at the end of this batch of armor, they threw themselves into the furnace and turned into skeleton warriors who drove the armor.
This is the fire of civilization left by the rebels of the legendary age.
Those failed alchemists proved at the last moment of their fate that they were equally strong, and they were heroes. They were exposed to red fire and turned into skeletons, just to make the road of resistance of the warriors go more smoothly.
"They chose the Rose family."
said the king softly.
He slowly stepped forward and walked to the first skeleton armored warrior.
In front of it, there is a stone pillar placed by a latecomer, with a brief introduction engraved on it. The alchemist who turned into a skeleton is named "El Afa". The Rose family carved this monument-like pillar for him.
"I would like to entrust myself to the dragon killer. I would like to be transformed into a sharp sword in the hands of human beings. I would like to sleep in the eternal night for mortals until I wake up and die in battle again."
These are his last words.
The devil watched the king read the inscriptions on the stone pillars.
Mortals are really strange, they are so small, their lives are so short. One breath of a god is the life of a mortal. They are shaped like ants, and when they are lightly crushed, they will turn into ashes, but why can such ants struggle to stand up from the ashes again and again
The king walked past stone pillars.
The war of resistance has been burning since a long time ago, and it has never stopped.
The king finally understood why Beaumarie Castle was called "the jewel in the crown", and why Henry the Mad King, Charles the Lion, William III, and the Duke of Buckingham spent their lives trying to regain lost territory.
Therefore, in the previous era, there were some people who trusted the Qiangwei family so much, they entrusted everything to the Qiangwei family, and they also engraved the Qiangwei family's badge on their armor.
"When the day comes when we need us most, please let us recover."
"Am I now a knight of the Rose family?"
"If we can, in the next war, let's be side by side again."
…
sentence after sentence.
What an era it was.
Proud geniuses made an unchanging oath for thousands of years.
So some people slept forever in the night, turned themselves into swords, a family stood on the ground, and passed on the oath from generation to generation.
After incarnating as skeletons, the alchemists no longer have their own will, and they have completely turned into swords for human beings, and the Rose family has never used this sword for themselves. This is the power reserved for mortals, only for the end. Yan's war use. The Qiangwei family has proved that they have lived up to the trust of their original allies with their persistence for thousands of years.
No one broke their oath.
What kind of long road is this
From the doomsday to the prosperous world, from darkness to light, so many people use their bones and blood to fill up the ravines for the latecomers, just for that ethereal hope.
So stupid, so stubborn.
The king stood before the last stone pillar.
This is the youngest alchemist of all the skeleton warriors, and her lover is a knight of the Rose family. Her tombstone was engraved by her fiancé who exchanged rings with her.
"Dear Vino:
While I'm sleeping, please play the melody of a rose again as if in front of my armor. I will sleep in the dark until I wake up in a world without you... Yes, I know that when I wake up, you will no longer be by my side, but I will guard our world.
As long as there is a rose blooming in that world, I can feel your presence.
We used to have conflicts, once I distrusted you like most alchemists.
You know, dragon killers were synonymous with pride, intrigue, unscrupulousness in our eyes back then. No way, Vino, you dragon slayers are too proud to explain anything. Now, I must say frankly that you are right - in this war, since there is no fairness, we must do whatever we can.
But I am very happy that the dragon killer and the alchemist finally solved the misunderstanding and finally fought side by side.
You will be amazed that all the alchemists have inscribed the rose flower on their armor... It's beautiful and we'd love to accept it.
Wino, please don't be alone, I am with you.
—Love you, Hisai"
Below this text, there is another text left by the knight of the Rose family:
"Because you love me, I'm never alone."
Crossing the gap between ideas and means, at the end of that era, people who could not understand each other finally stood side by side.
The king closed his eyes.
A proud and silent family, a family that bears everything, a family that stands like a rock in the long river of time... When his ancestors guarded this castle, did he feel extra warm
They are dragon killers and guardians.
Heroic souls accompany him in the long night, even if the warrior sacrifices to the last person left, he will never be alone.