Jenkins looked at the night sky in the distance and the mountains in the shadows. After talking about his unique adaptability to the gift, he turned his head to look at the slightly surprised sixteen-year-old girl, took her hand and put the chess piece in her hand .
Dolores' hands are small, at least smaller than those of Hathaway and Britney, but the soft touch is very nice:
"The ice archer summoned by this chess piece is related to the user's own strength. I think you have also seen the scene when I used it just now, which shows that it can actually be regarded as following the growth of the master's strength to a certain extent. enhance."
"But… "
Dolores’ face was very red, it wasn’t blown by the night wind, and it wasn’t because Jenkins was holding her hand, but just now she mistakenly thought that Jenkins and her were really related.
Seeing that she couldn't push and procrastinate, the girl finally accepted the chess piece that belonged to her. The two talked for a while, and Dolores moved closer to Jenkins several times, until her arms were almost touching his arms, and she smiled happily.
She seemed to remember something, and suddenly asked:
"Mr. Williams, why are you here tonight?"
"Um?"
Only then did Jenkins remember the cat and unicorn he had left beside the forest fire.
He briefly talked about what happened to him, and before asking Dolores to help, the girl took the initiative to hand over the chess piece to Jenkins.
"Oh, yes, this way, Dolores doesn't have to go to Nolan, and I can use this chess piece!"
Thinking of this, Jenkins took the chess piece and immediately returned to Nolan. Just as he sat up from the prostrate position, he was hit in the face by the cat that rushed over.
"I know I'm wrong, I shouldn't have kept you here for an hour!"
He apologized loudly, and didn't mind the unicorn's very good temper, but wayward black and white chocolate was no generous cat.
After some difficulty, the cat calmed down, and then it was lifted into the air again. Looking at the fiery red forest under the moon from afar at the edge of the sea of fire.
Forest fires are actually not uncommon near Nolan, but they are rarer this season. If you let it go, Nolan officials or Rainy Day will solve the matter here, but since Jenkins encountered it, it is impossible to ignore it.
He controlled the spiritual flow in his body to flow into the ice-blue chess piece, and then a young female archer in armor appeared beside him.
She is not sitting on the unicorn, but standing directly in the air. Obviously, this archer also has the ability to fly.
"Is there a problem with putting out the fire here?"
Jenkins asked, and then the young archer seemed to be stepping on an invisible platform, and knelt down to Jenkins on one knee in the air, with his head slightly lowered, and his right hand wearing a thin ice-colored glove like cicada silk rested on his left shoulder.
"It seems OK."
Thinking in his heart, Jenkins let the unicorn fly a distance away from the fire scene, and then mobilized the spirit of his whole body to rush towards the chess pieces in his body.
The young archer stood in the air, raised the longbow made of gears, vines and bone fragments with one hand, and condensed ice-blue arrows with the other.
She pointed the arrow and bow in her hand at the moon at a 75-degree angle, and then drew the bow fully with a tooth-piercing sound.
The next moment, the blue light arrow pulled out a dazzling light blue arc in the air, and it began to fall above the fire field due to gravity, and then the single light arrow turned into a falling arc, falling towards the sky like raindrops. In the sea of flames below, Jenkins felt the air grow cold.
At the moment when the thousands of blue arcs fell into the sea of flames, the cold air like a shock wave spread from the center of the fire field to the surroundings. The swaying flames seemed to be frozen in an instant, and then the flames were suppressed and became smaller, and the flames visible to the naked eye between the two breaths were swept away, leaving only the scorched trees and the ground covered in frost.
"The force seems a bit too much..."
Jenkins, whose neck was shrunk from the cold, thought so, and called out his monocle to look down, wanting to make sure that there was no dark fire before leaving.
But I didn't expect that when I squinted my eyes, I saw a dazzling blue human-shaped aura lying on the center of the fire. It didn't seem like it just appeared, but the color of the aura was fading rapidly.
"Huh? Why didn't you see it just now?"
Then he thought of the brilliance of the fire here just now, which could even be compared to the sun at noon. Although the blue aura below was very strong, it was still difficult for Jenkins to see it in the sea of flames.
"Another species?"
Guessing in his mind, Jenkins did not let the archer around him disappear, but landed with her down onto the cool scorched earth.
The monocle gave Jenkins the ability similar to [Dark Vision], and the position of the blue aura below is indeed a humanoid creature, which is not dead yet, lying on the ground trembling and twitching.
There are dozens of transparent holes on his body. If it is not expected, it may be accidentally injured by the light arrow used to put out the fire just now.
He looked no different from a human being, he looked like a boy in his teens, and he was wearing ordinary clothes. The clothes were already torn to pieces due to the fire and the light arrow's attack, and most of the back was exposed, so Jenkins could see those weird tattoos.
"This is?"
Jenkins grabbed the hair on the back of the unicorn with one hand, and then poked his head to look at the tattoo. It took a long time to remember that this was very similar to the style of the one-fifth [Alien Frenzy] on Balrog.
"oh?"
Jenkins touched his chin, thought about it for a while, and then let the cat and the unicorn wait here for a while, and he returned to Loen again.
At this time, Dolores and Julia were already on their way back. They could not live in the manor outside the city full of dead bodies.
Jenkins returned the chess pieces to Dolores casually, but did not leave immediately, but asked:
"Do you have a map near Nolan, the more detailed the better."
After that, things were simple. After getting the map, Jenkins let the unicorn fly to the nearest town. After identifying the name and location of the town, he followed the signs on the map to the river ruins.
With a map, there is no need to worry about getting lost, and when Jenkins saw the manor on the pasture from a distance, it was almost midnight, which meant that the 17th day of the third month of this year was coming.
"I remember that I seem to know from the whisper at the end of the month that every year on the 17th day of the Moon of Earth and Blossoms, when day and night turn, the unnamed thing will briefly descend on the earth in human form to inspect the spring plowing situation."
He pondered this matter in his mind, wondering whether it was his fantasy in a trance or real knowledge.
PS: As for why that chess piece is so strong, one is because it is actually part of the essence of the embodied user, and the other is that it has extremely limited usage (except Jenkins).