Gao Wen was awakened by the movement outside while he was in a drowsy sleep.
The sound of soldiers running and shouting woke him up from his sleep, interspersed with shouts like "the stone ball is alive", and it sounded like there were a few footsteps running towards his tent. Even Gao Wen, who was not deep enough, woke up, grabbed his clothes and put them on his body, and shouted to the outside: "What happened?!"
Knight Philip's voice came from outside the tent: "My lord—something is wrong with the stone ball you brought back!"
What do you mean something is wrong
The always shrewd and capable young knight used such a vague description. Gawain immediately realized that the situation might be quite complicated, so he quickly tidied up his clothes, and took the Pioneer Sword that was always at hand, and set off. Open the tent door and walk out of the tent.
At this moment, there were still two hours before dawn, and there was no sign of light on the horizon, but the braziers and torches burning everywhere prevented the camp from being completely enveloped in darkness. As soon as Gawain stepped out of the tent, he felt a shadow suddenly twist at his feet, and then Amber emerged from the shadow—the half-elf lady had not had time to change into her usual leather armor, but was wearing a light suit In normal clothes, she yelled as she got out of the shadows: "What's going on, what's going on, I'm sleeping here, why... oh, I'm stuck, I'm stuck, help me..."
Gao Wen tugged on Amber's collar in cold sweat and lifted her out of the shadow. He felt that the other party was as light as a cat: "A shadow master like you is still stuck in your own shadow step?"
"Isn't this a bit of a hurry and you haven't woken up yet?" Amber's face was a little embarrassed, and she quickly shifted the embarrassment, "What's wrong?"
"There seems to be something wrong with the stone ball I brought back," Gawain said casually, and motioned for Knight Philip to lead the way, while he led Amber to follow behind the knight and soldiers, "Let's go and see the situation."
When Amber heard that this was the case, she yawned immediately: "Ah, I want to go back to sleep..."
As soon as he was halfway through speaking, Gao Wen carried him away under his arm.
The independent tent on the south side of the camp has been surrounded by soldiers and militiamen. A circle of people has formed a defense line within a dozen meters from the tent. The burning torches make this area bright as day, and the civilians in the south of the camp have been surrounded by the people here. The movement woke me up, but almost no one dared to come out of the tent to check the situation: most people just huddled in the tent tremblingly, and it was good enough to poke their heads out for a look.
Because Amber struggled fiercely, Hetty was already at the scene when Gawain arrived with the half-elf. She drew magic runes in the air, and set up a weak protective structure in the area around the tent. When she saw Gao Wen, she couldn't help being a little surprised: "Ancestor, you are..."
Gao Wen put Amber down smoothly: "This guy is more sensitive than us at night, but she doesn't want to come."
Amber hopped and protested: "Don't take you like this! You almost strangled me!"
However, no one listened to her protest...
"How's the situation inside?" Gawain looked in the direction of the tent, and noticed that there was an isolated isolation zone between the tent and the defense line, as if approaching the stone ball would pose great danger, "Are there any casualties?"
"There were no casualties, but two militiamen and a soldier were trapped inside," Hetty said with a strange expression, "he was sucked by..."
"Catch it?" Gawain was stunned for a moment, "Is that how a magnet attracts metal?"
"It's similar, but it's very weird," Hetty said about the current situation. "At first, the militiamen on duty found that the magic equipment on their bodies suddenly lost their magic power, and then their weapons and armor were attracted by stone balls, but not all metals will Being attracted, the stone ball seems to have a choice, and some people who are fully armed and walk around the stone ball are not affected... Because I am not sure if there are other changes in that thing, so I will not allow anyone to approach it for the time being Inside, only the druid named Pittman was checking on the three trapped people in the tent."
Selectively attract? Also affected the magic power? This property is not like a magnet at all.
Gawain pondered for a while, then untied his pioneer sword and handed it to Knight Philip next to him, and then patted Amber on the shoulder: "Let's go in and have a look—you leave all the metal products on your body."
"Why...why am I going too?" Amber suddenly looked timid, "Shouldn't a knight like you go first in such a dangerous situation?"
"Yeah, so I'll go ahead and you follow," Gao Wen nodded, "unless you don't want this month's salary."
Amber gritted her teeth, and threw her metal objects on the ground with a desperate expression—two small daggers, two amulets, a small pendant, and the pocket watch of the old housekeeper of Viscount Andrew's family in Tanzania next door …
By the way, she hasn't returned this stuff yet? !
Gao Wen's eyes swept across the pocket watch, and finally stared at Amber, and he didn't ask until the latter looked horrified, "Where's the money bag?"
Amber immediately clutched her waist in horror: "This is absolutely not possible!"
Gao Wen continued to stare at her.
After a few seconds, Amber finally took out her purse reluctantly, counted it over and over again, and finally handed it to Knight Philip next to her: "Let me tell you, I counted it clearly." Yes! If I'm missing one by the time I get back..."
"I swear on the honor of the knight! I will protect the property entrusted to me by others!" The young knight immediately puffed up his chest and said loudly, but Amber was startled: "Hey, you don't need to shout so loudly, in fact, there is not much money in it..."
"Ancestor, I'm with you..." Hetty took half a step forward, but was stopped by Gawain, he looked into Hetty's eyes and said, "You and Philip are guarding here, that ball may affect The magic power flows, and it will be useless if you get close."
Hetty nodded, bowed and stepped back: "Then you should be more careful."
Gao Wen sighed in his heart: What a nice person. Wife-like... How about asking her when she plans to get married
With incoherent thoughts running through his mind, Gao Wen walked towards the tent with Amber, who looked like he was facing an enemy.
In front of the tent, he used his danger perception to confirm the situation inside, and after roughly judging that there were no factors that could threaten him, Gao Wen carefully opened the curtain.
He first saw the big ball placed in the center of the tent. The ball looked unchanged, still in the shape of a rough stone, but there were three men in full armor sticking funny around the stone ball.
A militiaman, a militia captain, an official soldier.
He also saw the figure of the little old man. Pittman was indeed taking care of the trapped soldiers here as Hetty said. When Gawain opened the curtain, the little old man was squatting in front of the militia captain and talking kindly: "... So you are obviously a bad luck, really don't try the transfer ritual of our druid sect?"
"The Druid sect has a fart transfer ceremony, don't fool my soldiers here." Gawain strode into the tent and looked down at the three soldiers, "Who was the first to be trapped?"
The three soldiers who were sucked onto the stone ball were already in a very depressed and nervous state, and then there was a nagging little old man here to sell them the transfer ceremony, basically reaching the critical point of mental explosion, However, Gao Wen's sudden appearance eased everything immediately. In any case, the encouragement that the legendary-level pioneering knight could give them was huge (although the legend himself only knew how dehydrated he was), the three of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief as if they had been saved, and then the remaining The bearded militia leader tried to tilt his neck to the side: "My lord, Locke was the first to be trapped. At that time, I was also standing next to me in armor, but I was not attracted. I was curious. As a result, I was attracted even when I was curious... "
The third soldier sighed in frustration: "My lord, I was sucked in when I came to check the situation."
Gawain looked down at the situation of the soldiers, and found that the stone ball had indeed sucked their armor, and there was also a long sword that had been sucked to the top of the stone ball, but what was strange was that it was on the ground next to the stone ball. There was a hoop that had come off the armor—but the hoop showed no signs of being attracted.
Gao Wen picked up the hoop and rubbed it against the stone ball, without feeling the magnetism at all.
At this time, the druid Pittman next to him spoke up: "I checked it just now, and it's not pure magnetic force, and their armor seems to be 'solidified', becoming completely inactive, so take it off. not come down."
It seems that the guy who promotes the transfer ceremony is not doing nothing.
"It sounds like some kind of magical effect..." Gawain pondered, then turned to look at Amber, "Try it from the shadow level and see if you can remove this effect."
Shadow is something that exists with the real world but is located on a different level. Therefore, shadow power is very suitable for interfering with the magic power of the real world, and even destroying extra dimensions. This is why the stalker profession has the most dispelling magic traps and the ability to break the seal, and as the darling of the shadow force, Amber is even more master-level in this respect.
Bringing her here is to deal with a similar situation.
Amber no longer made trouble at this time, but nodded, mobilizing her natural power seriously.
Her body instantly became hazy and unreal, and her whole body entered a state between the real world and the shadow world. Some vague shadows extended from her feet, and gradually merged with the shadows around the stone ball.
While the amber was beginning to crack, Gao Wen tried to push the stone ball, but found that it did not move at all.
"Isn't this thing very light..." He frowned, with a puzzled look on his face, "Even with the weight of three people now, it's impossible for me to push it."
"That's something wrong too," Pittman nodded, "I've heard about the scene when you brought this stone ball back, a person could easily push it with one hand, but now... I guess it has at least It is as heavy as a black gold rock of the same volume. The abnormally light weight before may be a magical effect, but now it is its real weight."
As soon as Pittman's voice fell, Amber suddenly "jumped" out of the shadow form, and sat down on the ground: "Oh—"
Gao Wen quickly stretched out his hand and pulled her up: "What's going on?"
Amber also looked confused: "I don't know... There seems to be a strange energy field around this ball. As soon as I stretched my spirit over it, I was bounced away..."
"Wait a minute!" Pittman said loudly suddenly, "There was a life reaction just now!"