Thus ended the crisis.
As the last monster wailed and fell to the ground under Knight Philip's sword, there were no living mutants to be seen on the battlefield, only the scattered bones that were constantly decomposing and a group of soldiers who were about to run out of stamina remained.
There were no new monsters rushing out of the mountain, and the thunder-like loud noise was no longer heard from the direction of the dark mountain range.
Just like that, after a full half a minute, Knight Byron took the lead and was the first to cheer.
Then came the soldiers, the militia, and then the civilians and serfs in the camp, and the cheers echoed from the south bank of the Whitewater, and everyone knew the victory—and for those who lived through the disaster of Old Cecil , this victory has a particularly unusual significance.
Those who made the plan knew how much time and place, how much luck and risk, and how many uncontrollable variables were involved in this victory, but most ordinary people didn't know it. They only knew that there were hundreds of monsters coming from the south. The number of these monsters was almost ten times that of the combatants in the camp, but in less than half a day, all of these monsters had been wiped out, and not even one of them broke into the fence wall of the camp.
The huge psychological pressure vented into carnival-like cheers at this moment. Even Amber, who had just returned to the camp with Heidi, couldn't help being infected, and celebrated with the cheers.
After cheering for a while, she noticed that Gawain was not with everyone, so she grabbed the little maid Betty who was passing by—the latter was holding a bunch of potion bottles and following the druid Pete. Behind Man: "Where's your master?"
Betty shook her head loudly: "I don't know!"
"He's in the camp to the south," Pittman stopped, turned his head and said quickly, "it seems that the dragon egg is in trouble again. Oh, I won't tell you, I'll send the medicine there first—there are a lot of wounded !"
The little old man ran away quickly with the little maid. Amber looked around and felt that there was really nothing wrong with her, so she disappeared into the shadows in a flash.
In the tent in the south of the camp, Gawain and Rebecca had long heard the cheers resounding throughout the camp: The general situation has been settled, and this crisis has been safely passed. Just now, Knight Byron sent someone to inquire about the follow-up arrangements. Gawain sent a message to let the two knights do the aftermath of the battlefield first, while he and Rebecca stayed here temporarily, facing this suspected "dragon egg" stone ball.
The corpses of the monsters outside the tent are rapidly disintegrating, and the remaining skeletons are collected by the soldiers and piled up, waiting for natural decomposition. However, the stone ball that has just shown its power has returned to the tent at this moment, and now it is floating quietly At a height of several tens of centimeters from the ground, there was an awkward confrontation with Gao Wen.
"To be honest, I was really scared to death just now," the stone ball was shaking on the spot, and there was a metallic trembling sound from inside, "Those what... aberrations, right? Why are they all coming at me suddenly... "
"I don't know what attracts them to you, but you killed more than a dozen monsters by yourself. Would you be ashamed to say that you were frightened?" Gawain squinted at this strange big ball , "And after a long time, you can not only move by yourself, but also talk... So you have been pretending before?"
The stone ball is not ashamed at all (of course it is impossible to see the expression on its surface): "Is it wrong to have a strong sense of self-preservation? I don't know your intentions, so naturally I should keep a low profile first. Originally, I wanted to I had to observe for two more days, but today I suddenly heard commotion outside, and there were a lot fewer guarding soldiers, so I wanted to quietly come out to see the situation... I didn't know that the moment I moved, all those monsters would come! "
Gawain nodded, he had already figured out the whole process: the stone ball obviously suppressed some kind of "activity" of his own before, so the sense of existence was thin, and even Pittman discovered it by coincidence But today the monster attacked, this stone ball thought it might be an opportunity, so it desperately wanted to run out, but as a result, the breath leaked out as soon as it moved—this leaked breath might not be a big deal to human beings, But for those mutants who prey on the life reaction and magic power reaction, they are as conspicuous as a bright light in the night, and in the eyes of those monsters, the life and magic power reaction of this stone ball are obviously more "delicious", so Then the unexpected happened.
Fortunately, everything was safe and sound in the end.
After thinking this through, Gawain couldn't help but look up and down at the psychopath in front of him who almost succeeded in killing himself: "So are you going to run now? Let me tell you, those monsters are just a small wave wandering over, you have to run to them Under the nose, no one can protect you."
Rebecca next to him knew that her ancestors were scaring people... Dan, but Shiqiu didn't know the real situation, so she was naturally frightened: "Hey - I won't run away, this place is too dangerous. And what's more Come back... I kind of believe what you said earlier now."
"Oh?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "What do you believe?"
"You and the people who took me into the lab... you really shouldn't be in the same group."
Gawain found it interesting, and just wanted to ask how it made its judgment, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw an amber popping out from the shadows in the corner of the tent. He bluffed and asked, "How did you find out this time?"
The stone ball floated up and down: "You are much poorer than those people back then. Such a big camp doesn't even have a magic cannon, so it must not be a group of people..."
A vein twitched on Gawain's forehead, but he heard Rebecca nodding thoughtfully beside him: "Oh, that makes sense..."
Hu Po walked up to Gao Wen's side with a shadow step, and lowered her voice: "Seriously, if I were you, I would drive this shameful descendant out of the house the day after the coffin was unveiled..."
A shame of all things dare to say that others are ashamed
Gao Wen glared at Amber, then turned his head to look at the stone ball floating in the air: "So you are finally willing to believe what I told you that day?"
"Wait, I just believe that you are not with that group of people back then, and I didn't believe all of your words, especially a thousand years ago... I have to confirm this carefully," Shi Qiu said with a special air He shook his body, and then continued with a bit of difficulty, "Of course, I basically believe that you have no malicious intentions now, well, I remember that you came here to save me just now."
This attitude is still a little bit awkward, but it is much better than before. Gawain knew that he could not force this mysterious sphere rescued from the laboratory and had been brutally treated by the Imperials to trust others easily, so he ordered it. Nodding: "Okay, trust can be built slowly, let's... oh wait, you turn to the side and let me see—turn left, turn left."
Amber and Rebecca came over curiously when they heard Gawain's words, while the stone ball was spinning inexplicably: "Why? Is there something on me?"
The stone ball turned a little bit to the side, and Amber finally knew what Gao Wen had discovered.
On the side of the lower half of the stone ball, a small piece of the originally solid and dense shell between rock and metal fell off at some point, and several long cracks spread from the broken place, extending to the waistline of the sphere.
"Your shell seems to be cracked," Rebecca said, blinking her eyes, and carefully pointed to the cracked part of the ball with her staff, "Doesn't it hurt you?"
"Ah?" The stone ball seemed to notice the crack on its shell, and its tone was a little flustered, "Ah! It must have been broken when it fell from the sky several times before!"
"Is it okay if your shell is cracked?" Gao Wen was suddenly a little worried, "Shall I find a stonemason or blacksmith to repair it for you?"
"... Tsk, forget it, anyway, it's time for me to break out of the shell, and you are not an enemy," Shi Qiu seemed to think about it, then shook his body, "Stay back, I want to come out of the shell."
Amber's eyes widened immediately: "Wait! You said you want to break the shell?! Then wait! I have to call someone!"
The half-elf lady bluffed and put down this sentence, and without waiting for anyone on the scene to react, she dodged and rolled back into the shadows, leaving Stone Ball and Gawain staring at each other, and Stone Ball was silent for a few seconds Zhong Cai said, "Then can I get out?"
"Wait a minute, she will definitely be here soon," Gawain couldn't grasp the half-elf's train of thought, so he could only say casually, "She always has her own ideas."
After a while, Amber ran back in a hurry, and also pulled Heidi and Pittman.
The two were apparently dragged over in a daze.
"Ancestor, what happened here?" Hetty saw the stone ball floating in the air as soon as she came in, and then she looked at Gawain, "Just now Amber hurriedly said that the dragon eggs were about to hatch, but I didn't understand... "
As soon as Pittman came in, he noticed the detachment and crack marks on the lower part of the stone ball, and the little old man immediately exclaimed: "My God! This dragon egg is about to hatch!"
"Yes, yes!" Amber was excited as if she was about to break out of the shell, "So I called you two over here! By the way, will you two take care of the little dragon?"
The two people who were forcibly pulled here were stunned for a moment, and Gao Wen immediately thought about whether to throw the amber out now, but the stone ball had no patience to wait for these strange people to mess around. There was a strange low humming sound, as if it was charging energy, and the surface of the sphere trembled violently. The dense and rough shell material continued to crack during the tremors, starting from the falling off part of the lower half of the sphere, one piece after another The "shell" of a piece begins to peel off its surface.
Everyone stopped talking. They looked at this mysterious sphere with expressions of surprise and expectation, waiting for the moment when the life inside it broke out of its shell.
Finally, accompanied by a series of crackling sounds, the sphere was quickly covered with fine cracks, and then all the shells exploded with a "bang"!
The shell of the stone ball fell off.
Inside was a smooth metal ball.
The metal ball shook: "How is it? Am I bright?"
It was only then that Pittman realized that the whole process of cracking the shell was over. He stared dumbfounded at the metal ball floating in the air: "Uh, isn't it... this is the end? Are you sure you have come out of the eggshell?"
Metal Ball: "Confirm."
"But you're still an egg!" The old Druid's tone seemed to be going crazy, "You're still an egg! Did you agree to be a dragon egg?"
Rebecca stared blankly at the silver-white ball floating in front of her, and finally said, "So this is actually a ball..."