"Brando, where are we going?"
The metal parts draped by the two war horses clashed, walking through the woods one after the other. The female knight on horseback clenched the reins in one hand and turned to look at the surrounding scenery with some worry. The still forest is like an oil painting, with refreshing greenness oozing from the depths of the background, the sunlight passing through the tree canopy, scattered on the dead leaves in bunches like curtains of light.
There is no sound in the forest, only the rustle of horses' hoofs on the dead leaves, and the sound of metal crashing, make people hairy.
Freya's face was a little pale, although she suffered a minor injury on Laurenna's hand, it was not a major problem after Merial's treatment. But the long journey on horseback after the blood loss still made her a little bit overwhelmed.
"Tired?" Brando looked back at her and asked with concern.
"No, but... But the sky is getting dark, and if you go further, you won't be able to return to Schafflund." Freya said in a worried tone. She didn't know why Brando called out suddenly. She went to Schafflund together and went deep into the Grahar Mountains.
…A little further ahead, it's the Black Forest.
"It's okay," Brando smiled on horseback, seemingly indifferent: "It's getting dark, we can camp in the wild. Are you worried if I'm here?"
But Freya's face blushed: "K, K, but we only have one tent."
Brando liked the look of the future Valkyrie, so he didn't rush to answer, and when the latter stared at her fiercely, he laughed: "It's actually a lie to you, it will be here soon."
Freya breathed a sigh of relief before realizing that she was being teased. She took a deep breath, and finally managed to endure the urge to hit the grinning face with a fist—but seeing that the latter had tightened the reins, she let out a soft cry, and the seated horse stopped. . Brando looked at the surroundings carefully, as if confirming something. Then he turned over and dismounted with a'wow', and dragged his cloak on the hilt of the sword with one hand and walked forward slowly.
Seeing Brando like this, Freya also had to put away her original angry look, a little curious. She saw him stepping on the dead leaves and walking under a tree in the sand—she naturally did not recognize the scientific names of those trees on the labels in the thick literature of scholars, but these giant trees with dark trunks were in Eruin. The mountain people are popularly called the ghost tree, which she still knows. "Brando, what are you... looking at?"
Brando looked up at this ebony tree. He was very familiar with these tree species, just like seeing him again after a long absence, with a touch of intimacy. He silently thought about some things, and about everything in the past, some of them were not clear, but the memory was still like shining shards, occasionally flashing in his thoughts, as if the sand was picking up shells.
Then he looked away and found the gray-white giant rock not far away in the memory. This huge rock is like a huge egg slanting into the ground. His gaze looks up along the uneven surface of the rock, stopping once every step up. After the third time, he saw the crack that looked like a bifurcated star.
Then he replied: "Nothing, we are here, Freya."
"Arrived?" Freya couldn't help but raise her head and look around. After half of the afternoon, the light in the forest became grayer and grayer. She only saw a dark green canopy and twisted tree branches intertwined. An empty space formed by tangled roots—the forest looks more like a semi-enclosed cave from this perspective, with staggered tunnels extending in all directions.
Unlike other places in Tonigel, the black coniferous forests that are common in the Golan-Elsen and Jeandner are rare in the Harragher Mountains, but are covered with large tracts of evergreen broad-leaved forest, which seems to be mysterious The magic power of here nourishes this ancient forest underground.
"What is this place?"
"This should be the border of the Black Forest in this direction," Brando took a few steps forward and pushed aside a large bush. He found that this was almost the top of the mountain. Looking east from here, the black ridges in the clouds stretched from south to north, like the backs of several looming dragons. He stretched out his hand and pointed his five fingers in that direction, and said, "To the east is Yongge Forest. You should have heard of it, right?"
"The mountains of Chablis?" Freya asked curiously. The mountains of Chablis are a famous landmark in the southern border of Eruin, and the scenic Yongsong Forest has always been a destination for travelers, so even in Buchi, she had heard about it.
"Well," Brando nodded, "but to be exact, it should be the junction of Tosankade Forest and Yongsong Forest. The Fang Fortress is located in that direction. It is the southern border of Eruin."
After speaking, he stared in that direction silently. Surrounded by clouds and mists are vast mountains and plains, and the distribution of the Black Forest is the most rare sight for explorers—any player, in front of such a sight, will give birth to great ambitions—just like a sailor conquering the magnificent sea.
"But why are we here?... Bu, Brando, what are you going to do?" The knight girl was a little baffled. She didn't understand why Brando brought her to this inaccessible place by herself, but she saw Bu and Brando. Lando suddenly took off his cloak, took off his jacket and walked back to her and couldn't help being startled. The armor-covered hand slammed on the hilt of the sword subconsciously and stared at the opponent nervously.
Brando stopped, he looked at the future Valkyrie a little inexplicably: "What are you thinking?"
"You, you, why are you undressing?"
"Of course I am going to climb down from here, where did you think of it," Brando replied grimly, "I'm so untrustworthy, come and help me get my clothes, wait for me here, idiot. "
With a brush, Freya's face turned red like blood, and she lowered her head, as if she wanted to find a crack in the ground to drill down. However, upon hearing Brando’s request, our Valkyrie took a long time to unfasten various leather buttons from the horse’s back and climb down. If she dismounts the horse at this speed in the academy, she is probably riding. The exam will be counted as a negative point. Then he took the jacket from Brando with some trembling hands.
"...Where are you going?" She held a dress in a daze, and asked cautiously like a clumsy maid.
"You'll know later."
Brando replied. Then she looked up and saw him walking to the side, dragging a rope from the backpack on the horseback, and tying it to the previous'ghost tree'. She saw him let go of the rope little by little, walked slowly to the edge of the mountain wall over there, then glanced down, and threw the second half of the rope down.
"Brando, what's the place down there?" The Valkyrie was taken aback, and finally realized what Brando was going to do.
Brando raised his head in that direction and glanced at her, put his finger on his lips and shook his head at the girl from the Buche countryside. Then he grabbed the rope with one hand and jumped down suddenly—
"careful!"
Freya couldn't help crying.
But the shout in Brando’s ears seemed to be lengthened further and further, and the cold wind on the cliff made him unable to help but squint his eyes, waiting for him to distinguish the scene before him. I felt the clouds and mist under the cliff approaching me at once, just like the illusion of approaching the water when diving.
Then with a cry, he felt himself falling into the mist. Brando hurriedly grabbed some ropes. With his golden level strength, naturally he didn't have to climb down the rope a little bit. However, the last time he came to this place was at least ten years ago, and he has been in the game for nearly a hundred years. I'm afraid I'm remembering the position wrong, so I bring a rope for insurance.
After all, he couldn't soar in the sky before the elements of civilization.
Brando stared at the mountain wall, but within a few seconds, a platform protruding from the bushes passed by his sight. He reacted very quickly. The palm of his hand was tight, and the rope in his hand immediately collapsed with a'bang'-the strong reaction force pulled him around in mid-air, and the rope carried a scorching smell, but Bran Many hands did not feel any strangeness.
The physical fitness of the golden rank has long been beyond the range that normal people can imagine.
He raised his head and looked up. The location of the platform was not much different from what he remembered. It was a dozen meters away from him. But this distance is almost non-existent for him, Brando gently swayed the rope close to the mountain wall, and then grabbed the canine-toothed rocks and climbed up as lightly as a monkey.
The bush-grown platform was almost exactly the same as he remembered. Brando looked around. This rock protruding from the mountainside was about half the size of a basketball court. But it was actually much wider, except that dense trees and vines obscured most of his sight. He walked carefully in one direction following his memory, and then tore away the thick and thick vines.
With a crash, accompanied by the sound of the soil and sand rolling down, Brando did not use much strength to pull away the dead branches and rotten leaves, and a cone-shaped slate was revealed underneath. This stone slab is about the same height as him. It is two people wide. It is a bit like a stone statue of wisdom commonly found in forests everywhere (1). However, the image above is not the image of Misoke, the weaver of magic and storm, but a round. The black moon.
The Moon of Silence, Eruin's seventh moon. This moon without light will never be observed on the celestial phenomenon, but it actually exists in history.
Brando didn't say a word, he cleaned the vines on the platform one by one, and then revealed another eleven similar steles below. On each stone tablet, there is a moon, which in turn represents the flow of destiny and the source of magic in the sky above Eruin.
This place is the palace of destiny.
In other words, players call it the location of the job transfer.
Brando once checked the information. These stone steles were built by peoples older than the Miner people in the past. They were built for the purpose of stabilizing the law of Tiamat in the original Martha, on the entire continent of Vonde. , Such stone stele arrays exist in many places, but they are all built in extremely secret places.
This one, like Tonigel's, was built on the border of the Black Forest of Grahar Mountain, and it was buried for many years. However, when Brando went to these places in the game, these stone formations had already been cleaned up by the players in front, and it would not be enough to waste so much time on them like today.
He carefully looked at the fine veins on the ground in the center of the stele array, then raised his head, his eyes extended along them to the center of the platform. These rune lines and veins with metallic light made him feel very familiar. They were very similar to the energy transmission circle he had seen underground in Valhalla, and it seemed to come from a civilization.
This doubt flashed across Brando's mind. Then he put away his mind and walked towards the center of the platform. Although there are various secrets in these stone formations in Vaughan, they only have one function in the game.
That is to allow players to receive their own elements of cultural tasks.