Proof of the Sun King

The next day, everyone in the caravan got up very late. In the morning, there was a thick fog between the forests, and the white hazy mist covered almost the entire Hordaland Mountains. Don't dare to set off rashly, everyone is ready and waiting in place.

"Such a thick fog, Mr. Mats, are you really planning to go into the mountains? It's too dangerous." Birger's dry voice sounded emotionless.

"No no no, Mr. Bilger, you only know one thing and the other, I've traveled the Nord trade route many times, and the fog in the morning means that the sun will definitely come out in the morning, so today's journey It will be easier." Oliver said disapprovingly, his face full of confidence.

As the merchants of the empire said, as time passed, the thick fog gradually dissipated, the sun rose from the east, and the bright sunshine fell on everyone's body and warmed everyone's heart. They have not seen it for several days. The sun is up.

"Long live the God of Dawn!"

"Praise the God of Dawn!"

"Great! The sun is out!"

Everyone in the caravan cheered loudly. Oliver frowned slightly, and his face couldn’t help but feel a little smug. This is his years of experience in business between Nord and the Empire: “Time is money, my friends, Get ready to go."

The sound of carriages and horses' hooves resounded on the mountain road. This prosperous trade road in the past will not be abandoned for a long time. The road is overgrown with weeds, and the previous road can be vaguely seen. The line of sight on both sides of the mountain road is very wide. Lane pays attention. There was a collapsed sentry on the side of the road, so he patted it immediately to check.

"Mr. Ryan?" The half-elf also came up. Estelle also changed into a full set of lightweight leather armor today. The elves have never been good at wrist strength and physical strength, especially the wood elves who have integrated into the forest. Change into leather armor. Easy to walk on the mountain road.

Ash-blade Bilger also appeared, and he said in a hoarse voice: "We have been here before, except for some weapons, we didn't find anything else."

"Do you mean to say that this post was actively abandoned?" Ryan touched his chin.

"Look at this, Mr. Ryan." Bilger took two people to the inside of the sentry tower, and sure enough, the noose and bearings used to open the door showed no signs of damage: "The original army was evacuated here in an orderly manner, and this place should be was voluntarily abandoned.”

"Why was this place abandoned? Does Mr. Lane have any clues?" The half-elf flipped over the wall and asked Lane.

"This." Ryan nodded first, then shook his head again: "I don't know the reason, but I want to come here and have something to do with that."

"that matter?"

"Something about a mission knight." Ryan signaled that there was nothing to see here, and three people came out of the tower.

"Che, it's those scumbags with water in their heads again, I really don't understand, why their ladies always let these beasts out to bite people?" Bilger's hoarse voice contained deep resentment.

"We climbed the mountains, we crossed the rivers, we rushed into the deepest underground, we destroyed the most terrifying monsters, how can we get your approval? My lady?"

——Gasco, Knight of Brittany Mission

Britannia, as a kingdom of knights, is famous on the whole continent, but because of this, in the kingdom of knights, the titles of knights are slightly different from empires and Nord kingdoms.

In Brittany, there are some special cases. Ever since the first knight-king Arthur drank from the Holy Grail of the Fairy of the Lake and achieved unparalleled power, the knights of Brittany have regarded the Holy Grail as their own. After a lifetime of pursuit, powerful kingdom knights will advance to mission knights (also known as expedition knights), mission knights begin to be blessed by the fairies in the lake, they are far more powerful than ordinary knights.

The mission knight can choose to abandon everything he has and take the path of the Holy Grail. The fairy of the lake will give the oracle mission to the mission knight who has embarked on the path of the Holy Grail. In the coming months and even years, he will walk on the Holy Grail. The mission knight of the road will give up all his worldly property and title, and concentrate on completing the Holy Grail trial of the fairy in the lake. The knight's life will be full of trials and hardships, constantly testing his spirit, body, and even soul.

In the endless suffering and challenges, most of the mission knights will fail and return, and even many people will leave this world with the eternal yearning for the Holy Grail. Only a very small number of mission knights will succeed. After successfully completing the chalice mission of the fairies in the lake, the incarnation of the gods will come to them, and the knights will drink from the holy grail of the gods. Will become the legendary Holy Grail Knight, gain a long life and extremely powerful strength that surpasses others. These Holy Grail Knights full of knightly virtues and blessings of the gods are the most powerful knights on the entire continent, and they are also the most powerful knights in Brittany. The Knight Kingdom is the core force that stands still and stuns one side.

The charge of the Holy Grail Knight is the most feared scene in this world. Even angels and devils, even the most powerful Chaos Champions in Chaos, will be torn apart like rags in front of these Holy Grail Knights. A hundred and fifty years ago, the story of these Holy Grail Knights breaking through the Chaos army head-on is still being preached. The existence of the Holy Grail Knights makes all the countries on the continent fearful. When other forces declare war on Britania At times, you must first consider whether your army can withstand the charge of these knights.

But this is the reason, the mission knights are the most resentful and repelled objects of the mercenaries. There is no other reason. These mission knights are always competing for the jobs of the mercenaries. In order to attract the attention of the fairies in the lake, the mission knights. They always try their best to show their "compassion" and "chivalry spirit", facing the requests of villagers and lords, these mission knights require very low pay, very very low, and they often can. The mission was done well, because the miscellaneous monsters that ordinary mercenaries could deal with were too weak for the mission knights.

This is not bad at first, but in the words of Ryan's previous life, the mission knights do this, which is called "disturbing the market order". The existence of these mission knights often squeezes the living space of mercenaries, cunning villagers and lords. They always take the opportunity to lower prices, and in many cases mercenaries can only accept much lower prices than normal, and are complained that they are greedy vampires.

"I don't know the specifics." Ryan shook his head: "I heard that there was a mission knight from the south who entered the deep mountains and didn't know what to do. After that, due to the rampant monsters, this trade route was abandoned. The Knights of Duty are also gone."

"Humph! It's definitely something those beasts did." Bilger shook his head and walked away alone.

Ryan and Estelle looked at each other, and the half-elf shrugged, expressing helplessness. It is certain that the mercenaries hate the mission knight. Now that this place has been explored, it is time to retreat.

Riding on the horse, Ryan started a conversation: "Mr. Estelle, you are from the San Lorenzo Forest. How much do you know about those mission knights?"

"I don't know much." Estelle also got on the horse, compared to the bulky human, Estelle hugged the horse's neck and jumped gently and sat firmly on the saddle: "I only know that the forest is not welcoming These knights of duty, sometimes to show themselves to their ladies, they even plan to unleash the sealed evil and defeat them."

"This may be the required course for these knights to learn from the lady in the lake." Ryan smiled.

It is very normal for a mission knight to ask for a low price. If you want to embark on the road to the Holy Grail, you must at least become a kingdom knight. Then these mission knights are absolutely free of economic pressure. Ryan has seen a man carrying fifty on his back. Legendary mission knights in full armor and kilograms of dry food walk around in the wild like normal people, all they do is to attract the attention of the fairies in the lake and complete the Holy Grail mission, so they will collect money only symbolically. Just charging a little armor maintenance and food costs, this extremely low cost is simply impossible for mercenaries to do.

Carrying 50 kilograms of dry food is actually nothing. Legendary powerhouses eat a lot, two or three times that of normal people. When crossing some uninhabited areas and mountains, let alone 50 kilograms, Ryan can carry 100 kilograms of food on his back. However, until he spent a lot of money and got a space ring from the Garland Council by favor.

Speaking of which, Ryan turned his attention back to the team.

"Ms. Trovik, what is your gun?" Oliver was talking to the sorceress. The businessman was very envious of the gun that Teresa was playing with. Today, Teresa was in a good mood. She was not sitting in the car. Instead, choose to ride a horse.

"It was purchased by our Garland Unity and the dwarves over the roof of the world." Teresa wore a brown leather jacket with a thick fleece collar, a white shirt and scarf underneath, and a navy blue gemstone necklace from her swan His neck was drooping down, and his long legs in tight black leather pants and high-heeled boots attracted the attention of many men in the caravan.

"Oh, that's great~ I've always wanted a handgun like this, but I can't find a way~" Oliver touched the back of his head with a humble attitude: "It's always safer to have a firearm on the road, isn't it? "

"Maybe." Rost is still wearing the same clothes as before, and the leather armor on the barbarians always exudes a fishy smell: "I still think that these firearms may be able to play some role in the siege, but if it is a field battle It's still our own weapons that work, right?"

"..." The sorceress was in a good mood, and she didn't argue with Rost. It's been a long time since she came out to take risks. What she didn't expect was that she encountered so many troubles, and after more than ten days, there was no result. If it weren't for the fact that there were a lot of gains during the trip...the state is pretty good now.

Seeing that the sorceress did not reply, Oliver immediately swallowed the next words. He originally planned to ask a sorceress if there was a way to sell him a few, and he was willing to pay a high price.

Dwarf handguns are standard ornaments in the upper class. They are very popular in the empire. Oliver can't ask for it, but compared to this, the merchants of the empire know that he has no reason to provoke the anger of a legendary spellcaster.

As the caravan was traveling in the forest, the speed of the caravan was not very fast, so Ryan rode on the horse leisurely and read words that were half incomprehensible: "So, the mountains are not high, there is Lin Zexu, the water is not deep, and there is Jiang Zexu. …”

"Why have I never heard this proverb?" Teresa pulled the reins, the horse came to Ryan's side with the horse's head, and turned to look at him.

"...Forget it, it doesn't matter, you see, we're about to leave the forest." Ryan spread his hands.

Yes, after a whole morning of trekking, everyone finally walked out of the forest~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Although it was in the middle of winter, the warm sun had already illuminated the earth from the top of the mountain. After walking out of the forest, halfway up the mountainside was full of meadows. , Looking around, withered yellow meadows and white snow and ice almost constitute the scenery of the entire mountain range, and layers of mist permeate the valley, just like the ocean.

It is the sea of ​​clouds.

"It's beautiful." Ryan rode on the horse, reaching out and stroking his horse's pine cones: "Do you like it?"

"In the Sky Castle, I see this kind of scenery every day." Who knew that the sorceress didn't take his love at all, Ryan could only laugh when he heard the words. The Sky Castle, the headquarters of the Jialan Council, is located on the kilometer high mountain on the edge of the World's Roof Mountains. , You can really see the sea of ​​​​clouds every day, there is nothing strange.

"Sky Castle, that's really a beautiful place." The half-elf interjected, he brushed his long hair: "I once dreamed of walking to Sky Castle alone..."

"Impossible! To go to the Vault of Heaven alone, you need to prepare at least a complete set of cold-proof equipment, 20 catties of food on your back, as well as things and tents that can make a fire." Ryan complained: "I went to the Vault of Heaven alone two years ago. , But a person carrying more than 100 jins of things up the mountain, walking fifty miles a day, it took seven days to arrive. There were many battles on the road, and one person killed three ice trolls, spiders, salamanders, ice lizards, There are countless bears and wolves."

Yes, the road to Skydome is so dangerous. This castle on the edge of the world has no supplies other than snow and grass, and there are countless beasts. Therefore, adventurers call this road "The Road of Glory". .

It's not that it is honorable to walk this road, but that there is a high chance of being "honored" by walking this road.

"Have you been to Dome Castle?" The sorceress calmed down, her eyes flickering with light: "I don't even know about it."