Blood tax

Chapter 117
After confirming his identity, Griffith felt relieved:

"I was sent to investigate the truth of this strange domain-type sealed item alone. Several groups of Extraordinary people have already left and never returned. After I entered, I lost contact with the friendly forces."

"What kind of friendly army?" Galadia said reproachfully, "The domain-type sealed item needs to be led by an extraordinary person. If you come in alone, you will be a consumable to be sent to death."

"Well, I originally wanted to escape halfway, but there are important people above who have already made arrangements, and there is no room for me to escape."

"Hey," the elf sighed, and blamed him helplessly, "then you shouldn't come in and die. For a person with your strength, exploring the domain-type sealed artifacts means death! Why are you so stupid? ? Even if you disobey on the spot, you have to escape if you fight with them, and Sonia and I will find a way to help you."

"Deserters will be hunted like dogs and crucified on roadside crosses." Griffith shook his head.

"That's better than dying! If you die for no apparent reason, you'll have nothing here. If you resist desperately, there's still a glimmer of life."

How can this be such a simple matter.Griffith couldn't imagine what would happen to him being chased by the authorities, so he changed the subject:
"What are you doing here again?"

"Promotion trial, I suddenly understood something when I saw you," Galadia said, "I was sitting well in Homonwatts, but suddenly an unknown force dragged me in. My brother By the side, I didn't even have time to help me."

"..."

"By the way, where is this?" Galadia checked the bowstring and asked looking at the village under her feet and the distant mountains under the setting sun.

Regarding this issue, Griffith had already done some understanding before departure:
"The location is located in the Tuyan Reservoir near Varna Port in the west.

"Tuyang Valley is the territory of the most powerful Sequence 4 supreme mage in the world, Lord Thalorian. The knowledgeable man has been carefully managing this place for many years, and built a magnificent reservoir in the valley to provide his magical magic workshop. Energy. Thalorian himself was not around.

"The reservoir flooded the villages in the mountain basin. The villagers were relocated in advance and resettled in Lord Salorian's territory, and lived a better life in the town. The peaceful life and ancient history of the past have been submerged underwater, becoming A speck of history.

"The submerged village or a mythical creature that once lived here may have left an indelible consciousness after the destruction, and the lost energy formed this closed world."

Galadia nodded and said: "I can feel the death-like silence and despair. This place is indeed dangerous. If we can't crack its secret in time, the power released by the sealed item will swallow us."

Griffith nodded.It would be a strange thing to enter the weird sealed item if it was not life-threatening.

However, what surprised him was that the elf had neither weapons nor armor, and even the most common enchanted accessories could not be found in the beautiful hunting suit.She was alone like this, appearing in this dangerous place with bare hands.

"Where are your weapons and equipment?"

"It was lost when it was rolled in. The rules here or the ceremony itself don't allow me to bring it in."

Griffith opened his mouth, just about to ask the question in his heart.

"Hush!" The elf girl suddenly raised her index finger to her mouth, "Something is about to start."

what started

A sharp and long blast of the trumpet resounded through the sky.

"Stay here and don't move," Galadia grabbed Griffith's wrist and turned to lean against his back.

The sound of the horn tore through the silence of the dusk.Uneasiness, loneliness and fear emerged in Griffith's heart at the same time.The ashes all over the sky reflect a palpitating gloomy light.

There was a choking smell in the air, as suffocating as the scene of a fire.

Darkness swallowed light.

Everything in sight, trees, roads, rocks and distant villages were burned by the flames, and the skin and color quickly peeled off, leaving decayed and decayed wreckage, which seemed to have experienced the erosion of centuries in a few seconds .

A needle-like sense of crisis swept over.Griffith, who was watching the village, suddenly felt the threat of death and a powerful aura from the opposite direction.

"Be careful!" Griffith immediately stabbed the short spear in a dangerous direction.The sharp tip of the gun seemed to be stuck in the dirt and rotten wood, and it was tightly wrapped and unable to penetrate an inch.

At the same time, Galadia shot an arrow in a dangerous direction.The arrow plunged into the huge silhouette, disappearing like a dark swamp.

A four-meter-tall, shirtless giant appeared beside the two of them.He was wrapped in a shiny sackcloth covering his whole body, his strong bare arms were as strong and burly as cast bronze, and his physique was extremely majestic.On the huge head was a cloth bag that exposed his eyes, and he was holding a black long-handled scythe in his hand.

"Ice Wall!"

When Griffith saw the monster and the murder weapon in his hand, he realized that this was not an enemy that the two of them could fight at close range.The incoming attack even exceeded the defense limit of the ice shield and double armor.He condensed a solid wall of ice forward to block between the scythe and the two of them. At the same time, he bent down to pick up Galadia who was still shooting, and jumped towards the hillside.

"boom!"

The solid ice wall disintegrated instantly under the sweep of the scythe, and the violent wind pressure hit the shield behind Griffith, sending them flying together.

Griffith felt all his bones tremble under the blow.He adjusted his posture in the air, hugged Galadia, fell into the bushes on the slope, and slid down the slope.

He protected the elf in his arms, and using the shield behind him as a contact point, he ping-pong-pong rolled over the densely packed small trees, thorns and gravel like a tortoise on all fours and rolled down to the foot of the mountain before stopping.

Galadia quickly jumped up and looked up at the mountain road above.The terrifying monster stood where it was, with two blood-red eyes shining in its torn pocket, staring straight at the two people at the foot of the mountain.

"Griffith, can you move? Have you brought any recovery potion?" The elf girl pushed aside the thorns and bushes wrapped around her companion and asked with concern.

"I'm okay, I don't need medicine," Griffith lay flat on the ground, even though the impact was mitigated by the Vanguard Shield, his whole body still felt as if it was falling apart, "Let me take it easy."

"There is no time, we have to leave here." Galadia helped up the trainee knight and looked up again.The humanoid monster strode down the slope and hit the bottom like a mudslide.

"That thing is chasing him, we hide in the village to meet him."

There is only a low fence around the village at the foot of the mountain, and the ridges and paths connect the scattered paddy fields and courtyards.

Griffith's injury is actually not serious, but he fell all the way down the mountain as a pad and suffered a concussion.Under the effect of his powerful self-healing ability, he quickly recovered, and he could soon keep up with Galadia's light footsteps.The two passed through the houses on the outskirts of the village and hid in the alleys with denser buildings.

"You have so many little secrets," Galadia poked her head out to make sure that the monster hadn't caught up, and then said to her companion who was panting against the wall, "You fell down the hillside solidly, You've recovered a lot in just a few moments.

"And the ice wall that blocked the monster's blow. No spells were cast or wands used, not to mention you can't make magic configurations under the influence of blood. Don't tell me that you inherited it from the potion Sonia gave the power of."

Griffith reached out and touched his shoulder, found a sharp piece of wood inserted into his arm from a gap in the armor, and pulled it out with his teeth.

Galadia stared at the blood-stained half of the broken wood, bit her lip: "Does it hurt? Let me look at the wound for you."

"It's okay." Griffith crushed the wood chips and scattered them. "During the attack in the Whispering Forest, I was fatally wounded after being captured by Baron Anselm..."

The elf girl's slender eyebrows couldn't help but twitch, and before she could stop her, Griffith continued speaking on his own.

"After losing both with him, I gnawed on his corpse with my last breath."

"..."

Griffith smiled, as if he was talking about the dinner he had just had, and pointed to his bone ring, "I was supposed to mutate, with the help of this ring, I absorbed some extraordinary characteristics of the blood race, and possessed Great self-healing abilities and some knowledge of blood spells."

Although Griffith briefly communicated with Galadia and Sonia about his abilities, it was the first time that he explained in such detail.

"I won't listen! I won't listen!" The elf girl covered her long ears and shook her head.

"The spirit of this ring calls itself Minos, which gives me a power different from spells and holy light. I can cast ice spells and blood spells through prefabricated runes, and can even temporarily resurrect and drive the dead. ,” Griffith continued, “I can use runes to cast spells continuously, and making spells again requires mental energy.”

Galadia punched him.

"Deduct you by 5 points!
"Aren't you worried about killing me when you tell me this? Contacting unknown occult knowledge without protection will be fatal! Maybe this ring is the tentacles of evil gods reaching out to the world!"

Griffith looked at the surrounding environment and shrugged his shoulders recklessly: "At least it works well, without its assistance, I would have died long ago.

"Galadia, this is the end of the matter, I will not hold back, all the information will be shared with you. After all, the current situation is that I was sent to a highly dangerous sealed item. The previous batch of investigators may have already Death; and you, appearing here with bare hands, because the rules of the promotion ceremony are subject to many restrictions, right?"

"Yes~"

Griffith asked seriously: "Your people, Sidious can't provide support and assistance now?"

The girl shook her head, pulled Griffith to hide at the intersection of the street, and secretly looked at the deserted and decayed road ahead:

"I can't, I was randomly sent here by the promotion ceremony, my brother wanted to confirm my location, and then I came here from Homonwatts, and it will take time to decipher this sealed item.

"Relax, it's over and worrying and nervous won't make it any better.

"Isn't it because of you? I thought I traveled thousands of miles to fight against goblins because of Iluvash's prophecy that there would be a discovery when I went there alone, which would increase my chances of surviving in the promotion ceremony. I thought I was looking for something Hallows or sealed items!"

(End of this chapter)