Shadow Covenant

Chapter 201 200 "Breaking"

"Actually, although I don't know where you heard about the Jingsong Forest you are talking about, but in the eyes of the locals, it is actually a cemetery where ancestors are worshipped. The most common animals in the forest are rabbits, kobolds, goblins, etc. There is nothing, most of those mysterious treasures and legends are nonsense, and most of them are the ravings of a bard who accidentally broke into there."

Viscount Cohen explained to Woody the meaning of Jingsong Forest in the Golden River Valley with earnestness and earnestness. Woody was not too surprised or annoyed after hearing this.

Because he already knows the major events that will happen in the next few years. Among them, the "Lost Temple" in Jingsong Forest is still a famous event in this area of ​​the west coast. However, a lot of attention has been paid to the major events in the surrounding areas.

"Is it just a simple haunting?"

Seeing Woody's calm answer, Viscount Cohen didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only answer his question honestly.

"Well, I can't say for sure. It might just be the rumors of rural women and farmers. It was quite popular in the past few years, but when the guards of River Valley City went to collect the materials of the Netherworld Potion, they didn't seem to have any abnormalities." Speaking of Here, Cohen himself is a little emboldened.

"It may be just a fuss and spread rumors, and it may not be haunted."

"It doesn't matter, whether it's haunted or not, I have to go there."

Woody's honest answer was beyond Cohen's expectations. He asked a little unexpectedly: "Is there anything important for you to go there?" At the slightest bit of dissatisfaction, I gave up my plan to pursue and inquire.

"No, I'm just going to find a place there."

"Place? Is anyone buried there?"

Perhaps it was the preconceptions of the residents of the Golden River Valley. When they heard that they were looking for a certain place in the Jingsong Forest, they subconsciously thought of the tomb buried in that tree.

Like Green Creek Town, the aborigines here are also popular in the style of tree burial, paying attention to the blending of man and nature, which is why most of the buildings in River Valley City or other small towns are piled up with stones and mud , in addition to being strong, more trees are cut locally, and it is easy to cut down the ancestors who don't know the family.Of course, this is actually an excuse to avoid trouble, mainly because it is easier for them to obtain stone materials. This is the main factor. Like Green Brook Town, where stones are scarce, most of the houses there are wooden, and Some even assimilated with trees.

"Not really, I was just trying to find some weirdness in there."

Woody immediately denied it.

"Weird place? What are you looking for?"

Cohen became more and more puzzled, but after hearing Woody's explanation, he was relieved.

"I heard that there is a magical place hidden there that cannot be seen by the naked eye. I plan to try it."

Woody did not hide this point, because the location of the temple was revealed from behind the demiplane after a space collapse, and now he wants to find the altar that can hold the ascension ceremony, so he must find the place where he entered the demiplane. The entrance to the plane is the only way to do it, and there is a distinctive feature near the entrance of the demiplane, which is strange.

Like the river flowing backwards, the trees growing wildly, the seasons changing, the fog lingering...these may all be signs of the existence of a demiplane entrance.

"Oh, that's it. From what you said, Jingsong Forest does have a few areas where strange things often happen, such as the haunted place mentioned earlier. There are also stone walls that can talk at night and sudden Extra trees in the road."

As a former lord, Cohen is very familiar with every place in the Golden River Valley, and he talks about it in great detail.

After hearing this, Woody was also slightly happy. At least with this news, he could have a goal when he went, and judging from the strange things narrated by the viscount in front of him, maybe the demiplane entrance leading to the Lost Temple is really true. in it.

After speaking.

Viscount Korn looked up at the sky in the distance. The iron-colored clouds were no longer as thick as before. The never-ending thunder gradually disappeared at this moment, and the white light flowing in the clouds also disappeared. Side has clearly called the end.

"I have to go now."

"Shouldn't you have a chat with Cecil?"

Woody looked at this middle-aged man who had gone through a lot of vicissitudes and asked. He still had many questions to ask, and as an aborigine born and raised in the Golden River Valley, it was just suitable. Although he was a nobleman, this wandering career obviously brought him He came with a different life experience and acquired a lot of knowledge he needed.

"No, the essence of my coming here is still worried that you will not be able to protect Tesia well. Now that you have that ability, you don't need my self-righteous help."

Cohen said something self-deprecating, and got on his horse.

"Then why don't you go back empty-handed?"

"Then what can be done?"

"Stay here, don't you want to take revenge on that imposter in River Valley City? Take back control of Golden River Valley!"

Woody said again, his tone was not as excited as his lines, and his expression was calmer.

And Viscount Cohen showed a helpless expression when he heard Woody's argument, especially when he heard that he was going to take revenge on the counterfeit in River Valley City, and said with a wry smile.

"Actually, I don't care about these anymore. The glory of the family has long been crushed by me in the dust. I live as humble as dirt at the feet of others and in pity. If I control me again, I can't do better than him."

There was a touch of loneliness in Viscount Cohen's voice, but at the next moment, hearing Woody's answer, this loneliness turned into shock and panic.

"Since you don't want revenge, are you planning to escape from the Golden River Valley?"

The familiar voice, the familiar tone, but the meaning in the words made his back feel cold, and the hand that was lightly holding the rein couldn't help but clenched tightly.

"Woody, what do you mean, why can't I understand?"

Every word of this sentence seemed to be forced out of his teeth, and even Cohen himself was surprised that his reaction would be so intense.

"Viscount Cohen, don't pretend to be stupid. You are very smart. You just have a literal sense. You didn't have the opportunity to talk about it just now. Now that it's time to say goodbye, it's natural to ask. Maybe you have to hold it in your heart until the next time we meet. Ask again?"

There was a smile on Woody's face, but his eyes changed from calm to indifferent, and his words were also aggressive, as if he was looking at a dead thing.

His rules of doing things are very simple, that is, when the enemy is still valuable, there is no problem with him, but once he loses his value, the perpetrators will be liquidated. At first glance, it looks like what the chaotic camp does. , but in fact, in "Holy One", he was classified into the neutral camp.

Anyway, what the camp is, it's not what Woody cares about. The only thing he wants to do is to live up to his heart.To do this, even if it is chaotic and evil, it seems to be okay, but his moral and values ​​are hard to make him degenerate into a bottomless and principleless state.

"What does it mean to escape from the Golden River Valley? If I want to escape, why don't I leave sooner? I understand the laws of the Golden River Valley better than you. You can't even pass through the gray fog. I taught Tesia. Since you don't believe me, then OK! Give Tecia back to me, and I'll take her away."

Viscount Korn seemed to have been severely humiliated, and a blush appeared on his face. This was a reaction that would only appear when he was extremely ashamed and angry. Of course, he could also be said to be in a hurry.

But no matter how fiercely he retorted, for Woody, he didn't care much. On the contrary, his tone was more flat than before, his eyes were more indifferent, and he said without even a contempt.

"Then explain why you have to trick her into leaving the Golden River Valley and go to the elf market to buy potions for her mother, and why you have to stand by and watch while you are clearly capable. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be personal protection. Is it more in line with your grandpa's personality to send it to the border and then leave? Besides, your previous expression was too fake. Even if you pretended to be very sad and grieved at the death of your wife, your eyes were not even half sad. Like me, they are born actors."

"..."

Woody's words were like the cold wind blowing from November to the north. Not only did it hurt people's faces, but also the chills in their hearts continued to surge up. Viscount Cohen, who could have refuted fiercely, remained silent at this moment. , just like the most common rock in the deserted rocky beach, except for making all kinds of strange sounds, it can't say anything by itself.

"It's hard to imagine that my exposure was so obvious. When did you find out that something was wrong with me?"

After a while, the hoarse voice came out of the middle-aged man in front of him. Compared with before, this voice was full of disgusting hatred, as if it had been wiped by a creature covered in grease, lingering Go for the nausea.

"Are your acting skills good? In fact, I doubted you from the very beginning, no matter who you are? Letting a 12-year-old girl leave here is not a normal thing in itself."

Woody said softly, but there was already a curved war blade more than one meter long with a unique shape in his hand. Even in a dull environment, the mithril doped on the blade made this weapon look like a dark weapon. The bright moon in the sky is shining brightly, shining in all directions.

"Really? Hehe, outsider, you are very smart. Although your words are slightly different, you can still guess pretty well. That's right. I really want to use Tecia to complete my attempt to leave the Golden River Valley. I've been trapped here for decades, don't you want to leave?"

Cohen frowned slightly when he saw the long blade that Woody took out. As a nobleman, he naturally learned some knight combat skills, but as the twelfth generation of the Kamutra family, he has long since lost the freedom he once opened up in the Golden River Valley. His ancestral courage and fighting skills are at most comparable to that of the silver knight who forcibly raised himself to the captain of the knight. Although his strength has leaped to a certain extent with the addition of his hole cards, but if he is his opponent, Cohen has no idea. There is no bottom.

At least he didn't want to risk his life right now, so at the end of the conversation, it turned into an understanding.

"The strong shouldn't swing their knives at the weak. If it were me, I would make everything that dared to block me disappear, instead of being here, self-righteous, and treating timidity and cowardice as the prudence of an adult."

While there was a sneer in Woody's words, his eyes were contemptuous.

But he didn't want to answer him, indeed Viscount Cohen laughed, and he said with a slight sneer.

"Young people's fantasy. When you reach my age, you will know that many things are not that you don't want to do, but that you can't do them. Okay, I've finished talking with you. Now I should go!"

After he finished speaking, a thick fog suddenly appeared around him, and there were stars twinkling in the fog, which were extremely bright in the darkness.

——"Mist Escape Technique."

Woody recognized it. This is a teleportation spell similar to a portal. In addition to requiring a certain amount of preparation time to brew, this type of spell is the most convenient and lighter than teleportation. The only fly in the ointment is that it cannot teleport too many people. , and the maintenance time is not long, but these problems are naturally not a problem for Cohen who only has one person.

He rode on a horse and stood high before entering the mist, like a god in the sky overlooking the mortals on the ground, showing a rare smug smile. Although this deception was not satisfactory, he was still very satisfied after successfully playing the trick in the end.

As if, everything just now was prepared by him to delay time.

But what he didn't expect was that he didn't see any look of frustration on the young man's face. Instead, the contemptuous smile that appeared at the beginning never dissipated from his face, but became stronger and stronger. He said nothing. Made a few mouth shapes to the air.

For some reason, Cohen understood what the boy said, and knew exactly what he said.

This discovery made his hair stand on end immediately, his vest felt cold, and large drops of cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

"What do you think I'm waiting for?"

But he has never seen the young man in front of him communicate with other people besides him.

Thinking, he subconsciously looked at the distant battlefield, a sense of urgency urged him not to stay where he was too much.

He must have lied to me!

Cohen comforted himself in his heart, and at the same time pulled the rein, no longer obsessed with the look on Woody's face, and was fascinated by his own escape.

But before his body was completely submerged in the mist, a jerky feeling enveloped his whole body, which he had never felt before. After staying for enough time, he quickly drove the horse to run out of the mist.

But Cohen was horrified to find that the figure standing there was still there, which made him immediately react to one thing.

The spell has failed!
And he also found that there was a pretty figure behind him at some point, the staff was floating on her right hand side, and the gemstone on the top of the staff was shrouded in lightning and crackling.

The boy's reply came from behind him again. It was very short, but it hit his heart hard like a heavy hammer.

"Man may be humble as dust, but not twisted like maggots."

(End of this chapter)