Chapter 91

Thus ended the crisis.

As the last monster wailed and fell to the ground under Knight Philip's sword, there were no more living aberrations to be seen on the battlefield, only the scattered skeletons and a group of soldiers who were almost exhausted.

No more new monsters rushed out of the mountains, and there was no more thunderous roar in the direction of the Dark Mountains.

After half a minute, Knight Byron took the lead in cheering.

Soldiers, militias, and then the civilians and serfs in the camp, cheered the southern banks of the Whitewater, and everyone knew of the victory—and for those who had lived through the catastrophe of Old Cecil. In other words, this victory has a very special meaning.

The person who made the plan knows how much the victory depends on the right time and place, how much luck and risk, and how many uncontrollable variables, but most ordinary people do not know, they only know that there are hundreds of monsters from the south. The number of fighters in the camp was almost ten times that of the fighters in the camp, but in less than half a day, these monsters were all wiped out, and not even one of them broke into the fence wall of the camp.

The huge psychological pressure was vented into carnival cheers at this moment, and even Amber, who had just returned to the camp with Heidi, couldn't help but be infected and cheered and celebrated.

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 was following the Druid. Behind Pittman: "Where's your master?"

Betty shook her head loudly: "I don't know!"

"He's in the camp to the south," Pitman stopped, turned his head and said quickly, "It seems that the dragon egg is in trouble again. Ah, I won't tell you, I'll send the potion first - there are many wounded. Woolen cloth!"

The little old man and the little maid ran away quickly, Amber looked around, and felt that there was really nothing to do here, so he disappeared into the shadows in a flash.

In the tent in the southern part of the camp, Gawain and Rebecca also heard the cheers resounding throughout the camp: The situation is set, and this crisis has been passed safely. Just now, Knight Byron had sent someone to inquire about the follow-up arrangements. Gawain told the two knights to carry out the aftermath of the battlefield first, while he and Rebecca stayed here temporarily, facing this suspected "dragon egg" stone ball.

The corpse of the monster outside the tent is rapidly disintegrating, and the remaining skeletons are collected by the soldiers and piled up, waiting for natural decomposition, but the stone ball that has just displayed its mighty power has now returned to the tent, and now it is floating quietly. At a height of several tens of centimeters above the ground, he maintained an awkward confrontation with Gawain.

"To be honest, it really scared people to death just now," the stone ball swayed in place, and a metallic vibrato sound came from inside, "Those what... aberrations, right? Why did they all come at me all of a sudden? …”

"I don't know what attracts them to you, but you killed more than a dozen monsters by yourself. Are you embarrassed to say that you were scared?" Gawain squinted at the strange big ball , "And after a long time, you can not only move by yourself, but also speak... You have been pretending before you say that?"

Shi Qiu was not at all ashamed (of course he couldn't see his expression on its surface): "Is it wrong to have a stronger self-protection awareness? I don't know your intentions, so naturally, keep a low profile first. Originally, I wanted to After observing for two more days, I suddenly heard the chaos outside today, and the soldiers guarding were also a lot less, so I wanted to quietly come out to see the situation... I didn't know that the monsters would all come as soon as I moved. !"

Gawain nodded, he had already figured out the whole process: the stone ball had apparently deliberately suppressed a certain "activity" of its own before, so the sense of existence was thin, and even Pittman discovered it by coincidence But today the monster attacked, the stone ball thought it might be an opportunity, so he desperately wanted to run out, but as soon as he moved, he leaked his breath—this leaked breath might not be a big deal to humans. , but for those aberrations that feed on life reactions and magic reactions, they are as conspicuous as a beacon in the night, and in the eyes of those monsters, the life and magic reactions of this stone ball are obviously more "delicious", Then the unexpected happened.

Fortunately, everything turned out to be a near miss.

After thinking about all this, Gawain couldn't help looking up and down at the crazy bastard who was almost killed: "So are you still going to run now? I can tell you that those monsters are just a small wave of wandering over, you have to run to them. Under your eyes, no one can protect you."

Rebecca next to him knew that his ancestors were scaring people... Egg, but Shi Qiu didn't know the real situation, so he was naturally frightened: "Hey - I won't run away, this place is too dangerous. And then again... I kind of believe what you said before now."

"Oh?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "What do you believe?"

"You and the people who arrested me in the lab... they shouldn't really be in the same group."

Gawain found it interesting, and just wanted to ask how it judged it, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw an amber popping out of the shadow in the corner of the tent. The half-elf lady had obviously heard the conversation just now, and as soon as it popped out, she was shocked. "How did you see it this time?"

The stone ball floated up and down: "You guys are much more shabby than the gang of people back then. If such a large camp doesn't even have a magic gun, it must not be a gang of people..."

The veins on Gao Wen's forehead jumped, but he heard Rebecca nodded thoughtfully next to him: "Oh, it makes sense..."

Amber stepped beside Gawain with a shadowy step and lowered his voice: "Seriously, if I were you, I would have driven this shameful descendant out of the house the day after I opened the coffin..."

A shame of all things dare to say that others are ashamed?

Gawain glared at Amber, then turned to look at the stone ball floating in the air: "So you are finally willing to believe what I said to you that day?"

"Wait, I just believed that you were not the same group as those people back then, and I didn't believe everything you said, especially a thousand years have passed... I have to confirm this," Shi Qiu said. He shook his body arrogantly, and then continued reluctantly, "Of course, I basically believe that you have no ill intentions now. Well, I remember that you came here to save me just now."

This attitude is still a little bit owed, but how much better than before. Gao Wen knows that he cannot force this fans to be rescued from the laboratory and have been rudely treated by the empire. Nodding: "Okay, trust can be built slowly, let's... eh wait, you turn to the side for me to see - turn left, turn left."

When Amber and Rebecca heard Gawain's words, they immediately came over curiously, while the stone ball spun for unknown reasons: "Why? Is there something on me?"

The stone ball turned a little to the side, and Amber finally knew what Gawain had discovered.

On the side of the lower half of the stone ball, the original solid and dense shell between rock and metal fell off a small piece at some point, and several long cracks spread from the shedding and have extended to the waistline of the sphere.

"Your shell seems to be cracked," Rebecca said with a wink, and carefully pointed at the cracked part of the ball with her staff, "Don't you feel pain?"

"Ah?" Only then did the stone ball seem to notice the crack on his shell, and his tone was a little flustered, "Ah! It must have been broken when it fell from the sky several times before!"

"Is it alright if your shell is cracked?" Gawain was suddenly a little worried, "Would you like me to find a mason or blacksmith or something to repair it for you?"

"...Tsk, forget it, anyway, it's time for me to break the shell, you are not enemies," Shi Qiu seemed to think about it, then shook his body, "You step back, I want to come out of the shell. "

Amber suddenly widened his eyes: "Wait! You said you were going to break the shell?! Then wait! I have to call someone!"

Miss Half-elf squeaked out these words, and without waiting for anyone on the scene to respond, she rolled back into the shadows, leaving Stone Ball and Gawain confused, and Stone Ball was silent for a few seconds. Zhong Cai said, "Then I can't come out yet?"

"Wait a moment, she will definitely come soon," Gawain couldn't grasp the half-elf's thoughts, so he could only say casually, "She always has her own ideas."

Then after a while, Amber ran back in a hurry, and also pulled Hetty and Pittman.

The two were apparently dragged over in a state of confusion.

"Ancestor, what's going on here?" As soon as Heidi came in, she saw the stone ball floating in the air, and then she looked at Gawain, "Just now Amber hurriedly said that the dragon egg is about to hatch, but I didn't understand... …”

Pittman noticed the falling off and cracking marks on the lower part of the stone ball as soon as he came in, and the little old man immediately exclaimed: "My God! This dragon egg is about to hatch!"

"Yeah, right!" Amber was so excited as if she was about to break out of her shell, "So I greeted you two! By the way, will you two take care of the little dragon people?"

The two who were forcibly pulled over were stunned for a moment, and Gawain immediately wondered if he should throw the amber out now, but the stone ball was impatient to wait for these strange people to mess with things. There was a peculiar low humming, as if it was charging, and the surface of the sphere trembled violently, and the dense and rough shell materials continued to crack during the tremor. The "shell" of a piece begins to fall off its surface.

Everyone stopped talking, they looked at this mysterious sphere with expressions of surprise and anticipation, waiting for the moment when the life inside it broke out.

Finally, with a series of crackling sounds, the sphere was quickly covered with fine cracks, and then all the shells burst open with a "bang"!

The shell of the stone ball fell off.

Inside was a bare metal ball.

The metal ball shook: "How is it? Can I light it?"

It was only at this time that Pittman realized that the whole process of breaking the shell was over. He stared at the metal ball floating in the air in a stunned manner: "Uh, isn't it... This is the end? Are you sure you have come out of the egg shell?"

Metal Ball: "Confirm."

"But you're still an egg!" The old Druid sounded like he was going crazy. "You're still an egg! Are you supposed to be a dragon egg?"

Rebecca stared blankly at the silver-white ball floating in front of her, before she said, "So this is actually a ball..."