Chapter 242 The Year of the Ice Wind

On the ground, Darcy pierced Bumantha's body with a shot.

However, there was no physical feeling in the body, as if pierced into a mass of gas and let it dissipate.

At the moment when the figure dissipated, two identical figures flew out from both sides, bypassing Darcy like a phantom, and then stabbed two pale wooden swords into his back, making a sound that penetrated flesh and blood.

The red electricity exploded, and the two figures dissipated immediately.

At this time, a woman with butterfly wings on her back gradually appeared in the air.

Compared with the peasant girl's dress before, today's Bumantha can be described as peerless and gorgeous.

The chestnut-gold braids have been spread out, and the golden hair flutters slightly in the air. The emerald-colored skirt is like a superposition of beautiful and wide leaves, with pale golden veins, behind which is a demon. The butterfly wings are different and wide, the background color is black, and there are gradually changing colors from emerald to light red in the middle.

Nature Sequence 8 The Fairy Queen of Seven Butterflies

Since the Second Era, due to the deterioration of the living environment, the goblin family that accompanied the World Tree has long since withered, and there has long been no existence of Sequence 8 or above. I don't want to think that this time, there will be a human being advanced to the extraordinary job of the goblin family, and it is also an extraordinary job at its apex.

Looking at the woman in the sky, who was like a fairy queen, Darcy also had a burst of enlightenment at this time. It was no wonder that the other party could evade his attack, and the secret technique like Shiyao was so powerful.

Although the role of the goblin family is slightly weaker in terms of pure power, its strangeness and change are rarely comparable to other roles, and its abilities like fairy tales and poetry are like the fantasy of children when they are young. Magical.

After finally knowing the true strength of the opponent, Darcy also slowly sank his consciousness. The long spear in his hand gradually changed and became clearer. The intricate patterns began to emerge on the spear body, outlining the bewitching and bright red. 's trajectory.

"boom!"

Darcy stomped his footsteps and disappeared to the ground in an instant, and then shot straight at the butterfly wing figure in the air. .

The Bumantha in the air also disappeared, but this was not a high-speed movement, but a short-distance space shuttle, like a flash.

She avoided the sharp and dangerous spear blade, spread her hands, and immediately, two long swords like emerald crystals quietly congealed.

After holding the hilt, the butterfly wings behind her fluttered, and then traversed the trajectory of the arc, spinning around in the air. During the movement, every time the wing flapped, it would leave an identical self.

Seven Bumanshas with butterfly wings on their backs, holding emerald double swords, attacked Darcy in the blink of an eye. They were often in the air at the moment, and flashed in front of Darcy in the next second, and the two swords slashed or crossed. Piercing, the attack is like a flash of jade lightning flashing in the air, it is constantly overlapping, and the sound and sparks of the swords clashing are constantly dazzling and dizzying.

If it was just an ordinary Sequence 7, it should have been broken into pieces in this kind of staggered slashing and besieging, but Darcy is worthy of the title of genius. The ability to react was resisted.

Although Bumansa's talent for judging everything, although there are few opponents, she was unable to cut off the sacred spear made of fragments of power, which allowed Darcy to survive.

On the hill, the crimson electric light and the jade crystal kept colliding and shattering, time passed slowly, and the sky gradually darkened.

At this time, wounds began to appear on Darcy's body, and his skin also revealed a deep dark red, and black and red blood beads began to seep out of it.

The side effects of the holy artifact began to manifest. The blessing of this kind of power, if the body's original load was insufficient, would cause damage to oneself, and to use this holy artifact without any effect, I am afraid that it must be at the level of Sequence 9.

It was beyond the record that Darcy could last so long.

After another confrontation, Bumansa re-suspended in the sky, and the other figures also dissipated like fog.

"Go back, Darcy." She could see that if the fight continued, Darcy would die here.

huh... huh... huh...

Darcy was half-kneeling on the ground with a spear in one hand, his muscles and blood vessels were ferocious, and at the moment he was bleeding like blood.

"How can it be possible!" He slowly raised his head, red eyes full of anger looking at the figure in the sky.

For all of today's things, he didn't know how much effort and sweat he had put in, and he had gone through life and death on the battlefield to get what he is today, but now he has to bow his head in front of this country woman.

Yes, Aymanck has promoted himself in the past, but he has also lived and died for the empire, giving almost everything, shouldn't he get these?

Why, why, people who live an idle life like this, don't think about progress, and have no fighting spirit, can walk ahead of themselves?

Why, why, there are always such unfair things, why some people can do whatever they want, effortlessly, and get everything they want, but they have to give everything to rise and stand out?

He panted like a roar, stood up slowly, and the veins on the long spear floated red electric light again.

The group of knights below the hill watched this scene in silence, and the trace of contempt for Darcy in their hearts in the past slowly dissipated. Almost all of them came from nobles, and Darcy was originally just a commoner, and Darcy also betrayed Aimanke who promoted him in the past.

Although they were in awe of the general's power and knew his power, in the past, there was always a trace of contempt in their hearts.

Yes, maybe he has shortcomings, but he deserves to be a man of great will, let him

A strong man who is convinced and even shocked.

Looking at the Darcy below who still refused to fall, Bumantha also closed her eyes slightly, then opened them.

"I see."

She respects Darcy's will, and will tell the other party her thoughts with practical actions.

A seed emerged in Bumansa's hands, and then quickly sprouted, grew, and extended, and then the small buds were revealed, and then became larger and blooming. The center of the petals showed a long and narrow white blade, like a stamen.

She held the foil sword in her hand, and swept it gently like a baton, and a little fluorescent pollen fell, and the world began to change.

The grass, trees and other plants on the ground began to grow wildly and continue to expand outwards.

The open field of grassland now seems to be surrounded by forests. The high canopy blocks the sky, the sun becomes fine, and the mottled light shines into the world in the forest. Everything seems to be in a distant and strange world.

Holding the spear, Darcy was about to rush towards Bumantha in the air again, but the other party waved the foil in his hand again.

The little flowers began to bloom and spread on the ground, with various colors, some light white, some warm red, some bright yellow, some bluish, and some deep purple.

cereal

These flowers are also of different styles, some like lily of the valley, some like chrysanthemum petals, some hanging like wind chimes, dotted with trees and grass.

When Darcy's pounce was dodged by Bumantha, he fell again, propped himself up with his spear, panting and shaking.

Seeing that Darcy was still unwilling to struggle, Bumansa also retracted her wings and floated down from the sky.

Standing in the shade of the slanting sun, Bumantha pulled up her carrying basket again, and then walked slowly to the front of Darcy, who was about to fall.

She lifted the cover on the basket in her hand, took out a piece of bread, put it into the mouth of Darcy who was about to roar, blocked the other's mouth, and was bitten off by the hungry and exhausted Darcy.

"I know, you put in a lot of effort." Seeing Darcy eating, Bumantha turned around and spoke softly at the moment when it finally quieted down.

"When I was in school, I heard everyone say that Darcy is a very hard-working senior, and Niya also told me that she wants to learn from her senior and become a great person."

"Because of your existence, everyone believes that as long as you are diligent enough, even if your background is not good, you can step by step surpass those classmates with lofty backgrounds."

"Everyone admires you because you have done what we have always wanted to do, but couldn't."

"Watering talent with sweat to achieve the ultimate."

"I think, even me, I don't have the strong will of Senior Darcy to endure such a boring exercise and give up many other things." Bumansa said slowly, the voice was not loud, but Some knights on the hillside could hear it clearly.

"But ah, what is the standard for evaluating things?" Bumantha turned around, and Darcy finally calmed down a little, but the occasional heaving of his chest showed that he was still recovering.

"If it's by secular standards, then the senior is undoubtedly better than me. I'm just doing ordinary work in the countryside."

"If it's from the perspective of an extraordinary person, I should only have the advantage of talent to outperform the senior."

"But if it is based on the breadth and freedom of life, ease and happiness, I think I can still be slightly ahead of the seniors."

"Because of love, I did the work and things I liked, and made new discoveries in it, and then inspired me to do more things and explore more possibilities."

"A lot of this is mundane nonsense, but for me it's different, they're so fresh and different."

"The goal in the world is single and unified, so it is also destined to be narrow, just like 99% of people crowded into a narrow corner of 0.01% of the world, competing and tormenting each other, because they have been domesticated to only identify with these standards, and then Can't see anything else."

"Of course, these are not right or wrong, but their choices are different."

"However, Senior Darcy, what you hope for is destined to be achieved by only a few people. Why can't you accept the result of failure with peace of mind."

"Perhaps you are just a child and think that the world should be what you ideally look like, because I have worked hard to gain everything, even if others have sacrificed their lives for it, even if the laws of the world change, and the evolution of all situations does not Again."

"It's time to wake up, Senior Darcy."

After the voice fell, Bumansa walked away with a basket and gradually disappeared at the end of the road, and the direction leading to the village was closed again, covered by dense trees and shrubs.

The forest, adorned with seven-colored flowers, is lush and beautiful, like a fence, spreading from the hills to the distance on both sides, dividing the world into two parts that are never connected.

Although it is close at hand, the world behind the hills is like a distant ideal land, which can never be touched, making people sigh and stop.

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Tertiary, 1706, the year of the ice wind.

In May, the rebellion in the southern border of the Canghong Empire expanded. General Bazel led a 340,000-strong army to the south, and in Yindian Province, Wu Yuling and the rebels fought decisively. The postscript is "Battle of Yinding".

In this battle, the famous general Bazel was killed, the army of the empire collapsed in the pursuit, and the prestige of the royal family further declined.

In June, the newly organized coalition of the empire began to gather and convene. This time the scale was far greater than the last time, and many nobles participated.

In July, the imperial coalition had not yet reached the front line, and bad news came from Titenia, and a coup d'état took place inside the imperial house again.

Elio Cang Jusserberg, the son of the former Crown Prince Ansroy, killed the false king Edron, the regent, and ascended the throne with the support of a group of nobles and officers. Two young emperors.

In August, Queen Lily fled to the north, and in the middle of the journey, under the cover of loyal knights, she changed direction and headed to the south. During this period, they were caught up by the Rose Knights several times, and each time they escaped from the pursuit. Finally, the Rose Knights stopped in front of an unnamed village in the eastern border and were blocked by an unnamed peasant woman.

During the period, the powerful Knights of Roses defeated the woman alone, and General Darcy, who held the holy relic, could not win. In the end, he could only sigh and stop on the hill in front of the village.

After that, the new emperor recalled the Knights of the Roses, stating that as long as the queen swore to leave the Western Continent with her children, never set foot on the territory of the empire, she would no longer pursue her crimes.

In September, after the counter-insurgent coalition had been stationed at the border for two months, it was finally disbanded due to internal disagreements. The eldest son of Griffin, Jalan, and the son of Raven, Elon, returned to their territories respectively.

At the end of October, an edict arrived in the south under the leadership of the Emperor's emissaries.

'Because of the despicable methods of the former pseudo-king, the most loyal Duke of the Red Dragon, a branch of the royal family, the Baska family fell, countless people of the empire died in the civil war, and many loyal and brave nobles died in the undeserved catastrophe. ‘

'Therefore—'

"The Duke of Red Dragon and the nobles of the rebellion in the Central South are pardoned for all crimes, and the Baska family is re-canonized as the guardian of the southern region, and the only blood of the family is established, and Miss Charanlot Baska is the new Duke of the Red Dragon. "

"After this order is promulgated, all imperial legions and soldiers stationed in the southern border shall owe allegiance to the new guardian of the southern border, the Duchess of Charanlot or her designated person, and shall exempt all taxes paid to the royal family in the southern border for ten years thereafter, and Under the leadership of Duke Charanlot, the people of the southern border will be autonomous, and the royal family will no longer assign any officials and nobles to interfere with the rule of the southern border within 20 years."

"This order was unanimously passed by the imperial parliament. The emperor promised everything in his edict and implemented it immediately. If anyone disobeys, he will be regarded as a traitor of the empire, and will be wanted and tried by the empire."

This winter, the empire that had been turbulent for several years finally ushered in precious peace. Perhaps the situation under the table has long been different, with different opinions, but after all, everyone needs time to ease the situation.

The new emperor needs to stabilize the situation and gradually control the empire. The north needs the support of other realms to survive the cold disaster. The griffins in the west need to reconsider the situation. Get a precious respite and recuperation from the torments of war.

In this way, another year of winter festivals is slowly ushering in.