Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 521 46. True Sword Dance

Cilia, or Ciri, is the daughter of the legendary witcher White Wolf Geralt, and of course her adopted daughter.

In the era when Geralt was active, the mutation rituals of the demon hunters were still very primitive and brutal, without any neutralizers or protective measures, they let boys around 10 years old be guided by a different kind of mutation inducer to come Complete the Witcher's Grass Ritual.

It was a cruel ceremony.

Only 10 out of 3 children survived, and even if they survived, they would soon die in battle against the rampant aliens of the time, and the mutation rituals of the era were very costly and would make the witcher sterile ability.

However, many magics of that era had very bad sequelae, just like Geralt's wife, the sorceress Yennefer, who also lost her fertility during the process of becoming a sorceress.

It is really not easy for these two poor people to come together and support each other to live until now.But what makes this couple more fortunate than other witchers is that they also have an adopted daughter who is like a real daughter.

That is Cilia.

In the current legend of the witcher, Cilia is also a very mysterious and legendary character.

She is probably the first female witcher ever, and the only one who can freely travel across worlds and dimensions.

It is said that this ability of Ciriya comes from a special bloodline inherited from her body, a peculiar bloodline called "the blood of the elders", which originated from ancient elves, but with the loss of ancient elf civilization, The legend about the "blood of the elders" has long been forgotten.

Oh, by the way, Ciriya is still a genuine Her Royal Highness.

Her background is very prominent. Her biological father was an emperor of a small empire in southern Europe in the Middle Ages. Ciriya should have lived in history like a princess, but because of a series of blunders, finally She became Geralt's adopted daughter, and gave up her royal status, becoming a lowly witcher in the society at that time.

This incident alone is in line with the characteristics of a trace of legend.

Some people say that Xilia is actually the origin of the purest tsarist family's blood, but some people say that Xilia's father's empire is not in Siberia. In short, these rumors are just gossip, unless Xilia personally explained her past. Otherwise no one will know the truth.

"Swish"

Under the distorted light of the Displacement Curse, Merlin and Elsa came to the sky of Sulfur Harbor. Merlin supported Elsa with black mist, and the two quickly approached Lord Siria who was waving his hands to smooth the dimensional rift.

And just as they approached, Xi Liya said without looking back:

"Wait, I'll talk about it after I'm done."

Her voice is surprisingly nice.

It's like the crisp chirping of swallows in the wind.

Of course, Merlin and Elsa would not refuse the request of the lady in front of them. They stood by and watched as Cilia smoothed the dimensional rift while holding a sword in one hand, as if playing a game, beheading those who came from the rift. The phantom of blood constantly rushing out.

Although, the more phantoms split from Dracula's blood river, the weaker the individual phantoms are, after all, they are phantoms of legendary vampires, no matter how weak they are, they will not be weaker than ordinary vampires. The problem is, these irrational vampires The guy has no threat at all in front of Shiriya, just like a tree stump, just waiting for Shiriya to chop them down with his sword.

Merlin also noticed that the shape of the black long sword held by Ciriya was almost the same as that of Elsa's silver sword "Jiviere". The only difference was that the hilt of the long sword in Ciriya's hand is white with a red scabbard, while Elsa's silver sword has a black hilt and a white scabbard.

Elsa noticed Merlin's eyes, she glanced at the sword in Siriya's hand, she whispered to Merlin:

"My sword may be a replica of Cilia's sword... It may be a souvenir made by my ancestors to commemorate Cilia. It is recorded in the handbook I made first that he had a fight with Master Geralt when he was young. He fought alongside Cilia, and at the end of his life, he heard that Cilia died to save the world."

"Your ancestor is Barbert Bloodstone?"

Cilia suddenly said:

"Well, I remember him. He even pursued me. I don't know what Babbert said about me in his notebook, but I can tell you, little girl, when we first met Babbert, he still He's just an apprentice who hasn't passed the green grass trial... the kind of swordsmanship is very good, but the affinity for magic is quite high, he had a chance to become a wizard."

"Yes, Ms. Siriya."

Elsa says:

"My ancestor was possessed by an evil spirit. Master Geralt's mentor, His Excellency Vesemir, dispelled the evil spirit and saved him. So when he grew up, he traveled all over Europe, trying to find the savior back then. In the end, I became a demon hunter by accident."

"Don't call me lady, I'm still young."

Shiriya waved her hand and said without looking back:

"Since I am the daughter of an old man, you can call me Ciri. Although in your opinion, I have lived for a long time, the flow of time in different worlds is different. In my memory, Babbert is holding a rose The pursuit of me only happened a few decades ago."

"Okay, done!"

Ciri breathed a sigh of relief, and with a flick of her right hand wearing a fencing glove, the last gap in the dimensional rift was sealed by a flash of white light.

The eye-like cracks have disappeared, replaced by cobweb cracks like shattered glass, which looks weird, but as time goes by, these cracks will heal themselves.

After doing this, Ciri put the sword in her hand back into the scabbard on her back, then brushed a lock of hair from her forehead, turned around, crossed her hips, and looked at Merlin and Elsa.

She has cat-like pale green eyes, much like Elsa's.

And, under the left eye, there is a slightly hideous red scar.

There is a black wolf head pendant hanging around her neck, very similar to the pendant on Merlin's neck, almost exactly the same.

"You are Merlin?"

Ciri looked at Merlin, she looked at the pendant on Merlin's neck, she said:

"I heard that my unreliable father gave his emblem to a rookie demon hunter. I wanted to meet you at that time, but I was a mercenary in the world of Magmoth at that time. Before the battle was over, I There is no way to leave... But it seems that you are learning very quickly, and you are no longer a rookie."

"It's because Master White Wolf teaches well."

Merlin flattered Geralt against his will. The guy who only cared about playing cards just threw a bunch of information to Merlin, but he didn't teach him for a day.

"Teach? Stop kidding."

Ciri laughed. This hearty legendary witcher quickly exposed Merlin's lies. She said:

"Dad is so lazy, how could he teach you?"

"Even my swordsmanship was taught by Master Vesemir. He didn't even teach me. How could he teach you? But this little girl, the way she uses the sword is very similar to my father...I guess, you He must have lost a lot of money to him, and the amount was so big that he was a little embarrassed, so I took the time to guide you, right?"

Elsa shrugged and didn't answer, which was her acquiescence.

"Hey, addicted to playing cards, unable to extricate himself, he has been abolished."

With her hips on her hips, Ciri complained about her adoptive father without respect. She said:

"However, he still remembered some serious things. After knowing that you were going to deal with Dracula, he sent me a letter, asking me to find time to help you. But I watched you fight Dracula from the border of hell. It went well, so I didn't interfere."

She looked at Merlin again and said:

"Having said that, your sword dance is pretty good..."

"Well...just getting started."

Merlin said something modestly, but Xilia nodded:

"Indeed, I'm just getting started, but it's good to have mastered the essence in such a short time. But, do you want to see the real sword dance?"

"Uh."

Ciri's sudden question surprised Merlin, but he quickly nodded:

"Of course, I'm looking forward to it."

"Okay, then watch it!"

Ciri's left hand was placed on the hilt behind her back, and she looked down at the phantoms of blood bound in a large spirit-binding barrier below. There were thousands of phantoms densely packed.

They were trapped in the purple magic trap by the Arden sign released by several demon hunters at the same time, and they could not move, while the two half-demons were summoning the scorching flames of hell on both sides, trying to destroy them.

Under Merlin's gaze, Shiriya lowered her body slightly. She closed her eyes and stretched her right hand forward. A weak force pushed forward in all directions. Merlin felt a spiritual force sweeping over her body, like a magic version of Like radar.

This is Xilia's target for Sword Dance.

One second later, Xilia drew out the silver sword with her left hand, and her figure suddenly disappeared into the air, and then, like a phantom clone, like the fastest flashing shadow, appeared one after another behind every blood phantom below. The silver sword slashed obliquely, and among the dense, shrill lights and shadows that lit up almost at the same time, each of the locked blood phantoms was divided into two.

She was beating so fast that even Merlin's spirit vision couldn't catch Shiriya's figure. In the eyes of other demon hunters, this woman in white who suddenly appeared seemed to be transformed into thousands of people in an instant. , like a flash of silver lightning, piercing through the ground and the sky, destroying all the gathered phantoms.

Three seconds later, Ciriya returned to Merlin, and there was no blood phantom in the block below her.

"This is the real sword dance."

Cilia blinked at Merlin, and she said:

"In some worlds, this move is also called 'Invincible Slash', but I don't like that name... Sword Dance sounds better."

"It's... amazing."

Merlin had seen big scenes before, but he had to admit that Xilia's sword dance really made people feel full of pressure.

"Well, don't be fooled by appearances."

Cilia said to Merlin seriously:

"The fast jump just now is not a space ability. Although I can also use space jump to simulate such an effect, in fact, the movement of high-level sword dance is realized by jumping. You accurately capture the weakness of every enemy in the process of releasing the sword dance, and then achieve extremely fast kills in the fast movement."

"Of course, for you now, this is difficult to grasp."

Cilia patted Merlin on the shoulder, and she said:

"Your perception is very sharp, but it's still at a low level of use, so you should first learn the 'mind'. I don't think my father taught you this skill. It doesn't matter, I will teach you."

"Then I'll thank you in advance."

Merlin said to Cilia:

"But why are you so nice to me? Do you need me to help you with anything?"

"Hey, you man."

Cilia glared at Merlin dissatisfied, and she said:

"We are both wolf faction demon hunters, do you know that we need to help each other? However, you are right, maybe I will indeed need your help in the future... just treat it as an advance 'reward'."

"Oh, right!"

Having said that, Shiriya slapped her head violently. She took out a small box from the purse at her waist and handed it to Merlin. She said:

"This is what my father asked me to give to you. He gave me special instructions. Only if you complete the seal on Dracula without my help, can you prove that you have the qualification to touch the secret... .This is the first step in opening up engagement between the two parties."

"secret?"

Merlin looked at the box here, and he asked back:

"What secret?"

"Well, I can't tell you that, you have to see it yourself, find it yourself, I can only say, this is what you have been waiting for."

Shiriya stretched her slender body. She waved to Merlin and glanced at Elsa again. The eyes of the two women met, and there was information that Merlin could not understand. Taking out a weird mechanical watch with lots of gears, she glanced at the time, and then said to Merlin:

"Come with me, I will have a meeting in another world later, and I don't have much time left for you. The 'mind's eye' is an advanced skill for swordsmen, and it is relatively difficult to learn...in different worlds There are different names, Mind Eye, Knowing Sword, See Through, Heart Net, Knowledge Color... Ahem, you don’t need to know the last one.”

"But you look smart, so you should be able to learn before I leave..."

(End of this chapter)