The Sun King's Evidence

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The underground tunnels are the work of the dwarves, which can be traced back thousands of years. During the heyday of the dwarves, Charlemagne, the emperor of the human empire, and Kazhadni, the dwarf supreme king, agreed that the plains and hills on the continent belonged to humans, and the mountains, wastelands, There are many terrains on the plateau that are not suitable for human habitation, but they belong to the dwarves. Humans and dwarves have a close relationship. Any human who comes to a dwarf country will receive a warm reception, and a dwarf who comes to the human empire will also receive hospitality from the local nobles.

So the dwarves, who were in their heyday at that time, built a huge project. They built numerous underground tunnels to connect most of the mountain ranges in the world. Thanks to the huge underground tunnels, the dwarves have traveled all over the world. , created a splendid civilization.

Until the green skin appears.

The emergence of the green skins brought heavy disasters to the dwarves. The result of the war that lasted for hundreds of years was that the dwarves collectively retreated to the Roof Mountains of the World. Even the Eternal Peak of the Dwarf Royal Court fell in the hands of the green skins. It was used to facilitate travel in the past. Instead, the underground tunnels were used by the greenskins, which brought countless bitter fruits to both dwarves and humans. The underground tunnels are now filled with a large number of greenskins, some of whom are hiding in them and expanding them into cities. There are also dark elves who are trying to regain some of them. tunnels and re-use them for dwarven expeditions.

Who knows what will emerge from this big pit will be enthusiastic dwarf friends, annoying black leather with pointed ears or damn green skin? Ryan couldn't take the chance.

"I will inform the Nordic Court later and ask them to send people to use gunpowder to blow up the hole. Now let's go upstairs and have a look." Ryan left the bloody basement.

As the two people walked up the stone stairs, Ryan suddenly asked with interest: "Estel, don't you all like close combat?"

"Because melee combat is inherently evil and a symbol of barbarism and violence. A true duel full of honor should involve one person holding a bow and a bag of arrows, showing off his skills and speed to the fullest, right?" Estelle complained. Said: "Using melee weapons is really rude and barbaric, and it is easy to cause casualties."

"Hey, hey, hey, the person in front of you is the White Wolf Knight..." A black line appeared on Ryan's head. The White Wolf God of War Yurik hated long-range weapons and advocated that pure men only want close combat, so the White Wolf Knights always Try to avoid using long-range weapons to make Yurick unhappy. Even Ryan only throws throwing knives from time to time.

If you say this, you will be regarded as a heretic in our White Wolf Knights.

"So you don't have melee troops in the forest? Are they all long-range? Impossible? Are all the forest guards composed of archers?" Ryan was a little confused. Estelle was born in the territory of the wood elves, and the wood elves are very It's mysterious, but I know with my knees that an army cannot only have long-range soldiers. This is courting death in a war.

"Of course the woodland guards are all made up of archers. As for the melee soldiers you mentioned, Ryan, they are called the Eternal Guards. They hold giant shields and use spears and scimitars to fight, but everyone is also a good hand with bows and arrows." Estelle shrugged and followed closely behind Ryan. The gray-white stone wall beside him was damaged in many places due to disrepair. The cold wind blowing from the shooting hole made the half-elf shrink his neck: "The rest I can’t tell you more, you just need to know that although the Eternal Guards are in close combat, their bows and arrows are not inferior to those of the Woodland Guards.”

"But the Eternal Guard takes longer to train, right? For example, if the Woodland Guard takes ten years to train, then the Eternal Guard may need thirty years? Thirty years is enough time for two beasts to live. Twenty Beastmen warbands have emerged. I now understand why the Wood Elf army is far superior to those Beastmen warbands in terms of quantity and quality, but they are still troubled by those Beastmen, because you are completely It can't support the consumption of a long war, am I right?" Ryan complained casually, step by step.

"...As you said, although the forest has always been victorious in the war against filth for decades, our population and army numbers have declined, and...the tree people have been corrupted in recent years. It’s getting more serious. It’s hard for me to imagine that those violent tree elders are the amiable and wise elders in fairy tales.” Estelle shook her head with disappointment: “We have to form more rangers and Eternal Guard troops to make up for the loss of combat effectiveness.”

Ryan nodded silently. Treemen are a very important fighting force among the wood elves. Ordinary treemen are several meters tall. Among them, the tall ancient treemen are even dozens of meters tall. They can defeat several people by waving their arms slightly. Human soldiers fly into the sky, and their bodies reinforced by magic and runes are not so afraid of various firearms and bows. They are the mainstay of the wood elf army.

The two of them did not continue the conversation because they had arrived at their destination.

In other words, it was not because the destination was reached, but because there was no road ahead. The stairs of the tower were severely damaged. The distance between the broken stairs was seven or eight steps away. On the opposite side, a lonely wooden door appeared in front of the two people.

After a short discussion, the two decided to divide the work. Ryan asked Estelle to go back and inform the caravan that this fortress was not a suitable resting point. After seeing the half-elf leaving, Ryan returned his attention to the lonely wooden door opposite the broken staircase. .

The distance of seven or eight steps is a distance that is difficult for mortals to cross. Even the half-elf's dexterity cannot cross it.

But I am different, I am my father's son.

Whatever he wanted to do, Ryan began to retreat slowly. He retreated seven or eight steps, then took his own steps, kicked down his right leg hard, and jumped up. Powerful spiritual power gathered around him, like the spring in early spring. Like a breeze, he lifted up his heavy chain armor and body, and with the sound of landing, the White Wolf Knight successfully landed on the other side.

The heavy and rotten wooden door was pushed open by the White Wolf Knight with brute force. The wooden door bolt shattered under Ryan's powerful force. The moment he pushed the door open, Ryan took a step back suddenly, raised his war hammer, and was ready. Battle preparation.

There was no movement. The enemy attack he imagined did not happen. When he walked into the house, the furnishings inside were very simple. There were only a table, a simple wooden bed, a window sealed from the inside, and A...skeleton sitting on a chair.

Judging from the spider silk and dust on the skeleton, the skeleton should have been in this place for at least two years. The body had completely decomposed, and its palm was resting on the book.

"The skull is intact, which means he has always been a human being." Ryan murmured to himself.

Sometimes it is difficult to explain the empire's obsession with skulls. The emblems of all the knights of the empire include skull patterns. The shape of the skull is in the center of the sacred crown that symbolizes the identity of the emperor, whether it is the emperor himself or a symbol of human power. The backbone electors all like to decorate themselves with skull patterns.

When Ryan first came to this world, he thought there was some Monkey D. Luffy who created the great pirate era. Everyone wanted to be the pirate king, so everyone loved to use this.

Later he learned that the skull symbolized purity.

The temptation of Chaos has always threatened mankind. Anyone who succumbs to Chaos will undergo terrible mutations. As long as they fall, they will never be able to change back to their original appearance. Only their pure and flawless skulls prove that they have never surrendered to Chaos. yield.

Likewise, skulls are prized trophies by Chaos Warriors and Champions of Chaos, and even Daemon Princes.

With doubts and curiosity, Ryan gently picked up the book.

The book is very old, the handwriting in some places is blurred, and the ink in some places has faded because it was not well preserved. This person's low Gothic is quite poor, and there are many typos and even forced spelling in many places. Strange characters, but you can still read the general meaning.

Low Gothic is the language used by the ordinary peasant class, the civil class and even the low-level nobles. This language is easy to understand and easier to master, but the writing and accent are not so standardized. If you speak High Gothic If the great nobles on both sides of the continent can talk easily and fluently, then the Low Gothic of the Kingdom of Nord and the Electorate of Tuscany in the south of the empire will be two languages ​​from writing to pronunciation.

"Imperial calendar year 1469, the third year since I came to Mount Scarvell."

Ryan frowned, this was more than ten years ago.

"We encountered a big event today. A brother said that when he entered the mountain, he saw a man washing clothes at the source of the river. Ha, it really made us laugh. How can we see people in such a ghost place? No one would bother I came to this place to do laundry in two days, I think we can laugh at this joke all day long, hahahahaha~"

"Well, I think my brothers are all obsessed with it. Today, two loyal soldiers told me that they saw a man washing clothes at the source of the river, but if they were asked to describe what this man looked like, they couldn't I don’t know, or I can’t say anything, I can only say that he looks tall, very tall, and has long bright golden hair.”

"These big-headed soldiers are really crazy! Today they told me that they saw someone washing clothes while on patrol. What the hell? Did their years of military life teach them to see people washing clothes?"

"It feels like something is wrong. More and more soldiers are seeing this situation. It seems that there is really a family in the mountains."

"Maybe I should take someone to see it."

Then there is a long blank space in which several pages have been torn out and a different handwriting has been used.

"In the year 1472 of the Imperial Calendar, our fortress welcomed an annoying mission knight. These knights from Brittany seemed to have no brains. They didn't know that it was the kid who told him that there was a secret sealed in the mountains. Rumors about monsters?”

"Something is wrong. The duty knight has been away for more than a week, but there is still no news."

The next few pages were filled with scrawls, mixed with dust and dirt, and some unexplained words.

"Thank God! It was the mysterious reclusive man who saved us! Damn the Brittanian knight! In order to show his prowess to his lady, he actually attracted the terrible beastman warband! We fought hard but were still outnumbered. , at the critical moment, a friend we knew came to rescue us, my God, I have never seen a person with such a tall stature and powerful strength, my head only reached his arms!"

"Our friend was wearing a very large full-body plate armor, a black wolfskin cloak, and holding a huge one-handed sword. He slashed the invincible screaming shaman in half with his sword, allowing the beast king to flee. The beastman Finally defeated."

"We took out the best food and the best wine to entertain this guest. Our friend was not polite, but he was unwilling to tell us his name and title. He said that he was a guilty person and could not reveal it. Name and title, he asked us about the World Tree, but unfortunately none of us knew. We could only tell him that there were many elves in the Knight Kingdom in the south. Disappointed, he said goodbye to us."

What followed were some journals, and Ryan flipped through them hard. He noticed that the notes and handwriting had been changed by another person. It was obviously another guard captain.

Turning to the last few pages, the handwriting became hurried: "The beastmen are here again. There are thousands of them. They have surrounded the fortress. We can't hold on. At most, tomorrow, tomorrow morning, if the reinforcements don't come... … We will fight to the last man.”

"We couldn't escape. The fierce battle attracted the greenskins. They emerged from the basement. Regardless of the target, the greenskins directly attacked us and the beastmen. This gave us a chance to breathe. Hans was there In desperation, I used a trap to smash the stairs, and I retreated here."

"We can't escape."

This is the end of the diary, or military diary.

Full plate armor? Wolfskin cloak? tall and big? Ryan frowned. Most of the people who would decorate themselves with wolf skins were knights of the White Wolf Knights. He was thinking about whether there was anyone with the right name.

Hmm~ The guilty man, defeating the Beastmen warband by one man, and asking about the World Tree...

Ryan's eyes gradually brightened.

Yes, it must be him, there can be no one else but him.

The former alpha wolf, the former leader of the White Wolf Knights who was canonized as "Wolf Lord" by the White Wolf God of War, and a strong man in the sanctuary, Logan Flins, known as "Iron Claw".

It was only in the great holy war a hundred and fifty years ago that Logan tasted a shameful defeat. The White Wolf Knights suffered heavy losses in the war with the Chaos Army, and the White Wolf Archbishop also died gloriously, even if no one was there. After the war, when his fault was investigated, the great White Wolf Paladin still chose self-exile. He put down the knight's badge that symbolized glory, left White Wolf City alone, and was never heard from again.

But why is he looking for the World Tree?

Ryan instinctively felt that there must be a story, and it must be related to the arrival of Ulric.

What is Logan looking for? Why did Ulric go out of his way to become an avatar for a beastman's head?

More and more doubts filled Ryan's mind.

Until the brutal horn sound outside brought his thoughts back to reality, Ryan immediately realized that something was happening outside.

yes! Why hasn’t Estelle come back yet? ?

Damn, something happened!

It's getting cold again.