The Amber Sword

Act 35 The phantom of yesteryear

Under the clear sky, it is the brightest sunshine since spring.

On the banks of the Brass River, such a scene should be in April or May. The green meadows continue to the end of the river beach, the forest is lush trees, and a waterwheel or sawmill is faintly seen where the golden river turns.

The flowing water is clear, and the river passes through the pebbles on both sides, and is sent to the downstream Viero area along with the wind between the pine mountains. But to the native people, this river is like an endless poem flowing in the river, which contains the wisdom of the years.

Brando thinks so, he walks along the river bank, listening to the sounds of the forest. There are bears in the forest, but it is not easy to see. In one of his memories, this was the place where his grandfather loved to bring him. But in his other memory, this area is the zone he is most familiar with. Forests are small animals of several levels. Bears are local bosses, and they drop a piece of leather with good texture.

The two memories were fused and intertwined in his mind.

The third memory is about the golden devil tree--

Looking at this familiar landscape, his thoughts could not help but go back to a few minutes ago:

"Freya, Roman. To make a long story short, you should have realized that you can control so many servants and sons through your mind-the true power of the golden devil tree is in the power of the mind."

"The power of the mind?"

"Roman, don't interrupt."

"Sorry, Freya."

"Yes, the power of the soul. Peeping at the thoughts, remotely controlling the human heart, creating a mysterious illusion, detaining the soul." Brando replied: "In fact, when we deal with the Devil Tree, the Golden Devil Tree has begun Affects our thinking because it has been dreaming a long dream, and this dream will soon be integrated with you and me. "

"dream?"

"Well, we will soon enter our respective dreams separately. You will see some incredible things there, but before that I have some points I must tell you ..."

Brando pointed towards the middle of the valley, where the golden devil tree was becoming more beautiful in their eyes. Its branches seem to stretch out in all directions, exuding a kind of vitality-this is the manifestation of the golden tree's dream extended to the real world.

In the game, the shepherd gave the golden tree the blood of God to awaken it, but also let these elven holy trees fall into eternal dreams. These dreams are all about the fragments and words of a dark world, and mortals will be insane even if they only glance at them.

Just one of these dreams is also quite deadly to the player, and once involved in it, they can lose their lives at any time. But to fight against the golden devil tree, and had to enter its dream.

This will be the first stage of the battle against the Golden Devil Tree, the illusion. The battle at this stage was considered by the players to be the most difficult in the game, but the guild called "Meta" used a clever method to solve the problem.

This approach was a little-known secret earlier, but Brando comes from an era when it has been widely circulated among players.

Coincidentally, his resources are just enough to complete this plan.

But these are not enough--

Because when the first stage is over, the next stage of battle in reality depends on real strength to determine the outcome. This stage was relatively simple in the game, but the opposite is for the original Brando and his party. It is a bit difficult to say.

The reason is without him. Most of the players in the game enter this copy with an average level of 25 or higher. However, Brando, the highest of the three at this moment, is only level 10. It is difficult to rely on the help of the best equipment. Min Wither herd arrived before ending the battle.

This is why as soon as Brando mastered the destiny card: Holy Sword, the abacus immediately hit the head of the golden devil tree. Because as long as you use the destiny card, it seems that all the conditions to kill the golden devil tree are in place.

"Point?" Freya's voice pulled him back to reality.

Brando nodded and nodded: "Because it is the dream of the golden devil tree entering our dream, you must remember that you are the leader of this dream. So no matter how it constructs this dream, how fierce it creates Beasts, but none will exceed your limits— "

He remembered that in this game, the golden devil tree should release some of the strongest monsters that the player had encountered in a single player in a dream, and then reproduce the scene. But it's not just that simple-here the player will get a negative emotional value. When he makes more mistakes and injuries, the negative emotional value will increase and the monster will become stronger.

Therefore, this battle often ends because the monsters are getting stronger and stronger, the players are getting weaker, and finally enter a vicious circle, and players cannot resist and end.

Brando doesn't know how this negative emotional value will behave in reality, but there is only one core. That is to be confident in yourself and try to ensure the best state of battle to join, only in this way can you win.

He pointed to his forehead and looked at Roman and Freya seriously: "Concentrate your attention and ensure high morale. The attributes of human will--"

"Will attribute?"

"Don't interrupt, Roman!" Brando replied angrily: "I mean willpower, and human willpower is not fixed. He will float up and down according to your state, focus and ensure high morale It will keep your willpower at its peak. The firmer the willpower, the harder it is for the golden magic tree to mobilize your negative emotions. Do not be controlled by negative emotions, otherwise the consequences will be serious. "

"How serious?" The future merchant lady looked at him with big bright eyes.

Brando didn't answer, he was afraid that his words would make them too nervous, and nervousness was also a kind of negative emotion. Because failure means that the soul will be permanently trapped in the trunk by the golden demon tree, and it will not be released until the golden tree is flamed to ashes, but liberation is also death.

The surroundings had gradually become hazy.

But Brando has one more rule that has not been explained, because in this battle there is such a rule. When the first person wakes up, he can enter the dream of the next person, pass on a belief for his companion, and let the other party Nightmare can be defeated more easily.

However, everyone in the team only had this opportunity once, so the guild at that time generally arranged a wake chain; the strongest person entered the dream first, then the second strongest, and then the strongest, so when the strongest person in the guild was the most When you wake up first, you can help the people below. This sequence can make the team's downsizing in the first stage not too serious.

Now Brando intends to change the order.

"I was the first to dream," he said, "then Freya, and finally Roman."

"How to enter the dream?" Freya asked.

"Just close your eyes. I'll close my eyes first, then you, and then Roman—" Brando almost bit his tongue, and he immediately reached out and held Roman's eyelids, because He saw that the merchant lady actually planned to close her eyes and try it.

"Ah!" Roman yelled, holding Brando's hand against his forehead.

"Curious kills the cat, young lady!"

"I'm sorry."

"The world of magic and mind is very dangerous. Be cautious of everything." Brando sighed, and his plan was like this. I have the best ideas, of course, I should be the first to enter a dream. Freya is behind him because he thinks that the future Valkyrie is probably the hardest to defeat himself among the three people-because the heart is too much, the greater the danger.

But it would not be too dangerous if he was assisted by someone with experience. On the contrary, the simple-minded Roman should be easier to escape from the control of the Golden Devil Tree, and with the help of Freya, success is a matter of course.

The duration of the first phase is five minutes, which is extended to half an hour in the dream. If they do not break away during this time, they will also be imprisoned forever by the Golden Devil Tree because they are lost.

It looks like a very successful project, at least Brando didn't find any problems on it. If they succeed, in addition to the considerable rewards, there will be plenty of time for activities in Rittenberg. What is the situation in Rittenberg now and what will happen in the future? No one of them knows better than Brando. To find Roman's aunt there and successfully evacuate, there is more hope every time.

He patted the bright thorns around his waist and took a breath. The dream of the golden devil tree is very real. When he takes a deep breath, his lungs are filled with the moist soil of the riverbank, which is the smell of March and April, green grass and growing forests.

But what does it mean that the golden tree boss threw him here? Does it think that the strongest monster he encountered was the old brown bear in this forest?

That dare to love, only the rare elite at level 16, now he can easily solve.

But in Brando's memory, the Golden Devil Tree was not so kind. On the contrary, these creatures distorted by the so-called "blood of God" are the purest evil creatures, and their evil is not even justified.

But counting time, it ’s almost time to trigger the plot, right? Although it's been a few days in this world, Brando has subconsciously used the word that triggers the plot, without him, just the habit.

At this time he heard a sound of metal clashes, Brando's ears moved, and for a person who is familiar with swordplay to a certain degree (level 3 military swordplay), the voice alone can tell that this should be Two people are duel.

But it's not intense, it looks like practice.

Brando didn't choose to avoid, because he knew it was pointless to avoid in a dream. And avoiding danger means cowering. This is a negative emotion, maybe it was used by the golden devil tree. He followed the source of the sound and found that the sound came from behind the sawmill watermill not far away, but approached, looking around the tall vertical waterwheel, he saw two unexpected People--

An old man with a pile of snow and silver hair, wearing a dark blue uniform with a sword in his hand, standing there naturally gave a towering temperament, like a mountain. However, it was the old man's look that made Brando's heart jump. He had a sense of indignation and intimidation in seriousness. If someone with a ghost in his heart looked at it, he would probably avoid his gaze with anger.

The other is a little boy holding a wooden sword. It may not look any different from other children, but it means differently in Brando's eyes.

He recognized at a glance that this was Brando, and that it was Brando as a child. He was startled, looked up, and immediately realized who the old man was. That must be Brando's grandfather, a veteran of the November war, and a recipient of the Candle Fire Medal. Obediently, that's incredible. Although Eruin is already dying, the medal of the Temple of Fire is not so easy to take--

However, the dream set by the Golden Magic Tree this time seems a little different from the game, Brando's heart is tight. But with such hesitation, he immediately felt that the grandfather of Brando in front of him was more and more stable, and some of them began to affect his mood.

"Negative emotions!" Brando immediately realized that he had been unknowingly affected, which was different from the game. After all, the system in the game cannot manipulate human minds, but it is completely different here.

This makes fighting more difficult than in the game!

Brando couldn't help but take a deep breath and pressed his own pockets. Fortunately, he still had the greatest support. Although somewhat unexpected, the situation is at least under control.

Thinking of this, he calmed down.

The old man's gaze also stopped on him, and for a while, he said, "Boy, are you qualified to inherit everything from my grandson?"

This sentence gave Brando a slight shake.