The Amber Sword

Act 26: The Mystery of Gold

Everyone saw the lonely tree when they saw it. Brando was talking about the golden apple tree. They naturally thought of that aspect? The mercenaries immediately thought that Brando had said that the legendary fairy queen lives under the golden apple tree, and seeing her mortal is doomed to go out of this valley in her life, she can't help but fight A chill.

These people could not help looking around subconsciously immediately, for fear of being trapped here forever if they were not careful, they managed to escape from the dead army of Madara, not to live here forever.

What they didn't expect was that Brando wasn't worried about any golden apple trees at all. In the previous life, players like him have already turned this valley over. This valley, which looks mysterious to others, has no secret in his eyes. From here, it goes north to the other side of the valley. In addition to the bare ground and mist, there is no hair.

No monsters, no treasures, no living things, no trace of anger. As for the legendary golden apple tree and fairy queen, they are nothing more than imaginary. They only spread in the myth of npc verbal, players have never seen it before.

But what surprised him was the solitary tree. He repeatedly confirmed that he should remember that there was no such tree in the game.

This valley he walked back and forth many times, should not be mistaken, because the scenes and things in the valley are idealized manifestations of the king, even if the day changes, the night will return to its original state-Brando Remember, unless the plot or time flow in the valley changes, the scenery will change accordingly.

But there should be no mission in this valley. Does it mean that the fairy land in this moment is not the one in the game? Brando immediately had a guess in his mind, unless someone had concealed his experience, or the fairy land had changed before the player entered.

But which one should it be.

The former seems possible, but if you think about it, you will find some doubts. For players, it is often difficult for one person to discover all the secrets of a place, so even if the first person conceals it, the chance of everyone thinking of going together is small. However, Brando immediately thought and did not rule out that it was a person who came repeatedly many times. Although this seemed to be ideal, it was not impossible.

He recalled that the first person to discover the valley should be the theologian of the Star Guild, a player named ‘Kranwo’. The second one is a knight, the third is a female player of kok, but the time interval between the three is only a few days apart, and the possibility of concealment is not great.

Brando shook his head, not for that reason. So this is the second one. This valley has changed before the player enters. This is not possible in the game-but it is also two factors.

One is the plot change, and the other is npc exploration. He could not help frowning. Without the player's participation, he would not know much about this task. Unknown-this is a big trouble for him.

But Brando stared at the tree, still involuntarily interested, just like every player, his interest in the pursuit of secret tasks was innate, like an unknown treasure involuntarily attracting people to chase.

Like tasks that involve Taikoo knowledge, aren't they too ordinary?

He immediately gestured to the others, asking them to stop the refugees. Anyway, the night in the valley is stopped relative to the outside time. This one night will last three days and three nights, as long as he has time to explore the valley before their food is eaten.

In fact, the valley is so big to go back and forth. It only takes a few hours to run a horse around, and it doesn't take three days.

He saw Reto looking at him in doubt, before pointing at the tree and responding, "There seems to be some problem. I'm going to check it out."

"Need manpower?" Although bar owner Reto was a veteran of the November war, he was helpless in the face of mysterious things, and he could only ask based on his own experience.

Brando does need manpower.

But he looked at the mercenaries and wasn't convinced of them. After all, this may involve some legendary treasures and the same danger. He does not want to share secrets with these people. He must find a trustworthy talent. He looked at Shire first. The young mage obediently was his best choice--as a summoning creature, he and the young man could almost share secrets--unfortunately, Shire had already run out of battle that night. Mana, now he is only better than an ordinary person.

He looked at Roman again. The merchant lady was not very qualified. Although she had a keen sense, she was too weak to go with him.

Roman looked at him and blinked.

Brando knew that the merchant lady was pretending to be such a good-looking one, so that he could take her on an adventure, but Brando would not be fooled. He finally turned his head back to Freya, who was absent. Body.

"Freya?"

"Ah? Ah-!" Freya looked up at him, froze, and flushed.

"What's the matter with you?" Brando was surprised to see her like this. In his original impression, Freya should be an autonomous and insightful girl, but how has she been since Xavier Hill Road? It always feels weird.

If it wasn't for the Elven Sword to respond to her, Brando would have wondered if she had been replaced by Madara's undead.

"No, nothing, Brando, is there anything wrong?" Freya was just thinking about Brando's weird request before, and was panicking, for fear of being seen through.

"I'm going to take a look. You're with me."

Freya froze and nodded immediately: "Okay, okay."

"I'm going too." Miss Merchant wriggled on horseback.

"You stay here for me. If you want to learn how to ride horses, I'll let Charr teach you, but if I come back and see you tie yourself to the horse, I will drag you over and tie it to my horse. Behind. "Brando glanced at her and replied fiercely.

"But I can't learn it," Roman answered simply.

Can't you be humble? Brando couldn't help but shook his head: "It doesn't matter, there is still plenty of time. Riding a horse is a very simple thing. You always have to venture with me, not riding a horse is not good."

"It's okay, Brando. I can tie myself to the horse. I don't find it uncomfortable." Miss Merchant thought for a moment and answered honestly.

"The relationship is very strong, and this is not necessarily related to whether you feel comfortable." Brando glanced at her angrily, too lazy to ignore the complaint of this future merchant lady, and went to Reto alone to explain After a few things to pay attention to, I took another spare crossbow and called Freya to leave.

In Brando's memory, the most likely plot in this valley is the west branch. However, the more the secret place, the more times the players searched, in fact Brando also visited once or twice, but in the end, he found nothing.

Only now he still remembers the grass, trees and mountains in the area.

The two left the team. Brando kept an eye on the surrounding scenes. After about ten minutes of running, he finally confirmed his conjecture-the fairy land and the game at this moment are definitely different, and they must be after this Something unknown happened over the course of several months.

But after seeing him spinning around a rock, Freya was puzzled behind him and couldn't help but catch up and asked, "Brando, what are you looking at?"

"I'm looking for the entrance." Brando was constantly turning the horse's head to look out of a messy white giant rock. At this time he seemed to find something, and suddenly turned over and dismounted, walking towards the rocky ground.

"Entrance?" Freya dismounted and asked after it.

"Well. That's it, come with me--" Brando answered, pulling out the elven sword ‘铮’, and stepped towards a narrow gap in the center of two sharp rocks.

He remembered that it was called 'Fork in Destiny', and there would be hints in the system log when he came here in the game, but there was obviously no hint in this world, and he could only do things by experience.

He remembered that there should be an open iron box behind the rock, which contained a slate, which was a necessary prop to enter the fork of fate, but could not bring out of the valley. Someone tried to carry the thing in a dimension bag, but the final result disappeared inexplicably.

It can only be explained that the slate was originally an idealized part of the world.

He thought about this circumvention of the rock, but did not expect a strong wind to come. Brando's feeling was quite acute at this moment. Before his brain could react, his body responded subconsciously. He stepped back, collided with Freya, and the next moment a golden one The arrow flew almost at the tip of his nose.

The two fell backwards, but Brando looked up at the last moment and saw only a golden figure disappearing behind the rock instantly. This was his quick response, otherwise he could not even see where the attack came from.

"Who--!" Brando subconsciously backed up and wanted to get up from the ground to catch up, but he pressed his hand down and suddenly felt that the starting point was soft, and he finally reacted after a slight sigh. I can't keep my mind blank.

No, right?

He turned his head, and he saw that his hand was not biased and rightly placed somewhere on the girl's chest. Freya had completely choked, staring at him with bright light brown eyes. Just speak.

But the future Valkyrie finally reacted. She shoved Brando aside, and then quickly got up, her head down and said nothing.

Brando also responded, and he couldn't help but awkwardly climbed up and pretended to look at the direction in which the golden figure had receded-of course, there were no ghosts there.

"I'm sorry, that ..." He thought for a long time, only squeezed out such a dry sentence.

"Well, who was it just now?" Freya lowered her head, flushed as if to bleed.

"I don't know. I saw a golden figure. The fairy is not like that. It's more like summoning a creature." When asked about the professional field, Brando's thinking was much clearer.

"You, are you not injured?" The girl's voice was as thin as a mosquito.

Brando glanced at her and shook his head. He paid particular attention to the old golden arrow, but found only a deep hole on the side of the rock.

Mitsuya?

Brando frowned at the small hole, but it was a high-level weapon effect. But at least I confirmed that what I saw just now is not an illusion, and it seems that the strength of the opponent is not as good as Alberton. He thought of this and relaxed a little. As long as he is alert, there should not be too much trouble.

In the battle with Alberton, he has already confirmed his strength, and he will reach the silver level with all his strength, and enemies below silver will not be too scared now.

After examining the battlefield, Brando gave Freya a vigilant gesture, then grasped the elven sword and drew in.

He remembered that the golden figure escaped from the gap in the north, and the back was the entrance to the fork of destiny. Could it be that they came from that back? But in the game, I have never heard of anyone being attacked.

He immediately saw the iron box behind the rock-it was born on a white stone platform, as if who had set it up. If you have more power than the gold level, you can destroy this box, but it doesn't make much sense, because it will automatically return to its original appearance the next night.

Brando looked around, and now he couldn't believe his memory. At least that golden figure has changed some discretion in his memory. Not only are there creatures here, they also look hostile.

After confirming that there were no enemies around, he opened the box. But as soon as he opened the box, he couldn't help but hold him.

In addition to a slate in the box, there are a pair of earrings.

what is this?

Brando hesitated. He was afraid that there might be magic traps on the box. Although there was no magic trap in the game, who can tell it now. However, he has a simple test method. He leans the elven sword, and there are often some simple protective measures between enlightened magic items. He just needs to see if there is a reaction.

Although this method is not always effective, it is better than nothing.

Brando quickly arrived at the result-no response.

He picked up the pair of earrings, glanced at it, and immediately lost it as if it was hot, "Endless ice earrings, intelligence +2, will +1." Brando could not help but snorted, subconsciously Covering his head softly, at this moment he was almost a headache, as if a thousand needles were stabbing his meninges.

"Brando?" Freya was startled, and hurried up to support him.

"I'm okay, be careful around you." Brando held an iron box with one hand, panting heavily, and cursed loudly in the heart of the person who placed the earrings here. Of course, he knew what went wrong. This wasn't a trap. It was purely because the magic kickback was too fierce—of course the biggest problem was that this ring was at least 95oz. How could it appear somehow? In this place!

His first reaction was that he had hallucinations. The second reaction was still impossible. Butch is still a novice zone in this season. Most encounters will not exceed level 50, and this ring has far exceeded the level that the encounter can bear, at least it has reached the level of seventy.

Therefore, when Brando would use his willpower to retrieve this ring, he had a strong magical kickback, which made his thoughts appear blank for a moment.

And such powerful magic items appear in a low-level area.

It stands to reason that this flaw will not occur in the game.

There may be some changes in this world, but Brando does not believe it will run counter to the game's settings. He finally waited until the headache eased a bit, calmed down and realized another problem:

What if this sacred remains was originally set up for npc?

The more he thought about it, the more he thought it was possible. After all, the first discovery of this valley in the game was not long after the game started, and about two months after the end of the first Black Rose war. If there was nothing at that time, it means that the designer did not intend to let players participate in the plot at all.

Brando couldn't help but wait for the pair of earrings, his heart pounding, a hidden task over sixty levels? Is he trying to get a fish in the water? Or quit quickly?

The risks are of course unimaginable, but the gains can be unimaginable. Brando has only completed three hidden missions above the 60th level in the previous life. He has only won fantasy weapons once, gained intermediate skills, and once gained wealth close to 100 million Tor.

Only with the experience of these three missions did he rank among the players in the upper and middle reaches.

But how big is the risk? The sixty level is like a trowel placed in front of Brando. The sixty level says golden power, even the elements are more than ten levels. If you want him and a sixty level The ordinary monster takes a face, and it is estimated that the other person will give him a second with one look.

Brando's hand rested on the iron box, and he couldn't help but feel agitated for a while, hesitated and couldn't decide again.

Because there is still a key issue, in the next three months, there may be any time in the valley that everything will no longer exist. It is possible that he gave up this adventure today and he will not have the opportunity to choose again tomorrow. For a moment this distressed head was wandering in his mind like a cold ghost, encouraging him to take risks again and again.

What will he do?

The young man couldn't help but take a breath and looked back at Freya.

"Brando?" Freya looked strangely at Brando's eyes, and couldn't help but ask carefully.

"If I choose to take a risk, would you go with me?" Brando asked in a husky voice.

"I may, but I don't want you to take risks, Brando." Freya thought for a moment, and said so.

Brando hesitated for a moment, nodded, and exhaled.