Living Gold
Some wooden stakes were brought in to serve as stools, and the consul's men sat in a circle.
Fei Leng spoke first and got straight to the point: "Five years ago, when we left the East Continent and headed for the West Continent of humans, 'Mother' had already begun to breed a very scary monster. In my opinion, this is a more terrifying existence than the King. In the past two years, she has tried to speed up this process, so she has been hunting humans."
Rexia acted as a translator between them.
Gnu's huge body looked like a little giant when he sat down. He sighed and said, "We have been trying to cross the city wall, cross the ocean, and find a new continent. I even set up an investigation team at a huge cost, but no one returned alive every time. The demons would appear from time to time and abduct some people. We really want to know where they came from and want to find their lair and destroy them, but who can think of... Alas..."
Alex could sense at a glance the levels of these people. King Gnu was a fifth-level knight. Princess Montolia had some magical potential, but her current magic level was at most a third-level wizard. In the underground city, among all the people who had lived on the island, the highest level was Elither, a sixth-level knight.
There is a shortage of magic power on the Human Slave Island, and it is not easy to break through to level six. He is still so young, which shows that his qualifications should be very high.
But that wasn't what surprised Alex.
He had indeed never seen these four people when he visited the island before.
The only person he saw was not there either.
Alex kept all this to himself and said, "It's not your fault."
Elither clenched the sword at her waist and said through gritted teeth: "If it weren't for Lord Fei Leng, all these people wouldn't be saved. How could humans be so weak in the face of these monsters?"
Alex: "We call them demons."
Montoria looked at Fei Leng.
Fei Leng waved his hands and said, "I don't care, you can call me whatever you want." He sneered again, looked at Elizabeth and said, "And don't forget, it was me who threw your king into that group and had him torn to pieces."
Alex looked at them.
Elither smiled bitterly: "We have never blamed you for this. If you hadn't done this, he would have used innocent people and knights as bait to cushion his back. Such a despicable person is no longer worthy of being our king."
Alex put the pieces together and explained it.
When Alex first landed, he encountered a stubborn national leader who was extremely difficult to communicate with, and the language barrier made it difficult for him to help.
Later, the knight guarding the city was not seen again, and he was probably betrayed by the king.
When the demons broke through the wall and invaded, the king did the same dirty thing. Things got back on track only after he was beheaded by Alex.
As for the other three, they were probably killed in the battle. The incident happened suddenly, and the troops Alex brought at the time could not take care of three battlefields in three countries.
In the end, not many people were rescued.
In this respect, Fei Leng did much better than him.
Alex gave Fei Leng a smile.
Fei Leng looked at him smiling at her, turned her head away unnaturally and continued: "Anyway, since the human allies have arrived, let's move these people first. The supplies here are almost exhausted, and there are only so many planting areas up there."
Alex nodded and said, "Well, our people will take care of it."
Elena asked: "You were originally a subordinate of the devil. You have been here for so many years. You should be more familiar with the situation here, right? Can you tell us about it?"
Fei Leng nodded and said, "All the kings have been dispatched. Liexia told me that you have dealt with them all. During this period, the 'mother' has been nurturing a new king fetus. In other words, the five remaining knights on the continent are the biggest obstacle. Their strength is one level stronger than the king. The more troublesome thing is that they will cooperate, so we can't let them cooperate."
Alex asked, "You mean to kill them first and then kill the royal fetus?"
Elena also asked: "Why not kill the mother tree first? If she dies, the baby won't be able to be born."
Fei Leng shook her head: "You got the order wrong. 'Mother' is entrenched on the earth. She cannot fight. The five knights and the birth of the fetus are all for her own protection. If her body is threatened, she will directly let the fetus fall to the ground. And we must kill him before the fetus falls to the ground, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous."
Alex thought for a moment, frowning.
Montoria knocked his trembling brother unconscious and asked quietly: "We are having a hard time dealing with a large demon. How can we destroy the king you mentioned?"
Fei Leng said bluntly: "You don't have to participate in the battle. Staying here is just a burden."
Montoria was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
Elizabeth said unwillingly: "I should be able to fight. Let me fight with you!"
Fei Leng looked at Alex: "What do you think?"
Alex looked into Elizabeth's eyes, which were filled with determination.
Elena looked back and forth at the two of them and felt that this person was a bit like Alex.
Of course, there is no resemblance in appearance, but the integrity and courage in his temperament are just like Alex when he was young.
No, he is still very young now...
Elena thought her intuition was wrong and frowned awkwardly.
Alex said to him in a declarative tone: "Your magic is of the light attribute."
Elizabeth couldn't help but blurt out: "How do you know?"
Alex smiled: "Because I am the same." He turned to Fei Leng and answered him: "We stipulate that anyone above level 5 can participate in the battle, and he has reached this level."
After hearing the translation, Elisabeth was not happy, but asked in confusion: "Level 5? My rating is level 5 with you?"
He was already a top knight on this island, and he could feel that the knights in front of him were much stronger than him, but he had no clearer idea of this.
And according to them, level five is the minimum requirement for joining the team, which means that none of the people they brought in were below this level.
Alex smiled softly: "The goddess originally limited humans to level eight, but for some reason, this limit may be disappearing."
Elena pointed at Alex and said, "For reference, this guy is level 10. I'm level 8, and you're about level 6."
Elizabeth was speechless and her face turned pale.
He felt that the glory he once took pride in was insignificant in front of these people.
And what Fei Leng said was indeed true. They were indeed a burden.
Alex looked at his expression and said, "You can choose to quit."
Elizabeth reflexively said, *“No.”
After a pause, he said it again seriously, his eyes not changing much: "No, I want to fight."
*"I will give you all my strength, even if it's just a tiny bit. Please!"
Alex smiled, not surprisingly, "Okay."
Elena looked at the other king: "What about you?"
Hearing this, Genu shook his head and said, "I know my own limitations. I am willing to retreat to the rear to protect my people. I have already let them down."
Alex said calmly: "It's not shameful to want to survive."
The three of them were silent for a while, and the look in their eyes when they looked at Alex changed slightly.
Fei Leng brought the topic back to strategy. He said, "According to current observations, the royal embryo has not yet hatched, but the flower embryo is close to maturity. I don't know what will fall out of it, but the aura is already terrifying."
"Before killing it, we must quickly kill the five knights guarding nearby. We must first kill Knight Shuiyan. Her ability is too terrifying. As long as she is there, even if they only have one breath left, they can directly restore to their original state."
Elena: "What is she?"
Fei Leng: “…”
Alex remembered her, the one who was like a mother, holding the demon cub in her arms and was only responsible for feeding the demon cub.
The five great knights guard the area around the mother tree all year round, each of them performing their own duties.
Shuiyan is not responsible for killing, but only for nurturing. She raises the demon children born from the flower womb until they can survive independently.
She's hard to kill, not in a physical sense, but in a psychological sense.
Alex couldn't get past this level, it was Elena who did it last time.
Alex said: "You can kill him, using the insulated stone weapon."
Elena: “Yes.”
They killed her the same way last time. Although she has the terrifying ability to instantly restore her body, the Insulation Stone is a weapon that restrains the demons. As long as she is pierced by the Insulation Stone weapon, she will die.
Fei Leng said: "Then you have to pay attention to two points."
"What?"
"First, we must confirm her complete death."
"Do I need you to remind me of this?" Elena sneered.
"Second, don't get close to her when you kill her."
"...What did you say?" Elena suspected that she had heard wrongly.
Alex wasn't too surprised.
Fei Leng said indifferently: "The island we are on now happens to be out of Ruo Jin's sight, so Rui Jun chose this island for the experiment, but when we reach the shore of the strait, it will be within his sight."
Ruojin is another knight of the mother tree. He has excellent eyesight and senses and can see things beyond Ji Zeduo.
Elena asked suspiciously, "Then how do you observe the information?"
Fei Leng: "I have Kate, he has very good eyes and ears."
Elena suddenly realized: "Ah, another strange person."
Did he disturb the strange people's nest?
Fei Leng continued to tell the information he knew: "Damon, he has several clones with the same strength as his original body. Glo, be careful of his illusions. Megu... I don't know. Since he cut off his wings, he has never stood up again. He stays under the mother tree and only stands up when the mother tree is in danger."
The demon clan's mother tree has never encountered a fatal threat.
Alex said, “That’s fine.”
Just like those demon kings, if he could kill them once, he could kill them a second time. Moreover, he now had more reliable comrades.
Fei Leng: "As for the king's fetus, at present, everything is unknown."
Elena said: "I asked August to burn it."
*“Ogust?” Montolia was stunned.
Elena: "It's my dragon."
"Dragon?!" Elither and Montolia looked at each other.
"What's wrong with you?" Facing the two people's surprise, Elena raised her eyebrows in confusion.
Montoria opened her mouth and closed it again. She said, "You guys finish talking first, and I will... take you to a place later."
Then they discussed the details of the battle.
The final decision was made quickly, and they planned to take action two days later because the longer they waited, the more likely something would go wrong.
When they came out of the dungeon, Montolia and Elizabeth saw the dragon as they wished, and there was a glint in their eyes.
August seemed too lazy to even move his eyelids and was resting peacefully.
Gnu was in charge of organizing the migration, while Alex left a large force behind to guide them.
Alex and Elena followed Elias and Montolia in another direction.
The two led the way to a more remote place.
The low-lying areas in the valley were once the dry and damp areas of the river valley.
After passing a narrow and bumpy corridor between the mountains, they saw a temple hidden in the cliff.
A very old temple. Alex rarely saw such ancient ruins in the Western Continent, and most of them were destroyed in the war.
Neither Alex nor Elena asked in a hurry. Elizabeth lit the torch and led the few people in.
Fei Leng and Lie Xia were also here for the first time, and they looked around with some curiosity.
clang!
Elizabeth paused.
Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on his waist.
Elither held down the shaking sword for a while, looked behind him, sighed and said, "Forget it, just come out, I'll tell you later anyway."
As soon as he finished speaking, his sword slipped out of the scabbard and the hand of its master and flew away.
* "I feel it! Same kind! My same kind!"
A crack appeared on the sword that glowed with a light golden luster, and a clear child's voice came out.
Alex: “…………”
Chi Jian responded: "Who is calling you grandpa? Who?!"
Elizabeth opened her mouth wide: “………………”
Fei Leng: "…………"
Liexia: “………………”
Elena: “………………Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
The silence of the group of people and the two swords formed a tragic contrast with Elena's unbridled and reverberating laughter.
Elena: "Huh? Why are you all like this? Isn't it funny? Hahahahahaha?"
Alex held his forehead and for the first time felt as if something was wrong in the world.
"I am the one and only God-killing sword in the world! How can there be a sword in the world that can talk like me? This is nonsense!"
*“But I was born to speak!”
The two swords crossed in mid-air, and although they spoke different languages, they miraculously managed to communicate normally.
Alex looked at Elizabeth, who also had a helpless and troubled look on her face, and said, "Maybe you know where they came from?"
Elizabeth nodded: "Yes, let's keep going. I think it's nearby."
They walked some distance further.
The quarrel between the two swords dispelled the gloomy and cold atmosphere of this ancient cave temple.
Elither smiled and said, "Little Jinjian was created not long ago, and he has never seen other swords that can talk like him, so he was a little excited."
Alex said, "It's okay. I've been eating swords for so many years and I've never seen another sword that can talk. He's very good at talking. I actually like him very much."
Elena: "What? What did you call him?"
Chijian: "Shut up! Stop using that idiotic name! My name is God-killing Sword!!"
Alex said, "Don't you think this name is funny?"
Elena: "Did you take it?"
"No, it's Ying."
"I didn't expect he had a talent for naming!"
Xiao Jin said with a smile: "I like the name my master gave me!"
"Who is the master? You are nothing more than the servant of the sword! As a divine weapon with wisdom and the ability to speak, how can you so easily pledge your loyalty to a human being?"
If Fantine were here, she would definitely roll her eyes.
*“But I like my master! Don’t you, Grandpa Sword Eater?!” Xiao Jin turned three or four times in the air.
"......Hey, I am several hundred years older than you, but don't call me that! Call me senior!"
Elither raised the torch: "It is here."
The walls were illuminated by the firelight, and some ancient murals appeared in the field of vision, stained with an orange-yellow halo.
The color is very old, and thanks to the corners and ventilation of this place, most of it is well preserved.
The murals depict simple people, scenes and objects. The pictures on the stone wall extend into the depths, seemingly forming a story.
Elisabeth introduced the story: *“This was discovered during archaeological excavations. Our temple people interpreted the meaning of these murals based on the ancient stone tablets preserved inside the temple.”
Alex asked: "Is it related to the two swords being able to talk?"
*"right."
Elither began his story.
In the distant past, when the dwarves began to mine and forge gold and iron tools, they discovered that part of the ore in the mines always disappeared for unknown reasons, so they sent people to wait in ambush, hoping to catch the thief on the spot.
As a result, they caught a wild boar-like beast at night. Its body was golden, its fur was red-gold, its eyes were golden, and its hooves were transparent light-gold. It ran very fast, but once it was caught, it pretended to be dead on the spot. It had no offensive power at all and was taken away directly.
The dwarves at that time called it the Gold Devourer.
Of course, it's not just because he likes to eat gold ore. He eats almost any metal ore. But compared to the ore of ordinary color, he prefers to eat golden ore. Among them is golden magic stone, which is the magic stone of light attribute. This is his favorite thing to eat.
Some dwarves regard it as a sacred beast of good fortune, while others believe it is a monster that steals wealth.
But in the end, this rare beast was stabbed to death in a war among human races.
He did not have any strong vitality and died quickly, but people soon discovered that his life survived in another form.
Because the gold-eating beast ate too much ore and magic stone, its body was not decomposed after its death, but turned into a pool of gold water, a fluid gold close to liquid, without temperature, but flowing ore. Moreover, it can move around without the help of external forces. Although it cannot speak, it is obvious that this thing is alive.
The dwarves were surprised and terrified.
They call it living gold.
Later, a dwarf came up with a solution. They put him in the coldest cave and froze him. Sure enough, under the extremely low temperature, the living gold turned into solid state.
Many years later, he took a small piece of living gold and forged a sword. The sword was famous for its ability to suck blood and speak human language. The powerful knights at that time fought for it. Later, at some point, the sword was lost and its whereabouts were unknown.
This is where the record of living gold ends.
Chijian poked at the mural in disbelief: "This is me?! It's so ugly?!"
Alex: “You don’t remember?”
"Who can remember something that happened so long ago? I only remember fighting many powerful creatures at that time, and then I came to the human city. People kept changing, but no human could hear my voice."
Xiao Jin couldn't contain his excitement and flew up: "It's my turn!"
Elizabeth smiled and held it in her hand. "When I was a child, my grandfather asked his good friend to cast a sword for me. The raw material was a piece of live gold that naturally fell off. At that time, these stories had just been explained. After the sword was cast, I was the only one who could hear his voice, so he stuck to me. We grew up together, but he is still like a child. Maybe he is still very young for a sword."
"That's because you're the only light knight on this island. Who else can I choose if not you?" Chijian stretched his mouth.
Elizabeth said: "Let's go in. The living gold is sealed inside."
Elena said, "I thought this thing would be better sealed? Is this how you keep precious things?"
Eliza said: *"It is almost impossible for a knight with light attributes to use this thing."
Alex asked, "Where's the wizard?"
Montolia said: "I am the only one on this island who can use magic to some extent. I only learned about the profession of wizard from Lord Florence, and also... things like spells..."
She doesn't have the goddess' spell, but she can still use magic, and it's amazing that she can use a certain amount of magic.
Alex and Elena looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.
Given the level of development of this place, it is naturally impossible for it to have mature magic technology.
They continued to go deeper.
Montolia also picked up a torch.
She held the fire close to one side.
*“It depicts many scenes that have existed in history. For example… yes, this is it…”
Elena looked over and saw that the mural was of a dragon.
A dragon that is larger than the dragons that now inhabit Dragon Canyon, and has a purer color and shape.
*“It is recorded here that there used to be many dragons on the continent. They were one of the most ferocious overlords on the continent, but there was a good bond between them and humans. In fact, they just disdained to eat humans. However, when the disaster occurred, even the dragons were reduced to fleeing... We originally thought... that the disaster had passed, and the remaining demons were only scattered... But who would have thought... that this was just the beginning..."
Montolia looked unhappy and was unable to continue.
When she first learned the truth, she couldn't let it go for a long time.
No one could immediately accept such an absurd fact.
The wall was originally built to protect people, but in the end it became a tool to imprison people.
They were just livestock kept on the island by the demons to be slaughtered.
"What's so scary? I've already killed hundreds of thousands of them!" Chijian snorted coldly.
Xiao Jin: "Wow! Senior is so awesome!!! I also helped my master kill some demons!!"
Elena murmured: "Could it be that..."
She thought of Auguste.
His injuries and his psychological shadow.
She asked, "Is Auguste a word in your language?"
Montolia nodded: * "Yes. It means a date that does not exist, or after the end of the world."
Elizabeth said: *"So we were surprised that you actually brought a dragon and named it in our language."
Elena pressed her temples.
It turned out that Auguste escaped from the East Continent and came to the West Continent during that time.
From this perspective, most of the dragons in Feilong Canyon seem to have fled here, but most of them have reproduced and thrive in the canyon, forming sub-species populations.
As they talked, they had already walked into the main hall of the temple, where the living gold was sealed in a huge block of ice.
Montolia stretched out her hand, and the ice melted with difficulty under her magic, revealing a small piece of live gold. Once the ice melted, the live gold immediately flowed and dripped down.
Montolia quickly froze the gap again.
The dripping piece of living gold moved "panic" on the ground, leaving behind a shadow of gold. It quickly found its direction and tried to escape from the temple hall.
Montolia stretched out her hand again, frowning as if she was concentrating on controlling it. Finally, under the effect of her magic, the living gold floated up.
But struggling desperately.
Cold sweat broke out on Montoria's cheeks.
Elizabeth took a transparent box from the side and quickly locked the piece of living gold inside.
Alex had seen the material that made up this box before; it was Fairy Wings, a type of magic stone used to make mirrors.
However, the one in front of me is very rough and the color is extremely cloudy.
The live gold was spinning in the box, but it couldn't get out. The lid was tightly closed, and the live gold couldn't get out.
Montolia added another layer of frost to the lid of the box.
The activity of Huo Jin immediately slowed down, and he looked rather pitiful.
Xiao Jin said happily: "Am I going to have a sister?!"
Elena said with a smile: "Do you have male and female swords?"
"Of course!" Chijian and Xiaojin blurted out at the same time.
Fei Leng asked: "Do you want to use this to make a new sword?"
Elizabeth said: "That's not necessary. I want to try to use this to strengthen our two swords, especially the sword eater. He has been through too many years."
Chi Jian heard this and shouted, "It's still a long way from my death!"
Alex nodded and said, "Okay."
Elena came over: "Where's mine?"
Alex: "You still need a weapon? I always thought you fought with bare hands."
Elena: "Haha, that's funny. You can joke, too. You're the one who destroyed my sword the most. Even if I'm not a light attribute, I still need a weapon that's strong enough, right?"
Eliaser and Montolia quickly produced another pile of gold.
Only then did Elena smile with satisfaction.
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