Chapter 118: Meeting the Firewood Collector Again
Chapter 118: Meeting the Firewood Collector Again
The three people on the periphery of the battlefield raised their hands to block the sweeping aftermath.
The collision between the two giant beasts surprised the three people. There was no doubt that this was the leader of the God Statue Tribe and the Hundred Polar Tribes.
Their battle continues.
However, Li Miao caught a glimpse of something on the altar behind them, his eyes lit up: "Yuanfang, Brother Yu, look, there is a treasure chest on the altar!"
Upon hearing this, Brother Yu and Yuanfang also saw the box on the altar.
The box looked simple and ancient, and was placed in the center of the altar. Beside it were some oddly shaped bones and grains, which seemed to be used for some kind of sacrifice.
Li Miao thought for a moment, and then he had a good idea: "How about we go around and take a look at the altar first?"
Yuanfang thought for a moment and nodded slightly, and Brother Yu had no objection.
The two giant beasts in front of them are very powerful. Even if they want to fight, it will take time for them to deal with them.
After making up your mind.
The three of them quickly bypassed the battlefield between the two giant beasts, and after killing several monsters that blocked their way, they arrived at the edge of the altar from another direction.
"This altar is a bit high." Li Miao looked up, then jumped up, just grabbed the edge of the altar and climbed up.
Brother Yu followed closely behind.
At this moment, Yuanfang realized something was wrong and stopped moving.
"Yuanfang, come up quickly, what are you doing?" Li Miao turned around and urged.
However, what responded to him were two extremely angry roars.
"Ho--" "Ho--"
The two giant beasts that were originally fighting for their lives, upon noticing the intruders on the altar, simultaneously turned their guns around and charged towards them.
The steel bristles on the neck of the commander of the hundred tribes burned fiercely and turned red. The next moment, they broke away on their own and flew towards them like arrows from the sky!
The blood of Fearless was also boiling at this moment, and red mist filled the surface of his body. He roared and waved his arms, and a blood-red air blade came towards Brother Yu and Li Miao on the altar.
"I rely on!"
Seeing this, Li Miao's heart skipped a beat.
This was bad. Originally, they had no intention of getting involved in the fight and were planning to try to steal the home base. However, they didn't expect that this attempt to steal the home base would result in them being forced to fight two people at once!
Boom boom boom!
Brother Yu and Li Miao quickly left the altar and raised their shields to block the flying steel bristles.
They thought that this would make the two giant beasts turn their attention to each other again, but they didn't expect that they seemed to have already locked their eyes on them, and instead rushed towards them, shaking the earth!
"Now we have no choice but to fight."
Looking at the two fierce beasts coming at him, Brother Yu said helplessly.
"Use the potion." Yuanfang said calmly, then took out the potion and drank it all in one gulp.
Brother Yu and Li Miao followed closely behind.
In an instant, the power brought by the magic potion filled the whole body, and the strongest three-person team among the players was about to face the two most powerful giant beast bosses on this unknown relic star!
……
"Hey, let me put my skipping class theory into practice today."
Niu Niu smiled and teleported into the new copy he had reset. He was about to walk towards the last underground space to put his theory of skipping classes into practice.
However, what puzzled him was the faint sound of fighting coming from the front.
Hmm? Isn't Mushroom still researching his potion in the Magic Hut?
This surprised Niu Niu. He scratched his head and was about to listen carefully, but he found that the sounds around him suddenly disappeared.
Before he could react, control over his body was gone.
What followed was a sudden freeze and flickering of the screen.
The next moment, his eyes suddenly went dark and he was forced to come to the login interface.
[System program error, repair is in progress, please wait patiently...]
"what?"
"Is there a bug?"
Niu Niu was dumbfounded. This was the first time he encountered such a situation.
……
After Niu Niu’s body disappeared.
Another candle spirit body spread out from the candle and then froze into the appearance of Rogue.
The unlucky Niu Niu certainly didn't encounter any bug, he just found a reason to force the account to top.
The reason why he did this was naturally because he had made some discoveries and received feedback from Lingzhu.
Another thing is that I don’t trust this kid Niu Niu.
If it were any other player, he might not do this and just issue a task.
But this kid Niu Niu... Roger really couldn't guarantee what outrageous things he would do.
So, to be on the safe side, he came by himself.
Of course, he didn't use his real body because the repulsion was too great. Instead, he used the body of the candle spirit that he condensed when he went to the prayer chapel before. Although its strength was not that great, the repulsion was much smaller, so it was completely sufficient to use it as a vest.
After simply moving his joints, he slowly walked down the stairs.
The further down we went, the louder the sounds of fighting became.
There is no doubt that the SM couple has already started fighting with other people.
This copy was once owned by Niu Niu and Mushroom, and there would be no other players besides them, so there was only one possibility left...
After Roger lifted the blood-red vines that blocked his view, he saw the two sides fighting in front of the bed.
One of them is undoubtedly the Mad Lord and the Tyrannical Lady.
On the other side was a skinny knight wearing tattered armor.
He held a heavy sword in his hand and had skilled fighting skills, but since his own hard power did not seem to be very strong, he could only deal with the double attack of the Mad Lord and the Tyrannical Lady with difficulty. He rolled and dodged in the pool of blood, looking quite embarrassed.
Wow, wow...
Rogge stepped into the pool of blood and slowly drew out the candlelight sword on his back.
The skinny knight seemed to have caught a glimpse of Rogue at the door. While he was distracted for a moment, the Mad Lord's sword chopped him down on the head!
The pupils of his eyes shrank under the visor, and he subconsciously wanted to raise the heavy sword to block.
But in the next moment, the sharp edges of the swords collided with each other!
when--
The crisp sound of metal clashing was heard, and sparks flew.
The skinny knight was stunned, as if he didn't expect that the tall warrior would help him.
The Mad Lord roared, and his strength suddenly increased.
The tyrannical lady behind also attacked with a whip at this time.
But Rogge didn't even think about fighting it head-on. He swung his sword with one hand to relieve the force and used the other hand to pull away the knight behind him.
Bang!
The Mad Knight's sword slashed suddenly on the ground, splashing blood.
Rogge rolled to a safe place, glanced at the thin knight next to him, and nodded slightly at him.
Although the knight opposite was wearing a face armor, he nodded and understood instantly. The two of them soon joined forces to attack the Tyrannical Lady and the Crazy Lord.
As for these two bosses, Rogge couldn't say that he knew a little bit about them, but he could only say that he knew them very well.
Every time this Crazy Lord took one step, Roger knew where his next three steps would be.
In addition, he himself had rich combat experience, and this vest body had also been upgraded to a higher level to ignite the flames of war, so it was easy for him to deal with the couple.
What's more, there is an experienced knight next to him to cooperate with him, so the result is naturally predictable.
Swish!
A cold light flashed by.
The mad demon fell on his body, and the couple murmured, and then his head fell off, revealing the figure of a thin knight swinging a sword.
Bang!
After the crazy demon died, his body fell to the ground with a loud bang.
Under Rogge's eyes, countless spark-like orange-red lights emanated from its body and merged into the chest of the thin knight.
Some dropped objects also appeared on the ground, but they looked obviously different, showing the orange-red color of ordinary fire.
Completely different power... but it seems to be a little weaker than the spirit candle...
After quietly looking at everything in front of you and keeping it in mind.
After Rogge put the sword into the scabbard, he took off his visor and looked at the thin knight in front of him.
"Hello, my name is Gro."
He said this in a mixed language that even he himself could not understand, and then used the power of the spirit candle to convey his meaning.
"Hello! I'm Claymore, a firewood collector. Thank you very much for your help, Mr. Gro."
When the tall warrior who saved his life saluted him, the thin knight quickly took off his helmet, revealing a still slightly immature boyish face, and saluted respectfully to Rogge.
Roger was not unfamiliar with this etiquette. At least the one that Nonia had corrected by holding his arm was the etiquette of this world.
Firewood collector...as expected.
"This is not a suitable place to chat, let's go outside," Rogge suggested.
Upon hearing this, Claymo nodded quickly and followed Rogge. The two of them left the underground space and came to the outside of the fortress.
On the way, Rogge said nothing, but actually took him deliberately passing by some conspicuous places where milestone spirit candles existed.
But Claymore didn't react at all, as if the milestone candle had never appeared in his sight.
It seems that he probably can't see the milestone spiritual candle...
After arriving at the fortress, the two stopped.
However, before Roger could speak, Claymore couldn't help but speak first.
"Mr. Gro, are you also a firewood collector?"
Hearing this somewhat immature and doubtful question, Roger smiled slightly.
He did not answer, but took out a bright red spark, spread it in his hand, and asked back.
"Do you know Ryan? How is he now?"
"Have you seen other firewood gatherers?" Seeing this Mars, Claymore's surprise was beyond words, but he soon felt a little disappointed.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Gro, I don't know the 'Ryan' you're talking about..."
"But he should also be a firewood gatherer, because this is 'Return to Mars', a magical thing that allows firewood gatherers to return to the campfire, and only firewood gatherers have it."
Claymore revealed the real name of the Mars to Rogge, and also told him how to use it, and even the name of their base.
Return to Mars...Bonfire...
After thinking for a moment, Roger put away Return to Mars, and then continued with some regret.
"He was seriously injured and on the verge of death. He left by returning to Mars. I don't know if he is okay."
Claymore was not aware of Roger's veiled inquiry, but responded:
"Don't worry, Mr. Gro. As a firewood collector, no matter how serious the injury is, as long as you don't die on the spot, you can recover by the campfire."
"What happens if someone dies on the spot?"
"Of course it's burning part of the soul." At this point, Claymore suddenly realized, "Mr. Gro, you mean... you're not a firewood collector?"
In response, Roger shook his head and did not feel embarrassed, but responded calmly.
"No, I'm not a firewood collector, I'm a candle spirit."
“Candle Spirit?” Claymore’s eyes were filled with doubt and surprise, as if someone who had been alone in the darkness for a long time had finally seen a glimmer of light…
……
Claymore.
When the young and naive boy woke up, he found himself in a small closed room. In front of him was a bonfire that had been burning for who knows how long and... the witch's soul in the dagger.
He had lost his memory and didn't remember why he came here or who he used to be.
The only thing he has is his instinctive fighting skills.
Through the witch's soul in the dagger, Claymore learned that they were all people who were saved by the bonfire during the disaster. Only by going into the broken world and fighting continuously can they gain strength to achieve the ultimate goal - to pick up the broken firewood and save the burning land...
Therefore, they are called...firewood gatherers.
This is a destined to be a lonely, dark and tortuous road with no end in sight, but they have no choice but to move forward.
Death is never an easy thing for them.
Every death will burn part of their soul, which is an extremely painful process, but it allows them to continue exploring as "alive".
But the soul is ultimately limited. Once their souls are burned out, they will eventually die and everything will return to nothingness.
Claymore was very worried about such a complete death, but he had no choice but to grit his teeth and explore, using the power of the campfire to travel to one broken world after another.
The witch soul told him that his first goal now was to find a place called "Fire Temple", where he might be able to meet other firewood gatherers.
This is what Claymore is looking forward to at the moment.
Although Claymo learned from the witch's soul that he was not the only firewood gatherer, the probability of meeting one in the vast fragmented space was very small. At least so far, Claymo had never encountered one.
Not to mention Mr. Gro, the "Candle Spirit" in front of him...
As for Rogge, his account of his origins was much more vague.
After listening to Claymore's words, Roger was thoughtful.
The matter of the dagger and the witch's soul is undoubtedly related to Nonia...
As for this bonfire…isn’t it just a low-end version of the spirit candle?
No, it should be called a castrated version.
The source of the bonfire did not react at all to Rogge's arrival.
Moreover, after the firewood collector dies, he has to burn his soul to revive, which means he will die truly. This is really outrageous...
You know, for Rogge, the most precious thing should be the soul that controls the body...
He vaguely felt that this matter might not be that simple, but he couldn't remember why.
Then, he set his sights on Claymore, with the idea of poaching him.
If he could get the soul of this young man, he could create another NPC like Nonia.
However, after exploring with the power of the spirit candle, it was discovered that his soul... was not complete?
It's raining heavily. I didn't get the call until almost seven o'clock. I worked overtime to code two chapters. Please forgive me... It's raining heavily again. I hope it won't stop tomorrow...
(End of this chapter)