Beginning as King of Elden

Chapter 18
Standing in front of Stonewell's castle, the dilapidated and huge building can still give people a sense of oppression even if it is lifeless.

There were many soldiers guarding the main entrance.

No matter how many ordinary miscellaneous soldiers with long swords and shields there are, he is not afraid at all now, but the large number of archers behind him is indeed a headache.

Li Lin vaguely remembered that there was a mountain path leading to Stonewell City.

But he didn't go that route.

Now that I am alone, I can only try to find the trail I heard about.

One last look at the main entrance, Li Lin walked around the entrance of the city and groped for the path next to him.

Turning around the corner of the ruins, Li Lin saw a skinny man with dirty clothes and a strange rectangular bag hanging on his chest.

"Sorry, could you come over here, please?"

He opened his mouth and said, there was no light of blessing in his eyes.

Li Lin walked over with the weapon in hand.

"You are a fader." The scrawny man said nonsense.

"If you want to enter the city, I advise you not to go through the main entrance. There are a group of highly skilled soldiers blocking it."

"But you don't have to worry, just go in through the cave over there."

Li Lin turned his head in the direction he pointed.

Looking down this path, Li Lin saw beyond the eyesight of ordinary people that there seemed to be a dark cave at the end of the mountain road in the distance.

"The soldiers on that path didn't know about it. There should be a way to directly invade the city without being discovered by them."

...I always feel that this person is very suspicious.

"Who are you?" Li Lin asked directly.

"An ordinary fader businessman." He whispered, "Different from someone like you who is very powerful at first glance, I am weak and can only make a living by doing odd jobs and selling small things."

It always feels weird.

People who say they are ordinary are generally not ordinary people.

But his body is indeed very weak as he described, and there is no trace of magic power.

Li Lin didn't think too much anymore, and walked directly along the path towards the cave in the distance that he saw.

This path is indeed very rugged, and in many places, if there is not enough physical fitness and jumping ability, there is even no road for walking at all.Li Lin believed that the soldiers didn't know about this route.

While he was jumping cautiously on the narrow mountain stone road, a huge eagle suddenly attacked from the sky.

There are actually two long swords tied to the eagle's legs...

Hearing the wind in advance, he swung the curved blade to kill it. Li Lin couldn't help admiring the beast trainer's brains and skills.

Remove the two slender straight swords from the eagle's corpse's legs.There is a hollow pattern in the middle of the straight sword, and the material is surprisingly good.

Li Lin conveniently put the sword into the chrysanthemum of the fourth dimension.

There are quite a few of these eagles with swords tied to their legs on this long mountain road.

On the rugged and narrow mountain roads where there are even no roads in some places and you can only move forward by jumping, if you are not prepared and strong enough, you will easily fall off the cliff during the battle with these eagles and be smashed to pieces.

Walking not far from the cave he saw before, Li Lin had collected more than a dozen of these straight swords.

When he got near here, Li Lin discovered that this is not a cave, but a circular passage with stairs for climbing in the mountains.

Although this passage is small and very hidden, it is also guarded by soldiers.

That guy wasn't telling the truth... However, from here, it seems that there are indeed far fewer soldiers here than at the gate.

It happened to be dark at this time, and Li Lin didn't want to alarm too many soldiers, so he lay down, waited for the patrolling soldiers to turn around, and quickly rushed up the stairs quietly along the edge.

Before reaching the top of the ladder, the patrolling soldiers turned around and saw Li Lin again.

The moment before he turned his head, Li Lin had already accelerated violently, his figure flashed with lightning.

Just as he had time to touch the horn at his waist, the sentry was beheaded with a sword.

There was already a little movement, Li Lin no longer concealed his steps and rushed directly towards the top of the ladder.

From the side door of the castle at the top of the ladder, two soldiers with swords and shields came out.

The giant curved blade swung away the longsword of one soldier and killed him, and the turtle shell shield blocked another soldier's stab.

Li Lin turned around and cut another soldier under the sword.

An enemy on the high platform not far away looked over at this moment, holding a crossbow and about to fire.

Li Lin took out the eagle straight sword in the storage bag at an extremely fast operation speed, and threw it at him fiercely.

With a sword piercing his chest, the soldier's finger had already hit the crossbow trigger, and he fell from the high platform before he could activate the crossbow bolt.

Stepping into the castle, as soon as I entered the door, I saw two mummy-like soldiers in armor who were resting.

Seeing the stranger intrude, they were hurriedly preparing to stand up.

Go ahead and rest.

The hound's long teeth snapped, and the two lay down on the ground again.

The hurried footsteps did not stop at all, Li Lin hated this narrow space, and continued to run up the stairs inside the castle.

Climbing up to the second floor, there is a huge number of barrels in front of you.

There was an unpleasant smell like gasoline in the air.

Not far away were two skinny soldiers holding torches.

That’s why I hate narrow places!

Looking at the two soldiers holding torches, Li Lin's heart tightened and he stepped back at an alarming speed.

"boom!!!"

The next moment, a violent explosion occurred.

The lightly armored invaders were drowned in the sea of ​​flames and thick smoke, life and death unknown.

Mummy-like soldiers stared into the smoke, waiting for the smoke to clear to identify the bodies of the intruders.

"Whizzing."

Two straight swords flew out in the fading smoke, nailing the two slow-moving mummy soldiers to the wall.

"Cough cough cough..."

Li Lin walked out of the smoke and dust, covered in darkness.

The first time he flew back, he curled up and hid behind the turtle shell shield at the moment of the explosion. He was basically unharmed.

It's just that he looks a little embarrassed.

After waving his hand and waiting for the smoke to dissipate, he continued walking towards the stairs above.

As soon as I went up to the next floor, I saw the oil drum in the narrow passage in front of me, and the soldier above it who turned his eyes and held a torch.

Again? !
A burst of anger welled up in his heart. There was only one soldier in front of him. Li Lin threw out his straight sword first and nailed him to death before he could throw out the torch.

Continue to go up, and send a soldier to eternal sleep, he saw an unlocked iron door.

Pushing open the door, there was darkness inside the door, and the candlelight on the wall outside the door came in, and a corpse could be seen directly in front of the door.

There seems to be a key on the body.

Li Lin walked in.

Bow down and pick up the key from the corpse.

It was a rusty key, of unremarkable style.

"Oh!"

The iron gate was suddenly closed from the outside.

"Eh hee hee~" A weird and disgusting laugh sounded outside the door, and the voice felt inexplicably familiar.

"tread."

In the dark room, he heard slightly heavy footsteps.

(End of this chapter)