[Western Fantasy] The Master is above

Bulu is a very small village in the Enya Empire.Because of the proximity to the western border and the remoteness of the terrain, the villages in this area are poorer than in other areas.But at the same time, because of this, the whole Bru village is very peaceful and quiet.The villagers are also gentle, docile and timid.

So when people kept seeing black skeletons appearing in the countryside outside the village, Bruce began to feel a faint panic.Even the village head has nothing to do about it, he can only tell everyone to reduce going out recently.Waiting for those who went to the Guangming Temple in the nearby county to ask for help.

However, due to the remote terrain of Bulu Village, it will take a long time to rush to the county seat.During this time, the suburbs began to be feared by everyone.But many people in the village make a living by collecting and hunting in the countryside.No matter how panicked, I have to go.

Tina sat in the clearing at the foot of the cliff.Holding his ankle that was constantly tingling, his eyes were full of indescribable horror.I regretted it very much, why didn't I wait for Lisi and the others to come out together in two days.In fact, the food at home, if you save a little more, you can still survive these two days.

Thinking of the black skeleton she saw in the grass in the distance just now, Tina shivered all over again.It was because she was frightened that she accidentally fell backwards and fell off this cliff.

The cliff is not far from the ground, with a height of more than two meters.But Tina's ankle is injured now, let alone climbing up, she even has difficulty standing.

After waking up from the drowsy pain, Tina kept calling for help.However, few villagers came to the suburbs recently, and even if they came, they left cautiously and quickly.No one noticed that she was still forgotten at the bottom of this edge of the cliff.

As the sky gradually darkened, Tina shrank and curled up her body.The unique chill of the night began to permeate the thin coat, and the sprained ankle was still swollen and painful like a knife.But none of this was the hardest for Tina.

All kinds of subtle but unknown subtle noises in the dark night are the things that make her most nervous now.The black skull that had been glimpsed before falling off the cliff was constantly recalled and magnified in Tina's mind.Even the sound of the breeze blowing the fine sand on the ground could immediately make Tina's eyes widen in horror.

The constantly tense spirit and chill quickly made the injured Tina lose her mind.The vision in front of her eyes seemed to be a little blurred, and Tina thought in a daze: Will should be waiting for him at home now, I wonder if he is hungry?Maybe already started crying.

I have to go back quickly, Will is still so young, he can't do without himself.

The surrounding noises gradually moved away from Tina's ears. She stared blankly ahead, her weak but rapid breathing made her chest rise and fall slightly.The fear gradually dissipated due to exhaustion, leaving only the vague and persistent idea of ​​going home.

A more obvious "rustle" sound suddenly came from the ground not far away, but Tina no longer had the extra energy to pay attention and fear.After the loose soil raised and shook slightly, a black shadow appeared beside Tina without a sound.

At this moment, Tina felt as if she was in a dream, her whole body was light and light.The surrounding scenery is blurred in the gloom and trance vision.She could feel herself being held up by something like a black figure.

But all of this is like a dream, and the fear and shock have flowed away with the confused thinking.Even when she saw the dark, empty eye sockets on the skull up close, Tina felt at a loss.

She didn't know when she was laid flat on the ground beside the cliff, until through a blurred vision, she saw the approaching fire in the distance.

On the day Tina disappeared, the villagers with torches finally found her on the edge of the cliff in the middle of the night.Because of the fever, the person has fallen asleep.But when Tina woke up the next day, she claimed that it was a black skeleton that rescued her from the cliff.

The villagers were shocked by Tina's statement, but no one suspected that Tina was lying.In a simple village, there is no deceit and doubt in people's thinking.But thinking that Tina was not awake at the time, it might just be a hallucination.

It's just that from the discovery of the skeleton to the present, there has been no incident of being injured by the skeleton.No matter how suspicious the villagers were about Tina's affairs, the village's fear of skeletons finally eased a little.

But this kind of easing didn't take long. Even before they could come to the Guangming Temple in the county town for help, another news came from a neighboring village—a group of bandits suddenly started appearing in this area.

This news once again made everyone in the village of Bruin tense.

They are just a very backward and poor village, and the conditions of the nearby villages are not much different from theirs.Such a place, logically speaking, would not attract the attention of the bandit group.But this also shows that once they are targeted by groups with malicious intentions, they have no power to resist.

The rumors of the robber group did not dissipate as quickly as the previous skeletons, but more and more people saw the terrifying traces in the suburbs.The air of fear weighed heavily on Blue.The villagers began to hoard food, strengthen doors and windows, and look for various places to hide.

This situation continued until a young man who was out hunting ran back to the village in a panic.When the young man clutched his injured arm and yelled that there were robbers, the whole village immediately felt like a zither string that had been tense for many days and finally broke.

The whole village began to panic and boil, and the villagers immediately threw away the things in their hands.

The women screamed in small voices, calling for their partners and children; or they walked around the door anxiously, waiting for family members who had not returned.The men hid their wives, children and the elderly in the deepest part of their homes, and guarded behind closed doors and windows with farm tools.

The village soon became empty.But a village with thin earth walls and wooden doors and windows is meaningless to the bandit group.

In less than a moment, a large number of strangely dressed people appeared outside the empty village.They have no unity with each other, approaching from a distance in a mighty way.A team of four or 50 people, without any formation at all, is a large and noisy area.The conversation was loud and chaotic.

It wasn't until the robber group entered the village that a middle-aged man dressed as a swordsman walked in the front and waved his hand, "Go and find them, but restrain yourself!"

The four or fifty people immediately dispersed in a clamor, and began to wander around the village with their weapons in hand.

"Hahahaha, this kind of small village has nothing to restrain us."

"I told you to come in and look for it a long time ago. There's a fart for wandering outside!"

"Hey, is the thing responding again? Damn it, I found nothing after searching for a few days. Don't just run away again?"

"Be quiet, old man! Hey, there are still two good looking ones in this place..."

……

The sound of kicking the door, roaring, yelling, screaming... The silent village suddenly boiled.

Tina held Will in her arms and crouched tightly under the cabinet by the window.She tried her best to suppress the trembling on her body, but she couldn't do it.In the end, he could only comfort the child in his arms with an indistinct vibrato,

"It's okay, Will, it's okay...I'm here. It's okay..."

The four-year-old boy tightly covered his ears and squeezed his thin body into his sister's arms.The sound of roaring and screaming became louder, and the sound of doors and windows being kicked open seemed to be getting closer.

Finally, with a loud bang, the wooden door of Tina's house was also kicked open.Tina bit her scream in her mouth, wrapped her arms around Will in her arms, arched her body and curled up in the shadow of the cabinet.

But the man who broke the door is clearly very skilled at finding things.Moreover, the area of ​​the shabby hut is too small, and the places for people to hide are very limited.But after a few glances, they spotted the siblings next to the cabinet.

Hearing the sound of approaching footsteps, Tina raised her head screaming, her terrified expression suddenly went dumb when she saw the person walking in.His expression suddenly changed from frightened to relieved.

"Light, light...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the expression from fear to peace of mind, a white light exploded around her.There was a big hole in the earth wall behind her immediately, and the broken earth and wood scattered all over the ground around her.

Tina screamed hoarsely and curled up in her arms again, looking at the mage in white clothes and boots with familiar patterns on her shoulders.

"Tsk! There are only two children." The mage tilted his head, as if annoyed by the offset attack just now, "No matter what, you still didn't see anything."

Tina's eyes widened.Staring at the handsome but ruthless mage in front of him.The white light gathered in the opponent's hand made Tina suddenly feel a life-like fear of such a sacred color.

"No, no, no..."

Tina hugged Will and pressed her back against the mud wall behind her, but the brighter and brighter holy white light blew in her ears like the horn of death.

"Help, help--!!!"

The ball of light on the mage's palm flashed and rushed straight away in an instant.While Tina broke down and shouted, suddenly a black shadow rushed out from the side.

boom--!

Following the loud noise, Tina trembled for a while before slowly raising her head.

Except for some dust around, everything remained the same.Will was still sobbing softly in her arms, and the cold wind behind her through the hole in the dirt wall made her shiver, and her thinking became a little clearer.

Tina looked in surprise at the sorcerer lying coughing at the door, and at the somewhat familiar black figure standing in front of her.

"You, you are..."

"Cough cough, cough...cough cough cough..."

Before Tina came back to her senses, the mage on the ground rolled over and got up again.While coughing in embarrassment, the mage in white stared fiercely and panicked in the direction of Tina and the skeleton.

"Found it! They are here!!" The mage yelled, and quickly turned around and ran out the door.

After the mage left, the skeleton finally turned around, patted Tina's head with his dry and slender palm, and walked out the door with a slight sound of bones colliding.

Tina stared blankly at the direction in which the skeleton left, and the top of her head seemed to still retain the reassuring touch of the icy cooling just now.

"Father, father...?"

After a while, the shouts from outside changed.The loud uproar of the bandits gave way to angry shouts, and the terrified screams of the villagers faded away.

The young man lay on the ground in amazement, looking at the skeleton in front of him that blocked the two arrow feathers with his body.

Watching the skeleton take out the sharp arrow locked by his ribs, and with a soft "click", he turned the skull and gave a slight signal to the young man.The young man quickly regained his senses and got up from the ground.Following an instinctive reaction, he hid in the room behind him.

But after a while, there were no ordinary villagers' voices outside the house, only the bandit group and more and more black skeletons remained.

Most of these skeletons are not comparable to the bandits, but they are hardly afraid of any attack.Whether it was cut to pieces by a swordsman, scattered by magic, or covered with arrow feathers all over the body, they couldn't have much impact on them.At most, it will take a little time to restore the scattered bodies on the ground to their original state.

In addition, the number of skeletons is also increasing.The black bones that broke through the ground quickly formed tall skeletons.Like a black tide, it kept rushing toward the bandits.

The skeletons can't make any sound, just the slight "click" of the bones when they walk around.This tiny sound was overlapped by countless skeletons, echoing in every corner of Bru Village.

With more and more "clicks", the voices of the robbers from anger, to surprise, to fear are getting farther and farther away.After an unknown amount of time, night enveloped the village, and then the sun once again replaced the darkness.Until then, Bru Village was completely quiet.

The whole village seemed to be suspended in time.

After a long period of silence, someone carefully opened the door and peeped at the situation outside.

The robbers and skeletons had disappeared at this time, if it weren't for the destroyed houses and the messy streets around them.Bru Village is as quiet and peaceful as every morning.

More and more villagers began to walk out of the house cautiously, looking around with trepidation.Crying and comforting voices gradually sounded, and people gradually recovered from the nightmarish day and night.

"Yes...it's father!" Tina pulled the village head who was already slightly bent, and shouted proudly and excitedly: "It must be father who protected me and Will last night. Father...he came back to protect us He must be the one who brought me back from the cliff that day!"

"is that so……"

"The one who protected me before...could it be grandfather?"

"God of light, are the ancestors who have passed away come back?"

"God of Light? Last night, last night, I seemed to see a holy mage... in the bandit group!"

"I've seen it too! I know both the badge and the uniform! It's exactly the same as the picture that the pastor showed us!"

……

More and more villagers came out of their homes. After crying and comforting, the discussions became louder.Everyone looked at the dilapidated village and recalled what happened last night, but they were still unbelievable like a nightmare.

"Huh—mission completed."

Two voice shadows, one black and one white, squatted behind the haystack not far from where the villagers gathered, listening to the villagers' reactions.

The white-clothed mage patted the dust off his body, and asked the young man in a black cloak beside him, "Hey, are you necromancers so powerful? One person can pick a bandit group."

"How is it possible." After the young man took out the message crystal and reported the mission, he quietly stood up from the ground, "Ordinary skeletons are just the lowest level of first-level summons, as long as they don't have fear in their hearts, they can mess up their positions. A first-level combat profession It is not a problem to deal with seven or eight skeletons."

"The ones before that..."

"I said it was just an ordinary skeleton." A black condensate suddenly appeared between the young man's fingers, and after jumping around his fingers twice, it disappeared again, "Otherwise, you think we might just be a group of two ?"

The white-clothed mage looked at the thing that disappeared from the young man's palm in surprise, pulled the uniform that was almost invisible on his body, and stood up with the young man, "This is how this thing is used..."

During the low-pitched conversation, two shadows, one black and one white, quickly disappeared from the range of Bru Village.Just like the army of skeletons that appeared, leaving no trace.