novelonline Chapter 2421 Fog Bridge and Strangers
Chapter 2421 Fog Bridge and Strangers
Chapter 2421 Fog Bridge and Strangers
"If even justice..."
"Don't be so pessimistic."
Shade interrupted her again, his eyes once again looking into the eyes of the blonde maid:
"Justice is not absolute, so we don't know whether our actions are correct. But that doesn't matter. As long as we have a clear conscience and strive to be a light that guides more people, then we can call ourselves righteous."
"Do you consider yourself righteous?"
She thought about it for a moment, and there was a hint of indescribable meaning in her eyes.
"Of course I am not righteous. Justice is too heavy a burden. But at least for now, [Eternal Light] appears to be righteous. I admire their ideals, but as for their practices, I will not comment on them."
He smiled at Matilda again, but didn't notice the blush on her cheeks hidden by her hanging hair.
"Justice is pale and cold, but our souls are warm. There is no point in deliberately pursuing justice. It is enough to understand the truth, practice what you preach, not bully the weak, and lend a hand to others appropriately."
He continued to look at the opera house building, and the blonde maid standing behind him nodded slightly. For a moment, she seemed to understand what her master saw in the man in front of her.
Although the opera house has a back door, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Ronan both walked out of the front door in casual clothes after changing out of their white robes.
They first walked east together along the street in front of the opera house. Two intersections later, Mr. Ryan, an ordinary man, left in a carriage, while Mr. Ronan continued walking east.
Under the cover of the thick glowing fog and illusion, Shade and Matilda followed him from a distance. The six-ring gentleman did not go around in circles, but kept moving forward with a clear goal. Soon he came to the bank of the Taton River, then walked south along the riverside street and walked onto the bridge at the entrance of the unfinished Yuewan Bridge.
Although it is Wednesday afternoon, the Yuewan Bridge has been temporarily suspended due to the thick fog and there is no one on the bridge at this time.
Although they were confused about what he was trying to do, Shad and Matilda followed him.
The bridge deck had not yet closed, so Mr. Ronan certainly could not walk all the way to the other side of the bridge. So after this gentleman from [Eternal Light] stepped onto the bridge, he followed the scaffolding used by the workers and climbed up to the upper level of the bridge as nimbly as a monkey.
"Can you fly?"
Xia De asked the girl beside him in a low voice, and the latter shook her head slightly:
"Same as Miss."
There is a distance of about 141 feet (about 43 meters) between the upper and lower levels of the Yuewan Bridge, which is beyond the current 20m limit of Raglan's jump.
But this did not bother Shade. They stood there and watched the Six-Ring Warlock climb onto the upper level of the bridge. Then Shade motioned to the girl beside him to hug him:
"You must not let go, this is no joke."
After hesitating for a moment, the maid reached out and hugged Xia De's waist. Although she knew it was nothing, she still felt her heart beating rapidly at this moment.
The memories of that night that had appeared frequently in her dreams recently came back to her mind. The maid's face turned red as if it was on fire. She was worried that Shade would notice something was wrong with her, but Shade was just struggling over whether to tell her or not. He meant for her to hug him from behind:
"Forget it, that's it."
The "Weathervane Bluegrass" extract was dripped onto the tip of his tongue, and then he threw out the frog's leg. He held Matilda's waist with one hand, and threw the cards upward with the other. After bending down slightly, he suddenly kicked and jumped upward as if flying.
Squinting his eyes, he stared higher, estimated the distance to be right, and took a step forward in the air:
"Raglai's Leap!"
Two people appeared out of thin air twenty meters above their heads, stepped on the cards that had just been thrown up, and jumped forward again, then stood steadily on the upper level of the bridge.
He very gentlemanly took off his arm around the girl, but Matilda was a beat slower than him to let go of Shad.
She took a step to the side and saw Shad raised his left hand. A card flew out of the mist and was caught in Shad's hand. He said to the still blushing blonde:
"Let's go and see what Mr. Ronan wants to do."
The thick glowing white fog not only blocked the vision of Mr. Ronan who was walking in front, but also blocked the vision of Shade and the others. Fortunately, Shade relied on the document-level relic [Eye of the Crow] that he obtained in the Crow's Nest after hunting demons, and was able to barely see through the fog and see Mr. Ronan's figure still in front.
Compared with the nearly completed lower level of the bridge, the upper level of the bridge, which is covered with scaffolding on the side, obviously still has a lot of work to do. However, due to construction requirements, the upper and lower levels of the bridge extend the same distance on the west bank of the Taton River.
The steel plates under his feet made a rhythmic sound as he walked. Mr. Ronan didn't walk for long before he stopped at the end of the bridge.
The blurry figure stopped moving in the fog, but Shade suddenly raised his hand to stop Matilda beside him:
"There's a second person."
Another figure appeared beside Mr. Ronan without warning. The fog made it impossible for Shade to see the other person's appearance clearly, but the newly appeared ring wizard obviously saw their figures:
"You two, it's enough to follow me here. I don't know what your plans are, but don't follow me any further."
The voice was so vague that it was even difficult to tell whether it was a man or a woman.
Xia De took a small step forward, protecting the maid behind him, and stared at the new figure:
"Our plan has been successful. Look, you have already appeared, haven't you?"
"Do you know who I am?"
The vague figure asked, and Xia De shook his head slightly:
"Of course I don't know, but since Mr. Ronan, the priest, asked for help from you, you obviously occupy a more central position in [Eternal Light]. By the way, can you tell us how we were discovered?"
"If you can tell us the identities of both of you, I certainly wouldn't mind resolving your doubts."
The blurry figure asked, and Shade's eyes were gradually adapting to the fog. He glanced at the small bat symbol floating above the figure's head - this ability came directly from the blood-sucking god, and it had a very high priority. After hesitating for a moment, he reached into his pocket and then took out a long sword that he absolutely couldn't put in his pocket.
The surface of the long sword is covered with dragon scale patterns. This is the "Dragon Scale Long Sword" that Shade carried with him when he followed Miss Belindel out of the city and encountered the werewolf that night. The long sword was strengthened by the dragon scale coin in the [Earth Core Furnace]. Although it is not as good as a relic, it is also a top alchemical weapon.
The blurry figure at the edge of the bridge also noticed that Shade had taken out his weapon, so the figure nodded slightly and reached out to grab a flash of blood from the mist:
"Well, you won't admit defeat without a fight. No matter which side you two belong to, I won't kill you. [Eternal Light] has no intention of getting involved in the big event that this city is about to face, so if you lose, don't investigate us."
He waved his hand to signal Mr. Ronan not to participate, and then said to Xia De and the others:
"You guys come together."
Although he spoke in a big tone, as the bells and whistles rang out from the thick fog, the life ring floating behind the figure actually looked to be only at the level of six or seven rings.
The glowing mist was so thick that Shade couldn't even see what the spiritual runes belonging to him were.
The blurry figure disappeared just as suddenly as he had appeared, but this was not a spatial movement. Losing the other person's figure also meant losing the trace of the small bat symbol on his head. Xia De fully released his perception and raised his right foot to step on the bridge surface. He used the "Space Stability Aura" first, and then his eyes caught a trace of blood coming from his right side.
The bloodstain in the vast fog was as conspicuous as ink. Shade did not use his right sword to block it. Instead, he chopped the blood-colored moonlight with his left hand, which collided with the bloodstain. Then he pulled Matilda behind him and stepped back, and appeared twenty meters away.
At the place where they were originally standing, three spears transformed from pure white light pierced out from under the bridge. As the three spears scattered into light points and merged into the fog, the light in the stirred fog gathered as if it was being drawn away, until it gathered into that glowing blurry figure.
"Illusion? Clone?"
The blonde maid asked softly, and her six-ring life ring had already appeared behind her. At this distance, Shade also saw that the life ring behind the figure 20 meters away was also six rings, but that life ring was not made of brass, but was made of pure white light.
"I am not sure as well."
Shade replied, the little bat symbol still floating above the figure's head, so at least it wasn't an illusion.
"Be careful."
"Yes Master."
He was a little surprised by the answer, but he didn't have time to think about it at the moment.
With a flick of his left hand, the chain of sin shot out from his sleeve like a long snake into the thick fog ahead. The figure obviously didn't want to touch the chain, and the figure once again dispersed into light and merged into the fog, then appeared directly beside Xia De.
The blood light in the hands of the vague glowing figure had obvious whispering elements, but it was wrapped in light and could not be seen clearly. The blood light collided with Shade's sword, and under the situation that Shade's power was dominant, the surface of the dragon scale sword cracked with a click.
He didn't have time to complain that he didn't have the chance to bring a holy sword with him today. He swung the chain with his empty left hand, but the light figure dispersed again and avoided the chain. He reappeared on the side of Shade and slashed with his sword again. This time, the dragon scale sword broke into two pieces with a sound of "crack".
The tip of the sword spun and flew under the bridge, while Shade, who disappeared on the spot, also avoided the sharp edge of the blood light. He appeared from behind the self-luminous figure and stabbed the opponent's back with the blood-colored moonlight dagger.
The dagger successfully hit the target, but when the moonlight entered his body, Xia De actually felt that part of the power of his spiritual weapon was absorbed, and then the dagger shattered like glass.
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