Chapter 303 St. Nicholas Lake

In the dim passage, only a faint moonlight could shine in through the hole in the wall.

In the shadows, Roland was walking calmly in the passage, his right hand gently sliding across the wall.

The black crystal wrapped in gold hanging around his waist was diligently assisting Roland.

Roland's mental power carefully poured into the surrounding walls, recording the chaotic and complex rune design that had been developed over the years on the northern defense line.

In front of Roland, Hela was quickly clearing the corpses and filth in the passage and cleaning it up.

Hela was the first to reach the end of the passage. Through the window at the end of the passage, Hela saw the tranquil lake illuminated by the moonlight.

Behind her, Roland recorded the last rune and completed the large rune diagram in his hand.

After spending two days and one night, Roland finally recorded all the Shit Mountain Runes on the northern wall.

Looking at the densely packed rune diagram on his hand, Roland didn't even want to look at it. He resisted the urge to throw it directly into the space bracelet. After checking it several times and making sure there were no errors, he put the rune diagram into the space bracelet.

After doing all this, Roland breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his head and looked at Hela in front of him.

Hela stood by the window at the end, the bright moonlight pouring in through the window, illuminating her upper body.

Roland walked to Hela's side and followed her gaze out the window.

Lake Saint Nicholas.

A large lake in the very center of Donnar.

When the central government of the Central Kingdom was powerful, shipping on Lake St. Nicholas was an important means for the central government to control various places. A large number of government orders, materials and troops were quickly moved to various places in East Nar by shipping.

Moreover, Lake Saint-Nicolas has rich fishery resources, and a large number of fishermen rely on Lake Saint-Nicolas for their livelihood.

At the same time, it is also the lake of life of Donnar. It and its countless tributaries irrigate countless arable lands, nourishing the land and the people from generation to generation, and becoming the cradle of the development of the Donnar people.

Lake St. Nicholas is named after Nicholas, the founder of the Central Empire and the first legendary knight of mankind.

Legend has it that at the end of Nicholas' life, after passing the throne to his descendants who were unknown how many generations later, he walked into Lake St. Nicholas alone and completely disappeared from human sight.

Since then, a huge and gentle force has permeated Lake Saint-Nicholas.

Not only will this force not harm humans, but it will also actively protect humans. As long as fishermen hunting in Lake St. Nicholas do not seek death or are not greedy, they will basically not die an unnatural death.

But they are not so friendly to other alien races. Races like elves and dwarves, which were relatively friendly to humans during the Central Empire period, will not be protected or harmed.

As for other alien races, even the dwarves, halflings, or orcs who still have a good relationship with humans, as long as they dare to enter Lake St. Nicholas, this gentle force will instantly become violent and strangle them all.

The same was true for the Green Tide. The green-skinned orcs who dared to enter the lake were basically killed. Even if Kan Aozu came to break it, he could not do anything about this force. Kan Aozu finally gave up and chose to keep the green-skinned orcs away from this side.

Therefore, many refugees managed to survive by crossing the lake to avoid the green tide.

Roland was relatively familiar with the situation in Lake St. Nicholas. He didn't know whether Nicholas died here or not, but Nicholas's heritage and legendary weapons had always been there.

After all, the news that a player obtained Nicholas' inheritance from Lake St. Nicholas and obtained a legendary weapon caused a sensation.

Even the news of the All-Donar Chicken Eating Contest, which was the hottest and attracted the most attention from players at the time, was suppressed by this news.

After the player triggered the inheritance, the NPC participants of the Donnar Chicken Eating Contest rushed to Lake Saint Nicholas like crazy, and battles broke out one after another, resulting in a large number of event tasks. Even if Roland had not been there, he had heard about it.

In addition, after the news spread, a large number of spellcasters went to the Kes Mountains to dig up ruins everywhere, trying to find Littorio's heritage and legendary equipment. However, no one, including Roland, found it.

Looking at the Saint-Nicholas Lake in front of him, Roland had an idea.

If memory serves me right, due to Nicholas' orders, this ownerless legendary weapon has been wandering unconsciously in Lake St. Nicholas, protecting humanity.

Although this legendary weapon is of knight type, it is not very useful for spellcasters.

Moreover, although Roland had seen this technique many times on his opponents in professional competitions in his previous life, he had never used it himself.

Therefore, Roland could not guarantee that he could use it well.

However, if he could get it, Roland would naturally have more confidence in dealing with Kan'ozu.

After all, as a professional player, even if he mainly plays a mage, he still knows a thing or two about the knight's various tactics.

If he had this legendary weapon, Roland estimated that he should be able to fight Kan'ozu for a few rounds in pure close combat. In this way, his tolerance for error would be greatly improved.

However, according to the equipment requirements that have been circulated, this legendary weapon is not so easy to obtain.

Either accept and pass Nicholas' inheritance and get the recognition of the legendary weapon, or become the king of the entire Donnar and meet Nicholas' requirements to inherit it, or find it and defeat it, and crack the back-up plan left by Nicholas and forcibly master it.

The last two points are fantasy for Roland at the moment and are simply impossible to achieve.

If Roland controlled the entire Donnar, it would mean that the Green Tide was expelled or destroyed by him, so why would he still need this legendary weapon?

As for defeating it? If Roland, a spellcaster, could defeat it with hand-to-hand combat, then why would Roland need it?
By the time Roland can achieve any of the last two points, this legendary weapon will be of no use to him.

Therefore, Roland still has to rely on inheritance.

However, the only problem is that Roland does not know the specific content of Nikola's inheritance. The player who obtained the inheritance in the previous life did not reveal any content about the inheritance.

This meant that Roland could only improvise on his own.

Moreover, it is not known whether Nicholas' inheritance can be passed on to spellcasters.

After thinking it over, Roland decided that he had to give it a try.

It’s just the inheritance of a legendary knight. Even if he fails, can he still stop Roland?
While Roland was thinking, Hela beside him also turned her head and looked at Roland silently.

"what happened?"

After coming up with the idea, Roland also noticed Hela's gaze, turned his head to look at her, and spoke.

Hela smiled slightly, retracted her gaze, looked at the St. Nicholas Lake in front of her, and said.

"nothing."

Roland glanced at her. It was obvious that Hila was busy, but she didn't want to talk about it, and Roland wouldn't ask.

Anyway, judging from the positive energy fluctuations in Hela's body, Hela is in a good mood now, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

Roland only used this method to roughly judge an individual's emotions based on the fluctuations of individual elements, and he did not use magic to spy on Hela's true thoughts.

After all, people should respect each other. Unless they are enemies or criminals, Roland will not pry into other people's hearts.

Moreover, the energy fluctuations in Hela's body are not impossible to block. The fact that Hela did not deliberately block them means that she trusts Roland.

It would be a failure for Roland to spy on the hearts of even those who trusted him.

Roland retracted his gaze, looked at the St. Nicholas Lake in front of him, and spoke.

“Hela, there is a legendary equipment in the lake. I need to go into the lake to see if I can recover it. Please wait for me here for one night.”

Hearing Roland's words, Hela looked at him, pursed her lips, and didn't ask Roland how he knew it. She just nodded silently and said.

"Okay, I understand. Be safe."

"Well, you too. Be careful. If you encounter greenskins, don't hold on. Run when you need to. If I'm not back by daybreak, you go back first and tell the executive committee that everything is going according to plan. If there are no accidents, I will be back before the battle begins."

Roland nodded and instructed patiently.

"If I haven't returned after the battle, you can ask Gray Crow to find me."

Hela nodded and carefully recorded all of Roland's instructions in her mind.

"I see."

"Well, very good. I'll go then." Roland rubbed Hela's head and smiled. Then he jumped out of the window and flew straight into the depths of Lake Saint Nicholas.

Hela stood there, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and watched with some worry as Roland quickly disappeared from her sight.

At the side, the gray crow came out of its virtual state and appeared next to Hela. It opened its mouth and was about to say something when Hela glanced at it.

At Hela's warning, the gray crow closed its mouth, obediently landed on Hela's shoulder, and tilted its head to look at the St. Nicholas Lake in front of it.

After Hela and the Gray Crow looked at Lake St. Nicholas for an unknown amount of time, the Gray Crow suddenly flapped its wings, turned into a black lightning, flew out from Hela's shoulder, and plunged straight into Lake St. Nicholas.

Then it rushed out of the lake again, grabbing a struggling big fish with its claws, and slowly flew back to Hela.

The big fish that Gray Crow caught was not an ordinary big fish. This big fish that Gray Crow took a fancy to had some elements gathered on its body. It was obviously a precious fish of high quality. If it was fed to low-level knights, it would be of great benefit.

Looking at the gray crow catching fish to please her, Hela smiled helplessly.

She had already trained to the limit of a three-ring knight, and all that was left was to advance to the fourth ring and complete the sublimation of her body. Therefore, the precious fish caught by Gray Crow had no effect on Hela.

Although the precious fish are delicious, as a spellcaster specializing in dark elements, Hela has not transformed into an undead or a dead spirit. However, the dark element's soul sea also affects Hela. In addition, Roland's many years of education have made Hela not have much appetite.

Hela touched Gray Crow's head and spoke.

"Eat it yourself, I don't need it."

The gray crow tilted its head, grabbed the precious fish and landed by the window. After killing it easily, it slowly tasted it.

Of course, as a four-ring undead, the gray crow eats the treasure fish just to taste it, and it has no significant effect on it.

Just as the gray crow was leisurely appreciating the food, the calm Lake St. Nicholas in front of him suddenly became stormy.

The moment she sensed the wind and waves, Hela immediately looked into the depths of the lake.

Deep in the lake, violent elemental fluctuations are erupting.

As the person who had followed Roland the longest, Hela instantly sensed Roland's elemental fluctuations.

It seemed like Roland had a fight with someone?

"boom!"

As a roar was heard from the center of the lake, the calm lake began to show waves.

Then, in less than a minute, a dazzling light was released from the depths of the lake and flew straight into the sky.

"call."

As the light bloomed, Roland appeared beside Hela.

After seeing Hela beside him, Roland also breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked at the light flying into the sky, his eyes somewhat speechless.

He miscalculated. Nicholas was actually an old-fashioned traditional knight. His heritage meant that only pure knights were qualified to take the trial. He totally could not accept someone like Roland.

It's numb. If you don't want to, then don't want to. Is it necessary to take direct action?
Roland thought back to what had just happened and felt a little speechless.

After he went deep into the lake, he easily found the location of Nikola's inheritance. However, because Nikola's inheritance only required pure knights, Roland did not even enter the gate of the inheritance.

However, Roland had come here to try his luck, and since it didn't work, he didn't intend to force it.

After all, if the legendary heritage is to be cracked by force, the cost will be too high and it may not necessarily be beneficial. What if the legendary heritage is directly destroyed?

Just as Roland was about to run away, the legendary weapon floating in the lake suddenly rushed over and attacked Roland directly.

Roland had no choice but to fight back.

I pulled it twice, then teleported away.

It's not that Roland couldn't deal with it. If he used the Crown of Domination, the Black Crystal and the Blessing of the Dark Elemental Realm, Roland was confident that he could break it easily. After all, an ownerless legendary weapon was just an object after all. It was just that Roland felt there was no need to waste time and energy on it.

"How about it?"

Hela leaned over and asked.

"We failed. We can't count on this legendary equipment now. Let's recapture the northern wall and send someone to try again. Let's go back now."

Roland said directly.

Roland already knew the location and requirements of Nikola's inheritance. After the War Committee completed the war plan and recaptured the northern wall, he would send the committee's extraordinary people to try to see if he could pass the inheritance.

Although Roland would rather get the inheritance and weapons himself, after all, Roland is not exaggerating, given the current level of the extraordinary people in the committee, even if they get the inheritance and legendary weapons, it is unlikely to have much impact in the subsequent battle against Kan'ozu.

It's not that Roland coveted this legendary equipment. After all, it was a knight's legendary equipment and was not suitable for Roland to use. It was just the fact that it was more effective in Roland's hands than in the hands of any other knight.

Originally, Roland only planned to use it for a while. After defeating Kan'ozu, Roland would find a suitable person to pass on Nikola's heritage and legendary equipment.

After all, the legacy of a legendary knight was of little use to Roland.

Although Roland chose both the paths of a knight and a spellcaster, he still focused on being a spellcaster. Knighthood was just a secondary skill. Why would he need a legendary inheritance?

It was a pity that Nicholas did not give him any chance to take the test. Otherwise, as long as Roland sneaked into the inheritance, he would be able to find a loophole and steal all of his inheritance.

Although this is not so good, but in the face of life and death, every bit of strength must be used as much as possible.

Anyway, since coming to this world, Roland's moral bottom line has become much more flexible. It's just a matter of stealing the inheritance, which is nothing.

But Roland didn't expect Nicholas to be so violent. Before Roland could even make a move, his former weapon was about to chop him.

I feel that it is not as good as the knight inheritance I visited before. Look at that person, how chivalrous he is. When he knew that Donnar was invaded by the green tide, he immediately passed down his inheritance. He didn't care whether it was a knight or a spellcaster, and gave it directly to Julius.

Looking at Nicholas again, he refused to even let the caster take a look.

You'd better let the knights of the committee inherit it later. Otherwise, when Roland drives away the green tide and becomes powerful, he will definitely dismantle this broken weapon.

Roland took one last look into the depths of the lake and memorized the legendary weapon in it.

"Walk."

As soon as he finished speaking, Roland took the lead to leave the northern wall, and Hela nodded, grabbed the gray crow that had not finished eating the treasure fish, and followed Roland.

When Hela grabbed it, the gray crow rolled its eyes in a humane way, opened its mouth decisively, and swallowed the treasure fish that was half its size in one gulp before Hela grabbed it.

After leaving the Northern Wall, Roland made a few detours as there was still time, to confirm how many green-skinned warlords there were between the Northern Wall and the War Council.

In addition, based on the information collected from various committee members, Roland also visited the ruins of some knight kingdoms, as well as the places where the army and extraordinary people died in battle.

From the ruins filled with decay, Roland awakened a large number of undead.

Although most of them are just ordinary undead, there are still a considerable number of low-level undead mixed in.

These low-level undead are mainly composed of various corpses and broken bones, as well as a small number of undead banshees with crazy faces.

As the undead that Roland pulled up from the ruins of the Green Tide Massacre, they did not have much wisdom, only endless resentment towards all intelligent creatures.

They are the undead that best fit ordinary people's stereotypes of undead creatures.

Although they were irrational and even wanted to attack Roland the moment they saw him, Roland could still suppress them even without the combined power of the Crown of Domination and the Black Crystal.

However, Roland did not suppress them directly, but threw them all into the Crown of Domination.

　The books of the same period are all excellent, but I am still struggling with the 300-yuan average, 〒▽〒

　　
　
(End of this chapter)