Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1474 Cavalry and Chariots

In late spring, the Polish border was filled with a chilly mixture of mud and remaining snow.

When the last twilight sank into the Carpathian Mountains, a blue phosphorescent fire suddenly rose in the forest. The six-legged horses of the Wild Hunt Legion crushed the frozen streams, and the army of the Long Summer Court began to march. Elodeasha, wearing golden armor, stood on the chariot with a lance and shield. However, it was not the horses that pulled the chariot, but the swift Norwegian Forest Cats.

The cat's pace was faster than that of a warhorse, allowing Elodeasha to surpass the army's ranks and march to the front.

In late spring, the wheat planted in winter has already grown out of its stem nodes, and some wheat has already grown tender green ears. When the temperature rises in summer, these ears will begin to fill with grain and grow.

In the wheat field, farmers holding sickles had been waiting there for a long time, with a bowl of milk in front of them - this is a local tradition.

The Wild Hunt is not always considered a disaster. If you cannot avoid it, you can choose to please the Wild Hunt. After all, the Wild Hunt is hunting, and the target of hunting is never human. The Wild Hunt is just passing through human territory. According to the description of the bards, when encountering the Wild Hunt, you just need to stand in the middle of the road and don't move.

As long as you stand still in the middle of the road, you will be regarded as a pedestrian by the Wild Hunt, and the Wild Hunt will not make things difficult for pedestrians. If you run away from the Wild Hunt because you are frightened, you may be killed as prey.

But there is a third option: you can serve as a local and provide assistance to the Wild Hunt.

The typical practice is to provide milk on the roadside to feed the caracals that pull the goddess's cart. The Wild Hunt army is mobilized quite frequently, and the march of the elves in the mortal world can be considered as the Wild Hunt, so there is more than one master of the Wild Hunt. In mythology, the Wild Hunt is launched by Odin himself half of the time, but by the goddess Freya the other half. Because when Odin selects warriors to enter Valhalla, the goddess Freya will select the other half.

Freya is the goddess of love and beauty, fertility and magic, war and spoils of war. When the Wild Hunt is initiated by Freya, she will ride a chariot pulled by caracals and march with her army in the forest. At this time, as long as you give milk to the goddess's caracals, you can get the goddess to come.

Two caracals licked the milk greedily - unlike many other famous mounts in mythology, the cats that pulled Freya's chariot had no names. Because Freya did not have a quota of cats, she would capture the third and thirteenth cats she saw, give them the body of a caracal, and then let them pull the chariot.

Since they are not spiritual creatures, these two cats do need to eat some milk to replenish the energy consumed in pulling the cart.

The goddess did not get off the chariot, but stood on the chariot with her spear. Her long golden hair, golden armor, and white robe under the armor made her look graceful and reminded people of the breeding season.

Elodeasha is an elf name. Her name here is Freya.

"Well done, peasant," said Elodeasha. "Few people can remember the old rules. Tell me, what do you want?"

"Great God of War, God of Witchcraft, God of Gold, please give me your reward! I want you to give me your gold!"

"If you want to share the prey, you won it, and I can give it to you now. But if you want gold, ambitious farmer, then you must provide greater help to the Wild Hunt. Farmer, let me ask you, have you seen a long-eared rabbit named Ostara, and the eggs she buried everywhere? I don't think you can see it. Why don't I reward you with some rabbit legs and bless you with good luck this year."

"No! Goddess, I saw it!"

"You saw it? Where?"

"Yes, yes, it is right there. There is a one-horned king who has gone to the monster cave."

"???"

"Oh sorry, I mispronounced the line. Rabbit God, huh? She went in that direction."

"." Elodeasha looked at the man holding the sickle, "Farmer, I know what you are thinking. It is not the season for harvesting wheat, but you are holding a sickle. You are afraid that I will not recognize you as a farmer. You came here to greet me, probably hoping to get the reward of gold - I can give it to you. But you also need to know that the reward of the gods cannot be given to others. Gold should reflect the value of exchange for you. But if it cannot be exchanged, what is the use of gold? I still suggest that you take my lucky rabbit leg."

The lucky rabbit leg is a common reward, a talisman from the elves. If you can get it, you will have good luck for the whole year with the help of the elves.

"No, I just want gold!"

"All right, greedy peasant. Give me your hand."

"Thank you, goddess!" The farmer raised his hands to hold something. Elodeasha stretched out her right hand, and sesame-sized gold sand slipped from her fingertips, about a handful. To create gold at will is the ultimate goal of alchemy. But for real life, this is just a miracle performed at will.

"Well, thank you for your hospitality." After the cat finished the milk, Freya pulled the reins and went in the direction the farmer pointed, without stopping. The army followed closely behind, galloping past the farmer.

"Whoosh" After everyone had passed, the farmer took off his beard used for camouflage, and took off the tattered clothes that looked like a costume, revealing the phlogiston stealth suit underneath.

"This is Operator Iceman. Target found at point A721. Leader confirmed it is Elodeasha. Guidance mission completed. Over."

After briefly completing the report, [Iceman] turned around and floated his motorcycle from the farmland. This was the cutting-edge equipment provided to him by the Night Shift Bureau. In this era when civilian vehicles were just starting out, the Night Shift Bureau provided him with a high-performance motorcycle that could easily reach a highway speed of 120 kilometers per hour. It was said that this was Aurora technology from a distant world.

Aurora has now taken over everything. Unlike their secretive masters, the Romans, Aurora directly began to direct all tasks of the Night Service.

They also launched unprecedented direct combat operations against the Wild Hunt.

The Wild Hunt was closer to a natural phenomenon for the Germans. Just as he had done before, the Wild Hunt would not harm anyone as long as he did nothing. Even if he followed the rules, he could get rewards from the Wild Hunt.

Therefore, hunting natural phenomena always seems unreasonable. The Secret Service's past work is more like eliminating the influence of the elves, rather than directly attacking the Wild Hunt itself. But these tasks are really carried out in an orderly manner under the leadership of Zhendan, which is really hard for him to understand. It seems that Zhendan has a big plan, but Zhendan does not want these outsiders to know about his big plan.

He was a little skeptical about Zhendan, but Zhendan gave him too much. The Zhendan people gave him the secret wine of immortality, cured all his illnesses, and promised that he would not have to go to hell after death, but could go to Cybernetics to continue to perform his duties. Although it is hard to say what happens after death, his chronic illness over the years has indeed been cured by this immortality medicine, and his body has returned to its peak, and even more energetic than at its peak.

In order to obtain all this, he also swore allegiance to the Night Service and worked until the last moment of his life - but after working for so long, he had not met a single Aurora person. He had not even met Mr. Hans, the chief of the Night Service. He was just an agent.

However, just now, he who had completed the task according to the procedure also realized that he seemed to have encountered something extraordinary. He seemed to have directly encountered Elodeasha herself, and had a conversation with her under her gaze, completing his task. He had already made a wonderful contribution, and he himself just realized this.

Suddenly, his intercom rang. In this wilderness, he could directly contact the local headquarters and even Berlin with the intercom. This was incredible. But the shock brought to him by Aurora Technology was not only this, because he heard that someone who tried to dismantle the intercom saw something incredible inside, as if it was a completely magical creation. He had never tried to dismantle it, and he knew when to shut up. Since he got his salary from the Night Shift Bureau, he just had to do it.

Picking up the intercom that had just been ringing, he quickly answered it: "This is [Iceman]."

"Can you speak Chinese?"

"Huh?" A strange language floated out from inside. He knew it was Zhendan language, but he really didn't know it.

"Alas." The other party also knew that he probably wouldn't know how to do this, so he muttered, "My English is only level 4, and it's hard to pass level 6. Why do I always encounter situations like this where I have to speak a foreign language. Ahem."

After a pause, the other party began to speak in the Anglo language: "I am Shangluo, you know me, right?"

"Are you the governor from Zhendan?! Imperator of the Roman Empire! You are the Warmaster!"

"If you can understand what the Heavenly Army or the Demon-Fighting Marshal are, it's best to call me by these two titles. Warmaster is also fine - now is not the time to get hung up on titles. Let me ask you, I just received intelligence that you ran into Elodeasha herself?"

"Yes, that's right. Elodeasha took on the appearance of Freya, the war goddess of witchcraft, and was driving a caracal chariot to start a wild hunt, chasing the rabbit goddess Ostara. I followed the request, offered milk to Elodeasha's caracal, and pointed him to the ambush site."

Elodeasha believed him and headed in the direction he pointed - deceiving the elves would pay a heavy price. However, he was not afraid of Elodeasha's revenge.

"So, have you received the reward of gold?"

"Yes, I got it. I asked for it three times before Elodiasha gave it to me. But Elodiasha also emphasized that it must not be given to others."

"You did the right thing. Now, check if there are any puddles around you, and then use the 10-style alchemical formation to set up a water formation behind you. The formation must be a perfect circle with a diameter of no less than meters. Set up the formation now."

"Yes, understand."

For the Night Shift Bureau's operators, as well as its predecessor, the Secret Service, deploying troops is a basic job.

He used a long pole with a string as a compass and drew a 10-meter circle in the wheat field according to Shangluo's request. The wheat field had just been irrigated and the soil was moist. After drawing the formation, he took out the water cup he carried with him and poured the endless water of the Adriatic Sea from this small prop, filling the entire circle and completing the construction of the formation.

Almost at the same time as the formation was completed, the entire formation was activated. The Iceman was unable to dodge and was tripped by something that emerged from the formation. When he stood up again, he took a closer look:
A submarine appeared out of nowhere in the wheat field, with most of it submerged below the non-existent "water surface", with only part of the command tower exposed above the "water surface", and the water surface only stopped at the position where he had just drawn a circle.

After the submarine came to a stop, its hatch opened and a whole team of Roman soldiers wearing armor and transparent helmets walked out and lined up below.

Shangluo, the "Heavenly King" who came to Zhendan, also emerged from it.

"Where is the gold?" Shangluo asked.

"Look, this is gold." He showed the leather bag he used to hold the gold.

[That's right, this is elven gold, gold made through magic. ]

"Is it real gold?" Shangluo asked.

[It is real gold, a miracle created by magic. But generally speaking, the gift of this kind of gold is accompanied by various restrictions. This is especially true for the gold obtained from the Wild Hunt in this Wild Hunt ritual. Therefore, this gold has no exchange value - if it is given away, it may bring bad luck to the holder, or even revenge from the elves. ]

"Well," Shangluo nodded, "Then take it. You."

"Yes, Warmaster, I am here."

"Come on board my ship, take your gold, and follow us. Do not let the gold leave your hands. Elodeasha must have told you personally that this gold cannot be given to others. You just have to obey my orders."

"Yes! Understood!"

"Let's go to the next target!" Shangluo walked back into the submarine surrounded by Roman soldiers, and the Iceman followed.

Back in the command tower, Shangluo picked up the intercom: "Xiao Han."

"Yes, this is Lianshan. What can I do for you?"

"Bring up the surveillance footage from the ground, the ones nearby, to see where Elodeasha has gone. Turn the main gun around and load it with lead bullets. If you find Elodeasha, report to me immediately, and the main gun must be ready to fire at any time."

"understood."

"Also, you can give the order now. Elodiasha is in Poland. Let the armored forces of the Night Service immediately cross the border and start the assault here. At all costs, get here before tomorrow. Don't worry about the Polish troops on the road. Their mission is just to encircle and suppress Elodiasha, that's all. Everyone, get moving! If you let Elodiasha escape, you will have to wait until midsummer to catch her next time - remember, go straight to the cat car when you see her! That cat car is also very important!"

(End of this chapter)