Fashen live room

Chapter 472 Chess Pieces
Under the quiet starry sky, everything is silent, and everyone has fallen asleep.

Norman sat on the ground with a soft blanket under his body, and a thick layer of hay was laid on the cushion so that he could no longer feel the hardness and coldness of the ground.He couldn't see the starry sky when he looked up, but he could only see the heavy cloth surface of the tent. The bonfire outside the tent came in through the untensioned curtain, and the fire flickered on his face.

This is Tang En's tent, with the support of Jacob and Rusien, no one dares to have any objection to Norman sleeping here.

Tang En's inheritance is very rich. Although Dempsey's asking price is very high, there are elements of making things difficult, but Tang En's inheritance is enough to pay for Norman's ransom, and Norman even bought Artemisia here .

The price of this female slave is far inferior to his, only needing 2 Gold Talans - it is obvious that Dempsey cannot see the true value of this female slave, not to mention that he was still there when the battle happened just now. Trembling in the tent, I didn't see what was happening outside at all.

Tang En's tent was huge, and it was more than enough for three or four people to sleep together. Now Atrimisia was lying beside Norman, sleeping soundly.But Norman didn't look at her, he just looked through the curtain of the tent, cast his eyes on the bonfire outside, and was thinking about something.

Today's night attack caused a lot of damage to the team. Tang En's death was undoubtedly the most painful loss. Others also suffered a lot of casualties: according to Jacob's statistics, they lost 8 soldiers in today's battle. 11 soldiers were injured with varying degrees of severity, 4 slaves died, and 3 slaves were seriously injured. The loss of civilians was the smallest, only 2 died in the initial random arrows, and 2 more Burned by the fire caused by the rocket.

With Norman's current hearing strength, he couldn't hear anything while sitting here, but he knew that there were many wounded in every corner of the camp moaning in pain, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

What to do next?
If it's the former Norman, it's very simple, just continue to lead the team forward.As long as a large number of dragons don't come, he believes that nothing can cause him trouble, but the current Norman can't.

He was wondering what he should do.

Did the Knights Templar teach him how to regain his strength?

His current weird state is caused by the Knights Templar. Based on Norman's understanding of the Knights Templar, he believes that the Knights Templar should be able to help him regain his strength, but he doesn't want to do that, he doesn't want to Then become a pawn of the Knights Templar.

That's right, pawns.

During the days after leaving Arica, Norman didn't need to think about anything: he didn't need to think about how to improve his strength, he didn't need to think about what to do next, how to do it, and he didn't need to learn various things from the Knights Templar. Knowledge.

Not only did he abandon everything from his social identity, he also emptied himself ideologically, which made his thinking suddenly open and he saw a new world.

This is somewhat similar to a story Lancelot once told him about playing chess.

In the story of Lancelot, there is a chess game called Zhenlong Chess Game, which is the most difficult chess game in the world. Countless smart people in the world cannot solve that chess game. Deep, and eventually lose the whole game.

The only solution to this chess game is to commit suicide at the very beginning. The strong man cuts off his wrists and kills a large number of his own pieces, and then he can be freed from it step by step.

What happened to Norman is somewhat similar to this Zhenlong chess game.

He dropped everything and left Arika, which was the key move of suicide. After this, although the situation was tragic, it suddenly became clear, opened up a new world, and saw unprecedented scenery.

Then he "saw" the oddity of the Knights Templar.

According to the knowledge taught by the Knights Templar, there is a reason for all behaviors, and the more complete and complex the behavior, the deeper the reason.So the Knights Templar have been doing their best to help themselves, what is it for?What is their purpose?
Norman, who had just arrived in Cardenas, would not think about this question, because he did not understand anything at that time, and Norman would not think about it later, because he became more and more entangled in the net woven by the Knights Templar. He got deeper and deeper, and although he felt that he still had a sense of autonomy, he was led by the nose by the Knights Templar with various ingenious invisible means: at first, the Knights Templar used to seduce him by becoming a nobleman, and then by becoming a nobleman. The mage came to seduce him, and then he was tempted to increase his strength and get rid of Chen Qinghe's control, as well as the fear of the complicated situation of the kingdom's imperial power struggle, the urgent need for strength to fight against Sowell, and so on.

After jumping out, Norman discovered that the Knights Templar had actually been guiding him secretly.

He is like a pawn, and the Knights Templar are like chess players, manipulating this pawn to get the final situation they need.

They really didn't run a charity organization. The Knights Templar had invested so much manpower and material resources. Obviously, they didn't just want to help him. They definitely wanted to get something from their actions.But it is a pity that although Norman saw all this, he still couldn't see what the ultimate goal of the Knights Templar was.

He has been thinking about this question for the past few days, but he has never been able to figure it out. The only result of repeated thinking is that the goal of the Knights Templar may be related to the astrolabe.

After his mental power turned into a weird shape like an oval, although Norman's thinking was no longer sensitive, his memory did not decline.During his repeated reminiscence day after day during these days, he finally discovered some unusual points of Lancelot.

It was after solving the true purpose of the astrolabe, Lancelot seemed extremely excited for a while.

Comparing all the memories about Lancelot in memory, Lancelot has never been so excited: not when Norman successfully cast a spell for the first time, not when Norman successfully cast a forbidden spell for the first time , not when Norman was dying after the blood sacrifice but finally narrowly escaped, not even when Norman was in absolute death and the Knights Templar had given up but finally managed to escape with the help of Sowell.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. Norman faintly felt that the answer he wanted was in the astrolabe, but he couldn't think of it.So he took the opportunity of throwing everything away on the prairie to throw away the astrolabe, wanting to see if Lancelot would have any special reaction, but he didn't see it.

Lancelot was just as he had been during that time, unresponsive.

Of course, Norman never retrieved the astrolabe again.

He took advantage of the situation and abandoned the astrolabe, abandoned everything, and cut off all his desires.

People are indeed full of fear of the unknown, and Norman is no exception.

He didn't know what the ultimate purpose of the Knights Templar was hiding in the darkness, but it was precisely because he couldn't see that he was afraid and wanted to escape, and he didn't want to continue to be a pawn in the hands of the Knights Templar.

Lancelot was right that man is a complex animal.

Norman feels that the reason why he became what he is today is not just because of the simple awakening of superego consciousness, nor is it simply because he wants to get rid of the control of the Knights Templar, it is the product of the combination of the two.

But when the goals of the two are the same, it is easy to talk, and they advance and retreat together, but when the goals of the two conflict, what should he do?

Now Norman is in such a state of conflict.

He wants to save the lives of these people right now, hoping to keep them safe, so that this kind of thing will not happen again tonight, but with his current ability, it is very difficult to do this.

The power he relied on the most in the past is gone, and with his wisdom and knowledge reserves, he can't think of any good methods—these are the only methods he can think of now.

One, everyone should just turn around and stop moving towards Seaham.

According to Tang En's previous opinion, as long as you don't go to Sieham, you will naturally not be in danger, but it goes without saying that Norman knows that Dempsey will not agree to this method. After all, he has already sold everything in order to go to Sieham Mu, if you go back, you won't have to worry about dragons invading, even if the dragons don't invade, he will have nowhere to go.

It is basically impossible to go back. The second way is to improve the strength of the entire team.If all the warriors in those teams had the power of Atrimesia, and if the mage repaired became a black-robed mage and then became a blue-robed or even a white-robed mage, then naturally there would be no problems. able to reach Seaham safely.

But this method is even more impossible to achieve.

Norman has learned a lot of ingenious tricks from the Knights Templar, and he knows all kinds of subtle and effective combat moves, but they are all tailor-made for his strong body after practicing the "Funeral Heart Sutra". What's the use of him just teaching those fighters these fighting moves?They don't have a strong body to bring out the power of these movements.

It can be seen from tonight's night attack that in this level of battle, strength determines everything.Those alien races who attacked didn't know any moves, their weapons were all messed up, and they didn't even have a serious weapon. Why didn't they just beat these fighters to the point of crying?Relying on the outstanding strength.

Improving the strength of these fighters is the best way to quickly increase their combat effectiveness, but Norman is not familiar with the knights, so he doesn't know how to start.The only knowledge he has that is related to the knights is the "Funeral Heart Sutra", but the reason why he can practice the "Funeral Heart Sutra" is entirely because of the relationship with Ji Gang's dragon blood in his body. He really wants to give the "Funeral Heart Sutra" to these soldiers He doesn't mind if they practice, but he is afraid that it will not help them but harm them.If they really practiced and didn't need those alien races to attack, they would explode and die one by one.

Improving the strength of fighters is not enough, what about enhancing the strength of mages?

The Norman knight didn't know much about it, but in the field of magic, he was definitely a real archmage, but after thinking about it carefully, he still felt that there was no way.

With the help of the magic pool, he is confident that he can teach Xiu to become a blue robe or even a white robe mage, but it takes time, a lot of time.

With the magic power pool, Xiu can escape from the shackles of magic power, but he cannot escape from other aspects.

The magic power pool had such a great effect on Norman himself at the beginning, because Norman's spiritual power, ancient language knowledge, and spell entries have far exceeded his own magic power level, and the magic power pool just filled in this shortcoming appropriately. different.From the release of Xiu's spells, Norman can see that Xiu is a very orthodox mage. For him, the magic pool just turns his magic power into a long board, but his ancient language knowledge, spiritual power, etc. It's just a black-robed mage. If he wants to improve his strength, he needs to improve all those shortcomings one by one, which will take a lot of effort.

The learning of old sayings, the training of mental power, the collection of spells, all these need time, but what they lack most now is time. It is obviously impossible for the whole team to stay in place for a year or a half, and wait until he repairs it. Teaching to become a red-robed or even blue-robed mage before starting, so the method of improving the mage's strength will not work.

This doesn’t work, and that doesn’t work. It doesn’t work after much deliberation. The only way seems to be to seek help from the Knights Templar. After all, the Knights Templar has a huge think tank and advanced technical knowledge. They say Maybe there is a good solution to the current predicament, but if you ask the Knights Templar for help, it will go against Norman's original intention of getting rid of the control of the Knights Templar.

Contradictions arose in Norman's originally unified heart.

Either he left these people alone and let Atrimisia sneak away with him, or he followed his superego consciousness to seek help from the Knights Templar, and headed towards the unknown and mysterious direction again.

This decision was undoubtedly very difficult, so Norman just sat there, looking at the bonfire outside, just watching.

Atrimisia didn't make a sound when she slept. With Norman's current hearing ability, she could barely hear her breathing in this quiet night. The white stick lay quietly beside her right arm.

I don't know how long it took, but the bonfire gradually became smaller, and it seemed that it would be extinguished soon.

The vigil passerby saw him, and silently added some firewood with his uninjured left arm to make the bonfire grow again. Then he glanced sideways at Norman who was sitting there in a daze instead of sleeping, and said nothing. He turned around and left, and continued to watch the night.

Norman just sat there for most of the night without moving, like a statue.

Six times the Night's Watch had come for wood, and six times had seen him.

When the night watchman came to add firewood for the seventh time, the long-standing sculpture finally moved.

Norman met the eyes of the night watchman who hung his injured right arm with a cloth strip on his shoulder, then turned, turned upwards, and threw himself into the vast night sky.

When a chess piece knows that it is a chess piece, who is the chess piece and who is the player? Who can tell clearly?

(End of this chapter)