Chapter 257: Wendy's Talisman
Li Ang's reaction after being stabbed scared all his men.
After being stabbed in the chest, Leon hurriedly kicked out, knocking Agathon to the ground, and then covered his chest and prepared to run back - he was at the gate of Qicha Fortress, within the range of the bastion.
But he only staggered a few steps before falling to the ground unconscious.
Looks like he's dead...
Agathon was also kicked so hard by Leon that he lost his breath and it took him a long time to recover.
The guards on both sides were all stunned, but Wendy, Klose and others reacted quickly. They rushed up to protect the lord and quickly took him away from the Qicha Fortress.
However, Agathon's men did not use crossbows against Klose and others. After all, General Agathon fell at the gate of the fortress and could not get up. They had to drag their general back to the fortress and close the city gate first.
So both sides broke off contact with each other, taking their own bosses with them.
Afterwards, the men escorted the unconscious lord and quickly rushed to the Karen Deer Castle in the east - Leon was still breathing, but unconscious, and Anson was in Karen Deer Castle. Leon's men felt that the lord seemed to be seriously injured, and at the moment, Anson was probably the only one who could save his life.
Karen Deerburg was not far away. In order to save time, Lisadilan took the two fastest Noldor horses to Karen Deerburg first, intending to take Anson to the closer village of Salem.
Saving some time when saving lives is a plus. Li Ang is unconscious and cannot ride a horse, and he cannot ride with a chest injury, so he can only use a relatively stable carriage, and the speed will definitely be slower.
Fortunately, Li Ang found a box carriage, otherwise using a truck would be too bumpy and would make the injury worse.
The subordinates were all quite reliable, and no one intended to cause trouble for Agathon at this time. Everyone just wanted to rescue the lord first.
Wendy was panicking now, because she could hear the lord's heartbeat with her ears. Although everyone's heartbeat sounded similar, to Wendy, Leon's heartbeat was completely different - just like people can always see their loved ones in a crowd of thousands at a glance, Wendy could also distinguish Leon's voice from thousands of troops.
Any sound.
Li Ang's heartbeat was very chaotic, and the frequency was continuously slowing down...
Wendy felt that she had failed to protect the lord well - she was Leon's personal bodyguard, but Leon was seriously injured in front of her.
At this moment, Wendy felt as if she had been stabbed in the chest with a sword, and her heart was in excruciating pain.
Perhaps Wendy would rather she was the one stabbed by the sword, because she felt that if she was stabbed by the sword, the lord would definitely have a way to save her.
Now Leon is injured, and Wendy doesn't know what to do.
The lord did not bring Amy's female soldiers with him this time. Before meeting Anson, Wendy, as the only woman in the team, was naturally responsible for taking care of the lord along the way.
The Noldor girls are clever and skillful, and can always take better care than a rough man like Klose.
But Wendy was guarding in a four-wheeled carriage at this time, looking at Li Ang lying in the carriage, with tears in her eyes, but she was at a loss what to do.
The enchanted armor on the lord's body had been removed by her, and his underwear had been cut open, revealing the wound on his chest.
The wound looked very deep, half a foot long, and was cut diagonally from the center of the chest to the left - that was exactly where the heart was!
In fact, as a warrior, Wendy would naturally be able to do simple bandaging to stop the bleeding.
But the problem was that something seemed wrong with Leon's wound - there was no heavy bleeding, but there were some scattered purple crystals embedded in the wound, which were even emitting light.
Wendy had never seen such a situation before. The long wound was still open, but there was no continuous bleeding, which was very abnormal in itself.
Wendy had never seen the purple crystals on the wound before.
In fact, Wendy had seen dragon tears. The Noldor had been using the magic contained in dragon tears to maintain the illusion around the city of Erakle. This was a magic circle that largely refracted nearby light, making the city of Erakle never discovered by humans.
This is probably the only large-scale magic that the Noldor elves can activate - the reason why I say activate is because this is not a concrete magic, it is just the use of magic items.
The magic circle of Eracle City is just a magical item set up in the Eracle Tower. It was brought by Avadain, the first generation Noldor Elf King who came to the continent of Pendor.
Although Avadain was a Noldor, he was the child of the Sindarin Elves and brought his family's magical items with him.
Because of this, only the descendants of the Noldor Elf King can activate the magic circle of Eracle.
As one of the bloodline inheritors of the Elf King, Wendy naturally had to learn how to activate the magic circle of the city of Eracle, so she had seen dragon tears, and quite a few of them.
The light emitted by the scattered crystals in Leon's wound looked very much like the effect of dragon tears in the magic circle.
But the problem is, dragon tears are not this color - dragon tears are royal blue.
However, the crystals in Leon's wound were a rich purple, and there seemed to be stars flowing in the purple light, just like Wendelf's purple pupils!
Wendy didn't know what was going on, but she felt that if this continued, Lord Leon's heartbeat might stop!
Because Li Ang's heart rate is only about ten beats per minute...
Wendy knew that once the human heartbeat dropped to such a frequency, it would basically be on the verge of death!
Li Ang's breathing had also slowed down to an extremely slow level, only about three breaths a minute...
But Wendy didn't dare to take out the crystal fragments - those fragments were deeply embedded in Leon's wound. In this case, it would be best not to touch them unless you are a professional doctor. Wendy knew this common sense.
Wendy's eyes gradually filled with tears. She didn't know what to do at this moment. She thought that Li Ang's current condition was either a heart injury or that he had bled out when he escaped from Qicha Fortress...
Is this because of excessive blood loss?
Or is it because Li Ang's heart is about to fail?
Wendy wasn't sure, she didn't know any medical skills.
But she remembered what Leon said when Alice was anxious after she was infected with the Red Death - "I wonder if it can get better after drinking my blood..."
Wendy didn't know that Leon once told Anson that blood transfusions between people with different blood types would be poisonous, and she was not around at that time.
The tearful girl decided to try... her blood.
Because Wendy did know that her blood was different, she had known it since she was a child.
To activate the magic circle of the city of Eracle, the blood of the purple-eyed Noldor like her is needed - or in other words, the blood passed down from the first elven king Avadain, that is, the blood of the Sindarin elves.
The way to activate the magic circle is to use blood, the blood of the purple-eyed Noldor elves to redraw the runes on the sigil in the Tower of Eracle.
Because blood is needed to open the magic circle, the three Noldor Elf Kings will not close the magic circle except when the dragon tears magic in the magic circle is exhausted and needs to be replaced every few years. After all, there are not many bloodlines with purple eyes, and it is troublesome to activate it.
In fact, in the earlier times, only the Noldor who could activate the magic circle could become the Elf King, which means that the Purple-eyed Noldor must inherit the Elf King. Of course, that was the rule a long time ago. Now that the Noldor are facing the crisis of genocide, they will naturally no longer stick to this rule.
However, the fact that Islandil had been "His Highness" for three hundred years and had never been crowned king was in fact partly due to this reason - Islandil's bloodline might be relatively weak, and he could not activate the Eracle array on his own.
In addition, the House of Ainor inherited the knowledge and culture of the Noldor, so Islandil abided by the ancient rules and always refused to be crowned.
But Wendy is different. She has known since she was a child that her blood does contain magic.
Because when she just remembered, she was taken to the Tower of Eracle by the three Elf Kings, who taught her how to use magic circles and some runes.
What people learn in childhood will almost always become an instinct that they will never forget, and the same is true for Noldor.
Even though Wendy had never used those runes herself for decades, she clearly remembered what each rune looked like.
In fact, there are still many runes inherited from the Noldor, and the elves have not cut off the transmission of this ancient knowledge, but there are indeed not many that can be used now.
Some represent sharpness and are used on arrows; some represent toughness and are used on armor.
There are also those that represent vitality - which will be used on newborn Noldor babies.
The Noldor had difficulty giving birth and a long adulthood cycle, so perhaps there were indeed runes that could guarantee the survival rate of babies. In any case, these runes have continued to this day.
These runes are actually the secret of Noldor enchanted equipment.
The Noldor did not rely solely on alloy refining technology to create excellent equipment. The sigils made up of runes actually really worked.
However, the effect of these runes in the hands of the Noldor elves is not as obvious or convenient as that in the hands of the Sindarii elves.
If the Sindar elves want to enchant their equipment, they don't need to use any external objects; but the Noldor elves only inherited the technology but cannot use magic, so they must use a carrier.
This carrier is called Mithril, which is the ebony from the continent of Pendor. Ebony probably contains a little magic and also has the ability to conduct magic.
What Li Ang said at the beginning was actually inaccurate. Ebony itself cannot be called mithril. It should be called the "raw material of mithril" - the way to transform ebony into mithril is to carve runes on it and form sigils. When the runes take effect, the originally pure black ebony will turn into silver-white mithril.
This is why the Noldor, who no longer possess magic powers, can still enchant various equipment. The sigils are made up of mithril and produce effects. The equipment itself is actually only used to inlay mithril, so naturally many materials can be used.
So the rune armor of the Noldor is even cloth armor - cloth armor is lighter.
The runes used on the baby are probably because the Noldor baby itself is a living being containing magic, but it is difficult to say whether this kind of life rune has any effect.
Anyway, every Noldor parent will use their own blood to draw life runes on their child as soon as they give birth. This has been done for thousands of years, and now it has become a birth ritual.
The exhausted mother will not rest until she is sure that the child is healthy and alive, and the father will go to participate in the celebration - childbirth is difficult for the Noldor, and a celebration will be held in the tribe where each Noldor is born.
Right now, what Wendy was going to try was the rune that represented vitality, the kind that Noldor parents used on their babies.
Originally, Wendy was planning to try to make Leon drink her blood, but Leon was now unconscious and naturally couldn't drink anything.
So Wendy decided to use this method...
As an underage girl, she had never used this method before, but Li Ang's heartbeat was getting slower and slower, so she was desperate and tried every possible means.
She cut her wrist and began to use her own blood to draw a series of runes representing vitality on Leon's chest, and connected the runes into a symbol covering the entire chest.
In fact, Wendy didn't know whether the rune used on the Noldor baby would work on Leon. After all, Leon was not a Noldor, and the Noldor people would not heal wounds in this way.
But she knew it wouldn't do any harm at least—there certainly wasn't any harm in smearing blood on herself.
If this rune works on babies, then maybe it can also work on the lord...
Add to that my own blood… Although I didn’t let Lord Leon drink it, the runes drawn with my own blood should be able to play some role, right?
Wendy thought anxiously.
She was concentrating on drawing the runes. The carriage was always a little bumpy, so she had to do her best to maintain the integrity of the runes, drawing slowly and carefully.
So, Wendy, who was too serious, didn't notice that the purple light in Leon's wound seemed to be moving towards the runes drawn with blood... ?
It was like he wanted to actively come into contact with Wendy's blood.
But it couldn't reach it, the runes drawn by Wendy did not touch the wound.
It was unknown how long it had taken, but Wendy had only finished half of the painting. The cut on her wrist was not deep enough, and it gradually formed a scab and stopped bleeding, so she stabbed herself again and reopened the wound.
This time the cut was more severe, and the carriage shook, so a large amount of blood splattered and landed on the wound on Li Ang's chest.
“No…Ah!”
Wendy finally burst into tears.
But this was not because of the pain in her wrist and blood loss, but because the string of blood covered up part of the rune she had just drawn!
The entire talisman on Leon's body... was destroyed.
But then, Wendy covered her mouth and watched the changes in Leon's wound with tears in her eyes...
The purple crystal fragments in the wound suddenly shone brightly as Wendy's blood splashed in them, and the dazzling light filled the entire car!
But this light does not make people feel dazzling, but makes people feel extremely gentle, just like a mother's embrace, but it makes people feel a little bit sad.
It's like a faint sadness that suddenly emerges from the depths of the soul.
After a moment, the light dissipated, and the wound on Leon's body... disappeared.
Along with the purple crystals and the runes drawn by Wendy, they disappeared.
Li Ang's body was clean, as if nothing had happened, without even a scar.
"Wendy... why are you crying?... Wait! Where are my clothes!"
The lord opened his eyes, but then found himself naked, and immediately touched his lower body.
...Fortunately, I was wearing pants.
