The contestant was very burly and muscular, but he pulled it with all his might. After a long time, the sword in the stone did not move. Finally, his face flushed and he tried to pull it, but he was driven away by a priest.
As the contestant broke into a series of strong hissing and booing sounds from the side stage in shame, people laughed and shouted as if watching a monkey show, but this scene did not stop people from dreaming of becoming famous once and having blind confidence in themselves. The second contestant soon went down the stairs from the side stage to start a new round of monkey show.
Norman, as they watched, they pushed forward and finally got to the registration office. Nineteen people had tried again, but without exception, they failed. The scene cheered and booed one after another. Norman also heard some shouting and frustration.
It seems that this sword-drawing ceremony is not as simple as watching the excitement, and there are gambling tables. Perhaps this is why no one has been able to draw a sword for so many years, and the sword-drawing ceremony is still the most lively activity in Christmas Day celebrations every year.
The process of signing up for the sword drawing ceremony is very simple. You need to submit a redemption ticket to wait in line.
Chen Qinghe, these dragons are born proud, and they are not interested in this sword in the stone (Norman naturally didn’t tell them that it was a relic of the inferno), so they didn’t intend to try it. When Norman was a ginseng institute, he submitted the atonement voucher himself. When he submitted the atonement voucher to the priest, his hand was delayed for 3 seconds before handing it over.
After receiving the atonement ticket, the priest pointed to one side in a flat tone and "lined up there"
Norman looked at the priest with deep eyes, but did not stop and walked to the side queue, while the priest behind him continued to receive a contestant.
The priest Norman is not a native of the prairie. His skin is yellow and white, his face is old and wrinkled like a ravine, and his hair is white and he is enough to be a young priest around him. Grandpa has more than a pair of eyes, but he is clear than the average old man.
Is it Hardy? Ewenstein
Norman just searched for a long time and couldn’t find it. Hardy was exiled to another city in the prairie. I didn’t expect that he actually came to Aarika, but what surprised Norman even more was that Hardy, a once heavy cardinal priest, now wore a robe but showed that he was actually an ordinary grass-roots priest.
Norman was surprised by this great change, but turned his back on Hardy and didn’t notice that the old priest had guided a contestant. After that, he glanced at his back and saw a ripple on the clear lake, and then disappeared.
Chapter four hundred and fifty-six Sword
The atonement ticket is expensive, and not everyone is willing to pay for it. No one has ever drawn a sword. The queue for drawing a sword is not too long compared with the dense crowds around the square. In such a queue, Norman didn’t wait too long, and it was almost his turn to draw a sword. At this time, the crowd around the square surged end to end, like the sea was generally calm and the waves suddenly rose.
Norman was very tall, which enabled him to look over other people’s heads, so his vision was excellent and he clearly saw the origin of the crowd.
It’s the Bishop who once toured the float and met Du.
The float parade should have ended by now, and Bishop Du took the same group of people to protect the local church knights from entering, and the crowd was so dense that it naturally caused a commotion until Bishop Du came to the center of the square.
The Bishop didn’t go to the sword stage, but the seat was already arranged in front of the sword stage, and several others sat on both sides of him in turn to watch a sword ceremony.
This is also the sword in the stone, which has always belonged to the Aarika Metropolitan Church in name. This Bishop, the head of the Aarika diocese, draws his sword once a year. Such an important event must always be visited.
It’s almost Norman’s turn to come. It took Bishop Du some time to enter, and then it was Norman’s turn when Bishop Du was seated.
He carefully controlled his body rhythm, but climbed slowly down the stairs like others, and finally got a close look at the sword in the stone.
The sword in the stone is flanked by two church knights with expressive body armor, and there is a thin old man. There should be a mage beside him. He is wearing a white ecclesiastical robe, not a four-color robe representing the status of a mage. You can’t see what level of mage this is.
The quality of the church is very poor. Facing Norman, the three students didn’t even bother to say hello. First, a knight near Norman pointed a finger at the sword in the stone. It should be to let Norman hurry up and draw his sword in the past without even saying "Please come to Taiwan". However, after scanning a situation roughly, Norman stared at the sword in the stone with his eyes fixed, and he didn’t notice how bad their attitude was.
Norman walked towards the sword in the stone and stepped aside.
Although he is much taller than ordinary people, he can be said to be a little giant, but this sword in the stone was originally the sword of the inferno consul Amilius. For the height of the inferno, Norman was a dwarf, and he couldn’t draw it out even with the sword in the stone, so he took it out like others, and looked at the sword in the stone with that small platform behind him.
Half an arm has a long hilt. The hilt is full of broken gems, and the tail is fan-shaped and cracked …
The hilt of the sword in the stone is the same as what he saw in front of him, and so close observation makes Norman more and more sure that this is the sword of Amirus.
How confusing and unpredictable the history is, you can package a 25-year-old boy who is trapped in love as a hero of ethnic liberation, or you can transfer a treasure to the real owner’s nemesis. This vast number of people never imagined that this sword in the stone was not the sword of the great hero Ta Lemond in their minds, but the relic of the great devil Amirus in their minds …
Norman started thinking in his heart, but slowly reached out to him without stopping. The sword in the stone held the hilt in one hand and pressed the stone in the other.
He was so engrossed that the sword in the stone didn’t notice that a priest on the high platform had taken Hardy’s place to collect the atonement ticket, while the gray-haired Hardy was resting. He looked up at the high platform head and looked at Norman with a pair of eyes that were calm but focused.
Look at him. What if he didn’t know that it was himself, not Norman, who drew the sword?
……
The hilt of the sword in the stone has a good grip. It should be very easy to cut one’s hand when it is full of broken stones, but it is actually very smooth to hold it. I don’t know how those people in the inferno did it. At the same time, the broken stones increased the friction, so it didn’t slip to get rid of it. It was just right.
Norman shook his arms and held down the stone at the same time, so he jerked his sword!
The sword in the stone did not move at all.
Norman had expected it, so he was not in a hurry. After a slight adjustment, he increased his component and pulled it out with a jerk, but the sword in the stone remained motionless and didn’t pull it out at all.
Norman heart dark call a good.
He didn’t dare to draw his sword twice because he was afraid that something might happen if he tried too hard, but now it seems that he is worrying too much. This sword in the stone is really a bit odd.
So he stopped converging, his muscles crawled slowly, and then he practiced the Heart Sutra of the Buried Sun with a jerk. For a long time, the nonhuman structure guided all his strength to his arms, holding the sword in one hand and pressing the stone in the other, and an unprecedented force exploded vigorously!
Norman hasn’t tried to muster up his strength like this for a long time since he practiced the Heart Sutra for the Buried Day, so he didn’t know how powerful he is now.
Norman’s muscles oscillated at high frequency, and the air around him oscillated with it, and the sign of air oscillation was that it was windy, which people around him felt most clearly.
The two expressive church knights next to the sword in the stone felt the changes around them, and the color changed dramatically behind them. They all turned to Norman and consciously pressed castration to pull out the sword in their waist.
The lawmaker who was waiting on one side also felt that the gas had changed suddenly, and there was a burst of blue light on his body. It seemed that he was going to instantly cast a spell, but they all moved slowly. Their swords were not drawn and the spell was not instantly cast. Before Norman’s terror, the temporary solid platform was unable to support itself. With a loud bang, the dense logs and pillars of the platform collapsed and shattered, and the whole platform collapsed towards the square.
"ah!"
"Run!"
"Help!"
"Don’t squeeze!"
……
When I saw this scene, I was watching with relish. The crowd was in a mess, and there was an instant commotion. People crowded and pushed people everywhere. At this time, the difference between well-trained soldiers and ordinary people was reflected. Although the church knights around me were very surprised at the scene, they still remembered their duties and tried their best to maintain the order at the scene, and resolutely did not let the rioting crowd impact.
However, this riot didn’t last long, and after a while, a voice rang in people’s ears.
The scene is so flustered that the scene is very noisy. Even if the two sides are facing each other, they may not be able to hear each other clearly, but the sound is clearly heard by everyone.
The volume of this sound is not high, just like whispering in everyone’s ear, but every word is clearly heard. If you really care about the words carefully, you will find that you don’t know what the other party is saying, but it feels unusually good. This sound seems to be magical, which generally makes the listener feel calm unconsciously when listening to it. No matter what troubles and fears there are, they are thrown to the outside of the cloud nine, and the original riot scene is gradually calmed down.
People are no longer flustered and quiet. There are accidents around them, and they have been trampled and helped up by others. The whole scene is even more calm and orderly than before the collapse accident.
Chen Qinghe, who stood still in the crowd, looked in one direction and looked through the crowd. A gray-haired old priest fell thoughtfully in his eyes.
Because Norman told Harriet to be protected by Qin Hao Special Protection Center, she was not injured in the chaos just now. At the moment, because of this, I don’t know where it came from, her face was much calmer than her usual painful color.
Qin Hao and ZhangHan are not moved by the sound, but as usual, the last person in Norman’s team, Atsumi Thea, the descendant of the inferno, is not strange like several dragons, and his expression is still not moved by the sound.
In the middle of the square, there is also a person who looks like Chen Qinghe across the crowd and looks at the gray-haired old priest.
It is that Bishop Du.
But after he took a deep look, he withdrew his eyes and looked at the sword in the stone.