Pillars of Ita

Chapter 1026 Act 357 Leaves Abenand
"Yayo, come here!" The young man beckoned to his companion, signaling him to come to the front of the stall.

The items on display at that booth are the same as those in all similar flea markets. They may seem ordinary, but Lin Lang's assortment is actually full of all kinds of novelty gadgets.

This place is located in an underground market in an old city near the airport airship tower. Because it is close to the artisan area, the air is filled with smoke, and the smoke goes up to the sky. There are rusty and mottled signs hanging, and there are dark and inconspicuous corners all around, looking slumped.

The decadence and gloom that characterize the decline of an old urban area in a big city after its prosperity have never been seen by the two young people from the Buck Principality.

But Yayo and his companions adapted quickly. They came to this city with the Traveler of the Seven Seas and quickly adapted to the strange life here.

Yayo signed up with the Artisans Association, and the two found a job. At the same time, they studied some alchemy gadgets and made some designs on a daily basis, hoping to go further on this road.

It’s just that the cost of living in Ayin Brock is still too high. The finished products of alchemy sold in the artisan area are frighteningly expensive. Even if you only buy parts and raw materials, it is enough to bite off a piece of meat from the modest monthly income of the two of them. Come.

And although the things on the flea market are not always satisfactory, they are better than cheap.

What's more, there is always a thrill of treasure hunting when you are looking for your favorite things among the strange and weird objects. In reality, so many people are addicted to this way, nothing less than this.

Everything in the Old Town seemed lifeless, except for the people here.There were many faces from different regions, all races, but they had one common quality——

It is this quality that brings them here.

That is a less 'poverty and happiness' spirit.

The people here have their own 'abilities', but there are restless factors hidden in their bones, and the products that come out of their hands are naturally suspicious.

In addition to the treasures taken out of the tatters, there is another category, those "commodities" that make sellers and buyers smile at each other, and they just know it well, and there is no need to reveal their source.

The young alchemist picked up just such a thing.

Although the lowland halfling boss in front of him had pointed ears, he kept telling him that this item was a defective product eliminated from the artisan department, and the source was absolutely legitimate.

But Yayo took the thing from his companion, looked at it, and then raised his head to ask the other party's origin and purpose, but the halfling didn't know anything.

Both of them are alchemists of the Artisan Association. Although they are only nominal, but they know the logistics department of the association, and they will never believe that this guy is talking about Bupleurum here.

"Tell me," Yayo knocked on the shell of the thing, "Where did you steal it from?"

"How is it stealing!?" The halfling seemed to be irritated, "You don't want my things at all, but you must not insult me ​​like this." He blushed and asserted his point of view, "Well, I actually picked this thing up of--"

"Pick it up?"

Yayo and his companion looked at each other. "This thing looks like an astrolabe," the young companion commented. "The part of the star track seems to have been dropped. It is indeed a defective product, only half."

"I picked it up from under the airship tower," the halfling pleaded in a sharp tone, "it may be a valuable item dropped by a guest. Although it was broken, the remaining half is still valuable."

He looked at the two of them, "You can't hide it from me, I know that you are alchemists, and the parts here are definitely useful to you. Buy it now, two thousand lissels!"

"Fifty."

"You guys are crazy," the other party shook his head like a rattle, "it's absolutely impossible."

"Then we'll go elsewhere," Yayo replied, "You're right, we only need the parts, but it doesn't matter what the parts come from. As for whether it's an orbiter, it's an old model." It doesn't make any difference to us whether it's a construct or not."

With that said, he took his companions to prepare to leave.

"Wait," the halfling discouraged, and stopped the two of them, "Five hundred Rissels, no less."

"Two hundred risels," Yayo said, "I can leave you an address, and then you can go to the airship tower to have a look, if you find the other half, or other parts, I can double it buy it for the price.”

The halfling seemed very conflicted, "Really, it's a deal?"

"nature."

"Well, it's yours," the halfling glared at the two of them viciously, "Here's the money!"

Yayo pays with one hand and delivers with the other.He wasn't telling the whole truth, and he wasn't planning to take the thing apart, at least for now.If the halfling could find a mate, he might be able to put this thing together.

In fact, he could tell at a glance that this was an exquisite magic device, and such things were usually expensive.But in fact, he is more interested in researching this thing, trying to figure out what its original function is.

Of course he didn't have a clue, but that didn't mean everyone didn't. He and his companions didn't know many people in this city, but there happened to be a suitable candidate among them.

The other party had just made headlines in the Astrologer.

However, that person is currently elsewhere, and may have even left Abenand on his way to the border of the Sea of ​​Trees. Yayo had no choice but to press this matter down and wait for the other party to return to Ainbulok.

At the same time, the premise of all this is that the halfling can get back the other part, otherwise, he would honestly dismantle this thing into parts. After all, he spent a lot of money on this thing, so he should let it make the best use of it.

……

Yayo was not wrong, Fang Plover had indeed left Abenand.

They left the great amphitheatre, and the silver spire, and the lovely, fair, red plateau, that city, rich in imperial history, from a former age.

The teams were actually only there for less than a week.

Although Tianlan complained more than once that there were still many places in the city full of historical monuments that she hadn't visited, she walked through every area of ​​the city with Miss Ship Officer during that week.

Dalier (or Miss Muppet) is sometimes with them, and occasionally acts as a guard, responsible for stopping those mad bees and butterflies.

According to Miss Cat's original words, Miss Ship Officer is too eye-catching, especially during the competition, Abenand is full of all kinds of people, each with their own goals, and some even have bad intentions.

But Fang Plover did not give way too much, and there were many visitors from Jiao Ying Yuyan.

That's because he became famous in the competition, most of those noble daughters and young ladies who were curious about him, and there were also graceful ladies among them.Fang Plover actually didn't know about it at first, but Miss Ship Officer brought it up to him with a smile.

She also told him not to refuse coldly, because in aristocratic circles, men should maintain a minimum of demeanor.

Fang Plover is not interested in the aristocratic circle anymore, but he is a little curious about this matter. After all, who would be a boy of his age without vanity?
But after a salon or two like that, he realized that the activity was like going to jail.Although surrounded by Yingying and Yanyan, those delicate and lovely people seemed to be people from two completely different worlds from him.

He couldn't understand what they were discussing, and they couldn't understand him either. The two sides only said some polite scene words, which made one head and two big.

Fang Plover soon realized that he had been fooled by his own lady officer, and that such activities were simply killing his life. After the only two experiences, he refused to go out again, and resolutely never accepted such activities. An invitation to waste time.

He didn't care about demeanor anymore, and besides, he didn't have that kind of thing in the first place.

He is just a caller.

But when other people in the group heard about his experience, everyone was amused.

It's just that Xiaoyao and Shui Wuming laughed so hard that tears came out. "It's so interesting," said the latter, wiping away his tears, "Ed, I think you are finished. Miss Sylviede has eaten you to death."

"That's not true," Sylvaide said with a smile, "he will have many occasions like this in the future. As a great explorer and captain, he must see the world. Besides, the captain also has a lady wolf." Woolen cloth."

Sylvaide smiled, as if she wasn't unhappy at all.

But Fang Plover was terrified.

"Miss Wolf?" Dalier was interested in this topic, and put down the big sword he was cleaning in his hand.

"No, it's nothing," Fang Plover changed the subject bravely, "I have nothing to do with Ms. Miya, let's talk about the upcoming competition."

Shui Wuming listened very interestingly, and repeated it playfully, "Oh, a great explorer and captain."

"Let's not talk about this," Fang Plover felt that he was being executed in public. "I'm just interested in the second world. Great explorer or something. I'd better leave this title to Sir Ma Wei."

However, the Miss Ship Officer was obviously very measured, she only ordered this sentence, and then she smiled and retreated to the side.

She saved enough face for her captain.

She has never been without topics in any circle, and she can talk to everyone, whether it is the topic of alchemy or the private discussions of the nobles, she can make people feel refreshed.

With the appearance of Miss Ship Officer, she can actually easily become the center of a topic circle, but she always gives up that position and lets her captain sit on it.Although the latter is not proud of it, it is often very painful.

The upper circles of the Empire are very closed.

What Fang Yan saw a few days ago is actually not surprising. The nobles of the empire are bound by blood, and have controlled the criteria for entering the circle for thousands of years.Sometimes they are too indulgent, and sometimes they are too conservative.

But if you go deep into that circle, normal people will find it difficult to adapt. Those people maintain their identity because of those overly long stereotypes. Some 'rules' that originated centuries ago and survive to the present have no logic at all.

The girls in that circle just find it difficult to know themselves in it. After all, what everyone sees is the world around them.And it is for this reason that Fang Plover has respect for those who are willing to break boundaries.

Sylvaide's father was undoubtedly such a person.

Colin—The nobles and priests descended from the Ishurian royal family are even more absurd, so much so that even the alchemists who are also on the upper floors of the building sneer at mentioning it. This is definitely not intentional slander——

After all, Fang Yan had already experienced the virtues of that perverse king and those around him.

And being able to maintain his unique essence in such a circle, he has made friends with a lot of alchemists, and from Sylvaide himself, he can also see what kind of person that Mr. Jazz is.

Fang Yan was very curious about his 'old father-in-law' whom he had never met.

Of all the people, only Alyssa was absent.This Miss Nightingale has been sneaking around and planning something with Nini these days, and the two of them can't see anyone all day long, but considering that Miss Alyssa is the intelligence officer on board, Fang Plover doesn't have much to say.

What's more, she still brings back some gossip from time to time.By the way, the goat's milk soothes the nerves is also found by this young lady, but she doesn't know how to pass it on to Sylvaide.

The taste of that bowl of goat's milk is indescribable. Fang Plover was really full of energy shortly after drinking it, and he suffered from insomnia that night.

Xiaoyao was envious and jealous of him being invited by those noble daughters, and said several times that he wanted to replace him with his own body, but unfortunately most people are not interested in crystal craftsmen, let alone who would remember who is not No.1?
On the contrary, Wei Yu's good appearance and demeanor caused a lot of discussion in the aristocratic circle, and some people compared him with the twin stars of the empire, but like Fang Plover, the former also rejected those invitations one by one.

This made Xiaoyao very sad, and condemned these two guys for burning pianos and cranes, and cattle chewing peonies.

But after isolating himself from the turmoil of the outside world, the time passed extremely quickly, and a week passed by. These days, Fang Plover locked himself up to study the star devices, as well as the design drawings obtained from Nozpitz underground. .

He gained something, but not much.

Especially after realizing the connection between Cang Zhihui and the Green Star, as well as the relationship between the origin of alchemy and the cursed star, he had a little doubt about the technologies that came from the elves before.

What he has been advancing now is instead multiple parallelism and elf creation, but due to the limitations of hardware conditions, the progress is also very limited.Some of the experiences gained from the tree sea space are useful, but some are completely unverifiable.

On the contrary, a few more questions were solved in the chapter of the key, which can be regarded as the gains he gained from all the recent experiences. He returned this part of the progress to Shana, but there was no reply.

It seems that since the last meeting, the familiar IDs on the original communication list have never appeared again.

The same goes for Miya.

However, since the big news broke out in the second world, there has been no news.For him, no news at this time is good news.

As for the military, he didn't get in touch with Su Changfeng because the other party was still on the earth, said to be in West Siberia, and this news should be kept secret, but he himself was considered a half non-staff member with a certain level of secrecy.

Of course, on the other hand, he can't speak so casually to the outside world now, Bai Jia is quite worried about him, but luckily there are Miss Nightingale and Sylwede beside him who can help him check.

Needless to say how reliable the latter is, even Bai Jia can trust her very much.As for Ms. Nightingale, like him, she is also helping the military. In fact, her twin sister Alice is still in the special operations team.

Just unknown.

After the participating teams left Abenand, they were split into two, and some of the eliminated ones had to leave the empire and set foot on their way home.Of course, there are also some who have sufficient funds and plan to stay with them.

As for whether the title is long-term experience or traveling in the empire, that is the business of each team.

As for the Hill of Giant Trees, the Sanshak delegation had set off a week ago, and Forin didn't say goodbye to them, but left him a strange sentence.Luo Wei was in charge of conveying these words, she told him:
"Forin is waiting for you to go to Sanshak to meet him."

"What am I going to Sonshak for?"

Although Fang Plover did have a plan to go to the Hill of Giant Trees, why was the other party so determined?
What's more, he might go to Sanshak before that, after all, it is the hometown of the Paparars, and it is also the place where alchemy is most prosperous in that land.

But after Miss Attila and the big cat leave, he may have to rush to the Shadow Tree Temple to pick up his cheap 'sister'. The two directions are in opposite directions, and Sanshak's plan may be put on hold.

What's more, Parker is still wanted there.

"He has seen your Valkyrie," Luo Wei replied, "You have the withered heart of Terraka in your hand, and you were chosen by that lady again. He said that the inspiration in your hand is not a complete inspiration. The Light One and the Tower of Spring Dawn will give you more inspiration, and you still need a lot of things to build that machine in the real world, so you will definitely go there."

"Then I thank him."

Fang Plover scratched his hair, a little confused.That guy is obviously an alchemist, how come he is like a magic stick, he is still not a chosen one.

But Forin reminded him that he is indeed curious about the Lightbringer now. He has met the occultists of the Silver Tower, and once again saw the gray-robed scholar named Artush, and another old man.

That old man should be the guardian of the Silver Tower in the empire, and also the current curator of the Great Silver Library.His real name was Farif Heynard, a name Fang Ploy was very familiar with, but he only remembered where he had heard it later.

About two centuries ago, this name had a prestigious history, and he finally remembered who it was, the owner of the magic book 'Book of the Sky', the sage, the great wizard.

The other party has survived until now.

……

(End of this chapter)