Pillars of Ita

Chapter 1028 Act 359 Tower and Sea of ​​Fire

How did the fire that burned everything 50 years ago happen?
Fang Plover's eyes stayed between the arches on the stairs, as if the closed pine door led not to a hall, but to a lost truth behind the fog of history.

Under the gate, the members of the association had already finished speaking, and a figure who was said to be from the local alchemy family was replaced.Those are the descendants of a family left here by a well-known alchemist in the history of Selva. Their ancestors once guarded the tower here, and people have guarded the land here for generations.

Such behavior naturally won the respect of this family in the imperial alchemy circle, and also allowed his descendants to receive this honor, allowing them to personally open this tower for geniuses from all over the world.

That was just a small part of the thousand-year history of the empire.

And the profound tradition that has been deposited in it is precisely accomplished by many such families of alchemists and legendary individuals.

The people of that family performed an ancient ceremony with a long history. The ceremony itself has no meaning, the most critical part is just inserting a keystone into the stone slab in front of the tower.

This is to unlock the mystical devices that surround the tower, and this measure is mainly to prevent ordinary people from entering it by mistake.

Although Fang Plover had seen the tall tower in Nevad, that stone tower stood alone in the wilderness, surrounded by only a thousand-year-old whispering and silent forest, and a sparkling long lake.

Passing wild animals gazed at the ruins of that civilization day after day, but it was never heard of anyone who strayed into it.

Of course, there are no humans in Nevad, only fairies.

The goblins in the lakeside forest are the largest group besides Roschel, and they are also the closest to humans.What's more, a cloud dragon lives in the snow-capped Holy Bow Peak all year round, guarding the high tower by the lake——

This may be a special kind in itself.

After the gate was opened, the association began to read the names of the participating delegations, and the contestants who read it went forward, received a special communication crystal and entered the tower.

First of all, there are only four or five people from Shujinzhiblade, Silver Chain Island and White Tree Society. After receiving the things, those people entered the tower alone.

But there is no need to worry about the time sequence. After entering that door, there is a separate space, where the players will wait for everyone to be ready before the game will start.

Then came the two teams of the Lotao people, then the Guta people, followed by Ravendur and the Ai Yin Brock Craftsman Association.

Kapuka Artisan Guild, Imperial Workshop.

Next, is the Artisan Association of Grande.

The last one was the pair of imperial twins, one of whom he was already very familiar with was Juno, the head of the Imperial Workshop delegation.

That should be his real name, and it is said that he is also a genius in reality.Like myself, the other party entered the star gate very late, two or three years later than the others.

As for the other one, he didn't quite recognize him. He only knew that that person was tall and tall, and he didn't look like an alchemist.

When Georgifen passed by Fang Plover, he couldn't help but take a look at the Dragon Alchemist who claimed to be a Colin. He opened his mouth, hesitated and said:

"Dragon Alchemist of the Colin, I wish you the best of luck."

Fang Yan was slightly surprised when he heard the words, and couldn't help but raise his head.

Before the start of the last round of competition, this person even taunted them.Although he later figured it out from other people, it was just a part before the competition.

Maybe it's because this game doesn't need to be broadcast, so the opponent doesn't have to show that kind of rebelliousness.

He replied, "You too."

Georgieffin gave him a steady look, "It would be great if you were one of us."

Fang Yan was slightly taken aback, but couldn't tell the meaning behind it. He replied, "If a certain competition area is dominated by one family, wouldn't ultra-competition be boring?"

"That's not what it means," the other party shook his head and said, "Forget it, see you in the hall of the Holy King."

When the figure of the other party disappeared behind the door, he was actually the only one left at the scene.

Fang Yan thought that the imperial people would treat him special, but he didn't, which made him feel embarrassed. It turned out that he was being too sentimental.

Fortunately, the thoughts in his heart can't be seen by others.

After he took the crystal, he checked it in his hand and found that it was just an ordinary crystal.It's just that there are a few unrecognizable alchemy formulas in it, which are probably related to the Tower of the Winter Solstice.

He studied it, but couldn't figure out why, so he put it aside.There are tens of thousands of craftsmen, and it is normal for him not to recognize one of them.

He looked up at the archway, and passed under it with ease, entering the tower.

As soon as the light in the back dimmed, the place where the eyes entered was exactly the same as the Xiajin Tower. First, there was a wide hall with a long elm table in the center.

There are 27 chairs around the table.

It is said that those chairs symbolize the 27 most famous alchemists in the history of the empire. There are not only great alchemists, but also master craftsmen.

And the most conspicuous one on the main seat is naturally the position of the unique great alchemist.

Fang Yan looked at the empty chair, and suddenly had an idea in his heart, whether he could sit on it and see, his ID was derived from that great alchemist from ancient times to the present.

But he quickly shook his head to get this absurd idea out of his mind. He remembered that before arriving here, Ming told him to take it easy, but don't make a big fool and occupy the front page of the "Astrologer".

After all, those astrologers are very happy to see problems here.

He raised his head, and the space above the hall was still empty——

The stripped tiles and stone bricks are suspended in the void, and there are a few chairs there, but I don't know what they mean.Fang Plover looked at the void that seemed familiar, but his thoughts were much more than at that moment in the past.

Does that void lead to the land of starlight silence?Does that symbolize where alchemy came from?And behind that dead silence, is the final appearance of this world?
Orderly information will eventually be attributed to invalid entropy. If there is no intervention from external information, will Atalia eventually become the same.

And what about beyond the star gate?

Does the opening of the star gate have a different meaning for the two worlds? What are they, what are the chosen ones, and what are the Numelin elves who once left a fortune in this world.

Farif and Artush, they called the arrival of that moment the dusk of the worlds, those worlds in the silence of the stars, just like entering the night after dusk, the terrible shadows in the darkness shrouded out of this world.

When disaster strikes.

Like the night in the world.

It is also said that many ages ago, every world in Atalia was full of light, and the creator Ita once blessed each of these worlds, making it a land of the most beautiful and good of light.

But then the tower fell, and part of the world fell into darkness forever.

That was the cause of the first disaster.

The lizardmen write thus:

'At the beginning of the birth of the world, two gods were born from a great will, one is the most holy, the god of perfection and beauty'Ita', and the other is the evil dragon'Ku-Ramonsoda' . '

In the myth of the Sinthas snake man, it is also called the python of the world - Andron.

In the myths handed down from the time of Synthas, the good god finally defeated the evil dragon,' so in order to save all beings, the god of perfection and beauty, 'Ita' thought about making a decision. '

'He turned into a sea of ​​light, so that the world will be permanently illuminated by light, so there will be no eternal night and darkness in the world. '

'From his remaining will were born the Eleven Gods, the Sun Gods. '

But the sea of ​​light has never been extinguished, and it is difficult for evil to invade.

These stories actually come from the legend of the Sinthas snake man, which was told to him by Sophie herself when he was underground in Fenris.

How many of these ancient scripts were recorded and written on stone tablets by the Snake People before the rebellion of the seven dynasties was true and how much is not known.

However, when Fang Plovers was in the Silver Tower, when he heard Farif tell this story again, he couldn't help but think of the murals he had also seen underground in Fenris——

Some of the murals are still fresh in his memory, as if he closes his eyes, the mottled pictures on the wall will resurface in front of his eyes:

A tall black tower.

Standing between clouds with an abstract style, it rises from the ground, and below it is a motley crowd, who seem to be fighting each other endlessly.

On the right side of the mural is an abstract sun, on the other side are the moon and stars, and above the clouds, there is a black giant dragon, covered in stars, with its tail hanging from the clouds, watching the big dragon with indifferent eyes. war on earth.

That is Andron, the worldly serpent.

Or in the context of the Lizardmen - 'Ku-Ramonsoda'.

Dark dragon.

The comet is its tail.

In another image, the tower crumbles, burns in flames, falls into the clouds, and the crowd flees in all directions like a shooting star across the sky.

The last mural is divided into two, one side is black and the other side is white, and the black dragon splits from the middle.

The screen ends here.Fang Plover suddenly thought that he had actually seen the two knights, one black and one white, the images depicted in the myth...

In fact, it is exactly what the Holy Grail Knight looks like.

"The meaning of the Holy Grail is to be blessed."

That's Farref's answer.The old man said, "The first batch of alchemists once saw the most primitive appearance of the dragon knight in that dream, one black and one white."

"They call it the Grail Knight, which means the knight of grace."

Fang Zhi knew that the great alchemist Ed was not the first human alchemist, although he was indeed the greatest one.

In order to cultivate allies, the Numelin elves selected a group of outstanding people from among mortals to impart their knowledge of alchemists, that is, the first batch of alchemists among mortals.

Ed is just one of them.

The elves made those mortals have a long dream, in which they saw the essence and starlight of the world, and Fang Plover only understood it later.

What I saw in that dream was actually the dream of Cang Cui, Cang Zhihui.

"That was the earliest prototype of the dragon knight. The power of the white knight freezes all ice, which is the essence of elemental power. All subsequent dragon knights of mortals come from the same idea, that is, for elemental power, for Xinghui in the material world mastery of the law."

"The Black Knight, no one can understand, no one can know, its power seems to be time and space, but time and space are just appearances, the real essence is the non-attribute power relative to elemental power."

"That's actually the reason for another technical route, everything about the non-attribute crystal and the idea of ​​the fairy dragon knight."

Fang Yan asked: "So those dragon knights and Holy Grail knights that exist in Miss Tata's memory are...?"

The old man nodded, "That's all the secrets we keep in the big library."

"...and the real big library no longer exists in this world. In order to avoid that disaster, we kept all the knowledge in an abstract concept, that is the silver door, the big silver book Hall."

"I am the guardian of that secret, the founder of the great library."

The old man looked at Miss Tata, "And Miss Tata is the gatekeeper of the big library. To this day, she is the only one who still keeps the only key, which is why her existence is so important."

"There is no second key in this world. She is not only the princess revered by the Roschel fairies, but also the princess of all knowledge, our princess."

Fang Yan was silent for a while, and the word he heard repeatedly caught his attention: "So what is that disaster?"

"That catastrophe was nothing more than the final manifestation of all the troubles we have encountered," Farif replied. "The real enemy is after us. We searched for answers through the blue brilliance, and they left along our trails." traces of it found us from another world."

"Shadowman?" Fang Yan realized something.

"It's not just them," the old man sighed, "but they are one of them, and there are even more troublesome opponents. They are actually the will of that world."

"Dark Saints?"

The old man nodded slowly.

"So you faced them alone, why?" asked Fang Plover, "They attacked all the secrets of the Silver Tower, but why didn't the Silver Tower turn to the Empire, the Oathkeepers and the Silver Helmets? ?”

"Because in this hunt, we can't rely on any outsider," the old man replied, "The Silver Tower has special means to hide in the cracks in the space, we call it the high tower space, specifically You've seen it too. Hunters can't travel between the two worlds, they can only attack us in that space."

"Once we exit that space, all the knowledge we gained from the space will be turned into nothingness, and all previous efforts will be wasted. If we turn to the empire, we will introduce shadows from outside the world into this world. That and those three geniuses Everything you do makes no difference."

Farif described in a long tone: "So we choose to face everything alone, Miss Tata, and several other people are carrying different information in the etheric network. Finish that last job before we really catch up."

But in the end, everything ended in nothingness in the fire in Elpaxin.

He finally sighed, "We lost everything, lost every companion we worked with, and in the end only Artush and I were left. The last news we got after that was you and Miss Tata who have returned."

Fang Plover was silent for a long time.

He raised his head and said, "Although this is an unfortunate story, I guess there is at least one good news here. There is another meaning hidden in this story."

Farif looked at him in surprise.

Miss Tata also looked at him. She had never seen her Mr. Knight think so carefully.

Fang Plover continued, "I may understand why the shadow people carried out their plan in the northern border instead of the empire, and the real reason why they attacked Elpaxin."

He said: "I guess, 50 years ago, they didn't get what they really wanted from the fire. Although I don't know what kind of means, Miss Tata escaped with the information. Others may It's the same. Or at least they didn't hand over the things they kept to the Shadowmen. As for the hunt, the hunters only achieved half of their goals, while the other half, which was more important, was lost."

The shadow people may think that mortals have escaped their pursuit by means.

Therefore, for half a century, they have used various means to open a passage in Elpaxin, so that they can enter the rebuilt tower and find out the clues that were lost at that time.

He didn't know if the other party got something from the ether veins this time, but in fact, the answer at that time was already close at hand.

Because it's on me.

On Miss Tata.

I can only say that it's okay, it's a good thing that Miss Tata didn't get back her memory at all at that time, and it's a good thing that I didn't know about it, otherwise the filmman would definitely notice something when he invaded his thinking world.

But it is also possible that Alesha, the dragon queen, managed to protect him and Miss Tata.

He heard a soft hum.

It turned out that the dragon queen had already awakened.

He looked at Farif and Artush, but in this special space, the two didn't notice each other's existence, so they could only be said to be Lifgard's daughter.

The old man seemed a little excited. After listening to his words, his old eyes could not help but shine again, and he muttered to himself:
"If the others are still alive."

Although he also knew that it was only a possibility, but in any case, Miss Tata's return at least proved that all hope existed.

And they've almost succeeded.

Although no one knows who completed the second half.

Fang Yan asked: "Elpaxin used to have a silver tower, and as far as I know, there is also one in Ishurian's underground dwarf kingdom, that is to say, some of the people who participated in this plan also came from Colin-Ishurian. Rian's occultist, or alchemist?"

"There used to be," Farif said, "but now the Tower of Silver is very different from before. We lost too many people in that disaster."

"Therefore," Artush replied, "The Tower of Silver will be made public to the outside world after that, seeking help from other continents."

That is the origin of the Twin Towers Trial.

Fang Yan did not expect that the Continental League still had such a history. After the history circled around, it seemed to return to the original point at this moment.

The old man continued to recall. "However, there are indeed quite a few Colin-Ishurian alchemists who participated in this plan. In my memory, they are a group of very brave and noble people."

"One of them impressed me the most, the great alchemist of the Colin people."

"Wait, Mr. Farive, you mean Rozen?" Fang Yan was taken aback. It turned out that the last great alchemist lost by the Colin people was here.He didn't disappear, but was recruited by the Silver Tower.

The old man nodded.

Naturally, in the fire 50 years later, everything was reduced to ashes, and all the information about the great alchemist was also covered under the dust of the fire.

Fang Plover just didn't expect that Sylvie's ancestors had such a past.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, the fairy heart left by the other party, and he connected the other party's descendants with the Seven Seas Traveler, and the history of the Silver Tower.

But good guy, he also secretly cursed in his heart.The Colin people have not had a great alchemist for more than a century. Should the Silver Tower be held accountable?
Luo Zhen disappeared suddenly and did not leave any heirs behind. This may also be the reason for the interruption of Kaolin-Ishurian alchemy.

Farif and Artush couldn't detect his thoughts, but Tata couldn't help but said:
"A great alchemist may not necessarily be born in the inheritance of the great alchemist. The interruption of the alchemy inheritance of Colin-Ishurian should have nothing to do with it, Mr. Knight."

She said: "Although the fire did severely damage the Colin-Ishurian alchemy world."

Fang Plover nodded.

"There is another one," Farev suddenly thought of something, "The president of the Colin Craftsman's Association, of course, is the former president, but he had nothing to do with the Craftsman's Association when he joined us, and we were also involved in the fire. Lost news of him."

He pondered and recalled that incident, "I only know that he still has one student, and now he is leading the craftsmen of the entire Colin-Ishurian, but for the sake of safety, we have not contacted him."

"It's Falaise-Copper Bay, Mr. Copper Bay," Fang Plover finally understood why the red-nosed dwarf president was so excited when he saw him.

All of this turned out to be related.

It's just that the president's teacher must not have revealed too much to him, otherwise he would definitely bring it up when he saw Miss Tata.

He thought for a while, but he didn't think about whether he should mention his teacher's matter to the president. As Farif and Artush said, it was full of uncertain risks.

He didn't have to ask what happened after that, what happened after the fire.

The two occultists in front of them naturally couldn't know the things that Miss Tata couldn't explain clearly.

So Fang Yan only asked, "There is only one key left in the world. Is it too unsafe? Now that Miss Tata has returned, do you need to copy another batch of keys?"

"No," Farif interrupted, shaking his head firmly.

The old man looked up at the silver space, "At least not for the time being. I have been hiding in this space because the danger has not receded. At most, only Artush can take care of the outside affairs. Say nothing about that fire to the Empire."

He shook his head and said, "It is safest to leave the key to Miss Tata and you for safekeeping, because no one except us knows that she has returned, and the safest way is to keep this secret until you find out the truth back then until."

Only then did Fang Yan understand why Artush said that he could rest assured that there would never be a third person who would know the secret about the Dragon Soul.

But in fact, there are far more than three people, at least the chairman knows about it, and of course not many people notice him.

In addition, everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade knows part of it, but they should not understand the mysteries involved between Miss Tata and the Silver Tower.

I don't even know what it has to do with the fire——

So everyone is safe for now.

The last one is the Dragon Queen. She has just learned about this secret, but he should not worry about her safety.

"You're actually worried about me," Alesha's voice sounded a little unexpectedly, "Interesting, little guy."

Fang Plover heard the voice die down.

He only looked at the two occultists and nodded to them.Because no matter for other people, or for himself and Miss Tata, he intends to keep this secret.

As for investigating the truth behind the year, that is also a natural thing.

After all, the truth is not only related to him and Miss Tata, but also seems to involve other people.

That peaceful face, long silver hair and pointed ears naturally appeared in his mind, that sea witch who showed concern for him.

He stared at the void above the high tower for a long time, and the silver space in his memory was converging, and the void looked so similar to it.

It's just that one reflects the sea of ​​light, and the other seems to come from the void.

Both seem to be at the root of alchemy.

"Mr. Knight, the game has begun."

He put away those complicated thoughts, and a reminder from Miss Tata came from the spiritual world.The communication crystal in his hand also lit up, announcing the start of the game.

He walked forward, to the door he had chosen, and pushed it open.

……

　Did I set the wrong time when I posted it yesterday?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)