Pillars of Ita

Chapter 1029 Question 3 Sixty Acts
"Tower magic furnace?"

A contestant from Luotao entered the room and was startled slightly when he saw the half-made magic tool on the table.

He hesitated for a while, then walked over and gently pulled out the crystal inserted in the machine, put it in his hand and looked around, his eyes could not help showing a strange look.

"I heard that the people of the empire were studying this thing, but did their inspiration come from here?" He muttered to himself.

He looked up and looked around, there was nothing in the small room except here, only some different materials were displayed on the surrounding shelves.Ordinary, but also rare, other than that, the scenery is the same, as if behind each door is an equally boring space.

The contestant looked at the crystal in his hand and couldn't help frowning:
"So the topic here is to restore this tower magic furnace?"

And at the same time.

In a different room, Zheng Yongzai was resting his hand on his chin, frowning as he looked at the same magic furnace.He stared at the core crystal in the tower-type magic furnace, with a puzzled look on his face.

"If Sister Vikki is here, what will she do?"

"What will Brother Ed do?" He couldn't help talking to himself.

But the lady in the boy's mouth is dismantling the magic furnace without hesitation at this moment, and directly pulling out the crystal and throwing it aside.She went straight to the shelf beside her, and used her eyes to select the materials she needed.

Yes, cold iron, star crystal, pine wood.

There was a glint in Vikki's eyes.

In another room, Wei Yu who pushed open the door couldn't help being slightly startled.He stopped and looked at the scene in front of him, with a little surprise on his face, and then he shook his head with a sassy smile, "Tower-type magic furnace, heh, imperial people."

But at this moment, different rooms, different players.At the same moment, they are faced with the same choice.

Juno had no expression on his face, while Georgieffin in the other room showed an expression of enlightenment.

Hegrim was overjoyed, while Hei just watched the magic furnace silently.

That is a tower-type magic furnace——

A masterpiece from seven centuries ago in the history of the empire, born from the brainchild of many generations of alchemists, but four of them made indelible contributions in the process.

They were first of all the pupils of the great alchemist, Hein-Fam.And his student, Hellingwell, and two other notable and unknown geniuses.One of them is said to be the founder of the Flaming Blade Workshop, but this workshop has long been annihilated together with its owner in the long history of the empire.

Of course, from today’s point of view, many functions of this old and outdated product are very backward and outdated, but there is one advantage that other technical routes cannot match:
That is its raw, purifying power for the ether.

Even though the aether with mixed elements is not a problem in today's era, because people have found a tricky method many years after that, because mortals have shown an amazing ability to expand their groups after several epochs of reproduction .

Its current group has not only made great progress compared with their weak and tiny tribe in the Numelin era, but also far surpassed its former master who once owned this land—the Numelin elves .

In this huge empire, even a few people with special elemental fitness are selected among those people.And these people are enough to form a huge group.

Now, after abandoning the clumsy and useless functions of the magic furnace, it has become more sensitive and more focused on its own path.It does become unsuitable for most people, but the simplified design makes it easier to carry and more efficient.

In the past, such a design was regarded as a huge innovation.

It brought the great development of alchemy since the third century, and the prosperous age of alchemy in the year of the seven wise men.In that era, great alchemists appeared one after another, and one after another promoted the further progress of technology.

And so came the time of the great glorious return.

But later generations looked back from such an era, found those backward technologies from the pile of old papers, and found that they were not all useless, but maybe they were waiting for a suitable opportunity.

Sprout.

At the right time, they may also play an unimaginable role.

Trixes admired the finished product as if she were a work of art, smiled contentedly, and gently put it down.She chuckled and said the answer: "The backwardness in the past is very likely to be based on various conditions, yes."

The girl nodded and placed it on the table, then looked up at the time - only a quarter of an hour had passed.

There is an identical clock hanging in every room.

The pointer on it is beating slowly and steadily, just like the passage of time, which will never return.

She continued softly: "And once the conditions are ripe, the technologies in history may shine again. They are just silently waiting for all opportunities to come. Because that is not necessarily really backward, it may also be too advanced -"

"When we look back, it's just picking up the gold that was lost in the sand."

"Let others say what you want."

She replied, opened the door and walked out.

But is it so?

In the same room, Fang Plover stared at the magic furnace for a long time.On the brass shell, the world it was born in is engraved on it, which belongs to the past era:

——In the 409th year of the imperial ephemeris, the last month, the 22nd, even accurate to the hour, [-]:[-].He could imagine the moment when the young alchemist in history looked up at the time after completing this work.

Then the other party lowered his head again and picked up the seal knife in his hand, so the time was frozen.

He saw behind the round table and behind the magic furnace, there seemed to be a phantom hanging down. It was a young alchemist in a robe and a monocle, watching his masterpiece.

He murmured, "Did we succeed?"

Fang Plover did not answer.

The story he heard in the space of the Silver Spire, the answer to all of that.

That question isn't really about right or wrong.

Alchemists have been on this path since the moment they took over the world from the Numelin elves.If they stop, the ensuing darkness will swallow everything up.

It has also been engraved in history:

'The disaster will come again, and the enemies of the past will also return. '

That is a hunter of fate coveting beyond the world, he will follow the net to find the trembling at every endpoint, no matter where the prey there is to resist or struggle in vain, but fate will surely arrive.

From the moment mortals choose their destiny, everything is doomed.

The azure tail of light, that incomparably bright river of light, will walk above the sky at that moment.

The only thing that remains unanswered is how the end point will be written, and how mortals should control the fate of themselves and the world.

The Numerim elves gave mortals a choice before they left this world, and those worthy people did indeed grasp a corner of the shackles of their own destiny.

What mortals lack is just the power to tear it apart.

Therefore, all grand destinies after that will also be eclipsed before this.

That will be all that is engraved on the history of the mortals in Etalia. People who walk on this road try their best to find the only correct answer, so as to prevent the world from reaching the irreversible situation in repeated situations. end.

That is the alchemists of 1000 years, the three geniuses of the empire 700 years ago, and the current owners of the tower - Farif, Artush and Miss Tata, and what he faced.

and everything that must be chosen.

He couldn't tell what the meaning of this phantom was, so he didn't speak.

After a while, another figure appeared, and beside that figure, he spoke to the former:

"The great prophecy lets us understand the powerful enemy we must face, and we can see everything in the future from Cang Zhihui. It doesn't matter whether we succeed once or not. The important thing is that we must choose the right path."

The speaker was quiet and steady, as if he seemed strong enough inside.Fang Plover suddenly understood who this was—Jeldham among the three geniuses.

In Aona's description, Hellingwell is a scholarly genius, intelligent, focused, and always full of unparalleled confidence in his own field, but he is softer, gentle, courteous and thrifty on the outside.

And Jerdem is an alchemist who came from a craftsman. There is a big gap between the craftsman of that era and the current definition.He is a professional engineer with strong hands-on ability, and he runs a workshop himself. He has a strong personality, but he is rational and calm.

The phantom of Jedham continued:

"Old friends may also break with us because of this, but I have learned from alchemy that going back to the past cannot solve all problems. The only possibility I think of to win is to walk faster than the enemy."

“But how do we avoid going down the same path as our enemies?” he asked rhetorically, as if giving a speech. “Our purpose is to save our world, not let it sink.”

"...The enemy draws power from the starlight, but we can't copy it like this. There are endless enemies in the darkness, they have the army of constructs, there are dark creatures, and those in the void created by the starlight everything that was made."

"Our only advantage is what the Numelin elves value. Mortals are weak, but there are many. If we can turn everyone into a warrior like the elves, indeed, we still have a chance to win the final victory .”

"However," his tone sank, "we haven't really come to the end of this road. The non-attribute crystal can prevent us from using the original power of this world, but the non-attribute crystal is too weak to bear the ether. "

"It's just like... mortals."

"You're wrong, Gerdham," the first person raised his head and said softly, "Have you heard of the second technical route?"

This is Helinwell, Fang Plover recognized the owner of the voice.

Helinwell continued: "My teacher, the great alchemist heard that there is a technology in the far east that can incorporate dragon souls into crystal lattices, making dragon souls and crystals strengthen each other, and creating an incomparable The Holy Crystal. Now he has gone to Colin-Ishurian Kingdom alone, just to test the possibility."

"What you said is indeed possible, Helinwell," Jerdem shook his head, "but the premise is that the second technical route exists. Do you know which dragon soul is suitable?"

"It's the fairy dragon soul——"

The engineer asserted: "Fairy dragon souls do not exist in this world."

Helinwell was also silent, but he didn't seem to agree.

Fang Plover also listened to this conversation in silence.

He thought at first that the conversation was addressed to himself, but later found out that it was not, and both sides of the conversation regarded him as nothing.It was like an echo in the void, haunting seven centuries of history.

But why did this scene appear in front of him?

Perhaps the hunters of darkness have seen it all, groping through mortals in their paths, sneering at the struggles of the tiny mortals of this world.

Those golden eyes recorded everything, engraved it in the immortal memory, and passed it to his senses through the ring of golden flames, and he pressed the cold and hot ring with his hands.

The ring of golden flame trembled slightly.

Miss Tata suddenly appeared from his side, also watching this scene calmly.She rarely shows up on her own initiative, but the space in the tower is relatively safe.

Fang Yan and her looked at each other, the question that the two geniuses were discussing.

In fact, today, after several centuries.

Already answered——

At this moment, another voice echoed, that voice was sonorous and powerful, and seemed full of energy.As soon as Fang Yan heard that voice, he realized that it was completely different from the chairman he had imagined.

The Friston he knew in this era was gentle and gentle, like a real noble gentleman, but this voice seemed a little aggressive:

"Vulgar people can't see this, and I'm sorry that some of our colleagues think this way is wrong," a third figure appeared, "You two, I have my own ideas. We really want to Stuck on this path with no future in sight?"

He shook his head.

"Not at all. Without finding a suitable carrier, what is the significance of our invention of this magic furnace? It is like an empty shell without a soul, except for providing us with self-comfort—maybe the future Someone is going to use it. Other than that, it means nothing."

"I think Jedham's point of view is reasonable, but it's not perfect," Friston said. "I have a simplified way. Jedham, do you remember your star device, why don't we stop How about using the enemy's method to defeat the enemy at once?"

He looked at the two of them, "We used the enemy's methods to defeat the enemy once, why not do it again? And unlike them, we don't necessarily need Xinghui, I thought of a way——"

"Friston," Jedham interrupted, warning, "this is dangerous."

"There is nothing we do that is not dangerous," Friston said. "Just as we build a new empire, we can still build a new empire. It's all worth it. We are alchemists, we was born for the destiny of this world, we don’t need to care so much about those details.”

"We did not build a new empire to save the world," Helinwell shook his head and disagreed, "That's because some people yearned for it. The past world was too difficult and many people could no longer gain a foothold in that world. We have to overthrow it. But those are two different things, if there is a war, how many people will be involved in the flames of war?"

"Benevolence of a woman, Hellingwell," Friston said disapprovingly, "You will never escape from the position you belong to, just like those weak nobles."

"I don't agree with the two of you," Jerdem said, "whether it's the old line, or radical like you, Friston. Those filmmakers may think the same way, but they are always walking on the edge, There will be a day when that dangerous line will be crossed."

The three voices gradually faded away.

Two of the figures disappeared, and Fang Plover stood in the room. He seemed to have witnessed a dispute 700 years ago.

He also seemed to understand the cause and effect of that dispute, and everything that happened after that—the once dear friend, finally broke up unhappy and went their separate ways.

Among the three figures, only one remained in place. The young man in the alchemist's robe held the magic furnace in his hand, suddenly raised his head to look at him silently, and asked:
"So, what's your answer—"

Fang Plover was taken aback.

He always thought he was a bystander, but he didn't expect that Helinwell would ask himself a question. "Wait, wait a minute, Your Excellency...it's Helinwell, can you see me?"

But the phantom image of the alchemist shook his head slightly as if he could predict his speech, "I don't know who you are, whether you are young or old, but at my age, I should be able to call you young people……"

"Young man, I leave this video here to let you see everything that happened here because I know you have our things on you..."

"Your things?" Fang Yan was taken aback.

"Yes." Helinwell nodded, "...in fact, it belongs to one of our old friends."

Fang Plover hesitated for a moment, as if thinking of something.

He subconsciously groped his body, but suddenly stopped, realizing something.He stopped his hand on his chest, and besides a warm beating heart, there was an imprint underneath.

That was the blessing of Alphonse, the tyrant of the earth elemental.

He suddenly thought of the scene at that time, the confrontation between Nozpitz's underground Alyssa and the elemental tyrant, and the other party's inadvertent glance at him.After that, he actually wanted to take out this elemental blessing more than once, but it remained motionless no matter what.

Fang Plover suddenly realized that he had been tricked.

He raised his head and opened his mouth, "You..."

"It knows I'm gone," Helinwell smiled, "That elemental tyrant."

But he suddenly changed the subject and introduced three of them, "You may not know that Jedham is the most rational person among us. He is very outstanding and can always do things that I can't do." It's a pity that he is too rational, and he is always unwilling to believe that there are still those beautiful hopes in this world."

"He always believes in his own calculations, and believes in the correct path after calculations, which can lead us to the final victory. Among all the least favorite people in Jedham, Friston must be at the forefront, but the fact I sometimes think that maybe the two of them are more similar."

"But it is this similarity that makes them repel each other. Besides, Jedham has always known that Friston is not our kind of people. He is more ambitious and more eclectic. I can't comment on this. It was good and bad for our old friend, but it did get him a lot done, to overthrow that rotten dynasty and rebuild everything."

"Many people in the outside world have a negative evaluation of our old friend, but in fact he is not a person obsessed with power. His goal is bigger and purer, and he just wants to save everything. He always He wanted to be that savior, so much so that he ignored other things, if he really cared about everything in the mortal world, then he might not have left the empire in the first place."

"All in all, these friends of mine can be said to be the best people in the world, but as you can see, no matter how good people are, their vision will be limited by the times. They can neither see the past clearly nor see the past. Unclear about the future, we can only grope forward in the endless darkness, looking for the path that is as correct as possible.”

"Among all the outstanding geniuses of my time, I may be the most unremarkable one. In fact, all my talents and reputation come from my teacher—yes, you must have heard that name .You come here, which means that you should also be an alchemist, and among the alchemists, there should be no one who does not know my teacher, and my teacher's teacher."

Helinwell paused for a moment, then said modestly: "As for the elemental tyrant Alphonse, the guardian of the Xintaan earth elemental world, if disaster strikes, the elemental domain above the sea of ​​light must be the first to collapse. That's why it's on our side."

"It's just that because of the unique sensitivity of an elemental creature, it doesn't trust Friston, nor does it trust Jeldham's path. It always trusts the idea proposed by my teacher. The shadow man from Xinghui Draw power from them, and create their own army of nightmare furnaces, and if we rely on the power of non-attribute crystals, we can certainly match them."

"As for Friston's path, it's too dangerous..."

Helinwell's phantom looked at the magic furnace on the table, "Alphonse gave you its token, this is what we had agreed upon, I believe that elemental tyrant must have seen some qualities from you .”

He pointed to the magic furnace and said, "As you can see, the magic furnace is not perfect. We had disagreements when designing it, so there were many shortcomings."

"This is a tower-type magic furnace. In your era, it may still be in use, but it may have fallen behind and fell into the dust of the times. But I understand alchemists, even so, you must be History has learned about this sort of thing, and learned why it exists."

Helinwell stopped, "You must know it well if you can come here."

He put his hand on the shell of the magic furnace, and said in a very gentle tone, "So young man, please tell me, where does this magic furnace really need to be improved? I think you must have the answer to that question. "

He raised his head, looked at Fang Plover, and said nothing.

Fang Yan only looked silently at the magic stove on the table, and then at the phantom of this great alchemist in history.

Yes, Hellingwell, one of the great alchemists in the history of the empire, and one of the most famous, although for many reasons, his name was hidden behind a thick fog.

But later, with the help of Ji Ta and Luo Wei, he found a few words about this person from those piles of old papers.

That was also the only one among the three geniuses who received this title 700 years ago, and it was conferred by the empire.

It is recorded in history that Hailinweier is the successor of Hein-Fam, and the adherent of the sixth technical route. He left countless precious wealth for the alchemy circle of the empire during his lifetime. Human alchemy has really entered the era of rapid development.

If the era of the seven sages belonged to the era when alchemy was forging ahead, and the great alchemist I faced undoubtedly belonged to the most important founder before that era.

He was a gentle elder and a reformist during his lifetime. Apart from the feat of establishing the northern dynasty with his companions, he had almost no extraordinary behavior in his life.

Even less than arguing with people.

He left behind a lot of precious legacy, not just the tower-type magic furnace. Later, he left the empire and went to Colin-Ishurian, just to follow in the footsteps of his mentor.

And after that, no one saw the great alchemist again.

Under the gaze of the shadow of the great alchemist in his youth, Fang Plover was silent for a moment before gently nodding towards him.

"Then Mr. Hellingwell," he began, "please take care."

He went forward and took the materials from the shelf, but they were just the most common materials, it didn't even look like he wanted to perfect this magic furnace, but just made some changes to it.

Fang Plover didn't say a word, just silently carried out a series of preparatory work. When he finished the last step, he raised his head and looked at the time - an hour.

That was already his limit.

He turned the magic furnace to face himself, then removed the pipe circuit on the magic furnace with his bare hands, installed another one, and adjusted it a little.

After everything was ready, Fang Plover raised his head to look at the shadow again, as if looking at the genius behind the shadow through 700 years, he spoke.

"Senior Helinwell, in fact, you and I already understand that this magic furnace does not need an elemental purification circuit."

Because it was not born for that purpose.

He continued, "Its real name is actually not called a tower magic furnace."

There was a gleam of surprise in the shadow's eyes.

Fang Plover took out a crystal from the immersion liquid and installed it on the magic furnace.

A soft, white light shines from every circuit on the magic furnace, and it runs so warmly, just like Helinwell's life—his fame in his youth was such a turbulent process, but in the end , but became an unknown, conservative defender of the technical route.

All his life, he sticks to the path inherited from his teacher, the pursuit of the final answer.

The sixth technical route.

No attribute crystal.

Yes, that is exactly the answer to the question Fang Plover posed.

"It's a non-attribute magic furnace."

"Mr. Hellingwell."

At that moment, a relieved smile appeared on Shadow's face, although it was only a faint smile.But he seems to have seen the inheritance that has gone through thousands of years, and the fire that has not been extinguished, and at this moment——

Complete the transfer.

He knew the answer to that question, just as he saw that the future of mortals must be extremely bright, and the alchemy inherited from the elves would eventually blossom and bear fruit in the hands of the most ordinary people.

The end of the future road leads to the end where all enemies have been defeated.

Helinwell smiled and said, "So you have completed this question and can enter the next door."

……

Outside the arena, the staff of the Super Sports League only got the first-hand information at this time.

That message was passed from crowd to crowd:

"Someone has entered the No.12 door."

……

(End of this chapter)