Pillars of Ita

The hall fell silent for a moment, and everyone watched this scene motionlessly as if possessed by a demon.

Amasht, the great alchemist of the empire, was showing an inexplicable expression on his face. He slowly lowered his head to look at the quivering feather arrow stuck in his chest. He instinctively stretched out his hand to grab it, but it was as if he had caught a phantom.

There the world collapsed like quicksand, his fingertips turned into dots of white light, his whole body flew away like a firefly, the great alchemist Amasht fell backwards, someone caught him, but only a piece of passing light was caught.

"The great alchemist is dead!"

There was a horrific, hideous scream from the crowd.

Terrible trembling is passing by everyone, as if an unconscious gaze is sweeping the hall of the Holy King, cold and resilient, it is impossible to get rid of, because the death of a great alchemist triggered the empire's crisis. Response mechanism, the Dragon Knight descends.

Stationed 140 air miles away from Ayin Brock——

On the four-leaf clover plain, the dragon knight Eberron Dela Raven in the coal mining area was talking with someone when he suddenly stopped and looked back in the direction of Ayn Brock.

The officials in the mining area looked at what happened next in disbelief. A huge and incomparable phantom appeared behind the opponent. It was a construct with half a human on the top and a shark body on the bottom. Holding a longbow, suspended in mid-air about 40 meters above the ground.

That's Eberron's Dragoon build, Andromeda.

Since the last war, it is almost impossible for the dragon knight to be summoned in the first world, and that has become the consensus of the people.

Even though there was a turmoil in Ai Yinbulok a few months ago, only one false dragon knight appeared under such circumstances. The imperials only used their dragon knights, but they did not make the dragon knight construct visible during the suppression.

Of course, that was also to give Ming a face, indicating that the imperial people treated the Construct Queen as a dragon knight.

People watched that scene in horror, seeing that the dragon knight's body gradually blurred, and finally disappeared together with the huge construct behind him.

"what happened?"

"It's in the direction of Aiyin Brock again, what's wrong?"

"A few months ago, I heard that it was because of the Construct Queen, this time..."

But the misfortune doesn't stop there.

Shrill sirens were ringing throughout Ravendur. Near the central tower of the trading city, people saw a stream of light rising into the sky and flying westward.

Immediately afterwards, the Seventh Legion of the Empire stationed nearby began to move, and the messengers scattered out, and within a quarter of an hour, the sky was covered with dark ship shadows—after half an hour, people got the definite news——

Master of the Seventh Legion, Hero of the Empire, and another Imperial Dragon Knight, Lord Fritz Hamilton, has left Ravendur.

But where it went, no one knew.

Dragon Knight's response speed is astonishing.

There will be no delay just because they are stationed hundreds of miles away from Ainbrock.

Fang Plover was the first to feel that kind of coercion, and a faint sense of oppression was coming from outside the hall, and Alessa, the queen of the dragon, screamed in his mind:

"Little guy, we're in big trouble!"

But he raised his head and looked at the deep vaulted courtyard, where a beam of bright light was being cast, but the dust floating in the light was completely still, as if there was an invisible force restraining them——

A dragon rider arrives.

The first to arrive was Eberron Dela Raven, together with his Andromeda, when the fairy volleyed, everyone stopped breathing, and the tourists on the street who were filming all this, the soldiers of the Imperial Army, and the artisans .

There seemed to be a singularity in their line of sight, just like the event horizon of a black hole, so that all light could not escape, attracting their eyes to it, Andromeda raised the longbow, and the whole world was drawn to the point on the arrow .

Eberron turned his head and cast a glance downward. The tourists in the twelve blocks leading to the central area of ​​the Artisan District felt disconnected from the system at the same time, and the terminal in their hands became a useless thing. All ongoing broadcasts and The recording is cut off at the same time.

The screen became pitch black.

Even from the other side of the screen, the sight was scalp-numbing.

"That's the dragon knight?"

"...It's scary, I've seen those great gods in Super Sports and they are not like this."

"Nonsense, that look was aimed at us!"

"But we're just watching the live broadcast, aren't we on the side of the star gate?"

Everyone was beating their hearts.

The Dragon Riders have arrived, and it is now the end of the Colins.

No one knew what was going on in the Hall of the Holy King, but a dragon knight announced the failure of the Seven Seas Traveler's breakout upon arrival. It was a different level of existence. No one believed that the dragon alchemist could survive in such a situation. down to escape.

But in Eyn Bullock, that peaceful glance shocked everyone in the many blocks, many people even sat on the ground with their legs limp, some people fainted from fright, and the people who were passing through those streets Those are slightly better, but limited.

The Chosen One named Horizon is leading his adventure group through an alley near Clocksmith Street. He looked up from time to time, and the scene in the sky gave him a great shock .

"It's the Dragon Knight!"

Someone in the group screamed.

"And there's more than one of them. It's a big fun now, everyone, when the fortress is in motion, I know that this plot task is not a small one."

"Shut up, this is not a plot mission," Horizon turned to the other humans, "Be careful, our opponents are not aboriginals."

"I know, Dragon Alchemist," the man didn't care too much, and shrugged his shoulders, "It's just a craftsman, and the guys in the third division dare to come to the first division to play wild, maybe the Continental League gave them Too much confidence?"

Everyone couldn't help chuckling.

Obviously everyone thinks so.

What level of competition is the Continental League?

But those sub-imperial alchemists are really embarrassing. What about the twin stars of the empire? Since the last session, the results have been unsatisfactory, which made the little girl named Loofah famous.

Horizon shook his head, "The opponent is also a battle craftsman, you better be careful."

Only then did everyone restrain themselves, and it was a consensus that the battle craftsmen were extremely difficult to deal with.

But this part-time job is different from another part-time job, and most people understand this reason. Many alchemists have a little skill of combat craftsmen, but people are different.

Knowing how to manipulate a clockwork fairy with one or two hands is also called a part-time job, and that of Ms. Blue Virus is also called a part-time job. The two are obviously not the same.

The horizon is obviously also deeply saddened by this, "I checked the videos related to it in the community before I came," he said to everyone, "many of them are related to fighting, obviously the other party is not an ordinary person."

Most of the related attack missions issued by the Adventurer's Guild are to assist the imperial army in attacking, and almost all the missions near the central area are taken over by elite teams.

If Horizon and his team can get here, they can naturally be regarded as elite. They can attack against teams above level [-], but if the opponent is a battle craftsman, then they need to strengthen two or three people to attack one person.

He checked the battle in the southern border, and the level shown by the other party was very impressive. The other party was not only a qualified combat craftsman, but also the best among them, and his level was at least above that of a high-level craftsman.

But that's about it.

As for the latter, they were temporarily entering this area for missions, so of course it was impossible for him to watch all the videos one by one.

What's more, he also watched that video for a while. The first battle in the southern border took place only a year ago. One year is not short for the Chosen, but it is not long. Can he still go to heaven?

For the chosen ones at this stage, this time may be enough to advance to a higher level.

Because generally speaking, a free-chosen person will generally have a professional lifespan of about 20 years after entering the star gate, and most of them will complete the apprenticeship stage in the first year after being selected, generally speaking, reaching level 6 .

After that, it will take another two years to reach level 10, and then reach level 15 at a rate of two levels per year, and reach level 20 before the career life span is halfway through.At this time, most people will start to decline in their professional status and enter the retirement preparation period.

In the end, about two-thirds of the people will stay at level 25 before leaving Altaria, and only one-third can reach around level 30--Scape and Quelod are in this third , Scape was level 27 before retiring, while Quelod was slightly higher, level 29.

However, Fang Yan once suspected that the two had lost experience in the Battle of Byrne, otherwise, judging from the star level, their level should be far higher than this.

And in the remaining third, only a small number of people will be able to break through the restrictions of high-level occupations and get the opportunity to go to the second world.

If you enter the second world, the professional life span of the chosen one will be extended by five to six years, leaving Altaria before the age of 40, and finally reaching level 40 or even level 45, which is already among the elites among the chosen ones. elite.

And for the Chosen who has guilds or professional clubs behind them, this ratio is much higher, about twice that of ordinary Chosen.

Of course, there are very few people who can really pass through the door of the world.

However, this rule does not apply to those who are the best, the elites and those who are favored by the heavens. Colin—Ishurian's warrior king Odin had already reached level 17 at the age of 20, and he had only entered the star gate for four years. , nearly six years faster than the average person.

Ye Hua, the king of rangers, was slightly slower than him, but it only took five years.

And even if Horizon calculates Fang Plover's level in the most prudent way, that is, as a reserve of the ten kings, it is naturally impossible to draw the conclusion that he will be promoted to five levels a year. You must know that it is level 20-25, and Not levels 1-5.

So he checked with other people again, and arranged everyone's tasks one by one.

"At least one of them is an elementalist, a naturalist, Obertz, you go to deal with the elementalist, the naturalist, and I will send two more people. Our task is to sneak into the A5 area of ​​the fortress, and we may not meet the real master." .”

From the perspective of the horizon, the team formed around a core combat craftsman should not deviate too much from its own level. Therefore, in his opinion, as long as he does not meet the entire Seven Seas Brigade——

Then his team should be able to handle it.

Everyone who received the task also nodded.

After all, they are the one with the superior number, and there are dragon knights in the sky to take care of them, so there is no possibility that there will be too many mistakes.

For the imperial side's selectors, this regional mission was a surprise. Although the firepower of the mobile fortress was far beyond their expectations, many teams were wiped out together with the imperial army when they attacked the periphery.

But there is no loss for the callers to perform the task. Anyway, half an hour later, there will be another hero in the church. This is not a dead zone, and they are not afraid of it at all.

Everyone is just excited.

But that's just wishful thinking on their part.

When the opened space gate engulfed Luo Yu and Laila, the two first experienced a bizarre scene - as if the stars turned into streamers, receding back quickly along the two of them, leaving behind light trails.

And all the light is gathered at one point behind, looking forward - there is only a emptiness and darkness in the front, as if the line of sight is stretched into a line.

However, Luo Yu was very familiar with this scene. He realized that he had entered a space gate and was under the effect of a teleportation spell. The scene seen by a dimension gate or a similar space spell like a teleportation array was almost the same as this.

It's not that the lights are going backwards, it's that they're going forward.

Such a scene lasted only for a moment, and then the door opened in front of him again. The situation was indescribable, as if a world suddenly extended from the black line in front, unfolding all the world from a very small point. scene.

Before he and Laila had time to react, a narrow alleyway appeared in front of them, and the Osu people on the other side of the alleyway were watching them in surprise.

That is, the horizon and the members of his adventure group, the selectors of the first division, some people reacted quickly, pointed at Luo Yu and shouted, "That is a member of the Seven Seas Brigade, I have seen them in the Adventurer's Guild graphics, that element makes."

"Take him!"

It was already close to the mobile fortress, and it was possible to meet any opponent. Horizon immediately reacted and yelled.

But another space door opened, and a walking stick protruded from it, stopping the drafters in the first division in front, and then a female wizard walked out of it, looked up at them, and there seemed to be a little light in her dark eyes .

The woman in the pointed wizard hat didn't talk to them much, she raised her hand and pointed at them, and a green lightning shot out from her fingertips. The lightning hit the person in front first, and directly disintegrated it into a cloud of dust. Even to the next person.

The man was shaken and took a step forward. The calf below the knee seemed to be separated from him, breaking into pieces of ground, and then his whole body fell heavily on the ground, like a collapsed statue, turning into fragments and dust .

In the end it turned into a cloud of dust.

"Disruption Ray!"

Everyone in the Horizon Brigade looked at this scene and felt horrified. It was a seven-ring spell, and the opponent was at least a magician of level [-] or above, and he cast the spell as soon as he raised his hand, without any sound or gesture components.

The description may be much more than that.

But they couldn't bear the origin of this female wizard. The other party did not exist in the portrait of the Seven Seas Brigade, but at least they knew the magic book floating in the other party's hand, "She...she is a naturalist. "

"But it's not the one in the portrait!"

"There are two naturalists in the Seven Seas Brigade?"

Many people feel that their worldview has been subverted.

Horizon felt both fear and jealousy. How could there be such an adventure group? The adventure group formed by Loofah and Ash King FOX when they were young would not be like this. Do they really treat naturalists like Chinese cabbage in the field?

What's more, they still saw the magic glove on Luo Yu's hand clearly at this time, and Laila standing behind the elementalist. The light track of the ether loop.

Anyone who looked at it knew that it was an Austrian puppet.

"That's a magic doll!"

"That's a battle craftsman, he..." The voice of the man behind the horizon was knotted, and he was no longer contemptuous as before. After all, as long as there is no fool here, a spell with a seventh ring or above is enough to defeat all their hearts.

Horizon didn't look back, and said, "Flee!"

He had already seen the image of the witch clearly at this moment, not because he recognized her origin, but because he saw that the witch was holding a little girl in her arms, and he recognized the round girl with her head hanging down. The origin of the sleeping little girl with glasses.

That is the naturalist of that graphic counterpart.

And all he needed to do was look at the two magic books floating beside the witch, and he couldn't help feeling his scalp tingle. The other party was obviously a member of the Seven Seas Brigade, but the outside world probably didn't know about it.

But for the two naturalists, Horizon simply couldn't bear the heart to fight each other.

A young naturalist at level 20 is okay, but a naturalist at level 40 is not inferior to a battle craftsman, and can even be compared to a false dragon knight.

It's a pity that the witch didn't seem to intend to let them go. She looked at these people with a calm expression. She just tapped her fingers, and green lightning shot out one after another. To her, it seemed that she was just performing a trick. as simple as that.

Lightning shuttled through the crowd, turning all the Oshu people in the alley into fly ash in an instant, and even affected the other teams who entered from the other side of the alley. Luo Yu watched the green lightning like a net Weaving among the alleys.

In an instant, thirty or forty callers were wiped out.

Then she stopped.

The woman turns around.

Startled, Laila subconsciously took a step back.

But Luo Yu was very calm, because he had already seen the girl in the arms of the sorceress, the scholar lady tilted her head slightly, her face was white, her eyes were slightly closed, she looked unconscious, her messy hair was drooping, flat and clean on the forehead.

The woman embraced the girl lying limply in her arms with one hand, and then raised her head to look at Luo Yu and Laila. She let go of her magic wand and let it float in mid-air, and gently pushed it with one hand. He glanced at the small glasses on the bridge of his nose, and smiled at the two of them.

Luo Yu looked at this sorceress who looked like Miss Scholar, and then at the person in her arms: "Jita?"

"Did you recognize it?"

Luo Yu frowned at this unimaginable scene, then nodded and said, "I recognized your magic book, and the magic book will only identify one master in a person's lifetime until the starlight dissipates. "

He paused, "Although naturalists can use different spells, Jita is from the school of protection. I saw you cast the disintegrating ray, and I almost agreed."

He looked at each other, "So what's going on?"

"As expected of you, but it's a long story."

The witch looked down at the girl sleeping peacefully in her arms.

"She sees the future from the eyes of Karlier. In order to allow you to escape from Ainbrok smoothly, she uses the power of the reader to summon another self from the time scale, which is me. About ten years later."

This sounded unbelievable, and even Laila couldn't help but said: "Can the magic book be like this? Miss Jita, the spell you used to take us away from Roschabbetti Academy was a super-ring spell, right? You now……"

The woman shook her head, "Although the book of time is called time, it doesn't actually have the ability to move on the time scale. This body is just what she imagined about her future appearance and my current personality. Of course, she possesses it." So is ability."

As she spoke, she glanced at her chest and couldn't help but smile.

"But of course the magic book does not have the ability to make one's wishes come true. Naturalists have to pay as much power as they borrow from it." The female wizard said again.

"Miss Gita?"

"She's fine," the witch shook her head, "If you want to summon yourself ten years later, you can't do it even if you suck her dry. This is actually with the help of the power of the eye of Karlaye. Only the power of the artifact can do it." Such a thing can be done.”

"The Eye of Karlaye?" Luo Yu asked, "After leaving the church, you tracked down where those people went, and you never contacted us afterwards. What happened after that?"

"It's nothing serious, everything is going well," the witch threw a silver box to him, "it's about the same as your plan with her, but it's a long story, let her tell you slowly after she wakes up, This involves the secrets of the Carlier family and the Seven Sorcerers family, so it will be impossible to explain for a while."

She looked up at the sky.

After looking at the dragon knight in the air for a while, and the faint coercion from the sky, she looked back and looked at the two of them again, "The power of the artifact is almost dissipated, and my time is running out. This is Brita Miss’s starlight is where it is, and it didn’t take much effort to get it. But this battle, there will be fierce battles behind—”

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly stopped.

The two people present also felt a palpitation at the same time, Luo Yu raised his head, just in time to see another stream of light across the sky of Ai Yinbulock——

"There is no way to leave this place by moving the fortress through Ayin Brock," the witch said. "That's what she saw in that future. In addition, this little guy is also entrusted to you to take care of."

As she spoke, she handed over Jita in her arms, and Laila hurriedly caught it, and Miss Scholar's head limply rested on her shoulder.

Luo Yu was about to speak, but at this moment, a majestic breath descended from midair.

The second dragon rider arrives.

Then came the third breath, and another dragon knight arrived at Ainbulok.

Lila looked up in that direction, her face couldn't help turning pale, and right in front of the two, the witch nodded to them, her figure was gradually becoming transparent, looked at the two, and said in a serious way:

"Attention, be careful of the light of the stars."

... (end of this chapter)