Pillars of Ita

The scout hiding in the shadows of the forest was retracting his sight. He was leaning behind a lichen-covered rock, surrounded by clusters of tall ferns. The curly leaves could just cover the gray-green camouflage color of his cloak.

Not far away, a colorful spider was spinning a web hanging on a leaf, which was also one of his sights.

A magic weasel emerged from the bushes nimbly and came to his hand.It is said to be a weasel, but it is actually a creature of the honey badger subfamily, a small magical beast unique to Etalia, which is born with the ability to cover its body and conceal itself.

In nature this is done to avoid predators, but adventurers like to train them into natural scouts.

The scout stroked the little thing's hair to relax it from its nervousness. Animal messengers are like this. They are always full of inconveniences. After all, it is difficult for creatures to overcome their instincts, especially since most magical beasts are actually not smart enough. Not too high.

In this case, there was a better way to investigate, but in the mission evaluation, one of the opponents was an incredibly powerful combat craftsman, so they had to resort to this strategy.

The alliance has a rating for mission targets, ranging from F level to SS level. This rating has nothing to do with level, but only refers to how difficult the mission target is at the corresponding level - it can also be applied to opponents.

But this time the mission briefing given by the club gave the target an evaluation he had never seen before, "try to speculate in the direction of being invincible", which means that in the category of level 30 where the target is, the opponent is unbeatable.

At the same time, it also shows that the guild's grasp of target information this time is not accurate, and accurate information is often collected in battles. The scout raised his head and glanced through the layers of tree crowns towards the giant tree hanging. He glanced in the direction of the Seven Seas Traveler.

The huge sailboat was silent in the night, and the people on it seemed not to notice the movement in this direction.

He put away the magic weasel. Rangers have the ability to synesthetize with their own animal messengers, and he is even more so. He is a highland hunter on the gray plains. It is a rare branch of this profession. Compared with it, it is more like a druid. Some.

The hunters of Ashfield have a close relationship with the Druids in the Sea of ​​Trees, which is one of the native Druids of Xintaan.

Although their methods are ancient, they are effective. In such a rich ecosystem, who would notice a magic weasel? It is one of the native species of this forest.

But on the Seven Seas Traveler, Miss Nightingale was clearly seeing the figures in the forest. As soon as the magic weasel retreated, several people pushed the door out of the room. Alyssa walked in the front, and behind her were Fang Plover and Ade. Ni, followed by Tian Lan who was wearing pajamas, Miss Poet grabbed a corner of Jita's robe sleeve, looking excited and curious.

Several people came to the side of the ship and looked down.

The image of the people in the forest was like a thermal image, leaving a faint red shadow in Miss Nightingale's field of vision, which stood out in the darkness from afar.

However, from Fang Yu's point of view, it was pitch black in that direction, even if he let the clockwork goblin fly to see it. Only after getting close to a certain distance, he might be able to see clearly the faint red light in the darkness, which was actually the connection between him and Aili. It was caused by Sa's awareness of the difference in levels.

This is also the biggest difference in the detection methods between Combat Craftsman and Nightingale. In the final analysis, he relies on vision, but Miss Nightingale relies on 'skills'.

However, the red mark seen in Miss Nightingale's eyes is also weakening. She must focus her attention in that direction before the system's prompts become clear. However, the prompts actually have a certain lag because the system follows her own perception attributes. The judgment is made—

However, her perception may be wrong. It may be just the last position left by the opponent in her perception, and its real position may have changed long ago.

Alyssa frowned.

Like Xiang Xiang, she was trained by Listening to the Rain as a core member of this generation. Although Xiang Xiang was a prodigy found in the Solitary White Wilderness, and her starting point may be lower, she has experienced many experiences with the Seven Seas Brigade. After so many extraordinary battles and adventures, Miss Nightingale has grown up differently than before.

What's more, with Fang Plover, a top craftsman of the same level, everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade has at least one piece of A-level equipment, and even one or two pieces that are close to S-level. For example, the dagger in her hand is, with extraordinary logistical assistance, The equipment level of each member of the Seven Seas Brigade must be higher than that of a team of the same level.

With the assistance of abundant attributes, her professional ability is naturally higher than that of Nightingale of the same level.

She quietly opened the 'Acuity' series of plug-ins, and a layer of filtered light floated through the field of view provided by the system, finally clearly outlining the person retreating from the forest. At this time, her detection ability had actually more than doubled, and her detection ability had more than doubled. The skills have also been increased by 1 level accordingly.

"The opponent's level is very high," Alyssa said with a frown, "Ranger or Nightingale. Judging from the animal messenger just now, Ranger is more likely."

"How high?" Fang Plover asked.

"If the opponent's equipment is not much different from the level of the usual team at his level, then it is at least 10 levels higher than mine." Alyssa replied: "If Xiaojiao hadn't discovered the magic weasel, I would have followed the magic weasel's instructions. I might not even be able to find him in the general area where the traces found him.”

Level 35 and above.

This is a very subtle level.

Fang Yu estimated in his mind that normally the elite members of large guilds would be selected at this stage, such as Sophie and Wu Di.

Although according to alliance regulations, the selectors can only obtain the precious quota to go to the second world after reaching level 40 and changing professions. In fact, large guilds often do not abide by this regulation and issue qualifications to those they think have greater potential. those young players.

Of course this is a special case.

There are only two or three star players in each generation of a large guild. If a team is formed around them, the number of team members is generally not too many. Therefore, the alliance usually turns a blind eye to this behavior. .

And this level, and the stage between level 40 and level 40 that normally requires level 50 before going to the Gate of Heaven, leading to the level limit of the first world, is usually called the period between the first-level profession and the second-level profession. career transition stage.

They are also commonly referred to as reincarnations, advanced people, and upper-level professionals.

Fang Yu couldn't help but think of the high-level selectors he had seen a few days ago. There were several elite brigades operating in this forest, some of which even Alyssa couldn't recognize - those were from the Second The world's team?
After all, he had long heard that all the major guilds were withdrawing their manpower from the Second World, not only the Third Division, but also the First and Second Divisions, and even the fourth and fifth divisions that followed. He had seen those since the July War. High-level selector——

But this is the first time in Sintaan.

However, this confirmed what Scarpe told him. A change was brewing in Aitaria, just like the Battle of Bain in the past. Of course, the other party originally told him this to keep him away from the center of the dispute.

But now it is difficult for him to escape.

However, Fang Yu was not very worried. He was just curious about where the high-level selectors from the first division had gone, but he didn't expect them to be here.

Of course, this is certainly not everything he has seen. Whether it is the SOLID League, the Prometheus Brotherhood, or Gray Field, their real elite players must be gathered in the south at the moment.

Prepare for the war between the Empire and the Grand Council.

He was only curious about these colleagues from the second world because the Seven Seas Brigade would soon leave for the Gate of Heaven, to the new world he yearned for.

Level 50 is the limit of the first world level.

From now on, only in the second world can one break through the level restrictions, which is what people usually call entering the realm of saints, or the realm of legends.

The level system after that was very different from now, and each profession had its own path. R told him that the second world had a Kukai environment that was completely different from the first world, and the Kukai environment was what changed everything behind the scenes. thing.

In such a Kukai environment, many abilities can only be born in that world, and the new knowledge and abilities obtained there will also be restricted in their use in the first world.

Generally speaking, the system each of them has will carry a part of the power from behind the door when they return to the first world, but that part of the power is limited after all, and it is very difficult to replenish it in the first world. Will run out soon.

In human terms, there is a limit on the number of uses——

Among them, the dragon knight's ability is the first to bear the brunt.

It is precisely because of this that the superiors they have seen in the first world seem to make sense, and the battles between real dragon knights are often devastating, destroying an empty island with one's own strength. Not a problem either.

They just restrained from using their abilities in the first world because of various constraints.

What's more, when the Sanctuaries who returned from the second world faced opponents with a lower level than themselves, most of the time they couldn't use their extra knowledge and skills.

Therefore, the only limit to the knowledge and abilities gained from the new world is actually Kukai's environment, not level.Of course, except for legendary abilities after level 50, and second-level professional abilities, those new knowledge, and occupations and abilities that only belong to the second world can be obtained after arriving in the new world——

It is for this reason that the Grand Guild will send its elites to the second world earlier and earlier.

As long as you prove your potential, you can get that ticket.

However, for those who choose freely, tickets or star anchors are a difficulty, and owning their own sailboat is even more difficult. Relatively speaking, the Seven Seas Brigade is already quite lucky.

"It's from AOA."

Miya looked in that direction and said.

Only then did Fang Yu remember that there was still a real leader in the Seven Seas Brigade. The Sea Witch was a famous star player in the second world. Although she had said goodbye to the past, at least she still retained some of her strength.

She and the ship's officer stood beside him, while Siesta stood beside her own lady.

Adni seemed to notice something and glanced at the maid lady unexpectedly. When Siesta looked at her, the latter looked back without any trace.

"Miss Miya," Tian Lan couldn't help but ask, "What level are you at?"

Miya looked at her and did not answer directly: "After resurrecting from the Hailin Crystal, I am no longer a dragon knight."

"Be good." Tian Lan was stunned. Although he was no longer a dragon knight, he was at least still a superior.

"Miss Miya, who are they?" Fang Plover asked, looking into the forest below.

"AOA, a guild belonging to the Halo Club, is the fifth largest guild in North America after the Sacrament Guild, Lonicera Guild, Gray Flied and Prometheus Brotherhood of the SOLID Alliance. However, the top guilds in North America are three pillars apart. , this guild is not well-known in the competition area, they also have a main guild in the second world, and I have dealt with them."

Miya replied.

The people that the maid lady discovered earlier were people from the Falcon Group. Not long after the Falcon Group left, people from the Star Circle Club also came. It seemed that after the gray fog disappeared, the team outside the valley discovered this place at the same time. .

Fang Yu also frowned, not expecting the expected situation to happen so quickly.But generally speaking, when the selectors see a strange stranded sailboat, they will take the initiative to say hello or ask if they need assistance. After all, the Adventurer Guild has points rewards for these public tasks, which is also one of the main responsibilities of the adventurers. one.

Even if everyone has to keep a safe distance in the wilderness, they must at least identify themselves.These people concealed their intentions, but instead showed unusual intentions. He had probably guessed the reason - those people had obviously recognized the Seven Seas Traveler.

It looks like the Empire's wanted order has arrived.

The situation has changed. Naturally, the Seven Seas Traveler can no longer act according to the previous plan. It seems that it will not be able to sleep tonight. Fang Yu immediately announced that the ship was temporarily on alert and asked Miss Tata to call the boatswain back from the mining area.

They must seize the time to repair the ship. The gray fog has disappeared now. As soon as the main mast is installed on the Seven Seas Traveler, it will take off immediately. However, the repair time will take at least a whole day. Even if they work all night tonight, they will not wait until at least the third day. We can't set sail until the evening of the next day.

As for the minor damage to the ship, we can ignore it. We can maintain it while sailing, or find a safer anchorage to stop and rest.

Although the strength of the Seven Seas Brigade is not what it used to be, there are still at least five or six elite teams from the top guilds in this forest. If the opponents are all of this level, it will still be quite difficult for the Seven Seas Brigade to deal with it. .

What's more, the Seven Seas Brigade is actually not in its prime now. Luo Yu, Luo Hao, Xiang Xiang, Papalar and Miss Mei Yi are not here, especially the three main combat forces of Xiang Xiang, Luo Yu and Miss Mei Yi. As a result, the Seven Seas Brigade lost almost one-third of its combat strength.

After Baggins returned to the ship, Alyssa also called Daryl up from the bed, and then the three of them began to recover the mast below with the help of Miss Tata. Fang Plover also brought back four heavy lancers to assist them. Get the job done.

However, once the repair work of the Seven Seas Traveler begins, it will be difficult to hide it from outsiders. Those people will find out that they are preparing to lift anchor at any time, and they may immediately launch operations to stop them, so Fang Plover asked Siesta to stay on guard.

Although I don’t know how the maid lady found someone wandering nearby before, it is said that the ranking of the Falcon Group is much higher than that of the AOA Guild. The other party’s scouts will only be more powerful, and she is not a full-time nightingale or ranger——

According to her own statement, she is just a maid.

But the other party had just appeared near the Seven Seas Traveler and was immediately caught by Siesta.

She quietly discovered the movements of those people, and then notified Tianlan to call them back. Then the dragon-horned lizard that settled on the ship 'happened' to discover the nearby magic weasel monitoring them. Only then did Alyssa Following the clues, I found the AOA scout below.

There are so many capable people on the boat, Fang Yu thought to himself.

Of course he knew that the origin of the maid was a mystery. Although Sylvester had known Siesta since childhood, the former's life experience was not actually that clear. Everyone only knew that she was the daughter of Corin-Yishi brought back from the empire by Sir Mawei. An orphan girl who was raised by Li An.

Although Siesta does not look like an Imperial person at all, and no one knows her origins, the maid usually does not like to mention her past, and Sylvide also gives her personal maid this freedom.

As for the origin of the "little horn", it is even more unclear. Although it looks like a dragon-horned lizard, and everyone calls it that, I have never seen that lizard breathe fire, so it is said to be a giant. Long Bar doesn’t seem like it.

I have never seen any giant dragon without wings, even in their juvenile stage.

Among everyone, only Tianlan insists that Xiaojiao must be the legendary fairy dragon, even though this species does not exist in Aitaria.

By the way, there is also a small ball of light on the ship. Although it has been sleeping in the heart of the tree for a long time, it only occasionally appears in the cabin where the central magic crystal is placed, flying around on the ceiling.

When he created the legendary concept inspired by the realm of life and death at the Silver Tower last time, he heard that Xiaoguang had a certain reaction, but he didn't see it often after that.

He shook his head. Counting all the people and animals on the boat, he still felt stretched. The big cat man, Miss Atila, Luo Hao and the missing Luo Yu, most of the people on the boat left at once. People immediately made the work on the Seven Seas Traveler become short-handed.

What's more, at such a critical juncture, and the work in the mining area still needs to be completed, it is best for him to cover up the traces of Jedham's laboratory again. Naturally, the fewer people who know the clues about the Pirate King's secret treasure, the better. good.

What's more, he is an enemy of the empire.

However, the valuable things in the laboratory had to be moved back to the Seven Seas Traveler first. In addition to the main structure he discovered, there were also a large number of documents and manuscripts left by Jedham, and the spider guards, There are also some equipment in the experiment that he plans to take away with him.

After all, it was an alchemy laboratory, built locally by a pirate king who invested in it and spared no effort. Even though Adni's father had emptied most of the things inside before leaving, there were still many things left that he might use. of.

Those are all money.

And since the laboratory was going to be emptied anyway, it was natural to mine the mithril mining area above the laboratory. Although after understanding the origin of the mining area, he re-evaluated the value of the mining area.

Although the value of the mineral deposits has been greatly reduced after the re-evaluation, the only remaining mithril veins in the valley are still a huge wealth. If he can mine them all, he will definitely be able to get 1000 million Lisels.

Even if half of it is mined, it will still cost 500 million lisels.

The key is that the mithril vein is in that place, and it is easy to expose the laboratory below. The best way is to mine all the mineral deposits in the open pit, and then reshape the terrain of that place, and transport floating soil and rocks to the mining area. Complete burial.

The entire project, from moving the laboratory to burying it, would take at least two to three days without attracting the attention of latecomers.

Fang Plover's plan was to buy at least one day so that the Seven Seas Traveler could safely weigh anchor. This was the basis of everything.As for the work in the mining area, it should be carried out as far as possible——

It's good to be able to complete the plan, but even if something happens, at least the safety of the Seven Seas Traveler can be guaranteed.

Under this premise, the only people left on the ship are Baggins, Daryl and Miss Scholar. With Miss Tata on the side to assist, the progress should not be too slow.

While everyone else can invest in the mine, Adni is necessary because she is the only one who is most familiar with her father's laboratory. Among the others, Tianlan and Sylvide cannot be left behind, while Jita stays on the ship. Under the circumstances, only the two of them can summarize and collect those documents and manuscripts.

The ship stewardess knows alchemy, while Tianlan has been responsible for the logistics and organization of the ship.

In fact, there were only these people, because Alyssa and Miya had to stay on the ship to take charge of security work, and Miss Scholar also had to shoulder half of the responsibility. He divided the personnel responsible for combat security and work to deal with conflicts that might break out at any time.

Fortunately, Miya is here. Without this sea witch, he would have to give up all the profits from the mining area and gather everyone on the ship to restore the Seven Seas Traveler to a sailing condition as soon as possible.

However, Miya's identity was special, and she tried her best not to expose herself. If an enemy got too close to the Seven Seas Traveler, she would stop them and fight outside the Seven Seas Traveler.

In fact, she can't show up at will.

As for Fang Plover himself, he can be distracted by refining mithril in the mining area, and at the same time deploying his own construct eyeliner outside the Seven Seas Traveler. Once someone invades in this direction, he can attack Miss Tata and Attack the opponent with the assistance of Alyssa.

After the work was assigned, everyone performed their duties. Since the entire project may take two to three days, taking turns to rest is a must. Now even Tianlan stopped making noises. After listening to his instructions, he returned to his room obediently. Take a break.

Except for those who repair the ship, who must hurry up, everyone else must be divided into two shifts. Tian Lan plans to hand over the work to the ship officer during the day the next day.

Miss Nightingale got off the boat alone, and Fang Plover asked three 'Silver Bees' to follow her. She was going to track the whereabouts of the AOA scout. Sticking to counterattacks was not Miss Nightingale's usual style. If she could find the other party's traces in turn, she would It could not be better.

It was almost two or three o'clock in the morning when Fang Plover returned to the mining area. The clouds above the valley dispersed, and stars were scattered in the night sky. The forest was silent, but he did not feel the slightest bit sleepy.

Or rather, the sudden situation made him excited. So many things happened that night, from exploring the valley, to seeing Ms. Roman's icon, and the silver coin, to meeting Adni, and finding the laboratory——

Then the selectors from the first division came one after another.

Since there was no longer any concern about being discovered, beams of lights rose up in the mining area, making it appear brightly lit. In fact, most of those lights came from the modified Lancers. They were equipped with high-power argon spotlights on the front, made of magic crystals. excitation.

The beam of light swept back and forth from the valley forest. The Lancers shuttled back and forth in the valley under the command of Miss Tata, extracting the ore from the mine, and then stacked them in different dressing fields, and then Fang Plover took them Classification.

Then smelt.

But most of the work is actually done by Miss Longhun. He usually only needs to perform the last one or two steps. Most of the time, Fang Plover pulls down his goggles and looks through the 'eyes' he has arranged on the other side of the valley. Monitor the movements of the Seven Seas Traveler in that direction.

There were more than thirty clockwork goblins suspended in the night sky, hanging at different heights. Under Alyssa's advice, most of them flew very high, and some were even hundreds of meters high. After all, the enemy's level this time was far superior. past what they had encountered in the past.

If the Clockwork Goblins fly too low, the noise generated by the vibration of their wings is likely to make them a conspicuous target in the sky. High-level nightingales can 'hear' the eye-catching red light mark from 200 meters away.

However, after flying to high altitude, one advantage is that the field of vision of the clockwork goblins will be wider. He asked them to form a wall of goblins in the sky. The combat craftsman's investigation ability is inherently better at the strategic level, rather than specific to a specific person.

Through the vision of the clockwork goblin, he looked at the ground as if he were in the clouds, and soon discovered a few flashes of light in the forest. Although the flashes of light in the forest may come from many sources, such as the gurgling streams in the mountain streams.

But that place was very close to the advancing Miss Nightingale, which caught his attention. On a normal day, Fang Plover would probably have asked his clockwork fairy to go down and take a look - but even if he had never eaten pork, he at least I’ve also seen what pigs look like.

Fang Yu knew very well how the front-line combat craftsmen communicated with the nightingales in the team when facing top teams. This can be regarded as the richest part of his experience in super competition.

A game between top teams.

He immediately picked up the communication crystal and tapped it with his finger, "Miss Alyssa, there is something abnormal one kilometer to the left. Pay attention to the movement in that direction."

Fang Yu said calmly that the clockwork fairy he placed next to Alyssa was naturally not to serve as eyes for Miss Nightingale, but to sense the other party's location in real time.

He took off his goggles and glanced at the map at hand. The map was naturally drawn by the ship officer during the day, with some simple auxiliary lines on it. With the view of the Clockwork Fairy overlooking it, he naturally understood it at a glance. I can understand the signs on this map.

He picked up a pen and drew a line on the map. The place was about two or three miles east of Seven Seas Traveler.

Fang Plover wrote three letters:

AOA.

That clear line is like an invisible wall on the map.

……