Pillars of Ita

"Miss Adney, you also stay." Fang Pliong looked up and saw Miss Caster about to leave, and called her to stop her.

Adni was slightly startled. She stayed because she was concerned about what Fang Plover saw in that Supreme One. But halfway through, she realized that her decision seemed a bit inappropriate. The room was full of people from the Seven Seas Brigade, and there were some secrets. Clearly not what she should have heard.

But she was about to withdraw quietly, but she didn't expect that Fang Plover would take the initiative to stop her. Adni was slightly surprised, but at the same time she couldn't help but become vigilant, looking at Fang Plover with sharp eyes.

Fang Yu shook his head gently: "Don't worry, Miss Adni, I don't mean any harm, but what happens next may be related to you, there is no harm in you listening."

Adni looked at him in shock: "Me?"

"But I'm not one of your people." She shook her head.

She has no interest in secrets and doesn't want to cause any trouble. She just wants to get back what belongs to her smoothly.

"It doesn't matter, this matter concerns you. We are in a cooperative relationship, Miss Adni. I hope you will be honest with us in our cooperation, and we will not hide anything from you," Fang Piao said, "So this Please stay and listen to the story, okay?"

Adni was slightly silent. She looked at these people and did not relax her vigilance, but her attitude became more relaxed and she nodded slightly.

Only then did Fang Yu feel relieved and began to tell the first piece of information he had seen.

It was like looking back at the past in a long dream. In that dream, which was reversed and had ambiguous meanings, there were three high-spirited young people who shared the same goals and aspirations, but in the end they took different paths.

The first young man was arrogant and firmly believed that he would achieve something one day. He took away the design of the 'soul', went to many places, visited many scholars, and returned many years later. There was no news from the high tower in my hometown.

The second young man was gentle and restrained, and embarked on the path of his teacher, looking for a matching 'container' for his soul. He was the only one among the three to carry forward the crystallization of wisdom in the magic furnace and develop that technical route. The one who makes it to the end.

The third young man was mature and steady, indifferent to things other than technology. His intelligence shone like the stars in the night sky. He left behind the eternal puzzle and the maze of thinking, and took away one of the three gems. .

As for these three people, Fang Plover was already very familiar with them.

There is a star track placed on the desk, gently swaying with the ups and downs of the ship's hull. The dragon lizard is crawling across the spread letter paper, leaving a series of paw prints on the white paper. While everyone is still immersed in During Fang Plover's story, Adni suddenly asked:
"The people you met are Friston, Helinwell and Jeldham. They were the most outstanding geniuses in the history of the empire 700 years ago. Is this the message that the Supreme Construct... conveyed to you? "

Fang Plover raised his head, and the foundry lady was indeed the first to speak. As expected, she said: "Have you heard of them?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, then said: "These three people did some things in history, which caused a certain magic emperor of Oshu to block all their information. Since then, they have been infamous in the history of the empire. Show."

She said: "The third person you saw should be Jeldham, he is the ancestor of my family... Mr. Ed, you said you saw him taking away a 'gem' in that message?"

"Friston, Helinwell and Jeldham once found an Emerald Star underground in Nozpits, which was the starting point of their career. Later, they divided the gem into three and took them away separately. I found one of them." Fang Yu recounted what he saw in his dream.

Adni looked a little surprised: "You also know?"

Fang Yu nodded and said frankly: "I once told you that we are looking for the technical route left by Jeldham. I am not lying to you. We are looking for the Pirate King's secret treasure for this reason."

"Why are you telling me this?" Adni asked a little warily.

"Have you ever heard of the Star Device?"

The girl shook her head blankly.

Fang Yu was silent, Adni was a forger, and it was understandable that she knew nothing about the alchemist's technical route, but what was her real intention in finding Jed Ham's workshop? He raised his head and asked again: "Are you interested in that piece of Emerald Star?"

"Emerald Star," Adni sighed, "Is that what you call it? In my family's history, it was called the Emerald Heart... My father has been studying it all his life. The purpose of returning to my father’s inheritance is to find it and confirm some ideas from the Heart of Emerald.”

"Is this your true purpose, Miss Adoni?" Fang Plover asked.

Miss Caster nodded slightly, but relaxed: "Yes."

She looked at the others nervously, this was one of her biggest secrets, and she would never have revealed it if Fang Plover's frank attitude hadn't convinced her.

Of course, that was also because she cared too much about Cui Zhixin.

But Fang Yu actually didn't care about this. He just wanted to know the truth. After all, it was related to the inheritance of Jeldham's technical route. Among the three technical routes, Friston's technical route was divided into two, and one remained. Among the Winter Solstice Towers, one was inherited by the occultists of the Silver Tower.

But he already knew both of them, that the technical route finally led to the path of the Fairy Dragon Soul, and forged the sleeping will of Miss Tata and placed it in the tower.

Hellinwell's technical route followed his teacher Hain-Fam. Although he didn't know why he ended up in the temple under the elven ruins, he had already mastered all the knowledge related to non-attribute crystals.

Only the riddles about Sir Lynn, Jed Ham and Pirate King William remain unsolved. The thing that connects everything into a thread is undoubtedly that he saw it in the legacies left by the three of them. The star device that passed by.

But the last of the three geniuses, Jeldham, still doesn't know what kind of mystery he left behind in the Star Device.

He looked up at the foundry lady.

"As you said, Mr. Ed, the Emerald Heart of my family comes from the Emerald Star you mentioned," Adni let go of her guard and decided to tell the truth, "In the past, three geniuses split the Emerald Star into three parts. , and took away one of them respectively. The three crystals are Silver Veil, Green and Sublime."

"As far as I know, the one belonging to Hellingwell among the three crystals was finally given to his lover, a princess of the empire. After she died of illness, it became a legacy in the imperial treasury. Friston That one was left in the Silver Tower, and its final whereabouts are unknown. Only the one belonging to my ancestor has remained in the family——"

"According to family records, Jeldham was obsessed with studying the Jade Heart in the second half of his life. After he founded the Flame Workshop, he devoted himself to it, so much so that even the workshop was later handed over to his students. Inherited. And it was after my father discovered the notes left by Jeldham and the Emerald Heart that he abandoned me and my mother..."

Adni's voice was a little low: "In my impression, my father is a gentle and responsible person, and he is by no means so decisive and indifferent... I really want to find out what he saw before that, so that he would embark on such a journey." A path.”

"What road?" Tianlan asked subconsciously.

But Alyssa pinched her ears and pulled Miss Poet back: "Hey, it hurts. Sister Alyssa, please stop pulling her..."

Adni looked at this scene, but unexpectedly saw some warmth in her heart. She shook her head and said: "There is nothing to say. If you are honest with me, I will not hide anything deliberately, not to mention that this is public information. I After that, my father embarked on the road of opposing the empire, and for this reason he colluded with evil parties like William, and finally ended up dying in a foreign land."

Fang Yu didn't expect to have such a complicated past. It's no wonder that the foundry lady looks like this. Her experience is surprisingly consistent with that of the noble daughter, but her life experience may be more miserable and tortuous.

Although Sir Mawei is also wanted by King Kaolin, at least Sylvide still has a perfect childhood, and she is accompanied by her father's old men and partners. As the daughter of a sinner, Adni's previous wanderings are shocking. Just imagine.

However, he became a little curious about what kind of experience allowed this lady to become a legendary caster at such a grade. The experience was no less exciting than everyone present.

Maybe even more.

However, this involved the other party's privacy, so he didn't ask much. What Miss Caster described had actually completed the last clue. Jeldham's descendants for who knows how many generations - Adni's father, in After obtaining the manuscript of the former genius, he embarked on the same path as the other person.

The star device he got from Lin En, and even the dragon hunters on the Pirate King's ship all came from this, but is that really all there is to it? He had seen perfect star devices in the underground of Nozpiz, and those on the dragon hunters did not go any further.

So what did that genius Jeldham study for the rest of his life? What did Adni's father see before he changed his temperament and left her and her mother on such a path? ?
Fang Yu suddenly remembered something. After they rescued Laila from Aiyin Bullock, although the latter's whereabouts with Luo Yu were still unknown, Miss Naturalist had told him something before that.

Laila is not a human being in the true sense. The inheritance of Linn that the Death Advent Guild and the Seven Sorcerers family have been looking for may be the precise instrument in Laila's body - used for her - Ai Something that Sh-Lynn's daughter who died in infancy many years ago gave new life to.

And what is that?
He raised his head, thought about it, and told Adni this story.

"That's the Heart of Emerald," Adni said with certainty after hearing this, "and I know which one it is, Silver Veil, the smallest fragment separated from the Emerald Star. It originally belonged to Friston, Because there is a crack on the fragment, and two different souls are born from both sides of the crack, they are also called the twins of silver yarn."

"The birth of different souls?" Fang Yu was greatly surprised. This was a concept he had never heard of before. What did it mean?
"You don't know?" Adni was also startled, "This is exactly the direction of my father's research. Using some kind of soul carrier that seemed to be bred from the fragments of the green star, he found the one that originally belonged to Friston. Mei Cui's heart and successfully separated it."

"It's just that those carriers themselves have no intelligence and are like a blank piece of paper," the girl continued. "Ash Lynn used one of the Emerald Hearts to resurrect his daughter. That girl should be like this. The one who inhabits his soul on that device.”

Fang Yu's heart skipped a beat.

This route sounds so similar to the path Friston took, but it is completely different. Or rather, isn't this the perfect vehicle that Friston is looking for?
The genius tried to use human souls to shape a perfect artificial dragon soul, but in the end he stopped at this step in terms of plasticity and turned to a more extreme route, using quantity to make up for quality, but at the end of that starry sky , he, like the movie people, burned away the source of the world - the starlight.

On the contrary, the occultists of the Silver Tower inherited his unfinished path, walked on the path of the perfect dragon soul, and achieved some results, but they still encountered the same difficulties, and the five final results were laid to rest. Between the towers, I still couldn't take that last step.

The remaining two died in a fire.

In the end, it was Dragon Soul No. [-] who, due to a strange combination of circumstances, got a real promotion, and that was his Dragon Soul - Miss Tata.

But Fang Yu suddenly realized that the technical route discovered by Jeldham seemed to be the complement of the soul school. Before the artificial dragon soul was shaped to the most perfect moment, it still lacked the final step.

But the existence of Laila has proved that the human soul can be combined with the carrier separated from the Emerald Heart, and the abilities displayed by Laila are the same as those of humans. She can also learn and grow, and will not be affected by plasticity. Stand still.

It's just that the device should have been taken over and completed by Ash Lynn in the end. The great mage poured his life's research and efforts into the core, making it the core of the Horfen School in this world. witness.

It opens up a new path for the elementalists.

So what about the other half of Yinsha's twin?

There was a slight noise in the room.

Fang Plover looked in that direction and saw the maid lady turning her head to look outside the window lattice.

And Adni was just talking: "But in fact, the carrier in Sir Lynn's daughter is not the first of the Yinsha twins. The real prototype soul was completed 20 years ago. She has a name, It’s called Odessa.”

"Odessa?"

Sylvester repeated softly.

Fang Yu looked at his ship officer, "Have you heard of this name, Sylvide?" Sylvide raised her head, hesitated, and was about to shake her head, but a voice came from behind her. , "You remember correctly, miss, that was the name I used when I first met you."

Sylvester turned around in surprise and saw her maid walking out from behind her, while Siesta was looking at everyone, "I don't remember much about my past. All I remember is that a lot of things happened, and then I was handed over to the care of Sir Marway."

"Sir took me out of the empire and came to Corin-Ithulian," she shook her head. "That was the first time I came to that manor to meet you, miss."

Sylvester looked at her maid in surprise, recalling the past time in her eyes, and couldn't help but smile tenderly.

"Odessa has lost all her relatives. You must protect her from now on. Do you understand, girl?"

"Oh, by the way, in order to protect her, Odessa has to change her name from now on."

"Then what is her name, father?"

The girl with an indifferent face was staring blankly at the little girl holding her hand, and lowered her head: "I don't know..."

"Then please call her Siesta," the little girl said softly, "Shesta, we will be friends from now on."

The room was silent.

Even Tian Lan was stunned. Although Miss Nightingale had already made a guess, she couldn't help but hold her breath.

Fang Yu was surprised at first, but then he was relieved. In fact, everyone had guessed about the identity of the maid. The fighting power she showed did not look like a maid at all, or even a human being - it would not have been possible if it were not for the wisdom of a mortal. Being able to make such a lifelike doll, people almost suspect that she is a treasure left by the great alchemist Luo Zhen to the Rose Workshop.

But now the mystery is revealed, Siesta actually has such a twists and turns and bizarre life experience.

Fang Plover looked at Adni. In a sense, the origin of the maid lady was closely related to Jade Ham, and the latter was the father of the foundry lady. They came all the way from the empire and from the forest. Sir En's legacy, until now, seems like there is a thread connecting everything.

But if you think about it carefully, that line is actually just Sylvide's father, the great explorer Sir Mawei.

They were just tracing each other's experiences more than 20 years ago and looking for all the fragments of the past.

"It's really you." Adni looked at the maid. She had obviously expected it, but she didn't confirm it until now.

"Wait a minute," Tianlan said quickly, "Sister Siesta is also our companion, but we can't leave her to you for research, even though... even though it may be related to your father's final whereabouts, don't we have other Any clues, like the Pirate King’s secret treasure?”

Adni shook her head: "You have misunderstood. The key is not the Heart of Cui, but the manuscript. If I knew what my father was doing, I would know why he chose to leave and why he stood against the Empire. Cui alone The heart has no effect on me, and I am not an alchemist."

She looked at Siesta: "But you have to protect this lady's identity. As far as I know, the Empire is very interested in the Emerald Heart. They have been trying to capture me over the years to find my father's identity." whereabouts."

The maid's eyes fell on Tianlan.

She didn't care about her identity, but that didn't mean that she never cared about her origins and origins. For so many years, Sylvester almost never mentioned anything about the past in front of her. Of course, she understood what the noble daughter was protecting.

She gently pressed her chest with her hand, wondering if she was still a human being. Miss Poet's words slightly touched her.

Siesta looked at the others. No one in the Seven Seas Brigade expressed any objection to her true identity. At most, they were a little surprised. She looked at the wisteria she had planted in the room, its green leaves swaying in the wind.

Is being a human being really important? Perhaps for everyone here, the identity of a companion is more worthy of attention.

Sylvester looked at her maid worriedly.

In response to Adni's words, Fang Plover still nodded, "Thank you for telling us this, Miss Adni. This is of great help to us. In order to find out the answer to the mystery, are we going to go to the Storm Islands next? , to search for the Pirate King’s treasure.”

Adni expressed her gratitude to him. Her purpose was to recover Jedham's legacy and find out the truth about the past. As for other things - not even the Jade Heart itself, she didn't care.

She knew that the Seven Seas Troupe still had things to discuss, and those things had nothing to do with her, so she said goodbye and left.

This time Fang Yu didn't try to hold him back. After Miss Caster left, his eyes first fell on the maid:
"Shesta?"

"I have nothing." The maid girl regained her indifferent side and shook her head, "I have lost a lot of memories. The memory of the empire is like a layer of paper to me. It is already difficult for me to What's the impact?"

She said coldly: "Mr. Leader, you don't need to pay attention to me, please continue."

Fang Yu nodded before looking at Sylvester and Alyssa.

A glimmer of light flashed in the eyes of the noble daughter, and she was about to ask, but Miss Nightingale looked back and said first: "So actually, the leader did not tell all the information. Is it in that piece of information?" Is there anything else that is inconvenient to talk about?"

Fang Yu shook his head, "It's not inconvenient, but I can't be sure myself. I saw Friston, Helinwell and Jeldham split the Emerald Star into three, but it seemed that the gems There was a shadow that escaped, but none of the three people in the dream noticed it."

"In that dream, I saw a lot of images about the shadow, but they were vague. It seemed to have been to many places, met many people, and talked to many people, but I didn't hear them clearly."

He continued: "I don't want to say such specious things in front of outsiders. At the same time, the Supreme Being's construct also instilled a second piece of information into me."

"Second message?" Sylvide asked.

"I believe that the first piece of information is related to the Jade Heart, or comes directly from the fragments of the Emerald Star, so I left Adni behind. That should be the reason why she is looking for William's treasure," Fang Plover replied, "But the second piece of information should come from Jed Ham."

"Jed-Ham?"

"Yes, it's the message left to us by the great alchemist," Fang Yu nodded. "He left several pictures in the structure of the Supreme Being. In those pictures, I saw some information about the empire. , I saw the convergence point of the ether veins in the north, the storm, and the scene of the destruction of the city..."

"The Imperials seem to be looking for the convergence point of those etheric currents. I saw the Imperials' fleet and the scene of their confrontation with the Pale Pirates. I don't quite understand what the great alchemist specifically reminded us of these means. "

He frowned: "Because most of the information in the second half is incomplete and the meaning is unclear, but the final picture came to an island surrounded by storms, and I saw a ruins deep in the island."

"Those images seem to be giving us some clues..."

"The leader thinks that the Pirate King's treasure trove should be on that island?" Alyssa asked.

Fang Plover nodded slightly.

"So Jed Ham left clues to the last workshop on the Supreme One's construct. Why did he do this? This information should not be left for his daughter," Miss Nightingale analyzed : "Because Adni also found the coordinates from other clues, so he shouldn't need to do so much."

"This is also the reason why I didn't tell her this part of the information," Fang Yu said, "But these are not important. When we find the place, the answer to the mystery will naturally be revealed."

He looked at Sylvide, Miss Nightingale, and Tianlan and Miya behind him, and asked: "This is what I saw after I was unconscious. How about you, how is the plan going? Did the breakout go well? Enigma, Have the people from AOA and the Falcon Group caught up?"

"They should have discovered that the obelisk is fake," Fang Plover asked again, "What's the situation in the community now? Have they found Jed Ham's laboratory and the mithril mine?"

But after he asked this question, he realized that the atmosphere in the room was a little strange.

Everyone looked at him quietly, with a look of surprise in their eyes. "What's wrong?" Fang Yu was startled, "Did I ask something wrong? Someone was injured, and the Seven Seas Traveler suffered serious losses?"

"No, none," Miss Nightingale looked at him playfully, "The breakout went smoothly, but you really don't know what happened, Mr. Captain?"

Fang Yu looked confused, and then he realized that the problem might lie with him: "So, so, what happened?"

"It's the dragon soul and the dragon knight," Sylvide said softly, and recounted everything that happened in detail.

"That Supreme One's construct disappeared?" Fang Plover was so shocked that he almost jumped up. If the ship officer hadn't hurriedly supported him, he would have almost fallen to the ground. He had never heard of such a thing, nor had he heard that the structure of the Supreme Being could be digitized.

There is only one possibility that that kind of giant structure can be contained by crystal.

"That's the Dragon Knight," the wolf girl who had been silent until now finally spoke. Her voice was a little cold, like quietly flowing spring water, "Or the Dragon Knight who was not fully formed, that message The transmission process is not a message——"

She shook her pointed silver ears and looked at Fang Plover, "It's just that you saw everything it has seen through its eyes and soul. We usually call it memory synchronization. This is how the Dragon Knight The method is to gain experience and inheritance from one’s own dragon soul.”

Miya looked at the elf lady aside: "On the contrary, the situation between you and Miss Tata is not a real relationship between the dragon knight and the dragon soul, at least not a normal relationship."

So the Supreme One's construct was actually the Dragon Knight's construct, but in an unfinished form. Fang Plover immediately asked: "Does the Dragon Knight have a dragon soul residing in it?"

But Miya seemed to see what he was thinking, shook her head and said: "I'm afraid not. It is impossible for the dragon soul to remain on the Dragon Knight for a long time, so no one will have any reaction when approaching it. The real situation is that it detects The existence of the dragon soul in you——"

She looked at Tata aside: "That's why you activated it."

Fang Plover was shocked.

Of course he understands the special nature of Miss Tata. She is bound to the Fairy Heart and cannot become a dragon soul constructed by other dragon knights. One dragon soul cannot bind two different dragon knights, and the actual essence of the Seven Seas Traveler is Above is a sailboat in the form of a dragon knight.

At least the unformed Dragon Knight.

A possibility immediately occurred to him.

Fang-ni-ni!

... (end of this chapter)