Pillars of Ita

Fang Yu immediately sank into the spiritual world, and soon found Nini who was sleeping in the dark ocean. She hugged her knees with her hands, surrounded herself with a flame-like tail, and closed her eyes tightly. The drooping eyelashes are like tiny flames. The small one is really cute.

Fang Yu was a little worried, and Tata's voice sounded in the quiet space: "Mr. Knight, Nini is safe. She is just in a cocoon state after accepting experience and memory. Natural dragon souls are different from artificial dragon souls. Their transformation and growth takes a long time.”

"Accepted the experience and memory?" Fang Yu remembered what Miya had said to him just now - he saw the past with the dragon knight's vision.

But where did the memory of the dragon knight come from? It cannot be said that it is the memory of Nini. Nini is a newborn life. Even Nicol Bolas, the dragon witch who is related to her, has never seen the three Osu. Human genius, none of them are contemporaries.

"Wait, did I miss something?"

Fang Yu suddenly realized that there was no such tall mountain-like structure here. He then noticed that Nini was holding a beautiful gem fragment in her arms, and inside the emerald-green gem like a dream, there seemed to be a Shadow.

A trace of confusion flashed across his face: "Is this...a fragment of the Emerald Star?"

"But apart from the soul, the only thing that can appear in the sea of ​​consciousness is the container, just like Hain's Zero Crystal. Could it be that..."

Fang Yu subconsciously stretched out his hand to Nini, but the world of will has its own laws, and his fingertips seemed to be passing through a phantom in a layer of water.

But the next moment he still felt the existence of the Supreme Being, like drawings laid out in his mind. The lines unfolding in the void passed through his mind, and a three-dimensional dragon knight appeared in his mind. In the world of consciousness.

Fang Yu looked up at the tall machine, and suddenly understood completely in his heart - no wonder he didn't recognize the true identity of this construct at first.

Because as Miss Miya said, it itself is not complete - or rather, the construct seen outside is just a semi-finished product.

The first thing Adni's father designed was the container of the dragon soul, which was the holy crystal - that green dream-like gem, which should have been part of the Emerald Star. But it is not any one of the three fragments of silver sand, green or sublime.

It should be part of one of these three fragments.

When he came into contact with it, he could feel the distant connection. The great alchemist wanted to take advantage of the natural affinity between the Emerald Heart and the souls born in it. In other words, this carrier once had an exclusive Dragon Soul.

That soul should have been born from one of the three fragments of Silver Veil, Green and Sublime, just like Laila and Shesta. As expected, this holy crystal was peeled off from that fragment.

But the result didn't seem to be successful.

For some unknown reason, Adni's father seemed not to complete this specific Dragon Knight in the end, but left this 'Supreme One' here. of contact.

If it weren't for the presence of Nini in him, this construct might have been stagnant underground forever.

So what he saw - was actually the memory in the fragments of the Emerald Star, everything it had witnessed over the long years. These fragments had passed through the hands of three geniuses and followed them through the past time.

But one question remains.

Since this holy crystal should have an exclusive soul, how did Nini activate it?

This holy crystal undoubtedly has properties. Fang Plover still remembers the voice prompts he heard when he activated it, but he suddenly realized another problem - he did not have ether adaptation, so why could he activate this holy crystal?

According to Etalia's laws, he should have been corroded to death by the elements when he was in sync with this holy crystal.

Fang Yu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, what happened?
He immediately thought that this might be related to Nini's special elemental attributes. He used to think that the dark crystal generated by Nini was some kind of dark element that did not exist, but after witnessing the end of the starry sky witnessed by Friston, he realized that it was just the void after the stars burned out. .

And now Nini's attributes are once again a mystery. Why is she judged to be some unknown element by the Holy Crystal?

The power of the Dark Dragon and the Emerald Star comes from the green. Is it because of this?

Fang Yu came back to his senses and told Tata beside him what he thought.

Miss Dragon Soul listened and nodded, and asked: "Mr. Knight, have you ever thought about the purpose of Adni's father?"

"His purpose?"

"The Jeldham who finally took away the genius of the Emerald Star fragment was the ancestor of Adni's family, so her father should have been pursuing the same path." Miss Goblin said.

"Jerdem's path..." Fang Plione sank his mind. He knew what Friston and Helinwell were pursuing, and what the three geniuses were pursuing was essentially the same thing - the perfect artificial dragon. soul.

Of course, a perfect artificial dragon soul does not necessarily have to be a fairy dragon soul, but a perfect dragon soul must have the condition of having no attributes, and he happens to be a war craftsman.

Tata said in an ethereal voice: "I don't know the work of that genius, but I only know the technical route of the Silver Tower. The occultists extracted ideas from the soul school and have the conditions to shape a soul without attributes - —And for that purpose, I and many others dedicated themselves, but in the end I was still just in front of that door, unable to take the crucial step."

Fang Yu couldn't help but think of the time when the two met for the first time, "...but Helinwell was shaping a container, and what extended from the technical route of the tower magic furnace was the path of the non-attributed holy crystal. He followed his own path. Teacher Hain, completed the final work."

Now, there is a non-attributed soul, and there is a container that holds the non-attributed crystal.

But the final piece of the puzzle is missing.

From soul to dragon soul, there is a process of qualitative change. Not all powerful souls are born with dragon souls.

It must first have the ability to understand a certain law, which is called a 'domain'. Those powerful creatures above Kukai are born with the power of such laws. Generations of alchemists have separated and bound their souls, and worked with them. Forming a contract - this is the origin of the artificial dragon soul.

However, a weak newborn soul does not have such power. Friston spent his whole life just staying in front of the door. He separated his soul and did not hesitate to try another path, but hysterical madness could not end the rational doubts.

The plasticity of the soul is like a natural chasm that stands in front of all scholars who embark on this path.

But now, another road suddenly appeared in front of them——

Fang Yu suddenly understood the possibility, "The Star Device..." He murmured to himself, "It's the Star Device!"

A tremor of excitement passed through his body, "This is really a genius and crazy idea. The essence of margin is actually to shape the unconscious will from calculation, thus making automatic construction possible, but people have never been able to solve the problem of Tianliang." The computing power needs, so that they can give birth to real wisdom and spirituality..."

Even the star devices left by Jeldham could not take that step. He studied those sophisticated instruments for a long time and found that they tried to imitate wisdom as vividly as possible, but they were still not real creatures.

The star device itself limits the limits of computing power.

"You can see, Mr. Knight," Tata said, his emerald green eyes seeming to reflect the vast sea of ​​wisdom, "the last of the third genius finally returned to their starting point, borrowing the Emerald star."

"But this time," Fang Pultruo said, "he no longer uses the power of green, but the container. The green fragments have perfect texture and can accommodate the boundless stars, and then use the soul as the seed to create a truly perfect of ectoplasm.”

then--

Thus Lyra and Siesta were born.

Jeldham was successful, but only half of it. Fang Plover couldn't help but feel a distant and heavy feeling in his heart at that moment - the three geniuses finally returned to the same path, and Jeldham finally found the right one. The formula filled in the last piece of the puzzle for the soul school founded by Friston.

And the masterpieces of these two people will shine in the pure crystal of Hellingwell.

The three geniuses worked together to achieve their ideals.

But for some unknown reason, Helinwell went away and never came back. Friston was trapped in the tower, leaving only fragments of his incomplete soul walking around the world, and Jeldham's research was buried forever. In the vast sea of ​​history.

It was not until 700 years later that his descendant, Adni's father, regained the light of wisdom from the pile of old papers.

And what was the reason that made the great alchemist embark on the path of fighting against the empire?
Fang Plover came to his senses.

"Nini is born with an unusual affinity for containers," Tata asked softly: "Mr. Knight, do you still remember that in the southern border of Kaolin-Ithurian, we relied on Nini's power to fight with the dragon? She connected with the knight Huma; later in Aiyin Block, she activated Halsey's dragon knight with the help of Tianlan. In fact, this is quite rare among ordinary dragon souls, but the outside world generally acquiesces that 'I' is The natural dragon soul acquiesces to these anomalies."

"So the star device made of green fragments is essentially a container, so Nini can be recognized by the dragon knight who is like the Supreme One?"

The goblin lady nodded.

Although this statement cannot solve all the puzzles, it at least answers some of the questions in Fang Piao's mind. There is no point in pursuing it further. Nini can be fine as long as she is fine.

Picking up a Dragon Knight for no reason, even if it is a semi-finished product, is a great good thing. However, Fang Yu suddenly thought of something and was still a little troubled. When Tata saw this and asked him why, he said:
"That's a good thing, but Nini's dragon knight structure already has a design. Even if it is not as good as the design of a great alchemist, the boundary between life and death, the gray branches in the forest... that is a legendary inspiration. "

He shook his head, "Now that Nini is bound to this semi-finished dragon knight, I have to find another way."

"But this is not a good thing. It is precisely because it is a semi-finished product that it is more malleable, Mr. Knight," Tata said. "Alchemists have always moved forward based on their predecessors. You may be able to Use this verification machine to realize your ideas.”

Fang Yu nodded. He did think so. "Thank you, Miss Tata. I feel much better when I think about it this way."

He withdrew from his conscious world and saw that other people's eyes were falling on him, waiting for his answer.

He talked with Tata for a long time in the conscious world, but it only seemed to the outside world that only a moment had passed. Fang Plover slowly opened his eyes and told the others about Nini and his situation.

"In other words," Miss Nightingale was the first to ask, "you have obtained a Dragon Knight. Can the leader use it?"

Fang Plover nodded.

Since withdrawing from his own world of consciousness, he can indeed sense the existence of the Dragon Knight. Although it is just a half-finished empty frame, he can still project it into the world like the Dragon Knight:

"But what I can do with it is limited. If I use Nini's power, I can probably project it into the material world for one or two minutes. Even with Miss Tata's assistance, this time will only be doubled. If It’s just me, maybe just for a few seconds.”

"Although Nini is a natural dragon soul, I am far from reaching the strength of the Sky Knight, not to mention that she still needs to grow as a dragon soul."

"This is amazing," Miya walked over, her quiet eyes could see into his heart, "You must carefully cover up the fact that you have two dragon souls. This matter is more important than any secret in your body. ."

Fang Piao looked away and nodded. Miya's ethereal eyes always made him afraid to look at her. "Forcing the Dragon Knight to use it will consume a lot of money for me, Nini and Miss Tata. If it weren't for a critical moment, , it’s better not to use it.”

But having said that, this is a good thing after all. Even if he cannot fully display the power of the Dragon Knight, the high-level power can still greatly enhance his combat effectiveness in an instant when it arrives.

He silently estimated that it could even allow him to leap into the Silver Level. It was hard to say which level of the Silver Level it was, and he was also a supreme being with close combat capabilities.

This can be regarded as a very powerful trump card.

"So in this case, we have to find the secret treasure of Pirate King William," Alyssa said. Fang Pultru had just told them about the secrets he and Tata had analyzed about the three geniuses and the Emerald Star. , "That is not only related to the attributeless crystal, but also to the perfect dragon soul."

She looked at the goblin lady sitting on the bedside: "But this is the path opened by Jeldham, so how did Miss Tata become the perfect dragon soul? Or is there another path in this world? road?"

Fang Yu and his Miss Dragon Soul looked at each other. This could be regarded as the biggest question between the two of them. They had learned from the Silver Tower everything that had happened in the past and the origin and origin of Miss Tata.

But what happened after the El Paxin fire, and what experience completed the part of Miss Elf as a dragon soul? She only knew that after the recovery, there was that perfect pattern in her soul, but from the specific Where it came from is unknown.

There was a moment of silence in the room.

However, among all the people, only the ship officer looked at the wolf girl aside without leaving any trace.

After everyone had given time for Fang Plover to recuperate, Sylvide deliberately stayed for a moment before leaving the room, as if waiting for Miya to leave; but the wolf girl glanced at her, then stood up and took the initiative to come to Fang Plover's bed. side.

Then she leaned down.

Under Fang Yu's stunned gaze, the girl gently lifted the hair on her cheek with one hand, lowered her head and kissed her.

"Wait--"

Fang Yu was horrified and subconsciously tried to stop the opponent with his elbow, but how could he be Miya's opponent, not to mention that he didn't have much strength at the moment. Miya held him down with one hand, making him unable to move.

Immediately, their lips parted, the wolf girl stood up and glanced provocatively at the noble daughter. Fang Yu was stunned for a moment. Because everything happened so suddenly, and there was even a faint fragrance like rose dew lingering on his lips, he looked at Sylvester beside him at a loss.

Facing Miya's gaze, Sylvester only smiled slightly, turned around and walked out.

"Silvi..."

Fang Yu wanted to stop the other party, but couldn't find any position for the moment. He just thought that it was over, Sylvide must be angry.

"Miss Miya," Fang Yu couldn't think of anything, and was only a little annoyed, glaring at the girl beside the bed, "Silverde and I have already established a relationship, what you are doing is..."

He was even a little embarrassed for a moment, unable to tell whether he was being taken advantage of or whether he was taking advantage of the other party.

But Miya thought for a moment and said quietly: "This is between her and me, please don't interfere."

"How can this be a matter between you two?" Fang Yu was furious. It was the same this time, and the last time in the elf ruins. The other party always did this, just say hello to him after finishing the matter.

"This is my business," he said angrily, "Miss Miya, can you respect other people's choices?"

The wolf girl couldn't help but twitch her pointed ears and looked at him doubtfully, "Are you angry?"

"I……"

Fang Plover was speechless for a moment.

"So until everything is settled, I still have a chance, right?" Miya then smiled lightly, "Besides, this is Aitaria."

What about Etalia?

Fang Yu didn't understand what the other party was talking about, and Miya turned around and walked out without explaining to him.

When she walked out of the door, she found that the ship's officer was waiting for her, but there was no look of anger on Sylvester's face, and she even had a smile on her face, "How are you, my captain, Ed is still here?" Not bad right?"

"What do you mean by that?" The wolf girl narrowed her eyes and looked at the other person, "You want to anger me?"

But Sylvide shook her head and became serious: "Miss Miya, I don't know for what purpose you gave the starlight to Ed, but I hope you have no ill intentions towards the captain."

Miya was startled, her silver eyes showing a wild and dangerous light.

She looked at Sylvester, bared her canine teeth in a threatening manner, and said coldly: "I don't understand what qualifications you have to say this to me. I have always chosen Ed because I can trust him, and it has nothing to do with outsiders."

She paused and changed her words: "I don't need to explain to you."

"But you actually knew about Miss Tata's existence from the beginning, right? Her soul is sleeping in that star dagger," Sylvide said quietly, "Miss Miya, please be more frank with you and others." Ed is better, so I can feel more at ease."

A cold light flashed.

Miya held the dagger in her hand and pressed it against the slender neck of the ship officer.

But Sylvester looked at her so quietly, as if she was verifying the fable - 'Time passes like water, and ancient wisdom increases day by day.' All the nobility and elegance of a long-standing family flowed like moonlight at this moment. On top of this blooming rose.

The quiet girl seemed to have inherited all the beauty, as peaceful as a dream. The quiet vines surrounded the thorny flowers. Her watery eyes were insightful and sophisticated, as if she could see through the heart of the wolf girl at that moment.

As for the witch of the sea, she was unable to resist the quiet gaze of the ship officer.

Anger arose in the wolf girl's heart.

Not to be outdone, Miya approached Sylvester aggressively, touching the tip of her nose to the other's nose, and looking into her eyes coldly.

This startled Sylvester. She had never experienced such a situation before. She could even smell the faint fragrance of the girl. She looked at the other party with some confusion - but Miya suddenly lowered her head and pulled away. The other party's collar came close to Miss Ship Officer's neck and she sniffed lightly.

Sylvide's heartbeat slowed down a beat:
"Miss Miya, what are you...doing?"

"What a strange smell," Miya stood up and took it back, "Turn the Seven Seas Traveler, someone is chasing us."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly turned around and walked towards the deck.

Sylvide was a little confused, holding her collar and chasing after her: "Miss Miya, what are you talking about, and what's wrong?"

"When you fought with those people before, they left elemental marks on you," Miya said, "I'm going to see if there are any on others. Maybe the people from Prometheus have caught up. ."

"Elemental mark?"

"It's an old trick of the Prometheus people. This is their unique method. It's normal for most people not to notice it," Miya said. "I was negligent. Alyssa, Dariel and Tianlan all fought against them. However, the marks on their bodies must also be removed."

……

"We avoided each other."

Adni stared at the light spot on the wind element detector and said to the others in a deep voice.

Fortunately, Miya discovered the anomaly in time. After checking everyone on the ship, she found the same elemental marks on Tianlan and Dalil. It was precisely because they cleared the marks immediately that they avoided Congfeng at the last moment. The pursuers came from the direction of the Shashan Mountains.

About 10 minutes ago, three sailboats passed by them from ten miles away, and the Seven Seas Traveler had completely shut down all the magic sources on the ship before that, and was just floating so quietly near the wind element layer. position.

The sails were also put up. At this moment, the Seven Seas Brigade appeared like an island reef on the wind element detector, or even worse than an island reef - because their sailboat itself was too small.

Only then did everyone look at the sea of ​​clouds outside the porthole. It was already a quiet night, and stars hung on the clouds, dotting the night sky. The towering cloud walls outside the sea divided the sky and sea into steep canyons, and there were occasional canyons between them. The clouds were thick with lightning and thunder.

The distant land ridge has formed a line in the sky, and the direction of Andreus Port is even further out of reach. Only a flickering light is left on the dark horizon, like a star that flickers and extinguishes.

"Did you see that behind those cloud walls, there is the Hai Ruina Sea," Adni said to them. "A storm is forming in the outer sea. If we hurry up, we can reach the Storm Islands before then."

"Storm outside?"

Fang Plover asked, and he and others came to the central cabin.

There was actually nothing serious about his health. He only rested for a while and then returned to normal.

"The storm in Hanruina is different from other places," Adni nodded seriously, "Don't underestimate it. Most of the ether converging nodes in Xinta'an North Continent are gathered here, and it is rich in elements. Magical power——I don’t know since when, a big storm formed from the outer sea, attacking the northern ports of the Oshur Empire year after year.”

"Especially since more than 20 years ago, the storms in the outer sea have become more and more terrifying. In these years, Campa has experienced three extremely huge storms, which the locals call 'sea fury'," Adni recounted: "It's like Kukai rained down the wrath of thunder. The storm that swept everything destroyed everything in its path. Even several cities in the north were destroyed by these three raging sea storms."

"I seem to have heard of this," Tian Lan interjected, "Tarabay, the largest city in the north, was also destroyed in the last storm."

"So how long will it take for the storm to arrive?" Boatswain Baggins asked. General storms can be predicted by measuring the weather, but the storm here in Hanruina is obviously unusual.

"Half a month or a week, it could happen at any time," Adni replied. "The storm legends here are related to the rise and fall of the etheric wind in the Sea of ​​Light. Only the locals can figure out their laws. When we arrive at the Storm Islands , we can find a guide.”

"In that case," Alyssa said at this time, "why don't we come back after the storm subsides?"

"Because it's too late," Adni said: "William's treasure is on the Storm Islands. That island only appears during the season when storms appear. You should have heard of this, right?"

The others nodded.

This is a quite famous rumor, and they have naturally heard of it.

Only Fang Yu secretly looked at his ship officer, but he seemed a little guilty and only glanced in that direction from time to time.

Sylvide stood by the window, deliberately pretending not to know. The moonlight like silver gauze fell on her body, and her skin was as white and flawless as snow, which made Fang Yu feel confused for a moment.

It wasn't until Fang Yu finally couldn't bear to look at her that the ship officer lady looked back and said with a smile: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with my face?"

"Aren't you angry?" Fang Yu lowered his voice and asked a little embarrassed.

"Who are you angry with?" Miss Ship Officer asked with a smile, "Are you angry with my captain? That's not necessary. But if you secretly look at that woman again in the future, how about I put on makeup to look like her? "

"No, no need," Fang Yu was startled. He couldn't afford to lose that person.

The ship officer lady glanced at Miya who was not far away, then turned back to him and said, "Stay with me tonight, okay?"

Fang Yu was so excited that he finally couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and nodded quickly.

The wolf girl was standing on the other side looking at these two people and couldn't help grinding her teeth - this pair of bad guys and girls.

"Captain," Jita suddenly raised her head and said, "We have contacted Luo Hao and the others."

Because of the commotion they made in Campa, Miss Erudite has been paying attention to the information in the community - after the Seven Seas Brigade defeated Enigma, AOA and the Falcon Group, their ranking on the leaderboard has jumped to around 2500. .

You know, this is the overall ranking of the teams behind Star Gate. In other words, they have actually entered the boundary drawn by the Super Competitive Alliance, approaching the ranks of the truly top and most famous teams.

Even if it is still at the rear of the crane, it has at least begun to enter the field of vision of most people.

Right now, there is a very intense discussion about this matter in the community, not only in the first and third divisions, but also in other divisions. Miss Erudite is trying to sort out some useful information from these discussions. Or at least help Alisa gather information.

It was also because there were not enough manpower on the ship and she had nothing to do in guarding the magic cabin, so she was roped in as a helper by the intelligence chief on the ship.

Jita herself had no complaints. On the contrary, she was quite happy to be able to help everyone. However, she did not find any useful information at this moment, but saw the team information of the Seven Seas Brigade flashing.

"Box and the others rented a boat," Jita pushed up her glasses, raised her head and continued, "They plan to leave Andreus early tomorrow morning. The atmosphere there is a bit tense, and Trixis is also with them."

Fang Plover then came back to his senses and looked at Adni who was not far away: "Miss Adni, is there any secret anchorage nearby where we can temporarily dock?"

"Yes," the foundry girl nodded affirmatively, "going straight ahead from here, passing through the Storm Gate, there is an island on the outer edge of the archipelago that is not on most charts. It was originally a secret anchorage of the Pirate King. ."

"I originally said that we could resupply there, that is to say, this anchorage. You can send them the coordinates and ask them to come there to meet us."

"Stormgate?"

Adni's hand pointed forward, passing between two clouds of lightning:
"It's there."

It has penetrated deep into the sea of ​​clouds, and beyond is the stormy sea, and in that vast ocean, surrounded by strong winds and heavy rains, sits a quiet island chain, dotting the northern coastline of Xinta'an like pearls.

And that is Han Ruina——

... (end of this chapter)