Pillars of Ita

Chapter 1124 Chapter Raging Sea, Gathering StormXVIII

Minmir was silently looking at the spire. The style of the spire was very different from the present day, and also from every era since its establishment. The Xinthas snake-men were using their most unique aesthetics to shape everything here.

Therefore, the snake-shaped tower stands here. The snake scale texture coiled on it looks extremely beautiful, but the open fangs look cold. The whole spire is filled with an aura of madness, evil and death.

Minmir turned around and said to the others around him: "Do you believe this fairy tale told by the empire?"

It was the others in Prometheus he was asking, and as he expected, some of those who came with him survived. Some of them received the message he left and came to join him.

Not many people survived, but it was enough. More people have returned to the Resurrection Icon, and the anchorage is being invaded by the Naga clan. As for what will happen to those people, it actually has little to do with him.

Everyone was a little confused. "Boss, we originally came here for the obelisk, shouldn't we get involved in these meaningless disputes?"

Meaningless? Minmir looked at his mission, like a lighthouse in a lonely sea. That mission still stayed there, no matter how heavy the rain and wind outside, it did not suffer any damage. How can we calm the storm and save Hokuriku?

The four words "save Hokuriku" were bright in his eyes, making his eyelids twitch.

Minmir stretched out the tip of his index finger, and a drop of gray blood flew out from his fingertip, breaking away from the shackles of the earth and flying towards the spire not far away, like a beam of silver light, parting the surging darkness. fog.

Issa watched this scene not far away and nodded. He was originally worried that the Silver Order from Prometheus would ruin the plan, but the other party was more talkative than expected. Minmir may have other intentions, but he did not do not mind.

Isa turned back and said, "There are two more. There are actually seven spiers here, symbolizing the seven thrones of the Sinsas era; but we only need to destroy four of them, one of which has been damaged, plus this one ——”

Rudene rarely took the initiative to speak: "I don't believe him."

Issa was stunned. He knew that this silent old man actually didn't trust anyone. "Prometheus is also in the league."

"The alliance can rule the subordinate guilds, but the subordinate guilds may not be able to rule everyone. The human heart is like an abyss, Issa."

"But we can't count him out."

Isa glanced back at the spire.

The gray world is moving with the water droplets, like the world reflected in a mirror. The water droplets finally passed through the mirror, hit the spire, and caused a layer of ripples on the mirror surface, and the silver ripples rippled in circles. go.

"I want to see what secrets are hidden under this storm?" Minmir said nothing. A layer of evil thoughts invaded his thoughts, and vicious and cold thoughts penetrated into his mind. He remembered the reminder and sighed. He made up his mind to let those thoughts pass through his shallow consciousness.

The cold atmosphere dissipated quickly.

Minmir broke out in a cold sweat.

The feeling was like being watched by a god, with a substantial gaze that once stayed on him and then looked away. He had felt the same momentum in Narsuyu, and the two were almost the same.

"The hell is this thing really going to help?"

Although Duke Perit told them so, Minmir did not trust him in his heart.

He heard several exclamations and raised his head to find that changes visible to the naked eye had taken place on the spire. The place where the gray water droplets hit began to melt, creating a crack that extended to the bottom of the tower and opened a deep valley along the ground. .

The deep valley is like a gray door. Behind the door is a world like a mirror and a moon.

Minmir looked at the world. He didn't care about the mountains of gold and silver. What he cared about was the hall that looked like an alchemy workshop, filled with all kinds of utensils.

"The Pirate King's treasure trove!" People couldn't help but shout.

Is it really here?

But Minmir saw some strange pictures in the mirror.

It was a city standing in a lonely sea. It had experienced dark winds and rains. In order to fight for something, humans and Nagas fought here, and blood flowed everywhere.

At that time, the strong winds and huge waves rising above the sea were just like today. The storm enveloped the entire northern territory. A fleet of the Court of Swords was anchored here. The soldiers of the empire resisted the invasion of the Naga clan, but to no avail.

At the most critical moment of the war, a seal was artificially triggered, and a black wave swept through the entire city, turning the battlefield into a tomb, turning both warring parties into bones, and freezing a long period of time here.

Then he saw a dazzling gem.

An emerald, a world sealed in it, a node formed by the converging ether, intertwined storms.

Minmir suddenly woke up and realized what he had seen.

Over the past twenty years, the legends about the Northern Territory emerged from his mind one by one. He had also heard of those bizarre stories, but just like everyone who later entered the Star Gate and did not experience it all, it was difficult to tell whether they were true or false.

Empire, fleet, sealed and lost city, betrayal, pirate king, and finally...

"It's Andreus' lost ether node."

Minmir's eyes wavered and he couldn't help but murmured:

"Ether node...Ether node...it turns out to be such an ether node..."

It turns out that this thing is actually here——

The ancient trees that were spreading and growing in the heavy rain were piercing the sky, and the life in the pale tree trunks had long been drained away; while the sentry holding an ax looked back, all he saw was the guards rushing out of the courtyard.

But the torrential rain fell in the sky, connecting the sky and the ground, but the ancient ether confluence was no longer here. It was lost ten years ago, twenty years ago, and that dark fleet After leaving the port——

There were storms rising over the sea day after day.

The waves hit the cornerstone of the city, eroding the traces of civilization, and the settlements disappeared one after another. Some people ignored it, but others rose up to resist. They raised their long sails, lowered their gray flags, and in different appearances, Walk on the waves.

Under the gray wall.

Senev was raising his head. He stared at the symbol for a moment and placed his hand on the cold stone foundation. The gray stone slabs made a low buzzing sound and receded to both sides, like a separate wave, like a separate wave. sea ​​surface.

The stone wall formed a wide passage in front of the four people.

Tian Lan stared at all this with her mouth open - she wanted to know how to do this? Is this also the power of alchemy?

But Adni shook her head, "It comes from before time. It is the invitation of the Sinsas snake people to future generations. It was already like this before he arrived. There are some invisible things sealed underneath, and I That’s what I’m here for.”

"But I..." Tianlan said, "I seem to have seen that symbol there."

She said decisively.

……

Minmir suddenly opened his eyes, and he finally remembered what the past was, the rumors about Altric, about this port, and everything in the seal.

He looked at the people around him, at the knights in the Sword-holding Court, and roared: "Don't go there!"

He turned back, his eyes flashing with rage as if they were about to burn the space to the ground, and finally fixed on Duke Perit there, but the Duke just looked at everyone indifferently from a distance, and then nodded.

"you……"

A huge eyeball appeared inside the door. It shook left and right in a heart-stopping manner, and then disappeared. A claw stretched out from behind the door, interrupting the second half of Minmir's curse words.

It swept across with unparalleled power, drawing those who were becoming frightened and trying to flee, the knights who were retreating, and everyone from Prometheus into its claws, and Minmir was furious. In his eyes, he dragged everything back to the door——

"you--!"

Minmir turned around and looked at the Duke.

He stretched out his hand to the other party.

The gray world jumped out of the sky behind Minmir, and a similarly gray giant hand stretched out from the space and headed straight for Duke Perit. The giant hand grabbed the Duke amid exclamations. , but only the Duke himself remained unmoved.

He watched quietly as the hand came to him and settled within a few inches of him—

The Duke stretched out his hand and flicked it, and the gray world collapsed, like a huge mirror, shattered into pieces, and Narsuyu's arm disappeared into nothingness like gravel in the wind.

The huge claws once again reached out from behind the door, this time grabbing Minmir in mid-air.

Minmir seemed not to have seen this scene, and only looked at Duke Perit with cold eyes for a moment, "I remember you."

"This is the Empire's plan," replied the Duke.

"What a plan for an empire."

Minmir sneered, and six slender black fingers wrapped around him, but at that moment, a dazzling green light appeared on the palm of his hand. At that moment, Duke Perrit's expression finally changed. His eyes trembled as he stared closely at this scene——

"Cang Zhihui?"

"Your Majesty Duke, we will see you later."

Minmir spoke one word, turned around and thrust the flame in his hand into the monster's claws.

The giant beast in the shadow let out a long howl, and its giant claws immediately disintegrated into nothingness. Minmir opened a door to space there, and before entering, he looked back at everyone present, as if to write down these people one by one:

Twenty years ago, Altric City stood here, but twenty years later, all that was left was ruins.

The Empire and Naga fought for that beacon and node here, and opened the door at the end of the war. What happened after that is self-evident.

In the past thirty years, these people have blamed pirates and dark creatures for the disappearance of every city in the north. But under the storm, there are actually deeper secrets hidden. He is a senior executive of Prometheus and has also been exposed to it. That plan.

So of course I understand what world leads to that door.

Then there is a credible reason for the disappearance of these ports.

"you……"

Those are living people, and the empire actually used them to sacrifice the starlight and use the starlight to merge into that dead world in exchange for the possibility of the passage of that world coming again.

Although those hundreds of thousands of lives had little to do with him, Minmil suddenly felt a little shuddering. What on earth were the Imperial people doing? Does the Alliance know all this? He couldn't help but think of the people in SOLID, so do Issa and Rudene know all this?

"...It's really damn good!"

The door opened, Minmir left a cold word, and disappeared inside.

The giant beast was withdrawing its broken claws, and the screaming sound formed a storm, sweeping over. The strong wind made everyone unsteady, and the knights in the sword-holding court retreated one after another.

Only Duke Perit watched this scene silently, Cang Zhihui... Cang Zhihui, the last scene he saw floated in his mind, why would that person also have Cang Zhihui? That was the only surprise in the plan, but it made him feel slightly palpitated.

He suddenly remembered.

That's a star dagger——

... Fang Plover suddenly raised his head.

He heard a distant scream resounding through the ground, and couldn't help but look in that direction, but there was only darkness in the darkness, and light and shadow intertwined with the boundary of an abyss. He saw that Miya was also turning around. The girl lowered her head and glanced at the star dagger in her hand, and the flames on it flickered.

It was as if a beam of starlight descended from the distant sky and merged into it.

"It looks like it's just as we expected."

Fang Yu spoke, "Miya, the star dagger you gave to Minmir was used."

"We all know that the Empire is summoning the Abyssal Sea," Sylvide said from the side: "And the things below are obviously related to it, the storm, the ether node, the ruins of the battlefield twenty years ago, the Naga family got it To raise a storm, what is the purpose of the empire?”

"After all, this is not the first time they have done this," Fang Plover nodded, "In El Paxin, they opened the summoning door once. It is very similar. The experience of Altric City in history is very similar to this." Like it.”

"Actually," Miya said, "Ms. Odais and I had already made some guesses when we saw that thing under the mist."

Sylvide asked: "So you think that is the shadow man god?"

"Not necessarily, but at least it has something to do with the Dark Saint." The wolf girl shook her head gently.

"The Shadow People came with the greenery," Fang Plover couldn't help but ask, "But the seal below must be at least related to the Sun Dynasty in the Xinsas era. What does the god of the Snake People have to do with the Shadow People? "

The three of them looked at each other, and none of them, including Miya, could give a definite answer.

Fang He looked at Odysseus who was not far away.

The goddess was still telling the story, "Shesta, in my hurry, I only had time to protect you and your mother, but the etheric turbulence still seriously injured you and your mother; your mother is just an ordinary person, Died immediately when the starlight was lost——"

"But before she died, she entrusted you to me," she looked at the maid lady, her eyes a little soft, "...I still remember that experience, the wave of darkness swept over Otric, and the eyes of a dark god Watching every tiny person, a large number of evil creatures crawl out from the ground..."

"And I am determined, Shesta, to take each of you out, to protect you and those who survived, and to fulfill my final responsibility."

She recounted the experience of struggling to survive. Not everyone died under the impact, but there were still people who survived by chance. They united to fight those evil creatures and then fought their way out.

The empire's fleet came, but it did not extend a helping hand to each of them. Instead, it pointed its cold guns at the city. The female warrior held the dying girl and looked at the familiar faces on the skyline. banner.

The blood in her chest went cold.

"What happened after that..." Siesta looked at the goddess in front of her, feeling a little dull, "Ms. Odais, how did I survive?"

"he came."

Odyss pursed her lips.

"Rodrigo de Andres, Your Majesty the Commander ordered to fire on the friendly forces. They defeated the fleet from Andreus and saved each of you."

Fang Yu was startled and stopped involuntarily. He seemed to hear the past of the pirate king, but it was different from what he imagined. The empire announced the betrayal of the fleet. He had always guessed that there might be another hidden meaning in that history, but he did not expect that it would be like this in the end.

The ending of that story is even a bit cliche.

Odyss Linstern died in the battle of Altric City, but this female warrior gave up her life to protect a little girl from the ruins.

That little girl is the daughter of Bachelor Hales. Her name is Shasta. In order to save the girl whose star has been lost and her life is on the line, the female warrior's lover and husband, the great alchemist Jed Hamm, gave her another gift. A life——

And that's where the story begins.

Fang Yu silently looked at the maid, and couldn't help but think of the first star device he had seen. That device was even a bit crude. When installed on the body of a dragon hunter, it could only allow them to carry out some simple commands. That’s all.

It must not be able to achieve such a miracle.

But how did Jed Ham do it?

What legacy did Jedham leave for his descendants?

Fang Yu had actually vaguely guessed the answer in his heart. All of this might be related to the birth of the first soul.

"Where are you from?"

Odais also listened to the maid's question and couldn't help but smile tenderly, "My husband has actually been studying how the soul is shaped a long time ago... He once cooperated with Sir Lynn and first rejected the path of the traditional soul school - —Because mottled souls often find it difficult to carry pure ether;"

"Maybe it's because I am also a dragon soul, so I also have this knowledge in my memory," Odais continued. "He has since embarked on the path of researching artificial souls and found that through a certain logical structure, it can also be simulated to a certain extent. The lowest law of this world - Starlight."

"Starlight is the origin of life, and nature can also shape pure souls. They call it the Star Experiment, and the device that was born is what you see - the Star Device." Odaisi said: " But this type of device was not invented by my husband, but by three geniuses many years ago.”

"They are Friston, Hellingwell and Jeldham respectively."

Fang He remained silent.

Adni's father, Sir Lynn, Friston, Hellingwell, Jeldham, these names were already familiar to him, and each one emerged from the depths of his memory again.

"It's just that my husband's experiment encountered many common problems with the three geniuses. The crystal array cannot accommodate an overly complex star sea, so even the most complex and sophisticated star devices are often difficult to handle. Great responsibility.”

Fang Yu frowned. This was exactly the confusion he encountered. The dragon hunter's star device was already the most complex one he had ever seen, but it was still not good enough to achieve the effects expected by the craftsmen. far away.

It can even be said that there is a gap of several orders of magnitude in terms of computing power.

"and then?"

He finally couldn't help but ask.

"Then my husband went underground once in Nozpiz," Odais replied: "It was from then on that he was targeted by some people in the empire, maybe even Otric's plan. , is also part of it.”

"His best friend, Sir Linn, was also suppressed by those people. Before I left the principality, I heard that Sir Marwei went to see him for the last time. Later, your father found us again and took Siesta from our hands. Take it away.”

It was a vague line that seemed to describe everything that happened twenty years ago. Odyss was describing it: "But it was after that that my husband finally seemed to find the right path, because he A 'crystal' was brought back from the underground of Nozpiz."

Fang Yu held his breath - a crystal, he had already guessed what it was. So, could it be that the taboo identified by Friston will eventually be broken in another way for Jeldham’s legacy?

Can the legacy of these three geniuses truly shine for the first time in this world?

How did Jed Ham get past that final door?

How does the Law Domain come into being? Can a life that can grow be shaped? If all of this can be born, does that mean that the existence of Miss Tata is also possible?

He has actually seen the answers to all these questions.

"...He brought back an emerald green gem from there, but the gem had been split into three," Odaisi continued. "The one called the Heart of Silver was placed in your body." in vivo."

"The yarn called the Star Yarn disappeared, and the last one split into two halves. Your Majesty the Commander separated them. One was named the sky and the sea, while the other symbolized the stars, mountains, rivers, and the sea. One for my husband, and one for the stars..."

"The one of the stars is right here," Fang Plover finally said, as sure as if he had seen everything happen with his own eyes. "It is the carrier of the storm, and it is also your container, Ms. Odais, Osu people Use the stars and mountains to praise Anjina, the god of knowledge——"

"Because that is a noble intention."

"That's...the Green Star."

"The gaze of a god."

And He is indeed watching this place...

He couldn't help but think of the fact that he had concluded a contract with his Dragon Soul lady underground under the elven ruins under the watchful eye of the God of Knowledge. All the coincidences and the will of fate were gathered here. .

Odyss nodded slightly.

"So, of course you are yourself, a real human being," she replied softly, "The Silver Heart only shaped the star for you, and your soul and memory all come from your original self. You are The little girl I saved personally, your name is Shasta."

The maid lady was also slightly startled at this moment and couldn't help but fell silent.

Fang Yu asked the final question:

"So, Ms. Odece, you are Adne's mother?"

Odaisi did not answer. Perhaps the moment she became a dragon soul, she was destined to guard this place. Before she could retrieve all her memories, she forgot a lot about her past, her husband, and her daughter.

She then smiled and finally nodded slightly.

Fang Plover remained silent.

"The green star has no attributes, and they are all elements of death. However, the purest star brilliance can be born in the dead silence. Is it because the will of a misfortune star sleeps in a soul? Its fragments are naturally woven Come up with the laws of a world——"

When the abyss is combined with this world, new possibilities are born?

Fang Yu was stunned, and he suddenly realized that it was not like he had never seen similar freshmen before.

He raised his head, his eyes intertwined with Miss Dragon Soul who could not be seen by others, and he also saw the shocking possibility in her eyes——

Nini.

The little girl is sleeping, but Fang Plover can feel the majestic vitality from her body. She was born from Nicol Bolas's dark wish, and it is also the power that comes from the abyss and darkness. .

But what exactly was the occasion for Nini’s birth?

Fang Yu never thought about it from beginning to end, but suddenly, a spiritual light flashed from his mind, just like the fragments of the green star, the dazzling blue light flashing and swaying in the world of his consciousness... …

Cang Zhihui.

The green brilliance in his body comes from the fragments of the Hailin Crown and the Green Star.

He suddenly froze in place.

So much so that both Sylvide and Mia turned to look at him, and the ship officer asked with some concern: "What's wrong?"

"No...nothing..." Fang Plover seemed to be fished out of the water, sweating profusely. He suddenly looked forward: "We...have arrived?"

The underground space ends in front of everyone.

The towering and deep palace reveals its true appearance behind the limestone pillars. The mountains of treasures reflect the brilliance of crystals, emitting an infinite light that almost illuminates the entire vast underground world. And on that high mountain——

It's an altar.

On the altar, the emerald diamond caught everyone's attention. The brilliance it emitted almost covered up all the colors in their eyes. It was like a beautiful star that fell from the sky and landed here.

Let the abyss cover up its light and make the world intoxicated by it.

"The stars and the mountains," Odais murmured to herself, "the noble intention..."

"I... finally saw it again."

……