Pillars of Ita

Chapter 1192 News from an old friend

"Mr. Kailan, this is the ferry ticket you booked. I'm sorry, the crystal network of the Artisan Guild has not been restored yet, but we have asked someone to take your ciphertext message to Silverwind Harbor."

A hand reached out from behind Kellan Elwell and patted him on the shoulder, startling him. The elf employee turned around and saw the face of a middle-aged man with stubble. He showed a surprised expression and asked in surprise, "Mr. Elwood!?"

Derek looked like he hadn't woken up yet. He put a finger to his lips and said, "Shh, keep your voice down. Tell me what happened. Where is the investigation team?"

"Most of the investigation team have returned to Silver Wind Harbor. As for the others, I'd better find a place to tell you slowly, Mr. Elwood." Kailan replied quickly.

Derek nodded. He certainly understood the meaning of the other person's eyes. There happened to be an old friend of his nearby, so the place was absolutely private and safe.

While the two were talking, a little fairy flew into the Adventurer's Guild. She was wearing a traveler's outfit, a small set, carrying a small backpack, and hanging a fairy rapier.

The fairy lady was looking around, her emerald eyes full of curiosity and sparkling. The long green hair behind her head was like tender branches, tied into a thin ponytail, swaying lively with her movements.

Fairies were not uncommon in the area around Roshar, so this fairy lady did not attract much attention. At most, an adventurer near the door looked at her twice, but soon lost interest.

Behind the goblin, a human woman walked in. She was wearing a cloak, holding a sword, and wearing a boat-shaped hat with feathers. The brim of the hat was slightly pressed down, just covering half of her beautiful face, revealing only her pointed chin and the soft black hair on her shoulders.

"Alice," the little fairy flew back and couldn't help but stop on her shoulder and asked, "Why aren't they here? Didn't they say they had been to Silver Creek?"

"They may have left," the girl smiled, "Don't worry, Miss Lolo, we will find them."

Luo Luo wrinkled her nose. "It's a pity that Aina Xiaoyu is not here. I heard that she went to Luo Xiaer. I don't want to go back to that place. She has a good relationship with us, otherwise we could learn something from her."

"It's a good idea for the lady of the mountain lord to leave at this time," Alice replied, "We have already met at least two Silver Ranks along the way. Look, there is another one over there."

"These annoying guys," Luo Luo frowned into a ball, like a dark cloud that could not be dispelled, "I'm going to play a trick on them."

"Then you have to be careful." Alice smiled, but a glimmer of light flashed between her dark eyes.

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"Everyone, we've contacted the Seven Seas Traveler." Elisa suddenly raised her head and said to everyone else.

The adventure group is now in a woodland on the edge of Floating Cloud Hill, which got its name from the suspended hills formed by the roots of a large number of sacred trees that arched up from the ground. The magical and magnificent scenery seen in the Oak Hills can be found everywhere here, and the roots of Terraka are like giant dragons moving across the ground.

The cloud-climbing vines that connect the sky to the ground hang down from the tree roots, connecting to the ground like the aerial roots of a giant tree, and hanging down leaves as big as houses, forming a unique ecology here. It makes the Seven Seas Brigade's travel through this forest feel like entering a country of giants.

But there is also a spreading gray disease here, and part of the forest has turned into crystallized. Because it is far away from human habitation, the expanding gray area has no one to suppress it.

Even some of the roots and vines of the sacred tree reflected a grayish-white color under the moonlight, and even bloomed into huge crystal flowers, constantly spewing crystal spore dust into the sky.

The spreading gray-white forest destroyed the unique beauty of this place and added a hint of haze to the vibrant forest. The two elves, Meryl and Ailuoya, stood on a branch and watched the scene from afar - they felt very sorry and didn't know when the Giant Tree Hill would be able to return to its previous state.

When will the sacred tree recover?

Al asked the other four to stay not far from the two of them. If anything went wrong, their team would be ready to provide support at any time.

Contacting the Seven Seas Traveler meant that Miss Tata and Catherine's ship was not far away, within a few air miles. Fang He was not too surprised by the news.

In fact, Miss Tata had been able to contact him not long ago in Oak Hill, and a week after they left Silver Creek, the other party should have caught up with them.

In order to avoid the main shipping routes and the gray area, the Seven Seas Traveler and Catherine's ship took a more circuitous route than normal. Otherwise, they would have caught up with them about three days ago.

Before they left Silver Creek, they took away half of the Oakshade family's property. In fact, not all of this money was used on the Seven Seas Brigade. Some of it was kept by them for Aina Laughter.

Because the wealth was no longer safe in her castle.

As for the remaining half, Ina Xiaoyu took it to Roschel herself as start-up capital for her cooperation with the Fairy Workshop.

However, compared to money, Fang He actually valued equipment more. After all, they were traveling in the wilderness, and it was difficult to spend the money even if they had it. The communication between the two worlds was interrupted, and it was impossible to search for sales information in the community.

It’s a pity that most of the precious armors and weapons in the Oakshade family’s treasury are antiques, and few of them are usable. They are more than enough to be used as works of art, but as for equipment——

Too old-fashioned.

Ataria's magic technology is advancing with each passing day. The most advanced professional magic furnace from fifty years ago can only be regarded as an amateur product today. The gap between it and current products of the same level can reach more than ten levels.

From this perspective, the strength of Ataria's adventurers has increased rapidly in the century since the Star Gate was opened. The Adventurer's Association revises the danger levels of different areas almost every three years to recommend adventurers of different levels to explore.

What Fang He remembered most clearly was the Withered Treeman. When he and Miss Scarpe and the others were adventuring together, the Withered Treeman's level was still 40. Now, its level has been continuously downgraded to 38 in the system.

As the levels of monsters are lowered, previously dangerous areas become less dangerous, so the mission of the Adventurer's Association is to revise these areas to match their real-time changes.

However, the technology of magic furnaces is one of the fastest-progressing fields, while the development of flexible construction, especially high-level flexible construction technology, is relatively conservative.

Because large-scale construction often involves the replacement of each country's main war machines, which is a considerable investment, all countries are very cautious in this regard.

The same reason applies to magical equipment and plug-ins, which are probably between magic furnaces and flexible structures, but half a century is enough for them to develop for at least three generations.

For example, the Imperial Type 11 magic gun used by the dragon hunter that Fang He saw for the first time was a model from ten years ago, and its properties differed by about one-third from the latest Imperial Type 14 magic gun.

As for the things in the treasure house of Ina Xiaoyu's family, most of them are things from a hundred years ago. Even the legendary works of masters are equivalent to a blank weapon or armor of about A grade today.

They have high collection value, but as for their practicality, it depends on personal opinion.

However, Fang He still found some good stuff in it, including a real legendary magic crossbow.

The magic crossbow is called 'Alma's Dragon's Roar'. It was not originally called this name, but the legendary elf ranger Alma once used this crossbow and fought side by side with his silver dragon partner on the battlefield with this crossbow, hence the name.

Miss Naturalist recognized this legendary crossbow at a glance. Its original name was "Star Drop". The special magic array and plug-in design allowed it to remain stable at high speeds. Therefore, Alma was able to use this crossbow that could be mounted as a crossbow on the dragon's back.

The characteristic of the magic crossbow is that it can be unfolded to form a crossbow, which is also one of the biggest professional characteristics of the crossbow sniper.

But precisely for this reason they seldom fight on mounts. The Stardrop can be said to have been designed specifically for Alma and his silver dragon companions, and was created by a master of the White Tree Society.

After Alma Star fell in the Emerald Flame Land, the bow disappeared as well, but no one knew how it ended up in the treasure house of the Aina Laughter family.

In addition to this most special ability, its panel damage is also frighteningly high, with an attack of 1171-1524, almost four times that of the Dragon Hunter's True Ancient Sword.

In most cases, this crossbow can penetrate a magic furnace shield of level 50 or less with one direct hit.

Its attack speed is a bit slower, and its recharge time is almost twice as long as other magic crossbows, but its terrifying lethality makes up for it.

When this mage crossbow is overloaded, it can even pose a certain threat to Silver-rank players, of course, specifically those at level I and II Silver-rank. As for higher-level enemies, it is useless.

And this is only referring to the offensive and defensive attributes of the Silver Rank. This does not mean that a Silver Rank will stand there and let you attack. After all, the real power of the Silver Rank lies in the power of law.

What's more, those are living people with thinking abilities, not wooden stakes.

Originally, Ina Xiaoyu planned to give Parker a giant eagle from her family, but the Paparal people would never fight on the back of a giant eagle. He and Fang He rode on a giant eagle once, and they said they would never go on it again.

Although this wastes some of Xingchui's abilities, Parker said that his strength as the Nightingale King is enough to make up for this loss.

He really couldn't let go of the magic crossbow. If he had this thing earlier, he could have taught AshClaw a lesson by himself.

Of course, this was the Papara people's own claim, but it was true that at least given the attack power of this crossbow, AshClaw would never be able to smash his dragon-strike arrow to pieces with a single blow.

Unless the opponent intends to clear his own balance and dodge values.

As for the giant eagle that Aina Xiaoyu gave them, Elisa liked it very much and accepted it on behalf of the Seven Seas Brigade. After all, with this thing, it would be very convenient for the Seven Seas Brigade to conduct long-distance reconnaissance in the future.

Although they also have the clockwork fairy of the plover, everyone is aware of the disadvantages of the clockwork fairy. Using a lancer to carry her to fly would be too conspicuous, and creatures like giant eagles hovering at a certain altitude would be difficult for ordinary people to notice.

And even at the worst, she can be sent to the front-line reconnaissance area quietly.

Miss Nightingale has been responsible for feeding the giant eagle and cultivating a relationship with it these days.

The big bird was still glaring at the other people in the team, including the plover, with a wary look, but Alyssa was able to ride it into the sky for a while.

This made Tianlan extremely envious, and she wished Aina Xiaoyu would give her the other giant eagle. However, Fang He dragged this shameless guy back.

In addition, they also found a full body armor. Its origin was not as legendary as Alma's Dragon Roar, but it was also a near-legendary work called the Sun Barrier.

There's not much to say about this thing, it just has extremely high defense. It has the ability to teleport with fire, which is somewhat similar to Elisa's ability to merge into the shadow, but it can only be used once within a period of time.

No one else in the adventure group could use this full body armor, and Fang He originally intended to give it to Miss Knight, but May shook her head and refused. The armor of their order was a symbol of the ancient knights.

That thing cannot be taken off easily, as it has the holy emblem of Orli on it. When they level up, the Knights will issue them a higher-level magic armor, which is considered the standard equipment of the Mirra Holy Guard.

Fang He thought about it and it seemed that Luo Hao was the only one who could use this full body armor. However, he didn't know if his opponent's level was enough to wear this set of level 45 magic armor - this level did not refer to the equipment restriction level, but the level requirement for the core magic furnace.

However, if the attributes are high enough, or if you have enough skills and knowledge, or if you have plug-in support, you can use it at a lower level.

In fact, many summoners learn all kinds of knowledge and skills, on the one hand to make full use of the plug-ins on their bodies, and on the other hand to use higher-level equipment.

After receiving the message from Catherine, the Seven Seas Traveler and Catherine's own sailboat soon arrived over the woods, and the two ships slowly descended.

Compared to the small size of the Seven Seas Traveler, Catherine's ship was nearly twice as big. The ship was called the Trade Winds, a two-masted sailboat of nearly fifth class, about 140 feet long, with full longitudinal sails.

It has three pairs of wing sails at the rear, upper, middle and lower, making it look like the tail feathers of a goldfish. It is a typical raiding ship.

  However, when the Tradewind descended to a certain altitude, a shadow emerged from above. When Tianlan saw the original appearance of the shadow, she couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise:

"Mr. Gray Rock!"

Yes, that was Mr. Graystone. Forest Tribute and Pasha of the Second Regiment had carried out a new round of transformation on it. At present, the airbags on Mr. Graystone's back had been changed from the original soft type to hard type, and the number had also been changed to a pair on the left and right. There was also a ladder leading to the working passage in the center of the airbag for daily maintenance.

Because the second group had a large number of people, it was unlikely that everyone would live on the platform behind Mr. Gray Rock like the Seven Seas Brigade did. Therefore, there was only one room left for Ms. Quesu, and the rest was converted into a comprehensive alchemy workshop, a kitchen and a medical room.

As for Fang He's captain's room and Miss Attila's garden, they were also preserved as a kind of respect for him as the captain and the elf lady. However, most of the plants planted in the garden now are magical herbs for the Second Regiment's own use.

The lower storehouse remains, and some nets have been added to hang additional supplies.

Since Pasha and Lark had modified the Guy engine after joining, and upgraded Mr. Gray Rock to a new platform and new van airbags, Mr. Gray Rock's burden didn't actually increase much, and might even have been reduced.

Mr. Huiyan arrived, and the second group also arrived.

Fang He hadn't seen Sen Lin Li Zan, Ms. Kui Su and the others for a long time. The Second Regiment had undergone a round of expansion after that. Of course, all the members had been reviewed by him. There were also a few military personnel among them. Bai Jia had greeted him, which was considered as a care from Star Gate Port for them.

The military members consisted of two men and one woman, all of whom were around level seventeen, similar to Luo Hao at the time, and not much different in age.

It was obvious that several of them had heard of the name of this legendary leader a long time ago, and now they were all looking Fang He up and down curiously.

But military personnel are still military personnel after all, much better than the other members of the Second Regiment who rushed over chattering. The three of them were still just standing there, while some of the other members had already come up to him to ask for his autograph.

There were also two little girls pestering Sylvie, the daughter of Sir Mawei, who was now quite famous in Corin-Ishullian.

"You are famous now," Ms. Quesu looked at him and smiled, "Although you were quite famous in the South Territory before, it was not as famous as it is now."

Because of Yugudora, Fang He roughly knew something about what was happening in Corin-Ishurian. He scratched his head and asked, "Is it good or bad?"

"It's a mixed bag," Forest Praise said. Ms. Kuisu is nominally the leader of the second group, but as an aboriginal, she is actually the one who handles most of the team's affairs.

He said: "The major guilds have obviously taken action and spared no effort to discredit what you did in the Empire. They hired a lot of trolls and bribed a lot of platforms and media people."

"But there were too many people in the third division who watched the game, so before the communication between the two worlds was cut off, the two sides were arguing with each other in the community. In addition, Wei Yu and Luo Wei spoke up for you."

"After the communication between the two worlds was interrupted, things became even more chaotic. MTT and Mulan stood firmly on your side. Even Ms. Ming came out to support you."

"Oh, right," Forest Praise replied, "Lady Hades has had a falling out with the God Slayer since she returned to Corin-Ishurian."

"What?" Fang He was stunned. Ms. Yugudola didn't tell him this.

But Ming is the signature of the God Slayer. If she betrays the God Slayer, the Descendants of Flor and the club behind her will hold the contract she signed.

How could the alliance remain indifferent?

"That's what happened recently," Senlin Lizan heard his question and shook his head, saying, "The alliance naturally has some ideas, but someone is protecting her."

"Who?"

"Virus, the Elite has extended an olive branch to Ms. Hades and is willing to pay a sky-high penalty for her breach of contract," Forest Praise replied, "Of course the God Slayer will not accept it, but the military has intervened. The problem now is that everyone is waiting to see whether the Descendants of Flor are willing to go through the process—"

Fang He didn't expect that so many things had happened in Colin-Ishurian. It seemed that there had been quite a bit of commotion in the Third Division in the year since he left.

But Ms. Ming actually made such a choice. He didn't know if it was because of him, but it must be related to some extent, otherwise she would not have made such a decision after returning from the empire.

What surprised him even more was that Elite would actually take action. Although this rising star in the country has always been in the limelight since its rise, Virus has always adhered to its style since taking over Elite and has rarely had direct conflicts with the two major domestic alliances.

And aren’t she and Ming competitors?

He felt somewhat touched, as if the Construct Queen had been helping him ever since he first met Ms. Ming, and later she even became his teacher.

At least as a teacher, she is absolutely qualified. Apart from this lady, who else would break up with her club for her students?

  Fortunately, there was Ms. Virus, otherwise he would not know how the events in the third division would end. He couldn't save Miss Attila and then go back to save Ms. Ming, right?

And does Ms. Ming need to be saved by herself?

"If there's a chance," Fang He replied, "I'd really like to ask Ms. Ming what she thinks, but right now there's something more important. What's the situation in the third division?"

"It's terrible." When mentioning this, even Ms. Quesu shook her head. "The royal family has given up negotiating with Princess Brian. The army is gathering in North and South Kaolin. A war seems inevitable."

Fang He was also silent for a while. He was the one who started this war, but he knew very well that the North-South War would still break out even without him. It was just a question of which side he should stand on.

But judging from the royal family's inclination, whether for his own position or for Hilde's sake, it was obvious that he would not choose to stand on the side of the Prime Minister.

And at present, the military seems to agree with his choice.

Otherwise, Shang Wangyou would not have sent him supplies, but would have arrested him and taken him back to Hengfeng Port.

Fang He saw Pasha in the crowd. The little guy had grown a lot taller in the past year and had a more mature air, but he was still a little timid in front of him.

Pasha came over and greeted him quietly.

"teacher."

Fang He smiled at him. Before the communication between the two worlds was interrupted, he often received praise for Pasha from Forest Praise and Ms. Quesu. When he was away, the little guy single-handedly supported the logistics of the Second Regiment.

Just like when he was in Dawnstar and the fledgling Seven Seas Tours.

He was right. Pasha still had great potential and was not inferior to himself. It was just that he was an aboriginal and his growth trajectory was somewhat longer than his.

"Ed!"

Then Fang He saw Catherine - the red-haired female pirate had her hair tied up high under the captain's hat. She was wearing a coat and was now posing as the captain of the Trade Wind.

The lady was walking towards him through the crowd and asked, "What happened before? Why did you suddenly ask us to change our route?"

In fact, if the plan hadn't been disrupted at the last minute, they might have arrived a day earlier.

Her emerald eyes looked in the direction of Meryl, "Is that the city that was destroyed by the Scar of Yasha - Norrishen?"

Fang He nodded. After the destruction of Norishien, the survivors built a new town on the border of Floating Cloud Hill - that place was about fifteen miles away from the entrance of Nightingale Forest.

From there, enter the central forest of the continent. About a day's journey west is one of the entrances to the Scar of Yasha, which is also the former site of Norishien. The elves established an outpost in this place to monitor the situation in the Scar of Yasha.

Over the past few years, this place has almost become a new passage leading to the Nightingale Forest.

As a result, adventurers gathered and business flourished. The town soon redeveloped and regained its vitality.

However, after the Gray Plague broke out, some people fled here again, but there were still a large number of Chosen Ones left - where there are Chosen Ones, there will naturally be people who stay to make a living.

Therefore, the town still maintains a certain degree of prosperity, and there is also an advance team from Silver Wind Port stationed here.

The Seven Seas Brigade's original plan did not require them to pass through this town, but a piece of news made them change their route - Fang He received a piece of news in Finsado.

Someone has witnessed a giant dragon appearing in the Nightingale Forest, and a strange young man was walking with the dragon. The dragon appeared in the Scar of Yasha, not far from New Norishien.

Fang He thought of it almost immediately.

That could be Luo Yu.

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