Pillars of Ita

"Will this really work?"

Cui Xisi held up the puppet in her hand. It looked like an exquisite doll, but it was different from Meimei. It had more of the personal style of its maker, such as a half-exposed mechanical palm with silk strings tied on it and a metal mask on its face, which was full of punk style.

The fairy lady frowned, obviously not optimistic about this plan. But she was not optimistic about the plan itself, but the part of the plan that was tricky. That part was not a big problem, but she had to pay some unnecessary costs.

“It’s just to convince them,” Daryl told her, “that this thing is useless, but if used well, it can save us a lot of trouble.”

"I think the power of belief still has some effect," the sky blue cat squatted quietly beside them, watching them complete their preparations, and muttered quietly, "If people lack basic trust in each other, how miserable this world will be."

"Really? I don't think so." Miss Cat showed off her sharp claws and trimmed the tips of her claws with a file with her other hand.

"Then Miss Daryl, will you not trust everyone?" Tianlan asked.

"Hmph," Daryl glanced at the little girl, "I was only ordered to act with you, Tianlan, if you keep talking so much, why don't you solve Trish's problem?"

"I can't do that." The poet lady shook her head again and again, "I can't do that."

Cui Xisi couldn't help rolling her eyes when she heard the two people's sarcastic remarks. Although she felt a little uncomfortable, she could still bear this little pain. She grabbed her human form and walked out, and saw Fang He who was talking to Melfina.

Fang He also looked over and gave her an embarrassed look, "Well, I might have to trouble you later."

"It's okay," the fairy lady curled her lips, "Please do it faster. I can't stand it if it takes too long."

Fang He nodded seriously.

The fairy lady walked out of the room and walked up the high wall. Many people noticed her, or rather the fairy figure in her hand. Many people had seen this doll on the battlefield, and the craftsman from the Night Walker had connected it before.

"It's the fairy master."

"She turned out to be a woman, and quite pretty."

"I really want to know what her contact ID is."

There was a buzz of chatter coming from the unfinished construction site, many of which even reached Cui Xisi's ears, causing her to squint her eyes. The vanity that rose in her heart gradually calmed her uneasy emotions.

It's not like she hasn't experienced this feeling in the Holy Rite Guild, but people's envious eyes were mostly directed at the SOLID Alliance behind her. As the top guild alliance in the First Division, it was full of shining stars, and she was not the most special one among them. Even within the youth training team, tactics were not formulated around her.

And now, all of this belongs to her. Although the Seven Seas Brigade is also a team, it only has a few people in total, and the eyes that are divided among them are all focused on each of them.

As this team rises, she can also gain more fame. She chose to give up so much, isn't it for a greater reward?

But at that moment, Cui Xisi couldn't help but think of Fang He and the scene she had seen before. Why was he here? In her eyes, he was not a person who cared too much about fame and fortune.

To be honest, she didn't quite understand the thoughts of the other people in the Seven Seas Brigade. Some of them were too stubborn, some were too weird, and some were too naive, but it was these people who could be mixed together.

Even someone like me didn't feel any discomfort here.

A voice interrupted her thoughts. Fang He had finished talking with Melfina and came out, saying to her, "If you are ready, let's get started."

Cui Xisi looked at the latter and nodded slightly.

She raised her hand and released the fairy figure in her hand, and a glittering silver light appeared in the depths of her gem-like pupils. Fairies can have synesthesia with their human figures, but that is in complicated situations, because they only need to pretend to be around, so the girl did not wear goggles.

Fang He gestured to the Night Walker craftsman who had just been promoted.

The other party had been trying to contact the guild during this period to report the problems here, but due to the communication between the two realms, it was obviously impossible to get in touch.

The elves appointed him as the person in charge, and in a situation of urgency, the Night Walker team had to hold an internal discussion, and several team leaders jointly nominated and recognized his responsibilities.

After all, the Sons of Light have the final say here, and there is nothing they can do even if they disagree.

The craftsman also looked over at this moment and ordered the others: "Everyone, connect."

All other Night Walker craftsmen were summoned at this moment. It did not require any special skills to connect with the fairy dolls. The matching of resources depended on the fairy's own computing ability.

The talented girl who came from the elite youth training group of the Holy Rite Guild was obviously an expert, but handling dozens of requests at once was still a little beyond her ability. She gritted her teeth, with a trace of pain clearly visible on her face.

"Using multiple parallel techniques," Fang He reminded her, "It's just for show. You don't have to really assign them tasks. Give them a problem that requires margin techniques and let them slowly work it out."

Cui Xisi was slightly stunned. She didn't expect that the other party had such a side. She thought that this young and naive leader didn't know what lying was, but he was really good at lying.

However, the girl gritted her teeth and followed his instructions to distribute some of the non-existent tasks in a multi-parallel manner, so that she could selectively ignore some requests. At the same time, she integrated the remaining computing power and sent it to Fang He.

Fang He was naturally also within the connection range of the fairy messenger. Although this was not necessary for him, if his main target was not connected to the network, it would be too obvious to others.

After receiving the request sent by Cui Xisi, Fang He was slightly stunned. He originally thought that Cui Xisi only needed to block all requests, and then give them a fictitious calculation problem to make those people think they were participating in a task. After all, this would make it much easier for her.

Unexpectedly, the other party also had a competitive spirit, and forcibly intercepted a part of the computing power and sent it to him. Fang He hesitated for a moment but still did not deliberately refuse. After all, without Miss Tata's assistance, he would be more relaxed, right?

He gave Cui Xisi an encouraging look, then looked at the Night Walker craftsman, who saw wisps of silver light rising from the night sky and connecting to the fairy figure in mid-air.

After confirming this, he walked forward and inserted the crystal bridge in his hand into the center of the crystal tower.

Not far away, the Elf Princess Melfina was watching this scene silently. The chief warlock stood behind her and said, "If he didn't succeed."

"That's the responsibility of the Night Walkers," Melfina smiled. "It's their fault for not monitoring their own people. They brought the things, so why should we be held responsible?"

The warlock looked at her silently, as if she was a completely different person from the lady who had agreed to take full responsibility, but he was used to it. "The council may not agree."

Of course, he was not talking about the Council of Linoril, but the Upper Council of the Elves, which was actually a loose council of nobles - it was not really worthy of the name to call it a council, and the Council of Elders of the Sacred Grove was also a part of it.

"As a princess, I do have this privilege," Melfina tapped the hilt of her sword with her fingertips. "That's just an excuse. After all, the losses have to be recovered from the outside world."

"If people are afraid to take on even this little bit of responsibility, then no one will dare to do anything. If even I can't make a decision, others will just shrink back."

"Those people won't be able to understand this. They may secretly make some trouble, but it won't be too much trouble. Of course, everything depends on the result."

She gripped the hilt of her sword and said nothing.

Of course, she hopes that the person she has chosen can bring her good results, but if not, she can also take the opportunity to put forward further conditions.

For example, the Tower of Spring Dawn, she believed that someone like him would not refuse, not to mention that he must have felt guilty about himself. As for failure, it was a joke, who hasn't failed? A person's ability is not measured by one or two failures or successes.

People like her would naturally understand.

The deputy was merely fulfilling his duty to remind her. Seeing that she had her own plan, the chief warlock fell silent and stopped talking. The two of them just watched in silence as more and more silver lines rose into the sky.

It was like an interwoven web wrapped around the central crystal tower. It looked spectacular, but in fact it did not produce any results. Even most of them were explained away by Cui Xisi with a calculation problem about the remainder.

Most people plunged headfirst into the maze of calculations, and many of them even felt a little desperate, because the difficulty of the calculation part of the test that Shana gave to Fang He increased step by step.

But Cui Xisi didn't intend to give these people a chance to realize their mistake. She started asking questions directly from the third door (the chapter of the key). There were many questions behind that staircase that even Fang He might not be able to answer completely.

He was trapped behind this door for a long time at first, and only made some progress after deciphering the star device. However, the two still have many unresolved problems in this field.

Relatively speaking, Fang He went a little further, while Cui Xisi herself was still in the learning stage. She simply threw out questions that she herself could not answer. These calculations immediately made many people doubt their lives.

Is this really solvable?

How is this possible?

But the Night Walker craftsmen racked their brains and did not doubt whether this problem was related to Gwanghae. After all, the craftsmen's cognition was the same. Although it was complicated, it could be seen at a glance that it was not false.

That is indeed not false, after all, it is the content after the Chapter of Keys.

And people even convinced themselves that this should be the law of the sea.

That is the underlying logic of this world. Its chaos and randomness cannot be calculated by the human brain at all. The most they can do is capture its patterns in a corner by chance.

But soon, it was lost in an endless whirlpool like the unpredictable clouds.

Compared to the reality of the world, this is understandable.

Everyone was sweating profusely, but the leading craftsman was stunned. The more he looked, the more surprised he was, and the more impressed he was by the perfection of these problems.

Many of those things were exactly the areas he was studying, but he did not have time to go deeper, or was rejected because of his limited knowledge. However, the questions before him seemed to be a reflection of the doubts in his heart.

Their answers must also be the ultimate answer to the question he was looking for. He couldn't help but take a step forward, as if he wanted to push open the door and enter the world of truth.

But he suddenly realized that he was still in the real world, and the questions themselves were not the answers. Their perfect and exquisite logic seemed to be the best reward for his spiritual world. Although he still couldn't answer them, at least his heart was touched.

He couldn't help but look up at Fang He. All the calculations were distributed to each person first, which meant that although the other party needed their help, he actually already had an idea of ​​how to solve the problem.

Is this Hailin Chenxing? He firmly believes that as long as he answers these questions, he will be able to take that step and enter that world.

At this moment, he didn't even have any doubts in his heart, but instead felt a little grateful and fortunate that he agreed to the other party's request. It was not often that he had the opportunity to be promoted by such a person.

He was like this, and naturally the thoughts of several other skilled craftsmen were similar. It can only be said that people are different from each other. Even if they are in the same maze, some people just walk faster than others.

Cui Xisi selected these people, integrated their computing power, and then sent them the real questions. She took over the task from Fang He, checked it herself, and then distributed it to the people she thought were suitable. However, the fairy lady soon widened her eyes.

She almost lost her mind and subconsciously looked up at Fang He.

The fairy humanoid has the ability to sustain itself, and this brief failure did not cause the computing network to be disconnected. Most of the other people did not feel the fluctuations, but only exchanged data, calculations and answers with each other in the world of consciousness.

Because the transmission of consciousness has almost no delay and the efficiency of mental communication is far superior to language, the computing power of most people in this network is amplified by more than ten times.

Therefore, many people have benefited from the calculation of margin techniques, or at least opened a new door, and for a few people - they see more.

The craftsman's heart was the first to fail.

It was as if he had just been strolling along a tree-lined path, but suddenly a door slowly opened in front of him, passively pushing him into a wild world.

The star-filled world slowly revealed its true appearance before him. The starlight from tens of millions and hundreds of millions of years ago poured into the same retina in no particular order. The magnificent picture they unfolded told the story of the extinction of a universe, the rekindling of a universe, the cycle of life and death, and the endless cycle of reincarnation.

Matter was reshaped by the stars and scattered to every corner of the sea of ​​light. When they settled, they formed the world they saw. Starlight and elements formed the foundation of the world, and then all things and spiritual wisdom grew from the foundation.

But that picture came to an abrupt end.

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Chaos once again flooded the ocean of reason. Their calculations in that chaotic world were like sailing in a heavy fog. The light perceived by mortal wisdom was not as bright as a corner of a real lighthouse.

It was at that time that Fang He's consciousness penetrated into the etheric network through the crystal tower.

Then he saw the real sea of ​​light. Although this scene was very familiar to him, he had to enter this world once or twice a week in order to cure Sylvie's curse.

And earlier, he seemed to have seen a similar scene. The branches of light slowly unfolded like a tree canopy, and it seemed as if it was two reflections of the real world on the water surface.

Just like the crown and roots of a giant tree.

The crown of the giant tree grows luxuriantly, and a world is naturally formed between the leaves. All material things grow along its trunk, thus spreading out everything of Ataria.

It was like a bigger giant tree, Terraka, and Ataria and the other worlds were just another giant tree hill on it.

Branches hang down from the giant tree, and leaves fall into the water, creating ripples on the surface of the lake of fate, while beneath the water's surface is another reflection of the giant tree.

It is its luxuriant root system that extends in five directions, forming the five poles of the elemental world - red fire, azure sky, ochre earth and azure water.

Finally, there is the light ether.

And this branch is Gwanghae.

The craftsmen only imitated a corner of the sea of ​​light, allowing the starlight and roots to extend in their hands and create the simplest structures. But the sea of ​​light extended and built this world.

Fang He looked at this scene and suddenly realized where the sense of familiarity in his heart came from. Wasn't this what he had seen in that image?

At the end of the image, he saw the intertwined roots, and this was only the first half of the image - it was actually in Gwanghae?
He didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to reconnect with everything in this image so soon, until a voice called him back from the illusion.

"Ed, you still have a mission."

Fang He suddenly came to his senses and realized that it was actually the voice in his heart.

He turned around and found that Miya had come to his side without him knowing when. The wolf girl just patted him lightly from behind, and he woke up from the dream.

She had accompanied him to this world in the sea of ​​light more than once, but this time was different. Her light silver eyes looked toward the starry world.

Strange yet familiar.

Ordinary people can only see the magnificent sea of ​​light, but cannot perceive what is happening beneath its turbulent waves.

Neither can the Witch of the Sea.

That was the area that Fang He was familiar with.

The Chosen Ones knew very little about the Sea of ​​Ether, but at least the first lesson of the Introduction to Ether told them that Ether did not actually have a real image.

The 'sea' is nothing but an imagination about it. It is not the sea, and the ether is not a network. The starlight and elements always shape their properties according to the images in people's imagination.

The ether in the network theory is a huge network that rises and falls. Every person is a node on the network, and runoff and ocean can be its shape.

But it does not conflict with other schools of thought on ether.

Therefore, the etheric veins do not actually have a real flow direction. They determine whether they are converging based on the strength and distribution of energy.

Just like the depressions in the network theory, the ether always flows from high to low, so they always converge, and this time the center of their convergence is deep in the Guth disaster area.

In order to determine that point, Fang He must first determine the 'direction' of the ether confluence.

It was like calculating the generation and distribution of every vortex in a completely chaotic system, and even eliminating the slightest interference. The demand for computing power was like a tsunami.

But Fang He walked up the first step calmly, and then the second step. Then he began to struggle, as if he would fall at any time.

If it were an ordinary person, this would be the end of it.

But Fang He had another choice. He said, "Ms. Miya, help me check if there is any unusual movement in the Luolean District."

Basil is one of the greatest alchemists in the history of Giant Tree Hill. He discovered the characteristics of the surface of the Sea of ​​Light and was the person who wrote the crystal tower system of Giant Tree Hill. Therefore, people named the surface of the Sea of ​​Light of Giant Tree Hill after him.

Miya could not see the specific changes and distribution of the sea of ​​light, but the witch of ether was particularly sensitive to the flow of ether.

Ordinary people can only rely on calculations to walk in the sea of ​​light, construct its image in their minds, and imagine themselves in it, but she can "really" see certain changes in the sea of ​​light.

When the signal was injected into the etheric network, the wolf girl saw the vibration of the etheric network in that direction at a glance.

She gave the coordinates, saving Fang He from countless troubles.

The demand for computing power has been reduced exponentially. Fang He only needs to go in that direction, analyze the patterns from the data, and then find the signal and limit its way of action.

Finally, lock its real coordinates and let Miya destroy it.

However, the computing power required for him was reduced, but this might not be the case for the Night Walker craftsmen selected by Cui Xisi. With every step Fang He took forward, the difficulty of the problems he threw behind him increased several times.

In the end, even Cui Xisi couldn't help but frown and looked at him as if he was a monster. Fang He was completely immersed in that world and even forgot that he had shared a part of the computing power from others.

He just moved faster and faster, putting all his energy into it, catching up with the direction of the signal little by little. In this process, he could not take into account the feelings of others.

Or rather, he had forgotten about it long ago.

As he accelerated, the others could no longer keep up. From time to time, someone was thrown off the connection, looking up at the tower in disbelief with pale faces and sweat all over their foreheads.

But that person often does not have too many complaints on his face, and even has a hint of relief and regret. The other party does not say a word, as if silently tracing back the previous calculation process.

The more he calculated, the more a hint of ecstasy appeared in the other person's eyes.

As Fang He gradually went deeper into the deepest part of the Basilan District, he suddenly realized that his computing tasks had become heavy. This sudden discomfort made him wake up and look back.

Only then did he realize that Cui Xisi beside him had a pale face and looked at him with trembling teeth.

Fang He then realized that he had overexerted himself. Now he was not the only one venturing into the sea of ​​light, but he was also leading others to overcome difficulties together.

"Are you okay?"

Tracis shook her head. "How... did you find it?"

Fang He nodded and looked at Miya beside him. The wolf girl was also slowly opening her eyes, revealing a pair of eyes that sparkled with poetry.

A ray of silver light flashed across her fingertips.

"It's done."

Fang He let out a long sigh.

He rubbed his brows and said with a little fatigue for the first time. After all, in the second half of the mission, almost everyone was disconnected from the computing network, and his calculation workload increased sharply, which also caused him a considerable burden.

"I also..." Traci thought for a while, and then said in a low voice, "I saw the door."

Fang Plover nodded slightly.

He was an eyewitness, so he naturally understood. He also didn't expect that he would see that image for the second time, and this time he brought almost everyone into that space.

Although it was only through calculation, the problems seen and the answers obtained at that moment, with just a slight understanding, were enough to allow these people to take a big step forward on their path.

The same is true for Cui Xisi.

...(End of chapter)