Pillars of Ita

Chapter 879 From the Nightmare
The gloomy sky, like a sheet of lead-grey paper, is airtight and the clouds hang down.

The electric lights flickered frequently behind the dark clouds, red and blue, like elves, the entire ionosphere seemed to be disintegrating, like the last moment of a dying world.

What comes into view is the gray broken wall, which is different from Aitaria's style. There are many high-rise buildings, but it is not a familiar scene on the earth.Those towering floors are only like black forests, or obelisks piercing the sky. Their shapes are making Fang Plover, who is standing in the center of the huge square, puzzled.

"It's here again..."

He muttered to himself.

But he was stunned for a moment before realizing that he had regained control over his body once again.

"...What the hell happened to me?"

Fang Plover subconsciously reached out and pressed his stinging temple.

Although he couldn't see his frighteningly pale complexion, he also understood that he was too weak.

The memory of the battle just now came back like a receding tide, and then he remembered the scenes that happened on the Shadow Man Floating Ship—you and I went back and forth with the existence of the suspected Shadow Man Commander. The battle, Nini, the artisan of the descendant of Flor, and the dazzling flash.

and last minute.

Right, last minute.

What happened after that?

He looked up again.

The sky is not simply a lifeless scene.

Rather, there is a war going on there.

The dense black dots are piercing through the clouds. If he is not mistaken, it should be a floating ship. There are countless and countless floating ships. He has never seen such unforgettable in his life. scene -

In front of that huge number, the so-called thousand sails like clouds and mast like forests by the Osu people are just a joke; compared with that, the battle that is taking place in El Pashin is only a small scale. war.

It was an innumerable fleet, converging into torrents, and the torrents descended from the clouds in innumerable directions—even they themselves formed a dark cloud, obscuring the sky, and strangling each other without any rules.

The warring parties, or the many parties, seem to have not considered everything after the war at all. In this decaying world, the only purpose of these fleets' existence seems to be to completely destroy their opponents.

The intensity of the war was far greater than any war that took place in Aytaria.

It even exceeded the limit of Fang Plover's imagination——

He couldn't even see what tactics the warring parties were using.

But the real attack often comes from above the clouds, they are like bundles of burning meteorites, and often a rain of fire falls on the clouds in an instant.

Wherever the fire rain passed, the floating ships immediately crashed and died. Fang Plop saw the strange floating ships breaking and burning in mid-air. Before they even had time to fall, they had already turned into a bunch of star embers. , ashes.

In Fang Ping's impression, there are only dragon knights - they must also be the most lethal type of dragon knights, the super-personality of the great elementalists, the world destroyer among the thirteenth-order dragons, and the envoys of green , to have such power.

Judging from the frequency of fire and rain above the clouds, there are at least [-] world-destroying dragon riders weaving there, or fighting with each other, but even if all the super-level dragon riders in the second world are put together, Probably not so much.

Not to mention just being a major elementalist.

And there is not only fire and rain above the clouds as a means of killing.Occasionally, the plover can still see the golden light, like a sharp sword, piercing the clouds. Although it is fleeting, there is no fire and rain like rendering the end of the day, but in terms of lethality, the latter is often more powerful. Even better.

Light Dragon Rider, Holy One.

The moment he saw the beam of light, the thought uncontrollably emerged in Fang Plover's heart. At that moment, the basic theories about the configuration of the dragon knight learned from Kapka came to his mind together with their glorious history.

But since the death of the last Holy One in the glorious years, marked by the incident of the false god Griffin, Aitaria has not had a thirteenth-order light dragon for centuries.

So, where exactly is this place?
He could see God.

The war in the sky is getting more and more intense, and more and more floating ships are coming from nowhere, and joining this apocalyptic scene from all directions, the sea of ​​fire in the air seems to ignite the entire cloud layer. And dyed the ground the same color.

The fire rain finally fell to the ground and fell into the tower in the distance. Only then did he realize that the same thing was happening on the ground. The black minaret crashed to the ground, and the lights of colorful magic were flashing with each other in the dust.

The whole world seemed to be torn apart by this huge force, and the lightning above the clouds became more and more frequent. It was almost connected between the ionospheres, and the earth also roared and cracked.

Fang Plover even saw hot magma spewing out from under the surging surface...

And he seems to be the only bystander on this battlefield, quietly watching the world go to the last moment.

"So, what kind of world is this..."

Fang Plover couldn't help asking himself in his heart.

And it was at this moment that a somewhat majestic voice came in from his mind and answered his question in a cold tone:

"This is the Ash Plains, the remains of the First World."

"Plain of Ashes?"

"You also call it the world under the deep sea, don't you?"

"It turns out that this is the world under the deep sea..."

Fang Wei was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "So that world really exists, it's not just a rumor... So now it's all an illusion, right? This war is?"

"It's just a fragment of the old world, from some ghostly memories, hum, these guys who don't want to face reality..."

"...You, you mean the filmmakers?"

"Of course, in your spiritual world, I also let you see the same scene, do you remember?"

Fang Yuan nodded silently.

The memory in his mind seemed to be quite distant, but reason told him that it was only a moment ago.

In reality, it should be nothing more than what happened a quarter of an hour ago.

……

"Stop."

At the moment when the dignified, slightly neutral, and indifferent voice echoed in his mind, the fragmented memory suddenly returned to Fang Ping's mind.

The clockwork fairy in his hand rolled down on the deck with a 'bang' because of his absence, his face was pale, his pupils were dilated, and the huge impact from the spiritual world almost made him immediately shut down his consciousness.

The voice coming from his mind was not loud, but it seemed to carry a monstrous will, like a pair of cold, golden eyes, staring at him above the clouds, high above, to make him surrender immediately.

Fang Ling almost gritted his teeth before trying to keep himself from kneeling immediately. In his intermittent thoughts, he immediately remembered the warning from Six Shadows in the Clockwork Fairy—the warning came to an abrupt end, but then again. What exactly is it?
Those cold vertical pupils burning with golden flames almost immediately reminded him of every dark dream before that. The remaining strand of golden flames fell into the dust.

The prophecy of the return of the dead enemy—

The days of Nicol Bolas are over, and the dark dragon queen is long gone.

And that pair of dragon eyes...

No, that gaze was completely different from Nicol Bolas' cold, cruel gaze.

Rather arrogant.

with a peculiar...weird?
"Don't guess, I'm not what you think."

When the chaos in his mind, the voice snorted coldly, but took the initiative to speak.

The other party's snorted voice seemed to be dissatisfied with his failure to surrender.

Although the other party had clearly invaded the world of his will and had no physical existence, Fang Plop clearly felt the other party's 'eyes' and glanced at the clockwork fairy of the six shadows rolling on the ground not far away.

"What are you?" Fang Ling pressed his stinging temple with his hand. Although his spiritual world was shaky, he immediately asked, "Where's Nini, and Miss Tata, what have you done to them? "

"You mean the two little girls?" the voice replied indifferently: "I blocked them, although I am a little curious about how you are connected to their sea of ​​light."

Sea of ​​Light?
Shouldn't it be a spiritual connection?
However, although Fang Yu had a splitting headache, he quickly grasped the main point of the conversation: "The 'thing' you said was referring to Liu Ying and the others...?"

"If the little girl you're talking about is the owner of that thing," the owner of that cold voice replied, 'staring' at the clockwork fairy on the ground not far away—at least Fang Plover had this feeling in his heart—'it ', looking at the thing, "So yeah."

"How do you know Liuying she..."

The voice sneered and interrupted him: "I suggest you don't care about these trivial details, if you don't want to explain it here."

The other party didn't answer, but the possibility flashed in Fang Ling's heart for a moment - Reverse retrospect, the moment the other party invaded his spiritual world, he cut off Liuying's control of the clockwork goblin, and even went against Liuying's control. The magical connection between the magic furnace and the clockwork fairy, traced back and found the information of the six shadows.

Although I don't know what means the other party used to obtain the information, this ability still surprised Fang Plop. It's not that the high-level craftsman can't cut off the control of the low-level artisan over the construct, and even trace the location of the other party in reverse.

But it can do all this in one face, what kind of ability is this?What level is this?
Super personality?
Great Alchemist?
"Who are you?" Fang Qi couldn't help but ask, "I don't understand what you mean."

"You just need to understand that I'm here to save your life," the voice replied coldly, as if it had a high air of its own, to make Fang Plover grateful, "You still want to live, that's all. stop."

Fang Yu suddenly understood, "You mean Liuying and the others are in danger, that's not good, I have to go right away. Also, although I don't know who you are, and I'm very grateful for your reminder, but now you can leave."

He said in a harsh tone.

In fact, after figuring out the situation of Hongye and others, Fang Ling immediately became dissatisfied with the other party's indiscriminate action to cut off the connection between the Six Shadows and the Clockwork Fairy.

He originally thought that the six shadows were interrupted during the battle, but no matter what the intention of the owner of the voice was, the other party's behavior was too self-centered. Did the other party figure out what the current environment was?
But having said that, Fang Ping did not dare to offend someone who might be a 'great alchemist' with his words. He still has his own mission, but he does not intend to provoke a powerful person who is unknown to himself or herself. Opposite.

"If you want to scold, just speak," the voice sneered. "By the way, you don't even have to speak. After all, I am in your spiritual world, and your thoughts are as simple as opening a book to me. Honestly, but I don't care what you think, I'm just here to convey my request."

Nima!

Even with a splitting headache, Fang Ping couldn't help but want to express some beautiful words.

There are enough guests in his spiritual world, and each of them can read minds. Does he still have any privacy?However, he is actually used to each one, but this guy is like the process that occupies the most resources in the personal terminal. The other party is just a consciousness existing in his spiritual world, which makes his thinking slow. I don't know how many times.

The head was even more tingling, as if it was about to burst at any time.

Fang Yu was really worried that he would be schizophrenic if he went on like this.

But the other party seemed to take pleasure in his pain, and said with a bit of schadenfreude: "The world of will is so weak, it's like a house leaking everywhere, I don't know where you are in this state, how dare you dare to go. To those 'undead'."

"Undead?"

Fang Plover almost gritted his teeth to make this sound.

"You call them Shadowmen, Nightmare Creatures, that's the right title," the voice replied: "But those you encounter are just some new creatures with little power. But the next thing will be different. , didn't I show you their world?"

"Seen……?"

Fang Ping was startled and reacted immediately.

At the moment when the other party invaded his spiritual world, the endless illusion that he saw was actually the other party's intention.

He rubbed his forehead and asked hesitantly, "So those are..."

……

"The reverberation of the old world..."

The owner of the voice pulled Fang Plover back into reality - at least the reality in this fantasy.

Its invisible 'eyes' seem to be staring at this shattered world, "...it's just that I'm not bringing you into this world this time, the shadow man is best at influencing the power of the mind, which is also the origin of nightmare creatures. ."

"It's a fragment of the world they've looked at, and it's their eternal nightmare, and they drag you into this same nightmare. It's just that for them, the nightmare will wake up one day, but for you, will indulge in it for eternity."

The voice paused for a moment, a little complacent: "If it wasn't for me."

Fang Yuan thought in his heart that this might not be the case.

For Xinghui, death is just a way to return, but for travelers and callers who are very different from this world, they have another way to return.

It's just that this is the story of the world between different dimensions, but it is difficult to explain it all at once.

He was also standing on this dilapidated square, silently watching the overturning world with the owner of the voice.

Although everything at the moment is just a dream, but at a certain moment in the past, this dream once reflected reality - at a certain time node in Aitaria, such a war also occurred.

Perhaps it was that war that led to the existence of the world that sank into the deep sea.

"So, this is the nightmare of the filmmakers?"

Fang Plover recalled the last moment of the battle on the floating ship.

Did Convenience invade his spiritual world at that time...

"Yes," the voice said with a sneer, "Do you still think you can win? What you have seen is just the tip of the iceberg, so I will say that your actions are just useless efforts."

It sighed faintly: "The war on the ground may have ended long ago, just because you don't know your opponent at all."

"There's always a chance."

Fang Yan replied seriously, although he knew that the other party was not by his side, he still turned his head subconsciously: "And I never thought that we were doing useless work."

"Okay," he said, "Aren't you going to make a deal with me? Now we'll complete the deal and take the final step of this plan."

Fang Plover paused.

"But before that."

He has one last question.

"I still don't know, who is your Excellency?"

……

(End of this chapter)