Pillars of Ita

Chapter 948 Chapter 270 The Plan of the Nine Empires
May wandered around in the empty cave.She raised her head and stared at the stalactite pillars hanging down from the top of the cave. The water droplets slid down the uneven surface and fell into the depression below. With a ding-dong sound, Miss Knight's pointed ears followed He moved and blinked his eyes slowly.

She turned around.

Luo Hao held his shield to protect him. His level was much lower than the team's average level, so he acted more cautiously than the others. He held the power hammer tightly in one hand and looked around with scrutiny.At the end of the line is Parker, who is in charge of cutting off the back, and most of the others are in the middle of the line, keeping a certain distance from the beginning to the end.

Fang Plover was behind the two of them, holding a lighting crystal.Raising the crystal from time to time, so that the cold light reflected the gray rock top, Sylvaide was holding a long magic gun, standing pretty on the side of it.Afterwards, there were other people who went deep underground with them. Most of Luo Wei and the others had no adventure experience, and followed Fang Plover's guidance, showing a rather curious look.

Especially Xiaoyao, he was always a master who couldn't be idle, looked around from time to time, touched things here and there, and then asked: "This place looks like it has been abandoned for a long time, the Nozpitz Craftsman Association does not send Does anyone maintain it regularly?"

He typed in the team channel, pointing out the rusty, crooked rails that stretched all the way into the dark depths.

Among the pedestrians, only Liu Liyue had rich combat experience. He was holding the monocular with one hand at the back of the line, adjusting the focus from time to time. He didn't say a word, only appearing quite vigilant.

May shook her head and replied: "As far as I know, a part of the Nozpitz mining area is still in operation, and people from the Artisan Association regularly go underground for maintenance. The target of our investigation this time is Noz Discovered by Pitts craftsmen during overhaul."

She chose to speak directly.

Sylvie didn't have a system, and just glanced at them curiously.

"What exactly is the goal?" Xiaoyao asked, "At first we were only curious about the mining area of ​​Nozpitz, which was originally an important crystal mining area of ​​the empire, and the magic crystal containing the power of the earth element was accompanied by the silver mine bed , Nozpitz’s silver crystal is named after it. I’ve been famous for this place for a long time, and when I heard that you were coming here, I had the cheek to ask you to take me down to have a look. But after I came down, I found that there was nothing special about it The people of the empire are exaggerating, and I haven’t seen the silver crystal at all... It’s really boring. But you shouldn’t be here for the silver crystal, I heard it’s an ancient magic furnace?”

"It's not that ancient." Fang Yan replied.

In Etariat, the ancient magic device refers to the magic device of the Numelin Elves era, but the tower-type magic furnace was born much later than that, and it can only be regarded as the product of magic technology in the middle and modern times.He has nothing to hide about this matter. Luo Wei and the others just have nothing to do and are curious about adventures, so they come to this mine with them, but in fact these people are interested in the tower-type magic furnace. Not too big.

Of course, the matter of the star device and the Type Zero crystal was too urgent, so Fang Yan didn't talk much about it.He only briefly told a few people about how the tower-type magic furnace was discovered in this mining area. The empire's technology recovery order has been circulated for many years, but it still sounds quite legendary. .

After hearing this, Xiaoyao suddenly said: "So there are lost technologies left under this mining area? No wonder, I would also want to come down to see if there are any missing details that the imperial people have not discovered. There is a tower-type magic furnace with unknown technology, so there is no guarantee that there will be nothing else."

Fang Plover nodded. This idea is not wrong, but there is a deeper connection behind it, not just as simple as an unknown technology.Of course, it's okay for the other party to understand this way. For craftsmen, it's completely normal to be curious about unknown technologies.

Although the technology of the middle and modern times has long been lagging behind compared with modern times, many technologies of that era actually came from the alchemy of the older Numelin elves—and the ancient alchemy is very different from today, and mortal skills are originally Inspired by it, which can be seen as an inexhaustible treasure trove.

Although some of it has been abandoned by modern technology, there are still some lost technologies that can inspire today's skills, just like the elf creation art mastered by Fang Plover.Even if most of them are worthless, you can always find a few sparkling gems from the endless sea of ​​sand.

Craftsmen and scholars are full of interest in this kind of work, and technology recycling in different ways in various countries is precisely because of this.

"However, the mining area has been in operation for so many years, how can we still discover unknown technology here?" Xiaoyao still seemed a little curious, "Is there still an unknown area below? Routine maintenance, and how did they find that magical furnace?"

Fang Yan was taken aback when he heard this.

This question is also unanswerable to him. After all, Estina only briefly mentioned that the tower-type magic furnace was found in the abandoned mining area of ​​Noz Pitz, but the details were not disclosed too much. many.

The imperial people seem to have an unusual interest in the tower-type magic furnace, and even found out that he had repaired a tower-type magic furnace in Istonia, but what kind of relationship does it have with the star device? In fact, he knows very little about the intentions of the imperial people.

The reason why the Seven Seas Brigade came to this place was firstly to match the technical route of the Type Zero crystal, and secondly to investigate clearly the intentions of the imperial people.After all, it might have something to do with the Lynn family or the pirate ship that sank under the foggy gorge...

Regarding the daily maintenance of the mining area by the Nozpitz Craftsman Association, that was the news from the Adventurer's Guild not long ago.The waiter girl told them that the mining area was suspended ten years ago due to the depletion of groundwater and the subsidence of the mine tunnel. After that, the Artisan Association and the Royal Geological Society of the Empire intervened.

Not long after, a large amount of earth elements gushed out from the underground area, which caused the mining area to fall into a semi-abandoned state.

It stands to reason that since then, the Nozpitz Regional Artisans Association should have been investigating underground for a long time, so it was not until a year and a half ago that they found the tower-type magic furnace, and they arrived in the empire. until.

But now it seems that there are indeed many doubts.Including the background of the appearance of the tower-type magic furnace under the mining area, why did Hein-Fam's technical route reappear in such a place after being lost?
Fang Plover couldn't help but think of another thing.

——Yes, it's as if he was transported to the underground of that strange temple in the elven ruins.

For whom was the temple at Angina built?Why does it stand alone in that place?Why did the blueprint of the Type Zero crystal appear there?What kind of secrets are hidden underground in the elf ruins?
What kind of power was it that brought him to that place?

At the beginning, I was in a hurry to leave the ground, and I didn't have the ability to go deep into it, but now it seems that there are indeed many doubts.

First of all, why would he be resurrected there?

Is it the power of the crown of Hailin, or is there some kind of coordinate contained in the star dagger?

It's a pity that one of these two things has now been transformed into Cang Zhihui, and the other has become Miss Tata, and it is impossible for him to reproduce the situation at that time again.What's more, it sounds too unreliable to commit suicide once just to verify something.

And in the star dagger, there is the crystallization of technology as the second technical route, and the thing born of it-is my Fairy Dragon Soul Miss, so what kind of connection exists between the second technical route and the sixth technical route? Woolen cloth?

Is that just a coincidence?

Now the other half of the sixth technical route, the zero-type magic furnace also appeared under this mining area. Is it also a coincidence?
In other words, these two technical routes have actually experienced some unusual events, which is why they can be explained so bizarrely scattered, always buried in these unknown underground corners.

But Xiaoyao's words woke him up.

"You're right," Fang Plover looked at the aging tracks and couldn't help pondering, "It might not be that simple down here."

"Ah?" Xiaoyao was stunned instead.

What did he say, isn't he just curious about the mine below?

But Shui Wuming reacted, "You said that when the Artisan Association inspected the underground area of ​​the mining area, it discovered a new area below?"

Luo Wei shook her head and analyzed: "I'm afraid it's more than that. The imperial people should have discovered something underground in the mining area. Now that I think about it, the intervention of the Royal Geological Society of the Empire can explain the problem. If it is just to consolidate the mine, there is no need to People from the Geological Society intervened, do you remember the other thing Ed said earlier?"

"What charades are you playing again?" Xiaoyao looked at them suspiciously.But he seemed to have reacted suddenly, showing a look of sudden realization, "Wait a minute!"

Earth element!
The earth elements live in the deep area of ​​the floating continent, if they do not suddenly appear in the mining area, but a stress response to the invasion of the upper area, then everything can be explained.

"Imperial people are going deep into the deep underground area? And found an area below that where the earth elements inhabit, so that these native species are so angry that they flood into the ground area?" Xiaoyao blurted out, "I understand, then The tower-type magic furnace was not discovered under the mine at all... No, it can also be said that it is only found in a much lower location than the "under the mine" in the general sense?"

Fang Plover nodded.

When Xiaoyao mentioned the unknown area, he had actually thought of this.

The area below the mining area is no different than other places. Even before the Artisan Association intervened, it was once the place where the Nozpitz miners worked. The workers in the mining area should be familiar with every mine road and every fork.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to find unknown things in known mining areas, unless the miners discovered new areas while digging.Then it makes sense in this way, the miners of Nozpitz should have dug through the passage leading to the deep area below when mining.

As for the natural karst caves below, the secret passage left by the underground river, or the underground relics left by man, it is unknown, but the artisan association that intervened later should have discovered the magic tower furnace in that place.

Perhaps there should be other traces left over, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why the imperial people attached so much importance to this place.

Down there might be a place similar to the elven ruins he'd seen, a temple, or something like that.

Thinking of his past experience, Fang Plover can almost describe the general process before and after the incident:
Subsequently, the Nozpitz Craftsman Association closed the mining area, and a series of external announcements about the depletion of groundwater and the settlement of the mine tunnel seemed to be just a cover, but they used this cover to get the Royal Geological Society involved.

However, the imperial people should have encountered big troubles in their subsequent explorations. At least the earth elementals are real. They should have broken into the habitat of the earth elementals while exploring deeper areas and angered Those aborigines were killed, which led to the following series of events.

"So the reason for the abandonment of more than half of the Nozpitz mining area should be attributed to it," Shui Wuming was a little curious, "But at least before that, the imperial people also closed part of the mining area. The silver crystal mining area is an important part of the empire. The source of the earth element spar, they should have found something extraordinary there, I don’t think it’s just because of a tower-type magic furnace?”

Judging from the Imperial Workshop's attitude towards the tower-type magic furnace, it seems that the tower-type magic furnace alone is enough to attract the attention of the Oshu people, but Fang is also a little curious. What was found in the deep underground area.

Estina and the little girl from the Adventurer's Guild didn't seem to be telling him the truth, or they didn't know much about it.

But the imperial people have gradually closed the mining area since ten years ago, and it was only a year and a half ago that they discovered the magic furnace from the ground. If nothing was discovered during that time, how could the imperial people stop it so easily? The operation of an important mining area.

It is not only the output of crystals, but also the rise and fall of a city, the work and livelihood of countless people, and countless immigrants.Even the alchemists of the Imperial Workshop and Craftsman Association can ignore this point, but it is impossible for His Majesty the Emperor to ignore such an important matter.

"So I'm also a little curious," Xiaoyao said, "The imperial people actually told such a big lie to the outside world that they stopped the operation of a mining area for an underground area. What secrets did they hide below? This is an adventure. Is it... so interesting."

"These are just speculations," Fang Plover shook his head, and made a conservative conclusion first, "It may not necessarily be correct."

"But guessing shows that it is possible. At least the unknown area must exist, otherwise they will find the tower-type magic furnace from there." Xiaoyao rubbed his hands excitedly, "Can we go down there to see it?" Look, there may be some treasures of ancient magic arts."

"Even if there is a treasure," Luo Wei reminded him, "it belongs to Ed and the Seven Seas Brigade. We are just here for sightseeing, so we didn't do anything."

"Ah?" Xiaoyao froze for a moment before thinking of this question, "Is that so?"

"That's not enough," Fang Plover scratched his head. He was not so stingy. If he cared about this issue, he would not have agreed to let Luo Wei and the others go with the group from the beginning. "If it was ancient alchemy, Let’s share it together.”

"That's right," Xiaoyao breathed a sigh of relief, "I said, how can Eddie pass on the skills he learned in Xiajin Tower to so many people for free, how can he be so stingy. Hehe, actually, I just want to see As for the rumored ancient technology, I'm not interested in other treasures either."

"That's Ed's generosity, what does it have to do with you?" Shui Wuming gave this guy an angry look, "But in this way, it is actually equivalent to us hiring the Seven Seas Brigade to carry out technical exploration work for us. If something is discovered, we will be paid."

"The reward is the reward," Xiaoyao waved his hand, "Anyway, it's the guild's expenses."

It was only then that Fang Plover remembered that there was such a thing as technology exploration, which was actually similar in nature to the technology recycling mentioned earlier, the difference being that the one was dominated by craftsman associations, while the former was mostly private.

Since alchemists do not have much combat power, they usually hire adventure groups to work for them when they are doing field work. In addition to the fixed salary, there will usually be additional remuneration based on the value of the objects they find.

He wasn't really interested in this stuff, and the Seven Seas Brigade should not be short of such a small amount of money, and taking senior sister Luo Wei and the others out was just like a vacation tour.But Fang Yan swallowed the words again, thought for a moment and asked shyly, "Wait, the reward you are talking about... is it too much?"

"It's not much," Shui Wuming replied, "If we share it among each of us, it's probably less than 25."

"What, so many!?" Fang Yan couldn't help blurting out.

Here Luo Wei, Shui Wuming and Xiaoyao are 80 million Rissels. If Liu Liyue is included, isn't it close to 100 million Rissels?

Thinking back to how much effort he had spent helping the military catch the spy, he almost did not trigger a war between dragon knights, confronted the Seven Sorcerers family, and was tried by an arbitration tribunal. The reward is less than 50 Rissel.

Although I know that Xingmen Port has always been stingy, and it is naturally inferior to the commercially operated ultra-sports league in terms of wealth and wealth, but this is too far behind, right?
But it was only after the words came out that Fang Yan realized that his words were a bit embarrassing, and he couldn't help but add another sentence: "I'm just... just a little interested in this. I have my own adventure group, you know, I know a lot about this aspect a bit less."

A sigh came from behind.

Fang Plover turned his head and glared at Alyssa angrily. Miss Nightingale looked at him and shook her head with a look of disbelief.

On the side, Sylviede was quite funny, pursing her lips and smiling.She was used to seeing her captain's embarrassing appearance, she was not surprised, and she was not an alchemist, in fact, she didn't care much about the topics among these alchemists.

Only Luo Hao yawned in front, not to mention the earth elements or other adventurers, he didn't even see a hair.And he himself was not interested in the craftsmen's technology at all, and he almost fell asleep after listening to a few people discussing the things under the mine.

He looked at May at the side, and couldn't help admiring the little lady's serious and unchanging expression.

After hearing Fang Yan's words, Luo Wei didn't mean to ridicule, but explained seriously: "You don't need to say that, Junior Ed, you are a free adventure group, and you are responsible for your own profits and losses. Naturally, it's not the same as ours. Of course it is clear. Wu Ming is not exaggerating at all, this level of technical exploration is at this price, and for a team like the Seven Seas Brigade, the market price should be even higher."

"Why?" Fang Yan was puzzled.

"Because you are a dragon alchemist," Shui Wuming said with a smile, "The name of a person, the shadow of a tree, do you know why the Grand Duke pursues popularity and traffic so much, because in the operation of ultra-sports, these are genuine goods and can be The value converted into real gold and silver. The same is true for the free adventure group, hiring other people and hiring dragon alchemists are not the same price."

"Anyway, you don't have to be polite to us," Shui Wuming said, "We all act according to the rules, and we spend money from the guild, and the club doesn't object. If you have any embarrassment, it's just business rules."

She looked at Xiaoyao: "Xiaoyao, talk."

Xiaoyao usually talks a lot, but this time he didn't talk nonsense, he drew up a page of contract directly from the system, and distributed it to everyone. "I'm only interested in magic technology," he spread his hands. "As long as we can get the technology, this little money is nothing to us, and it's even more profitable to the guild—"

"Okay," Shui Wuming gave him a thumbs up, "Silver Wislan is really rich and powerful." He also signed the contract.

Fang Yan looked at the amount on the contract, as well as the holy emblems of several major guilds and the Roman goddess, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment.Although he knew that these people were the elite craftsmen of their respective guilds in the first world, or the main craftsmen trained for the future, and it was not a problem to be rich and powerful, but knowing it was one thing, and experiencing it personally was another.

He always thought that although the Seven Seas Brigade had a tight life, if the fixed assets on the Seven Seas Traveler were counted, it should be regarded as an upper-middle level among the adventure groups at this stage.But now it seems that there is a restriction to be added to this upper-middle level, and that is the Freedom Adventure Group or the Freedom Guild.

Compared with those real ecumenical associations, they are nothing.

Although he knew that these people might have millions of Rissels in their equipment, but this attitude of not taking hundreds of thousands of Rissels seriously shocked him quite a bit.

Fang Plover carefully put away the contract—although this virtual contract didn't even exist in reality, and it could only take effect after successfully finding the ancient technology, and before that, only a very meager fixed remuneration was agreed on.But no matter what, this is a big business worth over one million yuan, and if they find more things underground, there may be an extra commission.

The Seven Seas Brigade has done so many deals back and forth, and this extra income can be counted as a large sum among them.

Even Miss Nightingale quietly gave him a thumbs up when she saw it.

I didn't expect their captain to be ashamed, but a 'big deal' was negotiated while talking and laughing. This is the importance of reputation and connections.Ordinary adventure groups may not necessarily have the opportunity to meet these 'big bosses' from the major guilds.

What's more, even if you know each other, you may not be able to gain trust.

Haven't you seen that the guilds behind these few passed the contract without much review? It may not be obvious how much importance is attached to the name of the Seven Seas Brigade, but the name of Dragon Alchemist must have produced a lot of attention. big effect.

After signing the contract, Luo Wei mentioned the next adventure, "However, if Ed's speculation before is true, that is, the abandoned mining area of ​​the imperials is just a cover for them to block this area, then they may be very interested in the area deep underground. It’s important, I’m afraid it’s not so easy for ordinary adventurers to go deep into the ground.”

Fang Plover nodded.

He had thought about this earlier, but the earth elements raging in the mining area should happen in reality, and it is impossible for the imperial people to hide this kind of thing, so they recruited adventurers from the foreign adventurer guild to enter the mining area. The suppressed earth element should also be real.

However, these adventurers should not be able to leave the mining area easily, and they would help share the pressure of the imperial people at the shallow level, so that the members of the Artisan Association could free up their hands to concentrate on dealing with underground affairs.

And it is precisely because of the existence of these people that they can use the gray dagger to fish in troubled waters and enter the mining area.In other words, in fact, there should be a large number of adventurers in the upper layer of the mining area, and they should not be particularly conspicuous here.

It's just that once you go deep into the underground area, you have to find a way to avoid the eyes of the imperial people.

"Then what should we do?" Xiaoyao asked. He knew nothing about this kind of underground adventure. "The people of the empire are much more familiar with this place than we are. It's not easy to avoid their attention, isn't it?"

"It's not impossible," Fang Yan didn't mind. Compared to Luo Wei and the others, the Seven Seas Brigade has experienced many battles in this area, "But I'm afraid we have to hurry up."

"How to say?"

Fang Yan thought about the fact that he, Luo Hao, Luo Yu, and Parker were being followed outside the Adventurer's Guild. The local Chosen Guild would not have noticed them for no reason. It seems that the imperial people should have been wary of them early in the morning. .

Fortunately, those people seemed to have underestimated his level as a battle craftsman, and let him easily shake off his tail. By the time the opponent reacted, they had already penetrated into the mining area.Now it seems that the person looking for Gray Dagger leading the way into the mining area is a correct move.

However, the people of Gray Dagger are only interested in profit, and it will be a matter of time before they betray them, which means that there may not be much time left for them.

"Actually, I had some thoughts about this before." Fang Plover raised the lighting crystal in his hand, allowing the gray light to illuminate the cave in front, "but we need to wait."

"Wait?" Xiaoyao asked.

Luo Hao suddenly straightened his body and looked in one direction.

But Mei Yi put down the halberd first, and suppressed the power hammer in his hand, "It's my own." She replied crisply.

A silhouette gradually appeared in the darkness, as if someone had emerged from an invisible state, first Luo Yu, and then the lady scholar holding a magic book in her hand.As soon as the two appeared, they looked in the direction where Fang Plover was.

"How is it?" Fang Yan asked immediately when he saw the two people appearing.

"I've checked," Luo Yu answered first, "the man with the gray dagger didn't lie, and there is nothing wrong with the damaged elevator. But it is similar to what everyone speculated before. Jita and I searched two times with elemental vision. I found that the concentration of the magic power of the earth element nearby is much thicker than other places, and there should be a lot of earth element nesting in that area."

"It's fine if there are no imperial people," Fang Plover nodded. "It might be a good thing to have the earth element nearby."

"Wait," Xiaoyao responded, "The damaged elevator, you plan to repair the damaged elevator mentioned by the gray dagger?"

"Why not," Fang Plender asked, "the people of Gray Dagger said that there was a collapse in this area before, and it was probably caused by the earth element. After that, they dug a passage from here to the mining area, but we returned It is not safe in the mining area. How about using the damaged elevator, maybe it will be more unexpected, we have so many craftsmen here, are we afraid that we will not be able to repair a single elevator?"

Shui Wuming's eyes lit up when he heard the words: "This is a good idea!"

……

　Before recovering from the illness, I had no energy. Recently, I gradually recovered and started to resume and update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)