Pillars of Ita

Aona brought Fang Plover to a corner of the room, but she didn't see any movement. The bookshelf there slid away silently to one side, revealing the spiral upward staircase behind.She turned around and carefully reminded: "Up here, Mr. Ed, please pay attention to your feet, the light inside is very dark. Sorry, I haven't been here for some time, or let Pepe go up first Turn on the lights?"

"No need." Fang Yan shook his head, he didn't want to waste time.There is no need to worry about outside, he has already instructed other people, Miss May, Siesta and Luo Yu are here enough to stand alone.

Even if something unexpected happened, he still left a flexible device of his own.Fang Plover looked up at the deep staircase, "What's up there?"

"It's just an attic, and the things in it are all from the past. I remember that the letter was placed here, and it was before Castana was abandoned. By the way, that's the name of this place, Including the ruins above, Mr. Horta should have told you about it."

Aona walked into the secret passage first, walked in front, and walked up the steps step by step.She is not a physical entity, but the projector can still accurately reflect the girl's shadow step by step.

The fluorescent blue light somewhat illuminates the inner wall of the secret passage, and the fine rock comes from the artificially polished rock wall.

She said as she walked, "But this is also good. Otherwise, we have to go to other places to get it. Although I remember the location of every secret room in the underground, those places are quite far away."

The girl recalled: "A long time ago, I would occasionally come here to be alone, to see things and think about people, and to recall the past time. I remember that it used to be the study of Helinwell and the others, and they would often light up the fireplace in the There, candles were held to talk at night, and some strange scenery and stories from various places were told. The fire was bright, illuminating the faces of each of us. They spent a lot of effort to design the fireplace in the cave, and the chimney was actually There is a huge machine, as is the fireplace in the downstairs hall, but that is a later version. I can still remember everything at that time, short, simple but happy..."

Aona seemed to have untied a knot in her heart and became a little talkative. Pepe held the necklace and followed behind the two of them.

Through her words, Fang Yan seemed to be able to see clearly what happened 700 years ago.Three young men came here and unearthed the shining gemstone from the soil.

He built a laboratory with his own ideas, and while avoiding the pursuit from the empire, he talked about the future and made grand plans.

Young people have countless energy and enthusiasm to design one device after another in this dark underground that can change the future of this continent, but in the darkness, only the green light projected from the crystal flickers, Reflects everyone's heart.

After that, the situation on land in Xinta Ankong changed, a dynasty collapsed, and an empire was established, but ideals drifted away, leaving only ambition.Within a hundred years after that, many people came here and built an underground city.

Aona, and a huge and lonely iron statue Ota, the ancestor of Pepe, watched those people in the dark, did not have much contact with them, but secretly provided help within their ability.

She once thought of revenge, but the blazing flame in her heart has long since faded away with time, and even the descendants of Hailinweier's students have gradually decreased. Return to silence.

It was hard for Fang Plover to imagine what kind of loneliness that was.

A door appeared in front of the two of them, and those thoughts disappeared in an instant. The stone steps were not too long, and Fang Plover felt that this place should be above the hall below with his sense of direction.

The door looked very thick, with an iron frame hooped on the solid wooden board. This kind of wooden door is common in some castles, and it probably imitated a similar room that existed on the ground.

The builders deliberately downplayed the underground factors here, and it can be seen that the three geniuses are all people who have a certain pursuit of life. They have transformed the difficult environment here, but they can still enjoy it.

Aona asked Pepe to open the door, and the little kobold walked over and stood on tiptoe and grabbed the doorknob.

But before the door opened, Fang Yan asked a question: "Ms. Aona, where did the students of Hellingwell end up? I saw that Castana was reduced to ruins. Those people should have no Cities die together, right?"

He still cares about the Temple of Knowledge under the ruins of the elves. Did the great alchemist Hayne go to Kaolin-Ishurian in the last ten years of his disappearance? The zero-type magic furnace was born in his student Hailinwei So, does Helinwell know about the existence of Type Zero crystals?
Has Helinwell tried to find the whereabouts of his mentor, the whereabouts of the Type Zero crystal?He didn't come back to this place in the end, so where else could he go for the rest of his life?

Will the students of Hellingwell know something about this?Is there a single word of news, what is left in the inheritance of this line?Can he find the successors of the sixth technology route elsewhere, or the clues they left behind?
"Some people left, some people stayed, but human beings are not creatures living in the dark underground after all. I don't know how many years have passed, and the empire outside can no longer remember that there was such a group of people, and the people left behind are getting more and more Fewer and fewer, and finally they gathered in the church that you once entered, and that is the last one left."

Aona turned her head and replied, with a quiet tone: "After those people passed away, this place changed back to what it looked like a thousand years ago. The city weathered in time, covered under thick dust, cracks formed, and eventually collapsed , turned into ruins. But I don’t need such a big place, so I live here alone.”

Pepe fiddled with her paws a few times, and finally pulled down the doorknob with a 'click'. It pushed hard, but the door didn't move at all. Seeing this, Fang Plover stretched out his hand, and with a lot of effort, he pushed the door open a little bit. gap.

Probably because no one has touched it for a long time, the hinge of the door has long been rusted and made a creaking sound.The kobold turned around and gave him a thankful glance, but Aona forbade it to talk too much, and Pepe obediently remained silent.

Fang Plover pushed open the door, only to find out why Ao Na said that this is an attic.He really underestimated the peerless genius seven centuries ago. A certain spell was fixed in the room, and there was a floating starry sky on the ceiling.

To be honest, he had seen similar spells in the Hall of Thousand Gates, but he had never seen such a gorgeous one. The azure starry sky completely formed the roof of the attic, and the twinkling stars seemed to be within reach with just a slight stretch of his hand.

There is a sofa in the room, facing a fireplace. The flame in the fireplace has been extinguished for many years, and the carpet in front of the sofa is also covered with a thick layer of ash.

Perhaps many years ago, there were a few pairs of boots walking on this carpet, and their owners were all amazing and brilliant people of that era, but such an imagination reflects the silence at this moment.

Next to it was a bed and a desk. The books on the desk were still neatly stacked up. One of the books was spread out on the table, as if someone had flipped through it not long ago.There is an ink bottle next to the book, and there is a quill pen stuck in it. If it is not for the thick layer of dust on it, it is almost doubtful that someone has lived here.

But it's just that time freezes everything.

There was even a floor-to-ceiling window beside the bed.

Just like the arched windows in all the attics in the empire-style buildings, they are tall and transparent, and the silver moonlight shines through the windows, reflecting on the bed, and a pool of clear light falls.

If he didn't know that the window was under the rock formations, Fang Plover would almost suspect that the window led to another world, maybe it was Ayinbulok 700 years ago, or a street in the imperial capital, where the moonlight reflected in the dense layers On the roof of the house, a piece of tile blue or taupe.

The lights flicker in the night, and civilization appears silent.

Fang Plover was stunned for a moment, no wonder Ao Na likes this place, it must be a place that those three geniuses attach great importance to, that's why it was transformed into this way.

This might be her dormitory, the room of a princess of the last dynasty. A few young people often gather here to share their stories with each other. Maybe some of those young people once fell in love with this princess.

"It made Mr. Ed laugh," Aona said, "that letter should be stored in a pile of junk somewhere here. I'll take Pepe to find it. Please ask Mr. Ed to turn on the light." .”

Fang Plover nodded.His eyes wandered around the room, looking for the location of the torch holder or the crystal lamp, while imagining what this room once meant to those few peerless geniuses.

But he suddenly saw a huge machine in the corner of the room, it was like a huge magic furnace, with countless pipe networks extending from the floor and ceiling, connected to that appliance.

The magic device was shaped like an octahedral square cone, and was inserted into the base below. There were many metal arms hanging from above, scattered all over the ground, and the other end was connected to something like a claw.

Fang Plover has never seen such a weird magic weapon. It looks like an enlarged version of the Annihilator QV700, but it also looks like the core of something.He couldn't help but take another look and asked, "This is?"

"One of Jerdem's inventions," Aona replied with a twinkle in her eyes, "If Mr. Ed is interested, you can study it later."

Fang Plover glanced at the thing again and nodded, but he always felt that the thing was a bit unsafe, so he didn't get too close, but walked over the metal arms and feet on the ground towards the fireplace.

He couldn't find where the switch of the magic lamp was, but he suddenly had an idea.

There were some firewood piled up next to the fireplace, and the air here was very dry, Fang Plover thought that he might be able to use those firewood to light the fireplace.

But a crisp sound of 'click' came from behind him, Fang Plover did not turn his head back, a bright blue light lit up from the magic furnace behind him, forming a dense network structure.

The translucent light net lit up, and another metal crossbow hit it, deflected to the side, hit the stone wall of the fireplace with a ding, and then lost its strength and fell to the ground.

Fang Plover glanced at the crossbow arrows on the ground with cracked arrows, then turned around, looking calmly at Aona not far away.The emerald necklace flew up from Pepe's hand at some point, and was controlled by an invisible force to fly towards the machine in the corner.

The girl raised her hand, and Void pressed the pendant on a groove on the mechanism.On the other side, a crossbow that appeared from nowhere was floating in her hand.

The bowstring has been reset, and the crossbow bolts on it have long since disappeared.

"The energy shield of the magic furnace," Aona looked at Fang Plover in surprise, "Mr. Ed, have you been guarding against me?"

"You know even this, Miss Aona seems to know a lot more about the world on the ground than I imagined," Fang Plode said, "There was no such small device shield on the magic furnace earlier, it is It was invented in the era after the tower magic furnace."

Aona's expression was a little blunt, "Mr. Ed doesn't need to say anything to ridicule me, you are not from the empire, and you have done me a big favor. I had no reason to be an enemy of you. But you have something to do with that person, I can't let you go Leave easily."

"that person?"

Fang Yan was taken aback.

His defense against the opponent comes from many aspects, the main reason is the tower-type magic furnace, and Sylvaide's reminder to him.And he tried many times afterwards, but the other party failed.

Aona said that she didn't understand alchemy, and she didn't know much about the mechanisms left by Jeldham, Helinwell, and Friston. Facts have proved that this is not the case. Wu Ming and Luo Wei must have noticed it as much as they did.

Perhaps because she was too eager for the necklace, Aona herself didn't notice that she revealed too many things when discussing the three organs with them. It is impossible for a person who is completely ignorant of alchemy to understand those things.

What's more, she has spent a long time with Helinwell's students. Alchemy may be complicated, but after hundreds of years of accumulation, she can more or less master a lot of knowledge.Then there must be a reason why this woman lied to them.

Since then, he has already buried his guard.

But for real doubt, it was the emerald necklace.At first, he thought it was the emerald heart, but after testing it with Cang Zhihui, there was no response, but he discovered the real secret inside.

The necklace was a key, and it turned out to be very similar to the one left to them by the guy who called himself the Pirate King.

Regardless of what it was the key to unlock, at least it proved that Aona was not telling the truth to them, and the pendant was not a souvenir at all, but something she had other plans for.

So when the other party invited him to get the letter, he kept an eye out and quietly activated the backup shield of the magic furnace, leaving a flexible structure in the hall.

And leave a message to Luo Wei and Sylvie.

He came here because there are still too many mysteries in his heart that have not been solved, who is Ao Na, and what is she planning?Where did Hellingwell, Jeldham, and Friston go in the end?

Maybe she knew, she just wasn't telling the truth.It is absolutely impossible for Hailingweier's students to just take refuge here, because he himself is the inheritor of the sixth technical route, so he naturally understands the craftsman's attitude towards the ideal that he has pursued all his life.

In short, there are too many questions that need to be answered.

And now, he got the first answer.

That's what the key to that necklace was—

The emerald pendant was sinking slightly on the depression of the construct, and Aona looked at him angrily, "Don't pretend to be garlic, hand over the mechanical soul! Otherwise, no matter how many times you resurrect, I will definitely hunt you down to the ends of the earth! "

Fang Zhi was shocked.

He thought about many aspects of the purpose of the girl in front of him inviting them here, but it was definitely not to open the box, which should be an unexpected surprise for the other party.

Did she see some of their traits through Ota in that ruins, so she set up a trap to get them to come to this place? Fang Yan believed that if they hadn't offered to try to unlock the three traps, The other party should have already done something to them.

What he thought at first was the zero-type magic furnace, and what Aona should have looked at was the zero-type crystal on his body. This logic is very smooth, and it is the only thing he thinks that he has a relationship with this place.

But just before entering the door, he took the initiative to ask questions about the church. The other party seemed to know nothing about the secret behind the icon of Angela, which also dispelled his original thoughts.

Unexpectedly, Ao Na surprised him as soon as she opened her mouth.

His first thought was that the other party had discovered the truth about Miss Dragon Soul in him.

The second thought is that the Tower of Silver was actually involved in this incident.

But time has not allowed him to have a third thought, because the huge machine beside Aoona has already made a creaking sound, as if awakened from the dust of history.

Its shell opened slowly, and then rose from the base, merging the projector above Aona's head into it as if deformed, and then the internal mechanism was running, fitting the two together little by little.

Aona's image was a little unstable, and her voice was intermittent: "Didn't you ask where my body is, now... you saw it..."

She raised her hand.

The octahedral square cone-shaped magic tool suddenly turned its direction, and the crystal embedded in it shone slightly, flashing a glaring red light unexpectedly.Then, under the guidance of the girl, the metal arms and legs connected around it came to life one after another.

Like a giant octopus, it waved its claws and approached the square plovers.

The kobold Pepe had been petrified for a long time, shrank in a corner of the room, looked at the two tremblingly, not knowing what happened.

But as if another question in his mind had been answered, Fang Yan looked at Aona without much fear on his face.He lightly clenched his fist, and suddenly, a black shadow leaped down from the roof, unbiased, and just landed on the regular octahedron.

That thing actually looked like a smaller mechanical octopus, its equally sharp arms and legs were inserted into the seam of the square cone, bursting out a ball of sparks.The girl screamed and subconsciously covered her face with her hands.

The huge machine also lost control in an instant, its waving arms and legs drooped downwards, and at least half of the pipes fell heavily on the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

What Fang Plover is controlling is the choke monster. The starry sky on the ceiling is gorgeous, but it is also convenient for him to hide things—the reason why he took the initiative to open the door and walked into the room first is for this second step.

Of course, it would be fine if there was nothing abnormal about Aona, but as it is now, his backhand just happened to come in handy.

The opponent really didn't have much experience in commanding flexible construction.But Fang Yan has already experienced many battles, so he seized this opportunity and shouted: "Miss Tata, cut off her connection with that thing, it is best to take control over—"

With a silver flash, Miss Tata emerged between the two.

To be honest, Fang Plover did not expect that his Miss Dragon Soul would be able to seize control of this 700-year-old antique. It was too difficult, and it was impossible for the builder not to take basic precautions against his flexible build.

But it should still be possible to cut off the opponent's control for a split second.

It's just that he never thought of it anyway.

The moment Tata appeared, Aona suddenly showed a shocking look on her face, as if struck by a bolt of lightning, she stared blankly in this direction, and forgot to fight back.

"Mimicry Dragon Soul!?" The girl was obviously just a phantom, but she trembled all over, "How is it possible, who did it, how did it happen!?"

She lost her mind for a moment.

The huge machine actually leaned to the side and crashed to the ground.

Fang Plover looked stupid for a moment.

……

I went out to do some errands today, so the update is a bit late.