Pillars of Ita

Fang Plover wouldn't just stand there stupidly.Even if he could, Miss Tata wouldn't.Her emerald green eyes were a little lazy, and she looked at the huge leaning machine. The crystal embedded in the center of the machine lit up again, and the red light flickered.

She raised her hand, and the tapered octahedron machine suddenly waved its metal arms and swept back in the opposite direction, passing above the girl's phantom, and hitting the projector.

The projector was blown out like a spinning top, and the girl's shadow became fragmented in an ever-changing light and shadow, as if decomposed into countless cubes, and only a panicked voice remained inside: "Don't—"

Fang Plover took a step back and pressed against the fireplace with his backhand. The huge machine that was rising suddenly failed, let out a low whimper, and sat back on the base with a bang.The crystal in the center flickered a few times before dimming again.

The metal arms and legs that had been raised high fell back to the ground one after another.

He was not seen adding firewood, the flames in the fireplace were burning vigorously, and the light in the room changed, as if changing from night to day.The starry sky above the head actually emitted a soft light, illuminating the attic transparently.

Only then did Fang Yan look forward.

The projector fell on the ground and rolled a few times, but the metal shell on its surface was extremely strong, and the metal arm just hit only left a dent on it.It beeped a few times and flew up from the ground again.

Aona's phantom also reappeared, but the projection became a little unstable. Some parts of her body were missing, turned into cubes and flickered, and the right half of her face became blank.

The girl's only remaining eye looked at him viciously, and her voice became intermittent, with a mechanical tone: "...Ed...Mr. is really sharp, you can detect it right away... The secret of that hearth..."

"Thanks to Ms. Aona for telling me," Fang Ploy replied, "You told me that there is a huge magic device left behind by Jeldham and Helinwell behind this fireplace. I think a fireplace can still be used. It’s not such a huge project, it can only be the magic center that controls the upper and lower floors of this place. I guessed this because I couldn’t find the switch of the magic lamp in the attic.”

"Sure enough... I shouldn't... be so careless... telling... you this."

Fang Plover shook his head. "Miss Aona, don't pretend to be pitiful. If you don't tell me this, how can I relax my vigilance and turn my back to you and walk towards the fireplace? You just didn't expect me to be alert early, otherwise you would have succeeded in that sneak attack gone."

The phantom of the girl flickered, her eyes full of remorse. "No, when... you enter here... I should... do it, not... give you... a chance to be suspicious..."

"Maybe, but if not, how can you get this key? Everything you gain has something to lose, Miss Aona."

Fang Yan looked at the huge machine and said, "It can be seen that it is very important to you. Could it be that this is your body? Ms. Aona, who are you?"

The girl stared at him: "Do you think... I will tell... you?"

Fang Yan looked back calmly: "I can guess it even if you don't say it, Ms. Aona. You accidentally revealed key information. People can only lie when they express their urgent desires. When you say the word mechanical soul I guessed everything when I was there. You said Orta was the first experiment in the Stars Device, and maybe it was, but you didn't tell the whole truth."

The girl in the phantom suddenly showed a look of fear on her face.

Fang Yan still looked at her and asked, "Shall I tell the truth, Ms. Aoona?"

"No... there is no... truth, I am Aoana, Aoa... Lesvina..."

"You are not," Fang Yan replied: "Ota is the first experimental product of the star installation, but you are the first work of the three of Jeldham, Hellingwell and Friston , Your fanaticism about your own existence caused you to ignore an important loophole unconsciously. Princess Aona Lesvina did suffer from a serious illness and died in history, but according to the timeline you described, that event It should have happened long ago, before the six of them came underground here, so you can't come here with them."

"Indeed, this detail is insignificant to ordinary people. But Ms. Aona, you should know that there is a very good scholar lady in my team. When she explained the past history of the Elkins Dynasty to you, you In fact, you should realize this point. It’s just your subconscious affirmation of your own existence that makes you ignore this point intentionally or unintentionally. Yes, if you deny the fact that you are Aona Lesvina, What's the point of your 700 years of waiting?"

A painful and sharp voice came out of the metal machine, "Don't...say any more."

Fang Plover stopped and looked at the other party.

The phantom of the girl raised her head, with resentful gleams in her eyes, "Ed... Mr. is really... a good trick, obviously... has already... seen through everything, but still... tricked me...to... Turning around. But have you...forgot something...I don't...must have that...key...to deal with you..."

"Of course I understand."

Aona was slightly taken aback.

Fang Yan answered leisurely: "But I won't give you this chance, Ms. Aoona."

As mentioned before, if it was just a coincidence that they opened the three organs, then the other party would definitely not place their hopes on it.And when she led them into this hall, she naturally had a sure-fire way, assuming that the other party was the owner of this place, then everything would be logical.

Aona must have the highest authority in this place, and the magic power center he controls can only delay the opponent for a while, and cannot restrict her from actually activating all the organs here.

Even including that huge machine, because the only key to restrict it is the key, and the other party has already got that key at this moment.

Sure enough, Fang Yan suddenly felt that he had lost control of the magic power center, and a force abruptly cut off his connection with the fireplace.And the huge machine that sat back suddenly made a low noise, and the crystal in the center flickered again.

And Aona had already guarded against him, a faint blue shield spread out from the center of the huge machine, enveloping her and the machine together, and isolating Fang Plover and Miss Tata.

It's just that before she could be proud, there was a dull knocking sound on the wooden door behind her.

The girl's complexion changed suddenly, and she turned her head to look in that direction. "Ed, are you in there?" A happy voice came from outside the door, "Then the big guy down there went crazy and suddenly started attacking us, making a mess in the hall, fortunately you left behind The stage structure, Miss May and the others worked together to block that big guy. Just wait a moment, we will rescue you right away."

"You...didn't stop...me just now," Aona said with a drastic change of expression, "Is it the...flexible structure...under...control?"

"Miss Aona pinned her hopes on Mr. Horta to stop the others, but she didn't expect that since we have already taken precautions, how can those who stay outside not take precautions? It will take a lot of time for you to restart this machine now Well, just now I asked Miss Tata to leave something in its control center, do you think a wooden door and an energy shield can stop us?"

"Mimicry... Dragon Soul..." The girl looked at Miss Goblin who was suspended in mid-air with an extremely complicated expression.

Fang Plover frowned slightly.This was the second time the other party mentioned this word. Although he didn't know what the Mimic Dragon Soul was, he could guess that it might have something to do with the second technical route.

So as early as 700 years ago, the second technical route had already begun to take shape?But in the story told by the other party, Friston, Jeldeham, and Helinwell had no connection with the fairy dragon soul, so he couldn't be sure where the other party's knowledge of Miss Tata came from.

But what surprised him even more was another point.

Aona previously asked him to hand over the real mechanical soul, and he once thought it was Miss Tata, because that was probably the only field in him that was related to alchemy and soul research at the same time.

It's only logical that he'll make the connection.

Fang Yan thought that the other party had already noticed the existence of Miss Tata, so he decisively summoned Miss Dragon Soul without hesitation to attack the huge mechanical body of the other party.

Unexpectedly, the appearance of Miss Tata caused a greater mental shock to the opponent, and even turned the tide of the battle in one fell swoop.

Although the result was good, Fang Plover also noticed a trace of abnormality from it.Could it be that the mechanical soul mentioned by the other party is not the artificial dragon soul of Miss Tata, but something else?

But the other party must have ulterior motives to lure them here, and she is sure that they have what she wants, even if they are mistaken, they should be wrong.

Is that something on someone else?
No, just now when they were talking about the story of the Elkins Dynasty, he remembered very clearly that Ao Na's eyes almost always stayed on himself and Sylvaide.

Wait, is that thing actually on Sylvaide?

These thoughts were only for a moment, Fang Yan raised his head, but saw the expression on the face of the girl in front of him changed from complicated, regretful, angry and finally fixed on a hint of surprise.

Her eyes shifted, as if about to say something.And Fang Plover has already shouted first: "Sylvie, are you outside?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the door was knocked away with a bang.

Siesta was withdrawing her heavy mechanical fist that was emitting white smoke, standing in the smoke and looking into the room.There was a group of people standing behind the maid, and the first to bear the brunt were Sylvie and Mei.

Behind them are Xiaoyao and Luo Wei.

But Aona didn't even look behind her. In the flickering projection, her gaze changed from surprise to a hint of complacency, "Ed...Mr., maybe I...miscalculated...a lot, but you...seem Also... forgot... one thing..."

The moment the door opened, Sylvaide had already picked up the magic gun in her hand and aimed at the shield that shone with faint blue light.

And Siesta shot forward with a stride, hitting the shield with a fist.Ms. Mei threw the halberd in her hand forward vigorously, the spear tip came first and hit a point on the shield.

The bright blue light flickered with the spear tip as the center, forming a circle of ripples.

But the girl was not afraid at all. Amidst her smug smile, the ground suddenly shook slightly, as if a deep tremor came from the depths of the ground and was transmitted by everyone's feet.

Sylvaide's footing was unsteady, and when he fired the gun, the flame lifted up and the bullet hit the stone wall, sparking a stream of sparks.The maid also had to stop halfway, holding onto the wall with her hands to stabilize her figure.

Only May's spear hit the shield, bounced far away, and slid to one side along the sloping ground.

That feeling is all too familiar.

"Mr. Alphonse," Aona suddenly raised her head and shouted, "Come on... help me!"

The elemental monarch!

The shaking of the attic was becoming more violent, apparently something was approaching from above the rock formation.

Fang Plover was taken aback, and he didn't expect that he had missed this point after all his calculations, because Ao Na only casually mentioned the relationship between the earth element and the underground dwellers at first.

But the earth elements allow those people to live underground, and they will take the initiative to protect those people are two completely different concepts. Aona must have omitted something, and they must have had a deeper connection with the elemental monarch.

What's more, the elemental tyrant arrived at this time, and the war between them and the imperials could not come to an end so quickly, which only shows that it directly gave up the battle above, and it has to come down to take care of everything that happened below.

But Fang Plover didn't have time to think more.

Because the inclination of the ground was intensifying, even the walls of the attic were cracked, a large amount of sand and gravel fell from above, even the stones rolled down, and the scene was becoming chaotic.

Under the impact of the boulder, Aona's shield flickered a few times and disappeared, but at this moment she finally restarted the huge machine, and the cone-shaped octahedron flew up again flashing red light.

It waved its metal arms and legs to fend off the rolling sand and stones, the other claw grabbed the projector above Aona's head, and the other claw grabbed Pepe who was trembling on the side, and then turned to Suddenly, he bumped into Fang Plover's direction.

Fang Plover didn't dare to confront such a big guy, so he subconsciously turned to one side.But she didn't expect that Aona's intention was not to hit him at all, but to rush past him directly.

When Fang Zhi realized something was wrong, he turned his head, only to find that the huge machine had crashed into the floor-to-ceiling arched window, and the glass on the window made a sound of shattering, scattered all over the floor.

But behind it was not the thick rock formation he had imagined, but a constant portal. "Not good!" Fang Plover didn't think too much, subconsciously stretched out his hand and turned to a nearby metal arm.

Aoona obviously didn't expect that there was a person hanging behind her. The huge machine rushed into the portal under her control, and Fang Plover was also violently dragged in that direction. Before he had time to react, the surrounding scenery changed. Change, he has passed through the portal.

The other people in the attic were far away, and they could only watch Aona and Fang Plover disappear into the portal together.The miss of the ship officer didn't say a word, the knuckles of her fingers holding the magic gun turned white. She subconsciously took a step forward and wanted to chase after her, but May had already stopped her one step ahead.

"Miss Sylvaide, you stay here." May looked in that direction, and rushed over, "Wings of Light!" She was not tall, but suddenly a pair of wings of light protruded from behind her, making her It turned into a meteor and fell into the portal.

Sylvie was just about to say something, but suddenly another figure passed her, shooting towards the closing portal like an arrow.Siesta, who was in front of her, could see it clearly, seeing that it was an unfamiliar face, she subconsciously stretched out her hand to block it.

However, with the strength of the maid, she actually stopped an empty space and blocked an afterimage.The other party snorted softly, and rushed directly past her into the portal.Because the ups and downs in the blink of an eye are so fast, most people only feel a flash in front of them.

If it weren't for the soft hum that remained in the attic, most people might have thought they were hallucinating.

"Who is that?" Xiaoyao asked in shock, "It doesn't seem like one of us?"

But before the others answered his words, a gentle voice came from behind them. "You don't know him, but I do," the voice made everyone feel unfamiliar, and the others turned their heads unexpectedly, only to see a young man coming up from the bottom of the stairs.

The other party seemed to appear there suddenly, wearing a white shirt, suspenders, a pair of glasses on the bridge of the nose, and an alchemist's coat in his hand, holding a cane, and looked at it politely. them.

Seeing everyone watching, he showed a gentle smile.

Xiaoyao always felt that the other party looked familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen him. "When did this guy appear?" He thought with some doubts in his heart, why so many people followed behind them?

The young man greeted them, "Don't worry, I don't mean anything malicious. Just wait here. I'll help you find him. Pay attention to your own safety."

"Are you—?" Luo Wei looked at the other party and asked suspiciously, "Have I met you somewhere, sir."

But the young man just smiled and didn't answer.

He just looked in one direction, and the ground shook violently, as if something huge was swimming through the rock wall there.Only then did he look a little more dignified, and lightly tapped the ground with his cane.

A piece of blue light rose from under the feet of everyone, as if it stabilized the space here, allowing the surrounding rock walls to sway endlessly, cracking gaps, but the staircase they were on remained motionless.

In the end, even Luo Wei looked at this scene in shock. She raised her head and asked in a somewhat unsure voice: "Senior Alix, you...?"

The young man held up a finger in a gesture of secrecy to her.

Then he walked forward, the huge monster had already passed by here, it seemed to have chased to a deeper place, but left a mess, half of the attic was almost cracked by the previous earthquake.

The portal has long been closed, leaving only some residual space shocks.But when the young man raised his hand, he summoned a strange construct, which was spherical in shape, and flew straight into the space rift.

Then the other party stretched out his hand, grabbed the space node there as if tangible, pulled it lightly, and opened the closed portal there again, and then walked in leisurely.

Everyone watched the young man disappear behind the portal, and the flickering light door closed again behind him.

"Wait, space-type construct," Xiaoyao suddenly caught the inspiration in his mind, "I seem to know who he is..."

"He's Alix..."

"Loofah's deputy, Alix..."

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