Pillars of Ita

On the lower deck of the Seven Seas Traveler, a wolf-like girl was staring at the reflection in the darkness, which seemed to have established a mirror between the flowing shadows.

The girl in the mirror lowered her head, her eyes not meeting hers, and her black hair hanging down was like a thread, surrounding her like a stream.

The faces of the two people were like portraits of witches that were reversed in two opposing worlds. One came from Kukai, while the other came from the long river of fate. The girl raised her head, covered by gauze. Close your eyes——

She was staring at the person in front of her with her blind eyes, but she didn't speak.

Miya stood in front of the mirror biting her lower lip and also said nothing.

The wolf-like girl's long silver hair reflected the clear light outside the window, like a river of stars flowing in the darkness, but there was a meaningful gaze between her eyes, and they shone like stars inside.

But there was a seriousness in his expression that Fang Plover had never seen before, and his eyebrows were tightly knitted.

The girl in the mirror looked at the position on the wolf girl's chest - where the heart should have been. There was a dark vortex there, and a green crystal was suspended in the center of the vortex.The emerald green light in the crystal seems to be flowing out——

But in an instant he was swallowed by the edge of the whirlpool.

Then she said calmly:

"Destiny has already been woven into a tapestry, and when you have reached one end of the scale, astrologers will connect the star track with you. No matter you are here or there, as long as you reveal that kind of power, from among the stars All eyes will be on you immediately.”

"Elaine, the goddess of fate," Miya said coldly, "I have felt a strange aura since just now. I also used power in Ayin Block, but why was it not exposed at that time? What did you do? "

Tianlan was once a little curious as to why outsiders would call this wolf girl with a good temperament the Witch of the Sea.

But maybe only in front of outsiders will she truly show her side of the witch. She said in a cold voice: "All of this happened after your power recovered. I have reason to suspect that this was your arrangement."

"The Hailin Crystal will cover your breath," the blind girl in the mirror replied softly, "but that's only temporary. I said, you can't escape. The intertwined fate of the stars has already been connected to you."

"Then why are you in Covenant Mountain, and why is the Eternal Emblem in that place? And why has your image disappeared from this world?"

Miya asked seriously: "I almost didn't recognize your image when I saw you for the first time - but I have actually seen you before, Elaine, the daughter of destiny, if I hadn't come from Hailin Crown I got information about you and almost forgot everything about you.”

"So, what image of you in my memory will disappear out of thin air?"

The girl shook her head: "That's because you have never really seen the death of a god."

"You mean the death of God?" Miya asked back: "But as far as I know, under the tree of destiny, the person who arranged destiny by the eternal river has never disappeared. The girl with eyes, Elaine, is still Orizhong. One of the saints, the divine position has never been vacant...but it's not you."

The girl looked at Miya unexpectedly.

Although her eyes were obviously closed, one could easily feel her expression and emotion - calm and calm.

The girl spoke softly, as if recounting an ancient prophecy: "Because a god has passed away, winter is coming, death and shadow will naturally accompany it, and the world will undergo tremendous changes. I have told you before."

"The shadow in the forest..."

Miya shook her head and whispered to herself: "You mean the forest lady's twin goddess... you let her take your place, why? What are you planning? A god is vacant, but the world is empty. I have no idea, what are the Saints of Orin planning?"

But she immediately put aside these emotions and categorically denied: "Forget it, I don't want to understand this. Whether it is the third evil star or the plan of the saints for this, I don't want to be involved in your plan. , I destroyed Covenant Mountain just for revenge."

"You don't want to involve them?"

The girl tilted her head and asked.

She looked outside and saw that there was a thick cabin between them, but there seemed to be no obstruction to her vision.

She saw Enigma, AOA and the tiny humans of the Falcons launching an attack, but the attack was blocked by Sylvester, Alyssa and Dariel. She saw those strange constructs flying into the sky, Turn into sparks and points of light all over the sky.

She had seen those mortal machines, and Angina often showed them those gadgets. Even the best of them, the wise god, would nod in approval. Her eyes crossed to the other end, the barrier and the river beach. There is no distance constraint for her.

She saw the young man, wearing an alchemist's coat, who was considered a leader among mortals.

In normal times, Anji would probably like him very much, but now it was Amaya and Marlan who chose him, and even Mirela, the goddess of life, cast a glance at him. What an interesting little guy.

——She learned all this information from chatting with people on the ship. In other words, there is no secret in this world that can be hidden from her eyes. It's just whether she wants to know it or not.

"Actually, it's good that you chose to go with them."

The girl opened her mouth.

Miya was startled, and then her eyes showed surprise.

But she smiled and snorted softly: "They are very unique to begin with. 'He' has half of the power of Hailin Crown. No matter what, I share the starlight with him. To me, there is nothing better than this in the world." A more special existence.”

"And the people around him are also very good people - the woman you met is Ma Wei's daughter, you should know him."

There was a hint of surprise on Destiny's girl's face.

But then she suddenly became enlightened, and she said: "I know him, the person who fulfilled the prophecy of the third door, but he is not actually the key."

Miya didn't answer, but pointed to the other side of the cabin, in the direction of the mining area: "That naturalist lady, she owns two magic books, one of which is the Book of Life, the one that promises the prophecy of recovery."

"As for the elementalist who was traveling with them, I felt a special aura from him. If I guessed correctly, it was the source of the power rumored by the outside world, Margaret, the Dragon Queen. prophecy."

The girl obviously closed her eyes tightly, but it gave people the feeling that from calmness to surprise, she lost her position as the goddess of fate, and also lost the power to weave her destiny, but she still knew the plans. Each ring:
"So when you activated the Star Dagger, you deliberately chose this coordinate?"

"No," Miya shook her head gently, "this information was only known after I arrived, but what I want to tell you is - he is the person I chose. From the time I shared the starlight with him, I was ready to share everything with him.”

The blind girl looked at her: "——You still decide to take action?"

Miya nodded slightly and replied in a gentle voice: "Now that I am a member of this ship, I have to ensure that they are not threatened by foreign enemies. Enigma, AOA and those insect-like guys from the Falcon Group, Are you worthy of threatening me?"

Elaine was silent for a while, then looked at Miya and said: "I will inspire you with the power of the Hailin Crystal, but you should understand that it can only cover the breath for a moment. The more you use that power, the more powerful those people will be. The more likely you are to be noticed.”

She looked at the vortex on the wolf girl's chest. The cyan light seemed to break through the restraint for a moment, but was blocked in an instant.

That was evidence of a god's death...

And as long as that evidence is still there, those things will come to you one day.

She stretched out her hand, and the next moment - as if still in an instant, the crystal, the dark vortex, everything disappeared like gravel, and all the abnormalities on the wolf girl's chest were restored to the original color, revealing the original color of the burqa. A gray robe enveloped her.

Miya raised her head.

Everything in the darkness in front of her is changing, the mirror is falling apart, and the image of the girl in the mirror is becoming distorted. Her last gaze is still looking at Miya until everything disappears.

All that remains in the shadows is the silent silence and the unchanging bulkheads of the cabin.

All the previous illusions seemed to have never existed.

She stretched out her hand, and a shimmering star dagger appeared in her hand.

……

The attack team from three elite brigades is advancing in the dense forest in groups of multiple people.

Enigma's nightingale has to look back all the time, because death follows him in the darkness. His eyes occasionally stare at the red light left between the shadows of the tree branches, which fleets and disappears, like the remaining warmth.

There was an icy cold blade walking in the middle of it, staring at every prey in the forest with icy eyes, "We can't find her." Enigma's Nightingale's voice was a little tight.

He turned the blade in his hand in order to give himself some sense of security. The knuckles of the other hand holding the communication crystal were a little white. An obvious knife mark was engraved on his shoulder armor. As long as the knife penetrated three points deeper, the knife would be gone. You can cut his neck and send him to the resurrection point to wait.

Their kind of nightingale is usually called the invisible short blade by the outside world. In terms of concealment, more than one shadow dance is inserted into it. It is not even as good as the Silver Cloak who is also a guard of Gray Court, let alone the one opposite them. The killer was unusually calm.

The captain of the Nightingale team who was responsible for organizing the attack was also silent for a while.

He himself is from AOA. In order to facilitate the unified attack, he pulled all eleven nightingales from the three teams into this channel. He is also a shadow dancer, but there are differences between shadow dancers and shadow dancers.

He didn't know the name of the shadow dancer from the Seven Seas Troupe.

But the level shown by the other party was obviously not what a Nightingale of this level should have, which could only be seen in those veteran selectors who had experienced many battles, and it was even comparable to him who was close to level 38.

And everyone is a shadow dancer. Under the same level, as long as one party doesn't reveal its flaws, it will naturally be difficult for the other party to detect it.

More importantly -

"equipment……"

The Nightingale captain suddenly figured out the key.

The opponent is a team led by alchemists, and such a team often has characteristics that are very different from ordinary teams, that is, their equipment is far better than ordinary teams in terms of its own level and maintenance level.

What's more, the person who leads that team is not an ordinary alchemist. It is known to the world that although the Continental League ended in nothing, the actual champion has long been settled in people's hearts, and the opponent they faced was exactly such a person. . "You keep an eye on her," he finally made up his mind, "and let the other teams continue to advance."

The woman didn't move, and he didn't dare to let the entire Nightingale team cross the line - what about the spellcasters in the back row, the Iron Guard couldn't protect them at all.

Enigma, AOA and Falcon were united into one, although there were many experts, but none of them were redundant. Each one was an elite that could not afford to lose. He did not dare to let a Nightingale of this level sneak into the back row.

"It's okay to say that the other party is an alchemist," the tall Iron Guard said from the side: "The equipment they carry fills the gap in hard power between them and us, but what about these things in the sky? "

Captain Nightingale raised his head.

At that time, he happened to hear the rangers behind the team shouting:
"Overhead—!"

The tall shield guard walking in the front took the lead in raising his shield. The bullet was like a stream of flames passing through the forest, hitting the corner of the big shield. He took a step back, and the bullet carved a golden and red chisel mark on the shield.

The magician in the team was looking at this scene, but the shield guard turned around and pulled him behind the shield. At the same time, he lowered the opponent's body with one hand. When he raised his head, he heard a swooping scream coming from above everyone's heads, a sharp sound. The air flow swept through the tree crown, carrying a long cyan flame tail.

The huge structure whizzed past the forest, accompanied by three Lancers, and four wind element wakes swept through the valley. They almost flew close to the canopy, causing the pursuers behind to roar. The air combat structures hit the branches one after another.

It fell to pieces.

The group had to retreat quickly.

"Be careful, get out of the way of those constructs!"

The shield guard shouted while raising his shield to block the debris. At the same time, he swung away the wreckage that hit his shield with a bang and threw it away far away.

More constructs were coming from above the forest, whizzing past.

The group of people raised their heads and watched as they chased the four air combat structures away. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell who had the upper hand in this scene. "That's...Helvier?" The shield guard put down the big shield in his hand and said with lingering fear. Looking at that scene, "The construct used by Gray King FOX, how could it be in his hands...?"

Captain Nightingale's heart was filled with mixed emotions. For everyone in the Sea Eagle Feathers, and it should be said that for every member of every branch under Gray Filed, everything about the Gray King was a legend. .

Now, this legend is being reproduced in the hands of others.

And they had to use that person's background to fight someone who could control the Gray King's exclusive construct. Although he knew clearly that there was no way Enigma, AOA and Falcon could fail together, they still couldn't help it. Leave doubt behind.

At this moment, the combat craftsmen of Prometheus, Gray Filed and SOLID, who were entangled with Fang Pliance's Seraphim, were even breaking out in a cold sweat. It's not like most of them had never imagined a hearty aerial battle——

Everyone commands their own constructs and gallops through the air and sea environment. It may be a fleet showdown. Different constructs fight in the airspace at different heights, and those talented combat craftsmen Use exquisite command to carve out a passage.

It can even determine the outcome of a battle.

But it's definitely not like this.

That chase battle almost made everyone feel suffocated. The air combat structures were not dexterous small structures like Clockwork Fairies. The armaments they possessed also imposed a layer of shackles on them, making them only have relatively low power. Efficient flight capabilities.

Multiple wind element nozzles and an aerodynamic shape give most air combat structures room to maneuver in the air and sea, but it is not easy to control such a complex structure and manually program its flight control. things.

Combat craftsmen rely on their own special magic furnaces and the huge computing power given by the system to barely make these complex and precise machines dance in the sky, and the best among them can command multiple constructs at the same time. Join the fight.

But the air battle they imagined would never be like that.

The craftsmen of Enigma, AOA and Sea Eagle Feather looked at the extremely complex giant structure with almost despair, adjusting every vector nozzle on the body with ease, making it hover and turn in mid-air, Then it rises at an impossible angle.

The six-winged structure suddenly rose almost close to the canopy like a sea of ​​​​green in the valley, leaving only a rising golden-green trail, like a bunch of perfect curves pointing straight to the sky. The whole process was smooth and smooth. With a trace of artificial carving——

Leave those behind behind in the dust.

It seems that it is not an extremely complicated giant device with thousands of control nodes.

It's something simpler than a clockwork fairy.

Just point to the sky with your hand, and it will naturally fly in that direction. It pulls out a huge elevation angle in mid-air, and even once caused the Imperial constructs that were chasing behind it to lose their sight.

The combat craftsmen tried their best to adjust their postures. In the rush, many constructs crashed directly into the nearby ridge, exploding little bits of golden light. They were almost desperate to bring the opponent back into sight:

"It's in that direction!"

What's even more desperate is that there are three Lancers accompanying it.

"Is he really the Dragon Alchemist?"

"Didn't he just win No. 1 in the Continental League?"

In despair, people even acquiesced in the ownership of the laurel crown in the Hall of the Holy King, so they had no intention of caring about the little tricks in the official statement of the empire.

But in the valley as dawn approaches, the temperature difference has reached the maximum value of the day. Cold fog permeates the mountains and forests, and almost the river beaches are covered with a thin layer of white frost.

Miss Naturalist was raising her head, not caring about the biting cold, but looking at the figure standing aside with some obsession.

Fang Plover put one hand in the pocket of his coat and stretched out the other hand. The fingertips of the magic glove seemed to be connected to the void of the battle situation several kilometers away.

He watched everything happen with his eyes, watching the six-winged construct spread its wings in mid-air, adjusting the cyan beam behind it, turning, throwing away the opponent, flying high into the sky, and then heading towards it again. The densely packed structures launched an attack.

He looked at the intersecting beams of light, the flash of explosions, and the remains of the constructs falling like raindrops.

But in fact, he had withdrawn his thoughts.

"Entrusted to you, Miss Tata."

"Understood, Sir Knight."

Fang Plover lifted up his goggles and let out a gentle breath. The white mist gradually faded in the cold night.

The war situation has completely changed at this moment. Entrusting the Seraph to Miss Fairy will only surprise the battle craftsmen on the empire's side. Compared with the calculation power, he is still far behind the Seven Seas Traveler with the Fairy Heart.

But looking around, the river beach was already silent.

The engineering lancers that originally worked here have completely disappeared. They lowered their heads and stagnated, scattered here and there in the entire mining area.

His Dragon Soul Miss has completely taken away the attention from here.

He was able to suppress the Empire's structures in the air battle, but the battle below was still one-sided. The last thing he saw was that Alyssa and Sylvide only suppressed the attack in a certain direction, but the three elite brigades Other teams of the regiment have approached the Seven Seas Traveler from other directions.

Those people are no better than the previous teams. Once they board the ship, Dalil and Siesta will probably not be able to stop them.

Miss Miya told him that she couldn't take too many chances.

Then we can only rely on him to find a solution.

He looked at Kitta.

A warm bonfire was lit between the two, and the firelight reflected each other's faces, slightly dispelling the cold night. However, the scholar's face was red at the moment, and the lenses silently reflected the rising flames, and the dark eyes below were as dark as stars. Only scattered embers remain——

I was stunned for a moment, not knowing what I was thinking about.

Miss Scholar was covered with a blanket that was not commensurate with her body shape. She stretched out her hand to tighten the blanket - that blanket naturally belonged to Fang Plover - which made her think a little. Fortunately, the firelight reflected her face. The blush was invisible for a moment.

"Jita," Fang Yu said, "please stay here."

"what?"

Miss Scholar was startled, and then she came back from her reverie and hurriedly adjusted her glasses.

She put her hand on the magic book a little absent-mindedly, maintaining the strength of the barrier. Fortunately, the number of people testing it had gradually become rarer as time went by, so even if she was a little distracted, it didn't hurt.

"Regiment, leader," she lowered her head guiltily and asked, "Are you going somewhere?"

Fang Plover nodded.

"You monitor the direction of the barrier and the Seven Seas Traveler. I'll go down and take a look."

He was referring to Jed Ham's laboratory.

The father of the legendary forger lady left a large number of constructs down there. Those spider guards and dragon hunters were even more powerful than the knight-type annihilators and choke monsters in his hands. 's construct.

If he could ignite those star devices, or even temporarily modify them to make them move first.

The next battle should be much easier.

... (end of this chapter)