Pillars of Ita

"The attacker is—"

The second half of the sound was cut off by Xia Ran, leaving only messy background noise. In fact, this sentence had no meaning because there was no receiving party.

The messenger had long since died, and the corpse of the owner of the communication crystal lay aside, with speckled white light floating from it. Even the communication crystal itself was cut into two pieces and fell to the ground, with weak magic sparks dancing between the pieces, like a dying flame.

The attacker is a light.

That is a fact that does not need to be stated. Hundreds of people in the valley saw the red light across the sky. It radiated from the red hexagon and sliced ​​through Hephaestus like a sharp sword. Si's five attack waves.

The long river of stars in the night sky was cut off from it, and dots of fire appeared from front to back. It was as gorgeous as a blazing light band, but the light was not a natural landscape, but a man-made object that was on fire and exploding.

Countless battle craftsmen lost their vision in an instant, and the huge magic feedback even caused their magic furnaces to shut down in a disorderly manner, causing a large number of electric sparks to emit. Some people even became unsteady and sat on the ground.

And those landing personnel saw the airdrop compartment cut off from the middle, and the cut was still exuding golden red residual heat. They didn't even have time to react, and the flames overflowing from the magic engine engulfed everyone.

Finally, it turned into a dazzling light in the sky.

Hundreds of members from Enigma, AOA, Falcon Group, and more than a dozen guilds and brigades in the valley witnessed this spectacular scene. They saw that after the red light passed, the red hexagon around the Seven Seas Traveler suddenly disappear.

But a tiny red light appeared on the extension line of the red light, and no one could see clearly what it was - just like a starlight shining in the distant sky, but it arrived in an instant and turned back.

Once again, he entered the attack sequence of Hephaestus.

Because the time left for them was so short, the imperial coalition forces did not react at all. The flashing red light went back and forth dozens of times in the attack sequence in the blink of an eye.

The light jumps from one point to any point, as if it doesn't take any time at all. Every time it stops, every time it passes through the Hephaestus construct, it leaves a brilliant fire behind it.

The huge coalition army was wiped out in an instant.

The light suddenly sank and skimmed the ground.

The commander of Hephaestus turned around and ran away, but like a flame splitting the forest, passing between them, turning into a sea of ​​fire and engulfing everyone. The commander who turned around turned into flying white before he could even take a step. Xuyu.

Little stars shine on the ground.

When the light turns again——

At a far distance, Marshall and Gray Wolf suddenly changed their expressions. An uncontrollable chill rose from the soles of their feet and rose straight to the Tianling Cap. Without saying a word, they picked up the communication crystal and roared:
"Run away!"

"Escape as far away as possible——"

An incredible look was fixed on Marshall's face. He saw a beam of red light passing through the chest of the gray wolf in front of him. He quickly raised his magic wand, but within a thousandth of a second, the light had already deflected to the side.

It bypassed the magic wand in his hand, and then flew past him.

Followed by high temperature and sea of ​​fire, flames and wind blowing in his face, the forest seemed to be burning in Marshall's eyes, the trees turned into flames, charred into fly ash, even the roots and lichen rose up, opening up a path in the field of vision. the way.

Even the rocks on both sides of the road collapsed and turned into powder. The running pedestrians were nothing but withered bones, as if the world had also collapsed, and they were all reflected in a golden-red mirror.

And that—

It's the Dragon Knight Domain.

In the extremely pure fire elemental domain, the flames of the red lotus are reflected in the darkness like hell, and the black ashes falling down cover the entire world like a wave.

That was the last thing the elites of the brigade saw.

Miya watched the red light turn the entire valley into a sea of ​​golden fire in mid-air. Naturally, she immediately recognized what level of power it was. The uncontrolled dragon knight domain was expanding. In the first moment, the valley was completely destroyed.

This is why the dragon knights restrained their abilities in the first world. Just a trace of unconscious power can cause so much destruction, and a battle between dragon knights will often destroy a city.

But even among the dragon knight's power she had seen, the aggressiveness of that red light was considered one of the best.

The blazing fire element contained an extremely pure elemental domain, which was not inferior to the top ones, but she had never seen it before. Was it a fire elemental domain? Dragon's Golden Flame? Or the Flame of Annihilation?

Nothing is the same.

She couldn't help but think of the dark dragon's world-destroying flames.

Legend has it that as long as those cursed dragons fly over a place, they can turn it into ashes, and nothing will grow on the burned-out stones for decades. When the Dragon Witch launched an attack on the city of Duron, the ashes of the forest left behind were still desolate and windy nearly half a century later.

"It's so aggressive. It almost attacked you just now. Didn't you notice?"

Miya turned around and said to the voice in her head:

"Luoluo, help me analyze it."

"I don't want it, I want to sleep more," the voice complained dissatisfied, "I used too much power to travel through space."

"Luoluo, be obedient."

"You look for that woman," Luoluo said, "Maybe my true form is on the way. After she joins you, you can ask her."

"Have you noticed that your sister has recovered?" Miya was stunned for a moment and asked unexpectedly.

"Luoluo doesn't know," the elf girl shook her head, "Someone sent a message to Roshar's elf kingdom. This is a matter of course. It's almost time."

After saying that, she fell silent.

The wolf girl silently looked in the direction of the Seven Seas Traveler.

In fact, a moment ago, only Miss Naturalist really saw what happened. At that time, she was holding one hand on the door frame, watching the dazzling red light suddenly rise from Fang Plover's chest and fly straight. Got out.

In that moment, she clearly saw the existence in the red light, the tiny figure, and the flying flame-like hair. In just a short moment, she flew back and reappeared in front of Miss Naturalist. before.

She just became much taller, with purple scales all over her body. She looked down at her with prismatic vertical pupils. A trace of doubt flashed across her perfect face. The dragon-shaped woman stretched out her hand and touched her forehead. :
"Take good care of your father, Sister Jita."

Then it turned into a scattering of light spots, and the faint red light disappeared into the darkness.

After a while, others rushed down from the deck. Everyone came to the captain's room and looked at Jita standing there blankly and Fang Plover lying on the bed. Alyssa was the first to ask her: "What happened?" What?"

"I……"

Jita didn't know how to describe what she saw.

But she actually already has the answer in her mind. Naturally growing dragon souls are a privilege. They themselves have no requirements for their owners, but how to awaken the natural dragon souls has not been studied by mortals in Aitaria for more than ten centuries. Any gain.

Sylvide came over and said against all opinions: "Let's leave this place first. Now is not the time to talk about this."

She turned back: "Shesta, you stay and take care of Ed."

The maid nodded silently.

Others did not object. Of course they realized what happened. The Seven Seas Brigade was in trouble again. More than ten top guilds in the first division of the valley were wiped out, including Gray Field, Prometheus. and S.O.L.I.D’s elite brigade.

Although those people have not yet been resurrected, this incident should have caused an uproar in the First Division community.

Sky Blue has actually opened a forum affiliated with Stargate, and is watching the ranking of the Seven Seas Brigade continue to change in the public ranking, surpassing the three old teams of Enigma, AOA and Falcon Group in one fell swoop, and it has not stopped yet. .

Not only in the first division, but in fact, relevant posts appeared immediately in the third division. The authority of the team rankings is so high. Under the ultra-competitive system that attracts astonishing attention, countless analysts, team leaders and ordinary viewers are constantly watching. Everyone is paying attention to this ranking.

In just a few minutes, the first batch of posts appeared in the community. Tian Lan glanced down:
"What happened and why did the team rankings change so much?"

"There are dozens of teams that have moved down one spot in the rankings. Suddenly there should be a team that has a huge improvement in their rankings." "There is a dark horse, who is it?"

Tianlan didn't look any further. As the little princess of the Twelve-Colored Iris, she keenly felt that this incident would bring about earth-shaking changes, and with the strength shown by the Seven Seas Brigade in this battle, their ranking might be It cannot be described as rising.

But whether the current fame is a good thing or a bad thing for them, to be honest, even Miss Poet herself has a hard time seeing clearly.

……

The third day after the Nanami Brigade left.

A team entered the valley again. The visitors couldn't help but be shocked when they saw the valley burned into a glass shape. Although they had already heard the report, they were still shocked to see the charred forest. It's hard to imagine what happened at that time.

Even the power of the Dragon Knight would be difficult to completely destroy the ecology of a place. It is difficult to describe the scene they saw in front of them by saying that not a single blade of grass grew. The flames even seeped into the soil and cooked the grass roots and seeds.

People turned over the hardened soil and found the bodies of scorched insects even under a layer of soil one or two meters deep. It is conceivable that it will be difficult for this valley to regain life in the next few decades, as the flames have cut off everything.

They launched a search in the devastated valley, and half a day later, another aerospace ship arrived here.

The aerostat lowered the sailboat, lowered its horizontal wings, and began to descend slowly. When it landed in the valley, a man jumped off the ship and landed on the ground.

The man came to the searching team and asked, "Where is the obelisk?"

The people in the search team looked at each other, then shook their heads: "No, we have searched the valley, and there is no obelisk."

"However, we have found several ruins, all of which have traces of being burned by the flames. However, the ruins themselves are relatively well preserved. In other words, if the obelisk is still there, it is unlikely that it was burned by the fire, unless it It’s made of wood.”

"You mean hundreds of people saw it wrong. Enigma, the Falcon Group, and our people all told the General Assembly that they saw the obelisk. Many people even took videos of the obelisk above. There is no problem.”

The man frowned and looked at the bare valley: "It can't be that hundreds of people have made a mistake. What kind of illusion can do this? I heard Marshall said that they tested the strength of the barrier. Not weak."

He suddenly thought of something: "What is the situation with those ruins?"

"It's Ms. Roman's temple," the members of the exploration team replied: "The latest ones are hundreds of years old, but that lady is also the goddess of the avenue, so it's not surprising that her temple appears in the wilderness. , maybe a few centuries ago this was the route to Andreus——"

"Have the ruins themselves been inspected?"

"After checking, there is nothing abnormal," the other party thought for a moment and added: "However, a small mithril mine was found in the valley, and the reserve is about -"

The visitor interrupted him with a wave of his hand. He was not interested in the mithril mine, and the Prometheus Brotherhood did not lack this small mine. What's more, at this critical moment: "You can inform the logistics directly about the mine." We have to find them before Gray Field and the people from the S.O.L.I.D alliance..."

"That obelisk must have something to do with the other party. It would not have appeared in this valley for no reason. What's more, what happened at that time was too suspicious." He made a judgment. "Even if it is not here, those third parties People in the competition area must also know something.”

"In what direction were they leaving?" he asked.

"I don't know about that," the leader of the search team shook his head, "but there is only one way to the north from the empire from here. That route passes through Port Andreus. From there, you can only enter the stormy sea."

Only then did the visitor realize that he had asked the wrong person. He nodded and said, "You continue to search this place. If you find anything, please notify me immediately."

After that, he waved his hand, and a giant animal-shaped construct appeared in that place amid a flash of blue light behind him. The person jumped, landed on the shoulder of the construct, and then let the other party carry him back to the floating ship.

Everyone in the search team looked up at this scene. After the sailboat left the valley, they lowered their voices and said, "Min'ermi, the General Assembly actually sent him here. I heard that the Burning Sword also sent two top professionals. Among them, there is at least one pseudo-dragon knight."

The man looked at the others: "I'm really curious, why are the people above taking so much trouble to find the obelisk?"

"Don't ask if you shouldn't. Besides, no one here will know," the other person replied, "But the fake dragon knight is nothing. Doesn't the other party have a real dragon knight, or two?"

"Yes," another person replied: "The combat effectiveness of the growing dragon knight itself is not much different from that of the top professional players. As for the power displayed by the other dragon knight, it is also very doubtful."

As he spoke, he looked at the valley: "The power is too violent. In fact, I have always analyzed it. This kind of power itself is not mature, but it is of a very high level. It is said that the strength of 'Steel Blade' Minmir is not inferior." How many dragon knights, combined with another pseudo-dragon knight, is almost enough."

Everyone nodded.

……

The Seven Seas Traveler flew through the foggy clouds for several days.

The continent shows a shining corner at the edge of the sea of ​​clouds. The green carpet-like vegetation extends along the northern edge of the Wusha Mountains, forming a green fjord. This is the end of the northern mountains of the Xinta'an continent. The mountain in the distance The port that shone like a coin——it was Andreus.

But the Seven Seas Traveler doesn't plan to stop in this port.

The ship officer has already planned the route. It is not safe to stay in the empire, not to mention that there may be an imperial navy there. Although this is the northern edge of the continent, the border zone of the empire, a forgotten place, the wanted order may not be as high as They reached this place first.

But for the sake of caution, it is better not to dock at any imperial port.

What's more, there might be a few behemoths from the first division that are searching for their whereabouts, and there are several sailboats behind them that are following the traces they left all the way north.

The battle that took place in Campa a few days ago had already turned all competition regions upside down.

Fortunately, the final attack came so suddenly that not many people took pictures of the scene when Hong Guang launched the attack, leaving very little image data, otherwise the commotion would have been even greater.

Even the military sent a message, and the person who contacted them was Bai Jia. However, Fang Pliance hadn't woken up at that time, so Jita and Miss Nightingale, who were in charge of contact, only briefly reported the situation here.

The latter asked Miya if she wanted to report her situation, but the Sea Witch refused. She shook her head and said: "Stargate Port may not be reliable. Even if Bai Jia and Su Changfeng are trustworthy, there is no guarantee that they will be trusted." There are too many informants stationed there, and once I am exposed, it will only cause you trouble."

However, even if other people heard about this, they had no intention of letting the sea witch leave. First of all, no one could do anything to repay kindness with hatred, not to mention that even if they made this decision, they would have to wait until the leader woke up.

"But if we don't dock there," Miss Poet leaned against the side of the ship, looking at the glittering 'coin' in the sky from a distance, and sighed, "the supplies on the ship may not be able to sustain it."

"We left Ayinbrok suddenly, and we actually didn't prepare many adequate supplies," Tianlan said a little worriedly, "After leaving Andreus, we went all the way deep into Hanrui, and there weren't many places to stop and resupply. Opportunity.”

"The Empire people think so too," Alyssa looked at the side of the ship. "They won't give us a chance to stop for supplies. We can only rely on Miss Sylvide to find a way to go all the way north from here and go deep into Hanrui." Among the island chains in the outer sea, there might be a chance to find some supplies.”

We are already close to the edge of the Kukai Continent, and gulls and swallows fly by in the sky from time to time. The wind from the sea and land blows the sails, making a whirring sound.

Miss Poet looked at the shining birds and was speechless for a moment.

The leader hadn't woken up yet, and everyone hadn't even gotten over the battle a few days ago. The strange red light not only caught the Imperials off guard, but in fact they didn't even understand what happened.

Fortunately, there were Miya on the ship, as well as Sylvide, the Sea Witch, and the ship officer. During this period, they stood up and became the backbone of everyone, formulating future opportunities and their goals along the way.

This prevented the Nanami Brigade from falling into confusion.

Adni appeared from the hatch at this time. The foundry lady looked at the two people standing on the deck and said, "Actually, you don't have to worry too much. From here, go north into the sea outside Han Ruina, which is about [-] meters away from us." The destination is not too far away.”

She continued: "Even the Imperial people don't have all the charts of the sea outside the storm, because this is the territory of Naga and giants, and storms rage all year round, so most experienced captains can only navigate it based on experience. "

"I happen to know an anchorage, on one of the many island chains in Han Rui," Adni said: "We can complete supplies there before heading to William's treasure house."

Miss Nightingale looked at the other party suspiciously after hearing this: "In that case, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"After all, I can't completely trust you," Adni said: "I have to make sure that you are going to your destination, and you don't just want me to help you escape from that place. That's what cooperation is, isn't it?"

She wanted to continue, but at this moment, the communication crystals on Alyssa's and Tianlan's chests lit up.

Then a calm voice came from behind.

That was Miss Tata's voice:
"Everyone, please come below the cabin. Mr. Knight is awake."

... (end of this chapter)