High Above

  Actually, Ian, Tres and his party did not arrive in Azure City safely.

   On the way, they encountered many phantoms, and also encountered several fierce beasts similar to the sharp-clawed tiger that Ian killed in Lean Territory.

  But the fungus residing on these ferocious beasts experienced an abnormality, and I don't know whether it is a good or bad evolution.

  They greatly improved the strength of the beasts and their short-term regenerative power, but damaged the fighting intelligence of these beasts. From the original ambush and fighting with various skills, they became muscular monsters that could only fight and dash.

  Although it is said that the power is great, increasing the output is not a bad thing anyway, but some beasts of warcraft, no matter how you strengthen them, they will be the same. They have no wisdom to attack, and in the end they can only become research materials for Ian and others.

  Boom—

   There was the sound of artillery fire in the distance.

   Around another city, 'Dengyu City', a multi-party offensive and defensive battle has already begun.

With the development of the situation, not only patrolling knights and other forces from the empire intervened in the Avak region, according to the information received by Tres, the Feiyan side dispatched The elite troops "King's Guards" entered, and Grand Duke Thorin dispatched his own knights.

In addition, there is also a private army of a certain city lord similar to the Dragon Worship and the Seven Cities Alliance. They each have their own goals, and they have been completely dead. became their battlefield.

   Not to mention the various powerful monsters and phantoms that were originally here.

  Ian looked out the window into the distance. In the flames of the explosion, he vaguely saw three figures in mid-air, pouring firepower at a gigantic giant tortoise like a hill, which aroused a huge roar that was not inferior to artillery.

   What followed was more and more artillery fire.

  The land tortoise is exactly the mountain-carrying giant tortoise of the third energy level. The continuous alchemy artillery fire fell on it, and even the illusory mind light body on the surface of its body did not ripple.

The giant tortoise, feeling a little annoyed by this, just raised its head and opened its mouth, and let out a huge roar—in an instant, the linear shock wave visible to the naked eye brought layers of waves of smoke and dust, and everything in front of the giant tortoise was blown to pieces. A cylindrical ditch appeared on the ground, across a distance of several thousand meters.

  And the sky filled with mud and sand and dust debris fell like raindrops, and a stone rain began.

  The sublimators who attacked it before retreated the moment it opened its mouth, but the alchemy artillery positions behind them were not so lucky. They were directly blown away by people and cannons, turning into a huge pit with a diameter of more than 400 meters.

  If this kind of attack is used to attack a city, such as Weilan City, a small city with only a few hundred thousand people, it will be wiped out in an instant.

   This is the third energy level... In the lost era, it was called the first-order power of 'heroes' and 'cornerstones'.

  The battle is still going on, and with the explosion and roar, the earth is trembling.

   "It's really hard for the other teams..."

  Ian said with emotion, compared to others, he can guess that the reason why the Patrol Knights sent several teams to attract the attention of the giant tortoise is precisely because they are going to Azure City.

  Although Mikhail can’t come here on the surface, he can still command some patrolling knights by remote control.

   "Yeah, we have to be careful too."

Tres didn't have as many thoughts as Ian. After knowing that His Royal Highness Mikael was in his team, he had completely given up thinking and became a pure tool man. What Ian said and what he did: "There is a A team of patrolling knights is missing, there must be some secret here."

  There must be a secret, Ian nodded slightly, the second prince said that there are local living sublimators still operating in Azure City, and the missing squad of patrolling knights probably encountered these 'locals' and was raided by them.

   Although the configuration of the Patrol Knights squad is very strong, there may even be a fourth energy level in this incident. No matter what kind of elite troops face such a crisis, they may suffer losses.

  The crawler transport vehicle drove slowly into the city.

   "The last signal return point of the missing team is located in the northwest of the city. We will not approach it for the time being and collect some information."

Ian looked at the city map and directed the team's actions: "Go along this road, turn right after two streets, and then stop. There is a square area. The drone shows that it is very empty. Get ready."

   "I feel that the spiritual fluctuations here are very... intense!"

  Hua An and Mo Feng both showed some uncomfortable expressions: "What's going on, the overlapping depth of the virtual world in this place is already 12%..."

Mo Feng shook her head for the deeper research on this face, and she looked around with some doubts: "As long as it exceeds 5%, it is a dangerous line, and if it exceeds 10%, phantoms will appear spontaneously... Moreover, I actually heard from this city. To the smell of 'citizens'?"

   "Are there even fairies in this city?"

  Shuangdie frowned slightly, her wings stopped spinning, and she sat on Ian's shoulder listlessly: "I feel...a little dizzy..."

   Fairies are creatures that are very sensitive to changes in the virtual environment. To them, this is equivalent to a sunny day when the temperature suddenly rises by more than ten degrees. Although it will not affect activities, there is no portable air conditioner here.

"have a good rest."

  Ian touched Frost Butterfly's head to appease the little fairy.

   But his attention soon shifted to the outer street.

The team members of Tres are very capable. After all, they are apprentices and followers of patrolling knights who can perform various tasks. They have seen a lot, and they have encountered many monsters and enemies. Avak Although the task of the Viscount Land is dangerous, it does not make them afraid.

   But even so, after entering Azure City, these well-informed elite sublimators still felt a little numb.

   "No. 5 report, just now a black shadow flashed through the window of the building on the left of No. 1 car."

   "Report No. 12, auditory hallucination symptoms. I heard the breathing sound of a beast, and it sounded in my ears."

   "Report No. 6 also had auditory hallucination symptoms. I heard women whispering and children crying. Now there is still hysterical laughter. I can't hear the specific words, but it will arouse the fear of ordinary people."

  These auditory hallucination symptoms do not make sublimators feel uncomfortable. After all, there are many monsters that can create hallucinations, and they even killed a dozen real ghosts and ghosts.

   As we all know, as long as there are rockets and knives that can cut ghosts, no one will be afraid of zombies and ghosts, and this group of patrolling knights even has more than one alchemy cannon, so how can they be afraid of these boring atmosphere groups?

   What really makes them feel numb is the fog that fills the streets.

"Report on the 19th, Captain, these fogs have been sampled, and it has been identified and confirmed to be 'crazy fog', a special malicious phenomenon that can only appear in the Void Realm, and the Void Realm strange monster code-named 'Lake God' Similarly, people will gradually fall into madness and apply for 'resistance potion'."

   Tres received the report, he nodded and said: "All staff take resistance medicine. Before arriving at the destination, take it without interruption."

  Resistance potion is not a protective potion for the spirit. It essentially isolates the influence of external spiritual energy on the user, and uses its own medicinal essence to resist all external sources. It is a potion known for its comprehensiveness rather than specialization.

   It is suitable for this kind of area where virtual world and reality overlap.

  Both sides of the street are littered with dead bodies. Some of the corpses had painful faces and wounds all over their bodies, while others were as hollow as if they were out of their bodies, lying straight on the ground.

  And some people are full of madness, their mouths are full of flesh and blood, and thick fungal layers grow on their bodies, obviously corroded by the rotten fungus of Flameland, falling into a selfless violent desire to attack.

   But without exception, they all died. At the entrance of the shop that originally sold vegetables, fruits and grains, the grains in the hands of the shopkeeper and the customers had not been put down, and they were all poured into their own pools of dried blood. The woman who was run over by a carriage at the entrance of the street looked extremely miserable, but she In her hand, she held tightly a hand that seemed to be torn from the body of the passenger in the car by her.

   There was no one in the carriage, and the whole city was not so much a dead zone as a huge slaughterhouse.

   The Avak collar is over.

"This is the crisis... Even the Huaiguang Church will not come forward, and even a small crisis that is not in the "Prophecy Book" will cause hundreds of thousands of people, or even nearly a million people, so silently... so silently die meaningfully."

  Muttering to himself in a low voice, it was only now that Ian finally understood what a 'conflict' between major forces was and what was 'consumption'.

  The cold numbers on the report gradually turned into the same cold corpses before his eyes.

  But the boy's expression didn't change much. He still scanned the entire city calmly, with silver-blue halos flickering in his eyes.

  —Anger and Sadness change nothing.

  As a scholar, what he needs to do is to calm down and find the key to the problem.

  Ian is trying to find, according to Mikhail, the so-called "living sublimation person", that is, the person who is directly related to the tragedy behind this city... at least the location of the person who is indirectly related.

   Only by finding them can Mikael's mission be completed and they can answer Ian's doubts.

   But, suddenly.

  The tracked transport vehicle turned off after a low hum.