High Above

  Chapter 624 The sun is fierce and everything appears (first update, 5200)

   Terra 773, October 5.

  The imperial capital of the Setar Empire, late at night.

  The lights of the upper town standing on the lonely hill are bright, and the big shots of the entire empire are unusually busy.

  This is the first time since the Dark Moon Rebellion.

This afternoon, Grand Duke Sorin's announcement to the imperial capital after advancing to the fifth energy level really shocked the hearts of many people, and this newly promoted fifth energy level powerhouse and the emperor of the empire, the soil keeper Axel The confrontation of wills blows away all the atmosphere above the entire imperial capital.

  Although Grand Duke Thorin was almost completely suppressed in this confrontation, he finally left after uttering a harsh word.

  However, by virtue of the mysterious method that is very likely to be Inaiga's inheritance, he has crossed the blood limit and advanced to the fifth energy level. He also has the confidence to communicate with any country and major power on the mainland on an equal footing.

  And such a brand new fifth energy level will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the current situation in Terra Continent.

  Emperor Capital is sleepless because of this.

   Today, the hole in the atmosphere still exists, and it will take time to recover. Even if there is a force field in the imperial capital to isolate the void radiation, in order to avoid causing a sudden change in the climate of the central plain, the eldest prince Carlos Setar has led a team to repair it.

   And the big shots from all over the world also arrived in the imperial capital one after another during this period of time.

   An endless stream of information was sent back to the heart of the empire.

  —The capital of Grand Duke Thorin, the City of Silvermoon has completely turned into an empty abyss.

  This ancient city, the squares and palaces made of white marble, and the spiers and towers with a history of more than 400 years, are now all turned into a dark bottomless pit.

  The deep pit that goes straight into the center of the earth is extremely deep, and black and white steam rises out of it. Standing on the edge of the huge pit and staring down, through the hazy heat waves, you can see the churning magma ocean in the mantle.

  That is the abyss...the entrance to **** created by the dead king, the red magma is like an endless river of dead blood.

The entire Silvermoon City sank into the sea of ​​lava. According to the report of the intelligence personnel, at that time, the entire Silvermoon City was crowded with people, and the people who supported Grand Duke Sorin gathered from all directions to listen to the speech of their lord—Grand Duke Sorin Sign a contract with everyone present, all his life and strength will be used to protect them, and as a price, they will go to the heart of the earth together to establish a kingdom of hell.

When the contract was concluded, the silver-blue icy light shot straight into the sky, shaking the entire city and even the surrounding mountains. Every street, every magnificent building and ancient palace in the City of Silver Moon appeared densely packed with inscriptions The loop constitutes an incomparably vast spiritual energy field.

   Then it sank, falling like lightning into the deepest part of the mantle.

   Mist originating from magma and underground water system permeated the territory of Grand Duke Thorin today, turning it into a land of highly toxic mist.

  It is said that as long as you get close, you can hear the howling of ghosts.

  "...In short, according to those people, Grand Duke Sorin deceived the souls of his subjects, killed all of them, and used the power of these souls to pave the way for him to achieve the fifth energy level."

  In Isengard's house, the blond boy told Ian in detail what he heard when he was listening in the upper city today.

He looked rather gloating: "To be honest, Ian, this is the first time I've seen so many great people with nervous expressions on their faces, especially those legion commanders and nobles around Grand Duke Sorin, their expressions are really unpredictable. If I didn't know about their bloodline inheritance, I would have thought it was a chameleon!"

   "What they said is really true, but they are a little timid-Grand Duke Thorin really wants to kill them, and the moment they turn against the empire, they all have to be buried with them."

Ian, who was making cutlets, commented: "But it's really huge. When I came back from the experimental base, I saw a row of speeding cars and armor flying in the sky... I don't know if it was the troops that were transferred back to the imperial capital urgently, or The nobles are on their way."

  At this moment, Ian is cooking for himself for a long time—he is holding a frying pan in his hand, frying the steak with hot oil, making a pleasant sizzling sound.

This kind of goat beef from the Seven Cities Alliance is quite fatty and has a very strong aroma. Ian didn't put any oil in the pot at first, but after roasting at high temperature, the fat in the meat flowed out, making the fat fragrant It's overflowing and has a simple yet satisfying flavor when sprinkled with spices and salt.

   Today's supper is very simple, it is goat steak, baked potatoes and a nut platter.

  Hua An and Shuang Die had already started eating, and the two elves were eating pine nuts in unison, with satisfied faces, they looked like two squirrels.

Yisen also got his steak, cut a piece and put it in his mouth. The rich aroma of the fat beef and the delicate texture are really delicious, and the center of the baked potato on the side is actually hot cheese, which is crispy on the outside. After one bite, the mouth is full of burnt aroma, and the crispy taste is followed by the milky aroma of cheese, which is really memorable.

Since the lifting of the ban on solid food, Isengard has also tasted Ian's cooking several times. Every time he ate it, he was unimaginable. He couldn't understand how Ian did it. There are so many things about the dishes whimsy.

   Just a simple potato, Ian can mix different auxiliary ingredients to make four or five dishes with different tastes, but all of them are very delicious... This kind of wonderful change is almost alchemy!

   And Ian would tell him every time that an alchemist with bad swordsmanship is not a good cook.

  As a knight who is proficient in alchemy, it is only natural that he can cook.

  —What nonsense!

  Even Isengarde would complain about Ian: "I'm also an alchemist, I can also use swordsmanship, why can't I cook?!"

   "Your swordsmanship is better than mine?"

  Ian's simple answer instantly made Isengard recall the feeling of being easily crushed when the two were sparring, and he had no power to refute.

  Isengard accompanied Master Goser to the upper city for several meetings this afternoon, and originally planned to come back at night to continue improving the armor with Ian.

  To be honest, the two weeks I worked with Ian on armor development can be said to be the two weeks that Isengard has made the fastest progress in terms of inscription structure and combat potions.

Ian has never been stingy in sharing knowledge. He will use the simplest example to explain what Isengard does not understand. After all, Isengarde is also an elite alchemist, and his many opinions have also benefited Ian a lot. Qian, especially the experience of the Ellen family's grooming, touched Ian deeply.

   There was even a whole new kind of inspiration.

  —Compared to the armor that is only used as a weapon, the etheric armor as a research comparison object may not need a complete metal structure... Isn't half metal and half armor good?

   Or put another layer of armor on the outside of the colony suit, doesn't it feel bad?

   "The fact that Grand Duke Sorin advanced to the fifth energy level and brought Silvermoon City into the mantle is really too big."

After supper, Ian was exchanging information with Isengard, and the blond boy looked confused: "My father is coming too...he doesn't want to see me, and I don't want to see him...even if he wants to get information about Ake from him. His Majesty Searle's plan cannot be done in the imperial capital."

   "I plan to go out with the teacher, go to Icewind Dale to participate in an alchemist conference, and hide for a while."

   "Ian, do you want to go together? Or stay in the imperial capital?"

   Isengard invited.

"I'll take a look later." Ian was noncommittal. After hearing that Marquis Ellen would also come to the imperial capital, he couldn't help being curious about this matter: "So many great nobles gathered in the imperial capital, what exactly are they going to do? But you You’re right, even if you want to understand the thoughts of the land defenders, you can’t do it in the imperial capital, it’s like plotting under the nose.”

   "The coordination meeting before the total war. That's what the teacher said."

Isengard shook his head slightly, his strength is still too low to participate in this kind of event: "But as far as I know, this time, all the princes and daughters of the royal family who have the right to inherit have returned. Even if there is no Grand Duke Sorin Come out, I'm afraid something big will happen."

   "Royal family? Could it be..."

  Ian raised his eyebrows slightly, and he vaguely thought of a possibility: "Is it Li Chu?"

"how come?"

Even political novice Isengard knew it was impossible. He shook his head and ate the last bite of potato cheese: "As far as the fifth energy level is concerned, His Majesty is still young. What's more, according to tradition, whoever is the strongest and who is the heir, Establishing a reserve is useless at all, and it is only meaningful when the king is not the supreme ruler in Yanjiang."

   Indeed. Ian thought for a while, and felt that he might still be limited by Earth thinking.

   In Terra, what if the strength is not enough to establish a reserve? At that time, it is not necessary to change people obediently. The order brought by the eldest son's succession will not be as stable as the order brought by the strong man's succession.

  But these things have nothing to do with him and Isengard, especially since the latter intends to leave the imperial capital for a while.

  —Look at the fortune.

  Thinking of this, Ian's eyes glowed with cyan fluorescence. He looked at Isengarde, and the other party was also used to Ian's sudden use of spiritual power to observe the surrounding behavior, so he continued to solve the supper happily.

In the vision of prediction, Isengard is still dark blue. His strength has indeed improved recently, and his actual combat ability has been enhanced by the duel with Ian. It takes a while to settle down to advance to the second energy level.

  Besides that, Isengarde's future fortune...is not too bad. But Ian noticed that his friend's fortune was actually on the decline.

  This is not a good sign.

  —Why did it drop?

  Ian is a little puzzled, but thinking about it carefully, leaving the imperial capital is indeed leaving the academic center circle, and there is no way to get the most critical information in the first place, so the decline is understandable.

  He was going to remind Yi Sen later to pay attention to the handling of this aspect, and then turned his head to look at Hua An and Shuang Die.

  Anyway, the vision horizon is open, so it’s just a matter of time to see them all.

   Then, almost slapping the table, he stood up.

  Ian didn't really stand up, and he didn't even change his expression, but there was already a storm in his heart.

  Because what was reflected in his eyes was darkness.

   Without the slightest ray of light, it was constructed from the most intense scarlet and the most intense darkness, a pitch-black darkness that seemed to materialize despair.

   That's the color of death.

-how come? !

Ian's abnormality was not noticed by everyone. Hua An was introducing the difference between walnuts and almonds to Shuangdie, and Shuangdie obviously liked the taste of almonds... The two fairies looked very carefree and uncontested, And in fact it is.

   But in the vision of foresight, the two goblins are about to meet their mortal fate!

   "Everything will be normal tomorrow morning!"

  Ian’s vigilance has been raised to the highest level. He is still eating supper on the surface, but all his experiences are concentrated on this matter.

   After eating, Ian went to the roof on the pretext of wanting to blow the wind, but Isengard naturally didn't think there was anything strange.

  After arriving at the top of the building, Ian closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and concentrated his mental power and spiritual energy... Then, he opened his eyes and looked at the entire floor area.

   Immediately, in the floor area, on both sides of the peaceful and quiet street, the houses that were either slightly lit or turned off, as well as the people in them, all turned into mist.

  The mist figures are either talking with family and friends, or already lying on the bed. Different mist lines and directions represent different meanings. Their fate and future for a period of time are all in Ian's eyes.

Because the density of sublimators in the imperial capital is much higher than other places, there are more than 30 sublimators in just a few blocks, and there are also many second and third energy level sublimators in the entire layer, so even today's spiritual power Ian, who had grown tremendously, also felt the pressure for a while.

  He felt that his eyes were hot and his brain was tired—but Ian still insisted on maintaining the vision of vision and observing the "future" of this area.

   Then he saw,

   Centering on the Isengard house where I am, a large black and red fog spreads rapidly—although there are a few scattered black and red in the distance, it can be clearly seen that the source of everything is the Isengarde house.

   Exactly where...I am!

   "It's me—it's not Hua An and Shuangdie who are going to be unlucky, but me!"

  Ian's heart sank: "And it's a bad luck that will definitely die if you encounter it!"

"but why?"

  Ian couldn't think for a while why he would suddenly fall into a situation where he must die, and even implicate Hua An and Shuang Die, who had Fairy Town behind them... This is simply unreasonable!

   "Could it be that my performance of the armor test in the afternoon attracted something?"

Racking his brains to think about the possibilities, Ian stared at a black and red figure in the distance. He actually knew that person. He was the owner of the restaurant who had a meal. It was late at night, the restaurant was closed, and he returned to the Own shelter ready to rest.

  He is also in an extremely dangerous deadlock, and it's certainly not because of something he's done recently, but because of Ian's involvement.

   And the same goes for the other guy, the clothing store owner who Ian bought some robes from recently...he also had a bloodbath.

   "These people are all more or less related to me, and have a little intersection with me, so they are unlucky!"

  Ian has already discovered this, but he doesn’t understand why—this is the capital of the empire, who has so much energy, can actually cause such death, injury and destruction under the suppression of a fifth energy level and multiple fourth energy levels? Even like Zhu Lian Jiu Clan, uprooting all the people around him who have intersected?

unless…

   That's them.

   "Ethan."

  After coming down from the top of the building, Ian, who looked normal, asked directly, "Is your relatives recently—I mean, the eldest prince and eldest princess, are they also paying attention to me?"

   "Huh?" Seeing Ian coming back from the roof, he asked this question directly, and Isengard was a little puzzled: "Why do you ask this all of a sudden?"

Although I am not very clear, Ian was originally a person with a very out-of-the-box thinking. Isengard thought for a while and replied seriously: "Yes. Although the second uncle communicates with you the most, auntie has recently communicated with you. Time has been on you—especially since she knew you were developing armor, and she was extra interested in you."

"Speaking of this." At this moment, Isengard seemed to think of something. He opened his eyes wide and said to Ian excitedly: "Did you know? Recently, the Imperial Army is soliciting various armor designs! There is no Restrictions and requirements, only practical and practical combat capabilities are required—we think this is to accumulate design ideas for the large-scale development of the sixth-generation armor, and the price given by the military is very high.”

"I heard from others, Ian, you are showing off at the experimental base this afternoon, and even the legendary veteran Lieutenant Colonel Anna is full of praise for you-the performance of the Cyclops definitely meets the requirements, and you can even try to capture it. Maybe design laurels..."

   "Auntie is one of the reviewers, I guess she must have paid attention to you because of this!"

   Speaking of this, Isengard clenched his fists and cheered for Ian: "Do you want to participate? If you can succeed, you will get funding directly from the imperial military!"

  —Yes, this is it!

Ian took a breath in his heart, and his voice was unconsciously a little nervous: "Princess Alegria is paying attention to me directly... Yes, the military is soliciting armor designs, otherwise, the recent period How come there are so many workshops and legions developing various types of unconventional armor?"

"Besides, the Great Empress herself is a behind-the-scenes supporter of the Huoshi Group. My research materials and those armors can be regarded as gifts from her. She must know what I am doing recently... If I go to participate in the solicitation, I will definitely win the prize , or the top few..."

This is really not Ian's arrogance. Although the performance of Cyclops' body is above average, the light prism technology and bionic circuit are brand-new design ideas. Neither of them can win the first place. He will only think that Terra People don't know what to do, or there is a shady secret of being the number one by default.

  However, this has a big trouble.

  Ian swallowed his saliva, he calmed down, and said to Isengard solemnly: "You said...the Earth Keeper..."

   "Will he also pay attention to this matter?"

   "If it was before, I can say absolutely not..."

   Now even Isengard became uncertain. He pondered for a while, and thought: "But His Majesty has appeared today... Then in the recent period, he should be more active than in the past?"

  —It seems that I will pay attention.

  Ian nodded silently, now he understood everything.

  The eldest princess Alegria has been paying attention to herself recently, even if she doesn't sign up, she will probably let herself run.

   Then, no doubt about getting good grades.

  The next thing is very simple.

  The sun is fierce, and everything is visible—as long as you dare to participate, you can even say, as long as you dare to stay in the imperial capital.

  Then I, the hidden disciple of the empire's most wanted criminal, is about to expose my identity directly!

  (end of this chapter)