Civilizations that do not have continuous inheritance and persistent analysis and research are always full of confusion about the sudden wave of magic.
As a sixth-level Heather, she lived in such a land. The Grand Empire called the changes that had taken place the "Mage Revolution" and misunderstood the magic wave from the source, even though Grand's magicians had been close to it in recent years. They learned the truth, but the magic wave did not give them more time to prepare.
Heather didn't understand the magic wave, but as a sixth-level magician, she instinctively sensed the anomaly - any kind of innovation could not immediately affect the underlying logic of magic operation. Combined with the reminder Lu Yu once gave...
After casting her gaze to the heavens for the umpteenth time, Heather made a decision.
"Whoever is willing to go to sea, come with me!"
By the time the Knights of the Star heard Heather shouting this, she had already used all her savings to buy a large, sturdy ship.
Heather stood on this masterpiece filled with the wisdom and brainchild of craftsmen and announced loudly to the Star Knights below: "I will leave this country."
The stunned members of the Star Knights looked at each other, and it took a long time for someone to ask "why."
Heather did not express her guess, but looked at the capital of the Grand Empire with disappointment: "There is no place for us here."
Hesitation, confusion, and confusion flashed across the faces of the group members one by one.
"I'm sorry...I don't want to leave my hometown."
"I'm sorry, captain..."
"Maybe it's good to be a mercenary like this. Can the unknown sea contain our souls and guide us towards the future?"
Following the polite rejections, there were only a few people standing next to Heather.
Heather waited, and waited, and finally a letter came.
The cat-faced murderer she once collaborated with simply wished her a safe journey, and then…
“It’s hard to leave our homeland, but we’ll see you again if we have the chance.”
Heather smiled, carefully folded the letter and stored it away.
"Captain, it seems that the name of the ship has not been decided yet."
"Asking knowingly." Heather smiled.
The Star set sail and set off, leaving the land where they once held passion and hope, trying to change some things with their own power.
Behind them is the land that has disappointed them infinitely, and in front is the sea full of unknowns and challenges.
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Among the mountains, a handsome young man raised his hand towards the fallen trees in the distance, and the layers of vines wrapped around them, quickly absorbing the nutrients and completely decomposing them.
"Your Highness Aesop..."
Aesop raised his head and glanced at the person, who immediately changed his mind.
"Lord Aesop...none of our elves know how to cultivate aquatic products."
Aesop laughed dumbly: "Not one?"
"No, maybe the sea tribes living in the sea not far away can provide us with some help."
Aesop nodded: "Then invite, remember to bring some sincerity."
As the territorial governor left, Aesop wiped his sweat and continued his monotonous and boring work.
Aesop knew that his father still had expectations for him and had been hesitant before. However, after Lu Yu described Laurende's life to him, Aesop realized how heavy the responsibility of that position was.
Realizing that he is not suitable to be a king may be Aesop's biggest gain after meeting Lu Yu.
After explaining his idea to his father, Aesop was scolded as expected, but after the storm, his father agreed to his request.
Aesop took his younger brothers and sisters who relied on and trusted him and left the dense forest of Thoreson, came to the edge of the continent, occupied a small, remote and comfortable place, and began to build a fortress to survive the turmoil.
“Unrest is coming, be prepared.”
Faced with this advice, Aesop subconsciously asked Lu Yu: "Aren't you worried about me telling my father?"
"If you tell him, he won't believe it. The turmoil is too vague and the scale of any preparation for this needs to be carefully considered. A huge country actively preparing for something requires more than just a word from the king. , but a unanimous opinion reached from top to bottom. Your father has not taken action against the queen so far and is still 'bearing it'. I don't think he has the courage to listen to my baseless 'prophecy' against all opinions."
Exactly what Lu Yu said, his father only replied "I understand" after hearing this, and then made no response.
Aesop is different. He believes in every word Lu Yu said. Maybe he can't be a qualified king, but at least he can protect his younger brothers and sisters behind him and let them escape the terrible turmoil predicted by Lu Yu - as Lord, he believed he should be qualified.
For this reason, he stocked up on food, used his good reputation to start migrating with hundreds of elves, and finally settled down.
The territorial governor rushed back in the evening and brought two green and sticky fishmen.
They walk upright and have extremely short hands that look like chicken claws and are very deformed.
The two eyes are bulging, occupying most of the space on the left and right sides of the face respectively. It is difficult to imagine whether they have basic vision on land.
Bad breath, severe bad breath. When Aesop saw the sharp teeth in the fishman's mouth, he felt dizzy. Mixed with the fishy smell, the smell of rotten and fermented seaweed rushed over him, which was very high.
The two murlocs, whose bodies were covered in moss, looked very lively and happy. They jumped around and planned an aquaculture area for Aesop's territory, and danced and introduced their experiences through a translator - Aesop thought that as long as their hands and feet were tied, If they stop, these two murlocs will no longer be able to speak, as if their vocal organs are in the wrong place.
Aesop didn't despise the murlocs because they didn't look like the elves, had bad breath, and behaved vulgarly. After his sister touched her nose and said it smelled bad, he even took his sister to apologize to the two murlocs.
By translating the tree spirits, the fishmen said that they did not care about this offense. Living in the sea water, they naturally have a salty smell that land life does not like.
"Guwa Gua Gu Lu Gu Gu Gu~~~"
The translator tree spirit said: "Your Highness...oh no, Lord Lord, the fishman said that if you invite them again in two days, they will definitely not come out."
Although Aesop was curious, he patted his sister Ina on the head first and asked her to give the essence of plants and trees made by the elves through their natural power to the two fishmen.
The sensible Ina didn't cover her nose, put on a harmless and cute smile and ran up.
The two fish people were afraid of getting Ina's hands dirty, so they danced and talked.
"They put Ina on the ground."
"Ina, hand it to them with your own hands."
As the fish-man dodged, Ina ignored the smelly mucus and placed the jar containing the essence of vegetation into the fish-man's hand.
Seeing the excited and grateful expressions of the two fishmen, Aesop motioned to the tree spirit to ask about the thing that concerned him most.
"The great prophet of the fish people felt an unsettling rhythm while using fish bones and clams for divination."
"Uneasy Rhythm?"
"It seems that the magic power of the Great Prophet has been swallowed by the sea. The intermittent divination failures have made the fishmen a little panic... I heard that the clam spirits next door have voluntarily abandoned their territory and hid in the depths of the sea. Therefore, the Great Prophet has been organizing in the past two days The tribesmen collected food and looked for a quiet, uninhabited place to escape the frightening 'natural disaster'."
Aesop was silent for a long time, and whispered with difficulty: "Has it started yet... It doesn't even take two years."
In the early morning two days later, two fish-man priests came to Aesop's territory. They brought two deep-sea clam beads and a complete fish-man bone containing the magic power of the water element.
They told Aesop in an apologetic tone that they could no longer provide help to the territory and would recall their two murloc companions because the murloc clan was about to start migrating.
"What kind of turmoil did the Great Prophet foresee?" Aesop asked as he solemnly accepted the fish-men clan's return gift.
"Chaos...Disorder...This is just the prologue. The Great Prophet only saw this...The fishmen couldn't know what it was, and they finally named it 'Dark Tide'. They sent their blessings to you, and may your Kindness and enlightenment can lead the territory to avoid the coming 'tide of darkness.'" The dryad uneasily translated the uneasy words of the two priests.
After the fishman left, Aesop sighed deeply.
Based on his trust in Lu Yu, he seemed to have made some responses before everyone else.
However, the two years mentioned by Lu Yu are wrong information...
"Am I really capable of leading everyone through the 'tide of darkness' that even the Sea Clan is afraid of?"
This thought flashed away, and Aesop clenched his fists and said firmly: "No, I must be capable... If I don't even have confidence, will I soon let down the elves who trusted me and left Thoresen?"
As the bells rang, Aesop's territory became busy again.
They are racing against the distant tide.
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In the quiet courtyard, little Fox Bread sipped mushroom soup. Next to her was the engraved summoned dragon slayer who was chewing roasted mushrooms.
In the room behind them, the werewolf king Yin Sa, the demon fox priest Da Ke Lu'er, and the leader of blue water Ye Shui gathered together.
As Orkus slowly woke up from his sleep lying next to the bookshelf, the meeting officially began.
The first is Da Keluer who represents the demon fox.
"We, the Demon Fox, have completed the task of collecting food that was assigned at the meeting of the three tribes."
Yin Sa took care of his hair and said: "The part we werewolves are responsible for has been completed. Although the fear of Selel going crazy and starting another war has effectively dispelled the doubts of the people below, Ye Shui, you must also explain it to us. Confused. Now the three tribes can eat enough food in the Blue Water Granary for more than five years...I swear, I have never seen so much food in my life."
"I heard that Blue Water also grows a large number of edible mushrooms underground...Did your priests and prophets have a premonition that there will be a drought next year and there will be no harvest?"
Da Keluer was not as anxious as Yinsa, because when Lu Yu returned last time, Xiao Keluer, who had a good relationship with him, knew some details, including the "big turmoil" that made Lu Yu himself worried.
It was also after Lu Yu left that Ye Shui proposed starting a large grain harvest at the meeting of the three tribes.
"Let's not rush this matter. Today I want to ask you if there are any particularly unusual events that occurred during this period."
Da Keluer frowned: "Your magic is invalid and out of control too?"
As soon as the words came out, Ye Shui and Dak Luer frowned.
"The magic suddenly became ineffective when the Demon Fox was hunting. There were four or five reports."
"It's better than Blue Water. We have more than thirty cases here."
"So many?" Daklu'er was surprised, "Very often?"
"Relatively speaking, it's very frequent and irregular. Even the conversion of the most basic magic power into elements by my mushrooms fluctuates."
Yin Sa also felt something was wrong: "How come we haven't encountered anything like this..."
Realizing that everyone in the room was staring at him, Yin Sa suddenly realized... Werewolves mostly use physical skills instead of magic. Tearing prey to pieces with bare hands is much more pleasurable than sissy magic.
Orkus was very dissatisfied that he was forced to return to the Summoning Temple for a meeting. He complained: "So why are you discussing this matter here? I should be studying the Book of Summoning Knowledge."
"You are also a high-level magician. You study summons every day and use magic many times. Have you never encountered this?"
"I've met him before."
"Then you're not surprised at all?"
"It's just a sign of the coming magic wave. The basic operation of magic will be greatly disturbed, and all magic will fluctuate irregularly, causing all magic mechanisms to work sometimes... Don't stare at me with that look, look. See if Ye Shui is very calm, she has known about the magic wave for a long time, and she only came to you to discuss the 'magic malfunction', and to formally explain it to you."
"You knew this a long time ago?" Yin Sa stood up, "Are you the prophet?"
Orkus was originally worried that Yin Sa felt that Ye Shui's information was not transparent. After all, what the Three Clans Alliance wanted was unity. But in the end, this guy didn't care about this at all. Instead, he asked about other things with bright eyes... Sure enough, the way It makes sense for Yu not to tell the werewolves. These guys whose biceps dominate their brains don't think about complex things most of the time.
When they learned that Lu Yu had provided them with precious information, the sincere Yin Sa immediately said that he would give Lu Yu a warm hug the next time they met.
Orkus was thinking about whether to tell Lu Yu the news through the temple, because he remembered that Lu Yu complained that he was no different from a chicken in front of a werewolf...
Although it was different from what Lu Yu predicted, the advance of the magic wave did not disrupt the arrangement of the alliance of the three tribes, and the highly united three tribes had completed preparations.
But Ye Shui couldn't figure out why the Blue Water clan's magic failure rate was so high.
This does not seem to be explained by one sentence that blue water mushrooms have bad luck.
"What on earth affected Blue Water..."
Following the reliable Lan Shui and the Demon Fox, Yin Sa was in a particularly good mood. He, who never read much, happily admired Orkus's collection of books with his hands behind his back.
"Wow, you have so many old books here. Is the knowledge in them still useful?"
Orkus said: "Most of them are useless and only have historical research value... There are not a few pieces of knowledge that have been swept into the garbage dump by the products of newer iterations, things that are behind the times and magic systems... I can only say that let the past go by. Everyone has glorious moments, don’t take them for eternity.”
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