Ionian Province of Navoli, Sacred Forest Omikayalan, near the northern approach stone.
A figure hidden in the night jumped down from the treetops and slowly approached the golden magic stone pillar halfway up the mountain. The golden strange symbols on the stone pillar exuded bright magic light, dispersing the surrounding darkness. It also illuminated the face of the visitor, who was Lester who was ready to crack the Gate's guiding stone.
Staring at the three-meter-high guiding stone pillar, Lester took out the wind attribute natural magic stone that Yuxia had prepared for himself. Because of the star seal, he could not mobilize the magic element, but he absorbed two new world runes. Finally, when you can see the direction of the flow of magic power, it is okay to use the magic stone to do some of the simplest element guidance.
"There are a total of one hundred and twenty-eight astral symbol magic nodes of different sizes and changing positions on the Gate's guide stone. The nodes are interlocked like a huge spider web.
Some nodes have the characteristic of absorbing free natural elements to repair other damaged nodes. If you want to crack the magic node, you must find these repairing nodes in a very short time and carry out fixed-point elemental impact to block the flow of magic. In addition, , I also need to cut off the key magic nodes involved in space teleportation to prevent someone from coming here through the guide stone when I am cracking.
After doing all this, I must destroy all the nodes in order from small to large according to the rhythm of the flow of elements, without making any mistakes, otherwise it will easily cause a riot of magic in the astral world and let the protoss notice this place. Fortunately, I am high enough, otherwise You have to find a stool or something to rest your feet on..."
After reviewing his plan again, Lester, who had already memorized the astral rune codex given by Kieran, took a deep breath and put aside the backpack containing the demonite.
"Then, let's get started..."
Before he could finish his words, Gate's guide stone suddenly glowed brightly, and an astral portal appeared in the space torn apart by the guide stone, and a vastaya otter with a big beard jumped out.
"scare!
! "
As soon as he came out of the portal, the tall and majestic black figure in front of him startled the Otter Man. The Otter Man, whose heart was unstable, lost his balance and fell to the ground. Before the Otter Man could see the face of the black shadow, the Otter Man was stunned. The person's head suffered a heavy blow, and he immediately fainted with his eyes closed. His two small hands were clasped in front of his chest, with a peaceful look on his face.
Lester reluctantly placed the corpse of the Otter in the large sack he had prepared, and secretly prayed that no one would teleport him in the middle of the night. It seemed that the prayer had an effect, and the guiding stone did not glow again.
Holding the magic stone in his hand, Lester found the first node that could be impacted, and pressed the magic stone on the arc-like symbol.
"Weng~"
The sudden burst of elemental impact caused the arc symbol to dim instantly. The damage to the node was sensed. The self-healing node on Gate's guide stone began to flash. The surrounding natural magic was extracted and began to reconstruct the damaged node, but the magic element had not yet begun to be guided. The second node with a higher order also turned black instantly and lost its function.
Lester's movements quickened, and he opened the bow with his left and right hands at the same time. Soon the first magic stone was completely turned into a stone without any magic power.
After casually throwing away the magic stone that had exhausted its mana, Lester took another piece in his hand, like a top audio game player in the arcade, one after another astral symbol nodes appeared on the guide stone, and then Lester, whose characteristics were confirmed, struck accurately and became gloomy.
Until the last node was destroyed, Lester did not make any mistakes. After losing the blessing of the astral runes, the entire stone pillar collapsed suddenly and turned into rubble. At the core of the stone pillar, Lester saw Arriving at the world runes independently placed on the purple quartz crystal base by the protoss.
Putting the runes away, Lester with a smile picked up the unconscious Otter Man, took a look at it, and placed it next to the rubble. At this moment, less than three hours had passed since Lester began to crack the teleportation stone.
"Sleep well, little one."
As he was about to turn around and leave, Lester's eyes once again glanced at the crystal stand where the rune fragments were placed. After hesitating for a moment, the man pulled out Luoxia and prepared to destroy the evidence.
…
"Hey! Wake up! Wake up?"
Feeling someone slapping his cheek, Otter Rayleigh opened his eyes blankly. The dazzling light forced him to block the direct sunlight with his hands. He was in a daze for a while, and when he removed his right hand, he saw a picture of a large lizard with a flower bone on top. His face was less than five minutes away from his own cheek, and his thin, forked tongue was almost touching his nose.
"scare!
! "
The otter man straightened his body and stepped back, which actually startled the owl lizard. The owl lizard named Debbie fluttered its butterfly-like pale blue wings and sat down on the ground, staring at the otter man with big eyes.
"You scared me to death, you guy, why are you so scared?"
"I was attacked! Scared! Where are my things?"
"Right behind you, idiot!"
Debbie rolled her eyes. She suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the Otter in front of her. He didn't look like a guy who could destroy the teleportation stone.
After Debbie's reminder, Riley realized to check the luggage at this time. After a brief fumble, Riley breathed a sigh of relief. Nothing was lost in this attack.
Then his eyes saw the Gate teleportation stone that had turned into a pile of rubble. Otter Man was stunned and the baggage in his hand fell to the ground.
"Hot, it's such a big piece... where's the teleportation stone?"
Debbie crossed her arms and sneered.
"I think you should ask yourself. After all, the teleportation stone was like this when I came here. Within a hundred meters, you are the only vastaya here to dry your belly and bask in the sun."
After dazedly getting up from the ground and running around the rubble, Riley patted his cheek blankly, feeling the pain.
"Am I dreaming?"
"I also hope you are dreaming. Unfortunately, this is not a dream. The teleportation stone that has never had problems has turned into rubble for some reason. I feel like you have been lying here for so long. Time, you should know something."
Frowning, Debbie once again confirmed that the stupid Otter in front of her was not the culprit, but if it wasn't the Otter in front of her, who could it be.
"Wait, I remembered."
After patting his aching head, Riley stared at his little paws with wide eyes.
"What do you remember?"
"Last night I came from the south using the guiding stone, and I saw a huge black shadow."
"Dark shadow? What dark shadow?"
Sensing the key factor, the curious Debbie approached Riley, who was telling the story of the victim seriously. She had always been interested in such adventure stories, and naturally she would not let it go at this moment.
"A dark figure wearing a black cloak with his face covered, he looked like a big bad guy at first glance! He attacked me who had just teleported here, and knocked me unconscious in one go!"
The invisible black cloak covers the face and knocks out strangers...
Debbie stuck out the owl's unique long tongue, and she could already smell the excitement of adventure.
"It must be that dark shadow. He destroyed the guiding stone!"
"What you said...should be correct."
After scratching his head, Riley seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly sighed. The otter-man seemed to shrink back in fear.
"I didn't expect that I could survive when I met a guy like that. It's really too dangerous. It seems that I have to stay away from the guiding stone in the future..."
Otter Man's words stunned the Owl Lizard. She looked in disbelief at Otter Man who was about to leave on his short legs after carrying his luggage. She quickly ran two steps and grabbed the Otter Man's back collar.
"You just left like that? Watching the guiding stone being destroyed?"
"if not?"
After breaking free from the owl lizard's hand, Riley looked serious.
"Miss Owl Lizard, are you trying to pull me into doing something? Don't think about it. I won't go with you to stop that big bad guy. You haven't seen that guy and you don't know him at all. It's scary. He subdued me in the blink of an eye. I'm not married yet and I don't want to die so early.
Listen, the most I can do is pass on the news that the guiding stone has been destroyed to the clan elders. There are always powerful people to protect the guiding stone. I’ll forget it. Instead of fighting against that big bad guy, I might as well earn more wife money..."
"You can't leave!"
Stopping in front of Riley again, Debbie angrily opened her arms to block her: "You are the only one who has seen the bad guy's size. You can't just leave like this. The bad guy will definitely destroy another guiding stone." , we must stop him!"
"Don't you understand what I'm saying? I won't agree to it!"
Being stopped again and again by Debbie, Riley also got a little angry, but he heard Debbie speak.
"If you can stop this from happening with me, I will be your wife!
"
"ah!?"
Riley stared blankly at the female owl in front of him. Only then did he realize that the lizard-man with butterfly wings in front of him was a rare beauty. Her pale pink fan-shaped scales protected her vital parts, and her short skirt could barely cover her from the light. The big, watery eyes never get tired of looking at this place. After changing the angle of view, even the scary long tongue becomes three points more charming and hot.
Looking down, Riley, who had his belly shrunk, compared the size of his forked tongue. He knew that he had to marry Debbie.
"Actually... I actually like you quite a bit. The question is, are you kidding me?"
"Of course I'm not joking. To be honest, I don't like you, not at all. You are cowardly, timid, have no courage, no sense of responsibility, and you only know how to escape when you encounter problems. I don't like this kind of person at all.
But the problem is that you are the only one who has experienced all this. It's like an epic adventure story appears in front of me, and I can't refuse it at all! I will catch this guy who destroyed the Waystone and become a legend in Vastaya! "
To be honest, it was a bit shocking, but doing so made Riley believe that the cute and charming Miss Owl in front of him was not teasing him.
Gritting his teeth, Otter Man said in a deep voice.
"Okay! I promise you!"
Hearing what the Otter Man said, Debbie's face was full of excitement.
"My name is Debbie, I love adventure, Otterman, what's your name?"
"Miss Debbie, your name is so beautiful."
"Thank you. Many people have said this. You are not the first."
After first praising the beautiful owl lizard in front of him, Rayleigh took off his hat and bowed in an extremely gentlemanly manner.
"My name is Riley, and I am a traveling businessman."
"In this case, the name of our team is Team Delly! Rayleigh, the first thing we have to do is to divide our troops into two groups and tell the elders of each tribe about the damage to the approach stone. I believe the elders will pass the news on The ancestors of Xia Rui, even if we fail, the omnipotent Xia Rui will stand up to protect the guiding stone and defeat the bad guys!"
"You are right, Miss Debbie. In fact, I think it is enough for us to do this. After the elders know about this, you will come back to the village with me and I will build a new home..."
Debbie interrupted Riley unceremoniously.
"Riley, I won't go with you until I catch the bad guy with my own hands, do you understand?"
"Okay, okay, I know this matter is not that simple. Tell me, after notifying the elders, what should Team Delly do when they gather again?"
"Let's go squat next to the next approach stone that may be destroyed and catch the bad guys..."
"You are too naive, Miss Debbie. It is very dangerous to do that. At least we need to find some other helpers. The guy who can destroy the guiding stone is definitely not a simple character."
After thinking for a moment, Debbie calmed down a little and had to admit that what Riley said made sense.
"You're right, we should be more cautious. I happen to have some very powerful friends. I think we can seek their help!"
"Well, can I ask, are any of your friends more beautiful than you?"
…
He didn't know that his mercy had led to the birth of a Vastaya team dedicated to fighting him. In fact, even if he knew about Lester, he wouldn't care, because his partners control the entire Omikayalan, and even The Xari will also be restrained in some way, which is why he is unwilling to kill Vastaya.
After absorbing the world rune fragments for the first time, Lester did not return directly to the village, nor did he go in the direction of the Ancestral Village. Instead, he came to a golden forest outside the Ancestral Village.
Standing in front of a golden sapling, Lester pressed his right hand on the trunk and waited quietly.
"Dongdong...Dongdong..."
The sound of a heartbeat came from the palm of the hand, and this sound gradually synchronized with Lester's heartbeat. A bright golden light flashed out from the golden sapling, and turned into a three-tailed golden fox under Lester's eyes.
"Lot, I didn't expect you to come so quickly."
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Lester smiled and greeted the golden-furred fox as if he were greeting an old friend. The golden-furred fox trotted a few steps without ceremony and jumped into the man's arms, mouthing human words.
"I came quickly because I have been waiting for you for a long time. It has been more than four hundred years since we last parted, right?"
Stroking the chin of the golden-haired fox, Lester whispered.
"Yes, it has been more than four hundred years. Just like you said, I have been affected by the world's runes. I will not grow old and die very hard, just like you."
"Ha, just like me... pathetic."
