With the support of a knight, Afifah appeared in everyone's sight, followed by Delan. This alchemist was actually wearing black chain mail, with carved leather gloves on the sword at his waist, and his boots were stained with a few bloodstains, but no one here was wearing a military uniform at this time.
All eyes were on the two men. Some recognized Afifah, but most did not recognize Delan. Only a few old ministers who still remembered the time of the late princess could not help but look surprised when they saw De Lan.
"Captain Ed?" Afifa's face was as pale as the ice on a lake in winter, and he was so weak that a gust of wind could blow it over. His soft eyes were looking at Fang Plover's right arm in surprise: "Your hand..."
"It's just a trivial matter." With the help of Ai Xiaoxiao and Sylvide, Fang Yu sat up from the stretcher and looked at the weak girl. "Afifah, it looks like Mr. Derain and the others have cured you?"
Afifah nodded. "Mr. Derain and another gentleman cured me. I don't know what happened before. I only remember being taken away from the Earl's Mansion. The rest of the story was told to me by Mr. Alfond and Mr. Parker. "
"Miss Afifa, Miss Afifa," Parker chased after him with his short legs. He glanced at Fang Plover warily and quickly stood between him and Afifa. He took another step back and whispered to the girl: "You have to be careful, Miss Afifah, this guy has a girlfriend."
But this stupid little man forgot that his team communication channel was open. As a result, Fang Yu looked at this guy who was talking nonsense with a dark look on his face, already thinking about the other party's sad end.
After hearing this, Afifah blushed and shook her head quickly: "I didn't mean that, Mr. Parker..."
A certain 'girlfriend' looked at this scene with a smile, turned her head, and looked at Tang Xin beside her. But the latter only lowered his head and stared at his cousin's shoulder.
Princess Rupert looked at the face that resembled her mother's girlhood, and was in a daze for a moment. She quickly blinked her eyes and said in a slightly trembling tone: "Miss Afifa——"
Afifah did not hear the weakness in the other party's words.
This girl didn’t even know who was assigned to capture her earlier, and she might never know this secret in this life. She was very flustered because this legendary princess actually knew her, and she hurriedly saluted: " Her Royal Highness the Princess..."
"Your Highness Princess." Then Delan also bowed and bowed. "Your Highness Aleph."
Aleph nodded quickly in return, but he didn't know who this person was and why he knew him.
Rupert looked at the man in black chain mail. "Are you, Mr. Derain...?"
The latter nodded slightly.
She turned around and looked at Fang Plover before asking him: "Mr. Delan, is there anything you can do?"
"I don't, but someone does-"
Outside the Kashan Palace, the guards suddenly started to commotion. The crowd retreated one after another, as if being dispersed by something. Behind the crowd, a tall structure appeared. And there are people underneath that structure. Many, many people.
The person walking at the front was actually Ms. Erna. Fang Plover also recognized the various people wearing robes and coats behind him. They were alchemists. The alchemists from the Istania Artisan Association are all here.
Ms. Erna walked quickly through the crowd, bowed to Aleph and Princess Rupert, and her tone was somewhat high-spirited. "Your Highness, at first we helped the citizens move to the North City District. Now I heard that you are still here. The entire Istania Craftsmen Association has come over. Most of the people who are still alive are here -"
She turned around, pointed at those people and said, "They must also stay to protect this royal city, including me."
Fang Yu saw Alfangde in the crowd, and Pasha, Xiangxiang and Luo Yu also followed him to join him.
Princess Rupert's eyes flashed.
The atmosphere in the hall relaxed a lot, and the sudden reinforcements seemed to give everyone a glimmer of hope.
An old man with a silver gray beard that almost reached the ground also came out to salute Aleph and Her Royal Highness the Princess. He was wearing a black cloth robe and had three rings on his hand, one of which had a black spider emblem tattooed on it. After Sylvide's prompting, Fang Plover found out that this old man was the master of the Istania Association.
The craftsmen had lost a large number of structures in previous battles, but this was not a problem. There was also a royal inventory in the Kashan Palace, and Aleph promised to take out those treasured structures for everyone to use. With the constructed combat craftsmen, one person is equal to an army, not to mention that this is the combat branch of the entire Istania Craftsmen Association.
If they had participated in the previous battle, the Sand Pirates would have been defeated faster.
However, this still does not solve the root of the problem. The craftsmen seemed to have known about this for a long time, and before the eldest princess could ask, everyone from Erna and the old man down to them tacitly made a way for them.
This road leads to the bottom of the tall structure. Under the structure stands a silent man, wearing a gray and black trench coat. The trench coat is nailed with silver buttons, like two rows of nails on a city wall. He stands on There, the whole person is like a silent wall, with silver frost on his temples and piercing eyes.
When many people see this man, they subconsciously have an illusion: Have they seen him somewhere? And Princess Rupert felt even stronger in her heart. Before she could speak, the man stepped forward, and the guard next to him didn't know whether to stop him or not.
But fortunately, he stopped halfway through the hall and raised his hands, wearing a pair of leather gloves with iron rings on the wrists. He opened his hand, and the thing in his hand slipped to the ground. With a few "ding-dong" sounds, several silver objects rolled down on the marble floor.
They were several rings, forged from sterling silver. The rings were stained with blood spots, and the pattern of a closed eye could be vaguely seen under the blood streaks.
Fang Plover recognized the other party.
They even fought against each other, in Tansnir's desert shelter, but the other party didn't try his best at that time, and he almost lost completely. Later, when he met Delan, he met the other party again. He knew that they were cooperating with Ye Hua, but when he asked about the other party's identity, he only got a simple answer:
the Avengers.
Whose revenge, revenge against whom?
He looked at Ye Hua. Ye Hua was also looking at this person, with no special expression on his face, as if the relationship between them was limited to the commission of the Sand King Babartan.
But Fang Yu calmed down, and it was the other person he was waiting for at the moment.
"There are a total of twelve places where blind followers perform rituals in the city," the man retracted his hand, raised his head and looked at Princess Rupert and replied. "Eight of them have been destroyed by us, and the remaining four should be about the same."
This sentence made the hall so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.
"Is the thing outside summoned by the blind followers through the ritual?" Rupert asked, "If the ritual is destroyed, will it go back?"
"Your Highness, where do you think it should go?" the other party asked.
Rupert opened his mouth. For a while, no one came out to point out that this rhetorical question seemed a bit rude. A strange idea arose in people's minds. Where did the twisted thing come from, and where should it go back?
The hall was as quiet as silence, and even the most knowledgeable bachelor could not answer this question.
"Is this question important?" Rupert reacted after a moment of silence.
The other party nodded. "It's about how we send it back."
"In other words," Princess Rupert reacted quickly this time, "you have a way to send it back?"
Her words immediately caused a burst of whispers in the hall.
"I don't have it, but some of us do. Together, we can maybe think of something." The other person looked around at everyone, reached under his coat, and when he took it out again, he wrapped it in thick leather gloves. a thing.
He wrapped the thing with his hands and carefully revealed it. A ray of dazzling green light like a dream bloomed from between the gaps in the gloves.
Fang Yu recognized the thing at a glance and couldn't help but be startled.
The man took a step forward, squatted down, and placed the bright crystal in the center of the marble floor in front of everyone. , the azure light radiated from the clear green crystal, lasting for a long time, seeming to darken the entire hall.
That is the radiance of Cang——
But that gem.
"Emerald Star." Someone in the crowd whispered.
"This is..." Her Royal Highness the Princess was also a little surprised. It's not that she didn't know the Emerald Star, but the Emerald Star didn't exude such a heart-wrenching brilliance——
There seemed to be a soft voice in the light, telling the gurgling past, which was the history of countless eras, stars and light, and the brilliance of life.
People seem to see the birth of life and the origin of everything.
The other party straightened up, looked at the princess, paused for a moment, and then slowly said: "Your Highness, when I first met your mother, she was the same age as you are now. It can be said that you have wisdom. , almost completely inherited from your mother, she is one of the few people who can read the manuscript and decipher the secret from it——"
The princess opened her mouth and looked at the other party in disbelief.
There was also deathly silence in the hall.
Fang Yu was stunned.
Various possibilities were tumbling in his mind, and the last and most likely idea was about to come out. He seemed to suddenly understand whose avenger the other party was and who he was seeking revenge from.
Names, IDs and codes flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern - Owl, Snail, Raptor, Age, Apothecary, Shield and Farstrider, or Traveler, or... Star?
But no matter what, at least the name Dawn Star is already close at hand.
The images of Captain Quirod and Miss Scarpet seemed to emerge from the darkness, then disappear again in the blink of an eye. He looked at the person in front of him, and a thought flashed through his mind involuntarily. Were Captain Quirod and Miss Scarpete really once his teammates?
If all this is true, what codename do they represent in the group that was also called "Dawn Star"? What happened behind the Battle of Byrne?
But he suppressed all the doubts in his mind.
The other party continued: "Your Highness, the light you see now is called the radiance of the blue. It is not complete, but it is also the best thing your mother left for you and for Istania. one's gift--"
"In this light, there is another world. What is recorded in the notebook is actually the way to this world. When all of us were at a loss, it was your mother who used her wisdom to find it. clue."
"And it," he sighed quietly, turned around and looked at the dim sky outside the palace: "is the only way to solve all this at this moment."
Princess Rupert quietly looked at the blue light like sea water, flowing slowly, like a dream.
She seemed to have had a dream as well, dreaming of her mother standing in the light. Everything was like the memory of a long time ago, when she was still a child, listening to her mother telling stories about distant places.
The distance in the story seems to be right in front of you.
But she has grown up after all, and seems to have inherited her father's calmness: "What is that solution?"
The other party spoke slowly, as if telling an ancient story...
A thousand years ago, a misfortune star came to the world.
The green star shines on the earth. It brings the power of darkness and gives birth to giants, naga and dark dragons.
The legend of the Dark Saints has lingered in this world since that era. After a long war, the elves defeated the giants, the mortals also killed the dark dragon, and drove the Naga clan to the outer sea of Harina.
But the pain caused by the long war has never subsided for a moment. The sad story of the dragon slayer, the Numerin elves who left this continent, and the pure silver moon will no longer shine on Esso. On the land of the forest.
But few people know how the elves won the final victory——
It's just that they left records of that time on ancient stone tablets.
The elves believe that the greenery comes from another world and brings everything in the darkness with it. With the help of the Orin gods, they hammered out five sacred objects from the green fragments.
And gained from it a power that is close to the original source - the radiance of Cang.
With the help of such power, mortals finally won the war.
"But for a thousand years, no one knows how the gods of Orin forged such an almost antagonistic power from the green star——"
"The elves explained the secret, but they were unable to do anything about it. In the end, they only left five holy objects as the last evidence of that era. The gods of Orin also avoided it, as if they had never talked about it since that era. No more mention of anything about holy objects..."
"Only the five remaining creatures seem to be still a guide, guiding people on how to find everything in the past and the secrets left by the elves..."
"About the Bane Star, about Aitaria, about...the door to the three worlds..."
The man raised his head and looked at everyone. The bright light reflected in his eyes, like a glint of light. "Your Highness Princess, since the death of your mother, we and the King of Sand Babartan have been trying to unlock this secret for many years. We have not gained much, but at least we have not gained nothing."
"The Cang Zhihui on this crystal is not its true form. In the excited state, it can exist for about a few hours. And these few hours are the last chance we have left."
Princess Rupert listened silently.
"With this," she asked, "can I repel Descartes' twisted incarnation?"
"No," the other party shook his head again, "its real function is to allow us to go to another world. A world where there are only stars and the gods sleep. There, we have the only chance to prevent Descartes' resurrection. "
As soon as he said this, Fang Yu blurted out:
"Are we going to challenge a god?"
"No."
The other party looked at him and replied: "It is a god who is still recovering."
But that's pretty much it, Fang Plover couldn't help but think to himself.
Silence swirled in the hall, like a monster, swallowing up everyone's voices.
Only the sound of breathing is left.
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Miaoshuwu
