"There's another one, don't let him get away!"
The fire spread in the Hall of Trees, but the Chosen Ones quickly realized that it was more important to keep the culprit behind than to put out the fire.
The elementalist was escaping to the kitchen through the diffuse smoke, where there was a window leading to the forest outside. That was their planned escape route, but then he suddenly heard a shout from behind. : "He's over here!"
He looked back and saw several selectmen breaking the door and rushing in. The elementalist was furious, "These bastards are getting in the way!" If it weren't for these nosy guys, they would have completed their mission and retreated smoothly.
He turned around, raised the staff in his hand, and struck the ground hard. When the end of the staff hit the wooden floor, bright flames rose up, and several fire snakes spread out in all directions from there.
"Be careful, ring of fire!" The wisest of the selectors who rushed in screamed and pulled their companions back. But their level required a certain amount of luck to avoid this spell. The unlucky one tripped over a wooden barrel when he retreated. The barrel rolled to the ground with it, and the mushrooms inside spilled all over the floor.
The fire snake spread up the man's trouser legs, turning it into a walking flame amidst his screams. The grease crackled under the high temperature, and the air was instantly filled with the aroma of burnt meat. . The few remaining people looked pale and almost felt sick. And soon only the skeleton was left in the human form in the flames, and the skeleton turned into ashes.
The fire was spreading on the walls, burning the wooden cabinets and ceiling to charred scales, and the entire kitchen was engulfed in flames in an instant. The elementalist stood in the center of this sea of fire, holding the staff in his hand high and defiantly. He knew that he could not escape and planned to fight to the death before he died.
But at this moment, the orderly mantras in his mind suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
The elementalist was startled for a moment, suddenly thought of something, and his face turned pale. And this stunned moment made it impossible for him to remain calm. The seven-layered magic circle composed of mantras in his mind suddenly collapsed, and all the mantras wandered in his thoughts like disorderly chaos. The familiar spells in the past seemed strange and alienated at this moment.
"No!" He widened his eyes and shouted, "Remember it!"
But to no avail, most of the fire in the entire kitchen disappeared at once, and the magical flame was extracted from its manifest form and turned into a free elemental state again. The original ether surged back toward the center of this collapse point like a landslide.
But just when this huge power was about to turn the elementalists into powder, it seemed as if an invisible hand intercepted them and changed their shape, allowing them to capture the rising water vapor, and then put the water vapor away It condensed into water droplets and fell from mid-air.
A light rain fell in the kitchen, dousing what was left of the fire. Just as the elementalist was dumbfounded, several sturdy selectors swarmed up and pushed him to the ground:
"We got him!"
The hot floor made his face roar, and the latter rolled his eyes and screamed, but no one cared about his feelings at this moment.
…
The man withdrew his gaze from the distant firelight and looked coldly at the edge of the forest. In the darkness outside the window, a ranger raised his hand and gestured to him that everything was normal. He turned around, crossed his hands and looked at the tall man in front of him, and then said:
"Mr. Leader, how long do you have to think about it? The order came from your guild. You should have confirmed it, right?"
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild raised his head from the light page projected in front of him and looked at each other: "What are you going to do in that place at this time?"
"Our mission destination is that place."
"But you can definitely use a more peaceful way. You have also seen that the tree people have no ill intentions towards us. If you request, Arrit in the Heart of the Tree will meet you."
"The Heart of the Tree is still sleeping, and we don't have time to wait for it to wake up. And to be honest," the man shrugged, "I don't think those people can stop the monsters outside, if they attack This is where our mission has failed."
"But you have to admit that they did a pretty good job before, repelling three attacks by Crystal, and the last two casualties were not serious." The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild said: "Now Orca's reinforcements have arrived , just waiting for people from other guilds to arrive at the advance camp, I don’t know why you think so?”
"So you call it crystal, but it doesn't matter anyway. Do you think the strength of that thing is limited to this? It's just testing." The man shook his head and said: "If the people from Orca haven't arrived yet, maybe I haven't been so strong yet." Urgent. But the arrival of reinforcements may have given it a signal. If it attacks with all its strength, this place will be destroyed."
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild was silent for a moment. They had received almost the same information from another very important information source not long ago. He had to consider these words carefully and hesitated:
"I'll have to ask the guild."
The man looked at him, stretched out his hand and said, "Please."
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild took his deputy to the side, took out the communication crystal, and when the sound of connection came from the other end of the crystal, he immediately asked in a low voice: "Guild Leader, what's going on with that order? "
"Old He, isn't it clearly written in the message? Help the people of Twilight Guild complete their mission."
"I understand, but President, the situation down here is not optimistic right now. Why don't you wait until reinforcements arrive from all walks of life before completing this mission?"
"This is what the people from the Twilight Guild requested."
"But then our people could be put in danger."
"Old He, I understand what you mean," the president's voice sounded a little optimistic: "But don't worry, the guild will compensate you - think about it, why are we in this world? It's just to collect more and more Valuable high-dimensional information, if necessary, the loss of starlight is an acceptable price, you should understand this?"
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild understood something immediately: "What price did the people from the Twilight Guild offer? Is it worth it for us to do this?"
"Many, including but not limited to completely transferring their share of this mining area to us."
The former couldn't help but take a breath of air when he heard this: "What kind of mission is this for them, and is it worth all this?"
"Then it's none of our business."
"But if the monsters outside attack... are the Twilight Guild people playing some tricks..."
"Don't worry, even if those monsters temporarily occupy the mining area, we can still wipe them out. How can we, several guilds, join forces and not even be able to do this small thing?"
"But in that case, this matter will cause a big fuss."
"Even if we pay taxes to the king, the income from this mining area is still profitable for us. In the past few months, no one knows better than us how the crystal reserves under the mining area have been."
The group leader was silent for a moment and then nodded to show that he understood. He closed the communication crystal, walked back to the other party, and said, "Okay, let's talk about how we can cooperate?"
The man smiled, looked aside and said, "Before we talk about this, should we invite the lady outside the door to come in?"
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild was slightly startled and couldn't help but look in that direction. The door opened with a sound, and an expressionless Miss Nightingale stood outside the door. Alice looked at the two of them calmly and said with He said in a calm tone: "Captain, there seems to be a fire over there in the Tree Hall."
"Ignore that for now," the group leader shook his head, "You're just in time, Rainbow. I have something to inform you."
"I heard it outside," Alice said without any emotion in her tone, "Do you want me to inform others?"
The former was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Okay, you can ask everyone to gather together, we may take action later."
Alice nodded. She glanced at the man, who was also looking at her with amusement in his eyes. But Alice was indifferent, just closed the door and walked out.
"That's our Nightingale squad leader." The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild explained to the other party.
The man nodded, but with a thought in his mind, he edited a message and sent it out:
"Follow that nightingale and have a look."
…
Alice walked down the tree house and paused at the door for a moment, recalling what happened before in her mind:
"...The Heart of the Mountain that the tree people call is actually the pure crystal, the central stone buried deep in the mountain. If there is any mistake in it, the entire Nognis area will probably become a forbidden area of life. .”
The time reflection paused, "I was with Captain Ed and the others at the time, and the tree people mistook me for being with them, so they happened to hear these things. Captain Ed helped me save my life, but I shouldn't have." Reveal this to the outside world, but Miss Rainbow, you know Captain Ed and the others..."
"Don't worry, I'm just seeing you with them and asking how they are doing," Alice looked at the other person, "But I don't want my personal affairs to affect the team. They are them, and we are us. This matter There’s no need to tell the group leader.”
"I understand, but in fact Captain Ed and others are also good people,"
"Those are two different things."
"Okay," Time Reflection nodded, but stopped her again: "Wait, by the way... please tell the leader, don't trust those people in the Twilight Guild too much, what kind of alliance guild are they? Even our people Don't save me until you die."
She nodded.
Alice's eyes quickly returned to reality. She turned around and looked in one direction - there was a Twilight Ranger hiding at the edge of the forest. She could feel the other person's eyes looking in her direction.
She retracted her gaze without any trace, turned around, and walked towards the camp. In her perception, the other party followed her. She knew that the other party should see her more clearly. The people in Twilight were much higher level than them.
So she walked carefully through the camp and sent a message to everyone one by one, asking them to gather in an open space not far away. There might be important tasks later. When passing a tree, a shadow extended from Alice's feet and merged into the trunk of the tree.
Unlike her sister who specializes in shadow dance, she is better at another direction - the eye in the forest, the night owl. That shadow is Night Owl's skill - Shadow Perception. A high-level Night Owl can leave up to dozens of shadow marks within a few kilometers. But of course she couldn't control such a large area, but it was more than enough to leave one or two marks without anyone noticing.
The forest was right at the intersection of light and dark, and she was sure that the other party wouldn't notice her little move.
After passing through the last camp area, Alice finally sensed the departure of the Twilight Guild Ranger through the shadow mark she left behind. It felt like she was standing at the shadow mark, looking at the other person to explore from a distance, and then turning around and leaving.
She also turned around and looked at the longing figures in the forest, which were other people heading to join together. But she took a step back, left the road, and stepped in the opposite direction from the others, like a shadow into the dark woodland.
It's just that a dark light flashed past in a certain direction that Alice didn't notice.
In the forest, a man wearing a gray alchemist's robe raised his head and stared at the sky, watching the shadow flying back in that direction. He raised his hand to catch it, with a meaningful light in his eyes.
He put away the clockwork goblin, then wrote a message in the void, and sent it with a touch of his hand.
…
Fang Yu looked at the elementalist who was tied up by Five Flowers. A piece of flesh was burned off his face, revealing the bloody muscles and connective tissue underneath. A loose eyeball was shaking in his head, and the remaining eye was weak. Look at him.
Jita took one look and couldn't bear to look again. She couldn't help closing her eyes and lowering her head. But as soon as she lowered her head, her huge round glasses slipped off the bridge of her nose. She was so frightened that she quickly held them up with her hands.
Seeing this scene, Rhett couldn't help but shake his head. He stretched out his claws from behind to lift up the hood of her scholar's robe, turned it over and pulled it down, covering her eyes tightly, leaving only the The smaller half of the chin is outside.
"In the future, let Jita and Tianlan see less scenes that are not suitable for children." The big cat man said angrily.
"Ah, I'm sorry." Fang Yu scratched his hair, but he didn't expect it to happen again. To be honest, he himself was shocked. These people were a little too rough and just pushed people to the burnt floor.
But to a certain extent, this was his own fault. When he turned others into charcoal, he never thought that he would suffer the same fate. Even if he could be resurrected, it would definitely feel uncomfortable, and it might leave a psychological shadow.
This is one of the reasons why the chosen ones need psychological counseling to return to their original world.
Fang Plover looked up at the charred kitchen again. The walls and cabinets were scorched black, mist was steaming around them, and a thin layer of water accumulated on the floor.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. After learning from Mr. Karatu, Jita's control of elements and spells has become more and more proficient. In an instant, he borrowed the opponent's spell and turned it into his own spell. From the extreme fire environment, he found the opposite attribute, and turned the danger into safety in a backhand.
This operation has brought the general to the edge of the upper realm, which is enough to be seen between the ranks of magicians and elementalists. Of course, this relies on the advantages of naturalists and magic books, but Jita still has a lot of room for growth compared to others.
She was only fourteen years old, two months and fifteen days shy of turning fifteen.
Others were discussing the identity of the attacker.
"Could this guy be a spy?"
"They must have taken refuge with those monsters."
"We need to interrogate him carefully. He must have accomplices."
The elementalist was dying, but at this moment he seemed to have finally regained some strength. He looked feebly at the people around him, and suddenly said in a hoarse voice: "Give me a break, you know I won't speak. And you can't torture me." …This is a violation of the Stargate Declaration.”
Everyone was furious: "Do you still know the "Stargate Declaration"!?"
But the elementalist could only sneer feebly and did not continue.
Everyone was also a little helpless. No matter which side the other party serves, their behavior does not really seem to violate the "Stargate Declaration". They are here to help the tree people, and the other party can naturally choose to help the monsters outside. At best, it can only be said that they are in different camps.
However, Fang Yu withdrew his gaze and looked at the elementalist, feeling vaguely that it was not that simple. He knows some things better than others, so he naturally understands the underlying reasons for this dispute. Of course, these people may also be bewitched by the crystal, but they must first find out their origins.
Theoretically, the guilds in this area have formed an alliance for this crystal mine. Driven by common interests, they will not fight among themselves—
He turned back to others and asked, "Does anyone know what guild this person belongs to?"
Due to the previous battle, everyone still had a minimum of respect for him and shook their heads.
Freely elected? But that's not necessarily the case. Free-chosen people generally don't have such courage, so Fang Pultru unconsciously ignored himself. Although no one here can recognize the origin of this person, it does not necessarily mean that the other person is not a member of a certain guild.
When he saw the actions of the other three people before, they didn't look like a temporary group of selectors. Even if it was a free adventure group, there were some subtle differences between its members and the selectors in the guild.
Fang Yu looked at the other party and then said, "Actually, it doesn't matter whether you speak or not."
The other party was slightly startled.
"Although we can't torture you, we can imprison you - according to the "Stargate Declaration", we can capture enemy members until the end of the war. We will hand you over to the hands of the tree people. You know that the goblins have There are methods that can read your surface thoughts. This is enough for people without professional training."
"That's right," the people around him suddenly became excited, "I almost got fooled by you, but luckily the boss has a way."
That element caused a huge change in the face.
But at this moment, Rhett suddenly took a step forward, pulled out the holy sword from behind, and stopped in front of the elementalist. But he was still half a step slower, only to hear a loud noise, and a sharp arrow penetrated the wall and hit the opponent's heart.
The big cat man's expression changed, and he turned around and pressed the elementalist's chest with his claws, but a little bit of white light had already emerged from the latter.
"It's a piercing shot. There are rangers outside." He stood up and looked at the others, his hair and beard spread out, and his voice was solemn: "Everyone stay in the hotel and don't move. There are still their people here, Cuiye, help watch. other people."
The poet knew what was at stake and gave them a sure sign of no problem.
In fact, they had expected that the other party had a back-up plan, but they did not expect that the attack did not come from inside the hotel, but from outside. A moment of negligence allowed the other party to succeed. After the lion paladin said this, he chased it out of the window and saw a shadow flashing through the forest in the distance from the corner of his eye.
Fang Plover and Jita also happened to chase them out from the direction of the main entrance.
"How's it going, Mr. Reid?"
"Let him run away," the big cat man twirled the copper ring on his beard, squinted his eyes and said in that direction: "But I remember his scent. The wind will tell us his whereabouts. Can that guy leave?" Far."
But before he could finish his words, Fang Yu and Jita suddenly froze.
All three of them heard a subtle, almost imperceptible roar suddenly coming from the distance. The sound was extremely small, but it was clearly audible. This extremely contradictory feeling gave people a strange feeling.
It was as if an invisible ripple was penetrating this underground cave from another level of the world. Miss Naturalist, the most perceptive among the three, couldn't help but stretched out her hands to hold her ears, and her glasses fell to the ground with a 'clack' sound.
But Jita didn't seem to notice it, and she only frowned in pain. Only then did Fang Yu notice the other party's expression, grabbed her shoulders and asked, "Jita, what's wrong with you?"
"Elemental Realm..." Jita muttered in confusion.
There was a buzzing sound, and the buzzing sound pierced the ears, and everyone felt as if their ears had been filled with water and had auditory hallucinations.
Fang Yu felt that the whole world seemed to be turned upside down, and the next moment, the bright ball of light on the top of the cave flickered and suddenly went out. The surroundings suddenly fell into darkness, and the strange hallucinations before suddenly completely disappeared, and the surroundings returned to silence.
And a moment later, he heard a commotion coming from the tree hall behind him. It was the sound of noisy people, the sound of broken utensils, and the sound of arguments.
Then Fang Plover felt a big furry claw grabbing him. He knew it was the big cat man, and he couldn't help but feel certain. As expected, the voice of the Lion Paladin came from the darkness: "Ed, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, where is Jita?"
"I-I'm fine too, brother Ed..."
"What's going on?" Fang Yu asked.
"I don't know what's going on with that light," the big cat man asked in a low voice, "I remember that even late at night, it wouldn't completely go out."
Fang Yu felt vaguely that something might have happened, and it was at this time that a red light lit up in the darkness. That was his communication crystal - Fang Yu quickly took out the crystal and wiped it gently with his hand. Sylvide's voice came from inside: "Ed, how are you doing over there?"
Hearing the gentle voice of the ship officer, Fang Plover felt his heart calm down. He took a breath before calming down: "We are fine here, but the light suddenly went out. What about your side?"
"We're fine here," Sylvide said in a calm voice. "We just received news that people scouting on the outside discovered the crystal army. They were passing through the crack outside the valley."
"Crystal launched an attack?" Fang Yu frowned. The crystal attack came much earlier than they expected, and the Hall of Trees was attacked. Now the light of the Heart of the Mountain was extinguished. Various accidents came one after another, which always gave him a bad premonition.
"Although it may not necessarily be a general attack, it is very likely. Now various teams are rushing to the thorn front line to organize defenses. They also know that this wave of attacks may be difficult, and they have already issued a warning to us," she paused, " Captain, what about us?"
Everything is colliding together. The most important thing right now is of course to defend Crystal's last wave of attacks, otherwise everything will stop. But Fang Yu had a vague hunch in his heart that things on his side were not simple.
He pondered for a moment and finally made a decision: "You go to the Thorn Front to join the others first."
"Okay," Sylvide responded, "Ed, be careful."
"the same as you."
Fang Yu put the crystal back and then asked the big cat man on the side: "Mr. Red, can you still find that person?"
The latter nodded slightly,
"Come with me."
…
Alice didn't expect that she would be discovered.
Fortunately, she was cautious enough and left shadow marks along the way. This move saved her life, otherwise she would not have noticed the two Nightingales and Rangers from the Twilight Guild who followed.
It would be okay if she was just a ranger, she could also use her speed advantage to get rid of the opponent, but the Nightingale in Dusk was too deadly for her, the opponent was higher level than her and had more experience than her.
It can only be said that it is lucky that she is not a Nightingale who specializes in shadow dance, otherwise the other party would have killed her long ago.
But even so, the bloody wound on her right shoulder was left by the other party - it was a souvenir left to her by the other party's first raid. And that time, it was all thanks to her shadow mark to detect her opponent in advance - otherwise, the wound should not be on the shoulder, but twenty centimeters to the left, slicing into her throat.
Alice used a shadow walking technique to escape from the fight, but the shadow dancer could only shadow travel one hundred and twenty feet in one day. She had already used half of the distance before, and now she only had one chance left.
The wound was bleeding continuously, which was double bad news for her - blood loss would take away her physical strength and also attract enemies. Although the light was extinguished and the surroundings became dark, for the keen nightingales, the darkness itself was not an obstacle. They could track enemies within a certain range by relying on their scent.
This is different from the innate sense of smell of cats and canines. Nightingale's tracking ability comes from acquired training. The higher the level, the stronger the tracking ability. And her opponent's level was not considered low.
But she didn't have time to stop and treat the wound, so she could only take out the bandage, bite one end with her teeth, and use her good hand to pull the gauze back and forth to bandage it hastily. Although it can only temporarily stop the bleeding, we can only take one step at a time.
But what made her even more nervous was the loss of direction - she still remembered the direction of the Hall of Trees before the light went out, and she knew that Ed and the others were over there. But the other ranger with a better sense of direction kept forcing her to change her route. After groping in the dark for a while, Alice was not sure whether her intuition was still reliable.
She even vaguely felt that there was another eye watching her in the darkness.
She has experienced such scenes.
She even remembers the powerlessness she felt at that time——
Alice later found out who was the person opposite her at that time. The military people told her that the person was called Kaka. He was a newcomer to the Jefflite Red Team... A newcomer, let them listen to the Rainmaker's Brigade The group was in dire straits.
However, the Jeflett Red Team can be regarded as BBK's first-line reserve guild. I heard that BBK has the strength to hit the top ten this year. The one who will fall from the altar is either the Silver Forest Crown or another one ranked ninth. Alliance of Gods.
However, Alice suddenly realized how she could be distracted at this time. Being too nervous seemed to make her feel a little confused. She shook her head vigorously, trying to get herself out of this embarrassing situation.
But at this moment, a creepy feeling suddenly arose in her heart.
Without thinking, she swooped forward. There was a scream in the darkness, and an arrow passed directly over her head, picking up a few strands of hair. The feather arrow hit the tree trunk behind, making a muffled sound, and the tail feathers were still shaking under the influence of the huge force.
But Alice had no time to look over there.
She understood that she was far from out of danger, and at that moment she had already confirmed what she was thinking - with the combat craftsmen, she immediately understood how she was exposed. But her shadow mark was of no use to the detection from mid-air. Her heart sank a little, and she felt that she might not be able to go far.
It was at this time that Alice saw a bright sword light, lighting up in her field of vision.
The blade moved forward, as if cutting into an illusory shadow. The nightingale girl turned into a wisp of smoke and blended into the dark environment - Shadow Walking Technique. This was the second time she had used such an ability.
If she couldn't escape the other party's pursuit, she would have no choice but to close her eyes and wait to die.
The other party was obviously a little annoyed, and let out a low curse from a distance: "Annoying shadow dancer." The other party obviously didn't grasp her position for a while, and shouted into the forest: "Don't run away, you There’s no way to escape, so why waste everyone’s time?”
Alice sat leaning against a large gray-white tree, not daring to take a breath.
…
Fang Plover and the big cat man stopped. They looked at the gurgling river in front of them and couldn't help but look at each other for a moment. The person they were chasing was quite experienced. The most fearful thing for people with abilities such as sensitive smell was flowing water. When they chased them to this place, they had lost their clue.
The two couldn't help but look at the scholar lady who was following behind. The latter had lost her glasses and had to fumble in the dark to keep up with them. But the big cat man asked her if she wanted help, but Jita shook her head. She really relied on her own ability to catch up.
"I can find a way to use magic to find the footprints," Jita squinted at the river in the darkness and replied softly: "But if he walks up the river, there is nothing I can do. Magic only strengthens our abilities. , you cannot create something that does not exist out of thin air.”
"It's not impossible," she paused, then added seriously: "It's just that I can't do it yet."
"Then let's try it," Rhett looked at the other side of the river and replied: "If there is nothing we can do, we will go back to meet the others first. There should be clues over there at the hotel. If Cuiye can see those Human words.”
Although the three of them understood that the other party had probably escaped at the moment the light went out.
But it was at this moment that Fang Yu suddenly raised his finger and made a silencing gesture to the two of them in the darkness.
He stood by the river, tilted his head and listened in one direction, and only heard a faint sound coming from the forest over there. The voice couldn't be said to be loud, and was even mostly covered up by the sound of the rushing river. However, after the three of them calmed down, they could still hear the content clearly:
"Stop running...you too...why waste your time?"
Without saying a word, Fang Plover directly released three clockwork fairies and flew in that direction.
He raised his right hand and watched three rays of deep silver light cross the river and fly into the forest over there.
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