"There's something going on at the port." Xing suddenly walked up from below the deck, came to Fang Plover's side, and said.
Fang Plover glanced at him in surprise, then turned his gaze towards the port area. The light of the torch moved in the darkness in that direction - the defense lines of Silver Forest Spear and Silver Wislan were retreating, but that was originally their plan. . "What's the matter, Mr. Lavac?" he asked.
"It's the Shadow Man," Xing pulled out the sword from behind with his magic gauntlet, "I'm going to help, otherwise they will suffer heavy casualties. If the time comes, you don't have to wait for me, I will get on other ships."
Fang Yu nodded silently. Under the premeditated arrangements of the Crow Claw Temple, it was not surprising that the shadow people had sneaked into Gula Port in large numbers. However, he opened his mouth but hesitated to speak.
Xing looked at Fang Plover's expression, as if he had guessed what he wanted to say, and said, "Do you also want to go to the front line?"
Fang Plover nodded slightly.
"Do you still have a construct?"
Fang Yu shook his head. This time he was really too clever to make a fool of himself. He sent out the Lancers, Scourges, Efreets, Lurkers and Banshees, and even the Orphen Twins at the bottom of the box.
But good steel is used on the blade, and the structure of the combat craftsman was originally meant to be used at this time. Although it is a pity, it is understandable.
There is still some inventory in the Seven Seas Traveler's warehouse, including a few Dragon Hunters that were not brought out, but these things are not in his hands and cannot be used. The only thing left in his information crystal was a semi-finished product - it was the work he won in the craftsman competition, but he never used it after leaving Vanrich - he had neither time nor money. cost to complete.
That thing has now been reduced to a toy for Nini. Naturally, he can't expect anything from an unfinished work.
Xing suddenly asked: "Do you know about nightmare creatures?"
Fang Yu was startled. Of course he knew that according to the Archbishop of Altori Parish, the Shadow Man was a nightmare, and the owner of Holy Bow Peak, An Luoser, also said similar things.
"This is the Nightmare Furnace."
Fang Yu subconsciously took the thrown black shadow, and when his hand sank, he realized that what he had caught was a rather strange object.
It is spherical, but it is not a perfect circle like a clockwork fairy, but an oval oval, like a standing giant egg. Its shell is covered with layers of spiral textures, and the textures shine with a dull metallic luster, but it is impossible to tell which alloy it is.
That kind of metal didn't seem to come from this world. At least as an alchemist, Fang Plover thought he could recognize most of the minerals in Aitaria, but none of them felt similar to this.
Even the texture on it can be considered to be something like the runes and etheric roads of Aitaria, but it is completely inconsistent with common sense. At least Fang Plover has never seen such a strange style.
However, he felt vaguely familiar, as if he had seen something similar somewhere. The strange shape and pattern were gradually forming an outline in his mind -
It was the dark space in the tower, and a patch of stars suspended in that space, arranged side by side. Those stars are of course different from the one in his hand, but their texture, texture and style are somewhat similar.
He subconsciously turned the thing in his hand over and found that there were eight sharp mechanical legs hanging from the egg belly near the air chamber. It undoubtedly has the appearance of a construct, mechanical components, and transmission devices, all of which are available, but it is definitely not the style of Etalia alchemy.
What's this? Fang Plover was a little surprised. Why was it so similar to those strange structures in the Tower of Summer?
"This is... a construct?"
Xing shook his head: "No, this is a nightmare furnace creature, similar to the activation structure of this world." He pointed to the position of his heart: "The nightmare furnace is their heart. They have their own souls and wisdom. You can Think of them as a species, not as a creation.”
"I've never heard of such a strange creature."
"Because they really don't exist in Etalia."
Fang Yu was slightly startled again: "Then where do they come from...?"
Xing took out an information crystal from his pocket and said, "There will be a battle next. You should get familiar with these things. They are still somewhat different from your flexible structures."
"I can control...this thing?"
"Of course it didn't work when it was alive, but it is dead now, just a dead thing," Xing said: "Essentially, it is still a construct, and it is also equipped with core crystals, but remember to cut it off before that. The connection between them and the Nightmare Furnace——"
As he spoke, he threw the information crystal over.
Fang Plover caught the crystal and couldn't help but turn over and over to look at the 'Nightmare Furnace Creature' in his hand. Alchemists are all curious, especially about structures they have never seen before.
He even opened the craftsman system and prepared to infiltrate into its structure - when the spiritual power passed through the outer shell, Fang Plover felt a faint stagnation.
It seems that the shell of this thing has a certain function in preventing the intrusion of spiritual power. He believes that this ability may be stronger while it is alive.
In other words, it can prevent the intervention and manipulation of external mental power. With such an ability, an alchemist is not afraid that his construct will be taken away by others. Fang Yu only knows that some high-level flexible constructs have such ability, but I've only heard of it but never seen it.
He continued to look down, and then saw what Xing said was their 'heart' - the core of the Nightmare Furnace.
Then he got a big surprise.
Because I have seen this so-called Nightmare Furnace Core before...
It was a gray crystal inlaid in the center, with many small lines and pipes connected to it. Unlike the natural crystals used directly by Aitaria, this crystal had been highly modified.
"this……"
Fang Yu was so surprised that he could hardly speak.
Isn't this the stuff on the Dragon Hunter? He never knew how to use it, so he even removed these 'Nightmare Furnaces' from the Dragon Hunter and replaced them with ordinary core crystals.
Is this a nightmare furnace?
Fang Yu couldn't help but raise his head, wanting to ask Xing what was going on. But when he saw the other party leaving those words, he didn't care about him anymore, but jumped to other ships and headed towards the port.
Hey, wait...
Why is this person so irresponsible? Fang Yu was confused. Dragon hunters were also creatures of the Nightmare Furnace?
But how should he control this thing? He had tried more than once to make the dragon hunter move, but in the end he chose to give up. The injected magic had no response at all to the dragon hunter's strange core.
Xing asked him to cut off the connection between the creatures in the Nightmare Furnace and the Nightmare Furnace, but if the connection was cut off, how could it move? What's more, he doesn't even know how to inject magic power.
Fang Yu subconsciously injected some magic power into the gray crystal. He originally held a hopeless possibility, but unexpectedly, the next moment, he widened his eyes and discovered that a miracle had been born.
The gray crystal suddenly lit up, and magic flowed to the limbs and bones of the construct along the pipes and etheric paths connected to the crystal. A red light suddenly lit up in front of the egg.
That red light looks very familiar to him. Isn't it exactly the same as a dragon hunter?
And at this moment, Fang Yu suddenly saw a point in the crystal emitting an extremely strong light, and layers of light purple magic circles gradually emerged from it.
He also recognized those magic formations. They were exactly what the captain called the "Starlight". Not only did Fang Plover recognize them, he even worked with Miss Tata to design a Lancer based on the magic formations.
As if he was blessed, he subconsciously intervened with his mental power and stopped the formation of the layers of magic circle with a single thought, causing the crystal to become silent again.
Xing asked him to cut off the connection between the creatures of the Nightmare Furnace and the Nightmare Furnace. Is this what he was talking about?
But a trace of confusion flashed in Fang Pliong's eyes, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he looked at the construct in his hand.
Is it possible for Xing to directly control these 'Dream Furnace Creatures'? That's not impossible. He has already achieved this once with the Dragon Hunter.
But doesn't this run counter to the original intention of the 'Starlight' array? He couldn't find a suitable medium and couldn't relight the dragon hunter's nightmare furnace core, so he had to use this stupid method.
But Xing seems to have successfully transformed this gray crystal. Why is he still allowed to use such a backward method? Isn't it good to just use the Starlight Array directly?
Fang Yu thought about it and realized that he might give it a try. Gray Crystal could accept his command input, so maybe he could control the Nightmare Furnace.
He gently placed the thing on the deck, then relaxed his control over the gray crystal and issued an order:
"Take a turn."
The red light lit up, and the thing spun around in front of Fang Plover nimbly.
"Hey, what is this?" Tianlan's voice came from behind him in surprise, "Brother Ed, is it dancing?"
It's just that Fang Yu had no intention of answering her. He just turned around stiffly and glanced at our poet lady.
"Brother Ed...?"
Tian Lan was shocked.
However, Fang Yu seemed to be completely distracted from what was in front of him, with countless questions popping up in his mind...
This is really a star formation...
Then the Dragon Hunter should be the same type of structure as it.
What do they have to do with the stars in the Xia Jin Tower?
Did the Numerin elves ever encounter...or create these things?
What is the relationship between nightmare furnace and nightmare creatures?
Fang Plover was full of suspicion.
He stood on the deck of the 'Brig Breaker' for a moment and was a little stunned.
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"Jump into the sea, jump right in!"
Xia Yue's eyes swept across the trestle on one side, and suddenly she had an idea and shouted loudly.
Shadow people surrounded him from all directions. All other directions were dead ends, but there was only one way to go, and that was in the direction of Kukai.
The others also reacted quickly. As soon as Xia Yue made a sound, they came to their senses and retreated towards the side of the pier. There were tall boxes stacked there. They climbed onto the boxes, then jumped into the empty sea. Jump.
Although most of them are not adapted to the wind element, how can they care about it now? The airport is divided into upper and lower floors, and some ships are slowly leaving the port on the lower floor. Even if they fall from dozens of meters into the sea, they will fall on the ground. These ships are also half dead, but there is always a glimmer of hope.
Xia Yue climbed up second to last, only to find that Bing Shan was waiting for him to touch. Although he was a member of the descendants of Flor, he was not a combat professional after all.
Bingshan stretched out his hand to give the other party a hand and said, "You first or me first?"
Xia Yue looked at the other party, breathless, but couldn't help but smile: "I am apt to the wind element."
"Damn," Bingshan's face darkened, and he pointed his middle finger at him angrily: "I can't talk to you guys from the big guild."
After all, Bingshan didn't want to care about the other party anymore. He was waiting here just to see if the other party needed his help. Although the two had not known each other for a long time, Bingshan had a pretty good impression of this alchemist who was a descendant of Flor.
Xia Yue watched the other party jump into a boat that was sailing out of the channel below, and shook his head. He did not tell the other party that he had the wind element, but it was not very good.
Otherwise, how could he choose a career in life.
He glanced back and saw the shadow's longing purple flames surrounding him in this direction like a ghost. He didn't dare to hesitate any longer and took a step forward.
The feeling of falling in Kukai was very strange. He did not fall completely vertically. He watched the scenery in front of him change drastically, and the wind whistled in his ears.
The enriched wind element has considerable buoyancy for ordinary people, not to mention those with wind element adaptability. For the former, it is a bit like a stone falling into the deep sea, while for the latter, it is about the same as falling into the sea. There is no difference between floating in it.
For Xia Yue, it was somewhere in between. He was falling, but not as fast as expected. He watched as he floated away from the trestle, and those shadow figures appeared in that direction - they seemed to be a little afraid, they glanced in this direction from a distance, and then retreated.
Xia Yue breathed a sigh of relief. He was more afraid of falling into the hands of those things than falling to death. He had also heard some rumors about those shadow people outside.
He opened his hands like a big bird, turned around, and watched his companions fall into the boat below one by one, life or death unknown. There are also some who are even worse and fall directly under the clouds, which will probably not end well.
But fortunately, from the beginning of the battle, all the resurrection icons on the ship here were turned on. At most, they were resurrected on the ship.
Xia Yue felt that her falling speed had slowed down, but only relatively. It was like hanging on a paraglider with a hole in it. He suddenly felt a shadow covering him. When he raised his head, he realized that he was flying directly under a ship.
The ship was sailing slowly out of the port with its sails raised and passed over his head. The sailors on the ship also saw him and threw a ladder at him with a loud shout.
But the distance between the two sides was getting farther and farther. Xia Yue fished hard, but still missed it by several meters.
He couldn't help but glance in that direction with some pity. It was not certain whether he would land on a ship in the lower port if he fell like this, but it was indeed the best opportunity before.
Too bad he missed it.
But when he was thinking this, he suddenly felt something support him behind him, and then he flew high. He saw that his sight immediately surpassed the ship, and got closer and closer amidst the exclamations of the sailors.
The deck of the ship seemed to be turned upside down all of a sudden, the world was spinning, and it hit him hard, and then there was a sharp pain, as if even consciousness was lost for a moment.
Then Xia Yue woke up from a violent shaking, "He's awake!" "It seems to be nothing serious." A group of sailors gathered around him, talking in various directions.
"You guys are really good."
"We saw you jump off the trestle."
"The captain asked us to move in that direction, but unfortunately we still couldn't save a few."
Xia Yue's ears were ringing, and he pushed the others away unsteadily and crawled towards the side of the ship, only to finally see who had rescued him before.
In that direction, a figure and a tall construct landed on the pier. Xia Yue was an alchemist herself and was no stranger to constructs. She recognized it as an Inhanz Type IV at a glance.
Dragon Knight.
The pseudo-dragon knight is also a dragon knight. In fact, its original meaning is a dragon knight who is not a dragon knight. A combat craftsman cannot become a dragon knight, but his combat effectiveness is not much worse than a real dragon knight.
It was the other party who saved her. Xia Yue's mind was still a little confused. There was a dragon knight here, and she didn't know if he was from the Craftsmen Association.
He saw the dragon knight facing the purple ghost coming from the direction of the port. In Hanz Type 4, he raised his four arms and a golden flame pierced in that direction like a bunch of spears.
The blazing golden spear stretched directly from near to far, all the way to the end of the field of vision, nearly several kilometers, sweeping across the center of the entire port area.
It seemed to split the dock into two, blazing flames shot up into the sky, and the piled goods and warehouses collapsed one by one wherever the golden light passed.
This is the true power of the Dragon Knight.
And this is still limited power.
Their helpless ghost army was also temporarily blocked by this wall of flames, but at this time, the city guards and Gray Knights on the other side finally invaded the port——
A gray and black tide was pouring into the pier from that direction. The defense line had completely collapsed. The people of the Silver Forest Spear and the people of the Silver Wisland were retreating along the trestle.
They were very fast, but the gray-black tide quickly caught up from behind, and the people from Silver Veslan and Silver Forest Spear were also very alert and jumped towards both sides of the trestle.
But the other party was not as ugly as Xia Yue and the others. They seemed to be swimming in the air and leaned towards this direction.
The nearby ship abandoned the dinghy, and the Silver Vislan man climbed into the dinghy, then paddled away from the trestle with his hand oar.
Of course, not everyone had escaped, some people were still surrounded, but soon white lights appeared on the port.
Xia Yue can know the outcome of the remaining people based on the speed at which the white light rises.
They should not have fallen into the opponent's hands, because he could understand the mentality of these people, just like them, not to mention that they were the people of Silver Vislan, and they should be even more arrogant.
How could you surrender to the enemy?
"The order to retreat has been given, and we are the last ships to leave the port."
Sailors came up to him and said.
"You were lucky enough to pull back at the end, but others may not be so lucky."
Xia Yue nodded with lingering fear. Seeing this scene, she didn't know that she had saved her life. She just didn't know what happened to Bing Shan and the others.
He looked in the direction of the port area and frowned deeply: "Why are there so many shadow people in Gula Port?"
But no one could answer his question. The sailors looked at this scene with solemn expressions: "The people from the Crow Claw Temple really lied. Their barrier is useless..."
"But it's okay," Xia Yue let out a long breath: "We escaped."
But as soon as he finished speaking, a bright cyan beam of light suddenly passed through the mast above his head.
The beam of light almost missed the ship, but it hit another sailboat not far away that was leaving the port. Just in front of Xia Yue, the ship suddenly exploded into a bright ball of light. flash.
Then in that flash of light, it fell apart and collapsed.
Xia Yue turned back in shock and looked outside the port, where the dim green light of the most peculiar sailboat suspended under the dark eye of the storm was dissipating little by little.
But more emerald light spots, like dots of light, were gathering from other sailboats besides the flagship.
Then he heard an anxious voice coming from the public communication channel:
"All the ships were preparing to descend. It was too late to leave Gula Port. Before the opponent's next attack arrived, we went directly under the clouds."
"Follow the Brig Breaker. We will lead the way. All ships are ready to turn to avoid attacks."
As soon as those words fell, Xia Yue felt a huge earthquake.
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