The gloomy sky is like a piece of lead-gray paper, airtight, with low clouds.
Electric lights, red and blue, flashed frequently behind the dark clouds, like elves. The entire ionized layer seemed to be disintegrating, like the last moments of a declining world.
What comes into view are the gray ruins of broken walls. It is different from the style of Aitaria, with tall buildings, but it is not a familiar scenery on the earth. Those towering floors were just like black forests, or obelisks piercing the sky. Their style made Fang Plover, who was standing in the center of the huge square, feel a little confused.
"Here again..."
He muttered to himself.
But he was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he had regained control of his body again.
"...What on earth is wrong with me?"
Fang Yu subconsciously reached out and pressed his painful temples.
Although he couldn't see his frighteningly pale face, he also knew that he was extremely weak.
The memory of the battle just now came back like a receding tide. Only then did he remember the scenes that happened on the Shadow Man's floating ship - the back-and-forth between him and the person suspected of being the Shadow Man's commander. The battle of Nini, the craftsman of the descendant of Flor, and the dazzling flash.
And the final moment.
Right, last minute.
What happened after that?
He looked up again.
The sky is not simply a lifeless scene.
Rather there is a war going on there.
Dense black spots were coming out from between the clouds. If he recognized it correctly, they should be aerial ships. Countless aerial ships. He had never seen such an unforgettable sight in his life. scene——
In the face of that huge number, the Oshu people's so-called thousands of sails and masts were just a joke; in comparison, the battle taking place in Elpaxin was just a small-scale battle. war.
They were countless fleets, converging into torrents, and the torrents descended from the clouds from countless directions - they even formed dark clouds themselves, covering the sky and the sun, and strangled each other without any order.
The two warring parties, or rather many parties, did not seem to have considered anything after the war. In this declining world, the only purpose of the existence of these fleets seemed to be to completely annihilate their opponents.
The intensity of the war far exceeded any war that had ever occurred in Aitaria.
It even exceeded the limit of Fang Plover's imagination——
He couldn't even see clearly what methods the two warring parties used.
But the real attacks often come from above the clouds. They are like bunches of burning meteorites, and often a rain of fire falls from the clouds in an instant.
Wherever the fire rain passed, the aerospace ships were immediately destroyed and people were killed. Fang Yu saw the strange aerospace ships breaking and burning in mid-air. Before they even had time to fall, they had already turned into a bunch of embers. , vanished into ashes.
In Fang Piao's impression, there are only dragon knights - they must be the most lethal type of dragon knight, the superpersonality of the great elemental user, the world destroyer among the thirteenth-level dragons, the envoy of the green. , can have such power.
Judging from the frequency of fire rain above the clouds, there are at least thirty world-destroying dragon knights there weaving or fighting with each other. However, even if all the super-dimensional dragon knights in the second world are put together, Probably not so much.
Let alone the Great Elementalist alone.
And fire rain is not the only killing method above the clouds. Occasionally, Fang Plover can still see golden light, like a sharp sword, piercing the clouds. Although it is fleeting and there is no fire and rain, it is like a doomsday scene, but in terms of lethality, the latter is often more Even better.
Light Dragon Rider, the Holy One.
The moment he saw the beam of light, this idea emerged uncontrollably in Fang Plover's mind. At that moment, the basic theories about the dragon knight's configuration that he learned from Kapka came to mind along with their glorious history.
But since the death of the last Holy One in the Year of Glory, marked by the False God Griffin incident, Aitaria has not had a thirteenth-order light dragon for several centuries.
So, what exactly is this place?
He could see it.
The war in the sky is getting more intense. More and more aerospace ships are coming from nowhere and joining this apocalyptic scene from all directions. The sea of fire in the sky seems to have ignited the entire cloud layer. And the ground was dyed with the same color.
The fire rain finally fell to the ground and fell into the tower in the distance. Only then did he realize that the same thing was happening on the ground. The black spire crashed to the ground, and the lights of colorful magic were flickering with each other in the dust.
The whole world seemed to be torn apart by this huge force. The lightning above the clouds became more frequent and almost connected between the ionized layers. The earth also roared and cracks opened.
Fang Plover even saw hot magma gushing out from under the surging surface...
And he seems to be the only bystander on this battlefield, quietly watching the world reach its final moment.
"So, what kind of world is here..."
Fang Yu couldn't help but ask himself in his heart.
And it was at this moment that a somewhat majestic voice came in from his mind and answered his question in a cold tone:
"This is the Plains of Ashes, the remains of the First World."
"Plains of Ashes?"
"You also call it the world under the abyss, don't you?"
"It turns out that this is the world under the abyss..."
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "It turns out that world really exists, and it's not just a rumor... So everything is an illusion now, right? This war?"
"It's just the remaining fragments of the old world, coming from some ghost-like memories. Hmm, these guys who don't want to face reality..."
"...You mean the shadow people?"
"Of course, I also showed you the same scene in your spiritual world. Do you still remember it?"
Fang Yu nodded silently.
That seemed to be a very distant memory in his mind, but his reason told him that it was only a moment ago.
If calculated according to reality, it should be nothing more than what happened a quarter of an hour ago.
…
"Stop."
At the moment when that majestic, somewhat neutral, and somewhat indifferent voice echoed in his mind, the fragmented memory suddenly returned to Fang Pliance's mind.
The clockwork fairy in his hand rolled down on the deck with a bang due to lack of concentration. His face was pale and his pupils were dilated. The huge impact from the spiritual world almost made him close his consciousness immediately.
The voice coming from his mind was not loud, but it seemed to carry overwhelming will, like a pair of cold, golden eyes, watching him from above the clouds, wanting to make him surrender immediately.
Fang Yu almost gritted his teeth to prevent himself from kneeling down immediately. In his intermittent thoughts, he immediately remembered the warning sent from the six shadows among the clockwork fairies - the warning stopped abruptly, but this time What exactly is it?
Those cold, vertical pupils burning with golden flames almost immediately reminded him of every dark dream he had had before. In that dream, the wings that chose the sky and the sun covered everything in the world. A ray of golden flame remained, falling into the dust.
The prophecy about the return of the departed enemy——
But Nicol Bolas's time has passed, and the dark dragon queen is long gone.
And those twin dragon eyes...
No, that look was completely different from Nicol Bolas' cold, cruel look.
Rather, it's arrogance.
With a strange... weirdness?
"No need to guess, I am not what you think."
Just as his mind was in chaos, the voice snorted coldly, but took the initiative to speak.
The other party's snorting voice seemed to be dissatisfied with him for not surrendering.
Although the other party had clearly invaded his world of will and had no physical existence, Fang Yu clearly felt the other party's 'eyes' and glanced at the six-shadow clockwork fairy rolling on the ground not far away.
"Who are you?" Fang Yu pressed his hand on his stinging temple. Although his spiritual world was so weak that he was crumbling, he immediately asked: "Where's Nini, and Miss Tata, what did you do to them? "
"You mean those two little girls?" The voice replied indifferently: "I blocked them, although I am a little curious about how you are connected to their sea of light."
Sea of light?
Shouldn't it be a spiritual connection?
However, even though Fang Yu had a splitting headache, he quickly grasped the key point of the conversation: "The 'thing' you are talking about is the Six Shadows and the others...?"
"If the little girl you are talking about is the owner of that thing," the owner of the cold voice replied, staring at the clockwork fairy on the ground not far away - at least Fang Plover had this feeling in his heart - 'It ', looking at that thing, "Then yes."
"How do you know Liuying she..."
The voice sneered and interrupted him: "I suggest you not care about these trivial matters first, if you don't want to end your life here."
The other party didn't answer, but the possibility flashed through Fang Plior's mind for a moment - looking back, the other party had cut off the Six Shadows' control over the Clockwork Fairy the moment they invaded his spiritual world, and even went against the Six Shadows' control. The magical connection between the magic furnace and the clockwork fairy was traced back and the information about the six shadows was found.
Although he didn't know what method the other party used to obtain the information, this ability still shocked Fang Yu. Senior craftsmen were not unable to intercept the control of the construct by low-level craftsmen, and even trace the opponent's location backwards.
But to be able to do all this in one meeting, what kind of ability is this? What level is this?
Superpersonal?
The Great Alchemist?
"Who are you?" Fang Yu couldn't help but ask: "I don't understand what you mean."
"You just need to understand that I'm here to save your life," the voice replied coldly, as if it had a condescending air, trying to make Fang Yu feel grateful, "If you still want to live, this is it. Stop."
Fang Yu understood in an instant, "You mean Liu Ying and the others are in danger, that's not okay, I have to go there immediately. Also, although I don't know who you are, and I appreciate your reminder, you can leave now."
He said in a somewhat stiff tone.
In fact, after figuring out the situation of Hongye and others, Fang Plover immediately became dissatisfied with the other party's indiscriminate behavior of cutting off the connection between the Six Shadows and the Clockwork Fairy.
He originally thought that the Six Shadows were interrupted during the battle, but no matter what the intention of the owner of the voice was, the other party's behavior was too self-centered. Did the other party understand the current situation?
But having said that, Fang Yu did not dare to offend someone who might be the 'Great Alchemist' with his words. He still had his own mission at the moment, and he did not intend to offend someone who was unknown to the enemy and powerful. Opponent.
"If you want to scold, just speak up," the voice sneered, "By the way, you don't even have to speak. After all, I am in your spiritual world, and your thoughts are as simple as an open book to me. Frankly, but I don’t care what you think, I’m just here to convey my request.”
Damn it!
Even though he had a splitting headache, Fang Plover couldn't help but want to express some beautiful opinions.
He already has enough guests in his spiritual world, and all of them can read minds. Does he still have any privacy? But in fact, he has long been used to it, but this guy is like the process that occupies the most resources in his personal terminal. The other party is just a consciousness in his spiritual world, which makes his thinking slow down. I don’t know how many times.
My head felt tingling, as if it was about to burst at any time.
Fang Yu was really worried that he would have a schizophrenia if this continued.
But the other party seemed to take pleasure in his pain, and said with a bit of schadenfreude: "The world of will is so weak, like a house leaking air everywhere. I don't know how you can have the courage to go in this state." Against those 'undead'."
"Undead?"
Fang Plover almost gritted his teeth and made this sound.
"You call them shadow people, nightmare creatures. This name is correct," the voice replied: "But the ones you encountered are just new creatures with little power. But what happens next is different. , didn’t I show you their world?”
"Seen……?"
Fang Yu was startled and reacted immediately.
The moment the other party invaded his spiritual world, the endless illusions he saw were actually intentional by the other party.
He rubbed his forehead and asked hesitantly: "So those are..."
…
"The remnants of the old world..."
The owner of the voice brought Fang Plover back to reality - at least the reality in this illusion.
Its invisible 'eyes' seem to be watching this shattered world, "...It's just that I'm not taking you into this world this time. The shadow man is best at influencing the soul, which is also the origin of nightmare creatures. .”
"This is the fragment of the world they have watched, and it is also their eternal nightmare. They drag you into this same nightmare. But for them, the nightmare will eventually wake up one day, but for you, I will be addicted to this for eternity.”
The voice paused and said with some satisfaction: "If it weren't for me."
Fang Yu thought that this might not be possible.
Death is just a way back for Xinghui, but for travelers and chosen ones who are completely different from this world, they have another way back.
It's just that this is a story about a world between different dimensions, but it's hard to explain at once.
He also stood on this dilapidated square, silently watching the overturning world together with the owner of that voice.
Although everything at the moment is just a dream, this dream once reflected reality at a certain point in the past - such a war also occurred at a certain point in time in Aitaria.
Perhaps it was that war that led to the existence of the world that sank under the abyss.
"So, this is the shadow people's nightmare?"
Fang Yu recalled the last moments of the battle on the floating ship.
Did the other party invade his spiritual world at that time...
"Yes," the voice said with a sneer: "Do you still think you can win? What you have seen is just the tip of the iceberg, so I say that your actions are just useless efforts."
It sighed faintly: "The war on the ground might have ended long ago, just because you don't understand your opponents at all."
"There's always a chance."
Fang Yu replied seriously. Although he clearly knew that the other party was not with him, he still subconsciously tilted his head: "And I never think that we are doing useless work."
"Okay," he said, "Don't you want to make a deal with me? Now let's complete the deal and carry out the last step of this plan."
Fang Plover paused.
"But until then."
He had one last question.
"I still don't know, who are you?"
…
(End of chapter)
