"This is it." In the basement, which has been in disrepair for a long time, there are rows of bookshelves, covered with dust and cobwebs. The old servant found a wooden box from a pile of old papers and handed it over.
Fang Yu took it with his hand and felt it was heavy, as if there was something inside. He looked at the box. It was made of willow wood, gray-white, and painted with a layer of insect-proof wax. From the outside, it looked ordinary.
Just like the common wooden crates used to store materials and instruments, there are many such things in the craftsmen's guild, and they don't look like they contain anything valuable.
Fang Plover looked around.
In the darkness, a section of the drainage pipe seemed to have broken, and rainwater poured into the room, forming sludge and stagnant water. There is a smell of moss in the air, but it can still be seen that this place used to be a well-equipped magic laboratory, with all kinds of workbenches and a magic array.
It's just that at this moment, the gold and mithril originally embedded in the formation have been taken away, leaving only a bare formation base. Various instruments have also been swept away, leaving behind some worthless bottles and jars.
Some of them still contain organs from magical creatures, but the antiseptic fluid inside has long evaporated, or they were broken and drained. The biomass materials have long since rotted, and they are dark in the jars.
There are also some parts stacked on the workbench, which look like parts of an unfinished magical device. @*~~Fang Plover recognized a few movable joints, which were probably part of the construct, and there were others he couldn't recognize.
These things were badly infested with insects, and the surface was riddled with holes, with a thin layer of debris and insect droppings underneath. Although it can be seen that someone has tried their best to maintain it, classify these things, and sort them out carefully, they still cannot save them from turning into dust one day.
He suddenly understood why the other party didn't seem to care much about the things in the laboratory. Because sooner or later everything here will turn to dust and return to the soil.
"The things inside the box are Mr. Ash's works, completed or unfinished," the old servant recalled. "After Mr. Ash passed away, his students collected his works and numbered them one by one. It’s one of those things…”
Fang Yu happened to lift the box and saw the number at the bottom. It was a strange character, which should be "5" when translated into Arabic numerals.
"What's in here?" he asked.
"I don't know, but the person who gave it to me said: "This thing is of little significance to the magician, but if Sir Ma Wei comes back here one day, you can give this thing to him. "" The old man sighed, "I didn't expect that twenty years would pass by. Instead of waiting for Sir Ma Wei, I waited for his daughter to come here..."
"Mr. Jazz went to the second world and his current whereabouts are unknown." Fang Pliance felt the need to explain for Sir Ma Wei. "His daughter and I came here to go to the second world to find his whereabouts."
The old servant nodded. In fact, Sylvide had mentioned this matter to him before.
Fang Yu then opened the box and took a look. Inside was a piece of black velvet. When he opened the velvet, he saw a dark crystal underneath. He was slightly startled. Is this an elemental crystal? Core crystal? still……?
In Aitaria, there are also ordinary crystals. However, most crystals and gems are the product of magic power, such as moonstone, beryl and rhombic crystal, which represent different elemental attributes and are collectively called magic crystals.
Magic crystals are naturally suitable for being used to make magic cores for magic items, or energy storage containers. Most of them can even be directly inserted into the slot of a magic furnace after being polished into shape.
But since the other party said that the box was Mr. Ash's work, Fang Plover would definitely not think that the dark crystal was a natural magic crystal. He carefully turned the crystal over and looked at it, and sure enough he found several lines underneath it. Silver metal loop.
As mentioned before, magic crystals used for energy storage can be used naturally, so the crystals embedded with metal circuits are mostly some kind of magic core - the elemental core in the magic furnace. The core crystals of the constructs all fall into this category. , but Fang Yu couldn't tell which category this crystal belonged to.
Not that he couldn't recognize it.
Instead, the craftsman can only pass the preliminaries when the core crystal is inserted into the magic device.
First leave the magic interface to check its internal circuit and analyze its specific purpose. Just as he had inspected the great Oshur machine before.
Directly injecting magic power into an item is a talent only possessed by magic creatures, not ordinary people. If Miss Tata hadn't been an artificial dragon soul, she might as well have given it a try.
After all, fairies are also the most famous type of magical creatures.
Fang Yu checked the crystal up and down, and after confirming that he couldn't find any useful information, he put it away again, and then asked Alyssa to bring up the selector from the previous guild. _o_m
Derek was standing far away, looking very weak and depressed due to excessive blood loss. Luo Yu had previously allowed him to take some No. 4 holy water, the cheapest type of recovery potion sold in Laila Temple, and the chest injury was slowly healing under the effect of the potion, but it was still very painful.
Moreover, those people removed the energy storage crystal of his magic furnace. Without his magic power, he was no different from an ordinary person. Even if there was no pain, it would be impossible to escape, so he behaved quite honestly.
He also thought clearly that if these people tortured him, then he would dissolve the starlight and resurrect himself. He would not be exempted from that crime. But if these people just wanted to ask him something insignificant - just like before, then he didn't mind using it in exchange for the chance of his own life.
After all, starlight is still very precious.
But if these people planned to kill him... then he had no choice.
But Derek saw the old servant handing a box to those people from a distance, and his heart couldn't help but jump. An idea subconsciously emerged - they were just looking for something, so it was difficult not to make associations when seeing the box. .
At this time, the little Papalar man behind him pushed him in the back and said angrily: "Go over there."
Derek followed suit and didn't resist. He just stared at the box and walked over.
But he didn't expect that the woman in front of him took out a gun, cocked the hammer, put the muzzle of the gun against his head, and asked: "Is this what you are looking for? What use is it to you?"
Derek opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He didn't expect that the other party would ask such a core question right away, and he couldn't even delay it for a while - this was different from asking him about his origins and affiliations.
After all, the union is not a secret, and everyone is still wearing the union uniform. But what the other party is asking about right now is the secrets of the guild, and he has to say it unless he doesn't plan to hang out in the guild anymore.
"As long as you answer this question, we can't let you leave alive," Miss Nightingale deliberately pretended to be indifferent. "Killing people is of no benefit to us, and starlight is precious. I hope you understand. And there are only If you are alone, no one will know what you said, and naturally we will not spread it around."
Derek hesitated for a while, but finally shook his head with difficulty. Although the other party had dismantled his magic furnace, the recording crystal on the equipment was naturally invalid. But this is a world with gods and real magical power. If he really wants to say it, he won't be able to pass the level of the Realm of Honesty after he goes back.
Alyssa's eyes showed disappointment.
"Wait!" Derek yelled, but it was too late, Miss Nightingale had already pulled the trigger.
There was a loud bang, and the ranger fell backwards, his body immediately glowing with white light.
Fang Yu looked at the other party's body in a pool of blood and felt a little unbearable. In fact, there was no need for them to kill each other. As Alyssa said, killing would not do them any good.
But by letting the other party leave like this, he was afraid that the guild would become suspicious of their purpose. He just wanted to make everything look natural, so that the other party would naturally suspect that they had taken away what the other party wanted.
"Old man," Fang Yu turned around and said to the old servant: "You'd better leave this place first. I know you care about the academy left by Mr. Ash, but don't worry, those people won't be able to do it after you leave. Tear this place down.”
He Himself is the Chosen One.
Naturally, he knows the habits of the chosen ones.
"Ashe's Manuscript" is an important mission item in the eyes of the selectors, and whether it is robbing or deceiving, the method is not important to those people. What is important is to remove this "mission item" from All that it originally was.
"Catch" it with people's hands.
But after losing this important mission item, the old servant, as an aborigine, should be an insignificant part in the eyes of the other party. Fang Yu asked him to leave temporarily just to prevent accidents.
As for the college itself, the Chosen Guild doesn't even care. They may search here again, but bulldozing Horfen College is just making themselves uncomfortable.
The Chosen One will never do anything unnecessary.
Now that the "mission item" is on him, what the other party has to do is to take back this task chain from them - before they "complete the task" and get the final benefit.
Although the so-called "Ashe's Manuscript" may not exist at all.
But that's not important, Fang Pliance now wants the other party to think that this thing exists.
Of course, they would have to stay away from this place immediately. Fang Plover was not afraid of trouble, but he would not go looking for trouble himself. He had already asked Miss Tata to return to the Seven Seas Traveler and informed the big cat people to prepare for departure. _o_m
When you get to the Seven Seas Traveler, let the people from that guild slowly find you.
But it was at this time that Fang Yu saw a text pop up on his light screen:
"Brother Ed, if someone is looking for you, you'd better come up and take a look."
It was a message from Jita.
…
Back on the ground, what surprised Fang Yu was that the person who came to find them turned out to be one of the two young men from the Tiantian Craftsmen Association, or to be precise, Yayo's companion.
The other party was holding on to the tree, looking out of breath. Even on a low-temperature winter night, he was sweating profusely. He had obviously run all the way here in a hurry. As soon as the other party saw Fang Plover appear, he immediately shouted out of breath:
"...It's not good, Ai...Mr. Ade, those people you provoked during the day...they gathered in the city and planned to take revenge on you..."
He took two breaths and then said: "...I know their identity. They are a guild of the chosen ones called "Death Comes". According to the president, they are a quite famous guild of the chosen ones in this area... …By the way, it was the president who told us the information the other party was mobilizing…”
Fang Plover actually already knew this information, and it was also within his imagination that the other party would retaliate.
However, those people's calls caused such a big commotion and actually alerted the attention of the Tagli Craftsmen Association, which was somewhat beyond his expectation.
After a moment of thought, he thought of a possibility - the other party might have an aerospace ship.
In Tagli, a city with a population of tens of thousands, the movement of several hundred Holy Chosen Ones would not attract anyone's attention at all. Only the dispatch of aerospace ships would attract the attention of the indigenous people.
"The empire is really not simple..." Fang Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Only then in the Hart Principality, a small guild had its own aerospace ship. Although the Oshu people founded their country based on magic skills, aerospace ships were much more common here.
But this alone is enough to illustrate the strength of the first division.
But compared to these, what really surprised Fang Pliong was that this young man actually walked through the winter forest alone in the middle of the night and came all the way to inform them of this matter. This made him have a good impression of the other party and the Tagli Craftsmen Association.
He didn't appear too panicked. He only let the other party calm down before asking, "Did the president ask you to inform us?"
"President, he didn't say it clearly," the young man shook his head, "but Yayo told me that this is what the president wanted, otherwise he would have no need to inform us. Yayo asked me to inform you, where is he now? Keep an eye on those people..."
Too risky.
Fang Plover didn't quite approve of the other party doing this, but most of the selectors wouldn't take an aboriginal seriously, not to mention that it was in the city, and Yayo should be safe.
However, he unexpectedly learned another thing from the other party.
Before the young man set off, the guild had already sent out a large advance team. It's just that the selectors are not as familiar with the forest as the aborigines. The young people took a shortcut here, and even if the other party takes the first step, they may not be able to reach the vicinity of Horfen College.
This is important news.
No wonder this young man is in such a hurry.
Rushed all the way over.
Fang Yu replied: "I understand, thank you very much, but you should go back first, because it will become unsafe here soon. Also, help me, Yayo, and the president thank you, I originally planned to say goodbye to them in person, but now I have no chance.”
The young man was startled for a moment: "Then you..."
"Don't worry about us."
Fang Yu opened the communication channel and typed word by word:
"Ready to fight."
…
Death has come to the guild.
A long, sharp whistle sounded outside, and everyone rushed out while putting on their equipment, looking for their respective teams to join.
The guild leader, Gox, looked at the people coming out of the Resurrection Altar with an ugly expression. "The guild discovered that you entered the Starry Resurrection State a few hours ago and reported this to me. You said in the community that you were attacked. What is going on?" He asked with a cold face.
"President, the targets of those who attacked us should be the same as ours, and they are also Ash's manuscripts, but those people are very high-level, and they are probably the selectors of level 20 or above."
"Above level 20? Which guild are they from, the elite group of Omen of the Stars and the Dreamland guild?"
"No, there are only three of our guilds in the Hart Principality. Omen of the Stars and Dreamland are also old acquaintances of ours. Unless their elite group is newly expanded, we will definitely recognize them when they make a move." The ranger captain denied.
The female ranger who was the first to withdraw from the battle said at this time: "There is someone else who attacked us. The element that attacked me used a three-ring spell, which was at least level fifteen. I saw what he looked like. He was an Asian. I can't tell if the other party is a local, and there seems to be a little girl, but we didn't see clearly how she acted, and we don't know what the other party's occupation is."
"How many people did the other party attack you in total?" Gox asked.
Several people looked at each other. "There is another crossbowman, but we didn't see each other clearly... There is also a nightingale, it should be a nightingale. _o_m Adam, tell me." They looked at a swordsman behind them.
The swordsman scratched his head and said: "I actually didn't see clearly, but the other party should be a woman..."
"So an elementalist, a little girl, a woman and a crossbowman, four of them wiped out your group?" Gox was furious, "You didn't even see three of the four of them clearly. Can’t even tell the difference between occupations?”
"Actually, there are only two..." Someone retorted.
Gox gave these people a cold look and said: "Trash."
More than a dozen people said nothing. They were actually confused. They were not newbies either. They had been fighting with neighboring guilds for a long time and knew how to respond to attacks and how to fight back, but they had never encountered such an aggrieved situation.
Finally, the person who asked the question whom Fang Plover had met said, "Let's not talk about it for now. There is nothing we can do about the other party's high level. Now that the mission target is in their hands, the top priority is how to get it back."
"They can't leave," Gox replied through gritted teeth. "As soon as you explained the situation to the community, an advance team was dispatched here. The Fox Group and the Ge Group are still performing tasks outside. I temporarily transferred manpower from the Charlie Group and the Delta Group. Pull out half the regiment and send it in that direction."
As he spoke, he looked into the station. The guild's selectors were gathering. There were at least three ordinary members of the regiment in the square, and the vanguard soldiers of the other two regiments left first and headed south under the orders of their unit commanders.
A sailboat was slowly taking off, raising its sails and flying towards the forest.
There are always people in the guild performing tasks, stationed or leveling outside. Nearly one-third of the manpower used at this moment is almost all the power that the "Death Comes" guild can call in addition to the necessary warning troops——
In Gox's opinion, this was all a fuss. If the investors behind them hadn't issued a death order on this matter and must find out the whereabouts of Ash's manuscript, he would never have taken such a big step.
I thought that sending two teams to catch an old servant would be foolproof, but unexpectedly something went wrong.
But the manpower of five regiments can be used to form a search network.
If the area around Horfen College is cordoned off, a few people won't be able to escape, right? Gox turned around and planned to say something else, but at this moment, his expression suddenly changed.
The president's face was originally as dark as water, but now he turned green.
The person who asked the question seemed to see something from his face, and subconsciously asked: "What's wrong? What happened?"
"Bye."
He was the commander of the advance team he sent out.
Gox looked in the direction of the Resurrection Altar with an extremely ugly expression. A layer of white light suddenly rose above the icon of Angina, and then the crystals in a circle in front of the icon suddenly lit up one after another:
One, two, three, then five crystals lit up at the same time, and then four crystals. It was not until twenty crystals that the crystals lit up one by one stopped.
Each crystal represents a piece of starlight that is resurrecting within it.
If Fang Plover saw this scene, he would be extremely envious, because Mirela's altar on the Seven Seas Traveler only has three crystals. The price of such a large resurrection altar is almost enough to buy half of the Seven Seas Traveler. @*~~
But here, everyone was just stunned:
"Those are... something happened to the advance team?"
….
