'When the Teluka people walked out of the forest, they saw the stars rising in front of them, just like a slowly unfolding picture of the universe. The stars rose, and then the purifying flames descended -
——Alhamud Alma, "Record of a War in 778"'
…
Forin pursed his lips and silently looked at the still slightly childish face in the flashing fluorescent screen. There was also a glimmer of thought floating in his light blue eyes.
Sometimes Forin can’t help but think:
What were you doing when you were still at this age?
Many, many days ago, when he stood out from the youth training camp, shouldering everyone's expectations, he also yearned for a wider world.
Later, he gradually became an emerging star in the eyes of many people.
But what was expected was not realized; what was realized was only responsibility.
The joy of youth has turned into a heavy burden of reality - different people have turned into overlapping shadows. The older man's wrinkled face looked at him with eyes that shone with wisdom and seriousness.
Then, the leader came forward and stood in front of each of them.
The other party sighed softly and patted his shoulder lightly with his hand.
Listen, the holy white branches pass through the dark forest.
The dying winter spreads quietly, leaving withered embers in the forest. The shadows in the forest stand tall and silent.
What will it be like in the future where the end has not yet come? Thousands of stars descended from the night sky, like ancient trees drooping their branches. The stars twinkled, and the woodland quietly resurrected from the ashes.
"Forin, it's up to you."
"... Letting you participate in this competition is somewhat of an underdog, but the situation in the Heart of the Giant Tree is getting worse day by day. Some people in Sanshak are even spreading rumors about the Shadow Temple. We must have a big victory. Only then can people’s hearts be stabilized…”
"We have to find the answer to the Heart of the Giant Tree from the Chapter of the Holy Tree. The day of withering is coming, so please do everything..."
"We have to move forward, we have to...get there."
"Tower Three——"
The young man in the picture finally spoke.
Forin's expression was slightly startled, and then he recovered his wandering thoughts from reminiscing. He looked at the other person and said to him with a confident look:
"Forin, is this just your goal? But I'm afraid the Imperial people will not coexist peacefully with you. Can you really pass through the forest so smoothly and reach your goal?"
The young man shook his head:
"I can agree, but this is far from enough. The Imperials don't think so, and their allies don't think so either. Their target is us - and each of you. The White Tree Society has withdrawn, and we are next. , it can also be you.”
"You might have a head-on collision with the Lavender Craftsmen Association and the people from Silver Chain Island. Forin, will the second division face the Imperial Alliance alone?"
"I guess you will retreat, but that is not the best way. I guess you must have a plan to open the third main tower, but that will definitely take time, but time is the enemy of each of us."
The brilliance in Fang Plover's eyes was like rising stars. He smiled and said, "How about we cooperate, Forin. The Lotao people are on our side, at least in this sea of trees. How about we join forces."
Imperial people.
It's nothing.
Forin pursed his lips and didn't speak for a long time, but finally he asked: "What do you want?"
"Crystal Tower."
Fang Yu replied: "——We will help you stop the imperial people, but——I need the right to use the crystal tower!"
"..."
There was a long silence.
Fang Yu looked at the same young face in the picture and said word by word:
"Forin, there is no free kindness in this world, and there is no free lunch. But there is a direct path to victory. We will help you behind you, but... I need your statement."
Forin closed his eyes gently, opened them again, and stared at the other person, "In terms of intelligence, they said you are bad at bargaining with others."
Unexpectedly, it was still seen.
Fang Yu turned around embarrassedly, revealing the girl there. Luo Wei glanced at him, shook her head slightly, then turned back and stared at the young and promising leader of the Sangxiak people in the picture.
"Miss Luo Wei, it is indeed you."
"That's not important, Forin, where's your answer?"
The expression on the young alchemist's face became serious. He opened his mouth and said something softly.
…
Anat raised her head and stared at the meteors flashing across the night sky.
The stars hanging upside down above the sea of trees may not necessarily be real - they may record the ancient stars in Aitalia that were also caught in the eyes of different people many, many times ago.
Like the twinkling cantilever of the Milky Way, it connects the two ends of distant history and the present, and together they unfold a magnificent picture. So time was frozen at that moment, recording the eternity of thousands of years ago to this day.
But the shimmering light was not the long tail of the comet, but the light of man-made objects. A machine was passing through the vast sky, looking at the earth below with cold eyes.
The flash of explosion spread through the forest.
The fight on the ground——
It is also spreading.
Many admiring eyes fell on her.
In the darkness, people are waiting for the moment when the action starts, waiting for the hands to cross the dawn, and the setting stars are reflected on the watch cover, bit by bit, waiting for the glimmer of light to rise on the horizon.
But Anat didn't pay attention to those glances. She only gently fiddled with her braids with her hands, pursed her thick lips, and her beautiful, light blue eyes that were as bright as gems were filled with firm light.
What she needs is not that kind of 'shallow admiration and yearning'.
But go on the road to prove yourself.
Prove victory——
"The Kaolin people have stopped the Imperial people. Look in the direction of the main tower." Anat silently stared at the flash of light on the horizon. "Why don't we go over there and give the Imperial people a fatal blow from behind, just like they did to us. Same."
"The Geminis are not that simple," the young black man with a resolute face said, "They are far from being in desperate situation. But the people of the Empire may not be able to care about others if they can take care of themselves."
"This seems to be a repetition," Anat sighed softly, "Tig, do you really believe that little guy?"
"why not?"
Teague wrapped a strip of cloth around his hand, and then put on the bulky magic glove. He raised his head, his eyes flashing with the flames of revenge, "It's disrespectful to come back without reciprocating. This time it's our turn to surprise the Imperial people." ”
The two of them wanted to say something more.
But another meteor streaked across the sky, making them both turn around and stare in that direction.
An invisible message is passing through the mountain forest there. It flows through the ether veins flowing in the sea of trees and through the crystal tower towering above the valley.
In the dim light, refracted in a more distant direction,
Magic becomes language.
The countless pieces of information were dismantled, turned into streams of light that refracted and jumped one after another, and finally converged into a beam of light that converged with a certain node hanging alone in the night sky, where the silver light flickered slightly.
Two rays of light lit up in the darkness.
Those are the eyes of the fairy doll.
Then it flew off in one direction.
The doll slowly descended into the forest and landed in front of Anat and Tig. It looked like an exquisite girl, facing the two of them with a silver face and calm eyes, and stretched out its small hand forward. .
A silver line extended from her body and connected the two of them.
A voice sounded from the minds of the two of them.
"Miss Anat, Mr. Teague——"
"Please join the network."
"I need all your computing power."
Anat turned around and looked at Tige beside her. She raised her hand and lightly snapped her fingers.
Countless rays of silver light are rising from the forest, little by little, one by one, and in each halo, there is a fairy doll waking up. They opened their silver eyes, and lines of ether were connecting them one by one.
Then the network of twinkling stars rose from the etheric sea.
"But..." Anat watched this scene silently and couldn't help but say, "Ed, what are you going to do...the distance factor..."
She suddenly stopped talking.
Because in those blue eyes like lapis lazuli, a wisp of flame far away in the sky was reflected.
As described in the ancient poem -
Ah, the stars rise, and the starlight falls, reflecting the shining sea.
The ancient coast where brave sailors rowed away, the starry night sky they gazed upon;
Today, thousands of years later, it is no different.
What is sung in the song is not only a dream, but it is also reflected in reality at this moment.
…
"what is that?"
When Leike Sabins came out of the woods, he saw just such a field of rising stars. They shimmer dimly in the night, but the stars are dotted side by side, forming a huge array across the sky——
In any case, people cannot see that it is a creation of nature.
Everyone raised their heads and stared at this incredible scene. Each star is like a silver pointed shuttle, its surface reflects the moonlight and clear light, like a mirror, depicting the vast sea of trees and the distant horizon.
The sky and stars are also written on the surface of the machine, and ancient and modern merge into one.
The Imperials from the Lavender Craftsmen Association were the first to notice something was wrong. A craftsman immediately pulled down his goggles and raised his hand to let his clockwork goblin approach quickly.
But what he saw was nothing but terror.
He screamed: "That's... a construct!"
That scene was just like the apocalypse that the Imperials saw when the Telukas walked out of the mountains and forests 330 years ago.
When the barbarians in the mountains faced the judgment from the magic civilization for the first time, what they saw were the stars twinkling in the sky and the disaster of annihilation falling from the vast sea of stars.
The doomsday flames hang down from the dome, burning the forest and burning the mountains dry. It is a huge array composed of thirteen thousand Annihilators, and it is also the moment when the stars of the empire twinkle.
It is also the battle that made the Fairy Wall famous.
Just like this moment.
Going back another thousand and eleven hundred years, the cold eyes of the Nightmare Furnace army that was spreading across the Clover Plain were looking at the same romantic scene——
The silver ships of the Numerin elves are in a row, and countless stars are rising into the night.
What they saw that night constituted the twinkling stars of civilization, when the dark army raised its head and watched the rise of the high wall.
And the gorgeous silver light of the machine hanging down from mid-air.
Later they got a beautiful name.
Morning Star of Essoline.
In other words, the one who leads the light——
Disaster.
Same as this moment.
What vibrates violently in people's pupils is the shape of the structures. Their silver shuttle-like appearances all tell a story.
That story came from the far north of the Kaolin Kingdom half a year ago. It was covered in severe winter and the wind and snow were flying. They cut a bright light in the forest and then ignited a sea of fire.
That sea of fire was reflected in the Shadowman's deepest nightmares, thus creating another legend - the Dragon Alchemist of Corin-Ithurion.
"Enemy attack——!"
The wavering and fear in his heart turned into a shrill cry.
Before Lek Sabins realized what was happening, he was violently knocked away by a person from behind. The muscular Imperial craftsman raised his magic gloves into the air.
Trying to let the goblin puppet direct the swarm to attack the huge array in mid-air.
but--
"It's too late, Imperial."
It was like thousands of voices harmonizing into one, as if a huge roar and resonance were vibrating from every structure in the huge array.
The constructs changed their orientations one after another, revealing their claws that shone with cold light downwards.
A huge shadow unfolded in Leike Sabins's heart. The uneasiness gripped his soul tightly, and he couldn't help but scream: "Get out of the way!"
A little light showed from the pointed shuttle.
A little light bloomed from the countless pointed shuttles.
Countless silver flowers hang down the Milky Way.
It seems to be the most magnificent scene in the universe, just like the golden sky fire seen by the Teluka people, like a stream of light, like a shower of stars passing through the vastness, bit by bit, line by line, from the night sky Flowing down.
The countless brilliance seems to be the most beautiful thing in the world. It is not a pitying glance from the God of Death, but the pure holy light that cleanses everything. The light passes through the forest canopy, through the human body, and through those dark structures. body shell.
Through the core of their crystals, through their red pupils gazing at the starry sky, in that cold crystal, a scene of frozen time is written.
Then, crystal light penetrated the circuit, magic power burned the cracked crystal core, blue flames spurted out from the magic furnace, long arcs of electricity scattered in all directions, and countless flames rose from countless nightmare furnaces.
The forest also turned into a sea of fire.
That magnificent scene was reflected in the dark pupils of the little animals in the mountains and forests who were raising their heads and stopping their movements from the trees. Then the birds flew up and the animals ran away.
Perhaps many, many years followed, perhaps many more people came to this vast sea of trees one after another.
But it is difficult to recreate the stunning scene that was reflected in the eyes of the birds and animals that night.
It will be passed down from generation to generation along with the silent stories in the forest, until the silver spire overturns and the world turns into nothingness.
Until the continent above the sea of clouds, to the end of time.
There was silence on the main stage.
There was silence in the audience.
Bai Xue subconsciously held Ms. Ming's hand tightly, as if she couldn't hold on to the world otherwise.
Ming on the side didn't notice this at all - she was just smiling, with a hint of excitement in her dark eyes.
"Did you see it?"
"Did you see it?"
That is--
Swift tactics.
That is.
Fairy Dance.
There was silence in Wandering Horse's live broadcast room. People exhale cautiously, as if that breath can take away the rest of their lives. Time passes in silence, like a legend——
From the forest under the moonlight.
Really born.
The sudden blow seemed to suppress the time of the entire world, completely paralyzing the Imperial people of the Lavender Craftsmen Association. The injured were wailing, and the dying constructs were on fire.
The forest is filled with embers, as if the apocalypse is coming.
But the one who reacted first was Leike Sabins. He became the hero of the Empire at that moment. He turned around and ran backwards as if he was blessed, rushing towards the large device carried by the magic vehicle at the back of the team.
Beams of silver light passed through the forest, but they all missed him. The Imperial people in the distance finally reacted at this moment and began to gather the wounded and direct the counterattack. The Nightmare Furnace construct began to rush through the forest, rushing in that direction.
But a silver light flashed again in the forest, and almost all the Nightmare Furnace creatures at the front of the formation fell down. From behind the forest, a row of tall structures with the same red light flashing on their heads and holding shotguns came out.
"Dragon Hunter!?"
The Imperial people were so shocked that they were almost in disbelief, and screams came one after another from the front.
Those tall structures were forming a queue, slowly walking out of the forest, then raising the shotgun in their hands, squatting on the ground, aiming at the Nightmare Furnace structure on the front line.
The fight between the same kind unfolded another picture in this sea of trees.
Behind those strange constructs, the flickering array is constantly unfolding and closing, and then there are seemingly endless copies of the same construct, under the control of the strange nautilus-shaped construct.
Coming off the 'production line'.
But at that moment, Leike Sabins could no longer care about anything else. He was leaping towards the tall device, then slamming his hand down on the groove on the device, and smashing a magic crystal into the air. Pressed it.
A blue shield unfolded from the device.
It appeared like a ripple of water, crossing Lek Sabins, passing all the Imperials, and also passing the advancing Nightmare Forge structure, encompassing the entire Imperial position. Leike Sabins turned around——
He just happened to see the stars in the sky shining brightly again.
…
A scene was unfolding in front of Shui Wuming.
She looked at the scene on the screen and couldn't help but smile. Standing in the forest, more than a dozen craftsmen from the Grande Craftsmen Association and the Kapka Guild Association raised their heads one by one.
The forest was silent.
They stared at the goblin dolls suspended above the forest. Silver threads passed through the treetops, passing through everyone and every construct, connecting them to each other.
Then, a little starlight fell.
A goblin doll fell from the sky and came to everyone. It was using a projection crystal to raise a picture in front of everyone. In the picture, the childish boy was watching each of them:
"Everyone."
"I need you to connect to the Internet."
Beam after beam of light was rising from the forest.
Forin looked back at the rays of light rising into the sky. They bloomed with green light under the night sky, just like the legendary blue light that represented the crown of the sea forest - the shining beacon, which was lighting up the entire night sky little by little.
Those were the masterpieces they left behind.
But now their alliance has laid the path to victory, like a beacon in the darkness, lighting up the way forward.
"Kaolin people..." The craftsmen around him couldn't help but murmur, "Kaolin people, they really have them..."
The crystal towers are being lit up.
They are like a lit network, spreading from far to near and in a distant direction.
There, in the burning woodland—
Vikki was panting and stopped. The battle had entered a fever pitch. Although the Imperials had no time to pay attention to anything else, it was difficult for the Taxin Singers to focus on the battle above the ground.
The fighting in the sky had completely ignited every cloud in the night sky, and the flames made the forest under the spire a red color. She looked around, and everywhere she looked, there were constructs - whether they were Nightmare Furnace creatures or ordinary people. The remains of a flexible structure.
The magic cannon of the people of the Red Sea has misfired.
But to win.
It still takes time——
Is there still much time left for them?
Vikki no longer cared about thinking so much. The stinging pain from the wound had almost deprived her of any extra thinking ability. She just accidentally looked into the gap above the tree crown.
There, a blue light pillar was rising into the sky.
what is that?
The girl had no time to think about it, but a buzzing sound was reaching her eardrums. She looked keenly in that direction, but only saw a clockwork fairy flying towards her - Vikki subconsciously wanted to attack.
But a scene unfolded in front of her, and Zheng Yongzai's anxious voice came from inside: "Sister Vikki, don't attack, that's Brother Ed!"
That rascal?
In an instant, the clockwork fairy had flown in front of her, circled around her, and flew in through the holes in the tall stalker's shell. Hovering in front of the girl. Then it cast a beam of light from the crystal core.
Leave a message on her retina.
"Vikki."
A voice sounded from the message:
"Connect to the network."
"You will be the frontline commander."
"I?"
Then, the clockwork fairy folded its wings and landed on her hand with a snap.
Vikki lowered his head and discovered that there was a resonance crystal tied to the clockwork fairy.
She was slightly startled, not understanding what it meant, but suddenly - a kind of throbbing arose in her heart.
At that moment, the girl clearly noticed the changes in the Aether Sea. It feels like there are countless starlights rushing forward through the ethereal network.
They refract matter and information here from a distant place——
She knew exactly what it was.
The crystal tower technology of Tree Hill.
Vikki turned around suddenly, just in time to see the shimmering portals unfolding from behind her in the forest that turned into a sea of fire.
Reinforcements have arrived.
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(End of chapter)
