The overlooking scenery was constantly reflected in her eyes. A woman in a black cloak floating above Tania slowly withdrew her gaze, and countless purple magic eyes used for observation also filled the sky. The magic circle thread disappeared into the red sky, and at the same time, a small gem engraved with exquisite magic runes appeared in front of him: "Oh, you are still alive."
"Thank you for your previous assistance. We are all still alive." Duan Qing's voice then sounded within the light and dark light of this magic gem: "And for the convenience of preservation, I will also engrave the magic circle you sent on on myself."
"You transferred it to yourself? Your knowledge of magic circles has reached such a high level?" Violet's answer sounded a bit surprised: "Although saying this may hurt you, but This temporary space teleportation array is not something that an adventurer of your level can easily understand."
"For some indescribable reason." The voice that sounded among the magic gems became a little embarrassed: "Anyway, fortunately I still remember this matter, so I was able to choose it at the last moment... the one outside How's the situation?"
"Thanks to your last efforts, the entire city has fallen into disaster."
Shaking her head, Violet once again set her sights on the surface of red light raging around the city under the high sky: "Although no magic power has been gathered, the energy released has caused the energy spread throughout the city to rise. All the hidden magic circuits have been overloaded, and some of the magic circuits have ruptured and exploded. The ground has caved in, and countless houses have collapsed. If there are casualties...ah, that's right."
"There is still fighting." The corners of her mouth raised slightly, and her gaze turned to the still-disappearing swords and shadows around the southern wall of the city: "Added to these, Tania is now trapped in a veritable 'mountain of swords and sea of fire' Woolen cloth."
"Only you can monitor everything that happens here, but I can't see your side. It's really unfair." Duan Qing's voice revealed a bit of a wry smile: "If possible, I would like to see with my own eyes this magnificent scene that I created with my own hands.”
"If you want to see it now, it's not impossible." The smile on her face became bigger and bigger, and Violet snapped her fingers: "Didn't you transfer the magic circle to your body? "
"As long as you recite my name silently in your heart, you can 'fly' out."
An inexplicable mental tear then appeared in Duan Qing's mind, suddenly pulling the gray-robed magician who was still half-lying in the floodwaters of the underground sewer into a blur of consciousness, overlooking the city of Tania. The scene gradually formed in his eyes that became clear again, vaguely mixing the sea of fire in the sky with the screaming figures mixed in: "This, this is -"
"Don't underestimate the Lord of Violet. The magical miracles that the temporary space magic array can accomplish are far beyond your imagination."
The voice belonging to Violet then appeared in his mind, and at the same time, he quickly knocked back Duan Qing's confused expression: "Okay, now look at your right side - is there anything there?" A magic rune?”
Duan Qing's eyes shifted to the right following the other party's prompts. Duan Qing focused his eyes on the magic runes floating in front of him: "Uh... I can see it, but what's the use of it?"
"I've invited you to enjoy such a grand scenery. You should have something in return, right?" Violet's answer contained a bit of cunning: "Here, try to use the magic circle knowledge I taught you before. Manipulate these things."
There seemed to be some kind of encouragement and hint in the gentle words. Duan Qing slowly raised his hand, and the slender fingers that came into view slowly appeared under the black cloak, making him concentrate on His attention twitched: "What? I'm attaching -"
"Concentrate and don't get distracted."
Qingming's voice then echoed in Duan Qing's mind, pulling him back from his almost falling body: "This is a good opportunity for you to experience the great magician's powerful abilities. You must seize it."
"Don't bully me for not studying enough. This kind of spiritual replacement is not within the scope of magic knowledge." Duan Qing stabilized his breathing with force, and responded loudly in his mind with his mind: "Next time, do this kind of reaction When conducting humane experiments, can you inform me in advance?"
"It was you who asked me to rescue you." Violet's voice had a hint of an elf-like smile: "As a qualified and responsible mentor, we should try our best to meet the apprentice's requirements. not to mention--"
"There is a powerful dragon beside you, and I don't want her to steal all my limelight."
The delicate magical threads then slowly unfolded in front of Duan Qing's eyes, slowly intertwining in the air to form a series of incomprehensible three-dimensional runes. The radiance of magic then centered on the purple rune on Duan Qing's right hand and moved toward him. It vaguely reflects the circular outline of Tania below. The dark red light mixed in the city reflecting the scene of hell gradually overlapped with the magic light reflected downward by Duan Qing at this time. The dark red magic circuit that was originally burning like a raging flame was gradually replaced by the purple light. Instead, purple rays of light dotted with countless stars began to appear on the surface of the huge three-dimensional runes, as if they were slowly carving something with the flick of Duan Qing's fingers: "Very good, that's it, move a little further to the left, Don’t shake—are you scared?”
"What on earth is this thing?"
Duan Qing blinked his eyes in confusion, and felt the cold wind at high altitude and shivered involuntarily: "If we fiddle with it for a while, the magic circuit below can be repaired?"
"What is being repaired is not the magic circuit, but the ley lines that were damaged due to the overload of the magic circuit." Violet's answer sounded a little more serious: "And the 'El' rune in front of you is just A collection of magic circles, and the work of all sub-magic circles will be fed back and manifested on this rune."
"In the words that you adventurers often use, this is a console." Violet's voice became a little more relaxed when she said this: "The violet circle is working hard below, you only need to operate it Just complete the repair operations on the stage.”
"...It's really a high-end design."
Looking at the city under his feet that had extinguished part of the red light, Duan Qing blinked his eyes involuntarily: "In order to repair the earth veins here, you actually put in so much effort."
"Don't be too eager to be happy. This strength may not be used yet." Violet immediately poured cold water on it: "Look at the eruption over there. The catharsis has not been completed at this time. There’s so much magical energy released.”
"That is most of the energy that connects the empire's continental veins." The face hidden under the hood was slightly tangled, revealing Duan Qing's helpless feeling: "In addition, during this period of time The collected rainwater... I didn’t expect that it would rain for nearly a month, and it would eventually become the fuel for this furnace. We should feel extremely lucky to be able to use magic reversal to release this energy peacefully."
"Everything in the world contains magic power, but mortals have no way to use it." Violet's voice then sighed: "In my opinion, the furnace you encountered - or Tania as a whole is a great creation, and its magic collection rate and magic utilization rate are as high as I have ever seen."
"You should have understood its origin." The voice then pointed at Duan Qing: "What did you see in the furnace?"
"...This story may be a bit long." Duan Qing took a slight breath and replied silently: "Although the clues are not complete, I can probably guess what happened in this place before, and without any help With the knowledge of you erudite great magicians, I’m afraid I can’t answer some of your questions by myself… eh.”
As if he sensed something, he looked up at the red-lit sky. A huge black shadow appeared on the edge of the layers of clouds that had been dispersed by the vented energy fireworks. It looked like a tower. The appearance of the city: "Is it the City in the Sky? How did it get here?"
"It's a problem if they can't detect such a powerful magic wave." Violet replied with a chuckle: "But I'm afraid it's a little too late to come now."
"At least you can relax a little bit, can't you?" Duan Qing shook his head: "In such a big city, you can't rely on you to repair all the earth veins."
"I originally wanted to use this meritorious service to gain some benefits, but unfortunately -"
Immediately, a sigh came to mind, and the words that belonged to Violet, who was gradually becoming drowsy: "That's fine."
"Then leave the follow-up research to them."
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With the appearance of the fireworks on the night of March 28, 796 of the New Calendar, the capital city located in the center of the Free Continent finally came into the sight of many powerful people in the free world, including most of the Mage Council. Neutral forces also began to gather their strength invisibly and stationed themselves around this troubled city. The red fireworks in the center of the city finally slowly disappeared with the passage of time and the arrival of the City in the Sky. Along with it was the arrival of the true fire at dawn on March 29th. Countless magicians of different levels also With the appearance of the floating city that vaguely cast a shadow on a corner of the city, it surrounded the capital of the principality, which was almost half in ruins.
As the declaration of the empire and the commotion from the south of the city gate subsided, the greatest impact of the appearance of the Sky City gradually became apparent - the radical forces in the principality headed by Vincent who sought to continue to stir up conflicts were finally replaced by a large number of magicians. The movement ceased due to the suppression.
"There are definitely casualties."
Welcoming the arrival of Duan Qing, who was staggering out of the city limits, Cangyun Barrier, who was covered in scars and looked extremely tired, then steeled himself to answer the other party's question: "Our casualty figures are naturally compared with the actual casualty figures reported. came out, and several of the Empire's cavalry regiments did die. If the big bosses from the Mages Council hadn't arrived in time, the final outcome of this conflict would still be unknown."
"It's not really death anyway." Looking at the Lanshan players who had been fighting all night and looked listless on both sides of Talon Avenue outside the South City Gate, Duan Qing curled his lips and replied: "I'm afraid It’s not something you use to get benefits from above, right?”
"Otherwise, why do you think Princess Reina has no objection at all?" Cangyun Barrier smiled and patted his chest: "Only when the number is large can you ask the principality to raise an army, otherwise there is no weight? As long as it is a number recognized by the system , no matter how you say it, it’s reasonable.”
"In any case, our plan to interfere with the audio-visual and complete the infiltration was realized." Holding Duan Qing's body tightly, a smile appeared on the face of Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was also covered in scars: "Thank you, no With you fighting at the city gate, it is impossible for us to successfully sneak into the city."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. This is our common goal." After waving his hand, Cangyun Barrier's originally deep voice then took on a teasing tone: "It's just that-"
"I'm a little surprised to hear such words of thanks from your mouth."
He grinned and showed his white teeth to the reddish-faced Xue Ling Huan Bing, and then amidst the constant noises all around him, he took the lead again and walked towards the direction of Talan Village behind him: "Forget it, go over there Many things that happened in that day surprised me, such as the weakness of Jianghu and Lou Tingyu who was shouting in front of me for no reason, and later the congressman named Vincent..."
"And our Princess Reina." His voice paused for a moment: "He came up with a strange reason to stand up for us - this kind of treatment is simply unprecedented."
"I have heard a bit about this matter." Duan Qing raised his eyelids: "What is His Highness's intention?"
"Well, we haven't officially communicated yet." Cangyun Barrier, who was walking in front, said without looking back: "The encirclement was withdrawn after the magicians from Sky City appeared, and the battle naturally ended. , now that the threat has been eliminated, Her Royal Highness Princess Rena naturally retreated to the village... Ah, and there is one more thing."
"That Fatty Yang seems to have left as well." He stopped in his tracks and looked back in the direction Duan Qing and the others had just walked in: "He looked very anxious, not the same as the way he treated us. It looks completely different.”
"It should be because I heard some news in the city."
He turned his head and glanced at Duan Qing with questioning eyes, and then at the latter's silent reaction, he tugged at the corner of his mouth and sneered: "Okay."
"It's up to you to explain this matter to Princess Reina yourself."
