"There is news of victory from the front."
Some time later, on January 17, 796 in the New Calendar, a fat man who had just woken up from his sleep with his feet on his desk received an intelligence letter from his subordinates: "The first official battle since the declaration of war. The battle ended with our victory. Those adventurers successfully repelled the Magic Empire's blockade and have now advanced to the three intersections of Traveler's Home."
"This group of adventurers is quite capable." There was a big yawn under his sleepy eyes. Lux Yang, who took the piece of paper, flattened his mouth nonchalantly: "I thought they were just a bunch of rabble. I didn’t expect—well, what is this?”
"The brothers who were lurking there and observing attached the real-time copy of this battlefield to the intelligence." As if he understood what Fatty Yang was paying attention to at this time, the black-clothed subordinate who clasped his fists and lowered his head replied hesitantly: " The terrain changed to a certain extent along the Tagbila River where the battle was taking place, and it is said that the enemy leader there suffered an unknown and devastating blow."
"Is there something wrong with my eyes, or is there something wrong with your graffiti skills?" So Fatty Yang pointed to the sketch drawn with simple lines on the page in his hand, and his round and fat face seemed to be tangled. Tuan: "The so-called devastating blow, do you mean that a piece of the entire mountain was dug out?"
"Can't these adventurers restrain themselves a little?"
The same discussion also occurs in every corner of the free world. The battle report of this first encounter that has attracted much attention has long been read over and over again by countless ordinary players who have obtained it, and Judging from the oral accounts of players who have personally experienced that battle and nearby war reporters, the situation where the mountaintop was dug out by the spherical twisted space mentioned in the battle report did indeed determine the outcome of the battle. The key factor - being buried in the collapse of space like a black hole, and losing the fire support of a large number of players led by Mingyue Qingfeng, the Magic Empire quickly lost the advantage of continuing to fight, and they retreated from the breached defense line. In the inevitable result, they collapsed in the hilly area on the south side of the Tagbila River, and soon disappeared at the end of the dusk horizon amidst the unanimous cheers of the Principality players: "Win---!"
"Hahahahaha! Damn the Restorationist! You know how powerful I am today!"
"Don't get carried away, disperse the reconnaissance troops first, and clean the battlefield at the same time! You, report to Boss Gedman and ask for instructions on the next step!"
"Speaking of which, there's really nothing to clean up on this battlefield, right? It's not a copy of the battlefield back then. There are still battle achievements and oil and water to be harvested, and that hilltop -"
"It can no longer be called a mountain."
The handsome Jack, who folded his arms and put away his short gun, and wiped his bayonet, was also enjoying the care of the logistics players at this time. He laughed while bathing in the radiance of healing magic, and pointed at the spherical arc in the distance. The flatly dug Shanshan said: "I have never seen such a large-scale air raid! Other people's air raids plowed all the soil, but our air raids sent away the entire soil with people and all! It's really amazing! Hahaha Ha ha!"
"When did our long-range support firepower become so powerful?" Jiangshan Ruhua, who also successfully escaped, tapped his shield and asked in a low voice: "Which magician is this? Do we want it?" Get to know each other well.”
"Don't ask me, I don't know whose handiwork it is." After finishing the command to stand in front and direct the participants to continue advancing, Gedman also responded to the expectant looks of the players who were gathering at him. : "I was indeed the closest person there at that time, and I was almost affected. If the black hole that appeared there for no reason exploded inward, I might have gone back with the brothers who died in the battle. reported."
"Then which mysterious person took action to deal with Mingyue Qingfeng for us?" Ban Brick, who came forward, asked doubtfully: "It can't be an own mistake caused by their own mistakes, right?"
"Although I am not a player who is proficient in magic, I can be regarded as someone who has seen a little bit of the world." It seemed that he was a little uncomfortable with Ban Brick's arrival at this time. Gedman turned around and continued to answer indifferently: " That level of large-scale magic is not something that an ordinary three-legged cat magician can perform, let alone 'mistakes' and 'own goals'."
"Who is that?" Several players all looked at Gedman's head: "Other members of the Qingling Adventure Group?"
"It's just me!" the Shield Warrior replied angrily: "The rest are either missing or trying to get away from the boss. I'm the only one busy here, and I haven't even had time to settle accounts with them!"
"Okay, don't think too much. Anyway, we can take advantage of this 'extraterrestrial gift', and we can win this encounter by luck." He waved his hand to dismiss what others were talking about. En slapped his palms and continued to direct: "Such good luck will not always exist! Please stay calm! Next time we encounter that Mingyue Qingfeng, we have to find a solution on our own!"
"There are still tough battles to be fought in the future!"
I don’t know whether the words of this well-known field commander played a role at this time or whether his status as a member of the Qingling Adventure Group exerted a deterrent effect. The mixed coalition forces finally listened to Gedman’s words and returned again. Take action, but the unknown magic that happened at the end of the previous encounter and the topics derived from it are still talked about among the players who witnessed it with their own eyes. As the most discussed initiator, Duan Qing, who was located deep in the Void Library, was also being tortured by two souls around him. One soul came from Xueling Huanbing, who also witnessed the whole scene, and the other soul It came from Violet, who was responsible for throwing Duan Qing's potion into the battlefield: "My dear apprentice, what exactly did you put in it?"
"I, I want to know too! I don't even know why it suddenly became like this. They are just ordinary alchemy materials..."
"Ordinary alchemy materials? Ordinary alchemy materials cannot synthesize such unexpected effects. I can even feel the vibration of the boundary rules from the magic fluctuation just now-could it be that the semi-finished experimental potion you made casually is just Don’t you already have enough power to shake the boundaries of space?”
"Calm down, calm down, you guys asking around me like this will not have any positive effect on my recall of that recipe! Especially you!"
Holding down the hand that was still shaking tightly, Duan Qing shouted and pushed the bright-eyed Xue Linghuan Bing to the right side of his body: "Don't you disdain this kind of alchemy potion?" Do you care? Why are you so interested all of a sudden? "
"The more weapons, the better." Xueling Huanbing, who was pouting, then persevered and stretched out his hand again: "And it's such an interesting toy... Do you have any more? Let me try a bottle too. .”
"Why did I prepare so many experimental subjects?" Staring at Chi Chi's pretty face, Duan Qing was finally defeated by the other party's unwavering gaze: "Really, when will you There is such an obvious tendency to violence... Okay, let me recall it carefully. I remember that there was a bottle of Starlight Grass extract, a handful of Void Mark Stone powder, and two bundles of Volid's roots - well, it seems there are more How many keels are there?"
"Wait a minute, where did you get so many high-end materials?" The figure belonging to Violet suddenly appeared in front of him, and accompanied by it was the girl in the white dress who was replaced by Nashia and examined her. The gray-robed magician's bright gaze said: "Forget about the previous ones, where did your dragon bones come from?"
"Having made so much money, it's not unusual for me to go out and buy some high-end materials, right?" Duan Qingqiang, who was forced to look back a little, replied calmly: "As for the keel - the one on the top of Hulan Mountain There are so many giant dragons in that primitive jungle, what’s wrong with just collecting a few dragon bones?”
"Dragon is one of the creatures with extremely high concentration of magic elements on the Free Continent. Any material on them used in alchemy may have a decisive change in the finished product and effect of alchemy." Violet stared intently. He reminded the other party: "Composition, grade, properties, essence... Each material needs to comprehensively consider these factors and determine the final usage amount - this is the basic principle of alchemy. You will not add it casually. Is it in your potion?"
"How is it possible? Am I such a lax person?"
"yes."
The two women, one large and one small, answered in unison, which made the beads of sweat on Duan Qing's face become even more dense. The gray-robed magician raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, and finally retreated to the stone bed behind him and lay down. He sat down and said, "I, I didn't use it indiscriminately. The materials I have on hand don't allow me to use them indiscriminately. I only have a few kinds-"
Duan Qing suddenly choked up in the middle of speaking, and the expression on Duan Qing's face, who seemed to have remembered something, seemed to become more embarrassed. The two women who had been staring at each other naturally discovered this abnormality immediately, and Wei was the first to bear the brunt. Erlit also frowned tightly at this time: "Dragon bone, dragon bone...dragon clan?"
"Did you throw something from Furla into it?"
"But, maybe? I forgot about it too. Anyway, we're just experimenting first, so we don't need to worry too much about what we put in, right?"
"You...huh, forget it. But the effect of the current experiment is so amazing that it even caused space to collapse! If Fulla is a golden dragon, her 'essence' does indeed fit this... No, that's not right."
"Even if I did accidentally drop some material from Fulla into the potion, the magical effect of the Golden Dragon alone would not be able to cause such a large black hole, even if there is a chain reaction involved - huh."
The questioning turned into low voices. Duan Qing and Violet, who were in a state of thought, covered their mouths in the eyes of Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was looking at each other: "Chain reaction, chain reaction..."
"Tell me what your 'attractor' is, is it fire magic?"
"It's the 'Fire Rune'. The superimposed version has removed the second half. It has no real lethality, but it has extremely strong element aggregation ability and the effect of raising the reaction temperature in a short time - probably."
"It's a good idea. I can consider entrusting you with the improvement of other runes next time. But the element aggregation ability... and the temperature... Judging from the scene at that time, there should be a lot of magical reactions. .”
"It causes a large number of magical reactions in a small area in a short period of time, and it is also disordered...will it cause an effect similar to a black hole?"
The discussion one by one seemed to lead the two people's thoughts to the same end point. Duan Qing and Violet's eyes became brighter at the same time. They glanced in the direction of Xue Ling Huan Bing, and then turned around. He stood up and walked to the bookshelf: "If it is an ordinary continuous magic casting, this effect should not occur. There may be two situations - no, three situations."
"Either a short-term high-polymerized magic reaction shattered the space magic structure, or this series of reactions caused some kind of 'magic effect' that we have never seen before...According to our existing knowledge of the void theory, all All the elements have an end after they are used up, which is the void where we are."
"The accumulation of a large amount of magic fuel after burning out in a short period of time may indeed cause the collapse of the void. Otherwise, these 'remnants' will have no place to go, and our long-standing magic theory will have no suitable explanation."
"The materials of the Golden Dragon Clan should have played a certain role in this, but not all - listen to this: the remaining magical elements that should have disappeared according to the rules of the world have penetrated the surface of the world with the help of space magic, corroding the bits and pieces. What’s the hypothesis about the boundary of the face?”
"It is not possible to draw conclusions yet and more experimental demonstrations are needed."
A smile finally appeared on her face, and Violet turned to look at Duan Qing's face: "But through your experiment, we may have a chance to find important secrets about the elements of this world."
"It's still uncertain." Duan Qing, who also smiled, shook his head: "I haven't fully recalled what I added to the previous potion."
"There is no need to completely copy it. It is enough to create enough magic reaction and compress it again to create the same conditions." Purple magic light began to gather on her hand, and Violet's figure began to change. Qing and the others became transparent: "If this theory is established——"
"I have a few 'ideas' related to world rules, and now I can't wait to try them out."
Without much greeting, the body of the girl carrying the soul of the great magician finally disappeared in front of Duan Qing. Duan Qing, who was left behind, then took Xue Ling Huan Bing's hand with the same inexplicable smile. Walking towards the depths of the Void Library.
"Let's go find Furla."
