"...The prophecy is revealing its truth step by step. The four springs of elements have already lit up two of them. You don't need to continue to doubt. You don't have much time left."
"It doesn't matter. Once the secret method is feasible, what if all the springs of elements fall into their hands? We can still control 'that power'."
"What, you want to ignore the prophecy and go your own way? I guess you don't need me to explain the consequences of going against fate, right?"
"Four emperors...heh, we don't care too much. After all, we are used to the tricks in language and writing in things like 'prophecy of deception', even if the opponent becomes the 'emperor' in the end. , and then used their hands to achieve our goal, and I have nothing to do with it - huh."
Walking on the spiral staircase, there were two low voices of conversation quietly echoing in a team of magicians who were slowly moving forward. The deliberately concealed words were made even more difficult to distinguish by the wind blowing from the far end of the blue sky. Even the two figures who were communicating seemed to look a bit blurry in the sunshine without clouds. It had been some time since they set off and arrived at the unexplored land of the Sky City. The temporary magician team composed of these ingredients seems to have been in a state of semi-silence for some strange reason. Even the only existing conversation disappeared in the rustling sound coming from below, together with the sudden disappearance of one of the figures. In the cold wind: "...Humph."
"You are here."
The other figure who was left behind then turned his head and stood on the stone steps in the middle of the dilapidated tower and looked down at Duan Qing's face: "You are still qualified, otherwise we would have to be at the forefront of the last pioneer area. It’s time spent waiting for you.”
"Adventurers have always acted quickly and efficiently. If we can have visible treasures as a lure of profit, our actions might become faster." He raised his head and responded. Duan Qing, who was below, smiled and waved. He clapped his arms to show friendship: "Of course, if that happens, the place to participate in the development mission this time can only be obtained by 'snatching'."
"Rejoice, you are the first adventurer who is qualified to join me and become an honorable member of my team." Prader Infilidi, who looked down at the gray-robed magician, replied with an arrogant voice. There seemed to be a dangerous light flashing under the eyes covered by the hood: "Don't hold me back, otherwise I will throw those unnecessary city debris together with you from the 'Marginal Sea of Clouds'."
"Don't worry, you have definitely found the right person. I am very familiar with that place." Duan Qing patted his chest and showed a confident look: "You know, before the Sky City was discovered, my footprints were It’s all over…ahem.”
"Yeah, it seems they don't want to hear me bragging about my past."
The figure above had disappeared into the depths of the ruins, and Duan Qing, whose neck was a little sore, had to put away his enthusiasm angrily: "This work of getting along with the new team seems so difficult every time. .”
"It's really hard for you to condescend to deal with these magicians, Your Excellency, Chief Magic Apprentice, Son of Violet and Son of Destiny." The whisperer on the side read out the names in Duan Qing's legend without emotion: "Are you used to negotiating with those big shots, and now you don't look down on these ordinary people?"
"How is this possible? My status is very low." Duan Qing sighed and waved his hands: "I believe it was just the previous seven-member council that disturbed Lord Prad's 'elegantness', so he I just have some temporary prejudices left. As long as I work a little harder... ahem, which way should we go next?"
"This way." She also put away the joking expression on her face, and the blue-haired swordswoman pointed towards her right hand: "Go through here, there should be a broken door on the left, and the entrance to the stairs is behind that , go around to the top of the broken wall from there, and then you can find the entrance to the tower."
The two people quickly crossed the shadow of the ruins, and the sound of talking and laughing gradually merged into the interlacing of light and shadow in the gradually gentle footsteps. Duan Qing, who was observing the surrounding scene, then followed suit and spread the magic ripples layer by layer. Around the two people, the carefully unfolded magic perception also fluctuated slightly because of his lowered voice: "The disappearing figure just now...you should have noticed it, right?"
"You didn't use optical magic to cover up your ID name. You must have been unprepared for our appearance." He answered his whispers in a low voice and said, "With the character of that guy Prad, he will definitely not take the initiative to expose himself to us." I told that 'accomplice' about the failure we suffered at the Seven-member Council, so we were given the opportunity to discover the flaw."
"Sometimes I hate myself. The bad premonition will succeed every time." The twisted light gradually became stable during the formation of the magic shield, and Duan Qing's voice gradually subdued: "No, according to this idea If you think about it further, maybe Wiggins has noticed something from the few words he said before, or maybe there is something wrong with Romulus himself?"
"Romulus himself is the member who replaced Malok in the Seven-person Council. No matter in terms of management or review, this 'temporary filling' will inevitably bring corresponding loopholes." Whispers flowed behind Duan Qing. He also showed a natural expression: "Even a highly centralized country like the Fleur Empire has been mostly infiltrated because of the former Prime Minister Caldes. This group of magicians in the Mages Council are not experts at playing tricks. They were buried. Isn’t it normal for seeds... um."
"It should be right here."
The footsteps of the two people stopped for a moment at the edge of the ruins of the ruined city that had been turned around. They stopped at the remnants of some of the campsites that had been left here. Duan Qing, who had finished observing as quickly as possible, then extended the surrounding magic waves to Behind one of the abandoned tents, among the remains of the extinguished campfire, there were stars that were different from the gravel: "Here, there are traces of the magic circle."
"Can you find out the purpose?"
"It has been almost cleaned up. It is very difficult to reproduce."
Duan Qing, who leaned down in front of the remaining starlight of magic power and closed his eyes, drew an incomprehensible trajectory with his hands in front of him: "This is the basic rule for magicians to sleep outdoors, so we can't blame or doubt, but if If you give me enough time, I can also determine the purpose and destination of this magic circle through rules of thumb."
&nb/>"But we don't have time, right." Naturally, he guarded behind Duan Qing, murmuring and sighing as he replied: "If there are no other clues, let's follow up quickly, otherwise we will be the ones who are suspected. ”
Duan Qing slowly nodded his head, put away his detecting magic power, and turned around to walk through the ruins overgrown with weeds. He found the entrance to the steps by following the directions given by his previous whispers, and his figure quickly disappeared. In the shadow of the tower: "But even if there is a problem with Prad, I can't see what they want to do at the moment. The situation has become so tense that no matter what they want to do, it may be difficult to achieve."
"The most likely result is to take action against the City in the Sky. He did not hesitate to launch a magic debate to challenge you before, and he probably wanted to reject your unintentional proposal in time." Followed Duan Qing. Circling up, the whispering footsteps sounded extremely clear in the echo: "Now that the situation has changed, he should slightly adjust his plans and arrangements. In the best case, they might give up temporarily."
"The worst-case scenario is that all the pioneering teams belong to him." Duan Qing, who was walking in front, sighed in a low voice: "They might have set up a formation in front, waiting for us to jump in-- Card."
"Isn't that just what you want? We just need to report to the Mages Council after we are resurrected." He casually replied to Duan Qing's onomatopoeic gesture of gesticulating his neck, whispering and smiling slightly: "Of course, this is not a good signal. If it really comes to this, Presumably they have already made plans to defeat the enemy."
The two people turned a corner inside the tower together, leaving the interior of the ruins that had been abandoned for a long time behind each other. The place where Prader had previously stood also appeared in Duan Qing's direction in the extension of the spiral staircase outside the tower. In front of him, there was already an empty scene: "Running so fast."
"The meeting point is right in front. From the viewing point above, climb to the wall of the old city and walk along the wall to get there." A whispering voice came from behind him: "Don't ask me why I didn't choose another place. As an entry point, it seems that this location was also chosen deliberately."
"We still don't know how many people from Prad are in the team, so there's no need to be so pessimistic." Maintaining the fluctuation of his detection magic, Duan Qing began to mark his adventurer's map along the whispering directions: "It's a pity. If I could inherit the character information from the last time, my grasp of the information in that area would definitely be better than everyone else here, but now I can only act from memory."
"The Council of Mages deliberately left this area, presumably to preserve the miracle in which you fought to the last moment." The whispering voice of the reply also became deeper: "Otherwise, I don't know them. Why this last area was left unexplored, there is obviously no reason to keep it or worry about it..."
Her words paused for a moment, and the scenery inside the inner city also appeared behind the city wall in front of the tower as the two people rose in height. The city center, which had mostly collapsed, was also surrounded by countless post-war ruins. It appeared that the endless ravines that could not be seen at a glance were connected to each other into huge and bottomless cracks in front of the two people: "How about it, does it look familiar?"
"Uh... this is the place where I fought, right?" The gray-white brick walls and scattered round roofs in the impression have disappeared, and the gray-robed magician looked a little stunned: "Was the fight so fierce at that time? How did it become like this?"
"Perhaps after a long time, the ruins have been unable to hold on under the torment of strong winds and time." Xuyu Liushang, who was also looking at the back of the city wall, shook his head and replied: "Of course, maybe someone has hatred for you. A random guy came secretly and destroyed all the remnants of the great achievements you had made."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I was thinking of taking a group photo as a souvenir." Duan Qing curled his lips and replied, "Find a reason to repair it. Our event plan might also add a bit of splendor... Where are they?"
"over there."
Pointing to the figures at the far end of his sight who had already walked far away on the city wall, he murmured and guided the gray-robed magician's gaze: "Including Prad, there should be five people in total, all from within the Council of Mages. An elite magician selected into this team—of course, that’s how it should appear on the surface.”
"Let's go, let's follow." Without commenting on the information provided by Xu Yu Liushang, Duan Qing took the lead and jumped to the opposite city wall: "They didn't use magic to rush, so let's not use magic either - the meeting point is right here Over there?"
"Directly west of the inner courtyard, that's right." There was a sound of metal collision behind him, and white Valkyrie armor began to appear on the surface of the body of Xu Liushang who was following Duan Qing: "Be prepared."
"You are the only person who nominally participated in this development mission. If they argue with their reasons, I will have no choice but to assist them."
Traces of fiery heat appeared on Xu Yuliu's waist, and the gradually gathered power radiated sword-shaped light with the movements of the blue-haired female swordsman. Duan Qing, who didn't care about the dissipation of the energy, just jumped over the high altitude. He landed at the back of the team along the direction of the city wall: "Um...ahem, you didn't wait for us, it was so hard for us to chase you."
"Hello."
A figure suddenly appeared behind the team that was about to be overtaken. The female magician who came out of the previously invisible state then held up her extremely wide pointed magic hat, covering the three-quarter figure that was revealed for a moment in the magic decoration. Between the fuchsia hat brim hanging down from the golden thread: "I am Shireen, Shireen Faith, who is in charge of the logistics of this mission."
"Oh, oh, Miss Shilin." Duan Qing, who pretended to be startled and held his chest, gasping loudly, then forced out a smile of his own: "Sorry, sorry, I didn't notice just now... Ah, no, I mean, I’m really sorry that I bothered you to wait for us here.”
"I'm just following Lord Prader's instructions." The concise answer seemed extremely quick. Shirin, who no longer looked at the two adventurers, turned and walked towards the direction of the team in front: "I heard that the Council of Seven arranged another one. The person in charge, so the team specially decided to let me greet them here. Because the situation here is unknown, they used 'Landscape Refraction' as a temporary cover. Please forgive me for this."
"The planned meeting point is just ahead, please come with me."
