[…The location meets the hiding conditions, and the energy level meets the hiding conditions.]
[...'s loyalty has reached 100%, and the hidden conditions have been met.]
[Open a new task chain: Sky Temple.]
[The beacon is being launched, the estimated call completion time is: 700 seconds...]
"..."
Lifting his head vigorously, Duan Qing looked at the direction of the nearby light pillar breaking through the sky. Then he ignored the intermittent system prompts coming from his ears and set his eyes on the man who was bathed in another light pillar.
The girl's ethereal singing voice, which seemed to penetrate the heart, kept lingering in Duan Qing's ears. The girl named Ayina slowly opened her eyes, and then kept the movement of joining her hands together, using gentle
The eyes of Duan Qing looked at each other: "..."
"...So don't do everything together."
So Duan Qing sighed and put his hand on his forehead: "I'm... very busy right now."
There seemed to be a smile on the corner of her mouth, and Ayina, who was still singing an unknown song, closed her eyes again, and her body full of exotic aura floated in front of Duan Qing with a face full of trust. She stretched out her hand to touch
Touching his chest, Duan Qing then confirmed the fact that his emerald green Okonos stone was already in the opponent's hand. The chain still tied to his hand then swung with his hanging arms.
In the dark night sky: "It doesn't matter if it takes such a long time, this thing still looks so obvious..."
"Since we have to retire in the end, the time in between... will be wasted on you."
He stood up and turned his head silently. While looking at the dark night in the distance, his mind sank into an unknown place again. The city of Zaraha, immersed in the dark night, did not appear because of Duan Qing's distraction.
Any sluggishness was boiled over again because of the sudden appearance of the second beam of light. The imperial soldiers who had been fighting the "resistance" below also began to move in the direction of the obviously unguarded emerald green beam of light.
Gathered: "A new light pillar has appeared! Prepare to defend!"
"Where is the location? What? The west gate of Zaraha City?"
"Do they still have reinforcements outside? What's the situation at the west gate?"
"Report to the general, there is nothing unusual at the west gate. The brothers in front have returned. They said... no enemy soldiers were seen near the pillar of light."
"Wow ha ha ha ha!"
The loud and piercing laughter then echoed over the central square of the city, and instantly flew towards the direction of the western light beam. Bernard, who was listening to the report of his subordinates in the distance, then raised his head after hearing the sound.
He turned his head, and together with several imperial soldiers around him, he brought the figure of the adjutant who originally belonged to them into his sight: "I didn't expect it... I didn't expect it... It turns out that you still hide such a secret!"
"...This place is now closed to traffic, Adjutant."
"You took advantage of the void storm we created, and now you want to shut us out, adventurer?"
Still looking slightly embarrassed after the battle, with his hair and military uniform a little messy, York pointed at Duan Qing in the air and asked loudly: "Who is the guy behind you? Is it the alien girl who has been following you?"
"...Yes." Duan Qing raised his eyelids: "She is...very busy now and doesn't want to be disturbed."
"Although this is not our first target, but... we have long been extremely suspicious of you and the little girl you brought from Anderson." York still refused to hide his laughter: "What a pity for me.
Incompetent men...they actually didn't capture her!"
"If you gave the order while I was locked up, the success rate might be higher." Duan Qing shook his head expressionlessly: "But... you caught Maggie anyway.
, this can be considered even."
"No, no, no, I want them all!"
Reaching out and making a grabbing gesture, York, who was floating in the air, waved his hands and pointed to the top of his head: "You probably don't understand what the girl behind you is doing. She is completing a ritual! This ritual even
It can be traced back to a year ago, when the Magic Empire still existed..."
"That is a ritual that only people of the Oaklite family can do! It is the most outstanding work of Master Ikehart, the originator of the 'Sky Project'!" With his hands raised in the air, he looked at the emerald green light in the dark sky with crazy eyes.
The part that runs through: "And he is right in front of me now! Wow hahaha! Such a dazzling treasure..."
"How could I just watch others take it away!"
An unimaginably huge spurt of energy stretched out from the void as York suddenly raised his left hand, flying towards Duan Qing's direction. The air flow mixed with various chaotic elements even formed a strong suction force in the air, pulling
The nearby air and the refracted light were twisted and distorted. He subconsciously raised his arms. Duan Qing, who looked ashen, blocked the two iron chains on his arms in front of him, trying to
The thought of using my body to withstand this heavy blow was replaced by a warm golden light the next moment. At the same time, a burly figure wrapped in a golden magic robe appeared: "...the wall of rock and iron.
"
boom!
The loud trembling sound was centered on a wall reflecting metallic light that suddenly formed in the air, and scattered around the platform at Duan Qing's feet. The great magician standing in front of him did not look at all unsustainable.
, but I had the leisure to look back in front of this huge elemental storm: "Are you okay?"
"...I'm fine."
"Explain it."
"Well, it seems to be a very difficult thing for me to explain in one or two sentences..."
"you!"
Before Duan Qing could finish his words, the energy storm that was constantly spewing out in front of the great magician Jin suddenly disappeared, replaced by a huge energy sword that gathered in front of him again, and the man holding the
York with the long sword gradually turned into a ferocious face: "You...Jin! Why do you appear here?"
"……Why not?"
"Didn't Earls of the Magic Council kill you? Even if you didn't really die, you should have been seriously injured..."
"How could a guy of Earls' caliber... possibly beat me?"
Condensing a large magic rock wall again, Jin gradually hid his indifferent eyes in the rock and iron city walls that stretched across the city: "His understanding and application of magic have not reached the original level at all, and he wants to break through my elemental order.
It's just a fantasy, like..."
"It only captures the chaotic energy in the void and uses it like you."
Boom!
The long energy sword burning with black flames then struck the surface of the rock-iron city wall where the metal was condensed, making a dull impact that made one's chest tremble. The metal shell that had surrounded the platform where Duan Qing was on did not appear.
The slightest shake in this collision of energy shook the blazing energy sword into fragments all over the sky. The body seemed to be also affected by the huge counter-shock force, and York's body floating in the air continued to
The ground rolled backwards, and after a while, he stabilized his body and suddenly pulled back his left hand, which had been burnt to black. "...Damn it!"
"Wait for me!" Amid countless onlookers from the surrounding city, he shouted sternly in the direction of the metal city wall: "I will never...let you go!"
"I won't let you go either." The golden voice that emerged from behind the city wall responded in a low voice: "Go back and wait, my golden eagle... will soon have an additional collection."
"...Are you one of the people who want to stop me? Hahahahaha!" York, who seemed to be mentioning his pride, started to retreat and laughed wildly again: "It's already too late
Come on, Jin! We have opened the gate to the void! The Tower of Tyran will be here soon!"
"The City in the Sky will be here soon."
Looking at the opponent's back that was rapidly shrinking in the direction of the black light beam, Jin, who was completely exposed, waved away the surrounding steel walls: "So... the victory or defeat is not determined yet, idiots who only live in the past.
"
"...you know that thing?"
"...I know part of it."
Duan Qing's question came to his ears, and the great magician who was silent for a moment tugged on his golden magic robe: "I can't be sure until you and your followers do this."
"At least you know more than I do, right?"
Completely loosening the chains on his hands, Duan Qing continued to ask in a low voice: "How about you explain it first?"
"……Can."
His eyes stayed for a moment on Aiina, who was floating in the air behind him. Jin slowly landed on the platform where Duan Qing was standing: "...How much do you know about the magic war thousands of years ago?"
"The major magical forces in the Magic Empire fought for power among themselves, eventually destroying the magical balance of the world. The Magic Empire, which lost its source of power, was then revolted by non-magical civilians who had been working as coolies for many years, and was finally destroyed by Fu.
The rebels led by Emperor Lei overthrew." Duan Qing quickly summarized everything he knew: "Why, is there any problem here?"
"Of course there are problems, there have been problems from the beginning."
Collecting his arms into his sleeves, Jin replied in a low voice: "The competition between the great magisters is not for power or profit. Even without these reasons, the magic empire will eventually perish, because...
...The Magic Empire has been endlessly absorbing the magic of this world since its birth, and they have long destroyed the balance of elements."
"In order to save the elemental system of this world, or to survive... the Magic Empire has also launched many plans to save the elemental world." He looked at Duan Qing's face, and then pointed to where they were.
Dongfang: "The Emerald Tower that you and the two sisters have seen is part of it, but the Emerald Star research now seems to be a failure. There are many similar huge plans, such as Andachiel
The Golovi Guranson Project north of the mountains, and the Elemental Star Project that only exists in legends..."
"The Sky City plan we know was also one of the many huge plans at that time." He gestured towards the light pillar next to Duan Qing: "Using all the wisdom of the Sky Clan - the Oakles Clan, we built
A city that can float in the sky can not only collect the wind element energy dissipated into the sky, but also provide a last paradise for escape before the life of the free continent comes..."
"Its name is...Metatron, right?" Duan Qing replied in a low voice: "My follower Miss Ayina...is a remnant of the Oakles tribe, right?"
"I asked her name before, but not her surname." Jin returned his gaze to Duan Qing: "Do you know?"
"I have no idea."
Secretly clicking on the followers panel provided by the system, Duan Qing's eyes kept patrolling back and forth in the air where Jin couldn't see: "I only know that her original tribe was called the Geis tribe, and now it has become independent in Anderson.
Many tribes in the state were all wiped out during the conquest..."
"The Geth tribe...is that right?"
With a glimmer of light in his eyes, Jin replied calmly: "In the ancient Magic Empire language, this word means... sky."
"……I see."
The swiping fingers paused in the air for a moment, and Duan Qing turned his head with a slightly stunned expression: "They are the descendants of the ancient magic empire, so they have such things as the Oknos Stone...
…”
"Among the records about the ancient magic empire, there are also some records about the Okrit family."
Following Duan Qing's words, Jin pointed to the stone held by the girl in the air: "That is a special magic stone made from stones that are abundant in the place where their clan lives. It has a high resistance to the wind element.
Its affinity can not only be used to make the energy source needed for large-scale wind magic rituals, but it is also the best material for building the city in the sky..."
"So they built a city using such stones." Duan Qing muttered to himself, "And they actually succeeded in the end."
"It is indeed certain that the Sky City exists, although we don't know where it was built or where it is now." Amidst the still noisy city noise, Jin set his sights on the distance of the night sky.
Department: "However... we do have some clues about the origin of the Oknos Stone, so our search target has been placed in and around the Falling Star Mountain in Andachel..."
"I do know something about this."
The scene that flashed through the previous qualifiers suddenly appeared in his mind. Duan Qing focused his gaze on the dark outline of the city at his feet: "If nothing happens..."
"When this ceremony is completed, we may know the answer." (To be continued)
This chapter has been completed!