Chapter 89 Prison Star Prison (3 updates, please follow up)
"Grass (a plant)." The boy even subconsciously moved his eyes to the top of the truck. Fortunately, there was no turret there, otherwise he would really have thought it was a cow-powered tank unique to the Terra continent: "In order to adapt to the mountain jungle.
The environment, it’s too outrageous, no wonder it needs a giant bull to pull it, what kind of camel beast can hold it!”
It's one thing to think it's outrageous, but seeing that the people around him didn't look particularly surprised, Ian knew that all this might be quite common for the locals of Terra.
Just as the caravan arrived, the Viscount Mansion and a group of important figures in the city walked out of the mansion.
Ian noticed that whether it was the Viscount or Elder Puder, everyone's expressions were quite solemn. Although the Viscount's expression relaxed slightly after seeing the caravan, overall he was still solemn.
Accompanied by the bells of the Huaiguang Church in the city center and the city guards running around making announcements, almost all the residents of Harrison Port came to the central square.
Due to the battle with the crocodile dragon, the flat stone square in the center of the port has been destroyed. Now it is just a solid piece of land. Nearly a thousand people have gathered here, and more people are approaching from all directions.
Many people put down the work at hand because they knew that something that could make their lord, who usually drinks, banquets, and enjoys beauty, take it so seriously was definitely a major event related to all of them. They discussed uneasily and worriedly,
Noisy sounds echoed around the square.
Soon, as Viscount Grant spoke, everyone fell silent.
"Citizens of Harrison Port, another large-scale invasion by the indigenous people in twenty years has been repelled by us again. I once promised that when the support from the imperial capital arrives, all the meritorious people will be rewarded. I will not break my promise.
As you can see, the aid from the Imperial City has arrived, and we will have sufficient reconstruction materials, seeds selected by the Imperial City, and twelve giant Beisen cattle."
"One-third of it will be used to reward the heroes, and the rest will be used to support port reconstruction and re-cultivation of farmland destroyed by the storm."
The Viscount's voice was loud and clear, and the water vapor in the wind helped him vibrate the atmosphere. The good news he announced did make the crowd burst into cheers, but the really smart people still frowned because they heard the uneasy turn.
"but."
As expected, the Viscount changed the topic. He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "This is also the last batch of aid."
"From today until the next five, ten, or twenty years, there will be no more assistance from the Imperial Capital."
The nobleman with brown hair and blue eyes paused for a while, waiting for the suddenly quiet citizens to digest the news, and then slowly said: "You must also want to know why, and I will tell you the truth now."
"The Flying Flame Kingdoms have opened up the mountain road at the junction of the Absalom Mountains and the Byson Mountains, connecting them with the Bernas Plain in the west. From then on, the Constructed Knights of the Flying Flame Land can drive straight into the western hinterland of the empire."
"The war has not yet begun, but it is close at hand."
Not everyone knows the names of those mountains and how close or far they are to them, but no matter who they are, they know the meaning of that word.
war.
War is coming.
Different from the local conflict between Port Harrison and the natives...the two behemoths of the Feiyan Kingdom and the Central Empire, which were facing each other across the vast desert of Feiyan Land, were now truly bordering each other!
"...This is really big news."
Ian, who was listening carefully to the Viscount's speech in the square, suddenly heard a familiar voice, and he felt a big, generous and warm hand covering his head.
The boy turned his head, and Hilliard, disguised as Oceana, was already behind him. The old knight looked solemnly at the center of the square, and murmured in words that could only be heard by Ian: "They have found the tame Ah.
The method of using the steel pterosaurs in the Basalom Mountains, or wiping out the nests of those dragon beasts at all costs?"
"In any case, the rear area of the empire's western front will now become the front line. Although there is no war yet, the pressure is even greater... It has been difficult to recuperate and recuperate for so many years. Is it so difficult to achieve a stable peace?"
"Even if we pay such a huge price to open up the mountain road, do we still have to start a war?"
Ian heard the deep and unspeakable sadness in his teacher's calm tone.
Not for the empire, but for those who will die.
The boy thought.
A wanted criminal in the empire would actually feel compassion and anger from the bottom of his heart for those who died in the future. If it were other people, it might not be understandable, but if it was his teacher, it would be normal.
Because Hilliard is such a person... He is such a strong, gentle, and powerful person, but he does not feel that he is superior.
Therefore, I will sincerely regard the other person as a teacher.
"The war will definitely start."
Thinking of this, the young boy lowered his eyes and said calmly: "It's not that war is at all costs, but that we have reached a point where we have to start a war, so we go for it at all costs."
"Of course I know……"
The old knight whispered to himself: "How could I not know?"
Viscount Grant was still speaking on the stage in the center of the square. He had to unite the people's hearts because the official roads in the southwest plain were no longer safe. Whether it was a possible invasion of the Flying Flame Land, or simply the empire itself felt unsafe and needed to change.
Trade routes will have a great impact on Harrison Port, which is at the edge of the world.
But at this time, neither Ian nor Hilliard wanted to listen anymore.
However, right now.
Suddenly, Ian felt that his eyes were blurry.
Vision? No, why is it so strong?!
I only had time to have such a thought flash through my mind, and a strong sense of penetration appeared in my mind.
Sudden bright light and interlaced light and shadow began to appear in Ian's field of vision, and thousands of intertwined and fragmented fragments began to merge and reorganize.
Accompanied by a sudden, severe pain that penetrated deep into his head and seemed to burn his soul, Ian, who thought he was temporarily blind, saw an image that seemed to originate from an extremely distant place.
"This is"
The boy opened his eyes wide, and his eyes were shining with water-colored mist, but he did not look at the teacher who was supporting him in surprise in front of him. His eyes were so empty, as if his soul followed those eyes and spread to an extremely distant place, before and after the long time.
His brain seemed to be torn apart, but at this moment, the boy saw the smoke and the overturned city.
Ian saw that the houses were ignited by blazing flames, and the huge country was torn apart in the desolate drums of war. The land was suffering, and hundreds of millions of creatures were struggling and roaring between the heaven and the earth, but they were still unable to escape the endless darkness.
It can sink to the end of eternity and rot into dust.
He saw the vast plains stretching under his feet, and at the end of his field of vision, a line of black cavalry galloped on the decaying scorched earth. The huge armor released pillars of light that tore through the dark night, turning one city after another into a sea of fire.
, and then extinguished it again, like a dazzling but quickly extinguished torch in the dark night.
Ian saw it. He saw that at the end, the ruins of cities rose up into black smoke that was enough to cover the earth, the sky, the planet and even the starry sky of the universe.
This blackness is death, ominous, and an omen.
The black-red mist lingers over everything and all sentient beings in the world. No one can escape and no one can escape.
There is no place for the weak to hide, but only the brave will survive.
Everything disappears.
"Ha ha……"
Breathing heavily, Ian seemed to wake up from a dream. He had opened his precognitive vision at some point, and then looked around at everyone around him.
Gray, white, white, white, gold, purple, blue... Ordinary people, teachers, Viscount Grant, Elder Puder... Even the square, the streets, the entire Harrison Port... all the fog is extremely normal.
"There is no black...but I saw it, I clearly saw it...the whole world is filled with..."
The psychic energy was overloaded, and bright red blood overflowed from his nose and the corners of his eyes, but Ian suddenly didn't realize it. If Hilliard hadn't stopped shouting and injected a stream of warm energy into his body, he might have continued to watch.
"What's wrong, Ian? Your psychic powers suddenly lost control. What's going on?!"
Before attracting the attention of the people around him, Hilliard noticed something was wrong with his disciple. He frowned and a silver brilliance lit up in his eyes, sweeping across the boy's body.
Immediately afterwards, he made a decision and took Ian home as quickly as possible, urging the source of energy to guide him, but he could not make him return to normal.
"teacher……"
Ian, who woke up, blinked, raised his hand, and wiped away the blood that overflowed from the corners of his eyes, mouth and nose.
He closed his eyes, turned off his precognitive vision, and then slowly said: "I just saw... saw..."
Ian was silent for a long time, then raised his head and looked at the teacher with a complicated expression.
The boy with white hair and blue eyes whispered softly, his voice was ethereal, as if he came from a very far and high place, like a prophet of prophecy: "I saw the world turned into ruins, a dark mist descended on the world, and huge destruction and disaster were about to happen."
"I see all beings fighting against each other, destroying hope with fire and thunder, and the eternal catastrophe is overturning the sky."
Ian was silent for a while. Under Hilliard's equally silent gaze, he showed a painful and fragile expression for the first time since he came to this world and experienced several life and death crises: "Teacher...I
see……"
"I saw,, all the stars were extinguished."
"There is only darkness...a darkness like a prison...a darkness like death..."
"...Don't worry, kid, there are no real prophecies in this world."
Kneeling on one knee, the tall man reached out and hugged the overly mature child in front of him, showing the fragile child to himself for the first time.
He sighed and said softly: "Believe me, there is no predetermined destiny in this world."
Hilliard comforted his students softly, and seemed to say to himself: "Ian, no matter what you see or predict, don't believe it."
"As long as you can see it, change it... As long as you are willing, there will be a better future!"
On October 9, 766 in the Terra Calendar, the Feiyan Kingdom opened the mountain road at the junction of the Absalom Mountains and the Byson Mountains, connecting it with the Bernas Plain in the west of the Central Empire, and built a pass fortress at the other end of the mountain road.
Build a permanent fortress complex.
The peace of the past disappeared on this day, and the powerful neighbor who was originally isolated by mountains and deserts was suddenly close to the eyes. The Central Empire urgently mobilized a total of nineteen legions from the west and the south to garrison in Bernas Plain.
The original villages and towns were razed, fortresses were built, and the old residents were moved away. People who had lived in this land for hundreds of years were forced to leave their hometowns.
They looked back reluctantly, but they could only see that everything in their homeland had changed beyond recognition.
But this is only the first step.
In the rainforest in the southern part of the continent of Terra, Canaan Moore announced peace negotiations with the Cangtian King's Court, ending the war between the two sides that had nominally lasted for 135 years. The border between the two sides, separated by millions of soldiers in the Hanging Valley of Naian, was in a state of emptiness after a brief period of emptiness.
It was immediately filled with prosperous trade camps, and hundreds of pontoon bridges that would have been cut off at the first sign were built overnight.
At the same time, opposite the Gantrigram Labyrinth Fortress complex, the Khan's battle flag was erected on the Burning Sun Plains, making the sun's brilliance even more dazzling. The original sloppy dwarf guards threw away the wine glasses in their hands in panic.
, the Five Mountains Committee issued an emergency war preparation order, and the three thousand fully armed and armored guards stationed in the Xuantian Domain set foot on their holy land for the first time in two hundred years.
Huaiguang Holy Mountain and various religious groups jointly called on all major countries to remain calm and released their observation report on the 'New World'. The voice of the largest independent Ascended Group in human history is usually enough to suppress the abnormal movements of various countries, but
This time, no one paid attention to their predictions of 'natural disaster'.
History is moving forward.
The factory of Junling Castle is breathing hot black smoke, and brand-new armor and weapons are being produced continuously. The price is the mountain rocks dyed black by smoke and the average worker life span is less than forty years old; Knowledge
They have all developed a suspended engine that can continuously fly for three hours, making the sky that Yunjing City can explore a higher level. However, according to rumors reported by the secret agents on the far shore, there is a brand new huge ship that can be suspended in the sky.
The ship is being perfected under the supervision of the Stargazers, whose goals are unknown.
Everything has been changed, and nothing has been changed.
What has been done will be done again. What has been done will be done again. Everything that has happened on this earth in the past will happen again in the future.
This is true whether it is war, death, destruction; invention, creation, construction, or the struggle for power among humans. No matter whether it is noble or despicable, it is just a boring and uninteresting repetition. Now, human beings are about to start another
The earth and the earth are fighting each other, and they are reincarnated again and again in this fateful cycle.
Just after that, another star that had been bright for billions of years flickered briefly and then went out.