Su Lun followed the group of pirates to the armory, where several hundred slaves were removed from their shackles and picked out some weapons and armors.
Although it is not sophisticated, it still has some basic equipment.
Then a pirate squad leader made another big deal, asking the slaves to behave well in the cursed space, promising to be free after completing the assigned tasks.
Others were dubious, and Su Lun turned a deaf ear.
Several waves of slaves gathered together in several prisons in the city. There were probably more than a thousand people. Together, they were pressed through most of the ruins of the academy and came to the huge "Eye of the Void."
under.
As he got closer, Su Lun could feel the void breath that was like a biting cold wind.
The ancient plane passage that connects to the "Void Plane" is near this cursed space, but it cannot be seen with the naked eye. Only occasionally can you see a string of golden runes looming in the void.
The runes were of very high grade, and their complexity far exceeded any runes Su Lun had ever seen. Although he couldn't understand it, he knew that the runes represented some high-level runes such as "seal", "stability" and "restriction".
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It was identified and it showed [Damaged Plane Passage Seal].
Su Lun frowned slightly as he looked at it. Mr. Jing had said before that you should be careful with anything that comes into contact with the alien plane. A slight mistake will lead to a civilization-level disaster.
In the eyes of other civilizations with god-level existences, the alchemy plane with incomplete rules is really just a "hot cake" with many resources and weak people.
There were cracks in the passage leading to the abyss, otherwise Sir Isaac would not have built Dawn City underground to guard it.
The current space passage is actually "damaged"?
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Su Lun was wearing leather armor and a set of firearms he had received at his waist. He stood inconspicuously among the crowd.
He originally thought that some pirates would lead him in and deliver their heads as a routine. Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, he actually waited for a group of well-dressed Marfa royal guards to arrive.
Although each of these people did not wear full-body mechanical armor, they also wore externally attached mechanical skeletons with extremely high technological content.
And the one in the lead was actually a blond female major general.
"Isn't that the major general on the submarine?"
Although Su Lun didn't know anyone, his sense of soul fire was correct.
I didn't expect it to be a woman.
Except for the leader, the group of people with simple external mechanical skeletons are all mechanical warriors who survived the previous three submarines. They were probably punished by the Frost Moon Princess, and they wanted to offset their merits.
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"You really spent a lot of money..."
Su Lun murmured in his heart, but then he began to think about it.
With such a group of royal mechanical knights participating, this exploration of the cursed space seems to have some unexpected variables.
Waiting for this group of people to arrive, the leading pirate said a few more words, probably emphasizing that everyone must obey the command of "Major General Tatina".
Not long after, everyone stepped into the space vortex of the [Unstable Plane Channel].
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The surrounding scene changed, and Su Lun found that all of them appeared in a confined space.
It's like a cabin with glass windows all around. There are blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and there are slight bumps from time to time.
Those slaves appeared there without knowing it, but Su Lun had long known that it was an alchemy airship.
This is the airship used by the investigation team heading to "Toxte Void Academy".
Some of the outsiders such as Su Lun are investigators, some are followers, and each has a new identity in this space.
Su Lun has experienced cursed spaces such as plot play before, just like the one in Old Town [The Hunchback of Notre Dame]. Usually it is the "main will" of this cursed space, hoping to investigate the truth of a certain incident in order to dispel it.
That obsession that has persisted for tens of thousands of years.
Originally, this airship could not hold so many people, but the "NPCs" in this cursed space would not feel anything unusual. Even if it was obviously overweight, the airship would not crash.
While other slaves were still observing the environment nervously, Su Lun found that he was lucky enough to play the role of an "investigator".
And in his hand, there happened to be a volume of investigation report contained in a sheepskin box.
Although he already knew the contents, Su Lun still opened the box, took out the page, and read it carefully.
The purpose of their investigation team's visit to the Void Academy this time is to investigate and evaluate a piece of information, that is: Some people say that the seal of the passage connecting the void plane in the academy has broken, and there are unknown void monsters lurking in the void to covet this.
plane, the passage needs to be closed to prevent the invasion of the void plane.
The content was exactly the same as what he had known before. After reading it, Su Lun also had an idea in his mind: "The source of the information is a real-name report... In other words, the 'Herbert Hilbery' who provided this information did not report it through normal channels.
This news was notified to the outside world. But he is also very familiar with the internal situation of the college, which is a bit interesting."
He had stripped away many memories about this cursed space before, but among all the clues currently possessed by the North Sea Fleet, this guy named "Herbert Hilbery" has never appeared.
Therefore, Su Lun also guessed that if he wanted to crack this cursed space, the starting point would be this person's name.
"A fake name? Or was it deliberately covered up by the academy?"
Su Lun thought of two situations.
Then he looked at the fat aristocratic man sitting in the front seat of the airship.
This guy is the leader of this investigation team, and he has more detailed information than the files in the hands of the "investigator".
If anyone on this airship knows what "Herbert Hilbery" is about, the file in the fat man's hands is the most likely.
Su Lun guessed that the Frost Moon Princess sent the Royal Guard in this time, most likely because she wanted to take advantage of the NPC leader. After all, this was the best entry point. Besides, after appearing on the airship, many royal knights looked at her with disbelief.
He stared at it consciously, his intention self-evident.
As for the specific method they used to obtain information, they most likely wanted to "rob it by force."
Su Lun didn't want to argue with these people.
Someone in the North Sea Fleet tried it before, and the team was destroyed countless times.
Although this fat man is not strong, he has several guards with him. After trying it, he found that it would take at least several fifth-level professionals to kill him.
This can also explain why a major general was sent in.
Su Lun is quite sure of killing these people.
But doing so is very dangerous.
After all, in this cursed space, it is very unwise to be hostile to NPCs.
They will stay here for three days. If they offend an NPC, they will not only be killed on the spot, but they will be captured and imprisoned in prison. Afterwards, monsters will break out, and they will almost die.
"It seems that this plan has to be postponed for a while..."
Su Lun murmured in his heart.
It's not like he didn't do anything after being locked up for the past few days.
Instead, he compiled all the information he had obtained before and discussed feasible plans with everyone in the Dawn Regiment.
One of the plans that Su Lun had thought of before was to use some special methods to see if he could get information from this fat man.
But now, it would be nice to have someone do it for him.
Since these people came prepared, they were obviously confident.
Shooting something from the Princess Guards is much less risky than grabbing something from an NPC.
Moreover, Su Lun also has other alternatives.
He felt that there was only a possibility that the fat NPC had information in his hands, but in the archives room of the college library, the probability was very high.
As for the college library, he had a special idea.
If it is really what he thinks, things will be much simpler and there may be unexpected gains!
Su Lun thought of this, then carefully observed the seal on the file, and found some details that had been ignored by the pirates. His lips moved slightly: "Tsk, tsk, it is indeed the Tarkolu Empire."
This coincidence made his eyes light up.
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Not long after, the airship docked at the pier.
Everyone in the investigation team got off the airship.
Here, everyone saw a complete Void Academy, which was really beautiful like a palace garden. Between the towering white towers, there were exquisitely shaped covered bridges and alchemy airships connecting them. There were waterfalls pouring down from high places,
There are beautiful rainbows of seven colors rising everywhere in the college.
In the core area of the mountain behind the college, there is a large oval mirror with a diameter of one thousand meters and a bronze edge suspended in it. A mysterious galaxy is reflected in the mirror.
That is the "plane passage" leading to the void plane.
The passage contains the richest void energy, so there are also numerous laboratories in the academy, which need to be entered through the airship. It is also the most important and mysterious place in the academy.
According to the North Sea Fleet's intelligence, it is a "T-level" area of this cursed space, and no one has survived yet.
The task assigned to Su Lun and his "slaves" this time was to explore the situation there.
"It's really spectacular."
Su Lun squinted at the plane passage, imagining that the powerful alchemists used to conquer other worlds through these plane passages, and felt filled with emotion.
After getting off the airship, the investigation team was received by college personnel.
They were all NPCs with very low intelligence, and would only react to specific behaviors. Su Lun asked a few questions casually, but after getting no results, he had no intention of wasting time on them.
The academy is very large, with at least tens of thousands of students. If you want to wander around alone, you will probably have to walk around for several days to figure out the layout of the academy.
Fortunately, people from the North Sea Fleet have already investigated many times before, and almost all the layout outside the academy has been figured out.
The group of "Major General Tatina" were probably going to follow the investigation team to the reception area of the college, and then kill the leader of the investigation team there.
That was Su Lun's previous expectation, the best place to start.
He had no intention of getting involved with this group of people, so he just found an excuse, left the group, and then appeared alone on the streets of the college.
This Void Academy has many exquisite buildings. Young students are walking in twos and threes in the campus. They don't know what will happen next.
In these buildings, there are also students and teachers who will also produce some alchemical materials, cursed objects and void materials. The North Sea Fleet has previously discovered a large number of low-level materials from these people, and there are also surprises from time to time.
But Su Lun had no intention of wasting time here. He had to find enough clues before the "Void Invasion".
Otherwise, you can only find a place to hide, survive, and come back again next time.
But as a "slave", he was able to hide his identity the first time. But it would be too troublesome to get in the second time.
The normal plot in this cursed space is that about half a day after the investigation team arrives, cracks will appear in the "plane passage", and then countless monsters will emerge, killing everyone they see.
The teachers and students of the college fought back hard and fought fiercely, resulting in heavy casualties. Then three days later, some people escaped through the space door opened by a teacher. Then the entire secret realm of space was completely sealed, and then the remaining people were wiped out.
If people who enter the cursed space want to survive, they can only survive for three days and then escape through the space door. The North Sea Fleet has also explored some stable ways to survive, which are probably hidden in some large buildings.
Therefore, there is a plan to guarantee survival.
But he had no intention of just hiding away.
As Su Lun walked, he spliced and reorganized all the clues he had obtained, and thought: "The time when a void monster breaks out is not fixed, which means that there is a being in the cursed space who subjectively controls the time of the outbreak?
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This is what he has always wondered about.
The only few clues were that someone went to the "T-level experimental area" and something seemed to be triggered, and then the monster appeared earlier.
But because they haven’t lived it out, no one knows what exactly triggered it.
Su Lun felt that this was the key to breaking the situation.
He didn't think about it, so he decided to go to the library first and check the files.
Unlike those pirates, he had the [Eye of Omniscient], and he also saw some things other than intelligence along the way. The more he looked at it, the more feasible his guesses became.
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In any college, the library must be one of the best-built main buildings.
Suellen soon passed a boulevard with a fountain, and then saw the beautiful building with stained glass on the edge of a small lake.
This is the library of Void Academy,
People come and go in the library, and these NPCs can also trigger some opportunities.
The bookshelves are filled with all kinds of densely packed books. The collection is estimated to be hundreds of millions of volumes.
With the identity of an investigator, you can enter and leave the library. People from the North Sea Fleet have already figured out almost every corner of library management.
There are three floors of books in total. Here you can find many space classics below the seventh level, which is so rich that it is dazzling.
Moreover, there are even some or all written records in many classics. There are also many secret techniques that have been lost in the modern era.
The classics in the cursed space have words, after all, they come from the memory of the Lord’s will.
This also shows that the "main will" of this cursed space is a very erudite great alchemist. He is knowledgeable and has an exaggerated amount of reading.
The North Sea Fleet took out a lot of precious classics here.
Su Lun is very interested in these, but time is limited and he can't see it at all.
What's more, after harvesting three divisions of the Void Fleet before, most of the space knowledge those guys mastered came from here.
If you really want to consider obtaining these tomes, it will be faster to attract the attention of the North Sea Fleet after you go out in the future.
Su Lun walked into the library, and a strong smell of books filled his nostrils.
The students in the library seemed to turn a deaf ear to his presence, and they were all looking intently at their own books.
Su Lun went directly to the third floor, and then there were no stairs to go up.
But he knew that there was a hidden fourth floor in the library. It was a special area that only senior professors of the college could enter.
This "Toxt Void Royal Alchemy Academy" embellishes space art in every corner. Suellen knew the information in advance and knew where the trigger point was. He touched the oil painting on the wall and felt the subtle spatial fluctuations.
This is not the perfectly hidden fourth-level fluctuation, but an alchemical artifact similar to "authority identification".
The pirates tried countless ways but could not get there. Su Lun naturally knew that it would be difficult for him to find clues to get in. He would have to gain the trust of a professor-level NPC.
But now, Suellen has a better choice.
He wants to try a guess.
At this time, he took out a chessboard with black and white grids. It was the magic weapon [Steinitz chessboard] that he had been using for a long time.
"I hope it will succeed."
Su Lun exhaled and muttered to himself. Then he slowly placed the chessboard in front of the oil painting.
Just when he was looking expectantly, an eight-pointed star alchemy array suddenly condensed in the air, as if something had been activated. Where there was a wall in front of him, the space suddenly became illusory, and then
A magical scene appeared!
After the light and shadow were distorted like an abstract oil painting, a simple staircase leading to the "fourth floor" was actually condensed!
"It's done!"
Su Lun couldn't help but feel overjoyed, "This chessboard is indeed from this era!"
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[Steinitz's chessboard] is a very special magic weapon that Su Lun obtained in Old Lingtown before.
Apart from being used to trap people, this thing has no other use.
However, every time after using it, the remnant soul in the chessboard will come out at night and play chess with him.
Then, the remnant soul will keep muttering: 'My name is Mishael Toxt, and I am the king of Tarkoru.'
Selun had previously regarded it as a chronological civilization and did not take it seriously. After all, there were as many ancient kingdoms as grains of sand hidden in the dust of history.
But now, coincidentally, the full name of this secret alchemy realm is called "Toxte Void Royal Alchemy Academy"!
This is the Royal Academy named after the surnames of the royal families of that civilization.
When Su Lun knew this name before, he vaguely guessed that there might be a relationship between the two. After all, they were both related to the "Law of Space".
But I also think it is more likely to be a coincidence.
But before looking at the seal on the investigation file, he was sure that this was the magic weapon from the same era.
Moreover, since it is a royal academy, usually the king will be the "honorary president" of the academy, and usually the royal family also has the highest authority in the academy.
This chessboard is the soul of a king, so there are naturally some things in it that can prove his identity.
Su Lun took out the library and tried it, and it actually worked.
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Su Lun didn't think much about it. He looked at the stairs that suddenly appeared in front of him and walked up without hesitation.
His current identity is that of an investigator from the royal family. Even if he is caught, it will be justified.
For the first time, he walked into the fourth floor of the library, which had never been visited by outsiders before.
There is no one here, it seems very quiet, there are only rooms with various classics.
Su Lun took a casual glance and saw that the room was densely packed with various alchemy books and scrolls.
He glanced at the names in those classics, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he cursed in shock: "Fuck, I'm so prosperous now!"
The names of those classics make it impossible to take your eyes away!
The ninth-level forbidden spell-level space spell [Great Collapse], [Divine Movement·Plane Leap], the eighth-level defensive secret [Eight Thousand Layers of Void Barrier], the eighth-level long-range spell [The Art of Strangulation of Hundreds of Spaces], the seventh level [Sky God Strike]...Various top-notch space alchemy techniques.
There are also "Deployment of Large Space Teleportation Arrays", "Deployment and Breaking of Space Barriers Below Level 9", "On the Observation Theory of the Original Void: Only after seeing it can its shape be determined"...high-level knowledge.
Su Lun flipped through it casually, and found that the knowledge in those classics was very complete.
It also made him more certain that the main consciousness of this space is a top-level alchemist with profound knowledge. At least "he" has read most of the classics on this fourth level.
Then, the target circle can be narrowed a lot, and it will almost include the "dean" and "vice dean" first-class big shots.
These are very rare and top-level spatial spells, Su Lun was dazzled by them.
He immediately felt as if if he took one more look, he would gain more priceless knowledge.
But a closer look revealed that he was not advanced enough to remember it at all.
These levels of spells are no longer just written records. The complexity of the nine-pointed star alchemy array above made Su Lun dizzy.
It's that foggy feeling of having a lot of unintelligible knowledge forced into your mind.
"take away?"
Su Lun had this idea in his mind.
These classics cannot be said to be priceless, they are definitely "civilization level" treasures!
There is no complete inheritance of the void lineage in this world. If you take out any of the classics in this space academy, it will cause a sensation in the entire alchemy world.
However, this year, Su Lun frowned.
Just because he sneaked up to the fourth floor doesn't mean he can take away the things here. Maybe he has already been noticed by some important NPC.
"Or, when the fight breaks out, we can find a way to put it away?"
Su Lun thought about it for a moment, and it seemed that the library was the hardest hit area of the battle.
But there is a special space barrier on the fourth floor here, which is even a safer place than anywhere else in the academy.
When the time comes to fight, the big shots will have too much time to worry about, but they will have the opportunity to take away these precious classics.
But...I came here to find clues to solve the problem.
So he emptied the library. Although he gained a lot, his intuition told him that he would miss something more important.
Su Lun was a little confused.
After thinking about it, he decided to search the files first to see what happened to the mysterious "Herbert Hilbery".
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