How did the fire that burned everything down fifty years ago happen?
Fang Plover's gaze rested between the arches on the stairs, as if what led behind the closed pine door was not a hall, but a truth that had been lost behind the fog of history.
Under the gate, the people from the association had finished speaking, and they were replaced by a figure who was said to be a local alchemist family. He was a descendant of a family left here by a well-known alchemist in the history of Selva. Their ancestors
The tower was once guarded here, and people have been guarding this land here for generations since then.
Such behavior naturally won the family respect in the imperial alchemy community, and also allowed his descendants to receive this honor, allowing them to open this tower for geniuses from all over the world.
That was just a glimpse of the thousand-year history of the empire.
The rich tradition embedded in it was accomplished jointly by many such alchemist families and legendary individuals.
The people of that family performed an ancient ritual with a long history. The ritual itself had no meaning. The most critical part was just inserting a key stone into the stone slab in front of the tower.
This is to unlock the mysterious lock device surrounding the tower. This measure is mainly to prevent ordinary people from entering it by mistake.
Although Fang Plover had seen the tall tower in Nevad, that stone tower stood so alone in the wilderness, surrounded only by a forest that had whispered silence for thousands of years and a long sparkling lake.
The passing wild animals stare at the ruins of civilization day after day, but I have never heard of anyone straying into it.
Of course, there are no humans in Nervad, only goblins.
The goblins in the lakeside forest are the largest group besides Rochar, and they are also the closest to humans. What's more, a cloud dragon lives in the snow-capped Holy Bow Peak all year round, guarding the high tower by the lake——
This may be something special in itself.
After the door opened, the association began to read the names of the participating delegations, and the contestants who heard the name went forward, received a special communication crystal, and entered the tower.
The first was the Blade of Gold, Silver Chain Island and White Tree Society. There were only four or five people in total. After those people received their things, they then entered the tower alone.
But there is no need to worry about the time sequence. After entering the door, there is a separate space, where the players will wait for everyone to be ready before the game starts.
Next came the two teams of the Lotao people, then the Guta people, followed by Lavender, and the Ayinbrok Artisan Guild.
Kapka Artisan Guild, Imperial Workshop.
Next, there is the Grand Craftsmen Association.
Finally, there were the Imperial twins, one of whom he was already very familiar with. That was the leader of the Imperial Workshop delegation, named Juno.
That should be his real name, and it is said that he is also a genius in reality. Like himself, the other party entered the Star Gate very late, two or three years later than the others.
As for the other one, he didn't quite recognize him. He only knew that the man was tall and tall, and he didn't look like an alchemist.
When Georgifen passed by Fang Plover, he couldn't help but glance at the Dragon Alchemist, who was known as a Kaolin man. He opened his mouth, hesitated and said:
"Dragon Alchemist of the Corinthians, may you make it to the end."
Fang Yu was slightly surprised when he heard this and couldn't help but raise his head.
Before the start of the last round of the competition, this man even taunted them. Although he later found out from others that it was just a part of the competition.
Maybe this game doesn't need to be broadcast, so the opponent doesn't have to show that kind of unruliness.
He replied: "Same to you."
Georgifen looked at him steadily and said, "It would be great if you were one of ours."
Fang Yu was slightly startled, unable to discern the meaning. He replied, "If one company dominates a certain competition area, wouldn't super competition be boring?"
"That's not what I meant," the other party shook his head and said, "Forget it, we'll see you in the Holy King's Hall."
When the other party's figure disappeared behind the door, he was actually the only one left at the scene.
Fang Yu thought that the people of the empire would give him some special treatment, but it turned out that they didn't, which made him embarrassed. It turned out that he was just being sentimental.
Fortunately, no one else could see what he was thinking.
After receiving the crystal, he checked it in his hand and found that it was just an ordinary item. There were just a few unrecognizable alchemical formulas inside, which were probably related to the Tower of Winter Solstice.
He studied it, but couldn't figure out a reason, so he put it aside. There are thousands of types of craftsmen, and it was normal for him not to recognize one of them.
He looked up at the arch, passed under it with ease, and entered the tower.
When the light dimmed from behind, the place that entered the eye was exactly the same as the Xia Jin Tower. First, there was a wide hall with a long elm table in the center.
There are twenty-seven chairs around the table.
It is said that those chairs symbolize the twenty-seven most famous alchemists in the history of the empire. Among them are not only great alchemists, but also master craftsmen.
The most conspicuous one on the main seat is naturally that of the unique great alchemist.
Fang Yu looked at the empty chair, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. Could he sit on it and see if he could? His ID was derived from the ancient alchemist.
But he quickly shook his head and threw this ridiculous idea out of his mind. He remembered that before arriving here, Ming told him to take it easy and not make a big fool of himself and occupy the front page of "The Astrologer".
After all, those astrologers would love to see something go wrong here.
He raised his head, and the space above the hall was still nothingness——
The stripped tiles and stone bricks were suspended in the void, and there were a few chairs there, but I didn't know what they meant. Fang Lu looked at the familiar void, but he had many more thoughts in his heart than at that moment in the past.
Does that void lead to a place of starry silence? Does that symbolize the origin of alchemy? And behind that dead silence, is this the final appearance of this world?
Orderly information will eventually return to ineffective entropy. Without the intervention of external information, would Aitalia eventually become the same?
And what about beyond the star gate?
Does the opening of the star gate have a different meaning for the two worlds? What are they, who are the chosen ones, and who are the Numerin elves who have left a mark in this world.
Farif and Atush, they call the coming of that moment the dusk of the worlds. Those worlds in the silence of stars are just like entering the dark night after dusk, and those terrible shadows in the darkness are shrouded.
outside this world.
When the misfortune comes.
Just like night walking in the world.
It is also said that many eras ago, every world in Aitaria was full of light, and the creator Yinta once blessed every world in it, turning it into a place of supreme beauty and goodness of light.
But then the tower collapsed, and part of the world fell into darkness forever.
That was the source of the earliest disaster.
The Lizard Man recorded this:
'At the beginning of the birth of the world, two gods were born from a great will, one is the Holy One, the God of Perfection and Beauty 'Yinta', and the other is the evil dragon 'Kuramon Soda'
.'
In the myth of the Sinsas snake people, it is also called the earthly python - Andron.
In the myths passed down from the Xinsas era, the good god finally defeated the evil dragon, 'so in order to save all living beings, the god of goodness and beauty, 'Yinta' thought about making a decision.'
'She turned into a sea of light, allowing the world to be permanently illuminated by light, so that there would be no more eternal night and darkness in the world.'
'From what remained of her will came eleven gods, the Sun Gods.'
But the sea of light has not been extinguished, and evil can no longer invade.
These stories actually come from the legend of the Sinsas Snake Man, which was told to him by Sophie herself when he was underground in Fenris.
The snake people recorded these ancient texts before the rebellion of the seven dynasties and wrote them on stone tablets. No one knows how many of them are true and how many are false.
However, when Fang Plover listened to Farif telling this story again in the Silver Tower, he couldn't help but think of the murals he had also seen underground in Fenris——
Several of the murals are still fresh in his memory, as if as soon as he closes his eyes, the mottled pictures on the wall will reappear in front of his eyes:
A tall black tower.
Standing among the abstract clouds, it rises from the ground. Below are all kinds of people, who seem to be in endless battle with each other.
On the right side of the mural is an abstract sun, on the other side are the moon and stars, and above the clouds, there is a black dragon, covered with stars, with its tail hanging down from the clouds, looking at the world with indifferent eyes.
War on earth.
That is Andron, the earthly serpent.
Or in the context of the lizard people - 'Ku-Lamonsouda'.
The dark dragon.
The comet is its tail.
In another picture, the tower collapsed, burned in the fire, and fell into the clouds, like a meteor streaking across the sky, and the crowd fled in all directions.
The last mural is divided into two, one side is black, the other side is white, and the black dragon splits from the middle.
The picture ended here. And Fang Yu suddenly thought that the two knights, one black and one white, he had actually seen before, the image depicted in the myth...
In fact, he is exactly what the Holy Grail Knight looks like.
"The meaning of the Holy Grail is to be blessed."
Farif answered like this. The old man said, "The first group of alchemists once saw the most primitive appearance of the Dragon Knight in that dream, one black and one white."
"They call it the Knight of the Holy Grail, which means the favored knight."
Fang Plover knew that the great alchemist Ed was not the first alchemist in mankind, although he was indeed the greatest.
In order to cultivate allies, the Numerin elves selected a group of outstanding people from among mortals to teach them the knowledge of alchemists, and that was the first group of alchemists to mortals.
Ed is just one of them.
The elves made those mortals have a long dream, and in the dream they saw the nature of the world and the stars, but only later did Fang Plover understand it.
What I saw in that dream was actually a dream of green, the brilliance of green.
"That was the prototype of the earliest dragon knight. The power of the white knight, which freezes all ice, is the essence of elemental power. All subsequent mortal dragon knights come from the same idea, that is, for elemental power, for starlight in the material world
Mastery of the Laws.”
"As for the Black Knight, no one can understand it, no one can know it. Its power seems to be time and space, but time and space are just appearances. The real essence is the attributeless power relative to the power of elements."
"That's actually the origin of another technical route, everything about the idea of attributeless crystals and the Fairy Dragon Knight."
Fang Plover asked: "So the Dragon Knights and Holy Grail Knights conceived in Miss Tata's memory are...?"
The old man nodded, "Those are all the secrets we store in the great library."
"...The real big library no longer exists in this world. In order to avoid that disaster, we kept all the knowledge in an abstract concept, that is, the silver door, the silver big book
Pavilion.”
"I am the keeper of the secret, the founder of the great library."
The old man looked at Miss Tata, "And Miss Tata is the gatekeeper of the Great Library. To this day, she is the only one who still keeps the only key. This is why her existence is so important."
"There is no second key in this world. She is not only the princess respected by the Roshar fairies, but also the princess of all knowledge, our princess."
Fang Yu was silent for a while. The word he heard repeatedly aroused his attention: "So what exactly is that disaster?"
"That disaster was just the ultimate manifestation of all the troubles we encountered," Farif replied. "The real enemy is targeting us. We look for answers through the radiance of the sky, and they follow our legacy.
The traces below found us from another world."
"Is it the shadow man?" Fang Pultru realized something.
"It's not just them," the old man sighed, "but they are one of them, and there are more troublesome opponents. They are actually the will of that world."
"Dark Saints?"
The old man nodded slowly.
"So you faced them alone, why?" Fang Plover asked, "They attacked all the secrets in the Silver Tower, but why didn't the Silver Tower ask for help from the Empire, the Oath Keepers and the Silver Helmets?
?”
"Because in this hunt, we cannot rely on any outsider," the old man replied, "The Silver Tower has special means to hide in the cracks of space. We call it the tower space. Specifically,
You've seen it too. Hunters can't travel between the two worlds, they can only attack us in that space."
"Once we exit that space, all the knowledge we have gained from the space will be turned into nothingness, and all our previous efforts will be wasted. If we turn to the empire for help, we will introduce shadows from outside the world into this world. That and the three geniuses
Everything you do makes no difference.”
Farif described in a long tone: "So we chose to face everything alone. Miss Tata, and several others were carrying different information and shuttled through the ether network. We kept moving in order to defeat the enemy.
Complete the final work before you really catch up with us."
But in the end, everything ended in nothingness in the fire of El Paxin.
He finally sighed, "We lost everything, we lost every companion we worked with, and only Artush and I were left. After that, the last news we got was that you and Miss Tata had returned."
Fang Yu was silent for a long time.
He raised his head and said: "Although this is an unfortunate story, I guess there is at least one good news here. There is another meaning hidden in this story."
Farif looked at him with some surprise.
Miss Tata also looked at him. She had never seen her Mr. Knight think in such detail.
Fang Yu continued, "I may understand why the Shadow People carried out their plan in the North rather than in the Empire, and the real reason why they attacked Elpaxin."
He said: "I guess they didn't get what they really wanted from the fire fifty years ago. Although I don't know by what means, Miss Tata escaped with the information. Others said
Maybe it's the same. Or at least they didn't hand over the things they kept to the shadow man. As for the hunter, the hunter only achieved half of the purpose, and the other half of the more important purpose was lost."
The shadow people may have thought that mortals had used tricks to escape their pursuit.
Therefore, over the past half century, they have used various means to open a passage in El Paxin, allowing them to enter the rebuilt tower and find out the clues that were lost at that time.
He didn't know if the other party had gained something from the Ethernet vein this time, but in fact, the answer at that time was already very close to them.
Because it's within yourself.
On Miss Tata.
I can only say that it was okay. Fortunately, Miss Tata had not recovered her memory at all at that time. Fortunately, she knew nothing about it, otherwise the shadow man would have noticed something when he invaded his thinking world.
But it is also possible that it was Dragon Queen Alesha who found a way to protect him and Miss Tata.
He heard a soft hum.
It turns out that the dragon queen has woken up.
He looked at Farif and Atush, but in this special space, these two did not notice each other's existence. They could only say that they were Lifgard's daughters.
The old man seemed a little excited. After listening to his words, his old eyes couldn't help but shine again, and he murmured to himself:
"If the others are still alive."
Although he also knew that it was just a possibility, in any case, Miss Tata's return at least proved that all hope existed.
And they almost succeeded.
Although no one knows who completed the second half.
Fang Yu asked: "Elpaxin once had a Silver Tower. As far as I know, Yin Xiulian's underground dwarf kingdom also has one. That means that among the people involved in this plan, there are also people from Kaolin-Yin Xiu."
The occultist of Lian, or the alchemist?"
"It did exist in the past," Farif said, "but the Silver Tower now is very different from before. We lost too many manpower in that disaster."
"Therefore," Atush replied, "The Silver Tower will be open to the outside world after that and seek help from other continents."
That's where the Trials of the Two Towers came from.
Fang Piao didn't expect that the mainland league would have such a history. After history went full circle, it seemed like it was back to the starting point at this moment.
The old man continued to recall. "However, there are indeed many alchemists from Kaolin-Yinxiulian who participated in this plan. In my memory, they were a group of very brave and noble people."
"There is one person among them who impressed me the most, the great alchemist of the Kaolin people."
"Wait a minute, Mr. Farif, you mean Luo Zhen?" Fang Plover was surprised. It turned out that the last great alchemist lost by the Kaolin people was here. He was not missing, but for the Tower of Silver.
Recruited.
The old man nodded.
Naturally, everything was reduced to ashes in the fire fifty years later, and all information about the great alchemist was also buried under the dust of the fire.
Fang Yu just didn't expect that Sylvester's ancestors had such a past.
I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the fairy heart left by the other party has connected the other party's descendants with the Seven Seas Traveler and the history of the Silver Tower.
But good guy, he also secretly cursed in his heart. The Kaolin people have not had a great alchemist in battle for more than a century. Should the Silver Tower bear some responsibility?
Luo Zhen suddenly disappeared that year and left no heirs. This may be the reason why the Kaolin-Yin Xiulian alchemy was discontinued.
Farif and Artush couldn't detect his thoughts, but Tata and he were in a spiritual connection and couldn't help but said:
"The great alchemist may not be born from the inheritance of the great alchemist. The gap in the alchemy inheritance of Kaolin-Yinxiulian should have nothing to do with it, Mr. Knight."
She said: "Although the fire did seriously damage the vitality of the Kaolin-Yinxiulian alchemy community."
Fang Plover nodded.
"There is another one," Farif suddenly thought of something, "the president of the Kaolin Craftsmen's Association, of course, is the former president, but he had nothing to do with the Craftsmen's Association when he joined us, and we were also involved in the fire.
I lost news of him."
He pondered and recalled that incident, "I only know that he still has a student, who is now leading the entire Kaolin-Yinxiulian craftsmen, but for safety reasons, we have not contacted him."
"It's Farais Tongwan, Mr. Tongwan," Fang Plover finally understood why the red-nosed dwarf president was so excited when he saw him.
All of this turns out to be related.
It's just that the president's teacher must not have revealed too much to him, otherwise he would definitely bring it up when he saw Miss Tata.
He thought for a moment and didn't decide whether he should mention his teacher's matter to the president. As Farif and Atush said, this was full of uncertain risks.
What happened after that, what happened after the fire, he didn't need to ask anymore.
Even the two occultists in front of me couldn't possibly know something that even Miss Tata couldn't explain clearly.
So Fang Yu just asked, "There is only one key left in the world. Is it too unsafe? Now that Miss Tata has returned, do we need to copy another batch of keys?"
"No," Farif shook his head firmly and interrupted.
The old man raised his head and looked at this silver space, "At least it's not needed for the time being. I have been hiding in this space because the danger has not receded yet. At most, Atush is the only one who can take charge of things outside. We are also very
Don’t mention anything about that fire to the Empire.”
He shook his head and said, "It is safest to leave the key to Miss Tata and you for safekeeping now, because no one except us knows that she has returned. The safest way is to keep this secret until you find out the truth about that year.
until."
Only then did Fang Yu understand why Atush said he could rest assured that no third person would know the secret about the dragon soul.
But in fact, it was far more than three people. At least the president knew about it, and of course not many people noticed him.
In addition, everyone in the Nanami Troupe also knows part of it, but they probably don't understand the complicated secrets involved between Miss Tata and the Silver Tower.
I don’t even know what it has to do with the fire——
So everyone is safe for now.
Finally, there is the Dragon Queen. She has just begun to understand this secret, but he should not worry about her safety.
"You're actually worried about me," Alessa's voice sounded unexpectedly, "Interesting, little one."
Fang Yu listened to the voice and fell silent.
He only looked at the two occultists and nodded to them. Because whether it was for other people, or for himself and Miss Tata, he planned to keep this secret.
As for investigating the truth behind that year, that is only natural.
After all, the truth was not only related to him and Miss Tata, but also seemed to involve other people.
The peaceful face, the long silver hair, the pointed ears, and the sea witch who showed concern for him naturally appeared in his mind.
He stared at the nothingness above the tower for a long time, and the silver space in his memory was shrinking, and the nothingness looked so similar to it.
It's just that one reflects the sea of light, and the other seems to come from the void.
Both seem to be the origin of alchemy.
"Mr. Knight, the game has begun."
He put away those complicated thoughts, and Miss Tata's reminder came from the spiritual world. The communication crystal in his hand also lit up, announcing the start of the game.
He walked forward to the door he had chosen and pushed it open.
