The cliffs on both sides plunge into the depths of the sea of clouds. The floating clouds wash over the white sandy beach of Short Bay, bringing up some lighter objects from the sea and depositing them on the gravel.
A cloud hermit crab held up its glittering claws to show off its power to the group of people, but was picked up curiously by a hand. It struggled in vain for a moment, and then was thrown far into the "sea water" by the small hand.
Tianlan clapped her hands and couldn't help but giggle.
She looked up.
In the distance is the boundary between clouds and sea, and here comes the land
The sea of clouds in Aitaria is a special "matter" that surrounds the entire world. It is filled with the power of the wind element and suspended in the air, but it is not just pure air.
And Kukai’s layering also comes from this.
It is mainly divided according to the degree of enrichment of 'wind'. The 'sea of clouds layer' is the layer with the richest wind element power. The main continents of Aitaria are all located in this layer.
Both above and below it are the 'wind zone', which is named because the power of the wind element is thin and the air flow is gentler. Due to the weakened buoyancy, most boat-type aerostats cannot enter this air layer, and only military
Wing airships can be active on this level.
After crossing the "wind zone", there is the quiet sky and the quiet sea. They are the gates of the restricted area that airships cannot cross. Even the creatures in the cloud sea rarely come to this empty layer. There are only some rare species such as giant jellyfish.
Can survive on the first floor.
Underneath the Sea of Tranquility is the legendary Abyss, the ruins of Etalia, and the legendary collapsed continent Atholin is located in it.
But few people have been to that place, so there are many legends about Yuanhai for thousands of years.
As for what place is above the still sky?
Different from the Abyssal Sea, there is a second world, the Border Continent, with a name that is familiar to the natives of Etalia and the Chosen Ones.
Tian Lan narrowed her eyes.
She saw a giant boat floating above the clouds at the end of her field of vision from a distance. Twelve huge side-by-side rigid airbags and a streamlined hull were looming among the clouds.
That is the Berio, the cargo ship of the Cloud Bay Freight Company that the Elf Princess found.
"What a big boat!"
The little French girl couldn't help but exclaimed.
In fact, this ship is not much larger than the cargo ships on Earth, and it is even more incomparable in terms of tonnage.
Just because the airship is more three-dimensional, most of the hull is not hidden under the waterline. Coupled with the numerous sails, ailerons and airbags, it looks more massive and has more visual impact.
Jita also nodded, her dark eyes reflecting the 'giant ship', full of surprise.
And Berio has been anchored in Short Bay for one day and one night.
In order to replenish the consumed supplies, the sailors used small boats to build camps on the anchorage, and piled fresh water, wood and food from nearby on the beach.
For the owner of a cargo ship, abiding by the agreement is the most important thing. Spending two days empty at the anchorage is undoubtedly a very serious situation.
Fang Yu originally thought that these people would complain, but he didn't expect that the first mate on the ship who came to receive them was a man who was very good at talking and calming down the atmosphere. He seemed very humble in front of the elf princess, and he didn't look like a temporary employee at all.
relation.
When he talked about what he had seen in the past two days, he did not mean to blame anyone at all. Instead, he praised the environment of Short Bay Anchorage, as if they would be happy to stay here for a while, and his attitude was refreshing.
However, Fang Yu could tell that the other party probably did this because of Princess Brianne's face.
He couldn't help but be a little curious about the relationship between this ship and Princess Miaoxing, but Sylvester was vague about it and only smiled at him mysteriously.
Fang Plover realized that he was asking for trouble, but thinking about it, it was unlikely that such a big ship came just to pick them up, but he didn't know what exactly it was meant to transport.
It doesn't seem like he's in a hurry.
And you must know that most goods in the air and sea need to be transported intensively, such as the famous "Silver Trout Express" between Oshur and Kaolin-Ithurion.
Either it's metal raw materials, or weapons.
There are also some other scattered goods piled on the beach.
The puppet that was taken out from the cemetery was just left in a pile on the ground, looking like a set of rusty armor in the sun. The group inspected it carefully for a long time, but they didn't come to any conclusion.
The lion man picked up one of the pieces and gently scratched the rust on the surface with his fingernails. The metallic luster was exposed underneath, and some strange patterns were vaguely visible.
He shook his head, his red mane shining in the sun: "This doesn't look like a puppet. Did you really see it move? It didn't fall down from the wall and frighten you two little girls.
Alright?"
"No, big cat," Tian Lan was so angry with it that she said, "It really moved and took so many steps!" She gestured: "Me, Jita, and Sister Attila all saw it.
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Attila nodded: "Okay, Red, stop teasing them. I did see this thing coming out of the corner. It really looked like a puppet."
"But it's not a puppet."
Rhett shook his head decisively.
Everyone couldn't help but look aside, and the older knight also shook his head: "It doesn't look like it to me. The inside of the construct is not like this."
Fang Yu nodded. He picked up an iron glove and turned it upside down to shake the dust out. The inner cavity of the glove was empty. There was nothing but dust. There was no transmission mechanism or similar things left.
Mark of.
No matter how you look at it, this is a piece of armor.
But it is a little different from ordinary armor.
First of all, it is much thicker. The thickest part of the breastplate is about an inch thick. In Aitaria, even the magic armor does not have this thickness. The whole set of armor weighs about half a ton. It took everyone a lot of effort to put it together.
Bring this thing out.
The pattern on the armor is also very special. Although it looks like an alchemical formula at first glance, it is not actually the case. The complex patterns on the armor overlap each other like ripples, which is very different from the circular shape of the alchemical formation.
, looks like a genre that Fang Plover has never seen before.
But it is not the Holiman School. The Holiman School is just an improvement on traditional alchemy, adding some of the Dragon Cult's own things, but in the final analysis it still does not deviate from the origin.
"Maybe this is a ghost armor." Parker put forward his own suggestion: "I know that there are undead creatures..."
"It's not," Rhett still shook his head: "There's no negative energy on it, can't you feel it, little guy?"
"How can I feel that? I'm not a nagging guy like you." The Papalar man's proposal was rejected instantly, and he couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"What do you think?" The lion man shook his mane and looked at Ditke and Attila.
Both of them nodded.
"Although it's not very natural, it's definitely not those twisted things. I can feel it." The elf girl looked at the 'armor' and said.
"Speaking of which," Rhett picked up a tattered shoulder armor, threw it back into the pile of things with a clang, and asked, "Isn't this just a tattered armor? Why are you so particular about it?"
Are you interested in this thing?"
"That's not armor," Tian Lan said loudly, "that's a puppet, I saw it."
"Okay, okay, even if it is a puppet, so what?" Rhett lit his pipe, lowered his head, held it in his mouth, and puffed away, "What does it have to do with us?"
The little French girl couldn't help being dumbfounded and turned back to look at Attila.
The elf girl frowned, recalling the previous encounter in the corridor, shook her head and said: "Actually, it's nothing, I just care a little."
"A little concerned?"
"I felt like this thing was calling me. I don't know if it was my imagination." Attila frowned and replied.
"Calling you?"
Red and Dick couldn't help but become serious, and the two knights of Malland looked at each other.
"Are you sure that's not your illusion, Attila?" The lion man took off his pipe and asked angrily.
The elf girl shook her head unconfidently: "I'm not sure, Red, it's cold and dark underground, and I'm not sure whether I was still in the illusion at that time."
"But you are a pure believer of Amea, and ordinary illusions cannot affect you," Rhett replied: "I think this thing is probably an evil thing."
The older knight also nodded.
"This is not a good sign," Rhett shook his head and said: "Items that affect people's psychic abilities are probably not good things. This armor is weird and has the ability to confuse people's hearts."
Dict turned around and asked Fang Plover, "Have you thought of anything?"
Fang Plover couldn't help but frown.
He remembered what he had seen in the illusion. The dragon's golden eye seemed to have such an ability, so it could bewitch the dwarf hero through the ring of golden flames.
But how could this be connected with this inexplicable armor? This thing never even appeared in Dolifen's fantasy.
Moreover, the power of the Golden Dragon and the Ring of Golden Flame are indeed in his hands.
He couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "But Mr. Dict, there seems to be no relevant clues in Dolifen's illusion?"
The older knight slowly shook his head: "Dollifen left us with many questions. What we saw was actually just a part of that day. And no one could explain it clearly before. I think none of us understood it.
Why would Sir Hagston betray us?"
Fang Plover was silent.
It seems that this is indeed the case. It seems that there are deeper secrets buried in this city, but those secrets have long been buried under the ruins together with the disaster thirty years ago, and can no longer be known to people.
"Speaking of which," Fang Plover suddenly said, "Is this thing hidden under the cemetery together with those things?"
The things he was talking about were naturally the 'treasures' Tianlan and Jita found from the ground.
That was actually part of the supplies sent to the Kapka Craftsmen Federation by the Kaolin Kingdom Craftsmen's Federation. It was not limited to the batch thirty years ago. Fang Lung and several others carefully inspected the batch of supplies and found that the labels on the supplies were different in time.
Very big.
This is obviously a shocking discovery, which shows that someone is deliberately intercepting these supplies from the Craftsmen's Guild to Kapka behind the scenes, and it seems that these people are not Dragon Worshipers.
Because judging from the results of Brianne Caranthir and Princess Mistystar's interrogation of the prisoners of the Dragon Cult, it seemed that the other party knew nothing about these things.
As for the 'treasures from thirty years ago' that the Papalar crossbowmen were eager to find, they didn't expect that Tianlan and Jita would stumble and find such astonishing things.
Although this is not a 'treasure from thirty years ago', because according to Kapka's records, the batch of materials from thirty years ago has been found in the ruins.
However, among these materials, some of the materials from thirty years ago do remain.
For example, the box of gold coins was part of the funds transferred at that time. People may have thought that this part of the funds was lost in the disaster, but they did not expect that they had been transferred long before the disaster occurred.
And these things have been hidden under the cemetery for thirty years. If Tianlan and Jita hadn't discovered the tunnel in the illusion, they don't know how long it would take for them to see the light of day again.
The question is, where did the people who hid them go after that? Theoretically, if those people were still alive, it was unlikely that they would give up such a large amount of wealth.
Also said that those people also died in the disaster?
But the question is, if that's the case, why does this tunnel also appear in Dolifen's fantasy?
What's more, what makes Fang Pliong even more confused is...
What is the connection between this mysterious armor and these things? Is it part of the intercepted supplies, or is it already in that place before that?
But obviously no one could answer his question. Tianlan and Jita were not very clear about the origin of this armor. They could only confirm that it was indeed placed in the corner of the tomb before that.
Attila also shook her head. Apart from the inexplicable call she had felt before the door was opened, the armor was like a dead thing after that and had no reaction at all.
Rhett suggested throwing this thing into the sea. As a paladin of Marland, he had a natural aversion to these weird things.
However, this proposal was unanimously rejected by everyone including Dickert.
"This thing may be related to the things behind Dolifen," the older knight said: "If you don't mind, you can leave it to me and let Princess Brianne take it to a place where it should go. This has
Helps us understand what really happened."
"Okay." Aitila nodded, obviously agreeing with the proposal.
She, the rightful owner, nodded, and naturally no one else had any objections. Even Rhett could only shrug helplessly. Fang Yu took one last look at the strange patterns on the armor. He always felt that the mysterious
There may be some secret hidden in the pattern.
But unfortunately, he couldn't see anything.
Instead, he saw Hong Ye walking over from a distance with a serious face and said to him: "Ed, we are leaving. Something happened in the guild."
"What's wrong?" Fang Yu couldn't help but asked when he saw something wrong with her expression.
"It's nothing. Several of the guild's locations were attacked by unidentified forces. It looks like they are from the Dragon Fire Guild." Although it might involve confidential matters of the guild, Hongye thought for a moment and answered.
"What!?"
Fang Yu was shocked. He never thought in his wildest dreams that the matters on Dolifen's side were not settled yet, and that the Oak Knights of Tapolis had not yet gone to trouble the Dragon Fire Guild.