The artificial walkway came to an abrupt end, and the smooth natural rock formations extended forward, silent in the dark depths. When Fang Plover saw that the surface of the rock wall showed an ocher-red smooth outer edge under the weak light of the crystal, he could not help but subconsciously
Stopped.
Nature sometimes presents a thrilling spectacle, just like the gradual color layers in the cave at this moment, interspersed with light yellow, dark red and a line of swirling white. Along the direction of the underground river that year, it flows into the bottomless
Under the abyss.
To this day, it seems like I can still hear the echoes of the past.
But the girl was unaware of this and groped her way down, only whispering: "Be careful, Lord Holy Chosen One, the road ahead is not going to be easy."
Seeing that she was struggling, Fang Yu reached out his hand to help her. But the girl seemed to sense his kindness and just smiled and shook her head: "No need, I'm used to it."
The underground river passes across it, cutting off the artificial tunnel. The water flow etches out the landscape behind it, which is twists and turns and intricate. However, the cave itself can be said to be wide and flat.
Fang Plover listened to the rustling sound in the darkness.
It was as if there was an invisible monster, dormant among the moving black shadows, eating away at the footsteps of the two of them. But he occasionally looked back, and saw that the light and shadow cut by the light of the crystal were swaying, and there was nothing.
"Can the Holy Chosen Master also hear those voices?" The girl suddenly said, her voice soft and slow, but very clear in the unique and empty darkness.
Fang Yu looked at her with some surprise. In fact, what he heard was just the footsteps of the two people.
"what sound?"
"Sounds of contention."
"dispute?"
The girl nodded slightly, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, almost weak, and under the light of the crystal, they reflected a strange color like snow. "I sometimes wonder why people always argue...
…?”
Fang Yu heard her thin breathing.
But he didn't hear any arguments. Only under the dim light of the crystal, the cave seemed unchanged and silent.
As for why people always argue - there are too many reasons for disputes. Dissatisfaction, prejudice, fear, anger and even discrimination can all be the beginning of disputes. But deep in his eyes, what is reflected in his chat column is
The line of faintly fluorescent text that emerged:
'The so-called dispute is actually just a means for people to control the right to speak. The key is not to hold on, but to argue. As long as people's differences have not been eliminated, disputes will always arise. And people can never have true consensus.
Reason, so the dispute cannot be resolved...'
'But teacher,' Fang Yu typed word by word: 'You are telling me this, but I can't quite understand it.'
'Is this what you were told?'
Fang Yu couldn't help but look at the girl beside him.
‘Is this also part of the quest line?’ Fang Pliance asked, ‘Or is this another teacher’s ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’?’
'No,' r sent a sighing expression: 'It's just something I feel.'
At this time, the girl came back to her senses and smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, it's just that every time I come to this place and hear those sounds, I can't help but think of something. I made you laugh, Lord Holy Chosen One."
"You should call me Ed. It sounds too awkward for adults. I'm just an ordinary person," Fang Yu replied. But he still cared a little about what the other person said: "You can hear those voices in this place. ?, what kind of sound is that?”
The girl walked forward and answered as she walked: "There are many voices, men's or women's voices, old people's or children's voices. There are so many, so noisy that I can't even hear what they are saying."
"...But I should know what they are talking about, I remember," she paused suddenly: "I remember hearing these voices before, maybe in one place, but I have forgotten many things."
The girl murmured to herself. She lowered her head in a daze and gently held her right hand with her left hand, as if there should be something there.
Then she turned back: "Can't you hear the Chosen Lord?"
"It's Ed." Fang Pultru corrected.
"Sorry, Mr. Ed."
Fang Plover shook his head habitually, but didn't say a word.
The girl closed her eyes and did not wait for his response. A look of sadness flashed across her face, and she whispered softly: "As expected." Fang Yu looked at her and asked: "So others can't hear it?"
The girl nodded slightly.
Fang Yu saw her turning around again, and couldn't help but ask: "Eve, what do you think those sounds are?"
"I don't know, maybe it's just the memory in my heart, Mr. Ed," the girl replied in a thin voice: "I have stayed here for too long, and Yossiude has never come back. Among so many voices, The only thing I didn't hear was his voice——"
Fang Yu looked at the girl's lonely back, and suddenly felt some sympathy in his heart.
Somehow, it reminded him of Sylvide, and at the same time he thought of Miss Miya. He remembered the last time he saw her in the ruins, the moment when the silver-haired wolf girl turned around and left. There seems to be the same loneliness in the back.
It was not unusual for him to have such a connection with the nearly isolated ship officer lady. But he was a little confused. As the sea witch, how could Miya have the same temperament?
Is it because she will go to the second world to seek justice from her comrades alone?
While he was thinking, the girl stopped again and turned her head sideways. The dim light just illuminated her pale cheek: "We're here, Mr. Ed."
Fang Plover looked forward. In front of him was a huge cave. The light of the crystal only illuminated a small area of vertical cone. At the end of the light, he saw some strange, black crystals, one by one, like blooming The stamens grow in clusters inside the cave.
Clusters of crystals are a unique natural phenomenon in Aitaria. Most of the time, magic power is condensed into crystals. It is not an exaggeration to say that this world is a world of crystals. You can see large and small strange hair crystals on the ground.
And Gay crystal is the most spectacular type among them.
The underground is probably also a crystal kingdom. Gray-colored earth crystals are contained deep in the earth. When mixed with different metal elements, the crystals will also show different colors, not just the single color of the elemental magic itself.
Black crystals are also very common, but the scene of clusters overlapping each other, like dragon scales, covering and growing layer by layer, is something Fang Plover has only seen in his life.
He subconsciously raised the luminous crystal in his hand and opened his mouth slightly - a term, leapt into his mind - Dragon's First Scale. There is no doubt that this is what the Blood Shark Air Pirates did in this gravel ruins.
Go down and dig three feet into the ground to find something.
But it is quietly located deep in the underground river here.
And it is so beautiful that people almost forget the terrible meanings assigned to it. The layers of crystal reflect the flowing brilliance, making the cave gradually become brighter - in Fang Plover
In his eyes, it was clearly a dragon crawling on the ground.
A crystal dragon.
It twists its slender neck, covers its wings, and lies low on the ground, as if sleeping forever. It is different from the aggressiveness of the dark dragon itself. Its quiet posture gives these crystals a special beauty, hugeness, elegance, and
As if harmless.
Only when he got closer did Fang Plover see clearly that the crystal itself was not a dragon, or rather it was a dragon-shaped cocoon, the owner of which had long since disappeared.
These are the first scales of the dark dragon. After that, the fire of Venus fell into the dust, and countless creatures were annihilated in the sea of fire. But its first birth was just born here, in the underground of Idos, a single person.
The depths of the cave are inconspicuous and even unknown.
Is this where Nicol Bolas turned into a dragon?
Fang Yu couldn't help but have a strange idea in his mind.
The girl heard his gentle inhalation and asked, "Mr. Ed, what are you looking at?"
"These crystals..."
"This is not what we are looking for," the girl was startled for a moment, then smiled: "These crystals are contaminated with dark power, so they must be ugly? It doesn't matter, in fact, they are not dangerous, as long as you don't pay attention to them.
"
"Ugly?" Fang Yu shook his head. If this is considered ugly, is there anything beautiful in the world?
"That's not the case," he replied: "In fact, these crystals are quite beautiful just looking at them - but you are right, they are indeed the product of dark power."
The girl walked cautiously in front, and was a little curious when she heard this: "How can a product of dark power look good? Mr. Ed, are you trying to comfort me?"
"Comfort you?" Fang Yu was about to speak when he suddenly saw a strange black shadow flashing between the crystals. He quickly shouted: "Be careful!"
The black shadow suddenly stretched a lot, and it rushed towards the girl with its teeth and claws bared. Fang Plover was not slow to react. He raised his hand and spread his fingers. The platinum angel seemed to slide out from between a blue light door.
, raised his sword to block.
A long spark flashed through the darkness.
The angel's slender arm blade made a trembling sound as if it hit an entity.
'Holy shit-'
In the chat bar, two words popped up.
The strange figure moved back under the force, and Fang Plover recognized its identity - the dragon's minions, which were almost identical to the ones they had encountered in the tunnel before, except that the one in front of them was so disintegrated that it was almost impossible to maintain its shape.
He was already very experienced in fighting with the dragon's minions, and he could see the opponent's intentions with just a glance. As if it was a habit, rows of data naturally emerged in his mind. He stretched out his hand, and the capable angel took the lead and launched his attack later.
Arrive first, and cut behind the opponent as quickly as possible.
The dragon's minions have no way to retreat, so they can only turn around and use one claw.
But as soon as the induction ring of the powerful angel flashed, the body automatically tilted back, causing the claw to return in vain. The Fang Plover's glove rotated almost ninety degrees, and at this moment when the center of gravity shifted back, the powerful angel
Falling backward - like an iron bridge.
But at the same moment, it thrust the blade of its right arm downwards, and used this as a base point to roll backwards.
Only then did the girl have time to turn around, when a blade of light passed by not far ahead.
She then raised her head and saw the angel flying high and falling, and what fell with it was a headless corpse.
The dragon's claws fell to the ground and immediately turned into a cloud of dust, scattering and disappearing. However, its death seemed to have caused some kind of chain reaction in the cave. The strange shadow in the black crystal was seen shaking, and then a
A cloud of black smoke fell from it, and as soon as it landed on the ground, it immediately turned into a dragon's claws.
These almost melted half-human forms immediately rushed toward the two of them as soon as they took shape.
Fang Yu immediately put his hand in front of the girl, raised his hand, and snapped his fingers.
I saw him opening a door of light on one left and one on his right, and two powerful angels were stepping out from it.
"ah?"
Although the girl couldn't see, she could hear voices. At this moment, she seemed to be able to distinguish Fang Plover's occupation and the construct he controlled. She probably didn't expect that the person who had been talking to her turned out to be a respected person.
Alchemist.
And he is still such a young fighting craftsman.
The opponent's strength also surprised her a little - besides the Oath Keepers, are there such outstanding warriors among mortals? Or should the Holy Chosen Lords be like this?
Fang Yu pointed forward, and three powerful angels joined the battle at the same time. After experiencing so many dangers, the peaceful situation was no longer enough to make any waves in his heart. As soon as the three powerful angels blocked him, the screaming banshee immediately emerged from mid-air.
whizzing by.
A flash bomb dropped in mid-air.
The flash bomb exploded between the dragon minions. Although these dark creatures were completely unaffected by the blinding effect, the flash dust flew down one after another, but outlined their outlines in the darkness - solving Fang Plover's problem in one fell swoop.
Aware of the enemy's plight in the low-light environment of the cave.
Three powerful angels blocked some of the dragon's minions, but more monsters crossed the defense line and rushed towards him, the controller.
Fang Yu pulled the girl back two steps. The ground bounced up, and the gravity trap had an effect between him and the monsters. Fang Yu glanced at the chat bar. In addition to the previous words "Holy shit", r continued to
I haven't made any comments yet.
He took one more look at the outlines covered with glitter dust, and then severed the connection with the Screaming Banshee and the Lurker.
The lurker's spell has a continuous effect, but once the Screaming Banshee lost control, she immediately staggered and fell from the air. Fang Yu then let go of the girl's hand, turned around and said to her: "You take two steps back..."
The girl was slightly startled, nodded quickly and stepped back.
The dragon's minions are slowly passing through the area of the gravity trap.
Fang Yu reached out to untie the collar, and then his chest. He pulled hard on the alchemist emblem nailed to that place, and pulled open the windbreaker. He only heard a trembling sound of "buzz" - at that moment, it was as if there were hundreds of bees working together.
The sound of flapping wings.
He saw a swarm of golden clockwork fairies swarming out of his coat one by one. Before they fell to the ground, they drew a dexterous arc, lifted up from the ground, and flew into the air with fluttering wings.
Fang Plover stretched out his right hand, and the clockwork fairies naturally obeyed his command and formed a matrix on his right side.
Fang Plover looked forward calmly, scanning the twisted and strange figures.
He pointed forward: "Shoot!"
A flash of fire.
But it's the second and third round.
Because these monsters were stained with glittering dust, Fang Plover barely needed to aim and could accurately identify the location of his enemies in the darkness. After three rounds of volley fire, the bullets swept through the dragon's minions like a storm.
Pass.
But the damage done by Clockwork Fairy is limited after all.
Without saying a word, Fang Plover took back his right hand, and the three clockwork fairies flashed backwards at the same time, all lined up in front of him. Fang Plover waved his hand again, and the clockwork fairies immediately followed one after another, like shooting stars.
Falling into the cluster of dragon minions ahead.
At the same time, the angels all crossed their arms and opened a pair of blue shields.
Then there were dazzling flashes of light in the darkness.
The air waves and roars generated by the explosion were almost as strong as the powerful angel's shield. If he moved forward, it would only lift the corners of Fang Plover's coat. As for the girl who was blocked behind him, she was not affected at all.
Any impact can be said to be unscathed.
After the explosion, smoke and dust filled the air.
In the chat channel, r sent him three question marks in succession.
Fang Yu was about to answer, but another sentence caught his eye:
r: 'Watch out on the right!'
Fang Yu reacted very quickly, almost sliding backwards, and a black light missed him by a hair. After the black light, a black shadow broke through the smoke and crashed towards him -
—With Fang Plover’s level of dexterity, he was almost unable to react in time.
At the same time, after the Angel of Energy was overloaded, he was unable to move for a while.
But Fang Yu had the same instinct and subconsciously activated the shield system, letting the opponent hit the shield first. Then he used the force to move back. At the same time, the system's automatic dodge was activated, pulling him to lose his center of gravity.
Give way back.
But Fang Plover had already reacted at this time, moved in the direction of the shift of the center of gravity, then put his hand on the ground, jumped up hard and hit the opponent.
This time, as the rabbit was rising and the falcon was falling, it actually knocked the black shadow away.
‘Holy shit, you know how to do Odin’s stuff!?’
This time, r was really shocked.
However, Fang Yu had no time to reply. Although he knocked the opponent away, this move was a last resort after all, and he lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.
At the same time, he looked up and found that behind the dragon minions he had just destroyed with the efreet, there were more strange shadows pouring out from between the black crystals.
The sheer number of them is simply mind-numbing.
r also saw this scene and quickly typed:
'Have you stirred up a hornet's nest?'
'Where are there so many monsters in this place? Be careful. I'll help you pay attention to the side. You can find a way to leave this place -'
'Why do you get into trouble everywhere you go?'
Fang Yu secretly pressed his chest with his left hand - he clearly felt that there, the ring of golden flames was emitting scorching heat.
"Lord Saint Chosen," the girl's voice was also unusually uneasy: "I don't know why there are so many monsters in this place. They are not usually like this. How about... why don't you leave me first?
, I will find a place to hide."
'This is a good suggestion,' r sent a line of text: 'She won't die. You have flexible construction to help. You can try to divert these things away first, and then find other ways to continue deeper. Remember I told you
It's something you want to do, don't do it forcefully.'
Fang Yu thought for a moment, then replied: 'No need.'
'ha?'
He released the ring of golden flames in his left hand and gently closed his eyes.
