Chapter two hundred and seventy-eight turns sharply down
There is a cliff outside the place where the shipyard and the dry dock are connected. In Aitaria, there is actually no fixed name for the dry or floating dock. The locals call it 'uridar'. The reason why it is called this is just
It's just what the selectors are used to.
In front of the dry dock is the lock. The outside of the lock is connected to the sky and the sea, and the straight cliff is located at that place. Fang Plovor discovered that even if they belong to the same Kaolin-Ithurian sky and land, in different areas, the coastal rock formations
There are also big differences.
The steep cliffs made of gray-white chalk and the black forests that were common in the north disappeared in the south. Here there are only undulating yellow sandstones and sporadic thorny shrubs growing on the cliffs, and the wind above the sea blows by.
, the fine leaves on the shrubs rustled.
Fang Plover was sitting on the edge of the cliff, looking at the distant sky, the cotton-like floating cloud island, and the scenery between the sea and the sky. On earth, the sea and the sky are just an adjective, but here, you really can't tell the difference between the sea and the sky.
's boundary line.
This is a transparent sea. Except for clusters of clouds and mountains suspended above the 'sea surface', between the cloud islands you can only see schools of fish swimming around in the air, or in the distance there are three little white fish with triangular sails.
Point, sailing above the sky, with three long tail marks trailing behind the stern - cyan.
Looking down, you can see that the cliffs go vertically downwards for thousands of meters, so that the rock formations are layered with different colors. The part near the surface is dotted with green shrubs, and further down, the color of the rocks becomes darker.
All bare.
Below the clouds in the distance is a real sea, as blue as green, sparkling in the sun - but it is too calm, like a dark blue crystal. It is not actually the water surface, but the stratosphere, where there is no wind.
Element, the aerostat will lose lift as soon as it enters it.
But it looks very close. The Kukai layer is actually ten kilometers high. From the middle layer where the sky and land are located to the calm layer, it is also nearly four thousand meters. The thickness of the stratosphere is half of the Kukai layer. After passing through the stratospheric calm zone,
It is the entrance to the deep sea.
So far, people have not actually entered the deepest part of the Abyssal Sea that they have visited. They are just some relics left on the surface of the Abyssal Sea during the Xinsas era, including the one that Sylvide visited.
The same is true for the ruins where the obelisk is located.
Tata's voice came from his thoughts: "Mr. Knight."
Fang Yu finally came back to his senses and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong?"
"There's something going on in the community."
When Fang Yu was slightly startled, Miss Goblin had already projected a page of light screen in front of him. Now she was quite skilled in handling these matters. Fang Yu looked at the light screen. First, there was a line of bold text titles, marked out
It was an emergency - the content was below. He looked down and couldn't help but be stunned again:
"Did something happen again in the south?"
The content of the article is that the New Southern Territory Alliance integrated by bbk once again encountered trouble - when they settled in Baicheng, one of their official teams suffered spontaneous resistance from the local selectees. In fact, it was the same as the last time in the capital.
What happened in London was exactly the same.
But this time the problem was much more serious. It was reported that after the attackers killed bbk's people, they announced that Baicheng was not within the jurisdiction of the Southern Alliance.
Fang Yu has always been paying attention to things in the Southern Territory. As early as a few months ago, after the Du Lun Resolution occurred, most of the large and small guilds in the Southern Territory that originally belonged to the Southern Territory Alliance followed Ye Hua's orders and disbanded like their guilds in the forest.
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Some of these people, like Lin Lin and others, have become real free adventurers and are looking for a new future. Others are still staying in the south. Although they have lost their status as alliance members on the surface, privately most of them still remain
old connections and a potential alliance formed.
These people are actually the vast majority.
Fang Plover has also heard about this secret alliance. In fact, the Elfendor Council has played a role in fueling it. Although the Southern Alliance has been disbanded, the Elfendor Council is still there. The council is an organization dominated by indigenous people.
, the Super Competitive Alliance has no right to dictate to the alchemists.
The Council used secret means to bring more members of the old Southern Alliance into this alliance. It was equivalent to reintegrating the originally divided alliance. This method is somewhat similar to the method of the Oak Knights of Tapolis.
Although one is intentional and the other is unintentional.
Due to the Van Rijk incident, the Super Competitive Alliance was too busy to take care of itself, and bbk's integration of the New Southern Alliance was stalled for a while, and it was only recently resumed. However, the precious few months lost allowed this secret alliance to develop and grow.
Fang Yu knew these things, naturally through his teacher Ander. Ander-Uriel re-entered the Elfendor Council after the Vanric incident and replaced Pudra's original position. And in Xilin-
After Count Spica's incident, the other party's status in the parliament was further elevated. As one of the decision-makers of many matters in the parliament, he was naturally qualified to know these secrets and tell his students.
bbk can be said to be the culprit for the dissolution of the old Southern Alliance. The interests of the two sides are completely opposite, so of course they don't have any good impressions of each other. In fact, during their journey south, they were hindered by the "Dark Alliance" more than once.
It can be said that the opposition between the two sides has existed for a long time.
And bbk is clearly a collaborator of the prime minister's party, and the Elfendor Council is also unwilling to allow its influence to penetrate further into the south, so it secretly adopts a resigned attitude towards the conflict between the two parties.
But the conflict in Baicheng was still somewhat beyond Fang Plover's imagination.
Because although the Elfendor Council is happy to see the conflict between the two, it will never let the conflict escalate further. So last time in Dulon, although the old Duke of Phoenix was not on the side of the prime minister, he still took action in the end.
The unrest was quelled.
Therefore, the reason why the Southern Territory has been peaceful for the past half year can be said to be the old Duke's greatest contribution, playing the role of a sea-calming needle. After all, the stability of the region is closely related to the aborigines who have lived here for generations.
The confrontation between the nobles and the royal family also adopts an attitude of cooperation and confrontation. The Kaolin-Ithulian is not a division between the north and the south, but just a political game.
But what happened in Baicheng was obviously a bit out of line.
But what's puzzling is that White City is not much smaller than Van Rijk. The local nobles, guards and garrisons are not dead. There is also a magician organization "White City Secret Guard" there. How can they watch it helplessly?
The chosen ones sealed the city and became independent.
This declaration is clearly a 'Declaration of Independence' - it simply means that from now on, Baicheng will split its soil and be autonomous, and will no longer be under the rule of the Kingdom of Kaulin-Ithurion. The Chosen One did such an earth-shattering thing
Forget it, do the local nobles think so too?
He was full of doubts and couldn't help but ask: "Miss Tata, what on earth is going on?"
Tata shook his head slightly: "That's all the news at the moment, Mr. Knight."
She added: "A few hours ago, White City blocked several roads leading to Vanrich and Edel Fortress. Since then, no news has leaked out, at least for now."
This action was clearly confirming what Fang Plover was thinking.
Unable to sit still any longer, he dusted himself off and stood up from the edge of the cliff. Finally, he looked back at the blue sky in the distance, and then walked back to the shipyard. After asking the workers, he found a man standing on the edge of a cliff.
In front of the blueprint, the noble daughter supervises the progress of the workers.
The blueprint was the last one he selected among the many drawings he drew. It was being nailed to a wooden board at the moment. Sylvide looked at the lines on it with focused eyes, and sometimes looked at the work of the workers.
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When she heard the footsteps behind her, she turned around. When she saw Fang Plover, she couldn't help but smile and cast a gentle look at her captain.
But Fang Yu got straight to the point and said: "Sylwede, something happened in Baicheng."
"Um?"
Fang Yu then described the previous events to the ship officer.
It was obviously the first time for Sylvide to hear of such a thing. She immediately thought of the same place as Fang Plion, thought for a while and said: "Captain, you should ask your teacher's opinion immediately on this matter. There are two reasons.
There are two possibilities. One is that the electors of the old alliance made this decision themselves, which means that they intend to part ways with the Parliament."
"Another possibility," she paused, "is that this action was planned by the parliament, which means that the parliament's judgment on the situation in the southern border has changed."
Although he was far away in Istania, Fang Plover could still tell from the analysis of his ship officer that the situation in the southern border had taken a turn for the worse.
He thought for a moment and then asked: "Which situation is better?"
Sylvide shook her head gently for the first time: "I personally think that the first situation may be slightly better, but it is also limited. Unless some people go alone, but judging from Baicheng's reaction, this possibility is very small
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She raised her head, a trace of worry flashed through her light blue eyes: "If the public break really becomes an established fact, we may really see a war next."
"What are the odds?"
"It's not clear yet, but Captain, you may have to make some preparations."
Fang Plover couldn't help but open his mouth, but no sound came out.
They are still in Tansnir, and this war may have nothing to do with them in the short term, but if the third division falls into turmoil, they will be affected by it anyway.
From the perspective of outsiders, this may just be a matter of watching the excitement, but when he puts himself in the situation, he feels completely different - the most intuitive thing is that he knows who is looking forward to such a turmoil.
?
Dragon worshipers.
Their plans in the south may be related to this.
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a deep worry in his heart. Their group had just made some progress against the Dragon Worshipers, but if Kaolin-Ithurian fell into turmoil, not only all previous efforts would be in vain.
And maybe, the Dragon Worshipers will take this opportunity to make a comeback and recreate the disaster of the Dragon Witch incident in the past.
Those people will never target without aim——
He knows this very well.
But at the same time, Fang Yu felt a deep sense of powerlessness. For the first time, he felt that his personal power was too weak in the face of the general trend. The confrontation between the north and the south of Kaolin-Ishulian has been going on for more than a year. In this process, not only
Not only the aboriginal people but also the electors had great conflicts.
It can even be said that the chosen people of the South have been waiting for such an opportunity to resist the "invasion" of the descendants of Flor for a long time. This is by no means something he can easily change with a few words.
Not to mention that there are more complex interests involved behind this, the entanglements between the electors and the electors, the electors and the aboriginal people, and the aboriginal people and the aboriginal people are so complicated that even the Stargate Port cannot calm down the king.
The confrontation between the party and the southern aristocracy, let alone him?
He is somewhat famous in Vanric, Dolifen and even Fenris, but to be honest, he is just a temporary hot figure. In this matter, his appeal may not be as good as Sophie, but even if he is a
What right does Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Silver Wisland, have to say?
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a little silent for a while.
Everything has gone smoothly during this period, and he once thought that the Seven Seas Brigade was initially on the right track. Of course, it was not as good as those big guilds, but at least it had the capital to establish a foothold in this world.
Especially after defeating the Rangers, the Dragon Witch's matter seemed to have come to an end for the time being. Although they did not really defeat the opponent and completely solved the problem of Dragon King Lifgard. However, the opponent was also seriously injured and needed a long time to recover.
Energy, and time, can be said to be on their side.
But once the situation changed, everything immediately took a turn for the worse, leaving them no time to react. In fact, there was no chance to correct everything.
In the past, he placed his hope in the Phoenix Duke, hoping that he could always play the role of the mainstay. He believed that as long as the other party did not fall, the situation in the southern region would not be corrupted after all. As for the confrontation between the nobles and the new king, refer to Kaolin-
The history of Ithulian will not last long after all.
As for how the two sides would compromise in the end, he didn't need to worry about it——
Anyway, he might have left the first world long ago and took Miss Ship Officer to look for her father.
Unexpectedly, the problem first appeared on the side of the selector.
Sylvide looked at him, blinking her long eyelashes lightly, as if she could see what he was thinking, and said softly: "Master Captain, the first priority is to confirm with the Elfendor Council and your teacher.
Let’s check the authenticity of this news.”
Fang Plover nodded.
This was exactly what he was thinking at the moment.
However, the only way for the Seven Seas Brigade to communicate with the Elfendor Council is through one Linn. Unfortunately, this guy is also an alchemy research maniac, and the communicator is not online every three days. Therefore, the two sides often still have to communicate with each other.
Deliver messages via magical messengers.
The magic messenger is a magical creation that can travel through the etheric realm and play a role in connecting two places. Although it is not as convenient as the communication crystal, it does not have as many restrictions on its use as the communication crystal. As long as it is in an area where magic is not allowed,
It can be used directly.
In fact, the magic homing pigeon they often use is one of them.
However, magic carrier pigeons are often lost on the way due to various reasons. For this important information, Fang Plover simply released three or four carrier pigeons at once. One of them will arrive eventually. The movement of the magic messenger in the ethereal realm is ignored.
It was a long distance away, but it usually took half a week to a week to arrive. With a safe attitude, he sent another message to Linn.
Just in case this guy suddenly has a whim and goes online midway? Maybe it can save a lot of unnecessary time.
After doing all these things one by one, Fang Plover gradually calmed down.
There are some things that they cannot prevent, and the only preparation they can make is to minimize the impact on them after these things happen. The Seven Seas Brigade has experienced so many dangerous situations since its establishment, and there is no reason to go past them.
Things that can be defeated must be stopped today.
Compared to the desperate situation in Fenris, the current situation does not seem to have reached its worst. The Dragon Cult can cause trouble, and they can also prevent it.
If you think about it carefully, the current situation is still much better than when they first started to get involved in the Dragon Cult conspiracy.
After thinking about this, Fang Yu completely calmed down. Although true and false news began to fly all over the community after a few days, he didn't care and just waited silently for further news from the Elfendor Council.
Pass back.
It was at this time that news came from Her Royal Highness Princess Rupert.
Penelope's royal family sent someone to tell them that someone from the princess's mother's family agreed to their request and was willing to take the time to meet with them.
After receiving this news, Fang Yu temporarily put aside all those things that had and did not exist. He understood in his heart that the leisure time of the Seven Seas Brigade in Tansnier was coming to an end. Next, they had to devote themselves to the matter of that matter again.
A commission from Her Royal Highness the Princess.
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The girl sitting next to the window was leaning on the wooden table with one hand, holding her cheek in the palm of her hand, looking at the scene on the street outside the window in a daze.
The long ebony hair, like a straight line, was hanging down from her cheeks, separated from the white porcelain skin, like a clear border. She blinked her long eyelashes gently, and in her black and white eyes, like
It contains a ball of bright and clear light.
It attracted many passers-by to look sideways and look in this direction.
This is a small roadside tavern - there are countless such places in the South, but this place is a little more special than others - because it has a large hollow door facing the street, which is quite rare in Aitaria.
The windows are like elves in style.
Green vines and leaves hang outside the wooden window lattice. In the distance is a lake bay and a forest of trees. A little closer there is a street, dotted with some southern-style wood and stone buildings on both sides.
But the scenery here is slightly better. You can see through the woods and even see the sparkling lake. A trestle goes deep into the lake, and there are even people fishing on the trestle - some aborigines and some chosen ones.
The girl then turned around. She was wearing a tight-fitting dark night leather armor, which outlined an almost perfect figure - except for her somewhat flat chest. She played with the silver dagger on her fingertips with one hand and looked across the wooden table.
, and said:
"How is it? It's beautiful here, isn't it?"
Directly opposite her, sat an elf girl with blue-frosted hair. She was wearing a moon-white mage robe, holding an oak magic wand in one hand, and was looking at her angrily.
"I said, is this interesting?"
"What's wrong?"
"Do you still want me to praise you for how beautiful you are?"
The black-haired girl smiled slightly: "That's okay."
In the frosty weather, I had to grit my teeth and said, "Wash your hands. You should only stop this."
"Okay, okay, Xiao Shuangshuang, we are here to do business," the black-haired girl looked at herself and replied with crooked eyes: "I am also in disguise. Look, there is no one around.
Recognize us."
"No one will recognize you without makeup."
"Hey, am I not that famous? I am still a star player, right?"
Shuangtian took a breath and said quietly: "Isn't it because you have always looked like this in public? How many people do you think will recognize your true self?"
The black-haired girl smiled and showed her white little fangs: "That's not necessarily true. I know a little guy who has seen my true self. Haha, I made him stunned for a while. Do you know how cute he is?
?”
The girl with short blue-frosted hair rolled her eyes and decided never to discuss this kind of thing with this lunatic again.
She sighed, then changed the subject and said, "So where do you plan to start investigating?"
"We have already started investigating?"
"Wash your hands, you bastard!"
"No, no, no, no," the black-haired girl quickly raised her hand. She turned around and looked around. It seemed that because of the conflict between herself and the other party, she attracted a lot of curious eyes around her - the tavern was not big, but the guests were not.
Shao: "What I said is true. Do you want to listen to my analysis?"
Shuang Tian resisted the urge to hit the other person in the face with a magic wand and looked at the other person coldly.
"You don't know, Xiao Shuangshuang——"
"Wait, wait, let me get to the point, don't do anything," the black-haired girl saw her companion about to raise the magic wand and quickly changed her words: "Do you know where Quicksand last appeared?"
Shuang Tian rolled his eyes again: "Please don't talk nonsense to me, of course in this place, otherwise what are we doing here?"
But the black-haired girl shook her head: "I'm not talking about the end, but before that."
"You said it last."
The girl with short blue-frosted hair held the magic wand in her hand almost squeaking, and a pseudo-dragon demon pet also crawled out of her backpack. As if feeling the anger of its master, it aimed at the black man in front of her.
The girl spread her wings and made a hissing sound.
"Okay, okay, I made a mistake. Now I am correcting my statement. It was before that."
Shuangtian frowned slightly when he heard this, then shook his head.
The black-haired girl then answered more seriously: "Quisha, he has been to Nevard."
"Nevad?" Shuang Tian was slightly startled and asked, "What is he doing there?"
"Actually, I've been there too and met him."
"What?"
"Don't look at me with that look," the black-haired girl quickly explained: "This matter has nothing to do with me. Besides, I'm not the only one who went to that place, Odin, Hades, September and Silver Weiss.
That guy Lan, they are all here."
Shuangtian couldn't help but look surprised when he heard these names.
After all, these names are not ordinary names. Each one of them is a famous figure in the third division. But how can these people gather together? For example, the guy in front of me is considered to be a first-line player.
It is relatively leisurely, but that is actually just the perception of outsiders, not true leisure.
In fact, the other party is always running between various tasks and news. As a top selector, he rarely has personal time. If these people can take time out of their busy schedules to get together, then something terrible must have happened.
Big deal.
But the black-haired girl shook her head: "It's not as big a deal as you think. It's just a party. It's a way of showing off to the guy who sold Odin. He asked us to teach a little guy, the little guy I told you about before.
, he is so cute, he blushes at every turn. By the way, I’ll introduce you to him when I get the chance—"
"Wash your hands," Shuang Tian glared at the other person: "Can you please stop speaking like that to a man? It's so disgusting. And, to be honest, I'm not interested in those things."
Although she said this, she was still slightly curious about the newcomer whom Odin valued. After all, it was not an easy thing to get so many big men to teach him.
"Okay, okay," the black-haired girl smiled, but didn't take it seriously: "If you don't like to hear it, I won't say this. Quicksand also accepted Odin's invitation. He stayed there for more than half a week, and then he left
We said goodbye and left."
"He said he had a meeting to handle, and the destination was Baicheng." She glanced around and lowered her voice: "I quietly asked him who he wanted to meet, but he refused to say, but I found out the location of the meeting.
Right in this wine shop.”
"Will he tell you the meeting place?" Shuangtian sounded very doubtful.
"Of course it's not free," the black-haired girl replied, "I'm an information dealer, so he has to give me face no matter what."
"right here?"
"To be precise, it's where you sit."
Shuangtian was startled and almost stood up from her seat, but after she calmed down, she couldn't help but look at the other party angrily: "Wash your hands, do you think our target is not conspicuous enough?"
"What?" The black-haired girl was very puzzled: "We want to investigate the whereabouts of the other party. After all, the other party disappeared after arriving in Baicheng. There must be a whereabouts, right? There is no news from the guild. We have to complete the client's commission.
Of course we have to start from this place.”
"So, can you choose a less conspicuous location?"
"This... I haven't thought about it."
Shuangtian was also a little helpless about his partner's character, but at least he understood that his partner's professional level was still one of the best, so he sighed and said, "Okay, have you discovered anything?"
"There are quite a few."
"for example?"
The black-haired girl had a very mysterious look on her face and looked around.
Then she stood up from her seat, approached her friend, and lowered her voice: "Shuangtian, your bust seems to have gotten smaller?"
There was a loud bang, and all the guests in the wine house turned around involuntarily, just in time to see the girl with short frosty blue hair. She violently knocked the beautiful black-haired girl off her chair with a magic wand.
Local scenes.
The other party turned back to look at them angrily and said angrily: "What are you looking at? Have you never seen it?"
The guests were so frightened that they turned around.
The girl then dragged her half-dead companion out.
However, not long after the two left, a man stood up from his seat, paid the bill, and hurried out.
It was a thin and tall elf, but the biggest difference between him and ordinary elves was that he had an indigo stripe painted on each side of his cheeks - this is a typical sea tribe, a descendant of Naga, a person who is now living in Ai
Taliyah is already a very rare ethnic group.
Scholars even claimed that the original sea race ceased to exist after the Giant War, but since the influx of selectors, this race has been resurrected. Because the selectors discovered that after certain screening, they can actually choose sea races.
of ethnic origin.
However, this race does not have any special advantages compared to other races, so generally no one would ask for this trouble.
After the Hai clan walked out of the hotel, he looked around and happened to see Shuangtian dragging the black-haired girl into an alley not far away.
When he saw this scene, he pondered for a moment, then immediately pulled his collar and followed quickly.