"Miss Afifah, then we will send you to this place."
zxc said to the mystic girl politely.
Ahead is a manor standing in the darkness, a tall building hidden behind rows of palm trees.
The people of Rufu's Shield also stopped behind him. Afifah stayed temporarily in a residence of Count Nurman in the royal capital with the count's daughter. Naturally, she didn't know about this and only thought it was Albany.
The Lord arranged this matter, and soon the mystics will go to the royal capital to take her back.
She turned around and bowed slightly to everyone to express her gratitude.
After the banquet, Fang Yu originally planned to ask Alyssa to send her back. However, because she was on the way with everyone from Lufu's Shield, the latter did it for her.
Moreover, she and several people from Rufu's Shield were already familiar with each other on the 'Daoud' and were no strangers to them either.
"Then we'll see you again in the future, Miss Afifah." zxc nodded lightly.
"May the sacred fire bless you all."
Afifah watched everyone walk away and sighed softly.
Everything that happened at today's banquet was a first for her. Prince Aleph was completely different from what she had imagined. Did she really have the same name as a princess? Is this really a coincidence?
things.
Of course, she also understood that all this was because Mr. Ed recalled everything that had happened in the past few days. He 'escaped' from the Bein Fortress, encountered a big dust storm, and the crash of the 'Daoud', it was like a dream.
Same. And is this what is called 'adventure'?
She had some novel ideas in her heart, but she also vaguely understood that this was actually not the life she wanted. In comparison, she still preferred those peaceful and quiet days in the lighthouse in the clouds, where she could read easily and learn from it.
She understands the world between the lines. Adventure is still too far away for her.
Only someone as powerful as Mr. Ed can be fearless in wind and rain, overcome all kinds of difficulties, and enjoy the challenges, right?
She was a little envious.
But I don’t yearn for it.
Watching the people at Rufu's Shield disappear into the darkness, she turned around and silently remembered this day in her heart. She realized that she might not forget all this for a long time, and then walked back to the courtyard. But today's
The courtyard seemed a little quiet, with the palm leaves rustling in the wind, and the earl's daughter scolding her maid could not be heard.
Isn't Miss LaVallee here today?
The girl looked in that direction. The manor was filled with darkness, completely different from the brightly lit scene in the past. In the darkness, only the leaves were left swaying gently, as if there was a strange shadow lurking in that direction, watching her silently.
Afifah looked at this scene and felt a little uneasy. Why was there no one in the manor?
She hesitated for a moment before taking out a crystal of light, but before she could light it, the crystal trembled and fell to the ground.
In the darkness, several figures slowly walked out.
"Miss Afifah."
"We've been waiting for you for a long time."
The leader said in a hoarse voice: "If you don't mind, please come with us. Someone wants to see you."
An idea flashed through the girl's mind, and she turned around and ran away.
As she ran, she opened her mouth and prepared to shout. If zxc and the others hadn't gone far, they might be heard. But before she could make a sound, a strong hand behind her grabbed her arm. A Fei
Fa screamed in pain and almost fell down.
Then the other hand reached out from behind and covered her mouth.
The girl only felt her eyes go dark and lost all consciousness.
…
Within the hostel
Pasha walked up and took out the package from his arms. Fang Lu watched the little boy carefully open the package one by one and took out the dusty notebook. He couldn't help being a little funny and a little touched. He gently
He rubbed the other person's head and said with a smile: "Actually, you don't need to be so serious."
Pasha raised his head and looked at him a little puzzled. Miss Aitila asked him to bring this notebook from Tansnir, saying that it was something the group leader wanted. He was worried about it along the way, for fear of getting it.
I lost something, but fortunately it was finally delivered safely.
Looking at Pasha's expression, Fang Yu knew that the other party did not understand what he meant, so he had to change his words and said: "Thank you, Pasha."
Pasha then showed a happy smile.
He smiled shyly and lowered his head in embarrassment.
But Tian Lan was not so 'reserved' and slapped Pasha hard: "Well done, Pasha!"
Fang Yu then picked up the note and looked at the dusty cover, but before opening the note, he glanced at Sylvide. The other party informed Miss Attila and asked Pasha to bring this note.
She is always so attentive and thinks of what she needs first.
Sylvide just smiled lightly, and what she meant in her eyes was that this was the responsibility of the ship officer. Although Fang Pliong was not familiar with the affairs on the ship, he always felt that the ship officer was not responsible for this...
Tang Xin watched the flirtatious couple flirting with each other from the side, feeling as if she had been filled with ten lemons.
Sylvide noticed this scene, and used her eyes to indicate to him to pay attention to her sister's emotions with a bit of fun.
But Fang Yu got it wrong. He thought of something, turned around and said to Tang Xin: "By the way, Tangtang, take a look at this note."
Tang Xin looked at him speechlessly, but when she looked at the notes in her cousin's hand, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes. After hearing Ye Hua's description before, Fang Pliance planned to hand the notes back to the eldest princess.
However, since it involved the Sky Bridge and was related to the search for the whereabouts of Sylvester's father, he wanted to check the notebook one last time before handing it back.
Since no useful clues were found in this note before, their investigation turned to other directions afterwards, so Tang Xin saw this note for the first time.
"I seem to have seen this note..." She stretched out her hand and opened the title page, feeling a little stunned.
"Really? Can you think of anything else?" Fang Pliong asked quickly.
Tang Xin just shook her head.
"That's all. I did see it a few times."
Fang Yu couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but he was actually the same.
Everyone studied the note, but even Miss Goblin couldn't see any reason from the note. Only Nini expressed her opinions babblingly, livening up the atmosphere.
In the end, Fang Plover decided not to waste time anymore. He went to the big library a few more times in the past few days. If he found nothing, he was ready to return the things to the princess. Questak had already finished everything. After that, they
I will officially leave this place and probably stay in Tansnir for a while longer.
Until the launch of the Seven Seas Traveler
After that, they will leave this thousand-year sand sea.
So Fang Yu officially announced the end of the third meeting of the Seven Seas Brigade.
Everyone was preparing to take care of things before leaving, but after the meeting, Luo Hao, Jita, and Luo Yu found him.
The fat man from the military walked up with a serious face and said, "Captain, I have something to tell you."
Fang Yu looked at the other party in surprise.
Luo Hao took out a handful of fragments from his pocket, spread his palms, and showed them to him.
They were some translucent crystals that exuded a faint green light and stayed in the opponent's fleshy palm. They looked like something between emerald and turquoise, like gems, but the raw ore of the gems was not so bright.
, and to say that it has been polished and cut by a jeweler would be too piecemeal.
It's more like some broken glass shards, but the glass doesn't have such a beautiful luster.
When Fang Yu saw these fragments, he was slightly startled:
"these are……"
"You should know its origin, right?"
"Emerald Star, during the Giant War, the warlocks of the Silver Tower used it to make the first Dragon Soul Crystal. This kind of crystal is extremely rare in nature, and it seems to be one of the few times that they appear in this world.
." Miss Tata's calm voice came from Fang Plover's shoulder.
There were only three first-generation dragon soul crystals, which were the starting point of artificial dragon souls. Creating souls through alchemy was closer to a miracle, so people also called it the Philosopher's Stone by the legendary name.
Kapka has preserved one of the three first-generation dragon soul crystals. Of course, it has long been empty, leaving only an empty shell. The first owner of the dragon soul in this crystal was none other than Kaolin—
The founder of Ithurion.
Fang Yu had seen the crystal, which was almost exactly the same as the fragments in Luo Hao's hand.
It's just that these fragments in Luo Hao's hand will occasionally emit a blue light. It seems that this kind of light will appear when the light incident angle is different.
But when Fang Yu looked at the light, he always felt a sense of rejection and felt a little uneasy in his heart.
"Only the first generation of Dragon Soul Crystal was cast from the Emerald Star," Luo Hao said: "Later on, people discovered its flaws. Artificially created Dragon Souls have great uncertainty, which will affect their knights.
Most of the first generation of dragon knights died young, precisely for this reason."
Plus later people discovered an easier way.
By accommodating rather than creating, a more stable dragon soul was obtained, so the Emerald Star withdrew from the stage of history.
But people think that this crystal is something that can 'create' life, a philosopher's stone, that they are the door to the ultimate path to alchemy, and that they are gifts from the gods.
"So around seven hundred years ago, alchemists started a trend of 'creating life', but the Emerald Star was so rare that it almost triggered a war between countries. And among the three Dragon Soul Crystals,
Two of them were also destroyed in that era...but later these attempts failed one by one, and the creations became silent one by one."
Miss Goblin's voice was still calm.
That era in history is known as the Creation Event.
But its ending is far from being as lighthearted as Miss Goblin said.
The creation of the Emerald Star not only failed, but also many accidents occurred, and some deformed monsters were created as a result.
And people soon discovered that these monsters were born with certain divine characteristics, and they were almost the best resurrected bodies of the dead dark saints. Therefore, among various "creation experiments", dark believers soon appeared. Among them
The largest group is the predecessors of the blind followers who are hiding in this vast sea of sand today.
Of course they still had a famous name at that time.
Corrupted Alchemist.
The dark believers almost created a slave god, Mephistopheles. However, before Descartes truly arrived, all the countries finally reacted and exterminated the fallen alchemists one by one, so the resurrection incident at that time fell short.
After that, it became taboo for alchemists to use the 'Philosopher's Stone' to shape souls.
It is one of the several types of alchemy prohibited by the Artisan Federation.
Fang Yu looked at the crystal fragments and asked:
"The blind followers found the Emerald Star again?"
But Luo Hao shook his head.
"Captain, these were found on the 'Daoud'. Their owner may not be a blind follower."
"...because there are more on the ship, and there is a full set of 'Creation Technique' related equipment and alchemy materials. They put a lot of explosive crystals on the ship. If Miss Afifah hadn't been on the ship, they might have
Blow up the ship."
"Moreover," Luo Hao said slowly: "Captain, the state of these crystals is a bit subtle..."
And he hasn't spoken yet.
Tata had already opened his mouth and replied: "They have been used."
Fang Yu listened silently. He knew the inside story of this matter far better than anyone else.
Almost immediately, he thought of that possibility.
But did the other party succeed?
He didn't have time to think about this problem clearly.
Alyssa had already walked in from the outside with a serious face, looked at everyone, and said:
"Something happened, Captain, Miss Afifah is missing."
This news was like a thunder that exploded among everyone.
"What!?"
…
Fang Yu hurried to the count's mansion where he had been last time, and saw the count's daughter there again.
When he saw Lavalli, he realized that something was not right about her.
The earl's daughter's face was pale. She covered her left arm with her right hand and a piece of cloth was tied above it. There was a faint red ooze from underneath. zxc stood aside, and of course there were other people from Lufu's Shield. When the little fat man saw him, he looked apologetic: "Ai
Boss De, I'm sorry... We made a mistake and promised you to send Miss Afifah back safely... I didn't expect that something like this would happen..."
"Never mind their business."
The earl's daughter gritted her teeth and replied, shaking her head weakly: "I was negligent. They had already sent the people there, but they didn't expect the gangsters to hide in the manor. This is my responsibility, and it is my responsibility with the others."
"People are irrelevant"
"Let's not talk about this for now," Fang Yu said, "What exactly is going on? Do you know who the other party is?"
He promised the King of Sand to take good care of Afifah.
What's more, if you don't talk about this, a big living person disappears in front of you, what is this?
Afifa risked so much in Bein Fortress to help them. Even everyone in Rufu's Shield looked at this girl differently, not to mention him?
To say the least, the other party is his fan and his first female fan in Aitaria.
No matter what, he must rescue the other party.
More importantly, thinking of Luo Hao's previous words, he suddenly thought of a possibility
"Has the King of Sand left the capital?"
Fang Yu paused for a moment and suddenly asked a question without any clue.
Lavalli thought he was worried about the agreement with the Sand King. She was startled for a moment and nodded. "Your Majesty set out an hour ago."
"An hour ago..." Fang Yu murmured.
He immediately calmed down and asked again: "So what exactly is going on?"
LaVallee took a breath and was silent for a moment before replying: "Someone attacked the manor. There were not many people left in the manor. The guards were killed at the beginning on the outside, and then
They overpowered the servants and broke into my room."
She paused for a moment: "But before that, I didn't notice it, so I hid first. I thought they were coming for my father at first, but I hid behind the door and heard the conversation between those people, and then I realized they were there.
The target was Afifa... I expected that they would attack in the courtyard, so I went to that place first."
Fang Yu looked at the injured hand of the earl's daughter.
"But you didn't expect that you still didn't stop those people?"
LaVallee nodded slightly.
"Is the injury serious?"
The earl's daughter raised her head and glanced at him unexpectedly, then shook her head: "It's just a small injury, left when I took their knife... These people are very purposeful and well-trained. They only knocked me unconscious and then...
I left this place. I guess if it was an ordinary gangster, he would not turn a blind eye to me..."
Fang was stunned for a moment.
He looked at the earl's daughter. The other person's words obviously meant that he was very confident in his appearance, but after thinking about it for a moment, it was indeed the case. If he were an ordinary robber, how would he care about the beauty of Bein's desert pearl?
Turning a blind eye, the other party subdued everyone and did not take away any property, except one Afifah.
Not to mention bandits, even Questac's city guards probably don't have such discipline. According to the knowledge of this era, these people are at least the level of dead soldiers.
But the key is, which side does the other party come from?
"Did you see what those people looked like?"
LaVallee thought for a moment and shook her head.
"They all wore headscarves and masks, and their bodies were tightly wrapped. The weapons they left behind had almost no flaws. They were all popular goods." She thought for a moment: "But they should be locals in Questac. I
You can hear their accents."
Fang Plover narrowed his eyes slightly.
With this information, it is actually enough to narrow the scope down to a very small size.
How many forces can cultivate such dead soldiers in Aitalia? Ordinary small nobles cannot afford to maintain such subordinates and attendants, and there are several big forces in Questac who are interested in Afi.
Are you interested?
After eliminating all impossible options, the remaining possibilities are there.