Fang Plover walked to the bow of the ship and looked down. The fish-shaped hull of the sailboat was slowly parting the clouds. The flying clouds dispersed, and a piece of charred land was exposed below the gap in the clouds. The broken walls of the city seemed to be silent.
The embers are scattered across the vast desolation.
At the end of the field of vision, the outline of the city wall can still be vaguely seen in the north, outlining this town that once housed nearly 200,000 people, and its lost prosperity buried under the ruins.
The gloomy sky in the north heralds an upcoming storm, which may bring the entire winter and blizzards, hiding all uneasiness under the vast snow.
There were faint black spots moving on the ground, probably people. The Spear of the Silver Forest had a station nearby. Fang Plover didn't know if they were those people.
The community says that the two major alliances in the north are working hard to integrate new forces, but the details are unknown.
Unlike other information that is readily available, there are generally few channels for outsiders to understand the internal affairs of professional associations.
"Are you here? Jita discovered something before. You'd better ask her," Luo Hao was busy with the sailor's work at the bow of the ship. While wrapping the cable around the pulley, he said to him, "It seems like something is following.
us."
"What's our altitude now?"
"One thousand five hundred, no, around one thousand three hundred, above the clouds. The airflow changes greatly, and the wind speed is about seven meters."
Fang Yu withdrew his gaze from outside. The lingering feeling seemed to be back again, as if there was a gaze staring at them: "Didn't you ask her?"
"Jita doesn't seem to dare to talk to me."
Fang Plover shook his head, their scholar lady was indeed quite naive.
He picked up the speaking tube hanging on the mast and said, "Jita?"
May's voice came from over there: "Mr. Ed?"
Fang Yu didn't expect that she was also in the magic cabin. He was slightly surprised and said, "Can you help me ask Jita what she found?"
Mei covered the sound tube with her hand, turned around, then turned around again, let go of her hand and replied quietly: "Jita said that the wind element detector found several anomalies of unknown significance.
, has been following us since last night."
"Last night?" Fang Yu was a little surprised, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"They didn't follow us all the time. At first, they were just a few flickering clutters. Miss Jita once thought they were just creatures in the sea of clouds."
Luo Hao interjected at this time:
"I think they are really creatures of the sea of clouds. I suspect that the ones following us are dragon beasts, the kind that can fly."
Fang Yu looked at him: "Why do you see it?"
"Xixiang and I have observed dragon beasts several times, but we flew very high and they didn't notice us."
Fang Plover leaned out of the side of the ship, looked out, and asked, "What direction are they coming from?"
"To the southwest of us, behind us." Mei held the microphone in her little hand.
At this moment, a scream suddenly came from the other side.
That was Kitta's voice.
"What's wrong!?" Fang Plover asked quickly.
Mei Yi didn't answer for a while. Just when Fang Yu and Luo Hao looked at each other and planned to go down and take a look, the anxious voice of Miss Scholar came from the microphone:
"Brother Ed, the wind element reaction in the south has become stronger."
"Does that mean they're approaching us?"
Jita nodded quickly over there: "It's to speed up and approach, regiment leader."
She blushed a little. She called her the wrong person in a hurry. She usually forced herself to use the formal title in formal occasions.
But Fang Yu obviously didn't care about this, because he heard Luo Hao next to him suddenly yelled: "Look behind you!"
Fang Plover immediately turned around, only to see the fat man flying up to the side of the ship in one swift step. He grabbed the rope net and jumped up with an incredibly dexterous movement. He looked like a gorilla, hanging his body outside the ship.
He was holding the cable in one hand and looking towards the stern of the ship.
There was a low but noisy sound coming from that direction
The depression is just because the distance is too far.
Fang Plover soon saw a dark shadow floating under the clouds in that direction. Thousands of black spots densely gathered together, like a flowing black cloud.
But those are not black clouds, they are just a flock of birds. To be precise, countless ravens, the messengers of bad luck according to folklore in Aitaria, are making croaking screams at this moment.
The sharp screams gathered together and seemed to resound through the sky at that moment.
The crows flew above the clouds and quickly approached the Seven Seas Traveler. These winged flat-haired creatures took over half of the sky. To ordinary people, this scene was terrifying enough, just like the end of the world in the great prophecy.
Judgment comes.
The field of vision in Luo Hao's pupils was almost submerged by this black sky-covering sky. He couldn't help but open his mouth wide and said a bit exaggeratedly: "No, is there a mistake!?"
Fang Yu also had the same thought in his mind.
This is really a ghost.
But legends are just legends after all. When thousands of ravens pass up and down the Seven Seas Traveler, the scene is still shocking enough.
There was a constant fluttering sound above the head, it was these black birds flapping the sailboat's masts and cables. Luo Hao immediately jumped down from the rope net, rolled back to the deck, and returned.
Fortunately, he moved quickly enough, and almost in the next moment, a black storm blew over.
The rope net was also knocked to pieces
More ravens bumped into the sails and fell down with flapping wings. The deck was soon filled with ravens, making it almost impossible to stand. Some even looked like stones.
It hit the deck directly, making a loud bang, and turned into a ball of flying black feathers and blood.
"What the hell is this!?"
Fang Plover then heard Parker screaming below deck.
The Seven Seas Traveler's wind element detector can only detect creatures with the wind element ether, and ordinary birds are not included in this list, but this does not look like migration, not to mention that ravens are not migratory birds.
Is there something driving them away?
Fang Yu didn't have time to think more, so he rushed forward and grabbed Luo Hao on the ground, then dragged the latter towards the cabin door. However, this time he almost dislocated his hand, and Fang Yu managed to avoid falling headlong.
When I arrived, I couldn't help but curse in my heart:
"This fat guy from the military is getting heavier again!"
"I'm wearing double chain armor underneath." Luo Hao was a little embarrassed.
"Are you crazy enough to wear armor on a boat?"
"Be prepared for danger and sleep with your armor on. This is the basic quality of an iron guard."
"Fuck you."
Although the two of them talked about going back and forth, Fang Yu still dragged Luo Hao back to the inner cabin and closed the door with a bang. There were several muffled sounds immediately behind him, and the cabin door shook.
The head raven hit it.
Fang Yu held the door with one hand and locked it, then turned around and let out a sigh of relief. But Luo Hao had already climbed up from the ground, walked down the stairs, and walked to the porthole of the utility room. He used
Pressing the porthole with his hand, he looked out and couldn't help but take a breath of air:
"Look outside."
In this direction, Fang Plover can actually see the scene beyond several portholes.
More and more crows are rising into the sky from the direction of Charter City, like a few dark clouds rising from the ground.
Nicol Bolas's dragon flames reduced this place to ashes more than half a year ago, leaving countless animal corpses in the scorched woods. For humans, this is a doomsday scene, but for ravens
, this is an out-and-out feast.
I don't know how many of their kind are gathered in this area at this moment. You only need to look at the countless black spots to see it.
The movement in the sky obviously attracted the attention of the people on the ground. They gathered into several streams of people and were rushing towards Charter City. Only a few small shadows were left on the empty land, heading in this direction.
Point and point.
But Fang Piao didn't care about those who stayed. He was more concerned about the behavior of those who were obviously the guild's selectors. It seemed that this was not the first time that this situation had happened in this place.
So what kind of power is behind these ravens that take off into the air, driving them to do such a thing?
There were muffled sounds from outside the ship from time to time, which were the sounds of ravens hitting the deck and the hull of the ship. Even if they were shattered to pieces, they would not be able to cause any damage to the Seven Seas Traveler.
But the dull sounds sounded one after another, which still made Fang Yu feel a little depressed. There must be a deeper reason behind any crazy behavior.
What's more, the uneasiness that lingered before has not dissipated until now.
"Go to the magic cabin and have a look." He walked down the stairs and said to Luo Hao.
But Luo Hao pointed to the porthole and looked back at him: "You'd better come and take a look at this."
"what?"
"Look at those people down there."
Fang Yu was about to say that he had noticed it a long time ago, but suddenly, he stopped and fixed his gaze in that direction. Looking in the direction of Luo Hao's hand, he saw on the other side of the teams that were withdrawing into Charter City.
Something new seems to have appeared on the horizon.
Fang Plover could see clearly that they were a group of dragon beasts, and there were quite a few of them. They appeared from the southwest of the ship like a torrent emerging from the horizon.
"Captain, southwest."
Jita changed to a communication device at this time, and a weak voice came out from the communication crystal.
Fang Yu pressed the communication crystal and replied: "I saw it."
"There are also in the air." Luo Hao suddenly reminded him from the side.
Fang Plover nodded and probably saw black spots flying from the southwest. There were about dozens of them. The flying dragon beasts were called half-dragons and the well-known flying dragons were actually two different categories.
They are neither dragons nor beasts. They look a bit like a fin whale with huge fleshy wings. They have two pairs of upper and lower wings, slender trapezoidal shape, no scales or claws, and long nerve bundles on their bodies.
It stretches out from the abdomen like a tentacle and drags it behind it.
But these flying creatures all have a huge mouth full of fangs. They have no vision and rely on their perception of the elements to move.
Therefore they also have another name: blind dragon.
But these blind dragons are not easy people. Fang Plover has never dealt with such dragon beasts, but he has seen some videos of Charter City. The biggest trouble that the military and the major guilds encountered in that war was
It's these flying dragon beasts.
To deal with them, the military even dispatched a group of dragon knights.
"But they don't seem to be coming." At this time, Luo Hao spoke again, with a hint of curiosity in his voice.
Fang Plover actually noticed this as well.
The blind dragon that appeared in the southwest sky was parallel to the direction they were traveling, and was heading towards Charter City along with the army of dragon beasts below.
Are they going to attack Charter City?
Fang Yu was slightly startled when he saw this, but Charter City had long been reduced to ruins. He couldn't figure out what the other party's purpose was in attacking the ruins. Maybe it was the people in the ruins? But the people of Silver Forest Spear should not be that stupid, right?
, what is the value of clinging to a ruin?
He looked at it for a while, and suddenly discovered that the other party's target did not seem to be Charter City, because Charter City was not on the route of the dragon beast army. If they did not plan to turn around, the ruins of that city would pass by.
What do these scions of Nicol Bolas plan to do?
In other words, what is the purpose of the will behind this army?
He was suddenly startled and realized something. Did the army of dragon beasts he saw here carry the will of Nicol Bolas or not, Ms. Misu behind it?
So it means that the Dragon Witch still exists. Is it because Mazak and Lynn Lucius haven't found her yet, or have they failed? Fang Yu couldn't help but think of Mazak holding Jia Lapea.
, I always feel that the last dragon slayer in this world should not fail so easily.
Garapea once drank the blood of Nicol Bolas. According to the power of the holy sword, it should be able to defeat the opponent again.
"Is there something among those dragon beasts?"
At this time, Luo Hao on the side suddenly said something strange.
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, then came back from his thoughts and looked at the other party: "What did you say?"
"I don't know if I saw it wrong," Luo Hao reached out and rubbed his eyebrows: "Or is it just an illusion, I seem to have seen a woman."
"A woman?"
These words made Fang Yu's heart skip a beat.
But he instinctively felt unbelievable. The direction from the Seven Seas Traveler to the dragon beast army was not close at all. From the opponent's perspective, the Seven Seas Traveler should be just a small black dot in the sky.
And when they looked in that direction, they could only see the black army of dragon beasts, and it was difficult to distinguish the individuals among them. Under such circumstances, how could they see a single person in this black tide?
'woman'?
However, Fang Yu suddenly understood in his heart, if that 'woman' really existed, who she would be.
He had been lucky enough to fight side by side with the opponent in that dream.
And those cold words seemed to still linger in his ears:
"You will regret it."
Does he regret it?
It seems not.
Traveled south from Fenris, defeated another shadow of Nicol Bolas, and even met the descendant of the dragon slayer whose original soul was Everiel, Shujod's lover. Although she encountered some twists and turns
, but everything is still going well.
The vicious curse of the past seemed to have become a phantom.
But at this moment, that gloomy feeling seemed to come back all of a sudden.
Fang Plover looked in that direction, and a somewhat subtle thought suddenly occurred in his mind. The two were obviously very far apart. After all, from the perspective of the Seven Seas Traveler, the army appearing on the horizon was just a thin line.
But on this line, he seemed to see very clearly, as if his field of vision was suddenly zoomed in, allowing him to see those ugly and deformed creatures, the monsters transformed by Nicol Bolas, her offspring and minions.
.
And among those towering monsters, there was clearly a lady standing.
She was turning around.
And who is that somewhat serious, familiar face if not Ms. Misu?
But at this moment, her face was covered with shocking dark patterns
At that moment, Fang Yu's heart was shocked, and he suddenly realized something. The idea seemed to appear naturally in his mind that she was here to find them.
He involuntarily took a step back, picked up the communication crystal and shouted: "Jita, please turn Miss Sylvide around!"
But it's already a little late.
Fang Yu saw the lady suddenly raise her head towards them, her golden gaze seemed to transcend the limitations of space, directly cross the distance of more than ten kilometers, pass through the porthole, and fall on his face.
Those scorching eyes were like two sharp swords, directly piercing through his spiritual defense.
Before Fang Yu finished speaking, his voice suddenly turned into a sharp scream. He couldn't even tell whether the scream was coming from him or not. He only felt a stinging pain in his heart.
He seemed to be spinning, and fell to his knees on the ground. When he looked down, the emblem Anloser gave him seemed to have melted, rolling down his robe drop by drop, turning into a silver liquid, and then solidifying again.
On the deck.
And when he raised his head again, he found that the golden gaze lingered in his inner world, like two stars in a dark world, shining with dazzling light.
But the light didn't have any warmth at all, it only stared at him coldly.
Fang Plover's eyes were dark, as if he had returned to the time of Traveler's Rest, staring at the shadow of death under the dragon's wings.
"You will regret it."
"Ed, you shouldn't come back."
That voice echoed in the empty world of consciousness, hoarse and low, full of magnetism.
The shock that these words brought to Fang Piao was no different from the moment he saw the dragon witch for the first time.
He opened his mouth involuntarily: "M, Ms. Misu...?"
He was answered with a sneer.
Then he saw the giant dragon raised its claws and stretched out a sharp claw toward him. A beam of golden flame shot out from the tip of the dragon's claw and hit his chest.