"There's something going on at the port." Xing suddenly walked up from below the deck, came to Fang Plover, and said.
Fang Plover glanced at him with some surprise, and turned his eyes towards the direction of the port area. The light of the torch moved in the darkness in that direction - the defense lines of Silver Forest Spear and Silver Wislan were retreating, but that was their plan in the first place.
."What happened, Mr. Rawak?" he asked.
"It's the Shadow Man," Xing pulled out the sword from behind with his magic gauntlet, "I'm going to help, otherwise they will suffer heavy casualties. If the time comes, you don't have to wait for me, I will get on other ships."
Fang Plover nodded silently. Under the premeditated arrangements of the Crow Claw Temple, it was not surprising that a large number of shadow people had sneaked into Gula Port. However, he opened his mouth but hesitated.
Looking at Fang Plover's expression, Xing seemed to have guessed what he wanted to say, and said, "Do you also want to go to the front line?"
Fang Plover nodded slightly.
"Do you still have a construct?"
Fang Yu shook his head. This time, he was really too clever to make a fool of himself. He sent out the Lancers, Scourges, Efreets, Lurkers and Banshees, and even the Orphen Twins at the bottom of the box.
But good steel is used on the blade, and the structure of the combat craftsman is also used at this time. Although it is a pity, it is understandable.
There is still some inventory in the Seven Seas Traveler's warehouse, including a few Dragon Hunters that he has not brought out, but these things are not in his hands and cannot be used. The only thing left in his information crystal is,
It was still a half-finished product - it was the work he won in the craftsman competition, but it was never used again after leaving Van Rieux - he had neither time nor capital to complete it.
That thing has now been reduced to a toy for Nini. Naturally, he can't expect what an unfinished work can do.
Xing suddenly asked: "Do you know about nightmare creatures?"
Fang Yu was startled. Of course he knew that according to the Archbishop of Altori Parish, the shadow people were nightmares, and the owner of Holy Bow Peak, An Luoser, also said similar things.
"This is the Nightmare Furnace."
Fang Yu subconsciously took the thrown black shadow, and when his hand sank, he realized that what he had caught was a rather strange object.
It is spherical, but it is not a perfect circle like a clockwork fairy, but an oval oval, like an upright giant egg. Its shell is covered with layers of spiral textures, and the textures flicker dimly.
It has a metallic luster, but I can’t tell which alloy it is.
That kind of metal didn't seem to be a product from this world. At least as an alchemist, Fang Plover thought he could recognize most of the minerals in Aitaria, but none of them felt similar to this.
Even the texture on it can be considered to be something like the runes and etheric roads of Aitaria, but it is completely inconsistent with common sense. At least Fang Plover has never seen such a strange style.
However, he felt vaguely familiar, as if he had seen something similar somewhere. The peculiar shape and pattern were gradually forming an outline in his mind -
It was the dark space in the tower, and a group of stars hanging side by side in that space. Of course, those stars were different from the one in his hand, but their texture, texture and style were somewhat different.
A place with different approaches but similar results.
He subconsciously turned the thing in his hand over and found that there were eight sharp mechanical legs hanging from the egg belly near the air chamber. It undoubtedly also had the shape of a construct, mechanical components, and transmission devices. It was just that
It's definitely not the style of Etalia Alchemy.
What is this? Fang Plover is a little surprised, why is it so similar to those strange structures in the Tower of Summer's End?
"This is... a construct?"
Xing shook his head: "No, this is a nightmare furnace creature, similar to the activation structure of this world." He pointed to the position of his heart: "The nightmare furnace is their heart. They have their own souls and wisdom. You can
Think of them as a species, not as a creation."
"I've never heard of such a strange creature."
"Because they really don't exist in Etalia."
Fang Yu was slightly startled: "Then they come from...?"
Xing took out an information crystal from his pocket and said, "There will be a battle next. You should familiarize yourself with these things. They are still somewhat different from your flexible structures."
"I can control...this thing?"
"Of course it didn't work when it was alive, but now it is dead, just a dead thing," Xing said: "Essentially, it is still a construct, and it is also equipped with core crystals, but remember to cut it off before that.
The connection between them and the Nightmare Furnace——"
As he spoke, he threw the information crystal over.
Fang Plover caught the crystal and couldn't help but turn over and over to look at the 'Nightmare Furnace Creature' in his hand. Alchemists are all curious, especially about structures they have never seen before.
He even opened the craftsman system and prepared to infiltrate into its structure - when the spiritual power passed through the outer shell, Fang Yu felt a faint stagnation.
It seems that the shell of this thing has a certain function in preventing the intrusion of spiritual power. He believes that this ability may be stronger while it is alive.
In other words, it can prevent the intervention and manipulation of external mental power. With such an ability, an alchemist is not afraid that his construct will be taken away by others. Fang Yu only knows that some high-level flexible constructs have such ability, but
I've only heard of it but never seen it.
He continued to look down, and then saw what Xing said was their 'heart' - the core of the Nightmare Furnace.
Then he was shocked.
Because I have seen this so-called Nightmare Furnace Core before...
It was a gray crystal inlaid in the center, with many small lines and pipes connected to it. Unlike the natural crystals used directly by Aitaria, this crystal had been highly modified.
"this……"
Fang Yu was so surprised that he could hardly speak.
Isn't this the stuff on the Dragon Hunter? He never knew how to use it, so he even removed these 'Nightmare Furnaces' from the Dragon Hunter and replaced them with ordinary core crystals.
Is this a nightmare furnace?
Fang Yu couldn't help but raise his head, wanting to ask Xing what was going on. But when he saw that the other party left those words, he didn't care about him anymore, but jumped to other ships and headed towards the port.
went in the direction.
Hey, wait...
Why is this person so irresponsible? Fang Yu is confused. The dragon hunter is also a nightmare furnace creature?
But how should he control this thing? He had tried more than once to make the dragon hunter move, but in the end he chose to give up. The injected magic power had no response at all to the strange core of the dragon hunter.
Xing asked him to cut off the connection between the creatures of the Nightmare Furnace and the Nightmare Furnace, but how to make it move after cutting off the connection? What's more, he couldn't even figure out how to inject magic power into it.
Fang Yu subconsciously injected some magic power into the gray crystal. He originally held a hopeless possibility, but unexpectedly, the next moment, he opened his eyes wide and realized that a miracle had happened.
The gray crystal suddenly lit up, and magic flowed to the limbs and bones of the construct along the pipes and etheric pathways connected to the crystal. A red light suddenly lit up right in front of the egg.
That red light looks very familiar to him. Isn't it exactly the same as a dragon hunter?
And at this moment, Fang Yu suddenly saw a point in the crystal emitting an extremely strong light, and layers of light purple magic circles gradually emerged from it.
He also recognized those magic formations. They were exactly what the captain called the "Starlight". Not only did Fang Plover recognize them, he even worked with Miss Tata to design a Lancer based on the magic formations.
As if he had a blessed soul, he subconsciously intervened with his mental power, stopped the formation of the layers of magic circle with a thought, and made the crystal become silent again.
Xing asked him to cut off the connection between the creatures of the Nightmare Furnace and the Nightmare Furnace. Is this what he was talking about?
But a trace of confusion flashed across Fang Plover's eyes, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he looked at the construct in his hand.
Is it possible for Xing to directly control these 'Dream Furnace Creatures'? That's not impossible. He has already accomplished this once with the Dragon Hunter.
But doesn't this go against the original intention of the 'Starlight' array? He couldn't find a suitable medium and couldn't relight the dragon hunter's nightmare furnace core, so he had to use this stupid method.
But Xing seems to have successfully transformed this gray crystal, so why are he still allowed to use such a backward method? Wouldn't it be better to just use the Starlight Array?
Fang Yu thought about it and realized that he might give it a try. Gray Crystal could accept his command input, so maybe he could control the Nightmare Furnace.
He gently placed the thing on the deck, then relaxed his control over the gray crystal and issued an order:
"Take a turn."
The red light lit up, and the thing spun around in front of Fang Plover deftly.
"Hey, what is this?" Tianlan's voice came from behind him in surprise, "Brother Ed, is it dancing?"
It's just that Fang Piao didn't have the intention to answer her at all. He just turned around stiffly and glanced at our Miss Poet.
"Brother Ed...?"
Tian Lan was shocked.
However, Fang Yu seemed to be completely distracted from what was in front of him, with countless questions popping up in his mind...
This is really a star formation...
Then the Dragon Hunter should be the same type of structure as it.
What do they have to do with the stars in the Xia Jin Tower?
Did the Numerin elves ever encounter...or create these things?
What is the relationship between nightmare furnaces and nightmare creatures?
Fang Plover was full of suspicion.
For a moment, he stood on the deck of the 'Brig Breaker' and was a little stunned.
…
"Jump into the sea, jump right in!"
Xia Yue's eyes swept across the trestle on one side, and suddenly she had an idea and shouted loudly.
Shadow figures surrounded him from all directions. All other directions were dead ends, but there was only one way to go, and that was in the direction of Kukai.
The others also reacted quickly. As soon as Xia Yue made a sound, they came to their senses and retreated towards the side of the pier. There were tall boxes stacked there. They climbed onto the boxes, then jumped into the empty sea.
Jump.
Although most of them are not adapted to the wind element, how can they care about it now? The airport is divided into upper and lower floors, and there are some ships on the lower floor slowly leaving the port. Even if they fall from dozens of meters in the air and fall on the sea,
These ships are also half-dead, but there is always a glimmer of hope.
Xia Yue climbed up second to last, only to find that Bing Shan was waiting for him to touch. Although he was a member of the descendants of Flor, he was not a combat professional after all.
Bingshan stretched out his hand to give the other party a hand and said, "You first or me first?"
Xia Yue looked at the other party and couldn't breathe, but she couldn't help but smile: "I am apt to the wind element."
"Damn," Bingshan's face darkened, and she gestured her middle finger at him angrily: "I can't talk to you guys from the big guild."
After all, Bingshan didn't want to care about the other party anymore. He was waiting here just to see if the other party needed his help. Although the two had not known each other for a long time, Bingshan was very interested in this person who was a descendant of Flor.
The impression of the Alchemist is pretty good.
Xia Yue watched the other party jump into a boat that was sailing out of the channel below, and shook his head. He did not tell the other party that he had wind element aptitude, but it was not that good.
Otherwise, why would he choose a career in life?
He glanced back and saw the shadowy purple flames surrounding him like ghosts in this direction. He didn't dare to hesitate any longer and took a step forward.
The feeling of falling in Kukai was very strange. He did not fall completely vertically. He watched the scenery in front of him change drastically, and the wind whistled in his ears.
The enriched wind element has considerable buoyancy for ordinary people, not to mention those with wind element adaptability. For the former, it is a bit like a stone falling into the deep sea, while for the latter, it is about the same as falling into the sea.
There is nothing different about floating in it.
For Xia Yue, it was somewhere in between. He was falling, but not as fast as he imagined. He watched himself drifting away from the pier, and those shadow figures appeared in that direction - they seemed a little scared, far away.
He glanced in this direction from a distance and then stepped back.
Xia Yue breathed a sigh of relief. He was more afraid of falling into the hands of those things than falling to death. He had also heard some rumors about those shadow people outside.
He opened his hands like a big bird, turned around, and watched his companions fall on the boat below one by one, life or death unknown. There were also some who were even worse luck, falling directly under the clouds, most of them would not
What a happy ending.
Fortunately, from the beginning of the battle, all the resurrection icons on the ship here were turned on, and at most they were just resurrected on the ship.
Xia Yue felt that his falling speed had slowed down, but only relatively. It was like hanging on a paraglider with a hole in it. He suddenly felt a shadow covering him, and when he raised his head, he realized that he was falling.
Flying right underneath a ship.
The ship was sailing slowly out of the port with its sails raised and passed over his head. The sailors on the ship also saw him and shouted at him and threw a ladder at him.
But the distance between the two sides was getting farther and farther. Xia Yue fished hard, but still missed it by several meters.
He couldn't help but glance in that direction with some pity. It was not certain whether he would land on a ship in the lower port if he fell like this, but it was indeed the best opportunity before.
It's a pity that he missed it.
But just when he was thinking this, he suddenly felt something support him behind him, and then he flew high. He saw that his sight had surpassed the ship in an instant, and he heard the exclamations of the sailors.
Among them, getting closer and closer.
The deck of the ship seemed to be turned upside down all of a sudden, the sky was spinning, and it hit him hard. Then there was a sharp pain, as if even consciousness was lost for an instant.
Then Xia Yue woke up after a violent shaking, "He's awake!" "It doesn't seem to be anything serious." A group of sailors gathered around him and said in various directions.
"You guys are really good."
"We saw you jump off the trestle."
"The captain asked us to move in that direction, but unfortunately we still couldn't save a few people."
Xia Yue's ears were ringing, and he pushed the others away unsteadily and climbed towards the side of the ship, only to finally see who had rescued him before.
In that direction, a figure and a tall construct landed on the pier. Xia Yue was an alchemist herself, and was no stranger to constructs. She recognized it as an Inhanz Type IV at a glance.
Dragon Knight.
The pseudo-dragon knight is also a dragon knight. In fact, its original meaning is a dragon knight who is not a dragon knight. A combat craftsman cannot become a dragon knight, but his combat effectiveness is not much worse than a real dragon knight.
It was the other party who saved her. Xia Yue's mind was still a little confused. There was a dragon knight here, and she didn't know if he was from the Craftsmen Association.
He saw the dragon knight facing the purple ghost coming from the direction of the port. In Hanz Type 4, he raised his four arms and a golden flame pierced in that direction like a bunch of spears.
The blazing golden spear extended directly from near to far, all the way to the end of the field of vision, nearly several kilometers, and swept across the center of the entire port area.
It seemed to split the dock into two, blazing flames shot up into the sky, and the warehouses collapsed piece by piece as the goods piled up wherever the golden light passed.
This is the true power of the Dragon Knight.
And this is still limited power.
Their helpless ghost army was also temporarily blocked by this wall of flames, but at this time, the city guards and Gray Knights on the other side finally invaded the port——
A gray and black tide is pouring into the pier from that direction. The defense line has completely collapsed. The people of the Silver Forest Spear and the people of the Silver Wisland are retreating along the trestle.
They were very fast, but the gray-black tide quickly caught up from behind, and the people from Silver Veslan and Silver Forest Spear were also very alert and jumped towards both sides of the trestle.
But the other party was not as ugly as Xia Yue and the others. They seemed to be swimming in the air and moved towards this direction.
The nearby ship abandoned the dinghy, and the Silver Vislan man climbed into the dinghy, then paddled away from the trestle with his hand oar.
Of course, not everyone had escaped, some people were still surrounded, but soon white lights appeared on the port.
Xia Yue can know the outcome of the remaining people based on the speed at which the white light rises.
They should not have fallen into the opponent's hands, because he could understand the mentality of these people, the same as them, not to mention that they were the people of Silver Vislan, and they should be even more arrogant.
How is it possible to surrender to the enemy?
"The order to retreat has been issued, and we are the last ships to leave the port."
The sailors came over and said to him.
"You were lucky to be able to pull back in the end, but others may not be so lucky."
Xia Yue nodded with lingering fear. Seeing this scene, she didn't know that she had saved her life. She just didn't know what happened to Bing Shan and the others.
He looked in the direction of the port area and frowned deeply: "Why are there so many shadow people in Gula Port?"
But no one could answer his question. The sailors looked at this scene with solemn expressions: "The people from the Crow Claw Temple really lied. Their barrier is useless..."
"But it's okay," Xia Yue let out a long breath: "We escaped."
But as soon as he finished speaking, a bright cyan beam of light suddenly passed through the mast above his head.
The beam of light almost missed the ship, but it hit another sailboat not far away that was leaving the port. Just in front of Xia Yue, the ship suddenly exploded into a bright ball of light.
flash.
Then in that flash of light, it fell apart and collapsed.
Xia Yue turned around in shock and looked outside the port, where the dim green light of the most peculiar sailboat suspended under the dark eye of the storm was dissipating little by little.
But more green spots, like stars, were gathering from other sailboats besides the flagship.
Then he heard an anxious voice coming from the public communication channel:
"All the ships are preparing to descend. There is no time to leave Gula Port. Before the opponent's next attack arrives, we go directly under the clouds."
"Follow the Brig Breaker, we will lead the way from the front, and all ships will be ready to turn to avoid attacks."
As soon as the voice fell, Xia Yue felt a huge earthquake.