"That's it." In the basement, which was in disrepair, there were rows of bookshelves, covered with dust and cobwebs. The old servant found a wooden box from a pile of old papers and handed it over.
Fang Yu picked it up with his hand and felt it was heavy, as if something was inside. He looked at the box. It was made of willow wood, gray-white, and painted with a layer of insect-proof wax. From the outside, it looked ordinary.
Just like the common wooden crates used to store materials and instruments, there are many such things in the craftsmen's guild, and they don't look like they contain anything valuable.
Fang Plover looked around.
In the darkness, a section of the drainage pipe seemed to have broken, and rainwater poured into the room, forming sludge and stagnant water. There was a smell of moss in the air, but it could still be seen that this place used to be a well-equipped magic laboratory, with all kinds of
There is a complete workbench and a magic array.
It's just that at this moment, the gold and mithril originally embedded in the formation have been taken away, leaving only a bare formation base. Various instruments have also been swept away, leaving behind some worthless bottles and jars.
Some of them still contain organs from magical creatures, but the antiseptic liquid inside has long evaporated, or they were broken and drained. The biomass materials have long since rotted, and they are dark in the jars.
There were also some parts stacked on the workbench, which looked like parts of the unfinished magic device.@*~~Fang Pliance recognized a few movable joints, which were probably part of the construct, and there were others he couldn't recognize.
.
These things were badly infested with insects, and the surface was full of holes, with a thin layer of debris and insect feces underneath. Although it was obvious that someone had tried their best to maintain these things, sorting them into categories, and sorting them out carefully, they still couldn't
Save them from the fate of turning into dust one day.
He suddenly understood why the other party didn't seem to care much about the things in this laboratory. Because sooner or later, everything here would turn to dust and return to the soil.
"The things inside the box are Mr. Ash's works, completed or unfinished," the old servant recalled. "After Mr. Ash passed away, his students collected his works and numbered them one by one.
It’s one of those things…”
Fang Plover happened to lift the box and saw the number at the bottom. It was a strange character, which should be "5" when translated into Arabic numerals.
"What's in here?" he asked.
"I don't know, but the person who gave it to me said: "This thing is of little significance to the magician, but if Sir Ma Wei comes back here one day, you can give this thing to him."
"The old man sighed, "I didn't expect that twenty years would pass by. I didn't wait for Sir Ma Wei, but I waited for his daughter to come here..."
"Mr. Sir Ma Wei went to the second world and his current whereabouts are unknown." Fang Yu felt the need to explain for Sir Ma Wei. "His daughter and I came here to go to the second world to find his whereabouts."
The old servant nodded. In fact, Sylvide had mentioned this matter to him before.
Fang Yu then opened the box and took a look. Inside was a piece of black velvet cloth. When he opened the velvet cloth, he saw a dark crystal underneath. He was slightly startled. Is this an elemental crystal? A core crystal? Or...?
In Aitaria, although there are ordinary crystals, most crystals and gems are the product of magic power, such as moonstone, beryl and rhombic crystal, which represent different elemental attributes and are collectively called
For magic crystal.
Magic crystals are naturally suitable for being used to make magic cores for magic items, or energy storage containers. Most of them can even be directly inserted into the slot of a magic furnace after being polished into shape.
But since the other party said that the box was Mr. Ash's work, Fang Plover would definitely not think that the dark crystal was a natural magic crystal. He carefully turned the crystal over and looked at it, and sure enough he found several lines underneath it.
Silver metal loop.
As mentioned before, magic crystals used for energy storage can be used naturally, so the crystals embedded with metal circuits are mostly some kind of magic core - the elemental core in the magic furnace. The core crystals of the constructs all fall into this category.
, but Fang Yu couldn't tell which category this crystal belonged to at the moment.
Not that he couldn't recognize it.
But only when the core crystal is inserted into the magic device, the craftsman can pass the preset.
He left the magic interface behind first to check its internal circuits and analyze its specific uses. Just like he checked the big Oshu machine before.
Directly injecting magic power into an object is a talent only possessed by magic creatures, not ordinary people. If Miss Tata hadn't been an artificial dragon soul, she might as well have given it a try.
After all, fairies are also the most famous type of magical creatures.
Fang Yu checked the crystal up and down, and after confirming that he couldn't find any useful information, he put it away again, and then asked Alyssa to bring up the selector from the previous guild. _o_m
Derek was standing far away, looking very weak and depressed due to excessive blood loss. Luo Yu had previously asked him to take some No. 4 holy water - the cheapest type of recovery potion sold in the Laila Temple. His chest injury
It is slowly healing under the influence of medicine, but it is still very painful.
Moreover, those people removed the energy storage crystal of his magic furnace. Without his magic power, he was no different from an ordinary person. Even if there was no pain, it would be impossible to escape, so he behaved quite honestly.
He also thought clearly that if these people tortured him, then he would dissolve the starlight and resurrect himself, and he would not be exempted from that crime. But if these people just wanted to ask him some irrelevant things - just like before,
Then he doesn't mind using it in exchange for a chance to survive.
After all, starlight is still very precious.
But if these people planned to kill him... then he had no choice.
But Derek saw the old servant handing a box to those people from a distance, and his heart couldn't help but jump. An idea subconsciously emerged - they were just looking for something, so it was difficult not to make associations when seeing the box.
.
At this time, the little Papalar man behind him pushed him in the back and said angrily: "Go over there."
Derek did as he was told and didn't resist. He just stared at the box and walked over.
But he didn't expect that the woman in front of him took out a gun, cocked the hammer, put the muzzle of the gun against his head, and asked: "Is this what you are looking for? What use is it to you?"
Derek opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He didn't expect that the other party would ask such a core question right away, which made him unable to even delay it - this was different from asking him about his origin and affiliation.
After all, the union is not a secret, and everyone is still wearing the union's jersey. But what the other party is asking about now is the secret of the guild, and he has to say it unless he doesn't plan to hang out in the guild.
"As long as you answer this question, we can't let you leave alive," Miss Nightingale deliberately pretended to be indifferent, "Killing people is of no benefit to us, and starlight is very precious, I hope you understand. And here is the only
If you are alone, no one will know what you said, and naturally we will not spread it everywhere."
Derek hesitated for a while, but finally shook his head with difficulty. Although the other party dismantled his magic furnace, the recording crystal on the equipment was naturally invalid. But this is a world with gods and real magical power.
If he really wanted to say it, he wouldn't be able to pass the realm of honesty after he goes back.
A look of disappointment appeared in Alyssa's eyes.
"Wait!" Derek yelled, but it was too late, Miss Nightingale had already pulled the trigger.
There was a loud bang, and the ranger fell backwards, his body immediately glowing with white light.
Fang Yu looked at the opponent's body in a pool of blood and felt a little unbearable. In fact, there was no need for them to kill each other. As Alyssa said, killing would not do any good for them.
But just letting the other party leave like this, he was afraid that the guild would become suspicious of their purpose. He just wanted to make everything appear natural, so that the other party would naturally suspect that they had taken away what the other party wanted.
"Old man," Fang Yu turned around and said to the old servant: "You'd better leave this place first. I know you care about the college left by Mr. Ash, but don't worry, those people won't be able to do it after you leave.
Tear this place down.”
He Himself is the Chosen One.
Naturally, he knows the habits of the chosen ones.
"Ash's Manuscript" is an important mission item in the eyes of the selectors, and whether it is robbing or deceiving, the method is not important to those people. What is important is to remove this "mission item" from
Everything it originally was.
"Catch" it with people's hands.
But after losing this important mission item, the old servant, as an aborigine, should be an insignificant part in the eyes of the other party. Fang Pliance asked him to leave temporarily just to prevent accidents.
As for the college itself, the Chosen Guild doesn't care even more. They may come here to search again, but bulldozing Horfen College is just making themselves uncomfortable.
The Chosen One will never do unnecessary things.
Now that the "mission item" is on him, what the other party has to do is to take back this task chain from them - before they "complete the task" and get the final benefits.
Although the so-called "Ashe's Manuscript" may not exist at all.
But that's not important, Fang Plover now just wants the other party to think that this thing exists.
Of course, they will be far away from this place immediately. Fang Plover is not afraid of trouble, but he will not go looking for trouble on his own. He has already asked Miss Tata to return to the Seven Seas Traveler and notified the big cat people to prepare for departure.
Prepare. _o_m
When you get to the Seven Seas Traveler, let the people from that guild slowly look for you.
But it was at this time that Fang Yu saw a text pop up on his light screen:
"Brother Ed, if someone is looking for you, you'd better come up and have a look."
It's a message from Jita.
…
Back on the ground, what surprised Fang Yu was that the person who came to find them turned out to be one of the two young men from the Tiantian Craftsmen Association, or to be precise, Yayo's companion.
The other party was holding on to the tree, looking out of breath. Even on a low-temperature winter night, he was sweating profusely. He had obviously run all the way here in a hurry. As soon as the other party saw Fang Plover appear, he was immediately out of breath.
He yelled angrily:
"...It's not good, Ai...Mr. Aide, those people you provoked during the day...they gathered in the city and planned to take revenge on you..."
He took two breaths and then said: "...I know their identity. They are a guild of the chosen ones called "Death Comes". I heard from the president that they are a quite famous guild of the chosen ones in this area...
…By the way, it was the president who told us the information the other party was mobilizing…”
In fact, Fang Plover already knew this information, and it was also within his imagination that the other party would retaliate.
However, those people's calls caused such a big commotion and alerted the attention of the Tagli Craftsmen Association, which was somewhat beyond his expectation.
After thinking for a moment, he thought of a possibility - the other party might have an aerospace ship.
In Tagli, a city with a population of tens of thousands, the movement of several hundred Holy Chosen Ones would not attract anyone's attention at all. Only the dispatch of aerospace ships would attract the attention of the indigenous people.
"The empire is really not that simple..." Fang Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Only then in the Hart Principality, a small guild had its own aerospace ship. Although the Oshu people founded their country with magical skills, aerospace ships
Ships are much more common here.
But this alone is enough to illustrate the strength of the first division.
But compared to all of this, what really surprised Fang Yu was that this young man actually walked through the winter forest alone in the middle of the night, traveling thousands of miles to inform them of this matter. This made him feel bad for the other party and Tagg.
The Artisans Guild is full of goodwill.
He didn't appear too panicked. He only let the other party calm down before asking: "Did the president ask you to inform us?"
"President, he didn't say it clearly," the young man shook his head, "but Yayo told me that this is what the president wants, otherwise he would have no need to inform us. Yayo asked me to inform you, where is he now?
Keep an eye on those people..."
Too risky.
Fang Plover didn't quite approve of the other party doing this, but most of the selectors would not take an aboriginal seriously, not to mention that it was in the city, and Yayo should be safe.
However, he unexpectedly learned another thing from the other party.
Before the young man set off, the guild had already sent out a large advance team. However, the selectors were not as familiar with the forest as the aborigines. The young man took a shortcut here, and even if the other party took the lead,
It might just be possible to reach the vicinity of Horfen College.
This is important news.
No wonder this young man is in such a hurry.
He ran all the way over in a hurry.
Fang Yu replied: "I understand, thank you very much, but you should go back first, because it will become unsafe here soon. Also, please help me, Yayo, and the president thank you.
I originally planned to say goodbye to them in person, but now I have no chance."
The young man was startled for a moment: "Then you..."
"Don't worry about us."
Fang Yu opened the communication channel and typed word by word:
"Ready to fight."
…
Death has come to the guild.
A long, sharp whistle sounded outside, and everyone rushed out while putting on their equipment, looking for their respective teams to join.
The president of the guild, Gox looked at the people who came out of the resurrection altar with an ugly look. "The guild discovered that you entered the starlight resuscitation state a few hours ago and reported it to me. You said on the community that you were
Someone attacked, what on earth is going on?" He asked with a cold face.
"President, the target of those who attacked us should be the same as ours, and they are also Ash's manuscripts, but those people are very high-level, and they are probably the selectors of level 20 or above."
"Above level 20? Which guild are they from, the elite group of Omen of the Stars and the Dreamland guild?"
"No, there are only three of our guilds in the Hart Principality. Omen of the Stars and Dreamland are also old acquaintances of ours. Unless their elite group is newly expanded, we will definitely recognize them when they make a move." The ranger captain denied.
The female ranger who was the first to withdraw from the battle said at this time: "There is someone else who attacked us. The element that attacked me used a three-ring spell, at least level 15 or above. I saw what he looked like. He was an Asian.
I can't tell if the other party is a local, and there seems to be a little girl, but we didn't see clearly how she acted, and we don't know what the other party's occupation is."
"How many people did the other party attack you in total?" Gox asked.
Several people looked at each other. "There is also a crossbowman, but we didn't see each other clearly... There is also a nightingale, it should be a nightingale. _o_m Adam, tell me." They looked at a sword behind them.
scholar.
The swordsman scratched his head and said: "I actually didn't see clearly, but the other party should be a woman..."
"So an elementalist, a little girl, a woman and a crossbowman, four of them wiped out your group?" Gox was furious, "You didn't even see three of the four of them clearly.
Can’t even tell the difference between occupations?”
"Actually, there are only two..." Someone retorted.
Gox gave these people a cold look and said: "Trash."
More than ten people said nothing. They were actually confused. They were not newbies. They had been fighting with neighboring guilds for a long time. They knew how to respond to attacks and how to fight back, but they had never encountered such an aggrieved situation.
Finally, the person who asked the question whom Fang Piao had met spoke up: "Let's not talk about it for now. There is nothing we can do about the other party's high level. Now the mission target is in their hands, and the top priority is how to get it back."
"They can't leave," Gox replied through gritted teeth. "As soon as you explained the situation to the community, an advance team was sent here. The Fox Group and the Ge Group are still performing tasks outside. I temporarily transferred manpower from the Charlie Group and the Delta Group.
We pulled half a regiment out and sent them in that direction."
As he spoke, he looked inside the station. The guild's selectors were gathering. There were at least three ordinary members of the regiments in the square, and the top soldiers of the other two regiments left first under the orders of their unit commanders.
Go south.
A sailboat was slowly taking off, raising its sails and flying towards the forest.
There are always people in the guild performing tasks outside, garrisoning or leveling up. The nearly one-third of the manpower used at this moment is almost all the power that the "Death Comes" guild can call in addition to the necessary warning troops——
In Gox's opinion, this is all a fuss. If the investors behind them had not issued a death order on this matter and must find out the whereabouts of Ash's manuscript, he would never have taken such drastic action.
I thought that sending two small teams to arrest an old servant would be foolproof, but I didn't expect that something went wrong.
But the manpower of five regiments can be used to form a search network.
The area around Horfen College was sealed off layer by layer, so a few people would not be able to escape. Gox turned around and planned to say something else, but at this moment, his expression suddenly changed.
The president's face was originally as dark as water, but now he turned into a green man.
The person who asked the question seemed to see something from his face, and subconsciously asked: "What's wrong? What happened?"
"Bye."
He was the unit commander of the advance group he sent out.
Gox looked in the direction of the Resurrection Altar with an extremely ugly expression. A layer of white light suddenly rose above the icon of Angina, and then the crystals surrounding the icon in a circle suddenly lit up one after another:
One, two, three, then five crystals lit up at the same time, then four crystals, until after twenty crystals, the crystals that lit up one by one stopped.
Each crystal represents a star that is resurrecting within it.
If Fang Plover saw this scene, he would be extremely envious, because Mirella's altar on the Seven Seas Traveler only has three crystals. The price of such a large resurrection altar is almost enough to buy half of the Seven Seas Traveler.@
*~~
But here, everyone was just stunned:
"Those are... something happened to the advance team?"