Charles climbed up the steps of the lighthouse. When he looked up, he saw Brando and three ladies chatting by the railing on the sea side of the lighthouse. Miss Roman was snickering, and Faina's eyebrows were shrouded in confusion.
There was a layer of gloom and she looked a little preoccupied. Nymesis was dressed in military uniform, leaning on the railing with her back to the sea, looking at the scenery on the sea. Her long black hair was blowing lightly in the sea breeze. In the distance, the sea and sky were the same color, and the floating clouds were like white mountains undulating in the sky.
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Others have long been accustomed to the female knight's taciturn and meticulous character, but they didn't see the shadow of the little princess Sifah who likes to join in the fun. It seems that she dragged the elf to go shopping in the port. The two little ladies are now
They have become best friends who talk about everything. Of course, they do in fact have a common topic and hobby - that is, the ability to cause trouble.
"Lord Lord."
Brando wore a black knight's windbreaker, with the Earth Sword hanging diagonally around his waist. The black rhinoceros leather scabbard inlaid with silver was almost pointing to the ground. When he turned around, he noticed that his wizard attendant had arrived. He smiled slightly and waved.
He said, "You're here just in time. What do you think of the scenery here?"
Charles was slightly startled: "It seems that the lord likes the scenery here very much?"
Brando smiled and shook his head, stretched out his gloves and patted the ancient and mottled outer wall of the lighthouse and said, "Do you know the origin of this lighthouse?"
Charles subconsciously looked up at the lighthouse. This ancient lighthouse seemed to be old, but it looked like it was just an old-style lighthouse that could be seen everywhere in the sublime inland sea. I really didn’t know what else this lighthouse could be.
Meaning.
"Port Fatan has a long history, but Lord, I have never been here, and I don't know what historical monuments there are here." He replied.
"Haha," Brando laughed, and proudly stretched out his hand to the business lady beside him. The latter stuck out his tongue, reluctantly put a gold coin in his hand, lamented and complained: "Char
You are so useless."
"This lighthouse is the famous Tumen Lighthouse," Brando pointed to the direction of the port area: "Fatan was built in the year of the return of glory. The founder of the port was the famous Cruz scholar Fatan Freeman.
, the latter is a descendant of Tumen and one of the few respected inheritors of the Miner bloodline in the mortal world. However, it is a pity that this family could not escape the judgment of time in the end, and eventually disappeared in the long river of history. This
This lighthouse was built to commemorate them. Tumen was ultimately the bearer of the fire of civilization, the wise man who gave the light of enlightenment to the Black Iron people in the darkness. Unfortunately, few people can remember this history now.
.”
He looked softly in the direction of the dock. He had passed through this place when he left Eruin for Faenzan in his previous life. He remembered that there was an emblem of Fatan Port on the door of this lighthouse, although it was a few years earlier than that.
Ten years have passed, but the emblem on the door is still the same. It's just much newer. This feeling is very strange. The port has not changed much in two lifetimes. He can even find out every detail about it decades later.
, past memories are blended into these details, giving rise to a strange emotion in my heart.
Charles watched dumbfounded as his lord bet on himself, but Brando's words also aroused curiosity in his heart. He looked up at this lighthouse - this ordinary lighthouse and other areas of the sublime inland sea.
There is no difference between the lighthouse - it stands between two promontories. Looking out at the blue sea and sky that have remained unchanged for thousands of years outside Fatan Port, it is like a lonely old man. After experiencing wind and rain, he watches silently and wisely.
As time goes by, only the mottled algae green and white paint remain.
History has formed a huge coincidence, completing a cycle here. It has witnessed the decline of the last Min'er bloodline, and now it is about to see them return to the world.
"It turns out that this lighthouse has such an origin."
"It's actually not the original one." Faina suddenly raised her eyelids and replied lightly with a little pride: "The earliest Tumen Lighthouse was destroyed in a fire in 114, and was rebuilt later.
, the rebuilt lighthouse was damaged during the July War, and what you see has been renovated for the second time.”
Brando looked back at her. A worried light flashed through his dark brown eyes. Although Faina looked much better today after a night's rest, and she changed into a dress and long skirt and looked radiant again.
The daughter-in-law seemed to have really regained her pride as the eldest daughter of Duke Huaye, but he knew in his heart that perhaps only through personal experience could he understand what the past month meant to her. Obviously, the shadow was not that big.
Easily erased from the mind.
The Duke's daughter in the Ring of the Trade Winds, who knew no worldly sorrows, can no longer be seen.
"Miss Faina——"
"You want to comfort me again," Faina suddenly turned around and stared at him, her beautiful brows furrowed deeply: "I don't want to quarrel with you, country bumpkin, I'm not as fragile as you think."
"Also," she corrected her seriously: "Call me Faina."
Brando stared at the eldest lady and frowned, thinking that this pretended toughness was not essentially different from the time in the Ring of Trade Winds, it just looked silly and cute.
Seeing this scene, Charles secretly laughed in his heart, but he did not forget that he still had other business to attend to. He quickly reported: "Lord, the torture over there is almost complete."
"oh?"
Brando frowned slightly, and then he came back to his senses and realized what news his wizard attendant had brought. In fact, it was not difficult for him to pry open Rodney's mouth, but the key issue was-
-How many secrets does this guy hold of Her Majesty the Queen? "What did he say?" he asked.
Charles hurriedly replied: "As you might expect, the main purpose of Rodney's trip is for Miss Faina. The Silver Queen hopes to use Miss Faina, Duke Helix and his son as hostages.
To force Miss Faina’s sister to submit, in order to achieve the goal of controlling the Grand Duchy of Flower Leaf.”
"My sister is extremely smart and will never be influenced by that vicious woman!" Faina coldly interjected. She clenched her fists and trembled with anger. Brando patted her thin shoulder lightly.
Asked: "Besides, where did the Min'er people around the Silver Queen come from, and what exactly is she planning to do? In addition to the Min'er people, does she also have those secret powers at hand?"
"Well," Charles shrugged, "Rodney doesn't know much about these, but Her Majesty the Queen seems to be particularly interested in the Alkhash Mountains, and her purpose of going east is not just to make the military nobles in the northern part of the empire surrender.
Another purpose is to open up the passage to the Alkhash Mountains.”
She still couldn't forget the final battlefield? Brando was startled for a moment, but he immediately saw the Duke's daughter beside him trembling slightly, and then he remembered that there were two main roads from East Metz to the Alkhash Mountains, and one was in Luther.
Vig, and one is right at the mosaic collar.
"Well, what is that...Why is the Queen so interested in that place?" The businesswoman blinked her dark brown eyes and suddenly asked curiously.
Regarding the question of the lord's fiancée, Charles did not dare to neglect and quickly replied: "There are many reasons. Maybe it is related to the secret on the battlefield of the final battle, or maybe it is just because Her Majesty the Queen particularly likes that place, not to mention the Alkash Mountains itself.
The location is of great strategic significance. It is located in the central area connecting Faenzang, Sant Osor and Cruz. It can be attacked when advancing and defended when retreating."
"As for the Min'er people rumored outside, I definitely don't believe they came back from the great glacier like the rumors say."
"Lord, I have made it clear that the Min'er people around the Silver Queen are mainly the descendants of the witch. She mobilized mountain people."
"Mountain people?"
"To be precise, it's a branch of the mountain people. The Seniya branch..."
"Werewolf." Brando gasped. The mountain people have lived in the mountains of Wallach south of the Flower and Leaf Territory for a long time. But in fact, that was something before the last era. Due to various reasons, the mountain people left their hometown.
Kai Zhi San Ye, like Akane, is a mountain people born in Eruin. The mountain people themselves have an inexplicable relationship with the Miner people, which is why they are generally discriminated against in this world.
, among the mountain people there are several bloodlines that are from the Miner people. The Seniya people are one of them. Now the Seniya people, like other mountain people, have left their hometown and settled in the south of Cloak Bay. Broken Sword
In an unknown branch of the mountain range, it is the Silver Queen's sphere of influence. It is really possible for her to find these remnants of the previous era.
"Lord, there is also this, collected from those knights, if I remember correctly..."
Charles stretched out his hand and spread his palm, with a flaky rock lying flat in his palm. Then he raised his head and looked at Brando with a strange look.
Brando had already narrowed his eyes.
This thing——
Lying flat in the palm of the young wizard's attendant's hand is a gray, flat stone piece like a chisel, but there is no trace of artificial carving on its surface, as if it were a fragment naturally peeled off from a huge rock.
This was not the first time he had seen a fragment. This was the gray fragment. The first time he found something similar was among the relics of Antitina's father; the second time was in Trishman's.
Among the grave goods in the tomb; and the third time, it was the relics of the crystal elk during his lifetime.
"Hey, this is..." Roman also opened his mouth and let out a soft exclamation.
"Is this the fourth one?"
"This is the fourth one."
"What on earth is this, Lord?"
"It's not clear yet, but..." Brando frowned slightly. When there were more than three gray fragments, when he put them together, they would have obvious resonance and form something similar to a map.
, this time, there should be the same reaction. He expressed his intention to Charles, who understood it and gently moved it forward. The stone fragment seemed to be pulled by some invisible force, and it was in his hand.
His heart stood up straight, it emitted a faint blue light and slowly floated towards Brando.
Brando immediately felt that the other three fragments on his body were restless, although they were still in the dimensional hole.
Then the space also resonated.
Nymesis, who was leaning on the railing, seemed to feel something. She turned around and saw at a glance that the space between Brando and Charles was darkening slightly, as if it was collapsing inward under a huge pulling force.
Can't help but be slightly startled: "Is this...?"
"Lord!" Ciel's expression suddenly changed and he shouted quickly.
"This is……"
Just like a drop of water falling on the calm water, at that moment, Brando felt the existence of the magic sea.
The sky darkened in an instant. Over the entire lofty inland sea, the entire sky from west to east was rapidly dimming. The clouds seemed to be driven by an invisible force and gathered from all directions. Lightning shuttled above the clouds, and thunder roared.
It also rolled in from the horizon. For a time, a new storm seemed to form on the new sea, and the resonance of the space became more and more obvious. Even the ground shook, and small stones and gravel danced wildly. The lighthouse was snow-white.
A shocking crack opened in the wall. Faina screamed and held on to the railing.
"It's dark, Brando!" Roman glanced at the sky with some fear. A huge vortex was forming over Fatan, like a terrifying eye opening in the thick clouds.
Cold sweat suddenly fell down, and Brando felt that his forehead was covered with sweat. "Take it back!" He roared.
Without thinking, Charles grabbed the gray stone piece suspended in mid-air. Strangely enough, the moment he grabbed the gray stone piece, all the scenes calmed down: the clouds were no longer there.
When they gathered again, the lightning disappeared, the thunder gradually faded away, the roar of space stopped instantly, the sun once again radiated multi-faceted brilliance in the sky, and the sea no longer roared with wind. Everything that happened before seemed to be a terrible illusion.
.
But the huge crack in the lighthouse proved that what happened a moment ago really happened.
It just came and left again.
There was a lot of noise in the direction of the pier. From time to time, shouts floated over from there: Is there an earthquake? Is there an earthquake? But these sounds were quickly drowned in the cries.
Brando, Charles, Faina, Nimesis and Roman, the five of them stood by the lighthouse, keeping their previous movements motionless, like puppets. Everyone was stunned for a while.
Brando was the first to come back to his senses and asked dryly: "Before... what was that?"
Everyone looked at each other.
"Lord Lord."
"You don't have to say it," Brando interrupted his wizard attendant with a dry mouth: "I feel it."
"That's..." But Xiaer was a little frightened.
"It's the tide on the sea of magic..." Brando recalled the terrible feeling of coming before, and replied word by word: "No..."
"It's dusk." The cold voice of the female knight rang out at the right time. Brando was slightly startled. Looking back at her, the latter's face was also a little pale, but at least he could remain calm. She hesitated for a moment before confirming
He replied: "It's the Dragon of Twilight. At least for a moment, I felt the peek from outside this world. But it's definitely not the devil. I have a hunch in my heart that it is there -"
Brando was silent. In fact, he also felt that terrible sense of depression. He had never felt it before in the game.
"Did this thing call it here?" Charles carefully glanced at the gray stone in his hand, sweating profusely, as if he was holding something terrible: "What the hell is this?"
"I think... probably not." Brando frowned. He vaguely recalled the feeling of being spied on before. The huge power seemed to instantly penetrate the gap between the Sea of Magic and Warnd.
A barrier descended over Port Fatan. However, this passage was not opened by the resonance of the gray fragments in their hands. It was not so much a summons as it was——
A kind of forced arrival.
…
Outskirts of Nazère——
A pair of golden eyes like burning flames slowly opened in the darkness. The owner of the eyes hidden under the branches and leaves suddenly sat up from the bushes and made a rustling sound. This was the third day after leaving the imperial capital.
Sidney subconsciously touched her chest. This action affected the wound, and she couldn't help but frown. The statue of the Saint in the Lion Palace was no longer as elegant and calm as usual, and its face was full of mixed blood.
There was a lot of dust, but luckily, at least the thing was still there, hidden under the thick clothes, which made her feel a little more at ease.
She subconsciously raised her head and looked doubtfully in the direction of the coastal area east of Metz.