To the northwest of Tuscat Island, there is a sea cliff. The cascading white waves are collected by the sea breeze time and time again. They slap their own power on this towering cliff without hesitation, splashing countless droplets.
On the steep cliff, an illusory door slowly formed. Brass-colored eyes seemed to grow on it, watching everything in front of it. But looking again, they had been transformed into various occult symbols.
The door opened quietly, revealing a world of rich and bright colors. Bizarre creatures with transparent bodies swayed as if they were about to come out of the door, but the symbols on the door were twisted into strips of shining insects.
, they stretch into a continuous sheet, and the dim starlight spreads to cover these creatures within the gate.
The unusually tall stone statue, whose entire body is made of blue-gray rocks, stands quietly on the cliff. There are little brassy glimmers in its two illusory gray-blue eyes, outlining one occult symbol after another.
It seems that he is pondering and analyzing the illusory door.
Not far from the "Stone Golem", Jamil, who has high cheekbones, scratched his hair and moved his lips up and down twice, but he didn't know what to say. This is for a "reader" who has a sense of superiority in IQ.
It is quite unbelievable for a "person", but for a child of fourteen or fifteen years old, it seems extremely normal.
He really didn't know what to say. He said he came out this time to look for the treasures of the "Ghost Empire", but in fact he was just bound by Countess Dorothy Lovelace for too long and found an excuse to escape.
Although he has not entered the 'Ghost Empire', his experiences these days have made him realize that the real extraordinary world is not what he imagined.
He promised Rawls to search for the "Ghost Empire". Although he accomplished this, he also burdened his friend with a "curse" and was involved in the controversy over the heir of the Maxi Kingdom. This made him always feel a little sorry for himself.
friends, but don’t know what to say.
Rawls withdrew his gaze from the "Traveler's Gate" created by Dorothy by imitating Alicia's "Free Walker". He looked at the somewhat troubled Jamil, touched his head, and welcomed him.
He looked at each other angrily and smiled nonchalantly:
"Okay, let's go back. The next time we meet is probably in Winston. You have to behave well then."
Jamil curled his lips, turned around, glanced at the "stone golem", and said angrily:
"I will definitely prepare the best things from the Ma Xi Kingdom for you, or simply ask someone to send them to your law firm."
Rawls froze on the spot. What is the best thing about the Maxi Kingdom? It can't be piles of test papers, right? When he thought that he would be overwhelmed by the "ocean of knowledge", he immediately retracted his plan to go again.
The right hand touching Jamil's head.
The two chatted casually for a few more words, and after Dorothy signaled that the "Traveller's Gate" had been set up, Jamil waved to Rawls with some reluctance and entered the spirit world.
Feeling that the power of the spirit world was slowly fading away, Alicia, who was wearing a black cloak and a hood, was about to cast a spell to teleport when Rawls suddenly said:
"We won't go back to Loen for the time being. We'll go to Dirinius Port."
Under the mask, her slender eyebrows wrinkled, but Alicia did not ask the reason and casually created a "Traveller's Gate". Compared to Dorothy's simulation using her own abilities, using the magical item "Free Walker"
"More convenient, this is recognized as the most useful sealed object in the mysterious world.
Rawls set his sights in the direction of the port of Tyrinhos. His messenger Alexio followed "Artisan" Sharf and lost track of him in the direction of the main channel in that sea area.
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The Port of Tyrinhos is the first island from the Rhoad Islands heading south, and it is also the last supply station from here to the Southern Continent. In the subsequent passage to the Southern Continent, there are no islands or ports that can provide supplies.
Although it has been more than a hundred years since Emperor Russell the Great discovered a safe channel, no navigator has ever explored a new safe channel since then. Many people have been dragged into the depths of the violent sea by natural disasters and dangerous currents after deviating from the channel. Even though
This is a safe channel that has been explored, but ships will be overturned from time to time due to the bad weather in the violent sea, such as the "sunken Laurel", one of the legends of the sea.
More than a hundred years ago, it was loaded with gold jewelry and various valuables obtained by the Kingdom of Loen from East Balam, worth millions of pounds. It deviated from the waterway and sank somewhere between the Raging Sea and the Sunian Sea.
area has not yet been discovered.
You can start from the Port of Tyrinhos, travel along this safe channel for four to five hundred nautical miles, and then drive the ship southwest for one or two hundred nautical miles. There will be an illusory light faintly appearing on the wide sea, just like the sun's rays on the sea.
The refraction is the same.
But now the sun in the sky has long been obscured by a thick layer of dark clouds. The sky and the earth are dark, and it is impossible for such a light to appear.
As the dark clouds rubbed against each other, a lightning that illuminated the sky instantly covered the sky. The illusory light on the sea was distorted, and a small island appeared on the sea. As the lightning disappeared, it was gradually covered by the
Covered by a layer of illusory light, it disappeared into that sea area.
Even if someone accidentally sails into this sea area by boat, they will only think that it is the incarnation of the devil, a harbinger of death and misfortune, and they will stay away as soon as possible. (Note 1)
This island is extremely different from those islands in the outside world that, although they have been artificially developed, still occupy most of the area with natural scenery such as forests. The island is very flat, but there seems to be no natural vegetation. The only trees and flowers are more like
It was artificially planted, and it was regular but lacked a certain sense of beauty.
The central area is a tall building that is completely different from today's architectural style. It is square and square, and the whole is mainly silver-white. The white and silvery walls have no traces of painting. There is no cement or other adhesives at the joints, as if
It's just like building blocks stacked together. The building has no windows, but judging from the joints on the surface, it looks like it has at least five or six floors, and each floor is about four meters long.
Rumbles of thunder raged in the sky, but the interior of the island still looked like day, but it was impossible to tell where the light source came from. Only as lightning pierced the sky, the silver-white walls would reveal the outside world.
At the top of the building, a piece of silver bulges upwards, sliding backwards silently, revealing the deep stairs. Accompanied by the sound of footsteps, a figure slowly walks to the top of the building. He is lean, his skin is slightly tanned by the sun, and he has swollen eye bags. He is wearing white
The tabara shirt and wide-legged trousers he wore were incompatible with the building beneath his feet.
He was holding a palm-sized bag covered with layers of feathers, with various traces attached to the surface, and could faintly see the unformed charms on it. He frowned and looked at the "clear sky", and there was another thunder on the island.
echo.
When the lightning flashed again and the outside scene appeared on the surface of the silver-white building again, the man scratched his hair and confirmed that there was nothing unusual about the building. Then he walked in along the stairs. The piece of silver-white slid silently to its original position.
After sinking a few centimeters, you can no longer tell the difference between it and the surrounding silvery ones.
The weather on the sea was unpredictable, not to mention the violent sea that swallowed up countless ships. Soon, the dark clouds over the sea were blown away by the strong wind, and the sea returned to calm, even the illusory light shining on the surface was reflected in the sunlight.
It became quite normal.
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I don't know how long it took, but an illusory and mysterious door appeared in mid-air, and two figures walked out of it. There seemed to be a transparent barrier under their feet, allowing them to stand in the air.
Rawls carefully looked at the sea under his feet, and tapped his palm twice quickly with the middle finger of his right hand. The deep blue calm sea disappeared, and illusory spiritual brilliance was swimming quickly. Everything was normal.
Alicia's dark gray eyes next to him did not waver, and she looked at the sea indifferently, although she did not know what Rawls was looking for. At this moment, she had taken off her hood, taken off her mask, and revealed
A rather beautiful face, although it has no expression, it seems to be different from the original one.
But she didn't notice this. Just when she raised her head and prepared to set off again, her eyes swept over the distant sea, her slender eyebrows furrowed, a heavy and majestic aura that must be obeyed emanated from her body, and a golden glow was faintly reflected on her.
Emerging all around.
Rawls, who noticed her change, followed her line of sight and saw sparkling waves on the sea in the distance, like broken gold scattered on the ground. There seemed to be no difference in his spiritual vision, and there were even large groups of spiritual beings.
The light was swimming on the bottom of the sea, and it seemed to be some kind of strange fish.
"That sea area is normal, but the order around it seems to have changed to some extent."
As a practitioner of order, Alicia can clearly feel the changes in the surrounding order and use this change to better restrict her opponents.
Rawls had no doubts. He took out the dusty space money bag from his pocket and took out a golden metal object. It was an exquisite revolver with three sunflower-like patterns engraved on the cylinder.
, the gun handle is engraved with bird patterns, the bird's head is close to the bullet nest, and the gorgeous tail feathers bloom at the end of the gun handle.
This is a collection he bought from an elderly wealthy businessman from Intis at a charity auction in Backlund. The manufacturing time is unknown, but it is earlier than the time when the revolver was invented in the world. He is the "great inventor".
"Russell Gustav's masterpiece was presented to Yazd June, Sharf's direct ancestor.
In Russell's diary, he imitated Hermes to build a treasure and turned the revolver into the key to the treasure. But unfortunately, Rawls did not know the location of the treasure and could only rely on his life.
The prophecy of Luo Yinjin of the school placed all hope on Sharf.
Although it is not certain whether the place where Sharf is hiding now is related to the treasure, it should be related.
"Go there." Alicia put her right hand on Rawls' shoulder, and in the blink of an eye the two of them appeared above the sea.
The revolver in his hand suddenly became hot, and the temperature quickly rose above body temperature, but not too high. But a few minutes after this change occurred, there was no change anymore, as if something crucial was missing.
Rawls looked at the gold-plated brass revolver, his eyes lit up, and he quickly dug out a few bullets from his wallet. The bullets in this revolver were specially made and were thicker than normal bullets. When photographed, they were only
Out of ten bullets, he used two.
Shake off the bullet nest, install the bullets you found one by one, and "pop", the bullet nest returns to its place.
The temperature of the revolver increased again, and it actually floated out of his hand. Alicia was also a little surprised. She passed this revolver and found nothing unusual.
"Bang bang", "bang", "bang bang bang", after firing automatically in a certain pattern, the sparkling light on the sea became illusory, and an even more illusory island emerged on the sea, as if it should not exist
.
Rawls' eyes widened in an instant and he stared straight at the silver-white building. What was that? He had traveled through time again?
Although the building was square and square, even in the world of his previous life, it was an unusually sci-fi style building, but now it suddenly appeared in front of him.
Although I don’t know why Rawls was suddenly stunned, I found that after the sound of gunfire disappeared, the illusory island was also gradually disappearing. Alicia held his shoulders, disappeared on the spot, and entered the interior of the island.
The person inside the silver-white building located in the center of the island seemed to have noticed the abnormality. In the central area of the front, four pieces of silver-white protruded from the smooth surface and slid around, revealing a platform. A figure appeared on the platform, and he stared.
He had brown eyes and opened his mouth so wide that he seemed to be able to see his throat at a glance.
"You, how did you get in?"
Rawls, who had recovered from his daze, looked along the sound and saw his friend "Artisan" Sharf, who had just parted ways a few days ago. He waved to him and showed a bright smile:
"Long time no see, Sharf."
Although he didn't know what happened, the current situation seemed to be very unfavorable to him. Sharf swallowed and quickly stepped back, and the four silver pieces also slid towards their original positions.
A faint smile appeared on Alicia's lips. She didn't let go of her hand holding Rawls' shoulder and disappeared. However, the place where she appeared was not where she expected.
The two of them only advanced more than ten meters!
The four pieces of silver have also returned to their original positions, and the entire building has become a whole. A layer of dull silver light appears on the surface, becoming extremely illusory and looming, as if it does not really exist on this island.
"The order here is different from the outside world. It seems to have been artificially changed."
When Alicia's words reached his ears, Rawls shook his head, looked at the extremely sci-fi building in front of him and said:
"It's not order, it's more like the laws of physics. The physics here has been changed."
He took out a gold coin from his money bag and let it fall naturally. However, the gold coin fell faster and slower, and it took a while before it fell to the ground.
"Generalist" path, Sequence 2 "Knowledge Tutor" can change the situation in a certain area
PS: Note 1: In ancient times, we thought of mirages as places where immortals lived, but in the West, they thought they were traps of the devil.