Chapter 230 Scar on the Earth
The airship follows a course, and the warship follows a straight line.
The battleship Canglan flies at a much higher altitude than ordinary airships, but it doesn't enter the clouds casually.
The clouds are filled with mist, which is likely to interfere with the direction of the battleship.
Duke sat on a comfortable leather sofa chair, and the translucent porthole in front of him allowed him to overlook every land, mountain and river that the battleship passed by.
High mountains, big rivers and rainforests, green grasslands, blue lakes...
The warships flying in a straight line pass through uninhabited primitive jungle areas, retaining the most spectacular scenery.
Just one area of wind breath, the geographical scene included is all-encompassing.
Duke was dizzying along the way.
"Mu Lali, go ask the service desk, is the boundary of the Wind Breath Domain still available?" Duke casually ordered.
"Okay, sir." Mu Lali left with light steps.
Duke brought a lot of people with him during this trip to the Holy City of Alpha, not for ostentation, but purely to take care of his basic necessities.
Mulali, Mu Lashan, and Vivian are indispensable; Levin is responsible for taking care of Xiaodou; the cook, Aunt Virginie, is in charge of cooking to prevent Duke from getting used to the food in the Holy City of Alpha; Andre and Victor are two attendants who are responsible for running errands.
There are also two legal staff, responsible for handling emergencies; two financial staff, in case Duke has an idea, they can operate at any time; four male and female servants, serving tea, cleaning, washing clothes and other miscellaneous tasks.
In addition, there is a guard knight team.
The captain is no longer Vivienne, but the 2-ring Eudemons Knight-Herdos, who is the patrol knight captain of Suktara Mage Tower.
This was given to Duke by Suktaras.
Although the holy city of Offa is the holy city of the Seven Towers Federation, there may not be any sudden crisis. Bringing Herdos can at least share a little threat for Duke.
A few minutes later.
Mulali came back with a middle-aged man: "Sir, this is the travel guide at the service desk, Great Knight Dunn."
"I have met Lord Duke." Dunn bowed and saluted.
"You're welcome, Dunn, please sit down." Duke said with a gentle attitude, "You should have been to many places with the battleship Canglan. I need you to clarify my doubts. Where are we now?"
"Master Duke, take a look at this map first." Dunn spread a map on the table.
This is a map of the entire territory of the Seven Towers Federation.
The map looks rough, or crude.
But in fact, it is very detailed, but the human cities and market towns above are too rare, resulting in too few signs on the map.
After all, the Seven Towers Federation is vast and sparsely populated. Its area may be larger than the entire landmass of the earth combined, but its population is only a billion or so. Along the distribution of spiritual springs, there are sporadic dots in the jungle.
"Master Duke, our current location is about here, Black Sore Hills." Dunn pointed to the map and said.
Then he signaled Duke to look down through the porthole: "These high and rolling hills are the Black Sore Hills. To the south of it, there are faintly visible black spots, which are the gravel sub-city in the Rock Cave area."
The Rock Cave area is one of the eight areas under the jurisdiction of the Wind Breath Domain.
"Flying out of the Black Sore Hills, will you leave the Wind's Breath Domain?" Duke asked referring to the map.
"Yes."
"I'm curious, this hill is lush and lush, why is it called such an ugly name as the Black Sore Hill?"
Dunn replied: "Master Duke, you will know in a while, please wait a moment."
As the battleship continued to move forward, a dark area suddenly appeared in the undulating virgin jungle of Heicang hills, which seemed to be formed by a fire.
And.
There are more and more such dark areas, like abscesses, growing deep in the primeval jungle.
"What are these black areas?" Duke asked curiously.
"It is said that it is related to the ancient evil, but I don't know the more specific situation. Maybe you, Lord Duke, can ask us adults." Dunn shook his head. He is just a great knight, not Bai Xiaosheng.
"Okay." Duke got up directly.
These dark areas, dotted on the black sore hills, Duke somehow always felt a little sinister.
So he simply got up and went to Siskoli to ask.
As the owner of the battleship, Siscily didn’t enjoy the whole trip, but transferred part of his laboratory to the battleship.
In this way, you can fly and study at the same time.
When Duke walked to the door of the laboratory, there were no knights guarding here except the service staff.
Duke cleared his throat.
At this time, a huge dragonfly outlined by fluorescence suddenly appeared on the closed laboratory door.
Between the flapping of the wings, a little bit of starlight is sprinkled.
There is no doubt that this is an ancient spirit, Duke said with a smile: "Your Excellency Darth, I am looking for Lord Siscili."
The compound eyes of the big dragonfly leaned in front of Duke, looked at it for a long time, and then responded: "Siscolli invites you in... But I can also answer your question. It is the scar on the earth, the scar left by the gods eating the earth!"
As the battle spirit of the Canglan battleship, Darth Dragonfly knows every move in most areas of the battleship.
Duke asked Dunn the question, and naturally it was no exception.
"Scar on the earth? Abomination?" Duke wanted to ask again, but the door of the laboratory had already been opened, so he went to find Siskoli first.
Siscoli has put away the experiment: "Das said you asked me for advice?"
As the 6-ring sky arcanist, Siscolli is temporarily at a level that Duke can't match.
But compared to the study of spiritual mysteries, Duke is far ahead of him.
Because Siscoli only has two scholar titles, but no sage title—a sage must make a great contribution to the spiritual mysteries. Many arcane masters have a deep understanding of spiritual mysteries, but it is difficult to make breakthrough innovations.
Each has its own strengths, so Duke is not weak in front of Siskoli.
Demeanor is neither humble nor overbearing.
"There are some doubts. The black sore hill we are flying over at this moment is said to be related to ancient evils. I want to know if this is the case."
"That's right." Siskoli did not deny, "You are about to be awarded the title of sage, and you are qualified to know more. In fact, these ancient evils are collectively called gods, and they are the opposite of spirituality."
"The opposite of spirituality?" Duke wondered.
Siscoli said in detail: "The abomination feeds on spirituality, and especially likes to devour the spiritual spring. When it swallows the spiritual spring, it will leave scars on the earth like the black sore hills. In our wind breath field alone, dozens of earth scars have been found."
"In the Cuihai Valley of our Heijiaohe Land, there is a forbidden place where the shells of ancient evils have been found. In this way, this is also a sin. The place where it was discovered is located under a spiritual mine. Is that also a scar on the earth?"
"I led the team to deal with the Cuihai Valley."
Siscolli shook his head and laughed, and then said: "The shell is indeed left by the gods, but it is the shell shed by the young gods. It has not swallowed the spiritual spring, so it is not a scar on the earth, but a scar at best."
Then Siscoli further explained: "The scar is a wound on the surface of the earth, which is harmless; but the scar penetrates deep into the earth. If the spiritual spring exudes spirituality, then the scar exudes evilness, and even arcanists will be affected."
"Such a scar on the earth, why not get rid of it?" Duke asked.
"It's not easy to deal with. After the abomination swallowed the spiritual spring, it merged with the earth. Not to mention I can't deal with it, even if the arcane teacher comes, I can't do anything about it." Siskoli shook his head and said, "We can only let it radiate evil and seal it as a forbidden area."
"So, there are countless forbidden places in the Seven Towers Federation?"
"Yes, and these earth scars are different. In the early years, many arcane mages strayed into them and became fallen demons... It is said that the earth scars hide the secret of being promoted to the 9th ring. Many arcane teachers even built mage towers in the scars for in-depth research."
"Nine Rings..." Duke blinked.
He has Jiuhuan Xiaoyi, and sooner or later he will get to the Ninth Ring, so he probably doesn't need to enter the scar of the earth to do research.
After asking about the scar of the earth, Duke no longer bothered Siskoli and left.
Go back to your guest cabin and continue to overlook the land where the battleship flew over.
"Now that the warship has flown out of the Black Sore Hills, we should have entered the territory of the Lanyun Domain, but the Canglan adopts a direct flight mode and will not pass through the cities of the Lanyun Domain." Great Knight Dunn explained.
The battleship has a large amount of energy and material reserves, so it can fly all the way without stopping for supplies.
flew for a long time.
Dun En said solemnly: "Master Duke, the high mountain you see now is called the Tianying Mountain Range. This mountain range stretches for thousands of kilometers, like a knife traversing the entire Lanyun Domain. It is also the most dangerous area."
"Dangerous?" Duke was curious.
It has been three or four days since I flew this way, and I haven't seen any danger.
Basically, the spirit beasts flying in the sky, seeing the huge size of the Canglan battleship, are very sensible to avoid it in advance.
There are no spirit beasts that take the initiative to come forward to seek death.
"In the Tianying Mountains, there are a large number of 5-ring spirit beasts - golden-winged falcons, and some golden-winged falcons can break through the 5th ring and evolve to the 6th ring. They have a strong sense of territory and attack in groups."
Dun En continued: "The routes in the Lanyun Domain will basically avoid the Skyhawk Mountains. Ordinary airships cannot withstand the group attack of Golden-winged Falcons."
During the conversation.
The Canglan has already begun to pull up and climb the slope, rushing into the clouds at an altitude of several thousand meters, trying not to disturb the golden-winged falcons in the Skyhawk Mountains.
but.
When entering the Skyhawk Mountain range, I still saw a few huge hawks, flying from the cliffs at the top of the mountain, and then charged towards the clouds, and flew around the Canglan in the blink of an eye, screaming non-stop.
"Buzz buzz!"
An alarm sounded inside the battleship, signaling to all passengers and crew to hurry up and get into the fixed seats.
The great knight Dunn got up and said goodbye: "Master Duke, I am going to the combat position."
"I'll go with you, just arrange a battle cabin for me, I want to try the strength of these golden-winged falcons." Duke got up without hesitation, and followed Dunn to the battle cabin of the battleship.
Since the Sand Eagle 1.6-Burst version was successfully developed, he has only hunted a few times in the forest near the castle.
Did not encounter a powerful spirit beast to test the true power of the Sand Eagle.
When he entered the battle compartment, the transparent glass allowed him to clearly see the golden-winged falcons wandering around the battleship.
Each one has a black body and golden wings. While screaming strangely, they condense arcane magic under their wings.
That is a metallic arcane art, which is mutated from earth elements.
Like metal long knives, they slashed towards the battleship, crackling the shell of the Canglan battleship.
At the same time, the battle cabin of the battleship Canglan also released countless long-range martial arts attacks, which were released by the guarding knights, but compared with the gold-winged eagle falcon with the 5th ring level, this attack is really not enough.
However, accompanied by a huge pale hand, condensed on the side of the battleship, a golden-winged falcon that was so arrogant that it wanted to peck at the hull of the battleship, was directly grabbed by the big pale hand, and then smashed into a ball of minced meat.
"It is a 4-ring arcane art - the pale hand, which is compounded by the hand of a mage. It is the standard configuration of a great arcane mage."
Xiaoyi faithfully broadcast battlefield information.
The 4th ring is a watershed. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rings below the 4th ring are all independent individual arcanes with unique spell models; the 4th, 5th, and 6th rings are basically compound arcanes, which are formed by nesting and combining the spell models of individual arcanes.
The pale hand is the spell model of the hand of the mage, stacked and nested continuously, forming a big hand that blocks the sky and the sun.
"Master Siscoli has made a move." Duke nodded slightly.
Just as he was about to make a move himself, a pair of compound eyes of a dragonfly suddenly appeared on a pillar in the battle cabin.
It is the battleship Lindas: "You can't participate in a battle of this scale, 2-ring arcanist Duke."
However, he was not irritated, and just smiled lightly: "It's better than the output of the big knights, right."
"Great knight?" Warling Darth sneered, "They are only worthy of cleaning the battlefield and salvaging the corpses killed by Siskoli and me."
"You can fight too?" Duke found the blind spot.
Zhan Lingdas snorted coldly: "The Canglan is me, I am the Canglan, my strength is enough to crush any spirit beast!"
Immediately, the entire Canglan battleship felt trembling, and then dozens of columnar protrusions protruded from the surroundings of the battleship.
These protrusions are clearly engraved with arcane patterns.
The lines lit up together, and the next moment, countless flaming spears rose around the battleship, as if shooting from the columnar protrusions, blooming all over the sky, and I don't know how many golden-winged falcons were shot, and they were killed on the spot.
"It is a 4-ring arcane-extreme flame spear, which is compounded by a 2-ring arcane-fire dragon drill and a 2-ring arcane-flame spear."
Xiaoyi quickly returned information.
Duke felt awe-inspiring, with such a ferocious attack power, it's no wonder the battleship Canglan dared to cross the Tianying Mountains.
"How is it?" Zhan Lingdas's entire head protruded from the pillar, "The weak do not need to take action on the battlefield. You are just a 2-ring arcane scholar, not even an arcanist. Go back to sleep."
The Elder Spirit has a weird personality, and War Spirit Darth seems to like to despise Duke.
certainly.
This level of contempt has no effect on Duke.
He just smiled lightly: "Can't sleep, come and play, Mr. Das, don't keep staring at me, just stare at the golden-winged falcons outside, look, there is another large flock of golden-winged falcons flying from the mountains below."
"I have thousands of clones, and one of them is staring at you." Darth War Spirit was unmoved.
Duke was unimpressed.
A thought.
A white crystal arm condensed out of the battle cabin, with five fingers spread out, it was the hand of the Arcane Artifact.
In the palm of Ao's hand, the Sand Eagle pistol has already materialized.
Through the glass shell of the battle compartment, Duke controlled the Austrian hand with his mind, holding the Sand Eagle pistol, aiming at the golden-winged falcons flying randomly in the surrounding clouds.
"Interference bomb!" Duke thought to switch bullets.
Immediately he pulled the trigger with his hand.
There was a puff.
A garuda was shot, then staggered as if drunk.
"Armor-piercing rounds, tracking rounds!" Duke switched bullets again, and after pulling the trigger, a round of armor-piercing rounds shot out.
Gold-winged falcons have no track.
The armor-piercing projectile was about to pass by the edge of the Golden-winged Falcon, but suddenly the bullet turned around and accurately penetrated into the Golden-winged Falcon's eyes.
The eyes have the weakest defense and are connected to the brain.
The golden-winged falcon, which was knocked out by the jamming bomb, had no intention of evading at all, and was directly brain-punctured by the armor-piercing bullet.
Unable to maintain the flying posture any longer, he fell headlong.
Falling halfway, he was shot by a bow and arrow with a hook, and then dragged into the battleship Canglan.
"Yo." Darth War Spirit stared at Duke, and naturally saw Duke's operation, "You actually killed a golden-winged falcon, Duke, a 2-ring arcane scholar, you make me look good, but you just use the arcane weapon to show off."
Duke chuckled: "You were a big dragonfly in ancient times. I think, at the end of your corpse's decay, the mouth must be left."
"What's the meaning?"
"Because your whole body is the hardest with your mouth."
"This is a bad joke." Darth War Spirit was not angry, but fell into nostalgia. "Let me think about it. I drowned in the spiritual spring at that time, and I saw the process of my body completely decomposing."
Its tone was a bit lonely: "First the stomach rotted, and then the internal organs of the head and chest rotted. At that time, there was only a shell left in my body... Finally, even the shell melted and merged with the spiritual spring."
Then he sighed heavily: "I just disappeared like this."
"But your spirit will last forever with the spiritual spring. If your spirituality does not dry up, you will never die again."
"You don't understand." After Darth War Spirit finished speaking, he quickly went back to the pillar and disappeared.
"What don't I understand?" Duke asked, but the Darth War Spirit did not appear again, so he had to focus on hunting the golden-winged falcon outside.
The power of Sand Eagle 1.6-Burst Edition is far beyond imagination.
Especially the combination of special effect bullets makes its hunting effect super strong, and even 5-ring spirit beasts can be easily hunted and killed.
"The effect of the jammer is really good!" Duke praised.
This elemental bullet has no lethality, so it is difficult to cause a defensive warning in terms of spiritual judgment.
Wait until the warning of the spirit beast is lifted, and then shoot with other bullets, the spirit beast will hit the target 100%.
But it's not a hundred-test-all.
For example, Duke shot a jamming bullet and shot a huge golden-winged falcon. The opponent just shook his head and returned to normal.
So the next armor-piercing projectile cooperated with the tracking projectile to lock its eyes, but when it couldn't send it, it turned its head. The armor-piercing projectile hit the feathers on the top of the golden-winged falcon's head, but it couldn't even penetrate the feathers.
"Lost weak point attack, armor-piercing projectiles almost lose their deterrent effect on high-level spirit beasts."
Duke didn't believe in evil, so he simply switched to the burst mode, and directly bombarded the head of the golden-winged falcon with more than a dozen jamming bombs.
The golden-winged hawk screamed, curled up, and prepared to defend against the attack.
This made it impossible for Duke to start.
However, at the next moment, a huge 4-ring arcane spell - the pale hand, directly grabbed this golden-winged falcon that might evolve to 6-ring level.
Pinch hard.
Didn't crush the golden-winged falcon, but it also crushed the bones, making it impossible to survive. Also at the 6th ring level, the strength of an arcane mage absolutely crushes a spirit beast—this is the gap in cognition of spiritual arcana.
One is hunting prey by instinct, while the other is hunting by mastering the rules, which can be called a dimensionality reduction blow.
"A golden-winged falcon with a 6th ring is hard to kill. I'd better pick a golden-winged falcon with a 5th ring to test the gun." Duke quickly accepted the reality.
In fact, Sand Eagle was able to hunt and kill 5-ring spirit beasts, which had already surprised him greatly.
Pfft!
Disruption bombs go first, followed by tracking bombs and armor-piercing bombs. After a set of procedures, if the 5-ring golden-winged falcon is not killed, Duke will make up another procedure.
Sometimes the surviving golden-winged falcons, stimulated by the pain, can't be disturbed by the jamming bombs. Then Duke will switch the burst mode, and the armor-piercing projectile will cooperate with the tracking projectile to highlight a saturated attack.
The 5-ring golden-winged falcon, after all, still has to drink its hatred under the gun of the sand eagle.
"Fixed another one, continue!" Duke has long been aware of the bullet switching of the Sand Eagle, and he focused on killing the small golden-winged falcon.
But this hunting feast did not last long.
Under the double protection of Darth War Spirit and Siskoli, the Canglan passed through the Aquila Mountains safely.
Gold-winged falcons, which left behind a large number of corpses of their companions, watched the warship sail out of the territorial airspace, and no longer attacked fearlessly.
"Seven."
Duke dispersed the Olympic hand and Sand Eagle, and left the battle cabin contentedly.
In this short connecting battle, he hunted and killed seven gold-winged falcons with a rank of 5 rings alone. For a 2-ring arcanist, the result was brilliant.
Not for a while.
The flight attendants brought a golden-winged falcon meal, including barbecue, braised in soy sauce, and stewed... The chefs in the restaurant showed eighteen cooking skills to make this golden-winged falcon meat feast.
"Well, the taste is... not bad." Duke nodded after tasting it.
These ingredients are rich in spirituality, but the taste is not that brilliant, and even the meat is a bit dry.
It's not that the higher the level of the spirit beast, the better it tastes.
In fact, the meat of most high-level spirit beasts grows too solid, and it is not suitable for cooking at all.
"Eat along with you." Duke called to Mu Lali, Mu Lashan and Vivian, "Sit down together, I don't pay attention to these rules here."
Eat and drink enough.
Duke took the three of them into the guest room to chat.
The guest room has a special isolation layer, which can isolate the prying eyes of the battleship war spirit. Duke also uses the breathing method to keep an eye on the movement of the Darth war spirit, and confirms that it cannot cross the isolation layer and spy on the guest room.
The ancient spirit is integrated with the battleship and the mage tower, and can enter and exit from any place.
Although they are not human beings, most people care about their privacy, so many places in battleships and mage towers have special isolation layers.
Block the perception of the ancient spirit, so that guests can rest assured.
"Sir, let's play poker together." Mu Lali suggested with a blushing face, "I want to win back the money I lost last time."
Duke took out a box of poker: "That depends on your ability."
"I'm not afraid, but sir, you don't allow card counting. Once you count cards, no one can win you."
"Don't worry, I don't count cards." Duke replied.
Playing cards with people around him, he wouldn't need Xiaoyi's assistance, otherwise it would be a bit too despicable.
It is unreasonable to use a supercomputer to play a card!
The game of cards is enjoyable and harmonious.
Happy days, time always flies by.
Flash.
After a week-long flight journey, I finally arrived at the destination of this trip, the Holy City of Offa.
It is a huge emerald-colored lake. On the water surface in the middle of the lake, there are continuous buildings, forming a majestic and spectacular city skyline.
Sky, water.
The real city and the illusory city are integrated, as if the two cities are stuck together.
Eighteen snow-white long bridges extend continuously along the mirror-like water surface, like six endless silk threads, firmly fixing the city and preventing it from swaying with the lake water.
Suddenly.
On the calm surface of the lake, a figure jumped out and smashed into the lake water.
Even if it has not yet landed, the battleship Canglan, which is still a thousand meters away from the lake, can hear the voice of that figure.
Low and distant.
But full of loneliness, like weeping and complaining.
"Ah, I heard the familiar whale song again." Siscolli appeared in front of the porthole at some time, and sighed with a smile, "Whale song mirror lake, this is the most magical lake in the wild continent!"
Half is a lake and half is a spring.
Half of it has whale songs, and the other half has spiritual transpiration.
Looking for tickets~
(end of this chapter)