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Darko and Otto stared at each other with wide eyes, but Otto was calm, and Darko really wondered if he was cursed. In the void, he worked hard to rescue a person, but he turned out to be a second cargo who didn't even bring the coordinates when he came out to explore.
"Would you like to introduce each other first?" Otto looked at Darko with a look of annoyance, and casually found a topic.
Darko thought about it, and had to accept the reality depressedly, "Darko, an ice magician, was on the Mercury plane before, huh...... Because of a little accident, he ran out. ”
"Because of a little accident?" Otto looked at Darko with a smile again, as if looking at a big strange flower, "You have encountered a little accident, which is not small. ”
Darko was very uncomfortable with Otto's look like this, and said with some annoyance, "It was indeed a little accident! Are you gloating?"
"There are countless alien planes in the vast void, and as far as I know, the number of explorers who have escaped from the secondary planes below the fifth level is still recorded, although the number is very small. Otto's expression became serious, but he immediately changed his words again, "However, a secondary plane like Mercury is already connected to a primary plane like Amesya, so there is no need to find a different plane with a higher power level by himself. In this case, you have to run into the void, and you may be the first. ”
Darko opened his mouth, but couldn't find any reason to refute it, so he glared at Otto, "You haven't introduced yourself yet!"
"I'm talking a long story......," Otto slowly closed his eyes and was silent for a long time before he glanced at Darko and said, "You won't be interested in it, so I won't tell you." ”
"You ......" Darko was about to listen to a bloody and tragic story, but he didn't expect to be tricked by Otto, wasting the feelings he had just accumulated, "Then how did you get surrounded by magic crystal jellyfish? Such a large group of jellyfish can be seen from a very long distance, but there is no case of mistakenness." ”
"Oh, those jellyfish, I killed them myself, and it took a lot of effort to get to the center. Otto scratched his head, "I thought it would be a good death to be sucked into a dry corpse by a magic crystal jellyfish in the void. ”
"What?" Darko's eyes widened and he looked at Otto incredulously, "aren't you seeking your own death?"
Accused by Darko, Otto touched his nose as if he had done something wrong, "I didn't realize it before, and it seems that it is indeed true when you say this." ”
Darko was completely manic, "Do you know how much risk I took to save you? You can't even think of killing yourself, why do you want to follow me out of the jellyfish swarm?"
"Since someone came to save me, it means that my life should not be extinguished, so I ran out with you. ”
Otto's expression was right, giving Darko the urge to stab him to death with an ice pick. Darko has gradually connected the cause and effect, knowing that what Otto said is probably true, and running out of the void without dimensional spatial coordinates is more appropriate to commit suicide than to explore, otherwise there is no way to explain why Otto appeared in the center of the Magic Crystal Jellyfish Swarm.
"Why am I so unlucky!" Darko's chest rose and fell sharply, and he cried out angrily, "If you want to kill yourself, where can you go? Why do you have to come into the void?"
"There are too many people in the plane, and there are too many back roads, which will not give people the pleasure of being left to die and be reborn. Otto looked at the vast void, and his eyes revealed infinite yearning.
Darko was completely speechless, and he came to the conclusion from Otto's eyes that this madman had definitely run out to die! Darko regretted for a while, if he had known about Otto's situation, he would definitely not have saved him.
"I thought you knew how to get back to the plane, but it turned out to be this situation. Darko's anger turned to frustration again, and he shook his head and sighed, "At my current rate, it may be a few years before I return to the Ametsia plane. ”
"How could it take so long? Do you think that the powerhouses of the Void Adventures are on their own?" Otto looked at Darko in amazement, as if shocked by his ignorance.
"Isn't it?" Darko looked confused.
"Of course not, a strong person who has walked the path once will connect the two points with a natural void rift, which is called a signpost in the void. Different road signs will point to different directions, such as the area where the magic crystal jellyfish gather, and I found it through the guidance of the road signs. ”
Dakota listened to Otto's account with his mouth wide open before learning the information. This is not because he is unheard, but because of the generally low level of students in the Academy of Magic, there is no instructor in the academy to explain the details of the Void Exploration. The academy also did not offer courses in this area, in fact, it was also to prevent the students from being too curious and going deep into the void at a low level to cause unforeseen consequences.
Darko asked tentatively, "If you can find the signpost, how long will it take to get back to the Amecian plane?"
"Three months at most, a week at least to be back on the plane. Otto looked at Darko with a happy expression and struck him again, "Don't be too happy! The vastness of the void is far beyond what we can imagine, and a small signpost is in this space, how easy is it to find? You know, signposts don't shine!"
"But you must know how to find the signs, right? I saved you, so you must take me back to the plane of Ametia!"
Faced with such a scoundrel's request as Darko, Otto nodded directly and agreed, "This should be the case, let's sign the contract." ”
Darko didn't expect things to go so smoothly, after all, he had already rescued Otto, and to put it mildly, it still hindered people's family's suicide plans. But since Otto offered to sign the contract, he did not hesitate and immediately began to cast spells. But his open hand in the air immediately stopped, and he realized that there was no way to sign a contract with the gods in the void. So he could only take out the parchment paper from the space ring and start writing the law contract.
Halfway through the book, Darko looked up and asked slyly, "If, as you say, it only takes three months to return to the Amecian plane, then you don't seem to have much to do after three months." Why don't you just help someone to the end and escort me to the person I want to meet?
"As you wish. Otto said yes, and then he pondered, "Will you be wiped out by the law after a year because of the breach of the deed? ”
Darko clenched his fists secretly, he knew he had earned it. Although the one-year period for chasing him has passed, the employer will definitely not give up, and if he gets the news, he will still cause trouble for him. The Amelician plane is different from the Mercury plane, it is the main plane with a power limit of up to nine levels, and if he is hunted down by someone who is too much higher than his level, he may not be able to get as lucky as he can deal with VitB12.
When Darko returns to Ametsia, he may have to face all kinds of unknown troubles, but if he is accompanied by a shield warrior like Otto, he will be able to deal with the crisis more calmly. And judging from Otto's character, he is not willing to die passively even if he begs for death. He seems to like to put himself in danger and then experience the process of falling to death in a desperate resistance. This means that as long as the contract has been signed, Otto will do his best to achieve it, and will not be passive in his work.
Daktronics writes step by step in accordance with the format of the law contract, and the light point convergence means that the format has met the requirements, and only needs the approval of both parties. Otto took the contract, read it carefully, and looked at Darko again with surprise, "Nike Remmons? You are still related to that necromancer family, and it will take you back to the Amelician plane and return to Phyllis Necrimens within a year, it's that simple, right?"
Darko sighed and nodded, "Do you think it's easy? ”
Otto bit his finger directly and flicked a little blood on his name. Then Darko took the contract and imprinted a bloody fingerprint on it. The runes of the law lit up, and the two blood stains on the contract each led to a wisp of connection, implicating the two of them on their bodies, and then exploded into a point of light, dissipating into the void. And the contract was split in two and turned into two, which fell into the hands of Darko and Otto.
"I hope this time, I can die smoothly. Otto folded the contract away, a hint of loneliness flashing in his eyes. Darko opened his mouth in surprise, but finally said nothing. The two of them haven't known each other for a long time, and they don't know each other very well, so they don't have much say in each other's hearts.
Then Darko and Otto began to travel through the void, this time the journey was very long, and on the way, Otto also showed Darko how to shuttle through the void. He directly relied on his martial arts to leap into the void interlayer, and then ejected thousands of kilometers away. In terms of speed alone, Otto is a little faster than Darko. However, this kind of shuttle is extremely physically demanding, and it is also unsafe, and the position of the warrior who pops out of the void cannot be accurately controlled, and it will be very dangerous if it encounters a void storm.
Time passed like this, and one day when Darko counted the time, he found that a month had passed since he left the Mercury plane. A month was close to Darko's expectations, but whenever he saw this void and he felt his powerlessness, he sighed helplessly, "Otto, do you think it will be that the two of us will never find our way back, and then we will both starve to death?"
"Of course not!" Otto said simply, he volleyed a little forward, and his fingertips shot out a fighting aura, which in an instant extended far away, and Darko looked in that direction, and actually saw a stone platform. Otto was the first to move towards the stone platform, and said to Darko, "Isn't this already the road sign, and the next road will save a lot of time." ”
Darko hurriedly flashed twice and came to the stone platform. The stone platform is not large, with an area of only a dozen square meters. Above the stone platform, a deep purple void crack was slowly changing shape. This is a natural void rift, common in the Void, and explorers avoid them to avoid being entangled in the unstable space within.
"This rift is no different from the naturally formed Void Rift, as long as this rift is artificially stabilized, it can be used as a spatial passage, but no one knows where they lead, so they can't be used. Otto explained to Darko, "The stone platform here is built by hand, and you can see the inscriptions on the four corners of the stone platform. Those four points served to anchor the space, allowing this natural void rift to become a spatial passage for human use. ”
"Who built these coordinates, could it be that after they passed through this void rift, they would see where they were, and then go back and build the stone platform?" Darko first examined the inscriptions at the four corners, and then saw the words under the crack in the middle of the stone platform, the top rows were inscriptions, and Darko could only recognize a few inscriptions, and below were elven and human scripts. It contains the number of the sign, the approximate distance from its location to each plane, and the information of the first recorder of the Void Rift and the builder of the stone platform.
"From the earliest days of Void exploration, there were people who used this Void Rift to save time on the journey. However, no one knows where this void rift leads, so it can only be marked when it returns the way it came. Later, such markings became a model, indicating the location to which it leads, which can provide signposts for themselves when they pass by again, and also provide convenience for those who come after them. Otto took out the magic crystal he carried with him, added mana to the stone platform, and began to be busy stabilizing the natural void rift, "The function of the magic array on the stone platform is to stabilize the void rift, but it also needs to replenish mana to play a role. Otherwise, if this rift is deformed when passing through, the body will be cut into two parts by space, hmm...... Actually, it's a good way to die......"
Darko also took out the magic crystal in the space ring, and entered the magic power into the stone platform with Otto, while looking at the inscription on it, most of the words did not work in the magic array, but still used the inscription, so Darko asked, "This signpost was built by the demons?"
"The creatures that create road signs are found by strong people of all races, and this style of stone platform is the style of the demons. However, it was clear that there were Elven and Terran powerhouses who passed by here and remarked them. Otto confirmed Darko's suspicions, and then added, "The signposts built by the Terrans are not much different from those of the Demons, and they are also built randomly from the stones found in the Void, but they are rougher, while the Elves are too flashy." ”
Otto spoke like that, and Darko listened quietly. Gradually, a magnificent picture unfolded in front of him. Over the past thousands of years, generations of powerful men have continued to explore the void. They come from different races and planes, but they share the same goal of exploring the unknown and finding the ultimate meaning of existence. Most of them are saint-level, but there are also lower-ranking professionals who have come out of the secondary planes like Darko and Otto.
In the void, there are too many factors that can threaten their lives. In this way, they move forward cautiously and go deeper, sometimes taking hundreds of years to go back and forth. As the signposts of this Void Rift were widely constructed, they found one shortcut after another. But these natural teleportation channels are not always shortcuts, and can sometimes be deadly traps. Figuring out the direction of each natural teleportation point also requires the strong to pile up with their lives and flesh and blood.
The person who originally built the Void Rift into a signpost is no longer well documented, but it is like a lighthouse, leading countless later powerhouses to rely on it to continue to explore the unknown Endless Void. Since then, natural void fissures have been discovered one after another, and those who have figured out where they are connected will record them. In this way, generations of strong men have been working step by step, gradually connecting isolated planes with road signs.
Darko was in front of such a signpost, but the place it led to was farther away from the Amisia plane. But in any case, with the signpost you can follow its guidance all the way, and one day you will be able to return to the plane, which makes you feel more psychologically safe than aimless exploration.
The teleportation array and teleportation scroll in the plane are actually still teleported with space magic, and the farther away you are, the more mana you need to consume. However, the spatial teleportation between planes relies on the laws of space, no matter how far the distance between two points is, the teleportation consumption is the mana required to break the space. This teleportation through the Void Rift is the same as interdimensional teleportation, so teleportation through multiple transit stations does not always go in the direction of the designation. It is possible that Darko is now 100,000 meters away from the Ameresia plane, and after teleporting once, he will be 10 million meters away, but after many transfers, he will always reach the closest coordinate to the Amecia plane.
When the texture on the surface of the entire stone platform gradually lights up, it means that the mana has been replenished, and the void crack above the stone platform gradually turns into a circle under the action of the magic array. Darko suddenly realized that the void rift that had turned into a circle seemed to be very similar to the portal in the space temple. In other words, this is the manifestation of the same laws of space, except that one is natural and the other is artificial. Otto took the crystal from the four corners of the stone platform and returned to the portal in the center.
"The other side may be in the range of the Void Storm, so take precautions before you get there. Otto explained, and took the lead in raising the giant shield and crossing into the space passage. Dakomer recited a spell, cast a spell to protect himself with frost armor, and then leaped into the spatial passage.