Act XXVII
It was a somewhat dimly lit room, with some old ornaments, and it was much quieter than the lively and cheerful air outside.
In the middle of the room was a table with a small black box on the table, and a man in a black robe was already sitting, his cuffs, and the two gold trims a little dull, and he was very haggard, and his face was pale, and he did not seem to have slept well.
"Your Excellency. ”
He saw Liliana, bowed his head and saluted, and then saw Irandall and Rosen, but he didn't react.
"These two are my assistants I have asked to help, you are Harvey Dante, right?"
Liliana didn't explain much, she didn't need to say much about people who were lower than herself.
"Yes, my lord, I was stationed at the observation post of the Endless Abyss a month ago when I saw a strange light. ”
Harvey nodded, and began to state his observations.
"Strange light?"
To be given the strange name of an official mage is indeed remarkable.
"Well, it's not actually dark in the Endless Abyss, at least the first layer isn't too dark, I was in charge of keeping vigil at the time, but I slept too late the day before because I read a treatise, so I was a little drowsy by midnight......"
He said with some embarrassment, placing his hands on the table, as if to ease his tension.
"Because the sea of tranquility usually doesn't go wrong, I somehow fell asleep on my stomach until I woke up with an indescribable throbbing. ”
"Throbbing?"
When Rosen heard the word, he fell into thought.
"It's not like a fluctuation of magic, but it does resonate a little bit in my heart, and it can't be restored. ”
Harvey sighed.
"The observation post has a projection magic array arrangement that records the surrounding situation, so it is easy to restore everything recorded, which is also the meaning of the existence of this observation post, but the throbbing is different, it is completely impossible to reduce, and even at one point I thought it was an illusion caused by my sleep. ”
However, Harvey changed his words and moved the black box next to the table to the center of the table.
"It's a record of the time, you can check it out. ”
When I opened the box, it was an emerald green crystal, and when Liliana touched it, the crystal immediately projected a three-dimensional picture.
It is a tall tower built on top of a dense woodland.
"Woodland?"
Irandall was puzzled, obviously under the endless abyss, but he didn't expect that there was no seawater, but a scene like this primeval forest.
"That's right, the first layer of the Endless Abyss, the Sea of Tranquility, is actually a sea of forests, and the temperature is maintained at the temperature at the turn of spring and summer all year round, which is suitable for plant growth, and we have also opened up several fields here to grow some alchemical crops that need to grow in a special environment. ”
Harvey was unaware of Irandall's status as a priest, so he patiently explained.
As for Lawson, more attention is paid to the projected image than to this woodland.
The projection replicated the scene around the observation post, and even the humid air and the noisy chirping of insects were faithfully recorded, and Lawson could even feel the elements traveling through it, but he could not interfere with the projection, and could only watch it quietly as a spectator.
This is projection magic, a spell that completely restores the scene, and even if it is a formal mage, it needs the assistance of a magic guide to perform it smoothly.
"It was at midnight that day. ”
With a flick of his finger, Harvey zooms in on the entire image, and the camera converges on the top of the tower, in a lighted room.
A robed mage was holding his head out, a heavy book spread out in front of him, but his gaze did not fall on the pages, but gradually drifted away, looking lethargic.
This is exactly Harvey himself.
Harvey smiled a little embarrassedly, then sped up the projection slightly.
It can be seen that he didn't last long before he fell on his stomach and began to fall asleep, and in the process he drooled some water onto the pages.
"I think it should be ...... at this point in time"
Immediately afterward, Harvey returned the projection speed to normal, and saw himself in the projection suddenly wake up, a little lost, and look around.
"At this time, I was looking for the source of the throbbing, but unfortunately, I didn't find any trace. ”
In the projection, Harvey ran to a strange instrument and pressed a few buttons, but immediately shook his head, looking disappointed.
And Lawson also felt that from that instrument, a wave of magic power came from it, and it seemed to be a scanning probing type magic guide.
During this time, neither Liliana, nor Irandall, nor Rosen perceived any unusual movement in the projection, which, as Harvey said, was a vibration that could not be recorded.
"Just as I was hesitating to inform the other mages who were resting, the light appeared. ”
Harvey said with a sigh of relief, looking at himself in the projection.
And the three of them followed his line of sight.
Harvey sat down in the projection, as if still thinking, and then the mutation occurred.
A ray of light burst out from a cliff not far from the observation post, reaching straight into the sky, but when it approached the border of the endless abyss, it suddenly disappeared, and no trace could be found.
This pillar of light is about the thickness of a person, and the whole is silvery-white, and Lawson did not feel any breath from the pillar of light, nor could he analyze the specific composition of this pillar of light, the only thing he could know was that it was a light bursting from the depths of the endless abyss from the bottom up.
The pillar of light lasted for a short time, and after a few moments, it disappeared completely, leaving no trace.
To be honest, the whole process felt a little creepy, and there was silence, neither sound nor magic fluctuations, only the silvery pillar of light from the abyss.
"Any idea?"
Liliana glanced at Rosen, and when it came to holy relics, I am afraid that no one in the audience had more say than him.
"First of all, we have to make sure that all this is real. ”
Rosen said, then reversing the entire projection, pausing as Harvey was about to wake up, and then pulling his perspective somewhere else.
"What?"
Irandall was a little puzzled, but she soon understood why Rosen was doing it.
Because Lawson focused his perspective on a six-legged slippery lizard in the jungle.
"It's a sea lizard that feeds on magical plants...... You can feel the magic!"
Harvey also immediately understood Rosen's intentions.
Sea lizards are sensitive to magic, and if the mages can feel the throbbing, then so can the beasts.
Everyone focused their eyes on the sea lizard, only to see that almost at the same time as Harvey in the projection, the sea lizard, which had been sleeping, suddenly woke up and was restless.