Chapter 169: Esioken
I don't know if it was because the guards didn't walk in a straight line, but the rainforest canopy of Ishokon was much thicker than Kai'Sa thought, and she was glad that she was not reckless, but listened to Karn's words.
If she used Concealment to come in directly, she might be kicked out of the crack in the world by the boundary force halfway through, and then fused with the trees and walls and died.
When she finally got out of the dense forest passage with the team of road guards, the sun was already hanging at the highest point in the sky waiting for them, and the golden sunlight was in the forest, and Kai'Sa quietly hid in the shadow of a tree.
For some reason, ordinary stealth can see through the vision of living creatures, but it can't avoid sunlight and will show shadows.
Therefore, when using stealth, Kai'Sa will try to avoid exposure to sunlight.
At this time, several road guards looked over and focused their eyes on Kaisha's body.
Her heart tightened, and she thought that she had been discovered, but as they looked away, she realized that these people were only confirming with their own eyes that the secret passage had been completely hidden in the jungle.
Kai'Sa secretly complained: These Ishtars are too vigilant!
Then she saw several other protectors come over, with their arms crossed in front of their chests, and saluted each other, and then led the guards away, saying that they had gone to dinner with them.
She was puzzled, there was no building nearby that could be used as an outpost, just a forest without any recognition, why could these people be so accurate?
After thinking about it, she felt that there were only two possibilities.
Either the place and time of the handover is fixed, or they can sense that someone is passing through the rainforest canopy, so they come and wait in advance.
When the guards were gone, Kai'Sa finally emerged from her invisibility and walked around to find loopholes in the Ishtar patrols.
After finding a loophole in the patrol, Kai'Sa stayed somewhere nearby and waited for Karn to come.
She couldn't reach Karn, so she carved words into the branches in front of her.
When Karn had synesthesia with her skin and armor, and saw the mark she had left behind, he flew in at once.
"You're not being discovered, are you? Uh......" Karn was about to ask about the situation, but was immediately hugged by Kai's arm.
"Don't worry, I've confirmed it, there's no one around." Kai'Sa said, not in the slightest intention of letting go, pestering people tightly.
She hadn't seen each other for most of the day, and for the first time in a long time, she had to make up for it now.
It was obviously too arrogant to hold hands like a walking couple in someone else's territory, so Karn didn't dare to leave the forest, avoiding the guards and reaching a nearby mountain.
Standing on the top of the mountain, their gaze looked beyond the miasma of the trees and looked at the whole picture.
The vast territory of Esiocan seemed to stretch all the way to the horizon where the sun shone.
The tallest towers protrude from the canopy, and are dazzling, angular and intricately carved.
"What's that?" The main building, located in the very center, immediately caught Kaisha's attention.
She was referring to a rock-made building, made of diamonds and squares, staggered and stacked high, white throughout, embedded with regular gold lines, symmetrical on all sides, full of geometric beauty.
These are manifestations of the original axioms of Ishtar.
In the center of the building is a chimney-like column tower, the top of which is suspended by a large regularly cut ruby, and there are four floating white rock sentry towers on each side of the building.
"The whole building is the city of Ishoken, and the tower in the center is the tower where the elders of Yunthal stay. The Yuen Alais should also be there, that is, the children of the rulers, the crown prince. ”
After Karn's introduction, Kai'Sa let out a startled voice.
"The whole city is a cohesive building, is the craftsman of Ishtar so good?"
She saw that there was not a trace of masonry on the huge white rock. But it is impossible for such a large and flat rock to occur in nature, and it is not known how the Ishtars did it.
"I can't understand that you can't learn magic well!" Karn said and flicked again on Kaisha's skull, "Everyone in Ishtar knows magic, and as long as the intrinsic properties of a substance are thoroughly studied, it can be easily manipulated by humans. They believe that the laws of all things are contained in the original axioms, and that as long as they have insight into the original axioms, there is nothing that cannot be done. ”
It can take hours to carve rock with a hammer and chisel, but a skilled element can achieve the same result in minutes.
This is the secret of the city of Esiocum, a city built by the Elemental Messengers using the Primordial Axiom and allowing the earth to help them.
"It's not like I want to learn." Kai'Sa glared at Karn, not ashamed at all, she wasn't good at elemental magic, but void magic was still pretty good.
The latter is not as disciplined as the former, and can be released even if it occasionally goes out of shape, even if the result may be unexpected......
Karn stopped lecturing her, and instead looked to the city, where ecological architecture is the perfect combination of city and forest. Rooftops, streets...... Every inch of open space has been used to the extreme, and vegetation has been planted in a regular manner.
It's as if the relationship between the steel forest and the green belt has been reversed, and the grass and trees have been planted with the power of the building belt.
It was at least a week away from the city of Ishoken, and all he could see was black dots smaller than dust moving on the white stone streets, and they were all walking inhabitants of the city.
Ishtar is a nation of mages for all, and even those who move bricks on the construction site can do magic with one hand.
By changing the weight of the sixteenth axiom, the quarryman was able to lift the boulder high as if it were a bag of feathers.
The metallurgist doesn't need charcoal to keep the furnace hot with his own breath, but he can still burn his hands if he's not careful.
Even the hawker mediates his magic through a jug of water, which is used to simply extinguish the fire.
After looking at the majestic city for a long time, Karn led Kai'Sa headlong into the depths of the lush woods, where even in the mountains on the edge of Egioken, where roadguards patrolled from time to time.
There may also be a mage tower in the mountains, which they should try to avoid, and the elemental envoys inside may be mining rare gems in the soil.
At the same time, the suspicious road protector that Kaisha had met earlier, after thinking about it, told Yunthal, who was in charge of the nearby village, about his uneasiness.
The Elder Yunthal was young, less than thirty years old, and what the Protector said piqued his interest.
He didn't say much, just went to the passage with the escort.