A vast expanse of darkness looms beneath the side of the Seven Seas Traveler.

From the air, the low mangrove forest spreads like a dark carpet from foot to the end of the sky, a thin trestle bridge runs through the swamp, and the dim light hangs from the wind lamp, faintly passing through the forest and through the mist.

There was a bright light on the horizon in the distance, the open waters between the woodlands, and the moonlight was pouring down from the air.

The mid-air deck wind was blowing the azure hair into a mess, but our lovely Miss Poet was only holding them down with her hands, and she was closing her eyes and taking a deep breath and making a triumphant declaration: "We are back again!" ”

Yes, they are back.

This is where it all began, the swamp, the hostel.

The shadow that stood above the barren earth, like a giant in the mist, and the red fire that erupted from the giant's empty chest outlined the outline of their memory.

Traveler's Rest –

Ai Xiaoxiao was grabbing the side of the boat and stretched her neck, and she was looking down with her little brain, as if she wanted to take in all the scenery greedily, making people almost worry that she would fall out of the side of the ship in the next moment.

Tang Xin grabbed the little princess's collar and pulled her back: "Dead, uncle and aunt let me take care of you?" ”

"Sugar Candy-" Ai Xiaoxiao stretched her tone, and she said in her heart: "Ai Xiaoxiao, Ai Xiaoxiao, you are already a mature girl, you can't rely on your good partner for everything, you have to learn to resist." ”

But no matter what I think in my heart, I just shrink my neck on the outside, and I don't dare to take a breath more in the atmosphere.

"I'll go down with you." Luo Hao suddenly said to Fang Yu and Luo Yu, who were preparing things.

Luo Yu was adjusting the magic wand in his hand, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but look back at this side.

"When I was in Mount Piried, I didn't get off the boat," Luo Hao held a cup of hot tea in his hand, and the white mist quickly drifted away in the wind, "If I don't find something to do, I feel like the bone frame is going to rust." ”

"Next time," replied Fang Yuan, "you and the big cat man, Mr. Baggins will stay to watch the ship, I will be more relieved, there must be a Caller on the ship, who do you trust you to call me to be the two of them, and besides, he can't get out of bed now." ”

He put on his gloves and buckled every lock, "The Traveler's Rest is not far from here, and it is expected that there will be no battle on this trip, you and Ai Xiaoxiao don't have to get off the boat, and Tang Xin will stay on the boat." ”

Although Luo Hao proposed, he didn't insist, and shrugged after thinking about it for a while. Since there was no fighting, it was not interesting for him to get off the ship.

At this time, Princess Brian was passing by the three of them and glanced at a few people. She pulled her hood up from her cloak and covered her blonde hair, letting the brim hang down to cover her face, before she said lightly, "Ed." ”

"What's the matter, Your Highness Princess?"

"You'd better call me Brian," she replied, "and I must warn you that this place is very different from when you left. Much has happened in the past year or so from Charter City to here and to Elpahim, and you may have to be prepared before you go down. ”

Fang Yu was slightly stunned, he had heard something about Charter City from Red Leaf before. Nicol Bolas used dragon fire to reduce the land to ruins, and the heat burned the earth into glass, and it is still a paradise for the undead and all kinds of monsters.

What's even more terrifying is that people are still fighting all kinds of dragons and beasts, all of whom are the descendants and descendants of the dark dragons.

The three guilds now used this place as a battlefield, and Elpahin's army was stationed in this area, which he had heard of for a long time, but he did not take it to heart as a rumor from the far north.

Listening to this elven princess here, I realized that they had arrived on this land.

He nodded.

It is difficult for a large box airship like the Berio to move far inland, and in fact it turns in the direction of Elpakhin when it reaches the Rainbow Sky Gorge, which is also its original destination.

But Princess Brian, the hero of the Battle of Byrne, arrives aboard the Seven Seas Traveler and stays with them. She also had to take Fang Ou and Sylvid with her to meet the legendary Prince, the elven princess who had said that the elves of Aquinn owed him a favor, but Fang Ou had never heard of this rumor.

In terms of time, I think it should have happened at the time of the Battle of Byrne? He couldn't help but wonder what was going on in between.

"Commander, your cloak." Pasha held the squarely folded cloak in both hands and handed it to him respectfully.

"Thanks, Pasha."

"Commander, no thanks." Pasha was a little embarrassed to say that the head of the regiment was so polite to him every time, and he was very useful in his heart, but he always felt unhappy on his face. In any boat, the apprentice should do all this, and there is no need to be polite.

However, Fang Yuan didn't see it that way, at least Pasha now regarded himself as an apprentice, not a servant, which was about an improvement. Although in Aitalia, the context of the apprentice is not much different from that of the servant.

This little boy has been learning alchemy very well lately, and he seems to be smart and dexterous.

In such an era, the traditional perception is disintegrating little by little, the value system planned by some people is gradually becoming a thing of the past, and with the awakening of citizen consciousness, an era that was once born on the earth is also coming to this world.

There's nothing wrong with doing the right thing at the right time.

He reached out and rubbed Pasha's head.

"Little one, call me brother."

Pasha blushed and was embarrassed to shout.

However, Fang Yu understood the hope contained in those dark and gloomy eyes and shining eyes, for a person who has lost all his relatives, what he hopes for most is the feeling of being recognized as a family member.

He liked Pasha, not because he was in the same situation, but because he was luckier.

Soon everyone was ready.

Attila did not intend to disembark, for Miss Elf had always been gentle and understanding, and Paparal had a serious illness on board, and needed to be taken care of—acute dysentery, so stretched that he could barely get out of bed.

It was about the curse mark on the Paparals that had not completely erased, or had returned to the land, and it had become active again. However, everyone unanimously agreed that this guy had stolen something that should not be eaten.

Miss Elf didn't get off the boat, and the big cat people naturally had to stay on the boat, so the number of people in their group changed from ten to eight, and among the people who had been to the Traveler's Rest in the past, there were three less, but one more Brian and Alyssa.

As Fang Ou thought, they crossed the road of their memory—the trestle bridge in the mist, surrounded by the aerial roots of sparse mangroves, and listened to the sound of cooing from time to time under the dark water around them, but it was very quiet all the way.

Just like last time, there was no trouble.

The occasional strange grunt, although the travelers once thought it was the sound of a water ghost, could clearly perceive it as just a few small creatures in the moor.

The wind lanterns hung in the mist, looking like a halo of light from a distance, and in the distance there were even greater creatures in the forest, and the dim light was the bait of the swamp anglerfish, which they couldn't afford to mess with even now.

Alyssa walked at the front of the group, looking around with some curiosity—it was the first time she had been north of Fenris, the famous Traveler's Swamp.

"Is Doriffin far from here?" She asked suddenly.

"It's a long way off."

"I'm a little curious, how far away?"

"Actually, it's not in that direction."

"Oh."

The crowd spoke without saying a word.

It didn't take long for Fang Yu to see the crooked road sign again—this 'old fellow' was still the same as last time, the same as last time, it looked like it would fall down at any time, the bark was mottled and peeled off on the outside, and it was covered with moss.

The words such as 'Traveler's Camp' and 'Traveler's Trail' on it are still the same, which is not very clear.

And not far from the signpost, there are several solitary crosses, a few more than the last time I came.

It wasn't until he arrived at this place that Fang Yu had that feeling in his heart—he was back again.

Although this is not Kapka, nor Rodell, it is not his first stop in this world. But for him, and even for Sky Blue, Luo Yu and everyone in this team, this is a place with important memories.

It is the birthplace of the Seven Seas Brigade.

He looked back just in time to see Kita's bright eyes looking this way, and Miss Naturalist tightened the large book in her arms as if it were still a wooden book. But there are some things, after all, that can't go back to the past.

It's like the Seven Seas Brigade, there are a lot of new companions.

"I miss it." Tianlan stood beside Luo Yu and chirped, "It's like yesterday." ”

And Luo Yu just held the magic wand in his hand and looked into the distance of the mist.

……

The sword that had been stuck diagonally outside the entrance to the Egunn Forest had unexpectedly taken on a new look.

The rusty sword was gone, and it was as if someone had made a new sword for it, and it was also stuck diagonally into the dirt - a sign that the crowd had noticed the moment they stepped out of the forest.

Of course, the words engraved on this cold and shining sword are still the original taste:

'Mazak's Haven'

Once upon a time, it was said that every word above was the law of the land.

In the distance, there was still a burning bonfire, sparks flying, and a few guards sat around. The old man in the twilight that Fang Yu had seen was gone, the guards seemed to have changed a circle, the people who had greeted them were gone, and the square in the distance was empty, and there was no poet.

Also with melodious musical tones.

But the people who listened to the music in the past were still there, and Fang Yu couldn't help but look at the people beside him. Sylvid was looking at him too, and her clear eyes met his gaze, and there was a slight smile in it, as if it had seen through his heart and read his thoughts.

She touched the back of his finger lightly with her fingertips, her eyebrows and eyes crooked, and she was smiling a little playfully.

When the guards saw people coming out of the forest, they grabbed their weapons with some surprise and looked up in this direction. But when he saw that it was humans, he quickly lowered his head again, and no longer cared about them.

They were only engaged in fiddling with the charcoal in the campfire, allowing the dark red sparks to fall to the ground, as in the legend of Talos creating the dwarves. But the guards were so focused, as if there was nothing else between heaven and earth but one job left.

As for the strangers who came out of the forest, it didn't seem to matter to them.

A cold wind blew away the fog in the distance, and the bonfire whirred, but there seemed to be only one sound left between heaven and earth, and the guards were as indifferent as puppets.

Fang Yu was slightly surprised, he always felt that the atmosphere here was a little abnormal, he suddenly remembered Princess Brian's words not long ago, and couldn't help but look to the side. But the elven princess didn't look back, just silently looked in that direction.

When the fog lifted, the silhouette of the Traveler's Rest appeared behind it, the gloomy, bulky tall building, each layer of maroon birch buildings, layered on top of each other, revealing a dim glow of fire inside.

He exchanged another glance with Sylvid before he and Brianne pulled up the hood behind his cloak and hung down to cover his face.

Walking across the pontoon, the square was more lively than expected, at least more crowded than the last time they had visited, but less of the relaxed atmosphere it had had been.

The crowd gathered in twos and threes, all dressed in the same color of battle robes, and adventurers were rare, and the group even saw knights and soldiers from Elpahim. In the distance, rows of horses were stacked around the square, sharp wooden stakes pointing straight to the sky, and several flags were planted, hanging low and motionless.

"What's going on?" Sky Blue looked at the stakes curiously, "How does it seem like this place has suddenly become a front line, we weren't like this last time we came." ”

"It's because of Charter City, I heard that the troops around Elpahim have been mobilized around here, didn't Sir Dickt write to us, didn't you read Sky Blue?" Alyssa looked around and replied.

"Isn't that kind of thing just for Brother Ed to see, Sir Dickt is very old-fashioned, what's so funny."

Princess Brian couldn't help but quip a little when she heard this: "Tianlan, you're right." ”

"yes."

Sky Blue immediately became proud.

However, there was an inexplicable tense air in the square at the moment, and the surrounding soldiers and members of the major guilds made them seem out of place in the crowd. Fang Yuzheng frowned, afraid of getting into some trouble, but sometimes even if you don't look for trouble, things will still come to the door.

The people looked at them with a look of surprise, and soon a slightly hostile voice came: "You have gone to the wrong place, this is not the place for children to come at the moment, haven't you read the announcement of Elpahim?" ”

The person who spoke was a warrior with a big sword on his back, and Sky Blue was angry at the sight of the other party's sharp-beaked monkey cheeks - not because of anything else, but because the other party was actually wearing the Jeffrey Redcoats' robes.

However, the Jeffrey Redcoats have been 'grounded' by the league, so this person is a peripheral member at first glance, and belongs to the most marginal kind of person.

Sky Blue glared at each other and said angrily, "We're not from Elpahim. ”

"Then it's no wonder," the great sword warrior teased, "I advise you to leave early, so as not to waste your life in vain, and don't cry in the resurrection point of the temple later, hahahaha." ”

Tianlan hates that others call her a child the most - she is obviously an attractive and mature lady, and this guy is simply blind.

She crossed her hands on her hips and was about to have a seizure, but someone made a move before her.

A silver light shot out from behind Sky Blue and flew past the cheek of the open-mouthed greatsword warrior, and before the man could react, the silver light disappeared into the swamp behind.

Sky Blue looked back in surprise, only to find that it was Princess Brian who made the shot, the heroic lady of the Battle of Byrne, who had such a hot temper? But Brian didn't look at her, just raised her head slightly, as if looking at something.

"You dare to do it!?" The great sword warrior was taken aback.

But before he could finish speaking, a low chirp suddenly came from under the swamp where the silver light disappeared behind him. Then there was a splash on the surface of the water, and three huge black shadows flew out from under the water, one of which was rushing towards the greatsword warrior with his back to them.

"Dragoon Lurker!" There was a low shout from the crowd, and there was an uproar.

Only then did the great sword warrior react, and when he turned around, he saw a dark shadow enveloping him, and the sharp claws had reached his chest.

His face was miserable, and in an instant he was so pale that he lost his blood, as if he had seen the tragic situation of his disembowelment and intestines flowing all over the ground. But how could a dragon beast lurk so close and still be undetected?

Suddenly, a strange light flashed in his eyes, because he suddenly remembered the silver light from before.

- So it wasn't attacking him?

The woman?

But just as he closed his eyes and waited to die, everyone let out an exclamation in unison, and at that moment Brian moved.

The heroic lady of the Battle of Byrne seemed to disappear from the spot, and the next moment the afterimage appeared in front of the great sword warrior, and before people could even see her movements, they only saw a bright sword light flash from under the uncovered cloak.

The long, narrow sword was as cold as snow, with a white, crystalline slender tip, like lightning stabbing the dragon beast's throat, and then quickly withdrawing.

The monster wailed in midair, clutching its throat with its hands, and slammed into its head with its balance thrown off balance. Brian backhanded the great sword warrior out of the way, and then looked at the drake beast that was coming at her, her eyes clear.

Seeing no movement from her, the drake flew back upside down, falling back into the lake with a 'bang' and splashing.

A six-sided grid flashed in front of Brian, and the gray shield blocked every drop of water tightly, forming a transparent hemispherical sphere, allowing the muddy water to slowly slide down from it.

Only then did she turn around, ready to help Fang Yu behind her.

But as soon as he turned around, a bright light appeared in his eyes, the huge black shadow had been split in two, the upper and lower bodies slipped down, and blood gushed out like a spring, blooming like a piece of blood-colored petals.

Behind the giant shadow, a slender structure with a red glow in its eyes was slowly retracting its sword and unsheathing it, and the mellow blood flowers like rose-colored liquor on the black blade were gurgling down, forming beautiful markings.

Fang Yu stood beside the structure, shook his gloves, and didn't even raise his head. Sylvid stood behind him, and the maid did not move.

Brian couldn't help but raise her eyebrows as she watched this scene, it looked like the little guy had grown a lot since she last met.

She didn't bother with the third drake.

Before the drake could leave the water, a hoarfrost had spread from the silver dagger it was holding, forming a layer of ice that froze the giant monster into a statue along with the lake beneath its feet.

Then it crashed down behind her.

Seeing this scene, people woke up like a dream.

"Elf Quinn."

The knights from Elpahim whispered and exchanged ideas with each other.

The Words of the North Wind, the Fairy of Winter, is the Elves of the Aquinn Branch, just as the Forest Elves live in harmony with nature, and their affinity with the power of ice and the elements is a power that their people are proud of.

However, those who can transform talent into actual ability are also considered to be the best among the Elves of Aquin.

At least that's awe-inspiring.

Only then did a knight come up and ask, "Are you guests from the direction of Charter City?" ”

The battle seemed to be over, and it was not expected that the drake lurkers would have arrived in this way, and if the Elquinn elves hadn't discovered them, they wouldn't know how long they would have stayed down there.

They checked the nearby swamps, but found no more enemies.

This is all the more surprising, as it shows that the elven lady in front of her seems to be aware of the situation around her.

After this short battle, no one dared to underestimate the Seven Seas Brigade. The big sword warrior who was saved by Brian didn't have the face to stay here any longer, and secretly left alone, without even thanking him.

"Is there anyone else in the direction of Charter City?" Brian asked, looking at the knight.

The knight couldn't help but glance at the construct beside Fang Yuan, a high-level combat craftsman, and he felt that the origin of this team was mysterious, but it was neither from the direction of Charter City nor from Elpahin, so he was a little confused.

He glanced at everyone a little uneasily, and then nodded and said, "The people of the Silver Forest Spear Guild and the Rose Crusader are stationed in that place, and many masters have gone there, so I thought you ......"

"We're not from Charter City," Brian replied bluntly, "but we're just passing through this place, and you don't have to worry about us." ”

There was something commanding in her tone, but the knight didn't feel any difference, and immediately bowed his head.

However, after a while, he felt that something was wrong—the other party was not his boss, and he felt as if he was facing the Grand Master, and he didn't have the slightest intention of objecting.

Brian turned back to Sky Blue looking at the ice-hardened drakebeasts—they looked a little like giant toads, pitted and bumpy with glands on their skin. The troll was dark green, but not fully physical, and was shrouded in a thick black mist.

The black mist was all too familiar to them, and Fang Ou could even smell a hint of Nicol Bolas's scent from it.

"How did the drake beast appear in this place?" He couldn't help but ask.

But the crowd retreated, making way for them in the direction of the traveler's rest.

Brian glanced in that direction before replying lightly: "This place is not as you think, Nicol Bolas's power has already penetrated deep into this area, relying on these people in front of him to barely stop its dragon beast army." ”

Her voice was soft, as if she was telling a matter of course, "That man spoke badly, but he didn't say anything wrong, the former Traveler's Swamp is completely different from the current Traveler's Swamp, you must get familiar with it as soon as possible." ”

"Familiarize yourself with all this soon?" Fang Yu paused slightly, not quite understanding what this meant.

But the elven princess did not fail to answer them, but only looked in the direction of the tall shadow, and changed the subject: "Come with me, there seems to be a person waiting for you over there." ”

"Sister Brian, you said someone was waiting for us?"

Now it's Tianlan's turn to be strange.

Didn't Mazak and Rune-Lincius leave the Traveler's Rest, and who else would be waiting for them?

……