Chapter 204: The Flames Over Elpahim V
In the darkness, Fang Yu crawled in the direction of the anchor chain, and in the narrow space, his mind still seemed to be uncontrollably churning about the previous scene. Although he has been in this world for a long time, he will not make the same mistakes as in the past, so that he will make a lot of jokes.
But that scene still left a faint and lingering sense of touch in Fang Yuan's heart - yes, the Electors are an alternative existence in this world, and that is not really a parting of life and death.
But in this miscellaneous, improvised fleet, everyone who had been by his side and had fought alongside him had been brought here by him. He needed to give an account to those people.
Even if it's their end, it has nothing to do with this battle for a long time-
Far across the vast battlefield, the Electors had launched their final assault, and from the sky, from the ground, the Silver Veslan, the Spear of the Silver Forest, and the Jeffreyt Redcoats seemed to have seized that only opportunity and pinned the Shadowmen to the empty sea battlefield.
That's exactly what they're trying to achieve.
From this moment on, this battle was out of their control, and the trajectory of the fate of the North and this great war had already slipped into a direction that no one could predict.
At this moment, even if the entire detachment was turned into a brilliant fire and extinguished, there was no change in the final result. Everyone has let go of their hands and left the rest to be decided by their fate.
All that remains is their own battle.
Including him, as well as Momiji and the others on the other side at the moment, they were the last bit of strength they had left.
But the situation there may be just as precarious, and there is no room for optimism.
The speculation of failure is not difficult to predict, the cold reality lies in front of everyone, and Fang Yu understands that the next choice is not how to live, but how to die. But he has to get to that point in the end, although he feels a little sorry for his starlight, but there is actually nothing to hesitate in his heart.
Kaka's last look seemed to flash in the dark and empty world of thoughts. They are faced with a doom, but their options are just as diverse.
It's time to teach those cultists who are making waves a profound lesson, Fang Yu thought to himself.
They were not happy, but the other party also did not think that death could not stop those fanatical believers, so defeating their masters might be more unbearable for those people in a sense.
He silently threw a clockwork elf forward, and watched the silver trail of light disappear into the darkness.
Those people are looking for immortality, but immortality itself is something that does not exist, and he is about to prove it, and let those who hide in the dark see it with their own eyes.
Because when death itself can also dissipate, then it is no longer the greatest haze that hangs in the human heart. And a so-called god that can be defeated, then it can no longer dominate everything.
The so-called immortals, rotting in the dust, what could be more ironic than this?
And it all starts with their failure.
The anchor chain had passed through the narrow passage, and at last it had come to its end, and the silver clockwork fairy flew back from the front, making a soft 'click' and falling back into his palm.
Fang Ou looked down, and there was an empty room outside, what seemed to be some storage room, and there was a layer of ash in the darkness, the giant ship seemed to have passed through some dusty world, and the dust gently floated up and down with the shaking of the hull.
With one hand propped up on the edge of the platform, he jumped off it, and stepped firmly on the floor, a thick layer of dust that seemed to drown out most of the sound, and the muffled sound of the weight falling to the ground seemed to turn into a soft feather.
An unknown insect crawled through the gaps between the shelves, weaving webs like spiders, casting a gray silk web over the goods. The nets were everywhere, and the nets were stained with dust, making the room seem to be immersed in a rather old time.
Fang Yu glanced around, he had actually seen a similar scene in the silent darkness of the lower deck, but it was not as obvious as here. He couldn't help but think of the legend that this fleet had been sealed in the dust in that broken world for a long time before it could see the light of day again.
Five hundred years ago, on the scale of a thousand years or more, people can get a glimpse of the tragedy of the great war of the past, and this sealed fleet is only an inconspicuous corner of that war.
What exactly the evil star symbolizes, perhaps mortals do not know.
And how did the Noumerin elves win?
Fang Yu didn't make a sound, his mind slowly pondered these thoughts that had nothing to do with this battle, and walked forward softly, through the dust, the exit of the room was in front of him, and there was a hidden door.
Earlier, they had already asked about the situation on the other side, and Red Leaves and they also roughly knew where they were at the moment, and Fang Yu knew that he had to hurry up and make peace with the rest of the people. He pressed his hand on the door, then pushed it out.
At the same time, Momiji and his party were also accommodating themselves in a utility room. The girl from Jeffreyt's Redcoats, who was gently closing the door, turned her head and looked at the others with some horror:
"We're getting rid of them for now." Her gaze darkened for a moment: "My partner is dead." ”
Momiji clapped her hand: "That's not real death. ”
"I know, it's just ......" Six Shadows shook her head, not knowing what to say for a moment, she thought that the annoying guy would not die. In Fenris, in each of her previous adventures, she and the other party have faced many crises, some of which were even self-inflicted. It's just that every time before, they can always save the day.
She thought that the other party could always escape from danger and never encounter real danger, just like those lucky ones who were favored by Elaine, who always had the ability to seek life from desperate situations.
But it turns out that it's not, reality is sometimes so sudden, no one will have the ability of the protagonist, everyone will die, it's just sooner or later. It's like the collapse of a myth, the shattering of luck, giving people a slight sense of disillusionment.
Momiji seems to see through what the other party is thinking at a glance, she likes the beautiful eyes of this girl quite much, and there is a certain ignorant dream sense in the ethereal, simple and kind, just like she used to be.
She smiled slightly, "We're fighting for them now." ”
They are the saints who dwell among the stars, whom the Korin call the gods of Orin, and the wise and high ones who scan the land with their eyes, who have experienced the same war.
When the gods of the previous generation fell and a new god arose, the plague of Essorin.
The Electors didn't believe in the gods, but Rokage heard Momiji's words and smiled reluctantly. Will the goddess of fate favor them? From now on, it seems that the other party's divine power is beyond the reach of the whip.
But words of comfort can always warm people's hearts, not to mention the whispering between the two girls, when Wuxia walked back from the door, as the only man among the three, he felt that he had to take on some kind of responsibility.
It's a pity that a reality that makes him a little embarrassed is that he is actually the weakest link among the three. However, the humble strength does not reduce the vigilance in Wuxia's heart, on the contrary, it makes him more responsible.
He looked a little worried, and whispered to the two ladies, "I really don't see them, but have we really gotten rid of them?" It's such a big place on the ship, and the other party will only be more familiar with it than we are. ”
Momiji was slightly stunned, looked at the other party and asked, "Do you have any ideas?" ”
"I don't know," Wuxia shook her head, "My clockwork elf was lost in the previous battle, but I have a bad premonition, and it's a little quiet right now." While this may seem like giving us a respite on the surface, I would like to remind you that this is not a game, there are no save points, this is on the other side's ship. ”
Momiji's face also became serious, and she couldn't help but look around, the sudden silence on the battlefield seemed to give them an illusion, this was a rare respite.
But in fact, there is still a lot of crisis around them, and their situation has not changed at all. What they need at the moment is not to rest, but to rush to meet Fang Yuan, and they must fight quickly, not give each other a chance to adjust.
Wuxia is right, this is on the opponent's home field.
She nodded, "You're right, we should make peace with Ed soon." ”
"That's what I thought too." Wu Xia breathed a sigh of relief, the other party seemed reasonable, very capable, and a veteran. There were only three of them at the moment, and he was worried that he would meet someone who was stubborn.
Especially since both of them are women, if there is a dispute, he will definitely fall behind.
Now that they had reached a consensus, the three of them no longer hesitated, and quickly entered through the utility room and through the door on the other side. As he entered the next cabin, Six Shadows paused slightly, reaching out to the bulkhead.
"What's wrong?" Only Momiji noticed this detail and asked in a low voice.
Six Shadows was slightly stunned and shook her head, her eyes stared at the gray wooden planks, the ground seemed to have deposited a layer of dust, and the rotten wooden shelves seemed to have traveled through a long time to this point in time.
In fact, when they landed on other ships before, they were more or less aware of it, but the interior of this huge ship was particularly conspicuous.
"Have you ever heard of a world full of dust?" Six Shadows asked.
Momiji looked back at her, she seemed to have heard of a world covered in dust, as if death and the end of time, in Ossyria, where the elves of Quinasti called the Mountain of the End.
"What do you mean?"
But the Six Shadows bit their lipes and didn't answer.
The two of them talked in a low voice, but they didn't slow down at all, just moving along the dark and silent cabin, and Momiji finally noticed that something was wrong. She stopped abruptly and asked, "How many cabins have we passed?" ”
"Two? Three? Wuxia, who was walking in the front, turned her head, and a hint of suspicion flashed in her eyes: "What's wrong?" ”
"That's not right," Momiji said in a low voice, "We've been walking for almost three minutes." ”
"Three minutes?" Wu Xia's eyes were full of confusion, as if time had lost its meaning to him: "How is this possible, we just left that utility room......"
But Momiji raised the pocket watch in his hand, and under the silver cover, the scale where the hands had passed clearly had a great discrepancy with their concept of time.
Her face darkened a little, revealing her snow-white teeth in the darkness, like a wild beast showing its fangs, and pressed a sentence out of her throat: "It's a trap!" ”
It was an illusion, but among the three, it was the Six Shadows who reacted first, and she was born as a nightingale, and she immediately pulled out three daggers from under her leather armor, one left and two right, and threw them into the corner of the darkness.
There was a purple glow in the dust, as if a transparent curtain had been lifted, and sparks scorched the corners of the curtain and revealed what was hidden behind it.
It was a crystal that shimmered red, and each one was watching them, the skeleton-like mechanical arms hidden under the crimson light, holding a series of magic guns, pointing the muzzles of a row of black holes at them.
The muzzle of the gleaming cold light resembles a thorny forest.
Six Shadows pressed the remaining dagger in his hand, tensing his nerves, ready to make a move at any time. But Momiji reached out to stop her, and she looked into the darkness, where a commotion was rippling among the creatures of the Nightmare Furnace.
Then, from behind the furnaces, a tall, shadow-like figure parted them and stepped forward with its head held high. It is like a huge queen ant who appears among a swarm of ants, strutting with its head held high, looking proud and elegant.
The creature was cloaked in a gray cloak, a dark red that seemed to flow like blood underneath it, and it changed in a mystical pattern, and it looked at everyone condescendingly, but its face was completely unreadable in the shadows, only like a cloud of smoke.
However, the cloak outlines the shape of smoke, as if it were a vague figure.
Just in the midst of the figure, a purple flame burned.
As soon as Momiji saw the purple fireworks, she immediately recognized the identity of the other party, the shadow man, but she had never seen a shadow figure in this state, and that was undoubtedly the reason why they got their name.
The other party didn't say a word, but his body seemed to exude suffocating coercion all the time, and it only looked at them with a hollow face, and under the shadow of nothingness, it seemed to give birth to endless despair and cowardice in people's hearts.
Momiji seemed to hear the sound of her upper and lower teeth tapping lightly, which made her feel extremely uneasy, and she tried to clench her teeth tightly, but to no avail.
She was a little evasive, but also a little fascinated to gaze at the void beneath that shadow-like countenance, and for a moment her misty eyes seemed to see the end of time, the end of the world.
It was an empty, silent and cold universe,
But for a moment, she came back to her senses, and her gaze involuntarily swept to her companion, and all three of them were exactly the same pale. At that moment, they realized the horror of each other, it was not some mysterious illusion, but the crushing of pure strength.
The creature in the shadows stared at them like that, and the three of them couldn't move.
Then, the other man stretched out a hand, a cloud of smoke that seemed to extend from under the tattered cloak, and it lightly touched Momiji's forehead, then shrank back. An unfamiliar, cold voice sounded in the minds of the three of them at the same time:
"Long time no see, Chosen One."
"Long time no see?"
Behind Momiji, Wuxia was chattering with her upper and lower teeth, he was the only non-combat member of the three, and the opponent's coercion was more direct and terrifying to him. The cold aura only seemed to freeze his thoughts, making him unable to even think about the meaning for a while.
But at that moment, all of a sudden, a bright red flame seemed to be reflected in this dark and silent world. He looked up in amazement, and his eyes could clearly see that the flames were bursting out from the magic furnace of the red leaves in front of him.
It was as if the moment a star was born, the light was generated, and then it converged inward, turning into a singularity, and even time slowed down.
But the warm light generated in the previous moment seemed to dissolve all the coldness in the empty universe, and the feeling of blood surging and heart beating again suddenly returned to his body.
However, before Wuxia could speak, she saw Momiji turn around, holding his hand with one hand and pressing Liuying's hand with the other, looking at him with a serious gaze and asking, "What's your name?" ”
"Wuxia."
Barely thinking, Wuxia blurted out.
"Then Wuxia, I'll leave it to you."
Momiji nodded lightly to the two of them, then pushed them hard, and an obelisk-shaped magic guide structure appeared between the three of them, and then with a flash of silver light, an invisible force pushed them backwards.
But the next moment, an incomparably brilliant silver glow, as dazzling as a blooming supernova, shone out from the magic furnace of the red leaves.
The light quickly engulfed the magical guide structure in mid-air, from front to back. It also swallowed the autumn leaves that stood in that place, and turned the girl's body into pieces of dust.
At that moment, the timeline seemed to end in an instant, and returned to its normal state.
The dazzling flash was followed by a loud bang, and waves of air rolled up all dust and rushed towards the face.
The latter fell heavily to the ground, tears and snot falling together, and before she could react, she coughed loudly before she could react, and then she felt a hand reach over and grab his hand.
"This way."
Six Shadows shouted in a low voice, grabbed him, and whispered at a very fast pace: "It's too late to make peace with Ed, I want to find a way to lure that thing away, you go to the magic pod, Momiji is dead." Right now, you're the only one who can use these fire djinn. ”
As she spoke, she stuffed a heavy backpack into Wuxia's arms with one hand.
"Take it."
"Remember, don't let everyone down."
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