A bright bonfire leaps into the field of vision.

The warm light cast into the open field in all directions, and the whirring sound of the flames rising and burning was long hidden under the chatter of the people, interspersed with a few shrill children's screams and laughter, but at this moment there was no one to blame them.

Fireflies fluttered across the dark lake, and a witch doctor in yellow robes stepped down on a high platform in the distance, and the crowd quieted a little, making way for the old man to slowly walk to the campfire. In the light of the fire, the bronzed face of the witch doctor was painted with mysterious patterns, and he held a cane with a bone shard in one hand and an ancient stone slab in the other.

Fang learned from the clergy in the Maryland Temple about the general steps of this celebration.

First the flame is lit by the ignitist, and then a high deacon comes up to recite the prayer and prays to Andama that more life will be born on the desert and that the shadow of the flame will take away decay; At the end of the service, the Sand King Babaltan appears and receives an audience from his people, followed by an audience with the envoys of Kaorin-Ishurian and the offering of gifts.

When all this is over, there is a carnival, dancing and dinner, and the festivities continue until the middle of the night, and those who do not want to leave can even stay until dawn.

Then the guards will drive the rest away and close the palace gates.

This old witch doctor should obviously be the deacon.

Fang Yu didn't bother to listen to the long prayer recited by the other party, and turned his gaze in other directions: more and more people were converging into the clearing, the light of the bonfire was only a small circle below the high platform, and in the darkness in the distance was a vast sea of light like stars—the sparkling light was the crystal of light in the hands of the people.

The glow of darkness stretched beyond the palace.

Most of the inhabitants of Questak should be gathered at this moment, and there is a larger square outside the palace, which should be just as spectacular at this moment.

Most of the guests who could enter the palace were nobles and merchants of some status, and they were not purely commoners, and he was only allowed to enter with Alef's warrant. Ordinary people who are not qualified will meet in the square outside the palace, where there are more and bigger bonfires and various performances.

Outside, the royal family would distribute food, fruits, vegetables and wine, so that the poor could also participate in the annual celebrations.

On the contrary, the nobles need to bring their own food-

Fang Yu thought to himself that this was humane, after all, all the princes needed was a social occasion, and they didn't care about that bit of food and drink, some of them were domestic servants, and it was okay for the servants to bring enough food and wine for a banquet.

In addition to these two places, the temples will be open today, and believers will have evening prayers and communions in the temples, and before he leaves Ms. Marlan's church, he will see that he is preparing for the great celebration this evening.

However, this festival is only more solemn in Cuestak, and in other parts of Istania it is often only prepared by each family, there are no parades and revelries, unlike the winter festival that is common in Kaurin-Ishurian, from north to south, and even in Van Rik where it does not snow.

Fang Yu withdrew his gaze, and the deacon's prayer was finally finished.

"May Andama bless the silver rustling sea."

The other party concludes with a congratulatory message.

The guests in the square also echoed in unison, and the sound of prayer came and went, like the waves of the sea.

For the Istanians, the sand sea is one with them, and this thousand-year-old homeland carries the living civilization of the desert people.

This greeting was spoken in the Kaulin language, which should be understood by the Cowling, which was certainly not the case in the past, but after Istania joined the Kaurin-Ishurian, there were more and more tourists and electors, and this ancient country had to 'follow the local customs' and make some adjustments and innovations.

Fang Yu looked around again, secretly guessing how many of the guests present were the Electors.

Every year, the Penelope royal family invites guests who are not nobles into the palace to participate in the celebration, and these invitees are mostly electors – or tourists, to be exact. As you can imagine, this is actually a business, and how many people to invite and who to invite are naturally private transactions between the royal family and major travel agencies.

Every year, almost 300 places are distributed to major travel agencies, these travel agencies - it is the 'cross-border travel agency' that Fang Yu has heard of in the past, and the sightseeing channel of Xingmen Port is of course not operated by Xingmen Port himself, but is operated by more than 100 'cross-border travel agencies' of all sizes around the world.

There are about twenty-seven such travel agencies in the third division, of which there are three of the larger ones, and Ai Xiaoxiao's family and Tang Xin came to Aitalia through one of the three 'Xinghui' travel agencies, among which the Sand Festival is one of the classic sightseeing projects, and Ai Xiaoxiao has mentioned it more than once.

However, the sightseeing itinerary is divided by season, and Ai Xiaoxiao's itinerary did not originally include this celebration. In fact, if it weren't for the postponement of the Star Gate, their family and Tang Xin would have returned to Earth a long time ago, and naturally they would not have been able to catch up with this celebration.

Ai Xiaoxiao mentioned this incident with some pity.

Fang Yu looked around, and he didn't know if she and Tang Xin were here, the two should be with the rest of the Seven Seas Brigade.

After the celebrant announced the start of the celebration, the atmosphere around him suddenly relaxed, the open space was already crowded with people, the voices of people were getting more and more noisy, everyone's mood was more or less excited, and from time to time the sound of laughter came.

Officials of the royal family appeared on the high platform, and Fang Yu glanced in that direction twice, realizing that Babaltan, the king of sand, might appear next. He was also a little curious about the legendary Sand King, but he had to walk away for more urgent things at the moment, and when Babaltan appeared, the scene would definitely be quiet again.

If it's too orderly, it's not very convenient for him to act.

While there was still a commotion in the clearing, he turned around and walked away from the crowd to the periphery. These days, he has entered the palace no less than twenty times, and although he has not found any opportunity to enter the forbidden palace, he is already very familiar with the outer areas of the palace, and he has found a few routes to enter the forbidden palace.

Because there are nobles all around, although there are crowds, everyone is proud of their status, and they are not as crowded as canned sardines as outside the palace. It didn't take him much time to separate the crowd and walk to the periphery of the clearing, where there were naturally guards and patrols outside, but Fang Yu was not surprised to see this scene.

Sure enough, as he expected, in order to prevent accidents, the Penelope royal family did send more guards to this place on this day to maintain order. But the number of troops guarding the palace is limited, and a little more here will naturally be less there, which is a matter of course.

He walked quietly to the periphery of the square, in the direction of the library, where the guards were also familiar with him these days, and probably knew his relationship with Prince Alep, and when he came over, he asked:

"The celebration is about to begin, Mr. Ed, won't you stay a little longer?"

"The carnival hasn't started yet, is the library open?" Fang Yu asked hypocritically.

The guard chuckled, not expecting that this young alchemist, like them, was only interested in the revelry of the second half of the celebration. "It's not time for the library to close yet, Mr. Eddard."

Fang Yu nodded, thanked the other party, and walked in that direction.

But he wasn't going to the library, of course, and after walking a short distance, he suddenly turned around and walked into a path without a trace. And as soon as he entered the path, he dodged behind a bush and looked around in the direction of the place, and there was silence all around.

After confirming that there was no one around, Fang Yu took off his coat and hid it under the bushes, and then turned out a robe and turban that had been prepared from there and put it on, covered it, took out a control glove from the bag, opened the craftsman system, and reconstructed a knight's scimitar and put it on his body in an instant.

He took out a small steel mirror and looked at himself, roughly from the appearance, if he didn't look carefully, he would be a palace guard, a desert knight.

The only thing that displeased him was - a little shorter.

The Istanians are about some djinn blood, and the average height is not low, and the palace guards have been strictly selected, all of them are tall and tall.

He wore such a robe, which compared to the average desert knight, it was like a Paparal wearing human clothes.

But forget it, it's barely enough.

After making these preparations, Fang Yu took out a black and heavy crystal from his waist bag - if he wanted to enter the palace, he naturally couldn't carry any weapons - even if he could build it flexibly, and he couldn't use the information crystal. However, he used a little trick to change his information crystal to the same as the communication crystal.

It's just that in this way, the original communication crystal can no longer be carried, after all, no one will bring two communication crystals to make people suspicious.

Fortunately, the communication crystal was not used in the first place, so there was no need to worry about it-

He released two 'Wasp-I' from the information crystal, then released them in turn, pulled down the goggles, and began to scout the surrounding situation.

After a few days of trial, he was already very familiar with the area—the path led to a secluded garden, where after passing through an iron fence, he entered the courtyard of the forbidden palace; On weekdays, of course, there were heavy guards there, and there were two teams of guards patrolling back and forth on the nearby path, and he had the heart to enter the forbidden palace from the iron fence, and he didn't have this opportunity to show it.

But today, after the palace troops were transferred, the defense on this side was obviously much empty. Fang Yu soon saw through the vision of the clockwork fairy that although the patrolling guards were still there, they were obviously one less team than before. He let his 'Wasp-I' fly a little lower, slipping through the vision of a clockwork elf suspended in the air, and slipping from below without even noticing.

Naturally, there were also alchemists among the royal guards, and Fang Yu had discovered this early on.

Through his vision, he could easily see the fence gate in that direction, which was still guarded by guards, but at least half as many.

Seeing this, Fang Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it was almost as he expected, his opportunity had come. He carefully let his clockwork elf perch on the tree there, keeping the camera in the direction of the guards, then lifted his goggles and looked around again—once again to make sure there was no one around, before he stepped out of the bush.

Fang Yu took a breath lightly, saying in his heart that it was impossible not to be nervous, although this kind of infiltration seemed to be commonplace for him, but this kind of catch would cause huge disputes, which was obviously different from the previous times.

He calmed his mind, what Bishop Faris had said to him before seemed to have worked, after all, he was clearly aware of what he was doing and what the purpose of doing it was, and Fang Yu didn't hesitate too much in his heart.

He tugged at his turban and walked towards the route he had planned.

He waited behind a palm tree for the guards to pass by, and after about ten seconds, rustling footsteps walked by. The guards passed by about once every two minutes, and he knew the pattern for a long time, but it was much better than how often the two teams of guards passed in less than a minute.

After passing through the guards, he turned in the other direction, and walked behind the tree-trimmed wall there, and as soon as he passed through the treewall, a tall black shadow rushed towards him with this striking red light.

"Intruder!"

It emitted a low, humming sound.

But as soon as the mechanical voice came out, Fang Yu magically conjured a crystal from his hand and pointed at him, a green light, and the huge figure stopped in place.

This is a Rong Wei puppet, Fang Yu looked up at the big copper-skinned man who was more than three meters tall and motionless, the red crystal light on its chest flickered, as if it was an eye. Since he chose this path, he naturally knew what kind of traps and guards would be on this path, and he had already tried it several times before.

On the previous occasions he used his unfamiliarity as an excuse to 'get lost' in the palace, and then the caretaker of the library testified to Alep, and each time it was a thrill. After all, he didn't really want to enter the forbidden palace at that time, and there was no evidence for the other party to check.

The palace was so big that the most it was for the guards to laugh at the alchemist who couldn't find his way to the library.

The Golem is not an alchemist's flexible build, it is actually a mage's creation, and it doesn't need to be manipulated from behind. But although this kind of thing is convenient, it also has hidden dangers, as long as you have the corresponding password and 'key', you can easily control it - and there are also some means that can also make them temporarily stop moving, of course, these methods are complicated for ordinary people, but they are nothing for a professional alchemist.

The crystal in his hand can temporarily block its mana transmission for about five minutes, after which the golem will be back in action, and everything will be as usual, and no one can check that there is anything wrong.

Besides, who would have nothing to do to inspect a golem that clearly didn't have any faults?

After passing through the Golem, there were still a few guard dogs in the labyrinth of tree walls behind them, but Fang Yu suspected that those might not be specialized guard dogs—maybe they were royal hounds. However, it is even easier to deal with these hounds, Fang Yu only needs to release Miss Nini.

The little girl with long flaming hair jumped forward, fangs and claws:

“rua！”

Several hounds were immediately frightened so that their legs and feet weakened, and their limbs and heads lay on the ground together, trembling, and their mouths only whined, how could they dare to bark at all?

Fang Yu was very satisfied with Nini's deterrent power, which Miss Tata could not do, after all, the artificial dragon soul was only called a dragon soul, and it did not really have the power of a dragon. Nini is different, despite her name, she is actually the true soul of Nicol Bolas, the only true dark dragon in seven hundred years - Torragotos is only a half-finished product compared to it.

And it is not yet known whether Torragotos is dead or alive.

After passing through the maze of tree walls guarded by hounds, the iron fence behind is clearly visible. Before, when he crossed from here, he had to always be careful of the guards patrolling in the other direction, but Fang Yu happened to see through the vision of the clockwork fairy at this time, and the guards had just walked this way and turned and walked in the other direction.

For two minutes, no one would disturb him.

Fang Yu walked to the iron fence, through which the quiet courtyard of the royal family could already be seen, and a white verandah ran through the courtyard, extending into the distance, until it disappeared behind the shade of the trees. There seemed to be a shimmering body of water in the starlight, and I don't know if it was connected to the lake outside.

He looked behind him to make sure it was empty, and then approached the fence, but didn't put his hand on it right away. Instead, he took out a scroll that had been prepared for a long time, chanted lightly and lit it, and then a glimmer of light emerged from the scroll and covered the fence.

Magic Pressed Scroll.

It's worth 1,700 lissells, which he got from the Brotherhood of Woodpeckers, or a discounted price, but it's worth the money - there is a faint white light on the fence, which means that the fence was originally attached to magic, about anti-invisibility, magic alarms and the like.

Fang Yu secretly said that it was dangerous, he originally wanted to save this scroll, but fortunately he didn't save it.

After dealing with the situation on this side of the fence, he covered it, then climbed up the fence and carefully climbed over the top of the fence. Since it was only the junction of the inner and outer palaces, this layer of iron fence was not very high, and it was obviously not as tall and insurmountable as the outer palace wall, which gave Fang Yu a chance.

After climbing over the fence, he jumped down with a pop, and behind the fence was a soft muddy field, and the plover rolled on the ground, but it was not hurt, but it was only covered with some moss and mud.

He patted his body to get up, but as soon as he got up, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Because he was together, he noticed a figure coming out from behind the bushes not far away.

The figure was obviously startled when he saw him, and couldn't help but let out an 'ah', and as soon as the voice came out, Fang Yu was stunned.

It was a woman's voice.

And it's something he knows.

It's none other than Princess Celestia's sister, Princess Afifa.

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