Chapter Eighty-Five: The Resurgence of the Golden Flame (I)
Fang Plover walked to the bow of the boat and looked down, the fish-like hull of the wind boat was slowly parting the clouds. The clouds dispersed, revealing a charred black earth beneath the gaps in the clouds, and the broken walls of the city were like silent embers, scattered in the vast desolation.
At the end of the horizon, the outline of the city walls can still be faintly seen in the north, outlining the town that once lived nearly 200,000 people, and its bygone prosperity buried under the rubble.
The overcast northern skies herald an impending storm that could bring a whole winter and blizzards, hiding all uneasiness beneath the snow.
There are some black dots on the ground that are moving, about people, the spear of the silver forest has a station near here, Fang Yu doesn't know if it's those people.
The community says that the two major alliances in the north are in full swing to integrate the new forces, but the specifics are unknown.
Unlike other sources of information that are readily available, there are generally few channels for the outside world to know about the affairs within professional guilds.
"You're here? Kita had found something before, you better ask her," Luo Hao was busy with the sailor's work at the bow of the ship, and said to him while wrapping the cable around the pulley, "It seems that something is following us." ”
"What is our height now?"
"Fifteen hundred, no, about thirteen hundred, above the clouds. The airflow varies greatly, and the wind speed is about seven meters. ”
Fang Yu withdrew his gaze from the outside, and the lingering feeling seemed to come back, as if there was a gaze, looking at them: "Didn't you ask her?" ”
"Kita, she doesn't seem to be afraid to talk to me."
Fang Yu shook his head, their scholar miss was indeed more recognizable.
He picked up the microphone hanging from the mast and said, "Kita? ”
May's voice came from there: "Mr. Eddard? ”
Fang Yu didn't expect that she was also in the magic pod, and after a little surprise, he said, "Can you help me ask Ji Ta what she found?" ”
Mei Yi put her hand over the microphone, turned her head, and after a while, turned around, let go of her hand and replied quietly, "Kita said that the Wind Elemental Detector has found several anomalies of unknown significance, and has been following us since last night. ”
"Last night?" Fang Yu was a little surprised, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" ”
"They didn't follow us all the time, at first they were just a few flickering clutter, and Miss Kita thought they were just sea creatures."
Luo Hao interjected at this time:
"I think they're really sea creatures, and I suspect that they're following us with dragon beasts, the kind that can fly."
Fang Yu looked at him: "How can you see it?" ”
"Chest and I have observed drakes a few times, but we are flying so high that they don't notice us."
Fang Ou leaned out of the side of the boat, looked out, and asked, "Where are they coming from?" ”
"To the southwest of us, behind us." Maye held the microphone in her small hand.
At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation.
It was Kita's voice.
"What's wrong!?" Fang Yu hurriedly asked.
Mei Yi didn't answer for a while, and just as Fang Yu and Luo Hao glanced at each other and were about to go down to take a look, a somewhat anxious voice came from the microphone:
"Brother Ed, the wind elemental reaction in the south has become stronger."
"Does that mean they're getting closer to us?"
Ji Ta hurriedly nodded over there: "It's speeding up, regiment, regiment commander." ”
She blushed a little, and she had just made a mistake in a hurry, and she usually forced herself to use formal titles on formal occasions.
But Fang Yu obviously didn't care about this, because he heard Luo Hao beside him suddenly shout: "Look at the back!" ”
Fang Yu immediately turned around, only to see the fat man fly up to the side of the boat with an arrow, and with a dexterous movement, he grabbed the rope net and ran up, like a gorilla, hanging his body overboard, and one hand hanging the cable and looking in the direction of the stern.
There was a low, but noisy sound coming from that direction—
And the low is just because the distance is too far.
Fang Yu soon saw a black shadow floating under the clouds in that direction, and thousands of black dots gathered densely together, like a flowing black cloud.
But they weren't black clouds, they were just flocks of birds—countless ravens, to be exact—the messengers of doom that were said to be the harbingers of Aitarian folklore, were now croaking and screaming.
The shrill cries converged, and the moment seemed to resound through the sky.
The crows flew above the clouds and soon approached the Seven Seas Traveler, the winged flat-haired creatures that had taken over most of the sky, and the scene seemed creepy enough to ordinary people - like the end of the great prophecy and the coming of judgment.
The vision in Luo Hao's pupils was almost overwhelmed by this black that covered the sky and the sun, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and said a little exaggeratedly: "No, is there a mistake!?" ”
Fang Yu also had the same thought in his heart.
It's a hell of a life.
But legends are just legends after all, and the sight of thousands of ravens shuttling up and down the Nanami Traveler is still shocking.
Overhead, there was a fluttering sound, and it was these black birds on the masts and cables of the ship. Luo Hao jumped off the rope net at the first time, and rolled back to the deck, fortunately he moved fast enough, and almost the next moment, a black storm blew over.
The rope net was also smashed into pieces-
More ravens hit the sails and fluttered their wings and fell, and the deck was soon filled with ravens that it was almost impossible to gain a foothold. There were even some ravens that simply smashed directly on the deck like stones, making a loud bang and turning into a cloud of flying black feathers and blood.
"What the hell is this!?"
Fang Ou then heard Parker screaming below deck.
The Seven Seas Traveler's Wind Elemental Detector can only detect creatures with Wind Elemental Aether, not the average bird, but it doesn't look like a migratory either, and the raven is not a migratory bird.
Is there something driving them away?
Fang Yu didn't have time to think more in his heart, so he rushed forward and grabbed Luo Hao on the ground, and then dragged the latter towards the hatch. However, this time he almost didn't dislocate his hand, Fang Yu hung on his head and fell to the ground, and couldn't help but slander in his heart:
"This fat man of the military has become heavier again!"
"I'm wearing double chain mail inside." Luo Hao was a little embarrassed.
"You're crazy and you're wearing armor on the boat?"
"Sleeping in armor is the basic quality of an iron guard."
"you."
Although the two of them talked back and forth, Fang Yu still dragged Luo Hao back to the inner cabin and closed the door with a 'bang'. There were a few muffled noises behind him, and the hatch trembled, and before I knew it, several ravens had crashed into it.
Fang Yu held the door with one hand and locked it behind his back, and then turned around and let out a sigh. But Luo Hao had already gotten up from the ground, walked down the stairs, and walked to the porthole of the utility room, he pressed the porthole with his hand, looked out, and couldn't help but gasp:
"Look outside."
In fact, the direction of the square plover can already be seen outside a few portholes.
More and more crows were rising from the direction of Charter City, like a few dark clouds rising from the ground.
Half a year ago, Nicol Bolas's dragon fire had reduced the place to ashes, leaving the carcasses of countless animals in the charred woods. It's an apocalyptic scenario for humans, but for ravens, it's a true feast.
At this moment, I don't know how many of their kind have gathered in this area, just look at the countless black dots to see it.
The movement in the sky visibly caught the attention of the people on the ground, who had gathered into several streams of people and were rushing in the direction of Charter City. Only a few tiny shadows were left on the empty earth, pointing in this direction.
But Fang Yu didn't care about those who stayed, he was more concerned about the actions of those who were obviously the guild's electors—judging by the other party's appearance, it didn't seem to be the first time such a situation had happened in this place.
So what kind of force is behind these ravens that make them make such a move?
From time to time, there was a muffled fluttering sound outside the ship, the sound of ravens crashing against the deck and hull, although even if they were shattered, they could not cause the slightest damage to the Seven Seas Traveler.
But this dull voice sounded one after another, which still made Fang Yu feel a little depressed, there must be a deeper reason behind any crazy move.
What's more, the uneasiness that lingered before has not dissipated until this moment.
"Check it out to the Magic Module." He walked down the stairs and said to Luo Hao.
But Luo Hao pointed to the porthole and looked back at him: "You'd better come and take a look at this." ”
"What's that?"
"Look at the people down there."
Fang Yu was about to say that he had noticed it a long time ago—but suddenly, he stopped, his gaze fixed on that direction. Looking in the direction of Luo Hao's hand, on the other side of the team that was retreating into Charter City, something new seemed to have appeared in the sky.
Fang Yu could see clearly that it was a group of dragon beasts, and there were quite a few of them, and they appeared from the southwest of the ship like a torrent emerging from the horizon.
"Commander, Southwest."
Kita changed to a communication device at this time, and the voice came weakly from the communication crystal.
Fang Yu pressed the communication crystal and replied, "I saw it." ”
"There's also in the air." Luo Hao suddenly reminded him on the side.
Fang Plover nodded, and probably saw the black dots flying from the southwest, they looked like dozens of them—the flying dragon beasts were called half-dragons—two different phyla from the well-known Wyvern genus.
They are neither dragons nor beasts, and look a bit like fin whales with huge wings. They have two pairs of wings, slender trapezoidal, scaleless and clawless, with long nerve bundles on their bodies that stick out of their abdomen like tentacles and drag behind them.
But these flying creatures all have a large mouth full of fangs, they have no vision, and they move by virtue of their sense of the elements.
Hence that they have another name – the Blind Dragon.
But these blind dragons are not easy to come by, Fang Yu has not dealt with this kind of dragon beast, but he has seen some videos of Charter City. The biggest trouble that the military and the major guilds encountered in that war was these flying dragon beasts.
To deal with them, the military even dispatched a group of dragon knights.
"But they don't seem to be coming." At this time, Luo Hao spoke again, and his voice carried a hint of curiosity.
Fang Yu actually noticed this.
The blind dragon that appeared in the southwest sky was in a parallel direction to the direction they were traveling, along with the army of dragon beasts below, heading in the direction of Charter City.
They're going to attack Charter City?
Fang Yu was slightly stunned when he saw this, but Charter City had already turned into a ruin, and he couldn't think of what the other party's purpose was in attacking a piece of ruins. People in the ruins, perhaps? But the people of the Spear of the Silver Forest shouldn't be so stupid, right, what is the value of clinging to a ruin?
He looked at it for a while, and suddenly realized that the other party's target didn't seem to be Charter City, because Charter City was not on the path of the dragon beast army, and if they didn't plan to turn around, the ruins of that city would be staggered by.
What are these Nicol Bolas children going to do?
Or what is the purpose of the will to command this army behind the scenes?
He was stunned for a moment, realizing something. Is the army of drakes he sees here with the will of Nicol Bolas—no, Lady Misu?
So does it mean that the Dragon Witch still exists, is it because Mazak and Lynn-Lucius haven't found her yet, or have they failed? Fang Yu couldn't help but think of the way Mazak held Galapeia in his hand, and he always felt that the last dragon slayer in this world should not fail so easily.
Galapeia had drunk the blood of Nicol Bolas, and with the power of the Holy Sword, it should be able to defeat the opponent again.
"Is there something in those dragon beasts?"
At this time, Luo Hao on the side suddenly said something strange.
Fang Yu was stunned, then he came back to his senses from his contemplation and looked at the other party: "What did you say?" ”
"I don't know if I'm wrong," Luo Hao stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows: "Or is it just an illusion, I seem to have seen a woman." ”
"A woman?"
These words made Fang Yu's heart suddenly.
But he instinctively felt incredulous, the direction from the Seven Seas Traveler to the dragon beast army was not close at all, and from the other party's point of view, the Seven Seas Traveler should be just a small black spot in the sky.
And when they looked in that direction, they could only see the army of dragon beasts that were black and oppressive, and it was difficult to distinguish the individuals one by one. Under such circumstances, how could it be possible to see a 'woman' in this black and oppressive tide?
However, Fang Yu immediately understood in his heart who that 'woman' would be if that 'woman' really existed.
He had the privilege of fighting alongside each other in that dream.
And that cold sentence seems to still linger in his ears:
"You're going to regret it."
Did he regret it?
It doesn't seem to be.
Traveling south from Fenris, she defeated Nicol Bolas's alternate shadow and even met her original soul, a descendant of a dragon slayer named Evriel, and a lover of Shyod. Although there were some twists and turns, everything was still going well.
The vicious curse of the past seems to have become a phantom.
It's just that at this moment, that gloomy feeling seems to have come back all of a sudden.
Fang Yu looked in that direction, and a somewhat subtle thought suddenly appeared in his heart. The two were obviously far apart, after all, from the Seven Seas Traveler, the army that appeared on the horizon was only a thin line.
But on this line, he seemed to see very clearly, as if his vision had suddenly been narrowed, allowing him to see the ugly and deformed creatures, the monsters transformed by Nicol Bolas, her children and minions.
And among the towering monsters, there was clearly a lady standing.
She was turning.
And that somewhat serious, familiar face, who is not Ms. Misu?
It's just that at this moment, her face is covered with shocking dark patterns-
At that moment, Fang Yu's heart was shocked, and he suddenly realized something, and that thought seemed to naturally appear in his heart - she was here to find them.
He involuntarily took a step back, picked up the communication crystal and shouted, "Kita, get Miss Sylvide to turn!" ”
But it's a little late.
Fang Yu saw that the lady suddenly raised her head towards them, and her golden gaze seemed to have crossed the limits of space, directly crossing a distance of ten or thousands of meters—through the porthole, and fell on his face.
That burning gaze was like two sharp swords, directly piercing through his spiritual defense.
Before Fang Yu finished speaking, his voice suddenly turned into a sharp scream, and he couldn't even tell whether the scream came from him or not, he only felt a tingling pain in his heart.
He fell to his knees as if the world was spinning, and when he looked down, the emblem that Ann Lother had given him rolled down from his robe as if it had melted, turning into a silver liquid that solidified again on the deck.
And when he raised his head again, he found that the golden gaze was lingering in his spiritual world, like two stars in a dark world, flashing dazzling light.
But the light did not have the slightest warmth, and only stared at him coldly.
Fang Yuan's eyes were dark, as if he had returned to the time when the traveler rested, and was staring at the shadow of death beneath the dragon's wings.
"You're going to regret it."
"Ed, you shouldn't have come back."
The voice echoed through the world of consciousness in the empty tunnel, hoarse and low, full of magnetism.
And the shock that this sentence brought to Fang Yu was tantamount to the moment he saw this dragon witch for the first time.
He involuntarily opened his mouth wide: "Mi, Ms. Misu......?" ”
He was answered with a sneer.
Then he saw the dragon raise its claw, stretch out a claw toward him, and a beam of golden flame shot out from the tip of the dragon's claw, right in his chest.
……