Chapter Seventy-Two: The Old Chess Game X
Fang Yu was slightly stunned and turned around. "A bystander? Miss Sylvide, do you see anything? β
Sylvede's shallow eyes reflected the lights in the hall, slightly bright. Her tone was slightly mysterious: "Isn't the repeated reappearance of the past exactly what the owner of this place wants us to see?" The catastrophe that befell Dorifin, the desperate memories of those who experienced it, haunted into phantoms, turned into what each of us saw in our dreams. β
Fang Yu thought for a moment, this statement did have some truth. But was what they had experienced in their dreams really what the ghosts of Dorifinn had seen and heard? He couldn't help asking, "But there are some exceptions, and Kita sees things differently than we do." β
That's when he described Kita's dream.
"This dream reveals a lot of clues," Sylvid thought for a moment, and nodded her chin with her white fingertips. "First of all, we have to make sure that every dream has a purpose, that dreams are the vision of their former owners, that they want us to see, that this is such a deep attachment, that it must contain the hopes and regrets of the past."
"I want to survive." Tianlan suddenly said categorically, and she said again: "She must have wanted to survive so much, and on that cold altar, I could clearly feel such a strong desire in her heart. The voice told me that she didn't want to die, that she still had unfinished business, but I could only watch as I slid with her into the darkness and cold......"
"How she wished she lived, but I couldn't do it, I couldn't, Brother Ed, I was never so scared." She was a little incoherent, and as she spoke, tears the size of beans rolled down again.
Attila walked over and patted her on the back to make her feel better, crying and throwing herself into the elven girl's arms. "Sister Attila, I'm so scared!"
"Alright, Sky Blue, it's all over." Attila said with relief.
Sylvid waited until Sky Blue's mood had calmed down a little before continuing, "That lumberyard must be a very important place, at least containing some kind of obsession with the person who made Kita see all this in her dreams. β
"Could that be Chris's lumberyard?" Fang Yu asked.
Attila shook her head, "If I'm not mistaken, Chris said that his family's lumberyard was built after Dorifin was abandoned. β
"But if there should have been a number of lumberyards on the outskirts of the city in this forest before Doriphon was abandoned, then it's hard to determine which one it was." Fang Yu shook his head.
"But we don't need to be sure which one, the adventurers who have entered this inn for more than ten years have seen countless fragments, but not every fragment has a meaning, we just need to be sure that this illusion is from the vision of the people who experienced the catastrophe more than thirty years ago." Sylvid replied softly, "But the lumberyards described by Kita are quiet and peaceful, and they are indeed somewhat out of step with the obsessions that haunt the city. β
"Not everyone is seeing a scene like the chaos and the end of the world." "What I see is the everyday life of the city, and I seem to be in a square where people are celebrating. β
"Where's Miss Shesta?" Fang Yu couldn't help asking.
"Shesta sees the same thing as I do." Sylvid replied for her maid.
Fang Ou looked at Dictor to the side, the older knight had arrived only one step before them, and stood in the hall in military uniform, looking a little out of place with the other guests. He looked up at the crystal lamps on the ceiling with a thoughtful look. It wasn't until Fang Yu inquired that he briefly described what he had seen.
A bridge, fleeing people.
A bridge, fleeing people. It didn't sound that different from what Sylvid had seen, and it wasn't surprising that Fang Yu thought that on the day of the disaster, he would have experienced the most of it.
"Do any of you have any clue about that disaster?" Fang Yu asked.
Everyone shook their heads.
The most intuitive of these people to see the catastrophe happen should be Sylved and Shesta, but according to the noble lady, it is as if there is an invisible force interfering with the illusion, so that they can only see the collapse of buildings, the rising of fire, and the tragic death of people, but they cannot see what affects all this.
Fang Yu thought back to what he had seen, and it seemed that this was exactly the case. But he has another speculation. "But I think Dorifin's disaster may have something to do with the Dark Dragon."
"Dark Dragon?"
Only then did Fang Yu describe what he saw. He spoke of the Oath Keepers, and that only these last dragon slayers in the world still had this title, and what else was there to do with them but the Dark Dragon?
ββ¦β¦ Moreover, if it is a dark dragon, then many things make sense, such as why the dragon-worshippers appeared in this place, and why Kaurin-Ihurian wanted to suppress the truth about Dorifin's abandonment. β
"But didn't Mazak say that Nicol Bolas was killed by the hero Thuyod more than a hundred years ago?" Sky Blue wiped away her tears and couldn't help asking.
"But he also said that it would come back again," replied Fang Ou, "and remember, that the Traveler's Rest was also established in the Traveler's Swamp more than thirty years ago, and that Mr. Mazak had said something similar to that of his grandfather thirty years ago when he felt the aether magic in the dragon's horn stir up, and concluded that Nicol Bolas had revived again, and came to Aquin. β
"It seems like that's the case, you're amazing, Brother Ed, if I had forgotten about it a long time ago." Sky Blue couldn't help but be a little amazed. She seemed to have finally forgotten what happened before, and she was a little happy: "In this way, Sister Attila has a clue to what she is investigating, and our luck is really good." β
Fang Yu just smiled when he heard this, he must have had to brag about himself before, but after Miss Scarpe left, this kind of thought seemed to fade a lot.
He looked at Attila, and Miss Elf was looking at him, her emerald green eyes slightly bright.
"Thank you." She said to everyone.
"It's not too late to say thank you when things come to light, Miss Attila, and I think you'll be happy to accept it." Fang Yu looked much calmer, and only said, "Actually, there is another problem here. β
"Brother Ed, what's the problem?"
"We can't forget that it must have happened here more than thirty years ago, and if Nicol Bolas had already recovered by then, why are the Dragon-worshippers still here today?"
"Maybe they're looking for traces of their master here?" Azure asked.
Sylvid listened to this answer and shook her head slightly. "I'm afraid not, I don't think what happened here thirty years ago has anything to do with them." Although she didn't know the cause and effect of this incident as Tianlan, Jita and the others, these days, she gradually figured out the connection between this team and the dragon worshippers.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were on her, the aristocratic girl paused for a moment before continuing: "Tianlan, do you remember your dream? β
"The daggerβ" Azure flickered for a moment, and opened her mouth exaggeratedly. After a long time, she asked with a pale face, "Difficult, could it be that the people who attacked us that day were really dragon worshippers?" β
"Quite possibly," replied Kita, who spoke in a small voice, but with certainty, "they must be performing a ritual that may have something to do with Nicol Bolas's resurrection, an evil ritual that sacrifices life." β
Fang Yu also nodded. "Indeed, you think, didn't it come back to life thirty years ago?"
"You mean, those guys killed an entire city of people in order to revive Nicol Bolas?" Sky Blue recalled her dream and couldn't help but clench her fists. ββ¦β¦ Is this a dead city, not a city of migration and abandonment? β
Including the aristocratic girl, everyone couldn't help but be a little silent when they heard Tianlan's words.
Maybe a few people would have survived back then, but the number of people who died here was at least tens of thousands. And such a thing eventually became a dusty secret and disappeared forever from people's memory.
For nearly half a century, only such a ruin remains, and the illusion lingers.
"That's what the ghosts want to tell us?"
ββ¦β¦ But what are they trying to tell us? Sky Blue asked softly.
Fang Yu frowned slightly.
In fact, he had a faint feeling in his heart that the answer that the ghosts were going to tell the world might be the secret that had appeared here thirty years later for the followers of the Dragon Worship Cult.
Nicol Bolas has returned, but why do these cultists remain haunted in the ruined city? Why does the Elpahim Artisans Association issue quests every year for adventurers to investigate and get secrets?
He knew that behind it all there would be an answer, some who knew and some who didn'tβsome who carefully covered something, and some who buried history.
Behind all the clues, it may be pointing to a history that Mazak said the entire kingdom would not want to look back at - the era of the Dragon Witch.
Is it thirty years ago that the followers of the Longists did not really get what they wanted. Fang Yu couldn't help but have such a thought in his heart, because he remembered what Mazak had said to Nicol Bolas's Shadow at that time - today was not the time to end all grievances.
The descendant of the dragon slayer then chose to let go of Nicol Bolas's shadow formed by the dragon's broken horns.
Why?
Fang Plover boldly guessed that it was because Nicol Bolas was still very weak, and he would never appear in front of the world easily until he had enough strength.
For thirty years, it has been dormant in this swamp, grudging and seeking revenge, but cautious. Mr. Mazak's ancestor, Huyod, and even three generations of his generation, came to Aquiin several times, and even established a traveler's retreat here at one point, but could not get the slightest clue from the misty swamp.
As the last dragon slayer, Mr. Mazak should know that there is not much time left for him, so he will make that choice.
The more Fang Yu thought about it, the more he felt that such a possibility was that if the dark dragon had really revived in this city thirty years ago, it had not gained all its strength in that disaster.
Is it because of something that went wrong in the plan of the dragon worshippers?
Or is it something else?
He had a vague feeling that he might have grasped the thread of the problem, and the most important thing now was to find the Dragon Worshippers, or find what they wanted from this ruin before they did.
"By the way," Fang Duck looked up and asked, "Where's Parker?" β
"Of course he hasn't gotten up yet, and if you don't throw him out of bed, it's hard for him to wake up." Tianlan snorted on the side: "Mr. Hansen found someone to call him on the third floor, so I didn't bother to pay attention to him." β
As he was talking, Fang Yu happened to see Han Sen coming over with his own people, and the latter couldn't help but laugh when he heard Tianlan's words: "Miss Tianlan, I just asked my subordinates to go to the third floor to get the martyrdom mark of the Loyal One, I heard that your companion happened to be in room 3007, but it was just by the way." β
"Good evening, Eddard." After saying this, he nodded to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yu also bowed in return, and then asked, "When the mission is triggered, don't we need to go to the third floor?" β
Hansen shook his head and touched his bald head. "No, it's not that much trouble, we'll just wait in the hall. Later the lady will come from that direction, just like the hapless Jeffrey, she can't actually see us, we just have to follow her. He pointed to the stairs.
"Is she a ghost too, but didn't Jeffrey see us at the end?" Azure asked.
"Well, that's an exception, you know. Mr. Parker's luck is so good, I've seen that happen once in my life. β
"It's too bad," Azure said angrily, her blue eyes rolling at the thought of something. "But in other words, we have really solved the trouble of poor Jeffrey, who saw us last before he dissipated, Mr. Hansen, have you ever thought that you have never solved that lady's trouble?"
She lowered her voice: "The wishes of life have not been fulfilled, which is why the ghosts will always haunt here. β
She kindly asked Hansen this question.
The latter was taking the shield from behind him and tying it to his hand, and he couldn't help but flutter when he heard Tianlan's words. "That's a good reason, little girl, you haven't thought about it in the past. Unfortunately, we tried all kinds of methods, and the end result was nothing more than two. β
"Which two?" Azure asked curiously.
"Success or failure."
"Ah, that's boringβ"
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