Chapter 25: The Wind in the Sky
"The Liar Weaver has been detected heading to the Wind Firmament."
"Rechargeable Item Detected: Surging Elemental."
"Is it charged?"
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"Wait for the answer to end, charge by default, estimated completion time: one hour. Charge starts......
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"Charge is complete, and Mia's blessing is used 1/1 of the times."
"A change in the fate of key historical figures Artes and Mishya was detected, and it was recorded in the Chronicles of Twilight."
"Key historical event detected: the Battle of Imotru, recorded in the Twilight Chronicles."
"The 'Liar' has been detected to affect the original course of Lokan's history......"
"Status change...... The change failed, and the "Liarweaver" remained unchanged. β
"Permissions have not changed, and oracle detection cannot be started......"
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"Mission 'Defend Imotru' complete."
"42 per cent of Imotru households survived, exceeding the original figure of 366.67 per cent."
"100% mission completion, 280,000 experience award. Imotru prestige is constant to 'respect'. β
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"Shamu, Shamu?"
Mu Yan felt that someone was shaking him, and opened his eyes in a daze.
A familiar face catches your eye β Surya.
The girl seemed very happy to see him awake, but it was quiet all around, and she was not too quiet.
"Where are we?" Mu Yan sat up groggily, he felt sore, his throat was dry, and he was like a towel that had been wrung out after being used.
"Don't you know? Isn't that what you're proposing? β
"I brought it up...... Scheme? β
Mu Yan muttered, the scene before being swallowed by the light replayed in his mind, and the broken memories also flooded back like a tide.
Artes and Misiah were transformed into a dazzling elemental light at the last moment......
He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his throat and eyes, as if the light around him was too dazzling, and there was a slight blur in front of his eyes.
They, they just died? But I haven't attended the wedding of the two yet...... The "sonnets" that were said to be good were not discussed......
Seeing him sitting in a daze, Surya's eyes suddenly turned red, and he immediately panicked, and hurriedly took out his handkerchief.
The girl's action seemed to wake someone from deep thought, and he realized what had happened to him.
"I'm fine." He rubbed his eyes, quickly returned to normal, then stood up and looked around.
This is indeed the Sky of the Wind, and it is recognized as one of the top 10 most beautiful scenes in the game.
The Wind Sky is a very large spherical space. Divided into two halves from the middle, with air above and fertile soil below, a huge Tree of Eternity planted in the center of the space, rooted in the magic crystal bonanza beneath the soil.
Magic crystals are similar to fossil fuels on Earth to the world of Lokan, and this mine, according to the vast number of data emperors' surveys and estimates, can probably support the three major empires in the game to mine for a hundred years.
The Eternal Tree that grows on it is not an ordinary tree, its trunk is not a lumber piece of wood, but a myriad of delicate and slender vines, the thickest vines at the bottom are densely spread on the ground, like black thorn bushes. Slowly upward, the vines gradually shrink and gather, and the color gradually fades, occasionally pulling out one or two golden leaves.
At a height of several thousand meters in the air, the beige vines spread out like fireworks, and countless branches stretched outward, covered with golden leaves, and the crown was large and shady, covering the sky and the sun.
In addition, strange creatures flew in the air, such as unknown clusters of golden light, wordless books flying around the pages, and all kinds of small animals such as squirrels and monkeys wandering back and forth between the hanging branches.
It's hard to imagine that there are so many creatures chasing and fighting in the air at a height of several thousand meters. However, in Mu Yan's impression, after this place later became the base camp of the druids, it was these guys who were the most energetic on the vines. Each of them learned to transform into a monkey, which fully demonstrates how adaptable Transfiguration can be.
The surface of the Wind Sky is complex, with lakes, forests, flowers, grass, and large expanses of open meadowsβsuch as the one where a large number of people are staying now.
Perhaps because of his physique, Mu Yan was almost the last to wake up, and as far as he could see, the druids stretched their necks and looked around, revealing a look of disbelief, and Gustavo stared at the Eternal Tree with straight eyes.
The three elves who followed in had no time to take care of this, Lucy was pale and wounded, Tina and Amather were sad and could see signs of crying, and it was clear that the sacrifice of Artes and Micholah was also a great blow to them.
Mu Yan suddenly remembered that he had vaguely heard the system prompt during his coma just now, so he hurriedly opened the log and looked at it.
Sure enough, the incident had been recorded, and as he had imagined, the fate of Artes and Mishya had changed because of him.
He couldn't help but be a little confused, did he do something wrong? But this is obviously the optimal solution......
However, the charge prompt displayed at the back of "Mia's Blessing" left him with no time to blame himself.
What is the surging element? Isn't this the holy place of Laar? Like Iso's Lake of Tranquility, Watson's Heart of the Mountains, and Garden's Suffron, could it be that the other three sanctuaries can also recharge Mia's protection? For a moment, he couldn't help but think a little wrong.
"Xiao Mu!"
Gustavo came running in a hurry, and the patriarch looked very energetic.
"Do you know where this is?"
"The firmament of the winds, the holy place of His Excellency the Wind Whisperer."
"Absolutely not!" Gustavo jumped up excitedly, and he pointed to the Tree of Eternity. "That guy, that guy is definitely Imotru, I dare to pack the ticket!"
"What!?" Mu Yan was almost shocked by this sentence and sat on the ground. "Imotru? The tree that became a spirit and then sneaked away? β
"That's right! Definitely this guy, my grandpa, grandpa's grandpa, grandpa's...... Grandpa is looking for something! β
Gustavo suddenly showed a look of relief, but with a bit of dazed and overwhelmed.
"What to do, I have the urge to die on it, I feel that my life is complete, but I am a little ...... Indescribable feeling. β
"Lost and unsolvable, empty and lonely?"
"Yes, yes, yes! You're right......" The patriarch rubbed his head and sneered.
"But I'm still concerned about how you determined this?"
"A man's sixth sense! And you see," Gustavo pulled out two severed wooden canes out of nowhere, looking familiar.
"This is what Grandpa Hamuel gave me, saying that only the breath of Imotrum can make it sprout again."
Mu Yan followed his guidance and looked over, indeed, two untraceable shoots were drawn from the fracture of the withered yellow vine wood, although it was not obvious, but there was indeed a small green spot.
"Look at them again, one by one it's like losing a soul, it's definitely Imotru who didn't run!"
Gustavo said, pointing to his people.
Mu Yan was speechless for a moment. Even if the patriarch who is not good at reasoning and logical thinking insists that this is Imotru, how can he refute it? What's more, the other party also came up with conclusive evidence.
But the question also arises, no matter where the myths and stories are, there is no indication that His Excellency the Wind Whisperer has anything to do with Imotru, and even Mu Yan has a vague bold idea - Mia, Imotru, and the Sky of the Wind, will there be some kind of connection between the three, and this connection must have nothing to do with Ral?
To borrow the analogy he has always used, Mia is the independent founder of the company and died early, so "Mia's blessing" can be compared to a blank check that can be filled out again and again, and needs to be redeemed by the company when used. The three old gods belong to the current directors who have disappeared, and the wind whisperer Lal is at best a capable department manager and has a competitive relationship with several colleagues, so what will he have to do with this check? The currency on this check was completely different from what he saw every day.
Moreover, according to the oral myth of the druids, they became believers in Ral, and they only happened after they were drawn to the center of the Ashen Valley by Imotru, so the two have nothing to do with it.
Thinking of this, although the problem is much clearer, it still has not been solved.
The Wind Firmament in the game was only opened to the public after three years of exploration by the druids, and was only used as a holy place for screenshots of the main city and dating, and everyone is now facing its most primitive, original appearance, will the answer he pursued be hidden here? He couldn't help but look forward to it.
"Let's go, let's go around." He turned back to Surya and said.
"Huh?? I? The girl pointed to herself in surprise and asked, "Are you sure?" β
"Hmm." Mu Yan nodded, turned around and embarked on a road that was a little nostalgic.
Surya hurriedly followed.
Seeing this, Gustavo also spoke
"Can Iβ"
However, as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw the blonde girl glaring at him fiercely, and for a moment the terrible look made him swallow his words back.
"How are you?" Mu Yan turned back suspiciously.
"I ...... Can you find a place to pee? β
(Didn't you just pee ......?) οΌ
ββ¦β¦ Go for Mr. Gu, Mr. Xia agreed. Mu Yan suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.
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The Sky of the Wind is only in spring and autumn, so the main colors are only golden and green, and it is clear that it is autumn, and there is a beige mist in the air, and the Tree of Eternity, no, it should be called Imotru Pon's large but not bloated body also emits a hazy shimmer, shadowed in the mist.
Mu Yan still remembers the shocked mood when he came for the first time.
At that time, he was still working as a librarian at Morrowind Academy, and his income was shabby, and it took a long time to save enough money for a plane ticket to Imotru - no wonder others, when the war of faith broke out, there were wars everywhere, coupled with the rampant dead, and the people were panicked, the game very realistically reflected the traffic situation in the troubled times, that is, in addition to the powerful and the well-known teleportation agency "Arbitrary Gate" consortium with Jialan as a solid backing, there was no other shortcut to cross half of Lokan, so he had to buy this expensive teleportation ticket.
This also caused him to come to the Wind Firmament, it was already dusk for 2 years, and level 70 had been open for nearly two months. There were a lot of people in Imotru at that time, but it wasn't crowded at all, and when he came in, he stopped and looked up stupidly for a long time, and if it wasn't for the laughter of a druid player who woke him up, he would have been standing for a day.
He still remembers the laughter of silver bells, and the gentle whispers of the other party when he later volunteered to be a tour guide.
Speaking of which, it seems to be the first female gamer to take the initiative to talk to him.
Maybe that's why he took the initiative to invite Suria to accompany him to re-walk this road, literary and artistic youth, there is always a kind of nostalgia and reproduction psychology, although he and the female player just met in Pingshui, and no story happened later, but if you re-walk this road with a noisy Gustavo in your ears, most of them are not beautiful.
"Look, there's a lake there!"
Sulia pulled him and shouted excitedly.
In a trance, this sentence has a sense of dΓ©jΓ vu.
- "Is there a name for the lake over there?" The young scholar asked curiously.
- "We call it the 'Diving Lake' or 'Sinky Lake' because the druids who jump between the vines on it always fall, and there are players, but not many. By the way, do you know the Mori Whisperer of the 'Blood Legion'? He performed here for five minutes without landing, so amazing! β
- "Oh. The scholar's reply was succinct and clear.
"Oh." Mu Yan replied perfunctorily, feeling that all this was like a reincarnation.
"There are stones on the lake! Let's go check it out! The girl had become accustomed to his indifference, and dragged him to the lake.
"It's not a stone, it's a lake spirit."
"Whatever, let's talk about it!"
- "What's that on the lake?" Stones? The young scholar asked again.
- "No, that's the Spirit of the Lake. β
- "The Elves of the Lake? Is it said that a wonderful species with an elemental activity of 137% above the average is possible? But I show that the activity of the element here is still 4%, is there any other judgment condition? β
ββββ¦β¦ Whatever, let's go check it out. β
It's surprisingly similar......
The two walked to the lake, and Mu Yan took the initiative to explain: "This is the light element elf, although it is the upper element of fire, it is surprisingly gentle, and there is a sound when you step on it." He stretched out his foot and lightly stepped on the marshmallow-like lake elf, who made a "poof" sound. Many players said that their grandparents jokingly called it a "somersault cloud" after seeing this thing, which seems to come from popular movies and television works of their time.
"So cute!!"
Suria's girl's heart was so full that it was about to overflow, and she rushed forward with an arrow step, Mu Yan knew that it was going to be bad at a glance, and hurriedly grabbed her arm with her backhand.
But this guy is like a crazy rabbit, his reaction is already very fast, but he can still catch it.
Sure enough, Surya stepped directly on a lake spirit with a powerful kick, and then one of them almost fell into the water. Fortunately, Mu Yan grabbed her hand at the critical moment and pulled her back.
"Sister, take it easy, your foot on the ground is probably a pit."
"Oh......" Surya blushed and let go of her hand, "then...... Did I break it? β
"It's okay, we'll gather together."
"Hmm...... That's good. β
The girl suddenly patted her chest in fear and breathed a sigh of relief.