Charles walked up the stairs of the lighthouse, and when he looked up, he saw Brando and the three ladies chatting by the railing on the seaside side of the lighthouse, Miss Roman was snickering vigorously, Faina was shrouded in a layer of gloom between her eyebrows, and she seemed a little preoccupied, Nimesis was dressed in a military uniform, leaning against the railing with her back to the railing, looking at the scenery on the sea, her long black hair fluttering lightly with the sea breeze, the sea and sky in the distance, and the floating clouds like white mountains undulating in the sky.

The rest of the people were not surprised by the taciturn and meticulous character of the female knight, but they didn't see the shadow of the little princess of Siphah, who liked to join in the fun, and it seemed that she was dragging the elf to the harbor to go shopping, and the two little ladies had now become close friends who talked about everything, and of course, they did have a common topic and hobby - that is, in the ability to cause trouble.

"Your Lord."

Brando was wearing a black knight's trench coat, the sword of the earth hung diagonally on his waist, the black rhino skin and silver scabbard almost hung down to the ground, and when he turned around, he noticed that his wizard squire had arrived, he smiled slightly and beckoned: "It's just in time, what do you think of the scenery here?" ”

Charles was slightly stunned: "It seems that the lord likes the scenery here?" ”

Brando shook his head with a smile, stretched out his gloves and patted the ancient and mottled exterior of the lighthouse, "Do you know the origin of this lighthouse?" ”

Charles subconsciously looked up at this lighthouse, this ancient lighthouse looked old, but it seemed to be just an old-style lighthouse that could be seen everywhere in the sublime inland sea, and I really didn't know what other meaning this lighthouse could have.

"Port Fatan has a long history, but my lord, I've never been here, and I don't know what historical monuments there are." He replied.

"Haha," Brando grinned, smugly reaching out to the businessman's lady beside her. The latter stuck out his tongue and reluctantly placed a gold coin in his hand, lamenting and complaining, "Charles, you are really useless. ”

"This lighthouse is the famous Tumen Lighthouse," Brando said, pointing in the direction of the port area: "Fatan was built in the year of its glorious return, and the founder of the port was the famous Cruz scholar Fatan. Freeman, who is a descendant of Tumen and the inheritor of the rare revered Miner bloodline in the mortal world. But it's a pity that this family didn't escape the judgment of time in the end, and finally dissipated in the long river of history. This lighthouse was built in their honor, and Tumen was the bearer of the flame of civilization, the wise man who gave the light of enlightenment to the people of Black Iron in the darkness, but unfortunately few people can remember this history now. ”

He looked softly in the direction of the docks, which he had passed through when he had left Eruin for Faunzan in his previous life, and he remembered that there was a coat of arms on the gate of the lighthouse, which was still on the door, decades earlier. It's just a lot new; It's a wonderful feeling, the port hasn't changed much in the past two lifetimes, and he can even find out the details of the bits and pieces of the decades from now, and the memories of the past are integrated into these details, which gives birth to a strange feeling in his heart.

Charles watched with tears and laughter as his lord made a bet on him, but Brando's words also aroused curiosity in his heart, and he looked up at the lighthouse—a modest lighthouse no different from those of the rest of the sublime Inland Sea—which stood between two headlands. Looking at the blue sea and blue sky outside the port of Fatan, it is like a lonely old man. After experiencing the wind and rain, he watched the passage of time silently and wisely, leaving only the mottled algae green and white paint on his body.

History has formed a great coincidence, completing a cycle in which it has witnessed the decline of the last Miner bloodline, and now it is to watch them return.

"It turns out that this lighthouse has such a history."

"It's not the same one anymore." Faina suddenly raised her eyelids and replied faintly with a little pride: "The earliest Tumen lighthouse was destroyed in a fire in 114, and then it was rebuilt again, and the rebuilt lighthouse was damaged in the July War, and what you see is already the second time it has been renovated. ”

Brando glanced back at her. The dark brown eyes flashed with worry, although after a night's rest, Faina looked much better today, and the eldest lady who changed into a dress and a long skirt to look radiant again seemed to really regain the pride that belonged to the eldest daughter of the Duke of Flower and Leaf, but he knew in his heart that perhaps only personal experience could understand what the past month meant to her, and it was obvious that the shadow was not so easy to be erased from her heart.

In the Ring of Trade Winds, the duke's daughter, who did not know the sorrows of the world, is now no longer seen.

"Miss Faina—"

"You want to comfort me again," Faina glared back at him, her pretty brow frowning deeply, "I don't want to quarrel with you, hillbilly, I'm not as fragile as you think." ”

"And," she corrected, earnestly, word for word, "call me Faina." ”

Brando stared at the eldest lady and frowned, thinking that there was no essential difference between the toughness of this pretend and the time in the Ring of Trade Winds, but it just looked silly and cute.

Seeing this scene, Charles smiled secretly in his heart, but he didn't forget that he still had something to do, and hurriedly reported: "Lord Lord, it's almost tortured over there. ”

"Oh?"

Brando frowned slightly, and then came back to his senses to realize what news his wizard attendant had brought, in fact, it was not difficult for him to pry Rodney's mouth open, but the key question was - how many secrets did this guy have in his possession of Her Majesty. "What did he say?" He asked.

Charles hurriedly replied, "As you might expect, the main purpose of Rodney's trip is to come to Miss Faina, and the Silver Queen hopes that Miss Fayna and Duke Helix's father and son will be held hostage to force Miss Faina's sister to submit, so as to achieve the goal of mastering the Grand Duke of Mohama." ”

"My sister is smart and will never be swayed by that vicious woman!" Fayna interjected coldly, her fists clenched so hard that she trembled, and Brando gently patted her thin shoulder and asked, "Besides, how did the Miner people around the Silver Queen come from, and what exactly is she going to do." In addition to the Miner people, what secret powers does she have at hand? ”

"Well," Charles shrugged, "these Rodneys don't know much, but Her Majesty seems to have a special interest in the Alkasha Mountains, and her purpose in moving east is not just to bring the military nobility of the northern Empire into submission. Another purpose is to open up access to the Alkash Mountains. ”

Is she still obsessed with the final battlefield? Brando was stunned for a moment, but he immediately saw the duke's daughter beside him tremble slightly, and then he remembered that there were two main routes from East Mez to the mountains of Alkash, one in Ludwig and one in the flower and leaf collar.

"Hmm, what's that...... Why was the Queen particularly interested there? Miss Merchant blinked her dark brown eyes and suddenly asked curiously.

Regarding the question of the lord's fiancée, Charles did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "There are many reasons. Maybe it was related to the secret of the battlefield of the final battle, or maybe it was simply because Her Majesty the Queen liked that place so much, not to mention that the Alkash Mountains themselves were strategically located, located in the central area connecting Faenzan, Saint-Osore and Cruz, which could be attacked and retreated. ”

"As for the Miner people who are rumored to be out there, I don't believe they came back from the Great Glacier as they are rumored."

"My lord, I've made it clear, the Miner people around the Silver Queen are mainly the remnants of witches. She mobilized the mountain people. ”

"Mountain people?"

"One of the mountain people, to be exact. Sengnana......"

"Werewolf." Brando gasped, the mountain people lived in the mountains of Wallachi south of the Flower Leaf Realm, but in fact, that was a long time ago, and for various reasons, the mountain people had left their homes. Spread out like Akane, who is a mountain dweller born in Eruin. The mountain people themselves have an inexplicable relationship with the Miner people, which is the reason why they are generally discriminated against in this world, and there are several bloodlines from the Miner people. The Senians were one of them, and now the Sengnas, like the rest of the mountain people, had long since turned away from their homeland and settled in an unknown branch of the Broken Sword Mountains south of Cloak Bay, which was itself the Silver Queen's sphere of influence, and it was possible that she could find these remnants of the previous era.

"My lord, and this, I found it from those knights, if I'm not mistaken......"

Charles stretched out his hand, spreading his palm, a flaky rock lay flat in his palm, and then he looked up at Brando with a strange gaze.

Brando's eyes had already narrowed.

This thing-

Lying flat in the palm of the young wizard's acolyte was a gray, chiseled-like flat stone shard, but there was no trace of artificiality on its surface, as if it had been naturally peeled off a huge rock, and this fragment was not the first time he had seen it. This was the gray fragment, and the first time something like it was found was among Antitina's father's relics; the second, in Tracyman's grave; And the third time, it is a relic of the crystal elk's life.

"Hey, this is ......" Roman also opened his small mouth and let out a soft exclamation.

"This is the fourth, isn't it?"

"This is the fourth."

"What the hell is this, my lord?"

"I don't know, but ......" Brando frowned slightly, when there were more than three of these gray fragments before, he would put them together, and it would have a clear resonance, forming something similar to a map, and this time, it should have a reaction as well. He gestured to Charles, who understood and gently sent forward, and the stone fragment stood upright in the palm of his hand as if it were being pulled by some invisible force, and it slowly floated towards Brando.

Brando immediately felt the other three fragments on his body stir uneasily, even though they were still in the dimensional cave.

Then the space resonated.

Nimesis, who was leaning on the railing, seemed to feel something, she turned her head and saw at a glance that the space between Brando and Charles was darkening slightly, as if collapsing inward under the huge traction, and she couldn't help but be slightly stunned: "Is this ......?" ”

"Your Lord!" Charles's face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly shouted.

"It's ......"

Like a drop of water falling on the calm surface of the water, at that moment, Brando felt the existence of the sea of magic.

The sky darkened in an instant, and the entire sky was rapidly fading from west to east over the entire sublime inland sea, and the clouds seemed to be driven by an invisible force to converge from all directions. Lightning shuttled through the clouds, and thunder rolled in from the sky. For a while, a new storm seemed to have formed on the new sea, and the resonance of the space became more and more obvious, even the ground shook, and the fine stones and gravel danced wildly. The snow-white walls of the lighthouse creaked and cracked, and Faina screamed and held on to the railing.

"It's getting dark, Brando!" Roman glanced at the sky with some trepidation, and a huge vortex was forming over Fatan, as if a terrifying eye had opened in the thick clouds.

Cold sweat slid down in a flash, and Brando felt sweat on his forehead, "Take it back!" He roared.

Without thinking about it, Charles grabbed the gray stone shards suspended in mid-air. Strange to say, the moment he grasped the gray stone flakes, all the scene was calm for a moment: the clouds no longer converged, the lightning disappeared, the thunder faded away, the tremor of space ceased in an instant, the sun radiated again in the sky with its multifaceted brilliance, and the sea no longer howled in the wind. The qiē that happened before seemed to be a terrifying illusion.

But the huge crack in the lighthouse proved that the qiē that happened a moment ago was real.

It's just that it came and left.

There was a bustle in the direction of the pier. From time to time, shouts floated from that side: Is there an earthquake? Was there an earthquake? But the voices were quickly drowned out by the cries.

Brando, Charles, Faina, Nimesis, and Roman, the five of them stood by the lighthouse, motionless as if they were puppets, and everyone was stunned for a while. Brando was the first to come back to his senses, and asked a little dryly, "Before...... What is that? ”

Everyone looked at each other.

"Your Lord."

"You don't have to say it," Brando interrupted his wizard squire with a dry mouth, "I feel it. ”

"That's ......," said Charyou.

"It's the tides on the Sea of Magic......" Brando, recalling the terrible sense of arrival before, replied word for word, "No......"

"It's dusk." The female knight's cold voice rang out at the right time, and Brando was slightly startled. Looking back at her, the latter's face was also a little pale, but at least she could maintain her composure, and she hesitated for a moment before replying affirmatively: "It's the Dragon of Dusk, at least for a moment just now, I felt a peep from outside this world." But it won't be a demon, I have a hunch that it's there—"

Brando was silent, in fact he felt a terrible feeling of oppression that he had never felt before, even in the game.

"Did this thing summon it?" Charles cautiously glanced at the gray stone in his palm, sweating profusely, as if he was holding something terrible: "What the hell is this?" ”

"I want to ...... Probably not. Brando frowned, he vaguely remembered the feeling of being watched before, and that huge force seemed to break through the barrier between the Sea of Magic and Vaynd in an instant, and descended on the sky above Port Fatan. However, this passage was not opened by the resonance of the gray fragments in their hands, and it was not so much a summoning as it was-

A forcible coming.

……

On the outskirts of Nazel -

A pair of golden eyes like flames slowly opened in the darkness, and the owner of these eyes, hidden under the foliage, suddenly sat up from the bush and let out a fluttering sound. This is the third day after leaving the imperial capital, Sidney subconsciously touched his chest, this action touched the wound, so that she couldn't help frowning, the statue of the Holy Maiden of the Lion Palace is no longer the usual elegance and calmness at this moment, and her face is full of dust mixed with blood, but fortunately, at least the thing is still there, hidden under the thick clothes, which makes her feel a little more at ease.

She subconsciously raised her head and looked suspiciously in the direction of the coastal area east of Mez.

Why did the Sea of Magic suddenly become turbulent?

What resonates with this thing?

A hint of doubt came over her.

…… (To be continued......)