Chapter 22: The Hunt for Animals

In the middle of the night, the roads and buildings of the capital were full of people, shouting, "Ahh The light from the walls and street lamps shone on the fleeing people, "Hurry, hurry... Ahh

Suddenly, a huge whistle roared from the sky above the city, and the inexplicable coercion made everyone stop and look up. I saw a scale armored ship with the size of a small city slowly breaking through the thick cloud of smoke that covered the city, falling from above, and the bottom of the ship covered with ether chips reflected the firelight that filled the streets below, shining brightly. Rainey, dressed in a blue uniform, leaned against the guardrail at the emergency gangway and looked down, and there was a warm burning sensation coming from the entire pupil. Closing the page, rubbing the tiny diamond on the hard cover, he said to himself, "It's time to take over the work." He then tossed the book in his hand, and struck the diamond crystal with the index finger of his right hand with the jewel ring, and when the glimmer flashed from the inside of the gem, the magic aether lit up the diamond crystal along the index finger. A flash of light flashed, and the book suspended in the air suddenly spread out on its own and turned the pages quickly, and the bound paper struggled and flew from the book like a riot, dancing against the rushing wind. Pushing through a page of flying paper, Rainey ordered, "The first defense technique in the city is activated!" In an instant, the pages of the book fluttering with his fingertips shredded into pieces of paper, and the blue capital was plunged into a brief darkness, leaving only the smoke of the explosion to illuminate the frightened faces of the people. "Landu's third plan mode is activated!" Rainey's middle finger of the Speaker's gem flickered, and after waiting for the spell to come out, several local communication obelisks in the city lit up one after another, and the crystal sand streets connecting the various urban areas also lit up, and the crystalline sand emitted a faint light suspended in the atmosphere in the form of particles, rubbing against each other, causing bursts of elemental waves, interfering with the ether of alienation infection.

Rainey then turned to the herald holding the huge telegraph on the left, and gave an order: "Order! The War Room Tier B Technique is Ready! The Second, Third, and Fourth Aether Tracking Trajectory is Open!" "Obey! Target Correction Lock! The Technique Implementation Will Be Completed in Five Seconds, Your Excellency! Four! Three! Two! One! The Installation is Ready, Your Excellency!" There was a noisy voice on the other side of the Communicator. "Order!Order!Launch!Attack!Attack!Attack!Attack!"Obey, Your Excellency!" In an instant, several rays of light whistled from both sides of the ship, striking the moving monster and vaporizing its mutated tissue. The crowd on the side was scattered and knocked away by the air waves, but fortunately there was a buffer of crystalline sand that filled the air, and they were only slightly injured. Pulling out an amber monocle and inserting it into his sunken eye socket, Rainey looked down at the capital and ordered without looking back: "Signal soldiers, turn on the public channel! Order! The 4th and 6th Guards are ready for medical care! Responsible for the rescue of the wounded in the city and the evacuation of the citizens! The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards are ready to land! Join me in the battle immediately!" A shout came from the other end of the communicator. Before the ship could come to a standstill, Rainey leapt out of the gangway, his head down and focused on the cracked streets, followed by a messy pile of pages.

The exposed rough skin clearly felt the fire below stirring up the atmosphere, forming a stream of heat to meet him, violently blowing his withered yellow hair and slapping the hem of his uneasy clothes. "Click, click...", his body accelerated and fell, and Rainey stretched out his index finger forward, rubbing the aether in the atmosphere, lighting up the gem. The paper, which had fallen with him, caught up with him in an instant, and danced around his body, drawing a wave of updraft to lift him up. With the help of the huge air current, Rainey stabilized his center of gravity and straightened his body, and landed lightly down the street. As soon as his body settled, a wagon-sized beast leaped above his head, seemingly trying to crush him. Rainey's face was awe-inspiring, and his index finger fell sharply, and in an instant, the body of the monster was knocked away by the flying sharp pages, and he swallowed his breath in a few breaths. Not long after, a team of heavily armed knights and magicians followed suit, scattering out from both sides of the ship's hull and falling into the capital to begin their work.

Crowds and beasts weave back and forth through the streets, and Rainey wanders through them, not forgetting to use the flying pages to strangle the attacking monsters or contain the alienated citizens. After some investigation, Rainey squatted next to the corpse of the demonic beast, rubbed his short hair while observing carefully, and said, "It seems that many of them have come in from outside the city. Without stopping any longer, chanting the incantation again, a large amount of paper flew all over the capital in an instant, and according to the content of the writing, it either supported the battle, or healed the wounds, or stabilized the proportion of elements in the atmosphere, leaving only a small amount for self-defense, and walked to the Senate and began to direct the battle of the various departments. As soon as a large number of regular armed forces joined, the situation of the war changed irreversibly.

The chaotic battle gradually heated up, and the blazing gunpowder smoke drifted with the wind to the Blue Capital Academy in the hinterland of the capital, adding confusion to the flickering firelight in this place, but the glow that was stimulated by the magic from time to time soared straight into the sky. But at this moment, the corner of the academy where silence fell was full of steam, and a girl was left to sit in place, looking into the depths of the fog and not knowing what she was thinking. Suddenly, there was a "rustling" sound behind her, and she quickly picked up the dagger and hid herself in a bush to be vigilant, but she didn't want the sound to suddenly quiet down when she was still more than ten meters away from her. "Huh?" After waiting for a moment, the girl carefully pushed aside the grass to find out, but she felt a touch of coldness from behind her, and suddenly her hair stood on end, and she hurriedly turned around and stabbed it, but when she saw the vague figure, she suddenly grabbed her arm and shouted, "It's me!

When the steaming water was illuminated by the moonlight, Olivia realized that it was Freya, who had rushed over. Olivia breathed a sigh of relief and pounced on Freya. hugged Freya's body, and was so aggrieved that she choked her throat all of a sudden, and cried in a low voice: "He, he..." After thinking about it, I simply cried directly. "He—does he mean Neil?" Freya asked, wondering if things weren't going well?, "Well, Neil went after Erin, Neil he, he—" "What's wrong with him?" Olivia's words made Freya a little anxious. "Freya, Erin, she may not be able to change back. "How so? Didn't the potion work?" "No, Neil got into a fight with Erin here, Neil was badly injured, and he was going to kill Erin. After hearing this, Freya looked around, and the large area had indeed become bare, and there were no well-preserved plants in sight, and the ground was littered with scattered debris and debris. But Olivia's words still made her a little confused for a while, and she immediately decided to ask Neil where he was going and catch up with him.

"Wait, Freya, I'll go with you. Olivia grabbed Freya's wrist. "But doesn't it matter if you're like this now?" Olivia looked a little prostration, her face pale. "The cause of this is me. Neil was so badly injured that I couldn't let this fool take the consequences for me. And you see, I've recovered some. As he spoke, he lit the gem of his wand. "Well, okay. Seeing Olivia's stubbornness, Freya picked her up after a brief thought and chased her in the direction where Neil had disappeared.

Chasing all the way, following Neil's dripping blood, the two of them penetrated into the mountains and forests of Mount Fasatni. "With such a large amount of bleeding, is Neil really okay?" Freya mobilized the aether, clearly discerning the fierce smell of Neil's blood. "Neil, him. Let's catch up, and you'll know if you do, Freya. Olivia was worried, but she didn't know how to describe the situation to Freya, and she couldn't explain it in a few words. The anxious two seemed to have no other way but to catch up with Neil at this time. But fortunately, along the way, there are fewer and fewer demonic beasts that go berserk, and it is almost difficult to encounter, and it is impossible to form an obstacle at all. "Why didn't he catch up, how could Neal still walk so fast when he was so badly injured, could it be that when he was in a hurry before..."Olivia muttered in her heart. After a long time, the two of them successfully crossed the Fasatni Mountain and came to the deepest part of the forbidden land here, which is also the edge of the Academy, Lake Beloz. The two came to the lakeside, but they didn't see half a figure except for a pool of water in the lake. "Neil's blood is broken here. Freya wiped the ring over and over again and searched for it, but found nothing. "Huh?" the two of them paced back and forth along the edge of the lake, looking around, racking their brains to find a way. "Beloz, Beloz—" The two of them paced as they muttered. "Oh, oh, yes. I think I've heard the seniors of the academy expedition mention it before. Olivia shouted excitedly. Touching her chin, she continued, "Well, let me think about it, they seem to say that this place wasn't originally called Beloz, but it was called, what is it called?Fapudin?Fapleon?"Could it be Fabren?" "Is it Fabrenn that Erin mentioned?" "Well, yes, yes. That's the name, remembering that they mentioned the path to the hidden place with the help of the moon. The hidden place of the road?" "Huh, the hidden place?" "It seems like that, I don't know the specifics, that's all I remember. I'm not useless. Olivia laughed at herself in frustration. "It's okay, it's already a surprise to get this information. Let's think again. ”

"Fabrun, Fabrun. Olivia, do you know the history of the Randu Academy?" Freya pondered for a long time, as if she remembered something, and hurriedly asked Olivia. "I know all this, after all, as the daughter of Speaker Landu, these must be clear. "Then do you know who the previous deans of Landu College were?" "Let me think about it, the first principal was Sfhold, the second was Griffin, the third was Kimchi, the fourth was Burdy, and the fifth was..." Who was the fourth one you just mentioned?" "Buldy. Burdi Pierre. "Is that the Bourdi who wrote the Fundamentals of Magic?" "Well, it's him. "I think I get it. "Freya, you mean—" "I see what Fabron means. "What does that mean? I remember the meaning of a porcelain bowl. "No, we were all wrong. In the ancient language of Baf, Fabrun does mean porcelain bowl. But if you think about it, where is Burdy's hometown? "The Van Horn area is also the birthplace of the present-day Dolan Empire. "Well, so it should be understood in Old Doran, and I remember that Fabron translates to Mirror of Light in Old Doran terms, so I think that's a more appropriate name. "But what does that have to do with us looking for Neil?" "Actually, the word Fabren comes from a legend in Dolan's Fable, that is, the mirror of light mentioned in the legend. The mirror of light is the only way to reach the hidden space, and I think we're looking for it in this lake. "But how do we get in?" I remember in this fable, the hero Vada entered the lair of Moang hidden in it by summoning butterflies of light to light up the water, forming the Mirror Lake of Light. "Butterfly of Light?" "If I'm not mistaken, the Baez butterfly was also introduced during Burdy's tenure. "Well, according to the school records, Burdi brought the Bez butterfly from his homeland to keep here because he missed his hometown, and it used to be one of the symbols of the college. "That's it. I'll need your power next, Olivia. "My power?" "I need you to purify the water vapor that is steaming on the surface of the lake and lure the water-loving Bez butterflies to come and suck it." "Well, got it, leave it to me. Olivia nodded, brandished her jewel-encrusted pear wand, and hummed the spell she summoned, spreading her mind out, and as she hummed, the surface of the water gradually shimmered with the gathered Bez butterflies. The moon that originally reflected the surface of the lake disappeared at this moment, leaving only the dark waterway that stretched from the center of the lake to the shore. Olivia and Freya looked at each other and then stepped into the water, letting the water slowly spread over their bodies, and when the water was completely above their heads, the scene suddenly turned to a vast and infinite space, except for the darkness that could not be seen far away, only two rays of light were suspended in the air.

"Look at Freya!" was faintly visible from the light, it was Neil and Irene. The two were about to investigate further, but they didn't want to, and a wave of fatigue hit them, and they were embraced by two rays of light and lost consciousness.