After the upheaval of Jiling, a huge pillar of light became a pointer for all explorers, and as time passed, the probability of people meeting people became more and more likely, but no one knew whether the person who appeared at the next intersection would be a comrade or an opponent.

In the white, empty city, killing and strife are becoming more and more frequent, and more and more people are dying.

A rose-red figure roamed through the labyrinth near the pillar of light, leaving behind a series of ring-shaped mystical symbols, hidden in the air, as if they had never existed.

The dragon's figure hovered in pillars of light, and sometimes there was a high-pitched, clear roar, and a mountain-like shadow obscured the stars and the moon, sweeping over the pale streets.

On a street carved like frost, the ice sculpture of the Winter Maiden stood quietly in the middle of the road, her expression deep and solemn, her frozen eyebrows folded into a melancholy angle, as if she was mourning the silent killings.

On the wide path leading to the pillar of light, a Goller berserker encounters three Odliks.

The battle began without a reason, and the disparity in strength made the Berserker's situation very critical, as he not only had to contend with the soldiers of the King's Guard in front of him, but also had to guard against the sneak attack of two court mages in the distance.

Thanks to his sophisticated equipment, the Berserker only needs to lift the round shield strapped to his arm to fend off most magical attacks, while his long-handled battle axe wields incredible destructive power, splitting the surrounding white slate ground into a mess.

The soldiers of the Guards of the Royal Banner who confronted him wielded the more traditional Audric sword: a thirty-centimeter-long hilt, a cross-handguard, and a ninety-centimeter straight blade, with a sharp, split-and-stabbing head.

A court mage floated in mid-air, chanting a spell at a rapid pace, his palm flashing, and a blue wire shot out of his fingertips and scurried towards the berserker's ankle.

Feeling the tingling and burning pain coming from his ankles, the berserker roared and swung his tomahawk at the Guards swordsman in front of him, but was dodged by the swordsman's backward jumping stance, and the blade of the axe only split a piece of rubble.

Seeing that the berserker was entangled in the light, heat and electricity, the swordsman grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands, rushed forward, and stabbed the blade of the sword into the berserker's neck.

The berserker didn't have time to raise his tomahawk again, so he simply pulled the long handle straight from the ground and swung it from the bottom up, smashing the swordsman in the chest with the axe on the other side of the axe.

Hit by the greedy attack, the swordsman's body flew away and fell to the ground, even though the armor on his body was strengthened by the low-level magic [Stone Skin Technique], his chest armor was still sunken into a large piece, and his chest was burning with pain.

The berserker couldn't move one of his feet, but the axe handle was long enough, and he was about to slash the battle axe at the fallen swordsman, when he saw the magician who cast the wire throw a fireball at him, and he could only raise his arm to resist.

The fireball exploded, and the Berserker felt a strong impact in front of the round shield, causing his knees to bend slightly, and he was nearly knocked to the ground.

He had just survived this wave of attack when he suddenly heard the sound of a wind blowing through the air behind his head, and with his excellent experience, the berserker crouched down and rolled over, but was grabbed by the electric cable and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

The second court mage, who suddenly appeared behind him, seemed not satisfied that his attack had failed, and he raised his hands flat on his chest, and the three cones formed by the whirlwind [Whirling Knife] instantly took shape, shooting at the berserker's body at the same time.

The berserker who hastily raised his round shield only blocked two wind blades, but the leather armor on his thighs was cut and blood spilled out.

Almost at the same time, a large fire bomb from another magician also landed on him, bursting into dazzling fire.

The Berserker's long-handled battle axe was swept aside by the blast, and his burly body was mercilessly swept away, scorched farther to the ground under the scorching flames, apparently severely wounded.

The swordsman of the Guards had already risen from the ground, and as he rushed towards the berserker, he turned his half-sword in his hand, and as soon as he approached the enemy, he leaped into the air and nailed the tip of his sword to the berserker lying on the ground—

A black short-handled warhammer spun and flew in, its heavy body slamming into the swordsman in mid-air like a cannonball, making a terrifying crash.

The refined white armor of the King's Banner Guards immediately turned into flying fragments scattered across the streets, while the swordsman's body twisted into a strange angle, as if the bones of his whole body had been broken, floating in the air like a rag, and falling to the ground fiercely, and the corpse rolled far away under the remaining momentum.

The bloodless hammer sank into the wall, and more than half of the hammer was buried in the wall, smashing the wall into a circle of dented cracks.

"And the Goles!"

Thermal mages who use lightning and fire magic fly to the side of the street, chanting defensive spells [Mini Angel of Icarus]. His hands swung around him, condensing a small white shield of brilliant light, and a winged little angel of light elemental held this miniature shield and flew around him happily.

Another cold court magician also chanted a spell vigilantly, and a crystal shield appeared in front of him.

"Don't be careless." He said coldly.

The two court mages coincidentally used high defensive magic, and it was clear that the destructive power of the flying hammer made them fearful.

A large, ball-like golem stepped out into the street, pulled his hammer from the wall, and glanced at the court mages on either side of his body.

He wore a horned helmet, brown sideburns that covered half of his face, leather armor that looked like it was about to burst, bare arms with knotted muscles, and a heavy hammer in each hand.

"Lord Murom!"

The Berserker, whose skin was almost charred, struggled to his feet, his round shield remaining in half, blood running from his helmet to his chin.

But he was still alive, and it was the Berserkers who were able to intimidate the continent - they were undaunted to death, thick-skinned, and fierce even when they were seriously wounded, and even the ferocious barbarians feared the more savage tomahawks in their hands.

The tall Gole man known as the Mulrom grinned, and without saying a word, he rushed towards the Heat court magician with his legs, his massive body bursting with incredible speed.

The Berserker also pulled out the spare hatchet at his waist and charged at the court mage on the other side.

Mulom was greeted by a scorching grate, but the wind from which Mulrom wielded his hammer tore through the wall of fire, and when he reached the magician, the court mage had just finished chanting a high magic.

[Siraya Barnes's Fire Phoenix]!

A loud chirp echoed over the streets, and a huge firebird with a wingspan of ten meters swooped down towards the mlorom, distorting the air in its path.

Mulrom roared, and the hammers slammed together in front of him, making a dull thunderous sound. The fire phoenix's body slammed into the hammer, and the astonishing heat and light exploded, which lasted for two seconds before slowly dissipating.

Mulom's hammers were red from the flames, and the iron-scaled bracers on his arms were torn, but he didn't care about the hot handles burning his palms, and swung the sparkling twin hammers into the magician in front of him.

The little angel with the shield of light flew forward, and the warhammer smashed into the small shield, causing a blinding light.

Mulrom swung his hammer in quick succession, and the hammer head swept into a storm and bombarded the shield with swiftness and rage, smashing it only three times before the high defensive magic was on the verge of shattering.

The court magician, who was manipulating the levitation technique to retreat quickly, calmly chanted the next magic [Vortex Serpent], his hands interlaced in front of his chest, his ten fingers slightly opened, and two dazzling white electric lights bloomed, turning into one silver electric snake after another, they were centered on the caster, swimming around the air at a very fast speed, and the sound of thunderclaps was endless.

A hammer smashed the little angel and the light shield into a point of light, and Mul rushed forward with amazing power, smashing the electric snakes that rushed into him into electric sparks, approaching the magician in two or three seconds, and smashing it down with a hammer!

The magician's body shattered like a mirror, and at the same time, the air on the other side of the street suddenly formed a mirror, which then shattered, causing him to reappear.

[Mirror Escape].

"That's why I hate the Odryks!"

Mulrom hummed and cursed, but his hand was not slow at all, and he decisively threw a war hammer, which spun at a very high speed and flew towards the court mage in the distance.

As soon as the magician who fell from the mirror came out, he saw the rapidly enlarged hammer in front of him, and he hurriedly propped up a life-size light shield filled with electric light, and this hastily used medium defense magic [lightning shield] flashed wildly in the hammer strike, and then dissipated directly.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw another hammer follow—

The last thought on the mind of the magister was that he should prepare an extra layer of counter-magic beforehand.

Blood and flesh burst open, a hammer smashed his corpse to pieces, and the moon-white robe was stained with disgusting stains.

From the beginning to the end, another kind of court magician had no chance to support here, he was entangled by berserkers who could not be killed or shaken off, and finally used a [Queen's Snort] to freeze the badly injured Gole into an ice sculpture, but he didn't expect to see the empty-handed but vicious Murrom as soon as he pulled out.

"You killed Master Carter......"

The court magician watched his comrade-in-arms, who was a magister, be easily killed, and chose to flee without hesitation. Although he was still one level away from the rank of a mage, as a mage majoring in the storm system, the speed of escaping with all his might was his greatest reliance.

On another street near the pillar of light, the bodies of five Goller berserkers lay on the ground, their deaths horrific, none of them having normal skin, and each of them had green blood flowing from their eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouth, looking horrible in a horrible manner.

A gloomy man in a brown robe stood in the middle of the corpse, his hands behind his back, leisurely walking in the direction of the pillar of light.

In an alley south of the Himere, four Gol berserkers were frantically attacking a Guards swordsman, and despite the superiority in numbers, the alley had already left five Golle corpses, their skin charred and their armor cracked, as if they had been badly burned.

The Guards swordsman swung his half-sword in his hand, and a flash of fire swept across the blade, and the flames danced with the blade, burning through the throats of the two berserkers in an instant.

With the flip of his wrist, the swordsman played a beautiful sword flower and sighed softly.

"How can I have fun with such an opponent? It's still not enough......"

Facing the two sharp axes, he showed regret and stroked his hair gracefully.

"It's not close...... I can touch the Sage Rank, and I'm still a little bit ......"

In a giant building that resembles an opera house, Levi sits in the middle of the first row of benches, calmly looking at the yellowed map he found on Archer's body.

Archer Blaze lay quietly in the center of the stage, with heavy stone chains tied to her body and a ball of scrap paper in her mouth. She didn't look like she had woken up from her coma, a few messy red hairs scattered across her cheeks.

A deep blue starlight fell from the curved skylight of the opera house, and a thumb-sized Terrela stood in the starlight, staring up at the nothingness.

"What are you waiting for?" She asked.

Levi stared at the map and slowly replied, "I don't know either." ”

Tyrella frowned at Levi, but didn't rush him after all...... Although she didn't spend much time with him, she decided to trust the person she personally chose.

"Do you know what is valuable in the Himere, Terella?"

Levi asked suddenly.

Terella shook her head and said, "Before my consciousness was sealed, the Himeling was not built. ”

"And what about Dragonheart?"

"In revenge on me, Saladin put the dragon's heart inside me, and I know this very well." "But I don't know what else he has stored in the tomb." ”

"He told you that your heart is also deep in the Himereung?"

"That's right."

Levi touched his nose and said, "Now the thing I need to confirm is, is there any special value in your heart?" I mean to other people. ”

Terella was silent for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be valuable, but I'm not sure...... In any case, the most precious treasure of the tomb is definitely the dragon's heart. ”

Levi nodded and said, "If that's the case, we don't need to rush into the Ji Tomb, because we don't need to get involved or get involved in the battle for the dragon's heart. ”

Terrella pondered for a moment, then bowed her head and said, "It seems so. ”

Levi picked up the map and approached his nose, sniffed hard, then held out a finger that sent a burst of flame.

"With the ambergris canvas and timeless paint, it's very likely that this map was by Saladin." Levi burned the entire map inch by inch with flames, and as he said, flames could not destroy anywhere.

After a while, he held the map up and spread it out to Terrella, "Sure enough, there was a place that had changed after being burned by the flames. ”

Before Terrela flew to the map, she found a fingernail-sized architectural motif with the shallow seal of the four-pointed crown on it.

This is Saladin's private seal.

"I think it's very likely that the location that Saladin marked with his private seal is where your body is." Levi said lightly, "Or where the dragon's heart is." ”

Terrela stared at the location of the Four-Pointed Crown and whispered the name of the area: "[Dark Presence Opera]...... Where is this place? ”

Levi looked at Terrella calmly and said, "Here it is." ”

Terella was stunned, her ice-blue wings fluttering slightly, and she spun around and looked around.

There are only pale walls around, stepped benches leading to the entrance, and the stage is a large bare stone slab with nothing special about it.

"You've seen it for a long time, that's why you're here?" She asked.

"Just guessing." Levi replied.

"I didn't feel my body and I didn't find anything." Terrella shook her head, "It's just an ordinary building, you can see it all over the Hime-tomb. ”

"I couldn't agree more with you." Levi spread his hands, and he said calmly, "Whether my guess is correct or not, after looking at this map carefully, I find many interesting details. ”

He stretched out his finger, pointed to the northeast of the map, and said, "At the beginning, I noticed that the name of this building was [Canglan Cathedral]...... Thinking of the Canglan River in the eastern part of the continent, I tried to find some other clues. ”

His fingertips flicked down, pressing against a building in the southwest corner of the map.

"Then I found [the Blood Diamond Gem Shop] here."

Terella seemed to understand something, and she whispered, "You mean ......"

"My initial guess was a bit wrong, but I guessed the right direction." "The Canglan River, located in the eastern part of the continent, is in the northeast corner of the map, but a thousand years ago this great river was not called Canglan...... So geographical names are not the answer, the answer is in heaven. ”

Levi pointed his index finger to the top of his head, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly: "After thousands of years, the position of the starry sky has also changed - I don't know when, the Canglan Star moved from the northeast of the night sky to the east, so the long river that originated from the extreme east was named the Canglan River." ”

He paused and said, "Thinking of this, if you adjust the entire star map a little bit, you can understand the meaning of the naming of these buildings. The Blood Diamond Star in the West was located over the Blighted Wasteland in the southwest of the continent during Saladin's time, followed by Polaris, Cangnan, and Obsidian...... And the Dark Landing Star is now located in the northern part of the Ozer Grand Canyon, and it must have been on top of the Shadow Nation thousands of years ago, right? ”

Terrela looked at Levi without saying a word, his expression shifting between contemplation and statement, like a puzzle solver who enjoyed it, and like a scholar of the past and the present, a scene that reminded her of the youthful countenance of the man who was called the King of Kings on many nights thousands of years ago, and who was more interested in exploring the secrets of the stars than he loved women.

"Terella?"

"What?" She came to her senses.

Levi frowned and said, "What are you thinking?" Now is not the time for fugue. ”

Terella was silent for a moment, then said, "Despite your careful reasoning, the opera house is actually empty. ”

"It's too early to tell." Levi shook his head and said, "And as you said, Saladin likes to solve puzzles...... The Ruler's Hall is marked on this map as [Tower of Nothingness], which corresponds to the Void Star and the Realm of Stone Chaos from a thousand years ago, and it makes sense that Saladin was rumored to have built a castle in that area. ”

"The Realm of Rocks...... The abode of a group of puppets. Terella said thoughtfully.

Levi narrowed his eyes and said, "I still have some things I can't figure out, such as the blank space in the center of the map, which is the huge pillar of light we see now, do you know which star it belongs to in the star map?" ”

"I'm not an astrologer." Terrella thought for a moment, then said with some uncertainty, "Libra?" ”

"Libra?" Levi looked surprised, and he said with some confusion, "Are you mistaken?" I've never heard of this star. ”

"Really? Libra is the highest star in the middle of the continent. Terella rolled her eyes in dismay, "In Öze, it's a bright star that a child can recognize. ”

Levi smiled angrily and said, "If you have carefully gazed at the starry sky in Slom, you will find that there is not even a single star in the night sky in the middle of the continent. ”

"How is that possible?" Terella frowned in confusion, "Could it be because of the Dome ......?"

Levi's fingers tapped lightly on his knees, and he slowly speculated, "Maybe the clues provided by this star don't correspond to the location on the continent?" I'm really not sure if I don't go into the pillar of light and see it with my own eyes. ”

"So you're staying here so that the others can enter the pillar of light first?" Terella asked.

"Well, there is indeed a consideration for this, the closer you get to the center, the easier it is to encounter the enemy." Levi nodded and said, "But I'm not going to go to the Pillar of Light right now, I've changed my mind." ”

He looked up into Terella's eyes and asked calmly, "If Saladin is a vengeful man, what do you think...... Where will he put your body and your heart? ”

Terella narrowed her eyes and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Levi first sighed, and then showed a meaningful smile: "Let me change the question, where does the White Queen's hometown come from?" ”

The Tower of Nothingness, the Great Hall of the Masters.

Covered in blood, Cher Manvenlin clad in shattered armor and struggled to the entrance to the hall. She had just taken a step before she fell to the ground, snorting in pain.

She gasped for a moment, gritted her teeth and got up from the ground, slowly walked over to the slate map, reached out and grabbed a piece of rubble, and fell silent.

She had expected Athena, the court magician, to wait here, but that didn't seem to be the case.

Glancing at the hammer that had been left aside, Hill sat down, struggling to remove her armor and shirt, revealing her snow-white chest and smooth back, which exuded a cold, silent charm even though her body was covered in scars and blood.

"Athena must be found." Hill whispered.

With her silver hair draped behind her naked back, she tore off a cloak and wrapped it around the hideous wound on her chest, then raised her eyes to look at the pillar of light in the distance, and fell silent again.

("There are three armies stationed in Slom City, the most elite of which is the [King's Banner Guard], followed by the [King's Guard] in charge of law and order, and the [City Guard] stationed at the city walls.) —General History of the Continent • Medieval Era)