45. The sanctuary of the spirit world
In the council hall of the Frost and Snow Sycamore, as Arajina and her party exited the room, only Valentina and several leaders of the six clans except for the Dahl patriarch were left in the space.
Valentina quietly looked at the sword of the Wind Phoenix King lying on the huge throne in front of her, and she always felt that it seemed to be calling herself, and she reached out a little uncontrollably, trying to grasp the hilt of the sword.
Unlike the Moon Princess's dagger, which has the same shape as the Ice Prince's sword, the Phoenix King's sword has a more formal shape, and from the outside, it looks more like a ceremonial sword, but the chill that constantly emanates from it can always make it easy for others to dispel this ridiculous thought.
"That Alagina is obviously unhappy with our Phoenix-sama, for the women of the Sardinia country, this is simply a hatred for taking away their husbands, and I am afraid it will be difficult to be kind. Today, she can endure for a while because she asks for us, and when she has the ability, do you think she can endure it for a lifetime? And what's more, Lord Phoenix's husband is still there."
Hamlia had always been unhappy with Arajina, and as soon as the other party walked out of the room, she seemed a little impatient to say this to Valentina. At the same time, his eyes were faintly looking at the huge slime Baryne sitting behind him, dissatisfied with the way he had just spoken for the other party in secret.
Barion didn't bother to take care of her, Daliouu also coughed, and hurriedly looked at Valentina's back and interrupted Hamlia's words,
"Ahem. Miss Valentina, it's a pleasure to see you again, and when Sister Eloth came over just now, we thought we would visit you later, but we didn't expect you to come up on your own first."
Listening to the words of Daliwuu behind her, Valentina's movement to grasp the hilt of the Phoenix King's sword froze slightly, and she turned her head to face several leaders of the six clans, only to find that their expressions were different.
Although Daliouu is a troll, she may have known that Valentina's husband is now unknown and does not know whether he is alive or dead, so when Valentina came in as a wife to question Aragina and ask her for proof, her answer was a little hesitant.
It seems that she is afraid that this incident will hit the phoenix who has just woken up, so that she wants to get rid of the plane tree and the six clans desperately go to find Fisher, and this is what the six clans don't want to see anyway, but they didn't expect that the few people around them spoke more outrageously than the other, as if they didn't care about this matter at all.
Forget about Hamria, everyone knows that she has a lack of tendons in her head. And what about this Barion? Daliwuu doesn't understand, is he too old to cause his brain to degenerate?
You must know that for thousands of years since the fall of the phoenixes, the six clans have always adhered to the loyalty and glory of the phoenix, and have always hoped that one day they can return and lead the six clans back to the north, which is why four and a half years ago, they contributed their mark to help Fisher Valentina and her party.
In the past four and a half years, while pulling the rest of the bloodlines of the six clans that have survived the years to the sycamore tree, they are also worried, worried that the only remaining phoenix will evade her responsibilities.
After all, strictly speaking, Valentina was a human being, and the leaders of the six clans knew that she was only promoted now, and that didn't mean that she wasn't "Valentina" anymore.
She doesn't have the teachings of the phoenix, she lives in the place of the Turan family that eats people and doesn't spit out bones, and she is still an acquired phoenix
In case she came to the Sycamore Tree just to heal her legs, at most, it would be to help the Six Clans expel the curse.
What if she didn't care about the return of the Frosty Sycamore Tree at all, and only thought about running out of the north to get somewhere else away from the Turan family?
Then, all the expectations of the six clans and the help they have given her over the years have been lost
But after seeing Daliwuna stop talking, and Hamlia realized that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, Valentina smiled helplessly and said,
"Guys, don't worry I'm going to leave the sycamore tree behind. Although I became a phoenix later, after all, I have met the Moon Princess, received her teachings, and it is thanks to the dedication of your ancestors that I am where I am today. I am the phoenix, the plane tree is my hometown from now on, and you are also friends who have made a promise with me."
Sorry, Miss Valentina, but we had to confirm this. After all, that woman. I mean Heidilyn. Miss Valentina, please don't see outside, we'll say whatever we have. To be honest, she has had some opinions about us over the years, and she may think that we, like the Turanian family, are just using you for our own ends. Rather than staying in the Sycamore Tree to lead us to the old days, she wants you to find your own life and freedom."
Daliwuu pursed his lips, looked at the snow fox race Dhar who walked back from the door, and said,
For this, Kokolia also quarreled with her more than once. Now, she even asked Sister Iros to tell you about Mr. Fisher's disappearance as soon as you woke up, and we are really worried that you will make the wrong choice to leave the Frosty Sycamore.
"Miss Valentina, you have been asleep for a long time, and you do not know what the situation of the world is now. Today's Nari is in full swing, and its power is like tentacles all over the countries and continents, and the North is no exception, a resurrected phoenix in a place like the North where faith is deeply rooted, they are an indispensable thorn in the side of the Turan family, not to mention that you once had a grudge against the Turan family.
"The ancestors of those here have sworn allegiance to your ancestors, and we have not forgotten this oath, and we will be your most loyal subordinates in the future, turning into your hands and eyes, and doing our part to restore the glory of the plane tree. Of course, we will do our best to meet any request of Miss Valentina, and we have done quite a lot of planning since four and a half years ago until now, and the slimes of Barion have not given up on finding the missing Mr. Fisher."
Valentina nodded and spoke softly,
"I apologize for Hedilyn, for I have been with her since I was a child in the House of Turan, and only each other can know the joys and sorrows. She has no ill intentions, but is worried that I will fall into a second cave like the Turan family, and you don't have to worry, I have my own opinions, and I will not be easily changed by others, and I will not be devastated by the disappearance of my husband. I always believed he was alive. He's powerful and won't be knocked down so easily. So, I ask Patriarch Barion to keep an eye on me, and while I stay in the Sycamore Tree, I will desperately search for his whereabouts. ”
Barion pinched the pacifier and nodded nonchalantly in agreement.
And after hearing Valentina's firm answer, the expressions on the faces of the several patriarchs present finally relaxed, and their original worries were completely dispelled, after all, they had been with the former eldest lady of the Turan family for too short a time, and they didn't know her true character.
But now, in a short period of time, the young girl standing in front of the huge throne has quite the legacy of the ancient phoenix.
"Alright, then, Patriarch Daliwuu, I want to know the current situation, the plane trees, the Turan family, the north, and the Nari you mentioned earlier."
Next, Daliouu told Valentina about the current situation of the plane tree.
Today's sycamore trees have 467 pure-blooded trolls, 320 slimes, 580 birds, 700 snow foxes, 612 cloud cats, 1 moon rabbit, and 1 human, a total of 2,689.
This amount was actually within Valentina's expectations, neither too much nor too little, and according to Daliou, the attitude of the northern kingdoms, except for the Satinia and the Turan family, was ambiguous towards the sycamore.
After all, except for those two families, the rest of the small countries are poor and bitter, and it is obvious that the life between the Turan family and the Sardinia country is not very easy. The small northern part of the country, and the climate and other natural resources are almost entirely held between the two major powers, and the smaller countries have long been dissatisfied with this, and the larger ones are neutral and do not have a firm position.
But the Sycamore Tree has a natural advantage over the northern nations, that is, most of the northern inhabitants believe in the Frost Phoenix.
And the fact that the sycamore tree really has a phoenix is something that all countries never expected.
Even for the Sardinia women's country, the previous belief in the frost phoenix was beneficial and harmless. The first is the tradition of cultural history, which is difficult to change. Secondly, we all have the same beliefs, and we have a common goal, which is also conducive to unification and strengthens the ties between the countries in a feudal country like the Sardinia country.
Who would have thought that there has not been a phoenix jumping out of the letter for thousands of years, and in recent years, a real phoenix has popped out of the stone with a "bang".
The impact on the northern realm is no less than announcing the revival of the mother goddess in the western continent, which is simply a world shattering.
Therefore, for the Sycamore Tree, the northern countries are not all enemies, there are a large number of forces that can be tried to win over, and it may be that what they need to really face now is just a Turan family.
And when it comes to the Turan family, we have to mention the behemoth Nari who is now standing behind the Turan family.
"The Turan family has been cooperating with Nari in the Western Continent all these years, and not only them, but also the Black Chieftain of the Storm Sea, the Green Dragon Court of the Southern Continent, and many small countries in the east of the Western Continent are now more or less closely connected with Nari. They have mastered a war machine called 'Cardinal', which is far more powerful than all the previous ones of the Turanian family, and I heard that it is technology from the stormy sea. Over the years, they have put a lot of effort into magic and cardinals, and the level of war has increased by leaps and bounds, and even the Red Dragon Court in the Southern Continent has been defeated and retreated."
"Red Dragon Court"
Valentina chewed on the word in Daliouu's mouth, as if her instincts had made her grasp the particular word and make her pay extra attention.
At the same time, Tao Gong's surprised voice came to his ears again,
"Well, I didn't expect Long Ting to still exist? Is it because of Faimabah's patronage? I have to say that it is really a creation and a trick, and all the orthodox myths have died out, but it is the remnants of those mixed blood who have survived to the present."
But Valentina didn't have time to reply to the words in her head, and Barion, who had been sitting behind without saying a word, suddenly spoke,
"Valentina, Nari is definitely not to be underestimated. It's not because of the strength of their ships now, but because they feel very good about this country. Eccentric. ”
"Quirky. What does this mean, Patriarch Barion. ”
"My slimes are pervasive and infiltrated by many forces, the Sardinia Woman's Country, the Turan Family. I was able to enter Nari before, but I haven't been able to do it all these years. Several of my people in Nari have died, and of course, they have passed away under the guise of their original identity. Overmedication, immediate stroke, cardiac arrest. And the battlefield in the Southern Continent is even more dangerous, my people are directly missing and do not know where to go, and they should no longer be alive now. ”
Barrien snapped his fingers, and then explained the situation in the Southern Continent to Valentina,
"Ever since Nari formed the Human Alliance and the Green Dragon Court puppet regime to attack the Red Dragon Court, I have installed clansmen in various forces. But the clansmen in the Green Dragon Court and the Nari army disappeared the fastest, and the clansmen in the Red Dragon Court were also killed in the war, this is what I can be sure of. Therefore, there is a high probability that there is something in Nari that can find the hidden items or living existence of our people, so that we currently do not know anything about the Southern Continent and the situation of Nari. ”
"Is it possible that it was because of the cardinals you just mentioned that the slimes' disguises were discovered by them?"
Valentina touched her chin, so skeptical.
"It's possible, but we're not sure yet. We have the cardinals of the House of Turan in our hands, but according to the intelligence, their cardinals and the cardinals used by Nari seem to be two different things. Nari's cardinal came from the Stormy Sea, where the Captain of the Sardinia Nation had just come from. And as it happens, they have brought us some valuable samples of the cardinal, and with Elizabeth's sister in her ranks, she may be a very important card for us.
"And the most important thing is to solve the mystery of Cardinal Nari. We can't just limit ourselves to the Turan family we are facing now, and I have a hunch that Nari will be terrible in the future. And among the things that the captain of the Sardinia country brought must be something of great value to me."
Valentina pondered for a moment, lost in thought as she listened to Barion's words, but at least, she had a preliminary understanding of the current situation.
She also began to realize what kind of problem she was facing now.
The terrible chaotic invasion, the disappearance of Fisher, the mysterious rise of Nari, the war of the Southern Continent.
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then, when she opened them again, there was only determination left in her eyes.
"I see."
Valentina spoke softly, then slowly reached out and grasped the hilt of the Phoenix King's sword, which was lying on the throne and watching her quietly, and the moment her fingers made contact with it, a dark feeling instantly penetrated her skin and crashed into her soul, and even the cyan fluff on her body began to glow.
"Buzz"
The cheering sound of the sword reminded Valentina that the sword was easily in her hands.
She was the last pure-blood phoenix, and she was only a phoenix.
"By the way, Miss Valentina, there's one thing I don't know whether to talk about or not."
Just as Valentina picked up the Phoenix King's sword and looked at it, the slime patriarch behind her, Barion, suddenly opened her mouth again.
"What's the matter?"
Valentina turned her head and looked at Barion, who seemed to be a little speechless while pinching the pacifier, but listened to him continue,
"Although my people in the Southern Continent have mysteriously disappeared in recent years, in fact, they are not completely devoid of ears and information. It was some time ago that I suddenly received a little. Well, not so sure news. It's about Mr. Fisher. ”
"About. Fisher's news? What's the news? ”
Valentina was slightly stunned, and then hurriedly asked, wanting to get an answer, even the back of her head quietly poked out a little peach blossom bone, and seemed to have a certain interest in this news.
Barrien hesitated for a moment, then removed the pacifier from his mouth, and then asked Valentina rhetorically,
"Miss Valentina, I don't know if you've heard of it, but a member of the Nari Petri family is called. The merchant of Keken? ”
"Keken? I. Completely unheard. ”
"Well, he's a graduate of the Royal College of Nari, an alumnus and descendant of Mr. Fisher. It just so happened that he had the experience of going to the Southern Continent to do business a long time ago. It also happened that he escaped the Dragon Queen's Northern Expedition and returned to St. Nari; And coincidentally, recently he has been doing some business in the Green Dragon Court on the surface, and of course, he has a little bit with us. Business dealings.
"He said that he had obtained a trace of a person who was suspected to be Mr. Fisher, in the Green Dragon Court of the Southern Continent."
In Arajina's room, the door was closed at the moment, and Aragina asked the ball hovering beside her while checking the equipment and items at hand,
"Little David, you. If something goes wrong after I'm sure, can you teleport me back instantly? ”
"Of course, noble saint."
"I'm nothing. Holy Descent. ”
"Oh it's okay, it's just the default salutation that my maker has set for me, you can change it at any time, or you can use other default salutations such as perverted Asian sissy, little darling, and darling"
"Just call me Arajina, that's my name."
"Okay, Alagina."
Aragina took a deep breath, then glanced at the cardinal who was left around, the only chips she had under the fence now.
If she wants to be strong, she has to take risks.
She didn't know if she had chosen to believe in a cardinal who had just woken up, but she was betrayed by her allies, hunted down by Nari, and crushed by her husband-grabbers. All of this made Alajina, who originally had a leisurely personality, feel obvious discomfort for the first time.
She didn't resent Valentina, and she even thanked the phoenix for taking them in at the moment.
She had just been waiting for a way, and it was not the first time she had experienced the magic of Cardinal Stormsea, not to mention that she had never heard of a cardinal like Little David who could talk and take her to a mysterious location, and she was afraid that even Nari had never had such a precious thing
She's going to have to seize this opportunity!
So, the next moment, Alagina said,
"Teleport, little David."
"Okay, start teleporting. Additional protections have been placed on your body to ensure that you are in the spirit realm and adapted to the environment of the sanctuary. Linking to the Vault link is failing, and teleportation is directly started. ”
"Buzz!"
In the next second, the ball in front of her instantly burst out with a light like the sun, and the light was dazzling, enveloping her easily, turning her into a light, and instantly entering the crack in an extremely incredible way.
"Haha."
Aragina gasped with difficulty, wrapped in spiritual light, she tasted the feeling of weightlessness, and the moment she entered the crack, she rubbed all kinds of brilliant subconscious and charged upward, towards the outer and deeper parts of the world.
She couldn't even look at her surroundings, so she could only let the light carry her all the way, breaking through some kind of barrier until she entered a place of splendid beauty.
The next moment, the environment in front of her instantly became concrete, and she also appeared in a place out of thin air.
An extremely empty, an extremely silent, an extremely dark place.
"We've arrived, Arajina, please rate little David for this service!"
"Wait, this is the angel's refuge?"
It was dark and dead silent, and Aragina was not missing, but just looked around with the light emanating from the little David next to her. But because the surroundings were too big and dark, the light that had been extremely bright just now became so fragile that it could only illuminate a small area around her.
"Empty Empty Empty"
Aragina stepped on some kind of carved stone brick with a delicate pattern that Aragina had never seen before. No, she seems to have seen this pattern.
Right in the Sea of Storms?
"yes, hey, it's strange, it's so dark and so quiet here. According to my private database, this is supposed to be the harbor of the Vault, where the Saints have moved over, right, I'll scan the surroundings, don't worry, Arajina. ”
Little David turned his spherical body in confusion, emitting a glimmer of light, and soon, everything in front of him was deconstructed, wrapped in fluorescent light from the darkness, thus revealing the outlines of various objects.
It's a mess of all sorts of things, but there isn't a single corpse. All sides were sealed with stone bricks, except for the building fragments of the ceiling, which were scattered all over the floor, and from the cracks in the ceiling, strange rays of light like starlight poured down from above, attracting Arajina's attention.
She looked up, intending to look beyond the ceiling, or the scene of the spirit world, but the moment she looked up, just when she saw a faint scarlet mist, behind her, an emotionless but slightly sharp mechanical sound sounded, interrupting her next movement,
"A warm reminder from David, if you don't want to die, don't look up at the scene outside the shelter."
"David?"
Aragina was slightly stunned, quickly stopped her movements and turned her head, looking very vigilantly in the direction where the sound came from.
In the darkness, through the little David and the starlight leaking from the hole in the ceiling, Aragina faintly saw a figure suspended in mid-air, and the shadow shimmered with a bright blue light, which was no different from the light on the little David next to her.
Under Aragina's somewhat nervous and wary gaze, the suspended shadow slowly became clear in the darkness ahead.
It turned out to be a being who wasn't too tall, like a young man. He has long curly red hair and a handsome face, like a rare work of art in the world, it is difficult to distinguish between men and women, or should such an existence not have a gender in the first place?
But what really caught Aragina's attention was the tattered or mutilated parts of his body, and from beneath his ceramic-like cracked and cracked skin, there was a complex and orderly collection of parts and wiring.
This forced Aragina to accept the fact that the being in front of her was essentially a cardinal, not a living being.
"Yes, it's the name my mom and dad gave me, David. What about you, guest, what did your parents name you? ”
The "cardinal" in front of him spoke in a mechanical voice, and blue sparks flashed inside his mouth, indicating that he had fallen into disrepair and was in a precarious state.
But even so, he was like a miracle in the world that should not exist, showing Aragina the legend of a certain civilization.
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