Chapter 157: Ancient War (Part II)
Jonah anxiously approached the mirror, reached out and touched the cold surface, the mirror rippled like water, the picture distorted, and the astrologer's heart suddenly felt a familiar fluctuation, "...... The power of the stars?" he took a few steps back, staring at the silver mirror suspended in the air, and sure enough, he found the subtle and complex lines of the star array at the edge of the mirror, and the red and blue colors of interstellar energy intertwined and flowed in the frame, creating a wonderful film that reflected the scene thousands of miles away. Smell and touch also reserve the possibility of two-way communication.
I don't know if this is the work of Madame Duran or something left by the first mentor in another dimension, at this time, Jonah was already very familiar with the space-time star array, and after just half a minute, he found the star array center that controlled the mirror. Closing his eyes and placing his hand flat on the smooth surface of the edge of the mirror, the astrologer gently plucks the strings of distant stars, and the eternal starry sky responds enthusiastically, shedding light and heat on the tiny believer.
"Mr. Koshava!"
This time, the voice in Koshawar's ears was very clear, and the old man immediately stopped, pulled his staff from the eye socket of one of the resurrected people, turned around and shouted, "Who is calling me? Night Fifteen, is it you kid? Didn't you join the assault team with that crocodile?...... Jonah?"
The seventh-level astrologer raised his white eyebrows, he heard the apprentice's voice, but he couldn't see where the other party was. In the thick of gunsmoke, fire fog and flying snow, only ghostly figures loomed, and the flames from the muzzle of the battle machine guns flickered like distant stars, "It's Jonah's little bastard? you're back!" The first few words of the old man Koshawar were full of surprise, and then he regained that irascible tone, "Why don't you hurry over and help, if the spiritual power of the Magicians Guild Battle Spell Casting Group recovers, another ninth-level battlefield forbidden spell will fall down and smash us all into meatloaf! We must take this opportunity to rush over! Where are you, come out quickly!"
Seeing the tutor's messy face covered with mud and blood, and turning into a thick white mist with every breath, Jonah couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, and he exclaimed: "Teacher, I'm not in Erion City, I'm in the Eastern Continent! I don't have time to explain to you, now I have to do a very important thing, I must use the sixth artifact buried in the Ruins of Erien, this matter is related to the future of the whole world! If you believe me......"
"Don't talk nonsense! What do you want me to do, say it quickly!" Koshawar immediately interrupted the apprentice, "I have raised you young man for so many years, and I know what you are going to fart when you open your mouth, say it!"
The boy didn't expect the tutor to react like this, so that he didn't know what to say for a while, he paused, "Thank you, teacher...... From my vantage point, I can see that the Ruins of Aryn have four gates, right? The focus of the battle between the Arian Alliance and the Crimson Brotherhood is the western gate, which is guarded by the Northern Elves, and you must think that is the easiest place to enter the ruins. โ
Old man Koshawar turned his head and looked at the gloomy silhouette of the city of Erion in the snow, "That's right, the original gate was blocked by the shrunken trunk of the Tree of Life, and only four gates could determine the location, while the west gate has the fewest branches and is the most easily damaged by external forces, and the bastards of the Brotherhood have thought of it with us!"
"That's an illusion!" Jonah said anxiously, "I believe that the door of Erion will not be opened by external forces, and the real door is not among these four! The pagan with a singular name will show the way, an enemy of Gamaliel and a disciple of the blasphemer. Another door will open for the newborn Son of Iryon. In other words, Hasegawa's last words were a reminder given to us by the betrayer Seglas, and I immediately thought of this when I looked down on the city of Aryn, the four doors are traps, and the real doors are not in these four directions!"
"Bang!" The old man of Koshawar swung his staff to knock down a resurrected person, and smashed the opponent's head with the huge gem inlaid on the staff, he panted with his staff: "Huhu, I only have the last bottle of spiritual power potion left, I don't have time to chat with you kid, let's talk about the point!"
Jonah hurriedly said, "Yes, Mr. Koshava, you nominated me to be the commander of the Irion Alliance in the first place, just to establish a connection with the divine magical creatures through me, because the city of Ariann is a sacred place for elves, and you need the help of magical creatures to enter. You want to blast the gates with the natural magic of magical creatures and awaken the sleeping tree of life, - don't do that! That will definitely cause disaster, I have this hunch! To enter the ruins, to pass through the hidden gate, if I guess correctly, the entrance to that door is below, directly below the city!"
"What?" Koshava's eyes widened, "! Irion is a city of living wood, covered with hard roots that can't be dug up, and we have exerted all our strength to dig through the permafrost above the city, and once we touch the root system below, the earth magic will not work at all, and even the hardest tunneling machinery will break!"
"Yes, teacher, that's why I'm in contact with you!" I think that according to the original prophecy of Seglas the Betrayer, I should be the one who entered this door, but the two worlds have changed dramatically, and I have taken a different path, and I cannot appear on the battlefield of the final battle. But there is still a chance that you can enter that door instead of me, teacher, because ...... Because you are the only person in this world besides me who is familiar with the space-time star array!"
"Click!" Kosawa's scarred staff snapped from it, and he staggered two steps, nearly settling down in the muddy snow, "What nonsense are you talking about? It was the star array of the original Mentor Gilberto Gilburnaion, and no astrologer could master the mysteries of time and space......"
"Please don't disguise it, teacher. Through the mirror of time and space, the young man stared into his mentor's dodging eyes: "You have taught me to study the two diametrically opposed starlines of 21-814 and 130-77 since I was a child, and I am used to this, and I am not aware of the strangeness in them. Later, as I grew up, I realized that no one in the entire astrologer association could grasp two completely conflicting interstellar energies like you and me, and the so-called three-phase annihilation array was just a collision of star forces in the same frequency spectrum, which was completely different from us in nature. Mr. Koshava, you usually show a skillful control of the dark blue energy of 21-814, but only I know that you are also extremely skilled in the use of 130-77 pairs of star orange-red energy. As a master astrologer, with your powers of observation and understanding, it is impossible for you to ignore the head-on collision of energies for a long period of timeโI discovered the mystery of the space-time star array in a few months, and you, with a hundred times more time than I have to study. โ
Koshawar stared blankly at the sky and muttered, "What are you talking about, young man?" โ
Jonah's voice echoed through the gray snow: "Yes, teacher. You used the space-time star array to concoct memories of my father and mother. Again and again, you have come into my dreams and led me down this path. You were the last visitor to the Well of Light, the one who met the first Mentor Gilberto Gilbernaon before me. You have long known about the Red Brotherhood, the Ghost Organization, and even the existence of the First World, you have sought the truth, but you have encountered the same wall that Master Gil Burnnaon once encountered, you can travel through strange worlds, leaving 10,000 bizarre bits, but you will never be able to reach the higher world, to the place where the first Mentor once been. Until...... Until you stumble upon the nameless book of Seglos the Betrayer. Instead of being the cog that moves the world around, you have left the book in the gloomy room of the Royal Museum, waiting for me to flip through it by chance, because I have a stronger sense of the two interstellar energies than you are, and more importantly, you are too old to embark on another adventure. โ
"Really, do you think so?" said Koshawar noncommittally to himself.
"You are the one who pushed me down this path. "I don't hold a grudge against you, because if it weren't for that, I would have spent my life in my little world, in the protractors, the binoculars, and the papyrus, and because of you, I have met my fellow Pitchforks, and met Danny, Hannah, the ghost Bahamas, Arsay, and countless friends and foes." And you, in fact, are also part of this huge story, I believe that it was you who found the notebook of the first mentor in the ruins of the astrology tower of the Well of Light, Annessia, and then accidentally lost it, and the notebook was later picked up by the head of the Dragon family, Long Zunjun, which changed the trajectory of the fate of the world...... There's no time to say more, Mr. Koshavoy, and only you have the strength to do what is going to happen next. โ
Hearing this, the old man sighed, took off the pointed hat on his head and wiped the blood sticky on his beard, then sat down and took a deep breath, and let out a snow-white breath: "Okay, I know." I've always been afraid that you will hate me, and I have a bad attitude towards you kid on the submarine, because you have been anxious because you have not been able to comprehend the secrets of the space-time star array, and now it seems that everything is back to the original route...... Fate is such a trickster, and I'd rather stay in the city and spend time in the breasts of the waitress at the midnight bar......"
Jonah saw the light in the teacher's eyes, and at this moment, the boundary between master and apprentice was gone, and those feelings of mutual suspicion, longing, hatred, and nostalgia turned into smoke. The astrologer apprentice took two steps back, looked at the outline of the city of Erion in the mirror, and said aloud, "I need a full map of the city, teacher, and it must be marked on a detailed scale." โ
"Well, look. Without hesitation, Koshawar pulled out a scroll from his bosom and unfolded it into the wind, while pouring the last bottle of the spiritual power elixir into his throat. At this moment, a gust of wind swept overhead, dozens of huge camel eagles spread their wings and soared in the sky against the wind and snow, and an officer shouted: "Lord astrologer! I am Captain Morrell of the 13th Flying Group of the Fireblade Knights of the Tocharian Empire, the general attack has begun, we are ordered to carry the attack system astrologers to attack from the air, please board the camel eagle behind!"
"Go away, tell them not to look for me, I have more important things to do!" roared the old man in irritation, and stood still in the snow, letting the numerous armed camel eagles whizz through the sky.
Jonah looked at the drawings in the mirror and quickly calculated against the bird's-eye view of Arian City, "If the calculation is correct, the fountain of life at the bottom of the city is at this location, even if the outer periphery of Tree City shrinks, the core datum point should not change." Teacher, can you see that? In -1333, +368, #2909ๅๆ ็ไฝ็ฝฎ, which is the physical core of all the living trees that make up the outer walls, with the theory of the space-time star array, we can open a precise spatial door directly to the fountain of life, and unlike the chaotic state of the rest of the city, the dry fountain of life is the place where time interference is the least slight, and can reduce the energy consumption of the star array to a minimum. โ
Koshawar glanced at the blueprint of the hunting fluttering in the wind, "It's a little reasonable, but it's very risky, you know that there are many restrictions on opening the door of time and space in the same bit, unlike space magic that can only reach known locations, the space-time star array must ensure the time and space structure of the arrival point, in case anything changes in the fountain of life in the past thousand years, I will die due to the star array's backlash!"
Jonah bit his lip: "Yes, teacher, with our strength, moving three hundred yards in this time and space is already the limit, and we have to face the threat of chaos in the time structure. But the Fountain of Life is protected by the temple of the Northern Elves, and it is already the safest place, so now, we can only gamble!"
"To put it lightly, young man. A bead of sweat slid down Koshava's forehead, and before the corners of his eyes could freeze, "Are you sure there's only one way?"
"That's the hidden door, teacher, the door that only we can enter. The boy nodded heavily.
Koshawar spat out a mouthful of thick, bloody phlegm. He rolled up his sleeves and traced the outline of the star array on the snow with his broken staff, using snow and mud as a canvas and blood and fire as paint, the arcane curves of the arc stretched over the battlefields of the North. At this moment, the large forces of the Irion Alliance counterattacked, and the surroundings suddenly fell into strange silence, and Jonah watched as the space-time star array gradually took shape on the frozen ground. He had never seen such a star array, and it was clear that each part was familiar, but it was combined in an unbelievable way, which was not only different from the design idea of the original mentor Gilbernaion, but also much more subtle than his own space-time star array, Koshawar had been haunted by his inability to rise to the eighth level of astrology master for many years, who could have known that the old man already had research results beyond the imagination of all people, and had power beyond the imagination of this world?