Airships take routes, battleships go in a straight line.

The Blue Battleship flies much higher than a normal airship, but does not enter the clouds casually.

The clouds are full of mist and are likely to interfere with the direction of the battleship.

Duke sat in a comfortable leather armchair, with a translucent lookout porthole in front of him, allowing him to look out over every part of the land and mountains that the battleship passed.

Lofty mountains, large rivers and rainforests, green grasslands, blue lakes......

The battleships flying in a straight line, passing through the deserted virgin jungle area, retain the most spectacular scenery.

Just one area of wind breath encompasses all kinds of geographical scenes.

Along the way, Duke was dizzying.

"Mu Lali, you go and ask the service desk, haven't you left the realm of the Wind Breath Realm yet?" Duke commanded casually.

"Yes, sir." Mulari walked away with light steps.

On this trip to the Holy City of Ofa, Duke brought a lot of people, not for pomp, but to take care of his food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Mu Lali, Mu Lashan, and Vivian are indispensable; Levine is in charge of taking care of Xiaodou; Aunt Virginie, the cook, is in charge of cooking to prevent Duke from eating the food of the Holy City of Offa; Andrei and Victor, two entourages, are in charge of running errands.

There are also two legal staff who are responsible for handling emergencies; Two finance officers, in case Duke has an idea, they can operate at any time; Four male and female servants serve tea and water, clean up, wash clothes and other chores.

There is also a team of Guardian Knights.

The captain is no longer Vivien, but the 2-Ringed Phantom Beast Knight-Herdos, the patrol knight captain of the Sukhtara Mage Tower.

This was given to Duke by Sukhtarase.

Although the Holy City of Alpha is the holy city of the Seven Towers Federation, it may not have any sudden crises, and bringing Herdos can at least share a little threat for Duke.

A few minutes later.

Mulali came back with a middle-aged man: "Sir, this is the travel guide at the front desk, Grand Knight Dunn. ”

"I've seen Lord Duke." Dunn bowed.

"You're welcome, Dunn, please be seated." Duke was mild, "You should have been to many places with the battleship Blue, and I need you to solve my doubts." Where are we now? ”

"Lord Duke, take a look at this map first." Dunn spread a map on the table.

This is a map of the Seven Towers Federation.

The map looks crude, or crude.

But in fact, it is very detailed, but the human cities and market towns on it are too scarce, resulting in too few signs on the map.

After all, the Seven Towers Federation is vast and sparsely populated, and its area is probably larger than the entire earth's land combined, but its population is only a billion yuan. Along the distribution of spiritual springs, scattered among the jungles.

"Lord Duke, where we are now, about here, Black Sores Hills." Dunn said, pointing to the map.

Then he motioned to Duke to look down through the porthole: "These undulating hills on the highlands are the black sore hills, and to the south of it, a little black spot can be faintly seen, which is the gravel market in the cave area. ”

The Cave Territory is one of the eight regions under the jurisdiction of the Wind Breath Domain.

"Fly out of the Black Sore Hill and leave the Wind Breath Realm?" Duke asked, looking at the map.

"Yes."

"I'm curious, why is this lush hill called such a nasty name as the Black Sore Hill?"

Dunn replied, "Lord Duke, you'll know in a moment, please wait a moment." ”

As the battleship continued to move forward, a black area suddenly appeared in the undulating primeval jungle of the Black Sore Hill, as if it had been formed by fire.

Moreover.

There are more and more such black areas, like abscesses, growing in the depths of the primeval jungle.

"These black areas, what's going on?" Duke asked curiously.

"It's said to be related to ancient evil things, but I don't know the more specific situation, maybe you, Lord Duke, can ask us." Dunn shook his head, he was just a big knight, not Bai Xiaosheng.

"Okay." Duke stood up directly.

These dark areas, dotted on the black hills, somehow Duke always felt a little evil.

So he simply got up and went to Siscoli to ask.

As the owner of the battleship, Siscoli did not enjoy the whole journey when he traveled, but transferred part of his laboratory to the battleship.

In this way, you can fly and research at the same time.

When Duke walked to the door of the laboratory, there were no knights guarding it except for the service staff.

Duke cleared his throat.

At this moment, on the closed door of the laboratory, a huge dragonfly outlined by fluorescence suddenly emerged.

Between the flapping of wings, a little starlight is sprinkled.

There was no doubt that it was an Elder Spirit, Duke smiled and said, "Lord Darth, I'm looking for Lord Siscoli. ”

The compound eyes of the big dragonfly approached Duke and looked at him for a long time before responding, "Siscoli, please come in...... But I can also answer your question, it is the scar of the earth, the scar left by the gods eating the earth! ”

As the battle spirit of the Blue battleship, every move in most areas of the battleship is known to the Darth Dragonfly.

Duke's question about Dunn was no exception.

"Earth scars? Iniquity? Duke wanted to ask again, but the door to the lab was open, so he went in front of Siscoli.

Siscoli had already put away the experiment: "Dath said you asked me for a question?" ”

As a 6-Ring Sky Arcane Mage, Siscoli is temporarily unattainable by Duke in terms of level.

But compared to the study of spiritual arcane, Duke was a big step ahead of him.

Because Siscoli only has two scholarly titles, and no sage title, a sage must make a great contribution to the spiritual arcane, many arcane masters have a deep understanding of the spiritual arcane, but it is difficult to make breakthrough innovations.

Each has its own strengths, so Duke is not weak in front of Siscoli.

The bearing is neither humble nor arrogant.

"There are some doubts, the black sore hills we are flying over at the moment are said to be related to ancient evil things, I want to know if this is the case."

"Not bad." Siskoli did not deny it, "You are about to be crowned a sage, and you are entitled to know more." In fact, these ancient evils, collectively known as gods, are the opposite of spirituality. ”

"The opposite of spirituality?" Duke was puzzled.

Siscoli elaborated: "The gods feed on spirits, and they are especially fond of devouring spiritual springs, and when they devour spiritual springs, they leave behind earth scars like the Black Sore Hills, and in our Wind Breath realm alone, dozens of earth scars have been found. ”

"In the Cuihai Valley of our Black Jiaohe Land, there is a forbidden place where the shells of ancient evil things have been found, so this is also a god's sin. The place where it was found is located under a spirit mine, which is also considered a scar of the earth? ”

"The place in Cuihai Valley is still handled by me with the team."

Siscoli shook his head and smiled, and then said: "That shell is indeed left by the gods, but it is the shell of the young gods, and it has not been able to devour the spiritual spring, so it is not a scar of the earth, at most a scar. ”

Siscoli then went on to explain: "A scar is a wound on the surface of the earth, and it is harmless; The scar goes deep into the earth, and if the spiritual fountain exudes spirituality, then the scar exudes evil, and even the arcane mage will be affected. ”

"Why don't you get rid of such a scar on the earth?" Duke asked.

"It's easier said than done to deal with it, after the gods devoured the spiritual spring, they became one with the earth, not to mention that I can't deal with it, even if the arcane master comes, he is helpless." Siscoli shook his head and said, "I can only let it exude evil nature, and it will be forbidden." ”

"So, in the territory of the Seven Towers Federation, there are countless forbidden lands?"

"Yes, and these earth scars are still different, and in the early years, many arcane mages strayed into them and became sinking demons...... It is said that in the scar of the earth, there is a secret to the promotion of the 9th ring, and many arcane teachers have even built a mage tower in the scar to study it deeply. ”

"9 rings......" Duke blinked.

He has the existence of the Nine Rings Small Art, and sooner or later he will survive until the Nine Rings, probably without entering the scars of the earth to do research.

After asking about the scar of the earth, Duke stopped bothering Siscoli and left.

Return to your guest cabin and continue to look out over the land over which the battleship flies.

"Now that the battleship has flown out of the Black Sore Hills, we should have entered the territory of the Lanyun domain, but the Azure has taken a direct flight mode and will not pass through the cities in the Lanyun domain." Grand Knight Dunn explained.

The battleship has a large reserve of energy and supplies, so it can fly non-stop all the way without stopping to resupply along the way.

Flew for another half a day.

Dunn said solemnly, "Lord Duke, the high mountain you see now is called the Aquila Mountains, and this mountain range stretches for thousands of kilometers, like a knife crossing the entire Lanyun Domain. At the same time, it is also the most dangerous area. ”

"Dangerous?" Duke was curious.

Three or four days have passed since this flight, and I haven't seen any danger.

Basically, the spirit beasts flying in the sky, seeing the huge size of the Blue battleship, are very aware of the current affairs and avoid them in advance.

did not take the initiative to come forward to find the dead spirit beast.

"In the Aquila Mountains, there are a large number of 5-ringed spirit beasts-Golden-winged Eagle Falcons, and some Golden-winged Eagle Falcons can also break through the 5 rings and evolve to 6 rings. They are very territorial and come in groups when attacking. ”

Dunn continued: "The routes in the Lanyun realm will basically avoid the Aquila Mountains, and ordinary airships can't withstand the group attack of the Golden-winged Eagle Falcon. ”

Between words.

The Blue had already begun to pull upwards and climb the slope, rushing headlong into the clouds several kilometers high, trying not to alarm the Golden-winged Falcon in the Aquila Mountains.

But.

When entering the range of the Aquila Mountains, I still saw several huge falcons, flying up from the cliffs at the summit of the mountains, and then crashing towards the clouds, and in the blink of an eye, they flew around the Blue and screamed.

"Buzz!"

Sirens sounded inside the battleship, signaling all passengers and crew to hurry up and get into their fixed seats.

Grand Knight Dunn got up and said goodbye, "Lord Duke, I'm going to the combat post. ”

"I'm going with you, just arrange a fighting compartment for me, and I'm going to try how strong these Golden-winged Eagle Falcon are." Without hesitation, Duke got up and followed Dunn towards the battleship's fighting bay.

Since the development of the Sand Eagle 1.6-Burst version, he has only hunted a few times in the forest near the castle.

I didn't encounter a powerful spirit beast to test the true power of the sand eagle.

When he entered the fighting compartment, the transparent glass gave him a clear view of the golden-winged falcons roaming around the battleship.

Each one was black with golden wings, and with a strange chirp while condensing arcane magic under its wings.

It's metallic arcane, a variation of earth-based elementals.

Like a long metal knife, it slashed at the battleship, cracking the hull of the battleship Blue.

At the same time, the fighting compartment of the Azure battleship also released countless long-range fighting qi martial arts attacks, which were released by the great knights of the guards, but compared to the 5-ring level Golden-winged Eagle Falcon, this attack was really not enough.

However, accompanied by a huge pale hand, condensed on the side of the battleship, a golden-winged falcon that was so arrogant that it wanted to peck at the shell of the battleship was directly grabbed by the pale hand, and then it was pinched and exploded into a ball of minced meat.

"It's the 4-ring Arcane-Pale Hand, which is compounded by the mage's hand, and is the standard configuration of the Great Arcane."

Xiaoyi faithfully broadcasts battlefield information.

The 4 rings are a watershed, and the 1, 2, and 3 rings below the 4 rings are all independent single arcanes with unique spell models; The 4-ring, 5-ring, and 6-ring arcane are basically compound arcane, consisting of spell models of single arcane being nested and combined with each other.

The Pale Hand is a spell model from the hand of a mage, constantly piled up and nested, forming a large hand that covers the sky and the sun.

"Mistress Siscoli has made a move." Duke nodded slightly.

Just as he was about to make a move, a pair of dragonfly compound eyes suddenly appeared on one of the pillars of the fighting compartment.

It was the battleship Battlelingdath: "You can't participate in a battle of this scale, 2 Ring Arcane Mage Duke." ”

There is no doubt that Duke was despised.

However, he was not annoyed, and just smiled faintly: "It's a little higher than the output of the big knights, right." ”

"Grand Knight?" "They only deserve to clean up the battlefield, and they will only recover the corpses that I and Siscoli have killed." ”

"You can fight too?" Duke finds blind spots.

Battle Spirit Dath snorted coldly: "The Blue is me, I am the Blue Blue, my strength is enough to crush any spirit beast!" ”

Immediately, I felt that the entire Blue battleship was trembling, and then dozens of columnar protrusions poked out around the battleship.

The protrusions are clearly engraved with arcane lines.

The lines lit up together, and the next moment, countless flaming spears rose around the battleship, as if shooting from the columnar protrusions, blooming all over the sky, and I don't know how many golden-winged falcons were shot, and they were killed on the spot.

"It's a 4-ring arcane-extreme lance, made up of a combination of a 2-ring arcane-fire dragon drill and a 2-ring arcane-flame lance."

Xiaoyi quickly responded with information.

Duke was awe-inspiring in his heart, with such a ferocious attack power, it was no wonder that the Blue battleship dared to cross the Aquila Mountains.

"How?" The entire head of the Battle Spirit Dath stretched out from the pillar, "The battlefield doesn't need the weak to make a move, you're just a 2-ring arcane scholar, not even an arcane master, go back to sleep." ”

The Elder Spirits have an eccentric personality, and Darth seems to like to despise Duke.

Of course.

This kind of contempt had no effect on Duke.

He just smiled indifferently: "I can't sleep, come and have a good time, Mr. Darth, don't keep staring at me, you can stare at the golden-winged falcon outside, you see, there is a large group of golden-winged falcons flying in the mountains below." ”

"I'm in thousands of parts, and one of them is staring at you." Darth was unmoved.

Duke was unmoved.

The mind moves.

A white crystal arm was condensed outside the fighting cabin, and the five fingers were open, which was the hand of the arcane weapon.

In the palm of Ao's hand, the Sand Eagle pistol has been materialized.

Through the glass shell of the fighting compartment, Duke took control of his hand, holding the Sand Eagle pistol, aiming at the Golden-winged Falcon flying in the surrounding clouds.

"Jamming bombs!" Duke switched bullets in mind.

Immediately the hand pulled the trigger.

Flutter.

A Golden-winged Falcon was shot, and then staggered as if drunk.

"Armor-piercing bullets, homing bullets!" Duke switched bullets again, pulled the trigger, and an armor-piercing bullet burst out.

The Golden-winged Falcon has no track to go.

The armor-piercing bullet was about to graze the edge of the Golden-winged Falcon, but suddenly the bullet turned around and pierced into the Golden-winged Falcon's eye accurately.

The eye has the weakest defenses and is connected to the brain.

The Golden-winged Eagle Falcon, which was knocked out by the jamming bullet, had no intention of dodging at all, and was directly broken by the armor-piercing bullet.

Unable to maintain the flying attitude anymore, he fell headlong down.

Halfway through, he was shot by a bow with a hook and dragged into the battleship Blue.

"Yo." Darth War Spirit stared at Duke, and naturally saw Duke's operation, "You actually killed a golden-winged falcon, 2-ring arcane scholar Duke, you impressed me, but you just relied on the arcane weapon to commit murder." ”

Duke smiled: "You were a big dragonfly in ancient times, I think, at the end of your corpse's decomposition, what remains must be your mouth." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Because you're all over your body, and your mouth is the hardest."

"It's a bad joke." Instead of getting angry, Darth War Spirit fell into remembrance, "Let me think about it, I drowned in the fountain of spirits, and I saw my body decay intact. ”

Its tone was a little lonely: "First the stomach rotted, then the internal organs of the cephalothorax rotted, and then there was only one shell left in my body...... Eventually, even the outer shell melted and became one with the fountain of spirituality. ”

Then he sighed heavily: "I just disappeared like this." ”

"But your spirit lives forever with the fountain of spirituality, and if your spirit does not dry up, you will never die again."

"You don't understand." After Darth finished speaking, he quickly burrowed back into the pillar and disappeared.

"What don't I understand?" Duke asked, but the Darth Spirit did not reappear, so he had to focus on hunting the Golden-winged Eagle Falcon outside.

The power of the Sand Eagle 1.6-Burst Edition is far beyond imagination.

In particular, the combination of special effect bullets makes its hunting effect super strong, and even 5-ring spirit beasts can be easily hunted.

"The jamming bomb works so well!" Duke exclaimed.

This elemental bullet does not have any lethality, so in terms of spiritual judgment, it is difficult to cause a defensive warning.

After the early warning of the spirit beast is lifted, and then shoot with other bullets, the spirit beast will be 100% hit.

But it's not a one-size-fits-all approach.

For example, Duke shot a jamming bullet and shot a huge golden-winged falcon, and the other party just shook his head and returned to normal.

So the next armor-piercing bullet cooperated with the tracking projectile to lock its eyes, but when it couldn't be fired, it turned its head. The armor-piercing projectile hit the feathers on the top of the golden-winged falcon's head, but it failed to penetrate even the feathers.

"Losing the weak point attack, the armor-piercing projectile almost loses its deterrent power against high-level spirit beasts."

Duke didn't believe in evil, so he simply switched to burst mode, and directly hit the head of the golden-winged falcon with a dozen jamming bombs.

The Golden-winged Eagle snorted and curled up, ready to defend itself against the attack.

This left Duke at a loss.

However, in the next moment, a huge 4-ring arcane-pale hand directly grabbed this golden-winged falcon that could evolve to the 6-ring level.

Pinch hard.

The golden-winged falcon was not pinched and exploded, but it was also pinched to the point that the bones were shattered, and it looked like it could not survive. is also at the level of 6 rings, and the strength of the arcane mage is absolutely crushing the spirit beast - this is the cognitive gap of the spiritual arcane.

One relies on instinct to hunt, and the other masters the rules to hunt, which can be called a dimensionality reduction strike.

"The 6-ring Golden-winged Eagle Falcon is difficult to kill, so I'll pick the 5-ring Golden-winged Eagle Falcon to try the gun." Duke was quick to accept reality.

In fact, the fact that the sand eagle was able to hunt the 5-ringed spirit beast had already surprised him greatly.

Poof!

The jamming bomb goes first, followed by the tracking bullet and the armor-piercing bullet, and after a set of processes, if the 5-ringed Golden-winged Eagle Falcon is not killed, Duke will make up another set of procedures.

Sometimes the golden-winged falcons that are not dead are stimulated by the pain, and the jamming bombs cannot interfere with them. Duke will then switch to burst mode, with armor-piercing rounds and homing rounds to highlight a saturation attack.

The 5-ringed golden-winged falcon still has to be hated by the sand eagle after all.

"Get another one, go on!" Duke has long known about the bullet switch of the sand eagle, and specializes in killing the small golden-winged falcon.

However, this hunting feast did not last long.

The Blue crossed the Aquila Mountains unharmed, under the dual protection of Darth Warrior and Siscoli.

The Golden-winged Eagle Falcon, which had left behind a large number of corpses of its companions, watched the battleship sail out of the territorial airspace, and no longer fearlessly attacked, and returned to the lair of the rock wall of the mountain range with a roar.

"Seven."

Duke dispersed Aoshou and Sand Eagle and left the fighting compartment contentedly.

In this short connecting battle, he single-handedly hunted seven 5-ring level Golden-winged Eagle Falcons, and for a 2-ring arcane mage, the results were brilliant.

Soon.

The flight attendant brought a golden-winged falcon feast, including barbecue, braised and stewed...... The chefs of the restaurant showed eighteen kinds of cooking skills to make this golden-winged falcon whole meat feast.

"Well, that's all it tastes like...... You alright. Duke tasted it and nodded.

The spirituality of these ingredients is strong, but the taste is not so outstanding, and even the meat is a little dry.

It's not that the higher the level of the spirit animal, the better it tastes.

In fact, the meat of most high-level spirit beasts is too solid to be suitable for cooking and eating at all.

"You guys have some to eat, too." Duke called out to Mulari, Mula, and Vivien, "Take a seat together, I don't pay attention to these rules here." ”

Eat and drink to your heart's content.

Duke took the three of them into the guest room to chat.

The guest room has a special isolation layer to isolate the prying eyes of the battleship, and Duke also uses the breathing method to keep an eye on the movements of the Darth War Spirit to make sure that it really can't cross the isolation layer and peep into the room.

The Elder Spirit is integrated with the battleship and the Mage Tower, allowing you to enter and exit from any place.

Although they are not humans, most people mind their privacy, so many places such as battleships and mage towers have special isolation layers.

Shielding the perception of the ancient spirits, so that guests can rest at ease.

"Sir, let's play poker together." Mu Lali blushed and proposed, "I want to win back the money I lost last time." ”

Duke pulled out a box of pokers: "Then it's up to you." ”

"I'm not afraid, but sir, you are not allowed to count cards, as soon as you count the cards, no one can win you."

"Don't worry, I don't count cards." Duke replied.

Playing cards with the people around him, he doesn't need Xiaoyi's assistance, otherwise it would be a bit too despicable.

You have to use supercomputing to play cards, which is unreasonable!

The game is a joyful and harmonious game.

In a happy day, time flies.

Flash.

After a week-long flight, we finally arrived at the destination of the trip, the Holy City of Ofa.

It was a large, emerald lake, with a long stretch of buildings towering over the water in the middle of the lake, forming a majestic city skyline.

In the sky, in the water.

The real city and the illusory city merge into one, as if two cities are stuck together.

Eighteen long snow-white bridges, along the mirror-like surface of the water, stretch out like six endless silk threads, holding the city firmly in place and preventing it from drifting around with the lake.

Suddenly.

On the calm surface of the lake, a figure jumped out and slammed into the lake.

Even if it hadn't landed yet, the battleship Azure, which was still a thousand meters away from the lake, could hear the sound of that figure.

Low and distant.

But he is full of loneliness, like crying and complaining.

"Ah, I hear the familiar whale song again." Siscoli didn't know when, appeared in front of the porthole, and sighed with a smile, "Whale Song Mirror Lake, this is the most magical lake in the Barren Continent!" ”

Half lake, half spring.

Half of it has whale songs, half of it has spiritual transpiration.

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)