Behind Ge Lie stood his student Wallette and his youngest disciple Raphael. The two young people didn't know what the respected teacher was muttering about, but Ge Lie was obviously in a bad mood. It seemed that Duke Town would inevitably be destroyed by the flood, so they all stood there quietly and dared not speak.
Ge Lie stood on the city wall for a whole day, persuading him to go to rest, but he seemed to be unable to hear, staring at the direction of Duke Town in the east from day to night. Until the noon of the next day, Lord Xiao Mo, the governor of the city-state of Syria, came to the city for the third time. This time, he did not persuade Ge Lie to go back to the temple to rest, but to report on official duties—
"I have ordered the soldiers stationed at the post road in the Blackfire Forest to withdraw, and the soldiers at two post stations withdrew in time, but the water came too fast, and the post station closest to Duke Town was surrounded by floods, and the situation is unknown. You sent yesterday The High Priest Kausman used the flying magic weapon to pick up people at the post station and investigate the situation in Duke Town, but Kausman came back before halfway there, and it is said that it is impossible to pass.”
Raphael frowned and said, "How can Cosman be irresponsible and leave the soldiers at the post station alone?"
Ge Lie finally spoke. He sighed and waved his hands and said, "We can't blame Cosman. The clouds are very low and there is lightning. Flying in the air at this time will become the target of lightning and will be life-threatening. I will send him to rescue him." Man, he was not sent to die, and he really couldn't reach the post."
The thunder in the distance became louder during the speech, and the thick clouds spread from the direction of the Syya Plateau, almost pressing down on the top of the Syya City. Raindrops also fell on the city wall, and the raindrops became denser and denser. Xiao Mo asked anxiously: "If the rain doesn't stop, the flood will overflow the Black Fire Forest and reach the city of Syria. At present, one-third of the entire city-state's territory has been flooded, what should we do?"
Ge Lie turned around and ordered: "As the governor, hurry up and prepare for disaster relief, more and more victims will flood into the city of Syria soon...Wallet, you go to the temple to get two high-level air magic Bring the scroll and the blue boat."
Wallett: "The Blue Boat? Is that the magic weapon inlaid with the Blue Water Heart, which consumes four divine stones every time it is used?"
Ge Lie: "Yes, it's in my private warehouse in the apse. Get it quickly, I'm going to the flood."
Xiao Mo dissuaded in surprise: "Honorable great magician, do you want to take the risk yourself? The city-state of Syria still needs you to sit in the city!"
Hua Laite also persuaded: "Dear teacher, please let me go."
Ge Lie shook his head: "Since I can't fly, I'll go over the water. I'm the only one who can control the Youlan Boat, and none of you can. I want to inquire about an important friend and bring back the soldiers who were trapped at the station .This is an order, you don't need to persuade me."
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The Youlan Boat is a shuttle-shaped artifact of divine art. This kind of thing is also called a magic weapon. It is only two inches wide and more than a foot long. The whole body is silver in color. There are two grooves in each, and four divine stones have already been set in the grooves when Vallett fetched them.
It is a magical artifact in Ge Lie's private collection, which is extremely precious, but no one knows that it was given to him by Nietzsche twenty years ago. Nietzsche is also one of the best master craftsmen on this continent.
Even a great magician would not dare to fly easily in the sky full of thunder and lightning. In order to save mana, Ge Lie directly used an air magic scroll to float close to the water surface, shuttling through the weird bushes in the Black Fire Forest between.
In principle, something like a scroll can't save mana, but it can store the mana that is usually used in a certain way, and it can be used by the user at a critical moment. Divine spell scrolls are written in divine script according to specific requirements. It is much more difficult to make than casting corresponding divine spells, and consumes more mana, and it may not be successful. Therefore, high-level magic scrolls are one of the most precious magic artifacts on the mainland, and only a great magician like Ge Lie can order someone to fetch two at will.
The surface of the water was very unsettled, with countless eddies and chaotic torrents surging through the Black Fire Forest towards the city-state of Syria. Only those tall and strange black stones are still exposed on the water, forming isolated islands here and there. As we go forward, the water surface becomes more and more open, and there are fewer and fewer isolated islands with shrubs, the water level is getting higher and higher, and the water flow is getting faster and faster.
Ge Lie was walking against the current on the water, and he could no longer hide his figure with the help of isolated islands and jungles in the open place, and he became the most prominent target on the water. Lightning struck him several times in the low clouds. Ge Lie used his staff to guide him, and his body teleported away without being struck. Only a great magician can advance like this, and it would be impossible for another person to make it through.
The closer you get to Duke Town, the faster the turbid water flows, the bigger the surging eddies, and the more dense the lightning strikes from the sky. Although he couldn't see the flooded road, Ge Lie was still able to follow the route of the original post road. He finally came to the nearest post station thirty miles away from Duke Town, which was already a vast ocean.
In the midst of the wind and rain, thunder and lightning, the Hall of Gelie used the detection magic to investigate the surroundings, and finally heard a faint and hoarse cry for help. A small group of soldiers stationed at the station still survived, and under the leadership of the captain, they climbed to the highest boulder nearby in time. The boulder was almost completely submerged by the flood. Twelve soldiers were holding on to the branches above the water and calling for help, their voices hoarse. If Ge Lie came one step later, these people would be washed away.
Ge Lie floated near the boulder, took out the blue boat from his arms and threw it on the upper water. The magic weapon more than one foot long swirled in the water, and an invisible boat suddenly appeared on the surging water. The surface of the water receded, showing the shape of the bottom of a boat, and the rain in the air could not hit the top of it, and only flowed down from the sides. There was a flash of lightning, and the electric wires separated to the surroundings, outlining the outline of this "ship". It was like a long and narrow jujube core, and its space could accommodate more than a dozen people.
Ge Lie waved his staff, and the outline of the hull emitted a layer of faint blue light, which finally fully appeared on the water surface. He yelled: "Get on the boat quickly, don't panic! Is the captain still there? Command the soldiers to sit firmly in the boat and don't move around... This is a magical artifact, you just jump on it."
Under the captain's command, the exhausted soldiers jumped onto the invisible ship with a blue film of light tremblingly, as if they were standing directly on the water, but they landed steadily. Everyone was trembling, but the captain's command was not messed up. The twelve people sat down neatly in two rows, and no one moved.
Ge Lie glanced at the team leader with a slightly approving look, floated and stood at the bow of the ship, and pointed forward with his staff, the blue boat did not go back, but went forward The direction continues to break through the waves. The captain was very puzzled, but he didn't ask what the honorable great magician was thinking, but just gestured for the soldiers to have a good rest and not to disturb Ge Lie.
Less than ten miles away from Duke Town, the mountain torrents were raging, and the blue boat was already slightly swaying. The shape of the blue water center at the bow of the ship in the void was revealed, and four white lights appeared on both sides of the ship, which were the four inlaid sacred stones. Dense lightning fell from the sky in the shape of bright branches, constantly striking the only object on the water surface. The seemingly invisible blue boat protected the people on board very well, and the lightning only streaked the surrounding space.
The town of Duke was completely gone, and all I saw was a turbid ocean, and there was not even a trace of the sturdy and tall temple spire, whether it was submerged or washed away. The flood rushed from the direction of the Syria Plateau, and flowed to the Syria Desert in the south. Thick ink-like dark clouds were wrapped in torrential rain, and it was like a dark hell here.
Even great magicians dare not fly in such a sky, and the strongest swimmers cannot struggle for a long time in this kind of flood. It seems that there is not a single survivor left in Duke Town! But Ge Lie parked the blue boat in the distance, still looking at something in the storm—he couldn't believe that Nietzsche was swallowed by the flood so silently.
Since Ge Lie was able to risk his way here, then Nietzsche has a way to escape safely. Has he already left or is he still here? Ge Lie had an indescribably strong feeling that he somehow felt that Nietzsche must still be here.
Just as he thought this way, a series of thunderclaps sounded in the sky, and a ball of lightning fell down, creating spiral bright traces in the water. Ge Lie suddenly sensed a powerful wave of mana coming from the water in the distance, and then heard an angry shout: "God, you finally appeared in the world, I have been waiting for too long!"
A figure suddenly parted from the waves and flew out, the wind was swirling around his body, and the waves brought up formed huge crystal flying wings around his body. This person flew straight towards the sky, toward the place where the clouds were thickest and the lightning was densest, it was the old lunatic Nietzsche.
Sure enough, Nietzsche did not die and did not leave. He did not know how to hide under the water all the time, but happened to rush out of the water and fly into the sky when Ge Lie arrived.
The soldiers who had been sitting quietly on the blue boat let out a burst of exclamation, and immediately felt that their surroundings were surrounded by an opaque blue light, and they could neither see nor hear what happened outside. This is Ge Lie's timely use of magic to block sight and sound, and he doesn't want them to watch this scene.
With Ge Lie's puppet eye technique, he could see the old lunatic in the distance clearly, his messy hair and beard fluttered in the air, and the staff in his hand emitted strips of golden thread of light towards the sky, his eyes opened wide and he roared loudly : "Show yourself, Enlil, let me see your true face!"
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Introduction to the characters in this chapter—
Wallet: A student of Ge Lie, a sixth-level magician.
Raphael: Ge Lie's youngest disciple, a fourth-level magician.