On the edge of the Looker tribe, in the underground cave where the exploration team is located.
The caster sat in front of a simple but still exuding high-end and advanced instrument, staring seriously at the screen in front of him.
"Penetrating the epidermis of the mother tree of life, the sap collection is completed... The mother tree of life is developing well, and the sap reserve energy level of the same unit is 34% higher than the average."
"Corresponding to the type of mother tree of life provided by the elves of the Far South, it is determined that the mother tree of life is the most popular 'third-type nursing mother tree' during the Glorious Era. It is basically certain that this elf is indeed a remnant of the Glorious Era."
When he said this, the spell caster couldn't help but smile and said: "Good guy, this mother tree is quite strong. Generally, mother trees need a water-rich environment to grow smoothly. I didn't expect it to grow so big in the salt-alkali land on the seaside."
"Don't say it, just take a look at the follow-up analysis." The alchemist, who was half elven blood - at least when he was born - urged: "Look at the situation of chaos erosion, this is the real thing."
The mother tree can absorb all the energy within a radius of several kilometers and tens of kilometers, and will accumulate the absorbed impurities in its own body, and gradually discharge them in the form of bark. Ancient elves once transplanted the mother tree to the mine and removed the bark. And metal-rich leaves are burned to obtain metals. This is why elves who almost never mine can obtain metals and become an iron civilization.
Because of this, if there is chaos pollution in a place, the mother tree will definitely be the first to be eroded.
Everyone in the elite team knows very well that the so-called 'alien disease' is simply another term for chaos erosion. This proves that September in the sky contains the power of chaos, and this land should also have been polluted, and inspection The pollution level of the mother tree is the fastest way to know the degree of pollution of the land.
However, just when the priests and knights were watching in boredom, and even started to play guessing games, suddenly, the caster exclaimed: "Impossible!"
"Chaos erosion concentration... 75%?!"
The caster opened his eyes to the maximum extent, fearing that he had misjudged even one number, but after looking back and forth several times, he had to admit that the number above was indeed seventy-five percent, not seven percent. Five, but precisely because of this, it became increasingly difficult for him to accept: "This is already the danger threshold... thousands, ten thousand times!?"
The power of chaos is difficult to completely eliminate. Even in today's Mycrof Continent and the Sacrificial Site of All Realms, some chaos power still penetrates into the deepest parts of the earth, but that level of chaos can no longer affect intelligent life. In daily life, if the chaotic power of Mycroft's world is used as the standard threshold, then the chaotic power in the Mother Tree of Life is eleven thousand times the normal!
What is this concept? Throw a mouse into such an environment and you'll see a rat troll emerge in a matter of hours.
"What?!"
Hearing this, not only the alchemist, but also the priests and knights on the side jumped up. The four of them looked at the screen. The numbers and terms on it were extremely complicated, but even the knights with the lowest cultural level could See clearly, there is 'danger' written between the lines and every gap in these words!
"What kind of Mother Tree of Life is this? This is simply a hotbed of chaos - but why can't we feel any Chaos magic power?"
The cleric bent down directly and grabbed a handful of soil from the ground. He closed his eyes and concentrated, feeling the various trace energies contained in the soil. After a while, he frowned: "There is no sign of chaos - here is like Mycroft." The mainland is still clean!”
Everyone used their own methods to test their living environment, and found that this was indeed the case - this other world was as lush and green as it appeared on the surface, with a good and clean environment. Except for the ninth month in the sky, there was no dangerous place at all.
"Could it be that... the chaos in the elves has spread to the mother tree?" The knight guessed: "After all, based on the information the captain has received, these elves have varying degrees of chaos erosion."
But the alchemist shook his head and explained: "No, this is the only one that is impossible - let alone the size of the mother tree, the chaotic magic that can kill tens of thousands of elves can only infect at most one branch of the mother tree. When it was created, it had an extremely strict self-protection system that would strictly screen the incoming and outgoing energy. After all, if any elf could infect the mother tree with the power of chaos, wouldn't it mean that if a traitor desperately instilled the poison of chaos? , can you casually wipe out a large group of elves?"
This is of course impossible. Therefore, the alchemist frowned and cautiously deduced: "Rather than saying that the elves infect the mother tree in reverse, I think it is the opposite. The elves who communicate with the spirit through the mother tree are infected with chaos by the mother tree... This must require an unusually large person. The source of infection is not on the surface."
Having said this, the alchemist narrowed his eyes and looked at the ground. He whispered: "... That must be underground."
The other three people thought about it carefully and suddenly understood.
The rhizome of the mother tree is vast and spreads very deep. Just a mother tree can stabilize the water and soil within several kilometers. Its roots can directly penetrate into groundwater and mineral veins thousands of meters deep underground, and even directly absorb the magic power of lava to grow. This is the Tianyuan Divine Tree. One of the most powerful supernatural plants in the world, God Nature Father created his own replacement for his people.
Since the source of infection for this extraordinary plant is not on the surface, there must be a source of infection underground that comes into contact with the rhizome of the mother tree and gradually erodes it!
"Is it a chaotic monster, or the corpse of the Evil God's Familiar..." The cleric clenched the crystal ball in his hand and could see that there was silver-grey holy light flickering in the crystal ball. He had begun to feel a little unbearable with the desire to purify: " This is the legacy of the Era of Glory, it must be the corpses of those chaotic monsters from the last battle of the last era!”
Including the caster, the other three people nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with this guess. After all, this guess was reasonable.
Only the knight muttered: "But it's strange that the power of chaos can still erode the mother tree after death. How big must the corpse of this chaos monster be? There must be more than one mountain. Is it possible..."
This time no one cared about him.
Because Priest's footsteps had already appeared at the entrance and exit of the cave.
"team leader!"
Everyone stood up and turned their heads to look at the entrance of the cave. The alchemist originally wanted to go out to greet him, but suddenly stopped: "Wait a minute, this sound..."
Why are there the second person's footsteps
Soon, as the footsteps approached, the figures of Priest and Sur appeared in front of the four people and entered the cave.
Priest didn't wait for his team members to tease him, saying, 'Why did you bring an outsider back? I'm afraid he won't be an outsider in the future.' He looked serious and lowered his voice and said: "Get ready, we will set off immediately. Accrafa Hub.”
"...Why so sudden?"
The caster was about to give Priest the Chaos Corrosion report he had just obtained, but he did not expect that his captain would act so resolutely: "And..." He turned his head and looked behind Priest with some hesitation. , Su Er was looking around curiously at this time.
"Her? Guide. The mountain road is complicated. We move at night and leave early. We need a local to lead the way."
Priest was aware of the doubts of his teammates, but at this moment he was thinking clearly and inspired. It was difficult for him to explain the series of methods he had just suddenly thought of. However, Priest took over the spell caster Chaos report or pupils also shrank: "75%? So serious? But this also means that my idea is correct. We must leave here as soon as possible and go to the Akrafa hub."
"Wait, Captain, you must have your reasons for doing this, but shouldn't we wait a moment and let these elves send their historical records?"
Although the cleric didn't know why his captain was so anxious, he had already packed his luggage and started to prepare to put on the magic armor that had been charged with difficulty in the past few days. Apparently he couldn't bear it for a long time and didn't want to Stay in this small cave.
"Their historical records are a pile of waste paper. What is there to collect about the history of this group of tribes that had no desire to progress a thousand or two thousand years ago or even a few years ago? And according to my observation, this group of elves will soon be sacrificed to eliminate the tribe. It’s time for internal chaos to erode, and the concentration of chaos you mentioned in the mother tree proves my judgment.”
At this time, Priest said something to Sur, and then he began to put on his own set of magic armor. The young warrior's voice became dull after putting on the helmet: "And, I thought of a possibility. A good way to avoid the authority determination of the Akrafa hub - we might be able to directly get the database of this ancient ruins, why should we care about a group of elves!"
"Okay, you're the captain anyway."
At this point, everyone else shrugged indifferently. Anyway, they didn't have any urgent tasks to complete now. Since Priest vowed that he had a way to bypass the authority, then just believe him. They The relationship between the five-person team needs no introduction.
So soon, after a few minutes, the five people who had sorted out all the equipment and materials were all wearing magic armor and walked out of the cave corridor one after another. Sur, who was sitting on the shoulders of Priest's armor, exclaimed in a low voice, He said happily in a deliberately low voice: "Oh, it's a bit cool to sit up - but this feeling is surprisingly not bad!"
"It's not bad now, but it will be faster later, so don't worry about it." Priest laughed softly, and then he turned to look at his teammates and whispered: "Let's go!"
The next moment, you can see five dark shadows disappearing into the deep darkness of the woods.
"Chief, let them go?"
In the forest not far away, the deer crown elf stared at this scene, and beside him, two entire groups of elf archers were ready to go, and the leading archer asked in a low voice.
"It's okay to leave... The elves who can't blend in with us, and the humans who don't want to blend in with us, may be the same kind of people."
The deer-crown elf lowered his head, looked at the traces of the alien disease on his arm, and smiled indifferently: "Suer cannot share the alien disease with us, nor can he transfer the alien disease to me... It is precisely because of this In this way, if she dies outside, she will not infect her companions... Let her go, she is alone, so she is free."
"Get ready to start planning the sacrificial ceremony—the changes in the Holy Mountain a few days ago may be to remind us of this."
At this time, in the forest.
"Left, go around the gorge, and then turn to the mountain road on the right. Let's go through the path and go faster... Oops, you guys are so fast, much faster than me!"
Priest was running at the front, and on his shoulder, Sur held his helmet with one hand and pointed the way cheerfully: "Over there, on the other side is a gathering place of a group of magic bears. , although you are not afraid, but it is a waste of time."
If it weren't for the flying car, the speed would definitely be faster. Priest couldn't help but think of their specially modified flying car, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
Now, after knowing the true identity of the Akrafa hub, the reason for the original crash of the speed car can be easily guessed - there is no doubt that the top of an important facility like the time and space hub is a no-fly zone. They flew over without being caught. Being burned to ashes by a ray of death was considered good luck, but just being drained of energy and crashing was really a stroke of luck.
So this time, they walked honestly from the ground, and Priest also planned to try the method he thought of to see if it worked.
"I hope what the teacher said is true... but don't just say it casually!"
He thought silently in his heart.
Along the way, the five members of the elite team were speechless. They could only hear Sur's voice guiding the way. With various mountain trails taking shortcuts, everyone soon arrived at the foot of the former sacred mountain for sacrifices, that is, It is where the Akrafa Junction is today.
If the former sacred mountain for sacrifices was a real mountain, then the space-time hub with its rocky shell peeled off was a huge building comparable to a mountain.
The latter is more shocking than the former.
Even from a distance, you can clearly see the entire Akrafa Space-Time Hub. It is a round, silver metal building dominated by three inverted U-shaped vaults. It is nearly two kilometers high, and there are A large number of structures are buried under the rocks, and the entire building stands among the mountains, like a Titan supporting the sky.
It is wrapped in a gentle silver energy light curtain, and you can clearly feel the holy breath coming from inside.
"It's so big."
Priest sighed.
It is even bigger than the royal court of the Shepherd.
It's bigger than a real mountain range.
But even with such a huge building, the whole body was made of mithril alloy. In the past era, there was more than one, and it could even be said that there were many, many, all over the world.
The power of glorious civilization is shocking and admirable.
However, when Priest and others came today, they did not look up to the great achievements of the ancients and lament the hugeness of what they saw in front of them.
Soon, relying on the powerful mobility of the magic armor, everyone came to the foot of the mountain again, in front of a layer of translucent, almost invisible energy ripples.
"That's almost it."
Priest stopped. He put Sur down from his shoulders, then approached the ripples and whispered: "It was this thing last time. After scanning us, it threw us tens of thousands of meters away." Outside—it wasn’t clear at that time, but now it seems that it should be some kind of energy stance.”
"As long as you enter this area, you will be scanned by the Akrafa Hub. With gold-level permissions like ours, there is no way to enter."
On the side, the caster took off the helmet on his head and shook his hair. He stared at the ripples and then said: "Captain, you said that you can hide from the Akrafa hub. It's not that I don't believe it... But Now, is it time to tell us your plan?"
Hearing this, the other three people in the team all turned their heads and looked at Priest with curious faces.
The five of them had personally experienced the power of the invisible ripples. According to the priest's estimation, this might be some kind of holy light or even a high-end application of the power of order, a great spell used to detect the concentration of chaos and individual strength. , without the power of Jiyi level, there is no way to resist.
And if there is extreme power, why should we resist? The hub will naturally let him in.
On the side, Su Er, who didn't understand what the group of people were saying, also started cheering: "Yes, tell us!"
"It's actually very simple, it's just that none of us thought of it... Knight, the repair light beam is at your place, right? Take it out to me!"
"Eh? Oh!!!"
The five members of the elite team are not low in intelligence. Even the knight who is often laughed at has an actual assessment level of 150 points and an average score of over 140 points. Most of the things they can't think of are just misunderstandings. Unable to think of it.
But if in reality, someone pierces this layer of window paper, then everyone will understand in an instant.
"Awesome, Captain!"
The knight handed Priest the prototype of the repaired light beam, a silver metal cylinder, and said with sincerity: "As expected of that lord's disciple - no, it is precisely because you are that lord's disciple. That’s why I thought about it!”
The priests and spellcasters on the side also nodded: "Indeed... After we determined that this thing could not connect to Mycroft's world, we ignored it. We didn't expect that it would still be of such use now."
"Captain is awesome!"
Priest didn't care about the flattery of his team members. He just took the repair light beam with a serious expression, then read out the eulogy and activated it.
Then, he whispered: "Don't rush to flatter me now - I'm not sure whether it will work yet. It's not too late to cheer when it succeeds."
Having said that, in fact, Priest was 99% sure of his action.
The essence of repairing the light pillar is actually a ball of self-operating steel power split by Joshua. In other words, the repairing light pillar is, from a certain perspective, a part of the legendary powerhouse Count Radcliffe. Small group incarnation.
Last time in World No. 1, Joshua relied on this group of incarnations to cross the border and block the black mist that wanted to kill the elite team... Maybe many people regard it as a prop similar to a summoning beacon, thinking that There is no way to connect to Mycroft's world, so repairing the light beam has no use other than repairing it, but Priest is different.
He knew the essence of repairing the light pillar, and he also figured out how to use this essence to accomplish his goals.
That is 'borrowing power'.
Soon, three minutes passed immediately. While stroking the repairing light pillar that was getting bigger and bigger, Sur said words like "It's so soft," "It's so elastic," and so on. The elite team watched as the repair light beam gradually turned into a cylinder over three meters high and two meters in diameter.
"It's almost time."
After confirming that the repair light beam was fully unfolded and turned into a repair pool that looked like a light beam but was actually a ball of concentrated steel power, Priest stepped out of the magic armor without hesitation, and then stepped into it.
He felt that his body was wrapped in a warm force, half as strong as the deep sea water. The invisible force quickly repaired the large and small hidden wounds inside his body.
It's so comfortable, it's like soaking in a hot spring... No, it's a hundred times more comfortable than soaking in a hot spring.
Priest couldn't help but sigh. This feeling of repairing injuries in the body is countless times more comfortable than any entertainment. This kind of perfection and improvement from the essence of life is probably greater than the pleasure of taking magic potions. , if it weren’t for his strong will, he might have become obsessed with the pleasure of repair.
Thinking of this, he controlled his body and made the repair light beam follow his actions and move forward.
boom!
An extremely heavy sound rang out, even crushing part of the rock beneath the repaired light pillar.
But Priest was like this, covering the repairing light beam, slowly, step by step, approaching the invisible ripples in the Akrafa hub.
Both Suer and the members of the elite team held their breaths and watched this scene.
Priest obliged and was the first member to try. They didn't stop him, not because they were afraid of death. Originally, the Akrafa hub would not kill people at most, so it would throw people tens of thousands of meters away. It was not a big deal.
The most important reason why everyone defaulted to letting Priest, as the captain, try first was because he was a student of Count Radcliffe, and he was more adaptable to being shrouded in the thick power of steel than others. next action.
If it were not an elite team, but ordinary people approaching the repairing light beam, let alone feeling comfortable, the moment they entered the repairing light beam, they would fall into coma due to the extremely terrifying pressure, and then complete various various tasks while in coma. With such a repair, it is naturally impossible to move with the repair light beam... Even other members of the elite team who often meet with the adult are not sure whether they can move normally in the repair light beam.
But anyway, Priest succeeded.
He was about to come into contact with the ripples of the Akrafa Nexus.
The silver light pillar touched the invisible energy flow.
Suddenly, the invisible voice of the heart resounded through everyone's hearts.
"The target is detected as an 'unconventional super life form incarnation'... The main body of energy is 'Steel Power', and is judged to be the split incarnation of the 'Earth Goddess', 'Mountain Titan' and 'Mountain God', and is judged to be 'Steel Power'" 'Specialization."
"Confirm, the target is not a chaotic existence. Eliminate the 'hostility mark' and add the 'welcome mark'. Grant the 'sixth level of destiny authority', suspend the investigation process, and start the 'welcome process'."
"Welcome, dear legend, the Akrafa Space-Time Hub welcomes you. Please go to the VIP entrance. The automatic service program is ready."
There was no update yesterday, I will update it later.
I deeply apologize for the chaotic schedule.
(End of chapter)