Charles climbed up the stairs of the lighthouse, and when he looked up, he saw Brando and three ladies chatting by the railing on the sea side of the lighthouse. Miss Romane was snickering, Faina's eyebrows enveloped. There is a gloomy layer that looks a little worried. Nimesis is dressed in a uniform, leaning on the railing with her back facing the sea and looking at the scenery on the sea. Her long black hair is flying with the sea breeze. The sea and the sky in the distance are the same color. .
For the female knight’s taciturn and meticulous character, the others have already taken offense, but they didn’t see the shadow of the little princess Sifah who likes to join in the fun. She seemed to be dragging the elf to go shopping in the harbor. The two little ladies are now They have become close friends who talk about everything. Of course, they actually have a common topic and hobby—that is, their ability to cause trouble.
"Lord Lord."
Brando wore a black knight windbreaker, the sword of the earth hung obliquely around his waist, and the black rhino skin-inlaid scabbard almost pointed to the ground. He turned around and noticed that his wizard attendant had arrived. He smiled and beckoned. Said: "It came just right, what do you think of the scenery here?"
Charles was startled slightly: "Lord Lord seems to like the scenery here?"
Brando smiled and shook his head, stretched out his gloves and patted the ancient and mottled outer wall of the lighthouse and said, "Do you know the origin of this lighthouse?"
Charles subconsciously raised his head and looked at this lighthouse. This old lighthouse looks old, but it seems to be just an old-style lighthouse that can be seen everywhere in the lofty inner sea. I really don’t know what else this lighthouse could have. Implication.
"Fattan Harbor has a long history, but Lord Lord, I have never been here, and I don't know what historical monuments there are here." He replied.
"Haha," Brando laughed, and proudly stretched out his hand to the merchant lady beside him, who stuck out his tongue, and reluctantly put a gold coin in his hand, lamenting and complaining: "Charles You are really useless."
"This lighthouse is the famous Tumen lighthouse," Brando pointed towards the port area: "Fatan was built in the year of glorious return. The founder of the port is the famous Cruz scholar Fatan Freeman. The latter is the descendant of Tumen, and the heir of the blood of the Miner, a few respected people in the mortal world, but unfortunately this family did not escape the judgment of time, and eventually dissipated in the long river of history. The lighthouse was built to commemorate them. Tumen is ultimately the bearer of the fire of civilization. It is a wise man who gave the light of enlightenment to the people of black iron in the dark. It is a pity that few people can remember this history. ."
He looked softly in the direction of the pier. In the previous life, he had passed through this place when he left Eruin for Faenza. He remembered that there was an emblem of Fatan Harbor on the gate of this lighthouse, although it is now a few days earlier than then. Ten years, but the emblem on the door is still there, but it’s a lot newer; this feeling is very strange, the port hasn’t changed much in the past two lifetimes, and he can even find out the details about a few decades later. , The memories of the past are blended into these details, giving rise to a peculiar emotion in my heart.
Charles watched dumbfoundingly as his lord bet against himself, but Brando's words also aroused curiosity in his heart. He looked up at this lighthouse-this ordinary lighthouse and the lighthouse in other areas of the lofty Inland Sea. There is no difference-it stands between the two promontories, looking at the blue sea and blue sky outside the port of Fattan, like a lonely old man who watches the time silently and wisely after experiencing wind and rain. As time passed, only the mottled algae green and white paint remained.
History has formed a huge coincidence and completed a cycle here. It has witnessed the decline of the blood of the last Miner, but now it has to watch them return to the world.
"It turns out that this lighthouse has such a source."
"It's not the original one anymore," Faina suddenly raised her eyelids and replied with a hint of pride: "The earliest Tumen lighthouse was destroyed in a fire in 114 years, and it was rebuilt again later. , The rebuilt lighthouse was damaged during the July War. What you see is the second renovation."
Brando turned his head and glanced at her, the dark brown eyes flashed with worry, although Faina looked much better today after a night’s rest, and she looked radiant again after putting on her dress and long skirt. The daughter of the eldest daughter seems to have really recovered the pride that belongs to the eldest daughter of the Duke of Huaye, but he knows in his heart that perhaps only through personal experience can he understand what the past month means to her. It is obvious that the shadow is not so much. Easily obliterated from the soul.
In the ring of trade winds, the daughter of the Duke who does not know the sorrow of the world can no longer be seen now.
"Miss Faina—"
"You want to comfort me again," Faina turned her head back and stared at him, her beautiful brows furrowed deeply: "I don't want to fight with you, hillbilly, I'm not as vulnerable as you think."
"Also," she corrected each word earnestly: "Call me Faina."
Brando stared at the eldest lady and frowned, thinking that there was no essential difference between the pretended toughness and the time in the trade wind ring, but it looked silly and cute.
Charles laughed secretly when he saw this scene, but he hadn't forgotten that he still had business affairs, and he hurriedly reported: "My lord, the torture is almost done over there."
"Oh?"
Brando frowned slightly, and then he came to his senses and realized what news his wizard attendant had brought. In fact, it was not difficult for him to open Rodney's mouth, but the key question was— This guy has many secrets of Her Majesty. "What did he say?" he asked.
Charles replied hurriedly: "Unsurprisingly, the main purpose of Rodney's trip is to come to Miss Faina. The Silver Queen hopes to use Miss Faina, Duke of Helix and his son as the host. Forcing Miss Faina's sister to submit, in order to achieve the purpose of mastering the Prince Huaye."
"My sister is icy and smart, and she will never be influenced by that vicious woman!" Faina interjected coldly. She clenched her fists and trembled with anger, Brando patted her thin shoulder lightly. Asked: "Besides, how did the Miner around the Silver Queen come from? What on earth does she plan to do, besides Miner, what secret powers does she have on hand?"
"Uh," Charles shrugged. "These Rodneys don't know much, but Her Majesty seems to be particularly interested in Mount Arkhas. Her purpose of moving east is not just to subdue the military aristocracy in the north of the empire. Another purpose is to open up the passage to the Alkhash Mountains."
She is still obsessed with the last battlefield? Brando was taken aback, but he immediately saw the Duke’s daughter next to him shivering slightly, only to remember that there were two main roads from East Metz to the Alkhash Mountains, one in Ludwig and the other in the flowers. Leaf collar.
"Well, what... Why is the queen so interested in there?" The merchant lady blinked her dark brown eyes and asked curiously.
Regarding the question of the lord’s fiancée, Charles did not dare to neglect, and quickly replied: "There are many reasons, maybe it is related to the secret on the battlefield of the last battle, maybe it is just because Her Majesty likes that place so much, not to mention the fact that the Alkhash Mountains themselves are unique. The location is of great strategic significance. It is located in the central area connecting Faenza, Sant’Osor and Cruz. It can be attacked and defended."
"As for the Miner people who are rumored outside, I never believe that they came back from the glacier like the rumor."
"Lord Lord, I've made it clear that the Miner people around the Silver Queen are mainly the descendants of witches, and the people she mobilized are mountain people."
"Mountain people?"
"To be precise, it is a branch of the mountain people, Senja..."
"Werewolf." Brando took a breath, and the mountain people lived in the mountains of Varach, south of Huaye Ning, but in fact, that was before the last epoch. For various reasons, the mountain people left their homes. The branches and leaves, like Akane, are mountain people born in Eruin. The mountain people themselves have an unexplainable relationship with the Miner people. This is the reason why they are generally discriminated against in this world. There are also several legacy bloodlines from the Miner people. Yaren is one of them. Nowadays, the Senians have long since departed from their hometowns like other mountain people. They have settled in an unknown branch of the Broken Sword Mountain in the south of Cape Cape Bay, where it is the sphere of influence of the Silver Queen. , It is really possible for her to find these survivors from the last era.
"Lord Lord, and this, found from those knights, if I remember correctly..."
Charles stretched out his hand, opened his palm, and a flaky rock was lying flat in his palm, then he raised his head and looked at Brando with a strange look.
Brando had already narrowed his eyes.
This thing—
Lying flat in the palm of the young wizard's attendant is a gray, flat stone like a chisel, but it has no traces of artificial carving on its surface, like natural fragments peeled off from a huge rock. This is not the first time he has seen a fragment. This is the gray fragment. The first time something similar was found, it was in the remains of Antitina’s father; the second time, it was in Trishman’s grave; and the third time, It is the relic of the crystal elk.
"Hey, this is..." Roman also opened his mouth and let out a soft exclamation.
"This is the fourth one, right?"
"This is the fourth one."
"What on earth is this, Lord Lord?"
"It's not clear yet, but..." Brando frowned slightly. When there were more than three gray pieces of this kind before, he put them together and it resonated obviously, forming something similar to a map. This time, there should be a reaction too. He showed his complacency to Shire, who understood him, and gently sent it forward. The stone fragment stood upright in his palm as if it was being pulled by some invisible force, and it glowed with a faint blue light. Slowly floated towards Brando.
Brando immediately felt that the other three fragments on his body were restlessly agitated, although they were still in the dimension hole.
Then the space also resonated.
Nimesis, who was leaning on the railing, seemed to feel something too. She turned her head and saw at a glance that the space between Brando and Shire was dimming slightly, as if it was collapsing inward under the huge traction. I couldn't help but startled slightly: "This is...?"
"Lord Lord!" Charles suddenly changed his expression and hurriedly shouted.
"This is… "
Just like a drop of water falling on the calm water surface, at that moment, Brando felt the existence of the sea of magic power.
The sky dimmed in an instant, and the entire sky over the lofty inner sea, from west to east, was rapidly dimming. The clouds seemed to be driven by an invisible force and gathered from all directions. Lightning shuttled above the clouds, and thunder roared. Rolling from the horizon. For a while, a new storm seemed to have formed above Xinhai, and the resonance of the space became more and more obvious. Even the ground vibrated, the fine stones and gravels danced wildly, and the white wall of the lighthouse creaked and cracked. Faina screamed and held on to the railing after a shocking crack.
"It's dark, Brando!" Roman glanced at the sky with some horror. A huge vortex was forming above the Fattan, as if a terrifying eye opened in the thick clouds.
The cold sweat slid off, Brando felt that his forehead was already covered with sweat, "Retract it!" he roared wildly.
Without thinking about it, Charles grabbed the gray stone flakes floating in the air. It was strange to say that the moment he grabbed the gray stone flakes, all the scenes calmed down for a moment: the clouds were not. Converging again, the lightning disappeared, the sound of thunder gradually disappeared, the trembling of the space stopped instantly, and the sun radiated multi-faceted brilliance in the sky again, the sea no longer screamed, and everything that happened before seemed like a terrible illusion. .
But the huge crack in the lighthouse proved that everything that happened a moment ago really existed.
It just came and left.
The direction of the pier was full of noise, and loud shouts floated from there from time to time: Has there been an earthquake? Is there an earthquake? But these voices were quickly drowned in cries.
Brando, Charles, Faina, Nimesis and Roman, the five stood by the lighthouse, keeping their previous actions motionless, like puppets, everyone was shocked. After a while, Brando was the first to recover, and asked dryly: "Before... what was that?"
Everyone looked at each other.
"Lord Lord."
"You don't have to say," Brando interrupted his wizard attendant somewhat dryly: "I feel it."
"That's..." But Xialyou had some lingering fears.
"It's the tide on the sea of magic..." Brando replied word by word, recalling the terrible feeling of coming before: "No..."
"It's dusk." The female knight's cold voice sounded at the right time. Brando was taken aback and looked back at her. The latter's face was also pale, but at least she could maintain her composure. She hesitated for a while before being sure. Answered: "It is the dragon of dusk. At least for a moment, I felt a peep from outside this world. But it will never be a devil. I have a hunch in my heart that it is there—"
Brando was silent. In fact, he also felt the terrible feeling of depression, even in the game before, he had never felt it.
"Did this thing summon it?" Charles carefully glanced at the gray stone in his palm, sweating profusely, as if holding something terrible: "What the hell is this?"
"I think... it should not be." Brando frowned. He faintly recalled the feeling of being peeped before. That huge force seemed to have penetrated the barrier between the sea of magic and Vaughan in an instant. , Descended over the port of Fattan. However, this channel was not opened by the resonance of these gray shards in their hands. It was not so much a summoning, but rather—
A kind of forcibly descended.
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Outskirts of Nazaire —
A pair of golden eyes burning like flames slowly opened in the darkness, and the owner of these eyes hidden under the branches and leaves suddenly sat up from the bushes, making a rustling sound. This is the third day after leaving the imperial capital. Sidney subconsciously touched| her chest. This action affected the wound and made her frown. The image of the saint in the Lion Palace is no longer the usual grace at this moment. Yu Congrong, her face was covered with dust mixed with blood, but fortunately, at least that thing was still there, hidden under the thick clothes, which made her feel a little more relieved.
She raised her head subconsciously and looked suspiciously in the direction of the coastal area east of Metz.
Why does the sea of magic suddenly become turbulent
What is it that resonates with this thing
A trace of doubt came to her.