When the kingdom of mortals fluctuates and sinks in the chaos, and the entire continent is gradually swallowed by a deeper dark vortex, it is difficult for those lands outside the main continent to remain peaceful forever. Every piece of land floating in nothingness is Influenced by the dark side of Karnos, distorted laws and negative magic power are spreading from the depths of this world, infecting the material realm layer by layer—the world is distorting faster than any tide of chaos recorded in history , the changes that took place in Colo are so obvious that even rural folk can notice them, not to mention those sanctuary scholars who have been monitoring the borders of chaos for thousands of years and take it as their duty to guard the realm of order.
A group of investigators from the Order State set off a few days ago. They were crossing the dark and chaotic realm at this time. The scenery at the southern end of the Ansu Continent was gradually catching the eyes of the high-ranking monk Calassius.
Ansu Continent is far away from the Kingdom of Eternal Winter. Apart from darkness and chaos between these two lands floating in nothingness, only those broken islands attached to the main continent are floating around, connecting each floating space since ancient times. There are only two transportation methods in the mainland. One is the expensive teleportation array, which is efficient and safe, but it is expensive, and it cannot be activated all the time. In the case of severe chaos interference, the teleportation array must be closed; the second The second is a variety of flying tools - sailboats made by elves or magic ships made by humans, as well as domesticated blue magic whales trained by orcs and trolls. These means of transportation are the crystallization of wisdom accumulated by the Kolo people for thousands of years . Although sailing in the sea of Karnos is extremely dangerous and may be attacked by chaos at any time, these means of transportation are still indispensable. Without them to closely connect the broken continents of Kolo, the mortals in this world may not be able to survive. Thousands of years ago they were engulfed in darkness in their own silos.
Calassius stood on the high bow deck of the "Hammer of Order", watching the clouds on both sides being continuously blown away by the energy stream ejected by the magic warship, thinking about the relationship between the continents, the progress of civilization, and technology in his heart. Questions like survival, the cold wind blew across the senior monk's cheeks, lifting his gray curly hair, and the white monk's robe with gold trim bulged in the wind, making a whirring sound behind him.
However, Calassius didn't notice this at all. He was immersed in his own thoughts, and the gradually clear continental cliffs in front of him only formed a vague shadow in his unfocused gray eyes. High-level monks like the current state where they can meditate to their heart's content - even in the Order country, few people can understand his weird ideas, and even the most brilliant scholars only focus on coping with the immediate crisis or While reciting those ancient classics rigidly, few people will seriously think about the future of this world, or worry about the status quo of Colo's declining civilization.
This often made him feel that the dark clouds over the world were getting thicker every minute.
A wave of shaking came from under the feet, and the "Holy Hammer" began to slow down slowly. There was a creaking sound inside this great battleship, and layers of magic runes emerged around the white streamlined hull, installed on the The wing-like magic guide plates on both sides of the ship slowly opened to improve the efficiency of capturing the free magic power in the air. In the rear half of the ship, two magic furnaces arranged in parallel released a large amount of waste heat. Two dark red trails were left in the cloud: the magic warship can capture a large amount of free magic power when sailing at high speed in the Sea of Karnos, but once it slows down, the efficiency of the magic energy system in the ship will drop to the minimum This is the moment of greatest test for a ship.
Calassius glanced back, and saw that the fire device installed in the center of the ship was already in operation: the chaos power of the Anzu Continent was raging everywhere, and the ship had to turn on Symmetra before approaching the continent.
The senior monk sighed deeply.
"My lord, why are you sighing?" Beside Calassius, a servant in a white robe with a blue border asked in a low voice, his words were extremely respectful.
"This ship is the most powerful magical warship in the Sanctuary and even in the entire world of Kolo." Karasius said without thinking.
"Yes, this is the pride of the sanctuary," said the attendant with a proud look on his face, "it surpasses the top combat power of the entire Colo."
Calassius said lightly: "Two hundred years ago, this ship was also the most powerful magic warship, three hundred years ago, five hundred years ago—the 'Holy Hammer' was not yet completed, but it was the most powerful ship at that time. His battleship is still at the same level as it, and then until a thousand years ago, in the last generation, Kolo's most powerful mortal weapon at that time was the sky fortress built by the Violet High Tower Council. A fortress can park six A 'Holy Hammer'."
The attendant showed a dazed look, not knowing how to answer at this moment to appear respectful enough, and finally he lowered his head: "Your knowledge is extensive."
The senior monk looked at the attendant with a humble look on his face. He knew that this was just a servant with little knowledge and could not force the other party to understand what he said, but he still sighed, then turned his head and continued to look at the scenery.
The bow of the Holy Hammer began to rise: the front is the range of the floating island group in the southern part of the Ansu Continent. There are large and small stones floating in the air, and the flying monsters on the floating island often emerge from the clouds. Therefore, ships should avoid this height to reduce unnecessary risks.
Calassius glanced down casually when the bow of the ship broke through the clouds, and at this moment, some strange colors suddenly caught his attention: "Huh?"
The Holy Hammer is flying over a huge floating island at this moment. This floating island has a vast and dense jungle and large mountains and hills. Its size can almost be said to be a small kingdom. However, the size of the floating island It is not surprising in itself, what surprised the senior monks was that there was a large open space on the island that was obviously cut down—only a half-moon-shaped gap appeared on the edge of the largest forest on the island, which was the result of recent felling, and this A lot of rough building facilities can be seen on the large open space: wooden scaffolding, stretches of thatched sheds, large stoves made of earth and rocks, and some large pits. Beside those big pits, several wobbly blue ellipsoids can be seen. Those ellipsoids are shaped like eggs, glowing with oil under the skylight, and have grid-like textures formed by bundles on the surface. These ellipsoids Two by two are placed side by side, and some thick ropes are strung between the spheres.
"Those floating islands... when did they become populated?" Karasius asked, pointing to the scene under the clouds.
The attendant glanced with his head, showing a puzzled expression: "I haven't heard of it, just now I heard a few Ansu crew members on the ship talking about the group of monsters on the floating island, so there should be only monsters on it." .”
Calassius frowned. He also saw that the facilities on the floating island were quite rough and simple. Even the defeated human army who fled to the island would not build a camp like that. He was suddenly startled while thinking, and thought of a monster. The intelligent behavior of the group, but soon he shook his head again, not quite believing his guess.
At this moment, something that surprised him even more happened:
I saw those big blue balls gradually began to swell, and the originally collapsed spheres soon swelled like the back of the bubble fish that is a specialty on the Glory Continent, and many ropes and hooks were thrown aside under the spheres - Only then did he see clearly that there were some small figures shaking around those big balls, they seemed to be the native humanoid monsters on the floating island.
Those big blue balls were getting bigger and bigger, and soon Calassius realized that these balls were not just expanding: another important reason for their increasing size was that these things were rising!
These primitive and crude things... turned out to be flying tools!
Calassius was not the only one who noticed the movement on the floating island, the observers of the Holy Hammer also quickly discovered the flying air balloons slowly rising under the ship, and the well-trained military personnel immediately took action, they Driven by professional instinct, they regarded those balloons as an unstable threat, so they rushed to their posts one by one, but they did not act rashly, because the order to attack had not been issued yet.
A soldier from the Order State wearing mithril light armor ran up from the lower deck and ran all the way in front of Calassius: "My lord! Do you want to attack those... those big balloons?"
Calassius didn't seem to hear the soldier's voice at all, and a louder voice was echoing in his mind:
The Warcraft from the Outer Realm have created an aircraft! The Warcraft from the Outer Realm have created an aircraft!
When the various races on the mainland that claimed to be higher creatures declined century after century, those Warcraft tribes not only completed internal integration, but even evolved to the point where they could manufacture aircraft!
The soldier didn't wait for the order, so he repeated again: "My lord, do you want to attack..."
"Don't attack!" Calassius suddenly uttered a cry that was almost screaming, but he realized his gaffe in an instant, quickly straightened his expression, and said lightly, "Let's bypass them." (To be continued~^~)