Chapter 230 Earth Scar:
The airship follows a route, and the battleship follows a straight line.
The Blue battleship can fly much higher than ordinary airships, but it will not enter the clouds casually.
The clouds are filled with mist, which is likely to interfere with the direction of the battleship.
Duke sat on a comfortable leather sofa chair. The translucent observation porthole in front allowed him to overlook every land and mountain that the battleship passed.
High mountains, rivers and rainforests, green grasslands, blue lakes...
the warships flying in a straight line passed through uninhabited primitive jungle areas, retaining the most spectacular scenery.
Just one area of wind and breath covers all the geographical scenery.
Duke was dazzled all the way.
"Mu Lali, go and ask the service desk. Isn't the Wind Breath Realm boundary revealed yet?" Duke casually ordered.
"Okay, sir." Mulali left with light steps.
During this trip to the Holy City of Offa, Duke brought quite a few people with him, not for ostentation, but simply to take care of his food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Mulali, Mulashan, and Vivian are the three people around her who are indispensable; Levin is responsible for taking care of Xiao Kabuto; the cook Aunt Virginie is responsible for cooking to prevent Duke from being accustomed to the food of Offa Holy City; An Two attendants, Andre and Victor, were responsible for running errands.
There are also two legal staff who are responsible for handling emergencies; two financial staff who can act at any time if Duke has an idea; four male and female servants who serve tea, pour water, clean, do laundry and other chores.
There is also a team of escort knights.
The captain is no longer Vivian, but the second-level fantasy beast knight-Herdos, who is the patrol knight captain of Suktara Mage Tower.
This was given to Duke by Suktara.
Although the Holy City of Offa is the holy city of the Seven Towers Federation, it may not be free from sudden crises. Bringing Heldos with him can at least share some of the threats for Duke.
A few minutes later.
Mulali came back with a middle-aged man: "Sir, this is the travel guide at the service desk, Knight Dunn." "
I have met Lord Duke." Dunn bowed.
"You're welcome, Dunn, please take a seat." Duke's attitude was gentle, "You should have been to many places with the battleship Blue. I need you to answer my questions. Where are we now?" "
Duke Sir, please take a look at this map first." Dunn spread a map on the table.
This is a map of the entire Seven Towers Federation.
The map looks rough, or rudimentary.
But it is actually very detailed, except that there are too few human cities and towns on it, resulting in too few signs on the map.
After all, the Seven Towers Federation is vast and sparsely populated. Its area is probably larger than the entire land mass of the earth combined, but its population is only over a billion. Along the distribution of spiritual springs, there are scattered spots in the jungle.
"Lord Duke, our current location is approximately here, the Black Sore Hills." Dunn pointed to the map and said.
Then he motioned to Duke to look down through the porthole: "These undulating hills are the Black Sore Hills. To the south, a faint black spot can be seen, which is the gravel city in the Grotto area." The Grotto area is Fengxi
. One of the eight regions under the domain.
"When you fly out of the Black Sore Hills, you leave the Wind Breath Realm?" Duke asked, looking at the map.
"Yes."
"I'm very curious. This hilly area is so lush and lush, why is it called the Black Sore Hills?"
Dunn replied: "Lord Duke, you will know it soon, please wait a moment. "
As the battleship continued to move forward, a dark area suddenly appeared in the undulating primitive jungle of the Black Sore Hills, which seemed to be formed by fire.
and.
There are more and more of these dark areas, like abscesses, growing deep in the primitive jungle.
"What's going on with these black areas?" Duke asked curiously.
"It is said to be related to ancient evil things, but I don't know the more specific situation. Perhaps Lord Duke, you can ask our Lords." Dunn shook his head. He was just a great knight, not Bai Xiaosheng.
"Okay." Duke stood up directly.
These dark areas dotted the black sore hills. For some reason, Duke always felt a little evil.
So he simply got up and asked Siskoli.
As the owner of the battleship, Siskoli did not enjoy the whole trip, but transferred part of his laboratory to the battleship.
This way you can fly and study at the same time.
When Duke walked to the door of the laboratory, there were no knights guarding the place except for service personnel.
Duke cleared his throat.
At this time, a huge dragonfly outlined by fluorescence suddenly appeared on the closed laboratory door.
As the wings flap, a little bit of starlight shines down.
There is no doubt that this is an ancient spirit. Duke smiled and said: "Sir Darth, I'm looking for Lord Siskoli." The
big dragonfly's compound eyes came close to Duke, looked at it for a long time, and then responded: " Siskoli invites you in... But I can also answer your question. Those are scars on the earth, scars left by the gods eating the earth!"
As the war spirit of the Blue battleship, most areas on the battleship Das Big Dragonfly knows every move.
Duke's question to Dunn was naturally no exception.
"Scar on the Earth? Abomination?" Duke wanted to ask again, but the door to the laboratory was already open, so he went to find Siskoli first.
Siskoli had already put away the experiment: "Darth said you came to me for advice?"
Siskoli, as a sixth-level sky arcane mage, was currently at a level that Duke could not reach.
But compared to the research on spiritual arcana, Duke was far ahead of him.
Because Siskoli only has two scholar titles and no sage titles - sages must make great contributions to spiritual arcana. Many arcane mages have a profound understanding of spiritual arcana, but it is difficult for them to make breakthroughs. of innovation.
Everyone has their own strengths, so Duke is not weak in front of Siskoli.
His demeanor is neither humble nor arrogant.
"There are some doubts. The Black Sore Hills we are flying over now are said to be related to ancient evil beings. I want to know if this is the case." "That's right." Siskoli did not deny it, "
You are about to be awarded the title of Sage. , qualified to know more. In fact, these ancient evils are collectively called divine evils, and they are the opposite of spirituality." "The opposite of spirituality
?" Duke was puzzled.
Siskoli explained in detail: "The god of evil feeds on spirituality, and especially likes to devour spiritual springs. When it devours spiritual springs, it will leave scars on the earth like the Black Sore Hills, which are only in our Wind Breath Domain. , dozens of scars on the earth were found.”
"There is a forbidden area in the Cuihai Valley in our Black Dragon River land. The shed shell of an ancient evil object has been found. So, it is also a divine evil. The place where it was found is located under a spiritual mine. Is that considered a scar on the earth?"
" I led the team to deal with the place in Cuihai Valley."
Siskoli shook his head and laughed, and then said: "That shell was indeed left by the evil god, but it was just the shell of the young evil god that fell off, and it couldn't swallow it. The spring of spirituality has been lost, so it is not a scar on the earth, at most it is a scar."
Then Siskoli further explained: "Scars are wounds on the surface of the earth, which are harmless; scars go deep into the earth. If we say spirituality, If the spring emits spirituality, then the scar emits evil nature, and even the arcane mage will be affected." "
Why not get rid of such an earth scar?" Duke asked.
"Handling it is easier said than done. After the divine evil devoured the spring of spirituality, it merged with the earth. Not to mention that I can't handle it. Even if the Arcane Master comes over, I will still be helpless." Siskoli shook his head and said, "I can only let it go. It exudes evil nature and has been designated as a forbidden area."
"So, there are countless forbidden areas within the Seven Towers Federation?" "
Yes, and these earth scars are different. In the early years, many arcane mages mistakenly entered them and became Sinking Demon... It is said that the scars on the earth hide the secret of promotion to the ninth level. Many arcane instructors even built mage towers in the scars to study in depth." "
Ninth level..." Duke blinked.
He has the existence of Jiuhuan Xiaoyi, and he will survive to the ninth ring sooner or later. He probably does not need to enter the scar of the earth to do research.
After asking for information about Scar on the Earth, Duke no longer disturbed Siskoli and left.
Return to your guest cabin and continue to overlook the land where the battleship flies over.
"Now that the battleship has flown out of the Black Sore Hills, we should have entered the Lanyun Domain. However, the Canglan adopts a direct flight mode and will not pass through the cities in the Lanyun Domain." Knight Dunn explained.
Warships have a large amount of energy and material reserves, so they can fly all the way without stopping to replenish.
It flew for a long time.
Dunn said solemnly: "Mr. Duke, the high mountain you are seeing now is called the Tianying Mountain Range. This mountain range stretches for thousands of kilometers, like a knife across the entire Lanyun Domain. It is also the most dangerous area."
"Danger?" Duke was curious.
It has been three or four days since I flew here, and I haven't seen any danger.
Basically, the spiritual beasts flying in the sky, seeing the huge size of the Blue battleship, know the time and avoid it in advance.
There are no spiritual beasts actively seeking death.
"In the Tianying Mountains, there are a large number of fifth-ring spirit beasts - golden-winged eagles, and some golden-winged eagles can break through the fifth level and evolve to the sixth level. They have a strong sense of territory and attack in groups."
Deng En continued: "The routes in Lan Yun's domain will basically avoid the Sky Eagle Mountains. Ordinary airships cannot withstand the group attacks of golden-winged eagles."
As he spoke.
The Canlan had already begun to climb upwards, rushing into the clouds several thousand meters above the sky, trying not to disturb the golden-winged eagles in the Sky Eagle Mountains.
but.
When they entered the Sky Eagle Mountain Range, they still saw several huge falcons flying from the cliffs at the top of the mountain range, and then rushed towards the clouds. In the blink of an eye, they flew around the Blue No. and kept chirping.
"Buzz!"
an alarm sounded inside the battleship, signaling all passengers and crew to hurry up and get into their fixed seats.
Knight Dunn stood up and excused himself and said, "Mr. Duke, I'm going to the combat post." "
I'll go with you, and a combat cabin will be arranged for me. I want to test the strength of these golden-winged eagles." Duke stood up without hesitation and followed Dunn towards the combat compartment of the battleship.
Since the development of Sand Eagle 1.6-Continuous Edition, he has only hunted a few times in the forest near the castle.
There was no powerful spiritual beast to test the true power of the sand eagle.
When he entered the battle cabin, the transparent glass allowed him to clearly see the golden-winged eagles wandering around the battleship.
Each one has a black body and golden wings. While chirping strangely, it condenses arcane magic under its wings.
It was a metallic arcana, mutated from earth elements.
Like long metal knives, they slashed towards the battleship, crackling the shell of the Blue battleship.
At the same time, the battle cabin of the Canglan battleship also released countless long-range fighting spirit attacks, which were released by the guarding knights. However, compared with the 5-level golden-winged eagle, this attack was really not impressive.
However, as a huge pale hand appeared on the side of the battleship, a golden-winged eagle that was so arrogant that it wanted to bite the battleship's shell was directly grabbed by the pale hand, and then exploded into a ball of minced meat.
"It's the 4th-level arcane spell - Pale Hand, which is composed of the hands of the mage. It is the standard configuration of the great arcane mage."
Xiao Yi faithfully reported the battlefield information.
The 4th level is a watershed. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd level arcana spells below 4th level are all independent single arcana spells with unique spell models. The 4th, 5th and 6th level arcana spells are basically composite arcana spells. Magic is composed of single arcane spell models nested and combined with each other.
The Pale Hand is the spell model of the mage's hand, which is continuously stacked and nested to form a big hand that covers the sky and the sun.
"Lord Siskoli took action." Duke nodded slightly.
Just when he was about to take action himself, a pair of dragonfly's compound eyes suddenly appeared on a pillar of the combat cabin.
It was Battleship Zhanlingdas: "You can't participate in a battle of this scale, the 2nd ring Arcane Mage Duke."
There is no doubt that Duke is despised.
However, he was not irritated, and just smiled lightly and said: "It's better than the output of the great knights, right." "The
great knights?" Zhan Lingdas said in a mocking tone, "They are only qualified to clean the battlefield, and they will be killed by me." The corpses killed by Siskoli were just salvaged."
"You can also fight?" Duke found a blind spot.
War Spirit Das snorted coldly: "The Blue is me, I am the Blue, and my strength is enough to crush any spiritual beast!"
Then he felt that the entire Blue battleship was shaking, and then the surrounding areas of the battleship Dozens of columnar protrusions were detected.
Arcane patterns are clearly engraved on these protrusions.
The lines lit up together, and the next moment, countless flaming spears rose around the battleship, as if shot from columnar protrusions, blooming all over the sky, hitting an unknown number of golden-winged eagles and killing them on the spot.
"It's the 4-ring Arcane - Extreme Flame Spear, which is composed of the 2-ring Arcane - Fire Dragon Diamond and the 2-ring Arcane - Flame Spear."
Xiao Yi quickly responded to the information.
Duke felt awe-inspiring. With such a ferocious attack power, it was no wonder that the Blue battleship dared to cross the Sky Eagle Mountains.
"How is it?" Zhan Lingdas's whole head protruded from the pillar, "The battlefield does not require the weak to take action. You are just a second-level arcane scholar, not even an arcanist. Go back to sleep." Ancient
Times The character of the spirit is eccentric, and the fighting spirit Das seems to like to despise Duke.
certainly.
This level of contempt had no effect on Duke.
He just smiled lightly: "I can't sleep, come here and play. Mr. Das, don't stare at me all the time. Just stare at the golden-winged eagles outside. Look, a large group of golden-winged eagles are flying from the mountains below."
"One of my thousands of clones is staring at you." Darth War Spirit remained unmoved.
Duke was unmoved.
A thought.
A white crystal arm condensed outside the battle cabin, with its five fingers spread out. It was the hand of the arcane weapon.
In the palm of Arcana's hand, the Sand Eagle Pistol has already materialized.
Across the glass shell of the combat cabin, Duke controlled his hand with his mind, holding the Sand Eagle pistol and aiming at the golden-winged eagles flying randomly in the surrounding clouds.
"Disruption bullet!" Duke switched bullets with his mind.
Then Austrian hand pulled the trigger.
Plop.
A golden-winged falcon was shot and then staggered as if drunk.
"Armor-piercing bullets, tracking bullets!" Duke switched bullets again, and after pulling the trigger, an armor-piercing bullet shot out.
The golden-winged eagle moves without any trace.
The armor-piercing bullet was about to graze the edge of the Golden-winged Eagle, but suddenly the bullet turned a corner and accurately penetrated the Golden-winged Eagle's eyes.
The eyes have the weakest defenses and are connected to the brain.
The golden-winged eagle, which was knocked unconscious by the interference bomb, had no intention of evading and was directly hit by the armor-piercing bullet.
Unable to maintain its flying posture any longer, it fell headfirst.
Halfway down, he was shot by a hooked bow and arrow, and then dragged into the Blue battleship.
"Yo." Darth War Spirit stared at Duke closely, and naturally saw Duke's operation, "You actually killed a golden-winged eagle, a 2nd-level arcane scholar Duke, you made me impressed, but with the help of The arcane weapon is just for showcasing evil."
Duke chuckled: "You were a big dragonfly in ancient times. I think that when your body rots, the last thing left must be your mouth." "What do you mean?" "
Because
you are covered with blood. , has the toughest mouth."
"This is a cold joke that is not funny." Darth War Spirit was not angry, but fell into nostalgia, "Let me think about it, I was drowning in the spring of spirituality. I saw that I The whole process of body decay."
Its tone was a little lonely: "First the belly rotted, and then the internal organs of the head and chest rotted. At that time, my body only had a shell left... In the end, even the shell melted, and it was the same as the spiritual body. The spring merged into one."
Then he sighed heavily: "I just disappeared into smoke." "
But your spirit will last forever with the spring of spirituality. If your spirituality does not dry up, you will never die again." "
You don't understand. ." After finishing speaking, Darth War Spirit quickly got back into the pillar and disappeared.
"What don't I understand?" Duke asked, but Darth War Spirit did not appear again, so he had to focus on hunting the golden-winged eagle outside.
The power of Sand Eagle 1.6-continuous version is far beyond imagination.
Especially the combination of special effect bullets makes its hunting effect super strong, and it can easily hunt even 5-ring spirit beasts.
"The interference bomb is so effective!" Duke praised.
This elemental bullet has no lethality, so from a spiritual perspective, it is difficult to cause a defensive warning.
After the warning of the spirit beast is lifted, and then use other bullets to shoot, the spirit beast will be hit 100%.
But it’s not always the case.
For example, Duke shot a jamming bullet and hit a huge golden-winged eagle. The opponent just shook his head and returned to normal.
So the next armor-piercing bullet was combined with the tracking bullet to lock its eyes, but when it had no time to fire, it tilted its head. The armor-piercing bullet hit the feathers on the head of this golden-winged eagle, but failed to penetrate even the feathers.
"Without the weak point attack, armor-piercing bullets have almost lost their deterrent effect against high-level spiritual beasts."
Duke did not believe in evil, so he simply switched to burst mode and directly bombarded the head of the golden-winged eagle with more than a dozen jamming rounds.
The golden-winged eagle chirped and curled up, preparing to defend against attacks.
This left Duke with no way to start.
However, the next moment, a huge 4-level arcane spell - Pale Hand, directly grabbed the golden-winged eagle that might evolve to the 6-level level.
Give it a firm squeeze.
The golden-winged eagle was not crushed to pieces, but its bones were shattered and it looked like it would not survive. At the same level of 6th level, the strength of the arcane mage absolutely crushes the spiritual beasts - this is the gap in the understanding of spiritual arcana.
One relies on instinct to hunt, while the other masters the rules to hunt. It can be called a dimensionality reduction attack.
"The 6-ring Golden-winged Eagle is difficult to kill. I'd better choose the 5-ring Golden-winged Eagle to test the gun." Duke quickly accepted the reality.
In fact, Sand Eagle was able to hunt down fifth-ring spirit beasts, which greatly surprised him.
Poof!
Jammer bombs go first, followed by tracking bombs and armor-piercing bombs. After one set of procedures, if the 5-ring golden-winged eagle is not killed, Duke will make up another set of procedures.
Sometimes the undead golden-winged eagles are stimulated by pain, and jamming bombs cannot interfere with them. Then Duke will switch to burst mode, using armor-piercing bullets and tracking bullets to highlight a saturation attack.
The 5-ring golden-winged eagle will eventually have to suffer under the muzzle of the sand eagle.
"We've got another one, let's continue!" Duke already knew how to switch between bullets for the sand eagle, and he focused on shooting the small golden-winged eagle.
However, this hunting feast did not last long.
Under the double protection of Darth War Spirit and Siskoli, the Blue passed through the Skyhawk Mountains safely.
The golden-winged eagles, which had left behind a large number of corpses of their companions, watched the battleships sail out of the territory's airspace. They no longer feared attacks and returned to their nests on the rock walls of the mountains with their chirps.
"Seven."
Duke dismissed the Austrian Hands and Sand Eagle, and left the combat cabin with satisfaction.
In this short battle, he hunted seven 5-level golden-winged eagles alone. For a 2-level arcane mage, the results were brilliant.
Soon.
The flight attendants brought a golden-winged eagle feast, including barbecue, braised, and stewed... The chefs in the restaurant used all kinds of cooking skills to make this golden-winged eagle feast. .
"Well, the taste is just... not bad." Duke nodded after tasting it.
These ingredients are rich in spirituality, but the taste is not that outstanding, and the meat is even a little dry.
It’s not that the higher the level of the spirit beast, the more delicious it is.
In fact, the meat of most high-level spiritual beasts is too solid and not suitable for cooking and eating.
"You guys should eat some too." Duke called to Mulali, Mulashan and Vivian, "Sit down together. I don't follow these rules here." Eat and drink enough
.
Duke took the three of them into the guest room to chat.
The guest room has a special isolation layer that can block the prying eyes of the battleship spirit. Duke also used breathing techniques to always pay attention to the movements of the Darth spirit to make sure that it was indeed unable to cross the isolation layer and spy on the guest room.
The ancient spirit is integrated with the battleship and mage tower, and can be entered and exited anywhere.
Although they are not human beings, most people care about their privacy, so many places on battleships and mage towers have special isolation layers.
Shield the perception of ancient spirits, allowing guests to rest at ease.
"Sir, let's play poker together." Mulali suggested with a blushing face, "I want to win back the money I lost last time."
Duke took out a box of poker: "Then it depends on your ability."
"I'm not afraid, but sir, you are not allowed to count cards. Once you count cards, no one can beat you." "Don't
worry, I don't count cards." Duke responded.
When playing cards with the people around him, he wouldn't need Xiaoyi's assistance, otherwise it would be a bit too despicable.
It doesn’t make sense that you have to use super calculations to play cards!
The card game is a joyful and harmonious experience.
In happy days, time always flies by.
A flash.
After a week-long flight, we finally arrived at our destination, the Holy City of Offa.
It was a huge emerald-colored lake. On the water surface in the center of the lake, there were stretches of buildings, forming a majestic and spectacular city skyline.
Sky, water.
The real city and the imaginary city merge into one, as if two cities, one positive and one negative, are stuck together.
Eighteen snow-white long bridges extend continuously along the mirror-like water surface, like six endless silk threads, firmly fixing the city and preventing it from drifting around with the lake water.
Suddenly.
On the calm lake, a figure jumped out and then crashed into the lake.
Even if it has not yet landed, the battleship Canglan, which is still a thousand meters away from the lake, can hear the sound of that figure.
Low and distant.
But full of loneliness, weeping and complaining.
"Ah, I heard the familiar whale song again." At some point, Siskoli appeared in front of the porthole and sighed with a smile, "Whale Song Mirror Lake, this is the most magical lake in the wilderness continent! "
Half is a lake, half is a spring.
Half of it is played by whale songs, and half of it is filled with spiritual steam.
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(End of this chapter)