Chapter 259 The Speed of Life and Death
There is no news about the Will of the Stars, and the media in the Holy City of Offa and the surrounding eighteen lakeside cities have been issued a silence order.
In the next few days, Duke maintained a two-point and one-line life.
Go to the Tower of Offa to read information during the day, and return to the Crystal Palace to rest at night.
He is still a popular figure in the Holy City of Arcane and the most dazzling young arcane mage in the entire Seven Towers Federation. Everyone believes that in his future, he will climb to the pinnacle of spiritual arcana.
There was an endless stream of visitors.
There are countless people who are regarded as idols.
A little bit of information about him in the news can sell out the goods. There are even noble ladies wooing Duke in newspapers.
But all of this was blocked by Duke.
After activating the Will of the Stars, his exchange with the goddess Nyx confirmed his idea of innovating spiritual arcana.
Regardless of whether the goddess Nyx is the will of the planet or the god of the previous civilization, she must find a promising future path.
And if you want to take such a path, seeking the authority of the Seven Towers Federation is only the first step.
"I came from a distant place and never wanted to live a mediocre life. Now that I have the power to protect myself, I should forge ahead and climb to the top!" While reading, he raised his head and glanced out the window. blue sky and white clouds.
The Shell Wise Man swam over at some point: "Duke."
"The Shell Wise Man."
"I can feel the resentment in your heart." "
It seems that my ability to hide myself is not deep enough." Du Ke smiled slightly, "Actually, it's nothing. I was just carried away by the praise of the past few days, so I felt disappointed and resentful. Looking back at my original intention, I had expected all this." Set off to the Aofa
Saint When Cheng announced the Ring of Brand, he was very sure of his future steps, which was to go back after gaining a wave of reputation.
It was just that he was accidentally chosen to activate the will of the stars, and was enlightened by the goddess Nyx.
It made him drift, feeling that he could already dominate the trend of the Seven Towers Federation and be on an equal footing with Hui Yue's arcane instructors.
In fact, not even close.
"I'm happy for you to see that you can adjust yourself well." Shell Wise Man responded.
"Yes, so I need to study hard and solidify my foundation." Duke said with a smile, "Sage Shell, thank you for enlightening me." "I didn't do anything, it was you who found your original
intention. "The Shell Wise Man waved the tentacles on his head and said, "Then I won't disturb you."
Then its figure slowly dissipated.
Time flies, three days have passed since the Will of the Stars was activated, and the Duke Star in the Duke Spiritual Sea is officially filled with star marks.
"Charge it with full power, once in three days."
He directly looked into the spiritual sea in the library compartment of Offa Tower, began to study Duke's Star, and tried to communicate with the star marks in it.
next moment.
A spiritual information feedback was directly transmitted to his mind, allowing him to instantly understand the function of this star mark.
"Sure enough, this is the key to entering and exiting the dreamland of the stars." Duke opened his eyes and sat on the chair, thinking silently, "When the will of the stars was turned on, I was also pulled into the dreamland of the stars. This is an independent area, that is, What the goddess Nyx calls the starry sky."
The starry sky is part of the wild world, but it seems to be one dimension higher than the wild world, parallel to it.
Without the mark of the stars, it is impossible for a mortal to step into the dreamland of the stars.
"Then, let me try to go in once?" Duke glanced at the surrounding environment. Although there was no one around him, he had the look of a wise man.
The entire Offa Tower is the body of the Shell Wise Man, and every corner is watched by it at all times.
So Duke chose to leave Offata.
There was no return to the Crystal Palace in Selsus.
The reason is the same. The Crystal Palace also has ancient spirits who serve as tower spirits and monitor most areas - only areas such as guest rooms are areas that the tower spirits cannot monitor, but Duke does not intend to take the risk of being discovered.
"Let's go to the battleship Bibo, just in time to go home."
So soon, Duke said goodbye to Selsus.
In the past few days, Selsus and other Huiyue arcane instructors have been secretly discussing the decree of the goddess Nyx.
They searched through the ancient library of Offa Tower, looking for any record related to the goddess Nyx, the will of the stars, or even the previous civilization.
Want to figure out the truth of this world.
"Are you planning to go back?" Selsus asked in surprise, "Aren't you planning to stay in the Holy City of Offa for further study? The Erudite Tower, the Magical Spirit Tower, and even the Union Tower and Offa Tower will be prepared for you as long as you want to study. If you find a suitable position, the Supreme Committee welcomes you to join it at any time."
"No, sir." Duke insisted, "The top priority right now is my practice. The Holy City of Aufa is too prosperous and I can't calm down."
"Is that so?"
"Yes."
"From what I can see, you are dissatisfied with the current situation." Celsus shook his head and said.
Duke denied: "You don't dare."
"You don't dare, it's not impossible...I'm not trying to hit you, Duke, turning on the will of the stars may have affected your judgment." Selsus cares about Duke, At his level, he no longer cared much about the development of his family, and only supported the younger generations of the spiritual arcana.
He continued: "Every decision made by the Seven Towers Federation is not only related to the stable lives of hundreds of millions of people in the Federation, but also related to the construction of the spiritual arcana palace." "I understand this." "No, you don't understand yet
,
3 Promoting to level 4 and becoming a great arcane mage is an important node. Only by clearing away the fog of spiritual arcana can you have a clear understanding of the world. Promoting from level 6 to level 7 and becoming an arcane mentor is another important node. Only at this moment can you have a clear understanding of the world. , you can pry into the foundation of the spiritual arcana."
Selsus looked at Duke with burning eyes: "It's not that I and others are in love and are unwilling to let go of the power in their hands. It's actually that you haven't reached the height where you can shoulder the responsibility. ."
Duke nodded sincerely: "I understand."
"So you might as well go back, Cuihai City has just been built, and the rise of a new city may give you a little understanding of how difficult people's livelihood is, and then understand how to lead the entire Seventh Tower Federation, what does it mean?" Celsus said with hope.
in this way.
Duke then officially determined the day to leave the Holy City of Arcane and asked the postman owl to deliver a letter to several familiar Arcane mages.
So quietly on March 10th, we took the battleship Bibo and set off for the return journey.
Woohoo!
The whistle sounded at the flight station, and the Bibo flew into the blue sky and white clouds. When Blue Whale Bay City completely disappeared from sight, Duke took a deep breath.
Lock the door.
Then he looked inside the spiritual sea and resolutely touched the star marks in Duke's Star.
The next moment, the familiar amplification experience of the five senses came. In the luxurious lounge in front of him, all the items seemed to be pulled and twisted by some kind of force, and then gradually lost their original appearance, and finally turned into darkness, and from the darkness, little stars rose. .
Dreamland of stars.
starry sky.
He's already in.
He was still wearing the same clothes as in reality, but the shoes on his feet were missing, and his bare feet were stepping on a familiar star.
"This is... my Duke's star!"
Duke recognized the star, then looked up and saw that among the stars in the dream, only countless stars were shining.
"Goddess Nyx!" No matter how much he shouted, there was no response from the dreamland of stars.
He began to walk, stepping on the void under his feet, with Duke's star always following him, as if this was the foundation for him to stand and walk in the dreamland of stars.
Take a few steps.
Walking to the edge of another star, Duke couldn't help but reach out and touch the star. The next moment, a thought feedback came from the star.
Like a scroll, it suddenly unfolded in front of Duke.
He saw himself transformed into a towering tree, surrounded by a dense and deep primitive jungle, and a strong spirituality permeated the surroundings.
Various spiritual beasts were moving happily around.
"This is...I can return to the real world from here!" Duke quickly understood the message of the feedback from his mind. "This is a three-ring tree king. In reality, it is the tree king. In the starry sky, it is a tree king." Stars are keys to each other."
However, Duke did not choose to return here.
Once he returns, he will instantly move from the Bibo battleship to the Tree King who doesn't know where he is, let alone what the danger is.
He left the star behind and quickly walked to another star.
After touching it, I also felt that I had transformed into a three-ring tree king, but this three-ring tree king was very strange.
Duke could feel the natural power of this tree king, which was somewhat similar to the mangrove king, the third-ring great elf he had experienced before.
"In other words, this is also a three-ring tree king that gave birth to a great elf?" Duke tried his best to sense the surroundings, trying to find the great elf that gave birth to the tree king. Unfortunately, there was no such thing. There was only a strong natural force surrounding him. .
This 3-ring great elf tree king is located deep in the forest.
"Weird, if the Mangrove King is a great elf cultivated by humans, then who cultivated this great elf in the dense forest?" Duke guessed that it was a spiritual beast such as a monkey, which has been here for many years. The tree king was playing around, and then the great elf was cultivated.
Just like the chicken he contracted with, it was born after years of cultivation by the ants.
In this dense forest with no human traces, there are probably only monkeys, which is the most suitable standard for cultivating great elves.
There is also no option to return to reality here.
Duke quickly left the star, but what he didn't know was that not long after his mind left the tree king.
Deep in the dense forest where the tree king is, a great elf like a butterfly, leading a group of humans wrapped in animal skins and leaves, rushed under the tree king's shade.
It seemed that the Great Butterfly Elf had discovered something, and these humans performed a ritual-like dance around the Tree King.
If you look closely, you can see that these humans are not real humans.
They are similar to humans, but their skin is more wheat-colored, their ears are thin and long, and their faces are also very long and narrow. Their hands, feet, limbs and body look long and slender yet powerful. When dancing, it can be seen that their skills are strong and agile.
Did a little dance.
After another conversation with the great butterfly elf Jili Gulu, this group of special humans took the great butterfly elf and disappeared into the jungle.
Among the stars.
Duke still chose to touch the stars, and touched all the nearby stars. He found that each star corresponded to a tree king in the real world, and he could choose this tree king as the way to return to reality. Location.
"Weird!"
"If it is true that a tree king corresponds to a star, then what is the tree king cut down by humans?"
"Represents the fall of a star?"
Duke did not quite understand why. The stars in the starry dream will have a direct connection with the tree king in reality.
The two are clearly unrelated.
"Go and touch the front again. If you touch a star, the corresponding tree king happens to be in a human city. That would be interesting!" The
great arcane mages can copy the ring of projection and come from thousands of miles away. .
And it seems that he only needs to take a trip from the starry sky to travel freely throughout the wild world and wherever there is a tree king.
"If I can figure out the tree kings corresponding to all the stars, doesn't it mean that I can find the spring of spirituality anywhere in the world?" Duke came up with another exciting idea, "Only spirituality Only by the spring can the King of Trees grow!"
However.
Just when he wanted to continue walking forward, suddenly the sky and the earth began to spin, and the starry sky was pulled and distorted by mysterious forces.
Then the surrounding scenery reset, and he returned to reality. It was still the luxurious lounge of the Bibo airship.
"Huh, fortunately, the position did not deviate with the movement of the Bibo, otherwise it would have been left in the forest."
He closed his eyes and looked inside.
It was discovered that the star mark in Duke's Star had exhausted its spiritual energy. Looking at the time indicated by Xiaoyi, one period of spiritual energy lasted about fifteen minutes.
"Fifteen minutes is a bit short, and it may not allow me to insist on walking to all the stars in the starry sky." Duke frowned and thought, "Next time I go in, I can try to see if I can fly. If I can fly, It's a lot more convenient."
In the dream of stars, the stars are far apart from each other. It is difficult to touch the stars far enough away in fifteen minutes by walking.
"In addition, which tree king is the key to my Duke star?" Duke suddenly thought.
He soon felt relieved: "I'm afraid not. Goddess Nyx gave it to me and allowed me to enter and exit the starry sky from any place at will. I'm afraid I have lost contact with the Tree King... Otherwise, if I leave the starry sky, I will We can only go to a fixed location."
Just in case.
The tree king at a fixed location has been cut down, and Duke may not even be able to determine where he will return.
Only now, where you enter from where you come back, is the best key.
"Xiao Yi."
"Master, I'm here."
"Set up the maximum power to charge the star marks." Duke plans to explore the star dream a few more times to see if he can find a star that corresponds to the tree in the Seven Towers Federation. king.
If you can find the star corresponding to the 3-ring tree king in Cuihai City - the Green Banyan Forest.
No matter where Duke is in the future, he can quickly return to Cuihai City and his own Duke Sage Mage Tower.
"It's really good!"
"Try to find it as soon as possible!"
Duke has clearly experimented with the basic functions of the starry dream. Although he was not able to see the goddess Nyx again, he felt a little regretful.
But the Duke's Star given by the goddess Nyx is by no means worse than the revelation of the will of the stars.
"Thank you Goddess for your generous gift. I will make good use of Duke's Star to try to pull this decadent world back on the right track as soon as possible, and then take you... far away!" Duke secretly raised a flag in his heart.
Subsequently.
He rang the bell and called his assistant Mulali over: "I left in a hurry today. I haven't read the newspaper yet. Go and get me some copies." "Okay, sir." Soon Mulali
came
with After walking back from several today's newspapers, Duke casually flipped through a copy of the Seven Towers Daily.
This newspaper has become his daily must-read.
Duke's name is not on the front page, but the content is related to Duke: "Dickensian Sage Mage Tower announced that the puppet core imprinting device was officially developed successfully; the staff of Erudite Tower revealed that the second generation of spirit card imprinting device has been offline Countdown."
More than half a month has passed since the announcement of the Ring of Brand technology.
The various branding devices that Duke has not yet developed have been successfully conquered by the arcane mages. Even the second-generation spirit card branding device, which is an instrument that can brand 2-ring spirit cards, is about to be developed.
have to say.
The arcane mages of the Seven Towers Federation are powerful, but they just lack a little inspiration from Duke.
Of course, without the broad vision brought to Duke by the technological civilization on earth, Duke might not have had so much inspiration.
This is true, stones from other mountains can attack jade.
When Penrose came over to chat, Duke chatted with him about today's news: "Mentor Penrose, as a card-making scholar, what changes do you think the Ring of Brand will bring to the field of card-making?" "Speaking of this
, I have attended many academic conferences in the Holy City of Offa before and made many inferences, but there is one thing that everyone agrees with." "
Oh, what is it?"
"The spiritual apprentice is about to get on the right track." Penrose sighed with emotion. Said, "Take the field of card making as an example. In the past, spiritual apprentices could only act as assistants and engage in work such as card repair. Card making had nothing to do with them. But after the imprinting ring sank, card making became card printing. The apprentices They can all do the same job."
"Even ordinary people can operate it."
"Ordinary people can indeed operate it, but the maintenance and operation of the instrument, as well as the preparation of the 2-ring spirit card, require spiritual apprentices to get started." "
That's true . Yes." Duke nodded.
After all, ordinary people lack the perception of spiritual power. Simple tasks can be handled, but when it involves the dispatch of spiritual power, ordinary people are blind.
Penrose said with emotion: "Spiritual apprentices will also be a valuable resource in the future. I feel that the federal high-level officials will sooner or later promote the safer Three Seas potion on a large scale so that all people can have the opportunity to open the Three Seas to expand the number of Three Seas monks. "
At this stage, the spirit-awakening potion worth 23 silver dragons is basically affordable to all people.
However, there are still many poor families who are not willing to give their children spiritual awakening potions. Firstly, taking them is risky, and secondly, spiritual apprenticeship practice is also risky.
Third, the probability of opening the spiritual sea is too low.
Taking Snakehead Town as an example, among a population of 100,000, there are less than 500 spiritual apprentices accumulated in one or two decades, and there are only two or three arcane mages.
This is more difficult than the college entrance examination on earth.
Many ordinary families will first choose the Qi-increasing potion of 7 Silver Dragon. The probability of opening the Qi Sea is higher and there is no risk.
If the Qihai cannot be opened, most families will be persuaded to think that their children do not have the talent of the Three Seas at all.
But there will still be a majority of families who grit their teeth and buy a blood-boiling potion with 11 silver dragons, and let their children try to open the blood sea - opening the blood sea is risky. The predecessor of Duke was drained by blood boiling. Energy is dying.
If the Sea of Blood cannot be opened, most families will shrink back and no longer buy spirit-awakening potions to take a chance.
after all.
If you don't even have the talent for the Qi Sea or the Blood Sea, how can you guarantee that you will have the talent for the Ling Sea? You might as well live a good life as an ordinary person.
"In fact, it is not necessarily necessary to use the low-risk Sanhai potion. Set up a safe place for taking it, and let the Arcane Mage or the Grand Knight rescue the child when necessary to save the life of the child. I believe most families will be willing to try it." 23
Silver It's just a dragon, give it a try, if it succeeds, it will be like a carp leaping over the dragon's gate.
Penrose responded: "Perhaps it is to reduce the risk of Sanhai Potion, or it is to establish a safe place for taking it. This is what the stars have decided." Duke heard this and nodded: "Yes." "But,
you
have Expand the voting rights of the meeting. On such a decision, you should be invited to vote." "
It doesn't matter, one more vote for me is not much, and one vote for less me is not much." Duke said calmly, "Anyway, this is Everyone can clearly see the pros and cons of this matter, and there will be no controversy."
Unconsciously.
Two days have passed.
The battleship Bibo has already sailed towards Chunhua City in the Lanyun Domain. It will replenish its supplies once at Chunhua City, and then transfer to Runwu City in the Wind Breathing Domain.
"In half a day, we will arrive at Chunhua City. Sir, do we want to take a walk in the city?" "
No, we will leave as soon as we have supplies."
Duke was not interested in walking around Chunhua City. With his current reputation, once he entered In Spring Flower City, entertainment is inevitable.
Back and forth, a few days have to be delayed.
"Go back early and rest early. I have begun to miss my Duke Sage Mage Tower." It has been more than a month since I was away from home, including the travel time.
I miss Heijiao River very much.
In the Black Dragon River land, he is a well-deserved big shot. Christian Fury regarded him as his son-in-law. Erwin wanted to take advantage of his halo, but Bernoulli couldn't deal with him. But Bernoulli wanted to start a family and didn't dare to provoke him.
"A golden nest or a silver nest is not as good as our doghouse!"
Duke stretched his back.
Mulali and Mulashan took their places, each holding an arm and helping Duke lie down comfortably.
But the next moment.
Then a piercing siren was heard, resounding throughout the Bibo battleship, and the voice of the battleship commander came from the loudspeaker.
"Sir, we encountered an unknown situation. It was suspected that the star cage of the 7-ring Morning Star Arcane Master locked my Bibo in a small space!" "What!" Duke was stunned, and then through the porthole, he saw the blue sky and white clouds above his
head
. Above, I don’t know when a star lit up.
A star that shines brighter than the sun.
The hanging light beam just happened to cover the entire Bibo, causing the Bibo to stagnate within the range of the light beam.
"Star Cage!" Duke's eyes narrowed, and then he thought of thousands of possibilities, "Quickly, contact Master Kisson in reverse and let him descend into a clone!"
After saying that, he directly reached out and held the round jade pendant hanging on his chest in his hand, ready to activate the moonlight cage at any time.
"Protect your lord!" Captain Herdos quickly came with his second-level phantom beast, the golden-horned goat, and immediately merged the phantom beasts.
The next moment, the golden-horned goat turned into a golden light and draped over Herdos's body, as if he was wearing a set of golden armor.
at the same time.
The escorting knights on the battleship are already in the projection room, activating the projection ring, waiting for the feedback from Christian Raging Waves.
In an instant, the instrument rotated violently, and a ray of light and shadow was projected from the battleship, condensing into the huge arcane mage shadow of Christian Raging Waves.
"What's going on?" Christiansen turned back and looked at the battleship.
"Sir, we are locked by the Star Cage!" A great knight, standing in the battle cabin at the top of the battleship, reported in time.
Hearing this, Christiansen Phantom immediately raised his head and looked at the sky.
Then his eyes widened with anger, and his voice rolled like thunder: "Which arcane instructor, are you joking with me, Christian Raging Waves?" Before he finished speaking
, a big black hand with billowing black smoke suddenly appeared from outside the Star Cage. Caught it.
With a loud shout, Christian Raging Wave condensed the 4-level arcane spell - Pale Hand, and turned it into a big pale hand, which collided with the big hand of billowing black smoke.
There is no vibration.
The pale hand shattered into dregs like tofu, and then the big black smokey hand grabbed the shadow of the arcane mage of Christian Raging Waves.
"Assaulting a colleague is a crime worthy of death!" Christiansen Fury roared, and a defensive network of arcane magic formed around the shadow in an instant.
However, this arcane defense network also did not have much effect, and was extinguished by the big hand of billowing black smoke.
Fortunately, the arcane defense net is an instant arcane spell. When one net breaks, another net forms and continues to block the black smoke.
But on another floor of the Bibo battleship, another big hand with billowing black smoke gathered out and grabbed the Bibo battleship.
"Run away!" The phantom of Christian Raging Waves roared while fighting against the black smoke's big hand.
Among the battleships.
Duke's eyes flashed with shock, and there was a hint of relief in the shock. The next second, a light rose from his hand, and quickly turned into a full moon rising from the Bibo battleship, and rushed up at an extremely fast speed. Sky, smash that dazzling star.
The stars were replaced, and the Star Cage dissipated.
Then, a new beam of light hung down.
The battleship Bibo was shrouded in this beam of light again, but the big hand of black smoke that grabbed it was like a bubble in the sun, quickly burned and broken by the moonlight, and disappeared completely.
"Phew!"
Duke breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Selsus gave him the life-saving talisman and the moonlight cage in advance, otherwise this encounter would have been disastrous.
He looked outside the moonlight beam. He didn't know when a huge dark figure appeared. Just like the big hand of black smoke before, this dark figure also had billowing black smoke coming out of it, hovering outside the moonlight cage. Let out an unwilling roar.
"It's the Sinking Demon!" The phantom of Christian Raging Wave looked at the black smoke figure outside, shocked and shocked.
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