Chapter 2202 Ancient Palace

As soon as the desert halfling appeared, he stared at them with vigilant and unkind eyes.

Although there was no immediate shouting of beating or killing, obvious hostility could be seen in its eyes. Moreover, under the halflings' feet, the area of ​​quicksand was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it wouldn't take long before the entire area where they were standing would be submerged.

At this moment, Luojia announced his name.

The desert halflings had obviously never heard of Luojia, but Luojia and it were both earth creatures, and with the appearance of stone, the desert halflings immediately understood that Luojia came from the wild stone wasteland of their allied country, which was like a brother.

Therefore, the desert halflings did not rush to threaten them, but hesitated for a while and said to Luojia: "Wait a moment, I will go to the patrol for confirmation."

After saying that, the desert halfling got into the quicksand and disappeared.

After about three minutes, the halfling's figure hovered in the slight breeze and finally reappeared in front of them.

Compared to before, its expression at this time was less guarded and more intimate: "It turns out to be Junior Brother Luojia."

Junior brother? Luojia's eyes lit up and he looked at the halfling opposite: "Are you also the teacher's student?"

The halfling grinned widely and nodded with a smile: "Yes, but that was more than three hundred years ago. I guess Junior Brother Luojia must have never heard of me."

"By the way, the patrol has informed the teacher after learning that Junior Brother Luojia has returned. I believe the teacher will be very happy to see you." After that, the halfling got out of the way and pointed out the direction for Luojia.

Luojia glanced at Angel next to him, hesitated for a moment, and said to the halfling suspended in the air: "I have a request..."

"Fly to where the teacher is?" The halfling glanced at Luojia in surprise. This guy didn't look like he could fly.

Luojia briefly explained, saying that he was not the one who could fly, but with the help of Angel's props.

"That's it." The halfling looked enlightened, but in fact it still didn't know what was going on, and it just didn't want to expose its ignorance.

"Junior Brother Luojia must know the taboo on flying. I can't make the decision on this. Let's do this. I'll ask the patrol to tell the wise man and see what the teacher says."

After saying that, the halfling fell into the quicksand again.

A few minutes later, the halfling reappeared: "The wise man agreed. However, according to the rules, you need to find a tooth-extracting desert native creature to fly with you."

When the halfling said this, he showed a hint of sympathy: "I can tell you clearly that there are no flying earth creatures within a hundred miles around here."

In other words, if Luojia could not find a flying companion, he would still have to rely on his feet to slowly move to the core area.

Luojia's eyes showed distress, and he couldn't help but look at the halfling... This halfling not only looks like the magic lamp monster in the fairy tale, but also has the characteristics of the magic lamp monster. It is suspended in the air and should be able to fly. Bar?

The halfling seemed to understand Luojia's meaning and waved his hands repeatedly: "I can't do it. I am what you call...the enforcer. At most, I can move nearby and cannot leave too far."

The halfling's rejection made Luojia sigh helplessly.

Seeing that the little flowers on Luojia's body were all wilting, the halfling couldn't bear it and suggested, "Why don't you search for them while walking? After you find them, you can fly across."

Luojia turned his head and handed over the decision to Angel.

Angel pondered for a moment and said to the halfling: "Does the flight companion have to be able to fly? If he can't fly, is that okay?"

"The regulations do not require that the flight companion must be able to fly..." the halfling muttered.

Angel waved his hand gently and released the gondola, suspending it in mid-air: "My flying boat can carry an earth creature. I'll find one who can't fly. As long as he stays on the boat, it can be considered a flying companion, right?"

The halfling hesitated for a moment, feeling as if his mind was spinning, but finally nodded: "It should be okay."

After getting confirmation from the halfling, Angel quickly turned around and gently weighed a little gerbil that was just a week old a few hundred meters away.

"This little guy should have been born during World Voices, right? Can I take it with me?"

The halfling was silent for a moment, and finally nodded: "The regulations do not prohibit creatures in the elf stage from flying as companions."

Angel smiled slightly and put the struggling little gerbil into Luo Jia's hands: "Then let's leave first."

After finishing speaking, Angel took Luojia and Dangelos back to the gondola. Under the complicated eyes of the halfling, he controlled the flying boat and flew away into the distance.

On the gondola, Luojia, who was comforting the frightened little gerbil, showed a thoughtful expression on his face: "I didn't expect it could be done like this. Alas, I can't let go of my mind, otherwise I would be wrong. I should have been able to think of such a simple method just now.”

"Sure enough, Teacher Ku Platinum is right. I still need to study more, otherwise my vision will always be limited to the established framework."

When Luojia said that he wanted to study, his eyes lit up brightly.

When Angel came to the tidal world, it was the first time he saw such an elemental creature that was so thirsty for knowledge.

The more I understand the elemental creatures, the more I find that they, like all intelligent life, have different personalities. There are Dangros who live by their idols as their faith, the Sand Brigade who are uninhibited and love freedom, and the Luo who pursue learning as their pursuit. Ga.

In the past, when Angel heard about elemental creatures, even if the wizard called them "partners", he could not help but think of them as tools without emotions.

Now that he has witnessed these vivid elemental lives, he has gradually abandoned his old views.

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"Stop for a moment." A desert giant emerged from the undulating sand dunes and waved to the gondola in the sky to stop.

Angel looked at Lorga on the opposite side, sighed helplessly, and slowly put the gondola down.

On the way to the core area of ​​the Tooth Extraction Desert, this was the tenth time they were intercepted in just one hour.

As in the previous situation, this desert giant, who looked very burly, handed a kitten the size of a palm to Lorga with a gentle movement that was not suitable for his body size.

"Thank you for your trouble." After the desert giant saw the kitten being held in Lorga's arms, it breathed a sigh of relief and thanked them.

Angel said solemnly: "It's okay... it's on the way anyway."

After saying goodbye to the desert giant, the gondola continued to fly. The route was the same as before, but there were many more people riding the boat.

Not only the little gerbil and the little sand kitten, but also the little snails, little foxes, little mushrooms, little earthworms, little lizards... and other desert elves, playing and spitting sand in the gondola.

These were blocked by sand creatures along the way, and then sent to the gondola.

According to an embarrassed patrolman, these are elemental elves that were born not long ago. Their best destination is to go to the core area and be taught by the wise. But the guards and patrols of the outer desert cannot leave their posts unless there is an accident, and naturally they cannot send these elemental elves away. When they heard the halfling say that Angel took the little gerbil to "fly with him", their eyes lit up, and they immediately waved when they saw the flying boat in the sky, hoping to send these elves along the way.

After all, these are small matters, and maybe they can even build some connections. Angel couldn't refuse, so this scene happened.

The gondola, which is not very big, is already full of elves.

If he is an earth wizard on the elemental side, or if he is a little luckier, he is a desert warlock who practices sand magic, he would probably be very happy at this time, surrounded by various desert elves, and maybe he can find a partner suitable for him.

However, Angel is not a desert warlock, and his research on earth magic is almost non-existent, not to mention the sand system, which is a relatively niche lineage in the earth system.

So seeing these elves spitting sand everywhere, he had no joy at all, and even felt a little itchy.

But after all, they are naughty children, and they are still unintelligent naughty children. Angel could only take a deep breath and endure it.

Fortunately, as the night began to deepen, these newborn elves began to get tired, including Dangros, and all the elves slowly fell into sleep, which made Angel breathe a sigh of relief.

However, even though the elves had entered sleep time, the mature elemental creatures were still active, so Angel's flying boat still encountered many intercepting elemental creatures.

More elves were stuffed on board.

It can be said that this section of the road from the border to the core area was the longest that Angel had ever walked.

It took a full eight hours to reach the core area of ​​the Tooth Extraction Desert at the super speed of the gondola, and half of the time was being intercepted.

At this time, there were more than forty elves on the boat.

Angel was a little regretful at this time. He shouldn't have brought the little gerbil on board. He could have brought any mature elemental creature.

But regret was useless. Things had already happened and he could only accept it.

Fortunately, they had arrived at the core area and would be free soon.

The time for liberation came faster than expected. Under the guidance of Lorca, they found the Tooth Extraction Palace where the wise man was in the core area in just half an hour.

This was the first building with a distinct mature style that Angel had seen in the Tidal Realm.

It is a bit like a temple, without walls, and all made up of huge pillars.

As the sun rises, the sunlight shines into the Tooth Extraction Palace, passing through the pillars, casting a large number of regular and dense shadows. Between sunrise and sunset, it has its own sense of religious ritual.

"Is this palace built by earth creatures?" Angel asked Lorga opposite while lowering the gondola to the palace.

Although Lorga has been "studying" here for a few years, it does not know who built the palace. It hesitated for a long time without saying a word.

At this time, a very loud voice sounded in Angel's ears: "The original Tooth Extraction Palace is a historical relic. It is said that it has existed before the world disaster, but later the Tooth Extraction Palace was eroded by time and destroyed in the long river of history. Today's Tooth Extraction Palace is on the original site, and it was rebuilt and restored by us later generations."

Angel looked at the source of the voice, but saw a humanoid creature composed of metal sand at the gate of the palace, slowly closing its mouth.

Obviously, it was this one who answered Angell before.

"Teacher!" Luo Jia respectfully called out the other party's title.

Angle's expression flashed with enlightenment, thinking that this person must be the wise man of the tooth-pulling desert, Bitter Platinum.

Angel had heard before that Bitter Platinum, as its name suggests, is an elemental creature made of metal, with a huge body, lurking under the desert. Now, the humanoid figure displayed outside the palace is just a deliberate appearance like Magu.

Angel drove the gondola directly to the gate of the palace.

Bitter Platinum greeted with a smile, but it was not Angel, nor Lorga who showed admiration for it, but the elemental elves on the boat who were still half awake and half asleep.

Bitter Platinum woke up these elves one by one very carefully, and then took them out of the boat, like a mother, gently comforting them.

The elves who were so bearish before, under the comfort of Bitter Platinum, also behaved very quietly, and under the light of the rising sun, they were quite warm.

Bitter Platinum obviously really loved the elves, and he had to coax each one for a long time, and he had no time to pay attention to him and Lorga, the two "idlers".

Angel took this opportunity to look at the unusual palace behind him.

He had seen the "city" in Magu's body and the crisscrossing in the Ruby Grotto. These gathering places all had some imitation of human civilization. However, they did not have a very specific reference object, so they could only build it as they wished. The final result was basically just a touch of human civilization, more inclined to the style of the early gathering area of ​​primitive humans.

But this palace, whether from the neatly arranged stone pillars, the pattern carvings in front of the palace, or the overall design, does not look like an imitation, but a real human building.

Angel also heard what Bitter Platinum said just now.

Bitter Platinum had no need to deceive himself, so these palaces had appeared before the disaster. If the palace was really built by humans, it means that Feng may not be the first person to discover the Tide Realm. Before Feng, when the Tide Realm had not yet merged with the Wizard Realm, someone had already found this place and built this palace.

This is normal, after all, the footsteps of wizards are all over the pan-plane.

If the person who built the Tooth Extraction Palace was really a human wizard, then his strength must be very strong, and he is very likely to be a lone ranger. Because the other party can disdain elemental creatures and has never thought of using the coordinates of the Tidal Realm as a breakthrough for interests, it explains a lot of problems.

Of course, it is also possible that he accidentally drifted here and died before he had time to pass on the information. But this possibility is relatively small. If he has the leisure to build a palace, he should not have no time to pass on the information.

No matter which one it is, even if the palace was built by an intelligent civilization from an earlier period of the Tidal Realm, Angel is very interested in this palace.

Maybe, some residual information that is more ancient than when Feng arrived can be found here.

After more than ten minutes, Bitter Platinum finally appeased all the elemental elves and planted the seeds of wisdom in them. Bitter Platinum threw the elemental elves into the four fields and let them thrive in the core area.

Watching many elemental elves disappear one by one in front of him, Bitter Platinum retracted the kind smile on his lips and turned to look at Angel and Lorca.

Ku Platinum knew Luo Jia very well, so he put him aside for now.

Ku Platinum was more curious about this life that looked very different from elemental creatures.

"Are you... a human?"