Chapter 1252 Ripples of Darkness
Perhaps due to the large-scale fluctuation of magic power affecting the activities of the atmosphere, the wind in the magnificent wall seems to never stop. These turbulent winds flow freely on the weathered and corroded land regardless of seasons, Rolling up the polluted dust, rolling up the fragments of the old civilization, carrying them to wander on this dead land day after day, and in these never-ending winds, the wasteland of Gondor is blowing in several Almost nothing new has happened in centuries.
But now the situation has changed - the plan that has been brewing for centuries has finally begun to be implemented, as if the gears of fate are meshing and turning, a machine that has been stagnant for a long time is quietly starting to operate outside the sight of human civilization.
It is slowly pushing the world into a doomed future, yet those mortals outside the walls of grandeur don't even know it exists.
"As the God of Destiny said—fate has begun to move forward," Fierna watched the deformed giants busy around the ruins of the huge building, and said softly, "From here on, a small change , and then a series of small changes, and what was finally turned was the future of the entire planet... It's amazing."
"Fate is indeed wonderful, but it's a pity that the so-called God of Destiny is just a pathetic existence that persists in front of the fleet for less than a few hours," Leierna continued, "Ah, as pathetic as all the creatures on this planet. "
A smile appeared on Ferna's face: "But now their miserable lives are finally going to have value...my sister."
Leierna didn't speak, but turned to the stairs next to the high platform. She saw a cluster of dry and twisted vines spreading up from there, and then the front of the vines quickly merged in a strange and terrifying form, transforming into an old face , the face of Grand Priest Borken appeared in front of the twin elves, and the tawny eyes passed over them and turned to the deformed "workers" excavated in the ruins.
"They've been digging here for two full days, are you sure it's here?" The weird face made of vines looked there for a few seconds, then raised it up slightly, showing suspicion, "Or..."
"You've become more and more impatient lately, Grand Master," Fierna shook her head, and Leierna, who was beside her, followed immediately, "Of course we are sure that this is the place—the other place is within the monitoring range of the Deep Blue Well. Other networkway nodes that meet our requirements."
Borken was silent for two seconds, with a cautious tone: "...I can indeed feel the hidden magic power fluctuations in this area, as well as the remaining magic power flow deep underground, but it is far from the scale you described .”
"A long time can change a lot of things, and it's not easy to make those dusty old things shine again," Leierna said unhurriedly, and Fierna turned her head, looking at the things that had been cleared. The architectural ruins of most of the collapsed structures, "This was once the largest 'node city' in the northwest region of the Gondor Empire,
The magic power from the Deep Blue Well will be redistributed here and supplied to countless nearby towns and villages. The building you see is a former magic power control agency. In its glory, there were thousands of Magisters and apprentices watch over here day and night...
"And this is the sad and ironic thing - they only know that this is a convenient magic focus, where the energy from the Deep Blue Well can be easily controlled and converted, but they have never been able to discover this magic focus The deep connection with the Deep Blue Webway... It wasn't until the eve of their demise that they vaguely realized the huge "planetary power system" behind the Deep Blue Well... They missed the opportunity to make civilization leap forward, but they didn't even miss anything I don’t know, and I am complacent about the achievements of my poorly developed civilization.”
Leierna turned her head, and glanced at the ruins of the ancient city that had been shattered in time, and at those old high-rise buildings and palace temples, with a sarcastic expression on her face, and contempt in her tone, the contempt was even close to Yu Anger: "There is only a piece of paper between them and the truth, and only a small step away from success. They struggle all their lives, and then fall down at the last moment before they reach the end... It's always like this, and the cycle repeats."
"Weak and incompetent," Ferna said lightly, "It's sad and deplorable."
The vines moved slowly on the platform, the sound of the friction between the plants and the cement was rough and piercing, and Borken's brown pupils stared at the twin elves in front of him, and let out a hoarse laugh: "Ha, it's really rare to be able to hear from your hypocrisy and sweetness." Hearing this kind of pungent and direct language from your lips and tongue, you are worthy of being elves who have lived for a long time and witnessed the rebellious plan. Your evaluation of this world is from a new perspective... But I am curious, what do you want to tell me when you say so much? Will I also encounter failure the moment before I succeed?"
"You?" Leierna glanced at the face of the vine in front of her, and the corners of her mouth curled up, "Of course not, my Grand Priest, how could your plan fail? It's not just your plan anymore... "
Borken snorted coldly, but he was not interested in bothering about the usual yin and yang way of speaking of the Elf Twins—his body is actually still staying in the headquarters in the valley far away at this moment, dealing with various important affairs. It was the "line of sight" projected by him with the underground network of roots extending in all directions to monitor the progress of the project at this node. Before getting substantial results here, he didn't have any extra experience to get entangled with two elf sisters who never spoke human language.
But at this moment, a commotion suddenly came from the direction of the excavation site, which attracted Borken's attention and also attracted the attention of the elf twins on the platform.
They saw that the deformed giants successfully removed the last part of the dome fragments covering the ruins, and activated an ancient mechanism under the ruins according to the order. The seven-hundred-year-old ruins actually came from the depths of the ruins. There was a low-pitched sound, accompanied by a slight tremor of the earth, and some scattered blue light diffused from the cracks in the ground near the ruins of the building, which strongly stimulated all the sights on the scene.
"...It's so beautiful." Fierna stared at the brighter radiance, a smile slowly appeared on her face, "Did you see it? Grand Priest, this is the radiance of pure magic power... It's already here It has been sleeping for seven hundred years."
Borken's eyes were fixed on the rays of light flowing from the cracks in the ground, he suddenly reacted, and loudly reminded the twin elves who were still leisurely: "Why are you still standing there?! This focus is getting out of control! Damn it, the maintenance equipment here is already burned down, the cracks you opened will melt this place - and the ensuing explosion will attract the entire Iron Man Corps!! Do something to stop this!"
"Calm down, Your Excellency the Grand Priest, we understand the Deep Blue Webway, the speed of energy balance collapse is not so fast - on the contrary, yelling will affect your bearing and image." Leona laughed , talking unhurriedly, they walked towards the edge of the platform with Ferna, and they walked towards the ruins that were already covered with blue cracks step by step as if they were stepping on solid steps. Still stuck in place, without further orders, they ignored the flames flowing from the cracks in the ground, and stood there sluggishly as if they were not aware of the danger in this huge energy.
A cluster of beautiful blue light streams finally flowed to the feet of the nearest deformed body. In the silent burning, the hideous and ugly giant quickly turned into a bright torch, and turned into a torch in just ten seconds. A cloud of dust.
Ferna turned her head and took a look, the dust floating in the air was mixed with dots of blue light, and the light dust was reflected in her eyes, she shook her head, with a slightly regretful tone: "I really can't help but burn." .”
While speaking, they had already come to the top of those dissipated light streams, and stood in the air several meters high as if they were standing on the ground. Pure flames surged in the cracks, and the bright blue cracks interweaved into a spider web-like shape. Wherever the light went, those deformed giants responsible for excavating the ruins burned one after another, while the surrounding activities The tree people backed away nervously, and Borken stared at the elf sisters standing in the air. He knew that these two chattering guys must have made arrangements, but he still couldn't help asking: "What do you plan to do?" How to control this thing? With your magic?"
"Strictly speaking, what this requires is knowledge and wisdom," Fierna said lightly, she raised her left hand, and there were already runes flowing from the fingertips. Find that 'node' at the right moment and the right position, and then gently 'push' it with a very slight external force..."
"It's like using a stone to stir up ripples in the entire pond," Leierna followed closely. She raised her right hand and coordinated with Fierna's spell casting movements with incomparable precision, changing the depth of the earth with ingenious techniques. Where the magic flows, "everything will change."
Silent magic power soaked into the "Dark Blue Spring" that was gushing upwards from the ground, and the blue cracks all over the earth dimmed in an instant, followed by a short silence of two or three seconds, and a dazzling blue light beam came out. Suddenly rushing out of the ground, accompanied by a faintly frightening manic agitation, the entire ruined area seemed to have received some kind of powerful attraction from the center, and began to collapse and compress from all around to the center!
The tough boulders and decaying steel made toothache creaking sounds in bursts of powerful suction, and after a short resistance, they fell apart and fell into the depths of the blue light beam, and the treants moving around the ruined area also They all backed away in horror, wanting to stay as far away from the deadly gravitational vortex as possible, but in such a terrifying scene, sisters Fierna and Leierna still stood expressionlessly in the air, staring indifferently. everything that changes.
The powerful attraction that collapsed inward seemed to them to be non-existent.
The whole process lasted for a full ten minutes, and this terrible "collapse" finally came to an end. With the weaker and weaker earthquakes, a certain "balance" seemed to be established at the center of the collapse—the original building ruins It has completely disappeared, and even a large area of the ground has become a sunken pit. The blue light beam rushing up to the sky gradually shrinks and dims. In the place that rises before the light beam, there is a hole like a "hole". The structure floats abruptly in the center of the pit floor.
The blue stream of light surged endlessly in a certain space inside the hole, and waves of pure magic power continuously escaped from the hole. It was like a door embedded in the real world, presenting a scene in the depths of this planet. spectacular side.
"Grand Master," Leierna walked slowly to the side of the big pit, and looked at the "door" that had stabilized at the bottom of the pit with a smile, "This is the entrance to the new webway you want, please have a look."
"...you used a natural magic focus to 'blow' out a gate leading to the dark blue webway?" Vines stretched from the platform, and Borken's shocked face was between those dry, twisted and intertwined vines Emerging, he stared at the door, and suddenly realized, "Wait, it's so easy for you to open the door to the dark blue webway?"
"Yes, it's not difficult for us." Leierna and Fierna said in unison.
Borken's voice was furious: "...but you let us spend half a month in this valley to build the rune ring and webway nodes, and almost exhausted the magic power reserves we took out from the deep blue well!"
"Grand Master, calm down, where is your proud judgment?" Fierna smiled and looked at the angry face in the vines, "This is just a temporary door that we opened. It is just for you to bury the rune stone, and it will be closed after a few hours - the gate in the valley is permanent, it is the foundation of our business, it is the control center of all nodes, only half a month is paid for it Don't you think it's worth the hard work?"
Borken stared at the elf's face, and said in a deep voice after a few seconds: "When you show such fake smiles, I don't even want to believe a word you say."
Leierna laughed: "Don't be like this, Grand Priest, we will tell you how to open this temporary door, after all, we still need to open many, many cracks and plant more rune stones—we The two sisters don't have so much energy to open every door by themselves."
"Very well, I will seriously verify the 'method' you brought, and I hope you will not hide any more this time," Borken said in a deep voice, "Now let's go to the next step—since this It's a temporary gate, so we don't have much time to waste, putting the rune stone in."
"Follow your order——" Leierna and Fierna bowed slightly together, and said in an exaggerated tone on purpose, and then Leierna straightened up and looked at a tree man nearby, "There are still people who can move." Is it an aberration? Go and bring the rune stone over, we're going to 'unload'."
The tree man shook the canopy, and the twisted and terrifying face on the trunk showed a trace of anger: "You all burned it up just now!"
"...Ah, that's a pity," Ferna seemed a little surprised, shaking her head and said, "I thought we had enough reserves, so I tested it with those consumables..."
"Grab a few more, as long as they can be used temporarily," Leierna said immediately, her tone was very flat, "Anyway, they are no longer glorious citizens of Gondor."