Chapter 1268 Not Just One Crack

No one understands the mysteries deep within the flow of magic better than a goddess who wields magical power.

After hearing Mir Mina's unusually serious explanation, Kamel immediately realized the seriousness behind this matter, and while realizing its seriousness, he also instantly had a new doubt: "... ...Haven't you seen this kind of rift in the realm of the kingdom of God before? As far as I know, you often wander around the edge of the kingdom of God, observing the changes in the deep sea..."

But Mirmina didn't answer him. The expression of the former master of magic suddenly became a little weird. She stared at the dark blue crack that emerged from the vortex in the distance, as if she had noticed or realized something, but she was confused. Some kind of dazed state.

At the same time, Pope Malm Dunit, the god of war who brought everyone to the side, broke the silence: "This thing is not something that should exist in my lord's kingdom, and I don't know where it came from... ...It may have existed here for hundreds or even thousands of years, and after the fall of my lord, the place lost control, and the Kingdom of God gradually 'floated' to the vicinity of this crack..."

While speaking, a shock suddenly came from under everyone's feet, and Kamel hurriedly led the explorers back. The next moment they saw a little material falling down from the edge of the Kingdom of God, turning into dust falling with the wind. Into the depths of the sea of ​​clouds beyond the boundary.

This process of continuous disintegration and dissipation is still going on, and I am afraid it will continue for a long time.

Kamel looked at Mirmina who seemed to be in deep thought, but just as he was about to ask something, Malm Dunit's voice sounded again: "I want you to see more than just this crack .”

"It's not just this crack?" Kamel couldn't help asking in amazement, "Is there something else here?"

"Yes, there is another thing I don't recognize—whatever it is, I don't think it should appear in the 'Realm of the Gods'," said Malm Dunit, nodding slowly, turning to Looking at the dark and chaotic edge of the sea of ​​clouds in the distance, "I can't see it yet, but counting the time, it should appear soon..."

"Can't see it now?" Kamel asked curiously, with some speculation in his heart, "Could it be that thing..."

"That thing will approach here periodically. It's just that I'm trapped here and I don't have enough means to determine the relative position of that thing to the Kingdom of God or its trajectory..." Malm said slowly, and suddenly raised his finger To the distance, "ah, it's coming..."

As the voice of the God of War Pope fell, the members of the exploration team all looked in the direction of the ghost's fingers, and the two arcane lights on Kamel's head gradually brightened, and he "stared" at the ghost. The borders of darkness and chaos,

Suddenly, a ray of light slowly "floated" from the end of the boundary line——

The first thing that appeared in front of everyone was a bright light beam, which penetrated the chaotic realm in the deep sea, dispelling the dark environment at the edge of the sea of ​​clouds, followed by a series of flickering lights around the light beam, which seemed to outline a The huge silhouette, and as the huge shadow behind the silhouette gradually approached, its astonishing posture gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Kamel saw a huge curved edge covered with unknown material protruding from the dark boundary first, slowly rising above the sea of ​​clouds, followed by continuous alloy structures and the "steel land" supported by the structures, it seemed It is a flat weird huge ship, and it seems to be a rootless island floating in the chaos and the sea of ​​clouds. The exposed part has irregular edge outlines, as if it should be a part of a larger structure, or it should be part of a larger structure, or in advance. Areas for docking with other structures are reserved.

Then this gigantic thing, almost as amazing as a city, continued to float upwards, and the matter at the edge of the sea of ​​clouds was disturbed by its huge boundary, rolling up layers of silent air waves, and countless sand and dust flew up, Drooping down like a stream of water along the edge of the alloy structure again, Kamel tried his best to look at the end of the sea of ​​clouds in the distance, looking at the scene on the surface of the "steel land", he saw flickering lights, a barrier like a shield And towering things like buildings, and farther away, he also vaguely saw some things of different colors leaning against the edge of the earth, which did not look like what the "steel earth" itself should have. structure, rather like...something accidentally "hanging" on its edge.

However, that has exceeded the limit of ordinary vision.

Under the heavy and closed helmets of the white knights, there were a few suppressed exclamations, and the voice of the high-ranking combat monk Quinn rang out: "Holy light... what is that?"

"No matter what it is, it is definitely not the kingdom of God... nor is it a fragment left by any kingdom of God or gods. It is obviously in operation..." Kamel muttered, and suddenly cast his gaze to the side Malm Dunett, "Will it hit?"

"No, it will run slowly near the border, and it will get very close to here, but it will not bump into it-it seems to be able to accurately judge the distance from the Kingdom of God, and it will approach and stay away according to a strict cycle," said the former The Pope of the God of War spoke unreservedly about the patterns he had observed while wandering here for so long, "That thing feels 'alive' to people, but I don't see any life... or anything similar to life appearing in the That above. Of course, it may also be that the superficial knowledge of mortals has blinded my eyes. In this kingdom of the gods... many things cannot be understood by mortals..."

"Ma'am," Kamel turned to look in Mirmina's direction, "Do you..."

He stopped halfway through his words, because he saw that the "Master of Magic" had widened his eyes, and was staring at the huge shadow rising from the depths of the sea of ​​clouds with great astonishment, and he didn't know if it was an illusion. , he even saw some kind of uncontrollable... tension and fear from this master of magic.

But Mirmina woke up after all. She seemed to have successfully resisted the tension from the depths of her soul, and heard Kamel's call. Her eyes were fixed on the edge of the sea of ​​clouds that was still slowly approaching here. "Steel Earth", some kind of "curtain" shrouded in her memory was broken, her eyes gradually widened, and she exclaimed softly: "I see, I know what I overlooked... I have seen this !I can see this thing all the time! It has been patrolling the kingdom of God for countless years!"

Kamel was taken aback: "Have you seen this? It has been patrolling the Kingdom of God? But neither you nor Mr. Lu have ever mentioned it..."

"It has erased its own existence in our memory!" Mirmina finally found the missing piece of the puzzle, and the shielded and covered parts of her memory are clearly emerging, "'God' can't see Only mortals can do this!"

Kamel felt that the flow of magic power all over his body was in a certain disorder, and a kind of trembling from the soul that he hadn't experienced in many years strongly impacted his mind—if he still had a respiratory system , he would definitely gasp at this moment——then he reacted, and while looking at the undulating and approaching steel land in the sea of ​​clouds, he said quickly: "This has exceeded all our plans... what happened here Things must be reported immediately!"

"I'm already contacting Cecil City—I hope Gawain in Tarrond can receive the news in time," Mirmina said immediately, "In addition, the people of Typhon also need to notify , Rosetta Augustus is a mortal who can preside."

"I'm editing a message to Ms. Windsor Mapel on the other side of the portal," Kamel said quickly, with rapidly changing magic runes floating around him, the ancient arcane master was bypassing ordinary communication equipment , directly using his ability to control the magic power to contact the left-behind personnel on the other side of the portal. At the same time, he was also paying attention to the behemoth running in the sea of ​​clouds. After a short thought, he suddenly asked, " In the chaotic space outside the Kingdom of God...is the worldly matter allowed to exist?"

"Secular matter? Of course it can exist. Although this is an area where the boundary between material and non-material is extremely blurred, secular matter will not disintegrate due to contact with the environment in the deep sea. It is just that it is located within the 'radiation range' of many divine kingdoms. And there are reverberations of ancient thoughts everywhere, and it is easy to appear some..." Mier Mina subconsciously explained a few words, but suddenly realized halfway through, and looked at Kamel with strange eyes, " Wait, are you going to explore... This is too dangerous! Everything about that thing is unclear, and even the gods don't know what dangers are there, and it is operating outside the Kingdom of God, maybe it will go there Where……"

The master of magic said, his expression became extremely serious: "Outside the kingdom of God is the vast 'deep sea', which is the lowest ripple in the world. Although I often wander around there, the area I can detect and the entire The depths of the sea are nothing in comparison—the things in the depths are a mystery to the gods, and it's too soon for you..."

"I know, I wouldn't risk my life or someone else's life like this," Kamel seemed a little surprised by Mirmina's tense reaction, which was no different from ordinary people, but he quickly reacted Come over, shaking his head and saying, "But we should still do something... I have a detection plan."

As he spoke, his eyes fell on the back of the exploration team. The "Explorer" puppet with a round brass shell and long mechanical limbs was quietly staying behind everyone. A "seeker" puppet with complex runes "Arm" extended from its copper shell, resting on the surface of the magic storage energy box dragged behind Kamel: it was replenishing itself with magic power.

As if noticing the changes in the surrounding atmosphere, a series of murmuring sounds came out from within the puppet with extremely high intelligence and self-discipline. Its long mechanical limbs moved in situ, and the runes on the shell flickered darken.

Outside of the Kingdom of God, the behemoth running in the sea of ​​sand and dust clouds is slowly passing by the ever-collapsing border area of ​​God of War God Kingdom. It has passed the closest point to the Kingdom of God. Just like when it came, it is in the sea of ​​clouds. A silent air wave rolled up in the air, and began to slowly move away.

"...The cost of this thing is very high, but Ms. Windsor will understand my contingency—we don't have time to think about it," Kamel said, already reaching out to the explorer puppet, invisible magic power Holding up the mechanical device, he turned into evocation hands and raised it into the air, "I hope it can complete the task safely—otherwise I can only deduct it from my salary..."

He raised his arm, and the evocation hand was about to throw the puppet out, but at this moment, Mirmina's voice suddenly came from the side: "Wait a minute."

"Ma'am?" Kamel stopped, "Ma'am, we need to figure out what that thing is, the puppet is for this kind of occasion..."

Mirmina snapped her fingers without waiting for Kamel to finish speaking, and another stronger magic power instantly formed in midair, dispelling the evocation hand shaped by Kamel, and took over the chubby explorer The puppet: "I know, I mean let me come - in such a place where the spellcasting environment is harsh, I should be more 'throwing' than you."

As she spoke, she raised her finger, and the explorer puppet caught in mid-air by the evocation hand finally reacted, another series of gurgling sounds came out from its body, and then the long mechanical joints quickly gathered Under the stomach, the whole body turned into a round mechanical sphere, leaving only a general-purpose detection arm stretched out in the air, and waved twice in the direction of Mirmina to show that he was ready.

Then Milmina stretched out her hand and pointed towards the distance, and the evocation hand formed by invisible magic suddenly swung across the air.

The explorer puppet shrunk into a mechanical ball state instantly passed through the invisible boundary of the kingdom of God, flew over the turbulent invisible sea of ​​clouds, and flew towards the "steel land" that was slowly moving away in the distance.

Kamel watched this scene nervously, but what he was worried about did not happen—there were no missiles or high-energy light beams for interception flying from the surface of the "steel land", and no guards appeared to destroy the intruders. Come.

The mechanical ball landed straight on the surface of the steel earth, and landed lightly under the buffer of the last magic power.

It swayed in place, and several long mechanical limbs extended from the bottom of the round brass shell, and then the self-discipline puppet crawled around in place, as if it was calibrating its orientation and automatically determining the next exploration plan , and then quickly ran to the depths of the steel land—and at the same time, the entire "steel land" was moving away from everyone's sight faster and faster. Space, while slowly sinking into the sea of ​​clouds.

"...I can feel that the puppet's signal is getting weaker and weaker," Mir Mina broke the silence and said, "In the deep sea environment, the orderly magic power signal decays quickly, and the next thing is to see the puppet itself It's up to me."

Kamel was silent for a moment, and couldn't help turning to Malm Dunit's spirit body: "You said that thing would appear and approach periodically, right?"

"Yes," Malm said with certainty, "although there is no sun or stars here, I have a way to calculate the time - that thing will 'float' and approach from the end of the chaos every two days, for nearly a year. , this rule has never been broken.”

"Very good," Mirmina on the side breathed a sigh of relief, "Then let's wait for it to appear again."

As she spoke, she looked down at Kamel who was floating beside her.

"Before then, we can start setting up your laboratory, Kamel."