Chapter 1504 Another One

The great adventurer has been in the world for hundreds of years, and countless miracles and magnificent scenes are like a passing cloud. He has witnessed the raging fire burning deep in the earth's crust, and he has also witnessed meteorite rain falling into the plain. He once talked freely with those powerful masters in the field of elements—and in such a long and magnificent life, he often talked about four sentences, which were widely known in the future.

These four sentences are - this thing is shining! This thing is smoking! What is this stuff? What the fuck is this? !

After hearing the old man's exclamation, Maggie broke into a cold sweat on the spot, and even felt that the scales on her back were about to pop out. She rushed to Modil's side in two steps, and the next second saw the huge The surface of hundreds of hexagonal stone pillars in the stone pile is really showing layers of brilliance—just like thousands of fireflies suddenly emerging from the night, or like there are surging pulses in the stones, and the brilliance of the stars is shining on the surface of the stone pillars. Flowing, under the dim light of the evening sky, the entire stone pile was instantly covered by a layer of dreamlike shimmer!

"Don't panic, don't panic, it doesn't seem to be dangerous." Hearing the sound of weapons colliding behind him, Modir hurriedly waved his hands, and then said quickly while putting shields on himself and his teammates, "I can sense it The energy flow of it... No lethal spells and traps are activated, this is just the process of waking it up from a deep sleep..."

"Are you sure?" Maggie asked in a low voice while holding two long swords tightly in both hands, maintaining her vigilance. Fine dragon scales appeared on her cheeks and near her wrists, and her eyes gradually revealed a dark golden brilliance. Mars burst out from the corner of her mouth from time to time, which is her highest alert performance in human form, "Such a large-scale 'relic'...is there no danger?"

She didn't even have the nerve to mention the ten layers of magic armor that the other party shot just now—after all, it's a habit for the old man to shoot magic armor. The protective spells he adds to himself every day are enough for an ordinary adventurer team to survive in the wilderness for half a year. .

"The flow of magic is not deceiving, I don't perceive any dangerous magic spells." Modir muttered casually, and almost at the same time as his words fell, the change of the stone pile also reached a certain critical point— ——The stream of light that kept gushing out instantly calmed down, and then converged inward a little bit, and the surface of the originally dark and simple stone pile was now covered with mysterious and shining runes and connecting lines. Immediately afterwards, everyone at the scene heard this There was a humming sound from the stone pile.

Scenes of huge holographic projections suddenly appeared in front of the stone pile, before everyone's eyes.

It is a brilliant image of the city, a city with a distinctive style shining in the sun; there are also busy markets, bustling pedestrians walking through the market; there are also huge sculptures on the street, lively children and jugglers on the side of the road ; Workshops powered by magic, theaters echoing with melodious melodies, flower fields blooming on the edge of the city, and landscape fountains dancing in magical illusions...

Scene after scene of holographic projections condensed in front of this huge stone pile. The clear magical illusion seemed to vividly reproduce some things that had become history. Maggie looked at these illusions that filled the entire field of vision in astonishment, and then suddenly heard A calm and slightly mechanized female voice came from the direction of the stone pile: "Welcome to Lenghai City, this is the last city connecting the 'Frontier' in Violet Inland.

"Lenghai City is located in the southeast region of the Violet Kingdom, between Palansanto and Prandel, it is known as the 'bridge of gold' between the inland and the border, with prosperous commerce and magic workshops all over the city It is the greatest pride of the citizens of Lenghai... The city council hall of Lenghai City is located in the north of the city center, and was designed by the outstanding architect Ms. Tor used to be the earliest trading-focused city in the Violet Kingdom, and even before Prince Nash Nart came to power, Lenghai City was..."

Amidst this melodious female voice, Maggie couldn't help raising her head, she saw Modil also looking at herself,

From the face of the old mage, she saw the same thoughtfulness and suddenness.

The holographic projection in front of the stone pile is still being presented, new pictures are constantly appearing, and new short films are constantly being projected from the top of a certain stone pillar—a city with countless memories, countless perspectives, and countless Things that are worthy of pride and narration, they flow in the streets and alleys, and are engraved between stones and steel, and what these magical illusions can record and display at this moment may not be one percent or one thousandth of these memories one.

But even so, after seeing the magical illusion in front of her eyes, Maggie still felt that she had understood what the "builder" of the stone pile wanted to convey.

I don't care if everything can be recorded, and I don't care whether there are latecomers who can understand and remember everything the stone pile tells, and I don't even care whether these narratives will be seen again—this huge stone pile seems to have only one The purpose is to leave a mark in this world, a mark that proves "we did exist".

Suddenly, Maggie recalled what her father had said to her when she was very young, when she was not so rebellious, and before she jumped off Longyue Cliff:

"... If one day, we are destined to disappear in this world, everything we care about, hate, and love will lose meaning in the next era... If there is such a day, and we are there When the day comes, there is still a little time to do something, so do we want to leave something in this world to prove our existence..."

She recalled that she never seemed to understand her father's inexplicable sigh during her entire childhood. She only vaguely remembered that her father went to the highest Dragon's Landing Fort on the mountain to accept the summoning of the Dragon Blood Grand Duke... Looking back now, Maggie suddenly understood something. She thought that maybe on that day, her father came into contact with the mission that Dragonborn once shouldered, and came into contact with the truth about Tarrond and the "Exiles"...

"The Violet Kingdom is just a dream to Ms. Ye, but it is a dangerous vision to us. To the whole world, it is just a kingdom that disappeared inexplicably, a primitive island returning to wildness..." She endured He couldn't stop whispering, and he didn't know who he was talking to, "But for the Violet people...it's not like that,"

Mordir next to her didn't make a sound. The old mage just looked up at the top of the stone pile. He didn't seem to have much emotion, but just fell into long-term thinking. What are you thinking?"

"I'm just thinking, it seems that for the Violet people themselves, the disappearance of the kingdom is not a very sudden thing," said the old mage thoughtfully, "although we outsiders feel that it was concentrated overnight. The fog engulfed it, but the passage of time in the dream itself was never referenced to the real world... You look at this huge stone pile, and then think about the other stone piles scattered throughout Violet Island, this seems to be a No small project."

Maggie nodded slowly while thinking, and then she was a little puzzled: "But in coastal cities like Plandel and Rattle, after the thick fog dissipated, there were no such piles of stones..."

"Maybe it's because they are too close to the 'border'," Modil said casually, "even the Violet people, who are the creations of Lady Night's dream, would probably have a hard time leaving such a 'monument' that crosses the boundary between dreams and reality." It's not a simple matter. The coastal area of ​​Violet Island is the weakest part of God's Dream, where the power of the real world dominates... In fact, I suspect that the Violet people left these stone piles with the acquiescence and even help of Ms. Ye , which can explain why the stone piles all appear inland where the dream power is powerful."

Maggie was thoughtful, and at this time the narration recorded in the stone pile gradually came to an end, and the magic phantoms projected in the air began to dissipate one by one, and the memory of this "monument" seemed to come to an end .

It recorded a little less than Maggie imagined.

Maggie breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to turn around and go back to the place where the team camped, but just as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard Modil's voice suddenly coming from the side: "Wait, there seems to be something else ...No, something has entered into the magic circle of the stone pile! Something is connecting in!"

Maggie stopped suddenly, turned her head to look at the last holographic projection left in front of the stone pile, and in the next second, she saw the magic phantom shaking a few times suddenly, and large pieces of interference lines were shaking Quickly reorganized into a clear picture, a beautiful lady appeared in the middle of the picture - she was extremely beautiful, with long brown curly hair hanging behind her head, wearing a luxurious white court dress, in the slightly flickering phantom boundary Against the background, this lady is like a classical court lady depicted in an oval photo frame, exuding a mysterious and elegant temperament.

After the beautiful lady in a long white dress appeared, she turned her eyes to Maggie and Modil who were on full alert, with a smile on her face: "Welcome, visitors from the 'outside', I really didn't expect The first contact signal will be the cold sea node... I hope that Violet's extremely limited hospitality conditions don't bother the guests too much."

"Who are you?" Maggie asked immediately, and at the same time stood calmly in front of Mordir—although this legendary adventurer is powerful, he is a spellcaster after all, and he still needs to be like this at critical moments. soldiers in front of the guard.

At the same time, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart - when she realized the truth of the Violet Kingdom before, she still thought that this huge country would be gone if it didn't exist, and there might be no one on the entire Violet Island, and only the primitive people were left. The forest and the uninhabited wasteland. As a result, not long after the in-depth exploration, unexpected "mysterious people" appeared one after another. First, a mysterious girl who claimed to be an officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau, but she did not even look like a human being. Crawling along the network cable again, like a ghostly lady...

This Violet Kingdom really deserves to be born from the dreamland of the ancient gods, it is very evil.

The mysterious lady who appeared in the magic phantom didn't seem to notice the tense atmosphere at the scene. She just kept a graceful smile and nodded slightly to Maggie: "You can call me 'Bernadette', let's say One of the last surviving 'administrators' of the land... Curator of the Great Library, Clerk of the Archives, Master Spirit of the Dark Court, Assistant to Prince Nash Nart... I have many identity, but here, you just think of me as a demon that keeps running among the ancient ruins."

Listening to the series of names reported by the other party, especially the name "Prince Nash Nart", the expression on Maggie's face became serious for a moment, and Modil next to her grasped another important point: "Lord Spirit-controlling body... demon spirit, so, you are the magical intelligence created by the Violet people? Are you a tower spirit? After the Violet Kingdom disappears, you are still running?!"

"The kingdom has disappeared... Ah, indeed, from the perspective of the real world, the Violet Kingdom has indeed disappeared," the beautiful lady who called herself Bernadette smiled and shook her head slightly, "But even so, the kingdom that once lived in People in this kingdom always want to leave something behind before returning to their "hometown". Human beings are like this. The shorter their lives, the more they like to make their traces last forever... With the promise and help of the Lord of the Night, There are some Violets who choose to leave behind collective monuments, like the one you see before your eyes, and others, who choose to leave behind their proud creations..."

Having said that, Bernadette pointed to herself, with a somewhat complicated expression on her face: "I don't know if it's luck or misfortune, but I seem to be a creation that the Violet people are proud of..."

Maggie blinked, not knowing how to react for a moment, and Modil on the other side seemed to think of something after thinking for a while: "You just said that you are the last remaining administrator on this land." One', so there are other 'managers'? Is there a girl named 'Morning Star' among these managers? Or a group of people who call themselves MIA Shadow Affairs Section?"

"Morning Star?" Bernadette frowned, and then she turned her head to the side, as if an invisible person said something next to her, and then she showed a clear look on her face, " It seems that you have been in contact with 'them'... but I don't know much about them. This is a matter under the control of the master of the night, and I have nothing to do with them. The 'administrators' I mentioned just now There are others."

"So you know the existence of such a group of people," Maggie couldn't help but said immediately, "Who are they? Why did they appear here? What do they have with Ms. Ye..."

"As I said, I don't know much about them," Bernadette spread her hands helplessly, "The master of the night personally controls the matter, what is the magical intelligence created by me like a violet person?" What about permission to inquire?"

Seemingly noticing the doubt and disappointment on Maggie's face, Bernadette immediately added: "But I think you can relax a bit, the Lord of the Night won't have any bad intentions..."

"...It's really not convincing to say this sentence from a magical intelligence created by a violet man," Maggie sighed, and she had already realized that the friendly-looking "manager" in front of her didn't seem to have anything to say. In line with the meaning of asking questions and answering questions, "Then please explain the purpose of your visit. You suddenly came to us... What's the matter?"

"It's nothing serious," Bernadette smiled, "I just want to invite you to visit the City of Thousand Towers—this happens to be the ultimate goal of your exploration, isn't it?"