Act 136 Darkness Falls

Charles climbed up the steps of the lighthouse. When he looked up, he saw Brando and three ladies chatting by the railing on the sea side of the lighthouse. Miss Roman was snickering, and Faina's eyebrows were shrouded in confusion. There was a layer of gloom, looking a little preoccupied. Nimesis was dressed in military uniform, leaning on the railing with her back to the sea, looking at the scenery on the sea. Her long black hair was blowing lightly in the sea breeze. In the distance, the sea and sky were the same color, and the floating clouds were like white mountains undulating in the sky. . . ybdu.

Others have long been accustomed to the female knight's taciturn and meticulous character, but they didn't see the shadow of the little princess Sifah who likes to join in the fun. It seems that she dragged the elf to go shopping in the port. The two little ladies are now They have become best friends who talk about everything. Of course, they actually do have a common topic and hobby - their ability to cause trouble.

"Lord Lord."

Brando wore a black knight's windbreaker, with the Earth Sword hanging diagonally around his waist. The black rhinoceros leather-inlaid silver scabbard almost pointed to the ground. When he turned around, he noticed that his wizard attendant had arrived. He smiled slightly and waved. He said, "You're here just in time. What do you think of the scenery here?"

Charles was slightly startled: "It seems that the lord likes the scenery here very much?"

Brando smiled and shook his head, stretched out his gloves and patted the ancient and mottled outer wall of the lighthouse and said, "Do you know the origin of this lighthouse?"

Charles subconsciously looked up at the lighthouse. This ancient lighthouse seemed to be old, but it looked like it was just an old-style lighthouse that could be seen everywhere in the sublime inland sea. I really didn’t know what else this lighthouse could be. Meaning.

"Port Fatan has a long history, but Lord, I have never been here, and I don't know what historical monuments there are here." He replied.

"Haha," Brando laughed and proudly extended his hand to the business lady beside him. The latter stuck out his tongue, reluctantly put a gold coin in his hand, lamented and complained: "Char, you are really useless."

"This lighthouse is the famous Tumen Lighthouse," Brando pointed towards the port area: "Fatan was built in the year of the return of glory. The founder of the port was the famous Cruz scholar Fatan Freeman. , the latter is a descendant of Tumen, and a rare inheritor of the respected Miner bloodline in the mortal world. However, it is a pity that this family could not escape the judgment of time in the end, and eventually disappeared in the long river of history. This This lighthouse was built to commemorate them. Tumen was ultimately the bearer of the fire of civilization, the wise man who gave the light of enlightenment to the Black Iron people in the darkness. Unfortunately, few people can remember this history now. .”

He looked softly in the direction of the dock. He had passed through this place when he left Eruin for Faenzan in his previous life. He remembered that there was an emblem of Fatan Port on the door of this lighthouse, although it was a few years earlier than that. Ten years have passed, but the emblem on the door remains the same.

It's just a lot newer; this feeling is very strange. The port has not changed much in the two lives before and after. He can even find out every detail about decades later, and the memories of the past are integrated into these details. It gave rise to a strange emotion in my heart.

Charles watched dumbfounded as his lord bet on himself, but Brando's words also aroused curiosity in his heart. He looked up at this lighthouse - this ordinary lighthouse and other areas of the sublime inland sea. The lighthouse is no different - it stands between two promontories. Looking at the blue sea and sky outside Fatan Port that have remained unchanged for thousands of years, I feel like a lonely old man. After experiencing wind and rain, he watched the passage of time silently and wisely, leaving only the mottled algae green and white paint on his body.

History has formed a huge coincidence, completing a cycle here. It has witnessed the decline of the last Miner bloodline, and now it is about to watch them return to the world.

"It turns out that this lighthouse has such an origin."

"It's actually not the original one." Faina suddenly raised her eyelids and replied lightly with a little pride: "The earliest Tumen Lighthouse was destroyed in a fire in 114, and was rebuilt later. , the rebuilt lighthouse was damaged during the July War, and what you see has been renovated for the second time.”

Brando looked back at her. A worried light flashed through the dark brown eyes. Although Faina looked much better today after a night's rest, and the daughter of the rich daughter who changed into a dress and long skirt and looked radiant again seemed to have really recovered. The pride of the eldest daughter of Duke Huaye, but he knew in his heart that perhaps only through personal experience could he understand what the past month meant to her. It was obvious that the shadow was not so easily erased from the mind.

The Duke's daughter in the Ring of the Trade Winds, who knew no worldly sorrows, can no longer be seen.

"Miss Faina——"

"You want to comfort me again," Faina suddenly turned around and stared at him, her beautiful brows furrowed deeply: "I don't want to quarrel with you, country bumpkin, I'm not as fragile as you think."

"Also," she corrected her seriously: "Call me Faina."

Brando stared at the eldest lady and frowned, thinking that this pretended toughness was not essentially different from the time in the Ring of Trade Winds, it just looked silly and cute.

Seeing this scene, Charles secretly laughed in his heart, but he did not forget that he still had business to attend to, and quickly reported: "Lord, the torture over there is almost complete."

"oh?"

Brando frowned slightly, and then he came back to his senses and realized what news his wizard attendant had brought. In fact, it was not difficult for him to pry open Rodney's mouth, but the key issue was- ―How many secrets does this guy hold of Her Majesty the Queen? "What did he say?" he asked.

Charles hurriedly replied: "As you might expect, the main purpose of Rodney's trip is for Miss Faina. The Silver Queen hopes to use Miss Faina, Duke Helix and his son as hostages. Force Miss Faina’s sister to submit, in order to achieve the goal of controlling the Grand Duchy of Flower Leaf.”

"My sister is as smart as ice and snow. She will never be influenced by that vicious woman!" Faina coldly interjected. She clenched her fists and trembled with anger. Brando patted her thin shoulder lightly. Asked: "Besides, where did the Min'er people around the Silver Queen come from, and what exactly is she planning to do? In addition to the Min'er people, does she also have those secret powers at hand?"

"Well," Charles shrugged, "Rodney doesn't know much about these, but Her Majesty the Queen seems to be particularly interested in the Alkash Mountains, and her purpose of going east is not just to make the military nobles in the northern part of the empire surrender. Another purpose is to open up the passage to the Alkhash Mountains.”

She still misses the final battlefield? Brando was startled for a moment, but he immediately saw the Duke's daughter next to him trembling slightly, and then he remembered that there were two main routes from East Metz to the Alkhash Mountains, one in Ludwig, and the other in Hua. Leaf collar.

"Well, what...why is the Queen so interested in that place?" The businesswoman blinked her dark brown eyes and suddenly asked curiously.

Regarding the question of the lord's fiancée, Charles did not dare to neglect and quickly replied: "There are many reasons. Maybe it is related to the secret on the battlefield of the final battle, or maybe it is just because Her Majesty the Queen particularly likes that place, not to mention the Alkash Mountains itself. The location is of great strategic significance, located in the central area connecting Faenzang, Sant Osor and Cruz, so it can be attacked and defended."

"As for the Min'er people rumored outside, I definitely don't believe they came back from the great glacier like the rumors say."

"Lord, I asked you clearly. The Min'er people around the Silver Queen are mainly the descendants of the witch. She mobilized the mountain people."

"Mountain people?"

"To be precise, it's a branch of the mountain people. The Seniya branch..."

"Werewolf." Brando took a breath of cold air. The mountain people have lived in the mountains of Wallach south of the Flowery Leaf Territory for a long time. But in fact, that was something before the last era. For various reasons, the mountain people left their hometown. The branches and leaves are scattered, like Akane, a mountain dweller born in Eruin. The mountain people themselves have an inexplicable relationship with the Min'er people, which is why they are generally discriminated against in this world. There are several bloodlines left by the Min'er people among the mountain people. The Senians are one of them. Now, the Senians, like other mountain people, have long abandoned their homeland and settled in an unknown branch of the Broken Sword Mountains in the south of Cloak Bay, which itself is the territory of the Silver Queen. With her sphere of influence, it is really possible for her to find these remnants of the previous era.

"Lord, there is also this, which was collected from those knights. If I remember correctly..."

Charles stretched out his hand and spread his palm, with a piece of rock lying flat in his palm. Then he raised his head and looked at Brando with a strange look.

Brando had already narrowed his eyes.

This thing——

Lying flat in the palm of the young wizard's attendant's hand is a gray, flat stone piece like a chisel, but there is no trace of artificial carving on its surface, as if it were a fragment naturally peeled off from a huge rock. This was not the first time he had seen fragments. This is the gray fragment. The first time something similar was found, it was among the relics of Antitina's father; the second time, it was among the funerary objects in Trishman's tomb; and the third time, It is the relic of Crystal Elk during his lifetime.

"Hey, this is..." Roman also opened his mouth and let out a soft exclamation.

"Is this the fourth one?"

"This is the fourth one."

"What exactly is this, Lord?"

"It's not clear yet, but..." Brando frowned slightly. When there were more than three gray fragments, when he put them together, they would have obvious resonance and form something similar to a map. , this time, there should be the same reaction. He expressed his intention to Charles, who understood it and gently moved it forward. The stone fragment seemed to be pulled by some invisible force and stood upright in his hand. It exuded a faint blue light. Slowly floated towards Brando.

Brando immediately felt that the other three fragments on his body were restless, although they were still in the dimensional hole.

Then the space resonates.

Nymesis, who was leaning on the railing, seemed to feel something. She turned around and saw at a glance that the space between Brando and Charles was darkening slightly, as if it was collapsing inward under a huge traction force. Can't help but be slightly startled: "Is this...?"

"Lord!" Ciel's expression suddenly changed and he shouted quickly.

"This is……"

Just like a drop of water falling on the calm water, at that moment, Brando felt the existence of the sea of ​​magic.

The sky darkened in an instant. Over the entire lofty inland sea, the entire sky from west to east was rapidly dimming. The clouds seemed to be driven by an invisible force and gathered from all directions. Lightning flashed across the clouds, and roaring thunder rolled in from the sky. For a time, a new storm seemed to form on the new sea, and the resonance of the space became more and more obvious. Even the ground shook, and small stones and gravel danced wildly. A shocking crack opened in the white wall of the lighthouse. Faina screamed and held on to the railing.

"It's dark, Brando!" Roman glanced at the sky with some fear. A huge vortex was forming over Fatan, as if a terrifying eye opened in the thick clouds.

The cold sweat slipped down immediately, and Brando felt that his forehead was covered with sweat. "Take it back!" He roared.

Without thinking, Ciel grabbed the gray stone piece suspended in mid-air. Strange to say, the moment he grabbed the gray stone, all the scenes suddenly calmed down: the clouds no longer gathered, the lightning disappeared, the thunder gradually faded away, and the vibrations in the space stopped instantly. The sun once again radiated its many-faceted brilliance in the sky, and the sea no longer roared with fierce winds. Everything that happened before seemed like a terrible illusion.

But the huge crack in the lighthouse proved that what happened a moment ago was real.

It just comes and leaves again.

There was a commotion in the direction of the pier. From time to time, shouts came from over there: Was there an earthquake? Was there an earthquake? But these sounds were soon drowned out by the cries.

Brando, Charles, Faina, Nymesis, and Roman stood by the lighthouse, keeping their previous movements motionless, like puppets. Everyone was stunned for a while. Brando was the first to come back to his senses and asked dryly: "Before... what was that?"

Everyone looked at each other.

"Lord Lord."

"You don't have to say it," Brando interrupted his wizard attendant with a dry mouth: "I feel it."

"That's..." But Xiaer was a little frightened.

"It's the tide on the sea of ​​magic..." Brando recalled the terrible feeling of coming before, and replied word by word: "No..."

"It's dusk." The female knight's cold voice sounded at the right time, and Brando was slightly startled. Looking back at her, the latter's face was also a little pale, but at least she could remain calm. She hesitated for a moment before answering firmly: "It's the Dragon of Twilight. At least for a moment just now, I felt that it came from this A peek from outside the world. But it is definitely not the devil. I have a hunch in my heart that it is there——"

Brando was silent. In fact, he also felt that terrible sense of depression, which he had never felt even in the game before.

"Did this thing summon it?" Charles carefully glanced at the gray stone in his hand, sweating profusely, as if he was holding something terrible: "What the hell is this?"

"I think...probably not." Brando frowned. He vaguely recalled the feeling of being spied on before. The huge power seemed to instantly penetrate the gap between the Sea of ​​Magic and Warnd. The barrier descended over Fatan Port. However, this passage was not opened by the resonance of these gray fragments in their hands. It was not so much a summons as it was -

A kind of forced arrival.

…

Outskirts of Nazère -

A pair of golden eyes like burning flames slowly opened in the darkness. The owner of these eyes hidden under the branches and leaves suddenly sat up from the bush, making a rustling sound. This was the third day after leaving the imperial capital. Sidney subconsciously touched her chest. This action affected the wound, and she couldn't help but frown. The statue of the Saint in the Lion Palace was no longer as elegant and elegant as usual. Calmly, her face was covered with dust mixed with blood, but fortunately, at least the thing was still there, hidden under the thick clothes, which made her feel a little more at ease.

She subconsciously raised her head and looked doubtfully in the direction of the coastal area east of Metz.

Why did the magic sea suddenly become turbulent?

What resonates with this thing?

A twinge of doubt crossed her mind.

...(To be continued...)

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