Chapter 4 Once and Now
"You are too slow, why are Ying and Rin coming first before you?"
The Imperial Royal Spell Society, the president's office, Nostradamus's dissatisfied voice echoed in the room.
"I just comforted a child who was a little scared, but I didn't expect some unexpected gains."
After walking out of the time and space gate, Joshua was not concerned about the old mage's questioning. There was still a long time before the set time, so he should have set out early. With Nostradamus here, they didn't need to care about the distance of space at all, and could go to the surroundings of the void distortion point at any time.
As for the actions of No. 3 before, except for the words of emotion, the warriors had no other unnecessary thoughts. After all, no matter what the situation was, it was too early.
Although this world has escaped the future of destruction, it still has countless crises. The abyss demons, the earth and monsters, the unknown ancient dragons, the evil gods returning from the other end of the multiverse, and the darkness lurking among the stars. Everything is far from being able to relax. What's more, Joshua has to follow the footsteps of the sages to understand the lost truth of ancient times, stand in the multiverse, and fight against the powerful people in countless worlds. In order to achieve these goals, he is far from being able to stop.
"This new pet you have is really strange."
Having been used to the occasional irrelevant answer of Joshua, Nostradamus shrugged. He turned to look at the light ball that was full of interest and seemed to want to squirt water, so he let go. The old mage said with some regret: "A such a spiritual elemental creature can be said to be the best magic pet for the mage. It is a waste to give you this warrior."
A good magic pet can help mages share the burden of magic power, accelerate the composition of large-scale magic, and even work part-time on the mobile energy library. In short, it has many functions and can help a mage improve his own strength to a higher level. Light, as an approximate elemental life, is actually a higher-level existence. In the view of Nostradamus, it is indeed a perfect magic pet model.
"Don't you?" Joshua asked strangely. After all, as a legendary wizard, Nostradamus had an entire empire as his backing. Not to mention a demon pet, as long as he thought, it would not be difficult to capture an elder of the Element. But after asking, he seemed to recall something, so he shook his head and closed his mouth.
Of course, it's not that there is no, but the other party's former partner had already died due to overload of magic power during the orc invasion war. Since then, Nostradamus has never received a magic pet again.
"Waste is not a bad thing, at least you don't have to go to the battlefield... But what are you doing with it this time? You don't know how to spell it."
After skipping this question, Nostradamus watched the light ball flying in his office, and finally landed slowly on the top of Firefly's head. The legendary wizard sat on his chair and said in confusion: "It may not be difficult to explore the distortion points of space-time, but it is not as easy as taking a pet to visit."
"Light is not an ordinary ball... creature." Joshua did not intend to tell others about the true identity of Light. He has not fully confirmed the matter of Blood Moon Abyss and has not reached the bottom that can be exposed, so he explained from the side: "I brought it here to verify a guess, not a temporary idea."
Joshua did not lie about this explanation. Firefly and Rin are his weapons. This time, exploring the distortion points of space-time is much more important than the last time I went to the abyss to find someone, so I must call it. The body of light is a suspected existence of the initial fire and the prototype of the world's will. Take it to the ancient sacrificial ground connecting all worlds. Maybe it has any special uses, and if it really doesn't work, he can also plug the light back to its original body at any time through the resonance of the power of steel, and there will be no danger.
"Since that's the case, then just be at will."
Seeing that Joshua had his own considerations, Nostradamus stopped talking. He stood up from his seat and said, "This time he explored the Void Distortion Point, there were four major forces, five legendary powerful men pressing the formation, namely you and me who represent the empire, Barbarossa who represents the sky white tower, the sage Faina of the Eastern Plain Coastal City-Confederacy Alliance, and the fishman high priest Godard. Because the Fairy Country is the closest half plane to the target, we have reached an agreement with the Fairy Queens to start exploring with the Fairy Country as the garrison."
In fact, this information was informed to Qiao Xiuya through other channels not long ago, but the legendary wizard still repeated it in person: "Through calculation analysis and the temptation of prophetic spells, we can confirm that this exploration will not be too difficult, so everything follows the traditions of the past few hundred years, allowing various forces to send elite teams into it to explore, and the legend only needs to press the formation."
"Are these the only ones?"
Unlike Nostradamus, Joshua, who knew what the ruins behind the distortion point were, was a little surprised. However, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this was normal. All forces in the southern part of the Mycrov continent, such as the Seven Gods Church, the Elf King Court or the Far South Kingdom, had a lot of things to be busy with. Whether it was post-disaster reconstruction, purifying polluted land or planting the world trees, they would not be distracted. Although the void distortion point was important, it was far inferior to these, so these forces could at most send some envoys to watch the record and would not send elites to participate.
Not to mention Xishan, they were originally a scattered warlock family and a kingdom ruled by extraordinary people. The strong are basically the kings of a country. They are basically impossible to abandon their territory for such things. What's more, the underground world races have recently begun to formally establish diplomatic relations with the outside world, and their energy has been completely bet on this aspect.
"Enough, five legends are under the formation. This is a line of defense that may not be able to be broken even if the entire abyss is full of nests. If it weren't for this ancient distortion point, it was very likely that it would have the precious technology and heritage of the Guangya Era. In addition, it can be stable for thousands of years, how could we gather such a powerful exploration team?"
Standing in the center of his office, Nostradamus raised his head and looked towards the sky with a serious expression: "Go away early and prepare early, it's time to set off."
Joshua naturally would not refuse, so the next second, accompanied by the fluctuations of time and space that were far stronger than before and the faint blue magic light that overflowed outside the window, everyone in the room passed through the gaps in time and space under the power of the legendary mage and headed to the other end of the distant void.
At about the same time, in the eastern seas of the mainland, inside a towering rock tower that seemed to grow directly from the continental shelf, a bald old man dressed in simple clothes and holding a pipe in his hand stood on the platform of his wizard tower teleportation array plate, and glanced at the twelve silent elite mages in the array plate with a scrutiny look. There were no pupils or whites in his eyes, only a burning light. Barbarossa, the controller of the element, was not a talkative person. He was used to plotting and then acting, and replaced his language with steadily actions. His apprenticeship and disciples were naturally influenced by his teacher and had similar personality traits.
"The action begins." He said briefly.
So the teleportation light lit up.
I noticed the actions of my old acquaintance and the old opponent. The most prosperous port city in the eastern waters of the Mycrov continent, the place where the Sea Dragon Knights were stationed. In a simple hut on an island around the Sea Dragon City, a woman with simple eyes dressed in a simple dressed woman with her ivory white waist-length hair, and her face was calm and activated a magic array that could make time and space turbulent. In the distant sea, in the distant waters, the center of the new gathering place of the fishman clan, the same fluctuations tear the constraints of the space and send the huge black fishman and its elites to the already booked area.
Outside the Mycrov world, in the chaotic astral void, there are thousands of bright light balls attached to the world's light film. They are large or small, and the big ones seem to be close to the moon, while the small ones are only a few meters in radius. This is the external image revealed by the semi-plane attached to the main world in the void. Among these thousands of light balls, there is a dark twisted space-time extremely conspicuous. It slowly rotates around the world, and now it just happens to be around a huge light ball.
Taking the Shenji brothers and brothers and light balls, Joshua and Nostradamus passed through the space-time channel and came to the fairy country. The transmission process across the semi-plane and the world was quite long and complicated, and it was also necessary to pass the review of the fairy queens. Fortunately, there was no mistake in the process. The group successfully arrived at the edge of the fairy country, facing the dark twisted space-time.
"There are still many people."
Looking at the surrounding stations, Joshua felt quite surprised, because at the edge of this fairy country, there were four simple camps far apart, each with more than twenty logistics personnel preparing supplies, as if they wanted to build this place into a temporary base. In the camp where he and Nostradamus arrived, there were fifteen professionals who looked extremely elite. They were wearing the same style of armor and robes, and they should be members of the same team, including mages, priests, warriors, archers, alchemists and thieves. They can be said to be a standard team of adventurers.
Before he could continue to look at the surrounding environment, three continuous time and space fluctuations were transmitted from the other three camps. Joshua could feel that at this moment, three powerful beings were passing through from the other end of time and space. Among them were elemental aggregates flashing with rainbow light, and rapidly assimilating with the surrounding fairy countryside. In just a short moment, they completely united themselves with heaven and earth, and also had dark abyss that seemed to be unpredictable.
The elemental controller Barbarossa, the sea sage Faina, the fishman high priest Godard, and the three legendary powerful men, led their most elite teams to the edge of time and space in this fairy country at the same time.
Joshua observed the other party with interest, while others also observed him. The bald old man narrowed his eyes slightly. He saw a towering volcano, spewing with golden red steel, and the woman with closed eyes raised her eyebrows. What she sensed was a piece of solid and self-centered steel. The changes in the surrounding world seemed to have nothing to do with it. The tall black fishman sorted out the sacrificial ornaments on his neck formed by skulls and gems. What it saw was the most solid and pure vitality. It boiled like a flame, releasing the high temperature that people wanted to stay away from.
And after this brief observation of each other, the brief communication began.
"Then, humans, as agreed."
In the distance, an obscure spiritual fluctuation came from the fishman camp: "First act separately, send teams to explore in advance, share with each other after a certain amount of information, and then summarize and speculate."
This is the action plan that the four major forces had discussed before this: the space-time distortion point is a twisted space-time. According to the legendary powerhouse, it should be an artificial semi-plane like the fairyland. It is just because of some accidents that it did not depend on the world of Mycrov, but moved around the outer membrane of the world in the astral void. Because of this, all the powerful legendary powerhouses cannot enter it rashly, because if their powerful powers are not convergent to fight against the power of this semi-plane, it is likely to cause extremely serious consequences, including but not only the possibility of the entire semi-plane being destroyed.
Therefore, before Joshua and others took action, the major forces would let the elite professionals they selected enter first, collect information about various parameters of the semi-plane, so that the legends can fine-tune their own power essence and not cause conflict with this semi-plane. Just like a warrior who went to the world of Grandia back then, it took time to adapt to the local steel power. It was the same truth.
The separate action is to avoid conflict. After all, the three major forces in the eastern plains have serious conflicts. If one party discovers any important remains or materials in it, then they will undoubtedly attack each other and develop into a head-on battle. In this way, it will not only deepen the conflict, but also make the exploration futile. Only when encountering special and serious situations will everyone join forces to resolve it.
Nostradamus seems to be very familiar with this series of processes. He has participated in or even hosted many similar joint operations in the past few decades, but it is probably the first time for him to get between legendary powerhouses. Joshua also thinks it is very novel, but this novelty mainly comes from perspective.
"The restricted level dungeon, the low-level elite exploration team drawn, mainly serves as background boards, and the strong ones who will only take action at critical moments."
He murmured to himself, even laughing, which attracted the Fate and Rin to look around, and Nostradamus turned his head in confusion. Joshua did not care about other people's gazes, but looked at the twisted space slowly moving in the void: "It's so familiar, but the identity has changed."
He used to be a part of the exploration, but now he is a member of the stable situation.
Chapter completed!