Chapter 1185： trace

Successfully killed the powerful elemental creatures, closed the space gap connecting the elemental domain, and solved the crisis facing the team-at least it seems to be a crisis-the old mage Modil seemed quite excited. The powerful spellcaster with dozens of legendary magic shots out, and each of them was nearly as powerful as a naval gun, clutching the swordsman's hand who didn't react much from start to finish, happy like a child.

It took a long time for the swordsman to finally confirm that the old mage in front of him had not joked with him, and the praise in his words was not meant to ridicule him.

This old man is serious...he turned out to be serious...

"I..." The swordsman was clutching his hands tightly by the old man, subconsciously trying to break away from the opponent, but his arm was full, but he didn't twitch. "I didn't help much at all just now... it was you who eliminated that terrible opponent..."

The swordsman blushed as he talked about it, recalling his "fighting" just now, this sturdy man didn't even know how to speak down for a while-it seemed that apart from being pushed out in a daze, he was in a daze The biggest feat of his audience was being blown into the air by the shock wave, which added a bit of fun and appreciation to the whole battle. If time can go back, his only hope is that he can land on both feet when he falls...this How do you say it?

The old mage Modil was completely unaware of the awkwardness of the swordsman. He continued to hold the opponent's hand cheerfully, and said modestly: "You are too humble, young man, this is not in line with the spirit you should have. ——We all know how much the mage in the battle needs protection. If you weren't standing in the front, I wouldn't be able to perform so well..."

Lola's expression on the side was dumb. At this time, she didn't even have the motivation to roll her eyes. She just couldn't help muttering in her heart-does this terrible old man really need "protection"? In the whole battle just now, anyone who can breathe more needs protection than him! Even the flame giant who can't breathe seems pitiful, weak and helpless...

But she didn't dare to say this on the spot, she could only say carefully after considering the vocabulary for a long time: "Mr. Modil... I didn't expect you to be so powerful. A powerful spellcaster like you, before. It's so low-key..."

While talking, the young huntress tried to guess from the series of terrifying spells just now what level the strange magician is. She thinks the other party is at least high-level...maybe even a legend, but Her identity and strength are not that high. She has never seen what a true legend looks like in her life. She hasn't even touched a high-level power a few times. In her eyes, Modil's strength is like an abyss that cannot be judged. The level cannot be measured.

So in the end, the biggest thought in her mind was just awe.

"Really?" Modil was taken aback after hearing what Laura said, and then he happily stroked his chin (and finally let go of the swordsman's hand by the way), "I am not low-key. Thoughts, I just do what I like to do..."

"A powerful person is qualified to choose which way to go," the druid in the team couldn't help but sigh, and then smiled on his face, "Anyway, a powerful spellcaster like you is in ours. In between, this is everyone’s greatest fortune. If you are still willing to continue activities in the adventurer camp, then our safety in Tarrond will have the greatest guarantee..."

The Druid said everyone’s heart. Even Laura, who was a little confused, couldn’t help but secretly agree after hearing this. However, Modil seemed to have some vague and trivial memories evoked by these words, old The mage frowned, a trace of confusion appeared in his eyes, and he whispered to himself softly: "You can't say that...you can't say that...you can't be blindly confident because of your own strength...you will encounter situations that you can't beat. Sometimes I just can't beat..."

"Modier... sir?" Lola noticed that Modil's condition was not right, and immediately stepped forward cautiously and asked in a low voice, "Do you think of anything again? Are you okay?"

"Me? Oh, I'm okay, okay," Modil Ji Ling woke up from the trance, he blinked vigorously, then smiled at Laura with a trace of gratitude, "Sorry, I just fell into that trance again. I’m in a good condition, thanks to you calling me out. I’m fine, but some past experience and lessons have emerged vaguely just now. I seem to have suffered a lot from believing in my own strength, and I have been defeated a lot by difficult enemies. Second... It's a pity that I can't remember the specific details."

"Even a powerful spellcaster like you will encounter an invincible enemy?" Lola's eyes widened in astonishment, "and have been defeated... many times?"

Modil shook his head slightly. Although his memory was chaotic, the experience accumulated in his long life has been deeply imprinted in his mind: "There are all kinds of powerful forces in this world. A strong man far better than me. Once the warships and chariots that rely on magical forces are assembled, they cannot be matched by any traditional strong man. Not to mention the strange beings living in different dimensions, and us. The gods above... Always remain humble and cautious is the essence of long-term survival. The great pioneer Gawain Cecil once warned future generations: Blind self-confidence is the first ladder to destruction, this is me One of the most respected mottos in this life."

Laura showed a thoughtful expression. Although she has been with Modil for a while, after seeing the real strength of the old mage today, and hearing the other's humble introspective words, she couldn't help but produce a lot. New emotion.

Modil's attention quickly shifted to other places. The old man who was keen on adventure and discovery raised his head and his eyes fell on the explosion pit that was still rising with amazing heat and filled with various waste energy not far away. , Joy soon appeared on his face: "Ah, we still have something we haven’t inspected yet, friends--I thought I accidentally destroyed all the spoils, but it seems that the element lord and the space rift are both destroyed after the destruction. Leave us something good, can you see how valuable these crystallization residues are?"

The attention of the adventurers finally fell back on their "jobs". Laura and her companions followed the reputation to the still hot land not far away. They saw countless explosion pits bombarded by powerful spells. And the wrinkled and curled rock formations, the fragments of the element lord’s remains are all over it, and between the unextinguished flames and the cloud-like waste energy, the fine crystals shimmer like gems at the bottom of the pit, stimulating adventure The sight of the readers.

...

In the large-scale dark tower of the New Agundor Civic Center, the leader Hragor and Speaker Andal sat at a long table and looked at each other. A dragon warrior who came to report on the situation stood in front of the two leaders. On the long table between them, there are some fine crystals in a box.

After a long time, Speaker Andal finally broke the silence. The old black dragon looked strange and his eyes fell on the soldier reporting the situation: "Are you sure? A legendary mage? In the adventurer camp?"

"Yes, it has been confirmed. Although we cannot conduct a direct'test' on that human mage for the time being, the battlefield processing team responsible for the aftermath can conclude that it is at least the full attack of the legendary mage," the dragon warrior responded seriously. "And even if it is placed in the legendary powerhouse, the strength of that wizard should belong to the upper level."

"This thing is too weird," Andal frowned, turned his head to look at Herragor, "A legendary powerhouse, and a mage with a very high status in the human world, how could he run into the adventurer camp... ...And I heard that he still signed up to board the ship at the port like other ordinary adventurers. Until today, he had done some work like others in the camp to help level the terrain and build the town shield... You have seen Is it such a thing?"

"Like you, I haven't had much contact with the civilized human race this season. My information comes from those'patrol records' collected on the Omega network," Herragor shook his head. "But anyway, this is true. It's not like the action mode that a normal legendary powerhouse would have...Could this be a certain kind of "hobby" of that mage?"

"If it's really a habit, it's possible to explain it how it really is-humans are an incredible group, and it's not unusual for individuals among them to do anything," Andal shook his head with a weird expression, "but the mage claims to be passionate. Yu Adventure signed up for this group of adventurers. I am always a little skeptical about this... Now Tarrond is open to the outside world to enter more than one way for adventurers. Spend more travel expenses as a visit and inspection trip. Isn't the scholar more comfortable than working in the adventurer camp?"

"If we have the opportunity, we should find a way to contact that human mage once to see what his purpose is," Herragor nodded. "A powerful spellcaster like him should logically not be silent in human society. , There should be his name in the old Mithril Treasury archives, but unfortunately our database is now completely destroyed, and most of the dragons don’t understand the affairs of the Loren continent..."

"Let’s observe for a few days. We have to be prepared before we come into contact with it. After all, it is a legend. According to the standards of the human race, he is a strong man who deserves to be respected. It's extremely valuable upper-level combat power," Andal pondered for a moment, and said slowly, "This matter can be put aside for the time being, now I care more about... these crystals."

His gaze fell on the small box on the table. In the metal box, the fine crystals glowed with a faint glow like some kind of gemstone. Even after they had been cooled for so long, they were placed in a magical restraint. In the metal container of the effect, the elemental power contained in it still escapes from time to time and is reflected in the perceptions of Andal and Herragor.

"This is the'trophies' sent from the adventurer management center, from the defeated elemental lord and the destroyed elemental rift," Andal said, "a very high-quality elemental nucleus, pure and stable, placed The old Tarrond can be considered a valuable industrial raw material... but this is not the point. The point is the magical aura remaining in these condensed nuclei. Can you feel it, Herragor?"

"Yes, it is very weak, but it does exist. It is a qualitative change caused by the erosion of magic power... Such a qualitative change should not occur in the pure elemental realm," Herragor nodded lightly, and his expression became serious. " And this is not the first time we have discovered this kind of trace...Three days ago, a combat team in the north brought back a small amount of condensate after closing the elemental rift that suddenly appeared, and there were similar signs of qualitative change in the condensate. "

"So this can't be the effect of the magic of the legendary mage," Andal said in a deep voice, and at the same time reached out from the container and took out an elemental nucleus the size of a fingernail. This dark red crystal is in His hands became active, and the surface began to rise with illusory flames and if there was no heat, but as the old speaker poured magic power into it, the restless power in the nucleus immediately calmed down, and after a few flashes, it became completely Turning the black stone, "The change is brought out from the other side of the rift, on the side of the elemental realm... Just like you said, there should not be this kind of magic erosion."

"Elemental realm..." Herragor said thoughtfully, "not only this kind of nucleus, the frequency of elemental fissures has actually increased recently..."

Andal didn’t speak for a while. He was meditating, thinking about what the magic traces remaining in these nuclei meant. It was not until half a minute later that he suddenly said: "Hragor, do you feel this kind of magic erosion? The breath in it is so a little... familiar?"

A serious look flashed in Herragor's eyes: "Sure enough, you can feel it. At first I thought it was just my own illusion. After all, it was too weak..."

"It's the deep blue well, the shallow tributary, and the kind peculiar to the second to sixth network lanes," Andal said slowly, "I... familiar with this kind of thing, you know, there is no one in Tarrond yet. Before the complete blockade, I was obsessed with tracking the flow of the Deep Blue Well in the depths of the planet for a long time, and observed the various layers of its network channels for centuries."

Herragor said in a low tone: "What do you think this means?"

"...I'm not sure," Andal shook his head. "The pulse of the Deep Blue Well runs through the entire planet, and even penetrates multiple realms from the present world to the shadow world to the shadow world, even the elements There is a projection of the Deep Blue Well on the borders of the world and the kingdom of God, and its scale is far beyond our imagination. The dragons once studied the Deep Blue Well, but until the final disobedience occurred 1.87 million years ago, we were unable to The network model of the Deep Blue Well was completely drawn...So I don't know what is in the deepest part of this huge magic current system, let alone its complete operation law.

"But I know one thing. Normally, the pulses of the Deep Blue Well flow in an orderly manner. As part of the original structure of this planet, it will never change its'path' casually, let alone happen suddenly. Leakage, leaving so many erosion marks in the elemental lord and elemental rift... at least for the past 1.87 million years, this has never changed."

"It's still changed," Herragor reminded on the side. "According to the information we recently got from the Theocracy Council, 700 years ago, a **** who sheltered the Loren continent detonated the Deep Blue Well. The'exit' of the current world is to resist the demonic tide, and the big bang has changed the way the Deep Blue Well flows in the current world-this should be regarded as the only change in the past more than one million years."

Andal nodded lightly, his gaze staying for a long time on the nuclei of the fine elements in the container.

"...Should it not explode again?"