Chapter 1252： Dark ripples

Perhaps due to the large-scale magical fluctuations in the activities affecting the atmosphere, the wind inside the magnificent wall seems to never stop. These turbulent winds flow arbitrarily on the weathered and corroded land regardless of seasons. Rolling up polluted sand and dust, rolling up fragments of past civilizations, encumbering them to wander around this dead land day after day, and in these never-ending winds, the Gondor wasteland is in several places. Almost nothing new happened in the century.

But now the situation has changed-the plan that has been brewing for several centuries has finally begun to be implemented, such as the gears of fate biting and turning, and a long-staying machine is quietly starting to operate out of the sight of human civilization.

It is gradually pushing this world into a destined future, but those mortals who are mediocre outside the magnificent wall do not even know the existence of this machine.

"Just like the **** of fate said---fate has begun to move forward," Ferna stared at the deformed giants who were busy around the ruins of the giant building, and whispered in a vague tone, "from here on, a small change , And then a series of small changes, and what is finally turned is the future of the entire planet... it is indescribable."

"Fate is indeed wonderful, but the so-called God of Destiny is just a sad existence who has persisted in front of the fleet for less than a few hours," Lerna said immediately, "Ah, as sad as all the creatures on this planet. "

A smile appeared on Ferna's face: "But now their sad life is finally about to produce value...my sister."

Lerna did not speak, but turned to the stairs next to the high platform. She saw a bunch of dry and twisted vines spreading from there, and then the front of the vines quickly merged in a strange and terrifying form and transformed into an old face. , Grand Master Borken's face appeared in front of the Gemini, and the yellow-brown eyes passed over them and directed at the deformed "laborers" excavated in the ruins.

"They've been digging here for two full days, are you sure they are in this place?" The strange face made of vines looked towards that side for a few seconds, then raised slightly, revealing a suspicious look, "Or say..."

"You have become more impatient recently, Grand Master," Ferna shook her head, and Lena next to her immediately followed, "Of course we are sure that it is in this place-the other is in the monitoring range of the Deep Blue Well. External network nodes that meet our requirements."

Borken was silent for two seconds, with a cautious tone: "...I can indeed feel the faint fluctuations of magic power in this area, as well as the flow of magic power remaining in the depths of the earth, but it is still far from the scale you described. ."

"Long time can change a lot of things. It's not a simple matter to rejuvenate those dusty old things," Lena said casually, and Ferna looked back and saw that it had been cleared. Most of the ruins of the collapsed structure, "This was once the largest'node city' in the northwestern region of the Gondor Empire. The magic power from the Deep Blue Well will be distributed here for the second time and supplied to countless towns and villages nearby. You The building I saw was the former magic control agency. When it was brilliant, thousands of magisters and apprentices were watching over here day and night...

"And this is the sadness and irony-they only know that this is a convenient magic focus. The energy from the Deep Blue Well can be easily controlled and converted here, but they have not been able to find this magic focus from start to finish. The deep connection with the Deep Blue Network...Even on the eve of their demise, they vaguely noticed the huge'planetary power system' behind the Deep Blue Well... They missed the opportunity to make civilization leap further, but they even missed anything. I don’t know, but I am complacent about my own crude development of civilization."

Lena turned her head, her gaze scanned the remains of the ancient city that had been shattered in time, the tall buildings and palace temples of the past, with a sneered expression on her face, her tone of contempt, and that contempt was even close to it. Yu Anger: "There is only a piece of paper separated from the truth, and only a small step away from success. They struggled for a lifetime, and then fell down at the last moment before reaching the end... always like this, and the cycle goes back and forth."

"Weak and incompetent," Ferna said lightly, "sad and sigh."

The vines moved slowly on the platform, and the sound of plants rubbing against cement was harsh and harsh. Borken’s yellow-brown pupils stared at the Gemini in front of him, and laughed hoarsely: “Ha, it’s really rare to be sweet from your hypocrisy. Hearing this kind of pungent and direct language in your lips and tongue is worthy of being an elf who has lived for a long time and witnessed the disobedience of the plan. Your evaluation of the world is a novel perspective... But I am curious, you say so much, just want to tell Am I going to fail the moment I succeed?"

"You?" Leerna glanced at the vine face in front of her, her mouth curled up, "Of course not, my grandmaster, how could your plan fail? That's not just your plan anymore... "

Borken snorted coldly, but did not care about the yin and yang weird way of speaking of the elven twins as usual-his body is actually still staying in the distant valley headquarters at the moment, dealing with all kinds of important affairs, this place is nothing but It was the "line of sight" he projected with the underground root network that extends in all directions to monitor the progress of the project at this node. Before obtaining substantial results here, he had no extra experience of entanglement with two elf sisters who had never spoken anything.

At this moment, a commotion suddenly came from the direction of the excavation site, attracting Borken's attention, and also attracted the attention of the elven twins on the platform.

They saw that the deformed giants successfully dismantled the last part of the dome fragment covering the ruins, and activated an ancient mechanism somewhere under the ruins according to the order. The seven-hundred-year-old ruins actually came from the depths of the ruins. There was a low sound, accompanied by a slight tremor of the earth, a little blue light diffused from the surface cracks near the ruins of the building, which strongly stimulated all the sights on the scene.

"...It's so beautiful," Ferna stared at the brightening brilliance, and a smile slowly appeared on her face, "Did you see it? Grand Master, this is the brilliance of pure magic...it's already here. Seven hundred years have been sleeping underneath."

Borken's eyes were staring at the light that was flowing out of the cracks in the ground. He suddenly reacted, and loudly reminded the twin elves who were still loitering: "What are you still doing?! This focus is losing control! Damn, the maintenance equipment here has burned down a long time ago, and the cracks you opened will melt this place-the ensuing big explosion can attract the entire iron man corps! Do something to stop this!"

"Calm down, Honorable Grand Master, we understand the Deep Blue Network, the energy balance collapses not so fast-on the contrary, yelling will affect your bearing and image." Lena laughed. , While talking unhurriedly and walking towards the edge of the platform with Ferna, they walked step by step towards the ruins that were already covered with blue crevices as if stepping on solid steps, and the deformed giants who were responsible for digging the ruins Still staying in place, without further orders, they ignored the flames flowing from the cracks in the ground, and stood still in place as if not even aware of the danger in this huge energy.

A beautiful stream of blue light finally flowed to the feet of the nearest deformed body. In the silent burning, the hideous and ugly giant quickly turned into a bright torch, and it turned into a bright torch in just ten seconds. A piece of floating dust.

Ferna turned her head and took a look. The dust floating in the air was mixed with dots of blue brilliance, and the light and dust reflected in her eyes. She shook her head, her tone of regret: "I can't help but burn. ."

While they were talking, they had already come to the top of the escaping light streams, and stood in the mid-air several meters high as if standing on the ground. The primitive magic that gushed from the depths of the ground had already begun to spread into pieces, large and small. Pure flames were surging in the cracks, and bright blue cracks were intertwined into a spider web-like form. Wherever the light went, the deformed giants responsible for digging the ruins burned one after another, while the surrounding ones The tree people backed away nervously. Borken's eyes were fixed on the elf sisters standing in the air. He knew that these two babbled guys must have arrangements, but he still couldn't help asking: "You plan to How to control this thing? Just rely on your magic?"

"Strictly speaking, this requires knowledge and wisdom," Ferna said lightly. She raised her left hand, and there were runes flowing in her fingertips. "The huge energy has the power to destroy the dead, but as long as it is appropriate Find the'node' at the right moment and in the right place, and then use a very slight external force to gently'push'..."

"It's like using a stone to stir the ripples of the entire pond," Lena followed, she raised her right hand, and matched Firna's spellcasting movements with incomparable precision, using clever techniques to change the depth of the earth. The magic of the place flows, "Everything will change."

Silent magic was immersed in the "dark blue spring" that was gushing upward from the ground. The blue cracks all over the earth dimmed in an instant, followed by a silence of just two or three seconds, and a glare of blue light beams. Suddenly rushed out of the surface, and accompanied by the faintly terrifying magical restlessness, the entire ruin area seemed to have received some kind of powerful attraction from the center, and began to collapse and compress from the surrounding to the center!

The tough boulders and rotten steel squeaked in the strong suction force. After a short resistance, they fell apart and fell into the depths of the blue light beam. The trees moving around the ruined area also They retreated in horror, trying to get as far as possible from the deadly gravitational vortex here, but in such a terrible scene, Sisters Ferna and Lena still stood expressionlessly in the air, staring indifferently in front of them. All the changes that have occurred.

The powerful attraction that collapsed inward seemed to them that it didn't exist.

The whole process lasted for ten minutes, and this terrible "collapse" finally came to an end. With the faint earthquake tremor, a certain "balance" seemed to be established at the center of the collapse-the original ruins of the building. It has completely disappeared, and even the ground with a large area has become a sunken pit. The blue light beam that rushes into the sky gradually shrinks and dims. The place that rises before the light beam is like a "hole". The structure abruptly floats in the center of the bottom of the pit.

The blue light stream is surging in the space somewhere inside the cave, and waves of pure magical power continue to escape from the cave. It is like a door embedded in the real world, appearing to be located in the depths of this planet. The spectacular side.

"Grand Master," Leylna walked slowly to the side of the big pit, smiling and looking at the stabilized "door door" at the bottom of the pit, "This is the new entrance to the network you want, please have a look."

"...You used a natural magical focus to'blow' out a gate leading to the dark blue net?" The vines stretched from the platform, and Borken's astonished face was between the withered, twisted, intertwined vines. Appearing, he stared at the door, and suddenly reacted, "Wait, it was so easy for you to open the door to the deep blue network?"

"Yes, it's not difficult for us." Lena and Ferna said in unison, casually.

Borken's voice was furious: "...but you let us spend half a month in this valley to build rune rings and network nodes, and almost exhausted the magic reserves we took out of the deep blue well!"

"Grand Master, calm down, what about your proud judgment?" Ferna smiled and looked at the angry face in the vine. "What we have opened is just a temporary door. It is just for you to bury the runestone, and it will close in a few hours-the gate in the valley is permanent. It is the foundation of our business and the control center of all nodes. It only costs half a month for it. Don’t you think it’s a good deal?"

Borken stared at the elf's face, and after a few seconds he said in a deep voice: "When you show this kind of smirk, I don't even want to believe a word you said."

Lerna laughed: "Don't do that, Grand Master, we will tell you how to open this temporary door. After all, we will need to open many rifts and bury more rune stones-we The two sisters don't have so much energy to open every door in person."

"Very well, I will seriously verify the'method' you brought, and this time I hope you will not have more concealment," Borken said in a deep voice, "Now hurry up and proceed to the next step-since this It's a temporary door, so we don't have much time to waste, put the rune stone in."

"Follow your orders—" Lena and Ferna bent slightly and said in a deliberately exaggerated tone. Then Lena straightened up and looked at a nearby tree man, "There is still movement. Distorted body? Go and bring the rune stone over, we are going to'unload'."

The tree-man shook the crown of the tree, and the twisted and terrifying face on the trunk showed a trace of irritation: "It was burned by you just now!"

"...Ah, that's a pity," Ferna seemed to be a little surprised, shaking her head and said, "I thought we had enough reserves, so I tested it with those consumables..."

"Catch a few more, and they can be used temporarily," Lerna said immediately, her voice very flat, "Anyway, they are no longer glorious Gondor citizens."

(End of this chapter)