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Chapter 468 The Eternal Fortified City (43, end of travel chapter, leave tomorrow!)

That's the way it is.

After Feiyan pretended to worship the Dragon Cult and raided the scholar group participating in the Gushan Conference, only a small number of people noticed that Ian and his party suddenly disappeared.

Except for Tres, those who knew about this matter chose to keep silent.

They weren't necessarily the elite in their respective divisions, but having been undercover for so long, they'd learned how to manage their curiosity...and maintain appropriate silence.

So, after a while.

Late at night, light rain.

Ian, who was riding a horse with dark blue scales, and another horse with red scales, carrying a saluting horse, followed the track at a brisk pace, heading north.

The two goblins whirled and danced beside the horse and the boy, laughing happily.

The surrounding area of ​​Lianli Town is full of moonfire grass, which is a kind of sublimation plant that can be used to prepare alchemy potions related to light. When they are hit by raindrops, they will emit a sparkling light like a faint flame. Speeding past is like being surrounded by countless stars.

Smelling the faint fragrance of plants and flowers in the dark summer night, the young man smiled and stood side by side with countless fluorescent lights in the night rain.

Then, the light rain gradually stopped.

In this starless and moonless night, the earth should have been shrouded in darkness.

However, at the far end of the sky, where the long clouds overlap, there is a faintly lit beam of light reaching to the sky, so huge that it seems to penetrate the sky and the earth, standing at the end of the eye's field of vision.

The colorful rainbow light spread around the clouds, but the light beam itself broke through the cover of the cloud mountain and reached the sky.

--What's this?Where did the light come from, so huge and bright?
Seeing this, the boy was slightly taken aback, thinking about these questions instinctively.

But then, he urged the horse forward.

Together with the goblins, he came to the top of a hill and looked far away, at the very center of the vast Quenor Plain.

Then, Ian briefly forgot to think.

He heard the sound of the wind.

The terrain of the Setar Empire is very strange. The whole country is surrounded by many mountains, which can almost be said to be blocked.

Even if there is moisture from south to north from the South Ridge, Karan Mountains and Falut Mountains, and moisture from north to south in the direction of Meditation Sea and Wusha Port, it is impossible to make the heart of the empire moist. It is mild enough to be cultivated normally, allowing people to live comfortably.

This is true even if someone sweeps away all the high mountains in the empire.

But now, he understands a little bit.

In the summer of Quinol Plain, the sea breeze blowing from the Nanling Eternal Ocean is surging. This wind passes through the vast forest beside the Baisen Mountains, and then passes through the boundless golden field. The lake, passing through the vast hills and forests and the sea of ​​​​big trees in the Jerol area, proceeded straight along a long road.

Of course, the wind that passes through the vast natural circulation in the world is not so persistent because of nature itself, but because of a force, a force that originated from people but is beyond the natural circulation, so it is persistent all the way come here.

The cool wind after the rain blew the young man's hair and moved it forward, but Ian didn't have the energy to care about this trivial matter. He squinted his eyes and stared at the magnificent giant structure that emerged in front of his eyes as much as possible.

It was a gigantic spectacle beyond the essence of this era.

Under a huge beam of light that pierces the sky and the earth, there is a black shadow that is even bigger than the mountains that rise one after another. It is like a lonely mountain standing in the boundless plain. , the only giant structure that can block the human line of sight.

Its majestic figure stands in the center of the Quinol Plain, and its majesty is unparalleled.

Shadows covered it, but there were layers upon layers, and tiny things that were glowing shimmered on its surface.

The wind went towards it, as if attracted by a deep gravitational abyss, and seemed to want to be part of the beam of light that penetrated the entire planet's atmosphere.

This is a city.

A gigantic city built on steel peaks and [-]-meter isolated mountains!

Ian rode on the horse, and he looked into the distance, quietly staring at this huge, behemoth covered in shadow.It is like a volcano rising from the flat ground, with a height of [-] meters and a width of more than [-] kilometers, but there is a thicker foundation deep in the earth, and the metal structure reflecting the moonlight in the distance is glowing brightly. And the nozzle that was releasing the bright beam of light made the boy recall something.

"how can that be……"

Ian whispered to himself, and the young man stared at the outline of the huge city curiously and perplexedly with blank and longing eyes.

He shook his head slightly: "This is a planetary engine?!"

"No... this is, this is the planetary shield generator?!"

No one answered his question, not even a goblin.

Both Huaan and Shuangdie stared at the magnificent spectacle in the distance together, the little fairy fell into a kind of shock at the majestic and magnificent beauty, and Miss Fairy just felt that she should not speak at this moment.

until they heard a roar.

Boom, boom.

The running sound of the alchemy furnace of the train was heard on the track, and the whistling of the engine was endless. The boy turned his head and looked at the track beside the road. An alchemy train was driving straight forward, passing him, across the town and the countryside, towards the plain. Central gallop.

Not just one of them.

Ian turned his head, and he looked around the entire Quinnor Plain. On this land covered by moonlight and darkness, there were many light spots shining with tiny lights, converging towards the huge city.

One train after another, like water droplets made of steel merge into an ocean of steel, merging into it... Densely dense black spots and light spots are interlaced, moving slowly on this lonely mountain made by manpower.

That is the human city, the moss that covers the shell of the mountains.

yes.Years, decades, hundreds of thousands of years have passed on Terra like this.

Time leaves marks on the steel, and the earth repeats the cycle of fertility and barrenness until mushrooms and moss grow on the rocks, until the seeds grow into towering trees.

Traces of human habitation, human cities, are just like that kind of moss, just like that kind of big tree.

You can see the imperial capital here.And here is the imperial capital.

"I see."

Gazing at the city, Ian whispered to himself.

He smiled softly, raised his head, and looked up at the surging rain clouds, as if he had returned to that rainy night four years ago.

At this moment, there is no thunder in the sky, but there is a beam of light that is more dazzling than the thunder, reaching the sky.

"Teacher, I understand."

With a nostalgic tone, the young man softly said to Gao Tian: "Yes, yes. This is what you told me, and you passed it on to me."

"You want to teach me, entrust me..."

"Immortal, Fortified City."

　Arrive at the imperial capital, ask for a monthly pass!

Closed tomorrow!

　
(End of this chapter)