mechanical court

"I must also remind you that if you dare to lie to me, you will never get the charm."

Chapter 1 The Tree of Wisdom

Hyperion Star, the Western Continent, the top of the North Sea.

The rolling mountains are looming under the cover of the vast sea of ​​clouds. They seem to be huge monsters in the vast ocean. The peaks covered with snow cover the ocean and will bury their majestic bodies deeply under the sea of ​​clouds.Under the shining of the sun, the mountain peaks pierced through the sea of ​​clouds protrude to reveal a pale golden outline, and further away, the mountains and the blue sky merge together to depict a misty and finely divided horizon.

laugh--!

The sharp howling of random arrows piercing the air suddenly sounded, breaking the silence of the thousand-year-old peak.

The sea of ​​clouds around the highest peak churned, and a team of a hundred people wearing black felt cloaks passed through the sea of ​​clouds, swept up the steep path, and landed neatly on the highest point of the mountain.

"On the top of the North Sea, in the history books of the Pluto Temple...the location of the Tree of Wisdom." Oz looked around, overlooking the undulating sea of ​​clouds around him, his eyes quickly penetrated the snow, and locked on several icicles with special shapes.

"go!"

He raised his left hand and waved lightly, and then took the lead in walking.

The soldiers of the holy armor army moved when they heard the sound, and habitually formed a crescent moon war, approaching the position of the icicle as if they were facing a big enemy.As they gradually approached, they found that those icicles were not the uncanny workmanship of nature, but traces of artificial carvings were everywhere, and they looked faintly like a tower of a certain style.

Under the pale golden sunlight, seven snow-covered towers are connected together, covering the silent peak with a mysterious atmosphere.

"My lord...is this what His Majesty is looking for?" the deputy asked in a low voice, following behind him step by step.

"The Tower of Secret Keys... If these are really the doors leading to the Tree of Wisdom, then that's what His Majesty wants!" Oz replied affirmatively.

Ever since the empire suffered a complete blockade and was completely isolated, Ivan has been making two-handed preparations: on the one hand, he mobilized the power of the two empires to climb the technology tree, and on the other hand, he let the holy army and the Temple of Hades search for ancient ruins all over the world.

He firmly believes that the background of Heberon Star will not be much worse than the parent star of the Federation.After all, King Amon even has a Shenyuan machine!

In addition to the Shenyuan machine, there must be other ancient weapons and knowledge here - if they are all collected, they may not be inferior to the golden relics that made the Federation prosperous.

……

"If they are really the towers of secret keys, we only need to rotate the towers according to the sequence, and the passage to the tree of wisdom will be opened!"

While speaking, Ozzy took out a copy of the ancient book from his pocket, and compared the reality and the distribution of the tower pillars on the drawing, he gradually frowned: "Did we go wrong? The distribution of the tower pillars is completely inconsistent."

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly seemed to realize something, and clapped his hands suddenly:

"Instead of rotating a single main body, the seven towers are rotated and moved, and they are arranged and combined according to the order on the drawing!"

"Hurry up, hurry up and move!" the deputy ordered immediately.

Since each soldier of the Holy Army has a backup of an ancient book, they all know how to arrange and combine them.Therefore, after hearing the order, they immediately walked towards the tower pillars in groups of twos and threes, and began to release the light energy in their bodies, trying to move these ancient ruins.

Under the concerted efforts of everyone, the tower pillars quickly moved, cutting through the snow one by one, and arranged them into a trapezoidal combination.

The moment the tower formation was completed, Ozzy raised his head and felt an unusual aura in the sky.It was as if a stone had been thrown into the calm lake, causing circles of ripples on the sky at the top of the tower array.

……

Immediately afterwards, the sky seemed to collapse into a gap, the lightning inside was winding, and the surrounding air was like water.

In the vigilant eyes of the soldiers of the holy armor army, a red dot suddenly appeared inside the gap, and the red dot instantly turned into a beam of light and hit the center of the tower array.Like a falling rock hitting water, a circle of ripples was created on the ground, and the ground where the ripples passed instantly became transparent and flawless.

"What is this?"

"It feels like rubber when you step on it...it's soft and elastic."

"It seems to be some kind of protective film?"

On the transparent and flawless crystal floor, everyone did not dare to move, they could only communicate with each other in low voices, analyzing the touch from the soles.

"..."

Oz was silent and did not speak. He stomped his foot lightly and found that there seemed to be a hollow under the crystalline ground.Immediately, a piece of ice was taken from a distance, he held it firmly in his hand, and slammed it hard on the ground under his feet.

boom--!

The ice stone penetrated directly into the crystal floor, leaving a wound that quickly healed, shooting into the dark underground depths, and a crisp sound came back after a long time.

"What we're looking for is probably down there, you stay up there, I'll go down and have a look."

After saying this, Oz didn't wait for his deputy to stop him, took a deep breath, and then stomped on his legs.The whole person broke through the ground in an instant and fell into the pitch-black space below the crystal clear ground.

In the dark environment, Ozzy felt as if he was in the intestines of a creature, and his body fell straight down.There is no sound in the ear, as if there is no air flow in this channel.After an unknown amount of time, there was a sudden light below, and an oval exit appeared, and he slid down along the exit.

After falling to the ground, the first thing he saw were tall buildings made of rocks. Surrounded by a quiet green, these buildings stood silently on the boundless grassland.

In this strange environment, Ozzy immediately used the light energy to transform himself into a bronze giant more than two meters high.Then fly high into the sky, fly forward along the distribution of buildings, and carefully examine the ancient ruins sleeping in the mountains.

Judging from the shape and distribution of the buildings, this place should be some kind of large-scale academic exchange place; even though it has been dusty for countless years, through the remains of the buildings, the solemn and sacred atmosphere of the past can still be seen.

However, the beautiful and quiet academic exchanges in the past are now full of devastation, and the exquisite parks are now only remnants of stone tables. These silent ancient buildings seem to haunt the whispers of the past, telling the past history of this place.

The center of the building complex should have been the tallest and most majestic building here, but now there is only a circular arch standing above the ruins.The arches are covered with vine-like patterns, and quaint alphabetic symbols faintly appear in the patterns——Ozzy himself is a general, and he obviously doesn't understand such alphabetic symbols at all.

This place should have been a library with an extremely large area—the ruins are full of weathered books, broken bookshelves, and incomplete pillars of holy white.

"This is clearly an ancient school! Where is the tree of wisdom!? But... it seems that this place has been destroyed by external forces... Could it be the impact of war?"

Hovering himself in mid-air, Ozzy lowered his altitude while inspecting the buildings around the ruins.He found that the damage to these buildings was very serious, and there were horrible cracks on the walls.I believe it won't last long, and they will be completely reduced to ruins like the central library.

However, the damage to the surrounding buildings was far less serious, which proved that this place had been hit by external forces a long time ago.Perhaps it was that blow that caused this ancient school to sink into the mountain, and it has been sealed up in isolation until now.

one-one-one-one

After careful investigation, Oz immediately notified his subordinates on the top of the mountain and asked them to go to the ruins together to search for clues.

The crusader soldiers were ordered to descend from the sky one by one, and immediately swept across the cobweb-like road like a dark cloud; these teams covered each other, searched the entire ruins, and concentrated on the ruins of the central library.

"Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any trace of the Tree of Wisdom here." Clutching a stone box in his deputy, he walked to the circular arch and said to Oz who was in a daze:

"But we found this!"

As he spoke, he opened the stone box in his hand, and saw a ring in the box—made of white gold metal, the ring was surrounded by a purple oval gemstone like ivy.

"Ok?"

Ozzy looked at the stone box upon hearing the words, and was immediately attracted by the ring. He carefully took the stone box and studied the pattern on the ring.Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he suddenly handed the stone box to the deputy, and at the same time pointed to the circular arch and said:

"Look, their patterns are exactly the same."

"..."

Hearing what he said, the deputy immediately leaned over, looking back and forth between the ring and the arch, and finally nodded vigorously: