eternal glory

Not many people will deliberately remember a small country like "Bondell" with a small territory and located at the edge of the human kingdom, wrapped in deserts and Gobi deserts that stretch for thousands of miles, and the border cannot be seen at a glance The ruins of the ruins of the city stretch into the distance in the sand and dust swept by the cold wind in the winter season. This was originally a rich place hidden in the desert, but the glory of the "Pearl on the Top" has long since become a passing cloud, and poverty and hunger hover around all the time. In this small abandoned city that has been shrunk to nothing.The sandstorm was still raging, and even the never-extinguished holy flame on the high platform in the dilapidated and small central temple was trembling and flickering in the dark sandstorm, as if it would go out at any time.

A hundred or so figures in tattered linen robes knelt helplessly under the high platform burning misty flames. The subjugated slaves had no choice but to silently wait for the boundless suffering to pass.

Sitting at the top of the steps closest to the huge brazier was a young man who looked very young. He was wearing desert-style clothing, with a deep hood covering most of his face. The flame pattern shows his identity, he is a fire mage.Now the fire mage is fascinated with the exquisite wooden carving card in his hand. He received this invitation letter by accident when he had worked hard to finish the chain mission. This invitation letter made him extremely confused.

"Lord Fenghuo, are you really going to leave us?" The voice of the wrinkled and haggard old woman was full of respect and pleading. The teeth in her mouth had already fallen out, and her hometown remained the same for a long time. Decline and desolation, now, is even the last honorable fire priest finally giving up on them?

The male player lowered his head and picked up the wooden carving card, smiling awkwardly.It's because of this group of lingering refugees that they regard themselves as the last savior, right?In the vast "dry sea" desert, only fire worship is the spiritual pillar and symbol in the hearts of the people. However, players who have unfortunately landed in this barren and desolate desert town since the game has not been opened for a long time can't wait. Choose to delete the number or leave.Not only the players, but even the fire worshipers and guards who were supposed to protect the "Fire Temple" in Japan have long since fled this dilapidated city with no future, leaving only a group of poor and hopeless fools, foolishly living in the temple Guarding the dwindling flames and lingering, looking forward to the birth of a new emperor of fire from the blazing flames in the myth, leading them and the suffering motherland to prosperity.

Fenghuo heaved a long sigh, and took out two small bottles of sand lizard oil from his pocket. He did five or six hours of serial missions in the scorpion camp in the abandoned city to get them. Drips the bright yellow viscous lizard oil into the huge bronze brazier.

The dying flame regained some vitality after receiving fuel, and no longer swayed from side to side, flickering on and off, and the refugees below also cheered excitedly.

Obviously this strange flame does not emit any heat, but everyone seems to feel warmed up in their hearts, but how long can this inferior low-grade fuel last?After three or four hours at most, the flame will weaken again, and then what?Do you want to go to the scorpion camp again to exchange complicated tasks for the meager fuel?

What's the point?

Fenghuo thought it was funny, Boyndell's unextinguishable holy flame, the "true god" of the fire worshipers should be so downcast that he was asked to continue his life as an invincible fire mage, it was so ridiculous in the world!

good!The player Fenghuo is not a priest in the Fire Temple at all, he is not even a fire worshiper, he is just an ordinary fire mage, and he, the only fire mage who can play with flames, is regarded by the people in the old city as a The straw of life-saving, driving the ducks to the shelves to enshrine the holy fire in the Fire Temple has also become the last hope in the hearts of Boyndells!

It’s not about worshiping fire and offering sacrifices, so you can’t hear the murmur of the divine fire. The young fire mage can only be exhausted in the pleadings and expectations of the npcs, trying every means to get the fuel for the enshrined flames. However, personal power is ultimately limited. The population of Boyndell has become less and less, and food and water have become more difficult to obtain recently. The poor Boyndell can't even support the operation of the transnational teleportation array. With the crumbling teleportation membrane, Fenghuo won't even have the idea of ​​leaving!Deleting the account and restarting is his intended destination.

"I have to leave, but I haven't given up on you yet..." Fenghuo sighed, he was going to the Emerald City, as long as he could get food and water to send back, people here would not starve to death, there would always be hope. "

What about the unquenchable flame?Fenghuo stared blankly at the cheerfully dancing flames in the bronze basin. Until now, he still couldn't understand why those ignorant fire worshipers would bow three times and nine times to beg for strength to a ball of flames. In his eyes, it was just a ball of It's nothing more than a dead thing to ask for, but this also explains why its devout believers in the past would not hesitate to abandon it and fly away.

"If you must leave, please take a cluster of flames with you, please accept the blessing of the unquenchable fire, and let it bring light to your path forward."

"Huh?" The fire mage turned his head suspiciously: "Who is talking?" Saying that you bring a cluster of flames, fools know that the eternal fire cannot be divided into piles and cannot be taken away from the bronze basin, even if it looks like Fanyan. It's the same, but it doesn't give off heat and can't ignite anything, it just keeps burning in the bronze basin with ritual oil as raw material.

"Please bring this," a rickety blind old man fumbled for the steps, and handed a translucent glass bowl to Fenghuo: "May the unquenchable fire be with you."

With a puzzled face, Feng Huo took the glass bowl, which was not too big. Most of the refugees sheltering here were old, weak, sick and disabled. He knew almost all of them, but he had never seen this blind old man with a hunchback.

"Drop the sacrificial oil into the fire urn and get close to the holy fire. A new fire will be born from the embers. Take it with you, and let the unquenchable fire light your way forward!" The blind old man stared at his white eyes Staring devoutly at the slowly beating flame, as if he could see it, focused and serene.

Fenghuo pulled down his hood, and the young man full of oriental flavor stretched out his hands to help his non-existent glasses: "Master! Check that I am a fire magician! We are not in the same system, and besides, you always look at me, how can I be like passing fire?" Sacrifice?" Even though the local mage tower has collapsed some time ago, even players and NPCs followed the camel caravan to other countries, but the orthodox education of mages received by Fenghuo still does not allow him to bring the flames of the fire worship cult and continue to serve the evil fire. Be a cow and a horse.

It's a pity that the player once again lost to the quest system that forced winning prizes. After all, Fenghuo couldn't bear to let his "compatriots" down. The flame in the bronze basin burned violently when the glass bowl containing the sand lizard oil approached. , For the first time, Fenghuo even suspected that he could feel the heat of the unquenchable fire. The flame that turned from yellow to red and then to blue and white erupted as if it was self-destructing, and the entire bronze basin was like a terrifying crater!The endless flames exploded and shot up into the sky in a columnar shape, piercing the rock dome and exploding in the sky to form a flaming mushroom cloud covering tens of hundreds of kilometers!

"This..." Fenghuo, who was staggered by the hurricane brought by the flames, got up stupidly and looked up at the sky through the big hole above his head. The continuous fire clouds even dispelled the storm that blocked the sky!As the flames dissipated, golden sunlight spread on the abandoned ruins, a kind of tranquility and serenity as if the sky had cleared after rain.

Now only black cinders with sparks left in the huge bronze plate, but in the very center there is a cluster of flames floating lightly in the sky, only the size of a bean grain, and it seems that it will be blown out in one breath.Holding his breath, Fenghuo carefully handed over the glass bowl, and connected the bean-sized blue light into the bowl.He looked at the people at the bottom of the steps, some of them were crying, and some were still worshiping the empty bronze basin.Fenghuo seemed to understand that he was already the last hope in the eyes of this group of old and young people who refused to admit that "Boindel" had fled the country with the royal family. I can stupidly expect a miracle to appear, and hope that when the dream wakes up, the cold wind and sandstorm have subsided, the river is rushing, the meadow is full of greenery, and the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming.

The fire mage, who took off his hood, carefully protected the glass bowl with the hood, looked at the exquisite wood carving card in his hand, and looked at the teleportation array that was slowly lighting up after charging, he couldn't help feeling mixed feelings.The pitch-black teleportation film slowly opened, and he lightly touched the three words "Emerald City" that lit up in the void to receive the teleportation.

The cold wind and sandstorm disappeared behind, and the first sight of the Emerald City in the middle of winter was unforgettable for the fire mage from the border land!The bright and jumping colors in his eyes almost made him stop breathing!

The flowers are blooming like a brocade and the grass is like a rug, the greenery and blooming flowers are so full of vitality!He never dreamed that in the same game, there would be such an amazing scenery!The floating king lotus flower on the pool in the center of the square is as big as a wheel, and the aggressive bright red flowers bloom wildly!A few naughty light brown deer are dexterously chasing and frolicking on the surface of the water. Their shiny hoofs and feet lightly step over the pool water and turn up layers of fine waves. The trembling ripples make the moon-white aquatic flowers vibrate. There are a dozen of them as big as The colorful butterflies in Cihai flapped their wings and flew, circling lightly across the flowers, what a beautiful picture scroll of grotesques!It was the middle of winter, but when you look up, you can see the huge torches around the square that can barely be embraced by three or four people. The endless light and heat emitted by the raging flames make the whole square look like daytime, showing a tropical rainforest-like scene .

"Welcome, Mr. Fenghuo," the handsome cavalryman wearing metal armor and a bright red cloak behind the platform politely saluted him: "Your arrival makes Emerald City sincerely honored!"

Seeing the tall, handsome green-haired warrior salute to him, Fire Mage was overwhelmed, and imitated the other party's salute in a panic. After finishing, he first carefully lifted the hood covering the glass bowl, and saw the big flames After it was safe to burn quietly, he hurriedly took out a wooden card from his pocket: "I... I received this, and it said that I was invited." He didn't finish his sentence, even now he didn't dare He was absolutely sure that he was really invited by the Emerald City, because the card said that he could settle down, settle down... You know, even in his own country, even on that extremely barren land, he never had the opportunity to settle down.

"Yes, as you can see on the invitation letter, our Emerald City sincerely invites you to settle here and become a part of the Emerald City. Would you like to accept the invitation of the Emerald City?" The handsome cavalry boy said in a magnetic voice. The line and the warm smile made the fire mage dizzy, almost as if making a promise, he hurriedly replied: "I am willing! I am very willing!"

"Hee hee!" A butterfly-wing man sitting next to him on the flowery roof and holding a flute covered his mouth and chuckled, the bright red wings like the country bell flower trembling slightly on his back, emitting bursts of light dust.Big Bad Wolf is one of the most handsome guys in Emerald City, newcomers and npcs all blush when they see him for the first time, it's really fun.

"My name is Big Bad Wolf. I am a cavalry soldier by profession. I am the Minister of Finance of Emerald City. I will take you to the hotel to rest today. I will arrange someone to guide you to familiarize yourself with the environment after a while. How about it?"

"En!" Fire Mage nodded heavily.

Fenghuo told himself over and over again not to be nervous, but he couldn't control himself at all. Compared with the handsome warrior wearing a handsome steel armor and carrying a magical glow like a sci-fi color stripe on his back, the fire pattern staff he was proud of And the clothes on his body should be thrown into the fire and burned!Water resources are scarce in the desert, and not many players have the luxury to wash their hair and face, so most of them are disheveled all day long. In such a place where the singing of birds and flowers is as beautiful as a dream, he is of course extremely cramped.

He has long been accustomed to seeing the ruined walls and yellow sand in the abandoned city where he lives. He opened his eyes wide and reluctant to blink, looking at the surrounding scenery greedily. He did know that there is a very low chance of dropping flower house seeds in the fifth-level dungeon, but I have only seen it a few times in pictures and videos. Although those flower houses randomly planted in the wild or in urban blocks are ingenious and exquisite, they are not amazing. Blooming, the bright lights in each hut are so elegant with the tender green flowers and white buds below!Not to mention the shops with conspicuous signs, they are simply too chic, every shop is like a wonderful and precious work of art, no!Every door, every window, every light has an indescribable beauty!

"Huh? It's you, the big bad wolf!" A voice came from not far behind. When Fenghuo saw the cavalry next to him turning his head, he also looked back.A boy on the thick branch diagonally above is twisting his waist and happily "swimming" along the downward interlaced branches and leaves!

"This!" Feng Huo was so frightened that he stepped back, the boy was really "swimming"!His colorful snake tail is covered with red and white rings, the color is eye-catching and full of warning!

"Don't be afraid, this is Simon," the big bad wolf laughed and introduced: "This kid is a snake, haven't you seen it?"

"No." The fire mage was a little relieved after seeing the boy's face clearly, but the colorful snake tail below his waist still shocked him. He hardly had a chance to play the dungeon. I didn't have the slightest fear when dealing with the inhuman-looking and ferocious scorpion, but I was still shocked enough to see the snake-body in the game.

"Hey, I haven't seen you before," said the quirky snake-bodied boy who looked at most fifteen or sixteen years old. He was shirtless and wearing a small waistcoat that exposed his belly. He swam nimbly to Huofa with his soft waist Lili stood up condescendingly and bared his teeth and asked mischievously, "New here?"

"Yeah, I'm taking him to the hotel to rest. You're not going to work today?" Liu Zhe knew that this mischievous young man worked in the "Food Bureau" under Fu Lan, so he was somewhat of a local tyrant.

"Today's vacation!" The little boy stuck out his tongue mischievously, and Fenghuo noticed the delicate little stud earring on his right ear, which was kind of limp and cute.

"That's just right, let's take Fenghuo to get acquainted in the city later," said Big Bad Wolf, smiling and telling Mage Huo: "Don't look at him as a young man, he is a local snake in the heart of the tree!"

"Hee hee, big bad wolf, you've already said that, put it on me!" The little boy snapped his fingers: "And don't forget that you and Your Majesty promised me to take me to do the pet position task the day after tomorrow, Don't play tricks!"

The big bad wolf smiled and pampered the little guy's head: "I know! I will definitely take you there!"

Fenghuo is so stupid, let the lively little boy hook his shoulders with his white and tender arms, and show him the functions and functions of various buildings with his hands in an old-fashioned manner. He couldn't keep up with the dazzling buildings, but he looked at the flames still burning peacefully in the glass bowl, and he didn't hate this feeling.

The naughty boy said that he could find a platform to settle down near the hanging lake in Shuxin District, so that they could be neighbors.Fenghuo raised his head to see the huge giant trees stacked on top of each other, and his heart was slightly touched.

"This... can it really be my home?"