Chapter 1268： Not just a rift

No one knows the mystery of the flow of magic better than a goddess who holds the authority of magic.

After hearing Milmina’s very serious explanation, Kamel immediately realized the seriousness behind the incident, and at the same time he realized the seriousness, he also instantly had a new doubt: "... Have you never seen this kind of rift in the realm of the kingdom of Gods before? As far as I know, you often wander the fringes between the kingdoms of God and observe the changes in the deep sea..."

Milmina did not answer him. The expression of the former master of magic suddenly became a little weird. She stared at the deep blue crack that emerged in the distant whirlpool. She seemed to perceive or realize something, but she was confused. Some kind of dazed state.

At the same time, Pope Malm Dunit, the **** of war, who brought the crowd on the side, broke the silence: "This thing is not what should be in the kingdom of my lord, and I don't know where it came from... It may have existed here for hundreds or even thousands of years. After that, due to the fall of my lord, the place was out of control, and the kingdom of God gradually'floated' near this rift..."

While speaking, a shock suddenly came from everyone's feet, and Carmel hurriedly led the explorers back. The next moment they saw a little material falling down from the edge of the kingdom of God, turning into dust falling in the wind. Enter the depths of the sea of ​​clouds beyond the boundary.

This process of disintegrating and dissipating is still going on, and I am afraid it will continue for a long time.

Carmel looked at Milmina, who seemed to be in deep thought, but when he just wanted to ask something, Malm Dunnett’s voice sounded again: "I want you to see more than just this rift. ."

"It's not just this rift?" Carmel couldn't help but asked in astonishment. "Is there something else here?"

"Yes, there is another thing that I don't recognize. No matter what it is, I don't think it is something that should appear in the'realm of the gods'," Malm Dunit said slowly, and he turned to the distant place. A sea of ​​clouds, watching its dim and chaotic edge, "I can't see it yet, but counting the time, it should be about to appear..."

"Can't see it now?" Carmel asked curiously, with a little speculation in his heart, "Could it be that thing..."

"The thing will come close here periodically, but I am trapped here and lack the means. I cannot determine the relative position of the thing to the kingdom of God or its trajectory..." Malm said slowly, suddenly raising his hand to point. Far away, "Ah, it's coming..."

As the pope of the **** of war fell, the members of the exploratory team all looked in the direction of this ghost finger, and the two arcane brilliance on the position of Carmel's head brightened little by little, and he "stared" at it. At the dim and chaotic boundary, suddenly, a ray of light slowly "floated up" from the end of the boundary line.

The first thing that appeared in front of everyone was a bright beam of light, which penetrated the chaotic field in the deep ocean, dispelling the dim environment at the edge of the sea of ​​clouds, and followed by a series of flashing lights around the beam, which seemed to outline a The huge outline, and as the huge shadow behind that outline gradually approached, its amazing posture gradually appeared in front of everyone.

Camel saw a huge arc covered with unknown material edge first protruding out of the dark boundary, slowly rising above the sea of ​​clouds, followed by the continuous alloy structure and the "steel earth" supported by the structure, it seemed as if It is a flat, weird giant ship, and it seems to be a rootless island floating in a sea of ​​chaos and clouds. Its exposed part has irregular edge contours, as if it should be part of a larger structure, or in advance An area for docking with other structures is reserved.

Then this huge, almost astonishing thing as a city continued to float up, and the material at the edge of the sea of ​​clouds was disturbed by its huge boundary, rolling up layers of silent air waves, and countless dusts flying up, Following the edge of the alloy structure, it fell like water, and Carmel tried to look at the end of the sea of ​​clouds in the distance, looking at the scene of the surface of the "steel earth", he saw the flashing lights, like a shield-like barrier. And towering things like buildings, and farther away, he also vaguely saw some things of different colors leaning against the edge of the earth, but it was not like the "steel earth" itself should have. The structure is like something accidentally "hanging" on its edge...something.

However, that has exceeded the limit of ordinary vision.

Under the thickly enclosed helmets of the white knights, a few suppressed exclamations rang out, and the high-ranking battle cultivator Quin's voice sounded in a low voice: "Holy Light...what is that?"

"No matter what it is, it is definitely not the kingdom of God... nor is it any fragment left by the kingdom of gods or gods, it is obviously moving..." Carmel muttered in a low voice, and suddenly turned his eyes to Malm, who was aside. Dunet, "Will it bump into it?"

"No, it will move slowly near the border, and it will be very close here, but it will not bump into it. It seems to be able to accurately determine the distance to the kingdom of God, and approach and stay away according to a strict cycle," the former Pope of the God of War Unreservedly speaking about the laws that I have observed while wandering here for such a long time, "That thing feels alive, but I haven't seen any life... or life-like things appearing on it. Of course, it may also be that the superficial cognition of mortals has blinded my eyes. In this kingdom of gods...many things are not understandable by the wisdom of mortals..."

"Madam," Carmel turned to look in the direction of Milmina, "Are you..."

Halfway through his words, he stopped, because he saw that the "magic master" had widened his eyes and was staring at the huge shadow rising from the depths of the sea of ​​clouds with great amazement, and he didn't know if it was an illusion. , He even saw some uncontrollable...tension and fear from the magic master.

But Milmina finally woke up in shock. She seemed to have managed to fight the tension from the depths of her soul, and heard Carmel's call. Her eyes were fixed on the edge of the sea of ​​clouds that was still slowly approaching here. "Steel Land", a certain "veil" shrouded in memory was broken. She gradually widened her eyes and exclaimed softly: "I know, I know what I have overlooked... I have seen this! I can always see this thing! It has been patrolling the kingdoms of God for countless years!"

Carmel was taken aback: "Have you seen this? It has been patrolling between the kingdoms of God? But neither you nor Mr. Deer ever mentioned..."

"It erased its own existence in our memory!" Milmina finally found the missing piece of puzzle. The shielded and concealed part of her memory was clearly emerging, "'God' can't see it." This thing, only mortals can!"

Kamal felt that the flow of magical power in his body was not in a big or small disorder, and a kind of trembling from the soul that had not been seen in many years strongly impacted his mind. If he still has the respiratory system, he At this moment, he will take a breath and then he reacted, while looking at the iron earth that was undulating and approaching in the sea of ​​clouds, he said quickly: "This has exceeded all our plans... What happened here must be reported immediately. !"

"I'm already contacting Cecil City and I hope that I can receive news from Gawain in Tarrond," Milmina said immediately, "In addition, it is necessary for the Typhons to inform, Luo. Setta Augustus is a mortal who can preside over the big picture."

"I'm editing a message to Ms. Windsor Mapel on the other side of the portal," Carmel said quickly, with rapidly changing magic runes floating around him. The ancient arcane master was bypassing ordinary communication equipment. , Directly used his ability to control magic power to contact the left-behind personnel on the other side of the portal. At the same time, he was also paying attention to the behemoth running in the sea of ​​clouds. During a brief period of thought, he suddenly asked, " In the chaotic space outside the kingdom of God... is secular matter allowed to exist?"

"Secular matter? Of course it can exist. Although this is an area where the boundary between material and non-material is extremely blurred, secular matter will not disintegrate due to contact with the environment in the deep sea. It is just that it is located within the'radiation range' of many divine kingdoms. And there are echoes of ancient thoughts lingering everywhere, it is easy to appear some..." Milmina subconsciously explained a few words, but suddenly reacted in the middle of speaking, looking at Carmel with strange eyes, "Wait. Wait, are you going to explore... It’s too dangerous! Everything about that thing is unclear, and even the gods don’t know what dangers are on it, and it operates outside the kingdom of God, and it’s impossible to say where it will go. …"

As the magic master said, his expression became extremely serious: "The outside of the gods is the vast'deep sea', the ripples at the bottom of the world. Although I often wander around there, the area and the whole area that I can explore The deep sea is nothing compared to mentioning that the things in the depths are a mystery to the gods, it is too early for you..."

"I know, I'm not going to take this risk with my own or other people's lives." Facing Milmina's nervous reaction like a mortal, Carmel seemed a little surprised, but soon he reacted. Come over, shook his head and said, "But we should still do something...I have an exploration plan."

While talking, his gaze fell on the back of the exploratory team. The "Explorer" magic puppet with a billowing brass shell and long mechanical limbs was quietly staying behind the crowd, a piece with a complex rune. The "arm" extends from its copper shell and rests on the surface of the magic storage energy tank dragged behind Carmel: it is replenishing its magic power.

It seems that he has noticed the changes in the surrounding atmosphere. This magic puppet with extremely high intelligence and self-discipline action ability made a string of gurgling sounds in its body. Its long mechanical articulations moved in place, and the runes on the outer shell suddenly appeared suddenly. Darken up.

Outside of the kingdom of God, the behemoth moving in the sea of ​​sand, dust and clouds is slowly passing by the border area of ​​the kingdom of the **** of war. It has crossed the closest point to the kingdom of the gods, just like when it came, it is in the sea of ​​clouds. A silent wave of air was rolled up in the middle and began to slowly move away.

"...The cost of this thing is very high, but Ms. Windsor will understand that we have no time to think about my contingency," Carmel said, already reaching out to the explorer doll, the invisible magic supporting it. This mechanical device turned into a plastic energy hand and raised it in the air, "I hope it can complete the task safely, otherwise I can only deduct it from my salary..."

He raised his arm, and the power-shaping hand immediately threw the magic puppet out, but at this moment, Milmina's voice suddenly came from the side: "Wait a minute."

"Madam?" Carmel stopped. "Madam, we need to figure out what that thing is. The magic puppet is for this kind of occasion..."

Milmina snapped her fingers without waiting for Carmel to finish speaking. Another more powerful magical power formed in midair instantly, dispelling the hand of plastic energy that Carmel had created, and took over the round explorer. Magic Puppet: "I know, what I mean is to let me come in such a bad casting environment, I should be'throwing more accurately' than you."

While talking, she raised her finger, and the explorer puppet caught in the air by the energy-shaping hand finally reacted. It made another string of gurgling sounds in it, and then the long mechanical limbs quickly gathered. Under the belly, the whole became a chubby mechanical sphere, leaving only a general-purpose probe arm stretched out in the air and waved in the direction of Milmina twice to show that he was ready.

Milmina then stretched out her hand and pointed towards the distance, and the plastic hand formed by invisible magic suddenly waved through the air.

The explorer doll that shrank into a mechanical ball instantly crossed the invisible boundary of the kingdom of God, flew over the surging invisible sea of ​​clouds, and flew towards the "steel land" that was slowly moving away in the distance.

Carmel watched this scene nervously, and what he was worried about did not happen. The surface of the "steel land" had neither intercepted missiles and high-energy beams, nor had any guards to destroy the intruder emerged.

The mechanical ball landed straight on the surface of the steel earth, and landed gently under the buffer of the last magical force.

It shook in place, and several long mechanical articulations extended from the bottom of the round brass shell. Then the self-disciplined magic puppet crawled around in place for a few steps, as if it was calibrating its position and automatically determining the next exploration plan. , And then quickly ran to the depths of the steel land. At the same time, the entire "steel land" was getting away from everyone’s sight faster and faster. It flew to the chaotic and dark space at the end of the sea of ​​clouds. One side slowly sinks into the sea of ​​clouds.

"...I can feel that the magic puppet's signal is getting weaker and weaker," Milmina said, breaking the silence. "In the deep sea environment, the orderly magic signal decays quickly. Next, let's look at the magic puppet's own. Skilled."

Carmel was silent for a moment, and couldn't help turning to Malm Dunit's spirit body: "You said that the thing would periodically appear and approach, right?"

"Yes," Malm said with certainty. "Although there are no sun and stars here, I have a way to calculate the time. That thing will "float" from the end of chaos and approach every two days. For nearly a year, this The law has never been broken."

"Very well," Milmina on the side let out a sigh of relief, "Then let's wait for it to appear again."

With that, she looked down at Carmel, who was floating next to her.

"Before that, we can start setting up your laboratory, Carmel."