High Above

Although Isengard is not very familiar with Anfa and Xio, he often communicates with Ian, so he knows the background of these two allies very well.

Xiou's background is simple. Real dragon. One word is enough, it can explain everything, including strength, alignment, background, potential and character. There is no need to say much else, you can understand it all.

The security law is more complicated.

She is the daughter of Sialetta Emberlight, the head of the Emberlight family. In order not to dilute her power and not waste time, this female family leader who was in her prime did not marry or recruit a wife - she used powerful biotechnology to create a child for herself, and the child's father...

He is a true dragon.

So here comes the question - who is this real dragon?

There are actually many real dragons on the continent of Terra. There are four or five permanent dragons in Canaan Moore, and more dragons are flying around the world. Some are sleeping on the seabed, some are drifting in the mantle, some are governors in the New World, and some are in the The big forces are playing power games with humans... But no matter what, there are only so many real dragons. For the big forces, even the information about third-level dragons like Xio is clear, let alone one. A powerful true dragon who can be valued by Sialetta as the father of her child.

But it is a pity that until now, no one knows who Anfarand's father is.

True dragons attach great importance to their children. Even if they sign a contract and cannot recognize each other, those true dragons will definitely come over and covertly to observe their children... But almost twenty years have passed, and no one has ever discovered such a thing. Traces of the real dragon.

With the intensity of the mutual penetration of the blood of the ten kings, this kind of thing could be hidden for a few years, but it would be impossible for any longer.

The idea is deadlocked.

But now there are clues.

Isengard glanced at Anfa thoughtfully, and then looked at the huge dragon bone in front of him... Yes, most people would never be able to relate it, but he learned a 'reversal' thinking method from Ian.

——Think about the reverse of cause and effect.

Think about it carefully. Anfa is now located in the Alien Research Institute. From the beginning to the end, her mother Sialetta Jindeng has not shown up. She has been preparing for 'some big event'... This is a big adventure that may cause casualties, but The other party remained motionless.

reverse. Reversal of thought. If this action does not mean that you don't care, it may even be a kind of 'trust'...

If Sialetta Emberlight believed that her child could gain enough from the ruins without any help at all...she would not need to fight, compete, or encounter any danger.

Once she arrived, she had already achieved success.

Just like it is now.

The elf girl with long green hair fluttering in the wind and golden eyes stood on the spar square, looking up at the huge dragon bone in front of her. A kind of trembling appeared on the body of the son of a true dragon and an elf.

Not out of fear. Not because of excitement. It's not because of anger or emotion.

She was trembling simply because she met the person closest to her by blood. Her cells and her soul were jumping for joy.

"Anfa's dragon blood comes from this second-generation true dragon!"

Isengard has it all figured out.

——The Jin Deng family and the Yinmen family began to form an in-depth alliance nearly a hundred years ago. In recent decades, marriages have emerged one after another. The two parties must have deeper cooperation, but currently, what are the specific cooperation projects between the two parties? Not sure yet.

——Speaker Yapheta is the host of the exploration of the Alien Research Institute. Ian has said more than once that Speaker Yapheta is unusually familiar with the Alien Research Institute, and the elf’s understanding of the Alien Research Institute is not as recent. 'New ruins' discovered in recent years.

——Speaker Yafoda has laid a secret hand deep in the ruins, and needs Ian and others to send signals through the transmitter to activate... This means that Speaker Yafoda also has a very deep understanding of the Alien Research Institute, and may even have helper'.

——The spatial ability of Speaker Yapheda can penetrate into many areas that ordinary people cannot penetrate, and know many things that ordinary people cannot know.

And, finally...

"The reason why the Canaanite Moorish Dragon Worshipers were able to discover the Alien Research Institute and the 'steel stone' inside it was really because they discovered it themselves?"

Isengard's heart stirred up a storm, and he felt that he had gradually guessed the truth behind all this: "Also, the Qiang Steel Stone is obviously the first clue, but what about the rumored 'Little Qiang Steel Dragon'?"

"Speaker Yapheta is obviously luring dragon blood holders from various countries to explore inside the ruins and unlock the authority seals in certain areas - but isn't the real bait the source of dragon blood in front of us?"

so……

A possible truth emerged in the mind of the blond boy.

——Twenty or thirty years ago, Japhetah Yinmen discovered the Alien Research Institute. At that time, he awakened a certain being in the Alien Research Institute, the so-called 'Lord of the Labyrinth' to form an alliance.

He discovered the value of the Alien Research Institute and the source of dragon blood, but suppressed his greed and decided to use it as a trap... Yafoda does not have dragon blood, and his authority is not high, even if he uses his space ability to force Entering the depths of the ruins and the subspace maze, he was unable to move at full strength, so in the end he only brought out a few 'storage chips'.

Then, Japhetha cooperated with the Lord of the Labyrinth. One side unlocked the seal, and the other side assisted Japhetha in planning.

A person who uses the source of dragon blood to attract fifth-level people who are about to end their lifespan... One of the two fifth-level powerhouses in the elf, [The Kingdom of Dust] Campani Country!

And Anfa... Anfa Ruiande, with the name of a true dragon, a second-generation semi-mechanized true dragon and a flesh-and-blood elf, she is the 'result' of the cooperation between the Yinmen family and the Jindeng family! It is the creation of the technology in those chips brought out by Yapheta!

She definitely carries more things than she and others imagine.

——If it’s Ian——you must know it and understand it, right? !

"We are involved in a big incident."

Isengard murmured to himself, causing Anfa and Xio to turn around and look at the blond boy with some confusion.

——In this situation, isn’t the matter big enough?

Of course not enough. Far from enough.

The twelve-color tower, red, orange, green, cyan, blue, purple, white, black, gray, gold, silver and transparent, respectively represents the movement, spread, growth, ascension, fluctuation, crossing and purification of the source matter. Fusion, balance, purity, essence, and plasticity.

As if wrapped in these twelve colors of source material, the huge keel was almost stagnant in time, floating below the keel, and the crystal box wrapped in the essence of spiritual energy was suspended in the mid-air of the Crystal Square.

Although it had been opened and several crystals had been removed, there were still more storage chips present.

The crystal cabinet sealed in the twelve-color spiritual light cannot be snatched away, nor can it be easily opened and destroyed.

It is precisely because of this that the exploratory teams of the five major forces from the Empire, Royal Court, Canaan Moore, Yanjiang, Goblin... are all here, and their respective leaders are confronting each other on all sides of the square.

Aina, Ghar, and Gelan are the three leaders. Although the leaders of Yanjiang and the goblin team are not well-known and a bit older (there are probably more goblins), their strength is not inferior to the first three.

As for other small forces, or exploration teams that have not sent enough strength to compete, such as the Seven Cities Alliance and the Whale Song Cliff Exploration Team that are attached to the empire, and the Junling Castle and Far Sword Port Exploration Team that follow the Cangtian Royal Court... The other Jiuhan Silent Mountains all stand independently on the periphery.

[Wait a minute, where is the Capital of Learning? 】

Isengard noticed this suspicion immediately. There was no Knowledge City exploration team that attacked them before. The Elge Qingyue was not here.

【over there! 】

Xio has sharp eyes. She is pretending to be Ian at the moment. Like Ian, she only uses her eyes to communicate with Isengard: [The tower over there - the team from the City of Knowledge did not participate in the confrontation for the storage chip. They were studying it. Those twelve towers! 】

Ethan turned his head, and sure enough, he saw that the team from the City of Knowledge had unknowingly made a floating flying platform, and under the leadership of Erger, they were rotating around the Silver Tower at five o'clock to observe, and a picture was not on the ground. The aloof appearance that everyone in the group usually sees.

However, even if Ergo, a strong competitor, did not take action, the atmosphere in the team around the crystal cabinet was still very tense... no one even dared to approach it first, which would attract a blow from everyone.

"What exactly is stored there? Isn't it just a bunch of ordinary storage chips?"

For a moment, Isengard felt quite strange in his heart. Although he could understand that the information from the previous era civilization was very important, he couldn't let a group of future successors to the leadership of Terra warn each other like this, right?

[That is not an ordinary thing] A calm voice sounded, as if echoing in his mind, making Ethan open his eyes wide.

【Ian? ! 】Although he was excited in his heart, he still suppressed his emotions, his expression remained unchanged, and he was talking to Ian in his heart: 【Have you finally contacted us? What's so unusual about those storage chips? 】

[Chip? Chips are important, but they are actually not that important. Don’t be misled by those who don’t understand the real thing]

At this moment, the blond boy heard Ian's rare and solemn voice: [The really precious thing is the crystal cabinet - that is not the cabinet, that is the core, the real dragon organ that reads the storage chip...]

【Ethan! That is the crystallization of the dragon's brain - the dragon crystal of the true dragon. It is the materialized soul of the true dragon, a reading structure]

[And those chips in the cabinet are the 'physical soul memory' of the second-generation true dragon! 】

Isengard was startled.

The materialized soul... reads the structure... isn't that the thinking organ of the real dragon?

The thinking organ of the second generation true dragon actually looks like this? !

[Looking closer, I discovered that the power in this dragon bone is definitely not just the source of dragon blood... Yes, this second-generation true dragon is indeed dead, but this does not mean that it cannot be resurrected]

At this moment, Ian's voice echoed in Isengard's mind. Apparently, the boy from the White People in the distance was thinking about an amazing possibility: [Bypassing the restrictions of the Star God through death... Life after death, the Underworld Cult ? 】

[Yes, this time there are people from the Netherworld Religion—those silver fairies, and the ‘Kingdom of the Dead Dragon’ behind the silver fairies! 】

[The Skeleton Dragon Afiboya and the team from the Suming Religion may have come just for this second-generation mentor, the real dragon! 】

--what happened? Why does it seem like everyone is prepared and has their own purpose?

At this time, Isengard was really confused: [Everyone knows everything, is it possible that I don’t know? What is going on in this alien research institute? Could it be that everyone is very important and I am just making up the numbers]

【Don't worry, Ethan】

And Ian comforted: [I have a hunch that you are also very important, otherwise Master Gosei would not have been allowed by the empire to bring you here - not to mention my true identity, our combined secrets are important. Sex, blasting them all together! 】

[The First Knight and I are both number one in Terra, right? 】

Hearing Ian, Hilliard's heir, say this, Isengard couldn't help laughing, remembering the old joke from decades ago: [I just feel a little strange...since all the major forces are well aware of the events and truth behind this , then why are we young people thrown here? They are all the future heirs of each country. Wouldn't there be big trouble if they died? 】

【Why is there trouble? 】

Ian's words were very calm and cold: [The emperor's eldest grandson is dead, aren't there other grandsons? Even if the eldest prince dies, won't you still have your second uncle and aunt? 】

[Gaar was originally the youngest son of the Great Khan, and there were many sons and sons in front of him... He was indeed a genius, but if he died, it would cause turmoil in the country, but it would be far from it]

[Of course, this does not mean that countries do not provide protection... It is just that if someone dies in the middle of the experience despite having protection, backup, and strength... then Terra doesn't have other geniuses, right? No matter what happens to him, it can only mean that he has bad luck, poor aptitude, and poor adaptability. If he fails to overcome these as a sublimator, he is unqualified]

[Ethan, our lives can only be controlled by our own hands. You cannot expect a force to protect you. There will be absolutely no accidents.]

[Hmm... you're right] Sighing, Ethan originally wanted to tell Anfa and Xiou that he had reconnected with Ian.

But at this moment, a sudden change occurred in the exploration team that had been in confrontation for a long time.

As a ray of light bloomed, on the empire's side, Aina disappeared after accumulating momentum for a long time. When he reappeared, he had already arrived in front of the crystal cabinet.

Under normal circumstances, the power of the Sun God Bird, the second energy level of Aina, is far from being actinic, because the actinic nature of the Sun God Bird is to fuse the physical body and the mind-light body to achieve a kind of actinization between the material world and the spiritual world. The 'massless and materialless state' in the virtual realm, so that you can move at the speed of light and travel through any material.

But obviously, Aina's current state is not normal. He has used some kind of special rare object, or he has the power of a stronger person, so even at the second energy level, he can still accumulate power for a period of time. Later, a photochemical raid was launched.

Confrontation, how long can the confrontation last? Is it possible that we still need to hold a meeting to allocate chip ownership?

Rather than dilly-dallying here, why not just start grabbing!

"mean!"

Seeing this scene, everyone present except the Empire side became angry - these damn glowing birds always rely on this speed to grab benefits that can't even be caught!

The volcano that had been suppressed for a long time erupted, and everyone took action with anger. The sky was filled with thunder and fire, arrows and swords flew across the sky. The attacks of many sublimated people turned into an airtight net and pressed towards Aina.

"You can't blame me, you are just too slow."

Facing this collective attack that could kill him several times, Aina just smiled gently and didn't care.

He stretched out his hand and pressed it on the crystal cabinet, and his body turned into light and disappeared again.

However, this time, it was still only him who disappeared.

The crystal cabinet is still in place.

boom! Many source attacks bombarded the crystal cabinet. This scene shocked everyone, but the result was very unexpected - a series of fluorescence flashed on the surface of the crystal cabinet, weak but present, blocking everyone's attacks.

"This light curtain counteracts all movement of the source material?"

Aina, who returned empty-handed, looked at his hand in confusion. He was sure that he had indeed pressed on the crystal cabinet, and indeed input his own essence, giving the crystal cabinet the ability to accompany him in his short-term actinization.

But just when he was about to run away directly with this 'target', Aina was shocked to find that bursts of light patterns lit up on the crystal cabinet, accurately canceling out all the source matter and changes he input, allowing it to maintain its original state. 'form'.

‘Stagnation’. In other words, ‘unchanged’. This is the effect of the 'inscription circuit' maintained on the crystal cabinet.

Aina's sneak attack failed, but it has to be said that he at least broke the peace.

"Kill!" "Stop them!" "Prepare your queue, don't fight alone!"

The originally balanced stalemate had been broken. All the teams had fought together, and the leader flew towards the crystal cabinet as fast as he could.

——Whoever stands in my way will die! Although Garr wanted to say this sentence that he had thought was cool since he was a child, he didn't have the energy to speak out this time. He was controlling two high-frequency vibrating knives at the same time and had just taken a step forward, preparing to turn into a death whirlwind. , was blocked by the leader of the Yanjiang Exploration Team, codenamed 'The Caller of the Dead'.

The so-called death is silence. This Fox demi-human, who is about thirty years old, inherits the rare "lightless shadow" of the virtual bloodline, and his spiritual energy is "stagnant physical phenomenon".

As the dark shadow rolled and spread from under his feet, the covered Garr's speed was almost as fast as an ant crawling. Even the high-frequency vibration of the sword in his hand was restored to ordinary high-speed vibration, making a piercing cry in the square.

Aina is preparing to act again. Even if he cannot take away the crystal cabinet, he still has to stop the actions of others.

Through previous contacts, he could see that with the long passage of time and the fact that the subspace maze had already suffered a lot of damage during the Skyfall disaster, the 'stasis stance' could no longer offset any external factors 100% like the theory. the power of.

In this way, even if the entire cabinet cannot be taken away, there should be no problem in taking away individual storage chips... According to the empire's intelligence, the Canaan Moore side took away several key storage chips alone. This requires fighting against stasis. Stand' is much smaller!

“You can’t let others get the first start.”

And just as he expected, when Aina once again arrived at the edge of the crystal cabinet at high speed, accompanied by a slight distortion of the virtual world, the black-haired elf girl suddenly appeared.

Galan Guoyu, like Yinmen, is an elf genius who also possesses 'space' abilities and is inherited by blood. She blinked at Aina, as if to say hello, but a short sword appeared in her hand without any killing intent, and stabbed straight to the heart extremely cruelly.

But, what can be faster than light? The index and ring fingers of Aina's left hand were raised, and a finger-width beam of light shot up, arriving first and piercing Galan's throat.

But this is just an illusion.

After the phantom dissipated, Gelan appeared on the other side a hundred meters away. Sephiroth clone and transposition, these are the bloodline skills of the National Territory Department.

After forcing the enemy back, Aina was about to take out a few storage chips from the crystal cabinet, but at this moment, he suddenly found that he could not move, and a dark shadow covered him.

——Summon the dead? But why, didn’t he fight with Gar?

With his mind spinning like lightning, Aina's whole body bloomed with light and turned into a golden light and flew away, breaking the spiritual restraint of summoning the dead, but the crystal cabinet also stayed away because of this.

It was at this moment that Aina discovered in mid-air that the situation was more complicated than he imagined.

Perhaps because the previous confrontation took too long, or perhaps because they realized that their guardian objects were being tampered with, the guarding virtual realm machine gods had regrouped and began to approach behind everyone.

After a few moves, Garr and the Death Caller separated and dispatched their own teams, intending to fight against the raids of the Void Realm Machine God and other exploration teams. And just after the dispatch was completed, they found new opponents.

The one who summoned the dead sought him out, Aina, and Gar...

Instead, he headed in the direction of the Dragon Worship Cult team.

"Want to wait for work? Don't even think about it. Either you don't fight, or you have to fight!"

boom! Garr unreasonably hit the direction of Ethan, 'Ian', Anfa and 'Xio' at several times the speed of sound. He was so powerful that he was obviously fighting against a strong man with similar strength to himself. It made him extremely excited.

The sharp sword light was accompanied by the almost materialized storm blade erupting in Garr's hand, turning into a metal storm, covering his body. For a moment, only a huge storm blade ball could be seen, heading towards Everyone immediately 'smashed it down'!

As Garr charged, the storm blade ball became larger and larger, and the countless rotating sword lights were like rain in the storm, falling on the four of them irresistibly.

But for some reason, Isengard and Anfa did not feel any danger - although they took action to resist the counterattack, the light of the swords slashing in their direction were all phantoms, even the one disguised as Xio The first-level Anfa prosthetic body safely exited the range of Garr's sword light.

What is virtual must be real. Since the lights of their swords in these three directions are all virtual, it means...

"What are you doing, targeting me?"

Xiou's face, disguised as Ian, changed slightly. It wasn't that she couldn't block the knife, but how to block it in a way that fit Ian's personality and abilities was the real focus!

Therefore, she can only retreat now!

Use your strong mental power to see through the direction of every sword light, use the powerful dragon soul of the real dragon to analyze the flaws of all Garr's attacks, and then retreat without stopping!

In an instant, Xio retreated nearly a kilometer, while Garr's attacks were as continuous as a high-altitude wind that could sweep across the entire continent. They were continuous and extremely powerful, even though they were a kilometer away, they only had a slight pause.

But just when Xiou's heart tightened, thinking that Garr was planning to change his moves and use stronger power, the young Khan frowned and jumped back a step, and walked around Xiou suspiciously: " Ian Yinfeng... one of the most powerful geniuses of the younger generation of the empire. He has superb swordsmanship and extremely powerful sublimation skills. He can defeat the blood heirs of the Ten Kings with one strike... I have seen your battle videos, It’s so amazing, it’s one of the three goals I must challenge this time.”

"But now, I am very disappointed." He said this, raising his chin slightly, and said in a low voice: "Why can you only dodge? Why don't you draw your sword?"

"Are you looking down on me, or do you think this situation is not worth fighting for?"

At this point, the Khan's youngest son said rather arrogantly: "If that's really the case, then show me your true swordsmanship, and I'll give you whatever price you want."

"We are enemies inside the ruins, but I keep my promise outside the ruins. The blood descendants of the Royal Court never lie."

"..."

Xiou really hopes that she can imitate Ian and say something, but as a self-aware true dragon, she knows very well that if she doesn’t want to be exposed, it’s best not to say a word, and she must maintain this coldness. Mysterious style…

"wrong."

But just when Xiou was still thinking about how to imitate Ian better, Gaar suddenly said sharply: "You are not Ian - who are you?"

"Where is the real Ian?!"