Steel steam and flame

There were already people from the One or Two Star Academy who had gotten up early outside the training ground. Ye Jielin and A Tuohuan left at this time and went to the military school's large airport hidden in the Blanco Mountains. There are airships there that can be activated at any time all year round. This time it is a collective action. All students from Samsung College will take the airship to the edge of the southern forest.

By coincidence, I met the disguised Hessler at the entrance.

Waving the identity card in front of Ye Jielin, Cassia had already prepared everything before leaving. And Hessler also grasped the time just right, just when the airship was about to take off. Even if the Holy Church and the Rose and the Rose Knights were aware of it, it was not possible to catch up with the time.

"This time Dafan won't form a team with you. When I reach my destination, I have to find a place to hide. If you run into trouble, you can also contact me and I will rush over depending on the situation. But the real situation at that time It'll probably be the other way around. Let's see how many people can be attracted to my place. I don't think you like passive defense, Ye Jielin."

"Of course, I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation in the near future. I also have a lot of things that I need to ask those people personally. If we don't solve the problem from the source now, after we leave the military school, these people may make even bigger moves. After all, by then, Without the natural protection of the military school, it seems that Cassia really has nowhere to go."

When the faint sound of the whistle reached the building through the mountain and protective glass, Bolei was leaning against the window and smoking. Himya was sitting at the table, and because he was bored, he didn't know where to find a few books from Bordeaux's office and read them out.

A photo fell out of it, and Xemiah looked at it carefully before recognizing that the person in the photo was Bili when he was young. The location seemed to be in a military base, and he had an imperceptible smile on his face. , a palm-sized medal of honor was held in his hand.

"When you were young, you looked quite..." Himya didn't want to say the next word, "but now you seem to have completely changed. By the way, where is this medal? It seems to be a very tall person in the empire. It’s a medal of honor for your rank, how come you’ve never seen it before?”

"It's not a good habit to rummage through other people's things." Budi stubbed out his cigarette butts, walked over and took out the photo from Xemiah's hand, took a look at it and said, "I sold it a long time ago. This seems to be from the war more than sixty years ago. At the end of the period, I was short of money at that time. Although the material of this kind of medal was not valuable, it was genuine at least. Some nobles and collectors could offer very high prices. In order to accommodate the families of comrades who died during the war, So I sold it. At that time, the internal liquidation of the empire and the war were going on at the same time. People like us would be more or less involved in bad relationships with some people anyway. It would be better if we survived. If we didn’t survive, those who relied on the war to rise to power There are many ways for people to disappear without us noticing.”

Shrugging his shoulders, there was no fluctuation in his words: "It was originally a special team. In the end, either they are all alive and can look after each other in the future, or they are all dead and there is nothing left. There are still very few situations like mine. of."

Himia is obviously very interested in Bolei's past. As the head coach of the military school and a major general in the empire and the military, the stories and experiences behind him will definitely be exciting. But Bie clearly had no intention or intention of talking about this.

"Instead of being curious about this, you should think about what those people will do next. There is no news at all, and the relationship with the old professors has also been discovered. All sources of news can be said to be cut off. We still don’t know what the situation is outside. . Only now do I feel that I really hope that your clan leader can come back early. If you are locked up in the building like this, your body will be full of rust. "

"Do you really think that after the patriarch comes back, this matter can be ended quickly?"

"So you are still too young. Although you are almost forty or fifty years old, you still have little experience and have never seen what the empire was like during the war. War is the most effective way to destroy all rights that I know of so far. Regarding networks and institutions, you must also have full confidence in your family and clan leader. Being among the four forces, perhaps the surrounding environment has blinded your eyes. Without an emergency, no one will truly reveal themselves. Powerful. Just like a high-level surgeon, who would show the surgical project they have developed to others without any problem? "

"At least from my experience, the Far Sea Commonwealth and the Flame Alliance, or the Left Prime Minister Continent and the Right Prime Minister Continent behind them, have not really freed their hands from some affairs. This situation in the empire will always remain. After all, It is the King of Knights, who has completely separated from human beings and has become another second type of creature. And because of its evolutionary characteristics, its power level is higher than that of most dragons. In some cases, those who live around the three The giant whales in the endless sea around the continent, your clan leader can also live with them as equals."

"It's just that we all have to hurry up. After all, after the knight squire assessment begins, there are only seven years left before the Red Star comes, and the time left for us is only five years."

"Will the heavy rain that floods the world drive all the steel machines to meet again at the same place and at a given time?" Himia said this sentence like a sigh.

"Which book is it in? I seem to have heard it before."

"I don't know either. I have read it before, but now I have forgotten which book it is."

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Most of the surrounding plants died in just a few days, but a very few survived. Cassia witnessed their amazing changes in a short period of time.

The vegetation on the mountains has completely changed, with withering and vitality crowded together. Inside the cave network, the light of fluorescent moss gradually begins to replace the role of lamps to a certain extent. Similar to his own situation, everything that didn't die in the mutation a few days ago gained magical powers.

The fact that the cave that could accommodate two or three adults passing through at the same time was completely blocked in front of him was enough to prove this point. The thick moss has turned into tree-like plants, and the reproduction speed can only be described as astonishing. While structures similar to tree branches have evolved, more are shaped like vines, spreading wider on the moist mountain walls.

The feeling of entering the cave network is more like walking inside a huge creature.

There were no side effects at all in the following days, and Cassia could only attribute the credit to the two jars of concentrated dragon blood. When I stepped into the spacious underground space in the mountain again, changes had taken place there.

The cracks on the dragon stone carvings have increased a lot, and some of the stone skin has fallen off, revealing the metallic flowing silver material underneath. The stone sun that was bitten in the mouth also revealed its true form. It is roughly like a sphere made of metal, but it is more like a rolled-up hedgehog shape, with a dozen or so raised silver-white hexagonal cylinders inserted incompletely upside down. Most of the hexagonal prism is exposed to the air, because Cassia can clearly see the empty slot cavity on the ball.

It should be some kind of generating device or energy conversion device, Cassia guessed. The shape can be compared to the energy conversion machine he purchased not long ago, and the tubes are put into the machine in roughly the same shape to provide stable power.

Is it a device that provides stable energy to the cave network? Or does the sphere have other functions?

Standing under the ball, I had the same feeling as being penetrated by the hazy white light a few days ago, but my body's resistance was enhanced, and I no longer had to worry about the physical effects of the hazy white light. This is where the "germs" come from. If you look closely, you can see that those silver-white hexagonal prisms are already covered with pits and pits. After a long period of erosion, perhaps their strength has been lost to only a little bit. But even a little bit is enough to make Cassia feel magical or scared.

If it weren't for that sudden muffled sound, the hazy white light would definitely continue to spread. It is not certain whether the blockade of the entire mountain can be broken through. But Cassia, who was so close at the time, was certainly not immune to the danger of being shrouded in white light again.

Even though his whole body was covered with scales at that time, the strong desire to spit out the heat accumulated in his chest might later drag Cassia's body completely down in the cave network.

In the hall space, apart from the stone carvings, on the flat ground, facing the dragon carvings, a circular stone slab was removed, and a spiral stone staircase appeared, leading to the deeper mountain below the hall. That huge muffled sound might be the sound of the stone slab being moved away.

At the edge of the spiral stone staircase, Cassia discovered the mark left by Grote.

Standing at the entrance of the spiral staircase, Cassia could no longer think of any idea of ​​taking a step forward. This may be the last mark, and the second-generation holy sword used as a bargaining chip may be lying quietly underneath. But the removal of the stone slab seemed to have broken some restrictions. Waves of intertwined turbulent feelings surged out crazily through this stairwell, shaped like a fountain with huge pressure, and directly hit Cassia's body.

Cassia remembers that feeling, it is impossible to forget, and she cannot forget it. Brino's memory will always be with Cassia until he transcends or dies. These strange feelings are exactly the same as in the Brino region, the only difference is in quantity.

Blinuo was absolutely single, but here, it was a group, or a number that could not be eliminated in a short time.

The place connected by the spiral staircase is where a group of dragons sleep. Thinking of their strangely white bones, Cassia thought it might be a good idea to treat them as a cemetery.