Northlands of the Empire, Moldavia, south of the Great Ajax Mountains, dwarven enclave. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Starfall 832, March 1, 9:45 a.m.

A rather young-looking mage stood in front of the lava lake with a brown wooden staff in hand, watching his teacher levitate above the golden magma, constructing a vast and intricate space-time magic.

In front of his eyes, the white-haired old mage in a gold-patterned robe smoothly manipulated the dark blue space-time runes, combining them into one after another shining magical characters, which turned into spatial nodes, repelling the surrounding fire elements, and then rooted in the void, connecting the space of the other world.

As the huge magic power was drawn, the dark blue door was opened little by little - but it was actually not effortless to open it, and it could even be said that it did not take any effort at all, in fact, what the old mage did was to suppress the endless expansion of this space-time gate.

"When fully unfolded, with a radius of seven hundred meters, such a huge space-time gate, even the underground dwarf gathering place will be greatly affected."

Gently sighing, the young mage looked at his teacher with admiring eyes: "If it weren't for the teacher's restraint, the space-time gate that unfolded instantly after activation would cause unimaginable terrible geological changes." ”

The mage's name is Loraine, and his teacher is none other than the Empire's chief archmage, Nostradamus.

The twenty-one-year-old mage had been studying at the Royal Mage Academy for eight years, and today, along with thirty-one of his classmates, he had come to assist Nostradamus in exploring the space-time portal and maintaining the space-time portal.

These thirty-two people, all of whom were the most faithful disciples of Nostradamus, were basically born from commoners and poor families, and none of them were nobles. Even if they don't have the money to buy materials for spell experiments and magic books, they have relied on their own talent and hard work, and they have worked hard without excellent bloodlines, and now they all have silver-level strength, in a sense, they can be said to be geniuses.

A few days ago, Nostradamus hurried to the school, and openly summoned them, the children of the common people, and said that they would go to the Black Forest in the Northland for a field internship to observe the consequences of chaos erosion up close - of course, this internship must be credits and year-end grades, and if you perform well, you can also apply for scholarships first.

Needless to say, everyone was immediately attracted by this excellent condition, and in an instant, the team of thirty-two people was full.

In the warmer weather, they crossed many levels, the ones reinforced by the winter black tide had not yet been completely evacuated, and they saw the various legions stationed in the various fortresses, and the heroic military posture made the hearts of these civilian mages soar.

Of course, if a commoner wants to quickly improve his status, he can only rely on military merit, if he has made great achievements, he can even be knighted quickly, and eighty percent of the nobles of the empire come from this, and the major legions are the places where these mages will work after graduation in the future.

With flying magic and teleportation spells, it only took them a few days to reach the southern part of the Great Ajax Mountains, where the rune dwarves of the North were gathered.

Of course, they all knew that this kind of sudden field trip was certainly not really to observe some sample of chaos erosion - this kind of subject was not something they could study at all, their teacher was just making an excuse, and Nostradamus quickly gave them the real purpose of their visit to the Northlands.

Find the space-time portal.

The old mage roughly explained the cause and effect to his students - it was roughly the lord of Moldavia in the North, the guardian of an ancient elven clan in the Far South and the leader of the dwarves here who disappeared here for no reason, most likely because of the sudden opening of the space-time gate, and now they need to find the space-time gate that may cause them to cross as soon as possible, and then search and rescue them.

"That, teacher...... How long have they been missing? What are their occupations? ”

"Two days or so, one golden druid, two golden warriors."

Ha, two barbarian professions, and an environmentalist who doesn't understand the subtleties of magic.

Luo Lan sighed in his heart, if the three golden mages were involved in the space-time gate, they might have relied on the local magic materials to reconstruct the space-time gate and came back.

Those who can understand the mysteries of time and space are really only our mages!

In any case, after going back and forth several times, the mages led by Nostradamus finally determined the location of the space-time gate and established a binding circle.

At this time, it was the time when the old mage was about to open the space-time door.

The magic circle was activated, and the thirty-two silver-level mages gathered their strength, cooperating with Nostradamus to connect the corridors between the dimensions, so that the dark blue door slowly opened, and the majestic chaotic aura spread instantly, however, the mages who had been prepared for a long time had [Purification Shield] on their sides as a barrier, but they were not disturbed, but the lava lake in front of them began to quickly cool down and condense the moment they touched the chaotic aura, turning into gray-black rock.

After the space-time gate opened, several mages left the circle, dressed in full magical equipment, ready to go to the other world to search for the missing people.

However, before they could enter, as time and space fluctuated, two figures appeared in the dark blue door.

Accompanied by the golden fighting energy and the green power of nature, Cleel and Moriah quickly passed through the space-time passage and landed on the already condensed magma.

"Nostradamus, it's you!"

The old dwarf seemed to be an acquaintance with the old mage, and after landing from the space-time gate, he looked up and saw Nostradamus floating in mid-air, maintaining the magic circle, and immediately smiled and said hello, "I disappeared quite quickly." ”

"Thank you." The elf was not as big as Moria, and she knew the old mage, but she didn't say much, just bowed slightly to express her gratitude.

"Don't talk nonsense, Moria, Joshua - is that the human lord?"

His two old friends returned so quickly, which made Nostradamus a little surprised, but more happy, but he looked back and forth for a long time, but still didn't find the third shadow, so he frowned and asked suspiciously: "You are all back, why is he gone?" ”

"He said he had something to do, so he left the team halfway through, and now he doesn't know where to go."

This is Moria's answer.

"This family!"

The faint blue light was bright and dark, and the majestic power was vibrating, Nostradamus and his students tried their best to maintain the space-time gate, and he said a little angrily: "The big space-time gate here is tidal in nature, it opens and closes with the surge of magic, and the next time it opens, it will be at least a day later." ”

"If he doesn't come now, he will have to wait for tomorrow!"

On the side, Luo Lan, who was assisting in maintaining the space-time gate, took a breath.

The space-time gate in front of him contained a power that was beyond everyone's imagination, and in order to calculate its space-time characteristics, everyone present felt that their heads were not enough, even if the magic circle was presided over by an Extreme Mage, it also made them feel quite pressured by silver-level mages.

"What the hell are you doing, this lord!"

Exhausted, Luo Lan couldn't help but start to hate this lord who hadn't yet appeared: "It's obviously a warrior who can't even build his own space-time gate, and his return is still so slow, the space-time passage won't wait for anyone!" ”

In the other world, the rotten and dead wind is constantly blowing from the space-time channel, although the external energy in it is eliminated by the shield, but the smell of this air makes everyone feel very bad, but the dwarves and elves are a little emotional, they feel that the environment has finally become better, and they are a lot more comfortable.

"No, if it goes on like this, the tide of time and space will recede, and even I won't be able to hold the opening of the space-time gate!"

Nostradamus could feel that his physical strength was rapidly decreasing, and this was a sign that the tide of time and space was slowly receding.

Not only that, but the old mage also sensed the erosion of a trace of chaotic aura.

Another five minutes passed.

A gasp was heard.

The tide of time and space has almost completely retreated, and the help of nature has disappeared, and now, the power required by such a huge space-time gate really makes the mages a little unable to hold on-

The space-time gate, which had originally expanded to a diameter of thirty meters, was slowly shrinking, and Nostradamus was slowly closing the space-time gate little by little.

I can only wait for tomorrow. He thought with some regret.

But suddenly, contrary to the previous smell of decay and death, a fresh wind of order emerged from the shrinking space-time channel

Everyone was stunned.

It feels ...... How is it the exact opposite of what it used to be?

But the space-time passage is still slowly closed, and the power of the crowd can no longer be maintained.

The wind of order grew stronger, and Nostradamus's heart tightened.

The Chaos Keeper has the power of purification, and on the other side of the space-time passage, it must be Joshua who is coming quickly, but the space-time gate is about to close, and the warrior must be too late!

"Zizi."

The piercing sound of space-time sounded, and the space-time gate became smaller and smaller, shrinking to the point that people could no longer enter, and seeing this scene, dwarves and elves couldn't help but sigh.

"Looks like Joshua is going to have to wait another day."

"Why don't you come over here?"

The mages present were all very upset - will they come again tomorrow?

They thought that they had wasted so many days in the Northland, and their time was precious, even if they had credits and year-end grades in return, they couldn't waste it like this!

Loren thought the same thing, he had already begun to regret a little that he had left his spell experiments behind and came to the Northland with his teacher to do such meaningless things.

Nostradamus, on the other hand, was a little puzzled, believing that Joshua was not the kind of person who deliberately made others worry about waiting.

But what the hell did he do?

Rumble!

There was a trembling sound, and the space-time gate seemed to be completely closed.

But everyone's eyes did not spread, but all focused on one point.

Originally, where the space-time gate was located, there was a finger hanging in the void, and around him, the dark blue ripples vibrated rapidly.

The finger slid slowly, and the space-time portal expanded.

In the silent gaze of everyone, the part of the finger that the owner entered into this world grew larger and larger.

One palm

Arm.

Half a body.

"Open it for me!"

Because of penetrating the space-time channel, some muddy sounds came, and the violent shock accompanied by the red impact rushed out of a large hole in the space-time gate, and the figures of Joshua and Rin appeared in front of the stunned everyone.

The fresh wind of order and the corrupt wind of chaos were mixed, and the source of the power of order was none other than Joshua, who was holding Rin in one hand and the blue-purple rune core in the other, his face a little tired.

Ignoring the shocked eyes of the others, Joshua just frowned and looked at the small piece of silver-white crystal in his hand that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and was now burning.

【Fragments of Burning Steel】

(To be continued.) )