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A massive complex of buildings rises from the plain.
The complex is made up of about a dozen main buildings, all of which are built of solid stone, the tallest of which is about seven or eight meters high, in the shape of a fortress, with fortifications such as watchtowers and arrow towers. Although the other buildings are only two or three meters high, they have a large footprint, and when they are connected, they are almost the size of a small city.
On the periphery, a solid stone wall was laid, and guard towers were set up at intervals.
However, the construction of this small city has not yet been completed, and from a distance, you can still see countless workers clinging to the city walls like ants, working hard. Their work efficiency and speed are very amazing, and the changes of each section of the city wall are almost in minutes, and you can clearly see the changes in the small city.
When Sean followed Iger here, there was only a dark look of shock on his face.
Those who are toiling are none other than the supposedly undying puppets of magical buildings.
These puppets are a special product left over from the Dawn Era, and every hundred corpses are a group unit, and as soon as the construction drawings are transmitted, they will immediately start the construction work, and they will not stop until the construction of the building blueprint is completed. However, these building puppets are also very expensive things, basically as long as one of them is damaged, the work efficiency of the entire group unit will be severely impacted, and it is even very likely that it will be unusable.
In the entire realm of the Wonder Continent, it is known that buildings were built by magical architectural golems. There is only the fortress of Tonys.
It is said that a total of thousands of magical building golems were used at the beginning, and it took more than three years to finally complete the construction.
But after that. The magical architectural golems vanished as if they had never existed. Even the mysterious figure who controlled the architectural puppets disappeared from everyone's sight. This made many nobles who wanted to fight these architectural puppets at that time chagrin - after all, compared to these thousands of architectural puppets, offending Asuna was not a big deal at all, at least in the eyes of those Ryan nobles, as long as sufficient compensation was given afterwards.
However, perhaps the mysterious man who helped Asuna build the Tonis Fortress was well aware of the construction of the puppets, which is why the completion of the Tonis Fortress was scheduled for midnight. When it was completely completed, he took those architectural puppets and completely disappeared from everyone's sight, leaving Asuna and the others with only the completed Tonys Fortress.
This cannot be said to be the cowardice of that mysterious figure.
After all, the purpose of building golems was to save labor when building a city. It is not for combat purposes, so these architectural golems cannot be used for combat at all. If a battle does break out, these building golems will basically have to be destroyed, and it will not even be possible to fight back.
Sean followed Egger's pace, he clearly saw the speed of construction of the entire town, and judging from the current situation, the entire town could be completely completed by tomorrow afternoon. And this is only the result of two days of investing in the construction of the two group puppets, compared to the result of three years of thousands of construction puppets in the Tonis Fortress. It's a lot easier.
"Almost all the buildings on our floating island are in charge of these building puppets." It seemed to see the shock in Sean's eyes, and there was also a strong sense of pride in Egger's eyes, "Even including the construction of the forward base when opening up some heterogeneous planes." It is also done quickly with the ability of the construction golem. ”
The function of building a puppet, Sean had heard of it.
But this is the first time I've seen it in person like this - even if it's in the game. Sean had never heard of anyone getting a group of building puppets, although he had heard of it individually. However, a single building golem can move things except for a little strength. It's just a matter of eggs.
Sean retracted his gaze and followed Iger into the city with a particularly retro atmosphere.
The architecture of the city is a style that Sean has never seen in reality. However, I have seen it in some ancient records. This is a typical style of the dawn era, not mainly practical, mainly beautiful, but after experiencing Ragnarok, the function of the city wall was developed, and therefore the current layout of the city wall construction.
In this city, Sean didn't see too many people, and along the way, he was basically a magical building puppet carrying various building materials. The few people on the floating island who are rarely encountered are mostly wary of Sean, rather than like the people of the earth, who will show a curious look about new things.
"Please forgive me, the situation on the floating island ......"
"I understand." Sean nodded, in understanding, and didn't say anything more.
Although he has been on the Floating Island for a short time, the people he has come into contact with so far are basically very wary and hostile to him, which Sean has become completely accustomed to. As long as these people didn't do anything hostile, Sean didn't plan to pay attention to it, even if it was a storage like Pirus, Sean didn't plan to keep his hands.
Soon, led by Egger, Sean was in the middle of the town.
It was a three-story fortress, and there were many people busy in the hall on the first floor, and judging by their costumes, it was obvious that they were also students from the Floating Sacred Academy. When these people saw Egger's arrival, they all got up and saluted, but when they saw Sean behind Egger, their expressions were also a little stunned, and many of them frowned bluntly, showing a look of disgust.
"What about Lord Siraen?" Iger ignored the reactions of these people and asked directly.
"In the conference hall on the second floor." One of the cadets replied, "All the vanguard teams have basically come to report except for you and Master Billus. Speaking of this, the student glanced at Sean cautiously, and then lowered his voice and said, "Lord Silarn seems to be very dissatisfied with the exploration information of the troops this time. ”
"Oh?" Iger raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong?"
"Loss...... Somewhat miserable. The student whispered, "And there don't seem to be many people transferred this time." The battle on the Qiufeng Plain was a little tight, and at least half of the manpower was dragged there. ”
"What's going on?" Iger frowned. "The war on the Qiufeng Plain, wasn't it a qiēshun lì when I handed over the war zone before? How can it be tight? It's Somya who leads the way, and the tactical class credits are second only to Alyssa and Levi......"
"I heard that Lord Buddales appeared on the Autumn Maple Plain......"
"Budares!?" Egg was stunned for a moment, "Are you sure?" ”
"Now that's what the outside world says." The student glanced left and right, and saw that many people were already looking sideways, and his voice was lowered a few points again, "It is said that Lord Somya has been angry several times. Therefore, the academy has transferred people from other places to reinforce the Qiufeng Plain, and I don't know the specific situation......"
Iger nodded understandingly.
In the capacity of this cadet. Certainly not qualified to participate in high-level meetings, naturally it is impossible to know so much content.
Iger turned around and greeted Sean, then waved for the other students to leave the free time first, while he led Sean to the second floor.
"Take me, is it appropriate?" Sean asked.
"Nothing out of place." Iger said lightly, "Syllain once competed with Levi for the first place in the academy rankings, but failed. After that, he turned down an external offer from the academy, so he was not in the top 10 of the academy, but don't doubt his strength. He was as uncrowned as Pyrus. ”
"The Uncrowned?" Sean heard a new term.
"It's about having the same strength as the top 10 members of the leaderboard." Iger explained, "However, although His Excellency Sila is about the same strength as Levy, his temper is not very good, so I can probably understand why the atmosphere here is so bad now." ”
Speaking of which. Egger glanced back at the students in the hall on the first floor, and seemed to understand the reason for their sullenness.
"I really understand the thoughts of you Floating Islanders." Sean shook his head helplessly, "Silarn and Levi are contenders. And then I was defeated by Lévy, and Lévy and I were friends again. …… And now you say that Syllain will not be hostile to me? ”
"We people on the Floating Island are different from you people from the realm." Iger said lightly. There was indescribable pride and pride in the tone.
Of course, Sean couldn't understand what this pride and pride was all about. However, the people of the floating island have such a good competitive relationship. It really makes Sean difficult to understand, because let alone in the Earth Realm, even in the game, or even in his real life in the Earth Federation, there is no such good competitive relationship as Zài, basically as long as it is competition, it will inevitably be hostile, even if the winner is decided afterwards, the relationship will not be restored.
"That's right." Sean decided, since he couldn't understand this kind of thinking, he simply didn't understand it, anyway, the soldiers came to block it, and the water came to cover it, "What's the matter with that called Bligh or something?" …… Why did your face suddenly become so ugly? ”
"It's Budares." Iger glanced at Sean and corrected him before he spoke, "Locke, I've already told you, right?" ”
"Don't you want to say that this one named Budales is also at the same level as Locke?" Sean was really surprised this time.
"Almost." Egg opened his mouth and said, "You should know about the partner system of the Floating Saint Academy, right?" ”
"In pairs?"
"Yes." Egg nodded, "The partner system is very free, allowing all the students of the Floating Saint Academy to partner on their own, of course, if they don't agree with each other's personalities or philosophies, they can naturally dissolve on their own." …… However, this system was advocated by Budales before it became widely available. ”
"Listening to what you mean, it's clear that this man named Budales is not good at fighting."
"Budales is a depository that was active more than a hundred years ago." Iger said in a deep voice, "His tactical credit was the first in history, with a whopping ninety-three points. However, this record has now been broken by Alyssa. …… But if it's really Budales, Somya will definitely not be an opponent, her tactical credit is only eighty-six, she is better at active strike tactics in the area behind enemy lines, in terms of large-scale operations, etc., Somya can only be said to be barely passing. ”
"I can probably imagine what kind of situation the Autumn Maple Plains is like now." Sean pursed his lips, he felt that if William came to the Floating Island, he might be able to get more tactical credits than Elisa, that guy had already reached the level of evil in the art of war.
But because of this, Sean couldn't understand what kind of monster that miracle god was.
When Egg led Sean to the door of the conference room on the second floor, he heard a roar coming from inside the door before he could reach out and knock on the door.
"What the hell is Somya doing, she was so suppressed that even the area that she snatched back before was occupied! …… Okay, let's leave Somya's affairs alone, after all, she is in charge of the Autumn Maple Plain, and she will explain the accident to the council chamber in the end. But now, sue me! What's going on with you? You didn't even find out the identity of the enemy, you lost so many people, and you couldn't find any information, are you really careful? ”
Sean finally understood what Iger was saying about Sirarn's bad temper. This roar was particularly shocking, and it seemed to use the ability of the Sanctuary, even if Sean heard it, he felt a roar in his ears, let alone those unlucky people who directly faced Xilain.
Egg sighed, then reached out and knocked on the door.
"Who is it!?" In the conference room inside the door, Schillarn, who was really scolding, did not stop, but continued to roar for a while before he opened his mouth to roar.
"It's me, Egger." Iger replied.
"Get in!" Siran's anger doesn't seem to be decreasing, but is rising, "I hope you can bring me good news. ”
Iger pushed open the door of the conference room, glanced at several companions in the conference room who were drooping their heads and looked pained, and then at Sylarn, who was dressed in military uniforms and had an angry face, before he spoke: "Your Excellency Sylar, I don't know if I brought good news. But I do already know who our opponent is this time. ”
"Who?"
"Locke." Iger took a deep breath before he said with an aura that looked like he was dying generously, "Locke of the Astral Plane. (To be continued......)