Book VIII, Chapter 40

"Orca......" Lovian cautiously leaned in Orca's direction.

Orka nodded, signaling that she heard him.

"Why, why did you choose to go to the Dark City with us, you know...... Mercedes should be there too, I'm afraid she won't be very friendly to you. ”

Orka nodded.

"Why don't you choose to follow Joshua's arrangement, separate from us at Evado, and be escorted to the Minnar Forest by their men? ”

"Lowe ......" Orka's voice was like some kind of fragile silverware, with a certain sense of illusion that could be broken at the touch of a button, "Lowe thinks about Orka too complicated......"

"Because, because of Siu?"

"Orca...... ...... with Black Wings Resurrection ......," Orka said indistinctly in a voice he could barely hear, "it worked...... Next...... Find him...... Believe...... Only Orca ......"

Lowe leaned in, but Orka's frightening sense of vulnerability forced him to keep a short distance from Orka.

"Okay, then...... Don't be too far away from us during this time in the Dark City. Lovian pondered for a long time, but still couldn't find anything better than this.

It was dark, not because the bright sun moving westward was dimmed in the clouds or time, but because the elements of this world respected the Dark City.

The wind of the dark element blew into the depths of the Dongdu Forest Sea, and the vast forest sea under the porthole fell into a blurry darkness with star blue. Although it was still daytime, a dark blue canopy had been gently scattered in the arc-shaped sky when it looked from above. This is the backdrop of the stars in the southern sky in the middle of the day. Even the dazzling sun trembled in this layer of mystical dark blue dark element. It also erased her scorching ingredients, transforming into a wheel of light in the dome that emitted a soft golden light. Twinkling and unfamiliar stars dotted the vast blue sky. The projection was unprecedentedly clear, as if the blue-green light of the stars had transmitted vertical shadows, and accurately clicked on the outermost part of the dark city that was already not far away and reflected the polished surface like diamonds.

The sheer flicker of the dark city immersed in the sea of dark elements was covered in a dreamlike mist of light, and the scattered seven-colored light sprinkled out of the dark city like crystal fragments along a fountain that did not exist in the zài, and then shook in the light of the falling stars, reflecting pieces of dazzling brilliance.

In this sea of art beyond a qiē light, the vegetation shimmering with the luster of different colors of life is clustered in this calm plain, and the arc-shaped spiral strings of light are lit up in the ordinary lush forest sea, in the slow floating path. It gradually thinned and faded, and finally at the moment when it touched the stars, it turned into the purest transparency, decomposing the vague whispers of the stars in their slumber, decomposing the already mysterious and indescribable starlight into a more surreal soul-like brilliance, leaving a layer of background between the blue sea of stars and the green sea of forests that plunged a qiē reality and fantasy into a torrent of illusions.

In the turbulent blue world, the green forest sea blends with the starry sky at the horizon, drawing a flat Möbius ring in the surrounding world, outlining the end of the world with a mathematically perfect arc. The diamond-polished straight lines then radiate outward at each tangent of the surface gradient, depicting the smooth dome at the sharpest right angles in a dimension beyond three dimensions. Countless scatters are then reconvered, creating the geometric center of the dark city condensed in the center of the hazy dream fantasy world, complemented by pure white light from the outside world. The dark city, which symbolizes the beauty of darkness, is explained with light to explain the most perfect meaning.

Unknown form, prophetic soul, this is the amazing thing about the dark city.

Lovian looked at the most intriguing bits of pure brightness in the West. Under that light, there is the dark city of the elves in the light and dark twin cities.

"Your Highness is the first time you've come to the true center of Dongdu Linhai, right?" Joshua changed into a demon-style dress at this moment. This makes his demon traits even more obvious. Dressed in such a straight demon race, it is indeed rare in this era when the demon race has declined, and it can't help but cause a whisper of several human races around, especially the long-lived elf and demon clans.

Lovian did not accuse Joshua of the word "His Highness" this time. He just sighed and said: "If the elven clan had joined the battle back then, I'm afraid that the end of the Guardian War would have been much simpler, of course, the ending history has already proven." ”

Joshua stood a little behind Lovian, holding the railing in front of him with both hands, "I don't know how many times I've been to the Dark City, and each time I can see a different color from it." Maybe that's the charm of the Dark City, it won't give you familiarity, but it won't give you a strange feeling either. ”

Then his gaze looked down, and Lovian followed his gaze, a little surprised to find that the forest paths paved with crystal shards in the jungle were now crowded with elves who had converged on the Dark City from all directions. It's just elves, and there's hardly any alien race in sight. The elves were all smiling and talking to each other, seemingly unconcerned about what didn't seem to match the silence and peace of the Darkcity.

Lovian immediately thought of his own statement of Mercedes, and used the relatively independent village collective to put pressure on the Light and Dark Twin Cities, and finally forced the Twin Cities to be unable to hide the reality of the secret manipulation of Harmaniya, so as to peacefully make the power truly take over from the hands of the Twin Cities family, as the beginning of the restoration of the golden cherry blossoms.

"There's always something unexpected going on. Luo Weian smiled, this is not actually the scenario he thought, he is more inclined to the condemnation of the dark city by public opinion, it seems that he does not understand much about the pacifism of the elves, but also because of the peaceful attitude of the elves, it must not be as difficult as he imagined to recover the twin cities.

"If I can, I'd like to be able to bring Snow Foam here once and let her see every corner of Osilia when things are done. Lovian quickly took his mind off the course of business and returned to light-hearted conversations.

"I heard your daughter's name is Semiria?" Joshua laughed, "'Full Blue Moon,' nice mood." Let me comment if needed. I think it will be a name that inherits the glory. ”

Lovian smiled, "I didn't expect you to compliment me like this - in fact, this name was chosen by herself...... Although I am not her biological father, I hope that Guò and Xiaoxue will cooperate. Let me learn new responsibilities faster...... Responsible giving and reaping is the only way to live - this sentence is something I said casually one day. Then I didn't know why I went to the textbook. ”

Joshua smiled as well, and then quietly walked away from Orka, who appeared behind him, for such a Grim Reaper-level figure who was famous both in the past and in the present, it was impossible not to say that he was a little afraid.

Orka calmly stood in Joshua's original position, and Orka, who was also visiting the Dark City for the first time, gazed at this architectural marvel with a calm and frozen expression. Joshua waited for the conversation between the two demons to end, but a few minutes passed, and except for a few whispers from Francis and Lovian, Orka still appeared as a shadow in the most visible corner of the line as usual.

So Joshua chose what he thought was the calmest time for Orca and said tentatively, "Actually...... Your Highness. Your wings are at all—"

"- Get your visas ready, everyone. Luo Wei'an didn't know that he was deliberately interrupting the dark city that was still looking forward to the details that were about to unfold in front of their eyes, and greeted everyone who seemed to have some negative feelings from beginning to end.

The flying ship melted straight into the misty mist, and in an instant, the diamond-like crystal and incomparably hard refractive surface rippled a little on the bow of the flying ship. The ripples spread rapidly, turning the hard plane into a sinusoidal surface in an instant. In the turbulent fluctuations between the peaks and troughs, the flying ship was pushed into the dream border, and the boatman was brought into a new dreamland.

If beyond the diamond-like haze is a combination of fantasy and dreams, this is a world where surreal and paratechnology merge. The elves who control the subtlety of life magic are vividly expressed in the core of the dark city.

"—Lord Irene, ......," Mastma whispered in shock.

The so-called Dark City. It is not a composition of heavy walls and countless bricks and stones as the concept of the Terrans and other intelligent races, but a whole—a flying whole—a whole full of life......

Countless crystal-colored huge platforms are suspended in the space from the ground to an altitude of 700 meters, and thousands of star sand and Milky Way waterfalls fall from the golden cherry blossom sculpture at the highest point, and the soft and phaseless water flows from the top to the bottom. The soothing sound of water cascades down the edge of each crystal platform and runs through the Dark City. The dark city shrouded in dark light exudes a distant and mysterious illusory atmosphere through this fantastic starlight and galactic lucid, and the crystal platform that slowly moves in parallel on the invisible plane magnifies this qiē illusory existence infinitely.

The waterfall that falls to the lowest point will stop when it comes into contact with the leaftops of what appears to be a vegetation made of light beneath the Dark City. It is then perfectly spread along the plane, using light and water elements to form the lowest and most extensive first platform. Just when the world of water is about to come into contact with the diamond mist. The interweaving of starlight and the Milky Way corresponds to the projection of the stars, climbing upwards. It calmly contrasts with the rolling diamond haze and then absorbs the roots of the golden cherry blossom tree sculpture that seems to be dotted with stars on the top floor.

The countless platforms are not supported by the wind elemental or the flowing earth elemental, like other suspended cities, but by the life element, which is more outstanding than the world's dominant magic system. In the crystal plate floating with huge life element totems and symbols, there seemed to be the inaudible and invisible life element, which was not as coherent and gentle as the water element, but divided into bubbling and lovely bubbles like the fish in the water, and wriggled together in a certain direction.

This is an incomparably huge life magic array, supporting the entire dark city to make it levitate the life magic, and each platform is every hub of the dark city, on the platform, the root system is directly rooted and the cherry blossom trees on the crystal plate are scattered with large patches of colorful cherry blossom rain, accompanied by the falling star chips in the sky, one after another fluttering down, in the crystal platform like a pulse beating, along the wind pressure arc of the field line, quietly falling in front of everyone.

There isn't even as much vegetation here as there are in the elven villages outside. However, the breath of life here is no longer necessary for the harmony of vegetation, and this is the pure land of life.

Each layer of crystal platforms. They are paved with a variety of buildings that are not only elven styles, but also have various alien styles. Pedestrians walking between the crystal platforms. In addition to the neatly dressed elves, there are also many human races, and in the corners of the flower rain, the demon spirit clan and the fairy spirit clan can also be seen everywhere. Even around the corner of these crystal platforms, there is a demon bard who is stroking the harp and singing.

But their gaze was instantly blocked by a tall elf standing in front of them at some point, and the hooded elf stretched out a hand in a white glove and waved it at them.

Although the gesture was a bit frivolous, Lovian didn't feel the slightest hint of disrespect. In a world where elemental perception has been obscured by the elemental element, he still believes that it is not a mistake to respect every elf.

Lovian emerges from the shock of the Dark City. Just wanted to find the golden visa in his arms, Orka, who had been silent, stood silently in front of him, and took off his hood behind him, revealing a pair of beautiful silver braids.

"Long time no see, Elven King Mercedes. ”

The dark elements and light elements hidden in the fluctuations of various life elements were suddenly forcibly extracted by this elf and demon clan, and the sparks generated by the annihilation fluctuations of the elements ionized the surrounding oxygen, and the pungent smell of ozone rushed towards him.

Mercedes' long, slender eyes narrowed slightly. Looking at the old enemy in front of him. At this moment, Orka, whose strength had only recovered seven or eight tenths, looked at this once powerful enemy with a smile that did not have any sense of threat.

"How daring, Lord of the Lovian Legion. Mercedes said coldly, the blonde hair twigs trembling slightly, "Do you know how much you will pay for what you want me to do? I don't need any further commitment from you!"

Lovien patted Mastma's wrist lightly, motioning for her not to continue to unleash her hostility. "All I want to do is let Orka take a break from the limelight in your dark city, and then I hope I can sort out the matter of my wings - lucky. My wings were back, but he didn't seem to like me very much. ”

"No need to talk about the matter with Orka. Mercedes shook off a sentence. I was about to turn around.

"If not, then face Halmaniya. I'll give you a hand. Lovian added.

"Do you know who Halmaniah is?"

"I know. Lovian sighed, "Orka's wound can only be healed by the Elven royal family in all of Osiria...... I'm not familiar with any other elves, and even if I know anyone other than you, I can't afford to match their appetite. We can't change the past, so why not try to change the present and the future? After all, you know, the Second Patriotic War is not an illusion, its reality is approaching, and this time, our strength will be much weaker than before, maybe Orka really ...... How about you just invest once with your principles?"

Lovian said in a tone that couldn't have been more serious, and then shoved the Mercedes' Oak Leaf Space Ring into her hand.

The surrounding elves and travelers of other races did not notice that the king, whose influence had finally begun to spread to all elves, was standing in their midst, and the brief conversation between them did not attract their attention. Only the moment the royal aura released by Mercedes turned around made the elves around him stiffen for a moment, and even Joshua and Violet, who were half elven blood, were a little dazed by this aura.

"Let's go," Mercedes walked briskly through a curtain of light formed by the convergence of starsand, "in three months, Harmunia will be tempted to pop out, and you, you, and Captain Orca, stay there quietly." She threw them a card with an illusory three-dimensional map of the dark city suspended on it, indicating a location, "Because of the housing prices, there are many ownerless empty houses in the center of the city, so it is cheaper for a few of you." Except for the accommodation, you will take care of the rest of the expenses yourself, and you will not be accompanied...... But Brady Mone, I need you to be available. ”

The corners of Mastma's mouth twitched, and he was about to get angry, but he was stopped by Luo Weian, "I'm under the eaves...... Who would have thought that the guy who came to beg me would be able to fight against me. ”

Mercedes's shadow was no longer visible under the layers of water, and her voice was still as clear as if it sounded in their ears: "--Cybaneswan, I will go to you once the day after tomorrow, whether I can solve your so-called problem or not is none of my business." ”

What surprised them even more was Orka's answer, her purple eyes, which were so calm that there were no waves, fluctuated slightly for a moment, and then her cool voice passed far away: "Thank you, thank you for not choosing to be Orka's enemy this time." Liang's voice passed far away: "Thank you, thank you for not choosing to be Orka's enemy this time." (To be continued......)