Chapter 317: The Heart of Elena, the People of Demonic Abyss
The forest fairy came to the human world from the kingdom of the creator god. She passed through the kingdom of the god of alchemy and desire, and passed through the jungle of the Sunrise Mountains.
Stepping out of the shadows of the jungle, the sun on the horizon shines over the entire Sunrise Land.
Although it is no longer early morning, it is still shocking and beautiful.
At a glance, there is an endless plain.
Cities, towns and villages.
Well-proportioned.
The fairy straightened the wreath on her head and held the box in front of her with both hands.
She looked at the mortal world in front of her and exclaimed.
"Wow!"
It was the first time that San Rafael saw so many houses and so many people.
She liked the green of the jungle just now, but she also liked the bustle of the town in front of her.
The Land of the Rising Sun was originally a human kingdom where a group of subordinates of Alsine, the mother of all snakes, migrated eastward and gradually multiplied. In the early days, it was completely in the wilderness and relied on hunting and fishing for a living.
Hundreds of years ago, the god Iva came and brought them faith and civilization.
For hundreds of years, the Land of the Rising Sun relied on the power of alchemists to gradually develop and grow, and it has achieved today's prosperity. If we only talk about wealth, the smallest Land of the Rising Sun has wealth comparable to Suinhor.
"oh!"
"It's so big here, there are so many people here, and so many strange animals."
"I like here."
The fairy Saint Raphael rushed down from a height and startled a group of tooth beasts raised by the shepherd.
The tooth beasts were frightened by this terrifying and strange two-legged creature, and screamed away into the distance, while Saint Raphael was laughing on the hillside.
"Hahahahaha!"
"what?"
"I'm not surprised. I look very ordinary, just like everyone else."
Saint Raphael seemed to be able to understand what these tooth beasts were thinking, and talked to them with his mouth flat, explaining that he was not surprised.
It's just that the other people in her words are difficult to define as "people" in the eyes of mortals.
But there was no way, she only saw so many people.
"Have feet?"
"Don't you have feet too?"
"You still have four legs, two more than me."
In a wooden house at the foot of the hillside.
When the herdsman raising the tooth beast heard the noise outside, he thought someone was coming to steal his tooth beast, so he immediately rushed out with a stick.
But he raised his head.
The herders saw an indescribably beautiful girl standing in the middle of the herd on the hillside.
She wears a wreath on her head and wears the kind of clothes that only gods can wear in the temple; she has the form of a god and can run very fast and nimble on her feet. She leads the toothed beasts to run around and makes sweet and sweet laughter.
.
Those fang beasts were not afraid of her, but chased around her skirt.
The stick in the snake herdsman's hand immediately fell to the ground, thinking that he was blinded.
After reacting, the herdsman immediately fell to the ground.
"god!"
"God~"
"God, I actually saw you."
"Did you hear my prayer, so you came to me and brought me blessings and good luck?"
Not long ago, the herdsman went to the town's shrine to donate money and prayed in front of the gods for good luck this year. He did not expect that it would come true so soon.
He suddenly regretted why he didn't make more wishes before.
You should make a wish to make a fortune this year.
It's just that he didn't consider that if the wish was too serious, it might not be effective.
He lay on the ground and babbled, speaking fragmented words due to emotion.
When he raised his head again, the "goddess" in his eyes had long disappeared.
The herdsmen drove the tooth beast back, and in the corner of the village, a group of people sat and discussed the matter.
The herdsmen were still very excited and dancing when they recalled it.
However, most of the villagers did not believe it.
"Have you seen a god?"
"How can it be."
"Blow it, blow it, I won't believe you."
A wandering trader carrying a box with groceries inside immediately felt something was wrong after hearing what the herdsman said.
"Is there a wreath on your head?"
"black hair?"
"That's not a god, that's a forest nymph, the messenger of the gods."
"Did you know that there is a rainbow tree in front of the Miracle Temple in the City of Lights? It is used by fairies to send messages."
Other villagers have also heard the story of the forest fairy and the rainbow tree: "I know, I know, I heard it is a tree full of colorful flowers, as beautiful as the rainbow in the sky."
Although it was not as outrageous as seeing a god, other villagers felt that this was more real, and instead believed the herdsman's words: "You are lucky, you can see the fairy."
The wandering trader nodded. He was also a believer. He believed in the Lord of Dreams and the God of Alchemy: "The fairy is the messenger of the gods and the messenger of the gods. Meeting her is also a sign of good luck."
"God will protect you."
The herdsman sat on the barrel and was so happy when he saw that everyone believed in his experience.
But he smiled, and then his face fell into memories again.
"You didn't see her, you didn't see the fairy look."
"That's really...so beautiful."
The villagers were immediately curious: "What is it like? Can you tell me about it?"
The herdsman wanted to say something to describe the beauty of the fairy, but he couldn't use those beautiful words to describe it like poets and scholars, so he could only say.
"She is a thousand times, ten thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful person you have ever seen."
After some people saw fairies on the rainbow tree, another legend about fairies spread to the world.
But this time I saw more than just one person.
Although Saint Raphael deliberately hides her figure, her careless character makes her sometimes unable to help but forget when she sees some beautiful scenes, allowing mortals to see her figure.
Along the way.
San Rafael saw all kinds of people, different buildings, and different cities.
Every city in the Land of the Rising Sun has a different style, makes different things, and has different laws because of different alchemists.
Some cities prohibit drinking alcohol, but use a large amount of bulbs and other plants to extract a fuel that can be used by alchemists to conduct various experiments.
The name of this city is the City of Black Fire. When San Rafael passes through this city, he often hears a bang and thick smoke billowing from the distance; however, the people in the city are not surprised at all, saying that it must be someone.
An alchemist's laboratory.
Some cities do not allow burial of people who died of illness. All snake-men who died of illness must be handed over to alchemists to study the cause of the disease. The alchemists in the city are all alchemists who are good at refining potions.
Saint Raphael passed through a city called Miracle City. The people in this city were good at making all kinds of transparent crystals and gems. They built tall goblin statues in the city and built the temple into the shape of a lantern.
at last.
The fairy Saint Raphael came to the City of Lights.
She saw the Colossus of the god Ivar.
A huge statue of the god stands beside the majestic city of lights, and a wide river flows past the foot of the city and the statue, heading towards the sea.
The fairy stood at the foot of the statue and looked up at the big guy.
"Wow!"
Saint Raphael liked the style of this statue very much, and it was so big.
The fairy Saint Raphael took out the human head statue given to her by the god Ivar from the box, and then compared it with the statue.
She suddenly regretted it.
She should want this.
The question is, if Ivar really gives it to her, how should she put it in it?
But Saint-Raphael didn't think about it.
What St. Raphael didn't expect was that when she arrived to visit the Miracle Temple in the City of Lights, the elders of the Land of the Rising Sun were already waiting for her here.
The temple was full of people during the day, and Saint Raphael decided to go in at night to have a look.
And even if the temple is closed, she still has a door that leads directly to the interior of the temple.
midnight.
She emerged from the rainbow tree and secretly visited the temple in the dark.
suddenly.
Lights lit up one after another in the temple, illuminating the entire hall and corridors.
Elders from the Land of the Rising Sun came in a hurry, gathered under the temple, and knelt down to worship above.
"Welcome the messenger of God to the City of Lights!"
Saint Rafael was shocked. She felt that she had been very careful, but how could she be discovered so quickly.
She walked out of the temple and stood on the sloped stairs with no ridges, only lines.
"How did you know I was coming?"
One of the elders from the Land of Sunrise said: "The miracles you performed along the way have already spread throughout the Land of the Rising Sun. Based on the path of the miracles, we guessed that you would arrive at the City of Lights in the next few days, so we have been waiting for you.
you."
The elders looked at Saint Raphael with different eyes. Some respected him, some were curious, and some were amazed.
Of course, there are also people who want to take advantage of the arrival of divine messengers to climb higher.
Who can be recognized by the messenger of God and recognized by the gods.
Isn’t the position of great elder easily accessible?
Many people have begun to think about how to cling to this divine messenger who has descended into the world.
As for obtaining divine grace, most people still dare not think about it.
This is not an ordinary messenger of the gods, or a dependent.
This is the messenger of the dominating god, the forest fairy from the kingdom of the creator god.
Even the Lord Iva can't meet the almighty master, so how can they take their turn.
"Messenger of the gods, messenger of the gods, fairy from the kingdom of the creator god!"
"Did you come into the world to bring the supreme instructions of the dominating gods to mortals?"
"We are all believers in miracles and wish to always follow His will."
The great elder of the Alchemy Council of the Land of the Rising Sun, and the alchemist who is also the Lord of the City of Lights, was the first to directly ask the reason why Saint Raphael came to the world.
It seems a little urgent.
This is a male snake man with somewhat gray hair, but he is meticulously combed.
He wore a pure white robe and a golden high hat that was different from the crown. The inside of the hat was held up by a metal frame and the front was inlaid with gems.
He held a scepter in one hand and a lantern in the other.
"oh!"
Saint Raphael didn't know why, but she didn't like the great elder of the Alchemy Council.
She felt that the other person's temperament was very gloomy. The great elder talked about faith, but there was no light flavor.
However, she did not resist the help of the alchemists.
No, in San Rafael's mind it should be cooperation and exchange.
She wants to build a storage wonderland, but she hasn't found the place she wants yet. She wants to find a place in the Land of the Rising Sun.
And after establishing a storage wonderland, how to create and allocate storage space?
How to let the gods and even the powerful use the storage space, just like sending letters to the fairyland of stationery.
It’s just that Storage Wonderland is more difficult and troublesome.
Saint Raphael does not refuse the assistance of the alchemists. At the same time, she can also let the alchemists experience the convenience of the storage wonderland for the first time.
She feels this is a mutually beneficial event.
Saint Rafael thought for a moment and directly told the Great Elder of the Land of the Rising Sun below.
"I did not bring the will of the gods, but I want to build a storage wonderland in the world."
"I hope that everyone can conveniently store things in the storage wonderland, hide them in the safest place, and take them out whenever they want."
"It's like my sister Flotte gave the letter paper wonderland to people, sending letters to far away places."
"We can send letters to everyone and send our thoughts far away."
"We can also store it for everyone and keep all the good things."
The alchemists' eyes lit up.
This is a great thing.
Not to mention that you might be able to get into the eyes of the gods by doing this, even if you are the first to enjoy the convenience of the storage wonderland, the benefits you can get are unimaginable.
The alchemists kneeling under the temple looked at each other, as if they felt something.
An opportunity has arrived that can change the Land of the Rising Sun.
The arrival of Saint Raphael brought life to the sunrise of the alchemist's world.
Hundreds of years.
Although alchemy is constantly developing, various technological changes have also emerged.
However, the alchemists have become increasingly rigid within themselves, and internal battles have become increasingly fierce.
The alchemists were divided into multiple factions, and the Land of the Rising Sun was divided into cities and territories one after another, which could never be integrated together.
This also prevents some technologies from achieving real breakthroughs, some real geniuses are unable to obtain core technologies, and a large number of alchemy skills cannot be passed down due to mutual barriers, and even continue to be lost.
The sudden arrival of the fairy is very likely to break this fierce internal struggle.
It will also promote changes within Alchemist and its future development.
Alchemical changes.
It will also change the appearance of the world——
San Rafael traveled from place to place.
Every time she arrived at a place, the local elders would humbly follow her and introduce her to the scenery in the territory, the beautiful places and buildings.
This feeling.
It was as if Saint Raphael was the big benefactor from above, and the elders were carefully accompanying her like tour guides.
But Saint-Raphael is obviously not a very satisfied donor.
It's not that she's picky, it's that she has no goals at all.
If even she herself didn't know what she wanted, then the elders of the Land of the Rising Sun were even more confused.
She left the Golden City and finally walked along the coast.
She stood on the edge of the sea and saw a white thing on the sea from a distance.
"What is that place?"
The fairy flew across the sea and came to the place she saw.
This is a small island.
The beach is golden in the sun, as if because this is the place where the sun rises, even the land is dyed golden by the sun.
The waves crashed on the golden beach, making waves.
The sound of the ebb and flow is so obvious.
Standing on the small island, you can see the coast of the land of sunrise. This island is not big.
There is a white tower on the island, which is exactly the white color that San Rafael saw before.
She raised her head and saw that the sky was so clear and blue.
She faced the sea and bathed in the sea breeze.
Behind it is a tall, isolated white tower. The style of the tower is very gorgeous. There is a mysterious ritual array on it. It should have been built by a powerful alchemist.
Here is the sky she wants to be big, as big as it is boundless.
There are azure blue sea and golden beaches here, which are so beautiful that it makes people feel relaxed and happy.
There is a mysterious and gorgeous white tower here, which seems to be prepared for her to store things.
She likes everything here.
Saint Raphael wanted to get closer, but there was a barrier set up on this tower.
However, this does not trouble a forest fairy, because all ritual formations borrow power from the dream world, and forest fairies are dream creatures created by the master of dreams.
"Dream world!"
"Open a door for me!"
With just one word, the forest fairy passed through the barrier.
However, in addition to the barrier, there is also a guard on the island.
He is an old man who looks slovenly.
The old man was wearing linen clothes and had tattoos on his arms and face. They were not for good looks or to appear more mysterious, but for the totem ritual passed down from the alchemy lineage.
The old man rushed out from nowhere, happened to see the extremely happy Saint-Raphael, and chased her all the way.
But the opponent's speed was too fast, and Saint-Raphael ran with extremely nimble legs, skipping over the beach like a bird.
The old man chased that figure as if chasing the wind.
He had to shout: "Who are you?"
"This is the White Tower of Exile, no one is allowed to approach it."
"Dangerous things are sealed here, you can't come in."
San Rafael turned around and told the old man.
"I am Saint Raphael."
At this time, she had already run to the bottom of the white tower. She stopped and said to the old man with a smile, which also allowed the dim-eyed old man to see her appearance clearly and the wreath on her head.
The old man was stunned for a moment.
He was obviously not an ignorant person like the herdsmen, and he recognized what kind of existence Saint Rafael was at a glance.
"OMG!"
"You are a fairy, the messenger of the gods."
Looking at his stunned look, it is not difficult to understand.
It feels like the being in the story suddenly emerged from the book.
Saint Raphael nodded and admitted, and she told the old man guarding the White Tower of Exile.
"Your elders have said that I can look at it as I please."
"I have permission from your Council of Elders. I can enter anywhere in the Land of the Rising Sun."
In fact, it is not a permission, because who can stop a divine messenger?
Looking from the outside, the White Tower has no entrance or exit gate.
In other words, when it was designed, there was no preparation for the existence inside the tower to come out.
There are steps outside the tower that surround the cylindrical tower all the way to the top.
Saint-Raphael immediately walked up the stairs.
But that ladder is for snake people. There are no bumps on the snake people's ladder, there are only some lines on it.
But Saint Raphael is no ordinary person, she is a fairy.
Her leather boots clicked all the way, and her figure circled around the white tower.
She walked higher and higher, and her figure became smaller and smaller.
He ran all the way up and stood on the top of the white tower.
She first stood on the top of the tower and shouted outside.
"Hello!"
The sound spread instantly and there was no response
But the feeling of standing high and shouting to the sky is really great.
Then she lowered her head and looked inside the tower.
There is a skylight on the top of the tower. When the light shines down, you can see that the interior of the white tower is very large and wide. Saint Raphael shouted towards the inside.
"anyone there?"
The reply came: "Is there anyone there?"
"anyone there?"
"Someone~"
"Is there anyone~?"
There was only her own voice, and no one echoed inside.
The fairy sat on the top of the tower and stretched out her hands to feel the world.
Saint-Raphael felt that this place was very suitable. This was the wonderland she wanted, her storage wonderland.
She wants to install this tower into her fairyland, and then expand the fairyland to include this small island.
It would be best to include part of the sea.
Turn this golden beach and this white tower into a fairyland and bring them back to the Dreamland, so that all fairies can feel its beauty.
soon.
The local elder came over, but it seemed that he really didn't want San Rafael to choose this place.
One may feel that such a place is not worthy of a holy messenger like Saint Raphael, and the other may have other reasons.
"O messenger of God!"
"But!"
"This is a place where evil spirits are imprisoned. This is a prison, a cage where evil things are stored."
Saint Raphael didn't understand and asked the local elders.
"What is a prison?"
"Is there anyone inside?"
There are no cells in the Kingdom of Creation, and this is the first time she has heard of this name.
The elder hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "You can't be called a human being!"
He explained to Saint Raphael what kind of place it was and what it was like inside the tower.
"All alchemists are believers of the God of Alchemy. We drew lights from the kingdom of God and created the lamp of the divine contract."
"The light is our power, our origin, and the manifestation of our desires."
"We use lights to use alchemy. We can manifest the power of desire and divine blood and create alchemical props."
"Only the purest of us can turn into lights or even lanterns after death and enter the kingdom of God to be with God."
When the elder said this, his words changed.
"But some people have gone astray. They want to gain more power. They merge the desires of others or perform evil sacrifices to strengthen their own lamp of divine contract."
"It's no surprise that these people will all go crazy and eventually die."
"They will turn into evil spirits after death, and their divine contract lamps and alchemy tools will also be contaminated."
"They pose huge dangers and are uncontrollable."
"This White Tower of Exile was built from the entire Land of the Rising Sun. It was built to seal evil spirits and the lamps of the divine contract and evil props. Normally, no one would dare to approach this place."
However, Saint Raphael was not too afraid. She even felt that if this place was really so dangerous, she should choose this place.
Because she has ways to deal with these dangers, the forest fairy with space power can be said to have the most powerful sealing power.
Fairies are born from the most beautiful dreams and naturally tend to be kind.
"So, it's a place to put things."
"just."
"I want a place to put my stuff too!"
San Rafael continued: "If it is something beautiful, I can save it and wait for someone who needs it to take it out again one day."
"If it's something really bad, I can lock it away forever and prevent it from appearing in the world again."
The elder had no choice but to nod and say.
"Great envoy, your will cannot be changed."
"You are God's messenger, and I am God's servant."
"It's yours now."
Saint Raphael shook his head: "No, no, no!"
"I can't ask for your things for free, I can exchange them with you."
Saint Raphael said to the elder: "But I still have to investigate first, first..."
The fairy thought for a long time and finally remembered a word used by fairies.
"try out!"
"Exchanging something is valuable. You have to try it first before doing it."
"I will only decide if it's really good."
"Then I will exchange this place with you, and then I will build my own fairyland here."
Saint Raphael did not say the word "buy", or in other words, the concept of "buy" does not exist in the Kingdom of God of Creation, it only exists in the human world.
The elder agreed: "But there is one condition, I hope you can agree."
"Everyone inside, all the existing things, cannot let them go."
"They're really dangerous."
"Especially there is a guy inside. When it goes crazy, its power is beyond imagination. Even the White Tower of Exile cannot seal it."
But looking at the being with the form of God in front of him, the elder's words became less persistent.
"certainly."
"It's okay if you forgive their sins and make them no longer evil."
Saint Raphael, the forest fairy, promised the elder: "If they are really in danger, I will not let them out."——
White round tower interior.
The light falls from a high place, giving the interior space an indescribable feeling.
Light and darkness combined.
Even the light seems to have a shape here, taking on the shape of a cylinder, just forming a circle at the bottom.
Circles of threads rotate downwards from high up. There are a large number of recessed grids inside the tower, and lanterns of different materials are sealed inside.
Some are metal, some are ceramic, and some are transparent gemstones.
There is also a door on the bottom floor, and there should be a large number of rooms inside. I don't know what they are used for.
There are many shining shadows inside the tower.
Each one is an evil spirit similar to a ghost, but attached to the lamp of the divine contract.
They walk on the spiral staircase, seemingly wandering endlessly.
Some are walking up and some are walking down.
Then this spiral staircase is very strange. After walking up to a certain stage, it folds. The evil spirits begin to turn from the bottom of the staircase and walk down in a head-down anti-gravity shape.
Occasionally, evil spirits break through this barrier and climb higher.
There will be another folding at that high point, allowing the evil spirits to go down.
So few evil spirits can reach the highest level.
And even if they go up, someone will stop them.
At the end of the stairs, there was a figure slumped on the ground, with his upper body leaning against the wall.
It raised its head and looked up high, looking up at the light shining down from the top of the tower.
This is a strange metal doll, a god-shaped doll.
Whenever evil spirits reach the end of the stairs, the doll will block their path and tell them.
"You can't go out."
"You are all guilty. You have all done bad things."
At this time, those evil spirits will suddenly become furious and say.
"Are you not guilty?"
"You have the greatest sin on you."
"You are the most terrifying monster."
But the dolls would stretch out their hands, absorb their furious emotions and desires into their palms, and then put them into a lantern placed beside them.
Soon, the evil spirits will forget why they are angry or even why they are here.
Then he walked back in a daze.
There are countless dust particles floating around the edges of the light. Occasionally, when the dust turns over, it will refract points of light.
fleeting.
The doll likes to stare at these light spots and capture their momentary brilliance.
suddenly.
A stone embedded in the chest of the metal doll emits light and shadow, projecting a picture in the sunlight.
The picture shows the pristine sea.
In the sea are some indescribably ancient or extinct life forms, as well as some plants that have never been seen before.
Immediately afterwards.
The screen projected a series of underwater cities. Those underwater cities were ancient and wild, and contained powerful and primitive intelligent life forms.
The doll seems to have seen this scene many times, so it's not very strange.
"A city in the sea?"
"No, how can there be people living under the sea?"
"What do you want to tell me?"
The metal doll stretched out his hand and touched his chest.
"You are not my heart."
"Whose heart are you?"
The metal doll suddenly looked towards the open space on one side. It seemed to see some figure, and someone was talking to it there.
"Elena?"
"Your name is Elena?"
"you are human?"
"you are not human."
"No, you would have been dead long ago."
At this time, the light and shadow emitted by the stone completely disappeared, and the puppet stopped talking.
The conversation was confusing and ended quickly.
At this time, a sound came from high up, echoing throughout the tower, over and over again.
"anyone there?"
The sound was nice, but it was like it was echoing with sound waves, which made people feel uncomfortable. The puppet raised its head and looked up, as did the large number of evil spirits in the tower.
On the top of the tower, a naive girl was looking down. She didn't notice that the dense eyes under the seal were shining at her. She was quite happy.