Chapter 48 Chapter 48 Destruction of the Imperial Capital

The formation of the "Seven Pillars" flies like a migratory bird, with powerful wings following the airflow on the coast.Katz sat on the neck of the leading dragon, and Qiao Zuo, who carried the three of them, was at the end, flapping his wings so as not to fall behind. The goal is Sorebria, the imperial capital of the unified northern empire. The Dragon King said that the Mirror of Ever-Darkness was placed in the center of Sorebria—the emperor's residence. "In order to protect the Mirror of Everlasting Darkness, the Emperor of the Unified Empire not only used the Crown of Sealing, but also other magical measures, and the place where it was installed is also strictly kept secret, so no one knows about it. Outsiders can't do it directly. But, 'Traveler', If your friend, the other 'tourist' is a good wizard, he will be able to undo the magic. When he finds the place where the mirror of ever dark is placed, and is about to approach the mirror of ever dark, it is what stops him The only good time."

The dragons fly fast, and they will fall if they are not careful.Gen hugged Qiao Zuo's back tightly, wishing in his heart: Hurry up, hurry up!Fly to where Mizuru is! The horizon of the Northern Continent is beginning to be visible.The calm sea and the color of the land are as vast and tranquil as the Southern Continent. Only the color of the sky seems to be frozen and thin. Is it because of the severe cold that I feel? "Then... what is that?" Katz, who was flying ahead, pointed to the distant front and shouted. Several columns of black smoke rose into the sky. "It's the direction of the imperial capital Solebria." The "Seven Pillars" said in unison.

"It's a big fire! There's a fire!" The "Seven Pillars" flew faster, and soon, incredible sights began to appear in everyone's eyes.The huge fortress city - Sorebria, a city of millions of people surrounded by a large wall, has undergone abnormal changes. The city gate has been burned, and the people who escaped from it look like a group of small ants from a distance.The towers with various roofs are crowded inside the city wall, and dust and black smoke are rising. "What's the matter? What's the matter!" Katz cursed and leaned out, hair matted.The dragons stretched their wings and began to swoop down. As the distance approached, the imperial capital Sorebria appeared in Gen's eyes.

Entire buildings collapsed and flames raged.Black smoke shrouded, blocking the retreat of the crowd.At one end, a section of the city wall collapsed, and at the other end, a section of housing collapsed.The deafening noise and the hot wind were mixed with the miserable cries of people. "What is it..." Gen stretched out his head from the end of Jozo's wing, and looked down at the vast Sorebria, which was beyond his horizon. He suddenly found several huge creatures—yes, they were in the shape of humans—but they were much larger than humans. Bigger than a dragon... something gray is running rampant.

what is that?Almost like a robot made of stone. Round head, broad shoulders, thick legs and thick arms, moving boneless hands and feet.Every time it took a step, the house collapsed, and people on the road fell to the ground to avoid it.As soon as he took a breath, the collapsed building burst into flames.Chased by the fire, the crowd who fled blindly were trampled by the giant hooves again.Shouts and cries were mixed, and the deafening explosion covered everything. "This is Golem!" Ki Kima's huge body trembled and shouted.Like Wataru, he stared down at the scene on the ground in astonishment.

"Gorlem?" "It's a stone giant made by a mage! The mage who made them is their master and can manipulate them at will." "I've heard... that there is such a thing." Mina said with a pale face and trembling voice. "It's unbelievable, it turned out to be true." "Me too. And here they are, right now!" The stone giant's face was flat and expressionless, with no traces of nose or eyes.They scrambled forward, looked left and right mechanically from time to time.The unsightly hands hardly had the shape of hands, they were just stones, and the stone arms were hacking, destroying houses along the way with the sound of loud footsteps.

"It's Meihe." The thick smoke dazzled the eyes, with tears streaming down his face, "Meihe created Golem and manipulated them!" He wants to destroy Sorebria.Where is Meihe? A pillar of fire sprang up from Qiao Zuo's side.Jozo was directly impacted by the heat wave and lost his balance. His right wing almost hit the wreckage of the building.Mina was almost thrown off and exclaimed. "How many small stone giants? Countless!" "Look over there! The number is still increasing!" Golems are all over the city, east, west, north, south, in every direction.After arbitrary destruction and raging, some even collided with each other and fought. Even if an arm was knocked off or half of the head was missing, they still rushed left and right without feeling, just like the dragons shouted, from broken to chaotic In the streets and alleys of the city, new golems popped up here and there with a roar, waving their hands, one after another.

"Quickly kill it! Hit it!" Mina yelled, hitting Jozuo's back with a "dong dong". "What should we do?" Qiao Zuo said with tears, he opened his mouth to breathe out flames, and hurriedly hugged Qiao Zuo's neck tightly. "No! If you breathe fire, people on the street will also be caught!" The dragons lowered their altitude and hovered left and right. The shadows of their huge wings were cast on the ground, and the bright red flames could be seen. Seeing the dragons flying above their heads, the residents of Sorebria fled in panic.However, it was Gorlem waiting for them ahead.

"Help, help!" "Mom, where are you?" Due to the ultra-low altitude flight, he could already hear tragic cries in his ears.Jozo had just passed a gabled house, and a young man was holding the chimney for help. "Jozuo, come back!" Gen shouted reflexively, reaching out to the chimney.The young man rolled his frightened eyes, but still let go of one hand holding the chimney, and stretched out to Heng.Fingers and fingers were getting closer, and if they got closer, Wataru's hand would be able to grab the young man's wrist—just as he was thinking this way, the approaching Golem hit him, and the gabled roof immediately collapsed, and the chimney slowly tilted. The young man was stunned, holding the chimney that fell in a semicircle in the air, and disappeared into the rubble on the ground in the next moment.

In the exploding dust, Gen shouted blankly: "Why, why, why!" "Travelers, calm down. They seem to be heading for the palace." One of the "Seven Pillars" flying by shouted to Wataru.Katz was riding on it. She held a black leather whip in her hand and stood with her legs crossed on the dragon's neck. "Look carefully, Gen!" The Golems formed a circle and continued their destructive advance around Sorebria.As they advanced, the circle was shrinking, and the center of this circle was the core of the imperial capital of Sorebria - a large milky white palace.

"That's the emperor's residence, the Crystal Palace!" Katz shouted with one hand on his lips, so as not to be blown away by the strong updraft caused by the fire, "Your friend Meihe ravaged the imperial capital while attacking Crystal Palace!" "If the manipulator of Golem is far away from them, he will not be able to control them. He must be nearby." The 'Seven Pillars' said, "Let's try to delay Golem's pace, while you find the 'passenger named Meihe' 'My friend. Just defeat the Gorlem manipulators, and the Grimes will return to the dirt!" "Ming, understand!" Gen imitated Katz and stood on Qiao Zuo's back.Soon, he was shaken by the strong wind and coughed from the smoke.Ki Kima served as a shield for Wataru, while Mina hugged Wataru's waist tightly. "Meihe! Meihe, where are you?" Qiao Zuo flew over the rubble and flew past the noses of the Golems.He gritted his teeth and controlled the wings, avoiding Golem's fist.Wataru continued to call Mizuru. "Meihe!" At this moment, through the smoke and dust, he saw a corner of the Gorlem circle approaching the Crystal Palace step by step——Meihe standing on the shoulder of a Gorlem!He pressed the top of Golem's head with one hand, and held a magic wand in the other. His dark cassock fluttered in the wind. "over there!" With a finger, Qiao Zuo flew straight.Meihe quickly drew closer.When it was close in front of his eyes, Heng leaped from Qiao Zuo without hesitation, and jumped onto the shoulders of Golem where Mizuru was standing. "Wan, be careful!" When Genn almost fell off Gorlem's shoulders due to inertia, Mina's worried cry came. Gen finally stood up straight, with Meihe's nonchalant, almost indifferent gaze on the side, just like the time he met in the school corridor.Just like that, the sights of the 'passengers' on Gorlem's shoulders met with Gorlem's head, which was actually a big rock. "What are you doing here?" Meihe asked leisurely.How small is a little smug, but how small is also a little surprised--for the pursuit. "Then what are you doing here?" "You've seen it all." Meihe spread her arms, "Isn't it fun?" He felt his knees trembling.Not fear, but anger. "Fun? That's it? This situation?" "The sacred imperial capital of His Majesty the Emperor, Sorebria." Meihe said in a tone: "The capital, which is as solid as a stone, is too vulnerable." A Golem next to him knocked down a big house.From the toppled building, the impact sent something flying straight up as if by magic, and fell through the air.If Gen was not mistaken, it was a big stove, flying up with a cauldron that was hugged by one person. The devastation the golems wrought and the vibrations of their massive bodies as they moved made it almost impossible to stand.But Meihe didn't care, hugging the magic wand and crossing his arms with both hands. "What's the point of such destruction and massacre? It has to stop now. Please, stop!" "Meaning? Speaking of meaning, there is. It's very, very meaningful." Meihe said.His hair was also stuck with a lot of rubble and dust from the rubble, "Because it had to be done, so I did it." "Get it for Baoyu?" Do you want to undo the seal of the Mirror of Ever Darkness? Only then did Meihe's expression change: "You even know this?" "If the Mirror of Ever-Darkness is unlocked and the demons invade, do you understand how serious problems will happen? It was in the Northern Continent, three hundred years ago..." "I know." Meihe interrupted him.I was tongue-tied. "you know?" "Oh. The first emperor planned to use the power of the demons to deal with the annoying barbarians. It is said that the results will be immediate." Gen suddenly became furious: "What immediate results! If there is no dragon clan to come, the fantasy world may be destroyed!" Meihe squinted his eyes like a misty smoke screen, and glanced at the seven-headed fire dragons flying around among the golems. "Is it them? When did you get in touch with the dragon?" "It doesn't matter. They told me. Three hundred years ago, unblocking the seal was only a short moment. However, it is extremely dangerous. What you have to do now is even worse!" "probably." "why?" Golem, which Mizuru was riding on, can be counted as the headquarters.It stood motionless by itself, letting the sky and the ground fight around it.However, because the ground was shaky and the hot wind was blowing hard, Wat couldn't get past its big head and get close to Meihe. Knock down the mage who manipulated them, and Golem returns to the dirt.Defeat Meihe, and this tragedy will come to an end.However, he couldn't pull out the sword of the brave—the right hand holding the hilt kept shaking. Meihe fixedly watched Heng's movements.Not far behind him, another big house collapsed. "You don't seem to be sober yet." Meihe said, with a temperless tone, as if to say: Can't you solve such a simple calculation problem? "Have you heard it in Sono Port? You came to the fantasy world to make friends with the people here? Are you here to protect the peace of the fantasy world?" I want to recall the conversation with Katz in Gasala.I must say that even with friends, a mistake is a mistake. "No, I came to the Illusory World to change my own destiny. However, I don't think I will use any means to do so. I can't think that way." Mizuru put on his usual posture—this is what Wataru always looked like when he saw him in schools and shrines in this world, with his shoulders slightly shrunk, his chin raised slightly, and he looked away. "I can. So I did." I can't say any more... "you are wrong." Gen can only speak in a low voice, as if he is also very pitiful.Perhaps the voice was covered by the noise and could not reach Meihe's ears. "Mizuru, you are wrong. You can't do this kind of thing. The people in the imperial capital of Sorebria are also living people, and we can't let us kill them." Meihe turned her head sharply: "Is that the opinion of a highland guard?" Before Gen could answer, Meihe lightly stepped on Golem's shoulder. "What is this guy made of, do you know?" The sudden question, what did he want to ask? "Yes, is it a rock? Is it a Golem made by magic?" "That's right. It's a virtual life I made by kneading mud and rocks. But the material is not only mud and rocks." Meihe said that he needs people who can serve as "materials". "Every golem needs a human. No matter how good the magic is, there's no way. How do you think I did it? Such a large number." Gen couldn't take his eyes off Meihe's face.What is he talking about?Ordinary tone, expression as if listening to a disinterested class. Gen forced to look away, looking at the imperial capital that was engulfed in smoke and flames at the moment, the number of golems was countless.These were originally human?Turn them all into golems? "Looking at the 'Mirror of Ever-Darkness', people become 'Unreal', an empty shell without a soul. From time to time, the emperors make people into 'Illusions' according to their own convenience. They force people to look at the "Mirror of Ever-Darkness" Mirrors, make people into 'illusions', serve as servants, or work in the frontier. The same is true for political prisoners and criminals. Compared with being detained and reformed in prisons, it is more refreshing to do this." "…………real?" "I've heard what the princess said with my own ears, so it can't be false. Now, these 'illusions'." Meihe added. "Humans are indispensable as the material for making golems. However, people have souls. No matter how lowly a slave is, they also have souls. Therefore, the original people really can't make golems who obey their words. It's too wordy. But , it’s simple here. The ‘unreal’ hanging around there has no soul in the first place. It’s the most suitable material.” Meihe stared at the blue-faced Gen who had nothing to say, and said, "You said I was doing cruel things. However, it wasn't me who created the 'illusion', it was the emperor. As a highland guard, what do you think? Do you find it intolerable? If so, wouldn’t it be good to destroy the imperial city under the rule of the emperor? The citizens of Sorebria are also—no, all the citizens of the unified northern empire are equally guilty. They Acquiesced to what generations of emperors did, sometimes even supported it. Because it was good for them, or because they wanted to protect themselves. Such a guy deserves to be punished. How do you feel as a Highlander?" The vision is blurred because of the smoke.The mind is confused because of the constant vibration.The ears are barely audible because of the pathetic wailing of Sorebria in ruins. Which side is right?What is justice? "You said you should cherish the fantasy world. But this empire is no better than the federation countries in the Southern Continent. The Southern Continent should thank me, right. I eliminated the danger of northern aggression and attack." Meihe shrank his neck and said with a smile, "The Emperor It has become like this, even if a power ship is built, it is not the time to jump to the south." Before Gen can react emotionally, his body tilts and he is about to pounce on Meihe. At this moment—— Suddenly, a dazzling white light burst out, covering the ground and the sky.The huge body of the flying dragon and Golem turned into conspicuous black shadows. Gen bent down reflexively, protecting his eyes with his hands.The burst of white light disappeared in an instant just like when it was generated. "Very good." Meihe nodded. Lift your head up.Although the white light disappeared, the surrounding scene seemed to have some changes.bright.Other sources of light than the sun— Crystal Palace is the residence of the emperor.The entire majestic castle, from the central minaret to the stable foundation stone, and even the extended decorative wing corridors, seem to be carved out of crystal, shining brightly due to the light transmitted from the inside. "The collapse of the imperial capital," Meihe said, looking up at the splendid Crystal Palace, "that is, the disappearance of the barrier." "That's it" - Meihe said simply, and waved the magic wand "swipely".His figure disappeared from before. This is teleportation magic.Meihe goes to Crystal Palace!