Chapter 119 The scabbard and the magic airship
After Xu Yue injected his magic power into the scabbard that had just been unsealed, what happened in front of him suddenly made him stunned.
I saw a golden light suddenly lit up on the scabbard of the two-handed sword, and a complex circular magic array appeared under his feet. After the magic array appeared, it began to spread towards the space above. In the blink of an eye, a complex magic array that seemed to be cylindrical in shape enveloped him.
After feeling the cylindrical three-dimensional magic array that completely enveloped him, the powerful magic waves kept coming from above made him, the user feel a slight sense of oppression. He looked carefully at the magic patterns on the magic array, and then felt it based on the fluctuations emitted by the magic array.
"It turned out to be a protective magic array up to level seven! What is this scabbard?" Xu Yue said in surprise.
Although he had previously guessed that the level of this scabbard may not be lower than level nine, and there was even a trace of it that might be a higher legendary item. But this thing is just a scabbard. According to common sense, even as a supporting component of a level nine magic equipment, the function of the scabbard is far less than the weapon it is equipped with. Generally, at most one or two pretty auxiliary functions are as good as that.
However, this scabbard can inspire level 7 protection magic by just unbuttoning the first layer of seal. He also saw that the reason why the protective magic in front of him was level 7 was only because there were two seals that had not been unbuttoned. Otherwise, the magic released by the scabbard could reach level 8 or even higher at least. This is a bit too luxurious for a scabbard.
I found that the barrier formed by the four pyramid-shaped magic items he used to isolate magic fluctuations was already a little unstable under the violent magic fluctuations emitted from the sword sheath. Xu Yue frowned and stopped the injection of magic power, but the protective magic did not disappear, but continued to operate.
After thinking for a while, he explored his mental power into the outer layer of the scabbard, and finally found the method of casting and stopping the protective magic in the scabbard with his mental power. After using his mental power to slightly touch the core of the outer layer of the scabbard magic circle, the three-dimensional protective magic disappeared.
Holding this magical scabbard in his hand, Xu Yue was excited and thought. Since the newly obtained scabbard can release a level seven magic, it would be like him to have a powerful trump card out of thin air. He could feel that the strength of the protective magic cast by the scabbard is definitely not low in level seven magic. Even if he encounters an ordinary level seven strongman, he is unlikely to break through this protective magic in a short time. This is enough to give him enough time to escape under the hands of any level seven strongman.
At the same time, he became curious about the origin of this scabbard. What caused the scabbard to change was a ring he found on Earth that exuded magical fluctuations, but this scabbard was actually found on Tarenmiya. He really couldn't figure out why things from two different worlds had such a connection.
The performance of the ring when it was removed from the scabbard was very obvious. I am afraid that the ring itself has such a magical function. If there is no connection between the two, no one will believe it.
"I remember the person who sold me the ring said that this ring may be related to the legendary magician Merlin of King Arthur in the West, and there is also a broken image information hidden in the ring. The information seems to point out the hidden place of a sword, and the sword may be the legendary sword of King Arthur. If you infer this way, is this sword sheath..." Xu Yue looked at the sword sheath in his hand with an incredible expression.
In the legend of the earth, King Arthur once had two mysterious and powerful weapons, one was the sword of the test king - the sword in the stone. Only the king could pull out this mysterious sword of the king from the stone. The other sword was the holy sword given to King Arthur by the lake elves - the sword of the promise of victory. The sword in the stone was cut off in the legend in a battle contrary to the way of the knights. However, the sword of the promise of victory was in the hands of King Arthur.
According to historical records, King Arthur is just a fictional character, and many historians have speculated about the original form of his character. This is the case with Merlin and the Twelve Round Table Warriors. However, after Xu Yue discovered this magic ring related to the legendary magician Merlin on Earth, he became suspicious of this statement.
The environment on earth is indeed not suitable for the survival of magicians. Even in the thin magic elements, even if a person with excellent talent is almost impossible to become a junior magic apprentice. However, the magic ring points out that the earth is a real thing now, which proves that no matter what, in ancient times in the west of the earth, there is a great possibility of magic. Moreover, those characters who are regarded as myths and legends may not be fictional.
Not to mention anything else, the magical magic ring he found was a powerful proof. After obtaining the information recorded in the ring, Xu Yue once suspected that it was a sword in stone. This was because he did not know much about Western myths and legends, and he confused the sword of the Test King and the Sword of the Vow to Victory. After understanding the legends and legends later, he guessed that the hidden sword recorded in the image might be a holy sword - the sword of the Vow to Victory.
In myths and legends, this magical holy sword has the ability to cut off everything. It has other names, such as the King's Sword, the Killing Sword, the Lake Middle, etc. However, the sword's scabbard is not recorded in the orthodox legend, but it is just called the sword between kings. In some comics and animations on the earth, the sword scabbard of this King's Sword has given many names and abilities, but it is basically incompatible with the legend.
According to Xu Yue's guess, if the sword of the king displayed in the ring is the sword of the Sword of Victory, then the scabbard in his hand is probably the scabbard that matches the sword of the King. As for why it should be something in the legend of the earth's mythology, it appears on the Tarenmia continent, Xu Yue also had some speculations in his mind.
The first one may be that a magician once visited the Earth, obtained the sword of the King's Sword and brought it back to the Tarenmia continent. Another guess is that the King's Sword is simply Tarenmia's thing. It was just taken to the Earth. Xu Yue personally believes that taking into account the concentration of magic elements and the level of magic materials on Earth and Tarenmia, the second possibility is very high. He even suspected that the legendary magician Merlin, who has a mysterious origin in the legend of King Arthur, is likely to have passed by Tarenmia. However, he has no evidence for this. He is just staying at the level of speculation.
After feeling the remaining two seals on the scabbard again, he knew that even if he was willing to sacrifice his life at his level, he simply gave up studying the plan to lift the seal. He could only see if he had a higher level in the future or whether he could meet items that could lift the two seals again.
After carefully placing the scabbard in his hand into his storage ring, Xu Yue went to the street again to find a relatively close magic material store and bought enough of the many magic materials he needed in one go. Then he went back to the hotel and stopped coming out, and used his short rest time to concentrate on learning magic knowledge. Although two and a half years of crazy learning made him barely make up for his previous lack of knowledge. However, if he wanted to compare with those level 3 magicians who had been learning for years, he still needed to work harder.
What Xu Yue didn't know was that when he was lifting the first seal on the Sword of Victory with the dragon-shaped carved ring, a fiery red crystal as big as a head began to burst out with a dazzling red light, and the blood-red light almost enveloped the entire layer of this huge Mage Tower. On the top room of the Mage Tower, an old mage who looked like he was fifty or sixty years old. He was wearing a black Mage Robe suddenly raised his head from the experimental platform in front of him. He didn't care about the configuration ratio of the magic liquid in his hand because of his excitement.
The magic liquid with the wrong proportional mixing reaction violently on the experimental bench, but the elemental fluctuations inside were stimulated to the limit in an instant. With a huge explosion, a fire almost drowns the entire test bench. However, when this strong explosion shock wave touched the stunned old mage, a soft light suddenly appeared on the old mage. When the shock wave with strong destructive power came into contact with the light, it seemed to be just a harmless breeze, unable to shake the bright light at all.
The explosion woke the old mage from his daze. He frowned and waved his hand. As a magic wave came out, the violent explosion suddenly disappeared like a phantom.
The old mage did not care about the messy laboratory bench destroyed by the explosion. Instead, he pushed open the door of the laboratory and walked out quickly. He said to a thirty-year-old magician who had been standing at the door: "Cuchi, clean it up. I hope that when I return here, I will see a clean and tidy laboratory."
There are six silver lines on the robe of the magician named Kuchi, which proves that he is a powerful sixth-level mage, but now this sixth-level mage dares not show any disrespect when treating the old mage. He respectfully bowed to the old mage and said, "Okay teacher, I will clean up the here before you come back."
The old mage did not care about his student, but quickly came to the room where the red crystal was placed in the size of a human head. At this time, the light emitted by the red crystal was much weaker, but the red light still made people feel very dazzling.
The old mage quickly walked to the red crystal, pressed his hand on the round magic crystal with his mental power and said excitedly: "Yes, this fluctuation is the fluctuation of the Dragon Sword. Unexpectedly, after missing for a thousand years, the Dragon Sword will reappear on the Tarenmiya continent. However, this fluctuation is a bit too weak. If you look at the fluctuation, it may be just the scabbard of the Dragon Sword. But even the scabbard is good. Although it does not have the power of the Dragon Sword, the protective ability of the scabbard itself has a great effect on me."
"Paul, come to my study!" The old mage used his mental power to control the core of the mage tower and sent a message, and then he quickly walked towards his study.
Just two or three minutes later, a tall and thin magician who looked in his forties walked into the old mage's room. His slightly gloomy face was full of respect at this moment. He saluted respectfully to the old mage and said, "Teacher. Are you calling me?"
The old mage nodded and used magic to control a red crystal about the size of a thumb to send it to the magician named Paul. He said to Paul: "Have this exploration crystal. He will guide you to find a scabbard. Bring the scabbard back to me. Complete this mission, and I will help you complete the promotion to a level seven mage. Your actions should be more secretive, don't let other forces notice it, and don't make too much noise."
"Okay teacher! You will see the scabbard." The magician named Paul bowed respectfully and then stepped back. He Lianshan was full of excitement because of the old mage's promise. However, this expression quickly disappeared on his face as soon as he exited the door.
Holding the red crystal in his hand, he looked at the crystal. After returning to his room, he thought for a while. He frowned and said, "What kind of scabbard is the one that makes the eighth-level magician like the teacher give so cautious instructions, and it is obvious that I, the sixth-level disciple, went out to find it to avoid humans. I think he was afraid that if he sent a few seventh-level senior brothers, would attract the attention of other forces? This is interesting."
After receiving the red crystal in his hand into his storage ring, he simply packed up the things in his hand and set off. When the exploration crystal given to him was far from the item to be found, he could only indicate a general direction. Only when it was close can the specific position be displayed. At least the distance between him and the item to be found was shortened to a length of ten kilometers. So at the beginning, he could only rely on the exploration crystal to use flying magic to quickly travel.
Xu Yue, who was far away in Emerald City, didn't know that because he accidentally untie the magic on the scabbard, he had set a target on a powerful magician. After he rested in Emerald City for a night, the next day, the succubus in the hotel sent the ticket for the magic airship he had ordered to his room. He sent the succubus who wanted to tease him. He simply packed up his own things and left the hotel.
Magical airships are specially operated by the Magic Guild. Although other cities also have some fixed flights, the places they can reach are very limited. In cities like Black Rock City, there are no direct magical airships. Only in the Emerald City, the headquarters of the Magic Guild will have airships that can reach many places.
Xu Yue came to the headquarters of the Magic Guild. This was a large and majestic building complex. The lined mage towers and various shops surrounded the castle in the middle that seemed to have been magnified hundreds of times. Anyone standing in front of this majestic castle would feel his insignificance.
The magician stood 90% of the people entering the gate of the Magic Guild headquarters. The gate with hundreds of people entering and leaving at any time shocked everyone to see it. Here, the rare magicians in other parts of the Tarenmiya continent seemed to have become the most ordinary small vendors. At first glance, they were all magicians wearing various magic robes.
Because time is tight, Xu Yue did not plan to visit the headquarters of the Magic Guild this time. Instead, he simply looked at the hall of the Magic Guild that was larger than the Bird's Nest on Earth, and found a magician in the hall who was obviously a service staff and asked. The mark on the magic robe was obviously the receptionist of a first-level magician who had no arrogance of a magician elsewhere. He patiently answered questions to those who asked him around him.
After hearing Xu Yue's question, he pointed to a very huge gate on the west side of the hall and said, "If you want to take an airship, there is the entrance and exit. After you enter, just show your ticket and the receptionist will take you to the landing point of the airship you are going to take. Just wait for a while and you can start this journey."
After thanking the reception staff, Xu Yue was also shocked by the work of the Magic Guild headquarters. If the small magic Guild branch in other places is at most, he will only hire some first- and second-level warriors to stand guard, or some junior magic apprentices as reception staff. The larger branches only use advanced magic apprentices as reception staff. However, the Magic Guild headquarters actually uses first-level mages as reception staff, which is simply unimaginable elsewhere.
Although the first-level mage is only one level higher than the magic apprentice, the difference in identity between the two is completely different. If you dare to let a first-level mage be an ordinary receptionist elsewhere, they may directly hit a fireball technique on your face. Although a first-level mage is not strong, it can at least become the lowest-level noble title in a country. However, the headquarters of the Magic Guild has the confidence to let such a person be the receptionist, and seeing that the first-level magician is still very concerned about his job, he has to sigh at the appeal of the Magic Guild.
The shape of the magic airship is somewhat similar to the appearance of the Earth's airship flying by hydrogen. However, the magic airship flying does not rely on hydrogen, but a device composed of a combination of magic arrays portrayed inside and alchemy engineering inside. The huge oval hull has no gas, but it is a cabin and cargo warehouse for loading guests and items.
Looking at the huge airship floating in the air, which was dozens of times faster than the Earth's airship, Xu Yue felt that the plane on the Earth was simply weaker than the airship in front of him. Not to mention speed, the difference in size alone was to get rid of the former several streets.
Under the guidance of the reception staff, Xu Yue followed the flow of people to the warehouse body under the airship, which was obviously used for login. After entering the warehouse body of about 100 square meters, a magic circle on the ground flashed smoothly and he was teleported to another place.
Looking at the huge airship cabin in front of him. It was obvious that it was inside the airship, but the wide hall in front of him made Xu Yue feel as if he had arrived in a square on the ground. Under the reception of the airship service staff, he followed the service staff through the lobby and walked towards the middle floor.
The tickets Xu Yue bought were rooms on the middle floor of the airship. The ticket price here was second only to the luxurious room on the upper floor. He was so arrogant that he couldn't afford to live in the luxurious room. But even a rich man like him felt a little painful. This is different from the luxurious room that Emerald City can only live in with some low-level magic crystals. The ticket price of a luxurious room on the magic airship costs at least 100 yuan for intermediate magic crystals. This is almost the price of tens of thousands of gold coins. Instead of spending such a sum of money to show off, it is better to buy some magic materials left to buy some remaining magic materials.
Although it is a second-class room, the price of more than a dozen intermediate magic crystals is definitely not low. The luxurious layout in the room and the magic items with various functions make anyone who enters here feel as if they have come to a luxurious hotel. After the waiter at the door said that he could call him through the communication crystal in the room for any need, he respectfully retreated and washed away. The standard and standardized words even made Xu Yue feel as if he was in the real top hotels on earth.
When I came to the window of the room, the window itself did not have glass, but was imposed with magic to isolate the strong wind and temperature. On the outermost side of the entire airship, there is also a huge protective cover that can ensure that no object can fly in from the outside of the protective cover. Therefore, the view is particularly clear when looking out from the window.
Xu Yue brought up a recliner made of awakening wood in the room and placed it next to the huge window two meters wide. After he lay on the recliner, he could easily look at the scenery under the airship. At this time, the passengers of the airship had almost entered the airship. After a hull that was almost undetectable, the entire airship began to rise rapidly into the air, and the speed was even faster than the full climb of the earth's plane.
He knew that this was the airship using the magic circle inside to offset the huge acceleration generated when rising, so people in the airship could hardly feel the overweight feeling when rising.
Xu Yue has been in the Tarenmiya continent for more than three years. For three years, he spent most of his time in Komodo Town, Black Rock City and Night Song Forest. He had almost never been to other places in Tarenmiya. Judging from his experiences in these three places, although the magic here is magical, it is just another power different from the technology on Earth. Judging from the level of life of the people here, it always gives him a feeling of living in ancient West, so he always believes that the magic technology here is more powerful than the technology on Earth due to innate reasons, but in terms of development, it is still not as good as the technology on Earth.
But the magic airship he was riding on today completely changed his mind. Not to mention, the size of the magic airship alone has surpassed any flying tool on the earth. The magic airship that is enough to accommodate thousands of people and is very spacious can not be achieved with the science and technology of the earth, just to create a qualified flying hull that can be used. Not to mention the magic arrays on the airship that can offset the overweight feeling of acceleration.
Only then did he realize that it was not that Tarenmiya's magic civilization was not as good as the technological civilization on earth, but that he had been staying in a relatively backward and remote place in the continent of Tarenmiya. I won't talk about places like Night Song Forest and Komodo Town, which are almost wilderness towns. Even though Black Rock City with a population of millions is also a big city, its geographical location and economic conditions determine that it is just a relatively remote border town in the Kingdom of Chia. Otherwise, when a war with the trolls occurred three years ago, the senior management of the Kingdom of Chia would not have made the move to almost give up Black Rock City and rescue several other cities first. It is obviously impossible for you to see more advanced technology in a backward border town. The same is true when you go to Earth.
What I saw and heard in the Emerald City made Xu Yue clearly understand that Tarenmiya's magic civilization is no worse than the earth's technological civilization. To a certain extent, the development of the magic civilization here has surpassed the current technological level of the earth. At least there is no protective shield on the earth that is only purely in legends.
As the airship rose, the huge Emerald City began to grow smaller bit by bit, and the buildings and people under his feet seemed to have become tiny models. But even so, the area covered by Emerald City from a high altitude is still shocking. While sighing that the Emerald City is huge, he finally understood why the capital of the Kingdom of Dallas was named Emerald City.
Most buildings in the Jade City use a kind of stone called green steel stone. This slightly green stone is the best building material. Whether it is solid or in other aspects, it can ensure the firmness and tightness of the building. Under the illumination of light, the green steel stone of these buildings will emit a slight green light. Although these faint lights are almost impossible to detect on the ground, if they rise to a high altitude, the green light emitted by the entire city makes people feel as if they are looking at a piece of green jade. Of course, the name of Emerald City is just the result of Xu Yue's translation based on Tarenmiya's common language. Because this world itself also has jade, it cannot be expressed in Chinese if it is called Tarenmiya.
Because Tarenmia has almost no pollution-type industries, and the high concentration of magic elements here also has a great promotion of the growth of plants. You can see the ancient trees on the earth that have lived for hundreds of years before being packaged by several people everywhere in the forest. Therefore, the greening level of the world's surface is very high. Except for some specific areas, other places are almost covered with green when viewed from the top.
The airship was very fast, almost the same as the plane on Earth. However, the window was covered by magic but could not feel the cold wind at all. Xu Yue lay on the lounge chair and looked at the beautiful scenery outside the window for a while. After a long time, he felt a little bored. It was almost noon, so he thought about it and decided to go to the restaurant of the magic airship. Although he could also send his own lunch to the room. However, he was on the airship on Tarenmiya for the first time, and was still a little curious about the giant flying in the sky.
After leaving the room, after asking a receptionist, he walked towards the restaurant while wandering. By simply asking the service staff, he knew that there were about 7,000 passengers on the airship, but most of them were in the middle and lower parts of the airship. The upper luxury cabin part had less than dozens of passengers. Of course, the luxury cabin part was also the smallest part of the entire airship, but each room there was several times larger than the room below.
There is no poor person who can ride magic airships. At least they are middle-class people with relatively wealthy economy on the continent of Tarenmiya. For the lower class civilians, the cheapest tickets for airships are huge sums for them. And the fact that magic airships can have so many passengers is entirely due to Tarenmiya's population dozens of times the area and more than ten times the population. Even if there are many lower class civilians, under the huge population base, the number of people in the middle class is still more than ten times more than the middle-class families on the earth.
Although the medium warehouse where Xu Yue lives is also in the middle level, it is the best cabin in the middle level area. When he walked in the spacious aisle in the airship, he saw either a magician wearing a robes or a very exquisitely dressed upper class. Looking at the exquisite dresses and the valuable jewelry carried by the ladies, it can be seen that these people were either very rich merchants or powerful nobles, and each of them had a strong aura.
Xu Yue himself is a third-level magician. In addition, after he became a real marquis of the Kingdom of Shia, he had to wear the noble's family emblem on the robes on formal occasions, so everyone passing by knew that this magician of unknown rank was also a marquis aristocrat. Suddenly, those who seemed to be noble would bow to him slightly when they met him. This is the etiquette of interactions between nobles. Even if the other party and himself were not a nobleman of the same country, as long as they met a low-level nobleman, they should pay tribute to the high-level nobles. This is the rule that most nobles on the Tarenmiya continent follow in their interactions.
After bowing slightly, Xu Yue walked forward while watching the layout of the airship. The interior of the airship is very spacious, which is different from the airplane on earth, which looks luxurious but makes people feel that the space is small. The narrowest aisle here is two meters wide, while the main aisle that Xu Yue walked on is like a spacious road, about seven or eight meters wide. Both sides of the aisle are not just rigid walls, but are arranged in a certain space by various artworks and rockery arrangements. It can be seen that Tarenmiya is also very good in the layout of public places. The different artworks and adornmental landscapes are accompanied by some exquisite benches for rest, not only do they feel crowded at all, but they make people feel like walking in a park full of beautiful scenery.
From time to time, some men and women appreciate the paintings full of artistic atmosphere, or some men and women in love sit on benches and whisper.
Although the airship is large, the second luxurious medium-sized restaurant is not too far from his room. The restaurant here is separate from other low-sized restaurants. He heard that even the low-sized cabins are actually divided into several levels. The most ordinary ones are almost the same as the standard standard of the fast hotels on Earth according to the waiter's description, and the restaurant's food is far less than that of the area where he is. But he did not plan to go to the low-sized cabin. Even if the price level of the magic airship itself cannot be bad, it will definitely not be as spacious as the area where he is.
After coming to the restaurant that looked like a small football field, Xu Yue sat down next to a table without anyone, looking at the menu on the table and ordered a delicious dish. Although he thought that there was no need to waste it in the cabin, Xu Yue never felt wronged when eating it.
In fact, the various ingredients used for consumption in the Tarenmiya continent may be because of the high concentration of magic elements here, so these ingredients are amazingly delicious. Compared with the vegetables and meats on the earth with pesticides and fertilizers, the food here is like heavenly food. So after leaving Komodo Town over the years, Xu Yue basically could eat at Tarenmiya and would never return to the earth to eat. There is no way. Although the method of making may be slightly higher, the difference in food determines that the difference in the taste of the food on both sides is huge. Xu Yue even secretly gave some ingredients back to his parents on earth, but he used magic in advance to deform the ingredients and other conceal the ingredients, so that these ingredients would remain the same as some common vegetables on the earth before they were eaten.
Use Tarenmia's unique fork to put the fish meat in the middle of the softest and smoothest belly of a stone-scaled seaweed into your mouth. The smooth and vigorous taste, coupled with the mellow and delicious meat unique to the stone-scaled seaweed, Xu Yue, a standard foodie, was intoxicated by it at the first time.
However, although the food is very delicious, the more than three years of study at Tarenmiya have not only made great progress in magic knowledge, but also he has become familiar with the nobles' etiquette. Therefore, although he is already intoxicated in spirit, his expression on his face is very elegant.
Chapter completed!