Shana stepped out into the outside world for the first time.

It was the first time he saw a city as big as the Fire Guard City, the first time he walked such a long distance, and it was also the first time he saw the sea.

Shana was on a merchant ship heading to the Land of the Rising Sun. The ship was full of cargo, and there were not many passengers on board.

Seeing that Xia Na was a nobleman, the captain specially allowed him to board the ship.

They set off from the port of Bay Town in the east of Suinhall, and their destination was the Golden City in the Land of the Rising Sun.

It is said that it is a place full of gold.

Because an alchemist can touch stones into gold. .

But the reason why rumors are called rumors must be because they are outrageous compared with the truth.

Shana learned from Carmon.

There is no gold there, and alchemists are only good at making props, smelting metals, and cooking potions.

A stone is a stone and does not turn into gold.

Shana was not very interested in gold, he stood on the deck and looked into the distance from time to time like everyone else; the sailors behind him were busy, some were cleaning the deck, some were moving things, and some were tying sail ropes.

On the contrary, he and Carmon seemed very leisurely.

Xia Na lay on the side of the boat, looked at the sea and asked Carmon who was leaning on the sword: "What's on the other side?"

Carmon thought Shaner was asking about the destination: "Golden City!"

Shana shook his head: "No, I mean outside of Ruhe Giant Island."

In fact, the word giant island does not mean an island in the eyes of the snake people, it is more like a synonym for the world.

How did Carmon know that he had never been there.

But he can still talk to Shana: "Except for the ancestors of the first generation of snake people who left the giant island of Ruhe, only the legendary Evils have left the giant island of Ruhe since then and arrived in the outside world."

"That was already a hundred or two hundred years ago."

"The people of Evel say that there is a wider world beyond the giant island of Ruhe."

Camon's eyes also flickered, as if they were faintly shining.

"far away."

"There is a new world."

Shana knows the Evils: "Is that the Evils?"

"The daughter of Thermos, the mother of ten thousand snakes, a family of hunters and fishermen left over from the ancient times."

Kamon nodded: "Alsini is the ancestor of the city-state people, Pans is the ancestor of the animal herdsmen, and the Aiweier once lived in the northernmost wasteland and under the frozen plateau."

"Most of them have now crossed the sea and left Ruhe Giant Island, and the remaining few have also integrated into various cities in the city-state and various tribes in the north."

Shaner asked Carmon: "Do you believe it?"

"The story of the Evelians who left the giant island of Ruhe and found a new world."

Camon replied, "Actually, I have been there."

Xia Na froze for a moment: "Where have you been?"

Carmon patted Shaner on the shoulder, put his arms around him and looked at the sea together and said, "Didn't I tell you?"

"I was above the sea, bathing in the first rays of sunshine of the day."

"then."

"I saw the raging black storm from a distance."

"I also wanted to go and see what the world outside Ruhe Giant Island is like!"

Xia Na turned to look at Carmon: "What about the end?"

Carmon chuckled: "Finally?"

"Finally gave up!"

He let out a long breath: "The black storm is too terrifying. No one can pass through that terrible storm. Even the powerful cannot resist the engulfing of the endless darkness."

In just one sentence, it contains an experience that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

Shana couldn't understand: "How did the people of Aiweier survive the black storm?"

"They migrated with their families, and there must be many ordinary people among them."

Carmon spread his hands: "I heard that when that period of history happened, the black storm above the sea just weakened."

"And after the Evils left, the door to the outside world was closed again."

"It's really a hell."

"Why didn't I come across such a good thing."

Shana nodded.

"Maybe."

"It's God's arrangement!"

But compared to where the Evils went, did they really cross the sea of ​​​​storms and find a new world?

What Shana is more curious about now is what Carmon wants to do outside Ruhe Giant Island.

Is it just to add a glory that surpasses others to your own journey?

But Carmon was reluctant to say anything.

The journey at sea was very difficult. At the beginning, I was seasick, and later it was because of various problems of food and drinking water.

It's halfway there.

They encountered a storm.

The storm came from the sky, with clouds and lightning.

The captain led people to shout and roar on the deck. He personally controlled the rudder and controlled the direction of the entire ship.

Even Shana and Carmon joined the crowd, fighting against the coming storm and heavy rain hand in hand.

The captain was drenched in water.

He looked at the storm behind him, and anxiously shouted loudly.

"quick!"

"Acceleration Navigation."

"It's coming after us."

The captain's face was ferocious like a fallen monster, and the muscles on his face squeezed together in trembling, forming dense folds.

They finally failed to escape the storm and were caught in it.

The ship shook violently, the waves came up wave after wave, the buckets on the ship rolled around, and some people were beaten down amidst screams.

In the strong wind, some people were directly blown into the sky.

He tied himself to a rope and flew up into the sky like a kite, screaming and shouting from above.

But it didn't take long to shout, and it disappeared.

The storm is accompanied by bursts of thunder, and the flashes of light are like sharp knives cutting through the darkness.

Shana felt the power of heaven and earth for the first time.

Mortals are so small in front of this power.

They clearly saw the storm approaching with their own eyes, but they couldn't escape. They could only watch the other party approaching constantly, and then drowned themselves.

No matter what kind of power you have, no matter how you shout.

You can't change anything.

All you can do is long for luck to take care of yourself.

It felt really hopeless.

People can't help but want to kneel down to this storm, kowtow to him and beg it to let him go.

Xia Na couldn't help but asked Carmon loudly: "Is this the Black Storm?"

Camon shouted in the storm: "Black storm?"

He shouted word by word, as if venting his inner emotions: "That's much scarier than this."

Shaner, who was out at sea for the first time, couldn't imagine what a storm more terrifying than this kind of storm would be like.

Xia Na also yelled, "Is it even more scary?"

"What kind of scene is that, can the people who saw it survive?"

Carmon's voice was extremely loud: "Look...fate...!"

"ah!"

The two yelled together.

I don't know how long it has passed, but the wind, waves and torrential rain have finally passed.

The sun shone back on the ship.

After the catastrophe, everyone on board got up.

Some people cheered and shouted, some people laughed wildly.

Carmon and Shana leaned against the side of the cabin, looked at each other and laughed, while laughing, the sea kept slapping the side of the cabin wall.

"Hahahahahaha!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Laughing and crying are the two most common emotions, but laughing is easier to see than crying.

It can express happiness, it can also express bitterness, it can express pretending to be strong, and it can even express despair.

sometimes.

It can also express nothing.

Just laugh.

There is no reason to laugh.

The people who had been fighting against the storm felt exhausted after the excitement, lying like dead bodies one by one.

Shana and Carmon were lying head to head. Although they couldn't see each other, they could feel each other.

Carmon suddenly asked Shaner: "Shana!"

"What exactly are you looking for in the Thunder Swamp?"

Shaner replied: "Fate is guiding me."

Carmon asked again: "If there is no interference of fate, what do you want to do?"

Shana has never thought about this issue. He has been told by his family since he was a child that he must prepare for the fulfillment of the family's long-cherished wish and mission.

"my words."

"Probably become a scholar!"

"I like to read quietly."

"I don't ask too much, as long as this is enough."

Carmon couldn't help adding: "But that place must be a spacious and bright library or a sunny garden, the most exquisite pastries and wine must be placed on the table, and finally there must be a beautiful lake outside. "

"Yes or no?"

Xia Na suddenly turned around and looked at Carmon, as if seeing the roundworm in his stomach,

Carmon put his hands on his head: "You are so easy to understand."

Although the next sea journey is still difficult, it is no longer difficult compared with the previous storm and the front line of life and death.

Carmon and Shana first arrived at the Golden City, and then arrived at the City of Lights in a vehicle pulled by pack animals.

They finally saw the colossal statue of God Iva mentioned earlier, and completed two-thirds of the small goal of not living in vain.

The 100-meter-high statue of the gods stood beside the city's moat, holding a lamp in its hand.

At dawn, the light will refract the light before the sun appears.

Light up the entire city of lights.

It is said that God Iva appeared in the Land of Sunrise in this way.

The sun gave light to the land of the rising sun, and the **** Iva gave light to all mortals living here.

In front of the Temple of Miracles, Shana saw the statue of Xinji, the first great elder in the City of Lights.

"Is Elder Xinji dead?"

Elder Xinji of the City of Lights lived for more than two hundred years. Apart from the gods and apostles, he should be considered the longest-lived mortal in the records of the Snakeman.

This made him a legend.

Even in Suinhor and the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court, there are all kinds of stories about him.

Carmon looked at Xinji's statue indifferently: "Although he lived for more than two hundred years and surpassed the limits of mortals, he still died."

"After all, he's just a mortal."

Shana felt a little regretful: "I thought I could meet the longest-lived person in the world?"

Starting from the city of lights, walk through the rugged mountain road to the north.

Arrived at Thunder Swamp.

At this time, it has been more than half a year since Shana left his hometown.

The Thunder Swamp is not connected as one piece. There are many small islands in the swamp, and the terrain is intricate.

Shana and Carmon took a small boat to a small island called Silverfish Island, which went deep into the Thunder Swamp and produced a kind of rare silverfish, which was the favorite food of nobles, elders, and alchemists in the Land of the Rising Sun.

The boat goes deep into the silent and deep water jungle.

The rickety boat came out of a channel entangled with trees, and the world ahead completely changed.

In the distance is a lake with no end in sight like the sea, but the surface of the lake is extremely calm.

Reflecting the blue sea and sky.

At the end of the lake, there are endless clouds and fog.

The blue sky and the lake are connected together, and the thick cloud mountain meets the sky and presses down on the blue lake.

Shana felt that he had entered the legend, the fairy tale world of goblins.

The snake-man boatman who was holding the boat also noticed the expressions of Shana and Carmon: "Dear guest, don't you think it's beautiful?"

Shana and Carmon nodded involuntarily. They couldn't find any other words to describe this place except beauty.

Any redundant vocabulary seems to defile this beauty.

The boatman routinely reminded two people.

"But it's also dangerous."

"Don't get close to the depths of the Thunder Swamp, it's a forbidden place of death."

"The white mist will swallow all living things, and only the dead will remain there."

There are often people who don't know how to live or die, wanting to go into the depths and touch the beautiful clouds.

Shana asked, "Why does the white mist only devour the living and not the dead?"

"Are they conscious too?"

The boatman replied solemnly: "This is the will of the gods, and the gods do not allow mortals to enter there."

When it comes to gods, it's hard to say much.

The boat fell silent.

And this time.

A ray of light slanted down from above the sea of ​​clouds.

The light seemed to be leaking from the clouds, spreading out and shining on the lake.

The whole world suddenly changed qualitatively.

On the sea of ​​clouds at the end of the sky, a looming city appeared.

Sunlight bathes in the city above the clouds, and one can feel its antiquity and vicissitudes, as well as its former prosperity and grandeur.

Both Shana and Carmon stood up from the boat and moved to the front.

Shiner blurted out, "The Lost Kingdom!"

Camon didn't speak, but his eyes were lost.

That's right.

displayed in front of them.

It is the city of gods depicted in "The Lost Kingdom" in the Fire Temple.

It was a city built with the power of trolls and decorated with the power of miracles.

It is the first city on land established by Jesser, the second king of wisdom, and one of the oldest cities.

Even if Master Bremen's paintings are handed down from generation to generation, they are just paintings.

It is completely incomparable with the scene they really saw at this moment.

Sally, the master of life, said don't block it, show it.

Let the city that descended from the gods be fully revealed in front of people.

Then.

But the Ruhe giant didn't hear the order from the master of life to put it away.

It allowed the city to appear in the sight of mortals every once in a while, when the fog was at its lightest.

But even so, it's just for you to see.

No living thing can break into that lost kingdom of the sky.

Xia Na watched for a long time before finally speaking.

He was very excited, he did not expect to find the answer he wanted to find so smoothly.

"really have."

"It really exists."

Carmon wanted to say something, but his mouth trembled for a long time, and finally he could only say: "This is really spectacular."

Xia Na pointed to the city on the sea of ​​clouds and said to Kamon.

"I'm going in there."

Carmon asked him, "How are you going to fly up there?"

"And there is white mist everywhere in the depths, and there are terrible monsters."

"Are you sure you want to go?"

Xia Na kept looking at the city on the cloud: "I must go in."

Carmon looked at Shaner and saw the firmness in Shaner's eyes.

After a long time, he nodded and said.

"Yes, you will definitely go in."

"Anyway, you pay for it, and I'll handle it."

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When the boat arrived at Silverfish Island, the scattered clouds became dense again, completely covering the city on the sea of ​​clouds.

Shana and Carmon finally stopped looking at the sky and settled down on the island.

It's like a paradise here.

The buildings on the island are all made of wood, and the houses are stacked on top of each other, crowded in the south.

Dried fish are hung from fishing nets drying in front of every household.

It seems to be a fairly affluent village, after all, they depend on salvaging whitebait for a living.

The female snake people on the island are busy repairing, while the male snake people are tugging the boat; people wear coarse clothes, tie their hair into a ponytail with ropes, and some have short hair.

Some children were running around on the shore, making slapstick laughter.

Shaner saw a mother yell, "Don't run around."

"I'll catch you later so I don't smash your **** out."

The child turned his head and grimaced. Children of this age are flexible and fast, and adults can't keep up with them.

Mother got angry: "Don't come back at night, I'll see how good you are."

Carmon looked at the island and couldn't help saying, "This place is really nice."

"When I'm not a mercenary in the future, I will definitely live here."

Shana couldn't help showing a smile, thinking of his hometown Yoan Town.

Seeing newcomers coming to the island, the children surrounded Shana curiously.

Carmon's evil spirit was too heavy, a little scary.

So the children avoided him.

Shaner looked polite, like a scholar.

The child who was naughty and made his mother angry just now looked at Shana, curiously staring at his long sword and ring, which are things that cannot be seen on the island.

"where u from?"

"Should it come from a great place, the land of the rising sun?"

Shaner said, "I'm from Suinhall."

This is much farther than the Land of the Rising Sun.

The children's eyes lit up: "You are from the city."

The children were a sensation. People from the Land of the Rising Sun and the Court of Ten Thousand Snakes often come here, but they rarely see the city-state people.

"I heard that there are countless people there. There are 100,000 people in a city. When the king appeared, the crowd was crowded and everyone was squeezed into meatloaf. Is it true?"

"I heard that the king over there has an immortal body and is possessed by a god."

"I also heard..."

This rumor is as unreliable as gold everywhere in the Golden City.

Shaner answered some questions and satisfied the children's curiosity.

He and Shana were taken to his house by the boatman, where they will live.

Carmon tidied up his room and came to Shana's side.

He asked Xia Na seriously: "How are you going to go up?"

"I have supernatural powers," Shaner said.

Carmon said to Shana: "In this forbidden place of death, you are no different from ordinary people."

"Even if the Thunder Swamp is in the forbidden area of ​​death, the danger level is relatively low."

"That's also the forbidden place of death."

Carmon said seriously: "You have to go through the terrible white fog to reach the city above the clouds."

"Leaving aside whether there is any danger up there, how can you get through that white mist?"

Shaner said: "We are only here for the first day, so there is no rush."

"Try it!"

"There will always be a way."

Xia Na said to Carmon: "The price I offered is that you can send me here, and you don't need to participate in the next thing."

Carmon put his sword on the ground: "I never take on such halfway tasks."

"The tasks I took over were all successfully completed."

"Never fails."

Carmon said loudly: "I will not allow my record of victories in all battles to be broken on you."

Xia Na looked at Carmon and was suddenly moved.

"Carmon..."

Camon's stern face suddenly laughed: "Did you feel touched instantly?"

"Are you ready to add money to me?"

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at night.

When Shana fell asleep, the imprint on his hand suddenly radiated light.

White silk threads ran out of Xia Na's body, covering the whole room.

The silk thread kept shuttling and condensing together.

The white silk thread converged into a human figure with four limbs.

The threadball man stood beside Shana and looked at him. The white silk thread that made it was constantly wriggling, looking a little scary.

The threadman first glanced at the sleeping Shana, then walked to the window.

It opened the window and quietly looked at the lake and sea of ​​clouds under the moon in the distance.

It raised its head and focused its gaze on a certain point.

Although the city hidden in the depths of the sea of ​​clouds has not been revealed, it knows that the other party is there.

"The city that descended from the gods!"

The language spoken by the people in the thread group is obviously the language belonging to the Sanye people.

"Xia Na is here, so it must be here."

"It can't be wrong."

"It's right there."

"The Stone of Wisdom has finally appeared."

"It is the thread of fate that is about to be untied, and everything will come to an end."

"Or is it just the beginning?"

The threadball man then turned his gaze to the direction of the sea.

"Owner."

"Where did you go? Why can't we find you?"

"Aren't you on the giant island of Ruhe? Are you out in the world?"

"If you have become a god, if you have obtained real eternal life!"

"Please come back to us!"

"Don't make us wait any longer."

"Please come back!"

"Back...to where it all began."

The human figure formed by the silk threads twisted in front of the window, and its shape gradually became crazy and became indescribable.

Its body exploded and turned into dense lines that wrapped around the room where Shana was, and wrapped around Shana's bed.

There was only one head poking up, approaching Xia Na's sleeping face from a high place.

The four eyes are only a few inches away from each other.

One was tightly closed, and the other was only a deep hollow under the ball of thread.

There was no emotion in the string man's voice, but what he said showed that he was very familiar with Shaner.

"Shanna!"

"We've waited too long."

"I've waited too long~lightnovelpub.net~ The thread is getting more and more distorted, which means it's getting closer and closer to madness.

"We are long dead, we don't exist at all."

"What is death, our despair is far beyond death."

"They are all dead, but they bind us forever in time."

"It's time to end..."

"It's time to end..."

"Get it, get it at all!"

"Must get it!"

I don't know how long it has passed.

Amidst the dense white shadows and distortions, the threadball people completely dissipated.

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