Pillar of Yita

The girl also lowered her head, her gaze drifting, seemingly pondering over something.

From a distance, Luo Yu turned back and whispered to the others, ”This woman is really suspicious, I really don’t know which powerless girl would wander around with a Fairy Construct all day—”

After which, Tianlan glanced at him and retorted, ”If you don’t talk, no one would think you’re mute.”

Fortunately, their quiet conversation did not catch the attention of those in front of them.

As time passed, the fog began to spawn more monsters, and everyone gradually became too preoccupied to care. Suddenly, a Dragonman charged out of nowhere, nearly pouncing on the hapless Papalarian guide, who screamed, stretched his short arms and legs, pushed out his belly, and fell to the ground, feigning death.

Luckily, Miss Red Leaf acted swiftly with a Flame Ray that pierced through the Dragonman’s chest, turning it to ash that rejoined the mist, saving our professional kitchen pilferer from disaster.

The Papalarian still lay motionless on the ground. Had Atira not walked over and picked him up by his pointed ears, even Wu Di would have thought he had indeed made a noble sacrifice.

However, seeing the diminutive man screaming and struggling in the Elf Girl’s hands, the prodigious youth of the Silver Forest Spear suddenly felt it all a bit absurd.

Thankfully, this illusion did not affect his judgment.

He suddenly stopped, but to his surprise, Fang Hong also stopped at the same time.

Wu Di put his hand on his partner and then looked at him curiously—only to see that Fang Hong’s face still wore that strange silver mask, now overlaid with those ridiculous wind goggles, looking utterly ludicrous.

But Fang Hong’s expression was anything but funny as he pressed his lips tightly, staring in a certain direction.

Wu Di felt a chill in his heart and looked in that direction too—

The rolling black smoke emanating from the Dragon Horn above the dome had already enveloped the entire hall. Visibility within the hall was less than ten feet, and the distant sounds of combat were fading, leaving behind only silence.

Yet, the direction both men were looking held nothing but swirling smoke.

But Fang Hong suddenly reached out and pulled back the Papalarian, rubbing his red ears and tilting his head toward that direction, and before the latter’s confused gaze, he gestured to others and then whispered, ”Six Dragonmen.”

”How did you know?” Wu Di asked curiously.

After he spoke, he withdrew his hand, and with a light buzzing sound in the mist, a streak of golden light passed by, and a Clockwork Fairy landed steadily in his palm.

After Wu Di stowed away the Clockwork Fairy, he turned to look at Fang Hong. He knew that the latter was also skilled in controlling the Clockwork Fairy. But what puzzled him was when Fang Hong had managed to deceive his eyes and release the Clockwork Fairy.

What he absolutely did not expect, however, was for Fang Hong to hold up the exquisite Fairy Doll and say, ”Meimei’s Fairy Crystal has a magic vision link, I saw it—”

”Who is Meimei?” Wu Di was completely confused.

”It’s the name of this Fairy Lady,” Fang Hong answered quietly, wearing his wind goggles, ”I linked to her Core Crystal, so I know the name the maker gave her.”

With that remark, the atmosphere around them suddenly quietened.

Only Hilveld paused, then lifted her head to take a particular look at Fang Hong.

”Damn it!” The first to speak was Liuli Yue: ”You fucking don’t tell me, you’ve successfully linked to the Fairy Construct?”

Before he could finish, he received a slap from Wu Di.

”Mind your manners, what you say represents the Guild,” Wu Di responded calmly, then added, ”And keep your voice down, they’re coming.”

But after saying that, he also looked at Fang Hong but didn’t ask further, simply positioning his Fearless One at the front of the team.

Only Red Leaf looked somewhat astonished and seemed about to ask something. But Fang Hong interrupted her, ”Five more Dragonmen coming from the left, they seem to be attracted by Liuli Yue’s voice.”

The eyes of everyone immediately turned toward Liuli Yue.

Wu Di couldn’t help but frown. Eleven Dragonmen were a bit more than they could handle.

Frustrated, the young man burst out, ”Damn it, if you didn’t say that, no one would think you’re mute.”

”Can’t you be a bit more civilized?” Red Leaf frowned in disapproval.

”Stupid woman, why don’t you go and tell them yourself?” Liuli Yue immediately retorted, ”If your civilization can make these bird monsters flee in terror, I’ll learn from you right away.”

This unreasonable rebuttal nearly made Red Leaf lose her temper on the spot.

But it was then that Fang Hong spoke up again: ”Miss Red Leaf, open your flame ray subsystem.”

Red Leaf, stunned by the remark, quickly asked, ”Hold on, little one, I don’t see a target—” but she couldn’t finish her sentence, as the other half of her words just wouldn’t come out. Suddenly, she noticed a conspicuous notification popping up in the window of her Summoners System:

’Fairy ”Meimei” is requesting an Ether-link with your Flexible Construct – Annihilator Qv700 (A).’

Red Leaf’s mouth fell open as she stared dumbfounded at the scene.

”Ah!? You...” she stuttered, ”You actually managed to link successfully?”

”I told you, Miss Red Leaf, I would try as hard as I could,” Fang Hong answered, ”It might be a bit hard, I might not be of much help, but I’ll do my best—”

I will try as hard as I can...

I will try as hard as I can...

That sentence was all that remained in Red Leaf’s mind, making her almost believe she was dreaming. Unable to help herself, she fiercely pinched her arm, then almost cried from the pain: ”Ah, that hurts!”

”Don’t get distracted,” Wu Di finally couldn’t help but remind her: ”They’re coming.”

No sooner had he spoken than two Dragonmen emerged, parting the mist ahead. Their somewhat fierce crawling faces had just started to emerge from the engulfing black smoke when the Fearless One, who had been waiting there for a long time, shot towards them like a cannonball, hitting them squarely and sending them screaming back into the mist.

It was then that Red Leaf realized the danger. She grimaced, turned around, and with a swipe on the window, she accepted the request. Then, raising her control gloves, she prepared to steer her Annihilator.

But just then, she froze, as she saw a stream of data cascading down like a waterfall from her system:

’Bearing 447.’

’Turn left 37.2.’

’Adjustment value 1.2.’

’Adjustment value 1.4.’

She looked down and found the four Magic Buoys on her control gloves spinning wildly, while the computational load typically required to control the four subsystems of the Annihilator was dropping sharply on the panel.

It was only moments later that she heard a voice in her ear:

”Issue the command, activate the flame ray subsystem, engage overload, fire once at bearing 12.443, fire twice at bearing 12.445—”

That was Fang Hong’s voice.

”Hold on,” Red Leaf, taken aback, couldn’t help but ask, ”Who commands a Flexible Construct like that?”

Controlling a Flexible Construct is undoubtedly a precise process. Even with the help of a system, manual adjustments to angles, allocation of magic power, planning different paths of magic power, and the sequencing of Alchemy formulas are required.

A command to a Flexible Construct that is simply obeyed like that is called the Dragon Knight System.

But Fang Hong had no time to explain to her, only saying, ”Trust me, do it quickly.”

Red Leaf hesitated slightly, but ultimately chose to follow the command:

”Activate the flame ray subsystem, engage overload, fire once at bearing 12.443—”

She had just finished speaking.

When she realized her Annihilator seemed to really understand her, starting to rotate leftward, then slowly opened its metal shell, revealing the internal flame ray subsystem.

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