Pillar of Yita

Fang Hong was indeed distracted, nodding his head. ”I certainly planned to check it out.”

It was then that the young girl slightly bowed to him, politely saying, ”Excuse me, Mr. Ade, I’m glad you could talk about these things with me.”

”Ah, it’s no problem.”

Fang Hong quickly shook his head. He watched as Hilveld said goodbye and left, feeling somewhat melancholy, but mostly he was reluctant to part with that fairy. As the girl crossed Saddle Bridge, her silhouette under the moonlight was tender, but Fang Hong was thinking of another shadow.

That moonlight was silver and splendid, his gaze as watery.

In Grey Anchorage.

Within the small town, there was an inn run by a Dwarf. During the ninety-month, the North Wind would rise, and the number of people venturing into the Dragon Roar Mountains had significantly decreased. The inn hosted only a few locals–Big Cat and a couple of others, and the weather had already begun to cool, the fireplace blazing with flames.

The firelight cast a somewhat cold look on the silver-haired girl’s face as she sat there motionlessly for a long time, only her long ears standing erect, indicating she was still on alert.

Miya sighed again, her pale silver eyes like Star Flowers, staring blankly at the half-mark on the back of her hand.

She had visited the Concealing Spring’s Resurrection Point afterward, but hadn’t found that young man. Was he hiding in fear, or had something else happened? She remembered that night, his clumsy demeanor.

Perhaps it was the sudden gleam in mid-air that deepened her impression.

The radiance flowed over the forest, like the chassis of the sun, lighting the night—tension, discomfort, and filled with courage appeared on that face; she found it a bit funny now, thinking about it.

Then she truly smiled, a slight smile forming on her lips.

If he had spoken out, she might have agreed, after all, it was her most restless moment, before everything became destined. She closed her eyes, her mind involuntarily recalling the battle when the Star Dagger was broken, boundless betrayal, and despair.

She pressed her chest, opening her eyes, a trace of fear still in her silver eyes.

”Madam, do you need any help?”

Qin Zhi stood not too far away, a bit surprised by the beauty of this girl. For a moment, he almost thought he had seen the Witch of the Sea—his dream lover. But this was a girl of the Wolf Clan, a Wilderness Person, Rotao, whereas his dream lover was not only a human but also retired.

That had always been his greatest regret—born too late to meet you, but born too soon to see you aged, perhaps that was the sentiment.

But she really did look like her.

In that instant, Qin Zhi felt his heart struck by something mysterious, rendering him unable to take another step.

Miya lifted her head, her pale silver gaze landing on the man’s left chest. She hesitated for a moment and asked, ”Silver Shadow, are you Qin Zhi?”

The Goddess knows me?

Qin Zhi was both startled and delighted, feeling somewhat favored by fate.

But by the time he had regained his composure, the last thing he saw was two crossing beams of cold light.

She was known as the Witch of the Sea—

But people seemed to have forgotten the origin of her title.

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The seventh failure—

Tianlan’s shrill scream once again interrupted Fang Hong’s thoughts, and he lifted his head somewhat annoyed.

Having mastered that technique, he had conquered the more challenging second level in half a night, and it had only been one night since those people had promised him a week before he moved on to the third level.

But it seemed he couldn’t proceed any further today.

”Brother Ade, come and look!”

Tianlan called out from outside.

Fang Hong had no choice but to go outside. Gey Ridge Beasts of Burden were entering the north gate of Elpaxin along the Beast Walkway, a straight grand road laid between the clouds and the sea, leading directly to distant Elpaxin—

And it was also Fang Hong’s first time witnessing this crown of the Northern Territory of Eteliria, the capital of magic and shipbuilding.

What caught his eye first was the towering Holy White walls, above which floated several Crystal Spires.

The tracks extended downward from various levels of the city, with Magic Guided Trains running to various areas around the city, surrounding Elpaxin Castle like a Pillar of Sky-Reaching.

The latter was the center of the city, floating in the middle of this port—numerous sizes of Magic Guided Academies, shops, hanging like a multicolored Sky Street above and around this castle in a terraced spiral downward.

And the deep blue sky reflected the backdrop of the Cloud Sea at the end of the vista, spread with countless flying beasts and various types of airships—

A shadow just floated overhead.

That was the shadow of Taifei Number Three, a hard airship, drifting slowly over the outer city, resembling a gently cruising giant whale, its belly laden with a net of weighting materials from Schwarzer Airport; a Navigator on a Bipedal Flying Dragon approached, the airship letting out a long steam whistle, the giant beast beginning to decelerate slowly.

But what truly made Tianlan scream was not this.

On the Beast Walkway, a massive Merchant Group was leaving Elpaxin, several mountainous beasts slowly walking under the Holy White great arches. Compared to them, their Beast of Burden seemed like a harmless little cat, and Tianlan, leaning over the railing, was frantically waving at those giant beasts, yelling and jumping with excitement.

But her voice was already drowned out; the giant beasts were taking slow steps, each covering several lengths of Gey Ridge Beasts of Burden, then landing heavily on the ground, thunder rolling and dust flying.