Pillar of Yita

Fang Hong was taken aback and couldn’t help but ask: ”What’s the matter?”

”The most prominent building in that direction is naturally the Fanric Museum, but the Rose Workshop’s factory is also nearby.”

Fang Hong listened, and his heart was startled, for he had never heard of such a thing before, and couldn’t help but look at Hilveld beside him. The noble lady furrowed her brow and pondered for a moment, then replied, ”There is such a saying, but that’s just a branch factory within the city, merely nominally belonging to the Westwood Sibika family’s property, and it actually contains nothing of value.”

”But I’ve heard there are many tourists there daily.”

”That’s true.”

”But inside, there’s a teleportation array that can lead directly to the upper layers of Elfendo.”

”It’s the seventy-seventh layer, and several more layers up is the Airport District,” Hilveld replied. ”However, currently all of Elfendo has lost its energy, so naturally the teleportation array can no longer be used.”

But Fang Hong suddenly raised his head.

A deep glimmer flashed in his eyes—the seventy-seventh layer of Elfendo Spire, this phrase suddenly imprinted itself in his mind. He had heard of this place, and not only had he heard of it, but he even went there once recently.

Because that is the observation hall of Elfendo Spire.

Inside that hall is a spacious exhibition room, which can also be regarded as a small museum, only open to tourists on public days. On the viewing platform there, one can take in the scenery of Fanric and a corner of Long Lake—and within the hall, some history that the Elfendo Council is proud of is displayed.

It even includes a hundred years ago, during the battle in Ash Woods, where the three major families of the Southern Region, including the Elfendo Council, exerted their full strength to assist that legendary Dragon Slaying Hero.

In that legendary battle, Yoshude cut off a horn and a claw of Nikopolas, and injured one of Nikopolas’s Dragon’s Golden Eyes. The horn was later guarded by Yoshude’s descendants for generations until it was taken by Nikopolas at Traveler’s Rest.

But the claw remained with the Council.

The Alchemists at the time, mimicking the Dwarves displaying the Dragon King’s Bone in the Sanctified Forge Hall, paired the Demon Dragon’s Claw with an alchemical skeleton structure, also putting it on display to commemorate every hero who sacrificed in that war.

And the place where the Demon Dragon’s Claw is displayed is naturally the observation hall.

He suddenly realized he had been neglecting this detail all along.

Perhaps it was precisely the opponent using various means and tricks to draw everyone’s attention to the top of the Ice Longstone Tower. Of course, the invasion of the Thornfish People and Koras, the disappearance of the City Barrier, everything connecting together, also made people overlook these more important things.

Fang Hong almost instinctually felt this might be the true purpose of the Dragon Worship Sect.

He also instantly confirmed Rolin’s identity.

He asked in a deep voice: ”Is that teleportation array bidirectional or unidirectional?”

”It’s unidirectional,” the person replied. ”I am very interested in teleportation arrays, specifically studying alchemical teleportation arrays across various locations.”

Fang Hong felt a heaviness in his heart upon hearing this.

To make a unidirectional teleportation array work bidirectionally requires one external and one internal array. He could fully understand the designer’s thought: in the event of sudden incidents, the craftsman could close the external array, leaving the array inside Elfendo Spire to be a unidirectional array that can only transmit outwards, not inwards.

This would be extremely advantageous for the defending side in unfavorable conditions.

Moreover, due to the presence of the Defense Barrier within Elfendo Spire, it could prevent the enemy from mastering the external array and directly transmitting into the Spire. But the issue is, no one anticipated the day when the enemy would come from the Council’s upper ranks, resulting in Elfendo’s defense collapsing from within.

And currently, the two separate arrays, their energy supply mode obviously wouldn’t use Ice Longstone within Elfendo Spire uniformly, presuming that the external array within the workshop has a dedicated Main Core Crystal for supply.

This leads to a terrifying result—the Defense Barrier within Elfendo Spire has failed, but the external array from the Rose Workshop can indeed transmit into the Spire, directly reaching the observation hall. And due to the defense barrier’s failure, it has led to the hall being almost undefended at this moment.

Due to inertia of thought, currently, it seems hardly anyone has realized this point.

Baijia’s complexion became solemn for the first time upon hearing this, and he immediately said, ”I must notify the captain immediately.”

”Are we still in time to return to Elfendo now?” The people from Eis hadn’t expected such a huge conspiracy lurking behind all this, and for a moment, they were all very tense. As Life Profession Practitioners, their journey from Eis to Fanric was about the biggest adventure since becoming Invokers.

But when would they have thought they would be embroiled in such an event?

”No.” Fang Hong replied.

He looked up, his gaze directed toward the spire underneath the azure sky, the white tower column towering into the clouds, the densely packed window holes, indistinguishable from the ground which layer was the seventy-seventh.

He couldn’t help but feel a bit dizzy for a moment.

Only after he managed to avert his gaze did Fang Hong respond: ”Elfendo is connected through three elevators for upper and lower levels, one of which directly leads to the Airport District. But these elevators need Main Core Crystal in working condition to be driven.”