Auyufomos, in the magnificent grand arena.
Although most of the audience seats were empty, a middle-aged man in a white robe with a tilted shoulder and an emerald frontlet on his forehead still raised his arms and shouted enthusiastically.
"The winner can enjoy a feast, and the loser will continue to starve. Slaves, do your best to please His Majesty the Great King Oryufomos! Let the battle begin! "
Clang!
Then, he struck the bronze bell beside him.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The thick bronze gates on both sides of the grand arena opened, and two figures shot into the arena covered in fine sand.
Finally, without the obstruction of the cell bars, the Dark Wizard, who was at the peak of Grade Two, was the first to attack.
"It's all your fault, you three idiots! Do you know where this is? The accident you caused this time is going to kill everyone! "
Stephanie, who was holding a spear in her hand, was not in a good mood either. She retorted without showing any weakness.
"Ha, how can you blame us? You were the ones who attacked us without saying anything. If it weren't for you despicable Dark Wizards, the Theseus would have escaped long ago.
And you were the ones who set up the trap in the beginning to capture those weird … natives, right?
I haven't asked you unlucky fellows, why did you sneak here with those weird things? "
The couple lived in Gorontalo in the Celebes Archipelago, and they were no strangers to the Black Obelisk. Moreover, he had met this guy in the [Clock Tower] when they were fighting for the [Ancient Scroll].
The plan carried out by the Eye of Wealth was to buy over those who could be bought over with money, and to corrupt those who could not be bought over with money.
The Black Obelisk was made up of Transcendents, Dark Wizards, intelligent monsters, and so on. Their alignment alone determined that most of them were not good people.
It did not matter if the ancient gods and evil gods were anti-human villains. They did not need to use the corruption method at all. These guys had completely succumbed to the attack of money.
Because of their understanding of the Shattered Star Sea, they became the vanguard of the ancient gods' operation.
"We've been captured to the core area of the Vestigial Clan's kingdom. Even if a large force comes, it's impossible to rescue us from here. It's all your fault!"
As the vanguard of the main force, the dark wizards did not know why the Eye of Wealth and the ancient god's kin were capturing the Vestigial. But he knew a lot more than Stephanie did, and he also knew the danger of going deep into the core area of the Empire.
Being imprisoned and being infected by the unknown fear of the ancient god's kin, he hysterically threw the [Cursed Sarcophagus] that he could only carry on his back because his magic bag was taken away. Then, he angrily opened the lid of the sarcophagus.
Sha sha sha …
The pitch-black scarab made of fine black sand rushed toward Stephanie like a sandstorm.
[Witchcraft — Black Ant!]
Rumble!
Stephanie stepped forward abruptly. The life force all over her body was like a magnificent furnace. The magnificent flames of Combat Energy broke the hairband on her head, and her golden-red hair fluttered in the wind.
"Cut the crap and die!"
After the weapon was destroyed, there was no such weapon as the Swift Sword in this kingdom. But for a Great Knight who had stepped into the peak of Level Three ahead of her sister Levina, even the spear did not affect the performance of the [Rose Swordsmanship] at all.
Rumble! Rumble!
In the black sandstorm, the crimson flames of Combat Energy flashed.
With a superior wizard husband who had lived for almost two hundred years, Stephanie was far more adapted to fighting wizards than the average Great Knight. Moreover, the dark wizard himself only kept one witchcraft item, and his strength was greatly reduced.
Even though the female Knight wore a metal collar around her slender neck, her clothes were tattered, and even her boots had been thrown away, she was still as powerful as a Valkyrie.
Five minutes later.
Seizing the weakness of the opponent's lack of mobility after losing most of his equipment, she waved the spear in her hand and smashed it down on him like a heavy hammer.
Boom!
The guy who kept spouting venom was smashed into minced meat.
A mummy shadow wrapped in withered yellow bandages escaped from his body and plunged into the sarcophagus next to him. Then, another figure jumped out of it.
It looked unscathed, but this body also wore a collar around its neck.
However, unlike Stephanie's metal collar, it was a semi-light rune collar that mainly targeted the soul and was far more difficult to deal with than the metal collar.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
Applause rang out in the only VIP auditorium that was occupied.
"Interesting, interesting."
The king of this kingdom was also the "Son of God" Oyu Fomos. He had golden curly hair and a handsome face like the sun. He wore a gorgeous red robe, revealing half of his muscular chest that was like a marble sculpture.
He was hugging two beautiful female slaves dressed in gauze and smiling sweetly, enjoying the fruits and wine that they brought to his mouth.
"These magical Transcendents, who are completely different from the imperial system, will be the stars in the arena on the day of the gathering.
After risking their lives and courage, they will die in glory. Let me use their blood to write the covenant of this year's gathering on the pillar of the temple of the God of the Sea, Amphitrite! Hahaha … "
.....
The Arion Kingdom in the Southern Sea.
Elvin and Darktilly, who came out of the great library, walked on the wide and clean streets of the city. There were blue and white lightning flashing under their feet, and they crossed more than ten meters in one step.
However, although the appearance of the lightning was similar, the essence was not the same.
It was not like today's human beings, who were constantly growing from weak to strong, and could even gradually grow into "Truth Manifestation," an existence comparable to a demigod.
The Jondrilians, as a natural-born Transcendent race, had the ability to control the "Vitality Magnetic Field". The ability would naturally increase with the passage of time and the maturation of the bloodline. There was no such thing as automatic improvement.
However, since the lightning power was rooted in the body, Elvin, who had the [Rapid Thunder Swordsmanship] and had been promoted to a [Heraldic Knight], had no difficulty in disguising it.
Elvin also indirectly confirmed that although the [Rapid Thunder Swordsmanship] was similar to the ability of the Jondrilians, it definitely did not originate from this civilization.
"It's so prosperous, just like the legendary utopia."
Elvin could not help but exclaim in his heart as he witnessed the various wonders of the city with his own eyes. If it were not for the fact that he was in a hurry, he would have liked to go in and take a look.
After reading the information in the library, the scale of the empire was far beyond his initial expectations.
It was not a small city-state with a few thousand people that dared to call itself a country. Instead, it was a huge empire in the form of islands that added up to five million square kilometers of land, which was half the size of the Duchy of Garot.
The entire empire's land was divided into 90,000 military regions outside of the ten kingdoms. Each region had a commander who was in charge of dispatching 12 soldiers, two war horses, a chariot, and all the necessary supplies.
The total population was about 12 million people. The number of people who were natural-born Transcendents who were recognized as citizens was about two million. The rest were mainly slaves and servants.
As the pilots of the flying machines, Akteon and Dactyl were the best of the best. Otherwise, they would not even have the qualifications to enter the national library.
However, behind the dazzling light, there was an unknown extravagance and enjoyment that made Elvin, who was also in charge of 10 million people, frown.
"Hehe, come quickly."
"Last night's opera …"
There were plump and fair-skinned women drinking and playing in the cold springs and hot springs all over the city. They were bold and open. Most of the men were unrestrained, and it was a scene of debauchery.
Even Dactyl, who was anxious about his mission, held hands and flirted with a beautiful lady by the side of the road when he met her.
As they gradually left the circular central city, more and more slaves in ragged clothes appeared on the side of the road.
Elvin, who noticed this scene for the first time, felt that he had suddenly gone from a beautiful "utopia" to a high-tech and low-life "cyberpunk" world.
It was not hard to imagine that if the total population of 12 million was divided, each kingdom actually had about one million people.
While ensuring that the upper ruling class squandered without restraint, the slaves in the city and the provinces on the peripheral islands naturally became the targets of exploitation for the top citizens, soldiers, nobles, priests …
However, this highly developed civilization that seemed to be "sick" was not something that Elvin needed to care about for the time being.
In fact, when Dactyl said that there was an honorable mission that required them to carry out, Elvin had already decided to slip away. Although he had discovered the unexpected ancient civilization in Jondric, he had never forgotten that the main purpose of his trip to the "Shattered Star Sea" was to find Jeros and Stephanie.
This huge civilization was right there, and it would be the same the next time he came.
However, when Dactyl revealed that their specific mission was to be sent to the neighboring Oyufomos to participate in the meeting of the ten kings. Moreover, after Oyufomos announced that they had captured slaves with magical abilities that they had never seen before, Elvin immediately changed his mind.
According to tradition, the ten kings that ruled this civilization gathered every five years to discuss the distribution of benefits and the division of rights between them. The highlight of the event was the grand slave battle.
The outcome of the Gladiator Duels would, to a large extent, determine the ranking of the various countries.
It was not impossible that Jeros and Stephanie, who had Rank-3 strength, had gone missing because they were too close to the Jondric's sphere of influence and were captured by them.
For them, who shared the "adventurer's blood" and the "golden compass," when they were not sure of each other's location. Instead of looking around without a clue, it was better to go with the flow and leave the rest of the journey to the "extraordinary gathering effect."
When they ran all the way to the "airport."
Crackle, crackle …
The Academy of Engineering, which was responsible for managing cutting-edge technology, was carrying out the final inspection of these electric flying machines with fixed-wing propellers.
For the first time, Elvin saw the internal structure of the flying machine that had been carefully dismantled.
"That is …"
He could not help but focus his gaze on something in his Sorcerer's Garden.
Broken copper-clad circuit boards, charred silicon wafers, transistors … More than half of the materials had turned into shiny black insect chitin, which was obviously contaminated by some unknown existence.
The structure was very primitive, and the workmanship was somewhat crude.
It was an "integrated circuit" obtained from the Clock Tower. Elvin judged that the civilization had at least developed to the electrical age. It used to be a part of some simple electronic equipment.
At this time, Elvin found that this thing was exactly the same as a component inside the flying machine.
He couldn't help but have new doubts in his heart. He asked his teammate casually, "What's the matter?
He asked his teammate, "Dactyl, have you ever taken a flying machine to the outside of the island where we live?"
The pilot next to him seemed to have heard a funny question and patted Elvin on the shoulder.
"Actaeon, what are you talking about? Other than the land protected by the sea god Amphitrite, the entire world outside has long been flooded. No one can return! "
"There's a problem!"
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