The realm of Chaos was a turbulent and changeable place. Nothing could last long here. Even the mist in the wilderness had changed in concentration and color many times over the past few years. These changes often represented the direction of Order and Chaos in Collow. It was of great significance to the mortals living in this world. Every subtle clue was related to the survival of countless lives.
Therefore, in the long struggle, humans had grasped many methods to observe and record the realm of chaos. One of the important recording facilities was the Furnace Tower, a holy object of protection.
The Furnace Tower was not only the core of the land of Order but also a sentry tower used to monitor the realm of Chaos. It could automatically record the tide of the Sea of Carnos. Even if the furnace fire went out, the rune slabs used to build the tower could run automatically and complete the recording duty for a long time. So Veronica had to first check the status of the Furnace Tower to figure out what was going on here.
The information of the Festered could not be stored for a long time. Once they were weak, they would quickly deteriorate and disintegrate. So it was difficult to find clues from the corpses of the monsters. It was better than nothing for the knights to check the wreckage. The real clues were hidden on the four rune slabs around the base of the Furnace Tower.
Deciphering the slates was a skill that every noble must master, and the old knight Morris was an expert in this field. The old man returned to Veronica's side after checking all the traces. He nodded at Hao Ren and said, "The situation … is very strange."
"Weird?" Veronica frowned. She did not expect her teacher to give such an ambiguous answer after a round of inspection. "Can you explain it to me?"
"The magic of Chaos and the power of Order appear on the runes at the same time, and the boundary between the two is much smaller than the specified value."
Veronica was stunned for a long time before she finally realized the hidden meaning of this sentence. She was dumbfounded. "Are you sure you're not mistaken?"
Hao Ren was dumbfounded. "Err, what do you mean?"
The expression on Veronica's face was very strange, as if she had just heard a fantasy story. She had to explain it to Hao Ren with a serious face. "It means that … the traces left by the two forces on the runic slate are gradually converging, and the boundary between Chaos and Order is blurring … But this is impossible! How could such a thing happen in nature? "
Hao Ren scratched his head and decided to pretend that he understood. "Oh, I see. What do you plan to do next? "
"I must report this to my father immediately." Veronica pressed on the hilt of her sword. Her fingers were slightly white because of the force. "This matter needs to be discussed by the royal scholars immediately. Only they can figure out what this means."
The old knight Morian whispered, "Inform the Theocracy too."
"Theocracy …" Veronica's face darkened when she heard the name. She frowned and repeated the word. Finally, she exhaled softly. "Let the ministers decide. Anyway, we will set off immediately. Knights! Get ready to move out! "
Hao Ren shrugged and did not join in. He had not figured out many of the rules of Collow, so all he needed to do now was to observe silently. He watched Veronica and Morian organize the team and give orders. He just walked aside silently and continued to try to contact the MDT and the Petrachelys while waiting for departure.
The signal feedback from the mental connection was still weak and full of noise, but the signal seemed to be a little clearer than before. The MDT or Nolan must be trying various channels. Hao Ren believed that they would be able to restore contact one day.
As the knights stepped back into the fog of Chaos, and the light of the furnace tower gradually went out behind them, something was happening in another corner of the world.
On the southern border of the Kingdom of Taros, the land came to an abrupt end. The tail of the Shadowy Forest extending south was neatly cut here. The edge of the forest was an endless abyss, and the dark fog was rolling and surging at the bottom of the boundless cliff. Standing here and looking ahead, it was like standing at the end of the world — land, sea, river, forest, everything ended here.
But this was not the end of the world. It was just the edge of the Ansu Continent where the Kingdom of Taros was located. This land floated in the Sea of Carnos like other continents, and there was nothing around it. The Kingdom of Taros was a small kingdom on the southern edge of the continent. It had a natural southern border, which was the 'cliff' in front of them. It was actually the border of the Ansu Continent.
Continuing south from this border, it wasn't completely empty, there were many huge floating islands floating in the void outside Southern Border.
Scholars believed that these huge floating islands were once part of the Ansu continent, and the Ansu continent was originally connected with many other continents. In ancient times, the evil giant, Lockmarton, broke free from his shackles and angrily hammered the earth, breaking the ancient Collow continent into pieces. After that, Collow, which was originally integrated, became the floating continents that were now floating around.
Large continents floated relatively steadily in the Sea of Carnos, while small fragments floated between these continents. Some became the homes of abhumans or monsters, and some became the transportation hubs of human kingdoms.
The floating islands floating outside the southern border of Taros belonged to the former. These islands were occupied by abhumans who lived outside the civilized world.
These islands had dense jungles and magical water sources. So the number of beasts living on these floating islands was not only large, but also somewhat different. Under the influence of magic, low-level intelligent creatures such as bear monsters, gnolls, and demonic apes stood out from their wild relatives. Though their intelligence was shallow and ridiculous in the eyes of humans, it was enough for them to become the overlords of these floating islands. Because the islands floated in the dangerous Sea of Carnos, the aura of Chaos often set off storms in the void. So the highly intelligent creatures on the continent rarely came to these small kingdoms on the floating islands. The abhumans living here lived a leisurely life all year round.
They fought, had babies, and lived a fulfilling life.
But this leisurely atmosphere was suddenly broken.
Gruglu was an old demonic ape living in the forest. Though he was 345 years old, he still knew little about the outside world. The floating island he lived on had luckily escaped every tide of Chaos in the past three centuries. The old demonic ape had seen the forest on the other side of the void being torn apart again and again in the storm, so he thought that the outside world was so dangerous. No intelligent demonic ape should be interested in the opposite continent. Even if the forest there looked denser than the floating island, even if the territory there seemed to be more vast, he and his people should stay away from it.
So he had never left his forest. In fact, he could not leave. Except for those who could fly, who could cross the vast void between the island and the continent?
But now, it couldn't continue with its principles because it had to prepare for a journey to the opposite continent.
The old demonic ape sighed, bowed his head, and continued to fiddle with the vines and wood pieces. Beside him, his people were doing the same thing. As one of the most dexterous abhumans in the forest, the demonic apes could make quite complicated tools. Now this talent had become their only daily task. Their job was to assemble these things into some very, very large baskets to install under something called a "hot air balloon."
Gruglu glanced back and saw the gnolls shouting slogans and drying a pile of blue leather on the shelf. Further away, the imps were screaming and piling up stones to make a huge drying oven to process the wood collected from the forest. It was said that the wood would eventually be made into the skeleton of the hot air balloon, or maybe it would be made into the girder. Who knew? A bear monster excitedly said a bunch of nonsense after receiving a reward from the "alpha wolf", but bear monsters were famous for their stupidity. It might not have remembered what the "alpha wolf" said at all.
Gruglu only knew one thing: the blue leather that the gnolls were drying once belonged to a terrible monster. It was a wild blue whale from the depths of the Sea of Carnos. The behemoth could come and go freely in the Sea of Carnos, which was full of all kinds of energy. It was a terrible god to the abhumans living on the floating island. But the alpha killed it after a day and a night of fighting. According to a Gnoll with a protruding mouth and monkey-like cheeks, the wolf was sitting on the corpse of the Blue Demon Whale, gnawing on its bone marrow and tearing off its skin. That was when the plan to make the "hot air balloon" began.
That was why Gruglu had to obey the alpha's order. Although he was extremely reluctant to leave the safety of the forest, and although he had a great fear of "flying across the void," he still obediently weaved vines, just like the gnolls and bear monsters who had already shown their allegiance to him.
Because he knew very well that the alpha was extremely powerful, at least more powerful than the blue whale.
It was impossible for any creature on this floating island to defeat her.
Therefore, since the 'alpha wolf' wanted to go to the continent occupied by humans, they had no choice but to obey.
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