Chapter 2263

Wings flapped, and the blue-eyed girl floated slightly upward in the air. She stretched out a hand forward, and as the core spirit runes bloomed with light, an extremely complex circular rune array appeared vertically above the river beach with her palm as the center.

"Elf Rune Lock!"

Emilia recognized it immediately, and Xia De also nodded, watching the rune lock hidden in the air fully appear.

A rune lock is a kind of space seal produced by a ritual; only by mastering the specific key, that is, specific incantations and gestures, can it be opened, otherwise it can only be forced open through Xia De's wonder - Key of the Gate, or relic - Master Key.

And clearly, this rune lock composed of ancient Elf language in front of him is more complex than those examples mentioned in the "Basic Rune Studies" and "Rune Studies from the Beginning" courses.

Although Miss Ilithyia mastered the correct way to open the lock, she was also trying to open it for the first time. Therefore, as she whispered like singing an Elf language ballad, the life ring behind her cooperated with her gestures to slowly output her own spirit, and the orange-yellow phantom locks in the rune lock did not open very fast.

"Emilia, go help."

Xia De said softly, and the Elf Miss nodded lightly, then carefully came to the stream, pricked her finger, dripped a drop of blood into the water, then slowly knelt on one knee, held her hands on her chest and prayed softly.

Emilia's prayer sound mixed with Miss Ilithyia's chanting sound, the two resonated with each other, and the resulting vibration of spirit and elements caused the huge ritual base array floating in the air to deform at a faster speed.

A full five minutes later, Miss Ilithyia's body fell, her feet touched the ground again, and Emilia also patted her skirt and stood up from the river beach.

And at this time, in the center of the clear stream originating from the top of the mountain, a stone platform that was not very large had already risen.

The stone platform was slightly higher than the water surface, supported by stone pillars at the bottom, and there were three statues on it.

The statue on the left was an Elf girl wearing a flower wreath on her head; she stood and shyly stretched out her right hand forward, while her left hand held a stone staff; on the right was another Elf girl kneeling on one knee, wearing a cloak, with a stone longsword placed by her feet.

Her left hand supported the right hand of the Elf girl standing, while her right hand held a stone ring, trying to put it on the hand of the flower-wreath Elf girl.

And on the side of the two, that is, the direction away from the river beach, was a stone statue of a double-winged angel.

The angel spread its arms, and the spread wings seemed to want to wrap the two Elf girls in them. The angel's style was a relatively classic one, wearing a white robe, barefoot, and the specific gender could not be seen.

Because the three statues had just risen from underwater, water droplets remained on each of them. The sunlight shone down from above the valley, and besides making the stream look sparkling, the stone statues also seemed to be flickering because of these water droplets.

"This is the nameless dragon-slaying hero statue of the Fifth Era, a ruin left by the Elves to commemorate them."

Miss Ilithyia explained, which also explained why the two statues other than the angel were both female.

"Elves can receive blessings when they come here, but it has no effect on other races. So for so many years, there have not been many legends about this small ruin locally."

She continued, and the pointed-eared Elf Miss nodded lightly, looking at the three statues on the stream in the distance with envy and reverence:

"Ancient Elf heroes..."

"Ang~"

The little unicorn poked her, so Emilia sat sideways on the back of the unicorn, Xia De used "Water Walking," and Miss Ilithyia walked directly on the water surface—ships don't sink—and the three walked together toward the stone platform holding the three statues.

In the quiet mountain forest stream valley, the statues of nameless heroes were bathed in the afternoon sun. Xia De didn't even want to speak too loudly, worried about disturbing the atmosphere at this moment.

But when he approached those statues, besides looking at the right arm of that angel statue, he also looked at the angel's left arm.

The angel's spread left hand was actually holding a metal box, and if Xia De wasn't mistaken, the pattern carved on the front of the box was clearly the family crest of the "Wood Family" among the Seven Great Families of Moon Bay.

"What is this thing?"

Xia De asked the girl beside him, but Miss Ilithyia didn't know either.

The two walked in front, and Emilia rode the little unicorn behind. Xia De originally wanted to investigate when he got closer, but unexpectedly the box suddenly vibrated by itself.

He stopped, letting the two girls be careful too. Subsequently, with a ray of light passing through the air, the space beside the stone platform actually shattered into a crack, a human hand reached out from it and grasped the box, and then a man Xia De had never seen before walked out from the shattered space:

"Who is so kind to help me unlock this Elf seal?"

The visitor looked to be around forty years old, similar in age to Dr. Schneider. He was wearing a black formal suit that looked like he was going to attend a banquet, with a very elegant goatee on his chin, and while his left hand grabbed the box, his right hand stroked his goatee.

After getting the metal box, he then looked at the three of them inquiringly.

His gaze met Xia De's, and Xia De was slightly startled:

"Thirteenth ring?"

The stranger nodded lightly:

"People call me the Light Chaser; thank you for helping me unlock the seal here. I have always known that this thing was in this seal, but the ancient Elf language is simply too difficult, isn't it? (Note)"

"Light Chaser..."

Xia De pursed his lips and reached his hand behind his back, while the man holding the box looked at the girls behind him:

"A unicorn and an Elf... May I ask presumptuously, is this young lady the one who pulled out the Sword of Light on the Belindell Big Ben last weekend?"

Seeing that no one answered him, he shook his head regretfully and looked down at the stone platform he was standing on. No one spoke; in such a quiet stream valley, only the sound of the babbling stream and the wind blowing through the treetops was so obvious.

And when the "Light Chaser" looked up at the three again, three white light balls the size of eggs had already arrived in front of them.

Xia De's left hand had originally touched the 【Calamity Card · Shadow of the Deep Sea】, trying to use "Darkness Art" to suppress the "Light Chaser's" wonder, but someone was faster than him.

Miss Ilithyia, who had turned back into the dragon descendant appearance, actually reached out and grabbed the three white light balls that were expanding and about to explode, and then, in Xia De's shocked eyes, she swallowed the "Light Chaser's" wonder into her mouth, but she was not affected by it at all.

"Remember? I was born in a place without light."

Blue eyes flickered slightly, and the dragon descendant girl asked with a smile, then flapped her wings and flew into the high sky with the solemn-faced "Light Chaser."

Xia De and Emilia looked up together, watching the 12th-ring life ring and the 13th-ring life ring appear in the sky together. Countless light bullets of different colors left light traces in the sky and touched each other; in just a few seconds, the first round of fighting had already ended, and the light balls and dragon flames colliding and exploding in the valley even caused a strange halo to rise in the sky.

And after the tentative exchange, it was a real battle. While Xia De below was walking quickly toward the angel statue on the stone platform, on the life ring behind the "Light Chaser," Miracle - "Giant" and Enlightenment - "Light" bloomed with brightness together:

"Wonder - Avatar of Light!"

In an instant, the man in the sky turned into a ball of light, and then that ball of light rapidly grew larger above the valley until it turned into a light giant standing in the valley.

This is the most proficient move of the 13th-ring warlock "Light Chaser," and the girl with dragon wings on her back was not panicked.

She easily dodged the giant hand slapped by the light giant, and while the mountain cliff behind her was pierced through by that hand, she raised her right hand high, so the daylight dimmed, and strange cold raindrops fell from the sky.

It was as if the sun was gradually extinguishing; in an instant, even the light on the light giant dimmed a lot. When the core spirit runes on the 12th-ring life ring behind Miss Ilithyia flashed together, the sound of violent waves crashing also became louder and louder.

It was clearly a sunny summer afternoon, but the huge moisture had already rushed toward them. The light giant reached out its hand to the glowing girl in the air again, but was directly slapped back by waves that suddenly appeared in the air.

Looking around again, where was there any quiet river valley stream? On that boundless ocean without light, the sky, the ocean, and even the whole world were black.

The light on the light giant was constantly drawn away by this world, and the life ring behind him, which had also become huge, was trying to mobilize more spirit to cast wonders to break the current predicament. But very coincidentally, this wonder happened to restrain all light:

"What is this?"

Core Enlightenment Spirit Rune - Miracle - Ship, Core Enlightenment Spirit Rune - Miracle - Dragon, Core Enlightenment Spirit Rune - Miracle - Dream, Core Enlightenment Spirit Rune - Whisper - Immortality, Core Enlightenment Spirit Rune - Whisper - Disaster, Core Enlightenment Spirit Rune - Enlightenment - Ocean, Core Enlightenment Spirit Rune - Enlightenment - Extinguished Light—

This is the story of her birth, this is the place where she died, and this is also the hometown where she was reborn. With all the core spirit runes as bones, and with the story symbolizing her own "beginning" as skin.

This wonder didn't need her to learn deliberately; this was an instinctive talent branded in her peculiar soul when her soul truly took shape, when she suddenly woke up from chaos and confusion and knew "I am I."

Whistling strong winds and raindrops rushed toward them, and violent waves crashed wantonly on the boundless ocean.

Thus, with a loud bang, a giant cruise ship covered with blue dragon scales and wings spread on both sides of the ship rushed out from the stormy waves. Miss "Radiance," whose blue eyes were glowing, stood on the deck, her black long hair fluttering behind her in the wind.

She shouted loudly, and together with the flying ship, crashed into the chest of the light giant in the Sea of No Light—

"Mystery Lock · Sea of No Light!"