Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

In fact, at the beginning, Elsa planned to let Tricia take the others to use the teleportation array to go directly to the holy city, while she would cross the ocean alone with her unique skill of walking on water. In Elsa's view, this was the fastest way. If she was not worried about the void being torn, Elsa's own speed would even be so fast that even the teleportation array magic could not catch up.

There was nothing she could do about it. After all, the teleportation array didn't work for Elsa, so she could only resort to this relatively primitive method. Otherwise, she couldn't take a boat, could she? Drifting on the sea for over a month? That would be too time-consuming.

Tricia expressed a different opinion:

"But, Elsa, you don't know the direction of the Holy City. You'll get lost at sea." Elsa didn't think her sense of direction was bad, but Tricia's concerns were reasonable. "How about this? I'll let them go first, and I'll stay with you."

Tricia said, and Aisha naturally felt something was wrong.

Crossing the ocean sounds fun, but it would also be a burden on Tricia's body.

Even if Elsa held Tricia all the way and let Tricia rest, she still had to consider whether Tricia could withstand Elsa's speed once she lost the protection of magic, and whether she could withstand the biting cold wind on the sea for a long time. You know, this is the coldest winter of the year.

Finally, Elsa and Tricia thought of the sky island that had been anchored above the Great Western Forest.

The Sky Island has been hovering in the sky, looking huge and bulky, but in fact, after a period of acceleration, the flying speed of the Sky Island will become quite amazing. It will only take a few days to cross the ocean and reach the western continent. Moreover, the Sky Island will not be affected by Elsa - its volume is several times larger than the entire Dammas. Even Elsa's magic-blocking physique cannot affect its core power center as long as it does not come into direct contact.

"Elsa, I remember that Winged Girl Mira gave you a crown. You can use the crown to directly control Sky Island, right? Can you let Sky Island come over?"

Elsa took out the tiara and put it on her hair. The tiara now was not in the shape of a crown, but shaped like a feather. The tiara itself could change its appearance at will according to the owner's wishes.

After a while, Elsa sighed.

"It should be possible, but I'm not very good at it yet - I just experimented a little last time, but I still have to slowly learn the specific operation."

After all, it is a thing of the ancient Winged People, and there is no instruction manual. Elsa has never tested it specifically, and she dare not act recklessly, otherwise one mistake might cause the Sky Island to crash.

"How about you try it, Tricia?"

"Still not."

Tricia said, shaking her head.

After all, the crown is a token of trust given by Mira to Elsa. Theoretically, no one other than Elsa can use it. Moreover, the crown represents the supreme power of the queen of the Winged People. If it is not necessary, Tricia will never touch it.

"Then let's go straight to the forest. It won't take too long to find the Sky Island. We can also check out the Central Lake. After the Defiler was eliminated, the Guild should have taken over the exploration work there. I wonder how it's doing now."

"Well, yes."

So Elsa and Tricia contacted Ryan's apprentice, Moira, who was conducting research on Sky Island at the time.

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To the west of Weilin Town is the Great Western Forest. If you take a horse-drawn carriage, it will take less than an hour to reach the edge of the forest.

Originally, the shallow forest area was generally a place where adventurers and hunters were more active, where one could find many rare herbs and traces of magical beasts and animals.

Deep in the forest, dangerous monsters live, and giant dragons have even appeared here.

Located in the very center of the forest, there is a huge lake surrounded by mountains, named Central Lake. This kind of landform with mountains on all sides surrounding the Central Lake like the mouth of a bowl is very rare. Some people say that this is a trace left by the war between gods during the Age of Gods, but in fact, this is a lake surrounded by mountains formed by a deep pit smashed by the huge portal of Sky Island. Since the Sky Island incident, the portal has been taken away by Elsa and placed back on Sky Island.

More than two months later, when Elsa arrived at the Central Lake again, she was a little surprised to find that the deep forest, which had been sparsely populated, was now full of adventurers' footprints.

Especially the area from Weilin Town to the central lake in the middle of the forest - this is also the place where Elsa and others arrived last time. The route from Weilin Town to the central lake has long been cleared by Elsa. Now, under the organization of Bremut, it has been reused to open up a flat and safe road, and a temporary camp has been built in the central lake area for adventurers to rest and replenish supplies.

The camp is quite large and is located next to a huge central lake, with access to abundant and clean water.

It was noon, and many adventurers had set up tents nearby or found a flat place to rest and chat. Some people couldn't help but marvel at the traces of battle left in the central lake area.

The central lake area had been the site of a major battle with the Filth Ones, and it was also where Elsa discovered the lake's portal and the dragon. By then, the dragon had been tossed to Sky Island by Elsa, and the portal had been recovered. These events hadn't been fully publicized, but the scars of the battle still remained in the surrounding forests and hills, centered around the lake: hills severed in half, glassy craters like meteorite impacts, and vast swathes of fallen and charred trees...

These shocking scenes all tell of the "cruelness" of the battle. They have become a unique wonder of this camp and have always been a topic of conversation among adventurers after drinking.

Of course, the filthy ones suffered a tragic death, but their bodies would quickly decompose and disappear, so in the end, only traces of the battle would remain. However, this did not prevent adventurers from using their imagination to create a difficult, terrifying, and magnificent mystery story.

Elsa had no intention of eavesdropping on the conversation of these adventurers, she just thought it was quite interesting.

In addition to these contents, adventurers would occasionally bring up other things when chatting. The word Elsa heard the most was "treasure".

This made Elsa a little strange. When they talked about the treasure, they were all in high spirits and excited, as if these adventurers were not here to explore and develop the forest, but treasure hunters - usually treasure hunters can only be seen near some ruins, abandoned mines, and large tombs.

At this time, many adventurers also noticed the arrival of Aisha and others.

Elsa, dressed in a nun's uniform, really stood out among the group of adventurers. And with Elsa were the unique-looking Tricia, the silver-haired Becky, and the seldom-seen gray reindeer - no one would think they were adventurers.

Most of these adventurers were outsiders from other towns, and they did not recognize Aisha and Tricia.

Elsa did not stay and went straight to the center of the camp. She found the guild leader Wolf Bramuth, who had already received the news and was waiting there, and Ryan's favorite student, Moira. At this time, the quiet girl was talking to Bramuth while hurriedly fixing her messy hair. Compared with the last time they met, Moira was visibly thinner, and there were faint dark circles under her thick glasses. When she saw Elsa, she immediately stuffed her brown hair into her coat and stood up straight.

"Long time no see, Moira."

Elsa smiled and greeted.

"Um...long time no see...I, I didn't know you were coming. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you by seeing me like this..."

Moira pinched her fingers awkwardly. She usually only looked like this when she was alone or doing research. If she was going out, she would definitely dress up. Today, it was simply because it was too late when she received the news. She didn't take care of her appearance in a hurry, and the result was like this. This made her feel quite embarrassed when facing Elsa.

Aisha actually thought that Moira looked quite cute now.

She came here just to find Moira.

Since Elsa and Tricia left last time, Moira has stayed on Sky Island to continue Ryan's unfinished translation work of the Winged People's language and writing, and continued her research on the Winged People's civilization and magical technology based on mechanical dragons.

Every once in a while, Moira would return to the ground to replenish food, water, and research equipment, and organize the research materials and questions into notes and send them to Dammas for Ryan. For this purpose, Ryan specially got a floating airship from the National Institute of Magic - of course, this matter was also approved by Queen Stizia herself.

One of the reasons why knights from the Order of Dammas appeared in the town of Weilin was to escort important information.

The adventurer's camp at the central lake is closest to the Sky Island, and Moira often comes here for supplies. Naturally, Bramuth is willing to provide convenience for Moira.

"Although I've heard the old priest talk about it before, I was still a little surprised to see it in person. There are so many adventurers gathered here." Elsa and Brahmot hadn't seen each other for a long time. After chatting for a while, Elsa suddenly asked, "But what is this 'treasure' they're talking about? Have you ever heard of it?"

Elsa wasn't interested in the treasure itself; she simply didn't want another accident to happen. Hadn't the last time the Filth appeared, it was because Becky's previous owner had found the seal left by the Winged People that the Filth finally appeared? This forest had been Sky Island's last stop, and Elsa didn't want the adventurers to find anything left behind by the Winged People and cause any accidents.

Just ask Bramuth about this matter; as the guild leader, he should know.

"Well... it's a long story," Brahmute explained to Elsa with a wry smile, "There's actually no treasure. I don't know where this rumor came from. In fact, at the beginning..."

Brahmot explained the whole story.

Most of these adventurers came from nearby towns, or even from distant Syavis or Mortonfornia. What attracted them was the legend of the dragon. These adventurers did not know that the dragon was actually a magical mechanical dragon from the Floating Island. As the few people who knew about it, Bramuth and others tacitly chose to conceal the origin of the dragon. After all, Elsa and Tricia had not yet made the existence of the Floating Island public, so Bramuth and others naturally kept their mouths shut.

But these foreign adventurers didn't know.

In their opinion, the Adventurer's Guild would not joke about such things. In other words, there was indeed a terrible dragon living in this forest, but it had been killed by the recently famous Sister Aisha and the Mystic Sage.

And after that they left.

Soon after, the guild issued a recruitment order and began to develop and explore this vast forest.

At first, not many adventurers came here. Most of them scoffed at the recruitment of a guild in an unknown border town, thinking that there was no profit. But at some point, some news from unknown sources began to spread among the adventurers - somewhere in this forest, there might be a dragon's lair.

Legend has it that dragons will collect glittering gold coins, expensive mithril, magic crystals, etc. and pile them up in the depths of their nests, forming a small hill. This is called the "dragon's treasure." There is no doubt that the treasure is a huge fortune that is enough to drive people crazy.

Why do you think the treasures in the lair are still there? Didn't Sister Elsa and the Sage get there first?

No reason, just speculation—could a supreme being like the Mystic Sage have any interest in the mundane treasures of a dragon's lair? Even if they did, why would such an upright person simply walk away without a word? Furthermore, why did the guild issue a recruitment order at such a random time? Isn't the so-called exploration and development just a facade? The real purpose is to find the dragon's lair and divide its wealth.

Everyone knows that this bizarre rumor is not very credible and sounds like the nonsense uttered by a drunkard.

However, such a fantastic rumor spread rapidly and widely among adventurers in a very short period of time at an incredible speed. Even from the port of Clindekren, which was a month's journey away from the town of Verin, there were adventurers who made the long journey to come. Finally, the adventurers who could no longer hold back set off for Verin, dozens, hundreds, and eventually, at least thousands of adventurers gathered from the surrounding cities and towns and poured into Verin. They rushed to register with the guild, inquire in the town, and then swarmed into the forest, and began to look for the so-called "dragon's treasure", and also explored the forest. They were so excited and tireless.

Eventually, the current situation was formed.

After listening to Brahmot's explanation, Elsa was both amused and confused.

"But what does concern me is that these rumors, whose origins are unknown, seem so serious and spread so quickly and widely, and they even seem a bit unusual. I once suspected someone was fanning the flames, but I'm not sure why."

Brahmot said, somewhat helplessly.

"I've investigated, but I haven't found anything. Perhaps that's just how alluring treasure is."

Elsa nodded in agreement.

"Anyway, I'm glad you're alright. However, the fact that a rumor like you mentioned could cause such a stir is indeed something to ponder. I'd better pay more attention to it. It's never a bad thing to be cautious."

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After leaving the adventurer's camp, Elsa followed Moira and found the magic airship docked on the top of the mountain. The airship was not very big, about ten meters long, and its appearance resembled a disc with wings. Inside was a sophisticated magic instrument to control the wings and provide power. It looked a bit like a magic instrument imitated from some flying creature. It was very different from the various aircraft in Elsa's previous life in terms of principle, structure and power system.

Elsa looked up. The floating island was high in the sky directly above the mountaintop. However, it was hidden among the clouds through sophisticated light refraction magic and could not be seen directly with the naked eye, unless one could observe the slight distortion of light from thousands of meters away like Elsa, or could visually observe the flow of magic elements like Tricia.

"The next place we're going to is an island city floating in the air. It could probably be considered a 'country' or a 'city-state', but the civilization that created it—a race similar in appearance to us humans but with wings on their backs—has since died out, leaving no records behind. Therefore, strictly speaking, the Sky Island is considered an ancient relic.

This time we will take a Sky Island across the ocean to the Holy City, so we will stay on the Sky Island for a few days."

Aisha said to Grace, Sofia, and Novi.

Among the people present, besides Elsa and Tricia, only Becky knew about the existence of Sky Island. Although Sky Island was a relic found by Becky's previous owner, and Becky also took over the research notes, Becky had never actually set foot on Sky Island. She once wanted to find Sky Island and gain her freedom, but she was captured by Elsa halfway. Thinking of all this, she couldn't help but feel complicated when she finally had the opportunity to set foot on Sky Island. But in general, Becky also wanted to see with her own eyes what the so-called Sky Island looked like.

Elsa said, looking towards Grace and Sophia.

"You can also get more familiar with Sky Island."

Grace and Sophia were a little puzzled by Elsa's words, but they didn't ask much. Only Tricia knew what Elsa was thinking - Elsa might have already started planning to make use of the Sky Island, so the witch would be the most suitable candidate to be the first group of residents to land on the Sky Island.

After all, if we want to completely solve the problem of witches, we are bound to encounter some obstacles. For example, there will definitely be people who worry and question: Will the witches being gathered together trigger another terrible incident like the witch meeting back then?

Even if Tricia and the church come forward to endorse it, it may not make everyone feel at ease.

Then, transferring the witches to Sky Island is a good choice. It can not only concentrate on solving the problems caused by the witches, but also allow the witches to help build Sky Island, killing two birds with one stone.

The airship is operated by a dedicated person and can only accommodate three to four people inside. However, if a hanging basket is added, it can accommodate more than ten people or a lot of supplies.

Except for Tricia, everyone was very curious about the airship and sat on it to experience it. Until Elsa, just as she touched the airship, half of the power system suddenly stopped. Fortunately, the power structure was not damaged, but the magic stone responsible for power supply was cracked.

In the end, Elsa jumped directly from the spot. With a deafening explosion, she had reached a height of thousands of feet in the sky, and the huge sky city was right in front of her.

Tricia opened a portal on the spot, sending everyone and the airship directly to the sky island, which surprised the airship pilot.

Sophia, Grace and others were stunned.

What now appeared before their eyes was a huge island city suspended above the clouds. It was a magnificent and beautiful spectacle. Looking into the distance, the boundary between heaven and earth became unclear. Plains, mountains, forests, beaches, and oceans were all within sight. The endless sea of ​​clouds was under their feet, and above their heads there was only the burning sun in the sky.

"Come on, I'll take you to meet the last winged person here. Her name is Mira. She was once the princess of the ancient winged people. Now she is the manager of this city and the core of this floating island."

Elsa said, and Sophia and Grace quickly followed.

On the way, Elsa gave everyone a brief introduction to the origin of the city and the genocide it suffered in the end.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh with emotion after hearing this.

When I look at the city in front of me again, the feeling is very different, because what stands here is no longer just the brilliant crystallization created by the ancient Winged People with highly developed magical technology, but the last witness of a strong race in this world, and the only wordless tombstone of an ancient and prosperous civilization.

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548. Queen and Princess... (4K4)

On the way, Aisha asked Moira about her research progress on Sky Island over the past two months and Mira's situation.

It seemed like there was so much she wanted to say that Moira didn't know where to start at first.

"The most time-consuming but also the most valuable task in the past few months has been deciphering the Winged People's writing."

Moira said.

Through the day and night efforts of Moira and her research team and Mira's active cooperation, the language and writing of the Ancient Winged People have been mostly deciphered. On this basis, Moira obtained a large amount of precious Ancient Winged People's written materials from Mira and made a preliminary translation. She found that most of them were technical notes similar to magical science.

The more Moira deciphered the written materials, the more surprised she became. The long-lost technology of the ancient Winged People was similar to the current magical science in form, but the core concepts were completely different, or in other words, they were taking two completely different paths on the same technology. It could be said that it had extraordinary research value. The materials had been sent to Dammas, and Ryan would undertake the final sorting.

"After the sorting is completed, Mr. Ryan will give you all the information."

Moira explained.

Elsa glanced at her in slight surprise.

She thought Moira and Ryan would hand over the information to Stikia or the National Academy of Magic, but looking at Moira's expression, it was obvious that she had no intention of doing so, but would focus on Elsa.

Although Elsa didn't have much contact with scholars like Moira and Ryan, they had been together for some time, and Elsa had some understanding of their personalities. Perhaps in Moira's view, Sky Island originally belonged to Elsa, so no matter how precious the information from Sky Island was, it was Elsa's property. Although they were granted the right to conduct research, they did not think they could dispose of it at will, and they always had to ask Elsa.

Otherwise, it would be tantamount to theft for scholars like them, a despicable and dirty act, and their respect and pride in knowledge would not allow them to do so.

"Also, Princess Mira has been learning the Imperial language, and now she can speak and communicate fluently in the Imperial language."

"Mira...Princess?"

Aisha was confused by the title.

"Because Miss Mira is the princess of the Ancient Wings, we just call her that."

Moira smiled shyly, a little embarrassed.

In fact, "Princess Mira" was what she called Mira at the beginning. Other researchers thought it was quite "romantic", so they all came like this - a living princess of the ancient Winged People from who knows how many tens of thousands of years ago. Mira herself was a miracle, and for scholars like them, such an existence was undoubtedly the most supreme "romantic".

Of course, Moira knew that this feeling might seem quite strange to others, so she seemed a little embarrassed when facing Aisha.