White Tower Wizard

　　 "Ding Dong...ding Dong..."

　　 The bronze grandfather clock on the platform of the sky camp station once again began to tell the time on the hour.

　　 An attendant on duty with an iron loudspeaker looked anxiously at the distant railroad track. After the bell rang, he turned his head and looked at the circular clock.

　　 It is already 8 o'clock, the special train from Fores should have arrived at the platform at 6:30, but until now, I haven't seen it, and it has been a full 1 hour and 30 minutes late.

　　 This is something that shouldn’t have happened. Is this trip cancelled? The attendant was eager to know what was going on. He picked up the megaphone and was about to shout to the sky, but opened his mouth and made no sound, because he found that the object in the sky seemed too far away from him. .

　　 He immediately put down the loudspeaker again, walked to the duty room, took off a microphone on the wall like a telephone receiver, put it next to his ear and asked, "How is it? Haven't seen it yet?"

　　 His words traveled through a long cable into the air. I saw a small hot air balloon floating about 100 meters above the platform, and a hanging basket made of rattan was hung under the bright yellow airbag. A long rope is tied to the side of the hanging basket, and the other end of the rope is connected to a winch next to the duty room. The line of the microphone is attached to the rope through this winch. Another attendant is standing in the hanging basket, holding a long single-scope telescope, carefully watching the direction of the extension of the railway.

The voice of 　　 questioning suddenly rang from the microphone in the hanging basket. The attendant who had been observing carefully stopped his hand movement and immediately put the microphone to his mouth.

　　 "No! I don't know what's going on. I'm almost looking at the location of the Haikou Bridge. I still don't see the shadow of the train. They probably haven't walked out of the Akreki Mountains."

　　 Fores and Sky Camp are basically facing each other across the sea, with the big Fores Bay in the middle, and train tracks are basically built around the coastline. However, starting from Fores, the road is not smooth. It has to pass through a large rugged mountainous area of ​​Arkrech, and the location of the mountain pass happens to be on the side of a famous river on the mainland-the Emerald River.

The wide emerald river flows through here and merges into the sea not far forward. It is not only the mouth of the Arkrech Mountains, but also close to the mouth of the emerald river, so thanks to technological breakthroughs in the industrial age, the train tracks are also It can only be built on an all-steel railway bridge.

　　 Pass the railway bridge about 2 kilometers in length, and then drive up to 10 kilometers in Pingchuan, and you will be able to reach the sky camp.

　　 According to the established train speed, starting from Fores, it is impossible for him to leave the Arkrech Mountains all night.

　　 "There must have been an accident!" The attendant standing on the platform guessed secretly in his heart.

　　At this time, a middle-aged man in a suit and uniform walked out of the small office building next to the platform.

　　 "Station master, the train hasn't arrived yet..." When the middle-aged man approached him, the attendant immediately said respectfully.

"Okay, don't wait any longer. Fores sent a notice. The investigation team had to postpone its departure for two days due to some changes in manpower deployment. Therefore, the special train that should have departed yesterday has already changed time. The dispatcher at Roland Railway Station forgot to inform us. These bastards..."

　　 The middle-aged man waved a piece of paper in his hand, as if relieved, took off the big brimmed hat from his head and looked at the hot air balloon in the sky with ease.

　　 "Let him come down, today's work is over, everything is business as usual, I will leave first..."

　　 After speaking, the middle-aged man walked leisurely towards the exit of the train station.

　　 The attendant on duty stood on the spot, his face was a little surprised and a little bit lucky. Originally, there were few trains to the sky camp. He didn't want to encounter any troubles. The train time was changed. The result was really good. Then he took up the microphone on the wall of the duty room with ease.

　　 "It's over, it's over..."

　　……

　　 The investigation team changed the time?

　　 In the governor's office, Gibbs sat at his desk, suspiciously looking at the same notice sent by the Fries Town Hall.

　　 He felt a little strange how he thought about it. This notice came a little bit suddenly. According to the original plan, the investigation team should have arrived at the Sky Camp.

　　 The office door was closed, and he was the only one sitting on the chair quietly, clasping his hands, lining the desk, as if thinking and waiting.

　　 After a while, there was a faint noise in the fireplace, a magical light flashing like a flame, a letter flew out from it, and slowly fell to the floor. Gibbs hurriedly got up and walked forward, picked up the letter on the ground, and stood in place to open it and read it.

This is a relatively long page of letter paper, folded into three parts. As he browsed from the top to the bottom of the content recorded in it, his face became more and more ugly, and it was almost ashamed at the end. .

"damn it……"

Swearing in a low voice, Gibbs quickly put the letter paper away and put it in his arms. He just walked two steps in the direction of the fireplace, stopped again, hesitated for a moment, turned around and walked to the door of the room. , Took the coat on the hanger, and calmed down a bit, then opened the door and walked out of the office.

　　……

　　 In the Arkrech Mountains, beside the train tracks, the attacked investigative team members are still cleaning up the tragic scene, and two griffon riders are on guard in the sky. As the sky lights up, people can more intuitively see the damage caused by the attack last night.

The last fight between the Griffon Rider and the petrified lizard completely crushed the first carriage. Several carriages in the middle were also shot into sieves by the revolver guns of the goblin robots. The carriages were full of corpses, and only a few people survived. The blood that shed dyed a long section of railroad tracks red.

Mage William greeted the law enforcement members who were still able to move, and gathered all the wounded in the next few intact carriages to rest, while the bodies of the dead members of the investigation team, the demon hunters and the flight attendants, Can only be placed in a line beside the track. At this moment, he was standing outside the train, looking at the corpse laid out all the way, with a very low expression and talking with the injured Bachelor Rashid.

"Why did you choose me? You shouldn't choose me... I'm just a magician who studies smelting, not a battle mage. How can I cope with this situation? When you came to me, you didn't say anything. This will happen later..." Master William said in frustration. "But... now it's too late to say this, look at these fallen people, I killed them..."

　　Bachelor Rashid braced himself forcibly, looked at the frustrated Master William, and said comfortingly: "This is not your fault, Master William, no one could have expected this attack..."

"Don't worry, no matter who the person who did this is, he is blatantly provoking Fries. We will find out the truth. None of these people can escape. The person who died in this accident, the city hall They will also give their families generous compensation. What we can do now is to protect the people who are still alive as much as possible. There are quite a few seriously injured people in the carriage. When will the support arrive?"

Hearing Bachelor Rashid mentioning the wounded in the carriage, Master William also put away his grief slightly, and said gravely: "After the magic letter asking for help was sent, I received a reply two hours ago, including the deployment. Manpower time, they should be coming soon too."

　　 Then he looked at a large clearing in the forest ahead. It was cleared by a few uninjured law enforcement officers using a spell just now. The area was relatively large, no matter how large it was one or two hundred square meters.

　　 "They asked us to clear out such an empty space in their reply, and they don't know what it is for?" Wizard William said with some confusion. "Is it used to build a temporary camp?"

　　 "I have a guess..."

Looking at the cleared land, Mage Rashid pondered for a moment before he said: "I heard that the council passed a purchase budget in the past few months and imported several giant Chimeras of improved varieties from the Kingdom of Silver Moon Elf. Beast, I heard that it is going to be transformed into an aerial fortress. It is estimated that it should be about the same size..."

　　 "The sky fortress? What is that, have you seen it?" Wizard William was a little surprised.

　　 "That's not true, I just listen to..."

　　 Just when Bachelor Rashid was preparing to explain in detail~www.novelmt.com~ Suddenly a few "tweeting" griffon calls were heard in the sky.

　　 The two looked up, and a purple-black behemoth was approaching quickly from a distance.

　　 It has two lion-like heads, a long neck connected to a wide torso, large but short limbs, a tail like a snake, and huge wings flapping constantly. This is the Chimera.

"They really dare to think about such a big Chimera...the sky fortress..." Master William stared at the huge Chimera in the sky with a string of at least three stories on its wide back. Tall, strange small castle complex full of elven architectural style.

Soon it landed slowly in the clearing. The flaming wings seemed to blow a strong wind on the ground, causing the trees to "swish" until its limbs landed completely. A tremor was felt in the area.

　　 "This is really... surprising..."

　　The Chimera beast after landing almost occupied the entire open space, and Master William could see it more clearly. There was a Liao watch tower in the castle on its back, and someone was observing it.

　　 Soon the Chimera was lying on the ground, panting in the noses of both heads, but they were motionless and looked relatively docile. The door of the castle opened, and a staircase with magic light extended from the door to the ground.

　　 Then many people walked out from inside, mostly medical staff, with various treatment items, walked into the car to check the injuries of the wounded.

　　 A man in a suit with a police badge led a group of people to look around the corpse, and walked towards Master William and Bachelor Rashid.

　　 "Hello, I am Fox Hilton, senior agent of the Forex Police Department, can anyone tell me what happened last night?"