Throne Steps

Saenz quickly wrote back to Li Chen, explaining in the letter that he had indeed released the news on purpose, but he also took the opportunity to "fish" and found some "worms" in the intelligence network.

And because Fujalal's fleet had already launched into the sea, Saenz postponed the departure time of his own fleet based on the idea of ​​"shifting peaks".It just so happens that he has to focus on reorganizing his intelligence team recently, so the matter of "Looking for the Dragon" can be put aside for now.

Nearly two months later, Fujlar's fleet came back with basically nothing, just as Li Chen expected.

Then Li Chen took a few black swans and set off with Saenz's fleet.

Just like the last time in the Samuel Mountains, after entering the designated sea area, the magicians began to disperse to various islands and use scouting magic to sweep everywhere; and what was different from last time was that this time Saenz sent Many effective combat teams, as long as Li Chen hints them to search, they will automatically complete the rest.

Yes, Saenz ordered the "Looking for the Dragon" team, if they don't know what to do in the predetermined sea area, then listen to Li Chen.

The "shadowless bird" evolved from the detection magic flashed in Li Chen's sight from time to time. Three days later, the advance team brought back two pieces of news.

First, found an unidentifiable magic circle;

Second, there are suspected activities on the small island where the magic circle is located.

Because this island is larger than others nearby, it may take some time and manpower and resources to conduct a blanket search.

Li Chen thought for a while: "Then don't search, just do our defense well."

The leader of the fleet asked, "Are you sure?"

"Sure." Li Chen replied, "It must be the people left by His Highness... Since they stayed on the island, it means that His Highness's people have also discovered the magic circle, but they can't solve it. Now keep people here, Definitely to see what we're going to do."

The leader raised his eyebrows: "Then why don't you arrest them?"

"It's not suitable for the price-performance ratio..." Li Chen smiled, "You only say that they are suspicious, which means that even if these people are on the island, it is hard to find them. Those who can stay in this news are mostly hidden experts. You Are you sure you want to waste your energy on competing with them?"

"Okay." The team leader gave him a deep look, "I hope you know what's going on."

Of course Li Chen knew it well. He stood in front of an exposed rocky cliff, behind him was Menzel, and several experts who had studied dragon language and pattern shorthand.

"Are you ready?" Li Chen asked back.

The experts who were dying on the ship were all gearing up at this moment, as excited as if they were about to go to the battlefield.They each had a copy of their usual recording equipment, found the corresponding position, and nodded one after another: "Okay, okay."

Li Chen then shouted: "Turn off the lights!"

It was the first time non-black swan magicians heard such an order, and when they were dazed, the black swan had already cast the low light spell.

"..." The surroundings suddenly became dark, and Saenz's subordinates finally got a taste of it.

Li Chen raised his chin at Menzel again: "Let's get started."

Menzel helplessly raised his staff in one hand and three magic crystals in the other, and stepped forward.Yes, after 18 years of "hardening", Menzel was finally trained by Li Chen to be able to recite "Reappearance of Time".

Menzel chanted the spell, and when his wand slammed down to the ground, the cliff seemed to respond to him, and suddenly began to flash the brilliance of all kinds of magic.Under the effect of low light technique, this kind of light and shadow art is especially dazzling.

People who saw this formation for the first time were stunned.

This is normal, other people can't see the way the magic power walks when the magic is running like Li Chen, in other words, they have never seen the magic circle that is actually running. "Reappearance of time" seemed to suddenly open the door to a new world for them. Even experienced magicians couldn't help being stunned by the grand scene in front of them.

Thanks to the people of Fujalal, in order to try to unlock the magic circle hidden here, it can be said that there are frequent methods, which has caused Saenz's subordinates to see it very obsessed.Laymen watch the excitement purely for the pleasure of their eyes, while expert magicians seize all the time to identify what they see.

Finally, the radiant scene stopped.

The magic crystal in Menzel's hand was still glowing.

After a while, what was really waiting for finally appeared - a complicated formation that all the magicians present couldn't recognize what it was, and couldn't even guess its faction or possible function.

Li Chen narrowed his eyes.

The light and shadow of this formation also passed quickly, Menzel persisted for a few more minutes, and finally removed "Reappearance of Time".

Those Saenz's subordinates around - especially the magicians - felt that they had a thousand questions to ask in their hearts, but they couldn't say any questions for a while.They originally thought that Black Swan was just an organization used by Saenz to do something "unspeakable", but now they suddenly understand that Black Swan is indeed worthy of the "mysterious" and "creepy" settings created for them by the market.

The leader turned his head and glanced at the magicians who were his teammates. From their stunnedness, the leader confirmed another thing: the move just now is obviously a forbidden technique that normal magicians don't understand!

No wonder Li Chen is so confident that he can ignore those people who are lurking in the dark, simply relying on the advantage of not knowing what it is even if he shows them.

However, it's not over yet.

Li Chen crossed his hands in front of his chest, looked at Menzel who retreated, and asked, regardless of his tired face, "Do you recognize what that was just now?"

Menzel wiped his face: "...recognized."

Li Chen raised his chin again and asked, "Did you recite it?"

Menzel was helpless: "...No."

"Let me tell you, after so many years, can you make some progress?" Li Chen glanced at him from the corner of his eyes, "It's always the critical time, what use are you for?"

Menzel smiled bitterly: "Who told him to change it? If it's the same as last time, can't I continue?"

"You said 'if' to him?" Li Chen sneered, then stepped forward and moved his fingers, "Okay, let's turn on the light."

Black Swan withdrew the weak light technique that was still in effect.

"Sorry for the long wait." Li Chen turned his head and glanced at the experts who were still staying at the same place, "I thought he could finish it in a row, but now we have to change people to continue. Although the light and shadow show just now was beautiful , but what is about to come is the real highlight... and please concentrate on it.”

His tone was light, but the seriousness in it made people tense up.Compared with the excitement before, it seems more serious now.

Li Chen shook out six magic crystals one after another, put five in his left hand and took one in his right, then took a deep breath: "...it's started!"

The lips are parted, and the incantation is light.First, it was a spell that borrowed the power of the magic crystal, and then Li Chen's right index finger pointed to the void, which was the real spell to unravel that rare magic circle.

Compared with Menzel's big movement just now, Li Chen seems to be performing a mime now.Others couldn't see what complicated lines his fingertips were drawing, couldn't hear what kind of lengthy language was coming out of his mouth, and didn't notice what kind of changes happened on the cliff.

Everything was quiet, and occasionally there was a bird song in the nearby forest. People standing behind didn't know what they were doing in front of it so quiet.Watching Li Chen's movements, Menzel almost held his breath.If he heard a little movement, he would turn his head and stare at the person.

The opponent immediately froze the movement of stretching his limbs, then quietly lowered his hands and stood up straight.

Only the magic crystal in Li Chen's hand was frantically changing colors.

It felt very long, but in less than 2 minutes, Li Chen suddenly squatted down and raised his voice and shouted: "Here we come!"

As soon as the voice fell, characters full of characters appeared on the cliff.It still has a sense of weathering from a long time ago, it is still carved by a powerful sharp tool, and it is still a pattern that confuses most people.

However, this time there is no need for people who are black swans to waste their brains.

When the experts rushed to record time, Li Chen simply sat down on the spot.Menzel quietly crept up to him and handed him a handkerchief.

Li Chen didn't care about him at all, just looked up at the whole face of Longyu.After so many years, he also remembered the meaning of some dragon language characters a little bit more than before.However, after reading it from the beginning to the end, and from the end to the beginning, he affirmed the meaning of the three phrases.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Menzel simply sat beside him and watched.He has had more time to read these materials than Li Chen these years, but his non-common language and graphic skills are not as good as Li Chen's, and he doesn't know how many words he can understand.

The unlocking period this time is shorter than last time.It was nearly a quarter of an hour last time, but this time it only appeared for seven or eight minutes, and the pattern has completely disappeared.

Still, that's more than enough time for experts.

They will also collect the data by themselves, compare and integrate, and translate and check.In general, Lichen just needs to wait and see the result.

I just don't know... what will Fujalal do?

When Li Chen said that he could leave, the team leader asked him, "Where is that person? Are you really going to leave?"

Li Chen, who had completed the task, calmed down this time: "If you want to play a game of chasing rabbits, then you can arrange it yourself. I really have no energy. I can go back to the boat and wait for you."

The team leader thought for a while: "Let's stay for three days. It's best for you to go back to the ship. If you don't go back, don't go far."

So, the team leader led people around the island, and Li Chen let the black swans do whatever they wanted, while he went back to the boat to rest.

On the first day, Li Chen and Menzel ate and slept, and finally recovered a lot of energy; on the second day, Li Chen and Menzel went to see the progress of the research, and found that the graphic memory expert who had nothing to do after the integration They had nothing to do, so they got off the boat and went to sketch. On the third day, two researchers of Dragon Language made a rough sentence segmentation for Dragon Language, and preliminarily deduced the meaning, but they had to go back to discuss the details with other researchers.

"riddle……?"

Li Chen took a look at the "standard rubbings" they put together: "Last time you said that one was a riddle, shouldn't this be the answer?"

"According to the current deduction, I'm afraid it is still a riddle." The researcher replied, "However, we have a bold conjecture!"

"Oh?" Li Chen put down the paper, "Tell me."

"Although we have to go back to make sure..." The two research institutes glanced at each other, "But both of us think that this is probably a riddle about a location!"

"...Interesting." Li Chen laughed, "It's actually a literal 'treasure map'..."

Just at this time, a black swan came to look for Li Chen.

"The team leader asked if you have anything else to go to the island." Black Swan said, "If not, we will sail back tomorrow morning."

"It's nothing." Li Chen asked, "But, did he catch the other party's person?"

The expression of the black swan was a little gloating: "What do you think?"

Li Chen was also happy: "I just said, wasting this time...it's better to stay on the route and sink the ship that came to pick them up, and make sure that everyone will never return, for fear of revealing the secret."

The two researchers were "concentrated" on the work at hand, as if they didn't hear the words of the culprit.