Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 22: A Train Running in an Independent Space
In front of the bonfire in the Triumphal Fortress Square, a clown in exaggerated clothing was performing magic acrobatics. More than a dozen burning fireballs were thrown into the air one after another, and the fireballs formed a fire ring during the throwing. An origami bird flew over, passed through the fire ring and burned, and the ashes scattered and turned into a white dove.
The dove flew in the air for a circle, then flew through the ring of fire. With a bang, the dove turned into a horse made of flames. The flaming horse galloped high into the sky, dropping fireworks as it ran, attracting cheers from the watching soldiers.
At this time, more than a dozen senior officers came out from different directions, each of them surrounded by more than a dozen sergeants, and walked towards the condolence group's train. Someone shouted loudly: "The usurper queen wants to murder His Royal Highness Sinclair. Princess Agatha and the Marquis of Falling Star have teamed up to deceive His Royal Highness Sinclair into giving up his right to inherit the throne. We once swore allegiance to the Augustine family and His Royal Highness Sinclair. We will never allow the queen's evil plan to succeed.
Defend His Royal Highness Sinclair! Defend the Empire!"
With someone taking the lead, all those who initiated the military rebellion shouted slogans in unison and pressed forward towards the train.
Some soldiers who didn't know what was going on also followed suit when they saw so many senior officers taking the lead. In a short period of time, a wave of soldiers formed, and there was a strong momentum to turn into a mutiny at any time.
The imperial spies guarding the train immediately formed a human wall. The spies inside the train took out their shields, activated the magic arrays built into the shields, and deployed the magic shields one after another, forming a protective wall in an instant. The spies drew their knives, took out their potion bottles, poured the potion inside onto the blades, and the blades flickered. Then the spies took out their potion bottles again, drank the potion in one gulp, and then chanted spells to cast buff magic on each other.
An inspector shouted loudly: "Northern Legion, this is the royal train, stop approaching immediately and retreat to a safe distance. Any act of ramming the royal train will be regarded as rebellion!"
Most of the soldiers who followed the crowd realized the seriousness of the situation and slowed down their pace, but there were also some young and reckless people who followed the officers who initiated the military remonstration and continued to approach the train.
These officers and soldiers were not armed, nor did they use magic to show their intention to attack. This situation made the spies unsure of how to deal with it. They had finally reached a settlement with the Northern Army, so they couldn't really kill them.
The inspector in charge of protecting the royal train immediately sent someone to inform the Princess Royal and the Marquis of Meteorite and ask for instructions.
The spy who was named turned around and prepared to get on the train, but he caught a glimpse of someone on the train out of the corner of his eye.
"Inspector, there's someone in the car!"
Hearing the alarm, the inspector turned around and looked up at the carriage. Sure enough, there were people of unknown origin appearing in the carriage, and there were quite a few of them.
"Not good!" The inspector realized that he had made a mistake due to negligence. He shouted loudly: "There is an assassin. Protect Her Royal Highness the Princess and the Marquis of Meteorite!"
Before the other spies could react, they saw black fog filling the carriages, which quickly enveloped the carriages like a curtain. The spies immediately used magic to summon wind to blow away the black fog, but after the black fog dissipated, the entire train disappeared.
There were only shiny rails and the bewildered imperial spies standing beside them.
High up in the fortress, General Joshua smiled as he watched the disappearing train. "Sinclair, this experience in the Holy Mountain will definitely be a treasure for your whole life. Follow the Duke of Celtic and learn how to be a monarch. I will clear all obstacles that prevent you from ascending the throne, and be worthy of the eldest prince and your late mother."
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Inside the royal train, the fortress square outside the window instantly turned black, and the entire train was dragged into a cleared space.
Agatha and Luke in the dining car did not move. Although Sinclair was a little nervous, he quickly calmed down and asked, "What should we do now?"
Agatha said, "Meteorite is in charge of the layout of the train. Your Highness and I can stay in this carriage for dinner. Marquis Meteorite will not let us get hurt."
Sinclair looked at Luke, who wiped his mouth with his napkin and asked, "Is everyone in the train gathered?"
Agatha's lady-in-waiting Lan Xi replied: "My Lord Marquis, according to your order, when I found something unusual outside, I sent people to gather all the people who remained in the train in carriage No. 9 and arranged for spies to protect them.
Now, only the dining car and carriage number nine are occupied in the train."
"Very good. I have set up secret spells in the dining car and the ninth car. These two cars are shielded, and the Abyss Mage will not be able to find the missing two cars for a while." Luke stood up: "Blue Dove, Egret, and Grey Goose stay here to protect the dining car. Sandpaper, Kestrel, follow me to the front of the car to find Boiling."
At this moment, the carriage shook and the whole train started slowly.
Sandpaper, fully armed and carrying a flying airbag, floated over, with her pink twin ponytails flying and her perception fully activated.
"Governor, Boiling has started the train as you ordered. Let's go and meet him quickly. He will be scared without me."
Hong Xun drew out his rapier and pulled forward to open the door connecting the carriages. Outside the door was a swaying black light film, and the other carriage could not be seen at all.
Agatha watched Luke walk towards the connecting door and couldn't help but say worriedly, "Be careful!"
"Don't worry, this is my home court." Luke gave Agatha a smile and walked through the light film to the other side.
Kestrel and Sandpaper followed.
The blue dove closed the door and stood guard at the two ends and the middle of the carriage with the egret and the grey goose respectively.
Luke passed through the film and saw a bright carriage in front of him. Outside the window was not a dark curtain, but a desert. As the train moved forward, the desert scenery quickly passed by. What was even more surprising was that the carriage seats were full of people, men, women, young and old, just like an ordinary passenger train.
Luke took a quick look and walked forward along the corridor. He still had to walk through four carriages to reach the front of the train.
Sandpaper and Red Falcon were both stunned by the scene before them. This should be an empty carriage, so where did all these people come from?
Seeing Luke walking forward, Sandpaper and Falcon followed, their perception was affected by some force and was strongly disturbed. They could feel that these people were definitely not human, but there was something on the seat, but they couldn't sense what it was.
After walking less than five steps forward, the carriage suddenly changed.
The width of the carriage was lengthened, and the number of seats was increased row by row, with one person sitting in each seat. Everyone looked at Luke with dull eyes and expressions, and those who had their backs to Luke had their necks twisted 180 degrees.
Something was knocking on the car window, and black vine-like mucus was crawling up the glass. Countless gray flower buds were sticking out of the mucus, and more than a dozen tentacles were sticking out of the flower buds. Black powder was sprayed from the top of the tentacles, and the eyes of all those who inhaled the black powder turned black.
Screams came out of these people's mouths, and they twisted their bodies like zombies, and the bones in their bodies swelled into strange shapes, making their bodies twisted into strange shapes. These deformed zombies pounced on Luke, Sandpaper, and Red Falcon, but they fell down one by one because they couldn't stand steadily.
They roared and climbed up, then fell down again.
Sandpaper and Red Falcon swiftly killed the monsters that were close to them, and then looked at the monsters that were staggering and asked Luke curiously: "Is this the mystical attack of the Abyss Mage? It's a bit... laughable."
Luke used magic to throw away the monster in front of him, and walked forward and said, "I let the boiling start the train, so that the moving train can interfere with the spatial positioning. The Abyss Mages outside who didn't have time to enter the carriage are resisting the spatial turbulence and have no ability to control the secret arts. The Abyss Mages who entered the carriage have to constantly re-position the space while releasing the secret arts, otherwise their secret arts will be thrown to who knows where."
Sandpaper lazily followed Luke and asked, "What do you mean by spatial positioning? I don't understand!"
Luke patiently explained: "To open up an independent space is to stretch a space point in three dimensions. This space point constitutes the eight vertices of this independent space. Any point in the independent space is located through these eight vertices, and countless points constitute the entire space.
If our train is stationary, the people who set up the space can easily locate various parts of the train, and they can choose how to attack at will. But now that our train is moving, the attack by the Abyss Mage has become more difficult, and the secret arts set up outside are prone to problems. "
Sandpaper suddenly realized: "I understand, there is something wrong with the secret technique here, which means there is no Abyss Mage in this carriage."
Luke walked to the other end of the carriage and opened the connecting door, revealing another light curtain: "Yes, on a moving train, the Abyss Mage can only fight us face to face; or go to the front of the train to stop it, and then they can use large-scale secret techniques to fill every carriage of the train with monsters.
How can a bodyguard hide behind his employer? You should walk in front. "
Sandpaper floated to the light curtain, stopped, and asked, "I have a mechanical question. How can a train run without tracks?"
"For the main space outside, the train is compressed into a point. The point does not move, so no matter how the train moves, it does not move. However, in the space of this point, the movement of the train is just a concept. No matter how it moves, it will not leave this space, but its spatial coordinates do change because of the movement, just like it is actually moving, even the feeling is the same.
I'll read more books when I have time in the future!"
Luke kicked the sandpaper into the light curtain and then crawled through it. Red Falcon smiled and followed closely.
In the carriage, the monsters were huddled together, staggering here and there.
Pass through the light curtain and the scenery changes again.
The carriage turned into a dark forest. The trees were leafless, and their black, gnarled trunks and branches formed into all kinds of terrifying shapes.
Ga ga ga ga…
Crows cawed as they flew through the branches.
There are also vomiting sounds!
Sandpaper, floating in front, saw a dead tree next to which a man in a black cloak was lying on the bent trunk and vomiting non-stop. The vomiting was so heartbreaking that people could not help but worry that he would vomit out his own heart and liver.
Sandpaper floated behind the man and patted his back kindly: "Hey! Are you a real person or a dummy created by secret magic?"
The man jumped up in fright, turned around and saw the sandpaper, and immediately tried to hide behind a tree.
But Hong Kushal was faster than him, and shot several hidden arrows, nailing the man's clothes to the tree trunk. He put the rapier against the man's throat and asked: "My sister asked if you are a real person or a fake one?"
“I am…” The man was about to answer, but after seeing Luke, he couldn’t help but exclaimed: “Priest Luke, why are you here?”
Luke said to Sandpaper, "Knowing me, it must be a real person."
Luke asked Red Falcon to put away his rapier, walked up to the man and asked, "How many Abyss Mages are here with you, and which Abyss Apostle is leading the team?"
The Abyss Mage did not answer. He stared at Luke and asked, "Who are you?"
"Answer my question first."
"You work for the Imperial Secret Service? You are an Imperial spy!" The Abyss Mage guessed Luke's identity and said firmly: "Kill me. I will not betray the Temple."
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me." Luke said with a smile, "Looking at your situation, you probably didn't get into the train in time after the train started, and were hit by the turbulence outside. Some Abyss Mages were swept away by the turbulence and lost in space, while some Abyss Mages, like you, entered the carriage in time but were seriously injured.
There shouldn't be many Abyss Mages who still have combat effectiveness.
As for which Abyss Apostle is coming... Oh! I remember who you are. Although I don't know your name, I know that the Apostle you followed is the third Apostle Belga.
After the first apostle Victor left, there were only two apostles left in the Abyss Temple. This time, there should be only one apostle coming, and that should be Belga, right?"
The Abyss Mage glared at Luke, his eyes turned red, and something was wriggling under his skin. He cursed: "Luke, you traitor, the Apostle Belga will kill you and use your blood as a sacrifice to the Abyss.
The abyss is with me!"
In a blink of an eye, the Abyss Wizard began to transform into the Abyss, and Luke drew out the steel wings with brilliant feathers, swung a sword to cut off the deforming head, and then set fire to the head and corpse.
The forest screamed, and all the trees shook violently, then the trunks softened and swayed. Scarlet eyes opened on the trunks, and there were big mouths full of fangs. Branches grew from the branches, and the branches were full of sharp barbs, and they rolled towards Luke and the other two.
Luke and the other two dodged the attack of the branches. The secret technique became powerful, which meant that the surviving Abyss Mages had control over the secret technique. However, the attack of the branches did not pose any threat to Luke and the other two, and the effectiveness of the secret technique had not yet been fully exerted.
The three of them roamed in the gaps between the branch attacks and soon reached the end of the carriage.
This time, without Luke's urging, Sandpaper opened the door and got into the next carriage. She heard what Luke and the Abyss Mage had just said. All the Abyss Mage who should come in have come in, and there is also an Abyss Apostle on the train.
In order to fully unleash the power of their secret technique, they would definitely go to the front of the train and stop it.
The air in the car was and we had to rescue him as soon as possible.
