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As they were talking, the group of flying golems were approaching the airship.
Wang: "The shape of this golem looks like the Sphinx statue in the Catalan tombs. My teacher's book Graria said that the ancient Catalan dynasty had two kinds of golems, one for air control and the other for ground combat.
"Katailai...did you dig out the things from the lost ancient dynasty and use them?"
Flint: "Don't worry about it for now. These golems are clearly coming for us. We are about to be attacked!"
As the words fell, the first golem flew past the airship.
The dwarf was a little embarrassed: "Well, considering the situation just now, it's normal for me to make such a judgment, right?"
Seeing that the stone birds completely ignored the airship, Wang suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "They are going to cause trouble for the floating city. Nini, are they flying towards where the floating city is parked?"
Nini and Marika answered together: "That's it!"
Wang: "Find a way to stop them! Nini, shoot the arrows!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Nini had already fired three arrows in succession, all of which hit a knight, causing the knight to slip off the back of the stone bird.
Nini was surprised: "Huh? I thought there must be some kind of defense, but it just shot down like this?"
The other stone birds were completely unmoved and flew in the same direction.
Nini: "Xiaobai, throw me onto the back of a stone bird! I'll try to see if I can capture a stone bird!"
Xiao Bai said "Oh" and was about to change, but suddenly stopped and asked: "Should I just pull you after I change or what should I do?"
Nini: "Just fly out, I'll catch your feet."
"okay!"
Xiaobai turned into a white-headed sea eagle and rushed out of the room, while Nini nimbly crawled through the window frame, grabbed the sea eagle's claw in mid-air, then held the claw with her left hand and drew out the sword with her right hand.
The man and the bird pounced on the defenders of the Catalan Stone Bird Army.
When the guard saw the man and the bird rushing towards him, he immediately drew his bow and shot an arrow, but Xiaobai dodged it.
As Xiaobai swayed, Nini twisted her body to adjust her center of gravity as if to deliberately coordinate with her movements. The man and the bird actually looked like the same creature!
Xiaobai flew to him while bearing the arrows from the defender, and then Nini simply let go and fell naturally.
The defender wanted to control the stone bird to change direction to dodge, but it was too late, so he could only draw out the dagger to resist.
Nini flew into the air and kicked him in the face, then used the reaction force to turn around in the air and landed on the bird's back.
The person who was kicked fell directly onto the bird's back, and was then grabbed by the shoulders by a passing bald eagle.
Xiaobai was not polite and grabbed with all his strength. His sharp claws pierced through the man's leather armor, and bright red blood flowed out from the gaps in the armor.
The man screamed in pain and tried to pull out the dagger, but found that the dagger had just been pulled out and had flown out of his hand when he was kicked.
Xiaobai grabbed this guy and turned around to fly towards the airship.
Nini was riding on the back of the stone bird. Apparently, the bird noticed that the rider on its back had changed, so it suddenly turned over, trying to throw Nini off. However, Nini reacted quickly and grabbed the saddle behind it.
The stone bird rolled continuously in the air, but couldn't get rid of Nini.
As the stone bird was rolling, its neck suddenly made a "click" sound and it became stuck and could not move.
The entire stone bird rushed to the ground.
Nini jumped off the bird's back just before the impact and landed on the roof of a two-story building. She shoveled a path through the tiles on the roof and stopped only when she stepped on the gutter on the eaves.
The tiles that were shoveled away fell to the ground below with a crash. Fortunately, there was no one on the street at that time, so no one was hit.
The broken stone bird crashed into the house across the street.
Along with a loud bang, a cloud of dust gushed out from the hole created by the stone bird. Even with Nini's eyesight, she couldn't see clearly what was happening inside.
At this time, members of the Pelican Gang came galloping over on horseback - the airship had just taken off, so it had not yet left the Pelican Gang's territory.
"What's falling?" the gang members shouted.
Nini pointed to the sky and said, "I dropped a stone bird. Hurry up and retrieve it. I'm going to chase the rescue team!"
At this time, a bald eagle descended from the sky and just flew over the elf's head. The next moment, the elf and the eagle were in the sky together.
Nini: "Have the prisoners been delivered?"
The sea eagle turned into Xiaobai: "Did you forget that I can't speak in animal form?"
After saying that, she turned into Xiaobai again, but she had dropped a lot of height this time. Nini stepped directly on the roof below and ran on the roof for a few times until Xiaobai flew up again.
Nini: "You could have answered me directly if you had just transformed back! Okay, don't transform back! Wait until we get back to the airship!"
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On the airship, Wang winked at Marika.
The drow immediately stepped forward and pinned the captive to the ground: "If you don't want to experience a life worse than death, just tell me whatever I ask you!"
"I know, I know!" The prisoner immediately admitted his weakness. He was not as tough as the cult members he had encountered before. "Ask!"
Wang: "What do your flying troops ride?"
"It's the Sphinx, the ancient mythical beast that the Imperial Master resurrected from his tomb."
Wang: "All of them? So many mythical beasts?"
"Yes."
Wang: “Is that a creature?”
"No, it's a living stone sculpture."
Flint: "Sounds like a stone golem."
"It's not a golem! The Imperial Master said that it is a real creature, the highest essence of ancient Catalan technology."
Wang frowned: "A real creature?"
Flint: You don't know either?
Wang: "I know, but that's not a creature from this plane. According to my junior uncle's travels in the multiverse, he has indeed seen creatures made of stone, and there are many kinds. Some are based on silicon and think through electricity.
"Some are based on calcium. But no matter which one, this plane should not have it."
"Yes." A strange female voice answered.
The members of the rescue team were on guard as if they were facing a great enemy, and they looked in the direction where the sound came from.
Two strangers stood at the other end of the airship pod. One was completely shrouded in a robe, with only a long beard showing through the shadow of his hood.
The other was a young girl with chocolate-colored skin and long straight hair that was trimmed into a symmetrical shape and cascaded down on both sides of her head.
Flint said, "I've seen your hairstyle like this at a friend's house from the East. They like to eat something called dried noodles, and your hairstyle looks like dried noodles."
The girl laughed: "Your description is quite novel, but unfortunately I have never been to the East, nor have I seen noodles. My hairstyle..."
Wang: "It is an imitation of the hairstyle of the ancient Catalan Empire. The priestesses and the daughters of the pharaohs in the ancient empire all had this hairstyle."
"You really are an expert at identifying good things." The girl said with a smile.
Elizabeth: “Really?”
"Don't worry, Princess of Kuosaniya, I have no interest in competing with you. I just saw that you seemed to be coming towards us, so I took the initiative to welcome you. I know you have a lot of questions to ask me."
Chapter 197: Unexpected developments are part of the adventure.
Wang: "Are you here specifically to answer our questions?"
Flint: "You see in the legendary stories, every boss will come out in person to explain his plan before being killed."
The princess from Catalonia laughed out loud: "As expected of a savior team, they are very confident."
Wang: "Because we have encountered many such sudden crises before, and the lich even stepped forward personally."
"I know. Because of the special magic equipment you have, you are immune to the lich's mighty power." said the girl.
Wang's expression remained unchanged, but he was thinking: It seems that the cult did not obtain the correct information and thought that I had a tool that could fight against the mighty God.
Girl: "By the way, did I introduce myself? I'm Kadia Banujulian, and I'm also a princess."
King: "Banu Julian, the last name of the Catalan royal family. So the cult has completely controlled Catalonia, right? The Catalan royal family has been completely bewitched by the cult, right?"
"Well, it was my ancestors who first worshipped Ragnola. The Imperial Master just rediscovered the faith of my ancestors. Since it is the faith of my ancestors, there is no problem for the current Banu Julian family to convert to it again." The girl smiled.
Xiaobai turned to look at Wang: "She does have a point."
Wang gently patted Xiaobai's head with his knife, and then continued to ask Kaidiya: "So the cult started from Catalonia?"
Kadia: "Originally, the Imperial Master was just a scholar employed by Catalonia. Mages often work part-time as official scholars to earn money for their magic research and sell scrolls. At that time, my father was still young, and he presided over the excavation of Hamunaptra, the ancient capital of Catalonia, the 'City of Dusk'."
“And then they hooked up?” Marika said in a teasing tone.
Kadia: "That's true, but the reason why the Master became the Imperial Master is mainly because he discovered during the excavation of Hamunaptra that my ancestors' understanding of life was inconsistent with the modern one, and thus discovered the existence of Ragnora."
Wang: "Then he invented - uh, compiled - it's not appropriate, anyway, the current doctrine of the order was formed?"
"No, at first the Imperial Master was just studying this strange belief, and then he discovered that my ancestors used the power of Ragnora to make the stones move."
Wang: "The stone moves?"
"Yes, even after so long, the stone statues of Hamunaptra in the City of Dusk are still firmly defending the city, and there is no magical aura on them, so they are not golems. The state master was very interested in this phenomenon and collected all the remains of the stone statues destroyed by the excavation team and studied them carefully.
"Then he discovered that these stone statues were actually moved by the power of Ragnola. The power of Ragnola was integrated into these stone statues when they were built."
Wang: “When it was built?”
"That's right, these are not stones, but sand held together by a special adhesive."
"Wait a minute!" Wang interrupted Kadia. "So the so-called movement through Ragnola's power is to use microorganisms to glue sand into stone? And then the microorganisms are moving? Just like the monster made of mold that Lily turned into before?"
Kadia looked confused: "What are you talking about? What mold or microorganisms? What are these?"
Wang Ye was puzzled. "Ragnora's power, its so-called power, isn't it essentially to affect microorganisms through distorted positive energy, causing them to mutate?"
Kadia's confusion turned into bewilderment: "What are you talking about?"
Wang Ye looked confused: "Didn't your leader come up with a definition similar to that of microorganisms? I mean, did he discover a very small organism that is so small that it cannot be seen by the naked eye?"
Katya shook her head: "No."
Wang: "Then how does he explain Ragnola's power?"
"Isn't it just like other gods?" Kadia asked back.