despair.

When Ash and the others stepped into the fog, they also stepped into the water. The dark black water continued to spread and rise, as if the place in front of them was not a city covered by thick fog, but a boundless sea.

Moreover, this sea does not extend because of the ebb and flow of tides. The overflowing water looks like something melting in the thick fog, and the water flow is just its melted blood.

However, in this white fog so thick that one cannot see one's fingers, and in this deep black ocean, even if there are many unknown dangers lurking in it, the magicians will only feel extremely familiar and intimate.

Plop, plop, plop.

The magicians in the white mist turned around and saw the new blond demon struggling in the water. Ash reached out and pulled the drowned demon up, holding her wet waist and asked, "Why don't you fly?"

"I, I..." The little sheep looked at the magicians flying on the water and wanted to cry but had no tears: "I can't fly!"

Ash glanced blankly at the dark wings on her back, "You have three wings like me! Can't you control them?"

Fili flapped the wings on her back vigorously. "I can control it, but I don't know how to fly."

"Isn't this simple? Just fan it up and press it down like this, using the secrets of fluid dynamics, and then repeating it over and over again, you can fly." Ash held Fili and performed a three-and-a-half-turn aerial spin. "Don't you think this is simple?"

It’s not easy at all!

Fili felt like vomiting from the spinning in the air, and she was so scared that she hung on Ash like a sloth. But when she saw that no one else refuted Ash's words, as if flying was a natural instinct of human beings, she reluctantly said, "I'll try!"

"I'll hold one of your hands, and you try to use your wings to make yourself fly," Ash said.

Fili used her mind to move the wings behind her and found that the reaction force brought by the air could really offset the gravity she was subjected to. Ash said, "Don't you think it's simple and fun? Now I'll let go..."

Plop!

The blonde devil who fell into the water again did not struggle in the water. She tried and asked cautiously, "Why don't I swim?"

Although Fili had never learned to swim, she found that she was very adapted to this kind of water environment, but she was not surprised by this - because she occasionally dreamed of swimming in the sea.

Just like she dreamed of herself practicing sword, whatever she dreamed of doing, she would definitely have a talent in that area.

"It's too slow and difficult to maneuver in the water, and it consumes a lot of energy." Ash scratched his head: "Also, it's too wasteful to swim here now that we have the conditions."

Not only Igula and Harvey, but even Vichy nodded in agreement. They looked into the depths of the white fog, their eyes filled with excitement and nostalgia that ordinary people could not understand.

The reason is simple—this place is like a sea of ​​knowledge!

No matter whether you become a god or an angel in the future, when you are in the sea of ​​knowledge, you can only condense silver virtual wings, and you must travel thousands of miles in the sea. You are bound to be weak and incompetent.

For all magicians, the sea of ​​knowledge has witnessed too much of their immaturity, frustration, bravery, and helplessness: the first time they drowned, the first time they were killed by a fish-slaying dragon, the first time they encountered a special mechanism in the virtual world...

If we use love as a metaphor, then the Sea of ​​Knowledge is the naive first love that a magician encounters when he is most helpless, the Continent of Time is the love race when he has just matured, the Faraway Space is the fantasy bubble of countless one-night stands after he has achieved success, and the Ruby Mountain is the harbor where all magicians live out their lives in solitude.

The most annoying thing is that even Vichy, who is reborn in the second round, and Ash, who is using a hack, can't take advantage of the Sea of ​​Knowledge. The Sea of ​​Knowledge has locked the upper limit of strength, and only weak silver magicians can stay here. If you are not weak enough, you will be kicked to the Time Continent to suffer!

Just like the protagonists of rebirth stories want to go back to their youth campus to show off, which magician doesn't want to go back to the novice village of the Sea of ​​Knowledge to show off? How long they have been in the Sea of ​​Knowledge in the past, how strong the feeling of flying is now - I feel like a fish-slaying dragon jumps out of the sea and bites me to death!

So when Ash and the others saw Fili had wings but didn't need to swim, it felt like they saw someone else had toilet paper but didn't have to use their fingers...

At this time, the maid approached Ash and reminded him: "Fili may really not be able to fly but only swim."

Ash was stunned for a moment, then he understood Vichy's subtext - Fili's real body in reality might only be at the level of a one-winged magician, or a two-winged magician whose golden virtual wings have not yet condensed.

If that was the case, it was normal for her not to have activated the flying skill. Even Ash and his companions were constantly improving their flying proficiency in the distant airspace. After all, humans were not born with virtual wings, and there was no animal instinct to fly.

Even among two-winged magicians, very few are proficient in flying, and only sanctuary magicians would assume that this is a basic ability.

And judging from her age, Fili could not possibly be a Sanctuary magician. Not to mention the freak Ash, Igula and Harvey were several years older than Fili, and they were still one-winged magicians half a year ago.

"Then you'll have to let Igula carry you." Ash said to Fili.

Igula immediately objected: "Why me?"

"Because I don't want Vichy to touch her," Ash stretched out his hand to push away the maid's pretty face, "As for Harvey, do you think he is a qualified mobile vehicle? I'm afraid Fili will vomit on his neck."

"Do I look like a qualified mobile vehicle?" the Trickster said, "And don't you have this choice? You have always been Black Crow's mount before!"

"Black Crow? Is that the one I met in the Spiral of Silence?" Wei Xi said in shock, "I didn't expect you two to have such an unhealthy relationship... Can you count me in?"

Yashi said as a matter of course: "Because Fili is a woman and I am a man, it is not suitable."

Igula pointed at himself, with a question mark on his face, "Am I not even a man in your eyes?"

Ash and Harvey looked at each other, wanting to say something but stopping themselves.

"Hey, give me a rebuttal! We took a bath together!"

"But sometimes I wonder if you in the bath were just an illusion..." Ash muttered, and Harvey nodded repeatedly.

"You two..." Igula was so angry that he was shaking all over, but his eyes suddenly lit up: "Wait, Fili is so important, she should be protected by someone with the best flying skills, right? Ash, who has better flying skills, you or me?"

Ash clicked his tongue, "You have a point. The gap between our flying skills is as huge as the gap between our looks."

Seeing Ash suddenly fly into the sea, the little lamb blinked her eyes, and then she was carried on the back of Ash in the sea.

"Hold me tight." Ash shook his body and shook off all the water. This was a technique he learned from Tamashi, just like a dog shaking off water, using all his strength to shake off the water.

"Ma, please."

Fili buried her head against the back of his neck, her wet body pressed tightly against his back.

Ash blinked and commented, "It's a lot heavier than Black Crow."

Compared to not being able to fly, this sentence made the little sheep feel even more ashamed, but Ash added: "Black Crow uses his strength to counteract gravity, but at most he can only stay in the air for a short time, which is far from flying. The most regrettable thing about him is that he has no wings. He can't fly in the sky like us and fight side by side. He has to rely on me to airdrop him to the battlefield."

Although I don’t know what Fa Jin is, it’s probably a superpower, Fili thought.

"I can carry you now, and it doesn't matter if I carry you forever. But if you want us to entrust you with an important task, you must master flying skills, which will greatly increase your survival rate." Ash instructed: "You can start by reducing the weight, straighten your chest and stomach, and try not to put your whole body weight on my back."

Fili nodded, stopped sticking to Ash, and clumsily practiced flapping her virtual wings. At this time, Vichy noticed that Ash was obviously relieved, and she couldn't help but frowned slightly, turning her head to meet the Trickster's eyes.

The two people with bad intentions looked at each other and immediately realized that they had a consensus.

"The recovery speed of silver magic power is five times faster than usual," the necromancer suddenly said, "This place is more like the Sea of ​​Knowledge than the Sea of ​​Knowledge."

The speed of mana recovery is closely related to the number of virtual realms. If the mana recovery speed in reality is set to 1, then the recovery speed of silver mana in the Sea of ​​Knowledge is 3, and the recovery speed of gold mana in the Continent of Time is also 3, and the same is true for colorful and colorless mana. However, the recovery speed of silver mana in the Continent of Time is 1, which is not much different from reality.

It is generally believed that the speed of mana recovery is affected because wonders such as white fog and countercurrent golden rain are the main sources of mana. If a magician is in reality or other virtual realms, he must open a virtual realm channel to replenish mana, but if he replenishes a specific color of mana in the place of origin, there will be no middlemen to make a profit from the price difference.

Therefore, this white mist foreign land not only looks like a sea of ​​knowledge, but the white mist can also help condense the silver virtual wings. It can be said that it is a small sea of ​​knowledge! If there are silver magicians exploring here, it can even speed up the condensation of virtual wings!

But the fact that the Silver Magician ran to Ruby Mountain was much more powerful than accelerating the condensation of the virtual wings...

"Is this the power of the Lord God?" Yaxiu exclaimed, "Can he actually create a layer of the Void Realm out of thin air?"

"This is not the power of the Lord God, but the power of the Source Angel." Weishi analyzed: "If I'm not mistaken, these white mist anomalies are the stress response of the 'Angel Remnant' when it resists digestion. Even if it is locked in a cage, it is the backbone of the virtual world that has stood on Ruby Mountain for billions of years. The Starry Master will have to bite his teeth if he wants to turn it into nutrition!"

"The remains of an angel?" Harvey murmured, "Can a part of its body create a virtual world?"

"Of course, the Source Angel has more than just Silver Wings." Wei Xi said, "The Starry Lord is only trying to digest its weakest bone this time."

"Oh right." Ash suddenly remembered: "Vichy, haven't you seen an angel? What does it look like?"

"It's not like it entered the Star Kingdom in its true form. Its appearance here has nothing to do with its true form in the outside world."

“We’re curious.”

Vichy glanced at Ash and said, "I can't describe it. After all, its appearance is beyond the realm of human aesthetics. Master, you only need to know that it has eight wings, and it is very... scary."

“Scary?”

"Every magician who walks the path of origin will leave behind half of the magician manual. Do you think we are doing this for the public good?" Weishi said unhappily, "Even though I have seen many demigods and even the Lord God from afar, no magician can give me as much pressure as the Origin Angel."

"But this is normal." The maid said intriguingly: "After all, it really is carrying the world on its back."

"Then what can we do?" the blond devil asked nervously, "Are we going to eat the angels too?"

"It would be best if we can, but the chances are slim." Ash pondered, "Our main goal is to see if we can snatch the angel's token, and then find a way to kill the angel itself."

"Deal with the Lord God and the angels in the Sea of ​​Knowledge." Igula said slowly, "Harvey Harvey, our daily mission today is quite interesting. Should we thank Ash?"

"I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but I have nothing to complain about now that I can fly in the Sea of ​​Knowledge." Harvey said, "If I can kill one more ichthyosaur, today will be one of the top five luckiest days of my life."

Fili asked curiously, "Does flying here mean a lot to you?"

"It's very big," Vichy said, "because we've been to similar places before, but no one could fly at that time, and even I could only swim in the sea. Now they are so excited, you can understand it as some kind of childhood compensation."

"It's not that we can't fly," Ash said suddenly.

Everyone immediately turned around to look at him. Wei Xi frowned and said, "A winged flying spirit appeared in this era?"

"No, just use the virtual wings."

"But a one-winged magician only has one virtual wing, how can you fly?"

"Wouldn't it be enough for two people?" Ash turned his head and said to the little sheep behind him: "Fili, try flapping only the right wing."

Fili nodded, and then they slowed down suddenly. Ash was responsible for the left virtual wing, and Fili was responsible for the right virtual wing. The two of them completed the cooperative flight crookedly.

Although the blond devil was so scared that he hugged Ash's neck tightly, he couldn't help but feel happy: "I can fly! I can fly too!"

Igura choked and said, "You can cooperate with Fili now, but could you find someone to fly with you in the Sea of ​​Knowledge?"

"Yes," Ash said, "My first flight was with Sword Princess."

Everyone blinked and the air suddenly fell silent.

Ash showed a nostalgic expression: "At that time, we only had silver wings. In order to fly, we could only hold hands and dance with virtual wings together."

He couldn't help but laugh and said, "That was the eve of our prison break. I always felt that the reason I was able to make up my mind to escape from prison was because I had Sword Princess' support. Compared to the Void Wings, I felt that she was the wings that allowed me to fly to freedom."

"We almost fell several times on the way, but in the end we supported each other and crossed the long white fog..."

The maid suddenly touched Ash's lips and said seriously, "Stop, Master, please stop talking."

Ash also reacted: "Yes, if you keep talking you will be infected with the secret poison."

No, I'm afraid that if you continue talking, the little sheep will be moved by your love story and become self-abased and self-pitying... Vichy glanced at Fili, who was covering her mouth with tears in her eyes, and felt powerless in his heart.

She understood that the real hidden danger was not the outsider Fili, but the backbone of the team, pronounced as "Zhuzhu", written as "Axiu", but actually a fool!

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of bubbles bursting in the water ahead. When they looked over, a huge and ferocious black shadow jumped out of the sea.