I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

The two stepped onto the ground and looked around. Then they split up and spread out to the sides of the open space, each carrying a long copper tube embedded in a fixed bracket. It looked like a spare part of some kind of inscribed machine.

The third one who came down was a bit older, and his gray clothes had an extra layer of silver piping compared to the previous two. He walked with a steady gait.

His gaze swept over the dividing line where the insects intertwined in front of the branch, and he frowned slightly before turning his gaze towards Klaus.

The last figure to emerge from the hatch was a much shorter one, Green.

Lu Yuan recognized him at a glance. He was the dwarf craftsman and master of inscription who had come to Bronze City at the summons of the Bronze Whistle and bought three ghoul brain cores from Lu Yuan with a dwarf copper coin.

He had personally participated in the sealing project of the Tower of Learning, and now that the Tower of Learning has encountered trouble, the dwarves had most likely heard about it, so his appearance here was not unexpected.

Green was still the same as always, his old leather apron was wrinkled, his gray beard was piled up on his chin in a messy mess, and his apron was covered with jingling little tools.

He almost lost his footing when he jumped off the airship, swaying before regaining his balance. He muttered a few words, looked around, paused for a moment when his gaze swept over Lu Yuan as a greeting, and then turned to look towards the inner city.

"Damn it," he muttered, "Bronze City is completely doomed. We'd better run."

Klaus had already walked over quickly.

"Logan, can the airship fly into the inner city?" He cut to the chase, skipping all formalities. "I need to go to the Tower of Learning to deliver something to the Guardians."

The pathfinder with silver trim... Logan glanced towards the inner city.

"We only brought a special forces team and a full set of inscribed firearms with us this time, but look at this inner city." He paused, "In this situation, support is completely useless. We can fly in, and the airships have enough firepower to barely clear a path, but the airships can't land. Once you're in, you won't be able to get out. Right now, the most we can do for you is get your people in. Are you sure?"

Klaus didn't hesitate for a moment. "OK."

Green's voice came from below. "Wait."

All eyes fell on the dwarf.

Green didn't look at them; he was squinting at the direction of the Inner City's Tower of Learning, his wrinkled face contorted as if he were trying to identify something, and a strange glint in his eyes.

Green stared for a while before looking away and shaking his head.

"The inscriptions of Bronze City are all broken." He spoke with a distinct dwarven accent, and his Imperial English was somewhat stiff.

"The anchor points of the Guardians' seal are probably dissipating soon. Going in now might be too late. Are you sure you still want to go in? My suggestion is to evacuate immediately."

Klaus's expression darkened, but he did not back down.

"Since the guardian is still alive, there's still a chance."

Green glanced at him, his gray eyebrows furrowing, but he didn't immediately object.

Klaus was telling the truth; the Guardian was indeed still alive at this moment.

But Green knew better than anyone that there was really no difference between being dead and not being dead.

The Bronze City and the Guardians were inherently linked, and as the inscription restorer of the Tower of Learning, he understood this all too well: once this anchor point disappeared, it wouldn't matter whether the Guardians were dead or alive.

The Empire currently has no means to rescue a Guardian who has lost his anchor point, unless his own methods are ridiculously strong or he himself is abnormally powerful.

But the guardian was already a half-dead old man... Green was about the same age as him, so calling him an old man wasn't too impolite.

Moreover, looking down from this high altitude, there was such a large area of ​​flesh and blood sealed beneath the Bronze City. Judging from the aura alone, it was clearly related to the taboo.

Now that the anchor point is out of control, and the flesh and blood below have turned around and attacked the Tower of Learning, it means that the flesh and blood are almost completely free of restraint.

Even if Klaus manages to send the airship in, the old man will most likely not be saved.

Klaus took out the copper-cased potion from his pocket and held it in his palm.

This time he didn't hesitate for a second.

"Even if this medicine can't change anything, we should at least try to bring out the people and other things from the Inner City's Tower of Learning."

"Let me go too," Lu Yuan said.

Klaus turned to him, his eyes full of confusion.

"I have a special ability, have you forgotten?" Lu Yuan laid it all out on the table, "Even if the medicine doesn't work, there might be other ways."

Klaus immediately understood what he was talking about.

Lu Yuan does indeed possess some abilities that others lack. He can discern a person's condition and offer solutions that others cannot. This was already proven when the Guardians merged with the Tower of Learning.

If the guardian is truly salvageable, perhaps Lu Yuan could actually come up with a solution. Klaus stared at him for a couple of moments without saying anything more.

Klaus was unaware that Lu Yuan was going there solely to take over the rift in the Sea of ​​Knowledge.

The key in his left eye was flashing wildly, as if it were anticipating something.

Lu Yuan would never let this opportunity slip by.

Besides, Lu Yuan hadn't yet accumulated enough experience with the current state of the Bronze City... He didn't want to give up.

"Alright, let's go then." Green patted the tool bag on his apron. "I might still be able to help with the sealing inscriptions on the Tower of Knowledge."

The Blue Knight also came over from the front line, the light blue silk thread still wrapped around his fingertips, not yet cleaned up.

She looked at the airship in front of her with a hint of surprise in her eyes... As someone who graduated from the Knight Academy, she had never seen anything like it in the Empire.

"I want to go too," she said.

Klaus shook his head. "No."

The Blue Knight didn't say much, only adding, "The Earl is still in the inner city."

Klaus paused for a moment, then nodded. "Then you'll go with Lu Yuan."

The Blue Knight gathered the threads and turned to walk towards the airship.

Lu Yuan then remembered that there seemed to be the Earl's men still in the inner city.

He didn't know what the relationship was between the Blue Knight and the Earl, but there was no need to investigate it now.

Lu Yuan turned around and sent a message to the sea of ​​insects in front of the branch: Keep gnawing, try to slow down the spread of flesh and blood; if you're full, retreat first, and don't overeat.

If this insect overeats, it will fall into a deep sleep. If it dies in its sleep and is devoured by the other creature, that would be a real loss.

A response came from the other end of the symbiotic connection.

The swarm immediately slowed its feeding pace, barely maintaining the battle line and preventing the flesh from expanding outwards.

After all, they can only swallow a limited amount at a time.

Despite his half-crippled body, Rick did not volunteer for the fight.

In his current state, he can't be of much help in the inner city; taking him along would only be a burden.

He and the main force of the insect swarm left behind were left to guard this branch.

"Let's go." Klaus put the medicine back in his pocket and walked towards the airship first.

Lu Yuan, Blue Knight, and Green followed behind, stepping onto the gangway one after another. Green walked in front, his short legs moving nimbly, patting the tool bag on his apron as he went, muttering something in Dwarven language.

The moment he stepped through the hatch, the hidden inscriptions covering the hull seemed to lose their effectiveness, and Lu Yuan's gray characters began to move again.

[Target detected: Sky Fortress (Special Alchemical Artifact)]

Creations that embody the pinnacle of human wisdom can open up entirely new realms for humanity... and it seems they have already reached a point of iteration...

The airship's interior is filled with various mechanical devices, and beneath your feet is a whole metal deck, through which you can see countless rotating gears.

A large amount of steam gushed out, accompanied by a loud hum, while inside the cabin, many drivers of the route seekers remained at their posts.

With a series of mechanical hinge clicks, the hatch slowly closed, the airbags hummed, and the entire airship slowly rose into the air.

As the airship took off, everyone was able to see the inner city clearly.

Dark red flesh and blood rose from the ground, forming a colossal wall of flesh and blood that blotted out the sky.

The wall is covered with a large number of veins and plant roots, intertwined with each other, and objects that look like human faces keep emerging from among them.

Flesh and blood spread from the top of the wall all the way to the ground, with faint golden patterns interwoven within the dark red color.

The inner city was now completely filled with flesh and blood, the entire city resembling a dark red sea of ​​blood, the flesh still writhing incessantly. Only the area around the Tower of Learning remained shrouded in the gray fog, untouched by the chaos.

Beside the crack, a huge golden crown made of flesh and blood hung, colliding with the falling text.

Everyone's expression turned serious upon seeing this.

Lu Yuan stood by the porthole, looking at the scene before him, his heart sinking deeper and deeper... Could such a thing truly be resisted by human power?

He didn't know that the reason the person on the wall didn't respond when he called out twice was not because the person didn't want to answer him.

On the contrary, the person on the wall was desperately trying to pull Lu Yuan into his domain, but he just couldn't do it.

The person imprisoned on the wall at the top of the tower had fine cracks appearing on his head, and the red inscription below his head suddenly shone brightly with a power far greater than before, locking his last escape route.

Furthermore, the golden crown hung above the flesh and blood, with six different rays of light spreading out from the crown, completely enveloping the entire inner city, preventing any news from penetrating through this layer of light.

The crown has seven eyes, six of which have already been corrupted, but the one in the center has not yet fallen.

One of its filthy black eyes slowly turned towards the outer city, landing on the swarm of insects that were constantly devouring flesh and blood, a hint of barely suppressed annoyance and anger showing in its eyes.

As for the sea of ​​knowledge still pouring down in the sky, they can't do anything about it for the time being, but the rift is closing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

So the flesh and blood stopped piling up on the Tower of Learning, but slowly solidified and counterattacked against the words falling from the sky, trying to extinguish the sea before it was completely extinguished, and then go and clean up the Tower of Learning.

At this moment, the airship had completely passed the giant wall of flesh and blood, and rose dozens of meters higher before slowly swimming towards the inner city.