"Iris, isn't that the legendary daughter of Storm...ahem!" As soon as Griffin finished translating that sentence, he immediately asked doubtfully: "Isn't she a mortal in the legend?"
"The Ella people worshiped the Canaanite pantheon and their elemental gods in the early days. Later, the belief in the Ella pantheon emerged, but they have never heard of a name like Iris among the gods." She frowned.
: "...Such a majestic temple was actually built for her?"
Xiao Fen understood what she meant: in the era of the Ella Empire, the Ella people only built such magnificent temples for existences above secondary gods - the Canaanite pantheon, from the father god Canaan down, there are four main gods, twelve
There is no secondary god named Iris. There is no such name among the seven secondary gods and four lords of the elemental god system. As for the Ella god system, it is obviously impossible for Iris to join this camp.
But he didn't say much. He took out the book on ancient mythology lent by the Mage Association from his backpack and handed it over with one hand. The elf lady was stunned, looking at the book in confusion, and then at him.
"Elemental God System, Page 7."
Only then did Griffith understand. She quickly took the book and turned to the place mentioned by the mage. She pressed the yellow pages with her slender fingertips and read them line by line with the light from the crystal.
"Iris, in the Ella language, means the girl plagued by misfortune; one of the elemental gods, the daughter of storm and misfortune, the legendary ruler of the Jagged Sea of Doom..."
"She has four attendants, a follower of the flame named Odomidin, a follower of the thunder of Andoram, a follower of the rock named Glaxo, and a follower of the Tide of Seraxis.
followers.”
The girl took a deep breath as she read: "These information... How come there is such information? Why haven't I read it?"
"This is a rare book. It is usually information printed from those ancient stone tablets." Miss Heilong's eyesight was very good. She only glanced at it from a distance to see what was written in the book; she looked at the mage.
A look full of hatred but helplessness: "——Only those mages with extremely high status are qualified to borrow such information, and ordinary people have no access to it!"
"how do you know?"
"The Dragon Clan has its own inheritance of knowledge." Maari Bailey said proudly: "A long lifespan does not require us to transmit information through the medium like mortals. This is also the gap between higher creatures and inferior beings.
.”
Miss Griffin naturally ignored the second half of the female dragon's sentence. The treasured information attracted her attention; she did not think about why Xiao Fen was qualified to borrow such a book. Because as the Star Lake Land
Palin is such a famous person. There are even some rumors that he is close to a legend. It is nothing to say that he is a mage of extremely high status.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but glance at the mage, wanting to see how he was different from ordinary people. But other than the impression of calmness and confidence, she didn't seem to know much.
Xiao Fen didn't think so much. The reason why he was able to borrow these materials actually had nothing to do with his identity. It was just because of his mage badge - the senior mage badge obtained through a series of graduation tasks. The attribute is intelligence +1 (nameless).
Bonus). It wasn’t until later that I learned that in addition to excellent attributes, there were benefits equivalent to those of a senior mage.
Each region's Mage Association will only allocate one or two badges like this to those players who have performed particularly well in basic mage studies: Yun Na, for example, has such a badge.
The team members and a reserve team member were talking quietly without paying attention to themselves. The mage walked to the front alone and stretched out his hand to touch the rough boulders - it was as if there was a sense of history transmitted from these ruined walls that had experienced vicissitudes of life.
It is the rise and fall of civilization. From its budding, its glory to its final decline. It is not just a paragraph or a record. The emotions of countless living beings are nurtured in it. In the end, it disappears little by little in the long river of history.
The power of time is so majestic that it keeps moving forward slowly, annihilating everything in its path and giving no one a chance to defend themselves.
The mage supported one hand on the boulder and thought about the magnificent history. After a while, he came back to his senses and started searching on the rock wall. He used his palm to sweep away the dust and gravel, revealing the lines of text below.
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Unlike the Aela script used for sacrifices, which is guarded by a mysterious force, these narrative scripts can be understood by mages using a familiar language:
"The Father is above the throne, above the earth, and above the stars. He holds the scepter, the fire and the power, and all things are under his control——"
"Iris, our God, the Father has made you king, dominating this land and everything above the sea, and we therefore surrender to you -
"We conquered mountains, rivers, forests and swamps. We conquered foreigners and barbarians. We offer sacrifices to you——"
Xiao Fen narrowed his eyes. This paragraph should be a legend about the gods of Canaan who created elements and managed the world for them in ancient times. That is, what happened in the thousand years before the war between gods. He read on and skipped these praises.
and prayers, trying to find out the time and background of the establishment of this temple - the Ella people would carve some events and miracles at that time on these boulders as a praise to the gods.
"The year the flame was born, which era is this?"
The mage read some events from the stone carvings, but they were insignificant. They were nothing more than records of government decrees and some celestial phenomena at that time. There were also some records of wars between mortals, but the scale was not large, and the whole article was filled with words of praise.
; And finally, he found such a mark about the age on the base of the rock.
Griffin looked up from the book, seemed stunned for a moment, and then shook his head slightly.
"Sorry, I don't know." She replied in a low voice.
This answer did not surprise Xiao Fen, he just asked casually. After all, the chance of the other party knowing the historical knowledge that even he could not understand was naturally even smaller. He could only write it down and show it to Yun Na. Maybe he would.
Present.
After walking along the outer wall for a while, the things recorded on the huge stone wall were all the same. They were nothing more than wars, festivals, and some important events in the eyes of the Ella people, but they could not find anything crucial.
The mage's interest gradually decreased, but there were some things that opened his eyes: in the wars fought by the Ella people, Xiao Fen saw the names of many foreign races and barbarians, some of which still exist today.
, some have long been lost in history; and one of them, a barbarian people called the Highlanders, is the ancestor of today's human beings.
There was something unexpected about this person named Xiao Fen. At first, he always thought that the Ella people were also a branch of human beings, but in the descriptions of these ancient people, they were divided into two groups: one had a pink head like a tentacle,
One was covered in golden-red feathers, and it didn't look like a human being.
Seeing this, it was already the limit of the information obtained in this peripheral area. So the mage decided to continue going deeper.
He raised his staff, and white light poured forward, illuminating the road leading from the outside to the interior of the ruins - huge walls stood on both sides, unchanged since ancient times, guarding the place like giants.
A temple that has disappeared into history; between them is a semicircular staircase with hundreds of steps, leading to the giant arch of the temple; and the ground is not flat, covered with gravel and dust, and the light makes the
They drag out long and narrow shadows on the ground, as if they are reaching for the black spikes of the huge walls.
But the mage didn't pay attention to these details. His attention was completely attracted by the arch.
What kind of giant door is this? Each of the twelve stone pillars cannot be hugged by ten people. Although most of them have collapsed, the ones that are still intact have been lifted hundreds of feet high. The mage raised his head and stared at these huge stones.
The pillar rose upwards and disappeared into the darkness. Even though I understood that this was a scene in the virtual world, I was still deeply shocked.
He held up his staff and walked over step by step, followed by Miss Black Dragon and Griffin. The footsteps of the three of them echoed in the empty underground world.
"Such a spectacular miracle. How can manpower achieve it..." Miss Elf sighed uncontrollably.
Miss Black Dragon's throat also moved, and her golden and purple eyes showed a look of awe.
There seemed to be only a narrow line outside the giant door and giant wall, but that was just an illusion due to the huge contrast. The three of them advanced in silence for nearly ten minutes before arriving at the edge of the semicircular staircase;
Head, the distance between the huge and the small is suffocating.
"In the era of the Ella people, believers had to crawl on these stairs until they reached the main entrance, where they listened to the teachings of the priests and listened to the superior servants of God conveying God's will; but they were not qualified to enter the inner temple -
——Maali Bailey’s gaze extended from the long semicircular staircase to the vicinity of the giant door, with a somewhat complicated look on her face: “Beyond that door—that is the realm of the gods and earth; even if they no longer exist in the world. But in the legend, they
The aura of the earth is still lingering there, waiting for the day of resurrection..."
"legend?"
"Poetry of the Dragon, you are not qualified to see it -" she said while looking over: "Even if it is as powerful as you, Master Mage."
Xiao Fen was not in the mood to care about these inexplicable feelings of superiority. He silently walked up the stairs step by step, and his heart gradually regained peace: It is precisely in this way that Miss Heilong's words reminded him that no matter what brilliance has been written here, it is nothing more than those.
Whether existence has passed away, but one thing is certain, there must be dangers lurking here that ordinary people cannot imagine.
Climb to the top of the stairs and cross the platform made of obsidian - it is said that the Canaanite gods and their elements spread their divine will here from the sacrifices of the gods, but that has become a thing of the past - now it is silent and full of dust.
.
The group of people did not stop and continued forward, passing through a long corridor composed of twelve huge stone pillars. In the past, this was a spacious and imposing corridor, but now it has become a bit troublesome because of the stone pillars that fell over each other -
-In fact, huge boulders falling everywhere have turned this place into a maze.
The pale light travels through the rocks, sometimes disappearing from one end, but soon reflecting a path from the other side; the surrounding space is very narrow, and sometimes it leads to a dead end and has to go back and start over.
Although Miss Griffin claimed to be an adventurer who had some experience in dungeon exploration, she also felt extremely depressed in the unknown ruins. As for Miss Black Dragon, her face had never looked better from the beginning. It was not because of fear.
, but because the mage ignored her: at first, she thought she could scare the other party.
There was never much expression on Xiao Fen's face. He held up King Asuo's sign of royal power with one hand and walked between the overturned stone palaces, his eyes carefully scanning every detail.
Then he stopped, put down his staff, and stared at the pile of remains on the ground that had been charred to black.
The elf lady was a little nervous. She was so nervous that she didn't react for a moment. The pot almost hit the mage's back, but in the end she stopped abruptly. She was a little confused. She stuck her head out and took a look in front of her, and immediately came out.
A low cry.
"This is...?" When she looked carefully, she realized that it was not a corpse - under the light, the remains seemed to be an object made of wood and metal, because it was too broken and could not be seen at all.
Showing its complete appearance, it can barely be seen to be a humanoid, but it is much smaller than structures such as shield guardians and golems.
"It's the Secret Puppet...ahem!" Calming down, Miss Griffin came to a conclusion after careful observation.
Xiao Fen was a little serious. He looked around carefully and then nodded.
"These are the guards of the temple?"
"No!" The black-robed mage and Miss Black Dragon replied at the same time. Then they looked at each other, and the latter snorted and looked away.
Miss Griffin tilted her head and asked curiously: "...Ahem, why? Isn't the marionette the perfect combination of magic and elemental power? Appearing here can explain everything we have seen before.
.Mr. Palin!"
"Furthermore, I heard that the Ella people specialize in the art of magic construction——"
The mage shook his head and interrupted her: "If the Ella people want to leave constructed guards here, then what we see should not be marionettes - but colossi. They are called temple guards - legend has it that they have bodies like titans.
A being with twelve arms and a strength close to that of a demi-god..."
"Miss Griffin, you'd better hope that this temple has lost its original power that belonged to the Ella people in its thousands of years of history, otherwise we may not be able to get out alive."
Seeing that Miss Elf was still a little confused, Xiao Fen explained: "The era when the Ella people still existed on the earth was called the Year of Glory and Glory. This is not unreasonable; today, countless eras later, these are called
The power of the people of God is beyond the imagination of today’s humans…”
"What about these marionettes?"
"Tess Gort," Xiao Fen replied: "There is no doubt that it should be the masterpiece of this outstanding mage."
As he spoke, his expression suddenly changed. As soon as he raised his hand, several low-level protective spells fell on Griffin -
"Lean against the wall, hurry up!" The black-robed mage suppressed Miss Griffin's question with one sentence. He looked around and whispered in a commanding tone: "Next, do as I say -"
He just finished speaking. Seven shadows fell from all around - you can't imagine that a creature that looks like a set of Renaissance metal full-body armor can be so silent, but the fact is right in front of you. Seven dual-wielding long stabbing swords
The swordsmen formed a semicircle and surrounded the three mages.
You can't say that they are staring at them, because on top of the golden-red metal helmet, the brass visor with beautiful patterns is completely pulled down, and you can't see the face behind it at all.
In fact, they are shameless, because Xiao Fen knows that these are those legendary swordsmen with extraordinary skills - marionettes.
"Ah!" Miss Griffin was also startled. Although she had always known that there were possible dangers lurking around her, she never thought that she would be surrounded by seven CR7 constructs in the next second.
At this time, she was also a little panicked and asked softly: "What should I do?"
"I'll count one, two, three, and you get into the gap at the back -" Xiao Fen has been observing the surrounding environment, and this time it comes in handy: "I will be there soon, Ma Airi, you are responsible for cutting off the rear!
"
"Why?" Miss Heilong looked unhappy.
"What about another way?" The mage watched as the seven constructed swordsmen took a step forward, raised the tip of their swords, and made an attack gesture - although the movements were full of artistic elegance, there was a neat metallic sound.
But I remind everyone: this is an art that kills people.
The rapier in the hands of the swordsman is so exquisite that it is like a work of art in the hands of ordinary people, but in their hands it is a deadly weapon - it is mentioned in some secret information that marionettes have the special ability to enhance heavy attacks, and the rapier
In their hands, the critical hit range is not the ordinary 18-2o, but the terrifying 12-
Just thinking about such a special ability makes one's head go numb.
"In what way?" Maari Bailey's expression also changed. After all, she was facing seven beings with similar strength to her - maybe slightly inferior, but quantity overwhelms quality. Seven against one, there was no suspense; but after all, they belonged to the dragon.
Descendants, in such a situation, she was still in the mood to bargain.
"I'll take Griffith to teleport away from here, how about you stay here by yourself?" The mage seemed to be teasing easily, but secretly he made a spell-casting gesture, and the energy-shaping array floated out again.
"You -" Miss Heilong said angrily: "Okay, I'll break up - damn it, you can't leave me..." She said firmly, but her tone softened obviously afterwards.
The mage glanced at him without answering, and then muttered in a low voice: