The Record of Initiation - Legacy of Nightmares Chapter 12 The City Can Play
"Huh?" Alexander looked at Sofia's raised hand in surprise and asked, "Why are you hitting that tombstone?"
Fagni, who had just walked to the elevator and was looking up and down, heard the voice and turned his head again and complained: "What happened this time?"
Sophia felt a little tired, which might be the impact of the beam. But she couldn't care about it at the moment, looking at the unexpected situation with a confused look on her face and said: "I, I didn't think about this. I
I just want to clean up the dust, that’s all..."
Then Sofia slowly put down her hand. Nothing happened and she walked to the tombstone to check. "Ah ah ah, isn't this broken?" Fortunately, the tombstone was not penetrated but only made a small hole. However, the tombstone is also hard.
It is made of stone, so if it hits someone, it will definitely hurt you.
"Miss Sophia, that was..." Chino hesitated a little later.
"Hmm..." Alexander scratched his head and gave his own guess: "Is it related to that mark?"
"Could it be related to the thing on your hand? The hand that emitted light just now was also the same one." Kino also said this based on his observation just now.
[This is not going to have the effect I want...but the meaning I understand is a bit far from what I thought...] Sofia held her forehead, then bowed a few times to the tombstone to express her apology.
Seeing that nothing happened, Fageni turned back to observe the elevator. [If I take a few gems when I come back, nothing will happen, right?]
"That should be the reason for this thing." Sophia looked at the tattoo-like mark on her hand again, shook her head helplessly and said, "I have to try to control myself and not think about similar things."
"If the change caused by the idea of cleaning dust is indeed very dangerous, you have to find a way to control it. But how about you try other ideas first?" Brandon suggested while holding his chin and rubbing his stubble.
"For example?" Sophia looked at Brandon.
"Try treatment or something? I happen to have a hidden wound on my body that was not completely healed at the church last time." Alexander decided to give it a try.
"Try to use this power as little as possible. According to what I just saw, Miss Sophia, when you used this power, did you suddenly become a little tired?" Kino pondered for a while and said what he had seen before.
Expression changes to dissuade others from thinking.
"If you can't control this power, it will only be triggered accidentally again and again and become more exhausted." Brandon refuted Kino's words.
"Well... you're right, I was negligent." If such a thing really happened in a battle, now that I think about it, there is a half chance of accidentally injuring Chino himself.
"Well, it's really okay now. Anyway, I'll give it a try first." Sophia extended her right hand to Alexander, thinking in her mind to heal the hidden wounds on Alexander's body.
As the idea emerged, the pattern quickly moved to the back of the hand, and finally converged on the fingers to form another double helix shape, and then stopped moving. It was like a rhombus that had been twisted a dozen times, but it just passed.
There was no movement at the meeting.
Alexander said: "If it doesn't work, just leave first and then think of a solution as you go."
"Hmm..." Sophia felt the changes on her fingertips, but there was really no special feeling, so she said: "Maybe I haven't reached the strength to lift the curse, I'm sorry."
"It's okay, let's go first, Fageni has been studying there for a long time." Alexander urged.
"Then let's go first. We'll think about it if we have the opportunity along the way." After Sofia said that, she and Kino chased after her. Brandon prayed to the tombstone again and followed at the end.
Currently, Fageni has one hand on the lever. He puts it back when he sees a few people coming. He looks at the elevator and calculates whether five people can get in at once. In fact, the wooden cage is quite large, and the downward passage is wide.
It's only a few centimeters wider than a wooden cage. In theory, as long as it's not overweight, it should be fine, although he doesn't know what the scale of overweight is.
"This lift has been here for so many years. It's probably a bit unreliable. Let's not go in all of them. Let's divide it into two groups." Fageni watched Alexander try to stand on the lifting device.
"I don't know if there are any enemies below. There are so many people buried here, and there are only five of us. Nothing should happen. Let's go." Alexander pointed at the lever in front of Fageni and asked: "Is this the one? How to move it?"
"It's different. Maybe they are divided into several groups." Fageni said firmly.
"I can't believe there are so many people, even five in one wave. It seems like there are hundreds of people buried here." Alexander stared into Fageni's eyes.
"Even if there are several in one wave, I don't know how many years have passed, and they will definitely be in disrepair." Fageni continued to speak harshly.
"No, first of all, our combat power may not be able to defeat the enemy, and it would be foolish to spread our combat power further. And if it is in disrepair as you said, and enters in several waves, wouldn't it be damaged faster and more risky?"
Kino did not agree with Falgenius's view.
"Even if something happens, it's better for five people to fall together than half of them to fall and half of them to be at a loss." Although Alexander's words seemed to make sense, she was actually angry.
"Okay, okay." Seeing that no one was supporting him, Fageni walked in.
Sophia followed her in, intending to see if there was anything in the elevator that looked seriously damaged. But just as Alexander was holding Sophia's hand to pull her in, the pattern on Sophia's fingertips "burrowed" into Alexander's arm.
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"?! Why is this thing still moving?" Alexander let go of his hand in panic. Fortunately, Brandon pushed Sophia from behind, otherwise she would have fallen.
"That thing can't touch others?" Fageni took a step back unconsciously, but her back was already pressed against the wall of the cage.
"Well, it turns out it can be transferred?" Sophia was more curious about what it was. Then she turned around and thanked Brandon. Brandon shook his head and just got on the elevator.
The pattern that had penetrated into Alexander's body turned around a few times, but she felt that her body was much better, so she quickly said: "Wait a moment, I feel better, and I feel that the hidden wounds are disappearing."
While looking at this pattern, Fageni went to the cage door, reached out to pull the handle and prepared to quickly retract his hand...but Fageni couldn't pull the lever.
"Huh?" He pressed down hard again, but it still didn't move.
"You can't do this." Alexander looked at Fageni, walked over and helped him, put his hand on his hand and pressed hard. It didn't matter if he didn't pull the hand off this time, Fageni's hand was in great pain.
"No? Is it really in disrepair?" Fageni shuddered and took out his hand and walked out of the elevator. He looked at the handle carefully. He changed his position to a suitable position and pulled it again... still not pulling it.
Come down.
Seeing that Fageni had been studying the crane for a long time and there was no response at all, Alexander wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Brandon, come here to help me, this thing seems to be stuck." Then he walked out and clothed himself.
Lan Dong sighed, released the light again and followed him out.
"Hmm... I suddenly feel so tired." Sofia looked at the scene in front of her, holding the railing with her right hand, bending down to find a place to sit for a while. It was like a traditional mage's mental energy was drying up, and the movement of the patterns seemed to consume
The mental power of the holder.
"Miss Sophia, you look very tired, please take a rest first." Kino asked with concern, and then also got out of the elevator to try.
But four people couldn't pull it together, and it was thanks to the high quality of the lever that it didn't break.
"I don't think it's stuck. There should be something missing?" Brandon looked at the elevator again and pointed to the gems on the crane and said, "Is that one without power?"
"What?" Alexander subconsciously looked in the direction Brandon pointed, and suddenly felt that it was very possible. She thought it was just a decoration before.
Fageni raised his head and glanced: "It is indeed possible. It should be that everything inside has been lost over hundreds of years."
Alexander took off the bow and used his height advantage to reach the gems, trying to inject magic power. The gems flashed, absorbing all the current extending from the bow arm. But since he was not a serious caster, Alexander's magic power soon ran out.
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"Good guy, you can still discharge electricity. However, the loss of magic power should not prevent Ladu from pulling down." Fageni knocked on the lever, then returned to the elevator and said: "Maybe Miss Sophia's magic power
It can be done by injecting it in." When Fageni saw Sophia squatting on the ground, he just thought she was taking a break because she was tired from walking.
"Let me try..." Seeing this, Sophia forced herself to stand up. But she was shorter and couldn't reach it.
Alexander picked up Sophia and moved her closer to the gem. At this time, she noticed that there was a lace leg ring on Sophia's right leg. Do people in the city have so many decorations, but now is not the time to care about details.
Although Sofia was a girl with no expression, her clothes were still somewhat feminine. Brandon turned his back to the two of them, fearing that he might accidentally see something he shouldn't.
[Envy.] Chino, a relatively masculine woman, saw the decoration on Sophia's legs and blushed for a moment when she thought about her own outfit.
As for Fageni, he was looking up at the ceiling of the elevator, wondering how much money he could get by digging up and selling these gems.
"Sorry to trouble you." Sophia touched the gem with her fingertips and tried to inject magic power to drive the elevator.
"It should be almost done." Seeing the gem on it light up, Sophia lowered her head and said to the others: "You guys try again."
Alexander put Sophia down: "This thing is too troublesome, it might as well be driven by human power."
"It can be regarded as a filtering device. If you can't open the elevator, going down won't be able to help much. Although my current situation is not much better." A wry smile appeared on Sophia's calm face.
Fagni walked to the door and quickly pressed the lever to prevent being trapped.
The four of them heard regular noises from the iron chain deep inside the crane. Alexander, Brandon and Sophia knew that this was the movement caused by the engagement and rotation of the mechanical gear structure. Brandon quickly said: "Hurry in, it will be quick.
It should have gone down.”
"But isn't this wasting our magic power in vain? Alas." Alexander sighed as he stood in the lift.
"At least Alexander proved through experiments that this device requires magic power, which can be regarded as something gained." Kino comforted him smoothly, but this statement was really not good.
"Perhaps their gems were readily available at that time and could be replaced at any time. We might even be able to pick up some." Fageni thought wildly, but his guess might be correct.
"Well, it doesn't matter anymore." Alexander put his back on his back and silently continued to calculate the approximate distance of the elevator's descent.
The five people waited in the elevator for about a minute, and the chain extended and the wooden cage began to slowly descend.
The elevator descended too slowly, and it took about an hour before it stopped at the bottom. There were many fluorescent moss lights above the bottom, and in front of the eye was a huge steel city gate, which was extremely shocking. Behind the elevator was a
A door made of tinplate, although much smaller, is quite expensive.
"Although the speed is slow... this is too deep." Alexander carefully poked his head out to look outside, and breathed a sigh of relief when he found the return lever.
"Yawn." Fageni, who was leaning against the wall of the wooden cage in a daze, patted his head: "It's finally here. I'm a little sleepy."
"It's not too tiring, look at how hard Miss Sophia is." Chino said sarcastically.
"Huh? Who are you talking to?" Fageni, who was unconscious, looked at Kino who was speaking out.
Sofia had already meditated while waiting, but considering that there might be a battle later, she drank a bottle of concentration potion to replenish her nearly exhausted magic power. Sofia, who had been sitting on the lifting floor to rest, stood up and performed a magic trick to clean herself up.
The dust on the lower body. The spell is really convenient.
After Brandon got off the elevator, he looked back and forth and said, "This place should be the lower level."
Sofia muttered: "This should be it. We may encounter the Bugs later. Is this a Bugs building?" Sofia looked up at the tall city gate and walked closer to observe the situation on the door.
"Don't be careless, Miss Sophia. After all, this is the home of a foreign race, so don't act rashly." Kino quickly chased after her.
"Well, I understand, Miss Kino." Sofia nodded and continued: "But if there are no external influences, maybe the insectoids will not be too hostile to us." As she spoke, she estimated her location and her previous feelings.
How far is it to the location of my mother-in-law's aura? The building is inside the stone, so the other parts of the exterior wall cannot be seen. According to the information flow seen before, the inside of the building seems to be pointing downwards, but you have to walk in to know.
"We are still about 750 feet away from our destination." Looking at the city gate in front of her, Sofia thought for a while and asked, "Can Ms. Alexander observe anything?" The latter shook his head.
The group of people walked to the door and worked together to push the door open a gap. After that, Brandon and Chino took the lead and walked towards the inside of the building. There were not many downward slopes as they walked forward, but tall floors one after another.
ladder.
There are two or three meters between each level of stairs, and it requires the cooperation of two people to pass up and down. It's okay to go down, you can jump directly, and there will be no problem with the physique of the adventurer. But if you want to go up.
, without enough jumping power and arm strength, you can only move upward with the help of foreign objects.
After walking for a while, you found that you had reached the end, and there was a manhole cover with a mechanical structure in front of you. Brandon tried to twist the manhole cover, and after twisting it to the left and right a few times, the manhole cover bounced up and almost hit him.
head.
After the manhole cover was opened, there was an iron ladder going down. But looking down, there was rain falling from above and the sound of running water. No one knew what was going on.
Several people looked over and were shocked to see that there was actually a huge city below.
The underground city is in a huge cavity. The height of this cavity is about five hundred feet and the length may be more than a mile. Water seeps from the top of this huge cavity, just like rain. Several people immediately thought of the peaceful place above.
Lake, this may be the water seeping down from that lake. A huge amount of fluorescent moss grows on both sides of the cavity, lighting up the cavity.
"Ah...is this bug-human race so tall?" Sophia raised her head and rubbed her sore neck.
"I don't know, I guess I'll find out soon." Alexander squeezed over and looked inside the city to observe.
Brandon gave up his position to Alexander, who carefully began to observe the interior of the city through his excellent eyesight. These buildings are flat in the middle, conical on top, and have a large number of spear-like spikes that together form the roof.
There is a feeling of cold aesthetics.
This city in the rain is like a fortress. Some drainage channels can be seen on the avenue below, and there are some street lights on the roadside that no longer shine, although it is not clear what they are used for lighting.
On the road, you can still see some wandering figures, they are some tall insect men, wearing armor like the one seen above. The armor does not cover the faces of the insect men, which is why Alexander can see
The main reason why there are insect men inside the armor. Their faces are made up of gray masks and tentacles extending from the masks. Of course, these are not the disgusting octopus sucker tentacles, just simple insect tentacles...
Okay, bugs are pretty disgusting too. In addition, their hands and legs are all jointed, and some even have eight legs.
But their actions looked very stiff, like corpses moving. There was no other expression on their faces, and their tentacles were motionless. Their steps were very monotonous, they were just moving forward mechanically.
.If you observe them for a period of time, you can find patterns. They seem to be patrolling their own area. There are more than twenty armored bugmen like this, and the total number should be less than fifty.
The passages used to travel up and down the city are also through tall stairs, but the distance between these stairs is twenty feet, and can even reach thirty feet - the giants written in the stories told by the bards were only twenty feet tall.
Alexander also saw four flying insectoids, holding the same weapons as the insectoids below. The tips and handles were longer, a bit like heavy lances. However, the spears of the flying insectoids were slightly thinner.
One point, the guns of the heavily armored patrol bugmen below are thicker and thicker.