The Record of Initiation - Legacy of the Nightmare Chapter 14 Why do you say we are like this
After rushing into the facility, Alexander glanced around to confirm that it was temporarily safe, then put Sophia down, slowed down and walked forward, watching out for possible traps and alarm devices.
After getting out of sight of the heavy beetle knights patrolling outside the house, several people moved to the elevator.
There is a simple schematic diagram of a metal sign next to the elevator, explaining how to use this device to descend.
However, the operation method of this elevator is different from the previous ones. First, it requires manual energy storage. Then this elevator uses a huge number of gear devices to drive iron chains, slowly lowering the iron cage, and finally resting on the bottom.
Another similar but opposite device rises up. It is completely a mechanical structure, while the previous elevator is a magical power source.
"There is also a schematic diagram, which is very considerate." Brandon returned the bow to Alexander.
"Does this thing exist in Samira City?" Although he felt that these bugs had become deaf, he still didn't dare to talk to Fageni, who had just spoken, pointed to the elevator and whispered.
"This thing is not available in Lamesa City." Sophia shook her head.
"I haven't seen it either." Kino interrupted, but she had never been to a city as big as Lamesa before.
"Maybe there will be in the future, after the adventurers in the city have seen the city." After finishing speaking, Fageni stepped forward and turned the noose plate with Brandon to activate the device, and the door of the iron cage opened automatically.
"It doesn't matter whether you have it or not...it's just a bunch of parts put together anyway. As long as you guess what the designer used it for, it's not hard to guess how to use it."
After receiving the bow at the beginning, Alexander observed the device at the edge of the iron cage. No one or insect would go to all the trouble to build such a trap.
However, if this thing had been in disrepair for a long time, it might have the effect of a trap, probably not... After confirming that it was not a trap, she was the first to walk in when the door opened.
Because Alexander just felt that he had the responsibility to do his best to ensure the safety of the team. After seeing nothing wrong, Alexander walked into the iron cage to see how to put the cage down and said: "It's a small matter, go in, it's important to be in a hurry."
"Yeah." Sophia nodded and followed in.
"Okay." Kino obeyed Alexander's instructions and followed in. He guarded in front of Sophia and verbally commanded Fageni: "You come to the rear."
"Well, let's go." Fageni waited for Brandon to enter and was the last one to go in. After walking in, he also looked at the difference between the inside of the iron cage and the one above.
After several people entered one after another, the door of the iron cage slammed shut. Although Fangni had been in for about five seconds, it still startled him.
[Hope it’s not a cage.] Kino was actually frightened, but she remained calm on the surface.
"Huh? Why did this thing close by itself?" When Alexander looked around, she couldn't find a button or lever to manually start the descent, so she guessed: "Is there some magic on this thing that makes it move by itself?
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"Oh, if it were later, I wouldn't be able to get in." Fageni calmed down his restless heart and said, "Ah? Didn't you lock it up?"
"Perhaps it's a mechanism similar to an alarm clock? Like the kind that starts on a timer." Sophia didn't sense the obvious fluctuation of magic power in the elevator just now.
Brandon used his hand to pull on the iron door, but he didn't pull it.
It took about ten seconds after it was closed before the iron cage began to descend. Soon the five people discovered that there were many metal platforms left on the wall from the construction of the elevator device. After descending for a while, you saw an outlet of the drainage channel, with something inside.
There is a device where water drives a gear. It may be part of the opposite device that allows the elevator to rise. There is also another unknown parallel passage, but the elevator does not stop.
"Well... there is an exit to the sewer here. Where is the place below?" Alexander poked his head around the edge of the iron cage.
"Wow - I didn't expect the construction technology here to be so high." Sofia sighed and felt that the trip was worthwhile, although it was quite dangerous.
The elevator continued to descend, and the next scene was a repetitive metal construction platform. After a while, when it was almost approaching the ground, there was a sound of metal breaking at the top of the elevator. Then the iron cage began to descend rapidly, and Bran
Dong Yi protected Sophia.
"Get ready to land!" Alexander shouted softly and then held on to the iron cage wall.
"Ah!?" Fageni quickly clamped his "knife" to prevent it from flying out. Kino held him with one hand and firmly grasped the cage wall with the other hand.
In the end, the iron cage fell heavily to the ground. Fortunately, due to the insufficient height before falling at a high speed, the metal cage deformed due to the metal deformation caused by falling to the bottom and did not stab anyone. However, the strong impact still caused people except Sophia to suffer varying degrees of injuries.
"Well -" Sophia, protected by Brandon, managed to stabilize her balance and was only slightly injured. "This situation is too exciting, thank you." After that, Sophia patted her chest and stabilized herself because of the lifting.
The heart is beating violently as the ladder falls.
Brandon shook his head and used the radiant hand to treat his injuries, then let go of Sophia.
On the other side, a piece of metal hit Alexander's chest and was blocked by the metal chest protector. Surprisingly, the metal piece was gray-blue and strange. It might be part of the elevator device.
Alexander, who felt that his injuries were minor, picked up the piece of metal and said to himself: "What is this?"
Purely because he thought the piece of metal looked pretty, Alexander put it into his pocket, then stood up, patted the dirt and stood up: "Is everyone okay?" This was naturally a polite comment. If there was a serious injury or loss of personnel, she
Then you can take a closer look at the metal.
Alexander approached Brandon and asked: "Are you okay? You took a few blows during the previous battle, and it looked like the fall just now was not light. Don't skimp on treatment, we still have a lot of medicine.
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"It's okay, I've already treated him." Brandon nodded and told Alexander that he was fine.
"That's good." Alexander began to observe the surrounding environment, and then helped twist the metal rod stuck in Brandon's calf.
"Miss Sophia, the injuries I suffered during the battle have almost healed. You didn't get hurt, did you? I'll return the staff to you." Kino, who had suffered a slight shock, took out the staff of rejuvenation from his arms and planned to hand it to him.
Sophia.
"Ahem... Bah." Fageni, whose posture was wrong when he landed, stood up slowly and spit out blood.
"Well, let's use it now. He fell hard just now." Sofia turned her head and looked at the twisted elevator cage behind her and said: "Fortunately, Mr. Brandon protected me in time just now. It was so scary.
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"No problem, Fageni, I'll give you the short staff. It will slowly restore your injuries." Kino turned to hand the rejuvenation staff to Fageni.
At this time, Alexander had already helped Brandon unscrew the twisted metal rod beside him. The latter reached out to Fageni and said: "Do you need me to treat you? It's faster."
"It seems that it has really been in disrepair for hundreds of years." Fageni looked up, then turned back and said, "That will be troublesome, ahem." Brandon's handle was emitting a white light.
He put his hand on Fageni's wound. Fageni breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head at Kino and said, "It shouldn't be necessary, that one is too slow."
Fageni felt the effect of this treatment and asked: "It's really amazing. What is this spell called?"
Brandon shook his head and said: "This is an ability similar to divine magic, and every oathbinder can do it. But the effect of a cursed equipment on me can be released for a longer period of time."
"It's called the Hand of the Saint, right?" Fageni nodded and stopped asking.
Fageni suddenly remembered something and touched his waist with his right hand. "Ru, don't run out of these medicines... Huo, it seems they are more important than my life."
Sophia took the short staff of life and handed it to Fagni: "You can save Mr. Brandon's treatment by taking it first, and then return it to me when the recovery is almost complete." After hearing this, Brandong felt that it was about the same, so he
Treatment was stopped.
"Does this treatment cost you a lot of energy?" Sophia asked Brandon curiously.
"The total usage time is quite limited. Because the divine power of the sun domain is guided in the body, it will only recover at dawn every day after adequate rest. It will not consume any physical strength or energy.
Perhaps because the iron cage fell, Alexander, who was observing the surroundings, discovered that when Brandon turned his body, there was a reflection on the exit wall on one side when the light source changed its position.
"Huh?" With the help of the gap that he had just cleared to help Brandon escape, Alexander got out of the iron cage. Alexander slowly approached the reflective place and found that it was a crack. Behind the crack in the stone wall was a metal part, which was obviously not
normal.
"What's wrong?" Sensing Alexander's voice and movements, Sophia turned her head and followed him out.
"There is metal behind this." Alexander scratched his head: "If the metal part is also a wall, then why build a stone wall outside the metal wall? Do you want to dig it out and take a look? Who wants to try it with a melee weapon?"
"Perhaps it's to hide something? I agree." Sophia's curiosity rose again and she suggested: "Just use local materials. The iron cage just now, take it apart and screw it together to make a blunt weapon.
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Brandon slightly widened the gap and followed him out, followed by Chino and Fageni.
Fageni looked at Alexander and patted Brandon's shoulder and said, "I think I need to rest for a while, but it shouldn't be a big problem. I'm probably useless here. I can use it as a hammer." He handed it out.
Get your own "knife".
Brandon shook his head and walked over. "Is there anything behind you? If you don't need to control the intensity, I can do it."
"There seems to be a metal wall behind, so there shouldn't be any need to control the strength." Alexander raised his voice.
"What kind of magic is it again?" Fageni didn't move forward but silently took a few steps back, and Kino followed suit.
Brandon reached behind his neck with one hand, deftly removed the black cross sword pendant he was wearing, and then sheathed the original one-handed sword and threw it to Alexander.
Alexander caught the one-handed sword and asked: "What are you planning to do?" and pulled Sophia away to watch Brandon's movements.
Brandon put the index fingers of both hands against the hilt of the small cross sword pendant and said in a deep voice: "What are you planning to do? There haven't been strong enough enemies and dangerous enough places before, so I haven't used this before. I just want to try it today."
." He closed his eyes, and the red light from the cross sword pendant stung the eyes of the four people, and they could only block them quickly. When the light disappeared and looked again, Brandon was holding an eight-inch wide sword.
A three-foot-eleven-inch large cross sword that was entirely pitch black. If it wasn't a big sword, it would have been an assassination weapon coated with a special matte substance.
"Wow." Sophia exclaimed at the right time, and then silently walked behind Fageni to prevent possible gravel splashing behind.
"Oh, this is fierce." Fageni watched his next movements with interest, while Kino looked at his forest guard in silence.
"Hmm... can this thing still be used in this way?" Alexander said, but recalled Brandon's weapon that he had seen in his dream before. It seemed to be a cross sword. Moreover, this thing was worn around Brandong's neck.
I haven't taken it off since then.
Then the pitch-black cross sword reacted with the white light emitted from Brandon's hand, and the light actually rose up and wrapped around the sword in the form of air currents.
"It's incredible." He called for Kino to come to Fageni's side.
"Miss Sophia, you'd better hide behind me." Kino pulled out his swords with both hands and prepared to deflect the flying rocks. [What a handsome weapon] Kino looked at the black cross sword with excitement, and followed Sophia's instructions.
He was instructed to move to Fageni's side and continue to hold the sword with both hands to resist the coming impact.
"Why are you like this?" Fageni was dumbfounded and raised his "knife" like an iron rod to block.
"The roar of the sky, the terrifying power!" Brandon used the first-level energy-shaping spell Explosive Slash created by the senior paladins that is unique to the paladins, and raised the pitch-black cross sword and slashed it down with one strike. The deafening sound
After the explosion and the powerful air wave dissipated, the stone wall collapsed with a bang. A vertical crack was cut out, revealing the damaged metal wall behind it.
There is a door pushed open by the air wave in the middle of the metal wall part, and inside the door is a small room. Within the light range, you can see a silver box and piles of metal plates in the room, and the materials of the platforms are
the same.
"Ha~ It looks like a warehouse-like place." Brandon took a deep breath, and the sword quickly shrank into a pendant. He buckled the necklace with one hand and tied it around his neck.
"Hidden room? It's like an adventure novel." Sofia said as she poked her head out from behind Fageni and Kino.
"Shall we go in and take a look?" She snapped her fingers and cast a dancing light spell to illuminate the whole room before continuing: "Maybe the things inside will be of some use."
"It's amazing." Alexander walked into the room to observe and approached the box. "Did this pendant react in any way when I approached the statue before? Brandon, do you know the origin of this pendant?"
"Yes. Brandon, what is this weapon of yours? It is so powerful." Kino asked curiously. After all, this weapon is really handsome.
"Later, I investigated and found that this was once a high-level holy weapon, but the first user lost it after breaking his oath. Later, many oathbinders also recovered this weapon. It may be that this sword absorbed
Only by absorbing part of the soul obsession of each generation of users can they have the ability to change. Of course, the users must also bear the corresponding mental pressure." Brandon explained this, but Alexander felt that he was pretending to be relaxed. After all, she
Know that the paladin spell consumes your own magic power.
"If that's the case, I think it would be better if we try not to waste too much energy on you. After all, you are the main force in this team." Sophia approached the door, put her head in to see what was going on inside, and then walked in.
"Oh." Fageni did not go in and was on guard outside: "You go in and call me if something happens."
"Fageni...Since I met you, I have never seen you not cowardly." Kino looked at Fageni with disgust and walked in the door.
"This is called tactics." Fageni said seriously: "tactical retreat, tactical abandonment of the city, tactical white flag, these are all tactics with a long history."
"Hmm..." The thought suddenly came to Alexander's mind. Maybe the original figure of the statue knew the paladin, and maybe he was one of them. However, Alexander did not intend to ask the detailed cause and effect of this matter now. She stepped forward to take a look.
See if the box can be opened.
The box did not have a lock, it had a snap button. Alexander stood on the opposite side of the box lid and fumbled to open the snap button. After all, opening the box from the back could avoid some traps.
There are a large number of bright yellow transparent crystals inside, without any texture or impurities. Each one is about the size of a quarter of a fist, and there are estimated to be more than a hundred.
"These things look..." Alexander tilted his head and stared at these things.
"What's wrong?" "What did you find?" Sophia and Chino asked one after another and came over, but they had never seen this kind of crystal.
"If you care, just bring it with you. Everyone can take a part. It's not a lot." Brandon reached out and picked up the sword that was on the ground when Alexander opened the box.
Alexander frowned. "Logically speaking, these things should be used to power those lifting devices... Although they are very similar to something I have eaten before, they are different. Let's take it first."
"Then take some. We were also delayed here for a while." After being curious, Sophia felt that reaching the target point was the most important thing.
Alexander took twenty-one transparent crystals and stuffed them into his backpack and said: "I can't help but want to eat one, but I think eating it will cause problems, so forget it."
"Even if you want to eat it, what if you fall asleep after taking it as if you drank a potion? Let's go quickly." Brandon took the first forty people out. "What is this?" stared at it.
Fagni asked when he saw Brandon coming out at the exit. The former handed him the crystal he needed to wear.
Sophia also pretended to be a little bit and followed out and replied smoothly: "Some crystals can be divided and brought with you."
"Oh." Fageni lost interest. "I don't have a backpack. Bringing them will restrict my movement. Let's go. Let's go." Fageni took the "knife" and walked out to the exit at the lead.
"Why are you like this? I brought it with me too." Kino picked up his pocket bag, but Fageni didn't look at her at all.
"I have a bag here, can you take it?" Sofia wanted to hand over the backpack: "I'll just keep the light things and take them with me." Sofia motioned to him to pack the rest.
"Bringing a bag restricts my movement even more. You are safe in the back. What if my bag breaks in the front?" Fageni replied without looking back. Chino just thought he was a bad person.
"That's okay." Sophia took her bag back and said, "Then let's keep walking."
"Okay, okay." Alexander took the crystals that Fageni didn't want and stuffed them into his bag. "Stop arguing, let's go quickly. We've been delayed for a while, so hurry up and go on."
All five people left the elevator room. The newly entered area was a rock layer, but the stones were gray-black. If some metal signs similar to signboards were not still present in this area, the whole area would look very depressing.
Many stalactites have appeared in this area, and there are some fallen and broken stalactites on the ground. It is obvious that they have not been repaired, but it is still very safe to follow the signs carefully. This chapter has been completed!