The Secret of the Giant Runes in the Eternal Battlefield Chapter 20 The Stone Tablet
"Over there!" Esther looked at the purple light, pushed aside the branches and cut off the thorns. Under the shade of the tree, a purple crystal came into view. It was a complete shadow crystal.
"It's actually a complete shadow crystal." Amon walked up and looked at it carefully.
"Oh? Is this the source of the spread of the shadow domain here?" Zogwen also rushed over.
"Amon, I'm sorry to bother you. I'm here to ask Phil to destroy this thing." Esther was directly misled, thinking that this was the real source. However, as a living person, he did not intend to touch this energy aggregate easily.
is correct.
It's just that after Amon got started, he discovered that the shadow magic contained in it was quite small, and its actual value was not as good as the broken crystals on Amon's body.
"How was it?" Esther asked.
"No, something of this level simply cannot drag the entire island into the shadow realm." Amon said, picking up the crystal and feeling the weak shadow magic in it. "This thing is not even as good as what I am doing.
use."
"Be careful, why don't you check it out first?" Zogwen didn't dare to get too close.
"I guess there are more than one or two. Can you use this thing to search for more on the island?" Esther asked.
"That's good... maybe this is just a broken crystal, and there will probably be bigger ones later, but if you have the corresponding magic power, I think you can deal with it first." Zogwen didn't want to touch it at all.
"It's strange... the content of shadow magic is really not much." Yamon frowned and said. "I'll give it a try." He tried to see if he could use this crystal to sense whether there were other shadow crystals nearby.
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"Well... it has no effect." After trying to inject shadow magic to no avail, Amon shook his head and said, "But maybe if ordinary magic is injected, it should be able to spontaneously absorb the surrounding negative energy and reflect it back.
Come over and convert it into shadow magic to reduce the influence of the shadow realm. Esther, do you want to give it a try?"
"I have no magic power, only spiritual power." Esther shook his head. "And this thing is not something that ordinary creatures like me should touch."
"Then--" Amon turned to hand it to Zogwen.
"Then let me give it a try." Zogwen became bolder, and he stretched out his hand to try to inject his own magic power that favored the wind element into it.
This is indeed effective, but the amount is too small, and most of the magic power is lost in the process. "It doesn't seem to be very effective... We need something to guide the magic power so that this crystal can fully function."
He turned to ritual casting and identification to see if this crystal could guide the infusion of magic through other means.
In essence, this is a naturally formed mineral-like energy crystal, not a container of magic power.
Esther doesn't know if there are any previous geographical records of this island, but there should be no magic mines or the like. There may be such things in the star realm, but they are too rare in the material plane. But there are warehouses, equipment, and magic towers that store magic power.
Something like that is not impossible.
"Maybe it's of some use, let's put it away first," Amon said. Because even with many such crystals, this island cannot become normal, let alone this is an ancient city thousands of years ago.
"It looks like we need to find a corresponding place to inject magic into him." Zogwen shook his head. "It's really troublesome. Keep going inside. There should be something deeper."
Along the way, there were some withered vine monsters and withered needle monsters that were eroded by negative energy. They were attacked, but they were easily killed. Finally, the three of them saw the city gate covered by dead vines in the distance on the road.
"Is it an abandoned city? I wonder if the dragons forgot anything good when they evacuated." Amon thought that the dragons and dragonborn should do some exploration.
"Haha, I hope I can get some good things." Zogwen used his secret eye to carefully check if there was anything ambushing near the gate. "
There is an owlbear's lair in the woods near the gate. The owlbear eroded by negative energy looks even more terrifying, but there is nothing else.
Esther directly used psychic flight to enter from the city gate.
"Want to go up? It doesn't look very safe?" Zogwin said.
When he flew to sixty feet, Esther felt obvious discomfort, and the negative energy could significantly erode his vitality.
After flying to a height of seventy-five feet and entering the city, Esther shouted: "The negative energy above is more intense, which is very troublesome. Maybe we should consider demolishing the door."
"It's okay, I can summon an evil spirit and let it use any door to teleport us in." Zogwen shouted through the wall and began to ramble. "Although I don't know your name, you look very powerful. I have A teleportation spell can save some effort. Or do you have one too? It’s that... fourth-level arbitrary door."
But as soon as he broke out of the negative energy group, Esther saw three translucent but shadowy objects floating near the ground flying towards him.
This thing also came into close contact with Esther, but he easily dodged it. "There are three souls inside, and they are attacking unusually. Be careful when you come in."
"Okay, now." Seeing that Esther had already entered and a battle was taking place, Amon said no more and planned to teleport into the city with Zogwen.
"Although our spellcasters can't fly like this psionic user, teleportation spells are still useful. If he goes up, let's go down." After saying that, Zogwin started to bring Amon in at will.
"Indeed, sometimes I really envy these guys who can fly in the sky." Amon sighed and followed Zogwen to teleport away obediently.
Esther unfolded the third type, and then aimed at one of them with a knife. But the thing was not affected by the slashing at all. Even if it was a magic weapon, it was still an artifact.
"Are you immune to physical attacks? It's not a big problem. Phil, prepare the second type."
The other two smaller soul bodies were completely unable to touch Esther.
"Immune to physical attacks, although it shouldn't matter to you." Seeing the two people teleporting over, Esther immediately raised her voice to remind.
"I'll go, what the hell." As soon as he was teleported in, he saw Esther being surrounded by three strange things. Amon couldn't help but be frightened. He subconsciously placed a curse on one of the souls, and then Three bursts of magic energy shot out.
The chaotic magic energy instantly caused the small half of the soul body to collapse. Under the cover of the spell, Esther also switched the scythe into a form that gave the undead creatures rest. After adapting to the new moves, he began to attack one by one. After finishing flying, he landed, and then Just control the distance and prepare to block attacks for your teammates.
Of the three souls suspended in mid-air, Esther could only intercept the strongest one, while the other two were beyond reach.
The smaller spirit body bypassed Esther and attacked the other Amon, but was blocked once by his shield technique, but also had some of its life force taken away.
At this time, Zogwen also used long-range firepower and magic energy blasts to assist his teammates in attacking the soul body above Yamon's head and eliminated one, while complaining: "It seems that this city may not welcome us."
At this moment, the big soul also turned to attack Zogwen, but was intercepted and could only attack Esther.
But before he even got close, he was chopped to pieces by Esther with a sickle, and the remaining one disappeared immediately.
"Anyway, let's continue moving. Although I'm a little tired, it's not bad, and resting in a place like this is not a clear choice." Esther said, he planned to follow the structure of Huilong City and try to confirm and compare in this city.
Important buildings and searches.
"It doesn't feel good to hit someone who can't cut it." Amon shrugged and sent the sword back to the alien space. "Let's go inside and take a look."
Behind this gate is the city's main road, and the surrounding buildings have long been dilapidated. There is a square further ahead, and there is a large stone tablet in the center. Part of it seems to be the writing of elves. It seems to have nothing to do with Huilong City. After all, this is a place between humans and elves.
city of.
Zogwen used the invisibility technique to let the wind hide his whereabouts, and then he also leaned over to take a look. "Just a little caution." Then he walked over and tried to take a look at the characters on the stone tablet. "It looks like it's from an elf.
City...let me see what's recorded here."
The simulacrum had no autonomous behavior, so Esther called for Romani's Sophia-like simulacrum to be teleported in.
Esther followed and protected the simulacrum, and also asked the simulacrum to take a look.
"Ha, this dilapidated street looks abandoned... Oh, I forgot that I am not an archaeologist." Amon said as he approached the stone monument and scratched his chin. "So, on this thing,
What did you write?"
While Zogwen was inspecting it, a burst of purple light erupted from the stone tablet, instantly melting the simulacrum.
"Tmd, the simulacrum is gone." Esther couldn't help but cursed. But then the power of the purple light returned, and the fatigue of the three people was swept away, and they were full of blood and blue.
"What's going on?" Zogwen was confused.
"Is this an artifact stone tablet? It can actually heal to this extent. But it seems to have directly destroyed the simulacrum." Esther also wondered.
After uncovering this little episode, the inscription has two parts. The first part is written in Elvish language, and its general meaning is to praise the dragon for liberating "us" from suffering. However, the names of three people appear at the bottom of the stele.
Zogwen read the words above. "It looks like it's thanks to the dragon?"
"Slate of Destiny?" Esther said a strange term. Although he didn't know where he had seen this term, but if he couldn't remember clearly, he must have seen it when he ascended the latitude.
Now this has no beginning and no end, who knows what happened. If we lose the Sophia simulacrum that can interpret it, we can only wait for Zogwin to continue explaining.
Zogwen tried to use his own knowledge to identify what kind of language it was. "Judging from the nature of the writing, it looks more like the language of giants... but I don't understand the language of giants very well."
"Phil, can you understand?" Esther asked. Phil did not transform into a human form, but opened an eye on the death scythe. He probably closed it without understanding.
He could only zoom out a little further, take out the chess pieces, and let the little construct see if it could read it. He was even prepared to throw the chess pieces farther away if a purple light came out.
Then the chess piece was activated, which indicated that it was alien writing, which should be human writing brought by the original giant.
But the meaning is the same as Elvish.
"Why are there three of us names at the bottom?" Esther asked.
"I don't know then. It's probably some kind of link, similar to the link between the contract warlock and the sect master."
Aster looked at Amon. He was the Contract Warlock and might have some understanding of this situation.
"I'm not sure. It seems that when we stepped into this city, our destiny was already bound to this city..." Amon scratched his head and thought about his reaction to this situation. "
, but generally only names need to be written in contracts. As far as I know, the sect leader may not be able to figure out the name of the contract warlock who gave him power."