As early as more than ten days ago, Ryze successfully avoided the Demacian soldiers stationed on the periphery through fixed-point teleportation, and entered the already deserted Forbidden Demon Stone Forest to start exploring.
Mages who are not affected by the Forbidden Stone do not exist at all in the eyes of Demacians. This is the only reason why Ryze successfully sneaked into the Forbidden Stone Forest.
The Forbidden Demonic Stone Forest is a dead and mutated forest. No birds or animals can be seen here. The environment is extremely depressing. Under the tall white trees, humans can easily lose their sense of direction.
Even Ryze felt deeply uncomfortable in the Forbidden Stone Forest. For ordinary people, collecting a few branches on the periphery may be enough to do their best. Going too deep into the stone forest may cause some changes in the body, and even Yu suffocated to death from the pressure.
Walking among the tall and thick white trees that are dozens or hundreds of meters tall, Ruiz discovered that his height may not reach the height of some tree roots. These tall white trees can be seen within a thousand miles. It looks like white holy stone pillars reaching the sky. This is also the origin of the word "Stone Forest". It is not so much a forest as a stone pillar reaching the sky.
There is no doubt that this place has become a famous wonderland in Demacia. Many people regret that Demacia has never shown the greatness of this place to outsiders.
Only Ryze knows what these great and eternal thick tree trunks mean.
In this land, only the power of runes can make ordinary things undergo such terrible changes, and runes symbolize corruption and destruction, and are terrible things that need to be suppressed.
The runes must be properly sealed, and he will never compromise on this.
"Forbidden Demon Stone Forest, Forbidden Demon... I should have been here a long time ago."
Sighing, Ryze continued to move forward.
Nineteen years ago, when he came to Valoran from Zaun, the northern port of Shurima, Ryze planned a route for himself to search for runes.
Head all the way north from the Noxus Hills, pass the Immortal Fortress to the Dalmor Plains, then go west along the Ironshark Mountains to the Freljord Tundra, and then go all the way north to the Frostguard Fortress. The fortress turned to the coast of the Sea of Ice on the west coast, then followed the outline of the continent all the way south, and finally crossed the Urus Mountains to Demacia, and then headed eastward from the Demacia Plains to search for the Nokmoch Plains until returning To the Valoran Plains west of the Immortal Fortress.
Such a closed-loop route is the most time-saving option because it does not take the same route. Even so, it took Ryze nineteen years to reach Demacia, a lonely road with no room for turning back. The journey lasts for nineteen years, enough to turn a newborn baby into a mature father.
This road is so persistent and determined that the wandering mage doesn't have time to think about other things. For example, there is a mysterious magic-forbidden stone forest in Demacia. Another example is that from the beginning, he went west from the Immortal Fortress and passed through After passing through the Valoran Plains, Nocmooch Plains and Demacia Plains, you can go directly to the Forbidden Stone Forest to explore the situation here.
"It seems that I will have to pay attention to more exotic places in the future."
Summing up the experience and lessons learned from failure, Ryze stopped and took out a fragment of a dark red glowing rune from the rune scroll behind his back.
This fragment had runic resonance six years ago when Ryze was still on the coast of the Sea of Ice in Freljord. The general location of the resonance was in the south. After taking it out now, the fluctuations in the runic resonance were small.
It has moved a lot, and the direction has also changed to the east.
Thinking about the mutated properties of the Forbidden Demon Stone Forest, Ryze threw the whispering runes back into the scroll and took out a cone-shaped rune stone that exuded light blue magic light.
"It has the mutation effect of absorbing magic power, so it should have a certain connection with this rune that can increase and absorb arcane energy."
Holding the light blue rune tightly, Ryze felt the direction of the rune's resonance and quickly determined a direction.
Speeding up his pace and passing through the towering trees, Ryze came to the pit of a giant tree that had been felled. He re-determined his position in his mind. Ryze was surprised to find that the location under his feet happened to be the Forbidden City.
The central location of Magic Stone Forest.
The semi-circular tree pit was filled with brown and yellow dead leaves. Ruiz soon discovered that there was an unnatural bulge near the inside of the tree pit.
I swept away the fallen leaves on the small stone platform with my palm, and the flat relief carved on the hard stone wall appeared in front of my eyes.
The overall relief is composed of three parts, with a compact layout and exquisite carving. They are the people on both sides, the twisted tree trunk in the center, and the cone-shaped stone at the top of the twisted tree trunk, close to the sky and emitting light.
The style of worship and belief can be clearly seen in the human part. The human beings kneeling on the ground facing the trees and cone-shaped stones are wearing cloaks and robes and holding a scepter. They are obviously high-ranking and powerful people. Behind the powerful people are also figures.
There are beautiful women holding sacrificial objects and warriors holding swords and wearing armor, symbolizing the submission of royal power to mysterious beliefs.
The trees twisted together in the center are spiraling upward like vines, and the glowing cone-shaped stones are pushed up to the sky like people holding the moon.
The stone emitted countless rays of light in the sky, and the dense lines made Ryze understand what kind of energy the cone-shaped stone had.
Obviously, the human beings kneeling in the relief are not the twisted trees, but the cone-shaped stone symbolizing strength in the heart of the tree.
Focusing on the relief, and then glancing at the cone-shaped blue rune stone on his left hand, Ryze curled his lips, but sighed deeply.
This relief was obviously not made by the Demacians, because the Demacians did not understand the fundamental reason for the birth of the Forbidden Stone Forest, and naturally they would not worship a broken stone that could shine, and even carved a relief for the broken stone.
Then it can only be that some local civilization created and carved this relief stone platform in the past.
Obviously, the runes worshiped by that civilization did not protect the civilization from continuing to be strong and continuous, but turned the civilization into an unknown historical event and completely disappeared in the long river of history.
In Ryze's opinion, this is not a coincidence, it is the inevitable result of contact with runes and belief in runes.
Any civilization or human being who tries to control the rune stones will bring huge disasters to the world, without exception.
If it weren't for the existence of the immortal stone reliefs, no one would know that a hundred years ago, there was a powerful royal kingdom on the Forbidden Stone Forest.
In fact, as long as the relief in front of you is destroyed, the last traces of this dynasty in this world will be erased, and no one will know that there is a vanished civilization here.
Stroking the relief murals, Ryze once again felt the fragility and weakness of human civilization when faced with runes.
The fragility lies in the fact that humans are simply unable to utilize the powerful power of runes, nor can they control the devastating results brought about by runes.
The weakness lies in the fact that human beings, faced with such easy-to-obtain powerful power, can never refuse. They can only compromise and accept the temptation, and then fall towards self-destruction.
