It was a very vague connection. Cassia thought about it, but in the end he didn't get anything. Sighing, he withdrew his hand and stood on the stone steps looking at the circular hole where the underground river came out. There were still traces of digging on it.
The cave network Grote mentioned was not naturally formed. It contained many artificial elements, as if it was a place used by some people to store certain things or hold events. After closer inspection, Cassia ruled out that
This is the option that the ore prospectors have figured out. It is a very particular and delicate excavation method. Compared with the ore prospectors, if there is any obstacle that blocks them, directional blasting will be their first choice.
Cassia now sees that Groat's choice to place the second-generation Holy Sword here was not a random move. I didn't think so much before, but all the signs here indicate that Groat chose to place the second-generation Holy Sword here.
At that time, he had already guessed his future ending. And there was another point that made Cassia even more confused, and that was that when the agreement was reached in the spiritual dream, one of the two conditions could be said to have not been realized.
There are two conditions in exchange for the second-generation Holy Sword. One is to protect the safety of a contemporary saint, Doris, who has gone to other continents, and the second is to let Cassia use his skull.
Throw it into the endless sea. It can be said that it was done, but when the skull was thrown into the endless sea, Cassia was sure that Groat's spirit had disappeared from the skull.
But these are not very important. Cassia feels suspicious about another point - why the skull was thrown into the endless sea. Grote is not a person from the coastal area, and he may have a longing for the sea, but as the empire's number one
The acting King of Knights, who has lived for more than a hundred years, Cassia does not believe that he has never seen the sea.
"Could it be other reasons?" Cassia was sure of this, but she couldn't imagine what the reason would be.
In a thousand years, except for some spaces or ruins hidden under the ground, or some special locations in extreme areas, the empire has explored all the explorable Later Phase Continent. But the Endless Sea is the only one that has been explored alone.
Among the special regions listed, the other two continents are no exception.
"The Endless Sea has no boundaries. In the hundreds of years after Avalon perfected the airship and the giant cruise ship on the sea, these steel behemoths that conquered the offshore sea and the deep blue sky have still not been able to explore the edge of the Endless Sea.
.In the process of continuous sailing, although numerous island groups or islands comparable to the size of small countries were discovered, everyone knows that this is not the result that the explorers and the empire wanted,,," in the introduction of the Endless Sea
There is often a sentence like this in books.
As an ocean surrounding three continents, the area of the endless sea that has been explored has already exceeded the combined area of the three continents by hundreds of times. As its name suggests, there is really no edge, only islands.
Existence also reveals existence and the infinite possibilities in its depth.
Just after a few hundred years, even though there is no shortage of enthusiastic young explorers in every era, the expansion of exploration of the Endless Sea has become weaker and weaker. The further away from the mainland, the more dangerous it is. The wave has reached its highest
At that time, a voyage team led by the empire set sail. At that time, the team had dozens of huge cruise ships, equipped with an equal number of airships, plus various types of explorers who had been strictly screened, including even
The empire and the military secretly helped behind the scenes, sending elites in the army as force protection.
But in the end it disappeared into the everlasting dark blue skyline of the Endless Sea. It was from then on that the term Endless Sea truly took on meaning.
It not only represents no end, it also represents mystery and mankind’s fear of the unknown so far, or it may symbolize power.
Cassia could only look sideways to find the reason why Groat asked her to throw the skull into the endless sea. She could not guess Groat’s thoughts, or there was a serious lack of information. As the first generation of Knight King after the establishment of the empire, Groat
With power and strength, the secret knowledge that can be accessed at that time is definitely much more than one's own.
Instead of spending more time on this, Cassia looked at the mechanical watch. The time was only around two o'clock in the afternoon, which was still plenty of time. He returned to the steps and picked up the firecracker. After checking that his condition was good, he walked towards the underground river flowing out of the river.
That cave entrance. As for the piles of diamonds and jewels in the dragon skulls, he thought he still had plenty of time to move them away.
The diameter of the cave is about one and a half meters, and Cassia can go in with a slight bow. The water in the underground river is very fast and can splash directly into his face.
It was not entirely dug manually. It was a semi-natural cave that was carefully dug and processed. After advancing less than two or three meters, in the darkness that was gradually dispersed, Cassia discovered something on the stone wall.
The bottom tip of the wedge embedded in the mountain rock and corroded away. The preparations made by the group of prospectors in order to walk in the rapid underground river.
Soon after, Cassia even discovered a broken waterproof lamp. After advancing very far, one or two hundred meters later, you could still see the lines fixed on the stone wall. But this cave seemed to have no end, and the underground river became more and more rapid.
In the silent and dark cave, there was only the sound of torrent that kept echoing in my ears.
After walking diagonally upward for a few hundred meters, a spacious underground space appeared in front of us, with a height of seven to eight meters and a length of about 20 to 30 meters. It was connected to several caves of different sizes, and underground rivers gathered here.
A small pool of water was formed with the lower depression, and the water was turbulent.
Next to the water moor is a flat land composed of relatively dry gravel, where there are several collapsed tents. Fortunately, unused solid fuel was found on the edge, and the fire soon illuminated the surrounding area. The stone walls were covered with
It was manually excavated, and there were not only strange characters and symbols on it, but also several consecutive simplified pictures. There were also obvious traces of fixed-point blasting and knock marks from the excavation.
The group of prospectors found something on the stone wall. The creatures in the sketch were all missing their eyes. They should be diamonds and jewelry. Cassia judged that. On the way here, he also occasionally looked at the stone wall of the cave.
I saw a less obvious explosion crater on the top. Perhaps it was these diamonds and jewelry that drove the group of people to explore through the long cave to get here.
The text on the stone wall was unclear, but Cassia could still understand some of the pictures. There were six simple stone paintings in total. The first picture should be a common starry sky, but there were many shooting star-like things under the starry sky, which seemed to be stars falling and falling.
There was no meaning in the second picture. It was six circles of different sizes, but through the star-like spots on the side, Cassia judged that it should be the moon, but why were there six? Or, that
It's something else.
The third picture showed a huge whale breaking through the sea and leaping in mid-air. It was a giant whale, Cassia immediately thought of it.
The fourth picture seemed to be a mountain. When Cassia looked carefully, he realized that it was not a mountain peak, but a big tree that was far more majestic than the mountain. The huge tree ran through the sky and the earth, and the continuous mountains were just its foundation.
That’s all.
The fifth painting seems to be related to the fourth painting. A person is standing on the branches of a big tree. Her long hair and exaggerated breasts indicate that she is a woman. She is holding a scepter in her hand, which emits a dazzling light.
She is looking at the sea of clouds rolling in front of her. The woman in the stone painting is not an ordinary human being. There are two sets of wings behind her, as light as insect wings. Even though this is a simple painting, it still reveals the beauty of those two pairs of wings.
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The last picture is the creature Cassia is most familiar with, which is a dragon. Although it is missing its eyes, the fangs in its mouth and the flames splashing on its body can still feel ferocious and terrifying. That dragon
Humans are flying in the sky, covering the sun with their bodies, but below, there is a group of kneeling people worshiping sincerely. In front of this group of people, there are six shelves, with six women hanging on them, and
The fourth painting depicts the same women with two pairs of wings!
"This is a sacrificial event!"
Cassia knew from some history books that in a long time ago, people at that time used this kind of ritual to please the gods they believed in. (To be continued)