Amidst the heavy tearing sounds of wooden boards that had not been moved for a long time, the brown door slowly opened outward.
The first thing that caught Lumian's eyes was the dim light that was different from the darkness in other areas deep in the underworld.
This does not come from the human-shaped street lamp made of gold, but is radiated by everything in front of it.
Immediately afterwards, Lumian saw the scene outside clearly.
It was a group of palaces that seemed to be half-sunk into the void. It had a majestic main hall, multiple towers, and air corridors connecting each palace and tower.
The deeper the palace complex goes, the more it seems to sink into nothingness, and the edge area actually stands in a wilderness with a sense of substance.
Even so, the main palace in the core area is still much higher than other buildings in the palace complex.
Today, most of the buildings here have completely collapsed, leaving only broken walls and ruins. The few remaining relatively intact palaces and towers are mainly concentrated in the edge areas. The only building still standing tall in the core area is visible to the naked eye.
The main temple and the four minarets attached to it.
At this moment, whether it was the dilapidated palace complex, the surrounding wilderness, or the high sky, all other colors had faded away, showing a bleak paleness that enveloped and infected the entire world.
They bring light.
There are still a few other colors left in this pale world, including the gold inlaid on the surface of each building and the black at the bottom of the palace complex, which represents the void.
There are two other sources of the latter. One is the illusory black Styx River that falls silently from high in the sky. It pours into the back of the main hall like a waterfall. The other is entrenched among the four spiers on the top of the majestic main hall. It is long enough to be used for hundreds of meters.
This quantifier is used to modify a monster.
It was an exaggerated giant bird. It stretched out its feather wings made of pale flames and mysterious patterns, and crawled quietly on the roof of the main hall. A lot of the pale flames on the surface of its body had been peeled off, exposing the dark
Rotting skin.
Even from a considerable distance, even after just two or three glances, even if he couldn't see clearly, Lumian could not help but feel that his "death" was accelerating.
He lowered his head, looked at his hands, and found that his skin, which was already pale and dull due to becoming an undead creature, had patches of blue and black traces of decay.
These traces slowly crawled and deepened.
In addition, his clothes were initially "infected" by the paleness of the world, and all colors became dim.
"What kind of monster is that?" Lumian did not dare to look at the giant bird in the distance, and could only look at the palace complex itself.
After a few seconds, "Knight of the Sword" Maric's increasingly vague voice sounded:
"Maybe it's Gray Carrie's body."
Gray Carrie? The ancestor of the phoenix and the ancient god of death among the eight ancient gods of the second era? Lumian blurted out in shock:
"Why is His body here?"
After asking this question, Lumian felt that it seemed like a meaningless question:
This is the underworld, and it is not surprising that the corpses of any dead people appear here, and the death of the ancient god of death, the ancestor of the Phoenix, occurred before the sudden change in the underworld.
On the contrary, the body of the "god of death" of the Eggers family did not appear. It was unknown where it was hidden. This was an abnormal phenomenon.
Lumian did not expect that the "Knight of Swords" actually answered his question:
"Maybe the ancestor of the Eggers family, the former 'God of Death', put it here."
Uh... It means that the God of Death of the Eggers family not only acquired the extraordinary characteristics of the ancestor of the phoenix, Gray Carrie, but also brought her body back to the underworld and hid it somewhere in the palace complex? He, no, how could it get there on its own?
On the top of the palace? It's just a corpse! Is that how it was originally placed? Or, the changes in the underworld were caused by this corpse of the ancient god? With the death of the current 'God of Death', has the corpse of the ancient god of death changed? Lumi
I made some associations while settling in.
At this time, he heard the "Knight of Swords" add:
"Sharon just saw the egg."
That egg? The egg that the sheep-faced devil wants? Sharon refers to the temperance demigod in my body? Lumian felt relieved and asked:
"Where is the egg?"
"Under the abdomen of the corpse that is suspected to be the ancestor of the phoenix, it has a pitch-black shell, burning with pale flames, about one meter in diameter." "Knight of the Sword" briefly described the situation of the egg.
Protected by the corpse of the ancient god of death? Lumian's scalp suddenly became numb.
How to get this?
This is no different from killing the demon king Fabuti!
Of course, as far as those in high positions are concerned, an ancient god who is still alive and an ancient god who has lost his extraordinary characteristics and is only a rotting corpse are obviously not on the same level. The difficulty of the two tasks is as different as the heaven and the abyss, but for
For Lumian, these are all the same, and they all fall into the category of "cannot be accomplished even at the expense of oneself".
Raised by sows, the sheep-faced creature is really an undead creature turned into a devil!
Okay, if it can’t be completed, it won’t be completed. If you kill the client, you won’t have this task!
When the malice in Lumian's heart spread to all parts of his body, the "Knight of the Sword" said again:
"It's not impossible to get the egg. The state of the body of the ancestor of the phoenix is a bit strange."
The state of the corpse is strange? Don’t corpses only have two states, eternal sleep and corpse transformation? Lumian did not dare to use his own eyes to observe the rotting corpse of the ancient death god Gray Carrie, so he could only ask the only person present who could do it to a certain extent.
The person looking at the body of the ancient god is the temperance demigod Sharon:
"Why is it weird?"
The answer was still the "Knight of Swords":
"It's in a deep sleep, the kind of sleep that's hard to wake up from.
"This is inconsistent with the current situation in this pale country."
Sleeping? They are all dead, and the corpse has changed. Do you still need to sleep? Lumian frowned slightly and said:
“Why do you say it’s not in line with the current situation here?”
"Knight of the Sword" explained after a few seconds:
"Judging from the current situation, one of the reasons for the changes in the underworld was the transformation of the ancestor of the Phoenix. It destroyed the palace of the 'God of Death', killed all the favored ones of the 'God of Death' present, and turned this place into a pale
country.
"We have met several demigods in the 'God of Death' domain before. After the change in the underworld, they can actually use the underworld to complete some things, or even enter directly, but none of them dare to go deep into the underworld to find the remains in the palace of the 'God of Death'
treasure, their instincts told them that this place was very dangerous and they must not get close.
"But Sharon didn't have such a premonition of danger just now, so she agreed to come here."
In other words, for a long time after the change in the underworld, the corpse of the ancestor of the phoenix still lingered in this pale country, making the high-ranking people in the "God of Death" field afraid to approach, but now, it is sleeping...
Lumian found the strange thing from the description of "Knight of the Sword" Maric.
"When was the last time a high-ranking person with the 'God of Death' path approached the depths of the underworld and sensed danger?" Lumian tried to determine the approximate time range.
"I don't know." "Knight of Swords" answered quickly.
I don’t know... It seems that the corpse of the ancestor of the phoenix has been sleeping in the past few years. Otherwise, high-ranking people in the "God of Death" path will find that it is not so dangerous after entering the underworld, and they can try to explore it, so as not to
No traces were left, nor was any news spread... What happened in recent years? Lumian was thinking and couldn't help complaining:
"Why did the 'God of Death' of the Eggers family bring back the body of the ancestor of the phoenix and leave such a big hidden danger? As a true god, he should be able to destroy this body directly!"
"Knight of Swords" responded to Lumian's complaint:
"The underworld was established by the ancient God of Death in the spiritual world. As an ancient god, he did not only have the power of the 'God of Death' path, nor did he only use the power of the 'God of Death' path when he created the underworld.
"It may not be easy for the 'God of Death' of the Eggers family to control the underworld at first. He needs to use the corpse left behind by the ancestor of the Phoenix. By the time he really takes control, his state may not be right anymore and he will no longer pay attention to this
It’s a trivial matter.”
Does this mean that the "god of death" of the Eggers family later went crazy? It turns out that the underworld was not formed naturally, but was created by the ancient god of death, Gray Carrie... This ancient god is really powerful, no wonder he may transform into a corpse... Lumi
An sighed in his heart.
"Knight of the Sword" seemed to feel his sigh and said simply:
"It is said that even among the crazy ancient gods, the ancestor of the phoenix, Gray Carrie, is the one who likes to toss the most and has caused many things. She is the same as the 'Blood Emperor' Alistair Tudor of the Fourth Age.
More like."
I can understand it very well if you use this metaphor... Lumian's eyes kept moving back and forth between the pale sky, the wilderness and the collapsed palaces, thinking about whether to take advantage of the sleeping corpse of the ancient god of death to steal
Take the dark dome burning with pale flames.
Suddenly, he spotted a figure that could still move.
It was a monster with a human head and a body like a giant bird.
The monster's arms and legs were bent, and nails that shone with cold light were stretched out. Wings covered with half-pale and half-brown feathers spread out on its back. The development of its head seemed incomplete, like the heads of several babies slowly merging.
"That premature baby from Oceto? It is indeed here too!" Lumian recognized the identity of the monster.
That was what he and the Temperance members were after!
At this time, Oseito's monster child was flapping its wings, constantly circling, and quietly approaching the sleeping ancient god's body little by little.
Its target seems to be the pitch-black dome underneath the corpse!
"It must be stopped!
"Sharon is responsible for cursing it and controlling it, and we are responsible for attacking!"
The voice of "Knight of the Sword" rang in Lumian's mind.
"Okay." This time, Lumian did not hesitate and ran out of the bottom of the dark church.
As soon as he stepped into that pale country, his whole body was dyed pale, without any extra color.
This made him tremble both physically and mentally, and he just wanted to kneel to the ground and remain motionless.
Silently, Lumian pulled out the "Sword of Courage".
The sword, which had been eroded by paleness, was ignited with blazing white and green flames.