Countless lights shuttled in front of my eyes, colorful and brilliant.
Behind the heavy halo, in just one step, it seemed that a long time had passed. Brando stepped on solid ground. When he came back to his senses, the scene in front of him had already changed -
-The underground cave disappeared, and the light door that was accurate in years also disappeared. The layers of stalagmites and mysterious magic erosion patterns were no longer visible in the darkness. There was only a thick fog and boundless sea in front of us.
Dark void.
Akane appeared right behind him, the girl holding the Azure Spear, looking at this place in confusion.
This is the world behind the ‘door’——
A world surrounded by fog.
A huge tree root passed through the fog and hung in the darkness. Compared with this tree root, people are like tiny dust. The tree root is surrounded by empty abyss, and there is a shrieking wind in the darkness.
Come, like a hideous and terrifying ghost laugh.
The two of them stood on the root of this tree, and the front and back were engulfed in thick mist.
The monotonous sound of wind surrounded the eardrums, but other than that, the surrounding area actually gave people a feeling of loneliness - the howling wind was noisily flowing somewhere in the depths of darkness, but the heavy fog around it remained motionless.
It seems like a still world.
After Akane, Medissa and Hipamira also arrived one by one. Ciel followed Huque and was the last one to appear. He stepped down and there was a crisp sound. He lowered his head and found that he had cracked a layer.
Thin ice.
"What the hell is this place?" Charles breathed out, and the hot air quickly condensed into white mist.
Only then did everyone realize that the surrounding temperature was very low, even the mist was a layer of fine ice dust, and there was a layer of white frost hanging on the tree trunks they were standing on. But it was not just cold, there seemed to be a feeling lingering in the darkness.
The ominous aura penetrated into the bone marrow.
Before Charles finished speaking, a shrill scream came from behind everyone. Brando turned his head sharply and saw a monster with wings on its arms breaking through the fog, but Qian had already blocked him in front of him.
The Qingzhi Spear stabbed it in, nailing the thing to the tip of the spear.
Only then did everyone see clearly what the monster looked like. It was a scrawny creature that looked like a bat, but it was pitch black and it was hard to see its face. It was like a shadow made of thick ink. It had long and thin limbs, with only two eyes on each side.
A thin opening.
Akane threw it to the ground, and the monster screamed and struggled for a moment before dying.
"Shadow monster?" Ciel was stunned when he saw this thing, and couldn't help but said: "This is the Kingdom of Shadows?"
Medissa on the side shook her head, her silver eyes reflecting the depth and darkness around her, and replied: "Although time passes here much faster than the material world, it should indeed be a lower world, but have you heard it?
?”
"What do you smell?" Charles sneezed and complained: "I just feel that it's so damn cold here, sneeze——"
Morpheus looked at him curiously: "Is it cold here, Mr. Charles? But I feel a little comfortable. There seems to be a sense of peace here that makes me feel peaceful, just like being next to the lord."
He looked at Andrieg and asked, "What do you think, sister?"
"Except for the last point," Andrique replied coldly, "I agree with everything."
Akane frowned and wiped the tip of her gun. She looked at the ugly corpse and whispered to Brando beside her: "Lord, what is the lower realm?"
Brando looked at the world and replied: "The lower world is the cornerstone of our world. These worlds are composed of simple laws and are the embodied projections of these laws. The shallow sea of the elemental boundary, the river of scorching heat, the stone pivot and
The Mountain of Calm Storm is also such a world, but it is higher than them. These worlds are the worlds at the lowest level of the Tiamat network, such as the Shadow Realm and the Gray Realm. In these worlds, because the laws are incomplete, the flow rate of time will be faster than
The material world is faster."
Aloz also added: "Yes, to put it simply, the Tiamat network that runs through our world is a tree. The further down the tree, the simpler the basis of the rules; and the further up, the more branches and the more complex the rules.
Complex. In the trunk part of this tree, at the bottom is a world composed of the simplest and most basic laws. This is the lower realm. Further up, there are the more complex four elemental realms, which also surround
The world surrounding us is called the outer world or the elemental realm."
"Our world is located in the middle level of all worlds, but it is not just Warnde. These worlds are collectively called the material world, which can also be said to be the middle level or the atrium. Above the middle level, there are also upper levels, such as the Silver Plains and the People of God.
Our Kingdom of God—the Society of Truth, the Tribunal and the Gate of Judgment.”
This knowledge was obviously too advanced for Akane. She blinked slowly, her moist eyes looking a little confused in the darkness, and asked: "Then which world is this?"
"This is the country of the dead, the underworld of Heim——"
The little goblin Root sitting on Ropal's shoulder said: "What is filled is not the fog but the breath of death, and the depth of the darkness is not the wind, but the sound of the whole world dying."
"Death?" The little female dragon sniffed hard, and her eyes were more like two golden flames in the darkness, shining brightly: "But the smell in this mist is not rancid or old at all.
"
Root replied quietly: "The breath of death is not a rotting corpse, the corpse is just a symbol of death. Death is a state, symbolizing eternal sleep, and everything here is dead, hanging in the mist
The living cannot smell the breath of death among corpses caught in the wind and water. The reason why Miss Medissa can smell it is because the elves themselves are very sensitive to life and death."
"No wonder we feel peaceful," Morpheus suddenly said: "It turns out that this is the place of eternal rest, the hometown of the dead."
But Aloz was still not satisfied, and said nitpickingly: "Everything here is dead? But aren't we still alive?"
"That's because we didn't come in through the normal way." Miss Elf on Marocha's head stood up. She grabbed two long antlers and said, "Although I don't know why the fir collar can lead to the sea.
It’s the underworld, but this is obviously not the real entrance to the land of the dead.”
"The real entrance to the Kingdom of the Dead is under the River Styx in Dagiore. Have you seen the abyss around it? Below this abyss, there should be the Sea of Styx. The foundation of the world continues to collapse and fall into the Sea of Styx.
"That's why it made such a roar," Miss Goblin glanced at Root proudly, and hummed: "The Sea of Hell is originally under the shallow sea, and I know more about this place than that guy."
Root glanced at her, not bothering to argue with this little girl.
"The Sea of Hell is the Sea of Chaos?" Huque asked.
"It can be said that it is, but it can also be said that it is not. The Sea of Hell is part of the Law of Tiamat, but it is indeed built on the Sea of Chaos." Brando nodded slowly. He raised his head and looked at the huge sea under his feet.
of tree roots.
Others also looked at this root, and someone asked: "Could this be the root of the legendary World Tree?"
"Yes," the little silver elf princess looked at the tree root with some shock, and replied firmly: "The World Tree itself is the embodiment of Tiamat's law. Now I finally understand why there is a World Tree in the Ring of Trade Winds.
Well, Lord Martha actually sealed an entrance to the underworld of Helm in the underground of Fir Territory. According to legend, one of the three root systems of the World Tree leads to this world. The ring of trade winds must be affected by the laws here to be able to project.
Come out of the World Tree."
"I heard that there is also a World Tree in the Ring of Worlds. What is that World Tree about?" Ciel asked again.
Medisa blinked doubtfully and looked at him: "Didn't the Buga tell you?"
Ciel coughed in embarrassment: "After all, I am not a real silver wizard. For mortal wizards, not all documents in the White Tower can be read."
"That's it." Medisha smiled apologetically, and then replied: "The World Tree is the embodiment of the Law of Tiamat. Just like what Miss Aloz described before, it connects Martha and the gods.
Every world created - therefore in every world, there will be at least one World Tree. Your lord has been to the Silver Plains, and you should have seen the legendary black tower."
Brando suddenly said: "Is that the World Tree?"
Medisa nodded: "The dwarves just built a fortress based on it, and the same is true for Valhalla. Therefore, World Tree Fortress is one of the five legendary fortresses, as famous as Babel Fortress-" She sweetly
He smiled sweetly and said with a hint of reminiscence: "The World Tree also grows in my hometown. In the holy land of elves, the Holy Silver Valley of Alfheim in the upper world, there are also trees like Valhalla.
A giant tree, it is like our mother, so the Silver Elves are so familiar with the World Tree."
"Can we reach any world through the World Tree?" Brando asked.
"Yes, but that's not necessarily the case," the little silver elf princess said with some pity: "Although the existing material world today - Warnde Continent is only a very small part of the entire world, it is almost the only remaining part.
, most of the worlds were destroyed in the past wars, or disappeared due to restarting. If you still remember Mr. Trishman, the planeswalker, you should know that he came from such a world, but his homeland has long since perished.
"
"Like the realm of stasis?"
"It's like a realm of stagnation."
"You have never told me this before. Did Fusia remind you of some things in the past, Medissa?" Brando looked at the little silver elf princess, a little strange about her behavior.
Medisa nodded: "The moment I was resurrected, I understood everything in the past."
Brando couldn't help but be silent after hearing this.
He was stunned for a moment before replying: "In any case, everything we are doing now is to prevent the tragedy from happening again. Since the time in the lower world passes much faster than Warnd, the time left for us is even more precious. Let's go
Bar."
The group of people then walked forward.
But Qian was a little confused about how to find the right direction in such a place. She raised her head and looked around. It was obvious that there was more than just this root in the mist. In the deep darkness, criss-crossing roots were densely distributed throughout the space.
Inside, it's like a huge maze.
But Brando immediately answered her doubts with action.
He took out the seven slates from the suspended celestial sphere - the seven slates spliced into a ball were suspended in his hand. The entire sphere actually radiated a soft light, like a lighthouse, and the light sphere pointed straight in one direction.
A beam of light shot out from the ground, and the beam of light disappeared into the mist far away.
This is the most precious legacy that Antitina's father left for them, and its name is hope.
Everyone moved forward under the guidance of the light. The fog in the darkness became thicker and thinner, and the surrounding terrain also changed with the winding and interlacing of roots. Not long after walking, Dia, who was following Fuluo, kicked him up.
Something hit her, and she screamed in fright. Brando, who was behind, rushed up to help the little girl, only to find that what Tia kicked was a corpse.
The corpse had the characteristics of a typical insect creature, like some kind of arthropod, but its body was made of pieces of translucent purple crystal. Brando only needed to take a look to understand what kind of creature it was.
He frowned slightly, not expecting to see this thing here.
"This is... a crystal cluster?" Aloz also recognized it.
"This is not an ordinary crystal cluster," Brando replied: "This is the crystal cluster lord. It's strange. Did Dusk also invade here?"
Charles came up from behind and poked the corpse lightly with his staff. There was a soft click, and one leg of the crystal cluster corpse fell apart and shattered all over the ground. Seeing this scene, he shook his head and said: "This
I’m afraid this thing is a bit old and is not a product of our time.”
"In the past era, even the Kingdom of the Dead had a twilight war?"
"It may not be the main battlefield, but the underworld of Helm is the kingdom of the goddess of the dead moon. She was also a powerful god before she fell. There is nothing strange about fighting the minions of dusk." Aloz replied, she frowned.
He frowned and said: "I even have some doubts that this is the battlefield where she died -"
Everyone subconsciously raised their heads and looked forward.
In the fog ahead, a long bridge suddenly appeared.
"What is that?" Little Fairy Phoenix asked subconsciously.
But Medissa raised a finger and said to everyone: "Shh——"
Behind the fog, two scarlet light spots appeared - like two flames floating in the air. They swayed slowly and got closer and closer to everyone. Soon, a tall figure appeared behind the light spots.
Only then did Brando see clearly that it turned out to be a tall skeleton - he once thought that Kabasi was the most powerful skeleton he had ever seen, but the opponent was compared with this formidable skeleton.
, it’s simply a small thing that makes a big difference.
It turned out to be the skeleton of a giant. He was holding a huge anchor in one hand and a lantern that emitted light that could penetrate the fog, and he was swinging forward.
"That thing is... an undead?" someone asked in a low voice.
"It's not an ordinary undead." Brando had already recognized this thing and couldn't help but swallowed his saliva: "That's Modgud, the King of Bones, the bridge guard of the Bridge of the Dead, and the ancestor of the undead.
——Legend has it that it will never let the breath of the living enter the world of the dead and disturb the peace of the sleeper..."
"What do you mean, Lord Lord, it might not let us pass here?" Huque asked.
"Then what should we do?" Qian couldn't help but frown and asked.
"It's easy," Charles replied, "kill it, of course!"
