The silver light door disappeared as if it had never existed, leaving no trace behind. Only Brando, who was holding the box at a loss, was left behind.
"Puch." Faina looked at the young man and suddenly laughed out loud.
"Is it funny?" Brando asked angrily as he opened the box.
"Tch, if this young lady is willing to laugh, do you care?"
"Yeah, I don't know whose claw this is -" Brando glanced at his left hand, shook his head and sighed.
Her Royal Highness the Princess with the flower-leaf collar threw away her hand as fast as lightning, her pink neck stained with a layer of blush: "How could you, you, you say that -"
"Hey, did I promise you anything?"
Faina clenched her fists and stared at her, with fire shooting out of her eyes, as if she wanted to eat Brando. The eldest lady stamped her feet and scolded her forcefully but in a dry voice: "You wait and see, I will talk to Victoria."
Lady Ronika complained."
"Complain? What do you say?"
The noble daughter was stunned, then suddenly blushed and stammered: "Just... just say you took advantage of me."
This woman...
Brando stared at Faina dumbfounded, never dreaming that she would use such a move. It felt like being punched in the face, and he didn't recover for a long time.
"You really say that?"
"That's weird, I lied to you!" Faina snorted softly: "It doesn't do me any good to say that. Besides, it's too embarrassing to be taken advantage of by a country bumpkin."
Brando was speechless.
But if this woman with neither breasts nor brains really went out of her way to say something she shouldn't have said to Grand Duke Huaye, he was really afraid that the Grand Duke would be furious and send the Pegasus knights of the Cruz Empire to kill him.
Caught and brought to justice.
It was just the previous dispute between the two that almost made him forget the box in his hand.
Speaking of the box in his hand, Brando soon discovered that the box in his hand seemed to be a magic item - he pulled out a long cloak from the inside like a curtain, and corners of the cloak kept coming out of the box.
, the final volume was even many times larger than the box in his hand.
But no matter how magical the cloak is, if the spell is not activated, it is really no different from a curtain - not even a curtain, because at least the curtain has beautiful patterns and can block the sun.
Brando shook the cloak and could only think of it as a large rag. It was just a pity to throw it away and it was too heavy to hold. He found that William had posed a problem for him.
He thought about it, wrapped his cloak around his hands, and then continued to walk forward. This underground passage should not be long. He remembered that the player recalled in his post that the other party seemed to have been walking in the dark for ten years.
After a few minutes, I was almost ready to give up the line and return to the city, when I suddenly entered the center of the Ring of Trade Winds.
So it must be similar here.
He looked up and saw that the vascular 'bridges' seemed to be converging around a certain point above. The further up he went, the more clearly he could feel this.
Brando silently counted the time. He was holding Funya, followed by Faina. The footsteps of the three of them were particularly clear in the darkness and silence. The rustling sound echoed in his ears, but it didn't sound like footsteps.
There was a sound on the ground, and it was like some kind of sneaky shadow following behind them, which made people feel chilling.
The noble daughter looked back more than once, seeing a dark hole behind her. She was frightened and wanted to follow Brando, but when she thought of Brando's hateful appearance, she couldn't help but fall back a few steps to avoid being ridiculed.
Almost half an hour later, Brando felt the air around his body begin to flow, which made him feel that the guy's strategy was a bit too deceptive. But then he thought that timing in the dark was not an easy task, and errors might occur.
It was inevitable, so I felt relieved.
After advancing like this for a few more minutes, another stone door appeared in front of him.
This door opens upward at an angle to the ground. The stone door and the mysterious and historical patterns on it are immersed in darkness, like a piece of history buried deep under the dust.
However, this door is much smaller than the one below, only about one-tenth the size.
Brando originally thought that he needed to open the door again, but he didn't expect that they had just approached the door, and the door actually made a creaking sound on its own, and then sank back with the dust constantly shaking off it.
Rather than sinking in, it's better to say that the door is opening back a little.
Brando couldn't help but was slightly startled. He didn't expect that the door had its own sensor. He thought it was quite advanced. However, after the door opened, the scenery behind him was beyond words.
Not only him, but Faina and Funya behind him couldn't help but widen their eyes in surprise.
First, a beam of light poured out from behind the door——
This was the first time they were exposed to sunlight after the outside world entered eternal night. The soft white light poured in from behind the door like water, seeping in from every pore, forming light spots that fell on the faces of the three people.
Then the gap between the doors became larger and larger, and there was more and more light. The beams of light were like sharp swords that broke through the darkness. The sharp swords pierced the black curtain and disintegrated it. The white light like a tide suddenly appeared three times.
People were wrapped in it.
At that moment, Brando, Faina and Funia couldn't help but narrow their eyes.
But when their sights adjusted to the bright environment again, the scenery behind them suddenly captured everyone's hearts.
The Ring of Trade Winds is located in the core area surrounded by the mountains of the Kalanga Mountains, in the center of the storm circle. Brando has more than once imagined the peaceful area that exists in the eye of the storm.
However, just like what he imagined, this place was a basin surrounded by mountains, and the surrounding undulating peaks were exactly the rolling mountains they saw in the area of Wolf Pass and Rose Wall.
It’s just that the scenery here is obviously much more beautiful——
Seen from a distance, the distant view is the atmospheric circulation surrounding the mountains. The surrounding storms form a wall hundreds of meters high on the mountain peaks. For hundreds of years, no one has entered through that invisible wall of atmosphere.
.
However, only by seeing the violent and unruly wind in mid-air, Brando seemed to be able to confirm that they had entered the center of the Ring of Trade Winds.
He raised his head, and in the center of the sky were long stretches of clouds—thick gray clouds with golden light shining from their edges. The sun shone unhesitatingly from behind the clouds onto the vast land.
It was as if the darkness and storm outside the Ring of Trade Winds, as well as the violent tide of magic, did not exist.
It is peaceful here.
You can even see flocks of flying birds in the distance, everything seems like a scene depicted in a myth.
But Brando's attention was immediately attracted by another thing, which was a giant tree in the center of the basin - in fact, he wasn't even sure whether it was a tree or not. Only by looking up could he get a full view of the giant tree.
, the tree crown almost blocked half of the sky.
The huge trunk reaches straight into the clouds, and the huge root system under the trunk occupies almost the entire basin. Its roots are deeply rooted in the earth, and it is covered with layers of moss. From a distance, it looks like
The green mountains are undulating.
Brando took a breath of air.
This is the World Tree——
Legend has it that in a certain era in ancient times, the Druids also owned a golden oak tree that was as huge as heaven and earth. The Ring of the Sky was still called the Ring of the World at that time, and they lived around this tree for generations.
But since the collapse of the Tower of Babel, the World Tree was also destroyed in the war, and the Druids split, creating today's Sky Ring and Tree Shepherds.
But there is no record in any period of history that there is another World Tree in this world.
Brando stared at the giant tree in stunned silence. It was not as brilliant as gold as described in the myth, but closer to nature. Green moss and forest covered the roots and trunk of the giant tree with a layer of green.
The green is so bright.
The huge tree trunks were covered with clouds and mist, and there was faint lightning flashing through them.
"This can't be the one in Nordic mythology..." Brando couldn't help but muttered to himself.
"Is this the World Tree in the story, Brother Brando?" Funya took a gentle breath and raised her head and asked.
Brando nodded, and he suddenly thought that those cylindrical 'bridges' he passed before might not be bridges at all, but the roots of the World Tree underground.
The diameter of each of the thinnest roots is hundreds of meters.
Martha on top——
Brando took a deep breath and squinted his eyes to look at the emerald green dream-like forest. Large flocks of birds were flying above the tree canopy, but the entire forest was silent and there was no sign of human activity.
Is this Valhalla?
Brando suddenly understood why. In the game, Valhalla will be destroyed by a fire. Although it is a bit ridiculous to say that the World Tree will be destroyed by fire, it makes sense for such a forest to fall into a sea of fire.
"Bu... Brando?"
This stammering voice belonged to Faina. This noble lady was so surprised that she almost bit her own tongue. She just quietly pulled her face to confirm whether she was dreaming.
"What's wrong?" Brando turned around.
"Look at that tree -" Her Royal Highness the Princess with the flower-leaf collar raised her finger and pointed at it.
Brando raised his head, and he was slightly startled - he was so shocked that he didn't realize that above the clouds, the crown of the World Tree in mid-air had no leaves.
"Dead World Tree?" He couldn't help but lost his voice.
"No, not that one!" Faina replied: "The ones below!"
What else? Brando's eyes moved downwards, but he couldn't move immediately. His eyes were fixed on the center of the World Tree as if they were rooted.
There is a circle of artificial buildings around the huge tree trunk!
Or rather, it is an extremely huge palace, surrounded by clouds and lightning, as if it were the residence of gods in ancient times. Even from such a long distance, you can feel the majesty and grandeur of this building.
"Valhalla..." Brando blurted out.
"Then what is that?" Faina was confused.
But just as the young lady raised her question, Brando suddenly heard another exclamation not far away in the forest: "Chaos is above, the Tree of the World!"
That was Andesa's hoarse cry.
Both of them changed their expressions for a moment.
…(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation at ***(***.***).***, your support is my biggest motivation.)
