The degree of dilapidation in the Hades space after the witchers' ravages is even more shocking.
Originally, this place was a desolate and broken place. The sky of eternal night has shrouded the entire world unchanged for thousands of years. Poisonous water and magma flowed on the dark and cracked earth. Undead creatures wandered everywhere. All life would be cut off here. But in
After the Demon Hunters raided and killed Hades, who was sitting here, this place became more scarred by countless battles. The earth, which was already full of cracks, was torn and curled by powerful magical energy, forming countless ups and downs.
The corrugated bulges, and between those ripples are terrifying rifts, which are cracks that have penetrated the entire land of Hades. If you jump from it, you will fall directly into the boundary of space, and be torn apart and annihilated by this man-made space; Hades
Most of the undead creatures wandering around were killed by demon hunters. Huge fragmented skeletons and shapeless flesh and blood residues could be seen everywhere in the wilderness; the outposts and guard towers originally used to monitor this space were also destroyed.
Ruins of ruins can be seen everywhere. The demon hunter's holy flames melted these originally indestructible buildings, causing them to collapse to the ground like melted butter...
Hao Ren and his companions walked on the land of Hades that had been completely destroyed and was gradually becoming unstable. Hasselblad relied on memory to guide the way forward. They had to bypass some cracks that suddenly appeared in the land at any time.
Because the foundation of this world is collapsing, the entire earth is in a state of constant disintegration and falling. Hesana also tried flying in the sky, but it turned out that this was more dangerous: Tartarus' soul furnace stopped,
This directly caused all the human souls collected by Pluto Hades to escape. These unburned but no longer irrational souls were floating in the air in pieces, forming a very powerful energy group. It would not only be very dangerous to approach rashly,
It is easy to cause chain explosions and will be polluted by the negative emotions constantly emitted by these undead souls. Compared with the sky occupied by these undead souls, the continuously cracking earth is a safer path.
After advancing for a while, a dry riverbed appeared in front of everyone.
Hao Ren stood on the edge of the river bed and looked far into the distance. He looked across the darkness and saw a land gradually extending upwards across the river bed.
He withdrew his gaze and noticed that the river had dried up not long ago, and the smelly venomous mud still remained on the river beach. The reason why the river had dried up was also obvious: there were a large number of shocking cracks in the center of the river bed, and these cracks were almost paved.
It filled the entire bottom of the river, and the water leaked from there all the way through the underworld, dissipating in the chaotic boundary of another space.
Due to the existence of those cracks, Hao Ren and his party had to walk along the river bank to find a continuous and safe route to the other side. Fortunately, they arrived not too late, and the collapse of this space was still in its early stages.
We soon found a suitable point to "cross the river" and also found a strange boat stranded on the river beach.
This is a ferry built with fishing nets and the bones of unknown creatures. There are holes the size of fists everywhere on the boat. Even on the bottom of the boat, there are countless visible gaps and damage. It’s hard to imagine this.
How could this thing float on the water? And on the bow of the boat, there was an ugly giant wearing a tattered black robe, three meters tall, with ulcers all over his body.
He was holding a fierce weapon that looked like an oar but with countless spikes at the end. He was holding a broken lantern in his left hand, and a silver sword that was still slowly igniting the holy flame was inserted into his chest.
, nailing the giant firmly to his own ship.
Charon, Ferryman to Hades.
"Is this Charon..." Hesiana looked at the crucified ferryman quietly for a while, then suddenly showed a sarcastic smile. She took out two coins from her body and placed them in Charon's eyes.
Go up, "You also have to go on the road."
It seemed that this slight vibration destroyed the balance of the long-decayed boat under Charon's body, which had been maintained by magic all the year round. Only a soft click was heard, and then the entire ferry, which was built with bones and fishing nets, crashed.
The sound shattered into pieces all over the ground. After the cabin broke, countless golden coins poured out from it. They flowed down the dry river bed like a flood, forming a golden bright streak, and on this road paved with gold coins
In the "pavement", you can also see numerous bones mixed in, which are also Charon's collection.
Charon's body also fell on the river beach. His rotten and fragile body was also torn into pieces. Countless gold coins flowed out from the cracked skin.
This "grand scene" left Hao Ren and Lily stunned, but Hasselblad next to them showed no expression. He was already paralyzed.
However, Hesiana didn't have any superfluous reaction when she saw this scene.
"Charon, I know him," Hesiana shrugged, "Although he was already dead when I was sensible, I have more or less experienced the age of mythology, these barbaric and twisted 'gods'... Haha, they are all the same.
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Hasselblad shook his head and stepped down the river beach: "Let's go, there is a good road paved."
How many years have these gold and silver coins been accumulated wealth? Perhaps the oldest of them can even be traced back to the origins of ancient Greek civilization, when the "gods" on Mount Olympus established the rules of life, death and burial.
With fear and awe, the humans of the Mediterranean used these coins as part of their tombs and offered them to the Lord of the Underworld in order to obtain the peace of their souls after death. Charon may have only taken a small part of them, but this small part is still
Enough to fill his ship of the dead and his entire body.
Now the money paid by these mortals to buy the road has finally paved a real road, after the destruction of Hades.
Crossing the dry River Styx (River of Pain), Hao Ren saw the withered Elysée Paradise (also called Elysium, Elysium). This vast garden in human myths and legends is the place where an upright person dies after his death.
Enjoy the blissful "blessed place" of the underworld, but Hasselblad revealed the truth about this place.
"This garden was indeed lush, and the flowers were indeed blooming and beautiful from the outside, but it was definitely not a 'blessed place'. After the failure of the Hades plan, the Olympians were unwilling to let this alien space consume a lot of resources.
It was abandoned, so some magical plants that were not suitable for growing in normal environments were transplanted in. Most of these magical plants were related to necromancy and shadow power. They originally needed to grow normally in places with strong death and dark power, so Hades
Instead, it became an excellent nursery for them. Persephone was the gardener who took care of this horrific garden. She captured the human souls who had entered the underworld but were not suitable as 'fuel' and let them wander in the garden, but in fact
They are used as nutrients for magic plants. Death knell flowers and carrion flowers have a strong hallucinogenic narcotic effect on the soul, so the dead souls can't feel the pain at all. They are unknowingly absorbed by these nurseries, but until their souls are gone,
I feel like I am enjoying myself in paradise for a moment. This is the truth of this 'blessed land'."
"Although I have long known what happened in the mythical age..." Hao Ren looked at the completely withered Elysee Paradise. This vast plant area was also swept away by the demon hunter's war-level spells. All the gardens were destroyed.
It was scorched, leaving only smoking bushes and scorched dust everywhere. And among these dilapidated botanical gardens, fragments of human skeletons could be seen everywhere. Many of these skeletons were originally buried under nurseries as fertilizer, but on the battlefield
The air waves above turned them all over again. "After seeing it with my own eyes, I still feel... it's really dark."
Lily wrinkled her nose: "There is no good person in the age of mythology... Um, are they so weird?"
"Of course there are. There are them on Ra's sun ship, in the palace of Asgard, and on Mount Olympus. Even Zeus himself seems to have proposed a policy of being kind to humans several times, but so what?" Hai
Seanna crossed her arms, "Humans are just kept in captivity by them after all. Although I am not a human myself, to be honest, I really can't stand the mythical age, which relies on the complete enslavement of one race and the exploitation of another race to maintain it."
The social structure was not a healthy one from the beginning."
Hao Ren deeply agreed with this.
The area that everyone walked through before can only be regarded as the periphery of Hades. The real inner layer of Hades is the land where Hao Ren and his party are standing. It consists of two parts, one is the Elysee Paradise, and the other is the famous "Tartarus".
The dried-up "River Styx" is actually the "moat" flowing outside Tartarus and the Elysee Paradise. It can be regarded as the dividing line of this kingdom of death. The inside of the dividing line is the true meaning of Hades.
The territory above is a wasteland completely abandoned by the "gods" of Olympus.
For many years, Hades has focused most of his energy on the inner layer of Hades, and he has left the wasteland on the other side of the River Styx directly to the mutated monsters, allowing them to wander there at will.
Therefore, in the land of Tartarus, the remaining power of Hades is still working.
The Elysee Paradise is adjacent to Tartarus. Coming out of the withered garden, you can see the layers of Tartarus, covered with scorched earth of mud and volcanic ash, and only one fortress stands on this scorched earth, that fortress.
Rising from the ground in the darkness, there are three layers of city walls made of pure copper. They look towering and thick enough to make all human armies in this era feel despair.
In the very center of that fortress is Hao Ren's goal
A Tower of Babel that is constantly rotating and reorganizing, and looks like it is spliced together with countless metal parts. Its bottom is connected to the Temple of Hades, and its top reaches the top of the Cloud of Chaos, connecting to the Temple of Hades on Mount Olympus.
However, it is not easy to get to the brass fortress at the highest point of Tartarus, because the power of Hades has not completely dissipated, and the land outside the fortress is full of wandering undead.