This magnificent and luxurious building has been sleeping in this forest for a hundred centuries. Its glory has faded, and its dazzling golden decoration has been corroded by weathering and turned gray and black. During the long geological changes, the building has been destroyed.
The main body of the building gradually sank into the ground, and only one-tenth of the whole was exposed. However, what is amazing is that even if it collapsed into this state, the main structure of the building was still intact and stable.
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Even though it was buried and crushed by millions of tons of earth and rocks, there was no sign of collapse.
It seems that in addition to those flashy decorative accessories, the main body of this building has been specially strengthened. This shows that the god-killing race does have its own uniqueness in the technical field.
Under the leadership of Leah, the group entered the interior of the ruins through the large hole in the dome, and began to find paths among the intricate floors and corridors inside the building, constantly entering deeper into it.
After entering the building, Hao Ren once again confirmed that this thing was a relic left by the God-killing clan: in this magnificent palace, gorgeous sculptures and reliefs showing achievements can be seen everywhere, with various religious features.
Symbolic decorations covered almost every corner that the group of people visited. These religious symbols were not used to worship any other gods, but to boast and whitewash themselves by the people who built this building.
After taking several wrong turns, Leah finally found the right direction. A shaft leading straight to the ground appeared in front of everyone. The shaft was deep and dark, and occasionally some light could be seen flashing past the inner wall: that was still
The remaining energy in the building is leaking through broken wiring and pipes.
"It's actually so deep in here..." Lily stood on the edge of the shaft and carefully looked down, her tail suddenly fluffed out from nervousness, "I'm sorry...why do we always encounter such dangers?"
The matter of jumping into a deep pit..."
"Do you often encounter such ruins buried underground?" Leah glanced at Lily strangely, then shrugged, "It's normal to be very deep. This building was originally a towering temple. According to the data,
It may be a thousand meters high, and what we see on the surface is the top of its exposed main tower, so we probably have to move down a thousand meters inside the ruins to reach its base part, and the important thing is
Things are usually buried there."
As she spoke, she looked at the wall of the shaft with some strangeness: "But it's strange that this thing can't even see the stairs... How did the people who used this building move between these floors?
"
Vivian glanced down: "This should be the elevator. The walking ladder is probably blocked by gravel."
"Elevator... machine?" Leah smacked her lips, "Anyway, luckily I was prepared. The great scholar Leah never takes risks without preparation!"
As Miss Magician spoke, she opened the pocket of her robe like a treasure chest again, and took out a rolled piece of fabric: There must be some kind of space expansion effect in her robe, otherwise it would be really bad.
Explain how she hides all these weird props.
Lia shook off the piece of fabric, placed it gently on the ground, and murmured obscure spells in her mouth. The fabric immediately began to tremble, stretch, and thicken, and in just a few seconds, it turned into a huge square.
The flying carpet has a bright light floating on each corner of the flying carpet. As Leah injects magic power into it, the flying carpet gradually floats to a height of less than half a meter above the ground. It is stable and looks pretty.
for reliability.
"Let's just sit here!" Leah said proudly, "I made this myself too!"
Vivian suddenly spread her wings: "I don't need it, I can fly by myself."
"I don't want to sit on this!" Lily couldn't help but shudder when she saw the unobstructed edge of the flying carpet, and subconsciously stepped back, "It always feels so soft and doesn't even have a safety guardrail.
Things will fall!"
Hao Ren rolled his eyes at the husky girl and pushed her onto the flying carpet: "Don't make trouble. You weren't afraid of heights when you had to pay for the flight?"
In fact, Hao Ren also has equipment to assist flight, but this was his first time riding a magic flying carpet. He was inevitably a little curious, so he crowded on Leah's magic carpet with others in an attitude of experiencing life.
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Then Miss Magician skillfully started the ignition, put it into gear, started, and drove the severely overloaded flying carpet into the shaft.
Seeing the gray-black well with a hint of gold rising up in his field of vision, Hao Ren couldn't help but mutter: "I encountered a lot of monsters on the way here. I thought there would be more monsters in the ruins.
I didn’t expect that it would be quiet all the way after I came in.”
"The demon-devouring monsters only gather around the ruins because of the leakage of magic power here, but they rarely go inside the ruins," Leah explained, "because the energy concentration inside the ruins will be higher, which actually exceeds the feeling of the demon-devouring monsters."
The level of comfort, coupled with the fact that there is no food inside the ruins, makes it even more unnecessary for the demon-devouring monsters who still need to eat to survive."
"You can't find food... that's right. That's the key." Hao Ren was stunned and couldn't help laughing. "Everything in adventure novels is indeed a lie."
"What?"
"Um, it's okay, I'm just talking to myself."
The flying carpet continued to descend in the shaft. For safety reasons, its descent speed was not very fast, which gave everyone a good opportunity to observe the situation along the way. Hao Ren was very interested in ordering the data terminal to secretly scan the surrounding data through his mental connection.
He was studying the decorative styles of the God-killing clan in terms of reliefs and runes, but in the process, he suddenly heard a low and weird muffled sound coming from a certain direction.
The source of the sound seemed to be far away, but it was amplified by the intricate underground cave structure and spread here.
The first one to react was Lily. The husky girl, who was already a little nervous, immediately grasped the giant alloy x666 sword in her hand, and kept turning her ears in all directions: "Did you hear the sound?! It seems like something collapsed.
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"I heard it too," Leah was also a little nervous. She drew out a few magic runes at random, and then she breathed a sigh of relief after watching the runes gradually float into the air. "It's not coming from this ruins, it should be from something deeper.
, further away, it should be the sound in the big tunnel."
"Is this situation very common?" Hao Ren asked with a frown.
"There are often strange noises coming from the big tunnel, sometimes it's air currents, sometimes it's monsters moving," Leah said seemingly nonchalantly, "Some people say it's the ancient drilling machine in the big tunnel digging through our world.
, don’t worry, it’s all far away from us.”
Hao Ren wanted to say that the sound reached here and could not reach that far, but at this time the flying carpet had reached the bottom of the shaft.
A sound of flapping wings came from the side. Vivian landed next to the flying carpet, folded her wings and looked around: "The structure here seems to be quite complete."
While commanding the flying carpet to fold and roll up, Leah took out a piece of magic crystal to detect the magic concentration in the air. The magician lady's eyes almost glowed: "Not only is the structure complete, but the magic reaction is also very strong.
!There must be ancient facilities that are still in operation here. It’s really a treasure to find during this visit!!”
Seeing Liya so excited, Nangong Sanba couldn't help but ask: "Do you know what the thing you are looking for looks like?"
"What are you looking for? No, no, no, I am a scholar, not a tomb robber," Leah said seriously. "This ruins itself is what I am looking for. The knowledge buried here, any useful or
Ancient objects with research value, even the structural diagrams of the ruins themselves, and the runes and sculptures we saw along the way, these are the greatest wealth! Come on, don’t waste time, we still have a long way to go!
"
Leah put away her magic flying carpet, rubbed her iron staff with her hand, making the luminous crystal on the front of the iron staff brighter than before, and then headed towards the gate at the bottom of the shaft that was obviously the exit.
Of course the gate is locked, and the identification system that controls the locking device has obviously been out of service for many years, but this is no problem for Miss Leah, who can kill a cow with one punch. She used her staff to pry open the gate in a few clicks.
, and waved to Hao Ren and his party to follow them quickly.
Hao Ren and Vivian looked at each other helplessly and followed closely behind.
This building does indeed look like a magnificent temple. No matter what the original purpose of the God-killers was in building it, its internal structure has the distinctive characteristics of a temple. Not long after coming out of the elevator shaft, Hao Ren and his party saw
Those spacious halls and solemn corridors, and more epic reliefs and paintings were seen in the corridors. If he hadn't known that the God-killing clan had long given up their faith and proclaimed themselves gods, Hao Ren himself would have thought that this place was a place of worship.
A place of gods.
This building has been abandoned for a long time, and naturally there are not many clues preserved. However, judging from the neatness of the remaining items in the building and the lack of obvious signs of damage everywhere, Hao Ren believes that this place is not.
Not abandoned in an emergency.
Its owner obviously left quite calmly, taking away all the things that could be taken away, and putting the things that could not be taken away in the right place after sorting them out. Every door was carefully closed, and there was no sign of anyone hurriedly evacuating.
It looks scattered and there are no open doors.
Hao Ren also did not see the scene where "daily items are being used, but the owner suddenly disappears", so he ruled out the possibility that "the God-killer disappeared instantly due to the impact of divine punishment, resulting in the ruins being neat and orderly", and finally based on various
Clues, he judged that this place should have been abandoned before the "god-killing moment" arrived.
One team, two purposes: Leah is enthusiastically searching for the knowledge and heritage of ancient civilization, while Hao Ren and his party are collecting information about the God-killing Clan and using it to complete their understanding of the world of "Lahrien"
Intelligence, but no matter what, they still successfully launched the operation in this ruins deep underground.
After completing a rough exploration of the central axis of the building, Leah proposed to go to the side hall. Based on the flow of magic power underground, she judged that there should be an energy center still running in the side hall, which was a priceless treasure to her.
Of course Hao Ren had no objection.
The team passed through the main hall and central corridor of the underground palace, walking through the empty palace rooms. This low and depressing place made people feel breathless, but at least the team led by Hao Ren was also experienced and trained.
, this difficulty is nothing to them.
However, on the way to the side hall, they had to stop: the front was blocked by a rift.
The entire underground building was actually broken into two parts here. Its side hall and main part were completely separated. What separated it was a rift valley that was as wide as a white meter and bottomless.
Lily stood in front of the rift and looked up: the dome of the building was also torn apart, and thick rock layers and countless hanging stalagmites could be seen directly above. This may have been an underground cave originally, so in
Even after the palace dome broke, the rock formations above did not collapse.
There are many light streams visible to the naked eye swimming on the top of the rock, jumping and flowing along the stalagmites. The starting point of the light stream is the ruins of the building on the opposite side of the rift valley, which is the side hall of the underground palace, and the end point is where everyone is.
The light flows on the upper floor of the building were obviously the "magic flows" that Leah had sensed before.
The so-called magic power line does exist, but the road to its source is blocked.
Lily lowered her head and glanced at the Great Rift Valley below, and found that this thing was far darker and deeper than the previous shaft, and there was a chaotic cyclone constantly appearing and disappearing inside, and a heart-stopping sense of danger came from the bottom of the valley.
She couldn't help but feel her hair stand on end, and quickly moved away from this dangerous position.
Vivian opened her bat wings again, and while moving her wings, she judged the distance of the rift valley. The expression on her face didn't care much: "It's only as wide as a white meter, so just fly over..."
This is also what other people in the team think: it is just a rift that is just a white meter wide. It is not even a challenge to this team. Lily can almost jump across it without a run-up, not to mention that everyone can fly over it.
This option is available.
However, Leah hurriedly stopped Vivian: "Wait a minute! Don't!"
Vivian looked at Miss Magician in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"This rift is the 'break' leading to the Great Tunnel that I mentioned before," the expression on Leah's face was particularly serious, even a little nervous: this kind of expression was not on the face of this arrogant mage lady.
Often, "If you were to fly over, you would most likely die!"
Vivian folded her wings with a look of confusion on her face: "It's just the entrance to the big tunnel. Is there any problem with flying over it?"
"People like you who know little about the Great Tunnel are the most likely to get into trouble..." Leah couldn't help but sigh, then picked up a stone from nearby, injected magic power into the stone and threw it in the direction of the rift.
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The flying stone imbued with magical power flew straight forward under the impetus of the Wind Arrow Technique. It seemed that it could easily cross the rift and fly to the side hall on the opposite side. However, when it was halfway through the rift, the stone suddenly flew forward.
But suddenly a layer of dark shadow surged up. Hao Ren had never seen such a weird phenomenon or substance. The thing rising from the rift looked like a ball of pure darkness, and its pitch-black color was so pure.
So that no details on its surface can be seen at all. It suddenly rose into the air, as if a piece was dug out of the space, and as if a drop of black ink dropped on the picture. This mass of darkness rose from the rift.
Several meters high, it did not directly touch the stone flying in the air, but the stone instantly became illusory and transparent.
The next second, it disappeared from the air, and even the flash of magic power given to it by Leah disappeared.
Even though he had seen all kinds of weird things, Hao Ren couldn't help but gulp down his saliva at this moment, thinking, "Oh shit."
No matter what it is, the feeling of being "licked" by it will definitely not be any better!
"The Great Tunnel will swallow everything that enters its range of influence and has a magic response or a life response, whether it is a stone or an adult dragon," Leah said seriously, "I don't know what you know about the Great Tunnel.
Whether the tunnel was created through the teacher's teachings or the bards made it up, or maybe they just heard a little bit from the bragging stories of other mercenaries and adventurers. What I want to say is that currently, almost all the people who claim to have conducted research on the big tunnel
Research is all deceptive. Those who claim to have entered the Great Tunnel and came back alive and wrote books and biographies are even more nonsense. In fact, their research only came into contact with the branch structure of the Great Tunnel, or they moved around in the mines near the Tunnel.
It's just a circle, and no one has ever come into contact with the Great Tunnel. What's ridiculous is that many people who claim to be scholars actually divide the Great Tunnel into two so-called parts, one is the fatal zone, and the other is the so-called 'moderate zone'
', this theory is bullshit! There is no mild zone in the Great Tunnel at all, it is just a normal crypt slightly mutated by the influence of the tunnel, and the research conducted there is worthless!"
She raised her hand and pointed to the rift valley ahead. The strange darkness was gradually shrinking back, as if nothing had happened: "This is the big tunnel, the real big tunnel, so don't, never do it."
Try to pass over it, let alone use so-called magic to challenge its devouring ability."
Faced with such a serious warning from Leah, Nangong Sanba couldn't help but take a breath: "I finally know why you can't recruit anyone..."
Leah: "...Huh?"
Yzaks also said angrily: "I understand, in fact, according to the currently recognized definition in the world, the underground palace and shafts we passed before are considered to have entered the scope of the Great Tunnel, right?"
Leah: "...Eh..."
Hao Ren crossed his arms and looked at the magician: "It's just that in your own theory, these parts don't count."
Leah: "...I have no money anyway! Do you have the ability to kill me?"
Hao Ren: "..."
This answer is so fresh and refined that it is completely impossible to react.
"Forget it, forget it, we haven't said anything yet," Hao Ren waved to the magician lady with a defeated expression, "We'd better find a stable place to camp and rest nearby, and then
Let’s find a way around this rift valley, okay?”
Leah thought for a while: "...Are you planning to kill me while I'm sleeping and inherit my inheritance?"
"Inherit your uncle!" Hao Ren finally couldn't help but became furious, "Do you really think your dilapidated house in White Maple Leaf City is worth inheriting?"
Leah retorted seriously: "Although that tower can't be sold for much, the land in the mage area is very expensive!"