Gene Lucas finally chose to compromise. In fact, his compromise was expected by many people: for a veteran vampire who abides by ancient rituals, the weight of seniority and seniority is difficult for outsiders to understand, and even if he does not give
Other seniors have no way to ignore this special ancient being, Vivian.
The ancient man who had witnessed all the events in the Age of Mythology, Hesperius, who would be thrown off the stage if he intervened at any time, in the current precarious situation, and the influence of the Hesiana family that cannot be ignored, Jean?
Under the influence of many factors, Lucas finally made a smart decision. Occasionally relaxing his stubborn beliefs may not necessarily bring about much loss of profits, but it would be too bad to offend a lot of troublesome people just to gain face.
Wise.
The entrance to the ruins is located in the Parthenon, but no one can go directly from the real Athens. Demon hunters have been closely monitoring these preserved buildings from ancient times for a long time. They are waiting for those rash and unusual nostalgic people. In addition,
There is a safe route to the entrance: the Parthenon in Shadow of Athens.
This shadow city is the masterpiece of the shadow masters among the vampires and shadow demons. The shadow casters who still maintained their heyday strength thousands of years ago used special methods to distort the space here, copying half of the city of Athens and dragging it to
In the shadow of the real Athens, this weird replica was created. Many areas of it correspond to the real Athens one-to-one, not only in appearance and structure, but even in terms of spatial coordinates, just like parallel
Just like space, Shadow Athens shrouds the landmarks of real Athens and exists around many ordinary people. It's just that ordinary people cannot detect its existence.
Therefore, there is also a Parthenon in Shadow Athens, and in fact its absolute spatial coordinates are located in the same place as the temple in the real world. With some clever transformations, everyone can go directly to the ruins from the shelter.
So as to avoid being discovered by the witcher.
Gene Lucas ordered his servants to take out the sacred artifacts needed to open the door to the ruins from the family treasury. Although he was reluctant, he still had to act polite and come in person to help Vivian "
Open the door".
The Parthenon is located in the center of the ancient Acropolis of Athens. It has been quietly overlooking the world from the highest point of the city for more than 2,400 years. This majestic great building is located on a limestone hill, not far away.
Its gray-white figure can be seen from a distance. Hao Ren and his party, plus Heather Anna and Lucas and their respective entourages, rushed to the place where the temple is located. At this time, it happened to be
Shadowing "Noon" in Athens.
There is no morning or evening at all in this chaotic city. Residents rely on clocks to determine their work and rest times. Now is also the time when the sun is shining in the outside world. The power of shadow in the real world is suppressed to the limit. At this time, the power of shadow in the shadow fortress is turned on.
The gate can prevent the breath from leaking into the real Athens: the sunlight will eliminate this little inconspicuous fluctuation. Although this impact is minimal, the word caution has been engraved in the bones of everyone in this city, and they have survived for so many years.
This is what you rely on to get down.
The first one to jump up after climbing the hill platform was none other than the mercenary girl Betsy, who had always kept a low profile since she followed everyone to Shadow Athens, so much so that she was almost forgotten by others.
The girl looked at the rectangular temple in front of her and jumped up happily: "Hey! This looks very similar to the ancient building I saw in my grandfather's book!"
Hao Ren's heart skipped a beat when he heard this: "Your grandfather's ancient book?"
Betsy nodded vigorously: "Yeah. Did I say that? My grandfather is actually a scholar, specializing in ancient history, ancient civilizations and so on. He has many ancient books. It mentioned that there was a group of people in the ancient civilization called the Highland Glucks.
The clan, their houses are like this, built of stone, decorated with a bunch of pillars, and full of sculptures: this is a nation that particularly likes to toy with sculptures. However, the purebred Highland Glucks seem to have become extinct. Now only
There are some mixed descendants left, and some ethnic minorities west of Horleta are said to be their descendants."
"What are you talking about?" Hesiana looked at Betsy strangely. The latter was unable to adapt to the environment in the shadow city and did not understand what the alien society on Earth was like, so she had been growing old in this strange place.
She honestly didn't speak much, but when she opened her mouth, she said a lot of things that were incomprehensible. Hesiana couldn't help but cast doubtful eyes on her, "Holletta? Highland Gluk? From the mythical age?"
noun?"
"Um... more or less," Vivian hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "You don't know that human wizards only study weird things, and their names for some ancient things are different from us. This detail can
Tangle you to death."
When Hesiana heard this, she stopped delving into the issue. Hao Ren wiped his cold sweat and glanced at Betsy, thinking that if he had the opportunity, he should educate this surprised guy about the common sense of aliens on earth.
He may have to stay on earth for how long...
Then Hao Ren couldn't help but observe the famous temple on the hill. He had only seen pictures of this famous ancient building from the Internet before, and this was the first time he had seen the real thing. Pat looked under the dim sky.
The Temple of Saturn looked a little weird. It had lost all its sacred color in the dim environment, and it looked like a ghost town crawling on the hill against the background of the dark sky. Besides the atmosphere, Hao Ren felt that it was shadowed in Athens.
The Parthenon seemed to be very different from the pictures he saw online: the one in front of him looked complete and the details were in excellent preservation. He almost didn't recognize it at first glance.
"Shadow Athens has not experienced so many turmoils from the outside world. The temple is almost complete." Hesperus heard that everyone was leaving for the ruins, and followed with interest. She looked at the temple in front of her that belonged to
She seemed a bit sad about her family's business, "Only time has polished it a little bit."
"Aren't you going in?" Vivian glanced at Hesperus, "Maybe you can be a tour guide or something - there may be scenery you are familiar with."
"It's just because I'm afraid of seeing those things that I won't go in," Hesperus smiled. "Sometimes I would rather go to the temples in scenic spots that already require paying tickets to enter, rather than come here to see them.
Looking at this almost perfectly preserved palace of Athena - the former makes me understand that many people will not come back. The latter always reminds me of the time when those people were still alive."
Vivian nodded in understanding: "Then I will tell you what I saw inside when I come out."
"That's no problem," Hesperus nodded. Then he gently tapped the place where his forehead was wrapped with a gorgeous jewelry ribbon. "I'm going back to guard the door. I wouldn't be happy to leave that place to Herb."
Don’t worry, and I’ll have a headache if I stay here for a long time.”
Hesperius slightly pulled back a corner of the ribbon, and Hao Ren was surprised to find that there was a deep wound that was about an inch wide and shimmering with silvery white light.
The healing is less than a millimeter at a time, or there may be no change at all. I don’t think it will ever get better in this life.”
After saying this, Hesperus smiled freely, turned around and disappeared into a ray of light in front of everyone. Nangong Wuyue couldn't help but asked curiously: "Her wound is..."
"I was beaten by a demon hunter thousands of years ago," Vivian sighed. "My mind was opened by a demon-breaking arrow, but I survived. It's a pity that this kind of wound will probably never heal in my lifetime."
, her imagination is the incurable disease."
Hao Ren: "..."
At this time, Hesiana and Jean had completed the preparations to open the door to the ruins. Hessiana came to Vivian with a half-moon-shaped milky white stone slab: "Lord Vivian, prepare to go in~~ This is it.
It’s open!”
The group of people quickly followed into the temple and found that a strange ritual scene had been arranged inside: a marble square altar was placed on the open ground inside the temple gate. Around the altar, dark red suspicious paint was used to depict three complex
Runes, the vampire mages brought by Jean and Hesiana stood in a circle outside these three runes, their bodies glowing with black-red mist to provide energy for the opening ceremony. As a vague layer gradually appeared on the altar
In the blurry light, Hesiana and Jean placed their respective stone slabs on the altar to form a full moon. Immediately everyone felt that the surrounding atmosphere had changed.
The ubiquitous depression and gloominess in Shadow Athens seems to have subsided, and an exciting force is coming from all directions.
While watching the altar glow, Hesiana happily told Vivian Deser: "At the beginning, I was the first to discover that strange energy occasionally overflows from this location, although I don't know why the entrance is in such a weird place.
The place... just overlaps with the entrance to the Parthenon."
At this time, Hao Ren suddenly took a step forward: "What? Can I go over and take a look at those two stone slabs?"
Before Hesiana could say anything, Gene stood in front of the altar warily: "What do you want to do? This stone is a crucial key!"
Hao Ren waved his hand: "Don't be nervous. I'm just taking a look. I'm a wizard. I'm interested in magic. You can just keep an eye on me, okay?"
Vivian didn't know what Hao Ren wanted to do, but she still supported him: "Look, what's the big deal? Are you still worried about us robbing you of a piece of shit?"
Jean looked at Hao Ren inexplicably, and finally reluctantly agreed. Hao Ren immediately moved to the center of the circle and pretended to observe the operation of the altar. He also took out a magnifying glass and pretended to look at it, but at the same time, he was
He was in contact with his data terminal in his mind: "Has it been recorded?"
"The whole change process is very clear. It is a very simple spatial replacement," the data terminal agreed. "Stand to the left and try to be in the center of this ceremony. The measurement of this machine will be more accurate."
The two "people" just pretended to observe the altar, and openly recorded the entire energy flow process required to open the ruins.
Gene looked at Hao Ren and looked impatiently: "Are you okay?"
Hao Ren asked the data terminal to finish the work while pretending to nod professionally: "Hmm, that's good, that's good... let me see, um, this marble pattern is good, these two semi-circular cakes... tsk tsk, this arc.
, this detail is quite round..."
Jean blinked: "Are you studying magic?"
"Well, your vampire's magic is really profound, but I didn't understand it at all." Hao Ren put away the magnifying glass, straightened his chest and raised his head and walked towards the depths of the temple without any guilt, "Okay, let's start the next stage of academic research, let's
Go to the ruins..."
Hesiana called him back loudly from behind: "You're going the wrong way! If you want to enter the ruins, you have to go out through the temple gate!"
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