In the darkness, Thales looked at the rock formation above Kurtz in fear.
He blinked hard, but still saw nothing. The top of Kurt's head was pitch black.
Hell River Sin gave him no feedback.
"Hey, kid!"
The seamstress' dissatisfaction almost filled this small cave: "Are you kidding me?"
The voice echoed frequently in the cave.
Thales was startled by this angry shout.
"nothing……"
The young man took a deep breath and stared at the top of Kurtz's head in shock: "Let's go, I was distracted..."
"Come here."
Thales stretched out his arms with all his strength this time, raised the eternal lamp to the front, looked around with lingering fear, moved forward bit by bit, and finally took Kurtz's hand and climbed up.
Naturally, it also attracted a lot of female seamstresses.
But Thales no longer cares about that.
As Kurtz continued to explore the way forward, Thales held a lamp alone and passed by the original position of the face.
The latter couldn't help but frequently raised his head and held up the lamp to confirm whether there really was a strange face above his head.
But there was still nothing, only stones quietly embedded in the rock formations.
Did I see it wrong?
Yes?
Thales took a deep breath, suppressed his trembling hands and feet, and tried to throw away all the thoughts that the atmosphere was wrong. He followed the light from Kurtz in front of him, hugged the eternal lamp in his arms, and braved the darkness without seeing his fingers.
Continue to move forward in this environment.
They advanced again for half an hour.
During this period, Thales stepped forward cautiously, feeling extremely anxious with every step.
His heartbeat was almost no longer his own.
Unknowingly, the prince was dripping with cold sweat.
"Very good, we have walked more than half way, and now above our heads..." the seamstress's voice came, sounding quite satisfied: "It's not far!"
Thales felt relieved.
In front of the cave, Kurtz supported the rock wall on his left hand and turned to the right.
But at this moment, on the empty wall that Kurtz pressed with his left hand...
A human face suddenly appeared!
Thales felt a numbness in his chest, couldn't breathe, and was shaking all over!
"Snapped!"
His eternal lamp hit his feet, and the flames flickered, casting Thales's shadow onto the rock wall, but it failed to cover the outline of the face.
It was a man with deep features and blue dye on his forehead and cheeks.
Like the first man before him, his muscles were thin and atrophied, his eyes were pale, his lips were closed and his teeth were exposed, and his complexion was so pale that he did not look like a living person.
"Hey Hey hey!"
Kurtz gritted his teeth and turned back: "I told you not to drop the lamp!"
"Without the lighting, are you going to hit your head out?"
The seamstress was a palm's length away from the face on the rock wall, but she didn't feel uncomfortable at all.
【we have to……】
The man in the rock wall stared at Thales with his pupilless eyes, his cervical vertebrae slowly rotated like a rusty clock, his black lips opened and closed, and an unpleasant sound came from his dead wood-like teeth, as if in his ears.
Came from the side:
[Elves...kill them all...]
[The orcs... also killed them all...]
[Enemy countries... also kill them all...]
[Why can’t we... kill them all...]
Kurtz was still scolding the boy unhappily, as if he and the man were in two different worlds, so he didn't hear him.
This is……
Mixed with the grammar of the ancient empire...the common language of the Western Continent?
Thales, who was feeling frightened and about to cry, had a stiff face and pointed in the direction that Kurtz was facing: "But..."
"There……"
However, when he turned his eyes again, Thales discovered in horror:
The man is gone.
Kurtz turned around in confusion: only the dark rock wall was left behind her.
No human face.
Covered alternately by lights and shadows, it is as peaceful as before.
Thales was stunned.
He began to tremble slightly.
Kurtz frowned and looked at him: "Hey!"
"What's there?"
The young man shook his head violently.
Thales took a big breath and jumped up like a flexible rabbit!
He picked up the eternal lamp and used his hands and feet to escape from the rock wall, almost rolling and crawling, and ran in front of Kurtz.
The frightened prince turned around the strange rock wall, and saw another pitch black in front of him, and he could barely see a downward slope.
"No, Kurtz," Thales swallowed his throat while running. His fingers were numb and his voice was unstable:
"Something's wrong."
Kurtz was a little stunned: "What?"
Thales resolutely resisted the desire to look back and shook his head: "Black Path... this place is very evil."
"I saw something... something."
Kurtz looked at Thales' embarrassment thoughtfully and suddenly smiled.
"Are you really afraid of the dark?"
The creepy Thales bit his lower lip and tried his best not to think: "This is not black..."
He was interrupted.
"Shut up!" The seamstress rushed in front of him fiercely and stabbed his chest: "I promised the lame man, then I will definitely send you out..."
"Follow carefully!"
"Don't be afraid of the dark!"
Thales, who was on the verge of tears and horrified, was speechless.
Cursing in front of him, Kurtz jumped down a slope, causing airflow, and a chill came from around him.
Thales had no choice but to cry sadly, hang the eternal lamp on his chest, put one foot in front, hold his hands behind his back, and slide down the slope.
This time, he opened his eyes wide, and the sin in the prison river flowed faster and faster.
"I remember just walking through here..."
Thales listened absently, but just as he was about to slide to the bottom of the slope...
He was facing each other on his back, and three figures suddenly appeared on the rock wall at the top!
Old man, woman, man.
Thales, who was falling, trembled all over!
A low and eerie whisper came to his ears again.
[You are...I am...Who are we...] This is the call of the old man, and the common language with the Northland accent is full of confusion.
[You are us... We are you...] This is a man's whisper, full of ancient imperial prose, the language is elegant, but very strange.
They clung to the rock wall, all of them had pale eyes, like corpses, glaring at him, extremely clear in the darkness!
The woman among them also stretched out her withered hands towards him.
【Why……】
【Why are you there...】
This is common language, but its grammar is complicated and full of accents that Thales has never heard of.
The words contained a heart-rending chill and hysterical pain:
【my sweetheart……】
[Why...don't...return from...the battlefield...]
Brown-gray nails brushed across Thales' face, bringing a chill to the bone.
"boom!"
The frightened Thales landed on his butt and fell hard!
What the hell is this!
"Hold!"
Thales couldn't help but use foul language. At this moment, he just felt goosebumps all over his body!
He stood up and stepped forward, just wanting to get further away from the figure above his head.
What the hell is this place!
Panting and panicking in the darkness, Thales bumped into Kurtz who was reminiscing.
"Are you crazy!"
The seamstress staggered after being hit by him, and turned back angrily: "I swear if you do it again..."
But she couldn't continue.
Both of them felt it: the ground beneath their feet shook slightly.
Kurtz's complaints and Tails' breathing stopped at the same time.
At the same time, a scary sound came from the rock formations in the darkness:
"Kala"
Both of their faces turned pale.
"Crack"
this?
Thales listened carefully to the scary sound.
It seems like...
It seems like the sound of cracking rocks?
After a few seconds, the cracking sound became louder and louder!
"Brush, slay, swipe..."
Under the weak illumination provided by two eternal lamps, Kurtz and Thales stared with big eyes.
Kurtz touched the top of his head with a pale face: several pieces of gravel the size of fingernails fell on their heads.
"Oops." She only had time to say this word.
The ground shook violently again!
The frightened Thales grabbed the rock next to him to prevent himself from falling.
Feeling the shaking of the ground, Kurtz managed to stabilize his balance, and his face changed drastically: "Damn it!"
"It must have collapsed somewhere!"
Just finished speaking.
"boom!"
The cracking and shaking sounds turned into a harsh smashing sound.
It's like a huge rock falling behind you.
The seamstress had an ugly expression. She didn't care about scolding Thales. She hung the eternal lamp around her neck and climbed onto the road neatly: "Run!"
"Boom!"
A huge rock hit a low slope not far from them and rolled down.
Thales was shocked and knew that now was not the time to be afraid of ghosts.
The prince didn't care about conserving his physical strength. He called for the familiar and unfamiliar power, desperately urging the sin of the Hell River all over his body!
boom!
The sin of the river of hell happily rushes to the top of the head and overflows the whole body.
Feeling the pulsation of blood vessels and the filling of muscle strength, feeling the vision clearer than daylight and the gurgling flow of air in the cave, Thales stepped on the ground and stood up instantly!
He clawed at the rock wall and followed Kurtz's footsteps in pursuit.
The ground shook again.
Soon, the surrounding sounds turned into an ear-splitting roar, accompanied by the vibrations of the rock formations and the ground!
"Rumble..."
The prince was horrified and caught up with Kurtz.
"boom!"
The sound of falling rocks became louder and more frequent, and seemed to be very close at hand.
"What are you doing..."
Thales jumped over a shallow pit with all his strength, grabbed an uphill rock formation, gritted his teeth and shouted amidst the roar: "Is this broken place... like this before?"
The ground shook again, and Thales fell to the ground without losing his balance.
His eternal lamp hit the rock wall and went out instantly with a shattering sound.
But I don't care about that much now.
It's important to escape!
Thales, whose scalp was numb, stood up again and took a few steps to cover a distance of several meters.
Under the violent shaking of the ground, he fell down countless dogs, but he could only move forward desperately!
"Who knows, the last time I brought someone here was six years ago!" Kurtz's furious voice came from the roar. It was obvious that she was also very unhappy: "After the shield area is destroyed, the black path will sometimes collapse!"
"So the cripple sealed this place!"
Thales bumped into walls left and right amid the vibration, struggling to maintain his balance and keep moving forward. However, in such a harsh environment, even the familiar Kurtz couldn't get up quickly.
"Bang! Boom!"
The slope they passed before there was a loud noise behind them was hit hard by a rock that fell from nowhere!
Gravel splashes.
When he looked back and saw this scene, Thales's ghost suddenly appeared!
Thales took two steps forward and avoided a falling rock on the left.
"boom!"
But that's far from the worst.
As the falling rock opened a crack, another person appeared inside.
A withered figure with white hair.
【Come……】
[Join us to fight against the tyrant...]
[The empire must fall, and the Northland must rise...]
Its eyes were white and its muscles were rotten, but it had the same dry lips, sparse white hair, and wrinkled scalp as its companions. It stretched out its skeletal hand toward Thales.
Thales trembled all over, and the sins of the Hell River automatically gathered in his left leg without calling. He kicked hard and rolled to the right, cursing.
What the hell!
In the process of escaping, Thales saw from a distance: another withered face with charred bones and black flesh appeared in a pit on his lower right.
It opened its white eyes, smiled horribly at him, and opened and closed its lips.
【In order to protect my family, I will kill all my enemies...】
[But as long as my family is around, the enemy will find my weaknesses and defeat me...]
[I just can’t kill all the enemies...]
【For my family, I cannot be defeated...】
【Family...can't be my weakness...】
[So, in order to defeat the enemy and protect my family, I must first...]
【must……】
【first……】
【Kill all my family members.】
After the "person" finished speaking, his withered hands suddenly held his head and let out an endless howl of pain!
Damn it!
Thales, who was crying, covered his ears, roared in his heart, and rolled and crawled towards Kurtz's direction.
What is this!
Kurtz in front stopped suddenly, and Thales almost hit her.
"boom!"
"God, the path I remember is all in chaos..." Kurtz, who was panicking, howled angrily, and the eternal lamp shook violently in front of her chest:
"Why are we so unlucky? It feels like everything will collapse wherever we go!"
A rock struck horribly on their way. Thales and the seamstress were shocked and immediately turned to the other side.
"Wherever you go..." Thales suppressed the fear in his heart and shouted dissatisfied as he ran away: "Are you sure your surname is not Drake?"
"Shit!"
Kurtz said angrily: "My last name is..."
But at this moment, Thales, who was running for his life amid the shaking, landslides, and falling rocks, stopped breathing.
He was frightened by the sight before him.
In the field of vision of Prison River Sin, countless faces, figures, and human shapes that they had just seen appeared one after another on their way to escape.
These "people" have the same characteristics:
As withered as a dead corpse, it has eyes but no eyes, and its movements are stiff.
They, these monsters, either show their heads from the cracks in the rock, or extend their limbs from the smashed pits, or even their backs rise abruptly from the ground, they are everywhere and shadowy.
Thales only felt the endless chill coming from the soles of his feet.
This time, they faintly emitted an ominous black mist. No matter far or near, they all turned to Thales, stared at him, opened their ugly lips, and spoke to each other.
[The emperor is calling...the knights are gathered...triumph, triumph, triumph!]
[Jianfeng points out that the war will end... After this battle, the empire will have no enemies, and we can return to our hometown...]
[We are surrounded, there is no need to keep food rations, the injured people leave their horses to the healthy people, and those without weapons go to search for the remains of others... Cavalry, dress up, let's make one last charge, this way, Ansett
The king and the others will have fewer orc bastards to deal with...]
[Why do we have to fight...Why, the Xitao people didn’t fight us, so why should we fight them?]
[Cel, Crowley, Loka Tassadar...Kalaluke...Cel, Cel, Selricai!]
Various languages, elegant or popular ancient imperial language, retro or modern lingua franca, and even many languages that Thales seemed familiar with but could not understand.
There were even several beings who looked like they were not normal human beings, screaming in pain that he couldn't understand at all.
The cave suddenly became very noisy.
But Kurtz, as usual, seemed to find nothing and just ran forward desperately.
More and more words, either whispers, low voices, or roars, accompanied by layers of abnormal emotions, seeped into Thales's ears.
The frightened Thales wailed and hurriedly sped up, wanting to run as fast as he could to escape from this ghost place!
The voice continues:
[Whether they have weapons or not, the reason is simple: this is the place marked by the emperor, and it is our territory. If they do not admit that they are imperial people...then they are our enemies...]
[The uprising failed and the entire army was wiped out... The imperial inspector will come soon, run away...]
[Blow the bugle, it’s the ice bastards...orcs...we must stop them here...believe me, humans will win!]
[Desert, deserter, deserter deserves to be killed, deserter is not worthy of being a human being...If you don’t have the courage to behead, you deserve to be beheaded by others!]
[The city is broken, the city is broken! Follow me, we will rush forward, leaving no one behind! Long live the empire!]
"Kuz!"
Thales covered his ears and wailed, enduring the headache that hit him inch by inch.
"Kuz!"
He couldn't help but look at a skinny female "person" with a hideous and terrifying face who was only an arm's length away from him. He ignored the obstacles and passed them by, relying on the eyesight of the Hell River Sin to prevent him from falling in the darkness.
:
"We need to get out of here as soon as possible!"
"Black Path...there's something wrong with this place!"
Amidst the rumbling sound, Kurtz's furious voice came from the front, as if he had just avoided a rock falling from his head: "Yeah, I can see it too..."
"Also, thank you for your nonsense!"
"Ka..." The moment Kurtz turned around, another huge rock cracked above his head!
Fall vertically.
"careful!"
Kurtz raised his head subconsciously, and his face suddenly turned pale.
That rock... shrouded them all below.
Thales' scalp felt numb. He ignored the pain in his legs and tried his best to catch up!
But after seeing the situation in front of him clearly, he felt cold in his heart as he rushed forward: No.
The area of the rock that fell from above was too large.
Even if he hits Kurtz, even if they sprint with all their strength...
Can't avoid it either.
what to do.
The giant rock was only a few meters away from Kurt's head.
what to do?
At that moment, Thales desperately recalled all the skills he could use.
Yara, Rolf, Wyatt, Black Sword, Corleone sisters, Ada...
But in the face of this crisis, all their skills and emergency methods are useless...
what to do.
At this time, a figure that Thales had not expected suddenly appeared in his mind.
In the memory, the man had a cold expression and a pale face.
The blade cut out in his hand, then miraculously turned back.
Thales was shocked.
The rare final power seeped into his bones and joints, erupting with unspeakable power.
In the flash of lightning, Thales accelerated his steps, pounced on Kurtz in front, and tightly held her waist.
Amid Kurtz's screams, they fell forward together, and the huge rock above them got closer and closer.
Thales gritted his teeth.
The sin of the Hell River began to roar inside his body, making his pores shrink.
In my ears, the surging blood in my veins gradually overshadowed the endless words of those "people".
All the bones in his body began to groan.
"Ah" in severe pain, Thales couldn't help but groan angrily.
The rocks overhead were getting closer and closer, and even began to reflect the light of the eternal lamp.
The next moment, his forward momentum miraculously stopped: Thales' legs stopped firmly on the ground.
They didn't fall.
Not only that, Thales's internal joints made bursts of unpleasant explosions.
Thales's face was distorted, and the power of termination gathered on his legs.
As if he had overcome inertia, the figure of the young prince who had just rushed here suddenly turned back!
"boom!"
The huge rock fell.
The loud noise echoed in my ears.
Kurtz sat down on the ground, staring blankly at the scene in front of him, looking at the rock only a few inches away from him.
Beside her, Thales lay on the ground, breathing heavily in pain.
"Wow..."
The rocks smashed in front of them shattered inch by inch, and many of them rolled to their feet.
At the critical moment, Thales pounced forward towards Kurtz, and then changed his direction in an incredible instant, leaping two meters behind him and dragging them both out of the scope of the falling rock.
"Wow," Kurtz slowly reacted and his eyes widened: "How did you do that..."
"Don't ask." This was Thales, whose legs were numb and he was almost out of breath.
damn it……
Thales panted in embarrassment, but felt that the vibrations on the ground continued, and the roar in his ears did not weaken.
This... wants me to die.
At this moment, Thales, who was lying on his back on the ground, suddenly had his pupils condensed!
Directly above his head...
A terrifying face appeared on the rock wall.
Thales recognized that face: thin facial muscles, cold smile, and sharp rust-colored teeth.
And the brightly colored armor.
It's that man.
Its miserable eyes looked at Thales, moved its stiff neck inch by inch, and slowly spoke:
【come.】
【You shouldn't be over there.】
【You belong to us.】
It is still the standard and classical ancient imperial language with clear articulation.
If you ignore the deep chill contained in it.
After its voice fell, a thick black mist emitted from its body.
The next second, before Thales could react, the rock formations beneath them shattered inch by inch!
"Boom!"
"Hey"
The frightened Kurtz only had time to shout out one word before she sank downwards as the rock collapsed.
"Kuz!"
Thales exclaimed and rushed forward, trying to catch the panicked seamstress: "Catch me!"
But his hand could only pass over Kurtz's figure in vain, touching her fingers one last time.
Kurtz fell down, getting farther and farther away from him, the shock on his face still lingering.
Thales stared blankly at the woman falling in the darkness.
But there is nothing we can do.
Until the figure of the seamstress was completely swallowed by darkness.
No longer visible.
Above the head, a hoarse and terrifying voice came, speaking the chilling ancient imperial language: