A kind of understanding arose in Claire's heart. The depth of the earth mentioned by the fragment was exactly at the bottom of the spiral staircase.
At the same time, with a vague impulse in her heart, the girl instinctively walked forward and gently stretched out her right hand towards the fragment.
When the delicate fingertips touched the surface of the fragment, a strange feeling of warmth and fulfillment came from the bottom of my heart, as if a part of me that was missing was suddenly filled again.
The fragment itself has no temperature or touch, just like a pure shadow. It just adds a hazy color to the girl's fingertips with its dreamy luster.
At the same time, some new fragmented and incoherent information appeared in her mind.
...In the laboratory, ancient high elves wearing white experimental robes, holding various strange research equipment, are carefully exploring the properties of a fragment.
... High enough to see the curvature of the earth, on the night-shrouded land, a bright light like the sun suddenly lit up, illuminating the entire continent.
But the shape of that huge continent was different from the shape of the Yar continent on the map she saw in the old mage's magic tower.
...And, in the last scene of my memory, those fragments of light were flying in all directions like meteors.
While absorbing the information left behind by the fragments, as the light of the fragments gradually disappeared into her body, the aura of power in the half-elf girl's body also steadily increased.
In a moment, after completely absorbing the fragment, her strength had broken through to a great level, reaching a level between the fourth-order high stage and the fourth-order limit.
Opening her eyes, Claire suddenly felt a little lost.
At the last moment when the fragments merged with her, a faint desire to become one with all the fragments again was left in her heart.
Suppressing this feeling, Claire looked back at the spiral staircase leading to this hall, preparing to leave here and get the 'heritage' mentioned by the fragment.
She looked at the pale moonlight that slanted into the hall from the window. The fragments of it that had previously been projected into her heart were the huge and evil purple moon that suddenly appeared in the outside sky, giving her an extremely bad feeling.
snap——
On the high-hanging dome, a piece of decorative material depicting gilded decorative patterns suddenly fell down, making a crisp cracking sound when it collided with the dolomite ground.
Along with this soft sound, Claire suddenly realized that after the fragments disappeared, the entire ancient castle suddenly began to tremble slightly.
Due to the loss of its source, the faint fragmentary power in the castle began to disappear, and with all this, everything in the entire castle seemed to suddenly begin to experience the erosion of a long river of time.
The exquisite gilt patterns on the dome dimmed, the scarlet flags on the walls gradually faded, the bright red carpet turned into decaying dust, and the square bricks of the rock deteriorated and became brittle, even unable to bear their own weight.
Without the strength of the fragments to support it, the castle's building materials that have experienced erosion over time can no longer support the stability of its own structure.
"Oops!"
Seeing this change in the castle, Claire immediately understood that it was time to escape.
Holding a lamp in one hand and a sword in the other, the girl quickly ran towards the stairs. The wind brought along along the way caused the hem of her brown cloak to sway slightly.
The spiral staircase is still well-preserved at this moment. Perhaps because it foresees what will happen after it is absorbed, the fragmentary power is the strongest here, so the material of the staircase remains the same.
In front of her eyes, the warm yellow light of the lantern shone into the darkness deep in the spiral staircase, with no end in sight.
Claire took a deep breath, finally turned her head, and looked deeply at the flag that was turning into dust on the wall. At the last moment of leaving here, she kept the dark golden mysterious symbol on it firmly in her mind.
Then, she put away the one-handed sword in her hand, held the lantern tightly, and jumped toward the empty space in the center of the spiral staircase, the depths of the dark tunnel that could not be seen to the end——
For a moment, the dark environment inside the stairs enveloped the girl. Only the dim light of the lantern in her hand illuminated the wooden spiral staircase handrail rising rapidly beside her.
But gradually, as she fell rapidly, the endless darkness under the stairs suddenly lit up with the light of dark red lava!
.….….
On the boundless dark blue sea, the three Anvis flying at low altitude also encountered trouble at this moment.
The sky was filled with the terrifying divine moonlight of extremely high intensity. Not to mention Anvis and Evan, not even the eighth-level Jom dared to stay in the corrosive moonlight of that intensity for too long.
"verrrrl——"
But it was also difficult at low altitudes. The terrifying alienated sea beasts that emerged from the bottom of the sea made strange sounds of unknown meaning, stretched out countless long black tentacles and jointed limbs, and wound towards the people in the low altitudes.
The lowest level of these sea monsters is level six, and the highest level can even reach level eight. This is due to the fact that they are located offshore.
At first, Qiao Mu also killed several sea monsters, but this behavior did not have a deterrent effect.
The body of the dead sea monster sank into the water, attracting more sea monsters and causing chaos below the sea surface.
Later, Qiao Mu simply stopped spending his magic power and just used his sword to cut away the tentacles that were entwining the three of them and blocking the way in front of them, to prevent them from being dragged down by these alienated sea beasts.
With the eighth-level Howling Knight clearing the way, Anvis and his party quickly bypassed the entire island and arrived at their target.
There, lies the largest ruins Anvis has discovered since arriving on this island.
A completely sunk underwater city——
Although there are waves surging on the surface of the blue ocean, under the exceptionally bright and charming moonlight tonight, the water looks surprisingly clear.
Anvis could even clearly see through the sea, the white rock dome of a huge building standing in the center of the city, which seemed to be some ancient palace or temple.
An empty and wide central avenue extends from the front of the building, spreading out towards the entire dark city. Weird and huge faceless tentacle statues stand on both sides of the road.
If you look carefully, you can find a large number of obscure shadows lurking deep in the dark ruins of buildings throughout the city.
At this moment, under the eerie purple moonlight, the entire city's building surfaces were glowing with a faint but clear pale green phosphorescence.
This is true whether it is the mottled stone walls covered with slimy dark purple seaweed or the broken columns covered with strange-looking black barnacles.
"Is this the location?"
Looking at the empty sea, Anvis turned his questioning eyes to Jom.
The latter took out the purple array disk again, and the illusory map appeared again.
At this time, the faint bright spots did not move, but flickered in the area under everyone's feet.