The town looked not far away on the mountain, but it was actually quite a long way away. In addition, the place where Ella and the others landed was a mountain range. To go down the mountain, they would inevitably have to circle around the mountainside, and the road they had to walk would be doubled.
"Your Majesty, look over there!"
Amy pointed to a huge rock ahead with great excitement. The rock seemed to have been cut with countless knives, with thousands of ravines and ravines, vaguely showing the shape of a goat.
"oh."
Ella replied weakly. Amy had exhausted a lot of energy yesterday, but now she was full of energy. Ella didn't do anything, but she was too tired to walk.
Although the boulder pointed by Amy had a strange shape, it couldn't cheer up Ella. Along the way, she had seen many similar cut stones - they seemed to be some kind of special local landform. At first she thought they were novel, but after seeing them more, she felt nothing at all.
"When will we arrive..." Ella complained, then turned back and shouted to Paracelsus who was falling further behind, "Paracelsus, hurry up and catch up!"
Hearing Aila's urging, Paracelsus chased after him huffing and puffing, holding a large bag of stones.
"Why are you walking so fast? Look, this is antimony ore and copper ore. There seem to be many metal veins in this mountain range!"
"It's not my territory, so what if there are mineral veins..." Ella muttered softly.
In the west of the sky, the sun is already very close to the horizon.
In order not to sleep in the wild, Amy and Paracelsus had to stop looking around and speed up their progress. In this way, when the sunset rose, they finally arrived at the foot of the mountain.
"Your Majesty! Look here!"
Amy let out a cry of surprise again.
"Hoo, ho, Amy, didn't you tell me not to be surprised? I'm tired of looking at these rocks. If you don't have enough energy, you can carry me on your back..."
Ella complained as she chased after Amy, but when she saw what Amy was pointing at, she was stunned:
After bypassing the mountain peaks that blocked the view, what appeared in front of us was an extremely vast plain. At the end of the plain was an even vaster sea, swallowing up the bright sunset. The whole world is covered with ruby-like glow, extremely gorgeous.
But what surprised Ella was not the beauty of the sunset, but the ring of mountains surrounding the plain. Right where Amy pointed, a mountain peak was cut off in half. That knife was so crisp and powerful, rather than being eroded by nature, it seemed more like it had been chopped open by a human being.
Similar scenes reappeared again and again on the many mountains surrounding the plain. Some looked like being hit on the head by an axe, some looked like being cut off by a knife, and some looked like being penetrated by a spear... If these many hills were regarded as a body, then this body would be riddled with scars!
Amy asked blankly: "Your Majesty...could this be the ancient battlefield of the gods?"
The voice of Paracelsus came from not far away: "Come here quickly! Look at this!"
Ella went to Paracelsus and saw him digging the earth with a stone. A piece of rusty breastplate gradually emerged from the soil as he dug. Paracelsus tried hard to pull the breastplate out of the soil, but saw the side of a sword and the head of a spear exposed under the breastplate. Apparently there were more weapons buried underneath.
"Your Majesty, there are some here too!"
Amy waved a spear that had just been dug out of the earth. The wooden handle of the spear had been completely corroded, leaving only a rusty tip.
Weapons buried like this are scattered all over the plain. They silently tell travelers that a very tragic war once broke out here.
What Ella is particularly concerned about is that many of these weapons are in the style of the Tianfang Empire - although this is the border, it is on the other side far away from the Tianfang Empire. If the Qiqiu Empire and the Tianfang Empire really fought here, then the Qiu Qiu Empire must have been on the verge of subjugation at that time.
Ella raised her head and looked at the sky, plains and sea in the distance. The red glow was like blood flowing from the wounds, covering the entire plain.
She had roughly guessed where they were now.
"Thousands of years ago, the powerful magician who claimed to be the Son of God founded the Tianfang Empire and then marched westward to invade the Qiqiu Empire."
Ella walked Amy on the beach and told Amy the history of the Seven Hills Empire.
"The Empire of the Seven Hills suffered repeated defeats and lost two-thirds of its territory. At that time, the emperor of the Empire of the Seven Hills was still called Augustus, not the current Basileus. Augustus at that time suffered consecutive defeats. After more than 20 formations, he was forced to flee to the Peloponnese, but was overtaken and surrounded by 130,000 enemy troops before crossing the Gulf of Corinth. There were only 10,000 Praetorian Guards left by Augustus, and the enemy The leader of the army happened to be the terrible magician who claimed to be the Son of God. That Augustus was unwilling to surrender, so he fought a decisive battle here that would determine the life and death of the Seven Hills Empire."
"I know that battle." Paracelsus said, "The location of the decisive battle is the 'Navel of the World', which is said to be the center of the entire world by the Seven Hills Empire."
"The navel of the world?" Amy asked curiously.
"That's a mythical story. In order to determine the center of the world, God King Zeus let two eagles take off from the two ends of the world. Finally, the two eagles met in one place, and that place was the 'navel of the world'. But this I have only read the story in very ancient documents, and there has been no such story in the Qiqiu Empire for hundreds of years."
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Paracelsus couldn't hold back and laughed: "Are you really not mistaken? The God of the Seven Hills Empire actually wants to determine the center of the world in this way?"
Ella glanced at Paracelsus with dissatisfaction: "As a result of the battle, the magician who claimed to be the Son of God died in battle. The Tianfang Empire's 130,000 troops scattered like birds and beasts. The Qiqiu Empire took this opportunity to regain a large area of fallen land. To continue the empire to this day.”
Ella took Amy around a corner, and a towering cliff suddenly appeared in front of her. The cliff was polished smooth by hand, and several ancient and powerful words were engraved on it:
"In the seventy-seventh year of the empire, Emperor Nero, the ruler of the Seven Hills Empire, the great Augustus, defeated the Tianfang Empire here."
"Nero, that was the last emperor who had a relationship with Caesar. After that, the emperors were fought over by major families, including our Scipio family." Ella read the words on the stone wall to Amy. , and then said: "It seems that my guess is correct, we have arrived at the navel of the world - the ancient city of Delphi."
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