The underground leading to the ruins is a group of caves that are as fragmented as a honeycomb. It extends in all directions below, and the surface of the rock is gray and dark. Luminous crystal clusters grow upside down from the top of the cave. Some moss that can survive in low-light environments grows in the darkness. Its feathery leaves are curled, like a thin layer of dry carpet.
When you step on it, it will make a rustling sound, like a mysterious whisper in the darkness, echoing in your ears.
Fang Plover suddenly stopped. The system prompted him that Luo Yu had sent an email. He opened the email and read it out with a somewhat surprised tone: "What? Miss Sylvide is missing?"
Everyone stopped and turned to look at him.
Parker, who was walking at the front, grabbed the torch with his chubby hand and waved it vigorously, as if to dispel the darkness, before turning back and asking: "What's the matter? What's the matter again? Are we close to our destination? Thank God, this trial It’s really hard work.”
"We've only been in for five minutes." The second-year boy replied in a cold voice.
"What's wrong, my human brother?" Tenaric asked in a low voice.
"Nothing." Fang Yu shook his head. The message from Luo Yu was so meaningless. He glanced at it again and asked the others: "Do you feel that someone is quietly following us?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Fang Yu turned back suspiciously, looked at the dark cave behind him, and shook his head: "Me neither - forget it, keep going." He said so, but he still took off a 'goblin' from his belt, The delicate construct flicked its wings in his hand and flew into the darkness in that direction.
A few people were walking through a remaining hall. Both the east and west sides had collapsed, making it seem a bit empty. The light range of the torches was extremely limited, and the collapsed walls merged into the darkness, like the silent corpses of two giants.
Fang Yu raised his head and looked at this place silently.
"Ta-Sok-Araando." Tenarik's scaly claws grasped the double-headed spear tightly, and he was making the same movement. A series of strange notes, with a hissing sound, came from the lizard man. The words came out of the prince's mouth.
"Majestic, magnificent," it explained.
This is one of the holy places for the incubation of ancient snake people, the Black Holy City. However, in the historical documents of Aitalia, there are not many records about this place - or in other words, there are no written records about Xinsas. Not too much.
Fang Yu looked at this place, a little lost in thought.
Tenerik glanced at him with his scorched yellow eyes and asked, "You seem to be thinking about something, my human brother."
Fang Yu nodded and answered without hesitation: "I was thinking about what I saw before, that black obelisk."
The first rumors he heard about the obelisk were about the location of the Elf Holy Grail. The ancient song spread from Rainbow Bay has yet to find its true source. And Atila's younger brother, a forest elf living in Sanshak, had almost nothing to do with it, but because of the hiring of a stranger, he joined the adventure group and eventually died in a foreign country.
Even the starlight has disappeared, and the cause of his death is still a mystery.
Behind it is the Dragon Worship Cult and the Dragon Witch incident a hundred years ago. There are so many clues that it is difficult to grasp the main clue. And the person who hired them behind the scenes is also hidden in the fog. It is not yet known whether Grande can know the identity of the other party during this trip.
He looked down at the back of his hand. The metal shell of the reinforced glove shone slightly in the light of the fire. There was the mark of Hailin Crown underneath. He originally thought it had no connection with this series of events.
But Toragotos' words overturned his previous view. Only the holder of the Hailin Crown is qualified to touch the obelisk. The legends of the five sacred objects seem to be vaguely connected.
Behind it are legends about thousands of years ago, Xinthus, Numerin, the Scourge of Eshorin, the Second Bane Star and the Serpent's Tail. Fang Plover felt more and more that he seemed to have entered the center of a whirlpool unintentionally. It might be related to the third evil star, and the dragon witch and the obelisk were just symptoms before the advent of this era.
But what exactly it means behind this, no one knows.
What will the third evil star bring? Is it the same disaster as the Disaster of Eshorin? Or is it the resurgence of dark power? But what happened thousands of years ago cannot give him the answer, because people know very little about it. Apart from the incomplete mythical legends of giants and dark dragons, it seems that nothing more can be found.
People don't even know why the Numerin elves, who have experienced the entire disaster of Eshorin, left and where they went? Did they know that the next disaster would befall Etalia, and that was why they chose to leave?
They only left the last magical technology to mankind, but not a single word of warning about the future. It was just like leaving behind an eternal puzzle.
Maybe there are still dragon slayers who know that ancient story.
But Mazak finally told him that humans only joined the ranks of resisting the dragons in the late period of that dark age. Although those who drank dragon blood were favored by the fairies, they could not avoid a tragic fate.
Except for the eternal hatred of the ancient knowledge of the past, the rest has long been eliminated through generations of internecine killings.
As for the goblins, they never tell stories about the past.
Although Fang Yu didn't think he would be the one to solve this mystery, the black obelisk below the trial site still made him slightly uneasy, reminding him of Miss Attila.
The mysterious black hand behind it always gives people an unpleasant experience of being spied on.
What's more, the entire Aitaria is now in a delicate situation, and even people at the level of Fang Plover are vaguely aware of it - the Knights of the Ancient Tower have heard that rebellions are rising, and there is no news about Oshu and Lotao. , but according to the Lion Paladin, the wilderness country is not stable either. Only Corrin-Ithurion might have maintained a semblance of calm.
But since the new king succeeded to the throne, the turbulent undercurrents beneath the surface have not only affected the indigenous people but have even begun to spread to the chosen ones. The long summer war between the descendants of Flor and the Rainbow Alliance is just the beginning, and Fen A series of experiences during this trip to Lys Island seem to correspond to the first yellow fallen leaves before autumn in Aitaria.
Of course, Fang Yu knew that he had no access to higher-level information and could not determine the origin of this series of events. They might be accidents one by one, but he preferred to trust his intuition.
You can never go too far wrong.
After listening to his words, Tenerik was silent for a moment, with a look of reminiscence in his lizard-like pupils that glowed coldly: "There is indeed such a legend in Andasok. The black obelisk symbolizes bad luck, misfortune - Lord Atta told us that they contain the power of Avak.”
"Avak?"
"That is a sacred text passed down from ancient times. The giant god of Xinsas, the great Kukulkan defeated his old enemy Oleta in a bloody battle, and bound the giant eagle with the thorn branches of the vine tree. After the death of Oletta, the thorn branches of the cinnamon tree have been called the sacred awak."
These words were said in vain, and Fang Plover also had a headache with the way these lizard people narrated.
But not all is lost. The black obelisk contains the power of Avak. Could it be that the eye seen in the vision is actually that of the giant eagle Auletta? But there are some problems. Auletta has long since been wiped out, and thousands of years have passed since Kukulkan's time.
After the era of the Numerin elves, the gods of Orin became saints, and there was another era after that. There is no record of these ancient giants in the entire long elven era, let alone this mortal century.
It is impossible for the elves to have anything to do with the Holy Grail of Numelin and Auletta. They used the black obelisk to hide the information of the Holy Grail. They must have deeper considerations. And what kind of information is hidden in the Holy Grail of the Elf, and what is its relationship with the prophecy spoken by Tenaric and the upcoming third woe star?
Fang Plover had no clue about this.
He had a vague feeling that the mysterious person behind him would know something, otherwise the other party wouldn't have to go to great lengths to hire people to find the obelisk under the abyss. The Dragon Cults should also have some clues, but their inheritance comes from the dark dragon Nicol Bolas.
So neither of these two parties would tell him the answer.
As well as the source of the rumor, who originally spread that ancient ballad around Rainbow Bay. People who know this secret will definitely not do anything meaningless, but it is still difficult to guess the other party's intentions.
In the end, the only ones left were the Jefflite Red Team, Silver Forest Spear and Miya. Fang Plover gently touched the back of his hand. In his eyes, the battle of Changxia was now far from just two forces competing for territory and wealth. , and then there is obviously a more profound reason.
Since the battle at the Elven Ruins, the two sides had declared a truce. Fang Yu felt that he had already guessed the answer to what it meant.
When he thought of Miya, he also thought of Bai Hua, No. 16 of Traveler's Rest, and the members of Listen to the Rain. Which one is the other's true identity? The Sea Forest Crown in the Elven Ruins, the Dragon's Golden Eyes in Traveler's Rest, and the obelisk here, their actions are obviously consistent.
But is the other party really related to Miya?
Then there is the conflict between the Rain Listeners and the Blood Oath. The disappearing guild leaders seem to be vaguely connected to the map printed on an obelisk. All the clues are intertwined with each other like balls of wool, making it difficult for them to understand. Fang Plover couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.
Fortunately, he still had a bit of optimism, so he simply didn't think about it if he couldn't figure it out. After putting aside such worries, his heart naturally became much quieter.
Looking at the good side, at least he now knows more things, so he won't have a strange mark on the back of his hand, and he doesn't know the origin of the other party at all.
The truth will always come out one day.
After relaxing, he took a serious look at the ruins for the first time.
Just then Parker turned back and asked: "Speaking of which, we have been going around here, where are we going?"
"This is the slave area, the top floor of the Black Holy City," Fang Plover then said to the others: "The materials we bought from others said that there are a total of twelve exits on this floor. These exits are respectively Leading to the next level.”
"But the people from the Jefflite Red Team and the Blood Oaths who came in first will definitely occupy the nearest exit. And if they have enough manpower, the second exit may not be safe."
"Although we should be able to handle it, I don't want to alert them so early. In this trial, the people from the red team Jeflett and Silver Vislan will almost certainly be our main opponents. Of course, it is not ruled out. There are other masters among those participating in this trial.”
"Don't forget those who listen to the rain, and those who listen to the rain should not be underestimated." The middle school boy mentioned.
Fang Yu glanced at him in surprise: "I thought you would deliberately skip this point."
"It's one thing and another. If the people from the Tempest Brigade were here, I would definitely not take action against them." Box replied, "But the boss of Gubaizhiye and the others can't get in. I'm going to listen to the rain." I’m not familiar with the other people inside.”
"Then let's go to Exit 3?" Parker asked.
"There is a high probability that we will meet the people from Silver Vislan at the third exit, but if we take a long way, it will be difficult for us to catch up with the people from Jefflett's red team." Fang Plover said to the others: " What do you think?"
"Andasok's warriors don't know what it means to give in." Tenaric replied in a low voice.
"Then let's fight with the people from Silver Vislan first," the Papalar man danced: "I don't think they are very powerful. I remember when I was in the Hill of Giant Trees, those guys..."
Fang Yu interrupted him: "Well, except for the adventurers, there are no threatening monsters on the first floor. They are all low-level phantoms created by Toragotos. Let's just take a shortcut and penetrate through the center."
He looked at the lizardman prince of Andersok and mentioned: "Tenaric, we have only seen the map, but those second-hand maps we bought may not be reliable, especially the lower floors. But the city of Sinsas It’s very similar, but you should be familiar with it, so you can lead the way.”
Teneric nodded slightly.
Just as Fang Plover said, the group of people passed through the atrium of the 'Slave Market' and encountered some insignificant phantoms of the undead along the way. Monsters of only level 4 or 5 did not even need Fang Plover to take action as a vanguard. Parker alone is enough to sweep.
After those things fell to the ground, the illusion faded and turned into dust without any loot.
The slave area is divided into seven areas. The third entrance is located in the center of the second area. Of course, this place has been destroyed by the force of nature once before. The entire ruins appear to be fragmented and intertwined with natural rock formations.
As expected, there were some problems with the map they bought. It was all thanks to Tenerik to find the way. Fang Plover and his party were able to arrive here in time. However, unexpectedly, they did not meet anyone from Silver Vislan, but a group of people. Adventure team.
Those people were afraid that they would activate the mechanism first, so they attacked here as soon as they met. However, there were no surprises in the battle. Box took control of the opponent's magician as soon as he took action, and Tenerik defeated the opponent's two iron guards. Even if they couldn't afford it, Parker used every opportunity to make sneak attacks, so the battle was almost one-sided in their favour.
The other party collapsed at the first touch.
Except for the box, no one else tried their best, so only the magician died on the spot. The box also found some fully charged magic storage crystals from the opponent and threw them to Parker.
Although it was difficult for the opponent to move forward after losing the magician, Fang Plover still activated the mechanism when passing through the exit, activating the golem guards here to prevent the opponent from catching up and seeking revenge.
This is also a small setting in the trial.
At the exit of each floor, there are two guard golems designed by Toragotos sleeping here. They will obey the orders of the first group of trialists passing by and block subsequent entrants.
Of course, the guards are not impossible to defeat, but casualties are inevitable, and it is a waste of time. If you miss the first batch of opportunities to enter the twelve exits, you basically miss out on high scores.
In this trial, the competition is even more fierce, because there may be only one winner in the end.
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