Chapter 62: The Underground Puzzle
A new type of construct? Is it from the ancient alchemy of Noumerin? Or is it some kind of inheritance from the Dark Saints? Somehow, a word naturally came to Fang Yu's mind - the deep sea. But according to Lord Anlothor, the inheritance of the Abyssal Sea Document is also the inheritance of the Numerin Elf, Fang Yu was slightly stunned, and suddenly realized that he had always ignored a blind spot - if the Abyssal Sea Document came from the inheritance of Noumerin, then why should people keep it secret, even if the knowledge is determined by the person who has it, but this statement itself admits that the origin of the Abyssal Sea Document does not seem to be so simple. What exactly is the Abyssal Sea Document? What do the inscriptions on the tablets from the Noumerin era say? Fang Yu couldn't help but think of the manuscripts recorded by Princess Rupert's biological mother, the princess during her lifetime—but unfortunately he didn't get much information from those messy notes. However, this did not prevent him from contemplating the series of disputes that had arisen over the manuscript, and everyone involved in it - the Dawn Star of ten years ago, the scholars, the twelve people who had only left different code names, and even the Super Athletic Alliance, Stargate Harbor, the Blind Followers, the Wandering Alchemists, and the Istanian royal family.
So many things are enough to explain the secrets hidden behind the Abyssal Sea Documents, and the dark stars he saw in the Tower Illusion Realm are also related to it? If not, it seems difficult to explain why they suddenly appeared in the illusion that represented the alchemical heritage of Noumerin. But if so, what kind of message does the creator of the illusion send to those who come after him? What does it mean for this kind of construction to disappear under the dust of history, a kind of technical inheritance, or does it have another meaning?
Fang Yu looked at the wreckage in his hand, because it appeared in this place, it was difficult for him not to make associations. Rollin had shown them once, and this was the second time, and the dark cultists seemed to have mastered these strange constructs, but the technology has always been traceable, and it will not create a fault out of thin air, where did the dark cultists get such a technology?
Is it also a document of the deep sea?
There is this possibility, which can explain why people have changed the color of the Yuanhai paper. If this knowledge is used as a label for dark believers, then conversely, the same label can be used to define who is likely to be a dark believer.
It's just that Fang Yu sorted out the knowledge he had about the Abyssal Sea Documents—whether it was multiple parallels or margins, it didn't seem to have anything to do with these constructs. Or is that part of the knowledge he has is just scratching the surface compared to the Abyssal Sea Documents? Judging by that daunting manuscript, this does not seem impossible.
He was thinking, but it was hard to notice the subtle changes in the wreckage on his hands. Suddenly, it curled up and grabbed at his throat, but a hand reached out and pulled it out and slammed it against the wall.
The wreckage shattered against the wall, but the remaining parts still writhed on the ground like a dying snake. Fang Yu watched this scene with a little shock. He'd never been in a situation like this, how did that thing move? Where is its power source?
"Thank you...... Thank you. He turned around and thanked Shesta, who had a poker face. But the maid lady took one look at him and took him for air.
"It doesn't look like a constructor at all, it looks like some kind of creature." Parker was also startled, looking at the piece of metal writhing on the ground with a little horror.
“…… It's rare to hear you say such insightful things, Parker. ”
"yes, should I say more?"
"Excuse me."
Fang Owl interrupted the Paparal, who was about to make a tirade, and looked at the thing with a frown. He had planned to take it out and check it out, but it looked like security was a big concern. But he still didn't understand how the thing moved, so he thought for a moment, walked over and picked up the smallest piece from the torn wreckage, and wrapped it in layers with a handkerchief.
"Let's move on." He said to the others.
"But are you sure it's safe?"
"I don't know, but I'll have to see."
The deeper you went down the rough road, the more debris on the ground grew. And another kind of wreckage also appeared - the corpse of the crystallized beast. The three of them carefully walked between the various wreckage, and Parker couldn't help but say, "It's like a big war here." ”
Fang Yu nodded, but he could also tell that not only was there a big battle here, but the battle was happening from the inside out, so the closer you got to the outside, the fewer traces of the battle there were.
Soon, for the first time, they saw the remains of the mysterious construct that was still intact. When the shadow of the thing appeared at the end of the torch's glow, Parker couldn't help but gasp. What a creature it is—it's like it's a natural instinct for people to design their own constructs. Most of the remaining constructs imitate some kind of animal, because every animal that has survived today is the most successful masterpiece of nature, and biomimicry is one of the most practical sciences. But the metal monster in front of it, it barely had a fixed shape, its upper body was swollen, its lower body was slender, the metal appendages wrapped around its body flowed sideways like twisted intestines, and it had two of the largest arms, also drooping on the ground, and at a glance it was almost impossible to tell where the head was and where the tail was.
Parker gasped and said, "Oh my god, what is this?" ”
Fang Yu was also a little shocked. But he's an alchemist after all, and this thing, no matter how ugly, is just a construct. It looked a bit like an ugly worm, so he gave it a name, the Hesiod Worm, which means the hundred-armed giant in Greek mythology, which has a similar meaning.
He slapped Parker, "You shoot it with an arrow?" ”
"What the hell, I shot that thing with an arrow, and it ate us all!"
"If you don't, it'll eat us all later."
Only then was Parker convinced, and he pulled the winch of the magic crossbow and fired an arrow in that direction.
The arrow slammed into the thing's shell with a crisp thud, pulled out a long spark, and flew away. The worm remained motionless, like a pile of twisted metal shards piled on the ground.
Fang Yu waited for a long time, until the light of the torches dimmed a lot. There was only the sound of a peeling flame burning in the silent air, and after a few moments, he said, "Let's go, let's go around." ”
"By, bypass?" Parker's eyes widened wider than brass bells.
"Otherwise, you just walk over there?"
"No, I didn't mean that, I mean ......"
But Shesta ignored the two of them and walked over.
Fang Plover grabbed the Paparal man by the collar and dragged him over. The Paparals shouted:
"I warn you, don't drag me like a bag of flour, my clothes are newly bought, my collar, I was wrong, I'll go by myself!"
The three of them cautiously walked around the tall wreckage. Due to the previous experience, Fang Yu also extinguished his mind to study it, this thing wants to move, but it is really as powerful as the hundred-armed giant in Greek mythology, and the three of them can't control it. But fortunately, in the end, there was no danger, and the thing remained motionless and silent as usual. This couldn't help but make Fang Yu think, what was it that made the wreckage move before? Just because it feels like a living person is approaching? But how close is it to be close, and does physical contact have to be? These were the things he was puzzled about, but unfortunately he didn't have the opportunity to experiment.
After passing through the corpse of the worm, Fang Plover saw the corpse of a tall crystallized beast leaning against the cliff. He knew it—the Disordered Overseers, who had not been able to survive the Great War three days earlier. But at this moment, this behemoth fell in this place, Fang Yu had a slight palpitation, how strong were those constructs outside?
Further on, the traces of the battle intensified. But something new appeared on the rock walls on both sides - wall carvings.
The text is the text of the ancient Sinsas snake people, the ancient proverbs, in praise of the gods of yesteryear, in praise of the old sages.
The murals make Fang Plover feel as if he has returned to Fenris's underground, and the murals here are the same as there:
In the beginning, the black and white gods fought and on the plains, meteorites rolled down, and the creatures on the earth scattered and fled.
Then the Evil Star descended, and out of the black flames was born the throne. The empire of the snake people is established.
Seven kingdoms are in turmoil, and the empire is reduced to dust in the midst of disaster. It was a story from before the era.
But one of the pictures made Fang Yu stop and stare for a long time:
It was a black giant falling into the sky, dragging its long tail and surrounded by many smaller stars.
The serpents of the earth bow and worship, and the earth is vast and boundless. But no matter how Fang Yuan looked at it, those smaller stars were like the ones he had seen in the Tower Illusion Realm—the dark stars.
Around the mural, around the worshipping snake people, there are seven small obelisks, and the light of the black stars is depicted in an abstract way, like a bundle of sharp swords, inserted into the earth.
When Fang Yu saw this, he was already shocked and couldn't help himself. "Seven obelisks, the land of the twelve stars...... Seven obelisks, the land of twelve stars, eternal wisdom, endless life. ”
He recited it twice in a row, and the stars on the mural, no more, no less, exactly eleven, plus the main star.
"Elven Holy Grail," Fang Yu muttered, as if there was a feeling of enlightenment in his mind, "This is the Elven Holy Grail!" ”
Parker's mouth was wide open. Even Shesta took a step forward in a moving manner, and it was what the young lady had been looking for—but she suddenly thought of something, and silently retreated to Fang Yuan's side.
"Where did the first scourge be?" Like a bolt of lightning passing through the darkness, lighting up the sea of thoughts, Fang Yu asked loudly.
Together with the Paparals, he opened the system and entered the community, but after a long time, the answer given on it was Agenor, a place that translates to today as the Realm of Turbidity.
"Ahh Fang Yu couldn't help but scream. Not only because that place is in the second world, but more importantly, the Chinese division has just lost there, and it is only by relying on the intervention of the military that it has been able to maintain a foothold. Now it has become a place where the major forces compete, a place of four wars, a veritable realm of turbidity.
Fang Yu was keenly aware that the big battle a year ago was probably not so simple.
Parker also kept his mouth open for a long time without speaking, and it took him a while before he came back to his senses, licked his dry lips and asked, "Are we going to continue to investigate?" ”
By the time they got to this place, they had discovered a lot of secrets. But Fang Yu nodded: "Of course." He had a feeling that there must be a bigger secret hidden in the deepest part of this place.
The torch was extinguished, and Fang Yu replaced it with another. The road behind is somewhat cookie-cutter, with the remains of the battle and the remains of the Sinsas era, carved on the walls, as if walking in a corridor of time, but nothing new. Suddenly, the space in front of the three of them suddenly opened up, and they entered a deep circular gorge, an arched stone bridge, far connected to the distant rock platform ahead. They had seen a similar structure in the underground of Fenris, and the Sinsas seemed keen to build such a structure in the middle of the abyss—the enclosed circular gorge, the last section of the long road—a stone platform in a circular shape surrounded by a ring of tall stone pillars.
Fang Yu looked in that direction. As he led the others onto the stone bridge, a strange thought suddenly occurred in his heart:
That is, leave the place immediately, preferably without even looking back. Get off the bridge immediately and go back the way you came.
As if in the next step, they will face unimaginable horrors. But they have all arrived at this place, how can they return?
Fang Yu overcame this thought, which had no reason, and walked forward. But the step he took stopped in mid-air, and at that moment—a boundless fear seized his heart.
A huge coercion descended from the top of his head, and Fang Yu raised his head a little stiffly, barely holding the torch in his hand. The flickering flame, as if it could not produce any light, looked at the faint flame of light, as if attracted by an invisible force, no longer moving logically, but strangely leaning to one side.
He felt something getting closer and closer to them, but he couldn't look up. He seemed to have been detached from reality, half of the spiritual world could still think normally, but his body was like a stone sculpture, and he couldn't move.
A green light lit up from his coat, and the glittering light seemed to drive away all darkness in an instant, like a warm current, flowing into his heart. The fear in his heart disappeared without a trace in an instant, and Fang Yu seemed to feel that he had regained control of his body all of a sudden.
He reacted sharply, but immediately felt himself being pulled by someone, it was Miss Maid. The maid grabbed him and rushed across the stone bridge, followed by the Paparal, who followed with a pair of short legs, and the three of them leaped and landed firmly on the platform.
Fang Yu rolled on the ground several times before he realized what was happening. Then he heard a low screech coming from overhead, a sound that seemed to penetrate the meninges and make the entire underground buzz. Even the surrounding rock pillars shook, and the sand rolled down like a waterfall, making a sparse noise.
Fang Yu subconsciously looked in that direction, but only saw a giant tail at least a hundred meters long sweeping through the darkness and disappearing above the cliff, and several rocks rolled down with a few loud noises.
The coercion was gone, but Fang Ou's whole body was already soaked as if it had been fished out of the water. In a short moment, he was already in a cold sweat.
He lay on the ground like a drowning man, gasping for air, as if he had died once and was now reborn.
The Paparal man also lay on the ground, out of breath: "The green light...... What is it, if it weren't for it, we'd all be hanging here. ”
Fang Yu then remembered something, turned over and took out the thing, it was actually two things, not one—one was the amulet that Mr. Ann Loser had given him.
The other is a mediocre piece of dead wood.
That was the Heart of the World Tree that Moon Arrit had given them. The moment Fang Yu saw this thing, he was almost certain that it might be another Guardian who appeared before.
Crystal.
He looked in that direction with a little trepidation, and in the darkness it always felt as if there was still a gaze staring at them—a strange feeling that lingered and was a little breathless.
The crystal may still be in that place, but why doesn't it come down and kill them? Fang Yu didn't think that a withered Heart of the World Tree could make it so fearful.
He stared at the darkness and depth in that direction for a long time, without saying a word.
Of the three, only Shesta was still standing, looking up in the same direction. But Parker suddenly looked behind her and cried out in surprise:
"What's that!?"
A rickety ball of light flew out from behind a stone pillar, flew around them left and right, and then stopped, stopping not far from them.
Fang Yu also looked at this thing with a little curiosity, but it was indeed a ball of light, and there was nothing inside. He hesitated for a moment, and reached out to touch the ball of light, but the latter backed away slightly and did not let him touch it.
The three of them looked at each other for a while, and even their fear of crystals faded a little for a while. What is this? Spirit? Some kind of elemental creature? Mental halo?
But then something even more surprising happened, they tried to ignore the light, but they went there, and the light group followed there.
At first, Fang Yu was worried about what threat this thing posed to them, but it turned out that he thought too much, and this light group seemed to be curious about them as outsiders, and always surrounded them.
Over time, the three of them didn't bother to care about this little tail, maybe it would lose interest after a while, and it would naturally leave. There are countless strange creatures in Aitalia, some of them are like elves, and it seems that there is nothing strange about it.
Only then did Fang Yu try to let go of his previous fear and began to explore what was on this platform. No matter what the crystal wants to do to them, since they are in this place, even if they risk losing their lives, they must find out what secrets are here.
The stone platform that stands on top of a deep gorge is actually not very large, and the internal structure is relatively simple, so you can almost see the head at a glance.
The platform was littered with the corpses of the constructs and crystallized beasts, most of which had been torn to shreds, and they fought to the death around a circle in the center of the platform until both sides were exhausted.
But there may be an eventual winner in this battle.
Fang Yu walked up to the magic circle, which was a newly carved magic circle.
"This circle is ......"
Fang Yu was slightly stunned, the magic circle was not unfamiliar to alchemists, but it obviously did not include the one in front of him.
Its composition is full of peculiarities, with no mobilization elements, no spell components, and a lot of descriptions of space-time - a teleportation array? But it's not quite like that, Fang Yu hasn't seen a teleportation array that doesn't even provide coordinates. And on this array, there are a lot of specious spells.
Fang Yu frowned as he walked up to the circle, the air around the circle was filled with a strange aura, it was an aether form he had never seen before, it was certain that the same power had existed in large numbers around this circle, they might have surged out of the circle in an instant.
Is this a summoning array? But what did they summon, the power of the entire Aether River beneath Nognes?
As he pondered, Parker found something in the center of the circle interrupted his train of thought.
In the center of the circle, there was a towering crystal, and Fang Yu guessed that the army of crystals might have come for this, but they should have failed to stop the Chosen One, the Dark Believers.
In the distance, the ball of light was flying around Shesta, looking very curious.
Parker found a dragon scale from under the crystal and ran back.
Fang Yu looked at the dragon scales, half of them were as green as jade, and half were as black as ink. It's the scales of the green dragon, but it's not all there.
It was only in that moment that Fang Plover remembered a name: Torragtos.
He looked at the scales, then at the crystal mountain, and at the huge magic circle, and the scene that the miners had once depicted, and he also churned in his heart, and an unbelievable thought could not help but rise in his mind.
There is something wrong with Toragotos's death, Rollin, wanderers, dragon worshippers, what are they planning?
Is this the ritual spell of resurrection Torragtos?
But is that magic circle full of time, space, and summoning phrases really used for this?
Unfortunately, there are no more clues on the platform. If there is anything else to discover, it is about to at least confirm that Nognes's leyline has indeed been artificially altered in this place, through some means.
But the consequences of such a change may not be known, at least for now.
It will take time to verify.
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