Chapter 1086: The Bridge of Sorrow
Led by the Frost Guard, Jeno and his party walked through the deserted, icy main fortress. After pushing open the gate at the end, step into the place of light in the shadows.
The cold wind blowing in the face made people stagger, and the howl in the wind was like the ice ghost in the legend.
Jeno found himself between two glaciers close to each other, looking up to see a white misty sky, the dim light shining through the wind and snow above into the rift.
Beneath them was an extremely old stone bridge, part of which had collapsed and fallen into the darkness below.
Time never respects ancient beauty, as long as you zoom in to a longer time scale, everything is fleeting. Even the grandest peaks are smoothed out by wind erosion; The deepest seas will also be filled with sand and dust, and as long as you are given enough time, nothing is set in stone.
"I didn't expect there to be such a hidden rift behind the main fort......"
When everyone saw the sudden change, they confided their surprise in their hearts. Looking at this ancient stone bridge that overlapped with his impression, Jeno frowned and sighed: "If I'm not mistaken, there should be a howling abyss under the stone bridge, right?" ”
"This bridge was forged by the Old Gods, and legend has it that the Three Sisters led the Iceborn against the Overseers, deciding the fate of the world through battle. It's just that...... I can't confirm the veracity of the legend now. ”
The Frost Guard nodded in response to Jeno, and then immersed himself in the thoughts of the distant years: "This bridge has many names: the place of trials, the bridge of murder, and so on. Others simply call it the bridge of the main fort, or the Howling Vault. And in our tribe, people often call it the Bridge of Sorrow. After all, thousands of Iceborn have died here. ”
The cold wind swirled into a whirlpool, whistling and shouting mercilessly. He recalled the countless days when he had gazed at the long list of thousands of people engraved on the walls of the meeting hall. More than half of their names have a simple rune added to their name, the rune of death.
In the Frostguard Fortress, there will be such an expedition at the spring equinox next year, and the assembly will select three frost guards to be sent to inspect the watchman's seal. Even for the Iceborn, this sacred duty is dangerous, and many have died in the line of duty, hence the list of honors carved into an entire wall.
The two sideburns shaved Frost Guard had been there once, and he was lucky that none of the three of his companions had died. But before that, he had already witnessed the senior seniors carrying the corpses of their companions, climbing the 10,000-foot-deep ice cliffs, and returning from the base of the world.
What a respectable perseverance, what a firm faith, and what an awe-inspiring attitude. But at the same time, it is also an iron law that cannot be broken - their goddess Lisandro does not allow corpses to be discarded in the abyss.
"Unfortunately, the bridge was built by Orn himself, and it was supposed to be immortal in his vision, but it was eroded by Lisandro's dark magic, and it became the dilapidated form it is today." As Frostguard reminisced about the past, Jeno noticed the broken ruins on the ice cliffs on either side.
Through the thick mist, Jeno saw the skeletons of bridge piers growing on the ice cliffs thousands of feet away, the destroyed ruins that marked where the other bridges once existed.
It turns out that the Bridge of Grief is not the only bridge that crosses the chasm.
There were dozens of bridges between the two walls of the Great Breach, but only a few were visible at the same time, wrapped tightly like a shroud in fog and darkness. All but the top one, all but the rest have been abandoned. The tunnels and pathways leading to these bridges were also blocked by avalanches or sealed by the Frostguard themselves, limiting the number of entrances to the main fort and preventing the darkness from invading.
"We've searched all over the main fort, and if Lisandro isn't here, we'll probably have to go below the abyss."
Sarah stomped the icy rocks, her high heels striking a clear echo, the stone bridge just looked a little older, but it was actually quite sturdy.
"Look on the bridge, if you can't find Nunu, you'll have to go down......" Jeno felt his mouth dry and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He looked to the other side of the bridge, and if he didn't find Nunu after the last kilometer, then he would be lucky.
Walking along the bridge, a huge statue of the Guardian watched them silently on the way, and they did not stop, even when they saw the black ice statue belonging to the three sisters.
"I finally know why people say that Ash is the reincarnation of Avarossa, they look like ah......" Sarah opened her mouth to break the gloomy atmosphere, and she was shocked when she compared Avarosa and Ash's faces, and the long white hair.
"Indeed." Sindra glanced at it and couldn't help but nod, it was so similar, it was almost carved out of a mold.
Jeno glanced at it, not paying much attention, because he had already seen the ice sculpture of Alvarosa in the Sanctuary of Lakstark. He had also seen the statue of Serilda, the Mother of the Fearless, but none of Lisandro's.
On this statue, Lisandro does not wear an ornate robe or a heavy hood. She had long, heavy, thick hair that was coiled into two spiky ears. It seems that in order to tie the ears of the hair, the hood is designed to be shaped with long horns. She closed her eyes and listened quietly to the ethereal wail that flowed in the wind.
"Old Bing Po looks pretty good when she takes off her hood." Jax looked up at the black ice statue of Lisandro and said what he wanted to say but didn't dare to say for Jeno. In the face of this ancient witch who was two to three times his age, he did not have the slightest respect.
"Right." Jax said, clapping his hand on the shoulders of Cassadine and Jeno, the only two men on the team besides him.
Jeno didn't say anything, and Cassadine glanced at his daughter Kaisha, then smiled awkwardly under the mask.
These three men were so strange, two with masks, and one with a face that was stiffer than a mask. Jax was bored and turned his head. Looking at the sudden flames rising in the torch lamppost, Jax stopped talking, and forgot what to say.
"Wait!" A voice suddenly stopped everyone, and Jeno looked back to see Kai'Sa covering her arms, her brow furrowed.
"What's wrong?" Jeno asked.
"That feeling is coming again, be careful." As she spoke, the second skin kept coming from the sensation of pins and needles, and she would never be mistaken.
Void creatures!
"Elemental fire tells me they're nearby." As he spoke, Jax was on alert, holding the lamppost horizontally in front of him.
There are only a few hundred meters left to walk to the bridge, and a few people, you look at me, I look at you, and continue to walk along the bridge with great caution.