Chapter 122: The Last Message
This sudden scene startled Xue Hua, and he thought that he had accidentally touched some vicious mechanism.
However, just as he was about to release the swarm for defense, Isha told him in the mind of the main hive that it was just a psionic image and that it was not a threat in itself.
Isha guessed that the gemstone ornament, in addition to being a cleverly designed "tape recorder", was also a key to unlock the psionic image on the arch, which must have hidden very important information.
Hearing Isha's words, Xue Hua hurriedly turned around and walked in front of the old cat man's image, wanting to see what the information about the cat people staying here was.
And then, at this moment, the cat-man suddenly spoke.
"Whoever was the last to see this record, the first thing you need to know is that the race that left it is dead out......
Something terrible happened here, and my people ended up destroying here.
All hope has left me, and all good things have turned to dust.
I blinded it with everything I had left, so that it didn't finally find what it wanted.
We took refuge in a paradise, but it eventually found us.
As I left with only hope left, I found that the world was in the midst of an even greater calamity.
We had nowhere to stay, we were displaced, but at the last moment we were helped by another great ethnic hero.
He fused the knowledge and skills of our two nations and eventually hid us in the ruins of a city he had visited.
Before we left, the hero gave me a precious artifact, asked us to keep it for him, and told me that one day someone would come and take it.
Sadly, however, we may not be able to fulfill his mandate in person, for the calamity has once again found us.
This time, we really had no escape......
It stifled my hopes one by one in front of me and forced me to say where he wanted it was.
But out of revenge, I didn't say anything.
It would eventually kill me, but it didn't know that I had expected this day to come.
Before entering the barren and dangerous ruins, I ordered my remaining people to forge this arch, which I knew would eventually find it, but it would not be able to enter without the guidance of the key.
Those who read this, the holy object and that thing were hidden behind this door by me, but there was a secret defense method that the hero taught us.
If you want to get that artifact and that thing, you have to walk through this door with a jewel ornament in hand.
You must be examined by the arcane to prove that you have nothing to do with it.
If you fail, you will be punished! ”
The information ended here, and the image of the cat man was instantly shattered into a point of light in the sky, leaving Xue Hua alone standing in front of the stone arch and looking at this thing in a daze.
The amount of information revealed in this video is a little bigger.
That old cat man who is dying old must be the leader of the Iguana tribe, "Dopdoc".
I didn't expect him to really escape from the pursuit of that guy with the cubs in the clan.
And he must have gone straight out into the desert at first.
I guess he's looking for a temporary hiding place, right?
But what he didn't expect was that after he and his group lived in isolation for nearly a hundred years, the outside world had also undergone earth-shaking changes.
The rest of the cat people no longer exist, and humans have taken over the land.
But that's not a big deal, after all, cats have dealt with humans in the past.
But what he never expected was probably the invasion of demons.
Xue Hua estimated that when this guy ran out, it was the time when the Hell invasion was at its most intense.
It was one of the darkest and most chaotic years on the entire continent, and even the otherwise peaceful and barren desert was stained with blood.
This situation was probably something he didn't expect, so his plans were all disrupted.
And just as he wanders around with the only remaining hope of his clan, not knowing what to do, a human hero comes to their aid.
Xue Hua guessed that this so-called human "hero" should be a member of the Hradim Mage Guild at that time, because only this group of mysterious and powerful mages could rely on merging the magic skills of cats and humans and hiding the remaining cats again.
But the holy relic he entrusted the cats to help keep caught Xue Hua's attention.
According to the timeline of this world, just as Hell's invasion of the Sanctuary World reached its climax, the most legendary mage hero of mankind, Ta Rasha, successfully intercepted and defeated the God of Destruction "Baal", one of the three demon gods of Hell who was "exiled" to the human world through a rebellion plot.
He inserted the soul stone that sealed Baal into his heart, and eventually succeeded in trapping the powerful demon god.
After that, Tarasia sealed himself and Baal into the depths of his mausoleum, and with the help of the mages of Hradim, banished the mausoleum into the gap between reality and illusion.
In order to monitor the state of the mausoleum, the Hradim mages used a mysterious metal obtained from the East to create a staff that could open the door to the mausoleum, the Staff of Hradim.
The Hradim cube was then cast from the remaining metal.
Later, after an incident in which the staff was nearly stolen by a villain mage due to poor keeping, the Hradim mages split the staff into two parts and scattered them in several safe places in the desert along with the only Hradik block that could reunite them.
According to the documents of the time, the three relics were taken away and hidden by three different Hradim mages, who did not know where the other components were placed by each other, so as to ensure the maximum safety of the mausoleum.
Xue Hua guessed that the leader of the cat people who had just escaped from the oasis at that time should have happened to meet the Hradim mage who was looking for a place to hide one of the holy relics, and then after hearing what happened to the cat people, the mage was very sympathetic and at the same time, he also had an idea, and thought of the way to hand over the holy relic in his hand to these remaining cat people for safekeeping.
He spent some time studying the magic of the cats, fusing them with them, and eventually using this strange magic to send the cats to the ruins of a human city he had visited.
As for why he sent the cats there, Xue Hua didn't know, it was possible that the ruins of that city were relatively hidden, or it could be that something unexpected happened in the ruins of that city, which made it impossible to reach there by ordinary means.
And if Xue Hua's guess is correct, the ruins of the city should be the "Lost City" map in the game.
The last of the three elements of the Heradic Staff, the Serpentine Crest, should be in the "Serpent Canyon" area of this map.
Of course, these are just in-game information and Xue Hua's speculations, as for whether the serpentine ornament is really there, you still have to go over and see for yourself to know.
So, no matter what, he had to activate this door.
But the problem now is, he can't afford that much money to buy 24 flawless gems?!
Who are you looking for to be the culprit of this??