After the gate opened, Cervantes and Ziegler did not immediately lead the group inside.

They didn't know what kind of world was behind the gate, and if there was anything waiting for them, after all, Ziegler didn't unlock the gate with a code, but used 'brute force'.

It's not like the black dragon who wants to smash it directly with his fist, but to find out the weak point of the rune and then disassemble it.

It wasn't a normal way to open the door, so Ziegler wasn't sure what would be ready to greet them after he opened it like this.

Standing in front of the open door, Ziegler raised his hand and knocked on the metal door, closing his eyes again.

"Hey, haven't you found it yet?" Cervantes kept tapping the ground impatiently on the tip of his right leg, "Is it so troublesome to find a source of energy delivery?"

"The technology used by the Arcane Empire is not the same ......as ours," Ziegler frowned, "I even have some doubts about whether they are using the 'wireless transmission' technology, there is hardly any place to connect with the back passage here at the gate, but there is no magic circle engraved on the surface of this gate, if you can't directly contact the free magic, even if the materials used are good at conducting magic, it is useless!"

"The magic circles and runes engraved on the surface are easy to break and crack, and the Arcane Empire almost always places the runes and magic circles inside, just like this gate and the ruins I saw at the beginning, there are mezzanine layers inside the door, and there must be a lot of things buried in the walls of the front passage......" Speaking of this, Ziegler paused, "I seem to have found it, the energy comes from ...... Inside?!"

Ziegler opened his eyes and quickly exchanged glances with the black dragon beside him, both of them knew very well that this meant that the energy used by this relic was cut off from the outside, and that there might be a magic furnace or elemental furnace inside.

Instead of being connected to the leylines, it has an independent energy system......

Cervantes looked ahead at the brightly lit passageway, like a doorway, equally silvery-white, imbued with a cold and rational sense of the future.

Glancing back at the mages and soldiers standing behind him, Cervantes took a deep breath, "Forward!"

With that, he was the first to step into the passage, followed by the mages, then the soldiers, and Ziegler and the puppet girl at the end of the line.

The speed of the team was not very fast, Cervantes kept scanning the surroundings with a pair of dark yellow vertical pupils, and the mages activated the [Magical Vision], shrunk behind their lord, carefully studying the light of the runes and circles hidden behind the walls.

At the event of any change, they immediately alert their lord that he and Mister Ziegler are their reliance in the ruins of the Arcane Empire.

The passage was short, and soon, Cervantes was faced with a choice – he could only choose one of the three paths.

When I was outside just now, I didn't realize that there was a crossroads here, and the other two roads were not obvious, so even the dragon couldn't see clearly.

"Do you want to go separately?" Ziegler later noticed, too, and suggested in a loud voice.

There was also a bit of commotion in the ranks, and while it was their lord who made the decision, most people didn't think that 'going their own way' was a good thing, and that it might save time, but it would cause a lot of trouble.

The soldiers were also able to go to the reading room to borrow the "Star Sea Monthly" in their spare time, and learned some knowledge related to magic, so they were also a little frightened in the face of this choice, afraid that the lord would choose to act separately.

The remnants of the Arcane Empire are all their research institutes, which have a higher level of protection than the Mage Tower, although they don't place as many magic traps in this kind of place as the Mage Tower, but what if there is a 'Tower Spirit' in this place?

The passage is clean and bright, and it is still so clean today after more than 800 years, without any dust, and from this point we know that it has an 'automatic cleaning function', I don't know if it is really 'automatic' or has Taling control, in short, be cautious.

What's more, they are now 'invaders'!

After thinking for a moment, Cervantes shook his head, "Splitting up may lead to huge casualties, and I can't protect everyone with one dragon." ”

In the ruins of the Arcane Empire, no matter how careful you are, the last time because of his willfulness, several knights and nearly a hundred soldiers died in the bottomless abyss.

He was no longer alone, he was the lord of the place, whether he wanted it or not, and when he took over the power from his father, he was destined to carry something that he did not want to carry, and even sneered at.

"Keep going. Cervantes gave the order to the team, "Leave the passage on both sides aside for the time being, and make a choice when you return." ”

As a research institute, the road here can't be too complicated, otherwise, if even researchers have to get lost here, then how can they do research?

Ziegler wanted to explore alone with the puppet girl, but since Cervantes had said so, he didn't think about anything else.

He now wanted to go to the places where the researchers usually conduct their research experiments, and it would be better if he could get to the archives.

The ruins here were opened by his own hands, and no one should have entered during this period, and all he got here was first-hand information.

However, the only regret is that the materials of the Arcane Empire generally exist in the form of 'paper documents', and even parchment, there should be some problems.

Although as it stands, there is an automatic cleaning function, and there may be no insects, if that is the case, then the files should be able to be saved a lot.

Cervantes led the group on, and the rest of the journey was rather boring, with a repeating silver-white corridor, and a bit narrow, the top was even a few feet higher than Cervantes' dragon horn, which really made people wonder if this was really the remains of the Arcane Empire.

"How long have you been walking?" suddenly stopped, and the voice of Cervantes came from ahead, which made Ziegler stunned slightly, and then subconsciously calculated the time.

"It's probably more than forty minutes...... Ziegler paused, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "We've arrived?"

"It's ......"

Cervantes took another step and walked forward.

Despite the anticipation in his heart, Ziegler heard a slight unnaturalness in Cervantes's words, and immediately his heart sank, and he continued to walk at the end of the line.

As the team moved on, Ziegler noticed that the space around him suddenly became wider, and when he looked around, he realized that he had already walked into a large hall.

He had been vigilant to the rear just now, so he didn't realize what was happening in front of him, and only now did he know why the team in front of him didn't make the slightest sound.

The mages and soldiers held their breath and kept looking around, they were blown away by everything in this ruin.

The hall was quite large, and the top was quite high, and looking up, Ziegler calculated that even an adult dragon could fly freely in this wide space.

Around the hall, he also saw glass pipes, large glass pipes with a kind of 'floating platform' that could be raised and lowered.

This all heralds one thing – this is where their journey of discovery really begins!

The previous corridor and the fork in the road where it didn't even lead was the starting point, this was the real starting point, and the ruins they were about to explore were directly below it.

"These elevators, they still work. ”

While Ziegler was still looking around, Cervantes said coldly: "The energy here has not been cut off!"

"This place has been here for so long, why is it still able to continue to operate without being connected to the leylines? If no one has maintained the Magic Energy Furnace or the Elemental Furnace, this place should have stopped functioning a long time ago!"

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