Jean? Lucas finally chose to compromise, in fact, his compromise was expected by many people: for an old blood clan who adhered to ancient rites, the weight of seniority and seniority was difficult for outsiders to understand, and even if he didn't give face to the other seniors, there was no way to ignore Vivien, a special ancient person.

The ancients who have witnessed all the events of the Age of Mythology, Hesperius who will not be able to get off the stage if he comes to intervene at any time, the current stormy situation, and the influence of the Hethanna family that cannot be ignored, Jean? Lucas made a smart decision based on all these factors. Occasionally relaxing one's stubborn tenets won't necessarily lead to much loss of profit, but it would be unwise to offend a bunch of troublesome people just to save face.

The entrance to the ruins is at the Parthenon, but the crowd cannot go directly to the real Athens, and the witchers have been closely monitoring the preserved buildings from ancient times, and they are waiting for the reckless alien nostalgia. There is also a safe route to the entrance: the Parthenon in Shadow Athens.

This shadow city is the work of the Shadow Masters of the Bloodlines and Shadow Demons, and thousands of years ago, the shadow casters who were still in their prime, twisted the space in a special way, and copied and dragged half of the city of Athens into the shadow of the real Athens, thus creating this strange replica. Many of its areas correspond to the real Athens, not only in shape and structure, but even in spatial coordinates, just like parallel space, the shadow of Athens is shrouded in the landmarks of the real Athens, and it is stored around many ordinary people. It's just that ordinary people can't detect its existence.

As a result, there was also a Parthenon in Shadow Athens, and in fact its absolute spatial coordinates were located in the same place as the temple in the real world. With a few clever transformations, the crowd can go straight from the sanctuary to the ruins. Thus avoiding detection by the Witchers.

Jean? Lucas ordered his servants to retrieve the artifacts needed to open the gates of the ruins from the family treasury, and though he was reluctant, he still had to make a thoughtful gesture and personally come to "open the door" for Vivien.

Located in the middle of the ancient Acropolis, the Parthenon has been quietly overlooking the world for more than 2,400 years from the highest point of the city. Hao Ren and his party, together with Hethanna and Lucas and their respective retinues, rushed to the place where the temple was located, which happened to be "noon" in shadow Athens.

There is no morning or evening in this chaotic city. The inhabitants rely on clocks to determine their schedules, and now is the time when the sun is in the middle of the outside world, and the power of the shadows in the real world is suppressed to the limit, opening the gates in the fortress of shadows can prevent the breath from leaking into the real Athens: the sun will eliminate the slightest fluctuation. Although this impact is minimal, the word prudence has been engraved into the bones of everyone in this city, and they have survived for so many years.

After climbing the hill platform, the first person to jump up was none other than Betsy, a mercenary girl who had been so low-key since she followed everyone to Shadow Athens that she was almost forgotten by others.

The girl looked at the rectangular temple in front of her and jumped up happily: "Ah! This is similar to the ancient buildings I saw in my grandfather's book! ”

As soon as Hao Ren heard this, he chuckled in his heart: "Your grandfather's ancient book? ”

Betsy nodded vigorously, "yes." Did I say that? My grandfather was actually a scholar, specializing in ancient history, ancient civilizations and whatever, and he had a lot of ancient books. As mentioned above, there was a clan of the ancient civilization called the Highland Greks, and their houses were built of stone. Decorated with a bunch of columns, and full of sculptures: this is a people who especially like to toss sculptures. However, the purebred Highland Gluck seems to have become extinct. Now only a few half-breed descendants remain, and there are some ethnic minorities to the west of Holletta who are said to be their descendants. ”

"What do you say?" Hethanna looked at Betsy strangely. Because the latter didn't adapt to the environment in the shadow city, and didn't understand what was going on in the alien society of the earth, he had been honestly not talking much in this strange place, and at this time, as soon as he opened his mouth, he said a bunch of things that people couldn't understand, and Hethanna couldn't help but cast a puzzled look, "Halletta? Highland Gluckers? Nouns from the age of mythology? ”

"Uh...... Almost," Vivien hurriedly rounded up beside her, "Human wizards, you don't know that you study strange things, and they don't call some ancient things the same as us, this detail can make you tangled to death." ”

When Hethanna heard this, she didn't delve into this issue anymore, Hao Ren wiped her cold sweat and glanced at Betsy, and said in her heart that if there was a chance, she still had to popularize the common sense of aliens on the earth for this startled guy, maybe he would have to stay on the earth for a long time......

Then Hao Ren couldn't help but look at the famous temple on the hill, he had only seen pictures of this famous ancient building from the Internet before, and this was the first time he had seen the real thing. The Parthenon looked a little strange under the dark sky, it had lost its sacred color in the dim environment, and it was like a ghost town against the background of the dark sky. And in addition to the atmosphere, Hao Ren felt that the Parthenon in Athens in the shadows seemed to be very different from the pictures he had seen on the Internet: the one in front of him looked intact and the details were so well preserved that he barely recognized them at first glance.

"Shadow Athens hasn't experienced so much turmoil in the outside world, and the temple is almost intact," Hesperius heard that everyone was going to leave for the ruins, and followed with interest, she looked at the property in front of her that belonged to her family as if she sighed a little, "Only time to polish it a little bit." ”

"You're not going in?" Vivien glanced at Hesperith, "Maybe you can be a tour guide or something—there might be a sight in there that you're familiar with." ”

"I'm afraid I'll go in because I'm afraid I'll see those things," Hesperius smiled. "Sometimes I'd rather go to a temple that already requires a ticket than to see the almost perfectly preserved Athena's palace – the former makes me realize that many people won't be coming back. The latter always reminds me of when those people were still alive. ”

Vivien nodded understandingly, "Then I'll tell you about what I saw inside when I come out." ”

"That's fine," Hesperius nodded. Then he gently tapped on the place where the ornate jewel band was wrapped around his forehead, "I'm going back to keep guarding the gate, I'm not at ease with that place to be handed over to Herb, and I have a headache from staying in this place for a long time." ”

"Your wounds are still healed?" Vivien asked casually as she watched Hesperith's movements.

Hesperius pulled away the corner of the band slightly, and Hao Ren was surprised to find that there was a deep wound an inch wide and shimmering with a silver-white shimmer hidden underneath, "After two hundred years, it has only healed less than a millimeter compared to the last time, and it may not change at all, I guess it will not be better in this life." ”

After saying this. Hesperius smiled freely, turned and disappeared in front of everyone in a glow. Nangong May couldn't help but ask curiously: "Her wound is ......?"

"I was beaten by the witchers thousands of years ago," Vivien sighed, "I was cut open by the Demon Breaker Arrow, but I survived." It's a pity that this kind of wound may not heal for a lifetime, and her brain hole is an incurable disease. ”

Hao Ren: "......"

At this time, Heatherian and Jean had already completed the preparations to open the gate of the ruins, and Heatherena came to Vivien with a half-moon-shaped milky white slate: "Lord Vivian, get ready to go in~~ This is about to open the door!" ”

The group hurriedly followed into the temple and found that a strange ritual scene had been arranged: a marble square altar was placed in the open field inside the temple gate. Around the altar were a trifecta of intricate runes depicted in dark red suspicious paint, and the Blood Mages brought by Jean and Heatharena stood in a circle outside of them, powering the ceremony with a black-red mist. As a vague glow began to emerge on the altar, Hethanna and Jean placed their respective stone tablets on the altar to form a full moon. Immediately, everyone felt the atmosphere around them change.

The oppressive, gloomy aura that pervades the shadow of Athens seems to have subsided, and an uplifting force is pouring in from all directions.

As she watched the altar glow, Heatherian happily said to Vivienne: "In the beginning, I first noticed that this location occasionally overflowed with strange energy, although I don't know why the entrance is in such a strange place...... It overlaps with the gates of the Parthenon. ”

And at this time, Hao Ren suddenly stepped forward: "What then." Can I go over and look at the two slabs? ”

Before Hethiana could say anything, Jean stood vigilantly in front of the altar: "What do you want to do?" This slate is the crucial key! ”

Hao Ren waved his hand: "Don't be nervous. I'm just looking, wizard. Interested in magic. You can stare at it, can't I not touch it? ”

Vivian didn't know what Hao Ren wanted to do, but she still helped beside her: "Let's see, what's the big deal, you're still worried that we will rob you of a broken stone." ”

Jean looked at Hao Ren inexplicably, and finally reluctantly agreed, Hao Ren immediately came to the center of the circle to observe the operation of the altar, and took out a magnifying glass to pretend to shine there, but at the same time he connected with his own number terminal in his mind: "Did you record it?" ”

"The whole process of change is very clear, it is very simple space displacement," the number jù terminal agreed, "You stand to the left, try to be in the center of this ceremony, the measurement of this machine will be more accurate." ”

The two "people" pretended to observe the altar, and recorded the entire flow of energy required for the ruins to be opened.

Jean was a little impatient when he watched Hao Ren take pictures there: "Okay, okay?" ”

Hao Ren nodded pretending to be very professional while letting the number of terminals end: "Well, that's good, that's good...... Let me see, well, this marble pattern is good, these two semi-round cakes...... Tsk, this arc, this detail, quite round......"

Jean blinked, "You're studying magic?" ”

"Eh, the magic of your blood clan is really profound, I didn't understand it at all," Hao Ren put away the magnifying glass, raised his head and walked to the depths of the temple without any heart, "Okay, let's start the next stage of academic research, let's go to the ruins......"

Hethiana shouted him back from behind: "You're going the other way around!" To enter the ruins, you have to go out through the temple gate! ”

(Well, I recommend a few books, one is the "Infinite Cup Trick Death Competition" written by the reader, comic comparison, and the other is also the "Star Field Local Management God" written by the reader, Xiling system, and the other is "Wen Xianji" written by my sister, I don't know what the content is.) Well, get together and recommend it to come out with ease, anyway, don't want money, a little bit =. =)(To be continued......)