"Oh, I'm like this now, of course I can't accompany you to meet those little guys, but this thing can still help you win their trust. ”

As he said this, Helast's black robe pulled out a piece of paper, drew a rune on it, and then casually tossed it to Penny.

Now, having passed through the tunnel indicated by Helast, Penny is going to take the rune to the keepers of the ruins.

When he saw the suspicious expressions of the two grave keepers, Penny began to wonder if the old man Helas was deliberately playing tricks on him.

According to what he knew about this unobtrusive former archmage, the possibility of this kind of thing happening was extremely high, and in fact, the two grave keepers really didn't know what this wizard who had strangely appeared at the entrance of the mí fog barrier showed them exactly.

Even if they looked closely, they could only see that it was a clean piece of parchment, with a rune with crude strokes drawn on it, and they could not see the specific meaning at all.

They really hadn't seen anything like it.

After a brief moment of astonishment, their wary gaze returned to the wizard.

Compared to this completely incomprehensible note, this intruder is the more noteworthy thing.

How could he enter this secret passage where only the grave keepers knew the location?

Doesn't seem to be an ordinary intruder.

The uncle and nephew clenched their respective weapons and were secretly on guard.

The reaction of the two made Penny feel that Helast was indeed an unreliable fellow, but luckily he was still smart, and manipulated the mage's hand to throw the piece of paper and fall at the feet of the two grave keepers.

Passing it over directly will only arouse unnecessary suspicion, and Penny is well aware that in this case, this similar rude method will avoid a greater misunderstanding: "Oh, this is a token of an acquaintance, if you don't know it, you can take it back and give it to your head."

The two grave keepers glanced at the parchment at their feet and looked at each other, the elder casting a spell on the ground, as if to determine if there was any dangerous spell attached to the parchment, while the young man took out two short knives and stood in front of Penny as if he were facing a great enemy.

This posture made the wizard feel a little funny, with his current strength and status, he was already a big figure in the Faeron Continent, and the general adventuring team and mercenary corps had to be respectful when facing him, let alone a fledgling young man?

However, he did not intend to use force to contact these grave keepers, and he still wanted to seek a peaceful solution until he was forced to do so; You know, this is a lot of force, and in Helast's current state, it is already difficult to control the Tomb Keeper as it used to, and if Penny's actions are appropriate, this force will fall into his hands in the future.

At this time, the elder also finished the inspection and found no traces of magic on the piece of paper, but he did not dare to touch it easily, he very conservatively copied the runes on the parchment on a piece of plaster, and then vigilantly retreated towards the black mist behind: "Stranger, until we confirm your identity, we can only ask you to stay here." ”

He wasn't sure if the young wizard was an intruder or not, but there were so few outsiders who could find this secret door, even if it was an outside ally who regularly delivered supplies to the mountains, rarely came in and out of it.

Therefore, he felt compelled to show the intruder the token to the elders of the clan.

"Don't play tricks. As he retreated into the black mist, the young man did not forget to warn Penny that the wizard just bowed his head and returned his gaze to the black mist.

He could tell that this was the mí lock enchantment under the extremely powerful character.

Although the message captured by the sight told Penny that the lock was very old, the effect was still strong, and it would be more difficult for him to get out on his own if he broke in.

So without getting a reply from the two locals, he thought the best thing to do was to wait here.

Although he was somewhat skeptical about the role of Hylast's rune, he didn't have any other way to do it right now.

He had thought carefully before coming, and both Yīnhún and the Dragon Witch Cult had their eyes on this ruin, and the Apostle of the Deep Imaska, who had always been secretive, was active, and with the meager strength of the tomb guards, it would be difficult to resist these powerful enemies. ...,

According to Hylast's estimate, if these people were to come to the door together, the loss of the ruins would be almost inevitable.

It has the remnants of the ancient empire, but it can't withstand the infestation of a large group of enemies who are both elects and demigods.

As a human who still lives in Faeron, Penny also believes that it is necessary to keep the ancient evil from appearing as much as possible, so something needs to be done, and he has ulterior motives - it would be nice to be able to get the effectiveness of these grave keepers.

And the female madman of Yīnhún City and the people of the Dragon Witch Sect have already formed a hatred with him that is difficult to resolve, with this rare opportunity, he naturally wants to occupy a favorable position and seek an opportunity to profit from it Of course, the wizard is not unaware of his own catties, although he has a relatively strong power in the eyes of the majority of Faeron people, maybe it is more than enough to deal with the bad women in Yīnhún City, but he is still a little inadequate in the face of the leader of the Dragon Witch Sect, so he informed Ilminster in advance, and now, the voters of the goddess are estimated to have reached the vicinity of the mountain range。

Although he informed Ilminster, Penny did not reveal his relationship with the Guardians of the Ruins, he knew very well that if these secrets were given to the Chosen Ones of the Goddess of Magic, the future troubles would be endless, and he hoped that the power of the Goddess Electors would help him deal with the Dragon Witch Cult and Yīnhún, but he did not want to storm everything out of his own.

Therefore, he decided to contact the guardians of the place first, and set up the theater in advance, so that the voters of the goddess could fight with the dragon witch cult and the yīnhúns: the two sides were already enemies, and they fought to the death with all their might, and there was no need for him, an outsider, to fan the flames.

And he himself has time to communicate with the tomb keepers of the ruins, and by the way, to see the legacy of the ancient empire.

Although he didn't want the Ancient Evil to be born, Penny was very interested in the power of the Ancient Evil.

In the eyes of the locals, it is not very difficult to walk in this black fog, although there is no fixed road, but the mí lock will always transmit some signals to the intruder, and there is a very complex set of interpretation methods to translate these signals into the correct way to walk in the mí lock, only those who can understand these signals... In order to find the correct path, and every time you enter and exit the mí lock, the signal emitted by the mí lock will be different.

So it's not easy to sneak into the village, and the local grave keepers... But he is familiar with this, and he can even talk while walking: "Uncle, how many years has it been since a stranger stepped into that secret door?"

The young man turned his head sideways and asked the elders.

"No, we have to inform Soddock. The elder shook his head and quickened his pace, unsettling by the repeated encounters with intruders, whether it was the mysterious woman who had crushed several Golem settlements... It was still the terrifying necromantic red dragon, all of which were powerful invaders they had never seen before, and even the young man they had just seen made him feel uneasy.

Although the man seemed polite, the druid's natural instincts told him that this guy was definitely not an easy person to handle.

This is one of the reasons why he decided to copy the runes down and bring them back to the settlement.

When he was thinking, he didn't forget to follow the signals transmitted by the mí lock to find the right path, in case of a mistake, the result would be a dead end, even if it was their people, every time it passed... There will be careless guys who are lost in such mí locks.

And leaving this mí lock, there is a complex mí palace in front of you, guarding the ruins... In fact, this place is far from the ruins, although the outside is the Giant Running Mountain Range, but the people who live here know that this vast mountain range is only an entrance to the ruins, and the real place where the ruins are located, even the grave keepers don't know very well, their target is the grave keeper village on the periphery of the ruins.

After this relatively simple mí palace... There were more and more complex traps and terrain behind, and it would take even a middle-aged man as skilled as the two to break through the obstacles and reach this seemingly small village.

This is a dense forest that is neither deep nor shallow, and something unusual is that it is located in the belly of the mountain, and the trees themselves shine with a strange silver-white brilliance... It seems that it does not depend on sunlight to survive, and most of the buildings in the village are built on trees, and the treehouses supported by haystacks and logs look very simple, and the residents who enter and exit are also very simple, and most of them have calm expressions and do not behave arrogantly. ...,

Many villagers meditate under the trees and practice asceticism that only warrior monks spend a lot of time studying, and a few middle-aged people choose to become one with nature and seek the path of druids.

Of course, there are also a small number of hunters in the villages and towns who can act as guards, and at this time, most of them are busy, either looking for prey in the dense forest, or performing the duties of sentinels outside the mountains, like the uncle and nephew.

"Morin, why did you come back so early?" When he saw the pair of uncles and nephews returning, a tall man greeted him, he noticed the solemn faces of the uncle and nephew, his brows furrowed, and he also noticed something strange: "What about your masks?

"There's a big trouble coming, and there are several groups of intruders who are very difficult to deal with. Druid Morin waved his hand in a serious tone: "The stone giants outside the mountain can't resist them, I'm going to see Sodok, where is he?"

"He's in the elders' dwellings. Seeing that the returning watchman said seriously, the man's expression sank: "I just communicated with the elders. ”

"In this case, I will go to see him immediately, and you go and organize the manpower, this time it will be a big trouble. Maureen said quickly, the man nodded, turned and ran to the center of the town, while the druid quickly made his way to the deepest part of the village, where there was a small stone house that seemed a little out of place in the style of the whole village, but in the very middle of the forest, there was a sense of mystery and majesty.

But the amazing thing is that this stone house is so small that it is only up to the waist of the man standing outside, and it seems impossible for a living person to walk in, let alone live there.

The door of the stone house is also very narrow, and it is pitch black, more like a shrine than a house.

"Morin?" A middle-aged man stood at the door of the stone house, frowning at the approaching druid, "I heard that there are invaders outside?"

"That's not all, Soddock. Morin briefly recounted the situation outside, and finally spoke about the young man who broke into the secret door, and the middle-aged man named Sodok gradually twisted his brows as Morin narrated it, and he held his chin and observed the runes that Morin had copied on his clothes, and the expression on his face changed to sleepy.

"Master Soddock, do you know this rune?" the young man couldn't hold his breath and asked first.

Soddock shook his head, and both Morin and the young man frowned, only to hear a slender voice coming from the stone house, "Runes?" ”

"Elder?" Soddock and Morin looked at the narrow, dark interior of the stone chamber, and a silvery light radiated from the center of the portal, looking extremely mysterious. ！。