Mystery: Undead don't die from passing fire

The deeper you go, you can see more and more 'stone statues' along the way.

This makes it easy to reconstruct what happened here:
When the River of Eternal Darkness returned, Calderon, which had been dormant for thousands of years, ushered in an expansion. This sudden expansion came without warning, and the spiritual creatures living nearby had no time to react before the gray white penetrated into their bodies.Eventually, deathly silence became dominant, covering every corner of the area.

Although everything seems normal, it is in line with the authority of the 'River of Eternal Darkness' and death.

But before that, although Calderon was a city of the dead, the rules here were only to transform the living into the dead.

In other words, once any living creature enters Calderon, it will naturally transform into the direction of the dead. This is similar to the underworld, but it is fundamentally different. Here, living creatures will not die suddenly and slowly become nothing. Undead creatures with the ability to think directly become undead.

For some high-level beings, turning into the dead will not have a too negative impact on them, let alone affect their strength.And if they are Extraordinaries of the 'Bound One' path, they can switch between entities and resentful souls, and such rules will not have any adverse effects.

In the same way, for some creatures in the spirit world, such rules are actually not disadvantageous.

Because there are many spirit world creatures that are not native to the spirit world, but are transformed from the dead - such as Klein's messenger Reinette Tinichole, who is both a spirit world creature and a dead person himself.

Of course, being the dead doesn't mean they have free access to Calderon.

On the contrary, they become spiritual beings in the form of the dead. Once they enter Calderon, they will be 'imprisoned' and become the natives of Calderon, the kind that can never leave.

Therefore, although the dead can move around Calderon without being affected, it does not mean that they will be willing to enter here.

But it's different now. The current rules are not just about turning the living into the 'dead', but the 'dead' in the true sense - different from the dead like ghosts, zombies, and water ghosts, but the ones who can't move, There is no consciousness, no body that can be called 'living'.

Calderon has now become a dead place where even if the dead step into it, their 'life' will be drained.

Ember did not try to break the rules here, but walked alone in the gray.

Under the erosion of invisible deathly silence, the entire world here is gray and white.

The sky is gray, the ground is gray, and there are stone statues all around that are stained with gray, without a trace of color.

Only Ember, he still has 'color'.

This color deeply stimulates the 'grey', making them like the fish in the deep sea stirred by the bait, gathering around the ember in a greedy trend, trying to assimilate the ember into a gray stone statue, and take away his' Color', which also caused the surrounding 'grey' to become more intense, intense enough to take away the life of an angel in an instant!

However, whenever these 'grey' ones try to get close to him, they will be evaporated in an instant, without exception.

And these 'grey' escorts also made the journey extremely smooth. All the spiritual creatures that could be encountered around them had turned into 'stone statues', and there was not a single living thing left.As the embers deepened, the types of stone statues also changed.

The outermost periphery is filled with strange creatures, some with a bull's head, an octopus's body, and some a slender little snake, but without exception there is no unified image.But now the large number of stone statues distributed here clearly belong to the same race. They are sets of translucent white robes floating in the air, without heads, hands and feet, and seem to be held up by an invisible person.

From a distance, it looks like a neat family portrait.

In fact, these stone statues all belong to spiritual world predators, but each one has a strength close to Sequence 4.And now, there are hundreds of densely packed stone statues belonging to the spiritual world predators appearing here!

The population of spiritual world predators is already rare in number. At the same time, they themselves are extraordinary materials that must be used to advance to Sequence 4 of Extraordinary in the path of diviners, whether they are the real souls of spiritual world predators or the dust of spiritual world predators. , the value is extremely high.

Perhaps it is to avoid hunting that spiritual predators gather in large numbers in the depths of Calderon to avoid the risk of being hunted.But now, these creatures have all turned into stone statues due to the mutation deep in Calderon.

Encountering such a catastrophe, the spiritual world plunderers were almost exterminated!
The remaining sporadic spiritual predators are also distributed throughout the spiritual world. They are few in number and extremely difficult to catch.

For the low-sequence Extraordinaries in the diviner path, this is tantamount to a sudden disaster.Because this means that the way to advance to Sequence 4 as a diviner has been blocked in the future, and it will be difficult for a new 'Cunning Mage' to be born in the future!
of course.

For demigods or angels who have been promoted to Sequence 4, the family portrait of the spiritual world predator will not have much impact.

For Extraordinaries who are not diviners, the impact is even smaller.So in a sense, this can be regarded as the result of mutual selection. 0
Finally, as time passed, the outline of a city gradually emerged in front of the embers.

The first thing that caught his eyes was a huge deep pit with no bottom visible. All kinds of strange buildings circled the deep pit and extended down round after round, forming a magnificent building beyond ordinary people's cognition. City.

This city is different from normal. It does not develop to high places, but extends to the end of the underground pits in circles. The whole city gives people the feeling of an inverted mausoleum.The buildings inside it have various styles, but they are all equally strange. Some of them are tall pale stone pillars with huge single houses polished on the top; some are long and rectangular, with doors opening on the roof and windows. There is no fan, just like a giant coffin; some are built underground, with a tombstone erected at the entrance, and some are made of bones, messy and fragmented.

From the moment we entered this city, everything around us was shrouded in deep darkness as rich as ink, and it seemed that no light had shone in for thousands of years.The gathering gray was blocked from the city. They were once the masters of this city.

But now he is excluded and can only reluctantly watch the 'color' walk into the city and be surrounded by darkness.

Here, even angels have difficulty seeing clearly what is in the darkness five meters away. There seems to be something blocking their exploration——

That is a secret authority.

The closer to the bottom of the pit, the more complete the building is preserved, and the closer to the top, the more collapsed, full of decay and dilapidation eroded by time.

The deeper you go underground, the quieter the surroundings become. Those strange and strange buildings are clearly intact, but they seem to have been dead for many years, and even their breath has become cold, dark, and decayed.

The whole world was pitch black, with only the 'color' remaining on the embers.

In the deep darkness like thick ink, this color is so dazzling that countless 'darkness' swarm in.Just like the 'gray' before, they greedily gathered here, trying to engulf and assimilate this color into a part of darkness.

The black and white world of the dead has no room for any color!
however.

The gathering of darkness failed to function in real time.

The more they gather, the more they 'evaporate'.

When the embers entered the depths of the city, most of the darkness had been evaporated, and even the buildings originally shrouded in darkness revealed their original shapes, because the darkness that had been evaporated by most and became extremely thin was no longer able to cover the entire building. City.

But even though he paid a huge price, his efforts were in vain and he couldn't even make contact.

Going deeper step by step, Yi Yan walked forward for a long time, and finally saw the bottom of the pit - huge, dark palaces blocking the way down.

The palace was supported by huge pillars, inlaid with various bones and different parts of corpses. Some places were even covered with bloody skins belonging to different races.Ember stopped in front of the palace. The things he had encountered so far were completely different from Klein's description - the last time Klein came, it was to hunt spiritual world predators.

And perhaps because of the death of the spiritual world plunderer, or perhaps because of sensing the aura of the 'Origin Castle', or perhaps because of the appearance of the 'Angel of Destiny' Uroleus, the River of Eternal Darkness deep in Calderon burst out. A sudden change occurred, and a large amount of "grey flood" poured out like a rising tide.

That incident prevented Klein from exploring in depth, so he had to return to the gray mist before making other plans.

But this time.

Ember had reached the bottom of Calderon, but never encountered any obstacles.The River of Eternal Darkness was like a completely dead thing, without any reaction to his arrival.

Yi Yan didn't think about it. No matter what happened, it would not affect the purpose of his trip.

He slowly walked to the palace gate and placed his hands on the two bronze door panels that had been closed at an unknown time.

Crunch!

In the silent darkness, the dull churning sound, which was not loud at all, seemed extremely harsh at the moment, and the sound almost resounded throughout the city.

But even with such a movement, Calderon still didn't react at all, just letting the embers push the door open a narrow gap.

The gap is not big, but very narrow, too narrow for two people to enter side by side.

But for Ember, such a gap is enough.

He walked calmly into the darkness and entered the palace.

In the darkness, the first thing that came into view was a spacious hall.

On both sides of the hall, coffins of different shapes and colors are placed one after another. They are quietly placed there, as if even the existence itself has been weathered by death.

Ignoring these things, Yi Yan went straight to the depths of the hall, where there was a gray-white stone staircase going down, and a huge stone tablet erected at the entrance.

On the top of the stele stood a slender statue of a giant bird that seemed to be made of bronze, with various pale symbols on its wings.

Under the bird-shaped bronze statue, on the surface of the stele, the words derived from the "Language of the Dead" are like very simplified birds of different shapes or snakes coiled into different shapes, forming two sentences with ambiguous meanings. Discourse:
"Even the gods cannot escape;
"Even if you die, you will be detained."

This is like Tutankhamun’s cursed inscription:
"Whoever disturbs the Pharaoh's sleep, the god of death will spread his wings and descend on his head."

"Whoever enters this grave with an impure heart, I will strangle him by the throat like a bird."

Such a curse would only make people laugh if it appeared in an ordinary mausoleum.

But beneath this city lies a river of eternal darkness, and these words are more of a warning than a curse—a real warning.

Even gods will fall and be drowned in the river once they enter the underground!

Ember looked back and ignored the warning.

Go around the stone monument with the bronze statue on top and go down step by step along the gray stairs.

The ground is dark, lifeless and cold, but occasionally there is a slight, illusory clattering sound.

Somewhere underground, the River of Eternal Darkness flows quietly.

Ember moved step by step towards the direction where the sound of water came from. Under his feet was the dark, insubstantial tide.Just like normal tides, there are high tides and low tides. When the embers go deeper and deeper, the tide almost completely submerges the embers, but he still walks in it without being affected at all.

And when the tide recedes, the gray stairs are revealed again, straight down.

at last.

He reached the end of the stairs.

Beyond the end is nothingness, and in the nothingness flows a straight, wide, dark, colorless river.

That is the River of Eternal Darkness, the final destination of all the dead!
Ember stopped and did not move forward.

Because on both sides of the river, there are huge and pale stone pillars erected one after another. They seem to be supporting something and preventing each other from collapsing.At this time, between these stone pillars and on the edge of the river, countless slightly blurry translucent figures were walking back and forth, lingering, slowly but not stopping.

Among those dazed figures, there was a tall figure standing on the edge of the river, quietly watching the embers standing at the end of the stairs.

He was so huge, almost the same as the surrounding stone pillars. He was covered in a dark black robe, and his sides were already old.

His face has obvious features of the Southern Continent, but it has rotted away one after another, and sprouted white feathers stained with light butter.

Ember had seen Him, in the murals and in the hall of conspiracies, when He was still known as the God of the Dead.

In the Fourth and Fifth Epochs, His most well-known name was the God of Death, the 'Emperor of the Underworld' Salinger.

There was a moment of confusion on his face, but he soon became firm and his voice was low:
"He told me to kill you and set me free."

His voice was hoarse and stiff, as if he hadn't had a normal conversation with anyone for a long time.

"guessed."

Yi Yan smiled and nodded. Now he finally understood why he had not encountered any obstacles along the way.