This Lich Needs More Money

Chapter 144 The Buried City of Giants

 What you see are all kinds of buildings with astonishing proportions.

All the gates are more than ten meters high, and the various building bodies are also quite tall, but most of them are buried in the yellow sand and rocks.

 “Has there ever been a civilization of giants in history?”

Amber Xiu tried hard to recall the history books he had read. He had never seen official history, but as for unofficial history... forget it. Some unofficial histories even said that the creation **** Io was born after goblins had **** with the universe. This is a bit too wild. .

 Catherine was also surprised. There seemed to be no mention of the existence of this civilization in the historical records of the elves.

You must know that the inheritance of the elves has never been cut off, and the recorded history can be traced back to thousands of years ago.

Catherine said excitedly: "It's amazing. It turns out that only by traveling in person can you increase your knowledge."

Amberxiu also felt that his eyes had been opened. Giant civilization had never been recorded in the book. The only thing he was familiar with was the hill giant, but this thing's IQ was worrying, and it was just a monster with great strength.

Since the giant civilization has not been recorded, it means that all the technologies of this civilization have not been recorded. Then it may be possible to find ancient magic and magic equipment in this lost dungeon.

Ancient magic is not necessarily more powerful, but magic that has never been seen before must be of great value to researchers.

Catherine looked at the statue carefully and said with some regret: "The weathering is too serious and many details cannot be seen clearly. However, this sculpture has a naked upper body, with perfect muscle lines and full of power. In terms of sculpting skills, the author's level is very good." High. The surrounding buildings and sculptures are of the same style. This city should be designed by an artist. If it is not the **** they believe in, it may be their hero, and there are more. The things can no longer be seen.”

Amberson remembered that most of the recorded giants were just muscle monsters with worrying IQs.

“There is a strange place. Look at the road behind it.”

Amberxiu looked at the buildings on the two roads and saw no difference.

Ambrose opened the map given to him by Huggie Stone. Catherine took it and began to draw on it with her fingers.

 Do giants have this kind of intelligence?

 In terms of artistic attainments, if the elves rank second, no one can rank first.

After a while, Catherine condensed the magic lines and drew a pentagon in the air, and then drew a five-pointed star inside the pentagon.

Catherine pointed to the location behind the monument. The city gate road split into two halves behind the monument, forming a subtle angle.

 Generally speaking, cities will try to use intersections to divide them, so that the overall layout is easier, but the Y-shaped intersection in front of us seems a bit abrupt.

"I guess this city is roughly laid out like this. The outer city wall is a regular pentagon, and then the interior is divided into different areas using five-pointed stars. We are now standing on one of the corners of the five-pointed star, and the two roads on the left and right should be leading to areas with different functions.”

“Then let’s explore separately to see if there’s anything valuable. We’ll meet here in an hour.”

However, isn’t this exactly what I want?

Catherine stretched out her finger, checked the angle, and said a little strangely: "This angle seems to be the angle of a five-pointed star... I have a guess, please give me the map."

 He has little research on architecture, but he trusts Catherine's judgment.

Catherine shook her head and said: "No, the five-pointed star is not exclusive to devils and devils. Many ancient magics have elements of this shape."

Catherine looked at the deep darkness ahead and felt a little nervous. This was her first independent adventure.

“Could the five-pointed star layout have something to do with the belief in hell?”

Amberxiu touched his chin, and if Catherine could praise her for her high artistic level, then this civilization was really very developed. Art is something that cannot develop until it is full. This giant civilization must have a large number of people who don't have to worry about having enough to eat, so that it can support the development of art.

 “This human sculpture...what do you think of it, Your Majesty the Queen?” asked Umberto.

 After entering the city gate and walking a few dozen meters along the wide road, a huge monument appeared in front of you. It's just that the words on it are blurred, and the original appearance is completely unrecognizable. All you can see is that the top of the monument is a weathered human shape.

"Okay, it's more efficient to act separately." After Catherine said this, she blessed herself with several defensive magics, and even cast an advanced invisibility spell to completely disappear into the air.

Amberxiu looked a little funny. This girl looked like a rookie adventurer. I really don’t know how she became a legend. Maybe she was a genius.

 Catherine walked to the right, while Amberxiu could only choose the left.

The Lich doesn't need light. Amberxiu completely blended into the darkness and walked into the left fork.

 It is said to be a fork in the road, but it is actually wider than the main road in the Alchemy City. Seeing the huge stone slabs on the ground, Amberxiu became more and more certain that this was a city built by giants, and everything seemed to be magnified several times.

There was no danger along the way, but after only one kilometer away, the fork in the road was blocked by rocks and yellow sand.

Amberxiu tried to use magic to dig out the sand and stones blocking the road, but the result was that after digging more than ten meters deep, it was still the same. He didn’t know if the city was mostly buried, but just a corner was exposed by chance.

Since the road ahead was blocked, Amberxiu could only go back along the road and explore the buildings on both sides of the road. Some of the wooden doors were rotten, and could be blown to pieces by the light breeze when Amberxiu passed by. The space inside the house was also quite empty. Apart from the remaining outlines of some furniture, nothing of value could be seen.

“It seems like this is a residential area, the residence of giants…”

I checked several houses. The layouts and sizes may be slightly different, but the interiors are all similar. The dining rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, etc. are all very complete.

 What surprised Amberxiu was that the city also had a very good sewer system, which was directly connected to every house. This shows how much thought was put into building the city.

 From these details, it can be seen that this city did have a glorious civilization.

But what surprised Ambrose was that he couldn't see any corpses in the ruins.

 Except for the special materials used to build the city gate, he did not see any remains of corpses from the time he entered the gate to now.

Where have the original residents of this city gone?

 Have they all fled before the city was destroyed?

Unfortunately, it was so long ago that many traces have been erased, and Amberxiu could not tell the difference.

Seeing that it was almost time, Amberxiu returned to the monument and saw Catherine already waiting here.

 “Come back so soon?” Amberxiu said in surprise.

"This road is blocked not far ahead. There's nothing interesting to see." Catherine said with wandering eyes.

 Amberson:…

This little girl didn't get more and more scared as she walked in, so she ran back here and waited halfway, right?

 Forget it, it’s not a good idea to expose her directly. Let’s wait until we have more time to investigate slowly.

Amberxiu said to Catherine: "I found nothing here, I can only see that this area is a residential area."

Catherine said: "I didn't find anything. The road on the right should be a business district. The buildings look like various stores, but there is nothing inside, and it seems that someone has already come and moved away all the valuable things. ”

“It must be that old boy Heggie Stone. He must have sent people in to search it in advance. He didn’t even leave me a single gold coin. He’s quite stingy.”

Amberxiu snorted, but didn’t take it to heart.

 Now I have money and I am not short of money.

“Since there is nothing of value and there is no danger, let’s choose a place to start moving. I have a nice house over there with enough space and a good location.”

What An Baixiu said is the largest house in the residential area. The three -story structure is almost as high as his original castle, and the internal space is very large, which is enough to build a new home.

Catherine naturally had no objection to this, and followed Amberxiu to the big house where the giant lived.

 Amber Xiu summoned a group of skeletons and began to clean the house. After clearing away all the decayed furniture, he opened his private space and began to move all kinds of luggage out.

 Catherine took a handful of seeds and began to sow them around the house, using magic to promote growth.

This underground city is not ventilated at all. It is fine for a short time, and Catherine will not be suffocated to death, but if you want to live here for a long time, you need to purify this environment.

Those who purify the air, bring their own lighting effects, and can provide food. Various magic plants soon grow out and wrap the house in green. Outsiders must not believe that this is the Lich.

 But these magical plants can only be grown outdoors, and Catherine’s private room is also built with vines outside the house.

Amberxiu’s skeleton army is relocating inside the house. Low-level skeletons cannot accurately control dark magic. Magic plants cannot survive in this environment and will only wither quickly.

 The boundary between life and death is so clear that no one can cross it.

 After working for a long time, the laboratory was finally set up.

Amberxiu put away the skeleton army and took out a lot of metal materials and piles of blueprints from his private space.

These are the remaining resources used to make golems after the disappearance of the Alchemy City.

 Amber Xiu had no interest in golems at first. That was because undead magic was incompatible with golems, so there was no need to sacrifice one thing for the other.

 But things are different now. The Lane Empire is likely to unify the continent, and he needs to think about his future.

 Amber Xiu is preparing to build a new body for himself, a body of steel that is not restrained by the Holy Light.

 (End of this chapter)