A professor of history walked up to a stone tablet, knelt down and took out a magnifying glass to observe carefully for a while, then said:
"That's right, this ruin should belong to the relic mentioned by Earl 'Wisdom' Robbins. This inscription contains some historical materials from the period of the Four Heroes... but the handwriting is too damaged, so it needs to be rubbed back and studied slowly. "
The professor did not specifically describe what the inscription said, and then said: "But it is a bit strange... According to the traces, it should not be more than 200 years since the stele was built. Perhaps the time flow rate of the meteorological tide and the outside no the same?"
"Maybe. No one knows about weather and tides." Edwin said with a smile.
Zhou Ning frowned slightly. He keenly noticed that the mummy lying on the ground seemed to squirm a little.
Suddenly, there was a scream beside him, and a hand with only bones stretched out from the ground, and it accurately grabbed his ankle.
"Clap!"
Zhou Ning, who was right next to him, reacted immediately, squinted his eyes, gathered the power of ripples, kicked hard, and with a crisp sound, he kicked the bone hand's wrist and kicked it flying. .
"Thank...thank you!" The student was startled and hurriedly thanked him.
Zhou Ning waved his hand, and then he saw more ragged mummy sitting up nearby.
Seeing this situation, Edwin paused, took out a silver-white necklace from the pocket of the black priest's robe, held the necklace, and whispered an ancient Fariric word:
"Holy Light!"
The necklace was engulfed by the light in an instant, and silver-white holy lights suddenly appeared in the midair.
They fell from the sky, and quickly fell on the heads of the mummy, covering them inside.
Amid the scalp-numbing howls, the mummy quickly melted like ice and snow meeting the sun.
It disappeared without a trace in an instant.
After finishing all this, Edwin put away the necklace, and said indifferently as if nothing happened: "Continue rubbing the inscription, and we will move on after rubbing."
"This necklace should be an unknown strange thing. I didn't expect the school's background to be quite strong." Zhou Ning guessed in his heart.
Chapter 175 Archibald
It took about 40 minutes to rub the inscriptions near the rubbings, and Zhou Ning followed suit. He also has the ability to read and write ancient Falik characters. From some inscriptions he saw, we can know that this ruin seems to be similar to that of the Four Heroes. of Archibald.
Most of the inscriptions are incomplete and need to be pieced together, but one of the relatively complete inscriptions reads: "Today I saw the oracle from the mother goddess, which was a terrible prophecy: the earth became scorched earth, the weather changed. Without order, countless people will die in the flames of war and be displaced—and the mother god told me that all this is actually because of my brother, my comrade-in-arms...?"
When reading this paragraph, several history professors couldn't help but looked at each other. If this inscription was recorded in Archibald's tone, who would my brother mentioned in this narrative... be?These professors couldn't help but feel itchy.There are too few records about the four heroes in history.
Only Zhou Ning vaguely guessed the truth of the matter. If he did not guess wrong, this brother and comrade-in-arms is another self-One Piece King Zhou Ning. .
After rubbing all the inscriptions, the team continued to move forward. The ruins were much larger than imagined, and a passage paved with stone slabs led to the dark depths.
Sparse snowfall lasted for a while, and then it rained again in an instant. In order to prevent possible acid rain, everyone held up umbrellas made by "Bryce".
Through the light of the horse lantern, you can see some undead wandering everywhere in this ruins. Some undead still maintain their appearance in life, walking around in gorgeous clothes, and they don’t take the initiative to attack, as if living in different dimensions. Same.Some completely lost their minds and attacked the expedition team.
There are a lot of these undead monsters, but their strength is quite average. Most of them are ordinary monsters around level 40.
Leandro's big flaming sword is the same as the unknown wonder in Edwin's hands. It is especially effective against undead creatures. Zhou Ning noticed that Leandro's strength seems to have improved compared to the previous few days. With all his efforts, he didn't encounter any decent obstacles along the way.And Chrissy Bradden Razer has also initially shown her strength. Like Leandro's profession, she is also a fighter, but she should also have a special inheritance. She is very light in swordsmanship and full of agility.Zhou Ning also shot a few times in the middle, taking advantage of this opportunity to harvest a batch of necromancer cores.
It didn't take long for everyone to pass through most of the ruins and entered the real core of the ruins—the area around the ancient ruins.
According to Edwin, the ruins appear to be over 700 years old.Braston's unique white trees are planted everywhere in the ruins, and the surface of the building is covered with weeds and vines, but what is puzzling is that there is no sign of collapse in the ruins, as if someone has deliberately taken care of them .
"It's not far ahead!" Edwin pointed to a building in the distance.There was a look of joy on his face.
At this moment, Zhou Ning's head suddenly turned, because he vaguely heard slight footsteps coming from the ruins.
The sound of footsteps came from the depths of the fog. It was quite dense, and there seemed to be more than one person.
"careful!"
Zhou Ning immediately made a reminder, and the members of the expedition team present immediately reacted, holding their breath and looking at the place where the footsteps came from.
Not long after, they saw a group of ragged humans carrying rocks in the rain, passing through the thick fog towards them, and walking further away.
Zhou Ning took a deep breath. Through his knowledge and domineering, he could clearly "see" that this group of human beings were pale, their skin was festered, and they didn't have any breath of the living. They were a group of undead creatures.
They seem to be enslaved by some extraordinary power, working and building something.
"Come and take a look with me. The others are waiting here." Edwin pondered for a while, then said in a deep voice, looking at Zhou Ning, "Rayleigh, Stewell, Come with me."
He handed Zhou Ning and Professor Rayleigh a bottle of potion: "This is the mixture of wind. After drinking it, it can increase the running speed. If you encounter danger, don't save it, drink it immediately."
Zhou Ning took the potion and nodded.Edwin clenched the umbrella handle with his right hand, holding the lantern in one hand, and continued to move toward the depths of the fog.
As he walked, Edwin paused, and his face suddenly changed. In front of him was a huge white tree. Through the gap between the white trees, he could vaguely see the situation on the opposite side.
The fog in this area is relatively thin, and it can be seen clearly that there is a building being restored in front of it. Perhaps it is due to the heavy rain that most of it collapsed, leaving only high steps, dilapidated buildings mixed with gravel and weeds, and densely packed undead They are moving stones back and forth, completely ignoring the heavy rain in the sky, and working hard like worker ants. It is conservatively estimated that there are thousands of undead, which makes people feel dense phobia.
The most striking thing was a hooded figure standing on the high steps, with a strong breath of death, which made Zhou Ning feel a huge threat from a long distance away.
Although there was still a relatively thick fog, Zhou Ning had already seen clearly the appearance of that figure relying on the ultra-long-distance vision in an instant.
This is a man wearing a black hood, with blue flames in his eyes, a simple and simple black robe, and a large flame emblem that looks familiar on the chest of the black robe.
"Archibald?" Jasmine's shocked voice came from inside her mind.
What?Archibald?
Zhou Ning was stunned, almost unable to control his emotions, and was stunned.
Naturally, he didn't doubt Jasmine's words, but it was difficult for him to connect the man in black robe and hood with the statue beside the Seton River.The ending of the four heroes is a mystery in history. If this hooded man is really Archibald, why does he appear here?
Vaguely, he has a stimulating feeling that he is peeping at history and touching history.
At this time, the man in the black hood on the opposite side seemed to be aware of it, and turned his head slowly. All the busy undead also stopped their movements, turned their heads slowly, and looked at the outsiders.
The movements are uniform and make people's scalp tingle.
"Run!" Edwin said in a hurry, Zhou Ning's heart tightened, without any hesitation, he immediately drank the potion of wind, and a gust of wind blew up around him, more than doubling his speed in an instant.
There was also the sound of footsteps coming from behind, and the dense undead surged towards this side like a tide, but with the help of the mixture of wind, it didn't take long for the three of Zhou Ning to rush out of the depths of the ruins and return to the expedition. inside the team.
"Go, don't stay here any longer!" Edwin exhaled.
Restraining his fluctuating emotions, he told what he had seen and heard. He didn't know if he didn't recognize it. He deliberately avoided the powerful undead who was suspected to be Archibald, but repeatedly emphasized the power of this undead.
Zhou Ning quite understands his thoughts. In the background of the game, Archibald is an apostle of the God of the Earth and one of the saints of the Temple of the Earth.The status in the Temple of the Earth is very high, and even in the Kingdom of Westphalic, the royal emblem has an emblem born from the fire of justice.
As the bishop of the Earth Temple, whether he recognized it or not, Edwin naturally wanted to avoid this question.
"Leave this ruin first, and come back to explore tomorrow during the day." Edwin was obviously in a bad mood, and said in a deep voice, "The undead elements are not active during the day, and this area should be much safer."
There is no concept of time in meteorological tides, because the sky is always dull, and it will be 9 o'clock in the evening according to the pocket watch. After camping and resting outside the ruins for a night, the expedition team started to investigate the ruins again early the next morning. the second exploration.
Not many people participated this time, and most of them stayed outside the relatively safe ruins. Only a dozen people followed Edwin into the ruins again.
Chapter 176 Entering the Ruins
When Edwin started to count the number of people, Qingbai Wild Wine and Haicheng also went online one after another.For these two people, they often appear and disappear for a while.At first, everyone was surprised, but later they saw that they would be resurrected after death, and gradually got used to it, and accepted that they were the chosen ones.
The members of the second expedition included nine professors, as well as powerful students such as Leandro, Chris, and Zhou Ning. Zhou Ning also brought two players with him.
Edwin didn't have any opinion on this. Before he set off, he took out some alchemy potions from his pocket and distributed them to everyone: "These are the Iron Armor potion that can increase the defense power, the God of War potion that increases the attack power, and some alchemy potions. Anti-poison, don’t save, just use it when you are in danger, don’t make mistakes.”
Everyone took the potion and nodded cautiously. After yesterday's adventure, naturally no one dared to take it lightly.
The weather in the morning was quite strange. It was extremely rare winter snow and thunder, accompanied by bursts of acid rain. Lightning and thunder mixed with heavy snow raged for a full hour before suddenly turning into a heavy rain.
"Let's go, let's go." It wasn't until the heavy rain fell for a while that Edwin finished measuring the weather and said.
It was raining heavily. As soon as Zhou Ning walked to the entrance of the ruins, he smelled a strong rotten smell. The fog in the ruins seemed to be thicker than yesterday. Dark clouds piled up and torrential rain raged. The surrounding scenes looked like doomsday.
This place has already entered the sphere of influence of undead creatures, and there are figures in old clothes wandering around tirelessly nearby.
Suddenly, as if they sensed someone approaching, they slowly turned and looked at the crowd.
They were corpses with festered skin and abnormally numb expressions.
After yesterday's encounter, Zhou Ning knew that these dead bodies must be dealt with immediately. There are countless undead creatures in this ruins, and no one knows what is hidden in the dark. The longer the battle lasts, the more dangerous everyone's situation will be .
This time Zhou Ning did not choose to use a firearm, but rushed forward, and took the lead in cutting out a divine shield. An astonishing sword light surged and engulfed a large number of dead bodies in an instant.
And almost at the same time, Rosie Lily also finished singing. Her alchemy bottle combined with a powerful fire magic, exploded among the dead bodies, and the flames rose suddenly, and nearly ten dead bodies hadn't even had time turn around.It was blown to pieces by the flames. ..
The extremely competitive Leandro didn't intend to stop, he raised his flaming sword and rushed forward, which was a jump and chop.
Everyone present is powerful.Coupled with the tacit understanding.It didn't take long for most of the dead bodies to be killed. After Zhou Ning killed the last undead with a wave shot, the battle came to an end.
Although he didn't have much experience in this battle, Zhou Ning had harvested almost 20 good-quality necromancer cores, which was not in vain.
The road ahead was not peaceful either. Incomplete dead bones could be seen everywhere on the roadside. Although many high-level undead creatures liked to wander at night, in this weather and tide where it was difficult to distinguish day from night, day and night were not too different. The big difference, Zhou Ning saw with his own eyes a giant skeleton wearing a black cloak dragging a huge sickle wandering in the dense fog.
Although I don't know the strength, but just judging from Edwin's attitude as if he is facing a big enemy and the warning that the danger level is "extremely fatal" when he releases the detection technique, he knows that he can't afford to provoke him.
According to his own level of 57, if he can prompt himself "extremely deadly", it must be at least an ancient evil creature above level 69.
After standing there and waiting for 15 minutes, Edwin let out a sigh of relief until the giant skeleton moved away, and led the team to go around from the other side.
The weather for the next part of the journey changed drastically, from rain to snow to sunny to snow, followed by a burst of heavy rain. Everyone finally fully understood what weather and tides are.
Stopping and walking, stopping from time to time to measure the weather, in order to avoid possible natural disasters, after about an hour, everyone came to the place where they evacuated yesterday, but this time they did not encounter those undead again.
It may be true as Edwin said, the undead elements are not active during the day, and those undead are used to haunting at night.
When passing by the collapsed building that met Archibald yesterday, Zhou Ning couldn't help but glanced over there, and there was no one there.
But the half-collapsed building has been repaired overnight as if it hadn't been damaged at all.The completed building does not seem to be habitable, but it looks a bit like a floating mausoleum, which is very familiar.
Zhou Ning: ...
He probably knew why the buildings here were kept so intact, and the sleepless undead creatures silently carried everything.
Going forward along the almost invisible path, Zhou Ning saw more buildings along the way, which also gave people the feeling of floating mausoleums. Although they were not dilapidated or collapsed, there were countless unknown vines and black vines wrapped around the buildings. Plants still give people a sense of dilapidation brought about by the passage of time.
Not long after, the crowd stopped, and in front of them was an upward staircase made of black rocks, with an exaggerated number of steps, no less than two hundred steps.To the west there is a dilapidated clock tower without a bell.
This is the destination of this expedition, the ruins that Earl "Wisdom" Robbins once visited, but failed to return.
Looking up at the magnificent building in front of him, Professor Albert of the Department of History said: "This should be a typical church architectural style during the period of the Four Heroes. St. Raymond's Church in Docklands adopted this style, with a steeple on the top. The whole shape is full of a sense of rising to the sky, and there must be a bell tower on the west facade, because the gods live in the depths of the sea of mist on the west side of the mainland in legend, and the bells are transmitted to the west side for them to listen to."
quite reasonable.Zhou Ning glanced at the surrounding situation and expressed his approval.Edwin couldn't wait to walk in the front, and walked straight along the steps made of black rock towards the gate.
Not long after, Edwin came to the door of the building. He stretched out his hand, twisted the handle, and opened the door forcefully.
Amidst the creaking sound of rust breaking, the heavy door swung open.
In front is an unusually spacious hall, which has the characteristics of St. Raymond's Church style architecture: the middle hall is longer and narrower. Compared with the architectural details that are basically kept intact on the outside, there are already two rows of pillars supporting the hall. Collapsed, the pointed arches of the pillars intersected at the top of the vault, like tall and straight branches growing from the ground, forming a strong upward momentum.
According to Albert, the two movements reflect the reverence for God and the hint of yearning for the Kingdom of God.
After following the expedition team to file in, Zhou Ning glanced around subconsciously, and found that there was a side door on each side, which was closed. Leandro walked over and stretched out his hand to pull it, but he couldn't pull it, but the gravel above his head was not closed. It kept falling, showing signs of collapsing.
"Don't move!" Professor Weasley reprimanded Leandro, and he withdrew his hand angrily, and walked to the other side.
Zhou Ning smiled and looked away. He saw that the interior of the hall was a large gable in the ancient Falik style. Numerous vertical lines and buttresses divided the wall into parts. The buttresses were covered with bright and gorgeous patterns. The murals give people a deep but slightly exaggerated feeling.
On one of the murals, the background is a smoldering beacon, the earth is a blood red color, gallows are erected everywhere, the land is barren, and even the trees are withered.
Groups of skeletons and zombies are coming towards the villages and towns.On the left is an armored car-like carrier full of priests in white.
And behind the skeleton, stood a man wearing a black helmet and black armor, holding a blue rune magic sword in his hand. The eyes exposed in the gap of the helmet were full of indifference and madness, two kinds of The diametrically opposite temperaments blend together, which is both contradictory and harmonious.
Zhou Ning: ...
His pupils shrank suddenly.He knew the man in the mural.
That's the Lich King!
That's crazy clown!
Chapter 177 The True Lie
There is absolutely no mistake, the black helmet is the crown of dominion used by the Lich King to control all undead, and Frostmourne has exactly the same finished product in his hands.
Although he had prepared himself to some extent, when he saw the crazy clown appearing in front of him, Zhou Ning's thinking seemed to be frozen, and his scalp felt a little numb.
The feeling in my heart is not only a little uneasy, but also a weird feeling of creating history, participating in history, and even facing history.
"Ikkir, God of Death?" Chrissy Brydenlezer also walked over at this time, stopped after seeing the mural, and said in a somewhat determined tone.
"How do you know?" Rosie Lily asked curiously as she followed her.
"Isn't this obvious? According to legend, Ikekir, the god of death, is the god who commands the dead. When I was a librarian, I saw a religious book, which said that he is black helmet and black armor, holding a rune sword, and this picture It's exactly the same in the mural," says Chrissy Bradenreiser.
Should be right.Zhou Ning nodded invisibly, agreeing with Chris Braddenlezer's opinion.
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