Chapter 309 The Ancient City (10)
However, no matter how powerful the spells attached to these locks were, under the time, the pig-killing sword, it has become a memory of the past. The chapter updates the fastest, of course, the only good news for Chen Kai and others is that the spells on the locks are not used to attach the special material that can gather magic power. Otherwise, the time will not make these spells weaker but more terrifying.
Cracking spells attached to the lock is a very tedious thing. At least outsiders like Chen Kai and others were sleepy when they saw it. Even if they had a little knowledge of magic, they felt a little confused when they looked at Xu Fei and the others' movements. Because several natural mages were using Chen Kai and their simple alchemy platform to make potions, while Xu Fei and the others were studying the magical text on the lock bit by bit, hoping to find the corresponding runes on the Internet to crack them.
Of course, there is no doubt that this action is definitely futile. Although there are countless players on the Internet who can help, the problem is that the things on these locks are more like magical lines than runes. There is no doubt that this line-like runes will only appear in the period when the spell was just born, and of course this interval is a very long period. It is thousands of years between the birth of the first magic spell and the birth of a rune, but this is still in an ancient era that players do not know at all. At the same time, from the development of the ancient era, magical civilization has just developed to the present, magical characters and runes have completely become two different concepts.
Magical characters are essays for writing spells. The mage needs to use their own knowledge to interpret these words. Some characters are born to activate magic power, and even extremely powerful magical characters. Just one word can lead to the birth of a magic spell or even change the environment of an area. This is the magic rune. The original magic rune were born naturally, and the current magic rune evolved based on these natural runes. Therefore, each rune actually represents a rule of magic power at the beginning. Unfortunately, the power required to write this initial magic rune is too huge. Only the original ancient gods can use their own power to use this ancient rune. Of course, the current gods can also use this ancient rune, but this rune has been distinguished by the magic rune they have given with magic talismans and used by mages on the main material plane.
Of course, the above is the development history of magic runes. It does not mean that the graphics on these locks are ancient runes. If it is an ancient rune, Xu Fei and the others basically don’t have to do anything else. Just outlining runes with magic is enough to keep them busy for several months and benefit a lot. The most important thing is that so far there are no artifacts that can accommodate ancient natural runes, that is, divine talismans, so this portrayal that looks like runes should be ancient runes extended from the changes of ancient natural runes. However, there is nothing to learn from in the evolution of ancient runes. The most important thing is that different mages will create their own magic runes after studying ancient runes. Although some magic runes have disappeared in the long river of history due to the reason of circulation, the magic runes passed down now are still an extremely huge number.
In fact, just studying the current magic runes and combining them is enough to make many spellcasters spend their entire lives. Rune mages are not that easy to be. Relatively speaking, the rune mage's rune is a gradual discipline. Because the rune knowledge is well preserved and there are some mages who are willing to contribute everything to the entire ancient mage clan, the rune knowledge compiled is more systematic. Compared with the magic rune of the main material plane, the magic rune of the ancient mage has developed better and is inherited more orderly at the same time. Therefore, if you master the rune knowledge of the ancient mage, even if you master the lowest Yasuo rune, you can understand some of the things on the locks.
Unfortunately, Xu Fei and the others didn't know it at all. Although some of the Yasuo runes they remembered were very similar to the figures on the lock, Xu Fei and the others knew very well that Runes were absolutely extremely precise. Even a slight mistake could lead to runes mutation. So Xu Fei and the others would not try it on the Yasuo runes even if they felt that the two were very similar. So Xu Fei and the others could only wait for a few natural mages to remove the spell. Once this solution was dripped with the lock, it actually saved the work of the black dwarves.
This magic solution is actually not just corroding acid. If it is just corroding acid, it is impossible to corrode the locks with spells attached to it. Only by using a special solution with a certain amount of magic power can the locks with spells be corroded little by little. Moreover, before that, the elves mages needed to use their fingers to add magic to detect the type of spells on the locks to configure the corresponding solution. Fortunately, the pig-killing knife was sharp enough, otherwise it would be impossible to configure a solution that dissolves these locks at the level of these elves mages. As long as the magic consumption speed on the locks is slowed down a little, even if it was a hundred years ago, the solution configured by the elves mages could not destroy the locks.
Accompanied by the sound of clicking, the solid locks finally turned into silver solutions. The elves wizards closed the straw and stopped them from sucking away. After the lock was completely opened, the spell attached to this extremely large book disappeared completely, revealing the true appearance of the book. The extremely ancient skin, which seemed to be soft and glorious even after years of protection from the spell, was still gentle and glorious. But Chen Kai and the others were definitely not the skin of the book but the content inside.
Although they really want to get some related things from the book skin, like most ancient books, many books have no titles at all. Only after opening the book skin can you see what is inside and judge what is written in it.
Looking at the extremely thick book cover, Chen Kai and his melee personnel holding shields and lifting them hard with their hands. When they lifted the book cover, the magic flow in the air began to accelerate and a large amount of magic slowly injected into the pages of the book. Seeing this situation, Chen Kai and the others almost subconsciously wanted to close the book, but the huge magic surging in made Chen Kai and the others' behavior a little futile. The pages actually flipped open by themselves and slowly emitted a faint light.
Looking at the light emitted from the book, Chen Kai and the others were all moving towards the edge of the tent space, and even had the urge to escape from the tent. But Chen Kai and the others soon found that they didn't seem to need to do this. Because the opened book was just absorbing magic rather than releasing it, and at the end the hazy light formed a projection effect instead of some terrifying spell. So Chen Kai and the others quickly calmed down and slowly watched the shining light balls turn into a gradually dissipated fog and reveal an extremely huge city.
"Is this the ruin on the ground?" Everyone's minds flashed through their minds when they saw the huge city. This guess was almost recognized in an instant, because Chen Kai and the others had been hiding on the ground for a long time and were quite familiar with the buildings outside the city.
"It's true!" Looking at the extremely familiar buildings in the outer city, everyone's minds quickly resolved the questions, and at the same time they also knew the name of the city. Because when the book was opened, a voice sounded in their minds.
"This is the most beautiful and prosperous city under the stars, and the most favored pearl of the gods! It has a great name - Eden, the most eternal home in everyone's heart." The huge city has many huge and magnificent buildings, among which the mage towers that scattered around the city are even taller than the Black Tower where the ancient mages are now. But what is strange is that the structure of these mage towers is very strange. They look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa that almost collapsed in reality rather than the current mage tower. Of course, what is more prominent is the huge temple in the center of the city, because Chen Kai and the others did not set foot at all. So Chen Kai and the others did not know that the huge pillars on the ground were actually a temple.
"Eden is a place loved by the gods, and the gods even often appear here, appearing in the greatest temple of the gods and living with the residents." When they heard these things, Chen Kai and the others felt a strange feeling in their minds, because they had never heard of a god who could truly descend on the main material plane, let alone living with the residents. In the eyes of Chen Kai and others who are already familiar with the distance between gods and ordinary people in the game, living with the gods and ordinary people is simply a fantasy.
However, Xu Fei and his other spellcasters and several elf mages thought of a word at the same time, that is, the Age of the Gods. Of course, the so-called Age of the Gods is not the era where these gods live, but a much longer time. That is, several years ago, even a long time ago, even a long time ago when the ancient wizards lived. There are not many records of that period, but there is no doubt that that era is the most prosperous thing for the gods. The gods can walk in the world with true gods and the existence of the Pantheon. In fact, the most important record for the Age of the Gods is the Pantheon. Because compared with the current Age of the Gods, the Pantheon is the most powerful thing for the gods.
In fact, Chen Kai and others didn't know much about the legend of the Pantheon, but the only thing they knew was that only those who had thousands of main gods dared to call it the Pantheon. Of course, the more gods, the more intense the struggle for faith. The final result was the so-called disintegration of the Pantheon and the gods fell one by one in the fight. Regardless of whether they needed faith or whether they were fighting for faith, when a certain part of their gods was involved in the battle, the final battle of the gods inevitably happened, followed by the opening of the final twilight of the gods in the age of the gods. In the end, even the ancient gods were involved. According to the legend Chen Kai and others learned, the system's main brain, namely Vivian and Vivio, intervened to destroy most of the crazy gods, so that the later main material plane was not broken.
The end of the Age of the Gods also led to the change of the years, followed by the period of the ancient wizards. Relying on the knowledge left over from the Age of the Gods, some powerful people who were originally good at relations with the gods quickly became stronger and established the Ancient Mage Council. Of course, there were other organizations at that time, but under the cover of the powerful power of the ancient wizards, these organizations were breathing like mice in the underground world. However, the Ancient wizards did not learn from the lessons of the gods. They even captured the gods wantonly, and finally made the remaining gods unite and directly overturn the ancient wizards.
Of course, this battle once again caused a change of the year. At the same time, the exit of the ancient mage also caused the two main brains to start modifying the rules of the main material plane, making the current gods and gods level existence unable to enter the main material plane with their true bodies. If forced entry, they will be attacked by the power of the rule or even attacked by the two main brains. As for the time after the ancient mages exited, the period changes more frequently, of course, players like Chen Kai and others believe that the system master brain continuously enriches the system rules in order to welcome the arrival of the players.
However, no matter how Xu Fei and his friends swelled in their minds about the age of the gods, they could not interrupt the change in the picture in front of them. The huge city was constantly transmitted to the public's vision as the projection played. Chen Kai and his friends even turned on the video recording function directly to record the former appearance of this city called Eden. At the same time, they had a guess in their hearts. This is the Lost Land area, another Garden of Eden, called the Gods, would not be like this.
The huge city is constantly changing scenes under the power of magic. The sound surrounding the ears seems to tell the glory of the city, with a tone of pain and sadness. Listening to this tone, Chen Kai and the others know that the final result of this beautiful city is basically the same as the elf city of Teramis, which is to be destroyed by war. At the same time, if there is no accident, the city will be destroyed in the last terrible battle of Ragnarok in the era of the gods.
"But in the end, this city was destroyed! This beautiful city could not bear the fire of war. The fallen gods launched a terrible war. It was a war spreading the whole world that destroyed the city." As the picture flowed, Chen Kai and others saw the flames descended by the gods flying in the sky. At the same time, the attacks released by the powerful beings on the ground also shocked everyone. In such a battle, the giant dragon with a length of more than fifty meters was also a cannon fodder, and the attacks of the gods were shocked.
Then he screamed and fell from the sky. The ancient mages on the huge mage towers, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, kept shining with light towards the releasers in the sky. These powerful mages were the original existences of the later ancient mages. These powerful spellcasters attacked and even caused the fall of several gods. Of course, such behavior also caused the wrath of the gods. Accompanied by the terrifying thunder and flames, the huge mage tower turned into a collapsed ruin.
When the temple of the gods in the center of the city also turned into ruins, this beautiful city was finally completely destroyed by war, but it was not what Chen Kai and the others saw now. Because although most of the city was destroyed, many people still survived, and some of the buildings were preserved.
"Our home was destroyed, our gods died in battle! Some people left here with great sadness, while others chose to stay. We continued to live in this city full of memories and built a new city underground. We hope to wait until our gods are resurrected or come back, because we know that someone must not die." Seeing the city in the picture gradually turning into the dim underground, Chen Kai and the others finally understood how this huge dungeon came from.
"When we built a dungeon, some people came here to accept them. Some people were tired of waiting for the choice to leave, and we gave them blessings. The city became bigger and bigger, and there were more and more residents in the city, but the gods we had been waiting for still did not come back." The voice was a little desperate when he arrived here, but Chen Kai and the others still did not understand why this huge dungeon became like this.
"The days pass by day. Even if we have almost immortal lives, many people die in the end, because the so-called immortality is just a joke. As one partner dies after another, the city seems to gradually die. Fewer and fewer people leave. Some people can't stand the long waiting madness. The crazy attack on everything around us has led to many people escaping here. In the end, this will become the tomb of those of us, because we all know that they will not come back." When Chen Kai and the others heard this sentence, they all understood that the last one they should refer to those defeated gods, and basically these gods should have been washed away by the master's brain according to the legend of the age of the gods.
"You should understand when you see these, right?" When the sound rang, Chen Kai and the others felt something was wrong, because the original projection turned into an old man with white beard. He looked very amiable in a white robe and a huge staff, but Chen Kai and the others felt that the other party was malicious.
"You damn tomb robbers, you actually disturbed our An Ning. I want to curse you! Curse you...ah~~~~" Almost as he disturbed our An Ning, Chen Kai released the holy flame without hesitation and pressed it towards the old man's body. The flame filled with sacred power instantly burned on the other party's body and turned the old man with white beard into a burning torch.
"I curse you! You damn tomb robber... you will usher in a purgatory that you can't get rid of forever!" With the last scream, the old white-bearded man's body was completely burned by the light golden holy flame, and at the same time, along with the extremely heavy book, it turned into a pile of white ashes. But Chen Kai did not feel happy at all, because he felt that he seemed to be really cursed.
Chapter completed!