There is no unified name for the continuous mountains to the north of Mariencastle, so the Principality has not given any formal official name to this section of terrain that serves as the boundary and barrier of the Principality. It is simply called "

"Northern Mountains".

The history of this mountain range is very long, but it is unknown due to faults in human civilization, and no one in later generations has ever dared to go deep into it, or those who have gone deep into it have never come back. In the past hundred years, it has been far away from the border of the mountain range.

The deepest human gathering place is just the small village of Vali that was protected by the wolf god Wormtorre in the past, and it is only two hills away from the border of the mountains.

Due to the inaccessibility of people and the lack of accurate information, the rumors about the northern mountainous areas have been exaggerated and fabricated. Hundreds of years ago, a relatively famous wandering bard even claimed that there were people who visited the dead in those mountains.

It is the gate of the country of Burhels, so it is not a place that living people can approach, and the bards also told many legendary stories about that mountain range. Although the content of the stories is more "epic" in the traditional sense, its content

They often end in tragedy. Under the influence of these terrible, terrifying and even desperate legends, the surrounding humans gradually dare not go deep into the mountains.

However, among the many stories of the bard, there is a slightly traditional "hero saving beauty" story that has been circulated for a long time for some reasons. The content of the story describes a warrior who intends to go to the country of the dead to save himself for his lost lover, and

The content of the story is still the same development process full of all kinds of fantasy and legendary deeds. But what is special is that this story is a very exaggerated description of many scenery in the mountains, especially the so-called dead man.

Kingdom gate and the huge monster with 99 heads guarding the gate.

The bard's description of the battle between the warrior and the gatekeeper of the Kingdom of the Dead was very exaggerated. The plots of various legendary stories such as the collapse of the sky and the movement of the sun and the moon have basically appeared, but in the end the ending of his story was not the same.

It is not that the warrior returns with his lover in his arms, but that he continues his "traditional ending" full of despair and darkness.

After the warrior tried his best to kill the gatekeeper, he was easily caught by the god of the Kingdom of the Dead. Then this completely unhuman God of Death forced the warrior to become the next gatekeeper of the Kingdom of the Dead.

Until the next challenger appears and defeats him, he can only watch the door here like that monster. He will not even get any results even if he commits suicide. Of course, the next generation will begin to change with the tune of the legendary story.

Later, later generations gave the story a warmer ending, and the story has been passed down to this day.

Although the story is a bit absurd, it is not entirely fictional, at least Yell doesn't think so. The reason Yell knew this story was because she had just learned it from a ghost trapped here, who had lived hundreds of years ago.

It was because of hearing this story that they led a group of treasure hunting teams full of ambition and desire into the depths of the mountains to explore and hunt for treasure. Following the footsteps of that story, they indeed discovered the rumored gate to the Kingdom of Death, but when they entered

Didn't make it through the night here.

This is a huge valley plain hidden in the mountains, and due to the special terrain, it is impossible to find the unique caves here on the edge peaks of the mountain range. The life of this valley is extremely prosperous, and the fertile green space

There are a variety of towering giant trees and lush vegetation growing on Shangfeng. The unique terrain also makes the climate here very humid and warm. In addition, the abundant water sources in the valley also allow a considerable number of wild monsters and animal groups to appear here.

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Of course, due to some unknown reasons, Yell discovered many abnormal species that should not have appeared here, and even some strange creatures that she had not seen in thousands of years. Although she was either out of curiosity or professional

Instinctively, I wanted to go down and investigate, but in the end Yeer held back and continued to fly towards the end of the valley with a large group of holy guards.

Looking down at the dense forest below from the towering sky really made Yell feel all kinds of discomfort, but Yell still dutifully marked the various singular points he passed in his mind and continued flying forward.

In the end, Yell and his group of heavily armed temple holy guards finally arrived above the man-made building at the end of the valley plain.

That building is indeed a very huge marble door frame. If you compare it with the previous legendary stories, it does look like that. Although most of the door frame has collapsed, from the visual height, it is actually about the same height as the surrounding mountain peaks. This is huge.

The stone door was actually a huge portal that could lead to other places, but the other side of the door was not the legendary underworld but a temple. Of course, this temple refers to the temple of the Supreme God that was still on the ground back then, so

It is said that this place is actually a relic left in the mortal world by the Supreme Temple of the previous era.

According to records, when this world was just created, the Supreme God Severna directly asked the gods to build their respective temples on the ground, and the Supreme God directly built his temple in this new world without careful debugging.

Many complex and diverse mortal lives were created in it. That era was marked as the "Genesis Era" in the internal records of the temple, but this name seems to have come later, and it was not used in the temple until the demise of this era.

It has not been labeled with any name, but among the mortal beings at that time, especially in the records of the era left by the elves, that era was called the "Mythic Age".

However, the world of that era was not as beautiful as future generations imagined. After all, the various arbitrary behaviors of the gods at that time laid the foundation for the collapse of that extremely chaotic Genesis Era, and in addition, the world structure itself was

The product of the sequence of nothingness, for this reason even if the world is destroyed or collapses, it will not cause any loss to the Supreme God. For this reason, the Supreme God Severna at that time was obviously not interested in this new world created casually.

None. Judging from the structure and nature of the world, it is more like a pastime created by the Supreme God to relieve boredom when he was bored. Therefore, one can imagine how chaotic and disordered the world was at that time.

The huge portal in Yeer's eyes was obviously a product of that, or a product of the end of that era. Because at a certain stage, the Supreme God suddenly had some subtle changes in the world, so at that time she

He began to focus on the changes in this world and carefully began to transform this world to make it complete. However, at that time, the entire world was just a complete giant continent, so in order to facilitate the communication between living beings and the Holy Guardian, Severna was in the world.

Such giant transmission facilities have been built everywhere.

Although that era sounds very far away, in fact, if converted to the time of mortals here, it has only just passed the entire time of 1,200 years. Add in the consumption of Savina to create this world, so the total is no more than 1,200 years.

It took about 2,000 years. For this reason, when Yael saw this "ancient relic" that was younger than himself, he couldn't help but feel a little funny, because some remnants of the previous era in the temple records are usually recorded.

Call it this way.

Now that very chaotic and nihilistic world is a thing of the past. The current Supreme God Severna is completely different from the past. At the same time, with the collapse of the old order, these relics of the old era have also been abandoned one after another.

However, it stands to reason that most of the leftovers have been dealt with, but there are still some inconspicuous fish that slipped through the net, and the reason why these leftovers are often missed is because they do not have any power or power of their own.

It is so weak that it will not affect the world. But the portal ruins in front of Yell obviously do not exist like this. In other words, the closer you get there, the more clearly Yell can feel that the portal ruins still contain

It is causing quite huge fluctuations in space energy.

Although the portal was abandoned, the huge power it contained was free, and this energy would naturally attract the attention of some mortal beings, because in their view, these powers came from gods anyway.

Relics, even if they cannot absorb and control them, will at least become stronger under the influence and nourishment of these forces. In the past, some races relied on various miracles of the old era to thrive and thrive.

With the remaining power in the miracle, his civilization developed rapidly.

Yell lowered his head and looked at the huge city ruins in front of the portal ruins. Although it is not clear why this place was abandoned, judging from the size of the city, at least hundreds of thousands of people lived here at that time. If according to the

Calculating the construction time, this is obviously not a small city, even for today's humans.

Development with the help of the power of miracles may not always lead to good results, because no matter how weak the power of miracles is, it cannot be controlled and contacted by mortals at will. This is caused by blind squandering and absorbing the power of miracles.

There are countless examples of devastating disasters. Just like the scenery that Yell overlooks at this moment, the ruins of huge buildings next to the huge portal may have resulted in such a result.

However, Yell felt that the ruins seemed a bit too clean. Most of the buildings looked intact, and the damaged areas looked like they had been destroyed by wildly growing plants due to long-term neglect. And the entire

What's unusual about the city ruins is that they don't look as shabby as imagined from the inside, and the overall feeling doesn't look like a product of the previous era, but more like traces left over the past hundred years or so.

The most critical point is that in the underground of the ruins, Yell vaguely felt an indescribable discomfort seeping out from the underground, and the more Yell planned to fall, the stronger this feeling became.

.Compared with the obvious sensory warning, this complex and subtle discomfort is more like a awning on the back, as if being watched, and no matter how Yeer sensed and investigated, he did not find anything obviously suspicious.

Place. And just when Yael couldn't help but plan to descend into the ruins of the city to investigate up close, she was suddenly grabbed by Elena's arm from behind and dragged back to the sky.

"Are you crazy? You actually want to go down with such a dangerous atmosphere? Are you trying to kill yourself?" Elena turned pale and scolded Yeer, while Yeer continued to look confused and at a loss.

However, after Ye'er was pulled back, the other holy guards who were originally following her were also pulled back by Hex in an instant. However, these group of holy guards were also completely dissatisfied with Hex's behavior just like Ye'er.

Understand, even they themselves did not feel the strange discomfort of Ye Er, or in other words, they did not sense anything happening at all, so they followed Ye Er and planned to fall to the ground without any precautions.

"Lord Hex...I..." Yeel came to Hex in embarrassment and planned to admit his mistake, because Elena's lesson just now gave her the illusion that she had made a mistake.

"I don't blame you. It's not your fault that you failed to notice the danger. After all, this power is a disguise set up for your holy guards..." Hex said, snapping his fingers casually, and then activated the sound.

In an instant, the scenery in the ruins of most of the city below suddenly changed.

The seemingly complete urban structure of the original version has long since fallen apart. Various flesh-and-blood plants spewing red smoke are all over the city. Even on the ground, there are a large number of flesh-and-blood monsters gathering to guard the sky. And elsewhere in the city

There is also a collective movement of a large number of flesh and blood monsters. It seems that these monsters are quickly gathering in an orderly manner towards a certain location in the city. It is obvious that the monsters have unified command and there is no chaos.

"Oh? It's really rare..." Hex looked at the various monsters at his feet jokingly and then counted them in detail: "Flesh puppets, corruptors, flesh and dead trees... Oh? There is also the jumping Tara beast.

Ha! I see, there is an acolyte of Haikan here, it seems that this is a hidden lair of Hertogos... I just don’t know if there are any Hetogos in stock here."

After looking at the huge number of monsters and the horrifying scenery, Yeer was so frightened that she froze, because she really didn't feel any discomfort if we just talked about the number of monsters. After all, she was even more powerful than this.

I have fought with them, but the problem is that Ye Erke has never been so embarrassed and almost plunged into the trap of the monsters. But judging from the place where he just planned to land, the large number of Tara beasts there will definitely be on his side.

The moment their feet have not even touched the ground, they come up to surround themselves, while the group of jellyfish-like corruptors on the side will launch mental attacks on themselves or other holy guards.

Finally, let’s look at the humanoid creatures on the outermost edge of the trap that are protected by other monsters. These strange species called the Acolytes of Haikan are the slaves of Hertogos, and they were the miscellaneous creatures who invaded the world with them. Although

The individual is very weak but has quite powerful magic ability. Its very evil and strange magic can be called the enemy of the gods. Although they are not really capable of wrestling with the gods, they are used to deal with holy guards like themselves.

Very easy to do. Just like the siege net just now, if you lead the holy guards and rush into it, even if you break through the siege in a bloody battle, you will be trapped by these inhuman things in the end. The final miserable result can be imagined.

Know.

Just when Il and the other holy guards were panicking about their brush with danger, Elena pointed to a location in the city and said to Hex: "Sir, look! It's a ghost dragon!

"

Hex looked in the direction Elena pointed, and sure enough, he found a cage made of flesh and blood plants near the ruins of the portal in the city, and a ghost with a very weak breath was paralyzed in it.

Although the other party's existence has become so weak that it is almost transparent, the faint aura of the golden dragon exuding from it still proves that the other party's identity is Selsande, the heir of the golden dragon king who disappeared before.

The reason why it is so weak now is probably because there are a group of Haikan acolytes around the cage who are casting spells to extract soul energy from it. However, judging from their behavior, it does not look like they are using it for themselves.

After all, it is the soul energy of the ghost dragon, the real essence of the undead. And although Hex does not want to admit it, in fact, these acolytes of Haikan who look like mummies are actually life forms in the material world, so

They cannot use the essence of the undead, so it is obvious that the other party has some other purpose.

Although the unlucky golden ghost dragon was in danger, Hex still did not intend to rescue him. After all, she had no way to save him. After all, she was not the God of Life who could create life nor could she manage the death of the undead.

God, if you interfere with such a subtle spell without authorization, you may not be able to save the opponent, but will directly kill Thelsande.

Another point is that Hex noticed that there were several strange figures who had not shown up in this dirty lair, and they were not too deep under the city. Although in terms of outline, they seemed to be similar to Hutto.

Goss is very similar, and the aura is also very close to the twisted feeling of the real Hertogoss, but in terms of strength, it is weak and not worth mentioning as an ordinary flesh and blood monster.

Hex was also worried at this time. She also subconsciously thought that she did not seem to have completely exterminated these twisted species, but it was possible that they were individual individuals that were missed in the wars of the previous era. But in any case, although it felt like

I really wanted to do it, but the power seemed to be significantly different from the real Hertogos, so after thinking about it again, Hex decided to strike first. At the very least, he had to clear out the monster groups under his feet and prevent them.

Escape.

Under Hex's order, thousands of holy guards headed by Yell formed a formation in the sky. Like black clouds pressing over the city, the holy guards exuded an overwhelming sacred aura over the city ruins.
To be continued...