The underworld space after the witchers ravaged was even more shocking.Originally, this was a desolate and dilapidated place, the canopy of eternal night has been unchanging for thousands of years over the entire world, the dark and cracked earth is flowing with poisonous water and magma, the undead wander everywhere, and any life will be cut off here, and after the witchers raided and killed Hades who sat here, this place has more scars left by countless wars - the land that was already full of rifts was torn and curled by powerful magical energy, forming countless undulating rippled bulges, Between those ripples is a terrifying rift, a rift that has penetrated the entire land of Hades, and if you jump from it, you will fall directly into the boundary of space, and be torn apart and annihilated by this man-made space; Most of the undead roaming Hades have been killed by witchers, and the wilderness is littered with shattered bones and shapeless flesh and blood; The outposts and towers that had been used to monitor the space were destroyed, and ruins were everywhere, and the flames of the witchers melted the otherwise impregnable structures, causing them to collapse to the ground like molten butter......
Hasselblad and his companions walk the land of Hades, which has been completely destroyed and is gradually becoming less stable, and Hasselblad relies on his memory to guide the way.They had to bypass some rifts that suddenly appeared on the earth at any time, because the foundations that made up this world were crumbling, and the whole earth was in a constant state of disintegration and falling.Hethanna also tried to fly in the sky, but it turned out to be even more dangerous: Tartarus's soul furnace stopped, which directly caused all the human souls collected by Hades to escape, and these souls that had not yet burned out but were no longer rational floated in the air in pieces, forming a very powerful energy group, and rashly approaching not only easily caused a chain explosion, but also polluted by the negative emotions that these undead souls constantly emitted, compared to the sky occupied by these undead, A constantly cracking earth is a safer path.After some progress, a dry riverbed appeared in front of everyone.Hao Ren stood at the edge of the riverbed and looked into the distance, his vision went beyond the darkness and saw a land that gradually extended upwards across the riverbed.He retracted his gaze and noticed that the river had dried up a short time ago, and that the mud of the filthy venom was still left on the beach, and the reason for the river's dryness was obvious: there were a number of shocking fissures in the center of the riverbed, which covered almost the entire bottom of the river, and from where the water leaked - all the way through Hades, dissipating into the chaotic borders of another dimension.Because of the existence of those cracks, Hao Ren and his party had to walk along the riverbank, looking for a continuous and safe route to the other side.Thankfully, they weren't too late, the collapse of the space was still in its early stages, and they were soon able to find a suitable "crossing" point, as well as a strange boat stranded on the riverbank.It was a ferry made of fishing nets and the bones of unknown creatures, and the hull was full of fist-sized holes, and even the bottom of the boat could be seen with countless visible cracks and breakages, making it hard to imagine how this thing could float on the water.At the bow of the ship, there was an ugly giant in a tattered black robe, three meters tall, festering all over his body, his face peeling off and his face was hateful, his right hand clutching a fierce weapon that looked like an oar but had countless spikes at the end, and in his left hand he grasped a broken lantern, and a silver sword still slowly burning the flame was stuck in his chest, nailing the giant firmly to his own ship.The Ferryman of Hades, Charon."
Is this Charon......"
Heather Anna looked at the crucified ferryman for a moment, and suddenly showed a sarcastic smile, she took out two coins from her body and placed them on Charon's dead eyes, "You also have a time to go on the road." ”It seemed that the slight tremor destroyed Charon's body with a soft thud, and then the entire ferry made of bones and fishing nets shattered to pieces, and after the cabin broke, countless glittering coins poured out of it, and they flowed down the dry riverbed like a flood, forming a golden streak, and in the "pavement" paved with gold coins, you can also see the white bones mixed in - they are also Charon's collection.Charon's body also fell on the riverbank, and his long decomposing and fragile body was torn apart, and from the cracked skin flowed out of the untold gold coins.Hao Ren and Lily were stunned by this "grand scene", but Hasselblad next to him was expressionless—oh, he was already paralyzed.However, Hethanna did not react superfluously when she saw this scene."
Charon, I know him," Heatherian shrugged, "though he was dead when I was sensible, but I have lived through the age of mythology, these savage and twisted 'gods'......
Hehe, it's pretty much the same. ”Hasselblad shook his head and walked down the riverbank: "Let's go, pave a good road." ”How many years of wealth have these gold and silver coins been accumulated?
Perhaps the oldest of them can even be traced back to the origins of ancient Greek civilization, when the "gods" on Mount Olympus laid down the rules for life and death funerals, and the people of the Mediterranean offered these coins as part of their tombs to the lord of Hades in fear and awe for peace of mind after death.Charon may have taken only a small portion of it, but it was still enough to fill his ship of the dead, and his entire skin.Now the money these mortals have handed over to buy the road has finally paved a way for real, after the destruction of Hades.Crossing the dry River Styx (River of Pain), Hao Ren saw the withered Élysée Paradise (also known as Elucion and Elysion), a vast garden that is considered by human myths and legends to be the "blessed land" of the underworld where the righteous and immaculate are blessed after death, but Hasselblad tells the truth about this place."
This garden was once indeed luxuriant, and it was indeed beautiful on the outside, but it was definitely not a 'blessed land'.After the failure of the Olympian project, the Olympians were unwilling to let this resource-consuming alien space go to waste, so they transplanted some magical plants that were not suitable for growing in a normal environment, most of these magical plants were related to necromancy and shadow power, and they needed to grow normally in places where death and dark power were strong, so Hades became an excellent nursery for them.Persephone is the gardener who takes care of this garden of terror, she takes the human souls who have entered the underworld but are not suitable for 'fuel' and let them wander in the garden, but in fact they are used as nourishment for magical plants - the death knell flower and the rotting flower have a strong hallucinogenic anesthetic effect on the soul, so the dead soul does not feel pain at all, they are unconsciously absorbed by these nurseries, but until the moment the soul is gone, they feel that they are enjoying themselves in paradise.This is the truth of this 'blessed land'. ”"Although I have known for a long time what the Age of Mythology is all about......"
Hao Ren looked at the completely withered Elysée Paradise, this vast area of plants had also been swept away by the witchers' war-level spells, all the gardens were scorched, and only smoking bushes and scorched dust were left everywhere, and between these ruined botanical gardens, fragments of human bones could be seen everywhere - many of these bones were originally buried in the nursery and still felt ......
It's dark. ”Lily wrinkled her nose: "There is no good person in the age of mythology......
Uh, is it so different?
”"Of course there is, there are in the sun ship of the god Ra, there are in the palace of Asgard, there are also on Mount Olympus, and even Zeus himself seems to have proposed a policy of kindness to mankind several times, but so what?"
Hethanna crossed her arms, "Humans are just kept in captivity by them after all, although I am not a human myself, but to be honest, I really can't get used to the mythical age, this kind of social structure that relies on the complete enslavement and exploitation of one race to maintain by another race has not been a healthy form of survival from the beginning." ”Hao Ren deeply believes this.The area that everyone walked through before can only be regarded as the periphery of Hades, and the real inner layer of Hades is the land where Hao Ren and his party are standing now, which is composed of two parts, one part is the Elysée Paradise, and the other part is the famous "Tartarus", and the dried up "River Styx" is actually the "moat" flowing outside Tartarus and Elysée Paradise, which can be regarded as the dividing line of this kingdom of death, and the inside of the dividing line is the territory of Hades in the true sense, and the outside is the "gods" of Olympus We have completely abandoned the wasteland.For years, Hades had focused most of his energy on the inner layers of Hades, and the wasteland on the other side of the River Styx had been thrown directly to the mutated monsters, leaving them to roam freely.As a result, in the land of Tartaros, the remnants of Hades' power are still at work.Ascending from the withered gardens of the withered gardens, you can see the scorched earth of Tartarus, covered in mud and volcanic ash, and only one fortress stands on this scorched earth, which rises from the ground in the darkness, with a full triple wall of pure copper, and looks so thick that it can make all the human armies of this era feel hopeless.In the center of the fortress was Hao Ren's target, a tower of Babel that swirled and reassembled, looking like it was made of countless metal parts, the base of which was connected to the Temple of Hades, and the top of which was reaching into the top of the Chaos Cloud, which connected to the Temple of Hades on Mount Olympus.However, it was not easy to get to the brass fortress at the highest point of Tartarus, because Hades' power had not yet completely dissipated - the land outside that fortress was full of wandering undead.