When viewed from above, it doesn't look too far along the waterway, but it doesn't look so far when you walk on it.Fortunately, the lake and mountains here are pleasant, and there seems to be no danger in the water.The surface of the lake is sparkling, and a few silver sheath fish make a splash not far away, and quickly swim to the bottom of the lake.The entrance to the altar of the World Tree is built in the middle of the lake, and when you enter, you can see that it is a magnificent pyramid-style building made of huge bluestone.The lake flooded almost the entire altar of the Sealing Circle, but the entrance to the altar was at the very top of the temple, and it was a stone gate with a sluice carved with reliefs of ghost vines, and on either side of the stone door were burning braziers, two of which were filled with rainwater, and one of the stone basins was covered with moss and cracks.I was standing at the entrance of the altar of the forbidden circle, and there was one thing that was really incomprehensible, it was obviously the altar of the forbidden circle set up by the World Tree, but the altar of the forbidden circle was not only located in the central lake of the Thorn Crater, but such an altar was actually built.Obviously, this altar was not intended for the War Ancient Tree, or the World Tree that had left a forbidden circle in the Black Forest thousands of years ago would not be able to enter here.So who built this altar?
I inevitably had some doubts in my heart.The huge stone gate in front of him was four or five meters high, and even tall barbarian and minotaur warriors should be able to enter the altar, but for the war ancient trees that were more than a hundred high, it was simply too difficult to enter it."
Why did you say that the World Tree thousands of years ago built the altar of the Forbidden Circle on the façade of a building?"
With doubts in my heart, I couldn't help but complain to Katarina, who was standing quietly beside me.Caterina squinted at the entrance to the altar that exposed the lake in front of her, pursed her red lips slightly, and smiled silently.I was standing in front of the stone gate, looking for a way to open it, when I suddenly heard a voice."
The building on the altar where the circle is forbidden is the work of the Hiero people."
The voice of the Elder Dirham of the Ancient Tree of War came into my sea of spirits.It turned out that the building on this altar was built later, I thought to myself.Elder Dirham then messaged me: "They built this temple two thousand years ago to preserve the altar inside, and we were worried that the altar would become completely ineffective after years of immersion in the lake, so we asked the group of Hieros in the Black Forest to build this structure. ”Although the cracks of these unusually smooth bluestone slabs are covered with moss, it can be seen that the connection between the bluestone slabs and the bluestone slabs is very tight, and the middle of the stone joints is plastered with a kind of gray-white lime, which looks like a whole except for the different colors.I can't imagine that the stone houses built by the natives will be so elegant, especially when they are built in the lake, and the entrance is set on the surface of the lake, just imagine that such a magnificent building waterproof facilities must be very good, "It turns out that this place was actually built by the natives of Hierro, and it looks really magnificent!"
”I crouched down in front of the stone steps closest to the surface of the water and stuck my head in the water, so that I could really see the underwater part of the building, which stretched to the dark part of the water, and I roughly estimated that the depth of the center of the lake should be at least a few hundred meters, and the quiet bottom of the lake was like an abyss that could not be seen, as if there was an unknown fear hidden in it.There was no winch of any kind next to the huge stone door, and I approached to find a way to open it."
The way to open the stone gate is very simple, you only need to open the left channel gate, let the lake water flow into the gate along the channel, and when the weight of the lake water poured into the gate is greater than the stone gate, the stone gate will open automatically."
Well, I just wanted to know how to open the stone door, so I followed the instructions of the Elder Dirham and opened the sluice gate to the left of the entrance to the altar and watched as the lake bubbled into the waterway, and the lake flowed down the dark hole in the waterway into the bottom of the stone door.The sound of a mechanism turning sounded in the click-click stone door, and slowly the entire huge stone door full of reliefs began to shake, and little by little it rose upwards.A smell of corruption came from the entrance of the altar, and I hurriedly held my breath, took out two metal runes of the miniature tornado from my waist bag, stuffed the two pieces of magic crystal fragments into the gem groove, and waited until a faint vortex of air currents rose from the rune board, and then placed the rune plate at the entrance of the altar.A crack opened in the stone door, and I saw through the gap that the inside of the corridor was very wet, and the stone floor was covered with slippery moss.After waiting for a while, until the stone door was wide open and the exhaust fan had changed some fresh air into the corridor, I pulled Caterina into the altar corridor, the corridor sloped downward and stretched out, the road under my feet was very slippery, I took out a long-handled staff from the Elder of the Tree Elves from my magic waist bag, and walked carefully inside with the staff.The strange smell of mold and rot was very medium, probably from the moss under his feet.Walking along the corridor for dozens of meters, the outside light can not shine in, the rock corridor is very dark, Caterina holds a moonstone in her hand, she exudes a faint fluorescence around her, I found that there are some simple murals carved on the stone wall of the corridor, my eyes swept over the murals, only to find that these murals are the indigenous people of Hiero in the form of murals to record the construction of this temple.This time hangs on my chest.
The heart of power in front of me emitted a faint light, and I also cast a shimmer illumination technique into the depths of the corridor.The aisle in front of us also seemed to be quiet, and we walked along this aisle all the way to the depths of the altar.The stone steps in the altar corridor are not too steep, and they are unique in their design that spirals down the four walls.The inside of the corridor was extremely hot and humid, but the strange smell of rot was much lighter, and the slippery moss under his feet had decreased a lot.There was a sound of rushing water inside the altar, it sounded like a small waterfall, and I don't know how long it took to walk until I finally walked the long roundabout.Passing through a circular arch into an empty hall where darkness engulfed everything, I cast another shimmer of light, the magic flare drawing a graceful parabola through the hall, lighting up wherever the magic shimmer passed.I stood still and unleashed ten shimmer illuminations in a row to grasp the general layout of the altar hall.The hall was about the size of a football field, and at the center was a circular stone platform, and around this huge stone platform stood twenty or so marble columns, connected to which were stone arches carved in relief, and I found several braziers on the huge stone platform, although the grease used to ignite the fire had dried up, and only some signs of burning remained.He casually threw the fire-gathering talisman into the stone basin, and the burning flames came out of the stone basin little by little, and the light filled every space on the altar little by little.At this point, I finally saw what was inside the altar, and Caterina and I stood at the edge of the stone platform, where there were four small waterfalls around the stone wall, not so much waterfalls, but four columns of water that spat out of the mouth of the swamp crocodile relief and flowed into the pool at the bottom of the altar.It looked like the stone platform in front of me was the altar where the circle was sealed, and I asked Caterina to light up the entire circle around the stone platform with a fire gathering spell board.Walking up to the stone platform, I found that the stone platform the size of a football field was carved with talismans, forming a huge magic pattern circle, the lines of this magic pattern circle were very thick, and it looked like it was made of magic metal.The magic perception could easily feel that these metal wires embedded in the stone platform slabs were surging with the power of rich wood magic.According to the ancient war tree in the dense forest of Green Valley, Weisman, the ability of this forbidden circle in the Black Forest to operate normally for thousands of years is not because the forbidden circle has an inexhaustible source of magic power, but the mana required for the altar of this forbidden circle, in fact, the forbidden circle has absorbed the mana of the ancient war tree in the entire forest.It is precisely because the huge underground forbidden circle is constantly absorbing the power of the War Ancient Trees that these War Ancient Trees are unable to resist and are powerless to struggle.When I came here, I found that the heart of power was like coming to life, and the whole crystal was beating like a heart.Holding it in the palm of my hand, the feeling will be very strong, I held this heart of power in my hand, and walked towards the center of the stone platform step by step, as if I was being pulled by some invisible force, and I knew that the center of the stone platform was the central system of the forbidden circle.I walked there, and sure enough, on the stone slab in the center of the stone platform, I found a magical pattern structure of magic power backtracking, but the gem groove in the center was empty, and the wood elemental mana that gathered here was also dissipated here.I squatted down and put the key of power in the groove and boom, but in the next second, there was a violent shaking of the altar of the forbidden circle, and some huge cracks were actually formed in the shaking of the surrounding stone walls, and the lake water poured into the hall along the cracks in the building.Caterina appeared in front of me for the first time, and did not give me a chance to make any decisions at all, and put one hand around my waist, and in just three short flashes, it flashed onto the roundabout.At this time, the magnificent building shook even more, and some stones fell from the walls, and as the bluestone strips kept falling, the lake also flowed in through the cracks in the stones.We ran desperately along the roundabout to the way we came, Caterina pulled me to dodge left and right to avoid the falling rocks overhead, occasionally the place that could not be avoided would flash me with a flash, when I ran to the back, she felt that I was running too slowly, and directly carried me on my back, I lay on her back, put my arms around her neck, and felt her leopard-like vigorous skills.Every time he bounced, he would look for a gap in the falling rocks and move forward a long distance.Caterina carried me to the entrance of the altar of the forbidden circle, and at this time the entrance had collapsed, and the gate-type stone gate had also fallen, completely sealing our retreat, and seeing the scene in front of me, my heart suddenly cooled half.The whole building shook even more, and it seemed to have a tendency to sink, and the water in the corridor was already up to the knees.At this time, I took out the Space-Breaker Warhammer from my belt bag, and was about to open a magic portal next to me and Katarina, and take Catalina to hide in the Xinliu Valley.But before my arm could fall, I saw that through a crack in the wall next to the stone door, the rhizomes of countless trees spread out, and completely stretched the stone crack next to the stone gate, and the broken stone fell one after another, but Caterina and I saw the gray sky overhead.Caterina didn't hesitate any longer, and took me directly through this stone crack that allowed people to pass through, and instantly drilled out of the altar of the forbidden circle.The rhizomes seemed to see me and Caterina get out of trouble, and they quickly retreated from the stone gate.I noticed that the direction in which the roots of the trees were retreating came from five different ancient trees of the lake."
It's so dangerous, it's going to collapse here!"
After I blessed myself with walking on the water, I stood on the water again and said to Caterina with a sigh of relief.Caterina crouched on the surface of the water, watching the movement of the underwater structure, and several huge whirlpools appeared in the lake.Caterina said to me, "The building is still sinking, and when it gets completely out of control, the massive amount of stone that sinks to the bottom will create a dangerous vortex here, and we'd better stay away from here until this vortex is formed." ”Hearing her say this, I did not dare to linger on this water, so I said to Caterina, "Got it!
Let's go!
Go to the Dirham Elders and have a look!
”Katerina and I ran along the water to the Elder Dirham, and when we reached the lake, we realized that the water level was rapidly decreasing, and the green grass that had been soaked in water was reappearing.I stood stupidly in front of Elder Dirham, watching his tall body swaying slowly, and roots like tentacles pulled out of the soil, it turned out that this was the freedom of the so-called tree spirit clan in the mouth of the Elder Dirham of the Ancient Tree of War At this time, Elder Dirham also found me under his feet, he stopped struggling, and a smiling face appeared on the trunk of the tree, and said to me: "I'm sorry, we didn't expect that after the ban was lifted, this building would collapse quickly. ”"Just at the entrance of the altar, you and the other four ancient war trees saved me?"
I said to Elder Dirham."
Actually, we didn't do much to help, but we saw the stone door close in a violent shake, and we were worried that you would be trapped inside the altar, so we found a crack next to it," Elder Dirham said to me, pulling his roots out of the dirt one by one