It is impossible to tell what period of the city's history it came from, the streets and walls are reduced to rubble, the ruined walls are covered with moss after the collapse of the strip-shaped boulder buildings, and it is a garden of great tranquility, where the bones of ancient people cannot be found anywhere, and there are not even large beasts hiding here.A barbarian slave pushed aside a patch of grass and alarmed a venomous snake with black and white rings, and it was frightened and hurried into the cracks in the stone.The wyverns entrenched here were slaughtered, and the dragon awe-inspiring aura that came above their heads disappeared at once, and the small beasts living near the ruins spread joy everywhere in the wilderness, before there were no high-level demonic beasts to occupy this land, there would be a short period of loss of control here, and there would definitely be some neighboring demonic beast lords peeping here, and they would fight for this land.But that's after we're gone.A few red-billed chaffinches pass overhead, the ruins are sparsely wooded, and from here you can see the blue sky of the wild swamp, and it is said that the ruins of antiquity often hide altars handed down from ancient times, but I think things are too simple.I didn't expect this urban ruin to be so big, just the ruins in the eastern part of the Great Rift Valley are the size of the seventh block, the largest of the seven blocks in the imperial capital, and it looks very barren, many abandoned buildings and streets are covered with thick moss, and sometimes to identify whether a certain place is the altar we are looking for, we have to remove the moss by hand, revealing the stone slab inside.In less than two days, we traveled to most of the eastern part of the ruins, and found that some of the building stone slabs here were carved with a kind of characters that I had never seen before, these words seemed to me more like a pure ancient magic rune, I didn't even dare to draw those magic runes casually, just looking at them made me feel dizzy, those words contained a powerful power.At the same time, the style of reliefs at the top of the buildings in the city is very different from the reliefs of the Grimm Empire.There are many kinds of reliefs on the tops of those buildings in the Grimm Empire, but basically there are only a few kinds: the carvers of the Grimm Empire like to carve scenes of the kingdom of gods on the top of the skydom of the buildings, such as the scene of Lady Liberty and her servants being crowned the king of angels in Cloud City, the scene of the gods fighting the god of death Hades, the king of hell Thanatos, and the king of the Titans in the kingdom of God, and there are also scenes of sisterhood between the goddess Celine and the god of water, Eva, In short, master carvers like to engrave the supreme power of this world on the tops of buildings.Some temple domes have reliefs of the Dragon Kingdom, and elven craftsmen like to carve a huge world tree in many solemn places, stretching from the roots to the top of the tree, filling almost the entire wall.The relief on the top floor of the building basically depicts only two images, one is the seraphim with white wings spread, and the other is the big demon with long horns on his head.That's right, it's the archangels and demons at the top.Sometimes they seem to be fighting endlessly, sometimes they are intertwined, and the pain and pleasure between fighting and snapping do not seem to be easily distinguishable in these reliefs.Ying Li stood in front of the stone wall, grabbing a skinning knife and gently peeling off the moss from the stone slab, and some reliefs appeared in front of her.Since I am a Nephalan, Ying Li has also learned a lot about the Nephalan people in the recent period, she carefully looked at the stone wall reliefs, and while carefully observing, she couldn't help but say to me: "This seems to be a record of the ancient Nephalans, and this lost city should be a certain city of the Nephalans." ”At this time, Teacher Heidi, who had always been silent, also stood in front of the stone slab and said for the first time: "These talismans that make us dizzy are probably the words of the Nefarans. ”Morayal, who was beside Teacher Heidi, said to me, "Jiga, you try, maybe you can learn to write them" Standing in front of the reliefs, I didn't dare to look directly at these magic words, every time I felt like the world was spinning, and my head was dizzy.I said to Moraya, "I actually feel the same way as you, but I get dizzy just looking at the same. ”In front of Ying Li, Moraya basically does not make intimate gestures with me, she does not even want to make eye contact with me, if it is not for the occasional time when I am alone, I will even think that Moraya has empathized.I chased her gaze, but was cleverly separated by Moraya by Teacher Heidi's body, Teacher Heidi's eyes fell on the stone carvings on the wall, and said: "This city seems to exist in the most powerful period of the ancient Nefarans, you look at these talismans carved on the stone slabs, forget it, don't look at it, I'm also a little dizzy!"
”She pressed her thumb and middle finger to her temples and rubbed them vigorously, her brows furrowed together, and she looked like there was a little pain between her brows.I guess it was probably when I was forcibly interpreting those magic words, and I was hit by mental power."
These stone gates are generally four or five meters high, and it seems that the ancient Nefarans should be some little giants, and they should be about the same height as the barbarians."
Ying Li raised her head, squinted her slender eyes at the reliefs on the stone wall, and after saying that, she smiled at me, and two charming dimples appeared on her face.In recent months, her appearance has changed subtly, probably because we get along all day, so I don't think she has changed, but I think she has become more beautiful and more beautiful recently!
I glared at Ying Li and said, "Why are you staring at me like that?"
”Ying Li's eyes narrowed into crescents, she covered her mouth to smile as subtlely as possible, and asked me, "Are you sure you're also a Nephalan?"
”When she asked me this, her eyes kept looking me from head to toe, clearly questioning me.I looked at the tall Nepharan reliefs on the stone walls, and I had no confidence in my identity, but said vaguely: "Perhaps, I'm not absolutely sure." ”Moraya, who was standing on the side, sighed: "How do you say they disappeared and suddenly all of a sudden?
”"You mean the Nephalans?"
I asked rhetorically.Our group walked along this unknown stone wall for a long distance, this should be the inner cloister of a certain building, but after the whole building collapsed, those stone walls have collapsed into countless waste stones, but the stone wall of this cloister remains, and now we walk along the cloister, while constantly looking at the relief patterns on this stone wall.There is quite a lot of information left here, first of all, some Nefarans are painted on the stone walls, as if describing their lives.Moraya glanced at me past Teacher Heidi before saying, "That's right!
If it weren't for the ruins that record traces of their lives, I would even think they never existed, and the history of those libraries rarely tells about them. ”Our group walked and chatted, and walked through the ruins of this ruin, and we didn't feel bored at all.There is a lot of information hidden on the stone walls of the inner cloister, and we are slowly observing it along the way.At this time, Caterina and Karantso never talked, but it was Erica's topic that we talked about, which aroused strong curiosity, she said: "It seems that they are no different from our lives" During this time, Sue and Anne sisters got very close to Erica, and when they heard Erica's words, Sue pointed to a slightly complete mural in front of herica, and said, "Forget it, you look here" "What is this?"
”Erica-senpai looked earnestly at the relief that Sue was pointing to.At this time, Helena and Becky couldn't help but lean over, and Helena said casually: "This should be a restaurant mural!"
”Before Helena could finish speaking, her beautiful eyes kept widening, and she said, "Oh my God, how did they put a Nakma Overseer on the table?"
”Becky, who was next to Helena, also commented: "Their tastes are really quite unique. ”Helena ran up to me, took my arm around me, and asked me, "Jiga, do you have the occasional urge to eat Nakma people?"
”After speaking, without waiting for me to answer, he snorted and laughed out loud.I looked at her speechlessly, tempted to pinch her pink cheek.Our group didn't get much out of the ruins of the building with the inner cloister, and we had to climb over the crumbling stone piles, and just at the edge of the wide chasm, an even larger ruin appeared in front of us.Looking at this ruin, which is piled up like a hill, many people can't help but let out an exclamation.Seeing that the outline of the ruins in front of me looked like a pentagonal building, I walked in front of the crowd, found a boulder to stand on, and said to everyone, "Okay, do you think that huge ruin in front of me will be the altar we are looking for?"
”Everyone looked at the ruins, the huge stones were covered with wild grass, and here it was close to the great crack, where dozens of rivers converged from all directions, and the water of those rivers flowed into the big crack as the lizard nobleman Inzaghi said, and from the heights, dozens of waterfalls of different sizes appeared."
It's supposed to be a building in the center of the city, but it's definitely not an altar."
Ying Li stood on the boulder beside me, looked side by side with me at the ruins in front of me, and said to me.We began to search for clues in the ruins of the largest building to date, when we heard Helena shouting in the distance, "Hey, everyone, come and see what I found!"
”Helena was standing on a flat bluestone slab, and we walked over to see her using her sword to clean the moss from her feet.Gradually, the rough outline of the stone floor under your feet emerged.Becky stood beside Helena and exclaimed, "Oh my God!
There was a map of the city on this huge stone slab, and I knew it had to be the town hall!
”Helena also shouted excitedly: "Look, look, maybe you can find the altar from here, speaking of which, the altar is one of the indispensable and important elements in the ancient city." ”It didn't take long to hear Becky shout: "Found it, here, this should be the northwest corner of the city!"
”By this time, we had all gathered and looked at the stone map at our feet, and it looked like we were standing on a huge stone map.After careful identification, Justus came to the conclusion: "The altar is in the western part of the ruins of the city, and our current location should be in the eastern area, which means that there is a big crack between us, and we should find a way to go around there." ”Ying Li proposed: "Why don't you fly over in the magic python?"
”I looked at the number of people around me, only the five of us, and I broke out in a cold sweat and said, "Forget it, in my opinion, let's honestly go around the side of the big crack, it shouldn't be too far!"
”After a long detour, with the help of the guidance on the slate map, we finally bypassed the big crack and came to the western part of the city ruins.In fact, the location of this altar is not difficult to find, and we soon found it.Standing in the distance and looking at the huge pyramid-shaped structure, I couldn't help but say, "This is the altar we're looking for?"
”At this time, Justes also followed me and said to me, "This should be here." ”Helena jumped on top of a sloping Roman column, looked at the altar in the distance, and exclaimed to us, "It's much bigger than I thought." ”When we came to the foot of the altar, we found that it was a little bigger than we thought, and it looked like a hill, with thousands of steps leading to the top of the altar alone.Moraya began to observe the reliefs at the foot of the altar, and said: "The stone walls around this altar are still well preserved, and the reliefs on the stone walls are not damaged, let's see what is painted here" Teacher Heidi also leaned over at this time, she stood in front of a complete wall, looked at the picture above, and said: "This should be the legendary eternal battle, this is the legendary place of refuge, but unfortunately these legends are too far away from us, it is said that later those Nephalans suddenly disappeared at some point, We haven't even inherited the Ming they left behind, and their words are actually magic runes in our eyes, different from the magic words of the ancient elves. ”I saw the magnificent altar in front of me, and I breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Anyway, we have found the Ancient Altar, and now, the three conditions of the Soul Gem, the Soul Horn, and the Ancient Altar are all ready, and we can prepare for the magic ceremony of resurrecting Sister Guoguo, and I will go to ask Lord Bruce, and he promised me to personally hold this soul awakening ceremony." ”