Pale Emblem

Chapter 112 The Crucible of Life
"...The sky in the dark place is covered with dark clouds all the year round, the sun can't be seen during the day, and the moon can't be seen at night. It's strange, the animals and plants here are growing abnormally lush, strong, and twisted... We encountered strange-looking woods In fact, they are wormwood bushes with a height of seven or eight meters. Their roots and stems have grown into tree trunks. The broad grass leaves are still like wormwood, and mice the size of jackals are running away in the wormwood forest. The majesty terrifies these lowly beasts. In fact, considering the number of rats and their jackal-like size, it is enough to tear us all to shreds. Of course Feilumat is not included, she can fly to the sky, but also Powerless to stop."

"Fortunately, Feilumat's intimidation is more practical than her dragon's breath. All creatures with spirituality are more or less suppressed by the dragon's power, and it is a continuous suppression, and there is no time limit. The place of darkness Because of fear, the monsters did not dare to approach the expedition team, and we were safe in the ruins of the ancient city. Of course, there are also existences that even Feilumat is afraid of. For example, a big tree... It is more than 70 meters high, The trunk is thick enough to hold an army camp. Half of the tree is green, haunted by misty fog; half is orange, like a solidified clay sculpture. The canopy casts a huge shadow on the ground, and there are clumps of lush bushes. I saw with my own eyes a bush pulling up It rises from the ground, revealing the true face of terror... It is a centaur cavalry with a spear, let's put it this way, it is composed of soil, flesh and blood, moss, mushrooms, thorn branches, and fungal sticky threads. Some of the four-legged mounts are tightly coupled, huge and weird, as tall as a two-story wooden house, holding a long wooden thorn spear, spreading four hooves with roots wrapped around gravel, chasing a black-skinned wild boar. , That wild boar was equally eccentric, with four tusks sticking out of its mouth. It was as tall as an elephant but supported its weight on six beetle-like slender legs, and ran very fast... A black-skinned wild boar arched a thorn lancer It fell to the ground, trampling in an inhuman form... The branches of the Thorns Lancer are alive, like poisonous pythons with claws and claws, tightly wrapping the body of the four-toothed giant wild boar, strangling its bones and piercing its thick skin , draw its flesh and blood, drag its violent prey into the soil, and become fertilizer for the trees..."

"My knowledge of monsterology is completely useless in the Darklands. I can't even tell the boundaries between plants, animals, beasts, and intelligents. The laws of life seem to be twisted, torn and messed up by some force... these strange , twisted, mad and evil life reminds me of the legendary abyss and hell..."

"...June 6279, 9 of the glorious calendar."

Victor pursed his lips tightly, stretched out his slender and well-proportioned fingers, picked out the third scroll from the drawer, and untied it deftly, as written above:

"The majestic city built by the ancient remnants is definitely a miracle of architecture, and it still stands still after thousands of years. The scale of the city is amazing... Rowen and the others saw the towering white pagoda and the thick city walls through the lush and twisted plants, and they were both scared and curious. This can't be blamed for their lack of knowledge. A group of savages kept in captivity by rock elves. I spent ten years teaching them martial arts and literacy just so that someone could help me explore the lost ancient city-state. Otherwise, how long would it take me to explore a magnificent The ancient city of..."

"With the continuous excavation of the clay sculpture slabs, I am sure that the ancient city we are exploring is called 'Flame City', 'Dragon Falling City', 'Ganquan City'... Yes, she once had three names, corresponding to three This different period, from establishment to destruction, reconstruction and destruction, and so on, experienced three periods of history... No wonder ancient wizards liked to record various documents with clay sculptures. Clay sculpture and slate continue civilization. However, since the 'Ganquan City', the inheritance of ancient wizards has finally been completely cut off. Their descendants have fled their homes and gradually become illiterate savages. They accept the protection of the rock elves and live a simple and primitive life. life until now..."

"...What did the ancient wizards do to keep the dark clouds in the sky all year round, and all kinds of dangerous strange creatures run rampant in the dark place, causing the strong civilization of the city-state to be completely cut off?"

"...I am very eager to find out...September 6279, 9 Glorious Calendar."

"...Explore the ruins of ancient city-states in the dark place. The supreme radiant Lord has given me two important revelations. First, walk with dragons; second, don't stay there for a long time."

"Firumat's dragon power drives away relatively weak alien monsters, and she will actively avoid those powerful aliens that are particularly dangerous. We surround the dragon and carefully excavate the clay sculpture slabs left by ancient wizards. I also give Rowan Each of them blessed 'Watching Guard'... a 40nd class spell created from my gift of sorcery, when a hunter (mainly anomalies in the Darklands) stared at the bearer, 'Watching The guards' will alert them in the direction of the source of the danger. To be honest, this may not work, but at least it gives my half-elf helper a chance to escape back to the dragon... The 'watchful guard' lasts [-] minutes and can only be triggered once, down It is also in line with the 'don't stay here for long' revelation."

"Although I followed the instructions of the Supreme Lord and made full preparations, there are still half-elves who disappeared for no reason... Lisa is the first, but she is not the last."

"Since Lisa, a total of 8 young half-elves have disappeared. Some were overtaken and dragged away by anomalies because they were running too slowly, and the remaining 3 unlucky ones, just like Lisa, disappeared without a trace. No trace, no trace left. The locations where they disappeared are all concentrated near the high tower of Ganquan City."

"According to my archaeological experience, the ancient wizard's tower contains the largest number of clay sculpture slabs and the most valuable excavation value. Searching for the remains of the tower is the main goal of our trip. The tower of Ganquan City is preserved in this ruins. It is relatively complete, and there are no alien species around, and Feilumat does not perceive the existence of danger. We thought it would be safer to explore the tower, but half-elves disappeared one after another. I translated and organized the records on the clay sculpture tablet. of ancient texts, and finally found some clues in these ancient documents."

"The last wizard of the tower of Ganquan City was named Solotolin. He recorded on the clay tablet that the wizard of the Pantheon caused a terrible cataclysm. Due to the ancient wizard's attempt to steal the divine power of the Mother Earth... very early In the past, I firmly believed that all ancient gods were formed by primitive worship and could only be regarded as fictitious false gods. And the supreme radiant Lord is the only true god in the world. Of course, the Mother Earth worshiped by the rock elves is also It belongs to a false god. However, several rock elves I know claim that the mother earth is the mother of all things, the mother of nature, the mother of life... The ancient wizard Solotolin's description of the earth mother and the rock elves' family The statement is very similar, but he has additional additions... The Mother Earth is also the Mother of Abyss Demons..."

"The wizard of the Pantheon tried to steal the divine power of the Mother Earth, but it attracted the attention of the abyss demon?! The ancient wizard was indeed the son of the devil!"

"...Dragon Falling City was destroyed by a demonic disaster. The exact cause, process, and duration of the demonic disaster are all unknown. 40 years after the demonic disaster gradually subsided, the ancient survivors who escaped the disaster returned to their homes. The Ganquan City was built on the site of the Falling Dragon City. However, the wizards of Ganquan City did not learn their lesson, and were still engaged in dangerous and taboo research, analyzing the mysteries of the Mother Earth, and trying to master an extraordinary power called 'The Crucible of Life'. "

"Although the demonic disaster has subsided, its influence has spread. The wizards of Ganquan City believe that the divine power of the Mother of Demons is rampant, just like a flash flood hitting the earth. When the flood recedes, leaving rivers, tidal flats and reefs, there are still dangers, but already Became researchable. The most obvious change is that the sky of the Darklands is covered with dark clouds, and there are anomalies, earthbinders, and temporal mysteries large and small."

"...Abnormality is a lifeform that has been contaminated by the mother of demons and has undergone aberration, which is somewhat similar to the alienated creatures in monsterology, but the aberrant life contains plants, while the mutant creatures are just animals. The strange creatures are called monsters. Monsters are the main research objects of the wizards of Ganquan City."

"...Abnormal monsters kill life, devour flesh and blood to enhance their own strength, and when they grow to a certain extent, they become earth-bound spirits. The two-color strange tree on the west side of Ganquan City is a typical earth-bound spirit. It has powers and a near-infinite lifespan, and can be regarded as a type of higher demon that cannot move at will."

"The range of activities of the earthbound spirits is limited by a certain law, they can be killed, or they can grow by consuming life. If the earthbound spirits break through the boundaries due to growth, then they will disappear in the real world and build on their own domains. A chronological mystery."

"The central area of ​​the dark place is distributed with large and small chronological mysteries, each of which has a great demon. They have immortal characteristics in the secret realm, and they will pull passing creatures into the secret realm, and then swallow them... Several of my half-elf assistants are trapped in a timing mystery?"

"The wizards of Ganquan City try to explain the phenomenon of spirits and time-series secret realms from the perspective of elements. The wizards believe that the mother of the earth holds the authority of the earth element and the water element, representing the highest law of matter and time respectively. The long lifespan of the spirits is the A manifestation of the law of time, the aging rate corresponding to life is very slow, similar to immortality... and the time sequence mystery is a model of the combination of the realm of the great devil and the goddess of the earth, with the characteristics of material immortality and time cycle."

"Wizards firmly believe that if all the chronological Rifts can be opened, the complete 'forge of life' can be obtained by destroying the demons inside. They experiment with civilians and deliberately send some people into temporal Rifts. The vast majority of experimenters failed to They came out, but some lucky ones managed to escape. The wizards of Ganquan City gradually got some information about the temporal secret realm... Unfortunately, I haven't unearthed the clay sculpture slate related to the chronological secret realm, but I can see from the research content of Solotolin , he tried to implant some strange organs into the human body, and killed 633 test subjects in just one year... Solotolin's brutality is simply outrageous, but I must admit that his research is very fruitful. "

"Solotolin found that the flesh and blood of monsters has strong vitality and a will that is difficult to remove, which will contaminate living things, cause terrible distortions, and eventually distort the host's soul will... In fact, the phenomenon of flesh and blood will generally exists in all kinds of creatures. The difference is that the wisdom species is dominated by the will of the soul, while the devil is dominated by the will of flesh and blood, supplemented by the will of the soul. If we can weaken the flesh and blood will of the devil, we can control the distortion, absorb the vitality of life, and transform life. form, to improve the level of life?"

"Solotolin's most successful experiment was to implant a demon core into a commoner to replace his heart. That commoner may have been the world's first artificially-created Wisdom. The wizard was inspired and delighted. Crazy, he spared no effort to support the demon, and turned it into a wraith of the tower... Since then, the wraith began to automatically absorb the divine power of the mother earth scattered around the tower to build its own time sequence mystery. The wizard observes the time sequence The birth process of the secret realm sums up two laws."

"First of all, the temporal secret realm belongs to a realm of time loops. Events are repeated in the secret realm, and the memories of the chronological lords and derivatives are constantly reset."

"Secondly, the overlapping part of the temporal secret realm and the real world has been exuding the divine power of the mother of demons, which will pollute the flesh and blood will of nearby creatures, either turning them into aberrant monsters, or dragging them into the temporal secret realm and becoming a temporal lord to expand The nourishment of the secret realm."

"Whether creatures are distorted by pollution or dragged into the secret realm depends on their willpower! The higher the willpower, the less affected the creatures are. It's like, a small house can't hold a dragon... The time sequence secret realm is a house , Fei Lumat is a giant dragon, we will not fall into the timing mystery by following the giant dragon closely."

"Finally, Solotolin speculates that the way to get out of the temporal secret realm is to break the fixed cycle of secret realm events, the timing secret realm will be reset, and the interloper will be spit out..."

"Solotolin's record is so far, I can't know his ending. However, I can guess the fate of this ancient wizard... Hehe, the crazy ancient wizard has no reverence for fate, and lacks pity for his kind. , unrestrained use of magic power, trying to steal the power of the ancient gods, and bring the final demise for himself. The predecessor of the tree-bound spirit may also be a arrogant ancient wizard, and those wizards who have become timing lords, they The pursuit of immortality should be considered a reward, but it is deeply involved in the cycle of time, and it is more miserable than a prisoner. This is really ironic..."

"The great Lord of Glory sees everything, and He has sent down divine grace to give me a revelation, ordering me to accompany the dragon, and not to stay long. The protection of our Lord keeps us away from the pollution and distortion of the devil... Praise the Lord!"

"...June 6279, 10 of the glorious calendar."

"I'm starting to worry that Rowan and the others will be contaminated by the power of the Mother of Demons and distorted... It's time to leave this ghostly place that doesn't see the sun. But I'll come back. When I come back, I'll lead a The adult giant dragon and a group of powerful half-elf guards turned over the city of Ganquan and other ancient ruins in the dark place one by one... Solotolin's research records have many points that I can learn from, especially his analysis of the will of flesh and blood. There is a certain commonality among the dragon vein medicines developed by the church."

"...The church's pharmacists use the hearts of kobolds, lizardmen and other dragon-blooded creatures to make dragon-veined medicines, which have extraordinary effects of reshaping the body, enhancing strength, and slowing down aging, and can greatly improve the physical quality of paladins or arcane warriors. .The known draconic creatures are mostly weak and their flesh will not be able to cause pollution distortion. Therefore, draconic potions can be guaranteed to be safe, but those paladins and arcane warriors who receive remodeling cannot be called draconic paladins or draconic warriors. And mine There is a real dragon beside me... A broken clay stone tablet in the Falling Dragon City records, 'The dragons come from the abyss, and they are the darlings of the mother of demons.'. Maybe I can refer to Solotolin's cultivating demons. The method is to implant the scales that Fei Lumate regularly sheds into the skin of the half-elf, and cultivate the dragon-veined half-elf."

"...June 6279, 10 of the glorious calendar."

The great sage Malfoy has five notes in total, and the remaining scrolls are research reports on esoteric medicine written in the common script of the alliance, mainly discussing how to remove the pollution of flesh and blood will, and control the direction and degree of distortion.Combining the test notes of the mayor of Middleton, Victor is very sure that the mayor's pharmacy achievements are based on these secret scrolls.

It's just that the research direction of these secret scrolls is the devil rather than the dragon vein.The signer is Mordona, the second chief priest of the Cardinals of the Church of the Earth Goddess, and the time is 1158 in the old calendar of the alliance, which is only 14 years away from the first year of the Dragon King's calendar when the Dragon King Feirumat attacked the Temple of the Earth and the Sixteen-Pillar Famous Gate established the Dragon King.

Obviously, the mayor of Middleton got the notes of the great sage Malfoy and the research report of the priest of Moldona.He may not be able to read squiggly letters, but he succeeded Priest Moldona and continued his research on daemons, and achieved breakthrough results.

The half-elves' research on demons is older than the Disar Alliance, originating from the ancestors of the Disar half-elves, the lost ancient civilization.

This research will eventually point to the "forge of life" of the Mother Earth.

(End of this chapter)