As long as one was alive, one had to look forward. After comforting the guards, Kaede Sato returned to the high platform to meditate lightly, and continued to use his spiritual power to inspect the surrounding environment.
The night passed quickly, and the next day soon arrived. The remaining members of the ruins exploration team had breakfast and packed their luggage before setting off again.
For the rest of the journey, apart from encountering small groups of wild fairies, nothing major happened. The ruins exploration team finally arrived at the site of the ruins before noon.
From a distance, this small part of the ruins that was exposed was very large. Although it was not as large as a modern metropolis, it was at least one-fifth the size of a modern metropolis.
From this, it could be seen that this vast desert might have been fertile land a long time ago, and the ancients had built their own prosperous civilization here. Although the ancients had passed away, this almost perfectly preserved ruins still told of the glory of the ancients.
Speaking of which, the reason why this ruins could be so well preserved was largely due to the barrier that sealed it. Although this barrier could not be seen with the naked eye, it could be touched.
Kaede Sato successfully sensed the existence of the barrier through his spiritual power. The formation of this barrier was supported by the continuous flow of Earth Elemental Energy from the earth. The characteristic of Earth Elemental Energy was that it was thick and sturdy, and the barrier it formed naturally had this characteristic.
According to Kanzaki and Shirona, even the weakest part of the barrier was able to withstand the attacks of Heavenly King Stage fairies. Not only that, even if all the Heavenly King Stage fairies joined forces and successfully broke a hole in the barrier, the hole would quickly repair itself.
And the speed of repair was simply incredible. At most, it would take two seconds for people to pass through.
Therefore, perhaps agile Heavenly King trainers could rely on their own strength to enter, but if they brought others in, it would be a little difficult.
From this, it could be seen that the ancient civilization was not necessarily worse than the modern civilization. In some ways, the ancients were even better. For example, the Earth Elemental Energy Barrier that sealed this huge ruins could not be done by modern people for the time being. (Another example was the Pillar of the Sky built on the sea.)
So far, only a small part of the ruins had been exposed from the yellow sand due to the movement of the earth's crust. Therefore, if the group wanted to get a full view of the huge ruins, they would need the help of the many advanced excavation tools brought by the ruins exploration team.
In fact, before the exploration team arrived at the ruins, many people had already gathered near the ruins and built their own camps here. Kaede Sato roughly estimated that there were at least five to six hundred people.
Naturally, these people were not on the same side as the ruins exploration team. In general, in the eyes of the ruins exploration team with official documents from the Alliance, these people were all grave robbers.
However, even though they said that, the combined power of the tomb robbers here was not any weaker than the expedition team with two Heavenly King Stage trainers. From a certain perspective, it could even be said that they were much stronger.
After all, in this day and age, no one who dared to become a tomb robber was easy to deal with, unlike the ruins exploration team that had a group of technical personnel who had no fighting power. Once a fight broke out, these people who had no fighting power would definitely become the weakness of the tomb robbers.
Moreover, it was not that there were no powerhouses among the tomb robbers. After all, the forest was big, and there were all kinds of birds. Many famous archaeologists in the archaeological world were actually tomb robbers. Even Kanzaki was a tomb robber in his early years, but he changed his ways halfway through.
For example, this extremely arrogant person who appeared in front of Kanzaki to greet him. His reputation in the archaeological world was not inferior to Kanzaki's, and he might even be more famous. However, he was a top tomb robber who specialized in stealing treasures from ruins for a living.
"Aiyayaya ~ Isn't this my cute junior brother, Kanzaki? Why are you so late? Your senior brother, I, have been eating the northwest wind here for several days. Every day, I've been waiting for you to come and open the barrier of the ruins for me."
When the ruins exploration team arrived near the ruins, a strong man riding a huge hippopotamus suddenly appeared in front of everyone with yellow dust billowing behind him. Then, he grinned at Kanzaki who was at the forefront of the ruins exploration team, revealing a row of yellow teeth.
Not long after this strong man appeared, a group of people in uniforms riding on fire-breathing camels also appeared behind him, and then cooperated with the lean man to block the path of the ruins exploration team.
"Hmph, you rotten vulture really exists everywhere. The ruins were so dangerous last time, but you still didn't die. You're really lucky. Get out of the way, Arbus. Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude."
When Kanzaki saw the person in front of him blocking the path, his face instantly turned gloomy, and he hurriedly scolded him, looking like he could not wait to attack.
"Heh ~ You really are an ungrateful wolf. Back then, Sensei was really blind. He shouldn't have saved you in the ruins and even taught you your skills. Now that you've grown up, you don't listen to me anymore. My poor Rei, she followed an ungrateful wolf like you."
The lean man was obviously a shameless troublemaker. Although he heard Kanzaki scolding him like this, he was not angry at all. Instead, he continued to preach to Kanzaki with a fake smile.
"Don't mention her name in front of me, you coward. You don't deserve to talk about her. Our relationship in the early years is gone after she died. Disappear before I get angry. Otherwise, I'll take your life even if I have to leave this ruins exploration team."
Kanzaki almost lost his cool when he heard Arbus mention Arbus's name. His eyes were bloodshot, and it was obvious that he was extremely angry. However, he endured it and gritted his teeth as he said to Arbus. "Arbus, I'm not angry at all.
"Hmph, so what if I mentioned her? If it weren't for you, Rei wouldn't have died. In the end, you're the one who harmed her."
When Arbus heard Kanzaki's words, especially when Kanzaki said that he was a coward and didn't deserve to mention Rei's name, his originally expressionless face immediately turned angry, and he retorted back.
"Shut up! You idiot, you don't know anything at all! "
In the next second, Kanzaki suddenly shouted angrily.
For a moment, the atmosphere at the scene became extremely tense.
Kaede Sato overheard the conversation between the two. He could not tell that there was some kind of love and hatred between the two. Both sides had a deep grudge against each other. He quickly held a Pokeball in his hand, just in case the two suddenly started fighting.
He had already used the system's detection ability to observe the hippopotamus the lean man was riding on. It was definitely a Heavenly King Elf, and its level was as high as Level 80. It was one level higher than Kanzaki's highest-leveled Night Creature.
Moreover, the people behind the lean man who looked like an army were all very weak. Just from the level of their mounts, each of them had at least the strength of an Elite Trainer.
If a fight broke out, the ruins exploration team would definitely not lose because they had two Heavenly King Trainers. However, they would definitely suffer a great loss.
"Master Arbus, why do you have to be so overbearing? Don't tell me you don't want to enter the ruins this time? Cirona has long heard that Master Arbus is very powerful. Why don't we have a fight here? What do you think?"
Just as the two sides were about to start fighting, Cirona came down from an air-conditioned car with the Ferocious Bite Land Shark. She walked gracefully to Arbus, her pretty face full of fighting spirit as she smiled.
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