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"How did you do this?" Thunder opened his mouth wide in disbelief.
There were dozens of small holes in the wall, and in each hole was placed a stone that emitted a pure white light. Not only that, even the edge of the ceiling was placed in a circle of these strange glowing stones. Under the soft light, every detail of the hall could be seen clearly.
This was the first time Ashes had seen the explorer reveal such an expression, and she could not help but feel a sense of joy in her heart, "Don't you know that when a witch injects her power into a magic stone, it can stimulate an additional ability?"
"What about these, are they also magic stones?"
Thunder carefully took out a glowing stone and held it in his hand. After leaving the hole, its light did not weaken in the slightest.
"I don't know," Tilly shook her head, "These stones may have been glowing here for hundreds of years, if the ruins really have such a long history. Before, they were hidden behind the stone slabs, so they have not been discovered, and to open this special mechanism, only a witch can do it. "
"You didn't make them light up?"
"No, they can light up by themselves," Tilly grabbed a magic stone and held it in front of her eyes, the pure white light shining on her beautiful face, "If this is a device that needs magic to maintain, then it can't be taken down so easily, just like how a candle can't easily leave a candle. So far, the holes in the wall have nothing special other than providing a place to put the glowing stones. "
"If it is really as you said, that it can shine on its own, and can continue to shine for hundreds of years, then its value is simply immeasurable," Thunder said in amazement, "You have to know that the snow crystal produced in the Kingdom of Everwinter, a fist-sized piece can be sold for hundreds of Golden Dragon, and its brightness is not even half as bright."
When the sailors heard such an astonishing price, the way they looked at the stones suddenly changed.
"According to our previous agreement, you can take half," Tilly said noncommittally, or it could be said that her focus was not here at all. With plenty of light, she was able to explore the hall more closely. Ashes could not bear to see her tear apart the seaweed with her bare hands, so she simply swung her sword and swept away all the plants attached to the wall as if she was mowing grass. Soon, the second Magic Stone hidden in the wall was also discovered.
Tilly used the same method to inject magic into it. Along with the crisp sound of metal clashing, everyone was surprised to see a huge slab of stone slanting down from above Tilly's head. On both sides of the slab were several taut copper ropes, and on the inside was actually a well-cut staircase. Finally, one end of the stone slab slowly fell to the ground, and the other end led to the ceiling. Ashes looked up and saw a horizontal metal door blocking the end of the passage.
"Tilly," seeing the 5th Princess walk up the stone stairs without hesitation, Ashes couldn't help but say, "Let me go first."
"It doesn't matter. This isn't a treasure trove." She climbed to the top of the stone staircase and held onto a protruding magic stone beside the door. The metal door quickly opened.
Seeing that Tilly went through the door and disappeared into the ceiling, Ashes had no choice but to follow her closely while holding the giant sword in her hand.
After passing through the roof, Ashes couldn't help but stare at the ceiling, only to see a room that was much smaller than the hall. The walls were also inlaid with glowing stones, but what surprised her even more was that there was almost no trace of water immersion here.
The wooden table, chairs, bookshelves, cabinets — all the furnishings were intact, but they were covered with a thick layer of dust, and even broken spider webs could be seen. The bookshelves were neatly arranged with a row of books, all of which were dyed gray by dust. In addition to the open books on the table, there were also cups, kettles, and pen holders. The quill pen was left with a lonely pole, and the ink had long since dried up. Compared to the hall below, which was full of algae and shells, it was like a different world.
Thunder was the third to climb up. After looking around, he gasped, "This is …"
"An abandoned residence," Tilly picked up the open book on the table, gently patted the dust off, and flipped through the pages. "Someone once lived here for a long time."
"What is written here?"
"I don't understand," she shook her head and showed the book to the other two. "These are all words that I have never seen before."
"The ones on the bookshelves seem to be the same," Ashes wiped the dust off the spine of the book with her fingers. The words were like strange wavy lines, and she could not read them at all.
"We can take it back and study it slowly," Tilly said with a smile. "According to the agreement, the books and the Magic Stones belong to me."
"Of course," Thunder touched his beard. "But when you find something, I hope you can share this old story with me."
"No problem."
The three of them carefully searched the room on the second floor and soon got a general idea of the situation.
They did not find new Magic Stones, but found a strange thing at the other end of the room. At first glance, it looked like a thick metal tube. One end was inserted into the stone wall, and the other end was gradually shrinking. Finally, it was only as thick as a wrist, and there was a glass lens embedded at the end.
"What is this?" Ashes knocked on the body of the tube, and a series of crisp echoes came from inside. Apparently, the middle of the tube was hollow.
"It's a bit like a nautical telescope. Maybe the people who live here often use it to observe the outside world," Thunder put his eyes close to the lens and looked for a while. "It's dark, and I can't see anything. It should be broken."
"Not necessarily." Tilly pointed to the wall behind the metal tube. "Look here."
Ashes looked in the direction of her finger and saw a copper plate with a handle embedded in the wall. There was a small hole under the handle, which seemed to be the place for a key to be inserted. Princess Tilly walked over and tried to pull the handle, but the copper plate did not move. "It's locked."
"Let me do it." Ashes grabbed the handle and pulled it hard. The whole copper plate suddenly fell off the wall.
"Ha, it seems that you guessed right," Thunder applauded. "It's another Magic Stone mechanism."
A huge Magic Stone was stuck in the groove behind the copper plate. Different from the previous two, it looked much bigger and its color was purple.
"Do you want to activate it?" Ashes asked.
"Yes," Tilly nodded without hesitation. She held the stone with both hands, but this time there was no movement for a long time.
"What's going on?"
"It's too big." Her forehead was already covered with sweat. "I feel that it is constantly absorbing magic power. It seems that the mechanism behind it is very big."
"Let's forget it," Ashes said with a frown. She knew that once the magic power was exhausted, the witch was likely to directly fall into a coma. It was obviously not a good choice to use all of her magic power in such a dangerous place.
"No, it's almost healed. I can feel it." Before Tilly's voice died away, a loud sound came from inside the wall. It sounded like continuous thunder, and then the whole room shook.
"It's an earthquake." Thunder held the metal tube to prevent himself from falling. Ashes immediately grabbed Tilly and held her in her arms. Dust fell down, and the three of them could not help but cough.
The shaking lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour before it gradually calmed down.
Molly poked her head out of the staircase. "What happened just now?"
"A new mechanism," Ashes said, curling her lips. "Is everything okay down there?"
"Everyone was scared, and several parts of the roof fell. Fortunately, I covered them with the Magic Servant." The little girl came to her side. "Lady Tilly, what are you looking at?"
Unexpectedly, Tilly did not answer her. Her eyes were fixed on the end of the metal tube. After a long time, she let out a long sigh. "It's incredible."
Ashes curiously moved her eyes closer, and then was shocked speechless by the scene in front of her.
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