As soon as he landed from Gondola, he suddenly stopped and looked at the gray wasteland in front of him with a puzzled look.
The rain was still pouring, and he couldn't see anything clearly in the distance.
"Angor?" Bobota had already reached the roof of an old stone building and looked back at Angor.
Angor frowned and followed behind Bobota.
Meanwhile, in the middle of the endless wasteland, there was a lone, withered tree that had been dead for a long time.
There was a black crow perched on the tree. Its eyes were dead and still as it gazed at the distant city from the crow's pupils.
"Ku Lang Duo, did you see anything?" An ancient voice sounded.
The crow flapped its wings a few times and slowly turned into a shadow. In the end, a figure wearing a black cloak and a crow mask was revealed.
"I think he found me," said a cold, eerie voice that sounded as if it came from the abyss of death.
"He's a special human. It makes sense that he has some miraculous abilities," said Krando.
Krando also recalled the scene he saw not long ago. A demon god's soul was destroyed in a single strike. Such power could only be described as "miraculous".
"I thought I would take you to your death soon. But it seems you're in luck, Your Highness Wardell."
"Hahaha, I haven't heard that name for a long time. You're probably the only one who still remembers my name. " The old voice sighed. "The Yuantan Continent may have found salvation, but it's still not up to me to decide whether it can return to the right path."
"So you summoned him from afar," said Krando calmly.
"The One Favored by Miracles may be able to open this Box of Miracles."
Kurando was silent for a while and did not continue on this topic. Instead, he changed the topic. "This place has already been noticed by others, including many lords and demon gods … I hope that the next time we meet, it won't be so soon."
"Guide of Death, Krando. Can I understand that you're worried about me? "
Kurando didn't reply. Instead, he said indifferently, "I'm really leaving this time. Take care of yourself."
With that, Krando turned into a black crow and flew away into the rain.
A long time after Kurando left, a shadow wearing a Primitive Totem mask suddenly appeared beside the withered tree. The shadow stood beside the withered tree, letting the rain continue to pour down.
The lonely tree and the lonely figure looked like a gray-toned painting in the rain.
After a while, the figure glanced at the direction of the wasteland city and disappeared.
…
Angor soon arrived at the place where Gravu called him.
Gravu was standing on a round roof with two corpses in front of him. Unlike the skeletons he saw before, these two corpses didn't start rotting. They still looked human, as if they just died.
"I saw this corpse in a ditch, so I brought him here." Gregory pointed at the man in golden armor on the left.
"As for the other one, he was on this roof."
Both corpses belonged to humans. There were still energy ripples on them, which meant they died not long ago.
"Cause of death. Damaged internal organs. Thanks to the energy, they didn't rot too much. But they must have been dead for more than a month. I didn't find any soul ripples. " Bobota rummaged through the man's body and found a knight's sword and a single-use space capsule.
"The space pouch is filled with food and water, as well as a few bottles of healing ointment." Bobota swung the sword, which created a loud noise in the air. "Nice weapon. I think I can sell it for a few dozen magic crystals."
"An apprentice alchemist must have made it. The impurities are removed well, and it's strong enough. But it's not tiered yet." As an alchemist, Angor didn't even need Narda's Vision to see the nature of the sword.
"His armor is probably made by a mortal blacksmith. It can only resist minor physical attacks to a certain extent." Angor explained the details of the armor to Bobota. If Angor wanted to know more, he could tell that the armor was a standard one. There were some dark patterns on the armor, which indicated that this person was either a knight hired by a noble or a royal family. However, there was nothing special about this information, so Angor didn't bother to explain.
"Can you find something to prove his identity?" Angor asked.
Bobota nodded and crushed a one-use space capsule. He then took out a green leaf with clear veins from a pile of food.
"He's from Gravity Forest." Bobota saw Angor's confusion and explained, "This leaf is an identification card from Gravity Forest, just like the bone cards in Brute Cavern. There should be information about this person inside. But the leaf is sealed by some special energy, so we can't open it by force. "
"Gravity Forest …" Angor glanced at the food and water on the ground. "It's normal for an apprentice who hasn't learned any Gourmet Cantrips to bring food. But this means he hasn't learned any low-level water-type cantrips yet. "
The first cantrip Angor learned was Cleanse. Cleanse only needed to slightly change its elemental structure to become Create Water. Therefore, Angor never brought any water with him during his travels.
"So he's a beginner or intermediate apprentice." Angor knew that many apprentices went to the surface of the Abyss Plane to train themselves. Nausica and Sailum once went there together. Even David once hired Hercules to hunt Iron Hedgehogs in the Abyss Plane so that he could fuse his bloodline with it.
"You're right. Also, this place should be an affiliated space of the first level of the Abyss Plane. Otherwise, these apprentices wouldn't be here," Bobota agreed.
Now that they had a general idea of how he died, they couldn't help but wonder how he died. His internal organs were badly damaged, but his armor was still intact. Perhaps it was some kind of energy attack that targeted his body? Was there a creature that could attack him using energy here?
After failing to get any more information from the golden-armored knight, they turned their attention to the other corpse.
It was someone wearing a purple wizard robe.
When Bobota lifted the hood, they saw a young face.
"Looks like he's younger than 30," Bobota muttered and began to inspect the corpse.
"I think I've seen him before," Angor suddenly said.
Bobota quickly turned around.
Angor frowned. Some images popped up in his mind.
Inside a dark underground cave, there was a skinny young apprentice in an old, purple robe. His face was contorted, and his hands were covering his ears as he screamed and shook his head.
Angor took a closer look and saw that this young man looked exactly the same as the one lying on the ground. Even the sorcerer's robe he was wearing was the same.
"His name is Gucia, from the Nocturnal Forest."
Not long after Angor entered the Abyss Plane, the human settlement known as Cinder Rock was destroyed. Under Sennefer's guidance, they left the Abyss Plane and headed toward the Gray Lamination Zone.
Along the way, something strange happened.
While passing through Frigid Ruins, one of the apprentices suddenly became hysterical. He said that someone kept whispering in his ears, which annoyed him so much that he began to scream hysterically.
Even Sennefer paid attention to his condition and ordered someone to keep an eye on him.
Angor was curious as well, so he kept an eye on the apprentice. However, in the blink of an eye, the apprentice disappeared without a trace.
Sennefer told Angor not to look for the apprentice. She wouldn't be able to find him.
He looked at the dead apprentice on the ground and said, "The missing apprentice is him, Gucia."
Bobota looked at Gusya and then at the dark world around them.
"You're saying Gucia disappeared in Frigid Ruins? Then how did he end up here? " Bobota paused for a moment and muttered to himself, "Could it be that there's a portal to an affiliated world in the Frozen Ruins, and Gucia accidentally touched it and came here?"
Gregory, who had been quiet all this time, suddenly spoke up.
"Mister, you reminded me of something Steward Tanding told me about the Frigid Age." Gregory said, "Butler Tanding told me that the Ancient Cold Period was a hundred thousand years ago. That was the era when the natives were at their peak. It was said that many natives appeared in the Abyss, and some of them even occupied some worlds in the Abyss."
"But as time went on, the natives grew weaker and weaker, and the Frigid Age became a thing of the past. Also, many demons lost their living space because of the natives. Once the natives became weak, they went on a rampage and killed many of them. After that, the Barren Face was almost completely devoid of natives.
"But the natives weren't wiped out. It's said that the survivors of the Frigid Age went to a sealed continent.
"But later, something seemed to have happened to that continent, and the natives migrated out. Since then, they have been living on the surface ever since."
"And that sealed continent became what the natives called the Frigid Ruins."
"So, I think this must be the sealed land. In other words, this is the real Frigid Ruin."
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