"What else?" Madelyne asked.
Brofen shrugged. "Mister Monkey told us that we can't build a base city here. He also gave an order that we can pass through here, but we can't stay here for long. "
"As for what Mister Monkey found, he didn't tell us."
"Many people tried to explore this place, but they didn't find anything."
Madelyne frowned. "That's what you meant? Isn't it the same as before? It's the same as not saying anything. "
"Of course it's not that. There's something else that Gucia's friend mentioned." Brofen paused for a moment.
"You mean hallucinations caused by hysteria, sir?" Angor asked in a low voice.
Gucia said he only heard someone calling his name. But later, Gusiya said that he saw the person who called him.
If Sennefer knew what Gucia was thinking, she would have asked him who he saw. But Sennefer didn't say anything, which meant the Moonfrost Union knew who was calling his name.
Brofen nodded. "That's right. We call Gucia's condition an 'irreversible mark'. We've done some research on these people, and we found that they can't escape their fate of disappearing forever. And these marked people all saw the person who called them before they disappeared. "
"According to our research, the person they saw before disappearing was someone wearing a black raven cloak. According to the locals of the Abyss, this person is called Krando, the Guide of Death from the Bottomless Abyss. In other words, he's the God of Death they worship.
"The Bottomless Abyss refers to the inner parts of the Abyss, which we don't dare to go there yet. Krando, on the other hand, is probably a follower of a demon god who wields the power of death. "
Brofen took out a bottle of black rum from his storage space and gulped it down in large gulps.
Madelyne couldn't believe what she was hearing. "You're saying this Frozen Ruin might have something to do with a demon god from the Abyss?"
Brofen shrugged. "Who knows? Anyway, it's dangerous there. If Mister Monkey told us not to stay here, he must have his reasons. "
"Is there really a ruin there?" Angor couldn't help but ask.
Brofen gave Angor a thoughtful look. "Maybe. But you better keep your curiosity to yourself. Knowing more isn't always a good thing."
In fact, these things were not particularly secret, but the reason why Shuangyue wanted to hide it was because she was worried that some extraordinary people would be too curious.
Although curiosity was a necessary virtue for a Magus, it was important to remember to act within one's capabilities.
Curiosity could not only kill the cat, but it could also kill a group of cats.
Since it concerned the Bottomless Abyss and the Demon God, it was definitely not a small matter.
They didn't continue to ask about the Ancient Cold Ruins, but instead talked about other things, as if the previous topic had never been discussed.
He didn't say it out loud, but he was already worried about the Frigid Ruin.
At the same time, he was also filled with respect for the predecessors who were able to establish stronghold cities in the Abyss, which was fraught with danger.
Madelyne and Brofen talked about everything under the sun. Occasionally, they would mention some secrets and rumors, which really opened Angor's eyes. However, when they flew out of the Ancient Cold Ruins, their mood began to drop.
For some unknown reason, almost no monsters would go to the Ancient Cold Ruins. But once they left the ruins, it was hard to say what would happen next.
After traveling for a while, Madelyne suddenly asked, "If the Shepherds are already at the surface, does that mean the Moonfrost Union has started something big?"
Brofen didn't know what to say.
"I'm just a researcher. I don't know about that." Brofen shrugged.
"Hmph." Madelyne snorted. She didn't believe him, but at the same time, she was mocking him. However, Brofen's expression didn't change. He didn't feel offended at all. Instead, he smiled and said, "It doesn't matter to you whether there is a big movement or not. Your purpose in coming to the Abyss isn't here anyway."
Madelyne stared at Brofen for a moment, and the two decided not to continue the conversation.
Everyone was on edge along the way. Sennefer wasn't as strong as she used to be. If they ran into something as strong as the Shepherds, they wouldn't stand a chance.
Fortunately, they didn't run into any trouble from the Ancient Cold Ruins until they reached the Gray Lamination Zone.
There were some small monsters that tried to invade, but they were all small fry. Even a group of apprentices was able to get rid of them.
Brofen sighed in relief when they reached the Gray Lamination Zone. "That's what I expected. We've been working on this route for hundreds of years. The Shepherds were just an accident."
The previous six supply teams didn't run into any trouble from the surface to the frontline, and they were all led by ordinary wizards.
Now that Sennefer was here, something unexpected happened.
"Is this the law of conservation of luck?" Brofen muttered to himself. "You have to bear the consequences of your power. Sennefer is too strong, and the Shepherds were attracted. Now that Sennefer is weakened, our journey is much smoother. "
Brofen's explanation was completely ignored by Angor and Madelyne.
Now, he was more concerned about what the Gray Lamination Zone looked like.
According to the information he read, the Abyss Plane was divided into two layers, the outer layer and the inner layer. The outer layer was also known as the outer layer, where monsters and natives lived. As for the inner layer, very few people ever set foot there. The frontline they were going to was the outer layer, which was close to the inner layer.
Angor also learned that one of the ways to cross the layers was to go through the Gray Lamination Zone.
However, he only learned one thing from the book. He had to see it with his own eyes to know the truth.
As soon as they entered the Gray Lamination Zone, Angor sensed that the space energy around them was extremely active. Normally speaking, this kind of energy would cause a disturbance in the material world.
However, the spatial energy here was very strange. Although you could feel its activity, it seemed to be bound by something, preventing it from becoming a runaway horse and causing spatial cracks to appear due to instability.
The most important thing was the plants growing on the surface.
There were even more plants here than in the Ancient Cold Ruins, and they were all growing quite well. If they were in a place with unstable space, they wouldn't be able to find any plants.
"A space-manipulating wizard should be able to find something useful here," Angor mumbled to himself.
"Not really. A space manipulator would have to analyze the space energy first. The space energy here is everywhere, but you can't analyze it because it's restrained by the Interlayer Gate. Only a high-tier space-manipulating wizard would be able to forcefully analyze it. But the gate will be completely destroyed, "Madelyne explained.
Angor felt a little embarrassed. He thought too much about it.
Angor calmed himself down and asked, "So the portal is where we go to the second level of Abyss Plane?"
"Not the second layer, but the third layer," Madelyne said. "The surface layer of the Abyss Plane is huge, almost as big as the southern wizardry region. There are many ways to get to the inner layer, and there are other ways to get to the second layer. The Interlayer Gate here leads us directly to the third layer. "
Madelyne suddenly pointed at a mountain range in front of them.
"We should be able to see the Interlayer Gate once we get over there."
Before they reached the top of the mountain, Angor already sensed a powerful aura coming from the other side of the mountain range. This aura was very similar to the world consciousness of the wizarding world.
"That's where the space energy came from."
When they reached the top of the mountain, Angor looked down and was surprised.
He thought that the Door of Crossing Levels was just a decoration. Although it was called a door, it was actually something else. In the end, he was a little surprised. This Level Crossing Door was really a "door".
The gate was about ten meters tall and stood in the middle of a valley covered in clouds.
The gate was completely black. Angor couldn't tell what material it was made of, but it felt smooth and bony. There were carvings of all kinds of strange monsters on the gate, such as natives worshipping fire, gargoyles crouching with their eyes closed, and Abyss Dragons …
Most importantly, there was a single eye shrouded in black mist at the top of the gate, which was looking at the world around it.
"So this is the Interlayer Gate," Madelyne said with a sigh. No matter how many times she looked at the door, she couldn't help but be awed by its immense power.
Angor was also shocked by the gate. But he was more curious about it.
"Why is this door standing here? Who put it up? It feels like the world's consciousness. Did the Abyss Plane's consciousness set this up? "Many questions popped up in his mind.
Madelyne replied, "I don't know why this gate is here. But according to some information, it shouldn't be the world's consciousness. It should be an ancient demon from the Abyss Plane. The eye on the gate is the mark of that ancient demon. "
"That's right." Brofen stepped forward and added, "There are more than one Interlayer Gates outside the Abyss Plane. All of them have the mark of the ancient demon."
"So we'll be under his watch when we enter the gate?"
"No, because this Ancient Demon God has already disappeared in the passage of time."
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