After being ejected from the critical state of the Shadow Realm, Amber did not give up and tried a few more times, but every time she entered the critical state, she would fall back to the real world.
On the fourth try, she was so dizzy that she could not take it anymore.
Gwen was also confused by the situation (of course, it could also be that he was a little confused by the several critical transitions) and asked, "What's going on? Is your cheat expired? "
"Cheat? What's a cheat? " Amber did not understand what Gwen was talking about, but judging from his expression, she guessed that it was probably not a compliment. So she curled her lips in annoyance. "There must be something wrong with the environment here! Wait a minute, I'll drink half a litre of shadow potion. I don't believe that even my shadow affinity … "
"Stop, stop, stop. Don't get carried away. Calm down and analyse the situation." Gwen waved his hand to stop the half-elf's suicidal move. "Carefully sense the shadow environment here, and then try ordinary shadow steps or sneak skills to see if it works."
Amber calmed down after Gwen's reminder. She took a breath, and her figure gradually faded in the air.
After a few tests, she deactivated her shadow state. "Ordinary shadow steps and sneak skills are no problem. Even skills like shadow mist can be used smoothly. It seems that when I enter the Shadow Realm, I'll be affected by … some kind of interference, and I'll be ejected instantly."
"Shadow Realm … So the problem is on the 'other side' …" Gwen said as he looked thoughtfully at the ring device in the middle of the room that looked like a magic door. Then he frowned and came up with a plan. "Isn't the Shadow Realm equivalent to some kind of reflection of the real world? Try to enter the Shadow Realm from outside this room, and then come back from the 'other side' to see what's going on."
"I'll try!" Amber agreed and dragged Gwen out of the door. "Come over here and protect my eyes …"
'Does she think I'm some kind of eye protection bullet screen? Specifically used to block the ancient god's face … '
Gwen helplessly followed behind Amber. After leaving the round room for some distance, the two successfully entered the Shadow Realm.
Looking at the familiar black and white world in front of him, and seeing Amber's figure switch into the unique form of an elemental banshee in the Shadow Realm, Gwen breathed a sigh of relief. "You scared me. I thought your cheat had really expired …"
"You speak so strangely, I don't understand," Amber muttered, then grabbed Gwen's arm and walked towards the round hall in the Shadow Realm.
They stepped through the ancient door, but what they saw was only an ordinary circular hall.
There was no god's flesh and blood, no hidden research facilities, and no extra doors, windows, or passageways. There was nothing here.
Amber looked around curiously. "Strange … It's just an ordinary hall, why is there interference … And the interference is so funny, just a little detour and you can come in …"
However, after Gawain scanned the surrounding environment, he immediately noticed something out of place. "No, I'm afraid we can't go around it."
He raised his hand and pointed to the center of the hall. "The ring device is gone, and there are traces of tear on the ground."
In the hall in the real world, the most eye-catching thing was the ring device in the center of the room. But here, the ring, which was three or four meters high, was gone, replaced by a broken mark on the ground and a large piece of the floor that had been dug out. There was no doubt that there used to be something there.
"Except for the laboratory where we encountered the god's flesh and blood, the Shadow Realm and the real world basically maintain a one-to-one mapping state. And according to the traces left on the ground, there should be a corresponding ring here, but now it's gone." Gwen frowned and came to the side of the dug out floor. "Look at the size here, it corresponds to the base of the ring."
"Someone went to the Shadow Realm and stole the door on this side?" Amber's thought was strange. "That's a good trick …"
"No one would steal a magic door." Gwen glanced at Amber. "I think some kind of force tore this place apart and 'transferred' the thing that should be here to another place. If we enter the Shadow Realm from the circular hall in the real world, we should be next to the corresponding ring. But if we enter the Shadow Realm from the corridor outside the room, we can only see this empty 'inner hall'. This is some kind of displacement mapping … "
Amber did not know how Gwen came to this conclusion, but she thought that she had no idea, so she followed Gwen's train of thought. "So what is that 'interference' force for?"
Gwen frowned and let his thoughts wander. "Maybe it's to prevent unauthorized people from bypassing the 'magic door' and reaching a certain place. Only through the correct pair of 'magic doors' can we reach the correct location. Otherwise, we can't enter the Shadow Realm, or we can only enter this empty hall. The Gondor mages often used this method to encrypt important treasure vaults."
"That is to say, if we want to know where the correct corresponding location is, the only way is to repair the ring in the real world?" Amber raised her eyebrows. "Then this is a blind spot in my knowledge …"
"It's not just a blind spot in your knowledge. I'm afraid no one in the fief can decipher such a complex ancient magic device." Gwen shook his head regretfully. The 'outer' ring was not a simple magic circle, but a complex magic device that was a mixture of magic circles, ancient synthetic materials, and Gondor magic technology. This level of gadget was not something the current spellcasters in the fief could handle.
Amber stuck out her tongue and felt that she could not help in this regard. Then she strolled around the circular hall.
She looked around and pulled out her small dagger from time to time to scratch the runes on the wall or the ground. But when she came to the opposite side of the hall, she suddenly stopped.
She noticed that there was a dark crack on the curved wall here. The crack was not very wide, but it was divided into many cracks. The dense cracks even covered the entire wall in sight.
She curiously stretched out her finger and stroked the crack.
Gwen was examining the traces of runes left on the floor of the hall when he suddenly heard a continuous cracking sound coming from not far away. He looked up in astonishment, and the scene in front of him shocked him.
He saw that the side of the hall away from the entrance was rapidly disintegrating and collapsing. The curved wall, which was originally a seamless structure, was now covered with large black cracks. The solid ancient concrete was falling down piece by piece, as if there was an endless abyss outside the hall that was swallowing the building!
Amber, who was standing in front of the wall, seemed to be frightened by this scene. The ground under her feet had slightly cracked, but she was completely unaware of it and stood motionless!
"Be careful!"
In the nick of time, Gawain yelled and rushed forward, dragging the stunned Hu Po back. The two of them retreated all the way to the entrance of the hall before stopping. It was only then that Hu Po exclaimed, "Oh my God, the wall collapsed from my poke!"
Gwen held Amber's arm tightly, watching the collapse of the hall. He was ready to evacuate at any time, but soon he found that the collapse had only spread to a quarter of the hall and stopped. Although it was huge, it ended abnormally quickly.
However, the scene after the wall and ceiling collapsed made him frown. A strange and bizarre feeling welled up in his heart.
It was pitch black outside, as if the world had disappeared and the universe was dead.
"What … is that …" Hu Po's voice had changed pitch due to her nervousness. What made her even more nervous was that she could only watch as Gawain walked towards the collapsed area. "Hey! Be careful! "
Gwen was indeed very careful. He cautiously came to the edge of the collapsed hall and looked at the space outside the wall.
Behind the wall should be the deep and heavy rock and soil of the Gloom Mountain Range, but Gwen could only see darkness and nothingness. Complete darkness filled his vision as if everything in the world had stopped abruptly outside the boundary.
But he squinted his eyes and looked carefully. Finally, he saw something very far away and very blurry in the darkness.
He saw that at the far end of the dark space, there was an undulating outline that looked like the land on the other side. Far above it, there was a faint light that looked like the sky. Even in the darkness of nothingness, he could vaguely make out some floating objects. They seemed to be boulders and islands that had lost gravity and were floating and rolling in the air.
Gwen finally realized what the darkness in front of him was all about: it was not the end of the world, but an unprecedentedly huge "hole".
The size of the hole was so large that it exceeded the limit of light that the human eye could accept, so it gave the illusion that everything had disappeared. But the special "light environment" of the Shadowy Realm determined that there was no absolute darkness here, so Gwen could vaguely recognize the things in the hole.
He took out a magic crystal, infused it with magic to activate it, and then threw it into the distance.
The bright crystal flew forward as soon as it left his hand. It could have lit up a spacious room, but after entering the big hole, it immediately turned into an inconspicuous light. Due to the lack of a reflective surface, its light was so small that it was not worth mentioning.
This confirmed Gwen's conjecture.
"Is this … a cave?" Amber also bravely followed. She looked at the scene in front of her in astonishment and noticed the line of sky far above. "It seems to lead directly to the surface? This hole … how big is it? "
"Let's not talk about its size first. Byron Knight has been in the Gloom Mountains for so long, and the corridors he has explored include the area corresponding to the hole in front of us. That is to say, there is absolutely no such hole in the Gloom Mountains in the real world," Gwen said in shock. "This hole is limited to the Shadowy Realm. If this is not a natural formation, it can only be caused by some kind of power beyond the imagination of mortals …"
Amber finally understood. "So the reason why I couldn't enter the Shadowy Realm before was not because of the interference of the magic door, but because this area … does not correspond to the real world. The dislocation here is too serious?"
"… I don't know." Gwen admitted that he was also confused at the moment. "I only know that we may not be able to solve the mystery here. Unless we can fix the ring device outside, no one can figure out what the ancient Gondor mages were doing here."
Amber rubbed her goosebumps on her arms and said, "Well … anyway, I can't stay here any longer. This place is too weird. I think we should leave as soon as possible."
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