With the discovery of more and more clues, the secrets hidden in this ancient facility seemed to be gradually unveiled. To the knowledgeable Gawain, it wasn't difficult for him to piece together the truth from these clues.
Obviously, this ancient relic built at the end of the Spark Era was not as simple as he initially thought. This relic was not a frontier base, nor was it a taboo research center to study the secrets of the gods. The hidden facility in front of him in a different dimension revealed its true purpose: it was a kind of "fortress" built to resist the calamity and continue human civilization.
Whether it was the Abomination Research in the relics in the mountains, the sealed flesh and blood of the gods, or the withered corpses and the last communication from the Imperium, they were all evidence of the resistance against the calamities.
This calamity was most likely the Demonic Tide that destroyed the Kingdom of Gondor 700 years ago.
His previous guess was confirmed: as early as the Star Spark Era, the mages of the Kingdom of Gondor were aware of the existence of the Demonic Tide and prepared for it 300 years in advance. Considering the scale of this ruin, the Gondor royal family must have been behind the incident. But there were many things he could not understand.
If the humans in the Star Spark Era were aware of the existence of the Demonic Tide, why was this information not preserved? So when the Demonic Tide broke out 700 years ago, the human empire was caught off guard and collapsed almost without any resistance.
If the information stored in the communication device came from the Empire after the Demonic Tide broke out, then the royal family of the Empire obviously knew about the existence of this frontier fortress. They should have known that the Demonic Tide was coming, but why did they not take action?
Or … did the royal family of Gondor take action at that time, but there was no evidence or news?
This was not impossible because the Demonic Tide broke out with the imperial capital as the epicenter, destroying the communication network of the entire kingdom in an instant. After that, no one came out alive from the hinterland of the Empire. Even if the Emperor of Gondor did something back then, no one would know …
But in any case, it was a disaster that had been predicted by scholars a thousand years ago. Moreover, the ruler of the Empire at that time had secretly carried out such a large-scale "preservation project". In the end, no information was left behind. When the disaster really broke out seven hundred years ago, the entire Empire was at a loss. It was really hard to understand.
Even if Gwen thought about it from the perspective of "controlling the leak of information because of fear of causing panic", he still felt that it was too ridiculous.
In addition, he was also curious about the "survivors" in the facility. The relics in the mountain were sealed off a thousand years ago, and it was only three hundred years later that the Great Demon Tide officially broke out. Had the survivors in the facility been alive for three centuries?
This had completely exceeded the limit of human lifespan. Even if powerful extraordinary professions could use magic to extend their lifespan, they could only extend it by two to three hundred years. However, according to the contents of the communication, not only could the people in this facility live for three hundred years, but they would also have to continue living after that.
Although in fact, they were all dead …
Gwen's eyes wandered around the hall, trying to find more clues that could give him hints. At that moment, Heti, who was studying the bodies of the ancient mages with the light orb on the tip of her staff, suddenly found something. "Ancestor! Take a look at this! "
Gwen came to Heti and saw that Heti was pointing at the back of a chair behind one of the bodies. "There's a line of words here!"
Gwen frowned and read the line. "Benjamin Horston, Gondor, 1760."
The surrounding soldiers also turned their attention to the seats. Suddenly, they found the words that they had ignored. "Here too!" "And here!" "On all the backs of the chairs!"
Gwen suddenly thought of something. He looked at the names written on the backs of the chairs and read quickly. "Claude Pilin, Gondor, 1790 … Laufili Pardini, Gondor, 1782 … Mellia Horston, 1809 … Paal Berindi, Gondor, 1920 …"
"These are …" Heti's jaw dropped. "These people's …"
"Their names and the year of their death. This is the only explanation," Gwen said in a deep voice. "These people didn't die here at the same time. They were moved here after they died. The person who moved them also wrote the names of the deceased and the date of death on their seats. If I'm not wrong, the last person who died did this work, or the living took over. "
He raised his head and looked around the semicircular hall with nearly a thousand seats. He imagined what kind of mentality the survivors had when they stayed here for so many years. "These seats … are their graves …"
"Gondor, 1760 … Gondor, 1790 …" Heti looked at the years on the seats and suddenly realized something. "The Gondor calendar ended in 1740! That was the year when the demonic wave broke out. After that … "
"Yes, the earliest year we have seen so far is after Gondor, 1740." Gwen nodded solemnly. "These people began to die after the demonic wave broke out 700 years ago. The latest year I have seen so far is Gondor, 2130, 300 years ago."
Heti looked sad. "That is to say, at least some of them lived until then. At that time, Ansu had been established for 400 years. But they didn't know what was happening outside. They were sealed here and thought that the outside world had been destroyed."
Gwen also sighed deeply. But he found that Tyre, who was not far away, was acting a little strange. The siren had coiled her tail and supported herself in the air like a spring. She was looking around with a hint of curiosity and vigilance on her face.
He could not help but ask curiously, "Tyre, what did you find?"
"Shh!" The siren immediately crouched down and quickly moved to Gwen's side. "I don't know if it's an illusion, but I seem to have felt a magic reaction flash past here."
"Magic reaction?" Heti frowned. "Why didn't I feel it?"
"No matter how powerful you are, can you be as sensitive to magic as an elemental creature?" Tyre glanced at Heti disdainfully. "And there are many special magic reactions that you humans can't feel at all!"
Gwen did not take Tyre's words as a joke. He immediately activated his magic perception skill and alerted the soldiers around him. But in the vision of the magic perception, all he saw was fog. There was no special magic reaction at all.
After deactivating the magic perception skill, Hao Ren looked at Tyre and was about to ask what kind of magic he sensed. But at this moment, a sudden sense of alertness made him move sideways. At the same time, two dazzling electric arcs appeared in the air. One of the electric arcs struck where he was standing, and the other hit the blade of the Blazer!
With two crackling sounds, the two electric arcs disappeared, and the magic reaction that had been completely hidden was no longer hidden. With a powerful wave of energy, Heidi saw a radiant shadow suddenly appear above the open space in front of the semicircular hall. It was a creature with a vague outline of a human being. His whole body was covered in bright lightning, and some kind of violent energy made up his body and internal organs. Pieces of armor engraved with arcane runes were floating on the surface of the creature's body out of thin air, like the rune shackles on the elemental creatures that were summoned to this world. They maintained the shape of this' magic human 'in some incredible way.
The creature emerged out of thin air. The powerful energy escaping from its body even distorted the air around it. The creature was obviously angry and hostile. The two electric arcs were its masterpiece. After it appeared, it immediately prepared a new round of attack. Two bright balls of lightning quickly condensed on both sides of its body!
"Ancestor, be careful!" Heidi instantly cast the most powerful Mana Shield that she could release at her current level and covered Gawain with it. Then, she began to chant all kinds of spells that could increase his magic resistance. She felt a terrifying magic power from that incredible creature. In the face of such magic power, she did not know how much effect her spells would have.
The soldiers behind Gawain reacted after a brief moment of shock. The strange creature was indeed frightening, but the conditioned reflexes produced by long-term training still made these elite soldiers subconsciously raise the weapons in their hands. In the next second, more than a dozen scorching rays bombarded the strange creature that was surrounded by electric light.
That creature probably did not expect the counterattack to come so quickly. Moreover, it was a series of continuous magic attacks. Stunned, it was hit consecutively, and the ball of lightning that had gathered around it also disappeared. However, the level-2 scorching ray was obviously not enough to cause fatal damage to this powerful magical creature that had probably lived for hundreds of years. Layers of ripples appeared on the surface of its body formed by arcane energy, and all the attacks were neutralized. Then, a new ball of lightning reformed around it.
However, Gwen had recovered from the paralysis caused by the electric arcs in this short time. Before the new attack came, he had already raised his sword, and his body turned into a continuous shadow in the high-speed charge, and all the shadows gathered in front of the magical creature in the next second. A layer of magical light floated on the surface of the Pathfinder Sword, and the blade slashed heavily on the largest silver-white armor plate on the enemy's body.
At the last moment, the powerful magical creature condensed an unusually strong shield. Although Gwen's attack destroyed the opponent's shield, it did not completely split open the armor plate. He only sent the magical creature flying, and the latter left a long scorch mark on the ground with a series of electric arcs. Before it could get up, Gwen had already rushed up again.
The magical creature awkwardly condensed a crisscrossing pillar of ice to block Gawain's sword. The next second, a cry of surprise came from the creature's body, causing Gawain's movements to abruptly stop.
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