Above the base of the Sentry Tower, floating in the air by means of anti-gravity technology was the most important 'functional facility' of the tower, the shield-projecting device known as the 'stone tablet'.
The energy barrier of the Great Wall was maintained by the 'stone tablet', but the function of the stone tablet was not limited to creating a layer of shield. As a high-power magic facility, the stone tablet had a very complex structure and functions. While creating a shield, it also acted as an upper-level sensor, monitoring the situation of the barrier at a height of a thousand meters, monitoring the energy tide in the wasteland, and reporting its own status to the mind of the demonic spirit in the base at any time.
The sensor array in the stone tablet might be the last unit that could possibly malfunction and bypass the mind of the demonic spirit.
"There is a lift platform on the top floor of this room that can go to the stone tablet," Banner said as he opened a new operation interface on the alloy column next to the mind of the demonic spirit. While checking the system, he quickly said, "Let me see … Thanks to the spirit of the forest, the lift platform is in good condition."
Gwen nodded and said, "Let's go to the stone tablet and have a look."
No one objected. Gwen then asked Solderlin and the rangers to continue to be on guard in the base while he, Banner, and the others went to the upper floor of the room where the mind of the demonic spirit was. A circular lift platform was quietly parked in the groove at the top of the room.
The lift platform had been here for seven centuries, but the protective system of the Sentry Tower still kept it in good condition. After Banner injected magic power and control instructions, light blue magic patterns and faint elven runes appeared on the floor of the circular platform. Gwen felt a slight tremor under his feet, and the entire platform began to slowly rise.
The layer of glowing magic cloud gradually approached in his field of vision, and an energy shield automatically rose around the lift platform to protect the passengers. But Gwen did not care about the magic cloud above his head and the shield around him. Almost all of his attention was on the magic patterns that appeared on the surface of the lift platform.
This was the anti-gravity technology of the elves, far more advanced than that of the humans.
It only needed to inject a small amount of magic power to lift it up with a considerable load, and it was incredibly stable during the floating process. Its rune structure had obviously been optimized so well that Banner hardly needed to control it...
Humans also had levitation magic and floating devices based on gravity spells. In the towers of the great mages, they often used similar floating platforms to transport people or goods. But Gwen knew the fatal flaw of those floating devices — they consumed so much energy that they could only be used in the mage tower. They were not easy to control, so the tower spirit of the mage tower had to assist in controlling them so that they would not fall. They were expensive and complicated, so that only middle-grade to high-grade extraordinary could afford the cost.
The researchers of the Rune Research Institute had been trying to crack and optimize the gravity spells of the humans, but they encountered a problem similar to the original communication spell: a technical black box.
Gravity spells were not created by humans. Its origin was a mystery, and there were a lot of structures in the spell model that could not be understood. Jenny and her technical team had worked hard so far, but they could not optimize large-scale anti-gravity arrays to a practical level. So far, the only results of the Rune Research Institute in gravity spells were "Weight Reduction" and "Levitation Cantrip." The former had been applied in the field of construction and material transportation, and the latter … because of the extremely small load and the interference of multiple arrays in parallel, it could not be applied so far.
In the past, the technical black box of the communication spell was cracked after the introduction of the technology of the Eternal Sleeper. Then, the technical black box of gravity spells … Would there be a breakthrough in the knowledge system of the elves?
The floating platform continued to rise. It drilled into the thick magic cloud, and the dense fog filled everyone's sight. The friction between the magic and the platform's shield produced electric arcs that crackled around. Amber seemed to be frightened by the seemingly dangerous "passage". The goose subconsciously shrank its neck, and Gwen was still thinking about the application of anti-gravity technology.
Breaking free from gravity and soaring in the sky was something that almost any intelligent creature would yearn for. Its significance in the military and civilian fields was needless to say. More importantly, the technology to break free from gravity was something that Gwen had always been thinking about. In his lifetime, in the imaginable field, this seemed to be the only way for him to touch the satellites in space and touch his own "body".
On this road, griffins could not do it, giant eagles could not do it, and the mage's flying spell could not do it.
As long as the conditions were right, a flying machine must be built.
The floating platform passed through the magic cloud that was more than a dozen meters thick. The crackling electric arcs and the dense fog gradually sank to the bottom. Beyond the platform was an amazing open field of vision.
The scale of the magnificent wall stretched out in front of them like an aurora that fell into the earth, outlining the border of the ancient Kingdom of Gondor. In the north, at the end of the line of sight was the undulating outline of the Gloom Mountains. In the south, the purple-black decayed land stretched as far as the eye could see. Jagged and hideous rocks and withered plants were scattered across the plain. Some of the wreckage that had been distorted beyond recognition appeared in the distance, looking bleak and desolate.
Amber looked at the scene on the other side of the barrier in a daze. After a long time, she exclaimed, "Wow …"
"That's the Kingdom of Gondor, the most powerful empire in human history. The ancestors of the Ansu escaped from there seven hundred years ago." Gwen Cecil's memory came to mind. Gwen looked at the wasteland in the south and broke the silence. "Do you see that reddish zone? That's the road. One-fifth of our people died on that road. And that crooked ruin in the distance, it looks like it has melted. That's Serandulan, the last border city that still organized resistance. Back then, Charlie tried to persuade the lord of Serandulan to immediately flee with the people, but the stubborn old count insisted on living and dying with the city. In the end, he detonated the magic pipeline of Serandulan. Those crooked things are the remnants of the magic pipeline. "
Everyone listened quietly to Gwen's story. Even Amber could not help but be quiet. And in this brief silence, the entire platform fell into shadow.
It arrived at the lower parking area of the stone monument.
After a brief moment of getting used to it, everyone's eyes adjusted to the dim magical lights inside the monolith. Amber blinked and looked around, and was surprised to find that the space inside the monolith was actually not that big. There was only a circular hall in sight, and the hall had a high roof, but the highest was no more than a few dozen meters. And other than the hall, she did not see any other exits.
Neat silver-white metal pillars stood in the hall. Those metal pillars were probably the monitoring and control devices of the monument.
"Most of the entire monument is sealed off. It's wrapped in thick artificial rock and dozens of layers of magic material," Banner explained. "This is because there's a very powerful energy surging in the monument. This energy is extremely dangerous, and it also needs to keep its energy environment closed to prevent the shield from being unbalanced. So we have to seal it up. The walls of this hall are ten meters thick and rely on a huge magic circle set up on the roof to establish a connection with the monument. Through this magic circle, we can understand the work of the monument. "
As Banner spoke, he came to the side of the silver-white metal pillars and activated one of them. Then, complex elven runes appeared on the surface of the metal pillar. With a slight buzzing sound, a large number of illusory projections appeared in the air around the pillar.
Gwen and Sonia nervously watched Banner's work. They hoped that Banner could find something unusual, but at the same time, they were worried that he would find a major fault in the Sentinel Tower. The monument was the most important structure of the Sentinel Tower, and almost all of the faults here were fatal. If the problem really happened here …
Perhaps the entire shield repair plan would become a joke.
Amber also paid attention to Banner's operation for a while, but she really didn't know anything about elven runes and didn't understand the work of the sentry tower. After a while, she lost interest in the things in front of her and began to look around.
She was very concerned about the "illusions" that happened one after another today.
She was a careless girl with a carefree personality, but that didn't mean that she was heartless (although many people thought so). She wouldn't simply classify what she saw as a "dazzling sight", but she was very clear about one thing — she was probably the only one who could see those things.
That was a projection from the Shadow Realm, or … a phenomenon caused by the Shadow Realm's intrusion into the real world.
Was there a Shadow Fissure here? Why would a Shadow Fissure appear out of thin air in nature?
Amber frowned. She tried to relax her mind and allowed the inexplicable Shadow talent that she was born with to slowly take over her five senses. She breathed calmly as her eyes scanned the entire hall.
She began to observe this place from the perspective of a Shadow Creature.
The figure she saw below was most likely a Shadow Dweller. The Shadow Dwellers had no communication with the creatures of the material world and even seemed to have a certain degree of malice, but they were relatively … close to her. Amber did not know if the Shadow Dwellers were close to her, but she did have experience dealing with them.
Those weird, seemingly illogical Dwellers were actually intelligent creatures. They would not point her in this direction for no reason, unless there was something here that disturbed the order of the material world and the Shadow Realm.
"The device here also shows that everything is normal." Not far away, Banner's slightly puzzled voice sounded. The elven magus repeatedly checked several key sensors on the stone tablet, his voice full of puzzlement. "Strange … It's so normal that it's ridiculous …"
Sonia also came to Banner's side. "It looks like the sensors are working well. What about the connection between here and the mind of the demonic spirit? "
"The connection is smooth, wait, too smooth …"
Banner and Sonia's voice became misty in Amber's ears.
Her hair had unknowingly become very long, floating in the air as if gravity had been lifted. Her eyes had turned into a strange pale gold, reflecting the black and white scenery of the Shadow Realm. A wriggling cloud of smoke gathered under her feet, building a passage to the Shadow Realm.
She entered the Shadow Realm.
Some strange, hollow figures wrapped in runic cloths appeared around her. The hollow figures whispered, "You are in big trouble …" "They have already caused damage …" "But it seems that you can still delay it a little." "That has nothing to do with us …" "But, I need to remind you that you belong here …" "Look up."
Amber looked up at the roof of the hall.
Large scale incubation vines and roots were entrenched on all the silver-white metal pillars, spreading all over the walls of the hall, and drilling through the cracks of the platform to the outside of the stone tablet.
They seemed to be connected to the base below, to the earth below the base, to the wasteland, and to something more blasphemous in the depths of the wasteland.
"Oh my god!"
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