The massive electromagnetic storm exploded over the city. As it was only a few hundred meters above the ground, the shockwave it caused even created a gust of wind around them. Everything seemed to be electrified. Electric sparks appeared out of nowhere in the air, and the ionized ozone filled the air with a pungent smell. The invisible magnetic field was far more powerful than the electric discharge in the air. It swept across the entire street, and within the range of its power, all the stone statues trembled and stopped moving before falling to the ground one by one.
In the sky, a huge, transparent jellyfish-like object was revealed under the impact of the electromagnetic storm.
It looked like a ball of cotton candy floating in the air, with an unstable appearance and an illusory border. Countless shimmering lines extended from the bottom of this huge transparent structure, and each line was connected to a stone guardian on the ground below. After the stone guardians fell to the ground, the "lines" connected to them would be retracted, just like a jellyfish retracting its tentacles.
This spectacular mysterious structure made everyone gasp in amazement, except for Rollie. The poor cat maiden was hurt and frightened. She was hugging Hao Ren's leg and meowing non-stop, completely oblivious to the situation in the sky.
Hao Ren finally saw what the thing that he had vaguely sensed before looked like. He guessed that the thing should be completely invisible, and even until now, what they saw was not the true appearance of the thing. It should be something that did not interact with the physical world. It was just that the powerful energy released by Vivian bombarded its key node, causing the area where the "jellyfish" came into contact with the physical world to be electrified, and the distorted discharge layer outlined its outline.
Hao Ren's first reaction when he saw it was to raise his hand and fire a round of heavy missiles directly at the weird "jellyfish" from the dimensional pocket.
The psionic pistol ignited a small blue flame on the surface of the "jellyfish", and the beam directly penetrated its structure. But the wound was nothing compared to its overall size. The heavy missiles directly penetrated the body of the thing. The latter was like a phantom that did not exist in the real world, and there was no friction between the missiles and the "jellyfish".
After the missile flew past that thing, it exploded at the boundary of the distant space. Suddenly, the already unstable space began to collapse even more violently.
Hao Ren immediately dismissed the idea of violently destroying the jellyfish.
"Holy sh * t... what the hell is that?" Lily looked up, dumbfounded. "Vengeful spirit? Or the soul of the Firstborn? "
"Neither. The vengeful spirit has no form, and the soul of the First Born is much larger than it." Hao Ren shook his head. "But it should be something close to the soul... I have this intuition. Elizabeth, do you know what this is? "
The little demon shook her head. "I don't know. I'm just following my experience with the golems. This thing should have been floating over the city, sleeping with the golems. But our investigation of the temple stimulated this thing, and it suddenly woke up. This is the control center of the golems. I just asked Sis Vivian to hit the connection node between it and the lower golems. The electromagnetic shock should make it lose its perception of the lower node for a short time. In other words, the golems will be blind for a period of time in the future. "
"Now is the time." Hao Ren immediately reacted and waved his hand. "Let's go to the grand temple now!"
Y 'lisabet's judgment was correct. The little demon was indeed a genius golem who could create Papa One, Two, and Three. As she said, after the "jellyfish" in the sky was temporarily paralyzed by Vivian's electromagnetic storm, the golems on the ground also fell into a short period of chaos.
They had lost the ability to control the entire battlefield, and they no longer acted as a unified unit as before. Instead, they began to wander around like headless flies. Every Golem Soldier had become a blind soldier fighting alone, and their own intelligence was obviously not enough to allow these stone lumps to fight independently.
Hao Ren and his party advanced thrillingly on the streets blocked by the golems. They could see the swaying giant stone statues on almost every intersection and main road. The latter's rampage was accelerating the demolition of the mysterious ancient city. Before the edge of the city had time to collapse into the vortex of spatial collapse, the buildings inside the city had almost been flattened by its own guardians. The swaying stone statues basically turned a blind eye to the "invaders" running past them. Even if occasionally Hao Ren and his party accidentally got too close or encountered one or two stone statues head-on, the other colossi around them seemed to be completely unaware when they got rid of these stone statues.
But in the process of approaching the grand temple, Hao Ren could not help but be secretly astonished.
There were so many colossus guards in this city!
Although it was known that one-third of the area in the ancient city was occupied by the temple, the number of religious facilities in the city had reached a level that far exceeded the needs, and each temple had far more stone statues than the general standard, but it was not until these stone statues all came out of their respective temples and gathered into a black legion on the streets that Hao Ren realized that the scale of this "army" was far beyond imagination.
Even Vivian was amazed by the number of golems in the city. Even in the Mythological Era, the number of golems in the city would be considered a militaristic arrangement.
"This city is definitely not an independent city-state. It was supported by other cities, either as a capital or a religious center. Otherwise, with the productivity of the past, an independent city-state could not have supported such a large legion of golems." Vivian descended a little from the sky and floated beside Hao Ren, explaining her inference as they hurried along. "But it's a bit unbelievable that such a powerful country did not even leave a name. And there's also the 'spirit' that they used to guard the city … "
As she spoke, she looked up. The huge jellyfish-like transparent structure was still floating high in the sky. The electric phenomenon caused by the electromagnetic storm in that area had not subsided, so the connection between the 'jellyfish' and the gargoyle legion on the surface was still in a state of paralysis. But as time went on, the discharge layer in the sky was rapidly dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye. Perhaps this state of paralysis was about to end.
However, the grand temple in the center of the ancient city had also appeared at the end of their sight.
Vivian withdrew her gaze from the sky and shook her head. "This kind of thing is rare even in the Mythological Era. As long as it appears, it must be very famous, but I have never heard of it. It's incredible."
At this time, the voice of the MDT suddenly sounded in everyone's mind. "I have figured out the name of this ancient city."
The body of the MDT was still floating over the city at this moment, assuming the responsibility of aerial observation and crisis warning, but it still had enough computing power to participate in the conversation between Hao Ren and Vivian. As the voice of the MDT trailed off, the small holographic projection device floating beside Hao Ren also displayed the image transmitted by the MDT. It was the mural that they had found in the temple.
The mural depicted the legend of the ancient behemoth Ertos. But when the gargoyle guards suddenly woke up, Hao Ren's study of these murals had to be interrupted in advance. Now it seemed that the MDT had completed a comprehensive analysis of the contents of the murals.
Hao Ren was multitasking, looking at the contents of the murals while listening to the MDT's report.
"These murals are continuous, telling the disaster that the city has suffered and the glorious history of its re-emergence. At first, the city did not exist. There were only a few loose tribes on this land, ruled by a group of half-orc, half-human 'gods', who were the first rulers of this land. Then a monster called 'Ertos' suddenly appeared, the thing in the first mural. It was taller than a mountain, but it had long, thin feet. It walked on the ground, but its body could rise from the clouds. The monster released lightning and fire as it walked, thus destroying many tribes on the earth. That is what is described in the second mural. But later, a very powerful 'great ruler' came to this land, and this' great ruler 'fought Ertos … "
Hao Ren looked at the third mural, the one that had been interrupted by the gargoyle guards and had not been able to take a closer look.
In the mural, an image composed of abstract lines appeared in front of Ertos. The image was like a carved wooden mask in the American style, with the facial features connected by exaggerated and ridiculous straight lines. At first, Hao Ren thought that this was what the 'great ruler' looked like, and marveled that there were all kinds of strange things in the Mythological Era. But soon Vivian explained that this was actually just an 'ideal incarnation'. The great ruler was so powerful that the primitive people did not dare to depict his appearance directly. So, according to the simple religious concept of the time, they painted a deified, detached totem for the 'great ruler'.
This totem was the mask floating in front of Ertos.
"The great ruler and Ertos fought for three days and three nights. Flames and storms swept away everything on the earth. Only one tribe survived because the tribe was aware of the power of the great ruler in advance and sought refuge behind him," the MDT continued to interpret. "Then the great ruler finally won. Ertos was torn apart by the power of the great ruler. Its body was divided into four parts, which fell to the ground and became four fertile lands. The head of Ertos fell in front of the last surviving tribe. This was the greatest trophy. So, in order to express their awe and gratitude to the great ruler, the surviving Beasthead of the tribe built a city on the head. The name of the city was Ertos."
In the fourth mural was the scene of Ertos falling to the earth, and a group of humans, driven by the half-orc, half-human "ancient gods," climbed onto the head of Ertos and built a city on its skull.
There was no doubt that this city was the one in front of them, and its name was Ertos.
"And then?" Hao Ren could not help but ask when the MDT did not say anything.
"That's it," the MDT said.
"… That's it?" Hao Ren said. "I'm just listening to it, and you're telling me that the eunuch fell?"
Vivian quickly comforted him. "Don't be angry, don't be angry. This kind of thing is normal. Back in the Mythological Era, who had the time to do cultural heritage? Few of the myths of that time were complete. The Dead Sea Scrolls were not finished either …"
Hao Ren was speechless.
"These historical records should have a follow-up," the MDT continued. "Judging from some of the incomplete texts in the previous temple, I think each temple in the city has a different 'class'. Different classes of temples are allowed to record different information, so the records in a temple may not be complete — but the grand temple in the center of the city should have the most complete historical records."
"The grand temple …" Hao Ren looked up, and the main body of the grand temple was already in front of him.
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