This was the real reason why the lost city of Ertos had become what it was today.
It was not that Vivian had lost her memory of the city, but that she had never been here at all. It was her Malevolence that ruled the city, and it was the Malevolence that destroyed the city and pushed it into a different dimension. Everything was beyond Hao Ren's initial conjecture, and even beyond his previous concept of the special existence of the Malevolence.
It turned out that there was such a special individual in the Malevolence?
But there were still many unanswered questions, so in the end he forcibly suppressed all kinds of speculation and confusion in his heart and continued to ask what happened after that. Because judging from the current state of the Colossus Corps and the Spirit of Ertos, something must have happened here after the city fell into another dimension.
"What happened after the city fell into a different dimension?" Hao Ren asked Ertos in his mind. "What did you experience?"
"The moment the city fell into a different dimension, the last survivor of the city died in the space-time tremor. After that, the Ruler stood on the top of the pyramid of the Grand Temple for a long time. I think it was at least a few hundred years … I can't understand what she was thinking. Maybe she didn't think anything at all. And in the process, I have been slowly stabilizing my injuries."
"Injury?" Lily blinked. "What injury?"
"You don't think I would be safe and sound when the ubiquitous moonlight came, do you?" Ertos sounded helpless. "Even the spirit of the Chaos Wanderer could not resist the strange crimson moon. I don't know what it was, but its light almost tore my soul apart, and the damage continued even after the city was thrown into a different dimension for hundreds of years. I thought this situation would last forever, but then the moonlight in the city finally weakened, and I was able to recover. "
"What about the ruler?" Lily asked curiously. "How did she return to the pyramid?"
Hao Ren asked. "I don't know, but since the city fell into a different dimension, the power of the ruler has been declining. Although I am only a spirit, I can still feel it. She stood on the pyramid for a long time until the power of the moonlight faded away. Then, without warning, she returned to the Great Temple and fell into a deep sleep. During the whole process, I never figured out what kind of logic she followed. "
"In fact, she really has no logic," Vivian said, shaking her head with a wry smile. "At least after she started to go crazy, she no longer has logic."
Y 'zaks thought for a moment and asked, "After the ruler fell asleep, you took over the remaining stone soldiers here?"
"That was my body," Ertos replied. "They (in this case, the residents of the city) cut my armor and bones and made them into various things, including stone soldiers. But it had no effect on the Chaos Wanderers. I just lent those things to them temporarily. When the people of the city died, I took it all back."
As Ertos' voice trailed off, the silent statues suddenly moved again. They turned around with a rumble and began to arrange themselves in a neat square formation. Rollie's hair stood on end as soon as she saw the stone soldiers moving. She meowed and jumped half a meter high. Then she bowed and whispered in protest as she scuttled behind Hao Ren. The cat girl was frightened by these stone soldiers.
By this time, Hao Ren had vaguely figured it out. "So these stone soldiers are not guarding the ruler at all. In fact, you are 'watching' her?" "Not really watching.
I know the power of these stone soldiers. If the ruler wakes up, these stone soldiers will not be able to stop her. I am just monitoring this place to prevent anyone from straying into this different dimension and waking up the sleeper in the grand temple. This has happened more than once in the past long years. Different dimensions are always connected to the main material world for various reasons. Once a rash adventurer enters the grand temple, it may cause unpredictable consequences. I remember the last intruder was even standing under the steps of the grand temple. They were just a group of humans, but they had incredible weapons and tenacious fighting spirit. But fortunately, I stopped them. "
As Ertos' voice trailed off, Hao Ren saw a stone soldier coming out from behind the group. The stone soldier opened its huge palm, and some twisted metal fragments and tattered uniforms slipped between its fingers.
"The British army," Vivian judged at a glance. "World War II uniforms."
"Throughout history, there have been many mysterious cases of missing troops. Half of them were unfortunate enough to fall into different dimensions." Hessiana shook her head and sighed. "These different dimensions are left behind from the Mythological Era, and they still harm people today."
Hao Ren also sighed, but he also admitted that Ertos had no other choice. They had proved that Ertos' worries were correct. Outsiders entering the grand temple would really wake up the sleeping ruler. If it were a group of ordinary adventurers instead of a group of superhumans, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Since the divine Malevolence had the ability to throw the city into a different dimension, she must have the ability to return to the main material world!
Vivian looked up at the sky, a little dumbfounded. "So you sent the stone soldiers to fight us …"
"I was just stopping you from going to the grand temple," Ertos said slowly. "But I didn't expect you to go straight to the temple."
"This is the difference between professional troublemakers and non-professional troublemakers," Hao Ren spread out his hands. "We are professional troublemakers."
Everyone was speechless.
Hessiana took a step back and said, "Just say what you want. Don't drag me into it."
"No wonder your stone soldiers would stay away from the grand temple as much as possible no matter how much trouble they caused. It turned out to be to prevent waking up the monster inside," Hao Ren smacked his lips and shook his head. "And after we entered the grand temple, you stopped the stone soldiers outside. That probably meant to give up treatment, right? If that's the case, you should have told us. It's not like you don't know how to communicate. You just sent a group of stone soldiers to fight us. Normal people would have resisted, okay? Look at us now, we blew up a bunch of your colossi, and you kicked my cat. Both sides suffered a lot. "
Rollie came over and rubbed against Hao Ren's arm. "Big Boss Cat, I don't hurt anymore."
Ertos' helpless voice rang in everyone's mind. "It's not that I don't want to communicate with you, but this kind of communication is more likely to wake up the sleeping ruler. In fact, if you hadn't successfully destroyed the Ruler, I would never have 'opened my mouth' to speak again. "
"Spiritual communication will wake up the ruler?" Hao Ren felt as if he had come across another piece of information about the Malevolence. "Has this happened before?"
"Spiritual communication itself will not wake her up, but it is dangerous to mention her in the process of spiritual communication. She is still watching the city in her sleep, and there are too many opportunities to wake her up," Ertos said with a sigh. "In addition to this risk, the intruders themselves have unpredictable behavior patterns, and communicating with them will bring more uncontrollable factors. There was once a group of fleeing wizards who learned the sleeping place of the ruler and had a crazy idea. They wanted to deliberately wake the ruler up to gain great power. I really could not understand this self-destructive tendency, nor could I understand the strange way of thinking of those strange 'little creatures,' so I simply stopped communicating with them. Until you guys appeared. You were an absolute accident. "
"Yes, after all, we not only woke her up but also killed her," Hao Ren shrugged. "In short, we have figured out the ins and outs of this city, but I still have a lot of curiosity about the ruler. Do you know where she first came from? "
"I had a few conversations with the ruler before she went completely crazy," Ertos said slowly. "But she never mentioned her origin. She only said that she was wandering aimlessly on the Great Plains. She did not know her own name or race. She did not even know where she had first set out from. And her mental state was strange from the beginning, even when she was more 'rational.' Her thoughts were often interrupted, or she fell into a strange long silence. Sometimes she would immediately end a topic and start a new one that was difficult to understand, but more often than not, she was just talking to herself. Sorry, it seems that I can't help you in this regard. "
Hao Ren himself did not have much hope. Every Malevolence was mysterious and incomprehensible. Even Vivian herself did not know when and where she had split into a Malevolence. It was a miracle that the "great ruler" of the city of Ertos had a period of "lucid" communication. Other than that, Hao Ren could not expect much more.
But just as he had given up on learning more about the "great ruler" from Ertos, Ertos suddenly spoke again. "I don't know the origin of the ruler, but she left something that I think you will be interested in."
"Something?" Vivian perked up for a moment. "What is it?"
"It's a gemstone. She gave the gemstone to the high priest of the city after waking up from an intermittent sleep. If I'm not mistaken, the gemstone should still be in its sealed place."
Hao Ren and Vivian could not help but look at each other, and then saw each other's thoughtful look.
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