The magnificent and luxurious building had been asleep in the forest for a hundred centuries. Its glory had faded, and the dazzling golden decorations had been corroded by weathering. Over a long period of geological change, the main body of the building had gradually sunk into the ground, and the exposed part was only one-tenth of the whole. But surprisingly, even in this state, the main structure of the building was still intact and stable.
Even when it was buried under millions of tons of mud and rocks, there was no sign of it collapsing.
It seemed that aside from the flashy decorations, the main body of the building had been specially strengthened, and this showed that the deicidal race was indeed unique in the field of technology.
With Rheia leading the way, the group entered the ruins through the hole in the dome, and began to find their way through the complex layers and corridors of the building as they went deeper into it.
After entering the building, Hao Ren once again confirmed that this was a relic left behind by the deicidal race. In this magnificent temple, ornate sculptures and reliefs were everywhere, and all kinds of religious symbols covered almost every corner of the group. These religious symbols were not used to worship any gods, but were the glorification and decoration of the people who built the building.
After a few wrong turns, Rheia finally found the right direction, and a shaft that went straight underground appeared before them. The shaft was deep and dark, and there were occasional flashes of light on the inner wall. That was the energy that still remained in the building leaking out through the damaged wiring and pipes.
"It's so deep …" Lily stood by the edge of the shaft as she carefully poked her head down, and her tail immediately fluffed up due to nervousness. "Holy moly … why do we always have to jump into deep pits and deep wells …"
"Do you guys often come across these buried ruins?" Rheia gave Lily a strange look, and then shrugged. "It's normal that it's deep. This building was originally a towering temple, and according to the records, it could be up to a thousand meters tall, and what we see on the surface is the exposed top of the main tower. So we probably have to move down a thousand meters to reach its base, and the important things are usually buried there."
As she said, she looked at the wall of the shaft curiously. "But it's weird, there's not even a staircase here … How did the people who used this building move between these floors?"
Vivian looked down. "This should be the lift, and the stairs are probably blocked by rubble."
"Lift …?" Rheia smacked her lips. "Anyway, luckily I'm prepared, and Rheia the Grand Scholar never takes risks unprepared!"
As the mage said, she opened the pocket of her robe that looked like a treasure chest, and took out a rolled up cloth. Her robe must have some sort of spatial expansion effect, or else it would be hard to explain how she could hide all these weird little items.
Rheia unfolded the cloth and gently placed it on the ground as she muttered a cryptic spell. The cloth immediately began to shake, stretch, and thicken. In just a few seconds, it had turned into a huge flying carpet, and there was a bright lamp floating on each of the four corners of the flying carpet. As Rheia injected her magic into it, the flying carpet gradually floated less than half a meter above the ground. It was steady and looked very reliable.
"Let's sit on this!" Rheia said proudly. "I made it myself!"
Vivian spread her wings. "I don't need it, I can fly myself."
"I don't want to sit on this!" Lily had goosebumps the moment she saw the unobstructed edge of the flying carpet, and she instinctively took a step back. "Why do I feel like I'm going to fall off this soft thing without any safety rails?"
Hao Ren rolled his eyes at the husky maiden and pushed her onto the flying carpet. "Stop fooling around. You weren't afraid of heights when you were on the plane?"
In fact, Hao Ren had his own flight support equipment, but it was his first time riding on a magic carpet. He was a little curious, and with an attitude of experiencing life, he squeezed onto Rheia's magic carpet with the others.
After that, the mage lady skillfully ignited the engine, shifted gears, and started the heavily overloaded flying carpet into the shaft.
Looking at the wall of the shaft with a tinge of gold rising in his sight, Hao Ren could not help but grumble. "We met a lot of monsters on the way here, and I thought there would be more monsters in the ruins. Didn't expect it to be so quiet."
"The monsters only gathered around the ruins because of the leakage of magic, but they rarely went into the ruins," Rheia explained. "That's because the energy concentration in the ruins is higher, and it's more than what the monsters find 'comfortable'. Plus, there's no food in the ruins, and for the monsters that need to eat to survive, there's no need for them to come in."
"Can't find food … That's right, that's the key." Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, and could not help but laugh. "Adventure novels are all lies."
"What?"
"Err, nothing, just talking to myself."
The flying carpet continued to descend in the shaft, and for safety reasons, it did not descend too fast, which gave everyone a good opportunity to observe the situation along the way. Hao Ren ordered the MDT to secretly scan the surrounding data through the mental link while he studied the decorative style of the deicidal embossments and runes with great interest. But in the process, he suddenly heard a low and strange muffled sound coming from a certain direction.
The source of the sound seemed to be far away, but it was amplified and transmitted through the intricate underground cave structure.
The first to react was Lily. The already nervous husky maiden immediately gripped the giant alloy X666 sword in her hand as her ears kept turning in all directions. "Did you guys hear that?! It seems like something has collapsed! "
"I heard it too." Rheia was also a little nervous. She drew a few magic runes and watched the runes gradually dissipate into the air before she breathed a sigh of relief. "It's not from this ruin. It should be from somewhere deeper, farther away. It should be from the Great Pit."
"Is this common?" Hao Ren asked with a frown.
"There are often strange sounds coming from the Great Pit. Sometimes it's the airflow, and sometimes it's the movement of monsters," Rheia said nonchalantly. "Some people say that the ancient rigs in the Great Pit are digging through our world. Don't worry, it's something far away from us."
Hao Ren wanted to say that the sound had traveled so far, and it could not have gone far, but the flying carpet had already reached the bottom of the shaft.
A flapping sound came from the side as Vivian landed next to the flying carpet. She folded her wings and looked around. "The structure here seems quite intact."
Rheia commanded the flying carpet to fold itself as she took out a magic crystal to detect the magic concentration in the air. The mage lady's eyes were almost glowing. "Not only the structure is intact, but the magic reaction is also very strong! There must be an ancient facility that is still operating here. We've really found a treasure this time! "
Seeing Rheia's excitement, Nangong Sanba could not help but ask, "Do you know what the thing you are looking for looks like?"
"What I'm looking for? No, no, no, I'm a scholar, not a grave robber, "Rheia said solemnly." This ruin itself is what I'm looking for. The buried knowledge here, any ancient objects that can be used or have research value, even the structure of the ruin itself, and the runes and sculptures we saw along the way, these are the greatest wealth! Come on, don't waste time, we still have a long way to go! "
Rheia put away her magic carpet and rubbed her iron staff, making the glowing crystal at the tip of the iron staff brighter than before. She then led the way to the gate at the bottom of the shaft, which was obviously the exit.
The gate was, of course, locked, and the identification system that controlled the locking device had obviously been scrapped for years. But this was not a problem for Rheia, who could kill a bull with one punch. She pried the gate open with her staff and beckoned Hao Ren and the rest to hurry up.
Hao Ren and Vivian looked at each other helplessly before following.
This building really looked like a magnificent temple. No matter what the original purpose of the god slayers was to build it, its internal structure had the distinctive characteristics of a temple. Not long after coming out of the elevator shaft, Hao Ren and the rest saw the spacious halls and solemn corridors. They also saw more epic reliefs and paintings in the corridors. If not for the fact that the deicidal race had long abandoned their faith and called themselves gods, perhaps Hao Ren himself would have thought that this was a place of worship.
The building had been abandoned for a long time, and there were naturally not many clues left. But judging from the tidiness of the items left in the building and the lack of obvious signs of destruction, Hao Ren believed that this place was not abandoned in an emergency.
The owner had left in a rather calm manner, taking everything that could be taken away, and the things that could not be taken away were tidied up and placed in appropriate locations. Every door was carefully closed, and there was no sign of a hurried evacuation, and there was no sign of the door being left open.
Hao Ren also did not see the scene of "living items in use, but the owner suddenly disappeared", so he ruled out the possibility that the deicidal were struck by divine retribution and disappeared in an instant, leaving the ruins in order. Based on the various clues, he concluded that this place was abandoned before the "time of the deicidal" arrived.
One team, two goals: Rheia was looking for the knowledge and heritage of the ancient civilization, while Hao Ren and the rest were looking for information on the deicidal race to perfect their intel on the world of L 'Haronne. But no matter what, they still successfully carried out their operation in this underground ruin.
After a rough exploration of the central axis of the building, Rheia suggested going to the side hall. Based on the flow of magic underground, she guessed that there should be a functioning energy hub in the side hall, and that was a priceless treasure to her.
Hao Ren, of course, had no objections.
The team passed through the main hall and the central corridor of the underground palace, and through the empty palace rooms. The depressing place was suffocating, but Hao Ren's team was experienced, and this was not a problem for them.
But on the way to the side hall, they had to stop: there was a rift in front of them.
The entire underground building was broken in half here, and the side hall and the main body were completely separated, and the rift was hundreds of meters wide and bottomless.
Lily stood in front of the rift and looked up. The dome of the building was also torn apart, and she could see the thick rock layers and countless hanging stalagmites. Perhaps this was originally an underground cave, and the rock layers above the palace did not collapse after the dome was broken.
There were many visible streams of light swimming on top of the rock, jumping and flowing along the stalagmites. The starting point of the light stream was the building ruins opposite the rift, which was the side hall of the underground palace, and the end point was the upper floor of the building they were in. The light stream was obviously the "magic flow" that Rheia had sensed earlier.
The so-called magic vein did exist, but the path to its source was blocked.
Lily looked down at the rift below and found that it was much darker and deeper than the shaft before, and there was a chaotic cyclone that appeared and disappeared from time to time. A terrifying sense of danger came from the bottom of the rift, and it made her hair stand on end. She quickly distanced herself from the dangerous position.
Vivian once again spread her bat wings and moved them as she judged the distance of the rift. She did not seem to care. "It's only a few meters wide. Let's just fly over …"
That was what the rest of the team thought as well. It was just a rift valley that was only a few hundred meters wide. It was not even a challenge for the team. Lily could almost jump over it without a run-up, not to mention that everyone had the option to fly over it.
But Rheia quickly stopped Vivian. "Wait a minute! Don't! "
Vivian looked at the mage lady, puzzled. "What's wrong?"
"This rift is the 'breach' that I mentioned before to the Great Pit." Rheia's expression was extraordinarily serious, and even a little nervous. It was rare to see such an expression on the arrogant mage lady. "If you fly over, you will probably die!"
Vivian retracted her wings with a puzzled look on her face. "It's just the entrance to the Great Pit. Is there a problem with flying over?"
"People like you who don't know much about the Great Pit are the most likely to get into trouble …" Rheia could not help but sigh. She then picked up a stone from nearby, infused it with magic, and threw it in the direction of the rift.
The magic infused flying stone was propelled by the Wind Arrow Spell, and it seemed like it could easily cross the rift and fly to the side hall on the other side. But halfway through, a dark shadow suddenly surged out of the rift. Hao Ren had never seen such a strange phenomenon or substance. The thing that rose from the rift looked like a mass of pure darkness, and its dark color was so pure that no details could be seen on its surface. It rose abruptly into the air as if it had dug out a piece of space, or like a drop of black ink on a picture. The mass of darkness rose a few meters high from the rift, but it did not directly touch the flying stone, and the stone instantly became illusory and transparent.
The next second, it disappeared into thin air, and even the magic flash that Rheia had infused into it disappeared.
Even though he had seen all kinds of strange things, Hao Ren could not help but swallow his saliva and thought to himself, "F * ck!
No matter what it was, it would not feel good to be 'licked' by it!
"The Great Pit will devour everything that has a magic reaction or life reaction, whether it is a stone or an adult dragon," Rheia said solemnly. "I don't know if you know about the Great Pit from the teachings of your teachers, the nonsense of the bards, or from the stories of other mercenaries and adventurers, but what I want to say is that almost all the so-called research on the Great Pit is a sham. Those who claim to have entered the Great Pit and come back alive and write books are even more nonsense. Their research has only touched the branch structure of the Great Pit, or circled the mines near the Great Pit. No one has ever come into contact with the Great Pit alive. The funny thing is that many self-proclaimed scholars have divided the Great Pit into two parts, one is the deadly zone, and the other is the so-called 'moderate zone'. This theory is bullsh * t! There is no moderate zone in the Great Pit. It is just a normal crypt that has slightly mutated due to the influence of the pit. Research conducted there is worthless! "
She pointed at the rift in front of her, and the eerie darkness was gradually shrinking as if nothing had happened. "This is the Great Pit, the real Great Pit. So, do not try to pass above it, and do not use so-called magic to challenge its devouring ability."
Hearing Rheia's serious warning, Nangong Sanba could not help but gasp. "I finally know why you can't recruit anyone …"
"… Huh?"
Y 'zaks also said in a low voice, "I understand now. In fact, according to the more accepted definition of the world, the underground palace and the shaft that we have passed are considered to have entered the Great Pit, right?"
"Eh …" Rheia was speechless.
Hao Ren crossed his arms and looked at the mage lady. "But in your own theory, these parts do not count."
Rheia said, "… I'm broke anyway! Kill me if you can! "
Hao Ren was speechless.
The answer was so refreshing that no one could react to it.
"Forget it, we haven't said anything yet." Hao Ren looked defeated as he waved his hand at the mage lady. "We better find a safe place to set up camp and find a way around the rift. Is that okay?"
Rheia thought for a moment. "… Are you planning to kill me while I am sleeping and then inherit my inheritance?"
"Inherit my ass!" Hao Ren finally could not hold back his anger. "Do you really think that dilapidated house in White Maple Leaf is worth inheriting?"
Rheia retorted with a serious face. "While that tower is not worth much, the land in the mage district is very expensive!"
Hao Ren was speechless.
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