MTL - Sword of Daybreaker-Chapter 40 Ancient ruins

In fact, the ancient ruins or ruins in Gao Wen’s memory are not far from the place where the troops camped – it is located on the north side of the dark mountains, most of which are hidden in the mountains, and some structures are exposed between the mountains. In theory, as long as you look up at the dark mountains in the distance, you can see part of the structure of the monument between the rock walls hundreds of meters above the ground.

Only the long-term lapse of time has wiped out the traces of civilization. A large number of spreading vines and mountain vegetation cover the rock wall, covering those historical layers, plus the collapse of the remains themselves and the accumulation of earth and stone, those exposed The structure outside the mountain is now difficult to observe. Standing in the camp where the troops are camping, I am afraid that the hunters with the best eyesight will find it difficult to find the anomalies between the rocks and the vines.

Arranged for the camp, Gao Wen and his team set off for the mountain. The ten-year scene will not change the terrain of nature. With the satellite view of the decade before the mind, plus the memory. On the mountain route, Gao Wen and his party found the way up the mountain very smoothly.

Amber looked a little worried: "I said... you are going to dig baby in the dark mountains. Let's have four people in total. Don't you think this team is a little hanging?"

Gao Wen glanced at the half-elf: "What do you mean?"

Amber than the stroke: "How to get a team of hundreds of people along the way to guard, a dozen master-level rangers and druids, the front knights open the way, behind the mage, and then a master like a thief like me is responsible for slipping Threshold lock - isn't this the standard configuration of mountain treasure hunt?"

"Standard you!" Gao Wen originally thought that this product has any high opinion, and the result turned out to be nonsense. "Which treasure hunt team is equipped according to the standard of the regular army! And you are easy to say - you give me organization A wave of such a team came out?"

"Well, I am exaggerating, but this is the dark mountains! The dark mountains are smashing!" Amber exaggeratedly waved his arms. "The legend says that every 800 meters live a place of a demon lord! You take three people. Going into the mountains - and one of them will only set fireballs..."

"Do you believe that I can beat you without a fireball!" Rebecca suddenly stunned and picked up his staff and pointed at the amber. "Let you see how powerful the women of Cecil's family are!"

Gao Wen stopped the great granddaughter on the N+1 floor and looked at the amber helplessly: "You will die in this mouth sooner or later. And from where you heard the dark mountain range, live a demon lord every 800 meters? Is it okay for the ignorant villagers to scare the children? The demon lords really have so many of them who have swept Ansu."

As he said, he looked up and looked at the winding mountain road ahead.

"The dark mountains are indeed a dangerous place, but the average person has amplified the danger here too much. In fact, during the Gangbuk Empire, this mountain range is only one of the ordinary northern mountains, and the Gaoling group in the southern part of the mainland. The mountain is also known as the two mountains of the north and the south of Loren. At that time, the dark mountains were not dark at all. On the contrary, because of the richness of the products and the production of various minerals, they had the reputation of 'golden mountains', but unfortunately the magic tide broke out, the dark mountains Just in the strongest part of the elemental storm, the entire southern foothills of the mountains were eroded by elements, forming a horrible black forest, which was gradually called the Dark Mountain.

Gao Wen said what he knows—some of which comes from the memory of his mind, and the other is the knowledge that has recently been added.

“The Black Forest on the opposite side of the mountain is indeed dangerous, but it is located on the south side of the mountain. This mountain is a natural barrier that almost isolates the breath from the wasteland that has been diffused through the magnificent walls. The mutant monsters living in the Black Forest need to rely on the chaotic magic to survive, so they will not leave the Black Forest, let alone cross the ridge, to the north of the mountain where they are suffocating, so the dark mountains The north side is actually quite safe."

There is not much vegetation coverage on this route chosen by Gao Wen, but from time to time I can see some of the trees and the vines that spread from the roadside. These plants that grow stubbornly in the dark mountain range are more or less It will also be affected by some wastefulness - it is the trace of the "elemental wind" (that is, the unclean wind in the mouth of the Viscount of Anderson) that flows from the south along the airstream every year, in the influence of the power of chaos Under the plant, the plants appear distorted and extremely thick, and there are quite a few horrible meanings.

But Gao Wen is very clear, except that the appearance looks a little scary, these things are actually no threat at all, they are just "strong" plants, those who sway in the forest in the north of the dark mountains and go back to People bragging that the aristocratic children who have experienced the experience of the Black Forest are all exaggerating the danger of this land - they do not know what the real Black Forest looks like.

The reason why he can confirm that the pollution in the northern part of the Dark Mountain Range has subsided is not because of the memory in his mind or the information he inquired, but because of the satellite view of the decade ago.

As long as you compare the satellite view with the data in the memory, it is easy to determine that it is actually a safe area.

"People's fear of this is actually only from two points. The first is the fear of the newly-wasted soil. Although the sentinel towers and magnificent walls built by the elves have sealed most of the area of ​​the newly-destroyed waste, but that layer The magic barrier can only isolate 70% of the chaotic magical energy. The corrupting power that permeates from the wasteland every year is the biggest threat in the border areas of the four countries. Even if the aftermath of the magic tide has subsided, the border people have accumulated for generations. Fear and stress will not dissipate so quickly—the horror talks in these border areas have been circulating for seven hundred years and have long since become part of traditional culture,” Gao Wen said as he slashed the roadblocks along the way. "The second... is the fear of the unknown."

"Unknown?" Amber frowned and asked.

“Yes, unknown. How many years has the Ansu Kingdom stopped the development of the South?”

The answer is Rebecca: "If you start from the signing of the order to stop development, for more than two hundred years, if you withdraw from all the pioneering settlements, one hundred years."

"Yes, it’s also a hundred years. It’s been forbidden for a whole hundred years. Except those who go back and brag. The 'explorer' forced no one to dare to get close to this place. People know what it is like. They can only learn about this place from the horror stories and adventures that have been circulated among generations. How can they not fear?"

Listening to Gao Wen’s big string of science, Amber finally breathed a sigh of relief: “Call... That’s why the horror stories of the Dark Mountains are blown out. In fact, are we safe here?”

Gao Wen thought about it and suddenly showed a very scary expression close to the half-elf lady: "In fact, I lied to you - this place is a dangerous and chaotic horrible, and there is a demon lord every 800 meters."

Amber: "...咿唔唔咿!!"

"Returning the thief-level thief, shameless," Gao Wen smiled with satisfaction, raised his hand and patted Rebecca’s head next to him, and pointed to a tree trunk that fell to the ground not far away. "Your fireball There is a place for the technique - to blow up the stuff. If I remember correctly, the front is."

Rebecca waited for a long time, and immediately nodded happily. Lifting the staff was a big fireball that flew straight ahead.

I always feel that this girl is calling the fireball faster than before...

"boom--"

After a loud bang, the fireball burst open, and the decaying and fragile trunk was blown off, and the two pieces that became unbalanced rolled down the hillside, and the road ahead suddenly became clear.

An open place hidden in the mountains is presented in front of everyone.

This open area seems to have been deliberately flattened, and the rock has been cut into an incredibly neat shape. Between the rocks, you can see the ancient arches and the collapsed wall barriers. They are like "inlaid" with the mountain. Between the huge cliffs of the mountains and rocks, it even gives the illusion that there was once a magnificent fortress that was swallowed up by the surrounding stones.

But in reality, this ancient relic is built inside the mountain itself, and about two-thirds of its structure is hidden behind the stone wall.

Whether it’s a non-stop amber along the way, or a Rebecca who has been listening carefully to his ancestors, or a Byron knight who is guarded by God, when he sees this ancient ruins hidden in the mountains, he can’t help but Open your eyes.

They watched the incredible ancient ruins in amazement.

Gao Wen’s line of sight swam around and suddenly stopped by a collapsed gravel.

He came to the gravel pile, and there was a dark piece of stone on the stone pile that almost could not see the original appearance. After careful identification for a long time, he saw that it was a serious rust and decay. Broken sword.

On the ground beside the stone pile, you can see a line of nicks, so the nicks are so deep that it is still clearly identifiable after seven hundred years of weathering: 16 squadron, Cole sleeps here.

Rebecca’s voice came from behind: “What is this...?”

"When the team crossed the Baishui River, they encountered chasing troops. The 16th squadron was responsible for the back of the temple. No one was still alive," Gao Wen said slowly. "It should be the last surviving soldier who withdrew to this place without a hope of breaking through. It is a pity. ... At that time, the magic tide was raging, and the dark mountains were covered in the corrupting power. In my lifetime, we failed to recapture this area, and when the magic tide naturally subsided, no one remembered this place..."

The Byron Knight untied his own sword and pressed the sword to his chest to pay tribute to the simple tomb.

The soldiers buried here still have a tomb, and the soldiers who built the tombs and left the marks are hard to find even the slightest traces.

Gao Wen quieted for a moment before the grave, then picked up a piece of gravel from the side and pressed it on top of the pile of stones: "Don't worry, everyone is alive."

At this moment, he hopes that he will say this in the words of Gavin Cecil, not the singer Gao Wen.

Then he went to the arch not far away: "Come with me, I will show you what your ancestors had left here."