After a day of wandering around Del Cora, the three-man team stopped at what appeared to be a man-made artifact.

In front of him, there was still a pair of leopard bones, but there were several ribs missing on his body, his leg bones were broken, and the bone stubble was clearly protruding from the outside, barely sticking together by relying on purple energy - it's just that the purple energy that was originally all over its body and visible to the naked eye was almost invisible, and the originally tightly knit skeleton was also much looser, and it looked crumbling.

"Uh...... I still want to ask, what the hell did you do?" Satya looked strange, "You should be following you...... Did you fight those Nightblade Leopards?"

"I don't want to admit it - it's a question about my level of undead magic!" Delkora sneered, but then deflated, "I underestimated how sensitive the Nightblade Leopard is to the Shadows...... My tracking was discovered from the very beginning. So I literally manipulated it to fight the Nightblade Panther...... More than one. We fought for a long time—almost seven hours—until the pack of Nightbladed leopards lost patience and hid back in their lair. I guessed right, there are elven ruins near their lair. ”

"I can't even imagine how those Nightblade leopards got through for seven hours......," Arthas muttered to himself, "if I had been chased by it for seven hours...... I'm afraid I'm going to go crazy......"

"Ah, this ...... Actually, it was an accident," Delkora scratched her head, "The only thing the Nightblade Leopard is good at is the wind and shadow abilities, and the wind magic is very ineffective against bone creation, and the undead are immune to shadow spells...... These wounds were left from hand-to-hand combat, and then the Nightblade Leopards stopped fighting me in close combat, and ran when they saw me, and it took me a long time to find their traces......"

Satya: "......"

Assas: "......"

Well, so be it, nothing.

The weed-strewn wilderness looks like it looks like it rests on. It is only when the wind blows through the grass that the buried things can be faintly seen: broken and weathered bricks, compacted, sparsely bladed foundations, and other strange things that are no longer recognizable—those things are undoubtedly man-made, but they have lost their original form by the wind and sun for some time, and they have not completely weathered and disappeared only because of their solid material.

"An elven village, or an outpost?" Assas picked up a broken brick, "ordinary laterite bricks, no signs of magical reinforcement...... But it shouldn't. ”

How could there be a Nightblade Leopard in an ordinary elven village?

"There's nothing anomalous, this ruin is the size of an ordinary village," Satya said from her exploration, "it's just one of those very ordinary little villages. There was no remnant of any magical energy, and there was no trace of a magic circle being drawn - which was strange given that most elven villages had forest shelter circles. ”

"Because there's no forest here, and it's not suitable for forest growth," Delkora said, gesturing around, "After all, elves just like the environment of the forest, not that they can't live without it—I see." ”

"What?" Assas glanced up at him.

"I know what this place is...... Del Colamo rubbed his chin, "On the eve of the Second Pan-Continental War, the Thorns used to colonize and expand their borders, establishing numerous elven settlements in the Great Plains and around Sauvis. The Thorns wanted to use this as a base to gradually control the Great Plains, but the relocated Silver Elves were so unhappy that less than a third of the way through the work, the Elven Civil War broke out - maybe this was one of the colonies?"

"You're not done yet, Del Kora," Satya looked at him, "you still haven't explained why there are Nightblade Leopards here—Nightblade Knights are high-ranking troops and can't be sent on missions like colonial expansion. ”

"Maybe it's some of the exiled Nightblade Knight squad—well, kidding, I know it's impossible. Delkora shrugged, her staff pointing at the ground, "Maybe this is really just a colonist's forward base on the ground, but a lot of things don't necessarily exist on the ground, do they—camouflage with things that can be found everywhere to hide what really needs to be kept secret." This is a truth that children understand. ”

"You mean underground?" Assas frowned, "I can't sense anything. ”

"Yes, I don't feel anything. "Actually, if I hadn't followed those Nightblade leopards all the way to their lair, I probably wouldn't have discovered that there's actually something underground—"

He raised the Sage Scales Water Gift in his hand, and the water elemental began to gather towards him.

"The condensed water reflects the memory in my heart, reproduces the reality that already exists, and condenses!

He stretched out his hand, and the water elemental condensed into a shimmering curtain of water at the tip of his staff. After a moment of flickering, a clear sight began to appear on the water curtain—

The vision is shaking, and it looks like the owner of this view is running wild. At the very end of his line of sight, a few black dots could be faintly seen—a little familiar.

It's a bit like a Nightblade Panther.

The perspective kept changing, but the group of Nightblade Leopards stayed in sight, and the two sides didn't know how long they were chasing, and suddenly at a certain moment, the Nightblade Leopards in their field of vision suddenly disappeared.

Suddenly disappeared without warning.

It can be seen that the owner of the perspective hesitated, but still did not slow down, and ran towards the place where the Nightblade leopards disappeared - and then, as soon as the picture flickered, there was suddenly a downward cave in the field of vision, and the stairs extended to the deepest part.

It is clear that this was excavated by hand.

"Was that an illusion just now?" Assas noticed the moment the picture flickered, "Phantom Array?"

"Before the theory of the magic sequence was proposed, maintaining such a large illusion magic array was not something that could be done casually," Delcora's tone was a little strange, "You say, what exactly did we find?"

“...... Let's see. We should not prejudge before we conduct a field visit. Assas said.

Delkora was noncommittal, disarming the Water Mirror and putting away his staff, and the three of them headed towards the place covered by the illusion in his memory.

It wasn't too far from the ruins, and even the three of them had just passed by, but no one noticed anything unusual - and it was only after walking back that the three of them suddenly realized that they had subconsciously ignored this place.

"The defensive circle here has the effect of a spiritual suggestion, not strong, it is just for the ignorant to ignore this place - as long as there is a clear destination or a conspicuous target, it can easily break through this suggestion, as it is now. Del Cora said, picking up a stone and throwing it at it, the stone suddenly disappeared in mid-air, and the unreasonable sight caught the attention of the two of them, and the mental suggestion was debunked.

After passing through the non-existent "barrier", the hole was revealed to the three of them. Satya and Assas drew their weapons to guard their weapons, while Del Cola concentrated on manipulating the already battered undead and cautiously walked down the steps.

One-step...... Two-step ...... Three-step ......

It wasn't too long, and the winding staircase had come to an end. At the end is a metal door with a rather elven style, carved with complicated patterns - these patterns are not all useless decorations, in the history of the elves, there was a certain family that created its own way of drawing the magic circle, with complex and gorgeous patterns, wood grain instead of the traditional dotted line surface, six-pointed star and five-pointed star drawing method, so that the aesthetic concept of the magic circle rose more than one level-

In this family, the coat of arms is a bunch of thorns.

Delkora opened her eyes, rubbed her chin, and didn't speak for a long time.

"What's wrong?" Assas looked at him, "what did you find?"

“...... It was expected, but it was still a bit of a surprise," Delkora thought for a moment, "Is it really the base of the Thorn Family?"

"The Thorn Family, the Elven Ruler Family a thousand years ago, the last Golden Elf?" asked Satya, "and this place is at least a thousand years old, and it can still be intact?"

"Good is not necessarily ...... If we really keep it intact, I don't think we'll be able to get in. "And I manipulated the undead to enter without being attacked...... Theoretically, it is impossible to identify it by any friend or foe, so there is only one possibility that it will not be attacked, and that is that the defenses inside are really damaged due to disrepair. After all, it's been more than a thousand years. ”

The built-in defense system of a building is a complex thing, whether it is powered by gunpowder or magic, it needs to be maintained from time to time, and if it is not maintained for more than a thousand years, failure is inevitable. However, the large magic array on the outside does not have this problem, although it will continue to weaken, but as long as the core magic items that maintain the magic array are strong enough, and the foundation stone of the inscribed runes is hard enough, it can last for a long time.

"That's a good thing...... For us. Satya put away her dagger, "Are you sure the Nightblade Leopards won't pop up behind us?"

"I'm sure, because this isn't the Nightblade Leopard's lair, in fact their den is further away - they're here just to get rid of me," Delkora said voluntarily, "Arthas, a little light!

"Use your own fireball technique. Assas put his sword back behind his back, "Respect the Light, no matter what. ”

"I respect it and that doesn't stop me from taking advantage of it...... This does not conflict. Delkora retorted as she held up a small fireball, "God knows if the fluctuations of the elements will cause us any trouble...... Well, it doesn't look like it. ”

The three of them descended the steps and stopped at the gate.

It's the structure of a door, but there are no gaps, locks, or handles, and the whole door fits as if it were painted on the wall. There is an intricate pattern on the door, along which you can feel a clear flow of elements - faint but still there.

"Ah...... It needs to be unlocked. Delcora scratched her hair, "I don't like the magic stuff...... It's useless except for bells and whistles, and it's especially cumbersome to crack......"

He put away his staff, pulled out a magnifying glass from the spatial ring, and began to carefully observe the veins of the magic pattern.

"Take a break, Assas, we've got to wait. Satya shook her head and sat down somewhere.

"I think so. ”