Chapter 50: The Cavern, the Magic Device

Zero clutched the vines in his hand and stepped on the protruding rocks of the cliff, little by little, climbing towards the enchantment he had perceived earlier.

The sky was getting dark, this cliff was very high, about 700 meters, the bottom of the cliff was a rushing river, he could only try his luck to find that barrier now, if there was no way out of that barrier, then he could only find a way to climb to the bottom of the cliff and follow the current.

"This is it. Zero took advantage of the faint glow of the setting sun to look at a small cavern on the cliff not far from him.

At the entrance of this cave, there is a layer of enchantment, it seems that this enchantment has been set up on this mountain wall for a long time, the effect of the enchantment has been attenuated quite much, Zero can already roughly detect the size of this cave, about 50 cubic meters of volume, not to mention much, but enough for people to stay in it for a night.

Zero took out the pickaxe from the storage ring and hung it around his waist, then the two hands holding the vine tightened, and he stepped on the mountain wall and swung in the direction of the cave. Seeing that before swinging to the entrance of the cave, Zero's body lost its support and began to fall rapidly, he quickly picked up the pickaxe on his waist and reached out to hang it in the crack in the mountain wall at the entrance of the cave.

Zero gasped and looked back at the pitch-black cliff bottom below him, and let out a long breath. Fortunately, in the past few years, I have explored several dangers with Tila in the dense forest of Saling, and I have some rock climbing experience, otherwise it is really not easy to find this cave. With both hands and feet exerting force at the same time, he crawled towards the cave above his head, and when he climbed to the entrance of the cave with difficulty, the sky had completely darkened.

After calming his breath for a moment, Zero began to look at the cavern in front of him. The cavern was pitch black, except for the faint glowing barrier in front of the cave entrance. Zero looked at the wear and tear marks of the stones on the rock wall at the entrance of the cave, and speculated that the cave on the cliff was excavated by hand, and it had been some years.

Zero reached out and unleashed his telekinesis to probe the barrier in front of him. This is a level 21 closed barrier, and the caster is at least a battle mage-level powerhouse. Zero suddenly noticed that there were several crystalline objects at the edge of the connection between the barrier and the stone wall, which seemed to be Warcraft cores, and it seemed that these cores provided energy for this barrier to keep this barrier for so long. The crystals nailed to the stone wall were basically the same shape, and the shape was peculiar, and Zero suddenly realized that this might be a magic storage device.

Zero had learned about magic storage devices during the five years she had been studying with José Ville. In the long years of the Lemotania continent, there are some strange people who want to combine magic and fighting spirit, even the warrior who wields a long sword may envy those magicians who manipulate the magic element, if the magic element can also become a tool to assist the warrior in combat, then the warrior's combat ability will be greatly improved.

Thus, the enchanter profession was born, and they could enchant a special magic circle on the warrior's weapon, and when the warrior wielded the weapon in battle, the magic circle on the weapon cast its corresponding inherent magic. For example, in combat, a warrior can wield an enchanted weapon to unleash thunder, flame, or wind blades. Over time, enchanters became a respectable profession in the minds of warriors who yearned for magical power.

However, the magic enchanted with weapons alone gradually did not satisfy people's yearning for magical power, and magic researchers began to develop methods that could store magic for a long time, and later, various magic storage devices were born. These devices can be used to dispense with the complicated process of chanting spells that magicians need to cast to cast magic, and directly cast fixed magic stored in the device. The Barrier Breaker that Zero used when he escaped from House Crete is a magic storage device that stores magic that can dissolve the barrier.

Magic storage devices were later used in the country's military weapons reserves, and various magic grenades and artillery shells began to be used in warfare, which greatly strengthened the soldiers' individual combat capabilities, but also increased the casualties in the war.

Josevi once told him that magic can lead to the progress of human civilization, and it may also lead to the demise of human civilization. Perhaps one day, in the endless study of magic and the endless greed for power, human beings will create a weapon of mass destruction that can destroy human civilization.

It is very likely that the enchantment in the closed cave in front of Zero is the inherent enchantment cast by the magic storage device, but who exactly carved this cavern into this inaccessible cliff and set up this closed enchantment?

The barrier in front of you is a one-way closed barrier in a looped way. The so-called interlocking enchantment is an enchantment formed by the overlapping of multiple magic formations, which is particularly complex, easy to set up and difficult to dissolve, due to its complicated overlapping steps, generally only the caster of the enchantment knows the method and steps to remove the enchantment. As the name suggests, the meaning of one-way closure is that the enchantment is only for one aspect of the enchantment in the way of closure, which means that the enchantment can only enter but not go out or can only go out but not in.

According to the results perceived by Zero's telekinesis, this enchantment is an enchantment that only enters and exits, and the enchantment array is combined with thunder inscriptions. This means that once you enter an enchantment, unless you unlock the barrier or master the spell to leave the barrier, you will receive a strong electric shock if you want to leave the barrier without permission.

If this enchantment is a new enchantment that has just been laid, then it will take a long time for Zero to unravel it, but this enchantment has been set up on the rock wall for so long, and the inscription on the magic array has decayed quite a lot, and Zero is confident that with his experience in delving into unlocking various large and small magic enchantments in the past few years, he is still quite sure of unlocking the enchantment in front of him, which is already a candle in the wind.

Besides, this barrier was set up less than half a meter away from the cliff, and there was only enough free space to stand in front of the entrance of the cave, so he couldn't just stand on this windswept rock wall all night. Thinking of this, Zero Two took a step forward and stepped through the barrier into the cave without saying a word.

It was getting late, the cave was very dark, he couldn't see his fingers, there was a strong musty smell, he frowned and reached out to fan his nose, and then he took a few steps forward, and reached out and touched the mountain wall. Zero casually pinched a low-level lighting magic of the light system, and an egg-sized ball of light was thrown out of Zero's hand and suspended in mid-air, and with the light, Zero fixed his eyes on the cavern.

Suddenly, a skeleton appeared in Zero's field of vision, and he was so frightened that his hair stood on end, and he screamed in horror and took a step back and sat down on the ground, his whole heart rising to his throat. It's really thrilling for someone like Zero who hasn't been out of the forest to make contact with people in five years, especially since he was chased half-dead by wolves just now.

Patting his chest to soothe himself for a while, the flare suspended above his head was about to go out, and Zero hurriedly threw a larger illumination spell out, he didn't want to be in the dark with the skeleton shelf.

Rising from the ground, Zero began to look at the scene in front of him. The cave is small, and judging by the wear and tear of the rock walls, it seems that the cave was bombarded with martial arts or magic. There are two skeletons lying in the cave, the one that Zero saw at the beginning is lying on the side of the cave, and in the innermost part of the cave, there is also an incomplete skeleton, the reason why this skeleton is incomplete is because the leg bones of the lower body of the skeleton disappeared from the knees, and judging from the flat cut marks of the broken bones, the legs of this person were cut off before his death. And the ribs of this skeleton are broken several times, but in terms of ribs, it is the other skeleton on the side that looks even worse, the ribs of that skeleton are almost all broken, and they should have been broken by a huge external force.

Judging from the various marks on the rock wall, the two men fought fiercely in this small cave before they died, and in the end one of them defeated the other, but the one who finally won also died soon after. This is a life-and-death struggle, and these two people must have had some deep hatred before they were born.

Zero suddenly felt a little confused, and he frowned and looked back at the barrier at the entrance of the cave behind him. If these two people were only fighting each other because of personal grudges, then why did they set up a closed barrier at the entrance of the cave before they died? Could it be that they wanted to hide something? and it is very likely that these two people died together in order to snatch that thing. What is it that can make these two people fight to the death regardless of their own lives? And what exactly does the barrier set at the entrance of the cave mean? If it's just to hide something, then why not set up a completely enclosed barrier?

The more Zero thought about it, the more strange it became, and he raised his hand and pinched a magic ball of light in his hand, and began to search carefully in the cave.

After a while, he found that there was a ring on each of the two skeletons' hand bones, and it seemed that it was the storage ring for the two of them. Zero walked over to the severed rib skeleton and crouched down, carefully removing the ring from the bone of his hand. He unleashed his telekinesis to probe the ring in his hand, and found that there was still a vague air mark on the ring.

The air seal is the mark of a warrior who cultivates Dou Qi to lock his private storage ring. Since the developers of the ancient magic guide discovered the special ore that can open up an independent space, a variety of space magic guides made of Yuan Tuojing as a material have been developed, and mankind has finally gotten rid of the era of heavy loading. Due to the very limited number of Yuantuo Crystal Ore in the whole continent, the manufacturing process and enchantment procedures of the space magic guide are very complicated, so the price of the space magic guide is very expensive, which is a sky-high price for ordinary civilians. Due to the fact that the storage space that can be developed by Najing is proportional to its size, the smaller the volume of Najing, the smaller the volume of the independent space that can be opened up, and the space magic device that is generally made into jewelry such as rings, pendants or bracelets only has a storage space of more than a dozen cubic meters.

Because human beings are born with telekinesis, the most ordinary magic array is something that all humans can do, and the magic array of the space magic guide port closed magic belongs to a very basic ordinary magic array, which is a kind of "template" magic array, which only plays the most basic sealing effect, so that the independent space of the space magic guide will not be exposed. People who have spatial magic guides usually find a way to lock their magic guides and make them exclusive items that only they can open, and the air seal and the reading seal are born. There is a blank space in the center of the magic array of the space magician, that is, the place where the user can install his own air seal or reading seal, as if there is a space on the door for the door lock, and the air seal and reading seal are the "locks" of the space magic guide.

The air seal is the mark of the warrior who uses his fighting spirit to lock the port of the space magic guide and seal the magic, and the principle of action of the reading seal and the air seal is much the same. It is worth mentioning that in the ancient times when magic was not born, human beings had already developed magic guides, and the magic guides at that time were not called magic guides, but mystical guides. Therefore, the Qi Seal is a more ancient method of sealing the magic guide than the Nian Seal, and the Nian Seal is a mark made up by magicians who do not practice Fighting Qi with their mental power after the birth of magic.

In the five years that Zero has been studying with Josevi, he has learned that it seems that humans in ancient times could use both magic and fighting spirit. The people of that era did not have such a clear breakdown between vindictiveness and magic. Ancient humans seem to be able to use a much older power to invoke both fighting energy and magic, but these are no longer verifiable, since the "divine punishment" occurred, the literature on the ancient power system has disappeared, and the topic of how ancient humans used their own power has become a mystery for the entire continent of Limotania.

The storage ring taken from the skeleton on Zero's hand still has a gas mark left, which means that the owner of this storage ring was a peerless powerhouse during his lifetime, because the gas mark left by ordinary soldiers on the space magic guide will quickly dissipate with the death of the owner, and the stronger the strength of the magic guide owner, the more condensed and difficult it is to dissipate the air mark left on the magic guide, and the more difficult it is for outsiders to open the storage space of the magic guide. Like the gas mark on the storage ring on Zero's hand, it has not completely dissipated after many years, and you can imagine how strong the owner of this ring was during his lifetime.

What did the powerhouse with such proud power fight for and die in this cave on the cliff? Zero's heart was full of doubts.