[Road to the Sun] 06: Sand Mirage

The endless desert unfolds before your eyes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The wind is up.

The yellow sand raised the illusion of the ancients, and the Reginad stood still for a long time, staring at the incredible sight.

In the steaming air, the ancient city looms deep in the desert.

Towering mountain-like walls keep the wind and sand out, like a guardian giant surrounding the temple, protecting this city of wonders with its tall body and strong arms.

This is a hand-carved wall, and the traces of the craftsman are obvious and atmospheric, and the ingenuity is amazing.

Yellow sand is the most common material in deserts, and they flow like water on the surface under the raging winds. The rock formations of the lower plate are also tightly bonded together by yellow sand, weathered to become hard and flat, like the contours of rock.

The city is as high as the sand rock beneath your feet, and the sand is still dry and hard underfoot, but the city in the distance is an oasis, and the sand city is dotted with lush green trees.

At the very top of the city, the yellow sand is drawn upwards from the left and right ends, like a pair of hands holding up holy relics, which are miraculously suspended in the heights, it has no support, a round of sun disks cast in gold.

A miracle in the desert, the disk of the corona.

Reginald stepped on the wind-blown sand of the rock formations and came to the edge of the "outer wall". only to find out that this is actually not a wall at all.

The city, the facades, were all excavated from a vast sea of sand, and they dug out the parts they didn't need, and cemented the parts that needed to be kept into gravel formations, and he stood on the edge, his white robes blown to the sound of hunting and dancing in the wind.

This is a huge hollow carved out of the Yellow Sand Empire, and the city becomes an isolated island in the center of this hollow, the wind and sand cannot cross such a distance, but can only flow into the artificial abyss, and he notices that the longitudinal side of the "wall" has carved out numerous ditches to the bottom of the abyss, where the common people live, like a village around the city.

It is not credible to say that these ditches were meant to prevent the yellow sand from the desert from scattering, and it is difficult for the vertical ditches to hold the light sand into them, and they do not only appear on the longitudinal surface of the inner side of the wall, they are like spider webs, distributed on the ground at the bottom of the abyss, and then densely climb up to the central city, all the way to the lines on the huge hands holding the disk of the corona.

It seems to be ...... A huge magic circle.

He heard a shrill whistle rise from the city, followed by a loud sink, which came from the sinkhole beneath the city, and between the twin carvings of the sun's rings, clear water flowed. The waterfall falls to the bottom of the abyss, where there is a pool of water for civilian use, which flows through a ditch in the ground to the more marginal farmland. Between the rising water vapor and falling into the water, there are birds wandering and making loud calls.

What a city of wonders.

The kingdom of the gods, Shurima.

Figures of all sorts passed him, and the merchants rode bizarrely-shaped oxen, with a coyote-like back and extremely long legs, and the merchants sat on its short, flat neck, and the goods were hung by thick ropes through its bowed back.

Reginard knew they were all phantoms, and they couldn't see him, but walked slowly toward the golden corona, like a bunch of soulless walking flesh.

In the center of the city is bustling, three-dimensional, with merchants sitting on the side of the road, tapestry blankets full of goods, and trees in front of each building.

If it is true that the excavation of this city is to complete the huge magic array, then the center of the magic array is here.

He walked along the ditch, along a certain line of the magic circle to the end, and the city faded away, and he entered the thick palace walls, the patterns still guiding him, they stretched densely to the top of the stone steps, and the temple and palace were lined up on both sides, as if to make way for the end of the stone steps.

At the top of the stone steps, there stood a man, dressed in rich robes, holding a scepter, and the Nemes headdress behind his head resembling the broad head of a cobra. Soldiers in golden armor made of sand stood on either side, and men in priestly robes stood beside him, hands folded in front of him.

"The Ascension Ceremony is ready, my master." The priest spoke, and he had gloomy vulture eyes, not the eyes of a priest who could see through gods and mortals.

"Good." The man took off his voluminous robe, took off his cobra-like headdress, took the mask of a bird's head from the slave, and put it on his cheek.

He stood at the very top, below the golden sun wheel, time passed the light, the golden color flowed little by little on his toned chest, he raised his scepter, and the soldiers knelt down as if to welcome a newborn god.

The High Priest laughed, and in his grim smile it seemed as if a cold viper was winding its way up. What's even more terrifying is that Reginard finds him looking at him.

It was as if I had penetrated thousands of years and seen him, the spectator who was watching the phantom.

Reginad noticed that in the deep socket of the eye, there was a pupil that leaked out of the purple magic array.

It's like a pupil technique that can see through the future.

"Let's go!" A woman's voice appeared beside him, and when he saw the woman, he was amazed that she was Ivany.

Light makeup and eye shadow, delicate in the desert wind and sand, the person here has a rough silhouette brought by the wind and sand, the skin is rough and red, she is like a princess who accidentally broke into this place.

"Why are you here?" He asked, following the girl's flowing red dress and running out.

"Don't worry about a guy like you." The girl replied bitterly and helplessly.

The yellow sand began to crumble, and the solid sand and stone slabs turned into quicksand, engulfing the city, and the wind element wrapped around Reginald's body, but no matter how fast they ran, they couldn't escape this artificial abyss-

At the moment it is like a well-built tomb, with no exit, and the quicksand that melts like ice and snow will bury everything in the abyss.

He ran after her to the edge, something that had built the city had collapsed, and everything was moving rapidly towards destruction. At the foot of the city is the end of the central city, and the sun-patterned water outlet below is still erupting with clear spring water, and I don't know that this place has fallen into the end of destruction.

"Let's jump." She said.

The yellow sand rumbled high behind him, the water fell below, and in the deafening voice, he heard her say to him.

"The water source in the desert must be connected to the underground river, so I don't need to teach you about this kind of thing, do I?" Ivani said with a smile.

The hustle and bustle behind him grew louder and louder.

Ivani turned, smiled, and suddenly leaned back, falling into the flowing water, and Reginard jumped down, and the two grabbed the edge of the sun pattern at the outlet, and the gushing water continued to hit their bodies.

Reginard blushed a little as he looked at the faintly revealing female silhouette in Ivany's soaked dress.

"Alright, we'll have to swim against the current."

The water rained down on his face, and he leaped into the rushing torrent, the water engulfing his entire body, the chill piercing his skin and waking him up......