Chapter 15: The Ruins
The ruins of the island of Brionia, something like a castle.
Maybe it's because the ruins are castles, so in order to reflect this atmosphere, the city was deliberately built to be the same as a medieval city?
The Sun Fortress in Crossbell is also a castle-like building, but the ruins of Brionia are too dilapidated in comparison.
It seems to have been the site of a terrible battle, with ruins everywhere, walls and ceilings, huge holes and collapsed holes left by the huge blades. The fracture had long been covered with moss, and it was clearly not a new scar that had been artificially added recently.
Next to the walls of the castle stood a heavily weathered statue, vaguely recognizable as humans dressed in knightly armor, in various postures, holding swords high, holding war hammers, raising shields for defense, and drawing bows and arrows. The forms are different, and you can vaguely see the style of the year. I think it's to commemorate the soldiers who made meritorious contributions on the battlefield. It's just that most of the statues have been destroyed, with severed heads, severed waists, some have been smashed on the ground, and some have only their feet left.
Moreover, because of the previous deep-sea demonic beasts, this place has just experienced a "big war" in another sense. The chaotic footprints of people, the boxes scattered all over the place, the trampled rice balls and sandwiches, the history books and mythological books, no matter how you look at them, are all traces caused by the departure of scholars who had taken refuge in a panic.
It's really, it's not like it's panicked.
You shrugged his shoulders, and laughed out loud as he thought about the panic of the people rushing out, and the scene of the four students trying to clear it to no avail.
However, it is indeed relatively easy to escape here. After all, there were already many cracks in the walls. The most common problem with emergency evacuation is that there is only one exit and everyone is crowded. There are a lot of escape exits here, just find a hole to get out.
Like many medieval castles, it has a complex structure and a multi-level structure, and you can find two paths up and down the stairs with a simple detour.
Thinking about these things, he walked to the basement and sprinkled special white Qiyao stone powder in four corners of the extremely damp ruins.
Then he stood in the center, directing the qi veins of the earth to flow to it.
Sure enough, the white powder at the corners was a deep blue. There is not a single impurity.
You rummaged through it, hoping to find some other colors, but couldn't find anything.
Well, sure enough, it wasn't by chance that the previous deep-sea demonic beasts were attracted over.
Maybe this is not the other party's purpose, but it is indeed because of someone's actions that the Warcraft was allowed to come.
There are seven veins in all things in the world, and depending on the environment, the activity of the seven veins varies from place to place. The water attribute is active, and it is basically along the river and coast, or in places with abundant rainfall. And now that he is in the basement, even if it is a coast, it is impossible for a little land attribute to penetrate in. None of the Amber Veins, which symbolize the attributes of the earth, have been contaminated with the powder at all. That's enough to say something unusual.
For example, it's like seeing a flame that isn't burning. Uncanny.
Someone tampered with the flow of the local Qiyao vein, and, in order not to let people see it, they also deliberately faked a state of water attribute fullness. You Tatsumi was deceived because of this.
Because this is a coastal area, I don't think much about it when I see the abundance of water attributes.
Thinking of this, You resolutely returned to the hall on the first floor and carefully examined the footprints.
This is the castle, which was intended to demonstrate power and cope with battles. Naturally, there won't be too many entrances. Even if you want to invade through the ruins, you will have to pass by the first floor.
Sure enough, among the trampled footprints, he found some strange footprints.
The shape is weird. It wasn't a common sneaker or cloth shoe, the toe was very sharp, and the top, middle and bottom were divided into three parts...... These are the footprints of metal boots.
And it was heavily stepped on.
The ruins here have long been fragile due to the perennial wind and sun, and the floors with these footprints are basically broken. It can be seen that the person who stepped on this line of footprints was wearing very heavy armor or holding a very heavy weapon, in short, a lot of weight.
I see. That would explain it.
Someone was afraid that he had invaded this place and then done something, and in order to cover up this fact, he changed the flow of the Qiyao veins here. What is it that needs to cover the flow of the Seven Jewels? There was no doubt that he must have tampered with the Qiyao Vein, in order to achieve something.
Because of the abundant water here, it will naturally attract shallow sea fish, and then because the food chain shifts layer by layer, the deep-sea monster is finally fished all the way to the shore.
Although he was unintentional, in terms of the result, it was he who caused the incident.
Then, I began to investigate it carefully.
The footprints are not to be found on the second floor. Well, I'm afraid it's underground.
Swimming underground, he held up a fire fold, almost crawling, and looked closely at the ground.
Sure enough, although the footprints had been stepped on for quite some time, and there were other people's footprints mixed with them, the footprints of the sharp knight's boots appeared again. This can't be a scholar.
Knight's boots are made of metal, and it is easy to know who is heavier than shoes made of leather and fabric. Scholars don't wear anything like this that would drain their physical strength for no reason, and walking in metal boots will definitely have a crackling sound, which will disturb the scholar's train of thought.
It is definitely not a consort army, because the consort army here has always acted in groups, and the equipment of the consort army seems to be very heavy metal armor, but in fact, it is a special lightweight material, and the buoyancy is very large, because this is a coastal city, and there are many situations that require the army to be launched, so the lord deliberately customized high-buoyancy lightweight materials to make decorative armor. The several confederate armies that were swept away by the flood before were not drowned in the ocean because of it.
Lightweight armor, combined with the weight of an adult, it is not easy to crush the floor.
You followed the footprints and probed, and suddenly felt that the soil under his feet was getting softer and softer, and the bricks and stones in some places gave him a strange feeling. Someone...... The masonry was dug up, and what was done to the earth?
You carefully compared the surrounding bricks and stones, and sure enough, he found that some of the floor tiles looked to have been turned. When you lift it, it's soft soil. You curiously dug a few times, but at a depth of more than ten miles, dark red traces appeared in the reddish-brown soil.
Really.
And...... Mention of dark red, painted on the ground......
You Chensi unconsciously thought of the time when the Karumon Consortium was cleaning up the demonic beasts...... That strange magic array that summons demons.
Don't...... Same thing this time?
You didn't dare to move, so she filled them in as they were, and continued to search. (To be continued.) )