Chapter 66: The Ancient City Changes

The main city of Acacia had collapsed into rubble and debris, crumbling into a charred skeleton.

The two of them climbed over the former city wall without much difficulty, and now it has no edges and corners, just a pile of ruins and dirt slopes.

These walls had only been built up only recently before they were destroyed in the war.

Speaking of which, this is not the first time that the walls of Acacia have been torn down.

In the days before the Governing Council was born and the Mage King still existed, Acacia had its own walls. However, it was overthrown by the army of the Sun Empress Shurima and became a vassal state of Shurima.

For more than a thousand years, Acacia was not allowed to recycle rubble or rebuild its walls.

Knowing that the uprising had taken place, it was only when masonry, laborers, and magicians were organized to rebuild the walls.

But who would have thought that this wall would be destroyed again by the force they had unleashed.

Keisha stepped on the ruins, feeling her feet suddenly flip up like a seesaw.

She quickly jumped out of the way, only to find a mechanism exposed in place after the sand and gravel had fallen.

Kane walked over and looked at it, roughly starting with the structure.

"It's like a magic-induced winch machine, and the Eccians use it to send huge amounts of mined granite high into the air to build a wall."

Keisha, who was born in a mountain village, has too little knowledge, and Kane will try to explain to her when he encounters something he knows.

"Shurima doesn't have that kind of technology anymore." Keisha couldn't help but sigh.

"Originally, there were, but it wasn't passed down. Aside from that, that's another story. Kane shook his head, staking his surroundings with his consciousness and walking towards the city.

The Void had completely destroyed the city, and as far as the eye could see, there was only ruins and broken tiles, and not a single intact building could be seen.

The clods of earth and sand that spewed out from the shaking of the earth flooded everything, and everywhere there were traces of the void breaking through the earth.

Kane didn't expect that there would be an abyss in the city, and there were quite a few of them.

When he found the dark purple lake exposed to the sky, black and purple eyes had been precipitated inside.

Translucent limbs burst out of the sea of madness, twisting and rolling into the sky like the tentacles of a giant sea monster.

These things look like soft, pale fibros, but as they come into contact with the air, they harden and harden, forming chitin-like carapaces.

Kane knew exactly what it was, because he had it in him.

It's the Dark Condensation Armor, something that Void creatures use to protect their fragile hearts.

It stands to reason that while the Dark Condensation Armor has not yet formed, it is feasible to break the heart of the monster first.

However, when the abyss breeds monsters, it will only put them in the heart at the end, which completely eliminates the possibility of monsters being strangled in the cradle.

Moreover, the more you kill them, the more and stronger they will come next time.

It's as if the Void is absorbing lessons and constantly evolving.

So Kane didn't say a word and ran away with Keisha, and before the monster had evolved the ability to move, the farther away he could, the better.

Strangely, not only did they not find any tunnels where they could hide from the giant void creatures, but they also triggered more abysses, and many deformed monsters poured out of the abyss everywhere, squirming together and surrounding the two of them from all sides.

Kane had no choice but to take to the sky with his arms around Kesha's waist and escape from this strange city from the air.

The clouds over Acacia were low, and Kane flew like a lightning bolt, each lightning bolt feeling close at hand, and his heartstrings could snap at any moment.

While escaping the city, Kane discovers that the tentacles that stretched out from the abyss had formed into a large, deformed monster no less in size than the one he had seen earlier.

Its form cannot be accurately described, like a patchwork of tentacles. Pale fibrous bands are arranged in a DNA-like double helix structure, macroscopically forming several spiral-shaped tentacles.

The huge torso resembles three downward tentacles, two in front and one in the back, and the head and tail extend together above the torso, like an arched bridge.

The monster was draped in a dull chitin carapace, leaking out neatly arranged gaps like shutters, and a shimmering pulsating heart peeked a vicious purple light through the cracks in the carapace.

Kane wondered how the skeletonless giant creature was going to walk, and the beast alternately stabbed its three tentacles into the earth and headed toward them.

It's not slow!

Kane didn't know what it was called, but felt that its deformed form was like an indescribable existence in the Cthulhu mythos, and just looking at it would make you feel mentally polluted.

Clusters of eyes cracked from its massive black visor, emitting a warm purple glow that made him shudder.

Seeing this, he hurriedly increased his flight speed and fled at full speed from this strange behemoth.

"Kane, look there!"

Suddenly, Keisha pointed to somewhere in the city.

At first glance, it looks like it's just a pile of ruins.

However, Kane noticed that Keisha was not wearing a helmet and took it off.

Then he saw with the human eye where Keisha was pointing, and suddenly a building appeared!

It was a white tower, intact and standing in the ruins.

It is a miracle that the terrible catastrophe did not collapse, but even the erosion of more than 3,000 years has not left a trace of destruction on the tower, which must be abnormal.

What's more, this is Acacia, where hungry beasts are infested! How did this building survive under the nose of the Void?

Kane thought of something and said to Keisha, "Let's find a way to get rid of this beast tide first, and then we can explore the tower." ”

Where to come out and where to go back.

Kane made his way back underground through a hole in the battlefield, and the large, monstrous tentacle monster couldn't follow them underground.

But soon, he discovers that things are not so simple.

As they walked through the underground tunnels, a sense of crisis loomed over Kane's head.

Something is approaching, from top to bottom, at a fast pace.

Fifty meters......

Thirty meters......

10 meters ......

Bad?!

Kane pounced on Keisha without warning.

The next moment, a huge drill fell from the sky where they had been standing before!

The rubble collapsed and was slapped away by Kane with a wave of his arm. Looking at the huge spiral-shaped tentacle that filled the tunnel, they instantly understood what was attacking them!

"Run, go deep underground!"

The two of them got up in embarrassment, and before they could take two steps, another tentacle fell from the sky and penetrated the underground tunnel. The force of the impact sent them flying and nearly falling to the ground again.

Kane didn't know how the monster had seen them both through the ground, the first tentacle had retracted, but the void it had left had opened the door to the underground.

The tide of Void Beasts on the ground poured into the underground tunnels along these holes, chasing after the two of them.

Now Kane not only has to beware of tentacles that may fall at any moment, but he also has to make sure that he is not going the wrong way, otherwise he will end up at a dead end, or go to a path blocked by void creatures.

In the end, he was either besieged to death by the trap, or he was chased and crushed to death by the tentacles.