April 7, 5th year of the federal calendar

I was attacked by a jailer in the Red Rock Plain, and he stared at me with a crazy face, muttering incessantly, "You are not a Rolander......", "The prophecy has come true...... "The world will be destroyed......" and other inexplicable words. He was so badly injured that I couldn't save him, so I had to go back with a mind full of doubts.

I found a diary on the body of the Roland man, which mostly only recorded some daily trivial matters, today I had an argument with so-and-so, and yesterday I dealt with so-and-so case. From his description, it appears that the Eye of Leye was a large and ancient city, and the center of the Roland people's worship of the gods.

I cursoried through the journal, and it wasn't until the last few pages that I found some confidence that I desperately wanted to know. The pages of the diary were scribbled and scarce, apparently scribbled in a hurry. According to the diary, the Jailer and the Negative Xuan are indeed not native to the Underworld, but they suddenly descended on the Eye of Ryer four days ago, destroying the city's defenses without much effort. And the diary records that as a member of the city guard, he fled shamefully. In his diary, he also mentions a prophecy that seems to have been predicted of a catastrophe, but there are so many such predictions that no one has ever taken it seriously.

It was because of the contents of this journal that I was suddenly given a new quest that required me to travel to the Eye of Leyer to find the full text of the prophecy.

I was well aware of how dangerous the Eye of Ryer's city would be, already overrun by monsters, but the growing strength and the agreement I had reached with the Lord of Eagle City, Shengyan, had given me a lot of confidence. Therefore, whether it is Longtan Tiger's Den or not, I have to break through.

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At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Duzi finally arrived at the city he had been pursuing, the Eye of Leiye.

It's a city that amazes players like Dozi. The entire city is built on a hill, starting with the outermost tall wall, and climbing one building after another, until finally the majestic castle at the top of the hill. From a distance, the whole city looks like a huge castle built together, and with the huge pieces of the sky embedded in it, it looks like a magical castle that I heard about in fairy tales as a child.

"Big Library? Looks like a place to find something. "At the entrance to the gates of the Eye of Leyer, Douzi found a map engraved on a large stone tablet detailing the structure of the entire city. It is clear from the map alone that the Roland people are socially classified. The city is divided into three districts from bottom to top, namely the Lower Town, the Middle City and the Upper Town, the lower part of which is densely packed with many houses, the middle city is some of the larger houses, and the upper part of the city includes large libraries, temples and castles.

This also means that if Duqi wants to go to the Great Library to find clues, he must travel through half the city to the Great Library located on the top of the mountain.

"Shhh...... What a city, just ruined. As soon as Du Qi stepped into the city gate, his devastation made him sigh a little distressed. The situation at the Eye of Leyer was worse than Duzi had imagined, many of the buildings were completely destroyed, and burn marks were visible on the rock faces.

At first, Duzi was still looking for survivors, and would go into some intact houses to search. But he soon discovered that such an act was in vain. The city was almost dead after a catastrophe.

Heading west along the street, Duzi encountered several teams of hideous jailers, who did not dare to cause conflict here, and had to take shelter from the buildings, and it took him a long time to reach the end of the street. From here, the road turns south, and the stairs begin to lead up the hill. The staircase forged by the cyan boulder stretches out so far as to be unobstructed, making it almost impossible to walk the distance without being noticed.

In desperation, Duqi had no choice but to burrow into the grove on the side of the road, using his hands and feet to climb the steep dirt slope.

It took about half an hour for Duzi to finally reach the top of the staircase, out of breath. Here, he saw a strangely shaped building. "It looks like a temple, and there are a lot of statues inside." He poked his head out of the grass and cautiously observed the inside of the building.

The Roland people seem to be a race of great worship of gods, although they have only been roughly scanned, but there are no less than fifty temples marked on the map at the city gate. After changing several observation points in succession to make sure that there were no enemies in the temple, Dozi climbed into the building through a low window hole.

The sculptures in the temple are only the size of ordinary watermelons, but there are so many that at least a hundred of them can be seen at a glance. The sculptures range from children and young men and women, middle-aged Confucian to elderly sages, each posing in a different pose, with the only thing in common being dark blue skin and a white feather coat with gold trim.

Just like the sculpture in front of Du Qi's eyes, it should be a veiled young girl from the appearance. The maiden deity landed on one foot, arched with her left leg arched and pressed against her right calf. Her waist twisted to the right, her waist above to the left, her head hanging parallel to the ground. Her right hand is raised high and parallel to the ground, her left arm is pressed against her head, and her arm is down perpendicular to her arm.

"What a strange pose." Du Qi looked at the sculpture in a daze, and an indescribable feeling rose up, making it almost impossible to take his eyes off.

"It's cold...... Hey? A sudden chill woke up Duzi, and he turned his head to look behind him alertly, but he didn't see anything suspicious. Knowing this, he found that the sky had become a little dark, and he unconsciously looked at the sculpture in a daze for a long time.

Du Qi thought of the inexplicable chill again, and seemed to understand it in his heart, but he couldn't figure it out. "Is it a delusion?" He shook his head, trying to put aside the strange thoughts in his mind, and as he tried to step away, he heard a crisp sound. Looking down, it found that the soles of its feet had somehow formed a layer of ice.

"That's not a delusion!" Shocked, he turned his head to look at the sculpture again, "Ice ...... Ice...... Could it be ......" Du Qi's mind jumped out of the words "Frost Blade Flow Swordsmanship".

"When you have enough understanding of the current moves, you can come back to me. Frostblade Flow isn't just as simple as you seem. The words spoken by the martial arts instructor echoed in his ears.

"Legend has it that Bingyu wore plain clothes in a blizzard and stepped on the snow to return. Is it ......?"

Du Qi stared at the sculpture, but it was difficult for him to enter that state of epiphany again, and the vague knowledge he had just realized could not help him understand everything in front of him. So, he simply put the shield into his personal space and practiced those styles of swordsmanship in the temple.

Soon, Duzi knew he had found the right way. Although what he learned from the martial arts hall was only the basic swordsmanship of the twelve moves, it was incomparably in line with the knowledge he had comprehended. He seemed to have fallen into some kind of magical scene, sitting upright on the plain, letting the cold wind howl in his ears, he felt the extreme cold, but the cold did not bring him pain, but the comfort of home.

Du Qi clearly felt that those vague knowledge were gradually becoming clear, and the originally complex and mysterious things were rapidly condensing, and finally turned into a line with only three strokes, if you looked closely, it was very similar to the pose of the sculpture.

"Hahahaha......" Du Qi laughed heartily, with his body as the center, and the two-meter radius was covered with thin ice at this time. A new window appeared in front of his eyes, with the words "Rune Catalog" written on it. There was a table in the window that was very similar in structure to the periodic table, except that the cells were covered in black fog at this time, and the only thing that could be seen clearly was a grid in the fifth row of the third column, and a grid in the seventh row of the sixth column.

Rune-Crystal

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