The sound of horses' hooves echoed in the empty valley, and at the end of January everything was revived, and in the silent woods, the dark brown branches of the trees were growing bright green shoots, and what appeared before Gross's eyes was a mottled shadow in his field of vision—

The soft light of the setting sun passed through the layers of gaps in the forest, sprinkled on the pointed little nose of the girl beside him, reflecting a bright and lovely white point of light, he turned his head to look at the girl beside him, and his face couldn't help but show a gentle smile.

In the evening, the mountains and forests were silent, and Gross's team of six traveled along an uninhabited mountain and forest path, which was quite tortuous and dangerous, but fortunately Gross had walked this path more than once in his previous life, so there were no accidents-

He had already removed the heavy armor and placed it on the pack horse, and when the cold evening breeze blew, he couldn't help but feel a chill as the sweat-soaked shirt clung to his back.

The girl's red hunting outfit looks a little thin. He quickly untied his cloak and gently draped it over the girl's body—

The girl did not say any refusal, a pair of crystal clear lake-blue eyes raised her head and stared at his face seriously, for a long time, but did not say a word.

It's not that there is nothing to say between the two, it's just that the words to be said have been passed in the intertwined sights.

The four eyes are facing each other, and the pulse is affectionate.

"Ahem—"

Oliver couldn't help but clench his fist under his nose and cough, this blatant sprinkling of dog food was so bad that he, Scott, Levine, and Redder didn't want to see it and turned their heads—

Until the road ahead suddenly cut off, the scene in front of me changed to a lush mountain landscape and a patch of orange lights in the shadow of the mountains in the distance.

"Boss, according to the map display, it seems that there is Hualu Village."

Levine took this opportunity to break the somewhat awkward and silent atmosphere-

He looked at Gross, who nodded. This place is the highest point of the road leading to Hualu Village in the mountains, and it is also the most precipitous, with a steep axe-like wall on one side and dark rust-colored stone moss growing on it, and on the other side, a cliff with no bottom in sight.

Several people quickly drove their horses past this cliff, and looked down from afar on horseback, and suddenly made people feel dizzy-

At the end of January, the sky was already full of stars, but the boundless darkness under the cliffs was like thick ink, and one could not help but feel instinctive fear and fear.

Gross held his breath.

He pulled out a delicate pocket watch, which Ladia gave him in return for receiving the necklace "Call of the Wild" -

Since that day, the two seem to have broken the barrier between each other, and the relationship has become more and more intimate. According to the tradition of the Elantra Kingdom, the necklace hanging on the girl's pink neck and the pocket watch in his hand were already considered a token of their exchange.

The hands on the silver dial are heading towards seven o'clock –

In less than two hours, they had not only dealt with the undead in the small town of Faun, but had also made a hurried journey all the way here, which was almost an incredible speed of travel. Of course, because Gross had a prescient advantage over this historical episode in the game, they chose the shortest path.

"The stone!"

Turning the corner, Oliver saw the boulder on the side of the road. Two-thirds of it was in the middle of the road, turning the not too wide road into a narrow and cramped path, while the other third hung empty, looking crumbling—

Just one glance, Oliver couldn't help but mutter: what a fierce and spectacular scene it would be if this boulder rolled down.

As if they were of the same mind, they stopped the horse's hooves by holding the reins beside the boulder.

The stone, the size of a farmer's thatched house, appeared on the edge of a cliff in the mountain pass, and was unusually abrupt and eye-catching—Gross placed a palm on the surface of the boulder and stroked it gently.

He didn't try to push this boulder, even as an Awakened First-Order Steel Heart Flow Warrior, he didn't have such a whimsical idea-

This boulder is very famous in the game, and as a dead thing, it even has its own name, and as soon as his finger touches the stone, the system will give a hint just like in memory:

"Seal Akalinte's Runic Mark VII."

Akalint was the chief court mage of the Arlandia Empire during the Thorn Dynasty, according to some records and folk legends, this mage held the power of the sage in his heyday, and once defeated a raging black dragon in the nameless valley of the Northland, and after the dragon was wounded, seeing that he was defeated by the mage master, he fled and returned to his hometown.

The dark world underground, the mysterious country known as Negan.

Later, while searching in the Nameless Valley, the sage mage Akarint discovered a cave that happened to have a permanent two-way teleportation point in the depths of the cave that led to Negan in the underworld-

In order to prevent the evil creatures of the black dragon and Negan from coming out to do evil, the sage mage Akalint laid a huge circle in this nameless valley -

Strictly by definition, it may not be appropriate to call it a circle, because it does not rely on any source of mana to operate, but relies on its own arrangement to fit the origin laws of the world, creating a strong enough barrier in this vast land to cut Negan off from the surface.

"It's a runestone."

Gross said lightly. Oliver, Scott, Levine, and Redder "Redbeard" don't know what to say, so they just look at Gross in a daze. The girl on the side, Miss Mage, Ladia, had wide eyes, and she stretched out her little hand, following the example of Gross, and touched the surface of the boulder.

"Runestone? Mr. Gross, are there such large pieces of runestone? ”

She asked curiously—

As one of the main materials for restraining magic and laying the nodes of the magic circle, rune stones are often only the size of a fingernail, like this whole piece of complete rune stone that is more than three meters high and about five to seven meters long and wide, she has never seen it in her life.

Even in Bracada, the home of the mage, there is no such huge runestone as it is.

Gross nodded.

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