Chapter 4: The Magic City
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With a click, a large tree suddenly collapsed, and the Wisp Knight and I deftly dodged the fallen trunk. A huge spider appeared behind a tree, no smaller than an elephant!
Scott rushed up with the other demon knights, although the spider was big, the level was not high, and he was killed by the demon knight in three or two clicks. By the way, there seems to be a spider's poison sac in the items that Clark asked to collect, and I went up and used N consecutive collection techniques on the spider, but I didn't see the poison sac, but I felt two fangs! It's so stingy, how good it would be to give me a poison bag!
After the giant spider, we encountered a lot of monsters, none of which were smaller than the bears, and they were all insects, it seems that this forest specializes in demonic insects.
As we walked, a faint curtain of light suddenly appeared in front of us. This light curtain is transparent, so although it stretches all the way into the sky, we didn't notice it all the way! If it hadn't been for the fact that it had suddenly flickered when we had just gotten so close, we wouldn't have seen anything else here!
Through the light curtain, we can see that it is a forest similar to ours, and I can even see deep places, but the monster doesn't see a single one, and I am basically sure that the inside of the light curtain is safe. But because we didn't know if the light curtain was aggressive, we didn't dare to try it rashly. The old way, let Scott summon a skeleton to try.
The skeleton walked towards the light curtain without melancholy, and the moment it touched the light curtain, the light curtain flickered a few times, and the light curtain in the vicinity was obviously distorted. But there's still more to come. The skeleton that entered the light curtain seemed to disappear, it passed through the light curtain, but we didn't see it! We could see the woods behind the light curtain, but we couldn't see the skeletons!
"Scott? Did your skeleton pass through? ”
"I feel like it's going through!"
"Then why can't we see it?" I held my chin and thought for a moment. "Can you still sense it?"
"Of course! The induction is strong! ”
"Let it out!"
The skeleton suddenly walked out of the light curtain, as if it had come out of the space-time portal! We've done it a few times, and it's all about the same! I casually broke off a branch from the trunk of a tree next to me and threw it at the light curtain, and the branch disappeared from our sight through the light curtain, and it did not appear in the forest behind the light curtain!
I've guessed a few possibilities by now. The first possibility is that this light curtain is a teleportation system, and what passes through the light curtain is directly transported to a certain place, without entering the forest behind the light curtain; The second possibility is that the light curtain is actually an illusion barrier, and the forest that we see now behind the light curtain is actually not there, and the branches and skeletons actually pass through the light curtain to get behind it, but the illusion obscures our view, so we can't see anything! However, since the skeletons can come and go at will, this light curtain is at least not aggressive, so I decided to try it myself!
I stood in front of the light curtain and carefully stretched out a hand through the light curtain. I didn't feel anything when my fingers touched the light curtain, it seems that this thing has no physical form! I continued to stretch my hand forward, and miraculously, the part of my hand that passed through the light curtain disappeared. I couldn't see my outstretched hand, but I could feel it was still there. Walked over in one go.
Astound! I was stupid after passing through the light curtain! Behind the light curtain was not the forest I had just seen, and the black forest in front of me had returned to the towering appearance of the giant trees. Giant trees over 100 meters are everywhere, mixed with some low trees, and the ground is covered with some low shrubs and other things, but these things are not very dense and do not affect walking. Surprised, I took a few steps back away from the light curtain and returned to the place where I started, and the light curtain appeared in front of me again, and I saw the low, leafless forest again! But when I crossed it again, I was reminded of the dense forest. It seems that this light curtain can indeed block the view of the outside world!
The Demon Spirit Knight also followed me through the light curtain, and the scene in front of them made them stunned for a moment, but they were not as strict as me!
Scott suddenly screamed. "O my dark god! Could it be that this is the magic capital of Esinger! ”
"Isengard? What is it? ”
Scott calmed down his emotions and said, "There were originally four ultimate evil zones in the Chinese region, namely the Lost City, the City of Remembrance, the Demon Fortress, and the Demon Capital of Esinger, among which the Demon Capital Esinger was the most powerful one. But later, the three main cities of the system mobilized 30 million troops to form the Holy Alliance, and jointly attacked the demon capital of Isenghe. The battle lasted for more than 1 month, and Isenger was finally defeated. At that time, the city lord was forced to detonate the evil eye of the demon capital, and the 30 million holy legions and the 10 million Esinger city defense army turned into unjust spirits. Since then, this has become an evil cursed land, and the evil power of 40 million unjust souls has made this a forbidden area for light, and the personnel of the light side will be greatly weakened here. ”
"It sounds strange and tragic, but what about cities? Why can't I see anything? Except for the tree, it's a tree! ”
"These are no ordinary trees, these are the fragments of the Evil Eye turned into trees, they will absorb a qiē power other than the dark power, and whoever uses magic other than dark magic here will consume twice as much magic as usual. And here, the mages of the pure light system can't recover their magic power at all, and they won't increase it again if they run out, unless they leave this forest and go outside the light curtain just now. ”
"By the way, what's going on with this light curtain?"
"Then it's not clear!" Scott shook his head. "We, the Demon Knights, have always been stationed in the Dark Main Temple, and the Four Dark Cities are just subordinate institutions. But I guess it's probably pure protection, like the Blackwater Lake outside the Lost City, each of which has its own special protections. As for the illusion and the Black Forest that you saw at the beginning, every Dark City has it! ”
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"You haven't answered where my city is?"
"Actually, the city should not be far from here, the main reason is that these trees are too dense to be visible, just go out!"
"Then let's go check it out!" I summoned Nightshade and jumped up, Nightshade was ready to ride, and I didn't have to squeeze a horse with Scott anymore!
I had just walked a short distance when I saw a large patch of white flowers swaying in the forest, and I rushed to see clearly, good fellow, a large piece of skeletons! I asked the dart to find a skeleton that was far away from the team and hit it, and I read the number of skeletons. Obediently, these are level 600 magic skeletons! Not to mention that the defense is super exaggerated, the attack power is also high and scary, but fortunately, there is not much health! But unexpectedly, the dart that went up to test was actually slapped back by the skeleton. Although the level of darts is still very low, but the speed of intercepting darts, the agility of these skeletons is too perverted, right? The level of skeletons encountered in the past is generally no more than level 200, and the level of these guys is actually as high as level 600! No wonder these skeletons are holding shiny weapons and wearing black cloaks! It turned out to be a high-class product!
"Scott, is there a way around here that I can get around?" I'm not Superman, I can't do anything about things that are almost 300 levels higher, not to mention that these guys are too numerous and dense, and they can't be killed by the Demon Riders after a long time!
Before Scott could reply, the skeleton harassed by the darts actually ran over. Scott picked up his spear and prepared to attack, but what he didn't expect was that the skeleton stopped before rushing to us. I saw its long sword flash, and a black magic bullet condensed from the blade and flew over. These magic skeletons are all magic swordsmen, and they can attack from a distance without getting close to us!
Seeing that the skeleton was attacking from a distance, Scott immediately turned the spear in his hand into a projection position. With the sound of the wind breaking, the spear was accurately shot into the skeleton's head, and with a click, the skeleton's entire head turned into white powder. But to our surprise, the headless skeleton actually rushed up with a long sword!
I hurriedly stepped back, this kind of thing is too high-level, and it's dangerous for me to go up and fight! The Demon Knight swarmed up and smashed the entire skeleton in one fell swoop! These skeletons are terrifying, magic, melee combat, plus there is no vital point, and the head falls off and is still beaten!
Looking at these skeletons from afar, I suddenly remembered, I can't fly if I can't do it on the ground! I didn't say I had to crawl through the skull pile! Put away the spirit knights and demon pets who can't fly, and I'll spread my wings and fly into the sky alone. As soon as we flew together, I noticed that something was wrong, the stamina value dropped like a horse watch, and at this speed I could stay in the air for up to 30 seconds!
Hurry up and fly as hard as I can, as long as I exceed the height of the tree, I can summon lucky them to fly with me when I leave the narrow woods! Accelerating upward, finally rising above the forest just as his stamina was about to bottom, he hurriedly summoned Lucky to come out, and I landed on his back.
When I settled, I looked up and was shocked! Utter awe! Above the treetops, I suddenly saw a mountain, and the shape of the mountain was so neat that it looked like it had been dug by hand! Looking at it this way, the mountain is estimated to be hundreds of meters high, and the overall shape looks like a square double cake!
I don't have time to appreciate the mountain carefully, and the lucky endurance value under the body is also falling fast, fortunately, the dragon's flying ability is good, and the endurance value is also high, it is not a problem to support three or five minutes at this speed, and when you are lucky, you can change the plague and crystal them, anyway, I have a lot of magic pets that can fly, and I will take them one by one, and it is estimated that I can support them to the edge of the forest!
Sure enough, as I expected, Lucky flew for more than four minutes before he couldn't support it, and the plague was summoned by me to replace Lucky, and then replaced it with crystal. The crystal and the plague flew for less than 8 minutes in total, and then Xiaofeng came out to work, although Xiaofeng only lasted two minutes, but she was fast, and we were almost at the edge of the forest when she couldn't. I then changed into the little dragon girl, and after only a minute of flying, we reached the edge of the forest and landed on the edge. At the edge of the forest behind them, countless skeletons are still wandering, but they have never come out of the forest, and it seems that they also have restrictions on their activities!
Now I can finally take a good look at this mountain, just now I only dared to stare at the stamina value of the demon pet in the sky, for fear that if I accidentally used it and fell down, it would become a dinner for skeletons! Now that it's landed, of course, summon the demon knight first, with them, you can resist any emergencies for a while!
The edge of the forest is only more than 2,000 meters away from the foot of the mountain, and the ground is all black and gray hard and the ground is very flat, and we can ride horses for a few minutes to reach the bottom of the mountain. Coming down from the back of the Nightshadow, I stood on the ground and looked up at the mountain, my neck kept leaning back, and finally I didn't stand firmly, I took two steps back and sat down on the ground. This mountain is really high enough, and from the foot of the mountain it looks like it is open to the sky! The towering gray mountain gives people a strong sense of oppression, which makes people want to retreat unconsciously!
This is more of a fortress than a mountain, and the entire surface of the mountain is completely devoid of any vegetation and the entire surface is covered with black-gray rocks. The periphery of the mountain is obviously artificially excavated, not only the mountain is quadrilateral, but also the smooth outer wall is inlaid with a lot of skulls, and the angle between the mountain and the ground is also as high as more than 80 degrees, it seems that this mountain is more suitable to be called the city wall! I don't believe that there will be any mountains that are square, let alone have long skulls on the mountain, this must be a big mountain that has been artificially carved out and turned into a square city wall, and those skeletons are purely artificially inlaid to scare people! The frontage width of this "wall" is about 29,000 meters, and the height is estimated to be more than 450 meters! The Spirit Knight found a huge gap in the mountain, and the mountain on both sides was sandwiched between this gap about 30 meters wide, and large pieces of gravel were piled up on the ground in the gap, it seems that this was once one of the entrances to the city, but it has collapsed, so it has become what it is now!
Look at this passage, you must not think about riding a horse, it is estimated that it will be difficult for people to climb over! I put away my pet and tried my wings, and it seemed like I could fly normally, and the only place that drained my stamina seemed to be the forest! After confirming that I could fly, I put away the Wisp Knight and flew directly through the passage and went deeper. The walls on both sides of the passage are also straight up, which proves that this was originally a tunnel. The boulder on the ground is only about 100 meters paved at the entrance, which means that this was originally a city gate, and the boulder should be the remains of the collapsed city gate! ――
The length of the entire passage is actually as high as more than 1,900 meters, which means that the "city wall" is nearly two kilometers thick! This thickness of the city wall is really terrifying! No wonder he endured it for a month in front of an army three times his size!
After a long passage I finally entered the interior of the mountain, and it turned out to be Isengard! The so-called magic capital turned out to be built by hollowing out a mountain entirely! But now, I see ruined walls and ruins, and the whole city seems to have been hit by an atomic bomb, and there are broken bricks and rubbles everywhere! I can also roughly see the layout of the city's streets when I fly in the air, and the streets in the shape of a tic-tac-toe are still faintly recognizable, but the houses on both sides are no longer there!
There is another thing erected in the center of the city, and from the color and texture of it, it and the city wall are from the original mountain, which means that this thing is a part of the mountain, and it was left behind when it was excavated. I don't know if it's a pillar or a tower, but it's a circle with a diameter of 1,200 meters at the base and about 7,500 meters in height! The bottom of this thing is not actually as high as the city foundation, it is erected on a 200-meter-high base, this base is a square with a side length of 2000 meters, there are artificially excavated stairs in all four directions, and there are entrances on all sides of this tower-like thing above, it seems that the inside of this thing should be empty.
As I found no sign of the monster, I summoned only Scott alone, and landed directly on the pedestal of the tower with him.
"Scott, do you know what this thing is?"
Scott looked at it and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the legendary Spirit Gathering Tower!" The place where we are standing now should have been a dark temple, and the inside of the tower should be empty, and there should be a passage to the top of the tower. ”
"It's too slow to walk through the passage, let's fly straight up!"
"Impossible!" Scotta stopped me. "There is a suppression system on the Gathering Spirit Tower, flying at low altitude is nothing, it will not work after exceeding the height of the city wall, and the magic barrier will ensure that nothing can go up to the top of the tower without passing through the entrance at the bottom of the tower."
"That's it! Let's take the stairs! ”
I followed Scott into the legendary Gathering Spirit Tower, and a cold air came to my face, making me shiver. "Why is it so cold in here?"
"It's not cold, it's evil, and the yin wind gusts are generally like this!"
"Damn! Haunted! "I moved my body to get used to the invasion of this evil spirit, but I am also a dark force, and although the evil energy makes me uncomfortable, it does not actually hurt.
After following a passage into the tower, a staircase began to appear, and we ran all the way to the end of the staircase, which was a 10-meter square room, and stairs led to it in all four directions. There was a spiral escalator on the side wall of the room, and the escalator spiraled to the top, but I couldn't see the sky, and it seemed that the escalator didn't run through the tower!
After 30 minutes, I finally realized what a great invention the elevator is, the height of the 7,500-meter tower is equivalent to the height of a building of nearly 2,000 floors, and it is no wonder that we can climb up with a spiral staircase without exhaustion! In the end, Nightshade was summoned, the stairs were relatively wide, and the slope was not large, so Nightshade could run on them. With Night Shadow we were a lot faster, but there were side effects, and after a while I started to get dizzy, and I was dizzy when I was always turning in one direction!
No way! It's not a way to climb like this, we've only walked nearly half of the height until now, and if we get to the top, I won't hang up! Sticking my head out of the side of the spiral staircase and looking at the top to judge the height, I raised my right hand to the top of the tower, loaded the arrow of the dragon tendon rope to the Avenger, and with a pull of the machine spring, the zipline immediately flew to the top of the tower. With a ping-pong bang, the arrow hit the top of the tower but did not enter, the arrow was bounced to the side, but the falling arrow hung up the spiral ladder, and the arrow went around the spiral ladder a few times due to inertia before stopping. I tried to pull it, and it was still firm. Putting Scott away, I jumped up the spiral ladder. Start the automatic take-up function of the dragon tendon zipline, I was naturally pulled to the top of the tower, although this simple elevator is not very comfortable, but it is much better than climbing the stairs, the most important thing is that it is faster!
Soon I got to the top floor, and with the zipline removed, I crossed the spiral ladder. Here the spiral ends abruptly, and a wooden door appears at the end of the spiral staircase. But the wooden door has now been halved, and it looks like it will fall down at any moment when it leans against the door! The broken door panel blocked half of the door, and I went up to move the door panel a little bit, but as soon as I touched it, the whole door collapsed, and a puff of smoke and dust was lifted, and sure enough, no one had used it for a long time!
Behind the door is a staircase that slopes upwards, this staircase is narrow enough for up to two people to walk through guò side by side, but fortunately it is not very steep. I ran up the stairs, and in a few moments I reached the end of the stairs, and there were already signs of light ahead.
Rushing out of the staircase, I was stunned. The exit of the passage was already the edge of the tower, and I could see most of the city from here. The shape of the city does not appear to be square but concave, and the direction in which we enter Issinger is exactly a straight line, and the opposite side is concave. And, what surprised me the most was that the other side of Issinger was actually the sea! Isenger is a port city! The notch in the indentation is clearly a port!
Because there is no railing at the top of this Gathering Spirit Pagoda now, I didn't dare to go to the side! Turn around and go around the exit to see the top of the tower. It turns out that this is a very flat platform, and it feels like it should be round, but it doesn't seem to be as big as the bottom, and the diameter here is about 800 meters, which is slightly thinner than the bottom. In the middle of the platform is a pile of ruins that looks like an altar or something.
I summoned Scott. "Do you know what this is?"
"This is the altar where the Evil Eye is placed, but it was destroyed when it exploded!"
"Is that port in the back open to the sea? It can't be a big lake, right? ”
"Yes! That's the sea, and it's supposed to be a deep-water port. I've heard before that the magic capital of Isengh has the world's largest port! ”
If I look at the port below, according to the length of the city wall of 29,000 meters, and then compare the size of the port, I can roughly estimate that the width of the port is at least 9,000 meters. In this way, the size of this port should be more than 7 times that of the port in Torrent City, so it is not surprising that it can be the first in the world!
I suddenly noticed that there were many round black spots on the top of the "city walls" around the city, because they were too far away to see clearly. "Scott, what are those black spots?"
"Are they those on the walls?"
"Yes!"
"Those are the bases of the battery. The Demon Capital is said to have 280 giant magic crystal cannons at that time! ”
"280 doors? Isn't that 28 billion crystal coins? Oh, my God! It is worthy of being the first magic capital, and he is generous enough! "It's good to use the ruins of this magic capital to build a city! The walls are ready-made, as long as the ruins are cleared and the gates are rebuilt, it will be a city! It just so happens that we need a guild station now, and I'm afraid of trouble, so I can save a lot of things here, and most importantly, money! "Scott, is there a magical illusion on the other side of the sea?"
"Yes! Illusion is a spherical shape, not only in the surroundings, but also in the sky and underground! ”
"That's good!" I've already decided to go back and build the city here!
Since I'm going to use this place, it's necessary for me to see all the places clearly. The first thing to pay attention to is the city wall. Scott and I went to the city wall, and now we realize that the wall is not solid, and that there are passages dug into the wall, and there are many rooms with special uses! The explosion of the Evil Eye only seems to have an effect on what humans have built, and the walls of this mountain are well protected and show no signs of damage.
At the end of the day's investigation, the entire city was largely intact, except for the destruction of the buildings, which can be said to be a perfect fortress city.
After dinner, I went online to continue to check the city facilities, but as soon as I went online, I was shocked! I'm standing in the middle of a horde of unjust souls! I ran to a higher platform only to find that the whole city was full of these things! Translucent spirits move through the city like living beings, and they also emit a faint green light. Just as I was in a panic, a ghost actually walked out from behind me through my body, and he didn't seem to notice that I was going on to do his own thing.
It soon became clear to me that these ghosts were illusions, that they couldn't see me at all, or that they didn't react to me! Each ghost is doing their own thing, and they seem to be stuck in the most prosperous period of Isengard. It's scary and it's full of ghosts!
There are also a lot of ghosts in the Lost City, but they can be touched, they have minds, they can interact with you, unlike these things, a total group of walking dead! I'm starting to think about whether to build a city in a different place, our guild is almost all girls now, and if they see it, they can scare a few to death!
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