In fact, Gawain was planning to call Rebecca as well, but the latter had been busy with the construction of "Magic Net No. 1" for a while, and had not had a good rest for several days, so he was finally able to go to bed early today, and Gawain didn't call her up again.

Anyway, there are only a lot of fireball launchers called, and it's not very useful to think - it's not as powerful as Gawain himself to draw a knife and cut people.

Hetty had not yet rested, and she was studying the systems and plans written by Gawain in her camp, when she heard that there was something wrong with the ruins in the mountains, and immediately put on her cloak and rushed over.

Seeing her slightly nervous appearance, Gao Wen was relieved: "Don't panic, it's just some abnormal noise, maybe the ancient facilities in the ruins moved-it is impossible to move so much if it really wants to collapse." ”

Hetty nodded worriedly.

The Byron knight quickly selected the best soldiers, and then led by Gawain through the mountain road to the main gate of the ancient ruins.

A makeshift outpost was built out of a wooden house, where five soldiers were usually stationed to guard the gate, and torches illuminated the perimeter of the ruins gate, making it clear what was going on: apart from a few nervous soldiers standing, it didn't look unusual.

"My lord," a soldier greeted him, and immediately saluted when he saw Gawain, "there were two more noises inside. ”

"Well, I'll go see for myself," Gawain said as he walked to the ruins gate, "You guys are guarding outside, and no one is allowed to come in without my orders." ”

Coming to the gate of the ruins, Gawain used the platinum disc to activate the ancient Gondor magic pattern, and saw the heavy purple steel door flowing with a magical glow as usual, Gawain breathed a sigh of relief: at least the magic passage here is still normal, which means that there will not be much change inside.

Hetty subconsciously clenched the staff, first sketching out the spell model of the ice arrow, but the next second it dissipated the magic power and replaced it with auxiliary magic - Biu would be embarrassed if he didn't hit anyone.

The purple steel door slowly opened under the power of magic, and the magic crystal placed in the hall immediately brightened, and Gawain put his hand on the hilt of the Pioneer Sword, raising his vigilance and stepping into it.

There seemed to be nothing unusual in the hall, the metal ingots and weapons that had not yet been shipped out were still in place, reflecting a glow under the bright and constant light of the magic crystal, and the entire hall showed no signs of collapsing and loosening, as if everything was normal.

But after glancing around, Gawain immediately noticed the change—the doors in the depths of the hall were open.

This ancient ruin is not just a hall in front of them, inside the mountain, it has a much larger structure, which can be judged by the scale of its entrance and the occasional architectural structure that can be observed on the mountain wall, but so far Gawain and the others have only used the hall at the entrance of the ruins - not that they don't want to go deeper, but the door to the deeper part is locked.

When the Northern Pioneers found the ruins seven hundred years ago, the gate to the depths was locked, and it was sealed with a completely different magic than the surface gate. The pioneer team of the time cracked the magic key of the first entrance, but they could not do anything about the gate deep in the hall, so they only used the hall as a treasure trove, re-sealed it and left here, and now, seven hundred years later, Gawain led Cecil's pioneer team back to this place, and he and the people he brought with him still have nothing to do with those gates.

Hetty had studied in the halls of the Treasury for an entire day, and had not been able to unlock the seals of several doors: it was the magic technology of Gondor's heyday, far from being able to break by a third-level mage like Hetty.

Gawain originally planned to put those doors aside first, and then think about how to deal with them when the situation stabilized in the future, but he didn't expect that today, those doors would open by themselves.

Hetty also noticed the situation of those gates, and pulled Gawain's clothes a little uneasily: "Ancestor, those doors ......"

"I saw it, God knows how." Gawain frowned and said, but he couldn't help but think of the red spot outbreak and the upsurge of mana a few days ago in his mind - could it be that the upsurge of mana at that time also spread to the ruins, loosening the seal in the ruins? And then recently, I have frequently asked Hetty or Rebecca to come here with a platinum disc to open the door and move things, and the frequent opening and closing of the first layer of seals has accidentally activated the door inside?

Based on Gawain's knowledge of the magical technology of the ancient Gondor Empire, this is quite possible.

He led a few soldiers to the three doors and began to ponder.

If it is unfolded according to the general plot, the third watch delves into this suddenly open ruins in the middle of the night to explore, which is basically a death unfolding, but the specific situation depends on the subject matter - if this is an American drama, then basically everyone will die if they go in, but if this is a Japanese drama, it is very likely that everyone will see a female ghost or something before the death ball, but if it is a domestic drama...... Then he is very likely to have sex with a female ghost after he goes in......

Gawain looked at the circle of people around him, how this group of people in armor and helmets and carrying magic staff looked at the painting style was an American drama.

If you don't go in, you'll definitely be dead, and you won't even be able to see the female ghost before you die.

But just as he made a decision to order the gate to be temporarily closed and explore when the conditions were ripe in the future, he heard Hetty suddenly mutter: "There seems to be a magic reaction inside...... In a very deep place. ”

Gawain raised his eyebrows: "Magic reaction? Deep? ”

"It's coming from the depths of this door," Hettie pointed to the door in the middle, "I didn't feel it before, probably because the door was blocking the flow of magic, but now that the door is open, I can vaguely feel something inside...... It could be a magic circle in motion or something. But the reaction is very, very weak, and it's still declining, and I'm afraid it could disappear completely at any time. ”

Gawain: "......"

He forcibly stopped the urge to turn around and leave, and sighed in his heart: human beings are indeed creatures that have to die.

Whatever was inside, it looked like it had to be taken a look before leaving.

Holding the Pioneer Sword in his hand, Gawain silently used his knightly skills to give his family several layers of protection, and then took the lead.

There was no light in the depths of the ruins, and it was getting darker and darker as she walked through the gate into the corridor, and Hetty raised her staff and whispered a few syllables, and a glowing ball of magic floated on the head of the staff, illuminating the way forward.

He can cast illumination and is a real mage.

Looking at the deeper and deeper corridors in front of him, and the tall and wide spaces on both sides, the Byron knight couldn't help but sigh in amazement: "It's really something created by the once-prosperous Gondor Empire...... How big does this have to be? ”

"God knows, the ruins gate is in the form of a large fortress from the Spark era of Gondor, and it is possible to hollow out a hill with such a large fortress," Gawain pouted, "Amber doesn't know if she actually absconded with the money - if only she had been here." ”

"This kind of highly specialized ancient ruins, even the most clever stalkers are not good at dealing with it," Hetty glanced at Gawain suspiciously, "Cracking this kind of place is generally a mage's professional field......"

"No, if Amber is there, I can throw her out to explore the way, I can be less stressed," Gawain said casually, "and she has first-class escape skills, and she can continue to throw ...... when she runs back."

Hetty was dumbfounded: The ancestor suddenly made a speech about lack of morality, what should he do when he is a junior?!

Gawain glanced at her and laughed, "I'm kidding - the main thing is that Amber has a special ability to walk in shadows, and in a place like this, where shadows are everywhere, she can find more hidden paths than we do. ”

Hetty breathed a sigh of relief, and the Byron knight next to him also nodded: "I knew that you were a model of knights, and you would definitely not do that kind of thing to a lady......"

The corners of Gawain's mouth twitched slightly: Amber? If it weren't for the chest and face there, who would have connected her with the lady?

And to be honest, her breasts are not very closely related to the lady......

A few small talks eased the tension a little, but everyone's vigilance did not diminish in the slightest, and under the light of Hetty's magical ball of light, Gawain kept an eye on every detail around him, not letting go of any possible traps and the occasional ancient text on the wall.

Those are the universal characters of the ancient Gondor Empire, and the common characters used by the four kingdoms today are derived from it, but because there is a span of thousands of years in the middle, there will be some changes in the process of text evolution, and the "Spark Age" itself is also the era of great changes in the Gondor Empire, so the ancient characters in the ruins are basically only understood by Gao Wen.

Hetty didn't understand them all half-understood.

The scale of this mountain ruin was indeed huge, even so large that Gawain was a little surprised.

Progressing from the central corridor, the team encountered more than one fork, detour, and staircase, and the overall trend of the passage was to spread and descend into the depths of the mountain, and in the process, Hetty checked the flow of breath several times, confirming that there should be a perfect ventilation channel in places that people could not see, as evidenced by the advanced construction technology of the ancient Gondor Empire.

And in the process, they also discovered rooms or other halls more than once.

These rooms and halls were made of stone-like materials, but when Hetty identified them, it was discovered that they were not stone, but some man-made substance that was more durable than stone; Every room and hall was empty, and there were hardly any valuable relics to be seen, except for a few rotten shelves and a few metal tools that were about to turn to slag - it was clear that the Imperials in this facility had been evacuated in an orderly manner when they had considerable leeway.

This is also in line with Gawain's judgment of the "Spark Age".

But this also made Hetty quite regretful: she thought that she could find some antique treasures inside, even if they couldn't be used, but the words "from the Spark Age of the Gondor Empire" were enough to turn a piece of broken copper and iron into a hot treasure.

The group didn't have time to explore every fork in the path and every room in the path, so Gawain ordered to leave markers at the forks in the road that could not be explored for the time being, and then explore slowly when there was time to do so, while the team continued straight in the direction from which the magical reaction came under the guidance of Hetty's induction.