As more and more clues are discovered, the secrets hidden in this ancient facility seem to be gradually revealed, and it seems that it will not be difficult for the well-informed Gawain to piece together the truth of what happened here from these clues.

Obviously, this ancient ruin, built at the end of the Starfire Age, was not as simple as he had first assumed - it was not a frontier base, nor was it just a forbidden research institute to study the secrets of the gods, and this hidden facility in some kind of alien space revealed its true purpose: it was some kind of "fortress" built to defend against disasters and continue human civilization.

Whether it is the "study of the gods" that took place in the ruins of the mountains, or the flesh and blood of the gods in the seal, or the dried corpses in front of you and the last communication from the empire, they are all evidence of the confrontation against the scourge.

This catastrophe is most likely the "magic tide" that destroyed the Gondor Empire seven hundred years ago.

His previous speculation was confirmed: as early as the Starfire Age, the Magus of the Gondor Empire were aware of the existence of the Demon Tide and had prepared for it three hundred years in advance, considering the scale of this ruin, there must have been the support of the Gondor royal family behind this whole event, but there were many things he couldn't understand:

If the humans of the Starfire Age were aware of the existence of the Demon Tide, why didn't this information survive? So much so that when the Demon Tide really broke out seven hundred years ago, the Human Empire was caught off guard and collapsed almost without resistance.

If the information stored in the communication equipment came from within the empire after the outbreak of the demon tide, then it was obvious that the imperial family at that time still knew about the existence of this border fortress, then they should have known that the demon tide was coming, but why did they never take action?

Or is it ...... In fact, the royal family of Gondor at that time had already taken action, but no evidence or news had circulated?

This is not impossible, because the original demon tide broke out in the center of the imperial capital, destroying the communication network of the entire kingdom in the first instant, and then no one came out of the hinterland of the empire alive, even if Emperor Gondor did it at that time, I am afraid that no one will know......

In any case, it is incomprehensible that a catastrophe that had been predicted by scholars a thousand years ago, and that the rulers of the empire at that time had carried out such a large-scale "preservation project" in private, and that no information had survived, and that the entire empire was in a state of confusion when the catastrophe actually broke out 700 years ago.

Even if he thinks about it in the direction of "controlling the leakage of information because of fear of causing panic", Gawain thinks this is too unbelievable.

In addition, he was curious about the "survivors" of the facility - the ruins in the mountains were sealed off a thousand years ago, and the official outbreak of the demon tide was three hundred years after that, and the survivors of the facility remained alive for three hundred centuries in between?

This is completely beyond the limit of human lifespan, even if a powerful transcendent professional can use magic to extend his lifespan, but that can only be extended by two or three hundred years, but looking at the content of the communication, the people in this facility can not only live for three hundred years, but even after that, they will live forever?

Despite the fact that they were all dead......

Gawain's gaze wandered the hall, trying to find more clues that might give him hints, when Hetty, who was using the magic light orb at the top of his staff to illuminate the surroundings and carefully study the remains of those ancient magisters, suddenly made a discovery: "Ancestor! Check it out! ”

Gawain came to Hetty's side and saw Hetty pointing to the back of the chair behind one of the bodies: "Here's a line of words!" ”

Gawain frowned and read the line: "Benjamin Hoston, Gondor 1760." ”

The surrounding soldiers also turned their attention to the seats, and suddenly, everyone found the handwriting that they had ignored: "There are also here!" "And here!" "All chairs are on the backs!"

Gawain thought of something instantly, and he looked at the names written on the back of his chair one by one, and read them quickly: "Claude Pilling, Gondor 1790...... Lauferi Pardini, Gondor 1782...... Mellia Hoston, Gondor 1809...... Pal Berlindi, Gondor 1920......"

"These are ......" Hetty's mouth opened in surprise, "these people's ......"

"Their names, and the year of their deaths, can only be explained by this explanation," Gawain said in a deep voice, "and these people did not die here at the same time, but were carried here after their deaths, and the man who carried them wrote the names and dates of death on their seats. If I'm not mistaken...... It is the last dead to do the work, or it is the relay of the living. ”

He raised his head and looked around at the semicircular hall with nearly a thousand seats, imagining the mentality of the survivors who had stayed here in the first place: "These seats ...... It's their graves......"

"Gondor 1760...... Gondor 1790......" Hetty looked at the years on those chairs and suddenly reacted, "The Gondor calendar ended in 1740!" That year there was a magic tide, and after that......"

"Yes, the earliest year we see so far is also after Gondor 1740," Gawain nodded heavily, "These people only began to die after the outbreak of the demon tide seven hundred years ago, and the most recent year I have seen so far is Gondor 2130, which is ...... Three hundred years. ”

Hetty showed a sad expression: "That is, at least some of them lived to that time...... At that time, Ansu had been established for 400 years...... But they didn't know what was going on outside, they were locked up here, and they thought the outside world was completely destroyed......"

Gawain was also deeply embarrassed, but he noticed that Tyr's behavior was strange not far away: Miss Kraken coiled her tail in a circle, supporting herself in the air like a spring, and she was looking around there, with a hint of curiosity and wariness on her face.

He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Tyr, what did you find?" ”

"Shh Miss Kraken immediately lowered her body, and she quickly arched to Gawain's side, "I don't know if it's an illusion, just now I seemed to feel a magic reaction flashing around here." ”

"Magic reaction?" Hetty frowned, "Why didn't I feel it?" ”

"No matter how powerful you are, can you have the sensitivity of elemental creatures to magic?" Tyr glanced at Hetty disdainfully, "And there are many special magical reactions that you humans can't feel at all!" ”

Gawain didn't take Tyr's words as a joke, he immediately and cautiously turned on his magic perception skills, and asked the soldiers around him to be vigilant, but in the field of magic perception, all he saw was fog, and there was no special magic reaction at all.

After turning off the mana sense, he looked at Tyr, and was about to ask what the other party was sensing the magic power, but at that moment, a sudden alertness made him suddenly turn sideways, and at the same time, the Pioneer Sword in his hand struck in front of him—almost at the same time, two blinding arcs of lightning also appeared out of thin air in the air, one arc was slashing at the position he was standing on, and the other arc hit the blade of the Pioneer Sword solidly!

With two snaps, the two arcs of electricity disappeared into invisibility, and the magic reaction that was completely hidden before was finally no longer hidden, accompanied by a powerful energy fluctuation, Hetty saw a shadow full of light suddenly appear above the open space at the front of the semi-circular hall, it was a creature with a faint human outline, his whole body was shrouded in bright thunder and lightning, some kind of violent energy constituted his body and internal organs, and pieces of armor engraved with arcane runes were suspended on the surface of this creature's body out of thin air, Like the runic shackles of elemental beings summoned to the present world, there is some incredible way to maintain the form of this "mana humanoid".

The creature appeared out of thin air, the powerful energy escaping from his body distorted even the air around him with the scorching heat, the creature was clearly full of anger and hostility, the two lightning bolts were his handiwork, and as soon as he took shape, he brewed a new round of attacks: two bright ball lightning bolts quickly condensed on both sides of his body!

"Ancestor be careful!" Hetty instantly cast the most powerful mana shield she could unleash at her current level, and began chanting spells that would increase her resistance to spells—she felt a terrifying magic from that incredible creature, and she had no idea how effective her spells could be.

The soldiers behind Gawain reacted after a short period of stunned, the strange creature was indeed terrifying, but the conditioned reflex generated by long-term training still made these elite soldiers subconsciously raise the weapons in their hands, and in the next second, more than a dozen scorching rays bombarded the strange creature wrapped in electric light.

The creature probably didn't expect the counterattack to come so quickly, and it was followed by a large continuous array of magical attacks, and in his astonishment, he was hit one after another, and the ball lightning condensed next to him also disappeared with two clicks - but only the second-level scorching ray obviously could not inflict fatal damage on this powerful mana creature that might have survived for hundreds of years, and the surface of his body formed by arcane energy rippled layer after layer, and all the attacks were dissolved, and then a new lightning ball reunited beside him.

However, Gawain had already lifted the paralysis caused by the lightning slash in the long sword in this short time gap, and before the new attack arrived, he had already raised the long sword, and his body turned into a continuous afterimage in the high-speed charge, and all the afterimages converged in front of the mana creature in the next second—a layer of magical brilliance floated on the surface of the Pioneer Sword, and the blade slashed heavily at the largest silver-white armor piece on the surface of the enemy's body.

At the last moment, this powerful mana creature condensed an unusually strong shield, and although Gawain's attack destroyed the opponent's shield, it did not completely split the armor piece, he just split the mana creature out entirely, and the latter left a long scorch mark on the ground with a series of electric lights, and before he could get up, Gawain had already rushed up again.

The mana creature was embarrassed and condensed a cross-cutting ice pillar, blocking the sword in Gawain's hand, and in the next second, the exclamation from his body made Gawain's movements suddenly stop.

The mana creature exclaimed incredulously, "Are you real?!" ”