After popping out of the Shadow Realm's critical state, Amber tried several more times unbelievingly, but each time it did not change before falling back into the present world.

By the time she tried it for the fourth time, she couldn't stand it.

Gawain was also confused by this situation for a while (of course, it may also be a little confused by these several critical switches), and subconsciously asked, "What's the matter?" Is your plug-in expired? ”

"Plug-ins? What is a cheat? Amber didn't understand what Gawain was saying, but looking at the other party's expression, she guessed that it was probably not a compliment, so she pouted angrily, "There must be something wrong with the environment in this place!" Wait a minute, I'll come back with half a pound of Shadow Potions—I won't believe my Shadow Affinity......"

"Stop, stop, don't go up, calm down and analyze the situation," Gawain waved his hand to stop the half-elf's death, "Carefully sense the shadow environment here, and then try the normal shadow walk or stealth technique to no avail." ”

Amber calmed down as Gawain prompted her to take a breath, her figure fading in the air.

After a few tests, she lifted her shadow state: "Regular shadow walking and stealth skills are fine, including skills such as Shadow Mist, which can also be used smoothly, and it seems that only when entering the Shadow Realm will be ...... It's like a distraction that pops up in an instant. ”

"Shadow Realm...... So the question is on the 'other side'......" Gawain said as he looked thoughtfully at the ring device in the center of the room that looked like a magic door, and then frowned, "Isn't the Shadow Realm equivalent to some kind of reflection of the current world, you try to enter the Shadow Realm outside this room, and then come over from the 'other side' to see the situation." ”

"I'll give it a try!" Amber agreed, and dragged Gawain out the door, "You come here to protect my eyes......"

Is this thing like an eye-protecting barrage? Specially designed to cover the face of the old gods......

Gawain reluctantly followed Amber, and after leaving the circular room for some distance, the two of them entered the Shadow Realm without incident.

Seeing the familiar black and white vision appearing in front of him, and watching Amber's figure switch to the form that was unique in the Shadow Realm and seemed to be some kind of elemental banshee, Gawain suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "Scared me, I thought your plug-in was really due......"

"You speak so strangely, you don't understand." Amber muttered, grabbing Gawain's arm and walking towards the rotunda in the Shadow Realm.

They stepped over the ancient door, but when they stepped through it, all they saw was a mediocre rotunda.

There is no flesh and blood of the gods, no hidden research facilities, not even extra doors, windows and passages, there is nothing here.

Amber looked around curiously, "Strange...... It's just an ordinary hall, why is there interference...... And it's so funny, you can get in with just a little detour......"

However, after scanning the surroundings, Gawain immediately noticed the discord: "No, I'm afraid we haven't been able to get around. ”

He raised his hand and pointed to the center of the hall, "The ring device is gone, and there are residual tear marks on the floor. ”

In the halls of the present world, the most striking thing is the ring installation in the center of the room, but here, the ring three or four meters high is gone, replaced by a broken mark of the ground, and a large piece of floor that has been dug out in its entirety, where there was no doubt that there was once something.

"Except for the laboratory where I met the flesh and blood of the gods before, the shadow world and the current world basically maintain a one-to-one mapping state, and based on the traces left on the ground here, it can also be judged that there should be a corresponding ring here, but now it is gone," Gawain frowned, and came to the floor that had been dug up, "Look at the size here, it corresponds to the base of the ring." ”

"Someone ran into the Shadow Realm and stole the gate on this side?" Amber thought wonderfully, "This technique can be ......"

"No one is going to steal a magic door with enough to eat," Gawain glanced at Amber, "I think some kind of force has torn this place apart, 'shifting' what should be here somewhere else." If we enter the Shadow Realm from the rotunda of the current world, we should come to the corresponding ring, and when we enter the Shadow Realm from the corridor outside the room, we can only see this empty 'inner hall', which is some kind of misplaced mapping......"

Amber didn't know how Gawain thought of this, but after thinking about it, her train of thought was zero, so she followed Gawain's train of thought: "So what is that 'interference' force for?" ”

Gawain frowned, letting his thoughts drift away: "Maybe it's to stop unauthorized people from bypassing the 'Magic Gate' and getting somewhere...... The only way to get to the right place is through the right matching 'Magic Door', and you can't enter the Shadow Realm or enter the empty hall, which the Magus Gondor used to encrypt important treasures in the past. ”

"In other words, if we want to find out where the correct counterpart is here, the only way is to repair the ring in the current world?" Amber raised an eyebrow, "Then this touches on my knowledge blind spot......"

"It's not just your blind spot, I'm afraid there is no one in the territory who can decipher such a complex ancient magic device." Gawain shook his head regretfully, the ring "outside" was not a simple magic array, but a complex magic device that mixed magic array, ancient synthetic materials, and Gondor Magic Gate technology, this level of things, relying on the current level of spellcasters in the territory, I am afraid that it will not be able to cope at all.

Amber stuck out her tongue, feeling that she couldn't help herself, and wandered around the rotunda.

She looked around, occasionally drawing her small dagger to scratch the runes on the wall or on the floor, but as she circled across the hall, she stopped abruptly.

She noticed a dark crack in the curved wall—not very wide, but it was divided into many cracks, and the dense cracks even covered the entire wall as far as her eye could see.

Curiously, she reached out her finger and stroked the crack.

Gawain was checking the remaining traces of runes on the floor of the hall when he suddenly heard a continuous cracking sound coming from not far away, and he looked up in shock, and was shocked by what happened in front of him:

I saw that the side of the hall away from the entrance was rapidly disintegrating and collapsing, the curved wall that was originally integrated had been covered with large black cracks, and the solid ancient concrete was falling down piece by piece, as if there was an endless abyss outside the hall that was devouring the building!

And Amber, who was standing in front of the wall, seemed to be frightened by this scene, the ground under her feet was already slightly cracked, but she herself stood there unconsciously, motionless!

"Be careful!"

At the last moment, Gawain shouted and rushed forward, and dragged Amber back in a daze, and the two of them did not stop until the entrance of the hall, and Amber did not exclaim until this moment: "Damn, the wall has collapsed with my finger!" ”

Gawain gripped Amber's arm tightly, watching the collapse of the hall, he was ready to evacuate at any moment, but soon he found that the collapse had only spread to a quarter of the hall and stopped—it was a huge momentum, but it ended unusually quickly.

However, the sight of the collapse of the walls and ceiling made him frown, and a strange and strange feeling welled up in his heart.

It was pitch black outside, as if the world had disappeared and the universe had been extinguished.

"That's ...... What......" Amber's nervous voice changed tone, and what made her even more nervous was that she watched Gawain walk towards the collapsed place, "Hey! Be careful! ”

Gawain was indeed careful, he cautiously came to the boundary of the collapse of the hall and looked out into the space outside the wall.

Behind the walls, there should have been a deep layer of rock and soil in the Dark Mountains, but there was nothing but darkness and nothingness in Gawain's vision, and utter darkness filled his vision, as if everything in the world had come to an abrupt end beyond that boundary.

But he squinted his eyes, looked closely, and finally saw something very distant, very vague from the darkness.

He could see that at the far end of the dark space there was an undulating outline like "land on the other side", and in the extreme distance above he could see a faint glimmer of light, which was like the light of the sky, and even in the darkness of nothingness, he could vaguely distinguish some floating things, which seemed to be boulders and islands that had lost their gravity and were floating and tumbling in mid-air.

Gawain finally realized what was going on in front of him: this was not the end of the world, but an unprecedentedly large "void".

The scale of this void is so large that it exceeds the limit of what the human eye can accept light, so it gives people the illusion that "everything disappears", but the special "lighting environment" of the shadow world determines that there will be no absolute darkness here, so Gawain can vaguely identify the things in the hollow.

He pulled out a magic crystal, infused it with mana to activate it, and threw it into the distance.

The glowing crystal flew straight ahead as it detached its hand, it could have illuminated a large room, but it had immediately turned into an inconspicuous light upon entering the large cavern - its glow was too small to be worth mentioning due to the lack of reflective surfaces around it.

This confirms Gawain's conjecture.

"It's ...... Caves? Amber followed with the audacity, she looked at the scene in amazement, and noticed the glimmer of light in the far distance above, "It seems to lead directly to the surface?" This hollow ...... How big is it!? ”

"Big and small, the Byron Knight has been in the Dark Mountains for so long, and the corridors he has explored include the area corresponding to the void in front of us - that is to say, there is absolutely no such void in the Dark Mountains in the real world," Gawain said with shock, "This void is limited to the Shadow Realm...... If this is not a natural occurrence, then it could only be the work of some force beyond the imagination of mortals......"

Amber finally reacted at this time: "So I couldn't enter the Shadow Realm before, not because of the interference of some magic gate, but because of this area...... It doesn't correspond to the current world, and the dislocation here is too serious? ”

“…… I don't know," Gawain admitted that he was confused at the moment, "I just know that we may not be able to solve the mystery here...... Unless the ring device on the outside can be repaired, no one will be able to figure out what the ancient Gondor Magus were doing here. ”

Amber rubbed her goosebumpy arm: "Wow...... Anyway, I can't stay here anymore, this place is too weird, I think it's the right way for us to leave quickly. ”

Gawain exhaled, "I quite agree with you this time. ”