The Arcanist wears a [Vital Energy Bubble] on his head, as do the guards beside him, who borrowed the Arcane Trinket in their hands to activate this spell, otherwise they would not have been able to survive in this hidden base.

The air was muddy and filthy, and the only thing they could be sure of now was that the 'Elemental Furnace' inside the base was still running, and the lights illuminated all the passages and rooms in the base.

The corners between the walls and the floor are covered with black-and-gray dirt, but there is not much dust in it due to the lack of air circulation.

The Arcanist had a hard time imagining what had happened here in the first place that had caused the base to become so filthy.

Not only the foot of the wall and the foot of the wall, but even the wall and ceiling were stained with filth, and at first they wondered if it was bloodstains, but after thinking about it, what bloodstains could have remained for more than 800 years.

Thinking of this, their actions became more cautious - although these things did not look much different from dust and ashes, after all, this was the base for secret research back then, and who knows if these things were the 'results' of Danna?

"The Grim Reaper of the Assatom Divine Line also intervened in that war, destroying nearly all of the hidden bases......" The Arcanist's deep voice echoed through the empty corridor.

Even if he had tried his best to keep his voice down, the place was too empty, and no matter what he did, the sound would become loud invisibly.

It was impossible for them not to communicate with each other, and since they had entered here in a hurry, they were not fully prepared, and they did not carry any magical objects that could communicate silently.

"No one knows how he did it, and the Empire has not been able to inspect the secret bases, and the communication between the hidden bases and the outside world is concentrated in a regular period, and until then, they will not have any form of information flow with the outside world. ”

Faint echoes came from front and behind them, chilling, and even though they had been here for a few days, they still hadn't gotten used to it.

Here, communication with the outside world was completely cut off, and the Arcanist failed to inform the Empire that he had discovered the secret base and had entered it, not dying at the hands of the monster.

Even now, it seems that this mechanism is still working, but I don't know in what form it has survived to this day.

In other hidden bases that have been opened, even Taling is missing, and it is very likely that he was wiped out by the 'Silent King' along with the Arcanist.

Therefore, no one knows how the King of Silence discovered these secret bases in the first place and killed them one by one.

No one could escape, they all died in it......

Arcanists: They don't think that the filth that sticks everywhere is the corpse of those Arcanists, and although this secret base is large, there are not many people in reality.

Not only in the hallway, but he even went out of his way to 'pry' open the doors of some rooms, and found that the situation inside was similar to the situation in the hallway outside.

They are now going deeper and deeper into the base, and what they are looking for is in the depths of the base.

"Even if the 'King of Words' is a god of death, and unlike those gods who have been swept away from the mortal world, he can return to the kingdom of the underworld at will, and can mobilize heroic spirits and divine envoys, but no one can escape, and no news has spread to the outside world, which is too strange......"

This means that all the Arcanists died one after the other in a very short period of time, without even having time to react.

But that's not normal!

At the beginning, the empire established these secret bases to prevent the prying eyes of the gods, and in order to conduct some research that the gods did not allow, their empire established many secret bases.

Some of them exist in the half-planes attached to the world of Assatom, and some exist underground like the hidden bases they are today, but at the beginning of their construction, they thought about how to shield the eyes of the gods so that they could not detect the existence of these bases.

Otherwise, in the past 800 years, there would not have been so many 'Arcane Empire Ruins' on the Mendes Continent.

If you can't even discover the existence of these bases, then how did the Grim Reaper come here and kill the arcanists among them?

This is one of the things that puzzles the Arcane Empire the most to this day.

Not only them, but the gods of the Assatom god line only became aware of the entry of the Silent King into the war decades after the end of that war, and it was only in recent decades that the participation of the Silent King was confirmed.

The Grim Reaper was as mysterious as ever, with layers of fog on his body, and even the Arcane Empire relied on the Eye of Omniscience to determine that it was the Grim Reaper who destroyed their hidden base after escaping the world of Assatom.

The Arcanist didn't think that they would be able to reveal this secret, so much time had passed, and even if there were traces, it was estimated that they would have disappeared long ago, and it was impossible for them to discover it until now.

The Hidden Base as a whole looks a bit like an inverted pyramid, and they go all the way down from the first floor, relying on a spiral staircase to reach the bottom without the help of the tower spirits.

The first level is the 'testing ground' of this hidden base, where all research experiments will be conducted, but just by looking at it, the Arcanist leads the team to bypass, after all, he doesn't know if there is any danger there, and it is not yet time for them to 'sacrifice'.

The second floor, which seems to be a place for the Arcanists to socialize, is also where their dormitories are located, and in addition to the Arcanists themselves, their families also live there.

From the third floor, there is the 'laboratory' and 'research room', and in addition, there is also a layer where valuable books are kept, but it is a pity that those books are not properly kept, and they turn into powder when touched, which makes the arcanist feel extremely distressed, so he has to leave lightly, continue to go down, and wait until he has basically explored this place, and then bring the people of the empire to protect these books and bring them back.

The fourth floor, which is where they are now, is also a laboratory and a research room, but with a few more 'offices' and 'archives'.

The fifth layer is the goal of their trip, where the most valuable information is kept, and the location of the Elemental Furnace and the Tower Spirit is also on the fifth layer.

They now wanted to figure out what the situation was with this hidden base, and why it continued to operate even when Taling was most likely dead.

Of course, it can be done with the current technology of the Empire, but in the Arcane Council, the Grand Arcanists who survived the Great War back then are very sure that back then, they also needed the assistance of the Tower Spirit to complete the management of the Mage Tower, the Floating City, and the Hidden Base.

It can't be that this hidden base can evolve itself, right?

Not long after they walked, they saw a staircase appear in front of them, and unsurprisingly, a 'map' appeared.

The illusory map flickered in the air, with the overall model of the Hidden Base on the left, marking the floor they were currently on, and the floor plan of their floor on the right.

Each floor has four staircases, each with a map, and in addition to a 'projection map' that is located in a corner of the current floor, the map is located.

This ensures that the Arcanist can walk around the base without the help of the Talings and not get lost.

After glancing at the map twice, the Arcanist withdrew his gaze and pushed open the door at the top of the staircase, "Let's go." ”

The exploration of the previous days was not without meaning, at least they had memorized the entire map of the hidden base, and they also gained some information.

Once they leave here and return to the Empire, they will be able to use this information to reconstruct some of the things that happened here back then.

Click......

As the footsteps moved away from the fourth level, darkness and hollowness once again enveloped the area.