"What is this place?" Sasha sighed, looking around.

After the group came out of the stone chamber, they found themselves in a wider space, and then the door of the stone chamber closed by itself with a "boom", cutting off everyone's retreat. As a last resort, everyone is just groping forward.

The place was so big that two torches alone couldn't illuminate it all. They groped their way forward on alert, only to come across something that wasn't supposed to come out underground: buildings.

The buildings look to have been abandoned for a long time, some of them are wooden and some of the masonry structures, most of them are dilapidated, and some of them are only the foundations and a few broken bricks, and very little intact. At first they came across a few buildings, but later they found more and more buildings or ruins, and it seems that there is at least one village.

Suddenly, one person stopped, and after 2 seconds, the others also stopped.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, what is the matter?"

Seeing Ipeya's abrupt stop, Nanokhai realized that something was happening and immediately came to Ipeya's side.

"Miss Nanokai, please take out the magic crystal for lighting. Despite the fact that the order was addressed to a retainer or subordinate, the imperial empress politely used honorifics.

Hearing his master's command, Nanokai didn't say a word, and immediately took out the magic crystal that had been isolated before from his luggage. Suddenly, the light emitted by the two torches was masked by the light of the magic crystal, and the surroundings were clear.

"That's not good, Miss. I feel that the free magical energy in the air here is even richer than the stone chamber just now, aren't you afraid that the magic resonance will cause an explosion?" Julian objected.

But this time, Ipeia didn't patiently answer Julian's questions, she silently took the magic crystal from Nanokai's hand, and then poured the magic power that was not enough to recover into it, and the brightness of the magic crystal became brighter and brighter. Judging from her calm expression, it seems that seeing her surroundings clearly is more important than her own safety.

After a few moments, the brightness of the illumination crystal was increased to the maximum, and the rising ball of light was like a small sun, illuminating the earth as if it were day. In this way, the scene that was originally hidden by darkness is presented to everyone without reservation.

No one doesn't sigh at what they see. It turned out that the complex they had just seen was just the tip of the iceberg. Behind the dilapidated buildings, there are many more and more magnificent complexes. It seems that it is not a village buried underground, but a city, a metropolis at the level of a national capital.

The "Riverside Man" exclaimed, "Oh my God!"

"There's a city underground!" said Dante, who built it?" said Dante, interested in its origins.

"This—here...... Could it be ......" It seems that even Ipeya, who is the leader of the way, did not expect to see such a scene, and the empress, who usually seems to be always in a good mood, looks so surprised at this moment.

"Miss, is this your ......?"

Before Julian could finish his sentence, Ipeia hurried forward and rushed into an alley, where she was no longer visible.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, wait for us!" the three Fernandez sisters were afraid that something would be missing, so they hurriedly chased after them.

"These women......" Julian couldn't help but be anxious, and chased after him.

Dante, who remained in place in the end, smiled at each other, shook his head helplessly, and followed.

The city is full of ruins and crumbling buildings, but the city's roads are still recognizable. Ipeya lifted her skirt and carefully navigated the rubble. Although she sometimes slows down because of some obstacles on the road, most of the time she trots all the way, without the slightest hesitation or doubt, and she looks very familiar with this underground city, as if she has grown up in this city since she was a child.

The crowd followed Ipeya silently. Although everyone had countless questions in their hearts, seeing Ipeiya's serious and focused appearance made people unable to interrupt them. I don't know how long it took, but Ipeia finally stopped in front of a building.

I saw that this is a magnificent building, and it is also a relatively well-preserved building in this deserted city, a large arch made of white rock 3 or 4 meters high, showing that this is not an ordinary dwelling, in front of the door 7 or 8 levels above, two stone statues of soldiers holding swords and shields stand at the door, although the surface has been corroded by the years, but it still looks lifelike from a distance. Two flagpoles were erected above the arch, and the flags that had been hung on them seemed to have corroded away, leaving only mutilated rags.

"Miss, what kind of place is this?"

The way Ipeia stared at the building intently made Julian feel like he couldn't be silent any longer.

However, instead of answering, Ipeia asked a strange question: "Mr. Julian, don't you feel familiar?"

"What?" Julian looked at the building, and then at Ipeya, who could not think of what was sold in the Empress's gourd, but when she reminded him, Julian suddenly felt that the building seemed to have a sense of déjà vu.

"The town hall here. Ipeia uncovered the mystery, and then she suddenly turned around and walked in the other direction, "If the concubine is not mistaken, the palace should be on that side." ”

"Miss!" Julian hurriedly rushed over and grabbed Ipeya's hand.

"Hey!"

"Are you looking for death?"

"Let it go!"

The three Fernández sisters shouted out almost in unison. In their minds, Her Royal Highness Princess Ipeia is extremely sacred, how can she be touched by the dirty hands of a stinky man? It's just that they don't know that during the bloody battle at the manor a few days ago, when they were poisoned and unconscious, Her Royal Highness the Princess had already had more "intimate" contact with this "dirty" man than holding hands.

Realizing that if he was 2 or 3 seconds late, he might be distracted by the cannibalistic gaze of the three sisters, Julian let go of Ipea's hand and gave the Empress a deep gentlemanly salute: "Sorry, please forgive me for my rudeness. Miss, I just want to know what's going on. ”

"Oh, it should be the concubine who apologizes to everyone. Ipeiya's signature elegant smile returned, "It's just that the concubine didn't expect it," she said this, she looked around, "I actually came to this place, and I was a little distracted and absent-minded for a while." ”

"And where the hell are we?" asked Julian.

"The concubine thought that this place was just a legend, oh my God, I didn't expect it to really exist. It's incredible. Ignoring Julian's anxious feelings, Ipeia continued to express her feelings.

I don't know if it's intentional or unintentional, Ipeia is still selling Guan Zi at this time, which makes Julian have to frown. Originally, he returned to the Rocard Empire just to retrieve the sword in the mission, but he didn't expect that there were so many branches, but he didn't even see the shadow of the sword, and now he came to an unknown place, how could Julian not be in a hurry?

As if sensing Julian's "resentment", Ipeia smiled "just in moderation" and pulled the topic back: "The place we are in now is called 'Alexander'. ”

"Alexander, are you talking about Alexandria, the capital of the Empire?" Dante pondered.

"That's right. Ipeia nodded.

"Miss, I still don't understand. Julian asked.

"This is another Alexandria, and it was the original Alexandria. Ipeia turned completely, "I don't know if you have heard of it, but the royal family of our Rokal Empire, the ancestor of the Drogen family, is the first dragon knight in human history: Alexander Drogen. ”

"Hmm. Julian said, "Although the Holy Light Cult has revised a lot of history, and deleted a lot of the history before the birth of the Holy Light Cult, I think anyone who was born in the Rocard Empire, or who received a high aristocratic education in the Empire, should have heard of this allusion. The dragon knight Alexander Drogen, during the ancient dragon wars when humans were still in primitive societies, fought side by side with the Golden Dragons, and after winning one victory after another, he finally laid the foundation for the Golden Dragons to become the king of the dragons. With that, Julian turned his attention to Dante and the "Riverside Man" as non-Rocal nationals.

"I've heard that, too. Dante responded. The "Riverside Man" also nodded slightly.

"That is the highest honor in our empire, and although I later converted to the Holy Light Cult, there is no substitute for the legend of our ancestors dancing with dragons. Nano Kai said.

Ipeya picked up the subject: "Although Alexander Drogen was from the era of the Dragon War, the legend about him did not end with his death. More than a thousand years after the end of the War of the Dragons, Alexander's descendants founded a city named after him where his bones were buried. In the beginning, Alexander was just a small city-state, and then after dozens of generations of monarchs, the city-state grew into a principality, then a kingdom, an empire, and this is where our Rocard Empire came from. Alexandria, as an ancient capital, has witnessed the growth of the empire, just like the great dragon knight Alexander Draugen in its name. Of course, the growth of the empire has not been smooth sailing, and there have been countless ups and downs in between. Just over 3,000 years ago, Alexandria was in the face of extinction. During the invasion of the Poseidon, the city was overwhelmed by the waves of the tsunami. The imperial family that lost the capital led the emperor ** people to resist stubbornly, and finally drove those sea god clans back to the sea. However, although the enemy and the sea had retreated, all that was left was a large amount of silt that had been carried to the land by the tsunami, and the landform had been altered, and there was no trace of Alexandria anymore. So the rulers of the empire built a new Alexandria near the original Alexandria, and rebuilt their homes according to the layout and scale of the streets of the original city with the memories in their minds. ”

"I see. Julian nodded, "No wonder you are so familiar with this buried city, because it has the same layout as the current imperial capital." ”

The "riverside man" said: "Your Majesty, is your father buried here?"

"How is that possible? The city of Alexandria, which is buried underground, is just a legend that has been passed down within the royal family, and no one has yet found it. We just stumbled in. ”

"It also illustrates the 'exciting' news that we are lost. ”

Although the phrase "riverside man" sounds completely sarcastic, no one can deny the current predicament. The mausoleum could not be found, the way back had been sealed, and the terrible state of affairs had plunged everyone into a depressing silence.

"Smack!"

On top of a collapsed house, a small stone rolled down, making it particularly loud in the silence.

"Someone!" blurted out Julian, who was the first to look at the sound.

Although it was only a momentary glimpse, he saw a short figure flash by.