Chapter 8: The Ring of the City (Part 2)

Stephen felt himself enter a terrifying realm.

It was as if he had entered the deepest part of the earth elemental plane, obviously in a place close to the void, but Stephen found that the gravity he felt was constantly increasing, the gravity coefficient from one to five times, and then quickly soared to ten, fifty, hundred, and a thousand times, and finally the gravity field around here stabilized at about a thousand times, even with his current physical fitness, he felt a trace of pressure. If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that he would have died if he was close to here, and his body must have a certain degree of energy to fight against this terrifying gravity field, and in the deepest part of the front, he also felt an even more terrifying gravity field.

"That's the caretaker. The Time Dragon pointed to a gray figure in the distance, as if absorbing any light, with a body like a golem.

He said in a calm tone, "The Space-Time Nexus originally belonged to the Lord of Space-Time. ”

"One of the oldest and most powerful beings in the known universe, he created the current space-time pivot to govern the present multiverse with the Pantheon, but one in the light and the other in the dark. After the end of the Age of the Old Gods, the Pantheon gradually fell into ruins, and after the Lord of Time and Space disappeared, our group of Time Dragons took over the place and searched for those suitable guardians according to the arrangement of the Lord of Time and Space. ”

"The caretaker is the servant he has left behind. ”

The Lord of Time and Space?

Stephen's expression was a little incredulous, and he muttered, "Disappeared? Didn't you look for Him? How could such an existence disappear into thin air?"

"I've been looking for it. The Time Dragon shook his head and sighed, "But we have searched the entire multiverse and found no trace of him, and even ventured into the river of time in order to find him, and shuttled through the past and future that can be touched. ”

"But. ”

"We've been looking for 50,000 years, and we still haven't found anything. ”

"All the way up to ...... We found a place called the Ring City, where we found a small imprint left by the Temporal Nick...... But we still don't have any clues......"

"It's just a peculiar space. ”

"With a gate connecting countless planes, and a special lady, there's not what we're looking for. ”

Ring?

Imprint City?

Lady of Pain?

In Stephen's memory, there was only one place with a gate to countless planes, and the Supreme Arcane Council had turned to the power of Sigil City when it traveled through the turbulence of time and space to other planes.

Is there some connection to the space-time hub?

The Lady of Pain who wanders that world seems to hate the gods?

It seems that the guardians of the space-time hub can't be gods either?

Is there any connection between this?

That's right!

Stephen remembers that there is a Time Dragon around the city, which is a secret of the Supreme Arcane Council.

When he first saw the Time Dragon in front of him, he couldn't help but think of the Time Dragon in Seal City, because the Time Dragon seemed to have dealt with the Supreme Arcane Council.

Stephen had many doubts in his heart, but the time dragon next to him didn't seem to want to talk about it, but changed the subject: "Don't get close to the guards easily, and don't enter the inside of the prison, which is the most dangerous place in the entire space-time hub. ”

The most dangerous place?

Stephen closed his eyes and opened his perceptual net, and the next moment his face turned pale, as if he had been shocked by the spirit and took a step back.

"This ...... What kind of monsters are there in here?...... "Stephen muttered.

With just a moment of perception, he felt an incomparably terrifying malice, as well as countless painful screams and screams, and a doomsday vision like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood almost dragged him into it.

"Gods, Ancient Abominations, Desane Gods, Twisted Monsters Born from the Corpses of Ancient Gods......"

The Time Dragon said slowly, "Those monsters that we can't destroy, or that will come back to life after we destroy them. ”

"We put them here. ”

"The caretakers will keep them in their hands and will never be able to escape. ”

The Time Dragon itself didn't seem to want to get close to the prison, and said a few hundred meters away from the gate: "In the future, if you catch an indelible Ancient Abomination, you can hand it over to the caretakers here." ”

"That's right. ”

"I forgot that unlike other Guardians, you seem to have the ability to destroy some of the Ancient Abominations. ”

"That's the power of death, right?"

"That's not right!"

"And the power of life. ”

"Anyway, make good use of the power from the Pantheon in you......"

The source of the gods is the Pantheon.

Although Stephen is not a god himself, he has studied the Scroll of Death, and has a special connection to the Tree of Life. Known sources in the universe are the Pantheon, and perhaps now a space-time nexus.

"There's the big library over there. ”

"There are some books left behind by the Lord of Time and Space, and of course more of them are found when we roam the plane. ”

"You seem to be following the path of the Arcane. ”

"On the third floor of the Great Library there is our collection of books from the Arcane Empire. Speaking of which, there was once a Guardian from the Arcane Empire, but unfortunately he fell in the end. ”

Stephen was silent.

If the Nexus was dealing with enemies like Ancient Abominations, Gods, and Deranged Gods, it wouldn't be surprising that one of the Guardians had fallen, as Stephen was able to defeat Death Omen with the help of too many people, and without the help of these people, he probably wouldn't have much chance of winning.

"This is the Hall of the Guardians. ”

"This is the Hall of the Observer. ”

"From here, you can access the upper levels of the Plane Hub, but I don't recommend you try it now, because it's dangerous. ”

Stephen looked at a staircase suspended in the void in front of him, and asked curiously, "What's on the upper level of the space-time hub?"

"Throne. Time Dragon said slowly: "It's a bit like a pantheon. ”

"But the caretaker won't let you into the throne. ”

More than one caretaker?

Stephen remembered the terrifying pressure that the caretaker had brought to him, and was amazed at the essence of the space-time hub!

"What about the others?" Stephen spun around, barely seeing anyone.

The Time Dragon led Stephen to a huge light gate, shook his head, and said, "Almost no one wants to live in the space-time hub, this is just a point of contact, and the other guardians will live in their own world and settle in the Ring City if they don't have a mission." ”

"Come with me. ”

"It's a gateway to the Ringtown. ”

The figure of the Time Dragon turned into a middle-aged scholar with a serious expression, and led Stephen into the light gate.

There was an extremely oppressive aura in the Space-Time Nexus, largely emanating from the prison, and if it were Stephen, he wouldn't want to live here, because he didn't want to be neighbors with a horde of ancient abominations and gods.

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