Chapter 69: The Gate of Passage
The apocalyptic battle 100,000 years ago ended in a tragic victory for the Occult and Magical Realms after the Evil Flame was sealed by various forces led by outsiders. Although the war was over, the raging evil fire also left huge scars in the two worlds - the burned through space holes continued to wander around the final battle, leaving a huge hidden danger in the post-war world. The powerful people, led by Gonggong and other gods and archmages, finally formed the Arcane Ring, forcibly fixed the spatial hole, and built it as a boundary gate connecting the Xuan Realm and the Magic Realm.
For this Boundary Crossing Gate, both sides have their own homes, filling it with an unknown number of genius earth treasures and magical energy, and finally, when this Boundary Crossing Gate is fixed, those huge energies cannot be stopped from the Boundary Crossing Gate, becoming a pillar of energy that goes straight to the sky.
Over the next nearly 100,000 years, these powerful forces were put to good use - the co-workers and the Magus built an energy-harvesting and transforming device, a tower of magical energy. The tower collects and transforms the violent, enormous power into a fixed source of power, around which a glorious city is built.
This city is the pearl of the snowfields, the magical city of Tilfara. And when you get the Boundary Gate, you are in the very center of the Magic City, under the pillar of light that runs through the entire Magic City.
Because of the importance of the Boundary Gate and the recent treasure plan, the Gate has been heavily guarded by the Arcane Ring during this period of time. Every caravan or mercenary group that passes through the gate must be subject to strict inspection. Hao Shen has not seen what the Gate used to look like, but from some advertisements and leaflets in the trade area, Hao Shen has seen the general scene of the Gate - a huge hall, a ticket office, a large number of guards, a customs processing center, a waiting hall, and a huge light gate with light flowing and vehicles shuttling under the light gate. It is like a scene of the large import and export wharf of Jinmen.
But now, when Hao Shen and the others quickly passed through the checkpoint between the second-floor trade area and the center of the crossing gate, what they saw was a scorched earth!
The center of the original tall crossing gate has completely disappeared, and a potholed platform the size of three or four football fields is full of burning flames and thick smoke, scattered goods and public facilities that originally belonged to the center of the crossing gate, and scattered ruins everywhere, the scene is as tragic as Syria after being bombed by the US military.
Above the scorched earth, a massive silver circular portal, about five or six stories high, was slowly spinning—it hadn't been damaged by the explosion, and it appeared to be still running.
"Good guy, play so big!" Hao Shen's face was a little unsightly, he didn't expect that people to be so frustrated, he had joked with Zhao Ran that people might be more terrible than terrorists, but he didn't expect it to be a word.
Fortunately, it was night, and the entire center of the Crossing Gate was not as crowded as it was during the day, otherwise the situation might really get out of control - there were only guards on duty in the center of the Crossing Gate at night. Moreover, most of the guards are patrolling the vicinity, and there are not many guards in the center of the gate.
There were no casualties, which made Hao Shen breathe a sigh of relief, but at the same time, his heart was also tight: if this is really the case, then it doesn't take so much to break through the center of the boundary gate, so the purpose of these bastards is ......
"What about them? With such a violent explosion, I'm afraid they won't be able to dodge it no matter how powerful they are, right? "Zhao Ran has already taken out the death light short gun in his hand, and he is constantly looking for it on this scorched earth." Could it be that they have already entered the Piercing Gate? ”
"Wait! Wait a minute! Si Li and Ji Xi'e were already stunned by what was happening in front of them, they still didn't know the situation at all, and when they woke up, they found that the center of the Magic City's Boundary Gate had been blown up, and their brain circuits couldn't keep up at all, "This, Brother Hao, what is the situation here?" How did it come to be like this? ”
Hao Shen pondered for a while, and no longer concealed it, and after eliminating the content of the evil fire of the whole thing, he briefly told Si Li and Ji Xi'e that there was a group of people who wanted to find the treasure in advance driven by greed, and launched this explosive attack in order to clear the obstacles.
Si Li was immediately stunned, and his first reaction was to summon the fairy sword, "Who is so bold?" Do you know? ”
"No, the co-workers can't come for the time being." Hao Shen's face was gloomy, he forced a deep breath, trotted a few steps onto a half-broken wall, and looked into the distance. At this time, it was only ten minutes before the explosion, and the earth-shattering explosion alarmed everyone, and in the trade area, there were already figures poking their brains out to observe the situation. "It happened a bit unexpectedly, but at least one thing I can be sure of is that if the enemy dares to launch such a violent explosion, it will certainly not be impulsive, and there will be no accidents in an organized and planned operation—they must have had many follow-up to ensure that they can pass through the gate safely. So I speculate that they will definitely be held back by something. Moreover, it is estimated that those mercenaries will soon think about what is happening here, and they will be here soon...... Let's go, let's go to the Boundary Gate first! ”
Hao Shen's opinion was unopposed, although Si Li was skeptical, but this Immortal Monarch was really a good old man. The same is true for Ji Ji'e, the little girl is also a guy who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, seeing the ruins after the explosion, not only is she not afraid, but she also has a eager expression - she is afraid that she has already thought of going with those mercenaries: enter the boundary gate in advance to hunt for treasures.
Even Ji Xiao'e's reaction was so fast, not to mention those mercenaries who were dying of spirits, they might choose to wait and see for a while, but it wouldn't be long before they would flock here.
This is a battle for time, Hao Shen slightly took Zhao Ran, Ji Xi'e and Si Li each took out their weapons, and then quickly walked through the burning ruins, heading towards the direction of the boundary gate.
However, what everyone else did not expect was that they soon encountered an uninvited guest: a petite figure suddenly appeared in front of them, she came from the direction of the boundary gate, and moved quickly towards a ruin not far away, because the speed was too fast, her whole body was like a note floating in the air, and under a pair of slender little feet, flashing with magical light.
"Elsa?"
Hao Shen almost immediately recognized the emaciated figure, it was Elsa, the disciple of the six great demon masters of the Arcane Ring, Thunder Demon Master Le Ji, this thin girl also accompanied them to register the Moon Fairy Mercenary Group in the afternoon. How did she end up here?
Hao Shen and Zhao Ran glanced at each other: Is it really as Hao Shen speculated, that Thunder Demon Master really has a problem?
At the same time that Hao Shen and the others found Elsa, Elsa almost found Hao Shen, she immediately stopped and took out a small magic wand in her hand, but when she found out that it was Hao Shen and the others, her face suddenly showed a look of surprise, "How could it be you?" ”
What do you mean, how can it be you? Hao Shen was stunned for a moment, and he found that Elsa's surprise contained a greater message - Elsa seemed to have known that someone would appear, but she didn't expect that it was Hao Shen and others who appeared.
Hao Shen immediately decided not to question the mage for the time being, he beckoned everyone to stop, "Why are you here?" ”
"Someone has attacked the Boundary Gate!" After Elsa was surprised, she seemed to think that Hao Shen and the others were curious to come over after hearing the movement, quickly put away her wand, and explained loudly: "Lord Gonggong and Lord Reji are in trouble, so they can't come over immediately. Now the gang is in the control center of the Piercing Gate, they want to relocate the Piercing Gate, you are here just in time, we must stop them! ”
With that, she twisted her head and rushed out again.
Hao Shen glanced at each other and hurriedly followed.
The control center of the Crossing Gate is the core hub of the operation of the entire Crossing Gate, in the beginning, the Crossing Gate is indeed a two-way passage connecting the Xuan Realm and the Magic Realm, but the research technicians of the Arcane Law Ring over the years are not eating dry food, and for the purpose of research (idle egg pain), they have carried out a major transformation of the Crossing Gate system, and today's Crossing Gate is not so much a two-way passage, but a giant controllable portal. And the control center sets the direction of this portal. Before the explosion, the Barrier Gate was still pointing to the Wizarding Realm, but if you want to go to the King's Retreat, you have to re-point the Gate. This is a technical task - only the core high-level of the arcane ring such as co-workers have the ability and technology to change the direction of teleportation, which is why so many mercenaries are obviously desperate to find the treasure, but they have to wait until they open the door.
At this point, a problem comes to the fore: if only the core high-level of the arcane magic ring can change the teleportation direction, then it is obvious that one of the masterminds behind this explosion must have the existence of the core high-level of the arcane magic ring.
Could it be Reggie? Hao Shen took a deep look at Elsa in front of him, and glanced at Zhao Ran, both of whom were on guard.
Soon, the group arrived at the control center of the Gate, the building was clearly heavily fortified and quite well preserved in a collapsed ruins, and four or five figures in black robes could be seen guarding the door in the distance.
Sure enough, they are here!
Elsa rushed over without hesitation, and as far away as she was, magical energy gathered on her little wand!
"Frozen Ring!"
A cold aura suddenly exploded, forming a rapidly expanding ring of ice that swept over the sneaky mages, and in an instant, a large area of cold ice condensed on their bodies, and then the whole was frozen on the ground, becoming five ice sculptures of different shapes, with a surprised expression on her face - Elsa's strength in an instant was extraordinary, surprising, although there was a premise of sneak attack, but subduing the four mages in an instant, worthy of the identity of the great mage's personal disciple.
"Go, don't stop! In the third room! ”
With a wave of her hand, Elsa motioned for Hao Shen to follow her, and pointed out her destination.
But the next moment, an obscure spell came from the door of the building, and then, a stone pillar mixed with tears burst out and shot at everyone!
"Get out of the way!" As an immortal cultivator, Si Li's physical skills are much stronger than those of weak magicians, and he dragged Elsa away with one of them, and the other held his immortal sword in his hand, wielding a layer of immortal barriers, and took her to fly away from this rapid attack!
Ji Ji'e was not slow to react, and there was more on one side. As soon as Hao Shen exposed Zhao Ran's waist, the two of them teleported to a safe area ten meters away in a twist!
When everyone showed that they were able to dodge the magic, a slightly startled voice finally came out, "Elsa? Are you here? ”
Then, a figure wearing a wide and gorgeous robe slowly walked out!