Chapter 45: Destruction
Twilight reached out and grabbed the key, then turned around and walked out, unobtrusively, his goal had been achieved, and he didn't want to waste any more time here.
Returning the same way as she had just been, re-ascending the elevated platform back into the hall above, Twilight was about to walk up the stone stairs and follow the path she had taken to get out of here, but suddenly as if she had thought of something, her right foot stopped again.
He turned his head to look at the huge golden statue and the statue's face, which did not depict any facial features, and finally, his eyes rested on the purple gem embedded in the statue's forehead, which was now shining in the five rays of light.
Twilight's heart moved, he instinctively thought that this thing might be a treasure, driven by a strong curiosity, he walked towards the statue, and easily climbed onto the statue's head with the help of a long knife, but the colossus was also destroyed, there were thin holes on it, all of which were inserted by the blade, perhaps not obvious from a distance, but undoubtedly, the statue's original overall sense of solemnity has been destroyed.
As Twilight climbed onto the statue's forehead, he reached out and grabbed the glittering gem with his left hand.
After grabbing this gem, he pulled it out with a little force, and the gem was very large, the size of his head, and he couldn't grasp it with one hand, he could only hold it with his left hand, and the gem felt very heavy in his hand.
After putting the gem in the storage space, Twilight also poked her head out to look at the area that had been exposed due to the loss of the gem, and behind it was the entrance of the black hole, which appeared to have another mechanism inside, and the gem only served as the part of the mechanism used to focus the light.
Just as Twilight Star got something and tried to climb down slowly, the entire hall suddenly trembled, and the huge statue inevitably shook, and a large amount of dust and rubble scattered due to this tremor, and the entire hall became gray.
Twilight looked a little panicked, and a bad feeling suddenly rose in her heart, this situation, and it was after she took the gem.
As if thinking of something, he couldn't care about safety anymore, and fell down as fast as he could, occasionally sticking a long knife into the statue to slow down, and the moment his feet fell to the ground, as if to verify his conjecture, the whole hall began to shake and shake violently, and there were rubbles falling down with dust from the sky, and the scale was getting bigger and bigger.
Glancing at the crumbling zenith, Twilight ran as fast as he could, his idea coming true, it seemed to be collapsing, whether it was because of the self-destruction mechanism after he took the gem, or simply because it was too old to withstand the movement of the mechanism when it stopped.
For a while, the ground shook, not only the zenith above was about to collapse, but the ground seemed to have the possibility of collapsing, and the ground under Twilightstar's feet was constantly shaking and shaking, making him unable to maintain balance between running, which greatly affected his speed.
"Boom!"
After dodging a falling stone in front of her with her quick reflexes and perception, Twilight ascended the stone staircase that connected the upper and lower levels, and at this time, the stone staircase, which had been somewhat damaged by the long years, had begun to collapse on a small scale in the shaking of the mountain, and the stones that fell on the stone staircase were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, making it collapse faster.
Twilight ran up the stone stairs as fast as he could, and in a hurry, he didn't even dodge the small stones that were about to fall on him, as long as they weren't falling towards his head, he carried them all over, and when he ran to the rooftop, his shoulders and arms, and back were already swollen and bruised.
Fortunately, the stones dropped along the way are not large, and because of the spiral style of the stone ladder, they are not able to give them too much height to accelerate, which also makes their lethality when they fall limited, and coupled with the Twilight Star's own physique, the injury is not serious.
After running to the rooftop, he didn't even have time to look at the crumbling giant statue again, and ran out of the way he came, he needed to get out of here as quickly as possible, this is the interior of the mountain, once the mountain collapses, he will never be able to escape.
Passing through the gate, he returned to the temple, and without stopping, he continued to run out, and at this time the stones above him fell more and more frequently, and the ground began to crack, and the irregular cracks continued to spread, and Twilight even wondered if this place was hollowed out underneath, just like the abyss he had seen on the way here, thinking of this, he suddenly shuddered, and urged the magic with all his might, and the already fast speed became faster.
Twilight Star ran all the way out, and the weathered buildings along the way could no longer withstand such a toss, and they also collapsed one after another, running all the way, all in ruins.
The cracks in the ground were spreading wider and wider, even turning into ravines, and in some places he had begun to collapse downward under the impact of the boulders falling from above, and he had to speed up again, thankfully he was now far more physically fit than before, and it was still easy to cross these ravines in the run.
When he finally ran to the valley where he had just entered, it was no longer as quiet as it once was, the place that had only been the sound of rushing water was filled with the sound of earth and rocks bursting and the roaring of giant beasts, and the entrance and exit had been blocked by a boulder two people high that had fallen from the mountain.
There must be other entrances and exits here, otherwise those large dinosaurs will definitely not be able to enter and exit here, there are a lot fewer dinosaurs along the way, and they must have run away from other exits, but he has no time to look for them, and the feeling of danger stimulates his nerves all the time.
Walking through the chaotic and intermittent waterfall, Twilight ignored the dinosaurs around him who were scurrying around in a panic, even fighting with anxiety and fear, and rushed straight towards the boulder that blocked the exit with muddy water and dirt, and the magic in his body was already flowing and compressing at high speed.
The glittering long knife appeared in his hands, and then, with the force of the charge, the long knife slashed down with a thunderous momentum.
The blade of light slashed across the boulder, slicing it in two sections from top to bottom without any suspense, just as he had used the weapon to chop a stone for the first time, and he didn't think it would stand in his way.
The boulder split in half and fell to either side, revealing the hole it had blocked, and Twilight stooped into it, leaving behind only a desperate roar that was the last of resistance for the dinosaurs who couldn't find an exit or had been living in the mountain.
This passage is supposed to be man-made, and it is very strong, but after all, it is also part of the mountain, and it is inevitable that there will be some landslides and shaking, and there will be small gravel and dust falling, but for the time being, it is not a big problem, even if there are some large rocks blocking the way occasionally, Twilight can split it with a knife.
The further he went, the wider the passage became, at least for Twilight's size, and he was able to straighten up.
The shaking and collapse behind him became more and more violent, and there was a possibility of complete collapse at any time, and Twilight moved rapidly outward in the passage, he could already see the light at the exit in front of him, but it didn't seem to be calm outside.