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On the other side of the Great Saron Fault is a vast void on which perennial mist drifts. The imperial capital of the Demon Shadow Empire sits above the void, between the mountains and mist.

True to the meaning of its name, the Magic Ring City is a magnificent capital city that looks like concentric circles that are interlocking from the sky. The Magic Ring City is very old, and even though the starships above it are like ridges coming and going, the buildings in the city still retain the ancient flavor. The city is located above the Void in front of the Great Fault, but unlike the Babylonian Floating Island, there are no anti-gravity devices underneath the city. Supporting the city are thousands of stone pillars as thick as mountain peaks, no one knows how these stone pillars came about, and they seem to be naturally located beneath the capital, supporting the city of nearly 100 square kilometers.

There is a very obvious central axis in the capital, which is the Shadow Avenue. The Shadow Avenue runs through the city, starting at Shadow Keep and passing through the entire city, leading directly to a tunnel on the Saron Fault. In ancient times, if the Magic Ring City wanted to go to the outside world, it needed to enter the fault tunnel through the avenue and then go to the surface.

Naturally, there is no such trouble now, and the coming and going Shadow Flying Ship is the most powerful illustration.

The Shadow Castle is located in the deepest part of the city, and that is the castle of Sbernack. Even in the best weather, even during the polar daylight season, the castle is hidden in the shadow of the towering mountain wall that rises for thousands of meters behind it. It's hard to see the full picture of Shadow Keep from a distance, only the strange lines on the castle's surface that have been faintly glowing red in the shadows for many years.

These lines resemble the blood vessels of living beings, so most of the life on Agareth thinks of Shadowkeep as a dormant creature.

Of course, this claim has not been confirmed, after all, the people who live in the Shadow Keep are one of the most terrifying people on the planet. Around the Shadow Fortress stood the cone-shaped Shadow Towers, pillar-like towers with no doors or windows, watching over the Ring City and the vast area near the Great Saron Fault all day long. From time to time, each Shadow Tower emits a dull yellow pillar of light that penetrates, and none of the substances known on Agareth can prevent it from penetrating.

Twenty-four Shadow Towers, like the eyes of Sbenark, watched everything in this world, and nothing escaped the sight of the Demon King, even when he was asleep.

However, the entire Shadow Empire knows that Sbenak has awakened.

One day not long ago, the power of the Demon King swept through his entire kingdom like a tidal wave rolling from the deep sea, and on the same day, the news of Sbernack's awakening came from the Demon Ring City. This is really shocking information, since the Void Skyfire expedition to Agareth, the Demon King has entered a long sleep. When Frius rises, he often awakens. However, the awakening time is very short, sometimes for a few days, sometimes for several hours. More time was spent on slumber, and never before had the awakening directly released his mighty inferno breath like this one, announcing the fact that he had woken up to the creatures of the entire planet.

As a result, many people in the empire speculated that Sburnac was going to officially crusade against the Black Emperor, but after the Demon King woke up, there was no major action. Even not long ago, there was a battle between the Shadow Empire and the army of Duobia on the land bridge in the Sea of Blood, and the battle ended with the retreat of the army of the Shadow Empire.

But no matter what the outside world is, in Shadowkeep, everything has to be very careful. Even a breath must be controlled so as not to attract Sbernack's attention. No one wants to get the attention of the Demon King, not even the soldiers who serve in the Shadow Keep.

But today, Ramer had to go to meet the demon king, which made General Ramer, known as the hidden demon, feel extremely heavy.

Lamer was like a tall, lanky monkey, with his hands and feet together and an ape-like face. There was a row of long and short bone spurs from the top of his head to his back, and he always bent over as he walked, looking like an old man. But in fact, the general of Sbernack is a master of stealth and assassination, otherwise he would not have won the title of "hidden demon". In addition to commanding an assassination force in the service of the Shadow Empire, Ramer is also the head of intelligence at Sbernack, responsible for managing the vast intelligence network that envelops the entire empire.

Walking into the castle's Hall of Shadows, you can hear the sound of a woman's giggle inside. The hall retains the style of the ancient architecture of Agares, dark, majestic and elegant. The long, tall windows allowed the bright light outside to leave only narrow patches of light on the sides of the hall, like two rows of loyal guards. The stone pillars supporting the dome in the hall are carved with stone statues of naked women, and it looks like these women are holding the pillars. The dome was inlaid with hedrons, the largest of which was the size of a tabletop. At night, the hedron radiates enough light up the hall.

At the end of the hall is a high platform with a stone staircase extending to the ground, with a total of 27 stone steps, from bottom to top, from wide to narrow. At the bottom of the throne is an iron statue of two strange beasts, embedded with blood-red crystals, which look like living creatures from a distance. It was as if the two beasts carried the throne all year round, and there was a figure on the throne, which almost merged with the shadow on the high platform, making it impossible to see its outline. On either side of the throne sat a seductive woman, a very different woman from a man of the Bal tribe. The males of this race have few characteristics in common, but the females are almost indistinguishable from humans. It's just that their complexion is dull, their eyes are bright red, and they have natural lines on their bodies, but they are all sexy and beautiful.

Ramer looked at the throne on the high platform and recognized that the two women were the sisters who had been sent to the Shadow Fortress by an adult the day before, and the person they were pleasing was naturally the highest being in the Shadow Empire. Lamer stopped at a distance of 100 meters from the high platform, and then the whole person fell to the ground, and said, "Please forgive your majesty." ”

A voice rang out from the high platform: "What's the matter, Lamer, you seem to have screwed up something." ”

The sound was straight, with little undulation and reverberated through the hall. The volume was not loud, but it seemed to be whispering in my ear. Ramer didn't dare to get up and said, "Just now, I received a message. The Kidd's transport fleet lost contact, and they appear to have been attacked before they even entered the planet. After passing through the atmosphere, there was an accident, and the entire fleet was completely destroyed, and we are currently confirming the location of the crash of the wreckage. ”

"What!" The voice on the high stage suddenly rose a few degrees, and the voice became high-pitched and angry. The pressure poured down from the high platform like a tidal wave, and instantly swept through the entire hall. The pair of sisters on the throne showed painful expressions, and the soft sound of bones shattering sounded in their bodies, and their sexy and beautiful bodies turned into two puddles of flesh in a blink of an eye, but they couldn't withstand the power of the supreme and died violently on the spot.

Ramer also gurgled all over his body, and Sbernack's breath was so breathless that he couldn't breathe. After a while, the tide of terrifying power slowly receded, and the light in the hall seemed to brighten.

"This time, the Kidds sent me the Heart of the Stars, using the Pure Water Transport Fleet as a cover, which should have been foolproof. Who exactly attacked them in outer space, and, right now, find out what happened to this fleet after it entered the atmosphere. But most importantly, you must find the Heart of the Stars, which is more important than anything else! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Ramer said in a trembling voice, "Once it is confirmed that the wreckage of the fleet has fallen, I will immediately send a team to recover it, and I believe that the Heart of the Stars should also be nearby." But ......"

"But what?"

"That's your Majesty, according to our deductions. The wreckage fell near the Great Wasteland. ”

"The Great Wasteland?" The figure on the throne squirmed slightly: "That's a bit troublesome, the Great Wasteland and the Forsaken Realm are next to each other, if our people appear in that place, I'm afraid it will alarm her." And, once we head to the Great Wasteland, we're bound to get the attention of that bastard of Frius. He's sure to try to figure out what we're trying to do, and I can't imagine what would happen if the Heart of the Stars were given to Frieus. ”

"Your Majesty, it's just the heart of a star, presumably the Black Emperor won't be interested, right?"

"If it was the core of the dying planet, Frius certainly wouldn't be interested. But the Heart of the Stars was taken directly from a young planet by the Kidds with their latest technology. Its energy is immeasurable, and importantly, it is not only complete, but also young. With it, I can make the Adahuas suffer, and I can make the bastard Frius taste the pain of betraying me! ”

Ramer hurriedly said, "Then I know what to do, Your Majesty." ”

"You'd better know."

Ramer almost crawled out of the Hall of Shadows, barely holding on to his feet until the two towering black iron doors closed. But he found that his legs were still shaking, and Sbernack was as elusive as his figure, and if he could say even one wrong word, Hammer believed that he would not be much different from the sisters. Luckily he made it out of the hall alive, and he swore that he would not set foot in it again if it was not necessary.

The premise, of course, is to find the wreckage of the fleet, as well as the Heart of the Stars!

It's been five hours since the descent to the ground.

Alan stood on a rock, looking into the distance. The snow field seemed to have no bounds, and even with the light emitted by the fluttering spatial light bands above his head, Alan couldn't see the end of the snow field. The terrain here is relatively flat, but the strange force fields that permeate the space affect not only perception, but also eyesight. With Allen's eyesight, he could only see six or seven hundred meters away in this environment. As for the distant scenes, they became blurred.

If he is still like this, the others will naturally be affected even more.

The sky still showed no signs of getting brighter, and it seemed that the night in Agares was unusually long. If it weren't for the fact that it hadn't yet reached the polar day or polar night on Agareth, Alan would have thought that the sky would always be so dark. The snow field is quiet, but quiet does not mean that there is no life, and a corpse lying not far away is a creature on the snow field. It resembles a giant lizard, except that it has no eyes on its head, five legs on its body, and a thick tail that splits into two sides from the middle.

The creature inherited the chaotic nature of life on Agareth, and what looked like its head was actually the part used to confuse its opponents. When Lola slashed off her entire neck with the Blood Brake Greatsword, thinking it was safe, the beast still attacked. Hubble next to him added another axe, almost cutting it off at the waist, and finally ended its life. Later, Alan turned his body upside down, only to find that it had eyes and a mouth under its abdomen, and it turned out that the location of its abdomen was where its vital organs were located.

God knows how many more creatures like this are on this snowy field.

Now, however, they are more anxious to find traces of the activities of the planet's natives in order to understand where they are so that they can make their next plans.

A cloud of black mist suddenly appeared nearby, and Belmode walked out of it. After many attempts, he seemed to have grasped the method of opening a spatial passage on the snowfield, and he would no longer drive directly in mid-air like the first time. However, Belmode is still very cautious and unnecessary, preferring to use his legs rather than use the space to pierce the edges. He walked to the snow and pointed to a corner of the vast snowfield: "Young master, maybe we should go there and have a look." I think I should have seen the lights, yes, the lights. ”

Alan's eyes lit up, and he finally had a clue. He nodded and said, "Lead the way, Belmode." ”

They didn't walk very fast, and they encountered several chaotic creatures along the way. These things have nothing in common at all, and among the chaotic creatures are soft creatures like jellyfish, which can't see eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and mouth; There are also monsters that have six or seven pairs of legs like spiders, but their bodies are like wolves. Except for one thing, these things are very good at disguising themselves. What often appears to be a fatal part can actually be abandoned, or even used to lure enemies into attacking.

More than an hour later, Alan saw what Belmode called the light.

This kind of light made him feel uncomfortable.

No one, including Hubble, would feel comfortable seeing a miserable green light. The Cato swung his great axe and hummed, "I bet it won't be a good place." ”

"It's normal, because it's Agares." Belmode Road.

"Let's go over and see." Allen said.

The light seemed to be a few hundred meters open, not far away. But in fact, when Alan and the others walked towards the light, they found that it was not so simple. After walking for almost a kilometer, they realized where the light was, that is, the invisible force field on the snowfield also affected their judgment of the distance.

Towering in front of Allen's eyes was a stone pillar, which was rough and had an uneven surface. There was a gabion on a ten-meter-high pillar with a turquoise flame burning inside, and this was the light they saw. It's not really a lamp, but the stone pillars and flames don't look natural. In other words, it is a vestige of the planet's indigenous activities. And not far away, there is another blue fire, and in the distance there are two or three points of blue light.

Alan exchanged glances with everyone and said, "It seems to be something like a road marker, but the perception here is blurred, and the sense of distance and direction is greatly reduced." There is also a lack of obvious references on the snowfields, and if there are no road signs, I am afraid that the local natives will also get lost. ”

"That is, we will find a settlement." Lola said with a smile in her eyes.

"Don't rejoice too soon, I don't think the natives of the planet will welcome us." Alan picked up the Red King and said.

The five of them walked along the turquoise flames towards the snowfield, and when they saw the second lamppost, the snow field was windy. And the wind and snow came quickly, and after a few breaths, the vision had become extremely blurred. The light blue snowflakes flying wildly blurred the vision, but fortunately, those green flames didn't know what to use as fuel, but the wind could not be extinguished. Alan gestured to the crowd to pick up speed. They are not afraid of the cold, but they are afraid that the wind and snow will blow out the flames, and then they will have to spend a lot of time.

So the team braved the wind and snow to advance, and when they passed the eighth lamppost, they finally saw the outline of the building. In the wind and snow ahead, under a dazzling turquoise light, there are patches of buildings. It's just that due to the backlit light system, only a large black silhouette can be seen.

Alan had just taken two steps forward, when suddenly a little green light lit up in the wind and snow. He stopped abruptly, turned sideways, and a dark green beam of light passed by him, and fell obliquely on the snow a hundred meters away, silently rising a green flame. In the green fire, a large area of ice and snow disappeared in an instant, and a pit of hot smoke appeared.

Someone in front of him said "Huh", and then an ugly voice rang out: "Who are you!" ”

"We're just ordinary travelers, but this damn snowstorm has lost us, and now we need a place to settle down and rest, can you get us there?" Alan said in pure Agareth language.

There was a burst of laughter ahead, and then someone said, "Tell me, then, where did you come from and where are you going?" ”

"We can't tell you where we're coming from, but we can tell you that we're going to the Great Badlands." Alan said what he wanted to say early in the morning, the Great Wasteland is a gray area, and there are everyone there. It would only be a joke if the other party tried to deduce the identity of the people from their destination.

Unexpectedly, there was a louder laugh in the snowstorm, and then the voice turned cold and said, "You are lying, I have never heard of a guy who is going to the Great Wasteland to wander to the edge of the Deserted Realm!" ”

Allen's face immediately changed, he had already thought that this snowfield was strange, but he didn't expect it to be the edge of the forsaken realm. Thinking of Adahuaxing's warning about this area, he couldn't help but feel heavy.