The wind was howling, cold and bone-chilling.

Of course, for the three of Allen, this level of cold wind is nothing, even if they can make ordinary people freeze to death in just a minute or two. Alice was walking across the stone bridge over the abyss, and today she was wearing a long dress embellished with star diamonds, and the wind blew the hem of her skirt as she walked, like a changing nebula.

Alan and Shanna followed behind her, passing the bridge of the abyss, and the wind blew from the abyss at the bottom of the bridge like a roar from hell.

Before they walked through the Black Gate, the Black Gate was still closed, and all kinds of strange noises could be faintly heard from inside the door. The swarm released by Alice before is now in the Black Gate, and they are in deep sleep, and only some of them are responsible for protecting the Black Gate and patrolling the relics.

Alice spread her hands in front of the door, and a silver glow lit up on her chest, and streaks of mercury poked out of her chest, twisted together like tentacles, and stretched towards the relief on the door. The tentacles fall onto the relief, the relief lines are lit, and the door opens to both sides. As soon as the two extremely heavy black doors moved, they made a dull sound, and a strong air flow gushed out from the door, causing all three of them to squint.

The black door opened a passage and stopped, and though it was only a crack in the door, it was wide enough for a carriage to pass through. Alice stepped sideways and said, "Your Highness Alan, please." ”

Alan took the lead and walked through the doorway. Although it is only a short section, when you look up, you can see that the doors on both sides are towering, and there is only a gap in the sky. Then, when you pass through the Black Gate, your vision is clear.

Behind the door is a high slope, from which you can see rolling hills, rivers of magma flowing through the ground, bubbles rising from the river of magma, and the smell of sulfur filling the entire space.

Far away, there is a volcano. Smoke rises from the crater, and from time to time flames erupt. Occasionally, lava gushes out of the crater and then flows with the mountain to the base of the mountain.

Alice pointed towards the volcano: "We have to go there." ”

Alan nodded, and Alice led the way, walking on the hot ground, having to cross rivers of magma that would dissolve the flesh, and over hills. Of course, these are nothing to the three of them, in the past, Alice came to the Black Gate to activate the Queen of the Garter, and it took two days to walk from the Black Gate to the volcano. It's just that she didn't rush to the road that day, and now the three of them have sped up a little, and it took half a day to get to the foot of the volcano.

Walking from the cave at the foot of the mountain, there is a passage that winds downward. Through the passageway, Alan came to the underground hall, which was still the same, except that the moss that had been piled up in the shape of a ball was gone. Only that magma lake, the magma inside is still blazing hot.

There is a platform in the middle of the lake, and there are stone pillars between the platform and the shore of the lake. Alice told Alan to wait on the shore for a while, and she walked up the stone pillar to the platform in the lake. Now that the column on the platform has sunk, the Garter Empress is once again sealed under the platform. Alice sat on her knees, her chest lit up, and the silver tentacles like mercury poked out again, landed on the platform, and gradually spread. I saw that a piece of silver moss seemed to be spread on the platform, and when the silver moss was all over the platform, the magma lake began to boil.

A rumbling sound sounded from the bottom of the lake, and the magma in the lake seemed to pour into other places, and it was rapidly falling at a speed visible to the naked eye. So Allen on the shore saw that the platform in the lake turned out to be a stone pillar as thick as a mountain peak!

From the edge of the platform, a stone staircase leads down around the pillar, and Alice asks the two to come over the platform. The silver threads on the platform had all retracted into her body, and the platform had returned to its original state. Alan and Shanna walked past the stone pillars to the platform, and then followed Alice down the spiral staircase of the platform.

The stone steps of the spiral staircase are not smooth, and the potholes are pitted, and the residual magma does not go. As soon as they stepped on it, green smoke rose, but for the three of them, the magma was like stepping on a hot spring.

Underneath the platform, magma can be seen rapidly dissipating, revealing an arched terrain. The arch end is located at the round stone pillar, and the terrain makes the magma disperse quickly. The rock wall of this round stone pillar has fallen off in some places, revealing the reddish hedron inside. It turned out to be a huge crystal inside. Looking through the translucent crystal wall of the crystal, the huge body of the Empress of the Garter can be faintly seen inside.

On that day, Alice and Empress Garter became one, unleashing the swarm to attack the Shadow Kingdom. It was only after Allen pulled her out of the Empress's body that Alice regained her senses. Now that Empress Garter is sealed again, Alice is reluctant to return to it if it is not necessary

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It had been half an hour since the ground was set foot, and at the other end of this arched ground there was an arch. Alice walked to the archway and led Alan and the two through a passageway. At the end of the passage is another stone door. The appearance of the door is the same as that of the Black Gate, but it has been reduced by a factor of infinite size.

Open the door, and behind the door is an open underground space. Although it is underground, it is not dark by all. On the dome of this huge mountainside, there is a flickering fire. Alan looked up and saw that the dome was covered by an unimaginably large crystal layer, and above the crystal layer was the flowing magma from the volcano. It is not known what the crystalline is, and it has been allowed to flow on it for millions of years, and there has been no erosion.

It seems that the thickness of the crystal layer is very limited, so the fire from the magma can penetrate into the belly of the mountain, where the temperature is moderate, and on the stone pillars there are clusters of green plants, and even shrubs and ferns. Except for the absence of animals, it's almost indistinguishable from the wild.

In the belly of the mountain, the terrain is undulating, and in the distance you can see a castle rising from a high slope. The castle is classical and solemn, with towering minarets, verandahs, reliefs, and parapet walls clearly visible. I don't know what kind of materials the castle was built from, but it has not been damaged after the passage of time.

"That's the legacy of Lord Rangier." Alice looked at the castle with infinite longing: "That's the Dusk Castle, and I was born in that castle." And to witness that at dusk one day, Lord Ranger sank it into the ground, and asked me and the swarm to guard it. I thought the Creator wanted me to protect it until His return. But now I understand that by his return, he is referring to the Son of Dawn, that is, His Highness Allen. ”

"The Creator said that when the dawn came, he would return." Alice bowed her head, "I always thought that Lord Ranger would be back again. But it wasn't until Shanna told me that I realized that Ranger meant something else.

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"When the Child of Dawn comes, the remnants of his will will will be placed on the Child of Dawn to return. So, Your Highness Allen, the rest of the journey is on your own. ”

Alan looked at her and said, "Aren't you going in with me?" ”

Alice shook her head and smiled faintly, "I'm here waiting for Lord Rangier's return." ”

When Alan heard her say this, he was not reluctant, and walked towards the castle by himself.

He walked faster and faster, and the ground quickly receded under his feet. A moment later, he was already standing in front of the castle. The gate of the castle was closed, and according to Alice's reminder, Alan took out the demonic salute, and he injected the source power, and the source device was activated. When the gray blade of the Ash Hymn was revealed in the air, a stripe lit up the castle that resonated with the Ash Hymn.

With a loud bang, the castle gate opened outward, and the wind blew out of the door, bringing out the turbid air. From the door, there is a deep passageway, and at the end it appears to be a hall. Both the passage and the hall are lit up, and the light comes from the building itself.

This is different from the treasure house in the Heavenly Star, this castle is far less magnificent than the treasure house of the Heavenly Star, strictly speaking, this castle only exists to preserve the will of the creator. It was a certain generation of Twilight Sons, and his name was Lanjie.

Alan walked into the hall, which was elegantly furnished, whether it was the fireplace or the tables and chairs, it made Alan feel like he had stepped back in time to the eighteenth century. In front is a main staircase, which splits into two staircases in the middle leading to the second floor.

On the wall of the main staircase is a relief painting of two armies fighting, and behind the armies a light falls. At that moment, the fireplace suddenly lit up, and Alan turned his head to see a man stirring the woods in the furnace. Alan froze before he realized that there was something unreal about the fire or the wood in the fireplace, and that it was not a physical object, but a projection of some kind.

"Rangier?" Alan looked at the man and said.

This man had the same silver hair as Alan, and when he heard Alan's voice, he turned around and turned to a face that was seven or eight points similar to Alan. With the same red pupils, looking at him, Alan seemed to be looking at himself ten years later.

"Only the hymn of ashes will activate this castle, and only by activating the castle will my will be awakened. So, you are the Child of Dawn, can you tell me your name? "The man stood up, he was dressed in the clothes of a long time, and it was simple. As the same son of twilight, he seems to have lost a little bit of Taylor's majesty.

There is no aggressive momentum in him, he is easy-going like an ordinary man, a male host who has guests in the house. He walked over to a rocking chair and sat down, pointing to another chair for Alan to sit down.

"My name is Alan." Announcing his name, Alan walked over to his chair, which was covered with a thick layer of dust.

Lan Jie shrugged: "It's been too long and no one has taken care of it, don't you mind." ”

Alan smiled, put away the ash hymn, and reached out to flick it. A palm wind blew through the chair, blowing the dust away from it, and he sat down.

"You don't seem to be in a hurry at all, I originally thought that the Children of Dawn would be eager to receive my power." As soon as Lan Jie's hand flipped, there was an extra cigarette gun in his hand. He put it to his lips, and a wisp of smoke began to rise from the sniffer.