Chapter 28, Death
Although she was accustomed to seeing the ruins of the electorate in the Shadow Mountains, Susan couldn't control her exclamation when she saw the ruins in the distance.
This is no longer a manor or a castle, but dozens of castles gathered together, a magnificent fortress built on the mountain, the highest building almost level with the top of the mountain, the tall buildings in the shape of white spires stretching down like a staircase from the heights, the arc-shaped walls on both sides are gathered together as if they were wrapped in hands, and at the end are two huge and majestic warrior colossas, facing each other to guard the great gate in the middle.
This magnificent fortress was built in a vast river valley to help, and although it was thousands of meters away, Susan, who was standing at the other end of the river valley, could still feel the amazing momentum of the fortress, which made her feel a sense of her own insignificance, and even an urge to kneel and worship in her heart.
Susan shook her head, dispelling this strange feeling, she couldn't help but glance at Erwin, the young man's face was as calm as ever, and when he looked at the huge fortress across the river valley, there was no trace of amazement on his face, at most there was only a hint of nostalgia.
Susan couldn't say anything more about it, and she even doubted that Erwin could keep such calm when she saw the Holy Crown, which was said to be the royal capital of the Kingdom of Gaston, and the grandeur of the Holy Crown, which everyone who saw it for the first time was deeply impressed, and although Susan had never been to the royal capital, she had often heard it mentioned by others.
But with the great building in front of her, which only God's chosen people could build, Susan couldn't tell which was higher or lower than the City of the Holy Crown.
The two of them crossed the mountains in the dark of night, and finally arrived at this huge river valley at dawn, according to Erwin, there was a teleportation magic circle in the fortress opposite the river valley, which could allow the two to leave the Shadow Mountains.
"Let's go."
Erwin hadn't been observing the fortress for long, which might have been a very meaningful thing for Susan, but it was boring for Erwin - he was almost throwing up in the game.
The two climbed all the way down the mountain to the bottom of the valley.
This valley must have been a great river thousands of years ago, but by this time it had dried up completely, and the soft sand had turned into hard earth, overgrown with half-man-tall weeds, and as far as the eye could see, there were large and small stones everywhere, and a few lone trees growing in the crevices.
However, at the bottom of the valley there were more than a dozen small stone hills seven or eight meters high, made of several boulders, and Erwin avoided them when he entered the valley with Susan.
After a moment of passing through the valley, the two of them soon came to the front of the fortress, where it was vaguely clear that a dock harbor had been built in the past, but now it was in tatters, and the pier had broken and collapsed, leaving only an open field paved with stone slabs behind.
There are still many ruins of houses on this open field, and only a broken wall remains. However, judging from the density and neatness of the plan, you can feel the prosperity of the past from it, which is in stark contrast to the current dilapidation, and in the middle is a slope up the avenue, which leads to the closed gate of the fortress.
On the dock, the two of them did not stop too much on this old ruin, and walked directly to the fortress gate along the middle avenue.
However, when they first stepped onto the slope, the two could not advance a single point.
"What is this?"
Susan didn't care about her red nose, and hurriedly stretched out a hand in front of her, obviously there was nothing in front of her, but her palm touched a cold and smooth invisible wall.
It was this invisible wall that kept the two men at the bottom of the slope.
"The defensive barrier that envelops the entire fortress, the seventh ring spell released by the high-level spellcaster, is provided by the fortress with a continuous supply of mana, and continues to the present after the disappearance of the god's elect."
Erwin reached out and tapped on the invisible barrier in front of him, making a slight clang.
"You already knew? So how are we going to get in now? โ
Susan lost her voice, she couldn't imagine how powerful the spells of the seventh ring were, the highest spell she had ever seen since she was a child was only the first ring, and what she was familiar with was the apprentice-level spell that Miss Draenei often cast.
But if, as Erwin had said, this defensive barrier enveloped the entire fortress, then Susan had a general and intuitive understanding in her mind, and then she was deeply amazed - this fortress was several times larger than the town she lived in.
"Yes, I knew about this barrier when I decided to come here, but since I still chose this place, of course I know how to get in."
Erwin turned his head and smiled confidently at Susan, just as the sun appeared from the sky, and the sun poured on the two of them, and in the dazzling brilliance, Elwin's smile seemed to come to life.
This made the cheeks of the girl staring at him a little hot, and she subconsciously looked away.
Erwin didn't notice this, he looked around, immediately spotted his target, turned to Susan and made a follow me gesture, and ran along the edge of the barrier to the other side of the hill.
Susan hurriedly followed him.
The entire defensive barrier took on a semi-circular shape, like a bowl turned upside down, enveloping the entire fortress. The two of them walked along the edge of the barrier to the other side of the hillside, where they had left the stone slab field and came to the edge of a rugged, rocky valley.
Erwin climbed a boulder high up on the hillside, and from this he could almost overlook the fan-shaped side of the valley below.
Susan was about to climb up, but Erwin stopped her: "You don't have to come up, find a safe place to hide." โ
"What?"
Susan was immediately stunned, find a safe place to hide? What is he going to do?
"Yes, find a rock a little farther away as a cover and hide." Erwin nodded, the boulder under his feet would probably be half smashed in a moment, and Susan would inevitably be injured by the splash of rubble if she got too close.
Susan glared suspiciously, but still obeyed Erwin's words honestly, and hid behind a large rock more than ten meters away.
Erwin looked at his position again, the place was just right, high enough from the bottom of the valley, and with his back to a defensive barrier.
In the game, this place called Sunset Fortress in the River Valley is a 3O level dungeon, which is one of several high-level dungeons in the Shadow Mountains, not to mention how dangerous it is in the fortress, and the player will have to spend a lot of effort just to enter it.
The barrier that shrouded Sunset Fortress is a spell of the seventh ring in the game setting, which is equivalent to a 7o level player to release or break, but this spell was cast thousands of years ago, and after such a long time, the structure of the spell itself has undergone irreparable changes, and the defense has been reduced to an unimaginable level.
Therefore, there are usually only two ways for players to enter Sunset Fortress, one is to directly use brute force to break the enchantment, which requires the full cooperation of at least ten level 3O players, after all, no matter how broken the enchantment is, its essence is also a seventh-ring spell, so this method belongs to group players.
Players who are alone or a few people need to use another method.
That's what Erwin is doing now.
Erwin was standing on the slope of a hill at the edge of the valley, facing a small mountain of boulders below, and he picked up a fist-sized stone from his feet, shook it in his hand, and threw it down.
With Erwin's current strength, which is at least several times stronger than that of a national-level athlete, this throw directly threw the stone more than 100 meters away, and directly smashed it on the top of the small stone mountain, with a snap.
Susan looked at Erwin strangely, not understanding the meaning of his move, but in the next moment, she immediately understood.
I saw that the small stone mountain that was hit by the stone suddenly made a clicking sound, as if two rough stones rubbed against each other, and the soil between the cracks of the boulder fell with weeds, and then the whole stone mountain stood up suddenly in Susan's stunned, and it turned out to be a stone giant nearly ten meters high.
The giant looked as if it had been built by a god, with a slightly rounded boulder as its head, an oval boulder underneath it as its body, and four long water chestnut stones as its limbs and torso.
But no one dared to despise the ten-meter-tall body just because of its ugly appearance, just like Susan, who was now too frightened to speak.
But Erwin was not afraid of the big man, and continued to pick up a stone, throw it again, and slam it on the golem's head.
"You're going to die!?"
Susan shuddered with fright and gritted her teeth at Erwin's death.
Elwyn's attack wasn't even an itch to Golem, but it managed to get its attention, as it shook its massive body, and the dirt and rubble on it fell into a cloud of dust.
The stone giant turned around in the dust, the boulder that was the head obviously had no facial features, but Erwin clearly felt that a gaze was focused on him.
"The attack is coming."
Erwin's eyes were fixed on the Golem, his legs slightly bent and ready to jump.
And just as he had expected, Golem slowly and forcefully lifted his armโthe arm arched back, and at the point of the fist of its arm, a stone was growing in incredible proportions, and in an instant it changed from the size of a human head to a round boulder of three people hugging each other.
Then the golem threw his backward arched arm hard, nearly ten times faster than before, and the boulder on his fist flew into the air, roaring and smashing towards Elwin!
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