Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Breath of Death
The strange behavior of the giant dragon Ashyus caught everyone's attention.
Ah Xiu even stretched out his tongue and kept licking on the stone gate, what attracted the dragon?
Everyone gathered around the stone gate, and Joan even licked the stone gate in the same way as Ah Xiu, but did not find anything unusual.
Chiro casually put his hand on the stone door, and a strange expression suddenly appeared on his face, "I have touched the breath of death. ”
"Is it dark magic? Why can't I feel it at all?"
When Ah Xiu was born, he was conceived by light magic and awakened by dark magic, and if there was a dark magic breath on the stone door, everything would make sense.
"Death is included in dark magic, but death is not all there is to dark magic. Chiro gave an esoteric answer.
Arthur also put his hand on the stone door, carefully perceiving, "It is the coldest part of dark magic, full of decay, decay, and strangely these breaths are draining. ”
Qi Luo also frowned, "This is the strangest part, it stands to reason that the aura of death will pour out of the stone gate and spread around, but we can't feel it at all in the belly of the mountain. ”
"Isn't it because of the Sealing Circle?" Aretha asked, as she asked.
"It's not. Shalene and Chiro denied it almost in unison.
Kiro further explained, "If the seal was intact, it would be impossible for the aura of death to overflow at all. Conversely, if the seal is broken or weakened, the aura of death will spread to the outer space after overflowing, rather than being lost immediately after it appears. ”
"Is this really just a space and seal composite magic array?" Arthur looked at Shalene again.
Sharin shook her head slowly, "I'm not sure, the stone door is engraved with an ancient magic circle, and the current magic array has been simplified or improved. Although the main structure of the space and seal has not changed, the specific role played by each magic formation cannot be verified. ”
Arthur muttered, "The question now is where did all this breath of death go?"
The cave fell silent again, and before a mystery could be solved, a new fog reappeared.
"I think I've seen those weird stripes?" Buku said suddenly, rubbing his big head.
"Where?" all eyes looked at the little giant.
Buku was a little embarrassed, "In the abandoned ancestral temple, the adults don't let us play, we steal to play by ourselves, and there are many stripes carved there. ”
"There are indeed many figures carved on the main hall of the ancestral temple, but they have been there for many years, and no one except the king knows the meaning of those figures. ”
"Let's go, let's go to the Giant's Ancestral Land!" Arthur let out an excited growl, and a hidden clue finally appeared.
This was Arthur's second visit to the ruins of the Giant's Ancestral Land, and the last time they had met Buku was here.
The Giant's Ancestral Temple was on the outskirts of the northern part of the city's ruins, and like the other collapsed, broken buildings around it, the massive temple had already collapsed in half.
Lifting the large piece of rubble blocking the doorway, everyone walked into the Giant Ancestral Temple. Along the walls there are many statues of giants, but many of them have been vandalized, falling to the ground or missing arms and legs, and Arthur has even found a statue of Sisi in them.
"The ancestral temple is dedicated to the giant kings of the past dynasties and the giant heroes who can go down in history. Flying Shield explained beside him.
It's not surprising to worship the Giant King and the Giant Hero, but the really strange thing is that the position in the middle is empty, and the Flying Shield can't explain this.
There are indeed many strange shapes and lines carved on the ground of the main hall of the ancestral temple, but most of them have been covered by collapsed rubble and statues.
Everyone worked together to clean up all the rubble in the hall, and finally revealed their original faces.
No one could understand the meaning of these graphics. It wasn't until Sharin flew into the air that the outline of a magic array was faintly visible from these figures. Someone actually hid the magic array in this way!
A child's perspective is different from that of an adult, and if it weren't for Buku's reminder, no one would have thought that there was a hidden magic array here!
This is also an ancient magic array that no one knows, and it is impossible to know the function of the magic array when it is not activated.
It was getting late, and everyone planned to spend the night here tonight. Saran needs to copy this magic array, hoping that there will be a record of it in the Alliance. Others want to search the entire Giant's Ancestral Land again, and maybe find new clues.
It was this decision that unlocked a secret that had been hidden for nearly a thousand years.
In the middle of the night, a slight wave of magic came from beneath him, and Chiro, Arthur, and Arya sat up almost simultaneously. The aura of death has finally appeared, and it is easy to ignore this faint aura of death if it does not reach the level of a high-level dark or light mage.
After a long wait, no more magic fluctuations appeared, but this time it was enough to solve the mystery of the curse. The aura of death eroded from the stone gate in the Cinnaya Ice Peak was transmitted to the Giant's Ancestral Temple through the hidden magic array, and spread from there.
For nearly a thousand years, the Giants had not noticed that a faint breath of death would be released from their ancestral temple every night.
The breath of death does not cause direct damage, and the powerful life energy in the body of an adult giant is enough to counteract these subtle breaths of death. But this decaying and decaying breath really affects the fetuses and babies of the giant clan, and the accumulated death breath invades the infants, causing the babies to be weak and sick, and they are very easy to die, and even directly stillborn. This is the real reason why the population of the Giants is decreasing!
Arthur beckoned everyone to gather together and said his speculation, and Feidun was directly stunned, but he didn't expect that the root of the problem was in the ancestral temple.
But new questions also arise, it is understandable that the magic arrays of the two places are secretly connected, after all, the giant clan is responsible for guarding the cemetery of the gods, and it is likely that once the magic array in the ice peak of Atania is destroyed, the giant will receive a warning message. But the aura of death that was transmitted over became a new mystery, whether someone had done something to the magic array, or was there something wrong with the magic array itself.
"Putting aside the cause of the leakage of the death breath, is it possible that as long as these death breaths are eliminated, the giants will be able to return to the mainland?" Arthur excited.
Shalene was not so optimistic, "It's not that easy, it will take a long time for the Alliance to completely figure out this magic array and stop the breath of death from spreading. ”
"I think I can try?" Chiro suddenly interjected.
Shalene looked at Qi Luo in surprise, "Do you know this magic array?"
Kiro smiled, "I don't know, and there's no way to stop it, but there are other ways to solve this problem." I can build a dark magic circle on the outskirts of the Ancestral Temple, which can be used to absorb the breath of death that overflows from the Ancestral Temple every night. ”
As soon as Qi Luo said this, everyone instantly understood that the death aura that was harmful to ordinary people was an extremely valuable material for dark mages, and it had other purposes when collected.
Arthur smiled and looked at the flying shield, "Now all the obstacles to the return of the giants have been cleared, right?"
Who knew that Feidun still showed a wry smile, "No, there is still a trouble that cannot be bypassed at all!"