80. Martyrdom

Under the light of the flames, Zhao Yuan saw that inside the stone gate was a square hall of about 300 square meters, the hall was empty, there were no furnishings, and there was no trace of Liam.

In addition to the direction in which Zhao Yuan and the others entered, there was also a passage on each of the three sides of the hall, leading to an unknown direction.

"Where are we going?" said a leonin, his naturally loud voice in the silent underwater ruins.

Zhao Yuan didn't say anything, just squatted down, his eyes swept from the ground, the only thing he was sure of was that Liam must have entered the stone gate, although he didn't know what kind of process he had gone through. But as an archmage, as long as he is connected to the space, he has a strong perception, just like before, when the group had not yet gone down to the bottom, Zhao Yuan sensed that something was wrong and was the first to rush down.

But the space is also too clean, the floor is not clean, and there are no obvious traces.

At this moment, Zhao Yuan suddenly sniffed, his eyes lit up, and he looked at the corridor on the left.

"Let's go this way!"

When Mason saw Zhao Yuan's demeanor, he also sensed something, and asked, "Lord Zhao Yuan, what have you discovered?"

Zhao Yuan nodded and said, "This place is clean and weird, but Liam still left traces, the ring on his hand once ignited a flame, so it left a burnt smell, but this smell is very slight, if it weren't for the scratches on the ground on his ring, I wouldn't have noticed." ”

"Why did Liam scrape the ground with a ring?" one of the leonins wondered.

"Heh!" Mason sneered, his expression flashed with Senran, obviously really angry, and said, "Naturally, it's because he was lying on the ground and being dragged away." ”

"Without further ado, let's find Liam quickly!" Zhao Yuan said loudly, and the group stopped talking and walked towards the corridor on the left.

"Huh-" At this point, Mason did speak, and he looked at the wall in slight surprise. Zhao Yuan followed his gaze, and the faint pattern on the wall came into view.

Under the jumping firelight, the murals on the wall also seemed to move, revealing a strange smell. Zhao Yuan took a torch and approached the wall, only to see the mural on it clearly.

The mural depicts an orc with a golden ornament on his head, which is supposed to symbolize the crown, and a giant axe in his right hand, which is half a body taller than the orc.

He was standing by a river, and his left hand seemed to be throwing a round piece into the river. Due to the age of the frescoes, many parts have peeled off and the details are no longer visible. Zhao Yuan and the others looked along the other three sides of the wall and found that there were murals on them. They all talked about the same theme - a leader-like figure threw a disc in his hand into the river.

After reading it, Mason's face was a little strangely solemn.

"The Lion, the Snake, the Dragon, and the Mammo......th," Mason muttered, and when the few leonions behind him heard this, they immediately looked at each other with shocked expressions.

"These four races, but the famous beast god Iron Hoof a thousand years ago, made immortal contributions in that battle between continents. ”

"It's just that after that huge war, the snake clan has declined sharply, and now it can only rank last among the various beast clans. The remaining three clans, the Dragon Valley Clan, the Mammoth Clan, and the Lion Clan, supported the combat power of the Orc Clan. ”

When Zhao Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "What about the other beast clans, the wolf clan and the tiger clan are still quite strong." ”

Mason shook his head and said, "Your Excellency Zhao Yuan, it's not what you think. Although the Wolf Clan and the Tiger Clan are also somewhat prosperous now, they have not existed in the Ninth Order for a long time, and their rankings are always fluctuating up and down. However, the Dragon Valley Clan, the Mammoth Clan, and the Lion Clan have never been cut off from the ninth-order powerhouses for thousands of years, which is the fundamental reason why the three clans have always been as stable as Mount Tai. ”

Zhao Yuan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile. He still hasn't changed his mind, in this different world, the top powerhouses can withstand thousands of troops, and a hero can destroy the world and turn things around, but it is not the world he originally had.

Mason was still immersed in thought, and his mouth unconsciously uttered staccato words: "Could it be ...... This ruin is thousands of years old, and why did you paint the portraits of the beast gods and the Iron Hoof...... Is it a treasure or a ......"

"Don't think about it so much, let's go find Liam first. Zhao Yuan reminded loudly.

Mason was stunned for a moment, his thoughts were withdrawn from the endless chaos, and he quickly nodded: "Yes, the top priority is to find Liam first!"

So everyone didn't stay much this time, even if they were puzzled and curious, they could only force themselves to suppress and pick up their spirits to find their missing companions.

Along the way, Mason was not idle, chatting with Zhao Yuan about Liam. It turned out that Liam was a child of a traitorous beast. It stands to reason that the descendants of the traitorous beast are also rebel beasts and will never be able to return to the beast clan, but Liam inadvertently saved the second prince once, and the two also formed a deep friendship. The second prince then pleaded with the lion king to let him return to the beast clan.

Liam's parents disappeared after giving birth to Liam, so he has always lived like a wild beast in the forest, but it is this life that stimulates the bestiality in his body, makes him extremely brave in battle, and often terrifies his enemies.

If there is no accident, Liam is a hole card for the future second prince to compete for the throne, and like Mason, he is his right-hand man, if he loses his life in this expedition, the strength of the second prince will also be greatly damaged.

Zhao Yuan put this information into his mind, but he faintly realized in his heart that this ruin was by no means as simple as Mason and the Second Prince said at the beginning, there must be something extremely precious in it, the value far exceeded the Quenching Pill, otherwise how could the Second Prince risk putting his two most important brothers and right-hand men into this expedition at one time. At the same time, he also noticed that the five lion clans brought by Mason this time were all fifth-order and sixth-order powerhouses, and in addition to those large packages, they also carried strange props that could not be seen to be used, and they were obviously orcs with strange skills.

Mason is by no means stupid, and if he dares to do so, there must be a way out. But now Zhao Yuan has re-evaluated the ruin. Risk and return have always been positively correlated, and he must be vigilant and always careful!

This corridor was very long, but Zhao Yuan and the others were moving forward very quickly, and within five minutes, the vision in front of them became wider again.

Zhao Yuan appeared in front of a downhill slope, there was a thick darkness in front of him, Mason tilted his head slightly, and a lion clan behind him immediately took out an arrow, the arrow was burning with flames, and it suddenly exploded when it was shot in mid-air by the lion clan, sprinkling white light, illuminating the entire slope clearly.

Zhao Yuan and the others all breathed sluggishly, and their eyes widened. It was not a slope at all, but a huge hole, the bottom of which was filled with bones, chilling in the white light.

Mason swept his eyes and suddenly said, "Oh no, this is a burial pit! Liam is in a very dangerous situation right now!"

Zhao Yuan had heard of the burial pit, which was already a tradition of the beast clan thousands of years ago. After the death of some orcs, they will order their henchmen to build a burial pit in their own tombs, specially find orcs of the same clan to kill and fill them, and then use the power of the flesh and soul of these martyrs to strengthen their own spirits, hoping to still enjoy the status of the strong after arriving in the Lingchuan Continent.

But later this practice was noticed by the beast god, who was furious, severely punished a group of beasts, and issued an oracle prohibiting burial, and such a burial pit disappeared.

At that time, Zhao Yuan also asked the second prince if this practice was really useful, but the second prince said that this was a non-existent thing, no one had set foot on the Necromantic Continent for 10,000 years, and no one knew the situation inside at all, but some people were unwilling to turn everything into nothingness after death, so they would come up with such an idea.

Now, a real burial pit is placed in front of Zhao Yuan and the others, but Liam was brought here by something unknown, but he is afraid that it will be more than lucky.

It is obviously impossible for everyone to enter this burial pit, the ghost knows that there is anything else in this pit except white bones, and this kind of burial pit is often very yin, and the deceased is resentful and dies, in this forbidden demon realm, if a group of people rashly set foot on it, it is tantamount to sending themselves into the mouth of the tiger.

But Liam was inside, and they had to try to save him anyway.

Seeing that the sprinkled white light was about to disappear, Mason rolled his eyes and had an idea.

"Tyre, go down and try it, this rope is tied around your waist, and if there is any danger, tell us to pull you back. Mason said to a leonin behind him.

The leonin named Tyre did not hesitate at all, and simply carried out the order. He neatly tied the rope to his body, and walked towards the grave full of bones.

Zhao Yuan's eyes froze, Natel was one of the only two seventh-order lion clans, compared to the other seventh-order lion clan, his body was more small and flexible, and the surface of his skin was even more metallic, as if he had practiced some kind of body forging kung fu.

However, to everyone's surprise, Tyr let out a scream as soon as he stepped on the white bone. The two leonins who were pulling the rope hurriedly tried to pull Tyre back, but Tyre seemed to be caught by something, and the two sides were at a stalemate for a while.

Seeing this, Zhao Yuan quickly pulled the rope, the balance was broken, and Tyre was dragged back by the rope, but there was already a deep handprint on his ankle, and it also exuded an ominous black gas.

Everyone gasped, this burial pit was really strange, Tyr had practiced mixed gold forging body duel, and his whole body was invulnerable, and he was actually broken by a white bone in an instant.

Mason saw it, but his expression was indeed so, and he immediately took out a clear glass bottle from the package, which contained half a bottle of liquid like water. He pulled the stopper and carefully poured a few drops on Tyre's ankle, only to see that the black handprint was dispelled and disappeared in an instant, as if it had encountered some nemesis.

"This Bright Holy Water was finally obtained by me from the Fengming Continent, and it can completely restrain all evil powers, and its value is comparable to that of an eighth-order crystal nucleus of the same volume. Mason said.