Chapter Forty-Six: The Price

"Chief, should we go the other way?" the bald head looked at the surrounding trees with some numbness, and as the crowd continued to go deeper, these trees also turned from the previous lush and black state. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a high mountain, they are located at the top of the mountain, the terrain is flat, surrounded by tree trunks without branches and leaves, hollow trees, and gray fog, like a painter's unsatisfactory painting, full of gray and dark style.

"Shut up, when did you get so timid!" Marcus glared, still unhurriedly chasing the six hamsters.

"Squeak... Squeak..."The hamsters stopped in good agreement, reluctant to move any further, as if they were afraid of something ahead.

"Damn it, let's go!" Marcus impatiently snapped a hamster's little butt with a rattan.

"Squeak!" the hamster writhed in pain, and two gold coins popped out of his mouth, but he still didn't want to move forward.

"Wait a minute, stop fighting. "The fog up ahead is thicker, and there might be something dangerous there." โ€

"What then, a different way?" The surroundings were gray, the vision was extremely poor, and even Marcus himself was blinded.

"I'm going to explore the way, you take care of these hamsters here first, and wait for us to come back. Baird looked at the crowd and walked forward.

"I'll go with you. Elluman followed.

The two of them, plus a ball, walked forward like this for a while, and the fog gradually receded. In the open space in front of him, a ruined city emerged.

"A city in the Secret Forest?" said Baird, taking a few steps forward, accidentally crushing a human bone.

"A lot of bones..."In this forgotten city, human skeletons are piled up everywhere on the ground and in the corners, and of course there are some rusty weapons and broken armor. Of course, if you look closely, you can also find several long sticks of good material in the pile of bones.

"These statues are so realistic..."Baird saw two stone wolves crouching next to a room. Look at the other side, there are two of them too.

"What's going on here...", on the edge of a broken stone pillar, Eluman spotted several lines of characters that he couldn't decipher.

"Bard, can you blend in with this pillar and get some information?" he asked, turning.

"I'll tryโ€”" Bard rolled and lay on his stomach at the break in the stone pillar, then gradually seeping into it.

"Did you see anything?" asked Eluman.

"Wait a minute... This pillar is so old that my memory has become very blurry..."The pillar came from Bud's leisurely voice, "... A group of people in capes... I see it... Kind of like a wizard... They used to live here..."

"Wizards have lived here..."Baird looked at the unusual ruins, which now seemed to have the hallmarks of wizards' lives - tent-like buildings, no castles and walls, and a natural and random way of construction, which looked more like a relatively large tribe. As for the sticks on the ground, they were explained, and they were probably the staffs used by wizards.

"Then these armor and weapons shouldn't belong to wizards, right?" Eluman picked up a sword from the ground and blew dust off the hilt.

"Cross dent!Sword of Silver Shield City!" Baird looked at the pattern on the hilt in surprise.

The situation seems to be getting more and more complicated.

"We need to get out of here quickly. A sense of unease spilled over Baird, the sixth sense he had trained over his years as a bounty hunter.

Because revealing the truth is often accompanied by more dangers and challenges!

......

Not far outside the secret forest.

"Tell me if she's still alive!" Sophia asked.

Behind her, the giant rabbit known as Bubu stood like a mountain, blocking out most of the sun.

"I did see it in a dream, but I don't know if it's true!" Evan raised his right hand and struck a word, "I swear." โ€

"What did you dream about?" said Sophia, anxious.

"She was bound by two chains and hung in mid-air... It's dark around and I don't know where it is... Sometimes I could see some bright light, like fire...", Evan paused, his tone becoming firm, "I could feel her calling out to me, and desperate for help. โ€

"Chains... Firelight?" Sophia's mind searched quickly, but there was still an uncertain expression on her face.

"Or you can give me back the Nightshade so I can have more of a connection with her... Of course, if she was still alive in the world. Evan held out his hand.

"Here you goโ€”" a hint of hesitation flashed across Sophia's rippling face, "No, the Night Ghost is awakening, and I can't let you touch it too much, lest you do it again." โ€

"Who was the woman in the dream, what was your relationship with her, why did you save her, what happened back then?" Since the woman in front of him had no ill will towards him, and to some extent had the same thoughts as himself, Evan simply opened the skylight and said something bright.

"Do you want to know the answer?" Sophia sighed instead, "Then come with me to Ironrock, there will be the answer you want... Or maybe... What will remind you of ... I've got to get there and find out exactly what you're talking about. She knew that in the end the plan would be very risky, but she had to do it.

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The rain of blood began to ravage the devastated city again.

"Tanatos?" Augustus cut off his entire left arm by the sting, but there was no trace of blood flowing from the wound, still calm, "When did a strong man like you appear." โ€

"Tanatos, Tanatos is no longer weak... Take a look around... The former powerhouses, the lackeys of Cerdia, have all surrendered to us and fought for us!" Lu raised his sword and roared hysterically into the sky.

"I don't know how you controlled the soldiers of Cerdia... But suffice it to say that you probably haven't seen true power yet... That kind of power that reigns over the world, and truly shocks people's hearts..."Augustus straightened his right arm and re-aimed the golden spear at the Rim, "There are four of them in the outer matrix, and as for these soldiers and skeletons, one of them is controlled outside the city, plus you, that's six, and my instincts tell me that you all have one thing in common, and that is that power comes from the weapons in your hands... So you're just puppets of weapons, sad. โ€

"Puppet of weaponsโ€”" Lu craned his neck, a flash of light flashing in his eyes. After a burst of wild laughter, like a whirlwind, he suddenly attacked.

Spears and swords burst out like meteors, and the speed of their confrontation was so fast that even the naked eye could not detect it.

"No one can stop the rise of Tanatos!" said he sent the spear through his heart, then sprinted a few steps towards Augustus' neck.

"Hmph!" Augustus snorted, retracted his momentum suddenly, and hurriedly jumped back with his spear, dodging the throat cut of the spear.

"The way you fight is really not flattering. The golden spear was held in front of Augustus, but luckily he had the ability to heal himself from the beginning, otherwise the unexpected blow just now would have been difficult to dodge.

"I have an immortal body, but do you know what the cruelest price in the world is..."Xiao's eyes and green tendons bulged out, and new flesh and blood grew back on the part of his pierced heart, "That is something you can never imagine! My pain nerves are nearly a hundred times more developed than ordinary people!"