Chapter 81: The Past
Magellan's plan, though simple, took a lot of time, and the process of taking shape was full of twists and turns. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It all started with the question that everyone has: why is there turbulence here.
Wind is a force that belongs only to nature, and even in places where the essence gathers, only a very few magic researchers can grasp this power, and there is no sign of the essence flowing here.
When Magellan explained to the guide the principle of wind change with wood chips, he was also sorting out his thoughts, in fact, the formation of turbulence is not completely impossible, but the conditions are too harsh.
Along the way, there is often wind blowing in the mountains, and there is always the sound of wind near this hillside, and if there is a structure similar to a funnel, the wind will be concentrated and form a turbulent current.
But the countless winds that converge into a turbulent flow like the one in a city require too many funnels and too complex structures to exist.
Then Magellan had another problem, why the city turned into ruins.
The signs of destruction everywhere and the turbulence everywhere seem to be easily linked, but that doesn't help in any way to find the answer.
Later, after Magellan determined that there had been a siege here, the problem was partially solved, and it was the war that created the ruins, and the ruins were at least part of the cause of the turbulence.
Next came the sewer system, which Magellan quickly determined had to do with the formation of turbulence, and that there was no man-made object better suited to creating such a turbulent network than sewers.
But this is not enough, Magellan has not yet found the funnel, although by simple logic it is located underground, Magellan has not seen the evidence.
Next up was Magellan's entry into the Mound of the Ancestors, where there was no sewer system, where the turbulent network remained unaffected, which began to make Magellan reconsider his hypothesis.
At this stage, everything was completely unnecessary, and the questions were as simple as why and when the war happened, but when he saw the true power of the fog, the turbulence became the only lifeline.
The fog undoubtedly came from the Eagle's Nest.
As an airship, the behemoth known as the Eagle's Nest has its own name, which comes from the emperor's mother, the widely respected Empress Anna.
But little is known about the name of the Royal Anna, and what is truly famous is a nickname, which is the Eagle's Nest. The airship is called so both because of its close connection with the eagle people, and because the steam engine-powered airship is surrounded by a thick fog as soon as it is activated, like the legendary giant eagle's nest of clouds hidden in the sky.
As for the monsters that hide in the fog and the power that makes the fog dangerous, it's another question that can't be answered.
Magellan had a guess that the Eagle's Nest had taken with it some cherished magical creature when it left unexpectedly, and here it had grown up.
This did not affect Magellan's plans, as the monster relied too much on the fog, and when the fog cleared, it would be more than just a loss of a handy weapon and a powerful environment.
And using the wind to blow away the fog is a simple and natural logic.
Magellan didn't realize that he had chosen a plan that seemed simple but was actually troublesome, and that it was essentially a habit of simply getting to the bottom of things.
Who built the city beneath the city, who started the siege and when, destroyed the city, and how did the turbulence come about?
Only by implementing this plan will he have the opportunity to figure out all these doubts.
Then Magellan began to dig the earth.
It's a real job for archaeologists and geologists, and Magellan is very good at it, and proud of it.
It is in the process of digging that all questions are answered.
The city below the hill of the ancestors was built more than 300 years after the completion of the city above, which was a special period in the history of the Inca Empire, and some high-rise people lived here, so that the city developed to a very prosperous level in a short period of time.
Then a rebellion ruined everything, and Magellan did not know the details, but the siege was fought on both sides of the city by the inhabitants of the two towns, and their conflict was concentrated near the city walls and spread to the entire hillside.
The rebellion led directly to the emergence of the Abyss.
In order to get past the walls, the besiegers dug dense tunnels, which eventually caused the weight of the walls to crush the rock structure below the hillside, and the earth cracked like the wrath of the gods.
This eventually led to the defeat of the besiegers, who were driven out of the city, and even the once prosperous city was abandoned due to the presence of rebels, and eventually fell into ruins.
Hidden in all of this is that the structure of the mountain below the hillside, the originally indestructible boulders are already extremely fragile.
The forces of nature play an important role in this.
At the time of the construction of the Mound of the Ancestors, the Incas were already capable of building a sewer system, but their chief engineer chose to build a network of stepped drainage canals, which was obviously a reluctance, but by no means without reason.
He was already aware of how fragile the geology beneath the hillside was.
Beneath the seemingly impregnable rock formations, the peak's entire beneath the mountain's fragile, honeycomb-shaped, flared openings amplify the destructive power of the mountain's winds, and if the sewer system touches it, the erosion of the water will completely destroy the foundations of the earth for decades, creating a catastrophe.
Unfortunately, when the city below was built hundreds of years later, none of the Incas remembered this.
It was the flow of water that entered the ground through the sewer system that hollowed out the bellicity of the mountain, created horns, and led to the emergence of a network of turbulent currents, which the collapse of the war only amplified.
Next up is the Eagle's Nest, which arrives here by accident, and is the last character to appear, causing another to collapse during a brutal crash landing, leaving an abyss between the fog and the Ancestral Hill.
There is no doubt that the mound of the ancestors had been abandoned long before that happened, and it is likely that the Incas had completely forgotten how to get to it because of the chaos caused by the war.
After that, it took hundreds of years for the monsters hidden in the fog to grow and completely control the fog, and no humans appeared on this hillside.
The wind howled day after day, until Magellan finally arrived.