Standing in the valley of the south wind, Magellan was finally convinced that this was no longer a paradise.

The air is filled with strange and pungent smells, sewage and garbage on all sides, mountains on three sides and cities in the south have turned it into a cage, and the clouds in the sky seem to be at your fingertips, which is extremely oppressive.

"It's simply Ruidu. ”

Magellan sighed helplessly, the disappointment in his heart was no less than that of Valkyrie, and in such a drastic change, there were probably very few clues that could survive.

"This was once a beautiful place," Brünnhilde said in a low tone, even to the Valkyrie, who had seen countless changes in human affairs, "at that time, it was believed that it was a pit that Thor the god of thunder had smashed into the earth with a terrifying sledgehammer, and the power of the gods remained in it, making the mortals and domestic animals living in it happy. ”

But now, everyone living here is not happy.

Magellan carefully led the Valkyrie to avoid the ill-intentioned gaze, opened the dirty hand reaching for the two men's money bags, and made his way through the mud and garbage heaps, and struggling among the low shacks.

"You're mortal, can you tell me why?"

Brunhilde stood in front of a low shack opening, and looked at the bright eyes of a little child's dirty face, which looked like two glass beads falling into the mire.

"When people learned to warm themselves with steam, the valley ceased to be a precious paradise, and the riverbanks were flat to the south, and cities began to appear and slowly expand, and when the edge of the city came to the valley, the original villages here would collapse and eventually become like this. ”

Magellan knew exactly how the revolution of steam and essence technology gave birth to cities, and how much tragedy, even blood and tears, came into play: Ruidu is a prime example.

But he never felt there was anything wrong with that.

Magellan lowered his head and smiled at the child in the shack, and then the Valkyrie heard a crisp laugh.

"Even if you fall into the mud, mortals will save themselves. ”

Brunhilde looked at Magellan's back and opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted.

"There. ”

Magellan pointed to a house on the northern hillside for the Valkyries.

It was already the northernmost part of the Southwind Valley, and a gentle hillside was topped by an upright rocky cliff, and the house was located at the top of the hillside.

"If the Esyadian had built a settlement here, I think their leader would have built a longhouse there. ”

Brünnhilde nodded, she knew the people of Esyad, according to their custom, it was the location of the longhouse, and when a guest came from afar, the master could see him first, and the same was true for the enemy.

And, in a slum shack, such a dilapidated but tall building is so unusual.

The two of them climbed up the hill along a dirt road that had been trampled out of the building, and came to the entrance of the building.

It was then that Magellan was surprised to discover that the tall building was an explorers' guild.

It's full of excited explorers who smell of slums, but their eyes are filled with unwarranted hope.

No one noticed the arrival of Magellan and the Valkyries, and there were always strangers who suddenly appeared and then disappeared again.

Magellan stood in a corner where no one was looking, looking up at the beams of the roof.

"There's Ru Niven on it. ”

Valkyrie looked up, and then saw the rune that Magellan had spoken.

"It represents solid words, so that beam has not decayed after so long. ”

"It seems that what the ancient Esyadians left behind is not completely gone," Magellan moved slowly through the crowd, like a ghost, unnoticed by anyone, "but I really can't imagine what they did to the ruins." ”

It was not only the beams that were recycled, but also the planks and stones, and Magellan even saw the stones that were originally used to pave the road be padded under the walls.

Runi characters are everywhere here, like simple and cheap decorations, no one will pay attention to them, and if you see them once in a while, you will quickly forget them.

The trouble is, Magellan doesn't know where to find the clues he wants.

In fact, given how thoroughly the ruins had been decomposed, he didn't think anything was spared.

"In the longhouse, there are two things that will definitely remain," said Valkyrie, who followed behind Magellan, covering her ornate clothes and face with her cloak, which saved her from a lot of trouble, "and the beams that supported the ridge, and the stones under the master's seat. ”

A longhouse is usually a large building, with a ridge supported by a whole large wooden beam, and below it are two rows of columns, plus the walls, which is the overall frame, and the beam that Magellan just noticed is a column.

Unlike the columns, the beams are usually a single piece of wood, considered the most important support for the entire building, and are engraved with runi characters to ensure that they will last for a long time.

In addition to this, there will be a stone underneath the owner's high-backed seat at the end of the longhouse, which is usually not noticed, as it is always covered with a hide. But the stone has a very important meaning, it represents the foundation of the longhouse and the health of the owner, and it is engraved with blessings in runi script, and sometimes the owner's secrets.

No matter what happens to the longhouse, both will stick with it to the end.

Magellan agreed with the Valkyrie, but until now he had not found a beam or a boulder.

The towering building was probably the only place to accommodate the beams, but Magellan did not see the giant trees on the ridge, and the boulders were nowhere to be seen.

"Did you get taken somewhere else?"

Brunhilde laughed, "Are you so dull to the power of magic?"

Magellan smiled helplessly.

His perception of the essence had improved considerably, but still, it wasn't enough to find a dense location for Runi in this building, and just two pillars were enough to disturb his judgment.

"Here it is. ”

The Valkyrie led Magellan out of the hall, rounded a corner, and stopped in a corner at the back of the room.

"Here?"

Magellan's wall of planks and earth was a little dilapidated, and he could see through the gap a pillar inside the wall.

It was the classic way for the Esyadian to build a longhouse, with pillars to determine the four corners.

And the wood in front of Magellan's eyes, which was carved with runi script, was hardly a gap.

"Beam?"

Valkyrie nodded.

That's exactly what they're looking for: clues.