Chapter Seventy-Three: Discovery
Link stumbled a little in the dark cave, there was still a little light when he first entered the cave, but after going deep into the cave for a distance, the only light source disappeared, and Link, who had no night vision, could only stumble forward, the ground in the cave was uneven, Link had to slow down in order to maintain his balance, the fear of the darkness and the worry about his future made Link's speed slower and slower, causing the mage behind him to mumble disapprovingly from time to time.
Revalan and the mage are both ghostly creatures, and they seem very calm in the dark, although the warrior is not a ghostly creature, but he is obviously also equipped with magical items with dark vision ability, and he does not hesitate to walk in the dark, only Link is completely unable to see in the dark, which slows down the speed of the entire team.
In the end, the mage took out a black blindfold from the dimensional bag and motioned for Link to put it on, Link took it and put it on suspiciously, and the scene in front of him immediately changed, although the darkness did not change at all, there was still no light in the field of vision, but Link could clearly see the outline of the object in the dark, and it was not completely invisible.
Link let out a sigh of relief, looking at the broad back of the warrior in his field of vision, and secretly wondered in his heart, Revaran said that he was hiding something, and he didn't know what it meant, and why did Revaran insist on letting his weak self enter this very dangerous ruin? There are too many unknown factors, why is Revaran imprisoned by Shar's divine power, and why does he insist on exploring this strange ruin despite the current strange political situation?
After thinking about it for a while, Link was a little sad to find that he now had too little information to make a judgment, and even if Revaran had any malice towards him, he might not be able to resist with his own strength, Link put his hand into his arms, and secretly rubbed the hope stone in his arms, secretly glad that he still had such a hole card, and then thought of the mage merchant who believed in Tyr, hoping to buy it from the caravan under his command, I don't know what happened to this merchant.
The deeper you go, the thicker the traces of artificiality become, putting aside the pickaxes and ore lamps left by Bei Dai's slaves before, huge old stone bricks are exposed from time to time in the caves dug by the slaves, and some of the stone bricks still have severely weathered stone carvings, looking at the stone carvings that are not very clear in the field of vision, Link has the heart to study it, but is urged by the mage behind him to walk forward.
Walking in front of Revaran as if he knew how to walk, he took this small team through two forks in the road one after another, the more he walked in, the more dull the air became, Link thought of the huge dwarf blower he had seen at the entrance of the cave before, and couldn't help but regret secretly in his heart, he should have sent some air, walking in the cramped passage, Link felt a little panicked in his heart, his breathing was a little short, and he felt the air even more uncomfortable, seeing the three of Ruivaran who did not express discomfort, Link could only walk forward hard.
Link felt that there was something wrong with the touch under his feet, it turned out that the ground under his feet was no longer sandy soil with heavy dust, but a flat huge floor tiles, looking at the flat floor tiles, according to the slightly different touch of the floor tiles under his feet, Link was surprised to find that the floor tiles under his feet seemed to be arranged into some kind of pattern, but unfortunately although Link's vision could see the general outline of the object, he still couldn't recognize the pattern of the floor tiles, so he could only walk forward regretfully.
Revaran stopped in front of him, and the team had come to a vaulted hall made of stone and brick, at the end of which a metal door was ajar, and several corpses were lying on either side of the door.
Link followed the team forward, secretly alerting himself in his heart, this color-resistant ruin has already lost a lot of people, the high-ranking priest of the Santarin Society, the high-level mage of the Shadow, the high-level sorceress of the human lion, and many more soldiers, Link does not want to disappear here like these missing people.
Several people cautiously gathered around the corpses, and although their vision was not very clear, based on the familiar outline of the armor, Link was able to identify the corpses, the elite soldiers of the Santarin Society, and the mage guards of the Shaded People.
Revaran checked it a little, and unlike Link's discounted dark vision, Revaran, as a ghostly creature, could see more details, the damage on the surrounding walls was obviously caused by plastic spells, and the two Yingin men still had the swords of the Santarim soldiers stuck in their bodies, and the five Santarim soldiers still had the power of shadow magic on their bodies.
"Cannibalism. Revaran muttered to a conclusion.
In the quiet of the hall, Link didn't let go of Revaran's voice, and Link remembered that when he led the attack on the camp, the combined expedition of the Santarim and the Shaded People was deep into the ruins, and it was clear that these corpses were part of the expedition.
"Could it be that the people who didn't come out were all killing each other in the ruins?" Link wondered to himself.
Revaran carefully plucked the name tags of the two Shades, searched for their personal belongings, held up Shar's emblem and prayed for them, and without lingering too long, he walked to the half-open metal door.
Behind the metal door was a long corridor, and there were still some murals on the walls of the corridor, but unfortunately they were already mottled and unrecognizable, and they couldn't see it in Link's field of vision, and Revaran and the mage only looked at it slightly, then gave up on identifying it and continued walking.
Link glanced at the several stone candlesticks placed on both sides of the road, the candles on them had obviously been worn out in the endless years, but what made Link secretly frightened was the size of the candlestick, Link had to raise his hands to reach the candlestick, although Link's body was not tall, but it was not thin, this kind of candlestick was obviously not ergonomic, and I didn't think it before, now it seems that after leaving the cave dug by the slaves of Beidai, the width and height of the ruins are very huge, I thought it was deliberately built like this, but if the size of this candlestick is just right。
The team didn't stay long and continued to walk forward, although the vision was not very clear, Link still noticed that there was a larger hall in front of him, Link sniffed, and the already very stale air emitted a strong rancid smell, Link sighed and followed into the hall.
There are a large number of corpses in the hall, as well as four broken stone statues more than four meters high, it seems that a decisive battle broke out here between the Santarin Society and the Yin Ghost People, and accidentally activated the protective measures of the ruins, turning into a three-way war, and finally ending up here,
Link looked at the hideous mace covered with barbs on the stone statue's hands, and several of the elites of the Santarim Society that had been knocked into the wall, gasped, and looked at it curiously, the Santarim Society had clearly formed a military formation against the stone statue, the stone statue had traces of burning by the fire glue, the broken heavy shield was in front of the stone statue, the broken spearhead and long sword were in the back position, and most of their owners had collapsed sternums and were sent into the distance.
Link curiously looked around the hall, and stumbled upon Revaran with his back to the hall, staring straight at the corridor where he came, Link looked warily at the corridor and saw what Revaran had been looking at.
The two bodies were nailed to the wall above the corridor with a huge spear, and although they could be seen, Revaran cast a light spell to reconfirm it, Link hurriedly covered his eyes, and cursed Revalan in his heart, before relieving himself.
In the soft light, aside from the hideousness and horror of the two corpses, Link could clearly see the High Arcanist badge on the corpse and the High Bane Priest emblem on the other corpse.