Chapter 334: Pandora's Box
Genius 3 seconds to remember the website of this site [Pen Maze Pavilion.] After Haag told Ronnis how to climb the Ariland Snow Mountain alone after the Battle of the Wall Peak and then enter Sarabuto, and then how he met Lear and went through a series of adventures with him, the torch hanging on the wall just burned to the end.
With the last of the wooden handles, the entire dungeon was plunged into endless cold darkness, just enough to cover Ronis's surprised face.
"So, that's a really interesting young man. β
Originally, he thought that a man who could have such a deep understanding of life must have gone through vicissitudes, not to mention seventy or eighty, at least a middle-aged man like Tanan, but he didn't want Hag to tell him a little bit before he knew that it was just a teenager.
"Hmm..."
After such a long story, Haag's enthusiasm seemed to have been exhausted, and the accumulated pain in his body once again took over, and after such a vague response, the dungeon fell into a deathly silence again.
All that was left was Ronis's slight breathing, and the sound of Haag's teeth grinding against each other in pain.
"Are you afraid of death?"
After a while, Ronis suddenly asked again.
"I'm afraid, I'm scared to death. β
Although he didn't understand why Ronis would ask such a stupid question, Hag answered him with a snort.
"Yes, but you don't look like you're afraid of death at all. β
Ronis had seen Haag's bravery on the battlefield, and although it was only a casual glimpse, he was still extremely impressed by the indomitable fierceness of the thousand armies, and whether it was on the battlefield or now that both of them were on the verge of death, he did not see any fear in the faces and eyes of the other party.
"Our leader said that people will eventually die, or lighter than a feather, or heavier than Mount Tai, but as long as it is to implement their ideals and beliefs, it is worth dying, so although I am afraid, there is nothing to be afraid of. β
The last sentence Hag almost shuddered and squeezed out between his teeth, showing how far the pain in his body had tormented him.
"What kind of mountain is Tarzan, and why have I never heard of it?"
Although he had heard Hag say many strange and incomprehensible words during that time, all of which he ignored as the dialect of the barbarian's territory, Ronnis was very sure that there was definitely no mountain range called Tarzan on the Antaglisi continent, but listening to Haag's affirmative tone, the mountain range seemed to be very famous.
"Hmm... It's a very big and heavy mountain, probably the size of the Ariland Snow Mountain. β
These idioms were all pirated by Haag from Lear, how would he know what kind of mountain Tarzan was, but after Ronis's reminder, he remembered that there was a feather ahead.
What kind of hair is that?
"Okay. Ronis felt that he might have been immersed in the things of the temple for too long, so that he was a little unfamiliar with the geography and local folklore of this continent, maybe Tarzan was another name for the Ariland Snow Mountain by the barbarian tribe, so he no longer dwelled on such a small thing, and it should be enough to comfort his boring life by meeting such an interesting barbarian before he died.
When neither of them spoke, the dark, icy silence filled the dungeon again, and Ronice was bored, while Hag was still frowning and wondering what the feather was.
Pale fingertips swam on the torn robe, as the most pious archbishop who had served the god of war for decades, Ronis felt that even if death befell him, he should be decent, so he used the little strength he had left to tidy up the corners of the robe, so that he would not be embarrassed to blaspheme the prestige of the god of war when the light came.
Suddenly, a cold hard object touched Ronis's fingertips, and even the spiral of his index finger could feel the mysterious aura flowing above the hard object, and this feeling instantly woke him up from that sad atmosphere.
And when he stretched out his hand to carefully lift the hard object in front of him, a mysterious light of aqua blue began to flash in the darkness.
A box, about the size of a fist, is full of dense divine patterns, twisted and graceful, and looks irregular, but if the gaze stays on it for a long time, it will even produce an illusion that the soul is being pulled out.
This box was something he had acquired in his early years as a priest on another continent, Enlos, and at that time he did not try to open it because of his humble strength and knowledge, but only took it with him, and as he grew older, he did not dare to open it when he learned what kind of secrets this box contained.
The legendary Pandora's Box, even the gods can't tell how it appeared and by whom, the only thing that is certain is that the box is full of unknowns.
In the temple records of the god of war, Adis, Pandora's Box appears in this world five times, but only four times.
Once someone gained endless power in it and thus made a great dynasty, that is, Roland Einfast, the founding king of the Iron Fist Dynasty, another time the person who opened the box released tens of thousands of evil spirits from it and almost caused the destruction of a country, the third time the person who opened the box was directly cleaved into slag by a terrible thunderbolt that fell from the sky, and after his body decomposed, a terrible plague that lasted for decades began to run rampant on the continent, and the fourth time when the man opened the box with trepidation and hope, he was shocked to find that there was nothing insideγ
The fifth Pandora's Box appeared more than 300 years ago, that almost triggered a war on the whole continent, the owner of the box was a small nobleman of the Mudlan Dynasty, when he had Pandora's Box after the huge pressure tormented him day and night, and finally because he could not bear the strong conflict of temptation and fear, he chose to commit suicide, and the box also passed into the hands of the Mudlan royal family at that time.
While the royal family members were still arguing over whether to open or destroy the box, the newly rising Eastern Bracada Empire and the declining Barbarian Empire sent messengers to ask for the box at the same time, and threatened to start a war if the box was not handed over.
After the emissaries of the two empires left, the elven queen of Eli and the dwarven king of Bairders also sent emissaries, and they also had only one purpose, which was to show great interest in the box, but their choice was more gentle, and they were willing to exchange them for goods and gold coins.
Even until the end, Arthas, the leader of the necromancers of Tiga, sent his most trusted lich, except for Tartaglia, who was still under the enslavement of the barbarians, and Ofer and Nigon, who were blocked by the snow-capped mountains of Aliland, almost all the countries on this continent were affected by this small box.
In the end, the Mudran dynasty succumbed to the threat of the Eastern Empire and sent the box to Bracada, and as agreed, the wizard king at that time, Gwen Magnus, after obtaining Pandora's box, destroyed the barbarian empire that had threatened Mudlan with lightning speed, as for whether the box was opened after it reached the wizard king's hand, there is no record in the temple books.
Now he has the sixth one.
"If, I mean, there is a chance to live now, but there could also be endless dangers that lead to our immediate death, would you like to try?"
Ronis held the mysterious box in a complicated mood, and then asked towards the darkness next to him.
"Try, why don't you try, there is nothing to be afraid of death left and right. β
Haag's voice could be heard in the darkness, but it was clear from his tone that he didn't pay much attention to Ronis's words.
Ronis handed the box over, and the gentle blue light was just enough to illuminate Haag's eyes as he looked sideways.
Haag didn't take the box, and in fact he couldn't, but stared at his face with a look that made Ronis feel so twisted, as if he wanted to see a flower in the criss-crossed wrinkled ravines.
"Ahem... Ahem..."
After being stared at for a long time, Ronice felt very uncomfortable, so he had to pretend to cough a few times to remind the other party to pay attention to etiquette.
"Before we arrived at Misty Island, our leader once told a story, saying that when a young man fell off a cliff and faced a state of death, he suddenly met an immortal, and since then he has practiced peerless magic skills to dominate the world, so it's not happy, could it be that you are the immortal?"
Haag's words almost didn't make Ronis cough up his lungs.
"I'm not kidding, do you want to try it or not!"
Ronis's old face turned red, he really couldn't be as heartless as Haag, and when he thought of the miracle or disaster that might befall him when the box was opened, he felt that his palm holding the box couldn't stop sweating outward and trembling.
"Try, but why don't you use it yourself?"
Haag's eyes widened as he looked at Ronis, but there was no skeptical glint of pure curiosity.
"I can't use it, your leader used a very vicious method to cut off my connection with Ardis and shattered the meridians in my body, the clergy is no better than the magician's belief in the gods, and the feedback is the source of our strength, and we can't communicate with the gods we serve, even the archbishop's power is not even as good as that of an ordinary person. β
Ronis patiently explained, but the thought of what Tanan had done to him filled with indignation.
"Oh, how do I use it?"
Hag quickly believed Ronis's words, in fact, there was no need for the other party to lie to him in this situation, but he ignored the point that Ronis's current physical condition may not be as good as that of an ordinary person, but he himself is worse than a chicken.
"Wrap your spiritual power around the surface of the box, cover it all and then try to invade inside, and then ......"
Ronis suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, because only now did he realize that it was a barbarian talking to him on the other side, and barbarians are not good at magic, so where does the spiritual power come from?
A great joy followed by a sudden great despair suddenly filled every cell in Ronis's body, making him feel like a joke in this situation, he was still delusional to escape, maybe it was his own dispiety towards Addis that angered him at that moment, so that he had to go through such a desperate lesson before he died.
Thinking like this, Ronis's palm dragging Pandora's box also drooped, but then to his surprise, the box did not roll to the ground with the fall of his palm, but just floated in the air.
A faint red light flickered on the surface of the box, and from the bottom of the box extended a thin line of light that connected to the barbarian's eyebrows.
Floating in the air was a scorching fire elemental aura.
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