Chapter 459: The Land of the Damned
Entering the basin, Kane noticed the silhouette of the looming road and farmland.
As you can see, this place was once well managed:
There is a wooden fence on the side of the road that was specially built to prevent wild grasses from growing wildly, and the fence is painted white.
At intervals, there are street lamps, wooden, shaped like magnified Ge, and the ends of the horizontal extension at the top are used to hang lamps.
The lamps were like lanterns, but they were a bit heavier, and if he hadn't done the math, the oil inside would have kept the lights on all night, and they would have been hung with poles.
Kane could even imagine the scene:
At dusk, horse-drawn carriages loaded with lamps sail along the road, and everywhere they go, the lampbearers on the carts hang the lit lanterns on the iron hooks of the lamp poles, and in the early morning, they take them back in the same way and repair them. As a result of decades of doing this work, the lantern drivers are extremely skilled in using poles......
This is the case with the underdevelopment of technology, where a large amount of manual labor is involved in various industries, and there are some occupations that seem strange to modern people.
It's just that...... The overall feeling given to him here is not like being abandoned because of an accident, but more like a situation of 'deserted people retreating'.
It is not easy for nature to force humans to return their homes that have been cultivated for generations, especially in this kind of terrain, which in Kane's view is very likely to become a place of refuge and continue to exist even in the event of national annihilation.
Continuing closer to the heart of the area, the details of the castle began to become clear, and Kane realized that this was not the cohesive complex he had seen from the hill.
Instead, there is a town and a fort, the town wall is tall and relatively intact, and the fort wall has basically collapsed, so that when you look at it from a distance, you mistakenly think that the town is also a part of the castle.
As he approached the gates of the town, the Blood Thorn creaked, and Kane understood it, warning him of the power of a curse.
Kane snorted, and Bloodthorn understood what he meant, and instead of entering the town, he walked along the outer circle of the town wall.
After about half a circle, the cemetery appeared, and there was a ruined chapel nearby.
The style of this church is Gothic, but the spire and roof have been reduced to rubble, only the ruins remain, and the scenery of the past can only be imagined from the stained glass remaining on the long windows on the gable.
Kane stretched out his left hand, and the cemetery was enveloped in the graveyard with crooked coffins everywhere. The black light shone in a beam and swept back and forth, and Kane had a look on his face.
Whispering a few words to the Blood Thorn, Kane jumped off his back and began to rip off his clothes, while the Blood Thorn dug a hole at the edge of the cemetery area like a dog.
After more than ten minutes, Kane and Bloodthorn were finished almost at the same time, Kane cut a large amount of fresh grass to make filling, propped up the clothes, and dripped a drop of blood at the mouth of his heart, and threw it into the pit.
Bloodthorn flails its claws and bulldozes the pit back to fill in.
Later, Kane, dressed in a bearskin, used the saber as a tombstone and stuck it in the slightly bulging mound.
It's a simple well-dressed mound, but Kane spent time doing this at this time, not to show his determination to start over.
He began to cast a dark spell, black runes spawning from his slashing hands in the air, and they were then packed into balls and hammered into the mound.
'Buzz!'
The energy oscillations spread from the mound in all directions.
It is very fast, but the energy intensity is not high, and even if the eyes are good, it is possible that ordinary people will not be able to confirm whether that scene really happened due to lack of concentration.
At the same time, Kane and the Blood Thorn had already avoided the side, and they walked nearly 20 meters before stopping.
At this time, it was the intermittent period of the rainstorm, the dark clouds rolled over, and then the next rain brewed, and the rain was still flying in the air, and it fell silently.
As the energy spreads, a strange wind rolls up throughout the area, swirling on the ground and blowing wildly, making it impossible to tell where the wind is coming from and where it is blowing.
In the whistling wind, some strange sounds could be faintly heard, like roars, like moans, thick and heavy, not like human voices, and seemed very distant, dull and empty.
Then, in the direction of the castle town, there was a transparent force that distorted the air and affected the rain, and then pounced on the side of the cemetery.
In the end, it was like a continuous water, and it was not in the grave bag, but if you look closely, you can even see the dirt and dust that stirred up.
Kane just watched, waiting.
After about a quarter of an hour, he walked along.
Time seems to have passed hundreds of years in this small area, and the soil bag that was originally slightly raised has been completely leveled at this moment, and even formed the kind of hard crust that has been repeatedly blown by wind and sun.
And the most obvious thing is that the sword that served as a tombstone was so rusted that it was almost impossible to see the shape, not to mention the wood chips that wrapped the hilt and the leather rope that was wound around it, which had long since rotted and scattered as slag when pinched.
But it was such a thing, but it seemed to be what Kane had taken a fancy to, he drew the sword, and broke it directly, and he didn't care, so he took the broken sword, which was less than a third of the total length of the hilt, and knocked it on the low stone wall of the nearby cemetery.
The rusted slag falls off, and what is left is a shapeless piece of rusty iron, which has not yet been completely oxidized, the size of a gum box, and less than 1 centimeter thick.
A beam of light shot from Kane's fingers, drilled a small hole in one end, and then threaded it through a string twisted from the thick fibers of the vines that he had prepared earlier, and hung around his neck like a dog tag.
Kane then stepped onto the Thornbear again, past a crumbling town wall nearby, and into the town.
As soon as you enter the town, the curse is triggered, the very fierce kind, the invisible energy is like the waves, surging in waves, and in the general situation, there will be a superposition of curses, and as the superposition occurs, the recipient will become more and more painful, from the initial imperceptibility, to the later various visual and auditory hallucinations, until the final madness.
It can be said that, as a result, the loss of San value caused by the divine irradiation of the old ruler is ultimately only to this extent, and he goes crazy after suffering a lot.
As for what will be done after going crazy, it is completely out of the control and influence of the consciousness before the madness.
It's a pity that Kane now has a soul replacement weapon, which is not affected at all, and there is no need to resist hard, and the power of the curse is absorbed by the small iron piece hanging around his neck.
The little thing, having absorbed the power of the curse, was regaining its luster, the rust fading and becoming shiny, like polished high-grade iron ore.
At the same time, the Third Search Group arrived in the area, on the same hill that Kane had looked at.
Ellie Jie said nervously: "Team leader, the clue is completely broken. The ability tells me that Horak no longer exists in this world. ”
Baran, one of the members of the group, answered with a poor mouth: "There is no need for clues." As he spoke, he pointed to the ruins of the castle, which was about to be flooded by darkness, and said, "The legendary Blessed Castle, we have found it, and I think it is much more valuable in the long run than the medicines and magical materials that were burned and lost. ”
Dorum frowned, but didn't speak. Fort Blessed is worth a lot of money, but the process of finding it looks like a pit.
The search for a missing caravan guard leads to the discovery of Fort Blessing, which countless explorers have not found, and the caravan guard dies after completing his mission. This is also too deliberate.
inadvertently created a series of deliberate Kane in the eyes of others, picked an abandoned house, and settled down.
This is the attic of a large house, and the special feature of this house is not that it is in disrepair, but that it has experienced something, as if it was a sand hut with a bear's claw dug up by a bear child, and most of the front of the house is damaged, and the interval from the roof to the attic and the second floor, and the interval from the second floor to the first floor, have been dug out in a large piece, showing a huge concave gap.
Kane calculated that if he wanted to destroy it with one claw, the target would have to be at least 15 meters tall and match the height of the burly physique and limbs.
"Attack on Titan?" Kane chuckled, and in two leaps and two jumps, he ascended to the floors, landing lightly and silently, like a civet that had been tricked into a featherfall.
After that, walking into the corner, the bearskin shook off, sat down cross-legged, and then wrapped the bearskin, and it became a large fluffy ball.
Night opened, and darkness gathered around Kane first, forming a pitch-black mass.
In it, it is like eternal silence, just like the deep space of the universe.
Kane goes into a state of rest, and if nothing special happens, he sleeps for 3-5 days, and then explores the dark core of the place one night and does a wive-to-the-bottom treatment.
Causing the evil that has accumulated here to lose the power to nourish itself and disintegrate is only one of the side effects.
The main thing is to complete the tasks assigned by Eugen.
As Eugen explains, his opponents have placed a pyramidal system of nodes in this world, and this is one of the peripheral nodes, a dark core, that is the main factor that contributes to the ghostly appearance of this place.
So for Kane, it's not an adventure, it's a nail pull, and if he happens to have the materials available, he will collect and build tools at his disposal to arm himself.
For example, the soul substitute on the neck is made by using the remnant soul relics of this body as a medium, and the curse power here is made for forging power.
Kane only uses self-made extraordinary artifacts, of course, he is not a pedantic person, he can really copy some high-value magic weapons, he will not take them, but use them to exchange resources and materials with others.
In his previous life, he promoted the reputation of his juniors in the Vientiane Gate system, which was basically won by selling extraordinary items with high cost performance at low prices.
However, looking back at this life, it seems that it is useless, and the sweet mouth and the charm seem to be more popular, and the emperor has attracted so many forces to ambush him, and he has not even received a little wind in advance, which shows the heat and coldness of the world.
Bloodthorns did not guard their masters, but went out to forage for food on their own.
It is involved as a cruel creature that needs to be consumed with fresh flesh and stirring souls (extreme excitement, fear, pain, etc.) in order to grow.
Fortunately, it has no interest in ordinary flesh and blood, and eats magical creatures, and the darker it is, the more appetite it has, which Kane jokingly calls the 'black eats black system'.
In essence, it is the life soul system that Kane uses very often. Starting with the final wolf warrior of HP, this system has been used and has never been abandoned. Having said that, Kane's mastery of the extraordinary technical system is cost-effective and the only ones he is used to using.
As a priest, Dorum, the leader of the third search group, can also be counted as a magical creature, his soul power is far stronger than that of ordinary people, and his body is also tempered by the silver holy light (in fact, it is the transcendent moonlight) every day, and it is not inferior to magical creatures in any way.
Dorum was lucky not to encounter the Blood Thorn.
When Bloodthorn was operating in the cemetery in Kane, he found that there were a lot of black delicacies in that area. So after Kane gave the stocking order, it went straight there. It's almost the opposite of Dorum and they're coming from.
"Team leader, are we too dedicated? This is Fort Blessing!" Balan couldn't help but remind as he saw that he was getting closer and closer to the ruins of the castle.
Fort Blessing was once known as the blessed land of the Lord (Lord of the Moon, Shariyah). But what really made it famous was that after a serious incident of desecration, it became a cursed place, and now it is the 14th most murderous place.
This kind of ranking with zero and whole is far more terrible than the adventurers who drank two or two cats to pee and boasted about in the tavern. The danger of such a place is almost inevitable, and every time there is any fluke, it is also the loss of more than one professional expedition to get a position.
It is for this reason that for a professional like Balan, to be close to such a place is an act of absolute death.
"What, you're scared?"
Dorum's words made Balan's brow furrow, the group leader he was familiar with usually spoke in such a tone and tone.
This is not a question of fear or not, but stupidity, people live not only for their own children, parents, lovers, these are not considered?
The king's vault is full of treasures, why don't you rob it? In the same way, how different is jumping into this kind of black pit and robbing the king's vault?
"Team leader, I solemnly request a faith evaluation. Balaam stopped and said.