Chapter 153: Understanding

Nothing could surprise Ciri, who had been working miracles all the time, so much so that the "Sun Knight" had such a strong belief in the sun even after being completely invaded and controlled by the darkness.

After the mere appearance of a sun-like aggregate of fire elementals, the "Sun Knights" behaved so reverently. Previously, everyone called him "Sun Knight" only because of the sun pattern faintly revealed on his chest. Now it seems that, with his devout faith, he is indeed a true Knight of the Sun.

While most of the rest of the party were just surprised by the difference between the Sun Knight and the other Shadow Fiends, Ciri was blown away by the Sun Knight's spirit. Regardless of what he did before he became a Shadow Fiend, he was now completely controlled by the darkness, and even his soul had been infected. But in the deepest part of the Sun Knight's essence, where it is more rooted than the soul, the belief in the sun has taken root in it. And after a long time of washing, it has not changed, it is just hidden. Once revealed, that belief can still suppress everything.

After the Sun Knight disappeared, he left behind some of the Shadow Magic Stones that Ciri needed, which for some reason were much more than the amount that the Blue Scale team had obtained last time. In addition to this, the Sun Knight also left a coat of arms, a coat of arms engraved with a sun motif.

The rest of the Adventure Squad had never heard of Shadow Fiend dropping items other than Shadow Orbs, but Ciri had the most important role in the fight, and he was also his employer, so Ciri put both things into the storage space.

Ciri commands the members of the adventure party to build an empty tomb in the place where the Sun Knight disappeared, and he finally uses a spell to shape a tombstone. The tombstone is inscribed with one of the oldest inscriptions on the Colin plane:

Praise the sun!

--- a true resting place of the Knights of the Sun

Ciri paid Maria some more money, hoping that the mercenary group would keep the Sun Knight's protection realm secret and not bring people to disturb him again.

As a mercenary, Maria didn't understand Ciri's feelings of pity for heroes, but it was easy to say anything if she had money to make, and besides, no one bought the Shadow Demon Stones dropped by the Shadow Demon in this hellish place except Ciri, so she happily agreed to the deal.

At Ciri's request, the team stayed at the Dark Mage Camp on the Eternal Night Plane for an extra night, allowing Ciri time to learn some about the history of the Eternal Night Plane from the Academy mages and scholars who resided in the camp.

In Plane Co-ordination, the Eternal Night Plane, or the dark plane in the mouth of the Dark Mage, is very close to the shadow plane. However, the plane of eternal night was discovered much later.

The difficulty of discovering a plane depends on many factors, but it must not include distance from a known plane.

In the plane of eternal night, the magic is barren and single, there is no real group of intelligent beings, and the most magical element here is the dark element with a concealing effect, which makes it less and less likely to be discovered.

In the end, it was a dark academic mage in the Colin Plane who accidentally became aware of this plane while conducting experimental research. The dark mage camp where Ciri and the others are staying today was originally founded by the dark school mage who discovered the plane of eternal night.

Later, more and more people discovered the magic and uniqueness of the eternal night plane, and came here to study, especially dark mages, because it was full of many dark elements.

The Dark Mage had long believed that it was related to the dark source of the wizarding world, but due to the short time it had been discovered in the plane of eternal night, outsiders had only explored a small part of the area and were unable to obtain any evidence of it.

Even so, the plane of eternal night has already brought many shocking discoveries. No dimensional creature is as immortal as the natives of the Eternal Night Plane, and even if killed, it can recover quickly.

Eternalism clearly defies the laws of the wizarding world, and even the most powerful dragons will be killed at the end of their lives. Obviously, the eternal species of the Eternal Night Plane also paid the price, and that was the loss of consciousness.

Strictly speaking, the native species of the Eternal Night Plane are now monsters, and even the so-called "residents" who keep the fire in their houses are just walking dead. This conclusion may be somewhat inaccurate due to the small size of the Eternal Night Plane, but for all known areas so far, no signs of sapient species have been found.

Intelligence is different from intelligence, and powerful monsters in the immortal plane may have some intelligence, but they will never have intelligence. Powerful monsters will react more to attacks, but they don't know how to cooperate and develop, they don't understand the progress of civilization, and they are just a group of puppets controlled by the invasion of the dark element.

There is no doubt that the Plane of Eternal Night once had a developed civilization, and to this day no one has discovered why the entire civilization has become what it is today. All that is known today is that all transformations in this plane are related to fire and darkness, and that all other elemental forces are suppressed and transformed here.

Nowadays, the dark element obviously has the absolute upper hand, and the fire element is in an extremely weak position, so this is a paradise for dark mages, and there are also many highly adaptable warrior mercenaries who hunt for treasure in the ruins here, and then sell them to some academic mages in the outside world who cannot adapt to this environment.

The Plane of Eternal Night is still in the initial stage of survey and development, and everyone doesn't know much about it, and even the common language about the plane of Eternal Night has not been fully studied, and there is only so much that Ciri can learn.

As for the Sun Emblem, when Ciri showed it to many of the resident mages, they all said they had never seen anything of the kind. There were many mages who wanted to buy the Sun Emblem from Ciri for research, but Ciri didn't agree, and his instincts told him that the Sun Emblem would be useful in the future, and that he might be able to see the vanished Sun Knight again.

The next day, Ciri had already had a brief understanding of the Eternal Night Plane, and the rest of the things were not something he could find in a short period of time. In addition, Ciri still has a lot of work to do, so he has to leave here and return to the Colin plane.

The identity of the citizen of the city of the end also includes many hidden benefits, such as the fact that Ciri does not have to pay a fee to use the teleportation array, and now there is no need to approve the identity of leading the team to and from various planes, which is one of the conveniences brought by the identity of the citizen of the city of the end.

Sometimes an identity represents many characteristics, and the identity of a city citizen in the end means that it is either superb or has great potential, so the major planes will allow this kind of person, because this kind of person will not make any trouble, and the citizen identity itself is a guarantee.

Ciri's group also returned smoothly, and they were soon teleported back to the Colin plane.

Upon returning to the Colin plane, Ciri and Maria separated. Before leaving, Maria asked Ciri for her contact information, and Ciri thought about it, and she might have to cooperate with the other party in the future to give her contact information.

Finally back at Blossom Academy, Ciri and Kayla stayed together for a while, and then ran to Associate Professor Bird. Don't bother the two masters, and the processing of the Shadow Demon Stone has to rely on his old man's help.