Chapter 005: Fantasy Bonfire
The three of them walked to a tall stone tower not far away, the cave of the stone tower is indeed a bit narrow for humans, a few people lowered their bodies through the cave path, the inside became more and more spacious, and came to the deepest part of the cave, a huge stone house replaced the previous narrowness, the stone house in this cave was much more luxurious than Lisa's nest, the cherry wood tables and chairs, and the bluestone brick floor, enough for twenty adult humans to sit in it for a meeting. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
An old man with a wrinkled face sat on a straw couch, his eyes slightly closed as if he was recuperating his spirits, his milky white fangs were longer than those of the earth spirits outside, but his hair was white, and the light in the cave was so faint that it was difficult to see what color his skin was.
Kenny and Lawrence walked over to the straw couch and stood still, staring at the old man in front of them.
Alan didn't mean to stop at all, he went straight to the side of the straw couch, unexpectedly stretched out his hand and slapped the body of the old man of the earth spirit, the old man was suddenly slapped off the grass couch, rolled several times before stopping.
"Ahh
The old man of the earth spirit screamed, quickly got up and covered his head with his left hand, put on a defensive posture with his right hand, and quickly turned his head to look at the sides, trying to find the person who attacked him.
"Hey, dear old Maud, it's me!" Alan beckoned to the old man on the ground, masking his rude behavior with a smile on his face.
"It's you! That, that who, this, in short, well, right... Why did you hit me, and who are the two of them?" Old Maud rubbed his forehead, his toothpick-sized paw pointing at Kenny and Lawrence to the side.
"Hey, hey, hey, how many times do you have to say it before you remember, I'm Alan, don't you Earth Spirit Clan have this memory? I've been calling you for a long time, and you haven't woken up, I'm worried about whether something happened to you, just... Okay, let's change the subject and introduce you to two of my friends, Kenny and Lawrence. After Allen finished speaking, he moved a position to the side so that Old Maud could see the two behind him.
Old Maude narrowed his already small eyes into a slit, rubbed his forehead and looked at the two strangers, he patted the dust on his body, and jumped back to the straw couch where he had closed his eyes and recuperated.
"My name is Maude, you can call me Old Maude, it sounds kind, I am the village chief here, since you are friends with Allen, then you are welcome, sit casually, but I don't have any wine here to entertain you. ”
"Hello, old Maude, I'm Kenny, next to me is Lawrence, the lord of the Southern Continent Wasteland, we came to the Sumerian continent because of some things, and the snow outside is too big, so we want to find a safe place to stay temporarily, because in addition to us, there are more than a thousand soldiers outside. ”
"More than a thousand people... Belch... Sounds a bit much, it's not that I won't help you, it's because—" Old Maude looked at Alan in silence.
"Tell me, old Maude, maybe they'll be able to help you. Alan put his hand on Maude Sr.
"Okay, okay, it's not a shame anyway. You must have seen the illusion outside before you came in, it was set up by the god Namu to protect us when he founded our people, our people have lived here for more than 2,000 years, and the power of the illusion has been getting smaller and smaller recently, because..."Old Maud jumped down from the straw couch as he spoke, he stepped on the bluestone slab with two little feet like chicken feet, and it felt like a human kneeling on the ground, which looked very funny from behind.
Old Maude walked to a wall behind him, he put his hand on a depression in the wall, the depression was just enough to put his hand down, Old Maude turned the mechanism on the wall hard, the whole wall shook, and a hidden secret door went up.
"Come in. Old Maude beckoned to the group behind him.
The three of them followed Maude Sr. into the secret door that had just opened, and Kenny walked behind Allen, and when he walked into the secret door, a magnificent scene unfolded before him.
In front of Kenny's eyes is a mysterious cave dungeon, this dungeon is not like it was built by the earth spirits, the huge space is estimated to hold an auditorium of more than a thousand people, and the vastness of this place is larger than the palace square in Karta City.
The walls around it were made of a black mineral rock, smooth to the touch like a girl's skin, and there was a candlestick every other foot, and the wax oil on the candlestick seemed to have accumulated for thousands of years, and the solidified wax oil stood upside down like stalactites, and the silver boots stepped on the stone floor, and the crisp sound surrounded the cave, which seemed solemn and mysterious.
"This is the forbidden place of our Earth Spirit Clan, and you outsiders should not be allowed to enter, but..." Old Maude led a few people to walk in the majestic underground palace, his voice kept circling in the enclosed space, and he seemed to be much taller.
Old Maude walked to the center of the underground palace, a stone platform with two people holding thick feet stood there, and a cyan brazier was fixed on the stone platform, and the fire light burning in the brazier was a little weird, and the fire was actually green!
"This is the Illusion Bonfire, this divine fire has been burning for two thousand years, and it is because of this bonfire that our Earth Spirit Race has been able to survive on the war-torn continent of Sumer for so long. Old Maude raised his neck and said to a few people.
"When I was very young, it was more than 500 years ago, the fire in the brazier was not what it is now, the fire in the brazier was still very strong, and now the fire in the brazier is very small, no one in the village knows about this, I have canceled the worship activities of the annual spirit festival, in order not to let everyone find out about it, but the paper can't contain the fire after all, I am very worried that one day in the future the people in the village will find out about it, and I am even more worried that one day the fire in the brazier will be extinguished, no matter which of these two things happens, for our Earth Spirit Race, it is a disaster of annihilation. ”
"When the god Namu founded our clan, he explicitly forbade us not to leave the village, once someone left the village, they could never come in again, although it was just a legend, but we had a person go out before, and that person never came back after he went out, half of the people in the village believed in this legend, but half of the people said that maybe it was just a coincidence, maybe the little guy just happened to meet a foreign race or a human, and was killed on the way so he didn't come back, in short, if the people in the village found out about this, it would definitely cause panic, they would definitely organize to go out to find fuel for the divine fire, I was worried that they would never come back。 ”
Old Maude put his hands behind his back and looked at the bonfire in the brazier, the green light of the fire imprinted into his pupils, looking extremely lost.
"That's not a legend, if I'm not mistaken, you earth spirits left the village and should never come back. Lawrence's voice lingered in the huge dungeon, and Old Maud looked up at the distant visitor.