Volume 1 The Mystery of the Shadows Chapter 25 The Curtain of Chaos

When a magician learns to forbid spells and becomes an archmage, he is called a sage.

When a warrior opens up his own Origin Power and becomes an Origin Warrior, he is called a Sage.

Of course, there are more than two paths to the Sage, but how many can become Sages?

Thorne's heart has always been steadfast in his belief that he is the most powerful warrior below the Sage...... This confidence is not just because of the trust that Prince Curran has in him.

In short, a strong faith made him walk in the tomb as if he were walking in his own country, until he met the first man.

It was a woman with beautiful silver hair, and even though she was wearing silver-gray armor, her body still appeared slender and well-proportioned.

Thorne had seen her, a pale-skinned, cold-skinned woman who had looked down on the Gore's incoming legation from the northern walls of Slom, which included him.

"Silver-hime, I've heard that your bow is colder than the winter in Gore, and your arrows are quieter than the mist in the woods."

The burly Thorne stood in the middle of the street, his arms folded, his voice hoarse as sandpaper rubbing against an iron sword.

Hill Manvenlin held the Dead Touch, and she was standing quietly on the ridge of a house on the side of the street, her black cloak hunting in place of her answer.

"I am a belligerent man, but have never fought against Odryk's generals."

Thorne doesn't like to be looked down upon, although he has a mission given by His Royal Highness Curran, but under the indifferent gaze of Silver Hime, his restless battle spirit becomes restless, and both his body and axe seem to become hot.

The Goles were inherently enemies of the Odrics, and they didn't need a reason to fight—at least for Thorne.

As he placed his hands on the two axe handles behind his waist, he suddenly saw Ciel's black cloak flutter even more violently, and a pitch-black arrow burst out of the gap in the swinging cloak.

Thorne didn't even see her take the arrow, he took the short axe in his right hand first, shook his hand and split the arrow, felt a cold touch come from his fingertips, and when he looked down, the surface of the short axe was already covered with a thin layer of frost.

"Your arrows are silent, just as silent as you are."

Thorne laughed and threw the frosty hatchet at Silver Hime, preventing her from firing the next arrow in order to dodge.

Impulsive and belligerent, he was not a fool, and instead of rushing straight over, he slyly burrowed under the house, ran along the edge of the wall, and then grabbed the raised window edge, and in three or two times he rolled over to the roof.

As soon as Thorne stepped onto the rooftop, three arrows came at him, and he charged forward as he swung his axe to split the feathers, and each time the arrow touched the blade, a small cloud of ice crystals erupted...... Thorne believed that if he was shot in the body by such an arrow, he would definitely inflict severe frostbite on the wound.

Seeing Thorne rushing towards him, Hill did not choose to pull away, but half-crouched on the ridge of the roof, set up the most stable posture of pulling the bow, and pulled out the arrow in the quiver with extremely fast and smooth movements, and shot, drawn, and shoot-

Even though he was only twenty paces away, Thorne had to parry ten arrows, each of which struck his joints, eyes, and ribs so detrimentally that his advance was greatly hampered.

When he came to the silver Ji a few steps away, the short axe in his hand was completely wrapped in frost, half of his forearm was faintly blue and white, and his knuckles became a little stiff under the cold air.

"The great Manso gives me blood!"

Thorne roared and leaped high, his hatchet slashing at Silver Hime's Death Touch Longbow.

The ice on the axe shattered and splattered in all directions.

Hill parried with her bow in both hands, and with the powerful blow, her body bent slightly, and then swung her longbow and rolled backwards.

She had just stepped out of the way, and before she could stand up straight, she shot the arrow again.

In an instant, Thorne saw two black scratches suddenly appear under her eyes, pulling from the sockets to the corners of her mouth, but the vertical marks were fleeting as the arrows destringed.

Without time to think about it, Thorne slashed the arrow, ignored the splash of ice crystals, caught up with him, and swung his swift axe again.

Caught in hand-to-hand combat, Ciel constantly parried with his dragon horn longbow and then took every opportunity to dodge and shoot arrows...... Perhaps unlucky, she never shot the arrow she was waiting for.

On the contrary, Hill soon noticed that Thorne's axe was getting faster and faster, and at first she could draw a chance to shoot an arrow with each dodge, but after three arrows, she could barely find the space to shoot, and she could barely even block.

"Feel the frenzied tomahawks?"

Thorne's axe whipped up a terrible wind that blew through Ciel's side, her black cloak cut through numerous gaps, looking tattered as it drifted in the wind.

By this time, she had retreated to the end of the ridge, and one step further was the empty street.

Without hesitation, Ciel jumped backwards, and Thorne grabbed his axe and jumped out after her—

In mid-air, she turned around, drew her bow and arrows, and two vertical marks appeared on her face again.

Looking at the silver Ji light blue eyes, and the white pupils in the center of the eyes, Thorne's breathing suddenly stopped for a moment, as if there was an extremely terrifying danger brewing, but as a berserker, he didn't know how to retreat, only knew how to slash the sharp axe in his hand!

The unremarkably looking arrows flew out, and the arrows collided against the blades of the axes, and the blades of the iron short axes suddenly lacked a piece, and then cracked inch by inch.

The shattered half-cut axe landed on Silver Ji's chest, and the mutilated blade cut through the silver-gray armor, and countless fragments of armor flew out.

Ciel's body fell heavily to the ground, and then rolled over nearly ten meters in embarrassment, and she lay on the ground like a marionette off the line, leaving a red blood mark in her path.

Thorne landed on his feet, holding an axe with only half a blade left in one hand and his knee in the other. Drops of blood fell on the pale stone slab between his feet, and there was a hole in his right chest with the size of a bowl, which looked terrifying.

Ciel's face was buried in the crook of his arm, making it impossible to see. She still held the dragonhorn longbow in her left hand, her fingers wrapped in the joint armor remained motionless, and her right hand was spread out as if unconscious, lying flat on the ground, except for her tattered black cloak and long silver hair fluttering in the wind.

Looking at the immobile body of the silver princess, Thorne walked towards her with the axe that was still dripping blood, but as soon as he took a step, he felt his legs go limp, his whole body was cold, and he sat down on the ground as if he had been drained of strength.

"Ha, ha-" He gasped for air, clutching the hole in his chest, blood gushing from between his fingers, "What's the matter with that arrow?" Damn ......"

In order to defeat the silver hime, he paid an unexpected price, and at this time he must seize every second to regain his strength and then finish her off completely.

As Thorne took the opportunity to catch her breath, Hill suddenly moved slowly, first straining her shoulders and trying to support herself with her arms, then bent one leg and pressed her knee against the white slate...... But she was so badly injured that she just rolled over and fell to the ground on her back.

Her breathing was weak, and the armor on her chest was split into a terrifying furrow, and the entire breastplate was shattered and disshaped, and blood continued to flow from the cracks in the armor.

"It was Goeller's Tomahawk who won." Thorne gasped and stood up with some difficulty, "Thank you to the great Manso. ”

He stepped forward towards the badly injured Silver Hime, his steps heavy and slow.

He could even hear her gnashing teeth breathing and a slight grunt from the sharp pain when he was only a few steps away from Hill Manwenlin, but just as his axe was about to slash past, the ground suddenly shook.

A straight crack suddenly appeared in the ground in front of Thorne, and before he could react, the street on the other side of the crack disappeared at an unimaginable speed...... He felt the earth spin, a dull roar coming from beneath his feet, and the block in front of him vanished, leaving only a blue bottomless pit.

Along with that block, along with the vanishing silver hime, who was seriously injured and dying.

Thorne turned to look in the opposite direction, and the other end of the road was gone, replaced by a dark blue pit of nothingness, leaving only a lone section of the street in between...... I don't know how long it took, the shaking of the earth slowly calmed down, and a completely different building was perfectly connected in the crack, falling in front of him, filling the void in the void of the sea of stars.

"What's going on?"

Thorne struggled to look up and saw an unimaginably large pillar of light descending from the dome in the distance, enveloping a large area.

A sharp, piercing but majestic roar came from the pillar of light—

It's like a dragon's groan.

In the Master's Hall in the middle of the Tower of Nothingness, Terrela had just finished the last piece of the puzzle when the entire building shook violently, and the surrounding area began to change drastically—by the time everything was calm again, they were already in the other direction of the Tomb.

Looking at the huge pillar of light in the distance, Levi asked, "Is that the depths of the Ji Tomb?" ”

"Almost."

"That figure was the Lord of Frost?"

"That's right." Terella withdrew her hand from the map and whispered, "Although I still can't figure out the exact way, it is true that a Sage has entered the Hime-Tomb. ”

She stood up, walked briskly to the side wall, and reached out with both hands to remove a heavy long-handled warhammer, which was prismatic in shape, and the surface of the hammer was intricately intricately inscribed, apparently an alchemical weapon.

"What are you going to do?" Levi frowned.

Terella didn't answer, dragging her hammer back to the slate map, then picked up the hammer and smashed it against the slate.

Cracks opened, and the map shattered.

"Ji Ling is fully activated, there is no need to leave the map here." Terrella said calmly, raising her hammer again and smashing it down, shattering the entire slab to its original form, "And I have to take out what's underneath the map." ”

Listening to her words, Levi thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "You mean the central core?" ”

If the structure of the entire tomb can be changed by patching together and moving the stone slabs, then most of the things hidden under the stone slabs are the core of the ruins.

"At the heart of this space, to be exact."

Terrella smashed the slate to pieces with her hammer, then threw away the hammer and reached for the rubble, seemingly searching for what she called the core of space.

Due to his lack of knowledge of space, Levi did not understand what she was going to do, so he could only turn his head to look out of the main hall. His gaze swept across the sky not far away, and he found a small pink house floating quietly in the void of stars.

"What's that?"

Levi crouched down, he had never seen such a strange picture, and he couldn't know what this house was, so he could only hide his figure and observe secretly.

Terella, who was searching among the rubble, raised her head and glanced out of the main hall, she also spotted the strange house, narrowed her eyes and said, "The room that stays in the void, it does not belong to the Himere...... The force seemed familiar, but I really hadn't seen this room. ”

Levi whispered, "I didn't find this house until you activated Himereung...... Maybe it's because we changed our bearings and happened to bump into it that had been stuck here all along. ”

He paused and continued to speculate: "If it is a carrier, it is very likely that it does not belong to either side of Audric and Gole. ”

"Do you think someone used this house to invade the Himereung, not the dragon egg fragment?" Terella nodded, "That's interesting, third party...... No, it's the fourth party. ”

After a moment of silence, Terrela and Levi looked at each other and said in unison, "Sage? ”

The owner of the pink hut is the one who entered the tomb, and it seems that this is the most likely at the moment.

So could he be nearby?

Levi's face was a little gloomy, and if they did bump into this mysterious sage, their luck would be too bad.

Noticing Levi's expression, Terrella raised an eyebrow.

"Rest assured, the owner of this house should have entered the tomb and been moved to another direction along with his footing."

Levi was about to say something, but suddenly closed his mouth, turned and leaned against the wall, he put his index finger to his mouth, and made a "silence" gesture.

Tyrella stopped what she was doing and looked at Levi quietly, looking into an inquiring look.

"Someone's coming."

Levi lip-spoke to warn Terella, then half of his face and looked down the street below the Tower of Nothingness—

A female court mage in a moon-white robe was walking this way, her goal was clear, it was the Hall of the Master.

[Pure Angel] Harriet Lopez, dressed in white armor and a golden cloak, stands silently atop a pale watchtower.

She looked at the huge pillar of light that was close at hand, her face calm, as if she was thinking about whether to step into it.

As the leader of the Wangqi Guards, she had not met anyone since she entered the Ji Tomb, let alone made peace with the friendly forces according to the agreed signal, because none of the signals were sent at all.

There are a total of twenty-four explorer teams sent by Odryk, and there are four team leaders among them, in addition to herself, they are the Supreme Magus [Winter Saint], the High Magus [Poison Ring], and the City Guard General [Silver Hime].

In addition, there are ten royal guards and ten court magicians.

Harriet had been heading towards the central area of the tomb according to the map drawn in advance, but the ruins suddenly changed terrain completely in the earthquake-like fluctuations, and the map was no longer useful.

After the upheaval, she found herself being moved to the pillar of light, the figure of a giant dragon fluttering through the pillar of light, and occasionally let out a shocking roar.

Feeling the majestic dragon might, the short golden hair of the pure angel fluttered slightly, this knight who belonged to His Majesty the King finally made a choice, her cloak was raised, split into two pieces, and refracted into a pair of golden wings of light.

Harriet's wings vibrate, and although her flight altitude was suppressed by Ji Ling, it did not stop her from soaring, and her body shot into the pillar of light like an arrow.

Instead of seeing the monstrous dragon and the blazing dragon's breath as expected, Harriet had just flown into the pillar of light when she noticed a ray of warm sunlight falling on her, the sky was blue and pure, and the surrounding area was full of lively human voices.

The sight of a black city is a black city, where every building is pitch black, and the roads are paved with black stone slabs, and hot women in light gauze and belly buttons walk through the streets, and strong men with bare tops can be seen everywhere......

As if in a dream, Harriet landed vigilantly on the ground in the middle of the city, and was lost in thought when she realized that no one was hostile or surprised by her presence.

Is there a city in the pillar of light? Wait, that watchtower looks familiar...... And the houses by the streets and the churches in the distance, could it be—

Harriet was shocked to find that her position was exactly the same as that of the Himere Tomb outside the pillar of light, and the commonalities were down to every brick and window, and if it weren't for the different colors of the building, she couldn't tell whether she was inside or outside the pillar of light!

A girl in a black veil walked past her, carrying a small kettle on her shoulder, a red ribbon wrapped around her chest, and a flowing gauze skirt on her lower body, with her bare feet and graceful posture.

She smiled softly at Harriet.

"Welcome to Ozer!"

The vast street in front of the Pale Church had been reduced to a field of snow and ice, both the stone floor and the huge houses lining the street were covered in a thick layer of frost.

Anna, the winter saintess, floated silently in the middle of the street, holding a human-high silver-white wand in her hand, the head of which was inlaid with a few transparent blades to hold up a crystal ball, and the sky blue crystal emitted a strong chill.

"It's a big scene, a little wizard who likes snowball fights."

A woman's voice came from the void, making it impossible to discern the direction.

"What is your name?"

Even in battle, Anna's tone remained gentle, and her elegant and demure temperament seemed to have merged with her.

In response to the Winter Maiden, a rose-red light shot out of the void in the shape of a chain-dragging arrow that stabbed straight into Anna's chest.

A wall of ice suddenly rose up in front of Anna, and in addition to this, Anna also cast a high magic [Crystal Shield], and the clean and transparent ice cube hovered in front of her like a shield made of crystal.

The heavy walls of ice were easily pierced by pink light like paper, and the crystal shield was a little stronger, but it didn't last more than two seconds before it was torn apart by the impact of the light arrow.

Anna's chest was mercilessly pierced, and her whole body melted like ice and snow, turning into a large ball of snow that fell from mid-air and fell into countless pieces of snow.

Counter magic [snowman].

"This is already the third layer of counter-magic, tenacious lady."

The secret, deep female voice sounded again.

A gust of wind blew across the ground, and snowflakes fluttered up the air, condensing into a human form, and finally becoming Anna's form.

Her face was pale, and her wand waved in her hand, and a cold wind rolled up in the holy chant, and a tiny snowflake shimmered with dazzling light in the wind.

The snowflake drifted forward and then instantly bloomed into a brilliant frost flower, and the cold current was raging, as if it was about to freeze everything around it......

High magic [Anna Christer's Winter Flowers].

The bloom of the snowflakes was fleeting, and only a cold white mist remained in the air.

Anna was well aware that her opponent was an out-and-out warrior of origin, a sage.

It's like she's come to terms with a serene attitude.

The rose-red arrow of light pierced her lower abdomen, which was the location of the Demon Palace. Not a drop of blood flowed out, and a strong chill erupted in the body of the Winter Saintess, slowly freezing her body, and in a breath, she turned into a beautiful ice sculpture, this time without any counter-magic, only true peace and death.

No one could have imagined that the first deceased in the tomb of Ji was actually a supreme magister.

("It's so cold, winter flowers.") —The Hidden Record)

("In the historic Ozer Grand Canyon, the inhabitants of the Shadow Nation were not welcoming to outsiders. —"General History of the Mainland: The Year Before the Yuan Dynasty")