Chapter 536: A Broken World
The doors of the cabins were open, and instead of staying in the warm halls, the guests poured onto the cold deck and cheered at the night sky.
At this time, the night temperature in the Arctic Ocean has dropped below freezing, and it is still falling, and the sea surface is already significantly frozen.
The male guests were a little better, and the suits were barely able to withstand some of the cold. But the beautiful waitress in off-the-shoulder dresses and even with long bare legs can only be beautiful and frozen in the cold wind.
But even so, they have no intention of returning to the warm cabin, after all, if they leave at this moment, it will be a big regret for their journey, or life.
Because of the aurora, the sky at this moment is full of curtains that exude mysterious and brilliant light. Like a girl's skirt, the aurora completely envelops the visible sea.
Let people subconsciously look up, wanting to find the figure of the beautiful Valkyrie who will bring the aurora. Legend has it that when the Valkyries rode Pegasus through the sky, the light reflected by their ornate armor was the aurora.
Although it has now been explained that the aurora is nothing more than a simple electrical discharge, anything beautiful is followed by an equally beautiful legend, and everything has to be explained by boring mathematical formulas, then the world is too boring.
On top of that, the mirage that emerged on the unfrozen sea not far away made them ecstatic.
The walls surrounded by tall rocks come to life, as if there is a relict island hidden in the water, and only the aurora borealis can be glimpsed from afar.
"Looks like we've hit the jackpot." Caesar, whose face was calm, or rather, was no longer surprised by the aurora withdrew his gaze and stopped looking at the excited people on deck.
"Ah...... Avalon! Does this place really exist? Sasha's eyes widened and his voice became a little unkempt, he was all too familiar with the island.
As a captain on the surface, he certainly knows the reason why Vincent is obsessed with this sea, the mythical secret place of Celtic - Avalon, which the legendary heroes will go to after they die.
But he himself, and the men he had brought with him, scoffed at it, and if it weren't for Vincent's good salary, they wouldn't want to float on such a sea where there was nothing but sea and ice.
It's good to be able to find the treasure that only Vincent knows is true or fake, and if you can't find it, it's a salived pleasure.
Hoping that a group of Russians whose grandparents may have participated in the storming of Berlin to recover the Third Reich is enough to show that Vincent's brain is indeed not very normal.
Only now, the legend told by Vincent, whom they all agreed to be insane, has become true in front of him.
"But, the timing isn't right?" Sasha said with a puzzled expression,
"The captain said that the door would open only when Christmas was approaching."
"That kind of place can't be called Avalon." Chu Zihang said expressionlessly,
"Also, if I were you, I would have ordered to leave here immediately." Yevgeny patted him on the shoulder and said in a solemn tone, "Give the order to turn, Alexander, it's not up to us to intervene next." Believe me, even if there really is any treasure of the Führer there, it is not something that humans can covet. Fingal grabbed a figure beside him who was jumping outside, Vincent, this fanatical Führer fan woke up at some point, and was about to stealthily snatch the black box from his hand.
"Avalon! It's Avalon! He howled madly,
"It's the Führer! It's the Führer, he's guiding me! He's asking me to wake him up! Fingal grabbed him by the collar and shook it: "Wake up, the mustache has been gone for sixty years." He threw the black box to Yevgeny, flicked it lightly on Vincent's head, and then pinned him to Sasha as if he were carrying a monkey, "So that he can be quiet, rest assured, I will be quite measured." Sasha hesitated, took out the walkie-talkie and said, "First mate, there is a hidden ice floe in the sea ahead, turn around and avoid it." ”
"Huh? Isn't that just a thing going to hit it? "There was a lost lake on the intercom, like a drunk voice,
"Come back quickly, let's go find the treasure!"
"Stop talking nonsense, get out of here now! Immediately! Sasha said almost with a roar. He hadn't built enough trust in the three young men who were as chattering as Vincent, but he was willing to listen to Yevgeny, who was with him in the army.
And, without being reminded by Yevgeny, he could feel that there was something unsettling hidden on that island.
The first mate heard the solemnity of his words, and the first mate who remained in the captain's room immediately became energetic. Stopped the group of heavily armed colleagues behind him who were hurrying to find the treasure.
The radio on the cruise ship sounded the sound of tourists returning to the cabin, and Sasha, who put away the walkie-talkie, turned around, but saw only Yevgeny holding the "Island of the Dead" and the black box.
As for the three young men, they suddenly disappeared before he knew it. …… As the Yamal cruise ship slowly moved away, the regretful guests on board could only look through the small porthole to find the mirage that could no longer be seen, so of course they did not see a small kayak sailing towards the mirage between the cracked ice crevices.
"I said, with our ability, we shouldn't be able to use such a simple way of traveling." Fingal controlled the propellers of the kayak and looked at Chu Zihang and Caesar who were standing at the bow of the boat, facing the sea breeze of more than ten degrees below zero.
"Stop nagging, it's coming soon." Caesar said with a frown. Sasha wasn't lying when he said about the ice floes, there were really a lot of ice floes all over here.
They were big and small, and the small ones could be easily crushed by the Yamal. And the big one is with and
"Mary Girl" is the same size, no matter how powerful the Yamal is, she definitely doesn't want to touch such an existence.
The people on board had not noticed any other icebergs before, and the ice seemed to have suddenly floated up from the sea.
And looking at the cracks between the ice blocks, they are likely to have been formed by the breaking of a large glacier, and judging from the size of the icebergs that are currently floating on the surface of the sea, the glacier may have the size of a small island when it was intact.
Avoiding the icebergs, the kayak silently entered the place where the island had just been seen. There was no ice floe in the water, it was extremely clean, and the ice blocks of various sizes surrounded the body of water, like a broken mirror, which made Caesar even more convinced that the ice floe was originally a giant glacier.
However, there does not seem to be enough power in nature to make a glacier on the island scale so fragmented.
Chu Zihang squatted down by the kayak, the light illuminated his face, and he didn't know if it was the light of the sea reflecting the aurora in the sky, or the light from the lonely island in the sea itself.
"This is Caesar, we've discovered the entrance to the Nibelungen and are on our way to investigate." Caesar said in the magic link.
Before they boarded the Yamal, they knew there was an anomaly here. One day many years ago, Leviathan made his first appearance here, which caused all the half-blood forces to set their eyes on the dragon king who could gallop across the four oceans before the Gattuso family incident.
It wasn't until after the Tokyo incident that it was confirmed that the Lord of the Sea and Water had all died, and the eyes of the other half-blood forces withdrew from here.
And after everyone looked away from here, a sailboat that looked like a ghost ship slowly sailed in, looking for a world that probably only the dead could enter.
Originally, they wanted to get some useful information from Vincent, but the old guy's way of looking for things was actually just wandering around the sea, and the only thing that sounded useful was Sasha's statement that the gate would open at Christmas, and then it was immediately proven to be fake.
"The coordinates have already been told to the seniors, and although I really want to wait until they come together before acting, it may be too late." Caesar looked up at the sky that was getting darker.
They weren't sure if the gates would close with the aurora after the aurora dissipated.
After a brief discussion, they left a positioning rune stone on top of a piece of broken ice, activated the external spirit base, and they jumped directly in full armor.
The temperature of the sea is low, but it is nothing to them. Gravity seemed to be failing here, obviously sinking, but the three people in the water felt like they were floating.
Before they knew it, the temperature of the sea began to warm up, and there were bursts of light in the waters they didn't know if it was below or overhead.
Then, of course, they popped up above another stretch of sea, and not far from them, a lonely island loomed beneath the aurora.
Without much effort, they landed on a modest stone pier. Then they noticed a problem, and there seemed to be something unusual about their connection to Valhalla.
"Something seems wrong." Fingal looked at his hand and said,
"I can't seem to hear Eva anymore." If there is an abnormality in the connection of mana, they will not immediately lose their combat effectiveness, but the mana supply and communication cannot be used.
However, in order to prevent this from happening, they carried a sufficient amount of mana crystals when they went out, which could probably support about three all-out battles.
In order to save mana, they lifted the external spiritual base armor that felt a little heavy. After sensing it, the positioning rune could still be activated, Chu Zihang straddled the two handfuls of village rain around his waist and said, "Let's find out the situation as soon as possible and go back, it seems that this place is a little different from the Nibelungen we experienced before." "They were now only on the outskirts of the island, climbing the rock wall and climbing over the towering forest to reach the altar where the coffins were kept.
The pier would probably have access to the altar, but they didn't have that time to waste.
Fingal patted his chest and proudly said that he was good at climbing walls, and that they hadn't yet enrolled when he skipped class and went out to play when he jumped over the wall from the academy.
After finishing speaking, he skillfully climbed the wall, but his movements were a little unsightly, like a big toad.
It's just that after climbing up, he looked at the strange silence in the stone wall, and then said faintly: "I said junior disciples, the situation here may really exceed our expectations......" Chu Zihang and Caesar, who climbed the stone wall, fell into the same silence as Fingal, quietly looking at the island in front of them, no matter how you look at it, it has experienced a big battle.
A huge forest was burned, and the corpses of snakes far larger than the Titan Python were strewn inside. On the other side, the stone wall collapsed, revealing the shattered sea on the other side.
The altar in the middle of the island was gone, replaced by a dark hole that was deep and bottomless, constantly emitting a breath of destruction to the outside.
The dark hole was eroding outward, and countless tombs were collapsing, and some of them were ornate or old coffins falling out and shattering.
The corpses placed in it rolled out, and they remained the same as they were when they were alive, as if they were sleeping corpses rolling into the great cavern, swallowed up by the ubiquitous aura of destruction in it.
Fingal swallowed, "Although the funeral goods in those coffins look valuable, I don't plan to go over and see them." "They kind of understand why they have a faulty connection to Valhalla, it's only because this Nibelungen is disappearing.
"I guess there should be no forces other than us that have the ability to invade the Nibelungen, right?" Caesar asked in horror, he had experienced the collapse of Nuotong, but the shock of watching a broken world disappear completely still made him sigh.
"Could it be...... Infighting? Fingal frowned and said, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the shocking traces of battle here.
They hadn't forgotten that the Odin they were looking for had a powerful ally. It was with his cooperation that Odin was able to snatch Behemoth's keel in front of them so calmly.
"I guess it's not that simple." Chu Zihang shook his head, took out a waterproof camera, and began to shoot.
Then, suddenly, he pulled out the knife at his waist and slashed it to his side. An incomparably terrible roar came, and Caesar, who had instantly entered battle mode, drew his crimson greatsword, and then his eyes suddenly dilated.
He gritted his teeth and shouted, "Behemoth! The bright blonde hair was attached to the bloodless face, and the dull golden boy did not have a trace of brilliance, but Caesar still recognized the similar face at a glance.
The king of the sea and water, who should have been dead for a long time, Behemoth!
"No, it's just Behemoth's keel!" The external spirit base was activated, and Chu Zihang held the long halberd to fly the huge tail that flew over.
A massive snake raised its red eyes, spat out its long tongue and roared, locking on the three intruders.
Above its head, the keel of Behemoth looked like it was embedded in its skull, and lifeless eyes watched them silently.