Alexandra and the others, who had "attacked" here, were now silent.

Or rather, they were already shocked by the sights before them, and the conclusions that the two of them had come to with them.

In fact, neither the Vann of a few hundred years ago, nor in the world today, has ever wavered in the slightest degree of human dominance, and Merlinler and the Legislature do not even have to expend any energy to defend this idea, because this view has long been deeply imprinted in everyone's habit of thinking.

In other words, the exaltation of the status of humanity no longer needs to be explained in any superfluous way.

It is also supported by this deep-rooted belief that the human elite of the Ernst family have been able to persevere in the terrible past, believing that they are born as human beings, and that the will and dignity of human beings are strong and noble, and that any attempt to tamper with or offend them is a blasphemy against the human race.

They didn't have the leisure to learn anything about this place the last time they attacked it, and now, as "vassals of vassals" of Shuge, they were able to see and hear everything here through Shuge's sight.

However, it was all this that had a considerable impact on their beliefs and ideas in the past.

Shug was vaguely aware of Alexandra and the others' "mood swings", and he understood this.

You know, in the world he used to have, until the moment of his sudden death, there were still countless people who thought that the earth was flat, or that the birds had long been extinct, and so on...... These "older players" just felt extremely shocked, and did not jump up and explode their emotions at the first time, which is already very rational.

Cases like Viline's are only a minority.

After all, as a professional magician, she has already expanded her tolerance for all kinds of strange and new things for the sake of knowledge and topics.

In other words, they've all started to study the lost magic, so what's not acceptable?

Such a discovery will only make her more excited and joyful, but I am afraid that it will not be enough to shake her mind.

"Be careful, I can't see anything in front of me."

Shuge lifted the fog of the emissary in the mirror in front of him, and in the open door in front of him, there seemed to be a special black veil, which fundamentally "blocked" all the snooping eyes, even the power from the Abyss Court could not penetrate it.

Xiuge slowly moved forward, he came to the edge of the gate, but the darkness still existed, and did not weaken in any way because of the shortening of the distance, Xiuge frowned, picked up a stone from the side, and bounced it towards the darkness in front of him, so it seemed to be swallowed, and disappeared in front of Xiuge's eyes in an instant, but soon, Xiuge heard a slight sound - the stone fell to the ground, which showed that behind this layer of darkness was not a bottomless abyss, but seemed to have a downward staircase.

Sugg didn't rush inside, he made a "wait" gesture to Vireen, and then asked the members of the Ernst family, "Was this the case when you came here?"

….

"No, absolutely not!"

Bernhardt's answer was affirmative: "There should be a very long, very long staircase leading down to the bottom, followed by the core of the ritual, which we don't recognize, but it looks like some kind of altar, and we were limited in our ability at the time, and only barely destroyed part of it."

"Is that the part that connects the fourth and fifth floors underground?"

"That's right, and they've never been able to complete the repair, so it's not clear why."

After listening to Bernhardt's account, Hug nodded, and he passed this information to Verin, and the two immediately began cautious experiments.

Soon, they were able to roughly confirm the nature of the pitch-black barrier, which seemed to be some kind of ritual field based on the Mother Earth Mystic Rite, and its function was basically similar to that of the ritual fields in the major cities that could block the walls and access passages, similar to stones, bullets, and broken clothing could easily pass through, but when Verin tried to use it

When the hand or magic comes into contact, it is blocked again.

Shuge also tried with the Touch of Karon and the Mist of the Mirror Emissary, but neither could be passed, and the attempt at violent destruction was also a failure, as if passing through this barrier required a special qualification.

Thinking of the spellcasters of the Black Sun Association who had been alienated into rats before, Xiuge had a guess in his heart, he snapped his fingers, called the running rat who was busy "admiring" the traces of his ancestors, and then directly picked it up, under Xiuge's order, the blessing of the Earth Mother God that it had previously absorbed and plundered began to operate rapidly, and the dark yellow light and shadow gradually spread from its body along the magic connection between the two sides, and gradually covered Xiuge's body surface.

He reached forward.

This time, his palm managed to reach into the darkness.

Seeing this, Wei Lin sighed a little lost, but she didn't say anything more.

She opened her magic book, neatly tore off a few magic pages, and stuffed them directly into Xiuge's arms, and then attached several enhancements to him as before.

"Don't delay too long, withdraw if the situation is not right...... I won't help you with the protective ritual, which may cause unnecessary disruption and impact."

She gave a calm remonstrance, then turned and walked to the mural next to her, and began to try to use magic to record the images on paper, without giving Xiuge a chance to say thank you.

"Okay."

Seeing this, Xiuge had no choice but to move forward alone.

As he traversed the barrier, Xiug felt as if he was squeezed into a soft sponge, and after breaking through the slight resistance, he managed to reach the space behind the barrier, the staircase leading to the core of the ritual.

There were magic lamps, but they were dimly lit - they were set up on the surrounding stone walls, and in the very center of them was the huge altar depicted by Bernhardt, and the whole altar looked like a large stone pit with a large number of stone statues and stone tablets standing around it, and the contents of the pit in the center of the altar were not visible to Xiuge.

There was a foul smell in the air, it smelled like the smell of damp earth after a heavy rain, but it was so strong that it was so thick that people couldn't help frowning.

….

The Running Rat, which had been agitated by the strangeness of its head, was now quiet, and it jumped from Shug's arms to the ground, looked around curiously, and then ran down the stairs first.

Shuge followed, and soon he was stepping onto the huge stone altar.

A strange wave of magic began to come, similar to the power that had been felt in the walls of the manor before, but now it became incomparably clearer, and the power that flowed was like the roots of a plant, like the veins of an animal, and the vitality was constantly wandering and beating in it, and it was able to give people a sense of joy and joy.

However, the stone statues and steles around the altar, as well as the patterns on the ground, do not make people happy at all.

Unlike the sculptures and murals on the outside that depict the reverence and yearning of the Mother Earth goddess, most of the scenes engraved here are scenes of "sacrifice" and "killing", and the creatures used as sacrifices are very diverse, the larger ones will be specially made into stone statues, and the smaller ones will be carved directly on the walls and stone tablets, including the deep-sea beasts that Xiuge once saw in the dream of the rats, as well as the land creatures that appeared in the murals before.

"It seems that when war broke out, the civilization of the time would choose to sacrifice blood as 'prisoners of war', but in peacetime, other lives of people who are also believers in Mother Earth are also within the range of sacrifices......

Shug looked at the headless stone statue in front of him, which had no head, but judging by its structure and tail trailing behind it, it was supposed to be a strong nezumi warrior or knight.

Apparently there was a wide range of racial demands for the sacrifice of the believers, or perhaps self-sacrifice was an honor.

Snikch let out a slight cry, and Shog walked over, and then he froze.

He saw a stone statue that was extraordinarily small, because it was taken by two

Because the giant beast statue was sandwiched in the middle, it looked a little pitiful, but Xiuge still recognized the race of the stone statue at once.

It's a human being.

He was dressed in rough clothing and armor, and his hands were tied.

The human stone statue's head is the only one intact, which makes it seem out of place, as if all the sacrifices were accepted and only humans were excluded......

"Judging from the time of carving and the traces of magical power, these stone statues and the frescoes outside should be from the same period, which means that this altar and everything here were in fact 'moved' from some lost ruins by the Black Sun Society by some means."

"So it wasn't that humans didn't exist at that time, but that humans at that time were incomparably weak among many creatures and clans, so their sense of existence was extremely low?"

Xiuge thought like this, but he couldn't help but think back to the figure he saw at the end of the rat dream.

If his judgment was correct, the figure that could use almost magical power seemed to be standing on the opposite side of the Mother Earth Goddess.

Ocean, magic, seems to be human, female......

Xiuge instinctively linked these clues together, and the conjecture that came from this made him feel a little chill down his spine.

….

But this was only speculation after all, there was no definite evidence, and it did not help the situation at hand, so Xiuge put it aside for the time being and continued to investigate.

Soon, he saw the signs of destruction that Bernhardt had mentioned, and at this moment, Shug couldn't help but be shocked by the will and strength of the Ernst family members, and he finally understood why the members of the Black Sun Society had not been able to complete the restoration of the secret ritual.

In the corner of the stone monument and the wall, he saw a huge slope that had collapsed, a terrible scar gnawed alive by the rats with their claws and teeth, in which the original magic circuits had been completely destroyed, and a considerable part of them had even fallen into the pit near the direction of the rock wall......

It is hard to imagine how large the number of rats involved in this work was at that time, and after that incident, these family rats were finally left with very few left, which is enough to prove the fierceness of the resistance at that time.

"The Black Sun Society has transformed this ramp into an improvised staircase that looks like it leads directly to the pit in the center of the altar?"

Shuge nimbly climbed over the two shattered statues that stood in the way, and he came to the staircase paved with a large amount of rubble and debris, and through his magical perception, he basically confirmed that the center of the entire arctic circuit was just below the collapsed slope.

He was about to continue down when Alexandra's voice suddenly came.

"Xiuge, we don't feel right."

Alexandra's tone was a little hurried: "Something seems to exist underneath this pit...... It's familiar, but it's unfamiliar."

"You mean, all the family members who disappeared during the assault on the altar are here?"

"It's their breath, but it's not quite right!"

Alexandra emphasized, "It was very chaotic, very irritable and painful, as if there were countless people crying out."

The countess's tone became a little weak and flustered, it was clear that her words were not exaggerated, and the emotions transmitted from the same source of magic had already affected her to a considerable extent.

Shug hesitated, he didn't know what was under the pit that could make Alexandra make such an assessment, but at this time, the Running Rat, as a summon, seemed to be enchanted, and it began to eagerly convey its needs and thoughts to Shug - it wanted to go down, go down immediately, even if it was to get down!

It seems that there is something out there that has a fatal attraction to it.

"Sss

Shug frowned, he didn't move forward immediately, but checked the magic and power he possessed as fast as he could, confirming that the magic was working properly, and that the touch of Calon and the tooth of the hound were equally heavy

Having not been affected by the altar, he began to make his way down the rudimentary staircase.

The dull darkness reappeared, only now instead of forming a black barrier to obscure the view, but drifting like a thick fog under the light of magic lamps and lighting tricks.

And when Shug reached the middle of the slope, he had already seen something hidden in the depths of the altar's pit.

Snick, the running rat that had been running down in high spirits, also stopped, and it stood beside Xiuge, looking at the huge shadow lying in the middle of the pit in a stunned manner.

If the previous heir of the Abyss in Salem City could still be described by Xiuge as an amorphous mass of silt, then what he saw this time had a new impact and challenge to his language ability......

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