Walking down the last section of the Sonic Bridge, the two of them were presented with a huge city, as if built by giants, and the walls alone were several times the height of the city of Catrice.

The size of the city can only be described by the word "enormous", but the word pales in front of them. The towering buildings are all in a rugged style, and the unadorned houses are arranged in sequence, taller than those constructed with modern techniques.

"From a distance, it already feels like a big exaggeration...... What kind of person would build a city of this size?" Looking up at the half-collapsed city wall, Curt's tone revealed a hint of regret, "It's a pity that such a city is in ruins. ”

Entering the city through a crack in the wall, he once again felt the enormity of the city—as if it had shrunk from the ruins of them. Even the dwarfest shed is filled with an indescribable sense of oppression.

It is a city of giants, with even the most basic ashlinar stone several people tall, and the houses built from them are of a terrifying scale in every place. Collapsed portals, crumbling walls...... Huge piles of waste are quietly piled up in the city, withstanding the wind erosion of time.

Although the surrounding stone houses are colossal objects, they are nothing more than low shacks compared to the huge towers further afield. In a time when the city was still in use, it was perhaps just the most basic civilian dwelling, obediently prostrate under the towers.

Look into the depths of the giant city, surrounded by many stone houses. Standing stood a cylindrical gray stone pillar, which did not hide its size in a house that was already large enough. If it weren't for the fact that the top had already cracked for a while. I'm afraid it's going to have to add a lot of height.

That's the nearest tower...... It is also probably the shortest of the stone towers that surround the central black tower. The gray tower had been crudely dug into several huge holes, but most of them were clogged with crumbling rubble, and it was impossible to see what was inside.

Most of the buildings are left with only one frame, and most of the rest are basically just a crumbling skeleton. Not much different from most of the ruins, it won't take long for the buildings to fall into disrepair before they lose to the power of time, and eventually they won't even be able to see the prototype.

"Wait a minute......"

An indescribable thought flashed through Curt's mind, and he immediately said to Lizzie, "Lizzie. Can you show me the headband you just picked up? I don't think something is quite right...... Does that bone really belong to the inhabitants here?"

There is no doubt that this was once a city-state inhabited by a civilized race, and its owners were supposed to be a group of "giants" who were several times taller than Curt and them. Just look at the tall buildings and the doors that still exist. They definitely have a similar body type.

Although there is no trace of anyone who has ever existed, there is no trace of their identity left in the collapsed buildings...... But there was one thing Curt would never admit wrong, the skeleton they had dug up in the sandbar sediment was no more than the size of a normal person.

"You want to say, that skeleton is too small. Disproportionate to the building?"

Lizzie said casually. She had apparently noticed the problem for a long time: "As I said a long time ago, there is no way to be sure of many things without a control group. You say it doesn't belong to the city - that's possible, but there's no evidence to say they don't belong to the world. ”

She casually raised her hand and pointed at it, as if to signal Curt to look at the devastated ruins in front of her.

The city suffered similar treatment to the wasteland, with much of the city covered in a thick pile of ash. Deathly silence fills every corner of the horizon as far as the eye can see. There is nothing left of the icy streets, and I am afraid that the former inhabitants have either left or have been ruined with the city.

"If there are so many different races, could it be a war that will ruin this place?" said Curt, looking around. He said in disbelief, "Then the scale of this war is too terrible!"

The last bit of life of the land has been robbed. Even the once-lush vegetation has turned into a crystalline solid. The weeds that grew around the road were almost all buried in the ash heap, with only a few stems popping out of the ash heap of artemisia grass like solidified dust.

On both sides of the street, rows of stout trees - or, perhaps, statues of stone. They were as tall as the buildings, with translucent crystals showing a faint colourful glow from the peeling "bark".

"Who knows?"

Lizzie didn't seem to be interested in the question, but the crystallized trees were more attracted to her, and she yawned lazily and said, "Regardless of why this place is like this, it's unlikely we'll ever get a chance to see the people who destroy it." ”

With that, she casually snapped off a branch that had crystallized and observed it at her fingertips, the waxy yellow crystals peeling off into fine powder at her fingertips. In a matter of moments, the knuckle-sized crystals shattered into powder and penetrated into the thick pile of ashes.

I can only feel a little bit of magic, and I'm afraid that even a weed in the original world is more abundant than the magic in this crystal. When I came here, I had already noticed that everything here had decayed, not only was the vitality extremely exhausted, but even the magic power was left.

"I mean, you remember what happened to Shulsta. ”

Lizzie sprinkled the last bit of powder in her hand on the ground, and after watching in silence as they gradually melted into the ashes, she suddenly raised her head to face Curt and said, "Don't you think these crystals are very similar to the magic crystals that were present at that time? ”

It's not like Curt hasn't seen land where life has dried up, as Lizzie says about Schulstadt, for example. The land was not as barren as Chengdù, but there was not a single area in it that was as miserable as the one in which the wasteland had befallen - all of them had no business.

"You said Shulsta...... But there's no sign of a spell, is it?" Curt asked with some confusion as he recalled what he had seen before, "The magic in this land has been exhausted to this point, and it is completely impossible to see that it is affected by large-scale spells." ”

In the lands that have been barren by the influence of magic, every qiē creature has lost its original nature. The form of their life is distorted by abnormal magic, and both their life and the magical structure in their bodies will show strange phenomena, and they will become deformed monsters.

In the strictest place, the grass and trees grew wildly to a terrifying chengdù, and they shook violently as if they were blown by a strong wind, twisting and tangling together. It won't be long before their torsos crystallize in large areas, turning them into lumpy crystals with a lot of magical power.

The land preyed upon by this spell will eventually be literally "sucked dry" and reduced to a wasteland where no living thing can continue to grow. Acres or even tens of acres, the vitality of all the land will be squeezed dry, and most of the magic crystals produced will be taken away by the caster.

But these anomalous desolation states are the result of magic after all, and it is impossible to use magic to extract the vitality of the land without leaving a trace. When the mana deposited in the land is taken away by the spell, the mana of the mage will remain in the already barren land.

"It's not a problem. ”

Lizzie reached out again and snapped off a branch, which, unlike the previous section, had completely turned into a boulder: "Look here, remember that the entire plant in Shulsta was turned into crystals, and here only some inconsequential parts have been converted into crystals. ”

It may be that the land itself does not have much mana, so it is impossible to produce a quality mana crystal - the result is that all the nearby life force is drained. With that, Lizzie pursed her lips disdainfully and threw the boulder aside.

The wasteland and the city, all the life that inhabited it was destroyed by this, but in the end it produced only meaningless detritus. It is unknown how far it will eventually be affected, but at least the wider area around Cutrice has become a wasteland.

"It's life extraction again, and it's converted into magic...... What the hell, why have we been involved with this kind of spell lately?" There are many spells that convert life into magic, but Curt's first reaction was the Black Sun not long ago, "If that's the case, sacrificing so many lives only has such a result, can't the person who created this spell just want to make this place a wasteland?"

Even if this were the case, it would be so inefficient to use such a slow and widespread approach, and perhaps the perpetrators did not initially expect that their actions would lead to disastrous results. In any case, there is a large reason why this place has become a wasteland, and it has been affected by a class of spells.

Curt turned his head to look at the farthest tower, and somehow felt that there seemed to be some strange atmosphere hanging over it. Although the distribution of tall towers in the city from a distance is somewhat similar to the metal columns seen at the time, the tallest tower is built in the empty space that gives birth to the central black sphere.

There might be an answer to the question they wanted to know at the top of the tower, but it could be a hassle just to get to the bottom of the tower. The slight undulations on the road leading to the tower were more than twice as high as the "normal" stairs of the houses here, and the stairs that stood in front of it even stood like rolling hills—this was not a city where ordinary people could survive.

"Ahem...... I think the people of this city may never have thought about a short visitor. Glancing helplessly at the broken walls piled up in front of him, Curt carried Liqi on his back once, "The next shaking may be a little violent, so please try to hold on to it as steadily as possible." ”

With that, the body wrapped in tattered black clothes leaped to its feet, running on the undulating ash pile with the fastest speed, leaving a series of footprints on the dead ashes. (To be continued!)

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