Chapter 129: Time flies
The owner of the black tower fell into a peaceful sleep, and the spherical shape suspended in the air, which was so small that it was impossible to see unless special attention was paid to it, flickered for a moment, like a heartbeat, but then continued to regain its original appearance, unchanged. Beyond the black tower, the jungle was still noisy, and the roars echoed through the woods, grasslands, and desert mountains, but not a single beast dared to step into the vicinity of the tower.
Day after day, year after year, time passed like flowing water. It has been almost a hundred years since the mutation on Novaya Zemlya allowed the Belken Empire to invest in its exploitation, and Novaya Zemlya has become an independent state, and as for the Berken Empire, which has now split into several large chunks, the two empires fell thirty years ago in a great war between the Belken Empire and the Yuctobania Empire. Both countries that once dominated the continent were defeated by themselves in a frantic war, and no victors were produced in the war.
On the Southern Yuktobanian Peninsula, the new kingdom of Southern Yuktopania had practically nothing to do with the old state that had fallen decades earlier, and the same was true of their neighbor, the kingdom of Balan, whose new royal family and nobility had only a small part of the old aristocracy. Although the kingdom of Balan became independent again, they also lost their mighty horsemen. The Centaurs suffered heavy casualties during the decades-long war - both empires regarded them as excellent soldiers, conscripting and even forcing them to serve as soldiers and throwing them into the meat grinder on the battlefield. And. From decades ago. The birth rate of centaurs is declining. And the survival rate of centaurs has gradually decreased to a rather exaggerated level. By now, there are no centaurs left in the Vistula River valley of the Ballan Kingdom, where there were originally a lot of centaurs, and only a few of the fragmented countries of the two empires still have small centaur villages.
Remiret, a huge island across the cliff from the new safe corridor of Novaya Zemlya, there is not a day going by that the kingdom of Novaya Zemlya would not want to bring this land close at hand under its rule. But on the Sinchaya side, the ferocious seas, the infested sea kings, and the cliffs are terrifying, and here the terrifying tornadoes make most of these efforts frustrated. Moreover, the "monsters" on Remilet Island that cannot be seen anywhere else, in this continent where monsters are becoming more and more scarce, there are only a few places where so many monsters can be seen. It is also home to some of the most warlike races known to date - thousands of centaurs roam the rich plains of the alluvial plains and estuarine deltas of Remiret. This is where the largest centaur tribe is located, and the birth and survival rates of centaurs here are much higher than on the mainland. One of the only two civilizations on the island is the centaur village of Damaville and the rocky harbor city of Deep Sea.
These are also two separate cities, the most populous of the deep-sea city, with a population of about 30,000, making a living from marine fishing and marine trade, and at certain times of the year, it is still possible for some veterans to trade between Novaya Zemlya and Remireme by luck in sea boats. It's also a time to bring a new bloodline and brave people looking for adventure to Deep Sea City. Although a hundred years have passed, the pace of human development on the island of Remiret has not been fast at all, and until now it has only been possible to establish small villages within a few tens of kilometers beyond the two major settlements, and it is impossible to penetrate deep into the interior of the island, although the island can in fact be called a continent.
Countless monsters on the island of Remiret. While making it impossible for humans to penetrate deeply, it also provides humans with unprecedented magical materials, and the scales, flesh, organs, and bones on the bodies of these monsters all have strange effects. The herbs that grow in the land are completely different from those on the mainland, which makes adventurers who think they are capable constantly try to land on the island of Remilet to find wealth for their lives. Unfortunately, most of them will be buried in endless forests, steep mountains, long deserts and deep swamps, and their adventures have only established countless names for those monsters - such as "Throne of the Sky", "Lord of the Lake", "Queen of the Jungle", "Horn of the Desert", and so on.
However, there are also strong warriors among the human race, and the places that are obviously not powerful on this magical attack power table are all adventures carried out by warriors with magical weapons, and the powerful warriors have formed a team and have also penetrated deep into the interior of Remilet Island, although their footprints are all a single line, and they have never explored a large area, but the magical minerals and herbs and biological organs they brought back alive have given them great honor and wealth - herbs that can cure all diseases, The food that prolongs life, the spring water that preserves eternal youth, and of course, the minions of ferocious beasts with magical powers. And some people do report that they found huge black stone towers that blend with the mountain.
And now, the black giant tower was already covered with dust left by time, and the rock walls that Zhou Zhongmou had built with boulders had been covered with a layer of dust, and in the middle of the room, the sphere had never changed. At this time, Zhou Zhongmou was still lying in the dried fur cushion and sleeping, Misha was lying beside him, both of them were covered with a thin layer of dust, and Zhou Zhongmou, who had originally turned into a giant beast, did not know when he would return to his human form again. But the breath of a huge beast has always been on the black tower, and no flying dragon has stayed on the top of the tower for a hundred years, leaving this exaggerated black tower as quiet as a tomb.
And on this day, the silence was broken. Four men dressed in strange armor and armed with exaggerated weapons appeared on the top of the hill where they could see the black tower in front of them. "Is this the ancient tower?" said one of the men wearing a full-body armor with bony spikes on the shoulders and other parts, and a sword with large and small bone spurs on the back. "Yes, this is supposed to be the Black Ancient Tower mentioned in the record, but it doesn't say what's inside. "It was a very strange piece of exposed armor - strange that the shoulders, arms, and calves were tightly covered, but the chest, abdomen, and thighs were strangely exposed, and in such exposed armor was a woman, and she was also carrying a crossbow of a strange shape, like a huge fish.
"That's right, and the ancient tower doesn't mean there's anything good. "No! there must be!" argues with the remaining two men, a man and a woman, the man wearing a completely different full-coverage armor and holding a spear shield that looks like buds and blades, and the woman, who is also a completely different type of exposed armor and holds a very exaggerated X-shaped four-armed longbow. (To be continued......)