Townsend frowned and walked over to a glowing fungus.

Although he didn't have much research on fungi, he did dabble in it because of the convenience of the surgical fruit.

The space of the surgical fruit is completely enveloped in fungi, and subtle perceptions explore the internal structure of the fungus.

Then, Tang Sen showed a suspicious expression.

"No, not stagnation."

"It's becoming extremely slow, as if nothing has changed at all."

The situation was a bit strange, and Townsend was sure that there was some kind of force acting on these fungi, so that their growth was slowed down countless times while maintaining the same glow.

"Interesting!" Varro was suddenly interested, he picked a glowing fungus in his hand, and looked at the palace while playing: "I have never seen this phenomenon, could it be that there is some kind of unearthly power here that is acting on everything?" ”

"Just look into it."

Tang Sen wanted to leave this strange place directly through the Abyss Gate, but the Abyss Gate had a drawback - he opened the door here and entered the Endless Abyss, even if he walked far in the Endless Abyss, and even went to another layer of the Abyss, and then opened the door and came back, it was still in the current position.

Unless Townsend can find his way to the main material plane from the Endless Abyss.

This thing is good for emergency evasion, not for finding another way.

"Mr. Varro, can you discern anything from these buildings?" Tang Sen did not rush into the confines of the palace, but first investigated the surroundings and confirmed that there was no information in other places except for the palace.

It's like a half-plane cut directly out of the dark region.

"I don't have much research on architecture and totemism." Varro was humble for a moment, then looked at the palace carefully, and said, "The existing buildings should no longer use this style. Of course, this is a dark region, after all. ”

"The carvings and patterns on the beams and columns are a bit like Barlo style. This style comes from the kingdom of Ballo, a vast kingdom thousands of years ago, but now destroyed, but strangely, I saw some totems that symbolized the rules of spells. ”

"The kingdom of Ballo doesn't like spellcasters very much, they take the status of theocracy very seriously, and mages obviously don't have the respect they deserve for the gods."

"Of course, there are some totems that I have never seen before, and I don't know what they symbolize."

Varro took a few steps closer and crouched down to look at the steps leading to the palace gates: "These stones. . . Something strange. ”

"What's strange?" Townsend asked.

"It's too old." He showed a puzzled look: "Time will always leave traces on everything in the world, in such an independent half-plane, there is no weathering and other phenomena, only faint corrosion caused by the growth of fungi, then, these stones should not be so old." ”

Tang Sen frowned: "You mean, this palace has existed for a very long time?" ”

"That's where I'm confused." Varro looked up, "Do you believe that this palace has been around for hundreds of thousands of years?" ”

"The oldest recorded history is tens of thousands of years ago, during the Age of Thunder, when elves, dwarves, and humans didn't even exist in this world, let alone build such magnificent buildings." Townsend shook his head.

"That's right." "It does sound incredible, but at least in terms of stone, that's the way it is. ”

Townsend was stunned for a moment.

He really didn't have much research in this area, but he was able to trust Varro's judgment, this guy didn't seem reliable, but when it came to his knowledge of Pheren and his achievements in miscellaneous science, he was also ranked first in the whole of Feron.

"Is it possible that this place is from another plane?" Townsend guessed.

The history of Faeron is not that long, but the length of time that the multiverse has existed is probably difficult to trace.

Varro hesitated a little and said, "At least what I have seen so far, I can probably be sure that this is the local architecture of Faerun, maybe I am wrong." ”

Extraordinarily abnormal realities lay ahead, and Varro also seemed a little less confident.

"We'll have to go in and have a look, I have a hunch that our discovery will shock the whole of Faeron and even the other planes!" Speaking of this, Varro suddenly became excited: "When the time comes, each of us will receive a legendary lifetime achievement award!" Let that guy in Ilminster take a good look! ”

Townsend glanced at him.

This man is really not afraid of death.

Tang Sen quietly communicated with the mind space, trying to summon the Abyss Gate, and the process went smoothly.

The person of this half-plane is far from being able to resist the person of the space of mind.

"Then let's go in and have a look."

The two of them walked up the ancient steps, and soon came to the nearest palace gate.

The door was extremely large, probably hundreds of meters high, and was made of a huge stone block with all kinds of ornate patterns carved into it.

"This palace is a little too big even for a giant." Varro said this, leaning forward, "It's good that we don't have to worry about how to open this door—"

He pointed to the side, where a smooth hole had been cut out, just big enough for humanoids to pass.

"It looks like we're not the first people here." Townsend spoke.

"It's hard for me to tell if it's good news or bad news." Varro said this, but without much hesitation, he went straight into the hole.

Townsend followed.

The experience of walking through the gate is like walking through a long corridor – the door is just too thick.

When they finally passed through the gate, the two unexpectedly found that it was not dark in the palace.

There is a glimmer of light filling the entire space, making this huge palace appear extremely empty, countless huge, as if supporting the heaven and earth like beams and pillars stand in the hall very regularly, and those glimmers come from the top of the hall, which is a starry sky.

Of course, in the perception of Townson's surgical fruit, it was a myriad of glowing gems embedded in the ceiling.

In the faint light, you can see the piles of objects in front of you, like small mountain bags.

Tang Sen did not rashly use the teleportation ability of the surgical fruit, but walked towards the hill with Varro on foot, and only when they were close enough did the two of them see clearly.

Those are bones.

Varro gasped: "How many creatures have died in this place?" It suddenly occurred to me that it was not a wise choice to come in here. ”

"It's a little late to react now."

Tang Sen squinted his eyes at the bones, and could see that the top bones were slightly fresher, while the bones that were pressed to the bottom had been decayed by time.

Most of them are strangely shaped monster bones, of course, the skeletons of humanoids can be seen occasionally, the thicker ones are probably gray dwarves, and the more slender ones are drow elves.

Townsend even saw the remains of the Psicosm.

"Be careful, don't get too far away from me." "Obviously, these bones will not be honestly piled together by themselves, there should be other people in this palace besides us," Townsenden reminded. ”

Townsend expanded the space of the surgical fruit as much as possible, but there seemed to be some kind of inexplicable resistance ahead, and the further he went, the more blurred his perception became.

Now that they had already entered, there was no other choice, and the two of them bypassed the Mountain of Bones, and were already able to see the depths of this large hall, as well as the passage to the rear complex.

Tang Sen inspected the hall in detail again, and found nothing other than the mountain of bones, as if it had been emptied, and its only purpose was to store those bones.

Out of the main hall, walking through the corridor, a long corridor in the garden appeared in front of the two of them, the corridor is also made of stone, both sides are covered with dense luminous fungi, very neatly maintained, different colors make this place look extremely magnificent and dreamy.

But it was still silent, and it was extremely deserted.

"Which way are we going?" Varro looked at the huge complex of buildings and the intricate corridors, and hesitated: "Or turn back?" ”

"There is no point in turning back." Tang Sen said calmly: "Come with me." ”

Now that you've made up your mind to explore the palace, you can go straight to the heart of the city.

And where is the core - it's easy to guess where the perception of the surgical fruit is blocked, probably that's it.

So the two walked in the "garden" of luminous fungi for almost half a day, and finally came to the front of a side hall.

I was finally able to see some unusual traces.

In the garden near the side hall sat a house in a completely different style from the palace, which seemed to be made of scrap stones taken from the palace, and the top of the stone was covered with mycelium, which looked like a mushroom house.

On top of that, the size of this mushroom house is obviously for humanoids of normal size.

Tang Sen did not rush in, but tried his best to perceive the space of the surgical fruit - standing in this place, the range of space that could spread was only ten meters around, and the perception was quite vague.

But I can barely feel the pattern inside the mushroom house.

A dense row of bookshelves, a desk, not even a bed.

"Would you like to go in and have a look?" Tang Sen frowned slightly, he was a little hesitant.

Although there are no creatures in this room in perception, this place is indeed very strange, and it is difficult to predict whether there will be unknown dangers in it when one's perception is limited.

It is not even necessary to use divination to determine whether it is dangerous or not, no matter what the result is, it will only add to your own troubles.

"I'll take a look inside." Varro volunteered.

"Forget it." Tang Sen shook his head and looked at the side hall: "Let's go there first." ”

In any case, it is most important to understand the core secret of this palace first.

The door of the side hall was closed, but this obviously couldn't stop Tang Sen, even if he didn't use the ability of spells and surgical fruits, but with his own strength, it was enough to push this heavy door.

With Tang Sen's strength, a dull voice sounded, and everything in the hall was finally presented in front of the two of them.

"It's—"

Tang Sen's pupils shrank suddenly: "A giant dragon? ”

I saw that in the deepest part of the main hall, there was an extremely large dragon, even if it was just crawling, his body had already squeezed into the ceiling.

It was a silver-white dragon, with hourglass-shaped black scales covering his eyes like a mask, and twelve unevenly spaced rings of black scales radiating from back to front on his body, like growth rings.

A pointer resembling a Hin-kyu pointer protrudes from the back of its skull, appearing to double the length of its head, while triangular wings protrude from a narrow point behind it, roughly shaped like an hourglass.

"Looks like a silver dragon." Townsend had some doubts in his heart.

Dragons weren't uncommon for Townsen, and to be honest, he had already eaten two in his stomach. And it's the kind that is thoroughly digested.

Judging from the size of this giant dragon, it is obviously an extremely powerful dragon, but such a giant dragon is the source of such a strange half plane?

Townsend couldn't help but look at Varro, with the other party's knowledge, he might be able to tell something.

However, he only saw a dull face.

As if he had been petrified again, Varro froze in place, just staring at the dragon in a daze.

"Mr. Varro?" Townsend reminded: "What do you think? ”

Varro woke up from a dream, took a few steps back, and then sat down on the ground.

"It's . Time. Times."

"What?" Townsend looked at the stammering Varro and frowned.

"I never thought I'd be able to see it in my lifetime," Varro suddenly stood up excitedly, and shouted incoherently, "It's a miracle!" Don't let me get closer! ”

As he spoke, he was about to rush into the main hall.

Tang Sen hurriedly followed and asked, "This is not a silver dragon?" ”

"Silver Dragon? Phew, the silver dragon also deserves to be compared to him? Varro suddenly spoke quickly: "This is the Time Dragon!" Time Dragon! ”

He shouted excitedly, "The Time Dragon that only exists in legends! ”

Townsend was stunned for a moment.

Of course, he had heard of the Time Dragon, but he really didn't think about it in that direction.

After all, this creature is so rare that most people only know that this kind of dragon exists, but they don't know what the time dragon looks like.

But the legend of those time dragons is still widely spread in various adventure stories.

For example, this kind of dragon is born from the beginning, in the stage of the young dragon, it is a super large dragon, the challenge level is as high as 24, and the difficulty of killing a time dragon can be said to be almost impossible, they have already mastered a certain time power in the dragon egg.

They breathe time, devour it, and live in it as a figurative representation of time, and they are the rarest and most powerful of all dragons, even compared to dragon gods.

The nine-ring spell of Time Stop is as simple as breathing even for a young dragon, and the more powerful time dragon can even travel through the timeline at will, or banish other beings to the distant future.

"No wonder this palace is so weird, it turns out that it is because of the influence of time."

Townsend remembered the glowing fungi that grew very slowly, and now that he thought about it, the name of the great power that acted on them was time.

was slowed down many times over.

And those stone steps that have been decayed, I am afraid that they have been sped up many times.

"The time in this place is chaotic! It's intermingling in a way I can't even notice! ”

"I've passed through the time zone that has slowed down extremely slowly, and I have passed through the time zone that has accelerated extremely fast!"

"And the abnormality of the ability of the surgical fruit, I am afraid that because of this, the space of the surgical fruit cannot take effect in the chaotic time zone."

Tang Sen came back to his senses and saw that Varro had already pounced very close to the Time Dragon, and was motionless looking at the Time Dragon's body.

"I don't seem to feel any breath of life in this dragon."

Tang Sen narrowed his eyes slightly: "Is it because of the characteristics of the Time Dragon, or is it because-"

His heart suddenly trembled violently.

"This time dragon may have died!"

The living Time Dragon, even if it has fallen into a deep sleep, will not spread its power to such a wide area so unscrupulously.

And, looking at the traces of those buildings, such an effect has been working for a long, long time.

This doesn't seem to be actively emanated, but more like because this time dragon was too powerful in life, and even after death, its body is also distorting the time around it all the time.

"How strong does this have to be. Even if he doesn't have divinity, he's stronger than most gods! ”

Townsen's heart was beating faster and faster.

"If."

He swallowed, "What if I devour this dragon?" ”

For others, the corpse of the Time Dragon is at best used to craft a powerful artifact in time, while for Town, his shepherd trait gives him most of the power of the Time Dragon.

This is simply a monstrous surprise, what divinity, what priesthood, where is the need for such trouble? Eat this dragon, you will be reborn directly, just like a carp jumping over the dragon gate, no longer bound by the long river of time, but jumping out of time, and even controlling time!

Tang Sen couldn't help but take two steps forward, and then, he stopped abruptly and patted his face hard.

"Calm down."

He forced himself to restrain the extremely strong desire in his heart and took a deep breath.

"You can't be carried away by the temptation in front of you, there are still a lot of things that you haven't figured out in this half-plane."

"The mountains of bones piled up in the hall, the glowing fungi that have been neatly trimmed, and why did I suddenly enter this half-plane?"

He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, took a step back, and shouted, "Monsieur Varro, it's time for us to explore somewhere else." ”

"He can't hear it."

A voice rang out behind Townwend.

Townsend opened his eyes sharply and turned his head quickly.

An emaciated, petite figure was standing in the doorway of the side hall.

She wore a red mage robe that dragged to the floor, it didn't fit, it was wrapped in a sheet over her body that was at most a meter five tall, and it was clear that time had passed, and many places had begun to have mottled fades.

Her face was thin and gray, but her hair was so white that it fell like tassels from both sides of her cheeks to her ankles.

was just such a person, standing quietly at the door, looking at Tang Sen with great interest.

"Why didn't you just go on?" She asked.

"Who are you?" Tang Sen didn't answer, but asked tentatively.

He didn't feel any malice from the person in front of him, or even felt any threat, but if the person who appeared in such a place said that there was no danger, Tang Sen would never believe it—he had already been distracted by the communication of his thoughts, and fled directly to the abyss if something was wrong.

As for Varro, although it is a pity, let him be blessed, as the anchor of the goddess of magic, maybe he will be able to survive the rest of his life like a thousand times before.

"Who am I?" The girl repeated Townsend's question and tilted her head: "I forgot, probably. Is it a lich? ”

"Why didn't you just go on?" After answering the question, she persistently asked again.

This gesture is like that of a curious child who follows his parents, and when he encounters a question that he wants to know, he will repeat it over and over again until he gets the answer.

So Townsend said perfunctorily: "I'm not interested in dragons. ”

Immediately after, without waiting for the other party to speak, Tang Sen preemptively said, "You said you are a lich? The lich I know is not what you are. ”

The Lich, an evil creature formed by the caster's desire for immortality, resembles a necromantic creature more in appearance than a normal creature.

Their skin had long since dried up, the withered flesh clung to the skeleton, and the eyeballs had long since rotted, and only tiny specks of light remained in the sockets of the eyes. Whoever you ask, the lich is terrifying.

But the girl in front of her, although her cheeks were also extremely thin, her skin was still firm, and although her eyes were a little dull, they were indeed watery lilac, not to mention that it was difficult for a lich to have silver hair that was obviously very supple.

"Really?" The girl was obviously not interested in the question, and she said, "I feel like you're playing on me. But it doesn't matter. ”

She turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait!" Townsend stopped her: "Here. Is there anyone else besides you? ”

The girl paused: "And you." ”

"Of course, soon only you and I will be left, and finally only me will be left."

Tang Sen was stunned for a moment, and then turned his head sharply to look at Varro, who still maintained the posture just now, and did not react at all to the girl's appearance.

"He's dead?" Townsend asked directly.

"Not yet, but soon."

"It depends on his luck and longevity." The girl didn't seem to mind answering Townsend's question, but she didn't turn back, just said, "The closer you get to the Time Dragon, the more intense the turbulence of time becomes, and it seems that he is stuck in time stoppage, but in fact, he is experiencing irregular time acceleration and time deceleration. ”

She spoke with a blank look, not in a hurry: "If he is lucky, he may be able to stay in the time of being slowed down all the time, even if it is a thousand years and ten thousand years, it will not change in the slightest, and if he is unlucky, his lifespan will be exhausted in an instant." ”

"Of course, I've never seen it last more than half a day."

After saying this, she didn't stay any longer and walked out of the side hall directly.

Townsend heard the door to the mushroom house creak shut.

"Time?" Townson's eyes narrowed.

If I hadn't resisted the temptation just now, I'm afraid I would have fallen into that situation directly.

Tang Sen couldn't guess whether he would still be conscious in that situation, maybe for himself, it was just a moment when time stopped, but for time itself, it had flowed for countless years, even if he was already an immortal seed with a lifespan of thousands of years, under the power of time, it would instantly turn into dry bones.

At that time, I won't even have the consciousness to use the Abyss Gate!

Dying at the end of life, even a complete resurrection technique will not have an effect.

And this stranger, who calls himself a lich, is obviously not kind enough to save herself, her behavior pattern Tang Sen is still tentative, but it is certain that her attitude towards the outside world is very indifferent, just a little curiosity about Tang Sen's abnormal behavior just now, just because of Tang Sen's perfunctory words, this little curiosity has disappeared.

The fear was quickly suppressed by Townessen, and he looked back at Varro.

The ability of the surgical fruit is completely useless in this side hall, and the means of moving him are probably not able to rescue him, and let Tang Sen personally go over and pull him out?

Townsend couldn't have taken that risk.

"Maybe you can find a prop."

Tang Sen thought back to everything he had experienced in this half-plane, although the turbulence of time was constantly stirring here, but he was not aware of it at all, as if he could see the luminous fungi that were infinitely slowed down on the one hand, and the palace that was infinitely accelerated on the other.

Time is not space, and there is no boundary wall in between.

After a little thought, Tang Sen walked directly out of the side hall and glanced at the mushroom house, the girl who could sit in front of the desk through the window full of mycelium.

Tang Sen had a lot of questions he wanted to ask the other party, but not now, he just walked up to a luminous mushroom, hesitated slightly, and raised his hand to squeeze.

Like all fragile mushrooms, a piece of mushroom meat was broken off without any suspense.

"Yes, indeed."

The magic in Tang Sen's body worked, and the fungus flesh in his hand quickly transformed into a long rod with a ring in the front.

He returned to the side hall, hesitated, and cast a spell to create a magic body, allowing it to hold the long rod and head towards the Varro hook.

Unexpectedly smooth, Varro was directly hooked out.

"What do you do!" Varro got up from the ground, still full of excitement: "Don't hold me! This is the Time Dragon, I need to take a good look! ”

His mood was still stuck when he had just entered the side hall, and he didn't feel that anything was wrong at all, and he was about to walk towards the Time Dragon again.

Tang Sen controlled the magic body, hooked Varro again, and threw him directly out of the side hall, before he spoke: "Mr. Varro, I think, you need to calm down first. ”

"After all, you've almost died once."

Varro got up from the ground in a daze, and was about to speak, when he heard a creak, and the door of the mushroom house was opened again.

The white-haired girl stood in the doorway, not looking at Varro, just staring at the magic body next to Townese.

Her voice rang out:

"Why are you able to cast spells here?"

The leave is over! After learning from the pain, I decided to start being angry!

Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a monthly pass! The number of monthly passes determines that I will add more and fewer days in a row!

(End of chapter)