Chapter 30: The Ladder of History
Walking past the thirteen columns of headless horsemen, Lucius finally saw the entrance of the ruins, the giant gate towering in the mist-filled forest, as if connecting heaven and earth.
However, the giant gate that seems to be right in front of you seems very unreal, like a mirage like a dream, but the strange patterns that are faintly visible on the door contain a power that makes the soul tremble.
If you bypass the dream-like giant gate in front of you, you will find that behind the giant gate where heaven and earth meet, there is still a dense forest filled with mist, as if that door has never existed.
After a circle around the giant gate, Lucius returned to the front of the giant gate, and slowly stepped forward with a heart-shaking majesty, when he stepped up the stairs to the giant gate.
The melodious bell of "Hum, Dang ......" rang in the ears, and bursts of noisy human voices, accompanied by the sounds of various mechanical rotations of "Woo Woo" and "Woo Woo", lingered in the ears after the bell.
Lecius stood on the first step in a daze, and looked up at the staircase in front of him, which stretched from the ground to the clouds, and in the mist, there seemed to be a shadow of a courtyard, as if standing at the end of a long staircase.
Instead of taking a second step upwards, Lucius took a step back, retreating from the stairs to the ground, and as soon as he stepped down the stairs, in an instant, all the sights disappeared, and he was back in front of the towering gate.
Looking at the looming, dream-like giant gate towering between heaven and earth, the metal poker kept turning between his fingers, and after thinking quietly, he put the poker back into the leather bag on his waist, carried the magic machine gun, and stepped on the stairs again.
Standing up the second staircase, the vision changed again, but on the top of a wilderness, one after another burning forges towered, and the furnace fire reflected the heaven and the earth red.
"When, when, when" The dull sound of forging resounded through the heavens and the earth, and following the sound, one could clearly see that one by one, the shirtless dwarves, swinging their black and heavy hammers, much higher than them, struck the crimson iron pieces pulled out of the forge one by one.
In the distance, goblins manipulate the loggers, systematically knocking down the stout ancient trees, and then the gnomes drive the transport machinery to transport the stout ancient trees to the forging furnace, and finally fill them all into the burning furnace.
The elves surround the furnace and pour various magical elements into the furnace, causing the flames in the furnace to change color, and soon disintegrate and burn the ancient wood that filled the furnace.
The orcs of all races stood shirtless, in groups around the huge bellows, pulling the bellows in unison, making the furnace more intense, and at the same time pushing the forged iron blocks back into the forge or pulling them towards the sink not far away.
On the other side, the same tall smelting furnace smelts the ore that looks harder, and the carefully smelted molten metal is poured into the wooden mold trough by the orcs, and when the molten metal cools and sets, they open the mold slot and take out the shaped metal.
In such a group of busy people, a young man stood on a towering platform, shouting loudly to coordinate and command the creatures of all races on the field.
After a long time, as if sensing Lucius's gaze, the young man on the high platform suddenly raised his head, and looked at Lucius who was standing on the stairs looking at him with a pair of wise eyes.
Meeting the gaze, although very far away, Lecius could clearly feel that the man's gaze seemed to be able to penetrate his own mind, and he could clearly feel that the other person was smiling at him.
Retracting his gaze, Lucius did not linger, and continued to walk up the stairs, stepping on the next step, and the scene in front of him changed again.
Gone are the towering forges and smelting furnaces in the wilderness, replaced by a group of tall machines, assembled with the help of magnificent orcs.
This time Lucius didn't stop long, and took another step to the next staircase, and with each step of the staircase, his vision changed, and the behemoth in the wilderness gradually took shape.
Finally, Lucius didn't know how many steps he had climbed, and the originally holy staircase under his feet suddenly became an unpretentious wooden staircase, and he stood there in a daze, looking at the staircase in front of him, not understanding why the staircase suddenly became wooden.
When Lucius hesitated, the young man on the high platform below looked up again, and Lucius could actually feel that the man's eyes revealed encouragement, as if encouraging him to move on.
Feeling the encouragement in the other man's eyes, Lucius finally put away the doubts in his heart, raised his legs and stepped onto the wooden staircase.
As soon as he stepped onto the wooden staircase, his vision changed again, and before Lucius could see his surroundings clearly, a sudden hurricane struck from under his feet, almost knocking him off the stairs.
Finally stabilizing his figure, Lucius saw that in the distant wilderness under the stairs, a huge metal plate flew up from the earth and flew straight towards Lucius standing on the stairs.
"Huh" Lucius, who had just stood firm, tilted his head back in horror to avoid the huge metal disc that flew in front of him, but the metal disc finally passed through him.
When the metal disc completely passed through his body, Lucius quickly turned his head to look, and happened to see the young man, standing on the edge of the metal disk, smiling knowingly at him.
Then the metal disk was raised, and soon flew into the sky above the clouds, the metal disk disappeared into the sky, Lucius withdrew his gaze, looked at the stairs in front of him, and took another step to step to the next level.
Walking up the wooden staircase, Lucius witnessed the gradual evolution of the metal frisbee, and also witnessed the failure of the evolution, and finally he saw that the metal frisbee had become a huge sky fortress.
The Sky Fortress is dotted with all kinds of uncanny buildings, mountains, lakes and lush trees, and a series of steam locomotives shuttle through it, and the creatures of the various tribes that live in the fortress are gradually becoming stronger.
Looking at the fortress suspended in the sky for a long time, Lucius secretly guessed in his heart: Could it be that this huge sky fortress is the prototype of the Holy Domain?
At this time, Lucius found that the stairs in front of him had also changed, and the next staircase had turned from wood under his feet to gold, and the golden staircase was extremely dazzling under the light of the sky.
This time Lucius did not hesitate any longer, and took a step directly onto the golden staircase, and in an instant his vision changed, and when he came to his senses, he found himself in a magnificent hall.
A large long table was placed in front of him, and at the end of the long table, the young man sat with a solemn face, and on either side of the long table sat creatures of different races.
The gaze of those creatures alone made Lecius feel a palpitation, and he could instantly affirm that those creatures were probably no longer ordinary, and they all possessed formidable powers.
The young man sitting in the middle slowly opened his mouth to say something to the people on both sides, but Lucius could not hear their words, and could only vaguely distinguish individual words from the shape of their mouths.
In the end, the young man at the head stretched out his hand and spread out his palm to reveal a small transparent ball, and many creatures from different races on both sides also stretched out a palm, and the palm of the same palm showed a ball of light of different colors.
Looking at those balls of light of different colors, Lucius suddenly thought of something, and suddenly understood what the balls of light represented: I'm afraid, these balls of light are the prototype of the source core.
Thinking of this, Lucius glanced at the people present again, and couldn't help but whisper, "Who are these people?
Standing on the first golden staircase and thinking for a long time, finally Lucius didn't stay any longer, and took a step to step onto the next golden staircase.
The scene in front of him changed suddenly, but when I saw a group of people descending from the sky to the sky fortress, the group of people shone with a holy light, although they looked the same as people, but they exuded an inhuman aura.
Lucius saw that those powerful extraterrestrial visitors were sought after by many creatures in the Sky Fortress, and finally with the support of many living beings, they succeeded in gaining the right to rule the Sky Fortress and even the entire earth.
And the group of people who built the Sky Fortress left the Sky Fortress silently, and then disappeared at the end of the continent, where they went.
Walking along the golden staircase, Lucius witnessed the gradual transformation of the Sky Fortress from a free paradise to a sanctuary for everyone on the earth to worship under the rule of those extraterrestrial visitors.
When standing on the last golden staircase, watching the two groups of light and darkness from outside the sky finally become gods, cutting off the last connection between the sky fortress and the ground, Lucius couldn't help but sigh: "It turns out that this is how the so-called sacred realm where the gods live. ”
Next, the silver staircase, the bronze staircase, Lucius witnessed the gradual consolidation of divine power, and the desire of those who were worshipped as gods to come from outside the world became out of control.
When Lucius stood at the end of the bronze staircase, he watched as the gods completely ruled the entire earth with divine power, and the bloody slaughter made both the Sanctuary and the earth tremble.
The bronze color of the staircase in front of him receded, turning into dark and cold black iron, and before stepping on the black iron staircase, Lucius could already feel the heaviness emanating from the staircase, which was a kind of dark daylight, and the resentment of many living beings was very strong, and after hesitating for a long time, Lecius stepped on the black iron staircase.
Dark, bloody, war, the darkest Black Iron Age in the Age of the Sacred Gods, many gods were lost by desire, degenerate and decayed, and fought with each other for power.
Eventually, when Lucius reached the last level of the Black Iron Ladder, a real great upheaval broke out, and many powerful gods started a great battle, and the flames of war burned on the earth, almost destroying the entire Sky Fortress.
But in the end, the heavens are fair, and when the whole world will collapse under the battle of the gods, four powerful life leaders appear, suppress the gods who have been lost by desire, degenerate and decay, bring peace to the earth, and retake the almost destroyed sky fortress.
After stepping through the last black iron staircase, there were no steps, but four doors appeared in front of Lucius, and the four doors were engraved with "Shamrock, Red Heart, Ling Diamond, and Black Spear".