Chapter 14 Tributaries
Because it was not clear what state Amon was in now, Klein did not dare to delay, and after the mental problem was initially resolved, he immediately came to Calderon to prepare to take the water of the "River of Eternal Darkness".
And because this involves essentia, he can only divinate and prophecy to a certain extent, and he can see some pictures vaguely, and cannot make accurate judgments.
After looking around, Crane raised his hand to summon the image of his historical pore from a few minutes ago, returning the ontology to the "Source Castle".
His consciousness then shifted to the projection, giving it a substantial presence.
Then, Crane grabbed into the void again, pulling out the "Star Staff" historical projection.
Frankly speaking, after being able to use most of the extraordinary abilities below the "Apprentice" path sequence 0 through the "Source Castle", Crane actually didn't really need the "Star Staff" as a "0" level seal - the latter possessed magic, he could basically reproduce it, and there were almost no negative effects.
However, he always believed that an angel still had to have a melee weapon, because he didn't know when he would fall into the predicament of the active supernatural ability to fail.
In the mystical world, this is definitely possible, whether it is the rule restrictions of the "arbiter" pathway, or a certain degree of transcendent failure brought about by an outer god, it is possible to achieve a similar effect.
In this case, it is an effective way to pick up a hard cane with some passive effects and directly blow the enemy's head directly.
As a king of angels on the path of "soothsayers", it is an instinct to be prepared in all aspects!
Weighing the "Staff of the Star" and pressing the top hat, Crane took out the bird-shaped gold ornament from the "Source Castle" and pinned it to the pocket on his left chest.
Then, he took a step forward and entered the city of Calderon, which was once the kingdom of the ancient god of death, the ancestor of the undead birds, Gregarly.
The first thing that caught his eye was a huge pit with no bottom in sight, and all kinds of strange-shaped buildings around this pit extended down in circles and circles, forming a magnificent city beyond ordinary people's understanding.
Some of those buildings are single houses that rise above the top of pale stone pillars, some are huge coffins with no windows, the door is open on the roof, and some are directly a tomb pit, with stone monuments standing at the entrance, and some are made of various white bones, which looks quite messy......
The closer you get to the bottom of the pit, the more intact the building is, and the closer it is to the top, the more it collapses, full of decay and dilapidation washed by time.
Klein just glanced at it, and a faint gray mist appeared around him, and he directly relied on the person of the "Source Castle" to resist Calderon's rule of transforming all living beings into the dead.
Becoming a dead man wasn't too negative for him, but he didn't like the cold and indifferent feeling himself.
"The 'gray flood' that rose before has receded...... "Crane, wearing a top hat and a trench coat and carrying a cane, nodded thoughtfully, and stepped into the depths of Calderón, which can be seen with the naked eye.
This time, he used the extraordinary ability of the "thief" path to directly steal the distance within his perception range, so as to avoid entanglement with various dangerous monsters active in this mysterious city.
It's not that he's afraid, it's those monsters that he should be afraid of, if he doesn't want to waste time, he doesn't mind taking the opportunity to collect a group of secret puppets to make up for the damage caused by the destruction of "Utopia".
In addition to this reason, Klein is cautious about another point:
Calderón is a city of the undead, and there is a high probability that there is a "river of eternal darkness" flowing in the deepest part of the earth, and the secret puppet is already dead in nature, and once it gets close to the underground, there is a possibility of mutations.
In the depth of "one "step" and "one step", Klein found that he was thinking a little too much:
None of the various monsters hidden in this strange city dared to appear, and the aura of the "Source Fort" allowed their instinct to survive to overcome their crazy tendencies and habits of predation.
The deeper you go underground, the quieter Klein's surroundings become, the strange buildings that are clearly intact, but they seem to have been dead for many years, and even the breath has become cold, dark, and decaying.
Now, as I feel when I watch a black-and-white silent movie, if I couldn't hear my own "breathing" and "heartbeat", I wonder if I am deaf...... Crane coughed lightly, grunting inwardly against the silence of death.
He intuitively believed that once he adapted to this environment and became silent both physically and mentally, he would die in a real and irreversible way.
The closer you get to the ground, the stronger this feeling becomes.
Stealing distance, Crane walked for a long time, and finally saw the bottom of the pit.
No, it's not really the bottom, it's just a huge, dark palace blocking the way down.
The palace was made up of huge pillars, inlaid with various bones and corpses of different parts, and in some places even covered in bloody skins belonging to different races.
Crane stared for a few seconds, without hesitation, carrying the "Star Staff", through the open door, into the interior of the palace.
On both sides of the hall are coffins of different shapes and colors, which are quietly placed there, as if even existence itself has been weathered by death.
As Klein entered, there was a sudden sound inside the coffins, as if rusty joints were opening one after another.
The gray mist around Klein became thicker again, and all the coffins suddenly fell silent.
Ignoring these things, Crane stepped into the depths of the hall, where there was a gray-and-white stone staircase leading downward, and a large stone monument stood at the entrance.
At the top of the stele stands a slender statue of a giant bird made of bronze with various pale symbols on its wings.
Under the bird-shaped bronze statue, on the surface of the stele, the words derived from the "Words of the Dead" seem to be very simplified birds of different shapes or snakes coiled into different shapes, forming two sentences with vague meanings:
"Even the gods can't get rid of it;
"Even if you die, you will be detained. ”
This is a warning to all creatures who have come to Calderon not to descend this staircase? it leads directly to the "River of Eternal Darkness"? Klein's mind turned, and he carefully read the words on the stone tablet.
In his opinion, this seems to indicate that even the true god of sequence 0, once he approaches the "river of eternal darkness", will sink there and cannot be separated, and even death itself will be imprisoned by this abstract river of essentia, although it will not disappear from it, but it will not be liberated.
In this way, like the "Chaos Sea", without essentia protection, even if you just approach the "River of Eternal Darkness", it will produce terrible mutations...... Crane retracted his gaze, straightened out the bird-shaped gold ornament pinned to his breast pocket, and walked around the stone tablet with the bronze statue on top of it, and descended the gray staircase step by step.
He didn't steal any more distance, so as not to crash directly into danger.
In the dark, dead and cold environment, the bird-shaped gold ornament on Klein's chest emitted a pale glow, illuminating a small area, like a boat of life struggling to support itself in the tide of death.
I don't know how long it took to descend, the "Source Fort" aura around him swelled reflexively, becoming extremely rich, like a gray-white silkworm cocoon.
At the same time, Crane tilted his head slightly, and heard a slight, illusory thud.
This seems to indicate that deep underground, not far from its current location, there is a dark river flowing slowly.
The next second, Crane looked down and looked at his feet.
At some point, there was a deep, dark, unreal stream of water.
On its surface, even light cannot exist.
"It's not the same as the last time I saw it......" Crane frowned slightly.
When he went to Calderon to hunt the "Spirit Marauders" before, he caused a certain change, causing a large amount of gray-white illusory tide to rise at the bottom of the pit.
Seen twice, the colors are very different.
Just as Klein's thoughts were turning, at the bottom of the stone staircase, where the deep dark tide came, a thin gray-white mist filled upward, combined with the illusory water, and expanded into a more misty gray-white "light" water.
The water rushed to Klein's feet, then shrank back silently, as if it were doing a cyclical ebb and flow.
This faint gray mist is a little familiar...... Crane's expression suddenly became solemn.
After a pause for a few seconds, he continued his downward journey.
This time, the rising unreal tide overwhelmed him, making his body flutter, making his emotions fast and cold, and letting his thoughts gradually fade.
If it weren't for the protection of the "Source Castle" aura around him, Crane suspected that he would passively and irresistibly blend into this tide.
Next, the gray-white "cocoon" rises and falls in the current, and slowly reaches the end of the stairs as the tide falls.
Beyond the end is nothingness, and out of the void flows a straight, wide, illusory, colorless dark river.
The river was so vague that it was hard to see because it was surrounded by a grayish-white, barrier-like light mist.
"Sure enough......" Seeing this, Crane couldn't help but whisper.
He was no stranger to this kind of fog, he had seen it behind the door in the ruins of Bansi, in the easternmost part of the Forsaken Lands, under the "Source Fort"!
Unlike other places, part of the "River of Eternal Darkness" penetrates the gray mist and merges with the latter, sometimes dark, sometimes pale.
This part of the river is constantly rolling up and falling, like a tributary rushing in the dark.
On both sides of the tributaries, huge and pale stone pillars were erected, as if they were supporting something, not letting each other collapse.
At this time, between these stone pillars, at the edges of the tributaries, countless slightly blurred translucent figures walked back and forth, wandering, slowly but without stopping.
Among them, the most eye-catching is a blank figure that sometimes walks into the depths of the tributary, sometimes turns back, but cannot escape from the river.
It was so huge, about the same size as the stone pillars around it, it was draped in a deep black robe, and its sides were old.
Suddenly, it turned its head to look at Klein.
Its face had distinctly Southland features, but it had decayed one mark after another, and white feathers stained with light butter had grown.
Klein knew Him, who was the father of Mr. Azik, the "Grim Reaper" of the Quaternary:
"Hades" Sallinger.