A huge pit appeared in front of Darkus' eyes. The pit seemed to be a geological wonder carved by the hand of God. Then there were countless snakes densely packed on the deep ocher soil in the deep pit. There seemed to be more snakes here than anywhere else in the Lustria continent. He had goosebumps all over his body.
At the height of the Snake and Rat War, Terhenhoin's army and the Skaven fought nearby. With the Skaven's defeat, thousands of rodents were driven into the Guikomo Ring. They faced a doomed fate from which they could not escape.
On the altar in front of Darkus, witnessed by the terrifying serpents on both sides of the altar, and under the gaze of the bejeweled eyes of the serpent statue, hundreds of rodents were blood sacrificed to Sotek every hour. . Tehenhoin personally presided over the ceremony, and the red-crested skinks kept pulling out the rodent's heart. The blood of the sacrificial victims dyed the lower reaches of the Amazon red and it did not fade for months.
If this place could be digitized, it would be somewhat of a landmark that would reduce the popularity of the Skaven.
The originally enthusiastic Druchi began to feel discouraged at this time, and their expectations turned into confusion. They all carried a bamboo basket woven by lizardmen on their backs and held something similar to a garbage picker in their hands. When they set out, Darkus told them that there might be treasures in the pit, but... "
This is what you call a small number of things." Too many snakes?" Darkus asked, pointing at the snake pit and looking at Tehenhoin.
"Dear Umak, yes." Tehenhoin's scaly face also showed a look of confusion. He tilted his head and looked at Darkus and hissed as he spat out the letter.
"Then you mean, there were more snakes here than now?" Darkus asked again.
"Yeah!"
"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong?" Darkus ignored Tehenhuoyin and shook his head speechlessly.
"That's a good saying. It's here now." Malekith, who was carrying the Sun Flame Sword, observed the environment in the pit and listened to the conversation between Darkus and the tall lizard next to him. Although he listened He didn't understand what the lizard was saying, but he could understand what Darkus said, and then he said with a smile.
After learning that these snakes would not attack, Darkus led the Druchis and went down. Walking in front of them were Tehenhoin and the Red-crowned Skink brothers who were responsible for driving away the snakes.
Originally it was forbidden here, but the rules are usually flexible and can be exceeded. Besides, who is Darkus? And with the destruction of half of the core strength of the Plague Clan, the dormant Sotek seemed to be showing some signs of awakening, which could be vaguely sensed by Sotek's core believers, Tehenhoin and the Red-crowned Skink brothers.
Thanks to the dark ocher soil, although thousands of years have passed here, things are not buried deeply underground. The snakes are like earthworms, constantly turning over the soil. Soon, the teammates who were picking up made discoveries. Strange weapons and cultural relics were found one after another by Druchi, who had the blessing of treasure hunting properties, but they were limited to picking them up and holding them in front of their eyes. Then put it in the basket. If you really can't pick it up, just mark it.
This was what Darkus had ordered when he came. Malus brought the ruby ring that sealed Zakhan's soul and the painful lesson was still vivid in his mind. He just brought the Drukis here to play and kill time. He didn't want to Let these Druchi be attacked for no reason, and the whole drama of civet cat for prince.
Kradin and his twin sister walked and rummaged together, and soon they got their own fate, or rather Ilanya's fate, and they worked together to dig out a strange scepter from the soil.
Like Renn, a scholar who specializes in Lustria, Colonia, who has traveled around the world, is also a polymath, but unlike Renn, she knows a little bit about everything. When she walked over, she let Ke The Latin siblings pushed away the dirt on the head of the stick.
After the mud on the head of the stick was lifted, Colonia showed a strange smile, which seemed a little unbelievable, and felt a little unbelievable, but also a little natural. A goddess is clearly revealed on the head of the staff. The kneeling goddess has her hands spread apart and held high, holding half a moon in each hand.
"The...goddess of the moon?" Yilanya asked in disbelief as she looked at Colonia. The first time she saw this look, she thought of the pure girl Lilith.
"Good thing, although... it looks like it, it is not! There are dozens of gods in the Nehekhara pantheon in the south of the old world. Their power, nature and authority are very small. For example, they represent stars, breezes and other natural phenomena. phenomenon, or the blessing of a certain animal or behavior." "
But Nairu is different. She is the moon goddess and the 'great guardian', the wife of the sun god Petra, and she will welcome the deceased to the afterlife. Garden, tending it with her daughters. At night, Nairu will come to the sky to look after her children, but behind her will be her husband's concubine, the green moon goddess Sehomt." "
Sehomt Te will constantly follow Nairu, and sometimes she will usurp Nairu's position in the night sky, gazing at the sons of gods and the lower world in the shape of the evil moon. On the reliefs of Nehekhara, there is also a painting of the sun god wearing a pendant. Terra drove a golden chariot to chase his beloved Nairu to guide the day and night cycle."
As the scholar Colonia continued to introduce, the Druchi who were picking up gradually gathered around, and they were very interested. listen.
"Green Moon Goddess? Evil Moon? Morsrib?!" Malagos, the daughter of Draka, the night governor of Hagrid Grave, asked after thinking for a while.
"Yes, Morsrib. If my inference is correct, this staff should belong to High Priest Nairu, but I don't know why it appears here." "In the
earliest days, those rats came from They dug holes over there." explained Darkus, who walked over to watch the excitement.
As Colonia talked, Darkus thought of the gods of ancient Egypt in his previous life, but none of them could match him. Neru was more like Aaru, which is the land of reeds. There is an endless reed field similar to the Nile Delta. The perfect hunting and farming environment allows the souls living here to feel eternal life. It is a perfect reflection of life before death. Everything lost at death is waiting in a beautiful form in the afterlife. .
To put it bluntly, it’s the place full of reeds and wheat fields in Assassin’s Creed: Origins.
"It's not bad. There is a spell on it. When the spell is activated, ordinary blades and arrows that attack the holder of the staff will be deflected. But you have to remember that this spell does not protect against attacks such as spells and artifacts. "Malekis also came over. He directly took the scepter held by Kraka with an instrument and looked at it. After looking at it for a while, he threw the Nailu Double Moon Scepter to Ilanya and said.
Then Malekith slowly recited a spell, and the spell attached to Nairu's double-moon scepter was activated, bursting out with the light of the silver moon. Ilanya, who was holding the scepter, was also illuminated by the light of the silver moon. Attached.
Yilanya, who memorized the spell, was stunned for a moment. She knew she had found the treasure. When she reacted, she immediately knelt on the ground and began to thank the Witch King.
As Yilanya's words fell, the Duruchi people surrounding them dispersed with a roar. They were more interested at this moment. They also wanted to find their treasure. When they set off, Darkus also told them that if If you find a treasure, it belongs to whoever finds it. This does not mean that the spoils are not distributed.
Soon, one thing after another was picked up, but most of them were weapons crudely made by the Skaven, in short: garbage!
The garbage has become decayed and dilapidated over the years. There are only a few weapons from ancient Nehekhara, but the situation is no better than the garbage of the Skaven.
Darkus didn't rummage around. He already had enough good things on him. He sometimes walked around and sometimes looked around as things were picked up.
"Did those rodents punch a hole under the pyramids at Nehekhara?"
Cowell dug up a beautifully shaped curved sword. With Colonia's introduction, Darkus felt that something was a little outrageous, because if there was no problem with this curved sword, it should be one of those ancient Neheka swords. Pull the king's grave goods.
"The kings who wake up and find that their burial objects are gone will be very angry, right?" At this moment, Darkus was thinking about the scene where the Tomb King came to politely ask for his burial objects after learning that they were in Naggaroth.
Just when Darkus was stunned, Genevieve walked over, and an armband decorated with clay and a combination of exquisite bronze and gold appeared in front of his eyes.
"Is this?" Darkus asked, first looking at the arm armor that could blind his eyes, and then looking at Genevieve, who was a little excited and a little resistant.
"Given to you." The face of Genevieve, a girl who is always sixteen years old, is filled with the youthful smile of a hundred-year-old woman.
"You can..." Darkus shook the arm on his forearm, and was interrupted by Genevieve before he could finish his words.
"It's too dazzling!" Genevieve shook her head and said, then she stuffed the arm armor into Darkus' arms and ran away.
Darkus shook his head speechlessly, and then looked at the arm armor. This arm armor bursting with light like the sun was different from the arm armor he was wearing now. It was a complete set of left arm armor, covering from the shoulder to the shoulder. to the wrist. He realized the function of this arm armor. It should be able to play defense and blinding effects in battle. Maybe it has other functions...
"This arm armor is better than the one I gave you." Just before Dark While Us was studying, Drusala came over. She looked at the arm armor and studied it, and then said a little sourly. "Then should I say at this time that I will take the arm you gave me, because this is..." Darkus grinned and said with a smile.
"This is what I like to hear, but my dear, you still lack a set of armor that truly belongs to you. Perhaps this arm armor and the arm armor in the Amyrlin Room can form part of the armor." Drusala also She laughed, but her expression quickly turned serious again, and she said slowly.
The bracer that Kalien pulled out with the dragon tendon whip in the Amyrlin Hall is a strange creation, made of gold and the mysterious metal used to make the God series weapons. Its full name is: Teku Toltec bracer, Tai Kutortec was a third-generation Slann magic priest who died during the Cataclysm. He designed this bracer before the Cataclysm to assist in the construction of the temple city. The bracer allows the Slann Demon Priest who equips it to summon a rough model of the building directly from the ground beneath his feet, and can also pull rocks and soil from the earth. Rise in and shape items to meet specifications.
Said to be a wrist guard, it is actually more like an arm guard. Of course, it can only protect the wrist to the elbow joint.
Shakespati gave the Teku Toltec's bracers and Kodi's breastplate to Darkus, and he tried them when he was recovering from his illness. Although he was not a Slann magic priest, he The strange thing is that he can also "use it". He speculates that when he was in Izata, the mysterious power he absorbed in the Great Pyramid of Ancient Saint Ichi supported him and turned him into a hot-blooded beggar who couldn't cast spells. A version of the Slann Demon Priest, he jokingly calls himself the sixth generation Slann Demon Priest.
There are explanations for how this can be used. After Darkus puts on the Teku Toltec Bracers and passes the will test, he will not create things out of thin air, but will create a circle around him that is centered on himself and spreads to a ten-meter range. Earthquakes, subsidence, and special environments will also create quicksand. Of course, he will also be affected within this range, unless he knows the levitation technique.
Compared to the Teku Toltec bracers, the Kodi breastband is outrageous and beautiful. It is outrageous and difficult to control in Dacus. There is also a beauty of sparks and lightning all the way, heavy rain, strong wind, There was fog, scorching high temperature shock, cold wind, and ice on the ground. The most outrageous thing was that once, these natural weather conditions appeared at the same time.
Darkus didn't even know what natural weather he would create in the next second. Of course, these natural weather were of a very small scale and could be used as some spells and tricks, complementing the Holy Soul Reef on his chest. During the experiment He felt like he was God! It is the incarnation of the God of Nature!
Malekith, who couldn't rest, accompanied Dacus to experiment, not so much for companionship as for fun. Of course, he also fell well. In addition to the above-mentioned natural weather, lightning occasionally fell, but these lightning would not fall. The Cordy Chest Initiator will only attack targets around the Inciter in a small range indiscriminately.
After suffering a loss, Malekith cast a protective spell on himself during Darkus' experiment, but what was outrageous was that lightning could penetrate the spell. Not believing in evil, he changed to another protective spell, but the result... …all the same.
And as the experiment progressed, Darkus discovered that lightning and lightning were also different. Sometimes three lightning bolts would fall at the same time, followed by a thunderstorm that hit the face with lightning and thunder. The deafening thunderstorm would cause all the people within the range to fall. The target is temporarily deafened, including himself.
But as Tehenhoin's protests and commotion became too great, Darkus, who had not yet recovered from his serious illness, did not do many follow-up experiments. He felt that he lacked time. If he could retreat in the Great Pyramid of Ancient Saint Iqi for hundreds of years, maybe he could perfectly master these strange creations, sign in for hundreds of years, and become a god at the beginning. Yes, strange. In his opinion, these two creations are still one step away from extraordinary objects.
——Darkus
nodded. Drusala was right. The armor he was wearing was still the same armor he had been wearing since he came to this world. It was the very common cold lizard fear knight standard equipment. It highlighted one It was unremarkable. He originally wanted to ask Lord Dais to help make a set when he went to Athel Loren.
As a result, it took another three years of sewing and repair, and ten years later, this armor has almost become a political symbol, a symbol and a representative.
It represents Darkos' nostalgia for the past, and further expands to include his subordinates and retinues...and so on, a few thousand words.
At night, the lizardmen and Druki set up camp nearby and began to identify the things dug out during the day and exchange them with each other. Although many things were worthless, it was fun.
Darkus didn't expect the explosion rate here to be so high. Anyway, it's the end of the rainy season and it's stopped raining. He might as well stay here for two more days and continue digging.
But the excavations in the next two days were obviously unsatisfactory. The explosion rate began to continue to decline. What was excavated was all garbage, and even some war equipment used by rodents. In the afternoon of the third day, the team had no interest in excavation. .
Darkus decided to change places. It was estimated that the fleet would arrive at the designated location in two weeks. Tehenhoin would also lead his small army to the designated location. He squatted in Spica again. Zuma's Chupa Coco called Chakua to act as a guide and teleportation anchor.
Itaza's army also set off, and Darkus led the Druchs around Itaza. He took time to look at the first-generation Lord Slankroka who was silent there.
Lord Croca is still the same. His soul is attached to the mummy. He can't speak or do anything. He can't provide guidance to the lizard people on the big plan. This feeling is like the soul being sealed in a body that can't move, which makes people despair. .
Darkus thought about a person in his previous life who was said to be in a vegetative state, but in the end the doctors discovered that the vegetative person was not a vegetative state from a medical perspective. He was conscious, but could not move or speak. He lay there in despair for more than 20 years. , this is much scarier than a ghost pressing on the bed, and Master Ke has been in this state for more than six thousand years.
After that, Darkus went around the holy land where the Skink was buried. The Skink Priest from the Great Golden Pagoda of Ancient Saint Itazha died five years after he left. He only felt sad, and at the same time he felt lucky for the Skink Priest. The lucky thing was not that the Skink Priest met Umak in the last few years of his life, but that Umak met the Skink Priest who only lived in the last few years. He thanked the Skink Priest for the ceremony and blessing he held for him, otherwise he might have died by now.
There are many places in Lustria that are sacred, dangerous, and protected. These places, located deep in the jungle, are often difficult for outside adventurers to reach. Flying over the canopy might see a sea of green, large monuments, ruined temples, or the cracks rising in the landscape itself, but none of this was a problem for Darkus.
After visiting various scenic spots in Itaza, Darkus set off with the Druchs again.
The Source of Eternity is located to the north of the Hall of Unknown Constellations, set in a vibrant swamp and surrounded by stone monuments.
These monuments are a warning that the closer you get to the center, the stranger the world becomes, as if you are in another world.
The swamp shimmers with the light of the aurora, colors dancing on the water. The sky was also dancing, the stars spinning into silvery spirals, while the sun and moon appeared simultaneously, leaving golden traces in the sky. These swamps are fed by springs and are unlike any other in the world. There is no corruption in the swamp, and the Deha energy contained there sinks into the ground.
Instead, this world is filled with pure high magic. The Lizardfolk believe that the Fountain is important to the Old Ones, where their silver sky chariots prepare their journey across the vast expanses. The fountain breaks free from the spiritual network, and magical winds burst forth from the earth.
According to Chupa Coco, drinking the water here will grant incredible powers, but it may also come at a terrible price. There are even glimpses of a world that only the Slann Magisters can see, an eternal conflict that takes place in a matter of moments.
The Drukis were very cautious. They could feel the mystery and unknown here. They laid out their camping things and sat there admiring the surrounding scenery. They are here to travel and sightsee, not to become crazy.
Darkus knows the uniqueness of this place. It is said that after drinking it, there is a chance to automatically obtain a spell? But the chance seems to be very small, almost negligible, and it is more likely to be caused by other messy things, such as the sky being filled with strange silver objects shaped like ships after drinking. Rainbow-like streams rise up from the ground to greet them, and the things in the boats look at the drinkers, but the gaze is too heavy for the drinkers and knocks the air out of the lungs.
There are also more outrageous things, such as chaos demons dancing around the drinkers, whispering things the drinkers long to hear, and so on.
Then, the team came to the Great Confluence, which is located in the center of the Lustria continent. Many rivers come together. The river water continuously rushes down the cliff, forming a height difference of nearly 70 meters, which is larger than that in the known world. A waterfall bigger than any other.
When Darkus came, it was the intersection of the rainy season and the dry season. It was a good time to watch the waterfall. If it was the dry season, the waterfall would be like an old man going to the toilet. The low roar was deafening, the air was filled with icy mist, and his nose was filled with the smell of rain with every breath.
Although the waterfall is spectacular, it also seems pale, because the three pyramids float on the top of the waterfall in the mist, attracting the attention of tourists. The floating temples are separated from the ground, and riding a pterosaur has become the only way to reach the pyramids. .
It is said that before the Great Invasion, Slann mages came here occasionally for peaceful contemplation, and skinks from all their temple cities would establish a thriving makeshift community on the river's banks, sharing knowledge and fishing. There are still a lot of Saurian warriors and Wyvern riders patrolling here, but with the end of the Great Invasion and the decline of the Lizardmen, everything changed...
These suspended pyramids are incredible creations that continue to floating in the mist, with only the faintest blue glow showing around their base.
Darkus took out his telescope and looked up at the pyramids. Each pyramid was dedicated to an ancient saint. The one on the right was the Water God Zongqi, and the one on the right was the Shiling Zuojia.
Ancient Saint Zorga, he is the stone spirit, the giver and arbiter of power.
The two pyramids are okay, but the middle one is more evil. The pyramid seems to have been abandoned for a long time, and the entrance was sealed long before the great invasion.
"This? This... this is impossible!" Darkus saw an incredible scene through the telescope. His hands trembled a little, and he became a little out of control. The yell that he originally blurted out was suppressed by his will, and became into a low whisper.
Darkus saw a terrifying mural on which a hooded figure was carved! If he just saw this, he wouldn't be so shocked and gloomy. The scary thing is that there is something like a bell around the figure! But this bell is not a ringing decoration worn around the neck, but more like a clock!
This terrifying mural gave Darkus a very bad association. He thought of the Tilean folklore "The End of Kafsha" in the old world! (End of chapter)