Chapter 147 72. Cube (5.2K)
"I hope this song can really guide me."
Shortly after walking out of Itaza, Darkus figured out that it should be Sotek's will. After all, it is unbreakable every day. All the rituals were stopped, and with the connection of the old skink priest, this Umak ritual was born.
The team began to head southwest, stopping at the city of destiny, Ashoto!
Nestled deep in a lush valley beside the Sotek's Spine Mountains, this temple city is named after the ancient saint Ashhotto, who knew the ways of every lizardfolk and all of them. The true purpose of an individual's existence, and will control the destiny of all lizardmen through guidance, teaching, and revelation, selecting those lizards destined to achieve great things.
Ashoto is most famous for "The Last Guardian of Ashoto" Ku Ga, a lizard-human ancient blood warrior who was born before the great invasion. There were also several ancient lizard-blood warriors born together in that batch. Warriors, their tactical sophistication is far beyond that of others of their kind, and they have an innate dominance over the giant beasts in the jungle, but now only Ku Jia is left.
During the Great Invasion, Ku Gar led his tribe to constantly fight against hordes of Chaos Demons. He eliminated a large number of Chaos Demon armies that tried to come to defile the temple city, and successfully stopped the endless Chaos Demons for a period of time. Attacking, he defended Asjoto heroically. However, the surrounding temple cities could not protect themselves, and there had been no reinforcements. The six fifth-generation Slann in Ashoto could only focus on opening the magic barrier to defend the temple city, but this defensive measure ultimately failed to hold up.
Because the two-headed bird Carlos Fateweaver had come, just as he had done in Huta, Taranxra, and Zahuitak, a rift was opened in the center of the temple city, and one of the Slann Pierced by his invisible claws, the uncontrolled energy swallowed up the Slann, and he appeared through the Slann's body. The remaining Slann were frightened in a deep trance, and were then eliminated one by one by him. . Ashoto's defenses were broken, and taking advantage of the uncontrolled surge of energy, the Chaos Demons rushed into the temple city.
By the time Ku Jia returned, it was already too late, and Ashoto was in ruins. He rallied the surviving troops and fought his way out, driven by rage. When they broke out of the fallen Ashoto, they wiped out hordes of Chaos Demons. Over the next few centuries, he led his army dormant in the jungles of Lustria, bringing destruction to his Chaos Daemons. When the maelstrom opens, only him and his never-aging tyrannosaurus Quimoc are left in the team.
After the Great Invasion, Lord Mazdamundi summoned his Heth'otar, General Ku'gar, and selected him to lead Heth'otar's army. He gave Ku Jia an ancient relic called the "Hand of the Gods", allowing Ku Jia to gain the powerful power of his blood-burning and scorched flesh.
Akadan stood on the shoulders of the giant lizard Kami and told this story to Darkus, and Darkus's unique brain circuit believed that Ku Gadai was indeed powerful, but in addition to being powerful, there must be a lot of powerful people. A reliable teammate will either face the fate of failure in the end like Ashoto in the City of Destiny.
The team traveled through the jungle without any obstruction and soon arrived at Ashoto. There are no skinks stationed here, just a desolate and dilapidated ruin.
The excavation work began, but Darkus did not perceive the existence of the stone slab. Ashoto was very close to Itaza, and it was impossible that it had not been collected in the past thousand years. A lot of bits and pieces were dug up, but most of them were of no use. A triceratops skull was unearthed and given to the skinks serving Diga. The skinks quickly processed and polished the skull. Okay, put it on Diga's head. In addition, there are fragments of the engines of the gods, and the decorative panels of the sun engine, which can only be used as gold to be resmelted, and the gems on them were also seized by the skinks.
The Drukhi were numb all the way, especially in the City of Gold. After Queza stayed for a few days, they were no longer interested in the gold and gems. I've seen too much. A small piece of gold can kill a dog's brain in Naggaroth, but here it's really everywhere. It's so everywhere that you can get it by just digging around.
The only thing of value was a black cube that Walter found. Darkus studied it for a while. Although he didn't know what material it was made of, he believed that the cutting process was definitely not from this world. There was something inside this small cube. A black ball with countless rays of light surrounding it. Viewed up close, the black cube contains tens of thousands of flashing pins of light, each surrounding a black ball. But it's just an object. It doesn't have any sense of evil, and it doesn't have any nagging whispers. It shouldn't be like Tzeentch's conspiracy, but more like the toy of a certain ancient saint?
Darkus decided to ask the master to take a look, and soon the black cube floated in front of Akadan. He saw the black cube flicker. If you didn't pay attention, you couldn't feel it at all, but this flicker attracted Alyssa. , Chupa Coco and Eye of the Storm note.
A minute later, the black cube turned on again, and this time the flash lasted longer than before. Darkus, a Druchi who had no magic talent, could feel a large amount of Gul's wind in the jungle being sucked into the black cube.
"I feel like after this strange thing is turned on, my casting speed is much faster." Chupa Coco said with a deep expression as he looked at the black cube and put his hand on his chin.
While Chupa Coco was speaking, Alyssa had already cast the Amber Spear four times in a row. The four spears passed through long trajectories in mid-air and soon disappeared.
Darkus decided to give the black cube to Alyssa for safekeeping first, but he vaguely thought that Alyssa couldn't play with it.
After digging for a few more days and finding nothing, Darkus decided to set off again, and the next stop was the underground city of Sabatuna.
Unfortunately, something happened. Darkus' team once again encountered the same problem they encountered in the City of Disguise, Horotor. They couldn't find it. This time they really couldn't find the entrance. The Lizardmen society has no records about this city. They only know that there is a temple city called Sabatuna in this place. I tried every possible method, including hiring masters and consultants. The skinks in the team were like blue sheep on the cliff, searching carefully one by one, almost exploding the mountain. But I still can't find it, there are no clues at all, as if this city doesn't exist at all.
During the month that Carlion stayed here, he kept searching. Now he learned to be smart, flying close to the mountain, and kept throwing stones to avoid the recurrence of Holoto's situation. Condition. But sometimes hard work will yield results, and if you can’t find them, you can’t find them.
"Maybe the entrance isn't here at all? The underground city? Forget it." Darkus stood under the Sotigo Ridge and looked at the mountains on the ridge, thinking.
While Darkus was trying to find him, Mask Gray Claw had been wandering around the Starlight City for a long time.
"Leeches! Mosquitoes! Poisonous spiders! Blinding clouds of gnats! Snakes!"
After Musk was released by the benevolent Darkus, he kept wandering around the jungles of Lustria. Just wandering around, he got lost.
Musk did not follow the advice of the hairless thing. He thought that the hairless thing was playing a trick on him. Who knows which direction was a giant web of lies, waiting for him to turn into it. He thought about snakes again, and the skin under his weird crimson vest and trousers was trembling. Nasty things were everywhere, looking at him with eyes that couldn't blink, sniffing at him with forked tongues, and he couldn't even count how many snakes he had seen!
Musk also fought with a strange hairless thing. The hairless thing was similar to the human woman he once met outside Skaven City picking mushrooms and frogs, but it was dressed in extremely weird clothes and was about to kill him. , fortunately after a struggle, he was killed with dimensional lightning. He also captured the hairless spear with which he drove off a similar leopard he had seen at Arabi.
After the rainy season came, Musk encountered a group of stranger black hairless things. These hairless things were as tall as halflings, with a strange paint on their bodies, nose bones, lips, ear plates, teeth files, ritual scars and There are piercings and long teeth passing through the soft areas. However, before he could say hello, he was shot down by these hairless blowpipes and carried back to the camp, apparently with the intention of inviting him to dinner.
The dinner that night was particularly sumptuous, but there was a monkey on the table instead of Musk. With his skills, he gained the recognition of these hairless things and took him in. He had a crocodile tooth pierced in his remaining ear. He now learned to dance the dance of those strange hairless things. The group of hairless things also taught him how to survive in the jungle. The most important thing is that he and Two identical hairless leaders learned to use herbs to prepare some strange potions.
After the rainy season, Musk set out for the Starlight City, Astoro, under the guidance of Wu Mao Dong. He wandered around this ruined lizard city for a long time, carrying bits and pieces of his body. There were more and more rags, but no magical items were found.
But the hard work paid off. With Musk's persistent search, he once again got into the collapsed pyramid and finally found a secret room that had not been opened. The secret door was surrounded by ancient and powerful runes. Sealed. He was convinced that the chamber hid great secrets from him, but the power of the runes stopped him. He was enraged, he had no way out, he attacked the rune with magic, but the rune was used to defeat a more powerful mage than him. Faced with the return attack of the rune, he did not run away, but did gave the same response. The door to the secret room was opened by him, but the runes also swallowed up his magic and life force. He knew that he could not escape, and he fell. After an unknown amount of time, Musk was awakened by water drops falling from the passage.
"Unlucky thing, thing!"
After waking up, Musk struggled to turn over, and then began to crawl hard and hard in the passage. He felt that he could no longer think. The backlash of the runes had crushed his mind, and his thinking was teetering on the edge of collapse. He climbed to the door of the secret room, and the door opened. After he turned his head with great effort, under his pair of rat eyes with good night vision, he saw a mysterious golden cube placed in the middle of the secret room.
"Yes, yes!"
Musk's mouse eyes glowed again. He detected profound characteristics on this golden cube, and he determined that it was a strange magic item. He began to adjust his direction and crawl over, holding on to the supporting pillars, holding the difficult golden cube in his hands. Then he lay on the ground and held the six sides with a cross groove in his hands, with a strange ruby inlaid in the center of each side. golden cube held on chest. He closed his eyes and felt the golden cube carefully. After a while, he began to laugh sharply.
"No, yes! No, yes!" Musk kept mumbling.
"Hahahahahaha!" Musk began to laugh sharply.
"Hand it over, stay here! Stay here, hand it over!" Musk was still chanting. What Musk
didn't know was that his rat grid was torn apart by the backlash of the runes, and was torn into several pieces. Different rat grids, these rat grids are constantly competing for dominance in his thoughts, and his actions are controlled by the dominant rat grid.
Darkus decided not to ink anymore, and the team set off again to the next stop, the Eternal City, Oxo.
One day while camping, Alyssa resolutely exchanged the black cube for Darkus, saying that she couldn't control it, but she didn't say the details. She showed an expression of relief after putting down the black cube.
What could Darkus say? Judging from the performance of Alyssa's profile, it shows that the stronger the caster holding this black cube, the more effective it will be. On the contrary, if the holder is weak, this black cube will be dangerous, so dangerous that Alyssa really cannot grasp it. Because very few Druchi would give away the treasures they got while they were still alive, basically none! Except of course the generous Darkus. He asked Chupa Coco to keep the black cube and give it out as a gift when he saw Lord Mazdamudi again. Giving the soul dagger to Morathi was enough to make him speechless. He would not give this mysterious black cube to that strange mother and son and the mother of the Hell Calamity family.
The team soon arrived at the Eternal City, Auxio, which was a temple city that was destroyed during the Great Invasion. It was rebuilt after the Great Invasion. According to Akadan, the reason for the reconstruction is that there is an extremely important building here, the pyramid of the ancient holy wind god Tebok, and the Bird Shrine stands on the top of the pyramid. It is said that all flying animals gather in the Bird Shrine, where the essence of the Old Ones will reward all flying animals, but only if they are said to. Kallion in the sky means that the sky is clear and nothing can be seen. There was neither a pterosaur nor a rhinoceros, and no feathered serpent was encountered. After all, the feathered serpent was the rarest and most mysterious creature in Lustria.
However, on the outskirts of Oxo, Darkus met the Kochen Chocobo Skink Rider, an extremely rare and unique soldier in the lizardman society.
According to the skinks responsible for patrolling the outskirts of Oxo, these Kauchen Chocobos were captured and tamed from further south. After the Druchi and dignitaries behind Darkus looked at each other, Start researching the various values of this chocobo.
Unlike the many Skink Priests in Itaza, there is only one Skink Priest in Oxo. Except for serving the Slann who occasionally comes here, he spends most of his time managing this city, a city whose hatching pond has been corrupted. Managed by Skink Priests in a normal and orderly manner.
Darkus climbed up the pyramid and visited the Bird Shrine attraction. The Skink Priest introduced that Slann would come over occasionally, and the Slann's chengyu would float here quietly, looking to the south. In this way, the Slann's can gain an uninterrupted view of the horizon and be able to cast their thoughts further afield. He sat on the steps of the Bird Shrine and tried to imitate the Slanns in looking south. In the dusk, he could vaguely see the plains on the distant horizon, which was also the turning point of this trip to the Lustria continent.
While Darkus was looking south, the Skink Priest was still talking about the feathers and bird meat that was abundant in this temple city, and the various previous histories. As he continued to talk, he came to the Lord Cositep of Itaza, the one who was suffering from amnesia and his mind was fogged. He was also the one who concluded the speech after the battle between the two Slann.
Lord Cositep discovered the vampire Luther Haken who landed on the Lustria continent. During subsequent observations, he discovered that Luther Haken was carrying out various destructive and desecrating activities, and witnessed Luther Haken plundering Many of the lizardfolk's most sacred sites.
After discerning Luther Harken's intentions, the two psychopaths came face to face with each other, and Lord Cositep weaved a spell that planted a vision in Luther Harken's shattered mind, Ox-O's. Pyramids and vaults are overrun with mysterious artifacts. This non-existent vision extended Luther Haken's desire for mysterious artifacts beyond the scope of his sanity, causing Luther Haken to continue to suffer from mental internal friction and gradually lose all control of his body.
Luther Harkon and his undead army never found Ox'o. Instead, Lord Kositep intercepted Luther Harkon northeast of Ox'o and launched a devastating attack at the designated time. The ancient giant lizard Nakai also appeared in the battle.
When the Skink Priest reached the climax of his story, he was filled with passion, his expression was excited, he was dancing, and the marquee on his head was flashing continuously.
"Say it like you have participated." Chupa Keke, who was also sitting next to him, couldn't stand listening anymore and said something disgusting.
"Honor the Ancient Saint! How did you know that I participated? I also killed a guy with a big mouth, white body crawling on the ground and no lower body. The noise that guy made was louder than the roar of the giant beast in the jungle. Be scary." The Skink Priest continued to talk excitedly, pulling his chin and imitating the sound, almost crawling on the ground.
"Luther Harken! He is like a shit stirrer. You have to find a time to knock him out."
Darkus looked like he was listening. When the Skink Priest said something wonderful, he nodded in agreement and said Showing a surprised expression.
"Have you seen Rhythrosaurus and Quetzalcoatl here?"
Darkus saw Chupa Coco looking at him from the corner of his eye. He turned his head and looked at Chupa Coco speechlessly before changing the subject directly. asked.
Akadan, who was standing further to the side, was looking towards the east.
"I've seen it! Of course I've seen it!" The Skink Priest, whose subject was changed, still said passionately.
(End of chapter)