"what happened?"
Gray's expression changed, and he quickly stepped back and left the stone steps.
And just after he left the stone steps, the strange light on the stone steps disappeared, and the heavy feeling on his body also disappeared, as if it had never appeared.
"Gravity stance?"
Staring at the stone steps, Gray thought thoughtfully. The stone steps should have the effect of runes and other items. When a person stands on them, it will trigger an effect similar to the gravity stance.
After confirming that there were no other effects, Gray stepped on the stone steps again.
A strange light appeared on the stone steps again, and Gray's body became heavy again.
Without stopping, Gray walked up the next step.
Buzz!
A strange light appeared on this step, and Gray also felt a heavy feeling.
Without continuing up, Gray stopped.
"Getting heavier!"
Compared with the first step, the gravity exerted on Gray by the second step was obviously heavier.
"The higher you go up, the greater the gravity exerted by the steps?"
Gray raised his head and looked up the steps.
After a rough scan, the number of steps should be around a thousand. Although the gravity exerted on him now is not too great, with a thousand steps, each step is heavier than the last. In the end, the gravity will probably be extremely terrifying.
"It feels like a test..."
This kind of stairs is not dangerous, but it is a great test of one's own strength. Without a certain level of strength, it is absolutely impossible to walk along the stairs to the final altar.
It feels like the people who built the altar regarded these thousand steps as a way of testing, and seemed to be testing the strength of those who participated in the test in this way.
"What is on the altar that could set up such a test?"
From Gray's direction, he could only see a row of stairs sloping upward. As for what was on the altar at the top of the stairs, he couldn't see it at all.
Without much hesitation, Gray went up the stairs. He wanted to see what was on the top.
Step after step went straight up, and the pressure on Gray gradually became heavier.
When he climbed to about a hundred steps, Gray felt that his body was heavy, as if he was resisting a huge boulder.
But for him, who was now a mad blood warrior, it was no problem, and he continued to climb up the stairs.
I don’t know what kind of material the steps are made of. Even if they were stepped on by Gray, who was "carrying a huge boulder", they would not be damaged at all.
Climbed another hundred steps.
Gray began to sweat, and the gravity exerted on him at this moment, even with Gray's current strength as a mad blood warrior, he gradually felt the pressure.
It was as if he was carrying a boulder weighing several thousand kilograms on his back.
If the person standing here had not been him who was already a blood warrior, then someone else, even a blood warrior, would have collapsed under the pressure on his body.
Taking a deep breath, Gray continued to climb up. Sweat continued to ooze out. After climbing another hundred steps, Gray was already sweating profusely.
"call-"
Standing on the huge stone steps, Gray took a deep breath and looked upward.
There should be 700 steps to go up, but he felt a lot of pressure now. Although he had not reached the limit, he was almost there.
"It's so hard to climb the stairs!"
Gray shook his head helplessly.
His strength can reach the upper reaches among the mad blood warriors, but he is so exhausted after only climbing three hundred steps. One can imagine how strong the gravity is on these steps at this time.
He gritted his teeth and continued going up.
Sweat kept sliding down his forehead and back. He had already taken off the thick clothes and put them into the rune space bag. He was only wearing thin clothes and pants at this time.
It was extremely difficult for him to climb, and every step he took consumed a lot of his energy.
boom!
Suddenly, he could no longer bear the pressure on his body. After stepping on the first step, his body involuntarily knelt on the step.
"Hoo, ho-"
His hair was wet with sweat, and the clothes on his body seemed to have been fished out of water, with sweat dripping down the steps.
He has reached his limit!
"There are still about 600 steps left."
Looking up, the white jade-colored steps were so dense that it made people palpitate. If nothing else happened, there should be about 600 steps going up, and the total number of steps he had climbed should be about 400.
"According to this level of difficulty, I'm afraid only king-level warriors will be able to climb up in the end."
With his strength as a mad blood warrior, he had already reached the limit when he climbed to the 400th step, but the steps were far from the end, not even halfway up.
The mad blood warrior can only climb 400 steps, and there are still 600 steps above. Calculating this, I am afraid that only the king-level warrior can finally climb the steps.
"What on earth is there that actually sets such a difficult test?"
He was really curious in his heart. The difficulty of a test was actually so high that it required a king-level warrior to finally pass it. So what could he get after passing the test
Is it a powerful, silver-level magical weapon
Or is it an artifact with mysterious effects
After taking another look at the densely arranged steps above, Gray felt really unwilling to do so, but he still turned around and walked down.
The difficulty of the assessment is too high, and it is not something he can pass now. It is better to leave this altar and search other places in the palace to see if he can find anything useful.
After descending the steps, Gray began to search within the palace.
Search building after building, not missing any place.
A few hours later, he searched the entire palace, but found nothing.
This palace doesn't look like a place for people to live at all.
There is no bed, no table, no chair, and no daily necessities.
Just empty, rough-looking houses.
"It's almost dawn!"
After walking out of a building, Gray, who still had nothing to gain, looked at the sky in the distance. There was already a slight light in the sky. It should be dawn in more than an hour at most.
Boom!
Suddenly, strange sounds echoed throughout the palace.
On the buildings in the palace, various golden lines began to flicker, the color was slowly becoming dim, and the light was slowly becoming fainter.
It's like a rune lamp that is about to run out of magic power.
"Isn't this palace about to be closed down?"
Gray's expression changed.
If this palace was sealed off by an invisible wall like it was at the beginning, then he might be trapped inside.
Although he still has a lot of food in his rune space bag, the food will always be eaten up, and he may not be able to wait until the next palace opens.
Whoosh!
Gray rushed towards the entrance quickly, but found that the golden lines on the palace building had faded to the point where they were almost invisible, and there was still at least a kilometer away from where he was now to the previous arched entrance.
His expression changed wildly, and he ran as fast as he could, but he still couldn't catch up.
Snap!
The golden lines disappeared completely, drastic changes occurred in the palace, and the palace began to rumble.
I saw that the palace, which was originally glowing with hazy white light, was slowly dimming. At the same time, all the buildings seemed to be...
"Well, all the buildings are sinking?"
Gray was surprised to find that the buildings in the palace were sinking rapidly.
The building that was originally tens of meters high sank by more than ten meters in just a moment.
He reached out to touch a building nearby, but unexpectedly found nothing. The building that originally existed very really, and he had even entered it, was now like a phantom, with no entity at all.
"I didn't sink with you. Could it be that I was excluded?"
His face suddenly became happy.
The buildings in the palace were sinking, but he did not follow suit. In other words, at this time, he was no longer in the palace, but should have been in the wilderness.
"By the way, the altar!"
He suddenly thought that since the palace was sinking, the altar must also be sinking. Wouldn't it mean that there was a chance to see what was on the altar.
Of course, it is impossible to get what is on the altar, and all the buildings become illusory.
He quickly ran towards the altar.
Boom!
As he expected, the altar was indeed sinking rapidly. It was originally a hundred meters high, but now it was only twenty or thirty meters high.
He ran quickly and looked towards the altar.
The height of the altar continues to decrease, and the top of the altar can gradually be seen.
First, what comes into view is something made of metal.
It is golden in color, slightly rounded, the size of a table tennis ball, and covered with fine and strange lines.
Then, at its lower part, a flat thing that could be held in one hand slowly emerged, with fine lines on it as well.
"Knife or sword hilt!"
Gray immediately judged that this should be the handle of some kind of weapon.
Continuing down, an unknown ferocious beast lingers on the handle, and its left and right claws are opened respectively, becoming the part that connects the blade body of the weapon to the handle.
Below, a trace of a weapon with blades on both sides was revealed.
"Is this the sword...?"
Seeing the shape of the handle, seeing the blade, and confirming that it was a sword, Gray's eyes suddenly opened wide. He had seen this sword before, and he had seen this sword on the relief on the wall of the arched passage. It was the one who couldn't see clearly. Swords in the hands of male and female sword bearers.
"Then this sword should be a broken sword!"
Gray was surprised. He didn't expect that the reward for a test that was so difficult that only king-level warriors could pass was only a broken sword.
But he soon felt relieved. The sword-wielding man on the mural, whose gender could not be seen clearly, was as powerful as a god. The power of the weapon in his hand was naturally extremely extraordinary.
Even if it has been broken, it should still have strong power. Such a weapon, even in the hands of a king-level expert, may have a huge effect.
Suddenly, Gray looked under the hilt of the sword and exclaimed.
"No, this is not a broken sword!"
(End of chapter)