"Buli's Frost Cave" - This is a huge and deep ice and snow cave located in the center of Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland. According to some records, many years ago, this was one of the few places in the world where frost giants lived.
The name "Buli" is said to belong to the leader of the Frost Giant tribe who led his people to move here.
Of course, the so-called "Frost Giants" are actually not much different from other giants. It's just because they live in different areas that there is an extra word in the title.
However, only a few people know that there was actually a group of wizards and giants living here in peace and isolation.
At this moment, Xiao Ens was holding a blazing torch and walking slowly in this surprisingly spacious snow cave. Except for the areas touched by the fire, there was only endless darkness in his field of vision. If he hadn't understood that he should go along the rock wall on the side of the cave, he might not even be able to figure out the direction now.
"It turns out... if the cave is too dark and too big, it will be no different from walking in the wilderness!" Enns couldn't help but sigh while suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, "If you can see the stars and the moon, it will be even better. Like…”
He thought as he walked forward cautiously. You can hear the sound of wind coming from unknown directions, whimpering like a wounded beast, which makes your heart even more chilling.
Because there was almost no reference, the concepts of time and distance gradually became more and more blurred in Enns' mind, no matter "how long" he walked or "how far" he walked. And what became blurred along with it was the fear in his heart.
An unchanging environment always creates a sense of paralysis, and sometimes even makes people forget to be afraid.
"At least, nothing has happened so far." In the darkness, Xiao Ens held a torch and muttered to himself softly, his voice echoing far away from him in the snow cave. go.
I don't know how much time passed, but when Enns felt that his steps were getting heavier and heavier, so heavy that he could hardly move, he suddenly stopped moving forward.
"What's in front of you?"
The range that the torch can illuminate is quite limited. Since he can already detect the obstacle in front of him, it means that he is very close to the obstacle.
Sure enough, when he took a few steps forward, a rock wall with a hint of blue suddenly appeared directly in front of him. Look at the nearly vertical rock wall, the smooth masonry marks are obvious. This is undoubtedly a high rock wall with traces of artificial stacking...
No, this may be an extremely large building!
Just after Xiao Ens moved laterally along the wall for a certain distance, he suddenly saw an astonishingly thick rock pillar. The surface of the nearly ice-blue rock pillar was only decorated with simple and rough vertical stripes. Although no matter how high he raised the torch, he could only see this part underneath, but the size of this part alone was enough to make people feel sad. I am in reverie.
"What is this place? Is it a house? Is this really where my mother's ancestors lived?"
Enns continued to walk along the wall in confusion, passing by similar rock pillars one after another. The undulating frozen soil under his feet also turned into a flat stone floor... Finally, unknowingly, Unexpected changes also appeared on the walls.
On the vertical wall made of large rock bricks, some carvings appeared from unknown time, and each stroke was as messy and clumsy as a child's painting. It might be some kind of mural, but because the format is so large, just peeking at a corner of it has no meaning at all.
But after Xiao Ens walked another distance, he finally discovered something was wrong.
"Is the wall... tilted?"
In fact, with no reference objects before and after, it was impossible for him to detect the change in the angle of the wall midway. But now there were increasingly larger scratches at the root of the wall, which clearly gave him a message—the wall had been moved inward at a certain angle!
And when he walked a certain distance forward, when a vertical gap two people wide suddenly appeared in front of him, he realized that this section of "wall" might simply be a terrifyingly large stone door.
In fact, there has been no shortage of explorers in this world since ancient times. Naturally, places like this have been visited a long time ago. As the magical world gradually became peaceful due to historical development, official and highly effective expedition teams have never stopped exploring and discovering many ancient mysterious areas.
The ancient ruins of the Frost Giant tribe have of course been explored many times by groups of wizards from various countries.
However, the so-called magic is that there is opportunity in the wonder. From ancient times to the present, many legendary stories have proved this point.
Just as Enns reached for the torch and gently stepped one of his feet into the darkness behind the gap, two icy blue flames in mid-air were suddenly awakened by some power.
Immediately afterwards, it took about two or three seconds! More blue flames lit up one after another, arranging left and right in the sky, extending deeper and deeper.
In the blink of an eye, the space behind the crack suddenly became bright.
It was only then that Xiao Ens discovered that this was actually a huge palace that only appeared in some fairy tale books. In this palace, stone bricks larger than his people were laid out on a solid floor according to specific rules. The large number of vertical rock pillars that he had seen before stood neatly on both sides, and suddenly there was a bright light before. The blue flames are actually big fire basins hanging on those rock pillars.
And in the deepest part of the palace, three thrones, one large, two small, and carved like knives and axes, stood quietly, exuding a barbaric and cold ancient atmosphere.
No, if you look carefully, you can find that there are not only three thrones in that row!
On both sides of the largest stone seat in the center, there are two stone chairs with high backrests, one on the left and one on the right. Just because they were so different in size from the other three stone pedestals that were as big as houses, Ens didn't notice them at first glance.
As he continued to walk deeper into the hall, the five thrones with huge differences in size were getting closer and closer to him. Only then was he able to confirm that the two smaller stone chairs should be the size for human beings to sit on.
"What the hell is this place?"
After walking in this inexplicably spacious palace for a long time, he couldn't help but mutter. It was probably because the excessive spatial contrast made him unintentionally awe-inspiring, so he mumbled surprisingly quietly, as if he was worried that his voice would attract something terrible.
To be honest, such a tall and huge seat has long been beyond Xiao Ens's cognitive scope. Even the giants I saw in an old picture album at home when I was a child were probably not comparable to the throne in front of me, let alone the creature that could sit on it.
After all, are there really big people in the world who can use these chairs
After a long time, when the shock and awe in Enns's heart slowly receded, his innate curiosity took over again. While subconsciously guessing whether the two smaller stone chairs were related to his mother's ancestors, he once again took a stagnant step, dragging his rather tired little body towards the one on the left.
If anything, it's actually because there is really nothing to see in this rough rock palace.
Although the huge difference in size can shock people at first, after looking at it for a long time, you will find that this palace has neither exquisite decoration nor many specific traces left behind. There are basically no other words to describe it except grandeur and monotony.
What is worth seeing is actually the two small stone pedestals with relatively fine carvings.
If you get closer, you can see that the stone chair on the left is engraved with a large number of strange symbols. From the stone seat under the chair to the front and back of the backrest of the chair, the surface is densely covered with symbols. .
Naturally, Xiao Ensi couldn't understand the boring symbols alone, and he quickly lost interest in the stone chair. But he didn't know that this stone chair had once had quite a lot of academic discussions in the magic world, because it was all covered with different ancient runes.
After the ancient magicians at that time conducted a detailed chronological discussion, they also jointly published a paper on the origin of ancient runes. Of course, that paper was quickly forgotten due to insufficient evidence.
Xiao Ens ignored the stone seat that would easily lead to trypophobia after seeing it too much. After bypassing the giant throne in the middle, he came to the side of another stone chair.
Compared with the stone seat just now, this one will obviously attract children's attention more easily.
The base of this stone chair is clearly two wolves of different shapes. They relied on each other and crawled under the stone chair. One was lying with its head on the ground, the other was raising its head to the sky and shouting, and the stone seat on its back was carried on its back.
On the armrests on both sides of the stone seat, there are carvings of winged Pegasus, majestic palaces, and various lightning bolts with distinct branches.
As for the towering chair back with the largest surface area, it is surprisingly simple, with only two birds flapping their wings.
Xiao Ens looked around at these reliefs with many delicate and vivid patterns, looking at them very carefully. While looking at them, he wondered whether these strange and fascinating creatures really existed in the world.
Until he walked around the stone seat and came to the back, he discovered that there was a strange eye engraved on the back of the chair, which looked somewhat frightening.
However, just when he wanted to go back to the front of the stone seat, his eye suddenly flashed.