"This... how did you do it?" Lei Ting opened his mouth in disbelief.
There are dozens of small holes on the wall, and in each hole is a stone that emits pure white light. Not only that, but also a circle of this strange luminous stone is placed on the edge of the ceiling. Every detail is at a glance.
It was the first time that Ashes saw the explorer showing such an expression, and she couldn't help but feel a joy in her heart, "Don't you know? After the witch injects power into the magic stone, it can stimulate additional abilities."
"What about these? Are they also magic stones?"
Lei Ting carefully took out a luminous stone and held it in his hand. After leaving the small hole, its light did not weaken in the slightest.
"I don't know," Tilly shook her head, "these stones may have been shining here for hundreds of years, if the ruins really have that long history. They were all hidden behind the stone slabs before, so they have never been discovered. And if you want to open this special mechanism, only a witch can do it."
"Didn't you make them light up?"
"No, they can emit light by themselves," Tilly grabbed a magic stone and held it up in front of her, the white light illuminated her beautiful face, "If this is a device that needs magic power to maintain, then it is impossible It's so easy to take off, just like a candle can't easily leave a candle. At the moment, the holes in the wall are nothing special except for the placement of glowing stones."
"If it is as you said, it can emit light on its own, and it can continue to shine for hundreds of years, then the value is simply inestimable," Lei Ting said, "You must know that the snow spar produced in the Kingdom of Eternal Winter is a fist-sized piece. Hundreds of golden dragons can be sold for less than half the brightness."
As soon as the sailors heard such an astonishing price, their eyes suddenly changed when they looked at the stones.
"As we agreed before, you can take half of it," Tilly said noncommittally, or her focus was not here at all. With plenty of light, she can explore the hall more carefully. Ash couldn't bear to see her tearing the seaweed piece by piece, she simply swung her big sword and swept away all the attached plants on the wall like mowing grass. Soon, the second magic stone hidden in the wall was also discovered.
Tilly injected magic power into it in the same way. With the crisp metal crashing sound, everyone was surprised to see that a huge stone slab above Tilly's head was sloping down, several taut copper ropes were pulled on both sides, and the inside was actually a carved staircase. In the end, one end of the slate slowly fell to the ground, and the other end led to the top of the ceiling. Ash looked up and saw a horizontal metal door blocking the end of the passage.
"Tilly," Ashes couldn't help but said after seeing the Fifth Princess walk up the stone stairs without hesitation, "Let me come first."
"It doesn't matter, this is not... a place to hide treasures," she climbed to the top of the stone ladder, holding a raised magic stone next to the door, and the metal door quickly opened.
Seeing that Tilly got into the door and disappeared into the ceiling, Ashes had no choice but to follow closely, holding the giant sword in his hand.
After passing through the ceiling, Ashes couldn't help but widen her eyes, and saw that above the ceiling was a room much smaller than the hall, with luminous stones embedded in the walls as well, what surprised her even more was that it was hardly soaked in water. Mark of.
Wooden tables, chairs, bookshelves, cabinets... everything is intact, covered with thick dust, and even broken cobwebs can be seen. There were neat rows of books on the bookshelf, all stained gray with dust. In addition to the books spread out on the table, there are cups, kettles, and pen holders, and there is only a solitary rod left for the quill, and the ink has long since dried up. It was like two worlds compared to the halls full of algae and shells below.
Lei Ting climbed up the third, looked around and took a deep breath, "This is..."
"Abandoned residence," Tilly picked up the book spread out on the table, patted off the dust lightly, and flipped through the pages, "Someone lived here for a long time."
"What's written on it?"
"I don't understand," she shook her head and spread out the book to show the two of them, "It's all words I've never seen before."
"It seems to be the same on the bookshelf," Ash wiped the dust off the spine with his fingers, and the words were like strange wavy lines, completely incomprehensible.
"We can take it back and study it slowly," Tilly smiled. "As agreed, the books and magic stones belong to me."
"Of course," Lei Ting stroked his beard, "but when you find out, I hope you can share this ancient story with me."
"no problem."
…
The three of them searched the room on the second floor carefully, and they quickly touched the general situation.
Instead of finding a new magic stone, they found a strangely shaped thing at the other end of the room. At first glance, it looked like a thick metal tube. Lower wrist thickness with a glass lens embedded at the end.
"What is this?" Ash knocked on the body of the tube, and a series of crisp echoes came from the inside. Obviously, the middle of the tube was hollow.
"It's a bit like a sight glass used for navigation. Maybe the people who live here often use it to observe the outside world," Lei Ting put his eyes to the lens and looked at it for a while, "It's dark... You can't see anything, it should be broken."
"Not necessarily," Tilly pointed to the wall behind the metal pipe, "Look here."
Ash looked in the direction of her fingers, and saw a copper plate with a handle embedded in the wall, and there was a small hole under the handle, which seemed to be a place for the key to be inserted. The fifth princess walked over and tried to pull the handle, but the copper plate didn't move, "It's locked."
"I'll do it," Ashes grabbed the handle and pulled it hard, and the whole copper plate fell off the wall.
"Ha, it seems you guessed right," Lei Ting applauded, "it's another magic stone mechanism."
A huge magic stone was stuck in the groove behind the copper plate. Unlike the previous two, it looked much larger and its color was more purple.
"Want to activate it?" Ash asked.
"Well," Tilly nodded without hesitation, holding the stone in both hands, but this time there was no movement for a long time.
"what happened?"
"It's... it's too big," she said, with beads of sweat on her forehead. "I feel that it's absorbing magic power continuously. It seems that the mechanism behind it is very large."
"Never mind," Ashes frowned. She knew that once the magic power was exhausted, the witch was likely to fall into a coma. It was obviously not a good choice to spend all the magic power in such a dangerous place.
"No, it's getting better soon, I can feel it." Before Tilly finished speaking, a loud sound came from the wall, like a continuous thunder, and then the whole room shook.
"This is... an earthquake?" Lei Ming held onto the metal pipe to prevent himself from falling, while Ash immediately grabbed Tilly and held her in his arms. The dust was rushing down, and the three couldn't help coughing.
This shaking lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour before gradually returning to calm.
Moriel stuck her head out of the stairs. "What happened just now?"
"A new mechanism," Ash curled his lips, "Is it all right down there?"
"Everyone was terrified, and several roofs fell. Fortunately, I covered them with magical servants." The little girl walked to her side, "Lord Tilly, what are you looking at?"
Surprisingly, Tilly didn't answer her, her eyes kept sticking to the end of the metal tube, and it took a long time before she let out a long breath, "It's incredible..."
Ashes moved her eyes curiously, and was speechless at the sight in front of her.
On the other end of the "Looking Glass", a vast land appeared, the edge of which was like a cliff, and it was impossible to see the end at a glance. And in the center of the cliff stood a huge stone arch, the door was deep and dark, like a huge mouth that devoured people. (., Your support is my biggest motivation.)