"Black, glowing."
The half-dragon's wisdom has also made great progress after awakening its bloodline. At least it can fully understand Joshua's simple commands. After the warrior gave the order, the core of the black chest began to flash with the brilliance of magic. It The fire element in the body circulates, emitting a golden-red light.
The vast area at the bottom of the lake was illuminated by this light, and in some areas there were even bright crystal reflections. Joshua noticed that in addition to the huge red rock in front of him, there were many similar dark rocks scattered around. Red rocks, but the one in front of him was the largest, and the magic reaction in it was also the strongest.
"Open it and take a look."
After thinking for a while, the warrior stretched out his right fist, and then struck it lightly or hard on the rock that was made of coagulated blood and was as big as half a castle. A soft force shook its inside. The structure gently shattered the surface layer of this multi-layered sedimentary rock, turning it into countless fine crystallized rock powders.
The huge rock was shattered by repeated blows by the warriors, and after each blow, Joshua would carefully observe what was contained in the flying dust.
And not long after, when half of the structure of the blood rock was shattered, he finally saw what he wanted to see.
"...This is really a strange sight."
As the warrior murmured to himself, the shock caused by the shattering and collapse of the huge rock was transmitted back and forth under the 600-meter-deep water. The slowly falling red rock fragments exuded the dim light of the magic crystal dust.
Under the golden-red light from the core of the black chest, countless strange-shaped things appeared in the dark red rock. These things have been completely assimilated by the magic crystal and turned into crystal-like things. They are scattered and inserted on the blood-colored rock. , flowing with brilliant magical colors.
According to Joshua's years of experience, these are all corpses.
Countless crystallized bones are wrapped in red blood rock. Although it is now impossible to identify their appearance in life, their race can be roughly distinguished.
These corpses were extremely well preserved. Apart from the lack of flesh and blood, everything was indistinguishable from the real thing. Among them were horses, people, and even obvious dragon bones. The soldier squinted his eyes and scanned the bones. Discovered something new.
Those were extremely well-preserved weapons and armor fragments.
Sealed in the rock, moistened by the magic power of the magic crystal at all times, these weapons and armor fragments that may have come from the previous era have all crystallized. They maintain the twisted form before being wrapped, worn, or inserted into other On the similarly crystallized corpse, it seemed as if time was frozen in the final moments of the battle.
"The magic crystal preserves these things..."
Seemingly thinking of something, Joshua turned his head and looked elsewhere, at the magic crystals that were covered in dust, silt, rocks and turbid crystals. He whispered to himself softly: "Is this an ancient battlefield?"
Could it be that some of the magic crystals he and Moria saw last time were not real mineral veins, but assimilated ancient corpses
This is indeed very possible, and it can also explain why the magic in the ice lake is so cold and dead. There has been no biological activity for many years - the breath from the ancient battlefield refuses the approach of all living creatures, and even subtly changes the crystal. Properties of mineral veins.
Joshua felt that the secret hidden in the Palm Print Lake under the Nissii Snow Mountain might even be bigger than he imagined.
"You can find something like this anywhere you choose the address of the academy. Should it be said that both the predecessors and future generations have the same vision? They all think it is a good place."
Continuing to approach, Joshua walked in front of these corpses and weapons, touched these crystallized ancient beings with his hands, and carefully distinguished the traces on them.
Human bones, horse bones, dragon bones, bones of unknown monsters, armor, swords, shields, he didn't let go of any of them. He carefully observed each one and memorized the lines on them.
“This design style seems like I’ve seen it somewhere before.”
When he distinguished the lines on a large shield that seemed to have been dented by something, an inexplicable sense of familiarity came to Joshua's heart. He frowned and thought: "Yes... the appearance of this snake..."
"The Twin Snake Rings of Fire!"
Joshua recalled the extraordinary magic item given to him by Veldani.
But how? A magic ring forged in the Starfall Era, no matter how powerful it is, cannot be similar to the equipment left over from the previous era, but why are the patterns on this shield so similar to the double snake ring
"Wait, I remember..." Joshua suddenly recalled the system's identification results of the Twin Snake Rings of Fire a long time ago.
[—For the Flame Snakes, there is nothing more worthy of following than flame. It is a replica of an ancient artifact, plucked from the windswept dunes of the Glittering Desert.]
The Flickering Desert is a vast desert area in the western part of the Mycroft Continent. It is said to be a place where life is extinct cursed by the gods. There are countless relics from the ancient times. There are famous scholar cities and relic research organizations around the desert [Ancient History]. Light].
It is worth mentioning that the place where the ruins were first discovered in the Glittering Desert is a huge sinkhole called the Eye of the Deep. There, the gravel was melted into dark green crystals by the unknown high heat in ancient times. It has a strange magical power. Stopping all the flow of wind, it is one of the few places where travelers can rest in this desert.
Viewed from the sky, the sinkhole looks like a green pupil the size of a city.
The deep eye of the tiankeng - the deep lake with palm prints in the snow-capped mountains.
Except that one is filled due to the melting of ice and snow, and the other is deep between the gravel, there seems to be no difference in essence between the two. They are both equally deep, hiding many secrets, ancient ruins in the Eye of the Deep, and There is indeed a similar existence to the ancient battlefield under the Nissien Snow Mountain Lake.
"It seems that there are similar ruins all over the world. You know, there are quite a few similar sinkholes and ruins on the Mycroft continent."
Joshua swam in the lake while thinking. He looked around for other small blood rock fragments, smashed them, and observed the existence inside.
Some of them had nothing inside, but most of the blood rocks contained well-preserved corpses and crystallized weapons and armors in or under the blood rocks. He swept away the mud and sedimentary rocks and observed the magic crystals underneath. After careful identification, Joshua had to admit that the shape of the magic crystal on the surface did look like twisted bones and various weapons.
This may be a psychological effect, but Joshua believes that his eyes are not wrong - the bottom of the entire Palm Print Lake is a battlefield from ancient times. The function of the magic crystal veins comes from some lost three hundred years in the last era. The information was retained, and in the process of solidifying into rock, the blood left by the unknown huge creature stopped the time of those corpses and weapons like amber at the moment when the battle ended.
Although the material was assimilated by the magic crystal and turned into a crystal-like existence, their shape did not change at all.
Another piece of blood rock was shattered. Joshua originally thought there was nothing inside, but an unexpected light flashed across his eyes.
"Spiral crystal?"
Stretching out his hand, he took a piece of pure white crystal that suddenly popped out of the blood rock fragments. Joshua felt a familiar surge of power in his hand. Subconsciously, he recalled the time when Artanis treated his arm. , the crystal disc used to convert the holy light, the two give people an unexpectedly similar touch.
This is not surprising. The last time they infiltrated with Moria, they also found an uncarved spiral crystal. But a few seconds later, the warrior was surprised to find that the pure white crystal in his hand was... It is essentially different from spiral crystal.
"This is not the power of the Holy Light... this is the power of order!"
Joshua's eyes widened in surprise, and his red pupils were fixed on the white crystal. He couldn't help but hold it tightly with both hands, not daring to relax for a moment. Before he could express his second emotion, the warrior noticed that the azure orb on his chest had reacted once again.
"Crystal of order? There is such a thing?!"
Even in the water, Joshua couldn't help but gasp. In the past, he had only seen gem crystals condensed by natural elements such as Sun Crystal, Frost Gem, Emerald Heart, Radiant Crystal, etc., but the Power of Order was I have never heard of the crystallization of special powers.
On the side, Hei Ye swam to the warrior's side. Around this sea dragon, huge fire elements continued to flow, turning the cold lake water into a hot stream that was on the verge of boiling. Joshua held the Order Crystal in one hand and the other. Touching the head of his mount, he listened to Hei let out a comfortable dragon roar, and frowned as he thought: "The crystallization of the power of order proves that a very high concentration of the power of order once existed here."
"The bottom of the lake is obviously an ancient battlefield with countless people. The corpses of war horses are enough to prove this, and the blood of some huge creature has also condensed into rocks here."
The black-haired warrior murmured to himself at the bottom of the lake. He began to speculate based on the existing clues: "Nostradamus and I also feel that the time and space barrier in the North is extremely weak, which is a precursor to the coming of the great demonic tide, and the magic energy has become... The intensity comes earlier and more obviously than in other areas, and the evil god also left a time and space channel here."
"There is also an empire near the Vast Sea - no, it is not built by the empire, but a group of ancient fortresses discovered and maintained by the empire."
All the clues were converging. Joshua stared at the crystal in his hand, pondered for a while, and said: "My family holds the Azure Orb, which is a sacred weapon against the evil god of chaos. In the North, thousands of years ago, The lost three hundred years were a battlefield between order and an unknown enemy... "
Everything was proving one thing, and in the end, he came to a shocking, yet reasonable conclusion.
"Perhaps the lost three hundred years were the time when human civilization fought against the evil gods in the Glorious Era, and the Northland, where the Shining Desert and other ancient ruins were located, was the battlefield at that time?"
(End of chapter)