The ancient treasure house is hidden in the mountains, the unknown ruins are covered with vines, and the walls made of boulders and metal are covered with many scars. Every trace is a character left by time, and human beings from these The only thing that can be read in the characters is the word vicissitudes.
The history of this ancient ruin can be traced back to the distant period of the Gondor Empire. Its thick and majestic style is extremely unfamiliar to the Ansu people today. In Gao Wen's memory, it was already here when the northern pioneering army found it. It was in ruins - and it didn't look much "younger" then than it does now.
Gawain, Rebecca, Amber, and Knight Byron walked into the mountain through the largest archway. The flickering light of the torches made the corridors on both sides dark and dark, just like the legendary "soul corridor" leading to the kingdom of the dead. Amber complained dissatisfied He said: "I should have sent your Aunt Hetty over if I knew it earlier. What's the use of bringing you—you can't even do a flash spell and you're a magician?"
Rebecca blushed: "Fireball... Fireball can also illuminate..."
It's a pity that the weak tone is not convincing at all.
Knight Byron walked not far behind Gawain's side. He looked at the ancient stone walls and the dents on the walls that could no longer be seen, and couldn't help but think of the feeling he had when he was a mercenary many years ago: "This How many years have the ruins been?"
"I don't know," Gawain shook his head, "the first time we found it, it was already in ruins. The more knowledgeable people in the team at that time said it was the legacy of the 'Spark Age'—that was the magic technology in the middle and late stages of the Gondor Empire." At the time of great development, at that time, the great magic well "Dark Blue Well" was successfully launched, and the empire had a wave of expansion, and began to build a large number of fortresses and research facilities at various borders, hoping to find similar "Dark Blue" in other parts of the mainland. Such a super-large magic power focus, but then those facilities were abandoned one by one.”
Rebecca felt incredible: "Isn't there a magic focus?"
"No, I can't find a magic focus like Deep Blue," Gawain recalled the history in his mind, "The power of the Deep Blue Well is beyond your imagination. It is a super-large source of magic power located in the center of the continent. It The output energy can even supply the Mage Tower in the whole territory of Ansu to run for a month-so some scholars in later generations believe that the explosion of the Deep Blue Well in Gondor in 1739 was actually the inducement of the magic tide. Although the explosion did not blow up the entire The empire, however, tore a big hole in the elemental plane, and the imbalance of elemental power accumulated until the second year, which triggered the demon tide. However, this conjecture cannot be confirmed, the entire Deep Blue Well and the magic focus 'Dark Blue' It has been completely annihilated, and no one can investigate."
"It's amazing..." As a mage, Rebecca could naturally hear how amazing the ancient magic well was. She was even more shocked that human beings were able to master that level of power at one time. "The Gondor Empire back then was so powerful... "
"All in all, in the eyes of the Gondorians back then, the magic power points all over the continent were almost invisible, so after barely finding a few medium-sized magic power points, Gondor stopped exploring more distant areas. A large number of fortresses and research facilities were abolished. This should also be one of the facilities that were abolished at the same time, and it is likely to be a comprehensive thing.”
Amber suddenly became nervous: "Then... then there shouldn't be any out-of-control ancient magical monsters or magic traps here?!"
Gawain glanced at the nervous half-elf: "As a guy who dares to dig other people's ancestral graves, are you still afraid of this ancient facility that has been abandoned for thousands of years?"
"That's different! Even if the person in the coffin digs up the ancestral grave, it's just a person. Once something pops out of this kind of ancient facility, it's impossible to tell what it is! I heard that some ancient facilities still have It seals the synthetic magic beast and magic colossus made by the mad magician... "
Gao Wen had a vein in his forehead: "I really disappointed you when I pretended to be a 'human'—the same goes for the previous rumors about the Dark Mountains, and the same goes for the strange rumors about ancient facilities now. All these incorrect knowledge in your head are Where did it come from?"
Amber thought for a while, and suddenly said with a mysterious face: "Let me tell you, in fact, I am really the Goddess of the Night Goddess. Sometimes I pray too much and the Goddess will give me enlightenment. She taught me." of… "
Rebecca rubbed a thumb-sized miniature fireball and threw it at Amber, who was caught off guard and covered in black ashes, and immediately yelled, "Mom, you're crazy! It's dangerous to throw a fireball all of a sudden. Well!"
Rebecca shrugged: "... It seems that she is not chosen by God."
Gao Wen was too lazy to talk to these two guys who were not easy to deal with.
Because the ancient gate had appeared before their eyes.
At the end of the corridor, a heavy door made of purple-black metal stands in front of it. This door has a typical Gondor "Spark Age" style, thick and steady, and the surface is painted with abstract reliefs. Pattern of soldiers and walls.
Hu Po wiped off the gray and black on her face vigorously, and looked at the door in front of her with bright eyes: "This thing...couldn't be a whole piece of purple steel?!"
"That's right, it's a whole piece, but I'll have Rebecca convert every piece of scum you scrape off from it into a fireball and burn it on your face," Gawain tapped Amber's with the hilt of the Pioneer Sword. Head, "So put away your bold ideas and wait for me to pay you honestly is the long-term solution."
Amber turned her head and whispered: "... old stingy..."
Gawain heard her muttering, but ignored her, instead took half a step back, and took out the crucial "key" from his bosom.
A heritage from seven hundred years ago, a platinum disc.
Rebecca was a little worried: "It's been so many years, can this thing really still work?"
Gawain looked at her and showed a slight smile: "This is the technology of the Gondor Empire. As long as the main body of the facility does not collapse, its main gate will never fail."
As if to prove what he said was true, at the same time as the words fell, the complex lines on the platinum disc lit up one after another, and the relief on the heavy metal door also followed closely. Wisps of brilliance.
When the brilliance filled the entire gate, a creaking mechanical sound came from the gate and the depths of the rock walls on both sides, and everyone felt the ground under their feet tremble slightly, and with this tremor, the gate slowly opened .
Gawain, Rebecca and the others had already made preparations. When the door opened, they covered their mouths and noses and retreated to the sides. At the same time, Gawain also activated one of the knight's basic skills, "breath protection", a layer of invisible The barrier protected everyone at the scene—this ability is similar to the mage's basic magic "Breeze Shield". Although it can only provide very, very limited defense, it can effectively maintain a clean air environment. In ruins and other places, this skill can prevent the caster from being harmed by those poisonous gases.
There are no poisonous gas traps in this ancient ruins, but there may be some gas accumulation in a closed space that has been sealed for seven hundred years, and it is always good to have more layers of protection.
After several minutes, Gawain released his protection, nodded to the others, and walked into the gate first, followed by Knight Byron.
Hu Po hesitated for a moment, but gave up the idea of chipping off a piece of metal from the gate while no one was paying attention—because the purple steel was too hard, a dagger couldn't pick it.
Inside the gate is a vast rectangular hall. The closed gate can be seen from all four directions of the hall, and those ancient properties are directly stacked in this hall.
The sealed environment in the hall and the runes set in various places in the hall ensure that the materials here are oxidized and corroded at the slowest rate, and even today, many of them are still well preserved.
There are piles of metal ingots, crystals of various colors, swords, armors, and several large boxes as tall as half a person stacked in the very center.
Gao Wen stepped forward and stuck the Pioneer Sword into the gap of the box, and pulled it hard, and the box opened with a sound.
One of the boxes contains gold and silver coins that are still shining, while the other boxes contain neatly arranged lavender crystals—military crystals that have been engraved and charged.
Those gold and silver coins are not the most valuable things, crystals are.
The ancient Gondor Empire dominated the mainland with advanced magic technology. The magic power from the Deep Blue Well gave the mages of the empire almost endless energy to squander. Even the poor mages can still pile up technological achievements under such conditions. , so the Gondor Empire did something that is almost unbelievable in the eyes of the four major kingdoms today:
Mass-produce "Extraordinary Armed Forces".
Ordinary swords and armors are not enchanted. No matter how strong and sharp they are, they are only ordinary equipment. Only equipment that has been enchanted and contains extraordinary power can be called "extraordinary weapons". In today's Anzu, enchanted weapons and equipment are things that only officers of all ranks can issue—and they may not always be there, but in the Gondor period, each soldier was equipped with a long sword enchanted with sharpness and a A standard crystal is standard.
The thumb-sized crystal is pre-set with primary shield and explosive spell models, automatic operation, friend-or-foe identification, even big-headed soldiers without the slightest ability to cast spells can use it-the shield will be activated when attacked, and the shield will be depleted when the shield is exhausted. It will generate heat and flash as a warning, and then throw it out with force, and it will explode when the wearer and nearby friendly units reach a safe distance. In Gao Wen's view, this is an incredible advanced weapon.
If it wasn't forced by the situation back then, these crystals couldn't be taken away, and the pioneers would never leave them behind - when the team took away all the more valuable materials that could be carried with them, these crystals were not allowed. Do not give up the part.
Gao Wen reached out and picked up a crystal, and gently rubbed it in his hand.
This may be a way to allow ordinary people to have access to magic, but this way will not work.
Only when the Deep Blue Well is activated can this kind of thing be infused regardless of the cost. Now that the Deep Blue Well has been destroyed, these ancient crystals use one less.
But at least for now, these crystals will become the cornerstone of the stability of the territory.