The level of dilapidation in the underworld after the demon hunters ravaged is even more shocking.
Originally, this place was a desolate and dilapidated place. The sky of Eternal Night has enveloped the whole world unchanged for thousands of years. Poisonous water and magma flowed on the dark and cracked ground. Undead creatures wandered everywhere. Any life would be cut off here. After the demon hunter raided and killed Hades who was sitting here, this place was scarred by countless wars—the ground that was already full of cracks was torn and curled by powerful magic energy, forming countless high and low Undulating corrugated uplifts, between those ripples is a terrifying rift valley, which is a gap that has penetrated the entire underworld, and if you jump from it, you will directly fall into the boundary of the space, and be torn apart and annihilated by this artificial space; Most of the undead creatures wandering in the underworld were killed by the demon hunters, and huge fragmented skeletons and blood and flesh residues that could no longer be seen can be seen everywhere in the wilderness; the outposts and guard towers that were originally used to monitor this space were also destroyed. Destroyed, ruins and ruins can be seen everywhere, the holy flame of the witcher melted these originally indestructible buildings, causing them to collapse on the ground like melted butter...
Hao Ren and his companions are walking on the land of Hades that has been completely destroyed and is gradually becoming unstable. Hasu relies on memory to guide the way forward. They have to bypass some cracks that suddenly appear on the earth at any time, because the foundation of this world is collapsing, and the entire earth is in a state of continuous disintegration and falling. Heatherana also tried to fly in the sky, but it turned out to be more dangerous: Tartarus' soul furnace stopped, which directly caused all the human souls collected by Hades, the king of the underworld, to run out. But there are no longer rational souls floating in the air in pieces, forming a very powerful energy group, approaching rashly will not only easily trigger chain explosions, but also be polluted by the negative emotions constantly emitted by these dead souls. The sky occupied by the undead and the cracked earth are a safer way.
After advancing for a while, a dry riverbed appeared in front of everyone.
Hao Ren stood on the edge of the river bed and looked far into the distance. His eyes went beyond the darkness, and he saw a piece of land gradually extending upwards on the opposite side of the river bed.
He retracted his gaze and noticed that the river had only dried up not long ago, and the stinky venom mud still remained on the river beach, and the reason why the river dried up was also obvious: there were a large number of shocking cracks in the center of the riverbed, and these cracks were almost paved. It fills the entire bottom of the river, and that's where the water leaks down—all the way through the Hades, dissipating in the chaotic boundaries of different dimensions.
Due to the existence of those gaps, Hao Ren and his party had to walk along the river bank, looking for a continuous and safe route to reach the opposite bank. Fortunately, they didn't come too late. The collapse of this space was still in the early stage. They quickly found a suitable "crossing" point, and they also found a strange boat stranded on the river beach.
This is a ferry built with fishing nets and the bones of unknown creatures. There are fist-sized holes everywhere on the boat, and even the bottom of the boat can see countless gaps and damages visible to the naked eye. It's hard to imagine. How can things float on the water. And at the bow of the boat, there was a three-meter-tall ugly giant in a tattered black robe, who was festered all over his body. The flesh on this giant's face was peeling off, and his appearance was hideous. However, it was inlaid with countless sharp and fierce weapons. His left hand held a broken lantern, and a silver long sword that was still slowly igniting the holy flame was inserted into his chest, nailing this giant firmly to his chest. own boat.
The Ferryman of Hades, Charon.
"Is this Charon..." Heatherana looked at the crucified ferryman silently for a while, and suddenly showed a sardonic smile. She took out two coins from her body and put them on Charon's eyes that were dying. , "You also have time to go on the road."
It seems that this slight vibration destroyed the balance of the long-decayed ship under Charon’s body, which was maintained by magic all the year round. There was only a light click, and then the whole ferry built with bones and fishing nets crashed. With a sound, it shattered into fragments all over the floor. After the cabin was broken, countless golden coins gushed out of it. They flowed down the dry river bed like a flood, forming a bright golden trace. In "Pavement", you can also see the dense white bones mixed in it-they are also Charon's collection.
Charon's body also fell on the river beach, and his rotten and fragile body was also torn apart, and countless gold coins flowed out from the cracked skin.
Hao Ren and Lily were stunned by this "magnificent scene", but Hasselblad next to him was expressionless—oh, he was already paralyzed.
However, Heatherana didn't have any superfluous reactions when she saw this scene.
"Charon, I know him," Heatherana shrugged, "Although he was dead when I was sensible, but I have experienced the age of mythology, these barbaric and twisted 'gods'... Hehe, they are almost the same. "
Hasselblad shook his head and walked down the river beach: "Let's go, a good road has been paved."
How many years of wealth have these gold and silver coins accumulated? Perhaps the oldest of them can even be traced back to the origins of ancient Greek civilization. From the day when the "gods" on Mount Olympus made the rules of life, death and burial, humans in the Mediterranean took these coins with fear and awe. As part of the burial, it is enshrined to the master of the underworld in order to obtain the peace of the soul after death. Charon may have taken only a small portion of it, but it was still enough to fill his ship of the dead, and his own entire body.
Now these mortals handed over the road money and finally paved a road after the destruction of Hades.
Crossing the dry River Styx (the River of Pain), Hao Ren saw the withered Elysee Paradise (also called Elysion, Elysian). The blessed "land" of the underworld, but Hasselblad revealed the truth about this place.
"This garden used to be really lush, and the appearance is really beautiful, but it is definitely not a 'blessed land'. After the failure of the Hades project, the Olympians were unwilling to let this space consume a lot of resources. It was deserted, so some magical plants that were not suitable for growing in a normal environment were transplanted in. Most of these magical plants are related to undead spells and shadow power. They need to grow normally in places rich in death and dark power, so Hades Instead, it became an excellent nursery for them. Persephone is the gardener who takes care of this garden of horrors. She arrests those human souls who have entered the underworld but are not suitable for 'fuel', and let them wander in the garden, but in fact It is to let them be the nourishment of the magic plants - the death bell flower and the carrion flower have a strong hallucinogenic anesthesia effect on the soul, so those dead souls do not feel pain at all, they are absorbed by these nurseries unconsciously, but until the soul is gone Every moment I feel that I am enjoying myself in Paradise. This is the truth of this 'Blessed Land'."
"Although I already know what happened in the Age of Mythology..." Hao Ren looked at the Elysee Paradise, which had completely withered. Burnt, leaving only smoking bushes and scorched dust everywhere, and among these dilapidated botanical gardens, fragments of human bones can be seen everywhere-many of these bones were originally buried under the nursery as fertilizer, but the battlefield The air waves above turned them all over again, "After seeing it with my own eyes, I still feel... so dark."
Lily wrinkled her nose: "In the age of mythology, there is no good person... Uh, so different?"
"Of course there are. There are gods on Ra's solar ship, in Asgard's palace, and on Mount Olympus. Even Zeus himself seems to have put forward a policy of treating human beings several times, but so what?" Cianna crossed her arms, "Humans are kept in captivity after all. Although I am not a human being myself, to be honest, I really can't understand the age of mythology, which relies on one race to completely enslave and exploit another race to maintain. The social structure was not in a healthy form from the start."
Hao Ren was deeply convinced of this.
The area that everyone walked through before can only be regarded as the outer layer of Hades. The real inner layer of Hades is the land where Hao Ren and his party are standing now. It consists of two parts, one is the Elysee Paradise, and the other is the famous "Tartaros". And the dry "Styx" is actually the "moat" flowing outside Tartarus and Elysee Paradise. It can be regarded as the dividing line of this dead country, and the real meaning of Hades is inside the dividing line. The territory above, the outside is the wasteland that was completely abandoned by the "gods" of Olympus.
For many years, Hades had devoted most of his energy to the inner layer of Hades, and he had thrown the wasteland on the other side of the River Styx directly to those mutated monsters, letting them roam freely there.
Therefore, in the land of Tartarus, the remaining power of Hades is still working.
The Elysee Paradise is adjacent to Tartarus. From the withered garden, you can see the scorched earth of Tartarus layered on top of each other, covered with mud and volcanic ash, and there is only one fortress standing on this scorched earth. Rising from the ground in the darkness, there is a whole triple wall made of pure copper, which looks majestic and thick enough to make all human armies of this era feel hopeless.
In the very center of the fortress is Hao Ren's target—
A constantly rotating and reorganizing Tower of Babel that looks as if spliced together with countless metal parts. Its bottom is connected to the Temple of Hades, and its top protrudes into the top of the chaotic clouds, connecting to the Temple of Hades on Mount Olympus.
However, it was not easy to get to the brass fortress on the highest point of Tartarus, because Hades' power had not yet completely dissipated-the ground outside the fortress was full of wandering undead.