Gene Lucas finally chose to compromise. In fact, his compromise was expected by many people: for an old-fashioned blood clan who abides by ancient rituals, it is difficult for outsiders to understand the weight of seniority and seniority, and even if he does not give it For the sake of other seniors, there is no way to ignore Vivienne, a special ancient.
The ancient who had witnessed all the events in the age of mythology, and Hesperis, who would make himself unable to step down if he came over at any time, in the current precarious situation, and the influence of the Heatherana family cannot be ignored, Jean? Under the influence of these many factors, Lucas finally made a smart decision. It doesn't necessarily pay off to loosen one's stubborn beliefs once in a while, but it's not wise to offend a lot of troublesome people just to save face.
The entrance to the ruins is located in the Parthenon, but everyone can't go directly from the real Athens. The demon hunters have been closely monitoring these preserved buildings from ancient times for a long time, and they are waiting for those reckless nostalgics. There is another safe route to the entrance: the Parthenon in Shadow Athens.
This city of shadows is the masterpiece of the shadow masters among blood clans and shadow demons. The shadow casters who still maintained their full power thousands of years ago distorted the space here with a special method, copying and dragging half of the city of Athens to In the shadow of the real Athens, this monstrous replica was created. Many of its areas are in one-to-one correspondence with the real Athens, not only in terms of shape and structure, but also in terms of spatial coordinates. Just like parallel spaces, the shadow of Athens is shrouded in the landmarks of real Athens, existing in around many ordinary people. It's just that most people can't perceive its existence.
Therefore, there is also a Parthenon Temple in Shadow Athens, and in fact its absolute space coordinates are located in the same place as the temple in the real world. As long as some ingenious transformations are performed, everyone can go directly to the ruins from the shelter. So as to avoid being discovered by the witcher.
Jean Lucas ordered his servants to take out the holy artifacts needed to open the gate of the ruins from the family treasure house. Although he was reluctant, he still had to act courteous and come personally for Vivienne" open the door".
The Parthenon is located in the center of the ancient Acropolis. It has been quietly overlooking the world from the highest point of the city for more than 2,400 years. This majestic and great building is located on a limestone hill, and its gray and white figure can be seen from a long distance. Hao Ren and his party, together with Heatherana, Lucas and their respective entourages, rushed to the place where the temple was located. It happened to be "noon" in Shadow Athens.
There is no morning or evening in this chaotic city. Residents rely on clocks to determine their work and rest time. Now this is also the moment when the sun is in the middle of the outside world. The power of shadows in the real world is suppressed to the limit. Opening the gate in the shadow fortress at this time can prevent the breath from leaking into the real Athens: the sunlight will eliminate this little inconspicuous fluctuation. Although the impact of this is negligible, the word of caution has been engraved in the bones of everyone in this city, and they have survived for so many years relying on this.
The first one to jump up after climbing the hill platform was none other than Betsy, a mercenary girl who had been keeping a low profile since she followed everyone to Shadow Athens, so that she was almost forgotten by others.
The girl looked at the rectangular temple in front of her and jumped up happily: "Hey! This is very similar to the ancient buildings I saw in my grandfather's book!"
When Hao Ren heard this, his heart skipped a beat: "Your grandfather's ancient book?"
Becky nodded vigorously: "Yes, did I say that? My grandfather is actually a scholar. He specializes in studying ancient history, ancient civilizations and so on. He has many ancient books. It is said that there was an ancient civilization called the Highland Gluck. Clan, their houses are like this, built of stone, decorated with a bunch of pillars, and there are sculptures everywhere: this is a people who like to play with sculptures. But the pure highland Gluck seems to be extinct, and now only There are some mixed descendants left, and some ethnic minorities west of Holleta are said to be their descendants."
"What are you talking about?" Heather Anna looked at Betsy strangely. The latter is because it does not adapt to the environment in the shadow city. In addition, I don't understand what is going on in the heterogeneous society on Earth, so I have been honestly not talking much in this strange place. At this time, I said a lot of incomprehensible things, and Heather Anna couldn't help it. Cast a suspicious look. "Holleta? Highland Gluck? A term from the age of mythology?"
"Uh... almost," Vivienne hurriedly smoothed things over. "It's not that you don't know about human wizards. They only study weird things, and their names for some ancient things are different from ours. This detail can entangle you to death."
Heather Anna didn't go into the matter any more when she heard this. Hao Ren wiped off his cold sweat and glanced at Becky, thinking that if he had the chance, he would give this startled guy some more common sense about the strangeness of the earth. Not sure how long he'll have to stay on Earth...
Then Hao Ren couldn't help observing the famous temple on the hill. He had only seen pictures of this famous ancient building on the Internet before, and this was the first time he saw the real thing. The Parthenon under the gloomy sky looked a little weird. It faded the sacred color of the whole body in the dark environment, and it crawled on the hills like a ghost town against the background of the dark sky. Besides the atmosphere, Hao Ren felt that the Parthenon in the shadow of Athens seemed to be very different from the pictures he saw on the Internet: the one in front of him looked complete and the details were well preserved. His first Almost unrecognizable at first glance.
"Shadow Athens has never experienced so many turmoil from the outside world. The temple is almost complete," Hesperis followed with interest when she heard that everyone was going to the ruins. Her family's business seems to be a little bit emotional, "only time has worn it a little bit."
"Aren't you going in?" Vivienne glanced at Hesperis, "Maybe you can be a tour guide or something—there may be scenes you are familiar with."
"It's because I'm afraid of seeing those things that I won't go in," Hesperis smiled. "Sometimes I would rather go to the scenic temples that already need to pay tickets to enter, and I don't want to come here to look at this almost well-preserved Athena's palace-the former makes me understand that many people will not come back, and the latter But it always reminds me of when those people were alive."
Vivian nodded understandingly: "Then I'll tell you what I saw inside when I come out."
"That's fine," Hesperis nodded. Then he tapped lightly on the place on his forehead that was wrapped with a gorgeous jewelry sash, "I'm going back to continue guarding the gate, I don't feel at ease handing over that place to Herb, and I get a headache after staying here for a long time. "
"Are your wounds still not healed?" Vivienne asked casually while watching Hesperis' movements.
Hesperis pulled back a corner of the sash a little. Hao Ren was surprised to find that there was a deep wound that was about an inch wide and shimmering with silvery white light. "After two hundred years of use, it has only healed less than a millimeter from the last time, and it may not have changed at all. , I guess this life will never get better."
After saying this, Hesperis smiled freely, turned around and disappeared in front of everyone in a ray of light. Nangong Wuyue couldn't help asking curiously: "Her wound is..."
"It was beaten by a demon hunter thousands of years ago," Vivienne sighed. "The brain hole was opened by the demon-breaking arrow, but she survived. It's a pity that this kind of wound may not heal in a lifetime. Her brain hole is the incurable disease."
Hao Ren: "..."
At this time, Heatherana and Jean had finished the preparations for opening the gate of the ruins, and Heatherana came to Vivian with a half-moon-shaped milky white stone slab: "Master Vivian, get ready to go in~~ This is the time to go in." Open the door!"
A group of people hurriedly followed into the temple, and found that a strange ceremony scene had been arranged inside: a square altar made of marble was placed on the open ground inside the gate of the temple, and around the altar was painted a triple complex with suspicious dark red pigments. runes. The blood mages brought by Jean and Hesiana stood in a circle outside the triple rune, and they were supplying energy for the opening ceremony with black and red mist all over their bodies. As a layer of blurred light gradually appeared on the altar, Heather Anna and Jean put their respective stone slabs on the altar to form a full moon, and immediately everyone felt the atmosphere around them change.
The ubiquitous oppressive and gloomy atmosphere in Shadow Athens seems to have subsided, and an inspiring force is coming from all directions.
Heather Anna happily talked to Vivienne while watching the altar glow: "At the beginning, I was the first to discover that there would occasionally be strange energy overflowing in this position, although I don't know why the entrance is in such a weird place. The place... just overlaps with the gate of the Parthenon."
At this time, Hao Ren suddenly took a step forward: "Then what, can I go over and have a look at those two stone slabs?"
Before Heatherana said anything, Gene stood vigilantly in front of the altar: "What do you want to do? This slate is a crucial key!"
Hao Ren waved his hand: "Don't be nervous, I'm just looking, wizard. I'm interested in magic. You can watch from the side. I don't want to touch it?"
Vivienne didn't know what Hao Ren wanted to do, but she still chimed in: "Just look at it, what's the big deal, you're still worried that we'll grab you a broken rock."
Gene looked at Hao Ren inexplicably, and finally agreed reluctantly. Hao Ren immediately moved to the center of the circle, pretending to observe the operation of the altar, and took out a magnifying glass to pretend to take pictures there. But at the same time, he was in contact with his own data terminal in his mind: "Have you recorded it?"
"The whole change process is very clear, it's a very simple space replacement," the data terminal agreed, "Stand to the left, try to be in the center of this ceremony, and the measurement of this machine will be more accurate."
The two "people" just pretended to observe the altar, and recorded the entire energy flow process required for the opening of the ruins.
Gene looked impatiently at Hao Ren taking photos: "Are you ready?"
Hao Ren nodded professionally while finishing the data terminal: "Yeah, that's good, that's good... Let me see, um, this marble pattern is good, these two semi-circular cakes... Tsk tsk, this arc, this Details, quite round... "
Gene blinked: "Are you studying magic?"
"Uh, the magic of your vampires is really advanced, and I didn't understand it at all." Hao Ren put away the magnifying glass, raised his chest and walked into the depths of the temple without any guilt, "Okay, let's start the next stage of academic research, let's Go to the ruins…”
Heather Anna called him back loudly: "You are going the wrong way! To enter the ruins, you have to go out through the gate of the temple!"
(Well, let’s get together and recommend a few books, one is "Infinity Cup Suicide Contest" written by readers, Dou Bixiang, one is also written by readers "Star Territory Local Management God", Xiling System, and one is my book. I don’t know what the content of "Wen Xian Ji" written by my sister. Well, it’s easy to get together and recommend it. Anyway, it doesn’t cost money, just a little bit = . =) (to be continued~^~)