The White Ape Canyon between the low hills is not long. Shade had also wondered what was wrong here before, but the moment he entered the canyon through the church's camp sentry, he immediately sensed something.
A familiar force.
At the first second, even he didn't believe it, but then he had to accept this fact after asking "her".
"You guys stay, I'll go in by myself."
He tried to control his emotions and said to Megan and Vanessa who were following behind him.
"The same to you."
Then he poked the owl on the shoulder again. The big witches were obedient and did not object. They just told Shade to be careful. After they returned to the checkpoint camp, Shade asked Mr. Gerard Delon seriously:
"When did the problem arise?"
"I can't explain this clearly, but the problem was discovered at noon today. The team from St. Byrons Comprehensive College was searching for the temple of the old god [Misty Lady] in the woods according to the records in ancient books, but they found this place instead of finding the temple.
Two of the three ring warlocks who entered the center of the canyon have died, and the 12-ring professor who led the team has now returned to the elf camp for treatment."
"Don't follow me for a while, I'll just move forward by myself."
The death of plants in the canyon is even more exaggerated than outside. The trees outside have just lost their vitality, while the trees in the canyon seem to have been destroyed by wind and sand for hundreds of years, leaving only bare and incomplete trunks standing in the snow.
You can hear the sound of wind in the canyon, but you can't feel any wind passing by. And the sun in the evening that you can clearly see in the camp just now can no longer be seen after entering the canyon, so the sky becomes
Inexplicably dim yellow.
The church did not place any sentry posts in the canyon. Mr. Gerard Delong also stopped after entering a distance of two hundred meters into the canyon:
"Keep going, we'll be there in about five minutes."
In fact, he didn't need to continue to guide Shade to know where the destination was by perception. The trees in front of him became sparser and sparse. As he continued to move forward, a thin layer of yellow sand gradually appeared on the ground.
Continuing to advance another hundred meters, I looked up and looked ahead. Not far away, I could see a huge black building standing in the center of the canyon. The building was about three stories high, with a high center and low sides. It looked like a complete
Made of light-absorbing material, its black appearance gives people a lot of psychological pressure.
At first glance, the architectural style is that of the mid-to-late fifth era, but from the shape point of view, it looks like some kind of religious building or a castle.
What is unusual about this building is not only that it has no windows, but also that the rectangular door in the middle of the building is extremely huge, and it even seems like the entire building is built around this door. Even though there is still no wind around, but
Shade clearly "saw" the strong wind carrying yellow sand blowing out of the door.
"The church just asked the witches for help. It probably wanted them to see if they could reseal the door."
The two stone doors that were originally supposed to seal the huge doors of the black building were now scattered on the ground, and had been broken into hundreds of pieces of rubble. The ritual patterns that had completely failed could be vaguely seen on the surface of the rubble.
I don’t know who tried to put the two stone doors back together. Although they no longer work, at least the warning left on them still exists:
【No matter what happens, never open this place.】
The inside of the door was completely black, and nothing could be seen from the outside. The hills on both sides of the canyon were only a few hundred meters long, but when Shade came under the door, he felt that the height of the door was much higher than the hills.
itself.
Taking a deep breath, he walked through without hesitation. After entering the building, the oncoming wind and sand made him subconsciously raise his arms to block his eyes, but he soon realized that there was still no wind here.
After taking his arm away, Xia De saw that the interior of the building was still made of the light-absorbing black material. The interior of the building was unusually empty, with not even pillars.
There is a huge open space in front of you. The ground is also made of light-absorbing black masonry. In addition, there are no windows, which results in that there is only a small light source in the center of the building. If you look carefully, there are three-story tall stone in the center of the building.
There was a slanted luminous crack on the platform above the stone steps.
Shade subconsciously wanted to move closer, but he almost tripped over something under his feet. Looking carefully, there were some huge dry tree roots scattered on the ground, and these roots had long been dead like the trees outside.
Lost its vitality.
The closer you got to the center, the denser the roots of the dead trees became, but there were no roots on the high platform. When he actually walked up the ancient stone steps and came to the slender glowing crack, Shade was completely sure of himself.
speculation.
He stretched out his hand to the dim yellow crack:
"The power of doom but why?"
The "past life" has been destroyed. It is a time and space that no longer exists. Except for the special black time key or Shade's words of sublimation, there is absolutely no power at this point in time that can connect to that ruin-like time and space.
.
【So, behind this crack is not the end of the past life.】
"She" said softly, and Xia De was stunned for two seconds before he understood what she meant:
"Behind this crack is the future? Is it the end of this world?"
The doomsday is bound to come. This is something that Shade has known since last year, so what he has to do is to end the doomsday after it arrives. After all, "all things will eventually perish", but a second of "doomsday" and real destruction
There is still a difference. Adele's experience shows that destruction is a process.
But when he really stood in front of the "future", he still couldn't believe it. It wasn't that he didn't believe that the end would definitely come, but that he didn't believe that such a place actually existed:
"So this crack has existed since the fifth era? It was the Witch Emperors who sealed this place? But what role did those tree roots and the ancient one play in it?"
Even he does not dare to go through this rift to the future. He was able to return from the doomsday of the past life because of the "Key of Yggdrasil", but he does not have this privilege in the doomsday of the present world.
No matter what the reason is for the crack in front of you, it must be sealed.
Although the unknown Witch Emperor was unable to deal with the cracks, she built a containment building around the cracks. Now the Witch Emperor's methods failed due to unknown reasons, so it was up to this generation of people to find a way.
Shade's first thought at this time was actually to "plant a tree", which was his Mystery Lock - Tree Kiss, but it was obvious that he was unable to use the Mystery Lock with all his strength now. In fact, the spirit was completely enough, and he wanted to use the "Fairy Tale"
The strongest state of "Mysterious Lock" is still the "Divinity Overflow" state which is better.
But now he has not found divinity, so he cannot solve the problem here.
I turned around and wanted to go to the entrance of the canyon to discuss with everyone again. Maybe the church or the academy could come up with some unknowable relics to deal with the big trouble here.
But when he turned around and prepared to step down the steps, a clear sound appeared behind him. Shade turned around to look, and was surprised to find that the crack was longer than before, and the dim yellow light seeping from the crack was also
More and more "charming".
"It is even more unstable and I can't leave - the stability principle of the ancient elves!"
The black key glowed in his hand and extended toward both ends until it turned into a black staff. Shade held it with both hands and exerted force, directly piercing the bottom of the long staff into the masonry of the platform floor.
As the stone fragments flew, green brilliance spurted upward along the staff, until the long staff turned into a tree trunk, until the gushing green light turned into a green crown.
Under the canopy of the tree, not only did Shade feel that the pressure of facing the doomsday was suddenly reduced, but even the tendency of the crack that seemed to continue to break was slowed down.
He didn't know what would happen if this crack got completely out of control, and he didn't want to know at all.
Since he couldn't leave immediately, Shade found a piece of paper and wrote a letter with his left hand, roughly explaining the situation here. Then he rummaged through his pocket and found the jade stone of the sage-level relic [Star Trace] and turned it into a letter.
He made a long bow, pierced the letter with an arrow, and aimed the arrow.
Fine particles floated out from the letter and the arrow at the same time, and soon they both decayed at the same time. This place is too close to the "doomsday", and ordinary items will end if they are too far away from Shade.
Even the whispering element of the relic was being affected, and it seemed to be losing control. Shade could only be forced to put away the long bow.
"It's really troublesome."
He took out his Rhodes card deck from his pocket and tested it. Under the protection of the name, the Rhodes cards signed with his name could indeed withstand the power of the end of all things. However, Shade didn't want to be in the process of delivering the message.
, let the church see "Shad Suellen Hamilton."
"Speaking of which, have I forgotten something recently?"
Even in such an environment, "her" laughter is still light:
[Yes, you have not carried out your thaumaturgic experiments since Wednesday.]
The so-called "thaumaturgy experiment" refers to using the stranger's real name in his hometown instead of the name in this world to try to "treasure the thing" again. He originally planned to do this on Wednesday night, but he sailed to the other side on Wednesday night.
The dragon beast spent too much of his energy going into death;
So the matter was pushed to Thursday, but Megan and Audrey arrived on Thursday, and the two sisters, along with Carina, spent a wonderful night with Shad;
Friday was the end of the month, and Shade was preoccupied with seeing Adele in the evening, and if he was lucky, he might even be able to see the long-haired Luvia, so the matter was postponed again;
On Saturday, it was not because I delayed the matter by going to the "Time Transfer Station" at night, but because the matter was delayed for too long and I really forgot about it, so it has not been able to be carried out on Sunday.
"Just try it here."
Miss Metz, who had turned into an angel, told everyone all the steps of the ritual and the recipe for the potion. In fact, although Shade did not conduct thaumaturgy experiments, he had entrusted Grandma Cassandra to help prepare the potion.
As for the "wolf hair pen" provided by Miss Wilder at that time, it is not the key. That special pen is just to enhance the effect of writing names with special ink. Shade can replace it with an ordinary brush - referring to the unicorn brush. This is summer
Emilia gave it to him as a thank you for living in the Shade family.