Chapter 416 The truth? A historical gap to be filled?
"Do you know about the ruins mercenaries?"
Ryota Miyagi looked at Li Guanqi and said with a chuckle.
"Relic mercenary?"
Li Guanqi was startled.
This is a proper noun.
Ancient scholars like to explore ancient ruins, but their strength may not support them to explore a certain ruins.
Just like the ancient scholar named "You Hao" Li Guanqi met in southern Xinjiang a long time ago, he almost lost his life inside.
In this case, ancient scholars would hire mercenaries to help.
Due to the special nature of ancient ruins, some mercenaries have done this kind of work a lot, and have some experience in the dangers of the ruins. If the praise rate is high, then they will also gain a little fame in the circle of ancient scholars. Many ancient mercenaries
When scholars have trouble, they will come to them.
Over time, these people became known as ruin mercenaries.
"so……"
Li Guanqi looked at Ryota Miyagi up and down and was a little surprised, "After you left the shogunate palace, you became a relic mercenary? This is not very common. The Miyagi family is not a small family anymore. As a descendant of a noble family,
There are very few people who are mercenaries."
"I like this life."
Miyagi Ryota smiled, "Relic mercenaries can run around and enjoy different scenery. This is much more enjoyable than the roads arranged for me by the family. I can walk around and see the ancient ruins.
Those incredible things are what we call life."
"So your employment information is to find a Five Elements-level companion to explore the ruins together?"
Li Guanqi asked.
"That's pretty much it."
Miyagi Ryota nodded, "I accepted a commission for a ruins, but it was not to explore the ruins. The ruins have already been explored. It's just that my employer dropped a piece of his late wife's jade pendant when he explored the ruins last time.
, it’s very commemorative, so I hired me to go in and find the jade pendant.”
"It's just a little dangerous there?"
Li Guanqi said softly: "So, you want to find another Five Elements-level companion and go to the ruins for a safer trip."
"Yes, are you interested?"
Miyagi Ryota smiled.
At the same time, he glanced at Sophia vaguely.
He can't see the cultivation level.
Under what circumstances can one not see his cultivation level?
The opponent is either a conjurer, or... his martial arts cultivation level is one level higher than his, Liuhe?
"Relics mercenary, do you know many ancient scholars?"
Li Guanqi did not answer Ryota Miyagi's invitation and asked this question instead.
"certainly."
Miyagi Ryota poured himself another cup of tea and drank it slowly. "You are asking this question. I am a ruins mercenary. How could I not know my employer? There are very few people in this large shogunate who I, Miyagi Ryota, do not recognize."
ancient scholars.”
"Do you know Alton?"
Li Guanqi then asked.
"That five-element-level sheep-headed man?"
Miyagi Ryota nodded, "Of course I know him, and I have taken several orders from that old sheep. That old sheep is very generous with his actions, but his temper is really bad. If it wasn't for the sake of money,
, I have already blacklisted him."
"I want to know his whereabouts."
Li Guanqi quickly asked.
"It's in the mountain next door."
Hearing this, Ryota Miyagi couldn't help but smile, "That old guy Alton lives in nearby Nagano Mountain. It's halfway up the mountain. It's easy to find. Basically, you can just fly into the air.
You can see a group of blue houses, that is Alton’s residence.”
"Right next door?"
Li Guanqi was stunned, "What a coincidence."
"Do you have anything to do with him?"
Miyagi Ryota asked with a smile: "I have nothing to do, and I am not in a hurry with the new order. Since you are Yan Qing's friend, I will lead the way."
"Thank you very much!"
Li Guanqi was immediately overjoyed, stood up and saluted him.
"You're welcome, let's go."
Miyagi Ryota also stood up and walked towards the door.
…
…
An hour later.
Sakura Shogunate, North Ridge, Nagano Mountain.
"Owner!"
Li Guanqi was surrounded by strong winds, and together with Sofia beside him, he followed closely behind Ryota Miyagi who was running at full speed. But just after approaching the mountain range, Xiaoxue's soft and waxy voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
"What's wrong?"
Li Guanqi replied in his mind without stopping.
"I felt a breath... It wasn't the breath of the unsealed object, it was the breath of the 'temple'!"
Xiaoxue's voice seemed a little anxious and a little excited.
"What temple?"
Li Guanqi was a little surprised.
"The Temple of the Ice God!"
Xiaoxue said excitedly: "Just like the temple where you got the Qingxuan artifact in Fenling Mountain, each god has his own temple. I feel the atmosphere of the Ice Temple!"
"You mean, the Ice God's temple is nearby?"
Li Guanqi was shocked.
"Well... not really."
Xiaoxue hesitated slightly, and then said seriously: "This breath seems to be some kind of item from the temple, but no matter what, it is a clue to the temple. Master, find it!"
"good."
Li Guanqi responded: "So what is the specific function of the temple?"
“Unblock!“
Xiaoxue became excited again when she mentioned this, "If I can return to the temple, and if the power of the temple has not completely disappeared, then I don't need to unblock the items at all. With the artifact altar inside the temple, I can directly borrow it from you, the master."
,Remove the seal!"
"Lend me my hand?"
Li Guanqi was a little surprised, "What does this mean?"
"You need to control the altar to help me unblock it."
Xiaoxue's voice couldn't conceal her joy, "Master, the power of the altar you can mobilize depends on the power you can bear. Now you can at least withstand the power of Liuhe level, and you can help me unblock it to the sixth level!"
"Unlocking the sixth floor?"
When Li Guanqi heard this, he couldn't help but feel as happy as Xiaoxue.
The current state of the snow gun is to unlock the fourth level, just like the fourth level magic weapon.
If it hadn't increased its ice attribute power, Li Guanqi would hardly be able to use the snow gun nowadays.
But what if you click the snow gun to unlock the sixth floor?
That is comparable to a sixth-level magic weapon!
This level can fully match his power in actual battles, and after unlocking the sixth level, the increase in ice attribute power of the snow gun will become even more powerful!
After Xiaoxue approached Mount Nagano, she felt the aura coming from the Ice Temple.
So where is the source of this breath?
The answer requires almost no guessing.
Alton, the five-element level sheep-headed ancient master, lives in this mountain.
These ancient scholars most like to collect ancient relics. This ancient collection of sheep-headed people must be the source of this aura.
"Did you see those blue wooden houses?"
Suddenly, Miyagi Ryota in front slowed down and stopped.
Li Guanqi and Sophia immediately stopped and looked up.
On the hillside a hundred meters away, several green houses of different sizes stood in the lush forest. They were almost connected with the surrounding green trees and could not be distinguished from each other.
"Ryota, why are you here when you have time? I don't have any entrustments for you, a brat like me."
An old voice came from one of the houses.
"Someone is looking for you!"
Miyagi Ryota smiled, looked back at Li Guanqi, and motioned to follow him.
Li Guanqi and Sophia looked at each other and followed closely.
The three of them formed a row and soon walked around the blue house.
"We have guests coming."
"We have guests! We have guests!"
"Will the guests treat us to something delicious?"
"I don't know."
At this time, four white little sheep-headed men were playing in a garden. When they saw Li Guanqi and the others coming, they immediately stopped what they were doing, blinked their big green eyes, and looked at the three of them curiously.
These four little sheep-headed men are real sheep-headed men.
Their heads are completely pure goat heads, starting from the neck down, they are in human form.
However, the hands and feet are not hooves, but human hands and feet.
And their eyes are also very interesting.
The goat's pupils are neither the round pupils of humans nor the vertical pupils of lion-headed men, but are horizontal, and the pupils are like a green rectangle.
"I have always felt that this is the only way to be called a real orc."
Li Guanqi looked at them and whispered in Sophia's ear.
"Why? They are the lowest goatman clan."
Sophia scratched her head and said in surprise: "The more beast-like it is, the lower the purity of the king's blood in the body. Their goat heads are too pure. I guess they should be Seymour of the goat tribe, or Alakikon or Mulatosi."
Clan."
Li Guanqi couldn't help but be curious after hearing this.
Almost all orcs are like this.
The higher the concentration of the king's blood, the more similar they are to humans and the more noble they are. For example, if the fishmen have upper bodies that resemble human beauties, it means the higher the purity of the king's blood in their bodies.
The same is true for the lion-headed people. When Sophia doesn't turn on the beast transformation, she only has lion eyes, lion ears and lion tail.
Li Guanqi has always found this pattern strange.
Orcs, shouldn't the more beast-like they are, the higher the purity of their royal blood?
Why is the reality that the more human-like the orcs are, the higher the purity of their royal blood?
This is really strange if you regard orcs as beasts.
But if you think of orcs as humans of different blood, the more human-like they are, the greater their control over their own different blood, and everything seems to make sense.
After obtaining Shunkong a while ago, Li Guanqi also obtained a complete truth about the origin of the orcs from this ancient artifact.
The bestiality hypothesis.
Hypothesis of severely mutated heterogeneous humans.
At present, the two largest theories about the origin of orcs in the New Age are both...
Correct.
The truth is that in the early days of the end of the world, humankind's research on the alien blood cultivation system was still in the fumbling stage, and many people practiced wrongly and took the wrong path.
They used a body-refining method with great side effects, which resulted in the body being severely mutated during the Sancai-level body-refining stage. Some monster characteristics appeared on the body, making it impossible to return to a complete human form.
This is the ancestor of the orcs.
But in fact, after the magician system gradually took shape, many old-age beast magicians frantically began to crossbreed humans and demon species, and eventually created some artificial orcs that could reproduce offspring.
The descendants of these two types of people are the subhuman races of the New Age.
"Squeak——"
"This blonde lady seems to know us goat people very well."
Next to it, the door of a blue house slowly opened, and an old goat man in black dress walked out of it, looking at Sophia with a smile.
"Yes, we are the Goatmen of the Seymour clan. My name is Alton Seymour. Nice to meet you."
He also wears a pair of purple glasses on his face, which exudes spiritual energy. It should be some kind of special magic weapon.
"Long time no see, old sheep."
Ryota Miyagi grinned and stepped forward to give the goat man a bear hug, but received a look of disgust from him.
"bite!"
"The mission [Old History and Reality] has been completed."
"Task reward: a colorful pill."
"Reward introduction: Crush the colorful pills in front of Alton, and the ancient master will tell you all his knowledge of ancient history, including theoretical proofs and his personal guesses."
"..."
Li Guanqi subconsciously rummaged through the space necklace.
Sure enough, there was an extra colorful pill.
Then he looked around and frowned slightly.
This reward is actually not that important. What is important is, can he find the simulator's charging items here?
"Hello, Master Alton."
Li Guanqi put this idea aside for the time being, took a few steps forward, came to the old goat man, and said seriously: "I asked Mr. Miyagi to bring me to you. My name is Takeshi Kaneshiro."
"Hello."
Alton glanced at him, then at Sophia, and nodded slightly.
At the same time, the old goat man's mood became a little heavy.
You can't even see the cultivation level.
There was no response from the spirit detecting magic weapon, and he himself could not feel the martial arts cultivation of these two people...
"They're cute."
Li Guanqi looked at the four little goatmen in the garden, "Master Alton, are they all your descendants?"
"Great-grandson."
Alton smiled and said, "Today is an outing day. Everyone else has gone to the lake on the back of Nagano Mountain. Now, except for the old man like me, there are only four little guys left at home who like to stay at home."
"Oh, Master, I have something to ask you. Shall we go into the room and talk?"
Li Guanqi withdrew his gaze and pointed to the cyan house next to him.
"..."
Alton's eyes narrowed, he pushed up the magical glasses on his face, and then glanced at Ryota Miyagi who was standing on the other side.
"Hey, Jincheng."
At this time, Miyagi Ryota, who was belatedly aware of it, finally realized what he was doing. He quickly walked between Li Guanqi and Alton, "I think you are a friend of Yan Qing's and I brought you here. You agreed on the way that I just came to see you."
Lao Yang asked some questions, please don't mess with me, you're not here to seek revenge, are you?"
"Why do you think of this?"
Li Guanqi was very surprised and walked straight to the blue wooden house with the door still open. "I just asked some questions. I didn't want to be disturbed by the noisy children, so I just wanted to come in and chat. It's that simple."
"Haha, Mr. Jincheng is joking."
Alton chuckled, followed his footsteps, and walked back into the blue wooden house.
Li Guanqi, on the other hand, looked around and kept sizing up this wooden house.
This room should be Alton's studio. The table is filled with various documents and piles of yellowed papers.
There are all kinds of strange objects hanging on the walls, some of which resemble technological instruments.
"Master, that thing with the aura of the Ice Temple is in the next room."
Xiaoxue suddenly made a sound.
"I know, things come step by step."
Li Guanqi turned around and looked at the old goat man, "Master, I have something I want to ask you to see."
With that said, he took out a colorful pill from the space necklace.
"Bang!"
As soon as Li Guanqi finished speaking, the colorful pill was crushed by him, turned into a burst of colorful mist, and blended into Alton's body.
"Depend on!"
Miyagi Ryota outside the house was shocked when he saw this, and rushed in quickly, "What the hell is that mist? You..."
"Now! Let you see the old history in the eyes of me, Alton Seymour!"
Before Ryota Miyagi could finish what he said, the old goat man suddenly became extremely excited, running back and forth in the room, constantly pulling out heavy books one after another from the walls, tables, and drawers.
Stack after stack of paper.
The whole person looked like he had taken stimulants.
"Jincheng!"
Miyagi Ryota looked at Li Guanqi, his eyes full of anger, "What on earth did you do?!"
"Don't get excited, it's not poison."
As Li Guanqi explained, he was a little surprised when he saw Alton, who was very excited and wandering around the room taking out books and papers.
The rewards for this mission were so great that the old goat immediately started to look up information from books and was about to start a history class?
"Bang!"
Suddenly, Alton looked crazy with his sheepish face, holding a pile of books, and slapped the table hard, making both Li Guanqi and Ryota Miyagi tremble in fright.
“Many people don’t believe my research!”
Alton opened several books in a row, opened his mouth, and yelled at Li Guanqi and Miyagi Ryota: "They think that my theory of ancient history is complete speculation, but they don't understand! They don't understand at all.
Understand! My speculations are all based on theory! If you don’t believe me, look here! Look!”
"Forehead……"
"Damn, old sheep, your mouth really stinks..."
Li Guanqi and Miyagi Ryota raised their right hands in unison and wiped the spittle the old goat sprayed on their faces.
Sophia was spared because she stayed far away.
"In my opinion!"
Alton held a pile of books and shouted at the three of them: "History in the old era is divided into five stages!
The first stage: the mortal era!
Human beings in this era did not have the power of strange blood or spells. Everyone was completely mortal. They only possessed some very special technological means and could create big birds that flew in the sky. They were called by the humans of that era.
It's airplanes, cannons, missiles...etc.!
The second stage: the doomsday era!
In this era, the power of alien blood came to the world. Many creatures, including humans, turned into monsters. However, the surviving humans and other creatures became alien warriors and spellcasters and began to rebuild civilization!
Our sub-race also appeared in this era!
The third stage: the age of gods!
In this era, human beings have completely completed the establishment of a cultivation system from one yuan level to nine palace levels, and some people have become god-level creatures!
The end of the age of gods was due to a powerful enemy. The gods sealed that powerful enemy at the cost of all deaths.
According to the numerous information I have obtained, this existence is called ‘Pluto’!
The age of gods ended with the death of the gods and the sealing of Hades.
but……
Pluto, was not trapped forever.
This is the next fourth stage.
The fourth Old Epoch stage: the era of human emperors!
After the end of the age of gods, after an unknown number of years, Pluto successfully broke the seals of the gods and returned to the world!
But at this time, a 'Human Emperor' also happened to appear among humans. He was the first god to appear after the end of the age of gods, and he was the strongest god!
Because what the gods failed to do, he did!
The Human Emperor, by his own strength, died together with Pluto, completely killed Pluto, and accomplished something that all the gods combined could not do!
Hades died.
The Human Emperor dies.
The Age of the Human Emperor came to an end with the death of these two last gods.
The Fifth Old Age Stage: The Godless Era!
This period was the era of the Jiugong-level powerhouses, and ultimately the dispute led to the start of the World War.
The war between gods did not affect other people, but this godless world war swept the whole world.
Human civilization was also destroyed as a result.
The end of the godless era is also the end of the old era.
Finally, people ushered in the New Era... So far, the New Era has been 4871 years."
At the end of the story, Alton's mood seemed to gradually stabilize. He stroked a few books in his hands and spoke in a low voice.
"..."
When Ryota Miyagi heard this, he was completely confused.
Li Guanqi was also a little stunned.
"Grass?!"
Shunkong's shocked voice also sounded in his mind: "After I fell asleep, such wonderful things happened in the world?! If I had known, I wouldn't have slept! What on earth did I miss!
After the gods fell, a human emperor appeared in the world who killed Pluto?
Why is he so fierce?!
What the gods couldn't do together, he did it on his own?!
How the hell is this possible!!!
Um, but the Human Emperor and Pluto died together, which is a good thing. There is no need to worry about Pluto's troubles at all.
Wait, that's not right...
Master, you have to figure out whether what this old goat man said is true or false?!"