Fang Zhuchen pushed the stones on the edge of the cliff with his feet. The alchemist's thick boots were pushing forward like an unstoppable chariot, causing the tiny sand and gravel to roll down the sloping surface of the street, making a tiny sound in the darkness.

He gently patted his gloves and turned around. In the distance of his eyes, the middle-level areas of the ruins were twisted and cracked streets. The inclination in some places reached an exaggerated angle of more than 60 degrees, just like a wall standing. The stone foundations of the streets could not bear the weight of the city itself, and thus collapsed, showing a sharp angle of interlacing and fragmented scene.

The ancient city fell into the valley like a meteorite, with a certain oblique angle as a whole. The raised part became the uppermost layer of the ruins. It was the temple area of ​​the Sun Age, where the snake people's nobles lived, sacrifices and rulers of the city.

It is conceivable that those nobles with scales once wore gorgeous clothes and used elegant and ancient languages, walked on broad and neat streets, talked to each other, held sacrifices, and offered gifts to the saints, but now everything has turned into dust.

Only the silent palace is left, echoing the vastness of thousands of years.

The temple area is full of temples, most likely to contain the heritage of the Cinsas era. There are tall temples of the sun. The snake man built a shining spire on the top of the ancient city. The crystal horn at the top of it should be the crystal tiles at its top.

Fang Zhu has never seen a glowing obelisk, but it may be related to the owner of this place - the Sun God Tower - Aka. Some people say that it is the previous life of Ouli, the god of light. This statement has not been certified by the Holy Lord of Light, but scholars have indeed found a lot of evidence from history.

The minarets may all represent a holy lord, and here is the stele of the tower-Akar. However, Fang Zhu did not study much about it. He glanced at the underground of Fenris for a quick glance and then no longer appeared. Silvede also showed him the text of another minaret, but the words on it were not recognized at all.

Even Jita couldn't recognize it.

The upper temple area is the most complete, so Fang Yu left it to Tianlan and his group, and let his shipkeeper stay there, out of a little selfishness - because it is obviously safer there.

However, it is not entirely for this consideration. Silweid now has mastered the blessing of earth elements, and has a different perception of the earth and the environment, and is more suitable to guide the way in the complex temple area.

Fang Zhu did not expect Rodrigo Deanris's secret treasure to be in the upper area, which was too conspicuous. The dazzling obelisk was enough to attract the attention of all pretenders. The pirate king should not have set his secret treasure house so conspicuously.

The middle-level area is a civilian area. The civilians in the Snake Man era are very different from those in the present. To be precise, they are free people who have the obligation to war and tax. They are like the "tokien" among the Lizard Man clan. Only good families have the power to make merits and win merits in war.

In addition, there were more slaves and untouchables, most of them were salamanders, ancient elves, and snake people prisoners of war from other countries. However, those people could not live in the city, and their residences were likely not in this ruins.

The crisscrossing streets and dense and low houses are symbols of civilian areas. Those fragmented streets look the same, with a large area, and there is little possibility of hiding valuable things, but the pirate king's treasure house should be quite conspicuous in this area.

Fang Zhu handed over to Luo Hao and his group, and Cui Xisi and Jita were responsible for searching the open area very quickly.

Finally, the lower area.

Fang Yu looked at the black area, which was the first place where the ancient city fell. A bottomless pit was smashed into the underground cavity, filled with boundless black mist, like a vast ocean, with only a few buildings floating on the sea.

He could feel the cold breath just by standing on this edge, which made him stand upright.

The ring of golden flames is very sensitive to the aura of darkness, and the blue light in his body seems to be unable to hold back, warning waves. If possible, Fang Yu would rather stop here and not take another step.

The maid stood there silently, looked for a while before asking, "What is the place below?"

"No one knows," Audice replied, "People think that the saints of the Sun and the empire of the Snake Man died together, but the dead gods are not really dead. The will of the powerful beings of decay will linger on the sea of ​​light. If they cannot return, they will be swallowed up for nothingness..."

"They protected the kingdoms of Cinsas during their lifetime, and their will naturally linger in them after their death. No one said that there is anything under this, perhaps a kingdom to be returned to the dead, but that's fine, it's just a dead land, and what's really terrible is decline."

"Dead Domain?"

"In our words, it is a dead silent area," Fang Yu said: "The starlight cannot be used here, but it is not harmful to ordinary people. Death here will cause the starlight to decline, because the body cannot return and become an undead existence. It is manifested in the aborigines that death will consume more starlight, but if the candidate is the one who chooses—"

Xiesta looked back at him: "What will you do?"

"This is the blind spot of the Star Gate," a figure appeared, and Miya appeared beside the two of them--stricken silver ears shook, and stared at the bottom, "If you die in this place, you will be sent back to another world."

The maid looked at the wolf girl, but thought for a while and didn't speak again.

Silweid asked her to come here naturally to protect someone, but she knew very well how strong the woman in front of her was, and there was no need to interrupt herself in some things.

Miya looked at Fangluodao and said no to refuse: "This is too dangerous below, I will accompany you next."

"Miss Miya," Fang Yu sighed. His original intention was to let Miya stay on the ship, because someone in the empire might recognize her identity - but he received a message from Mayi not long ago, telling him that the lady had already got off the ship.

Perhaps Miya has been following them since the beginning, but she has not encountered any danger before, so she has never appeared.

Fang Yu looked at Audice, and he believed that this goddess would not even have the ability to protect herself and Xie Sita. But the wolf girl also looked at the goddess, her eyes full of distrust, and the meaning in her eyes was also very obvious-

She was worried.

"Okay," Fang Yu realized that it didn't make much sense to reason with the other party-just as at Dawn Star, "You can join us, Miss Miya."

The wolf girl nodded. She obviously didn't care who dominated.

"What is decay again?"

Xie Sita asked again.

Silweid asked her to protect Fang Zhu, so no matter who is around her, she must understand what she is going to face.

"That is a concept that is more advanced than the deadly quiet zone," Miya said actively, but she thought for a moment, but couldn't find any words to explain it. "It is a country that is different from the laws of the world we live in. It is usually not in the main material world, but an area between the material world and the gray world."

Odice calmly explained: "The junction of life and death."

"Initially, our world does not have the concept of death. All life flows in the starry light, back and forth, forming a cycle. But because death itself is too pure, when the first god only returns to death - perhaps because of the war between God only and God only, or because the starry light itself will decline..."

"In short, when the first death comes, the concept of death appears in this world and is fixed as a law."

"In the following time, more and more deaths were born, and even the starlight itself would be dim. In the long time, all the decayed objects and the concept of death in this world constituted a realm, the kingdom of the dead."

"Under that sea of ​​light, the dead water and dead ice form a shell, and the area under the shell will never see the sun - because the sun is dead in this world - that is, the gray world, above the shell is the place where the elements are declining, a sea of ​​dead silentness lies across."

"Absolute Sea," Fang Yu took over the conversation, "Return to the rivers of the dead, the end of all floating continents, the history and glorious lands of civilization are all sunk into it, life will decline, and the starlight will naturally be lost in it."

Fang Zhu took out the rope, used a rocket flying fist to nail the iron nails into the ground, then put on the rigging, and threw the rope ring down. The rope was nearly a hundred feet long and sank into the darkness.

He stood up and looked down at the same time, and then made an example:

“It seems like it is…”

"Just as time is declining, people will briefly walk their lives, from birth to aging," Miya finally found the accurate description, "Only the stone slabs of the ancient sea can last forever, and everything else will turn into dust. If the law below is broken and truly connected to the sea of ​​abyss..."

"Then you really have to be careful."

"It's okay, I will protect you," Odais looked at Fang Yu's actions and reached out to hold his hand. "I can't use this." She said, while her other hand reached towards Xie Sita.

The maid showed some discomfort, but she did not object.

Miya on the other side looked at this scene and understood it and reached out to hold it in Fang Zhu's hand. At this time, a light appeared from the goddess. The next moment, the three of them appeared in the black fog.

The teleportation made Fang Zhu a little dizzy.

But in that moment he still noticed something, and couldn't help but look back at Miya on the side, facing the silver eyes. The latter nodded to him with some clarity, and a trace of thought flashed in his eyes.

The two of them looked at Audice again. The goddess in the warrior dress had already withdrawn her hand and was looking at everything in the black fog. As she said, her expression seemed a little strange, and it was obviously the first time she had come to this place.

Fang Zhu looked back, the cliff that he was descending was about a hundred meters. The rope hanging from it could be used as a retreat, which was not harmful.

The maid on the side had put on her arm armor and made the crystals above emit a soft light - she raised the crystals, but the light shone into the black fog, as if it had hit a thick wall, but it had dispersed the fog for about ten feet and then it was no longer in a mist.

Fang Zhu took out a clockwork fairy and threw it forward. The shell of the structure reflected the faint light of crystal, and the surface emitted a golden luster, but the light quickly dimmed, as if it had grown into green rust. The hinge that drove the membrane wings was no longer smooth, making a crackling sound, disintegrating in the air, falling down one end.

Fang Zhu took a breath of air conditioning.

"When we were in the Second World, we had explored under the sea more than once," Miya looked at the scene and said, "It was also connected to the declining kingdom. Magic weapons and combat equipment were covered with a layer of dust, unable to use, and even eroded and damaged."

"The combat professions who rely on magic furnaces are no different from ordinary people. Every time, the major guilds have spent a lot of money to retrieve some valuable things, stone slabs, or something from the sea of ​​abyss." She looked at the misty world, as if she remembered her past experiences. "The whole world is shrouded under a thick layer of dust, so it is called the gray world by people, but the sea of ​​abyss is just a corner of the gray world."

"This place is indeed very similar to the depths of the abyss, but going deeper from the elemental layer into the abyss is a gradual process. The further down, the more the world of decay becomes, the more silent it becomes," Miya said again: "But the boundary between life and death here is so clear, and this layer of mist is like a clear boundary between the two worlds. Even I have never seen such a scene."

But Fang Yu remembered something and realized something: "...Wait, that may not be the real fog, but the dead star light, and the decayed elements and ether form a vacuum area here."

As soon as he stopped, he suddenly reacted-

Since the starlight of the summoners does not come from themselves, but is connected to the star gate, they naturally cannot contact the star gate in the deadly area of ​​the starlight.

This is the origin of the Dead Silent Zone. All the equipment of mortals is driven by magic, and the starlight is the lowest element that constitutes the ether and the element. Without starlight, everything will naturally be lost.

When he first encountered the deadly silence area in the elves ruins, he still lacked the understanding of the essence of ether and starlight. More importantly, he had never really seen what the starlight of death looked like, so he could not recognize the essence of the deadly silence area.

only……

Why does the starlight here erode the magic device itself?

Fang Zhu suddenly thought of the dark crystal, and the encounter with their world described by the shadow man.

The empty star light will instinctively devour the existence of the world, like a black hole with unsatisfactory desires. Even if the shadows finally realize the arrival of disaster, a large number of holes will still swallow their world up.

So the starlight here... is actually more similar to a certain void...

But how could there be so many exhausted starlight among the ruins of the Cinsas era? They stacked together to form a cold world filled with starlight of death. No wonder such a place is called the junction of life and death.

This is not death in the general sense, but conceptual nirvana.

On the other hand, here is connected to the Abyss Sea. Is there a wider, dead world under the Abyss Sea?

But the existence of the Abyss Sea is even older than the Snake Man Empire itself. Before the First and Second Stars of Disaster, who caused these dead starlight? Before the Shadow Man's World fell, there was already a dead silent world?

But why didn’t the Abyss Sea swallow up the entire country above the sea of ​​clouds?

Fang Yu was full of doubts, but Audice's voice pulled him back to the real world, "Be careful of the fog, they will make all the material in this world decay, even the world itself, only in my field can protect you from safety."

She said specifically to the other party: "I can let your clockwork goblins fly out of this realm and last for a while, but it's only less than a quarter of an hour. If you don't want to lose them, you have to let them return to my realm before that."

Fang Zhu nodded.

He could feel the invisible "country" beside the goddess Audice, slowly moving forward with her pace. It was actually full of starlight, and the infinite power of ether that surging out even suppressed the death and nirvana around him for a moment.

It is almost thought that they can fill the void in the black fog.

"That's just an illusion," said Audice, "My power is not enough to fill the void here, and rekindle the dead starlight. A dead god has only created this area, and its former power is far more than me."

"So," she reminded seriously, "there is not much time left for you. You must find the treasure house of Rodrigo before its power is exhausted."

Fang Yu was not that pessimistic and shook his head and said, "The treasure house of the pirate king may not be here. We can also go back and reorganize it. Maybe good news will come from Luo Hao and the others, but they are prepared for any trouble."

But Audice shook her head and did not answer.
To be continued...