[Chapter 220 Ancient Relics of the Dark Elves]
The Dark Elves and their siblings did indeed only bring some personal equipment. In addition to a pair of double blades, they each carried a bag and some ornaments on their bodies.
“It’s very cold where we’re going. Are you really okay like this?” Steve looked at the way the brother and sister were dressed and felt that they didn’t look like they were going to the cold region in the far north, but more like they were going to the sunny seaside to enjoy the sun and the beach.
“It doesn’t matter. These equipment are specially used to resist the severe cold.” Cecil pointed to the small ornaments he was wearing. These ornaments that seemed to be purely for decoration and to make their own outfits more gorgeous were actually the most commonly used warm-keeping items for the Dark Elves.
“It looks good, beautiful and convenient.” After Steve knew that his worries were completely unnecessary, he didn’t say much to the brother and sister. He and the two historians didn’t have many common topics.
In comparison, he was chatting more with David.
“You want to join this time specifically, actually you want to talk to me about something, right?”
“No, I want to come out and relax, and talking about things is just a side job.”
“It seems that the courses in Kamar-Taj give you a headache!”
Kamar-Taj’s wizard courses are numerous and diverse. If you want to become a Supreme Sorcerer, you must first be a top student!
In the countless parallel universes of Marvel, there is a world line where Steve becomes the Supreme Sorcerer, but the way he becomes the Supreme Sorcerer is a bit special.
In comparison, Tony Stark can become the Supreme Sorcerer by studying hard.
However, Steve has no idea of giving up. Anyway, he already knows that the key factor for Ancient One to choose him to become the Supreme Sorcerer is the Holy Light.
He only needs to master some of the abilities and knowledge that the Supreme Sorcerer must master, and then in the position of the Supreme Sorcerer, after promoting the Holy Light to the entire Kamar-Taj, he can retire! After
that, either catch Tony to take the blame; or guide Stephen Strange to become the Supreme Sorcerer according to the original historical line; or… let Wanda Maximoff, who is currently in the Hydra Special Operations Team, take over.
These people are all good choices. Even if they have problems of one kind or another, there is still a king at the bottom.
Steve, who has already arranged his future and retreat clearly, does not have that much pressure in Kamar-Taj.
In comparison, Hydra has more headaches for him.
He has “rescued” Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, and even cured Bucky’s “schizophrenia” by consulting the Ancient One.
At present, Bucky just doesn’t have a suitable opportunity to clean up his name, so he can only continue to be “undercover” in Hydra with him.
How to clean up Bucky? Bucky’s mission also includes the matter of Tony’s parents, and Steve has not figured out what to do?
In addition, most of the members of Hydra are ambitious, and it is not easy to persuade them to betray their original beliefs or leaders and turn to their own men with a few dry words of justice and evil. No
matter how great Steve’s personal charm is, he has to meet the basic demands of these people before he can “poach” them.
“I’m thinking about arranging Rumlow to Winter Town…”
“…” David looked at Steve, waiting for the next words.
“Rumlow is very ambitious. He will not be satisfied with the work of maintaining world peace. It seems that he can realize his dream more easily here.”
“You said that as if I am an evil villain who wants to rule the world.”
“That’s what you said, I didn’t say it.”
“…”
Ignoring Steve’s joke, David thought that there was nothing wrong with just considering Rumlow.
Crossbones Brock Rumlow is a talent. As for ambition, he doesn’t want to replace the leader. That ambition is not a problem for David at all, and may even help David.
“If you can convince Rumlow to come, I am willing to accept him!”
“That’s absolutely no problem.” Steve’s identity on the surface also includes the frontline operations commander of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the special forces team that Rumlow is in charge of often obey Steve’s command to carry out various tasks.
Later, after Steve became Hydra, Rumlow was also Steve’s direct subordinate, and the relationship between the two sides was very “good”!
Because he is familiar with and understands them well enough, Steve wants Rumlow to come to Winter Town – to find a more meaningful goal for these Hydras, without wasting their abilities and talents, and at the same time further digging out the corners of Hydra.
When Rumlow and his people find new survival value in Winter Town, will they still be willing to work for Hydra?
Especially after seeing how “broad” the world is in Winter Town and how many “powerful” beings there are outside, they know that Hydra’s plan is impossible to succeed.
At that time, they will firmly maintain their existing interests and will no longer obey the orders of the original Hydra leader. Next, Steve will directly overthrow Hydra and become the only snake head.
Or he will clean up in secret and make Hydra completely a thing of the past, and turn it into smoke without anyone knowing. That’s up to him.
The two talked for a while, and after deciding the future of Hydra, the Quinjet also arrived at the target area.
Cecil was searching for the corresponding location based on the information in his mind, and finally guided Tony, who was driving the fighter, to land near the target location.
A group of people got off the Quinjet and carefully observed the surroundings.
Klausa, Sylvanas, and Laura had already held their bows in their hands, Steve also took out his shield from the storage space, and Tony even put on his steel armor. However,
after looking around, they felt that their caution seemed unnecessary. It didn’t look like there were any dangerous creatures here. There
was no vegetation around, and a few trees were sparsely located in the south. This should be the northernmost part of the Winter Forest.
They were at the foot of the Pillar of the World at this time. There was no flat road to go forward. To the west was still the vast Winter River. The water flow of this river was very amazing. Even the location near the source was so wide. Perhaps the water source was not just the snow melted from the mountains.
“What should we do next?”
Everyone looked at the dark elf Cecil. After observing back and forth several times, Cecil finally pointed out a direction: continue to move forward to the Pillar of the World!
“Mountain climbing?”
“No!” Cecil shook his head and denied Tony’s guess: “According to the information I found, the dark elves used to prefer to build some important buildings underground, in caves and other places.”
So, what they are looking for is a cave.
Continuing forward, Tony Stark used the Iron Armor to fly in the air to search, and soon found a cave.
This cave is not hidden at all, and it is not far from the Winter River. After a group of people came here, they saw the obvious traces of artificial modification at the entrance of the cave, and the collapsed stone pillars and stone tablets next to it, which were severely damaged but barely visible with dark elf-style patterns. After that, they knew they had found the right place.
“Ha, much simpler than expected.”
Things went so smoothly that Tony opened his venomous tongue again: “Such obvious ruins, could it have been discovered long ago? Did you brothers and sisters come a little late?” “
…”
Cecil also had this idea, but he did not find detailed information about these in the Eternal Night Empire. Even the information that could guide him to find this place was pieced together and speculated by him by combining multiple records.
“It should not have been discovered.”
He firmly believed that this was still an undiscovered ruin, probably because the Eternal Night Empire was too far away!
As for why humans didn’t find this place… He already knew that Winter Town was the most border area of the Dilan Kingdom. It was too cold and barren here, and humans would not live in such a place.
Everyone didn’t stay at the entrance of the cave for too long. No matter what the situation was, they had already reached the door. How could they stop there?
No one present was a person who retreated at the last minute. David even spread his hands and condensed a ball of holy light, letting it float above his head as a lighting device.
Everyone who had just taken out the lighting equipment stopped their actions one after another.
Only Cecil and Enid looked at David, the Lord of Winter Town, in surprise.
Before this, the brother and sister thought that the Lord of Winter Town was just a ruler and manager, so when they came to explore this time, they were accompanied by “so many guards”.
When David released the holy light, they realized that the Lord was actually a spellcaster with mysterious power.
But he didn’t think too much. He had found the ruins, and he was eager to know what information was stored here?
Continue to go deeper into the interior, through a corridor that was not particularly long, looked a little old and dilapidated, but was intact overall, and came to a hall.
In order to be able to see the situation in the hall more clearly, David made the holy light above his head brighter and rose to a higher position, as if installing a chandelier for this empty hall.
With David’s actions, everyone also saw the situation in the hall clearly: except for a small stone platform in the middle, there was nothing around.
“That’s it?” Tony looked around. There were no signs of damage except for the signs of corrosion by time. “You don’t have any records about this ruins. Is it because there is no information here?”
Cecil looked at the situation around him and was a little disappointed. He walked to the only stone platform unwillingly, trying to grasp the last glimmer of hope.
“Impossible! How can there be nothing?” As a result, he looked up and down and still didn’t find anything special.
Until Enid came up and wanted to comfort her brother, the stone platform that looked ordinary suddenly emitted a ray of light, shining directly on Enid.
(End of this chapter)