Chapter 212: The Sunken City Under the Sea
A realization rose in Claire’s mind: the deep underground mentioned by the fragment was exactly at the bottom of the spiral staircase.
At the same time, driven by a vague impulse in her heart, the girl instinctively walked forward and gently extended her right hand toward the fragments.
When the delicate fingertips touched the surface of the fragments, a strange feeling of warmth and fullness came from the bottom of my heart, as if a missing part of myself was suddenly filled again.
The fragment itself had no temperature or touch, just like a pure shadow. It only added a hazy color to the girl's fingertips with its dreamy luster.
At the same time, some new fragmented and incoherent information appeared in her mind.
…In the laboratory, the ancient high elves dressed in white lab robes, holding various strange research equipment, were carefully exploring the properties of a piece of debris.
...In the sky high enough to see the curvature of the earth, on the land shrouded in darkness, a strong light suddenly lit up, like the sun, illuminating the entire continent.
However, the shape of that huge continent was different from the shape of the Yar continent on the map she saw in the old wizard's magic tower.
…and, in the last scene of the memory, those fragments of light flew in all directions like shooting stars.
While absorbing the information left by the fragments, as the light of the fragments gradually sank into her body, the aura of power on the half-elf girl's body also steadily increased.
After a moment, after completely absorbing the fragment, her strength had broken through a major realm and reached the level between the high fourth stage and the extreme fourth stage.
When Claire opened her eyes, she suddenly felt a little lost.
In the last moment when the fragments merged with her, a faint desire to become one with all the fragments again was left in her heart.
Suppressing this feeling, Claire looked back at the spiral staircase leading to the hall, ready to leave here and get the "legacy" mentioned in the fragment.
Glancing at the dim moonlight slanting through the window into the hall, the huge and evil purple moon that suddenly appeared in the outside sky, which the fragment had previously projected into her heart, gave her an extremely bad feeling.
Snap——
From the high dome, a piece of decorative material with gilded decorative patterns suddenly fell down, making a crisp cracking sound when it hit the white amphibolite ground.
Along with the slight sound, Claire was suddenly aware that when the fragments disappeared, the entire ancient castle suddenly began to tremble slightly.
As the source was lost, the faint fragmented power in the castle began to disappear, and along with it, everything in the entire castle seemed to suddenly begin to experience the erosion of the long river of time.
The exquisite gilded patterns on the dome dimmed, the scarlet flags on the walls gradually faded, the bright red carpet turned into rotten dust, and the rock bricks deteriorated and became brittle, even unable to bear their own weight.
Without the support of the fragments, the castle's building materials, which had been eroded by the long years, could no longer support the stability of its structure.
“Oh no!”
Seeing the changes in the castle, Claire immediately realized that it was time to escape.
Holding a lantern in one hand and a sword in the other, the girl ran quickly towards the stairs. The wind she brought with her along the way made the hem of her brown cloak sway slightly.
The spiral staircase is still well preserved at this moment, perhaps because it foresaw the scene after being absorbed. The aura of the power of the fragments is the strongest here, so the material of the staircase remains the same.
Before her eyes, the warm yellow light of the lantern shone into the darkness deep in the spiral staircase, with no end in sight.
Claire took a deep breath, turned her head, and looked at the flag on the wall that was turning into dust. At the last moment before leaving here, she memorized the dark golden mysterious symbol on it firmly in her mind.
Then, she put away the one-handed sword in her hand, held the lantern tightly, and jumped into the empty space in the middle of the spiral staircase, into the depths of the dark tunnel that seemed to have no bottom.
In an instant, the darkness inside the stairs enveloped the girl, and only the dim light of the lantern in her hand illuminated the handrail of the rapidly rising wooden spiral staircase beside her.
But gradually, as she fell rapidly, the endless darkness below the stairs suddenly lit up with a dark red lava light! . …..… Above the boundless dark blue sea, the three people flying at low altitude, Avis, also encountered trouble at this moment.
The sky was filled with terrifyingly intense divine moonlight. Not to mention Avis and Evan, even the eighth-level Joem did not dare to stay in the corrosive moonlight of that intensity for too long.
"verrrrl——"
But it was not easy at low altitude either. Those horrible mutated sea beasts emerged from the bottom of the sea, emitting meaningless weird cries, extending countless long black tentacles and limbs, and entangled towards the people in the low altitude.
The lowest rank of these sea monsters is level six, and the highest can even reach a level comparable to level eight, and this is due to their location near the sea.
At first, Jom killed several sea monsters, but this action did not have a deterrent effect.
The dead body of the sea monster sank into the water, which attracted more sea monsters, causing chaos beneath the sea.
Later, Jom simply stopped wasting magic power and just used his sword to cut off the tentacles that were entangled with the three of them and those blocking the way ahead, to prevent themselves from being dragged down by these alienated sea beasts.
With the eighth-level Knight of Wind leading the way, Avis and his group quickly circled the entire island and arrived at their destination.
There lay the largest ruins Anvis had discovered since arriving on the island.
A completely sunken underwater city——
Although waves were surging on the surface of the dark blue ocean, the water appeared surprisingly clear under the particularly bright and charming moonlight tonight.
Avis could even clearly see through the sea the white rock dome of a huge building standing in the center of the city. It seemed to be an ancient palace or temple.
An empty and wide central avenue extends from the front of the building and spreads to the entire dark city. Weird and huge faceless tentacle statues stand on both sides of the road.
If you look closely, you can see that there are a lot of dark shadows lurking deep in the dark ruins of buildings all over the city.
At this moment, under the eerie purple moonlight, the surfaces of the buildings throughout the city were glowing with a faint but clear pale green phosphorescence.
This is true whether it is the mottled stone walls covered with slimy dark purple algae or the broken pillars covered with strange black barnacles.
“Is this the location?”
Looking at the empty sea, Avis turned his inquiring gaze to Joem.
The latter took out the purple array plate again, and the illusory map appeared again.
At this time, the faint bright spot did not move at all, and was flashing in the area under everyone's feet.
(End of this chapter)
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