Chapter 708: The Eternal City of Noklon
Go back in time for a while.
"The ruins we just walked through are also part of Noklongn, right? They're quite big."
Maru said as she drew a map of the place she had walked so far.
This bridge, filled with the corpses of envoys, connects the ruins and the city, but a closer look reveals that the two connected parts should have been one.
Combined with the strong signs of destruction on the ruins, it is not difficult to find that this place has suffered quite severe damage, which is why it has become what it is now with no grass growing and only zombies wandering around.
"It would be great if I could see Nokron in his prime. Wait, did I say that in Anor Londo?"
No one responded to Malu's words because the girl was just talking to herself. She liked to use talking to relieve stress when she was working, although she didn't have much stress at all normally.
Noklonn looked magnificent at first glance, but upon closer inspection it was riddled with scars.
Below the bridge is a bottomless abyss filled with smoke and the bottom cannot be seen. Although the edges of the two banks connected by the bridge have experienced the passage of time, traces of violent destruction can be seen.
Perhaps in the past these two places were not only connected by a bridge, but also had more magnificent buildings, but they fell into the abyss due to unknown destruction and will never appear in people's sight again.
If someone really enjoys the scenery, they would probably feel sad when thinking about this.
After crossing the bridge, we finally found the hard-earned bonfire, oh no, it was a blessing. The golden light of the blessing healed people's physical fatigue and soothed their spirits.
At the other end of the blessing is where another complex of buildings in Noklon is located.
Clusters of buildings clustered here, yet they lack any life, making the atmosphere of the place perfectly match the coldness of the night.
They didn't notice it when they were on the bridge, but once they got close to Noklonn, Leon and the others realized that something was wrong here.
Because the buildings here collapsed in all directions. No, it doesn't seem like they collapsed, it's more like they were turned upside down because the gravity was changed.
Most of the buildings still look normal, but some tall buildings are abruptly standing sideways or upside down, forming a layout that definitely does not look like a place for people to live. Various details of these houses indicate that this place has suffered a major disaster and has long since lost all its residents.
Leon walked up carefully. The surface he was standing on was a horizontal castle. Many windows on the castle were crowded together. Some were blocked tightly and some were empty, letting in the cold wind. If you stepped on the empty space, you would fall directly off the cliff.
"Boss, the atmosphere here is so disgusting."
As Malu spoke, she jumped over several windows and walked towards the real ground not far away. However, at this moment.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The blocked windows suddenly exploded, and silver tentacles grabbed towards Malu.
The latter was frightened like a cat with its fur standing on end, but he still reacted quickly and drew his sword to fight back. However, when he saw those slippery and irregular tentacles, a bad memory came to his mind.
"Woooooooooo!"
Malu screamed and did a backflip, retreating so far that she almost missed a step and fell down.
"Maloo!"
Leon swung his sword horizontally, cutting off all the tentacles.
However, the severed tentacles suddenly lost their shape and turned into slime of uncertain shape, while their original owner finally crawled out of the window.
Sure enough, it's
"Imitation teardrops?"
Looking at those round "slimes", Leon's eyelids twitched wildly. What was going on? Was this city a factory that wholesaled imitation teardrops?
There are far more "imitation teardrops" coming out of the window than before!
This situation is getting a bit too exciting!
At this moment, the bodies of those "imitation teardrops" began to deform, and the liquid ball-like bodies gradually formed multiple spear-like spikes, which shot towards everyone with a "whoosh".
A gust of wind swept in from behind Leon, causing him to stagger, and all the spikes were blown away.
"Look carefully, Leon, these are not imitation tears," Gapar's voice came from behind, "just other kinds that look very similar."
"Look alike?"
Upon closer inspection, these "mimicking teardrops" that appeared before their eyes were indeed a little different. They were all black in color and did not appear to have transformed into other creatures.
“I was scared to death.”
Finally realizing the truth of the matter, Leon couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. His heart was beating wildly just now, but now he finally felt at ease.
The difference in strength between the black teardrop and the previous silver replica teardrop was quite large. After confirming that the opponent was not a replica teardrop, everyone finally plucked up the courage to step forward to fight. Unexpectedly, they solved it in no time, which was unexpectedly easy.
"call"
After killing the last black teardrop, Leon breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself:
"No matter how strong I get, I still get scared every time in the Thane dungeon."
Others felt the same way.
"Then again, this place is really empty."
Walking on the streets of Noklongen, there is only a cold wind blowing in your face, carrying with it a sense of extreme loneliness. The movement when monsters appear will break the silence, and once the monsters die, the silence will return immediately.
It feels different from walking in Irithyll or Anor Londo.
“Ouch—”
The clear howl of wolves was heard again, and Leon and his companions immediately turned and chased in the direction of the sound. The enemies they encountered on the way were all black tears.
However, in the end, everyone came back empty-handed and found no trace of Blaze because they had reached a dead end.
At the deepest part of the dead end, the body of a secret agent lay quietly, his body also cut into pieces by the giant sword.
Beside him, there were scattered fragments of the broken stone tablet. When Leon moved closer, magical words appeared on the stone tablet.
Before the king left, his half body returned here and was met by the tears at the place where he met the king.
"What does this mean?"
Leon frowned. If the king refers to the King of Elden, then who is the half?
People often use the word "half" to describe a partner. Could it be Lani? But they first met in this city?
"It doesn't feel right. I might be wrong."
"Boss, what are you looking at?" Malu ran over, took a look, and immediately showed a thoughtful expression.
Just when Leon was expecting her to come up with a different conclusion, she spread her hands and said:
"I don't know."
“.”
The Eternal City is so huge that its scenery will fill your eyes at a glance.
The Eternal City is also very small. Because many places have collapsed and collapsed, there are very few roads that can be passed. Some places cannot be walked without causing some destruction. This goes against the intuition that the buildings in the Sen Dungeon are indestructible.
Whenever people walked on a new road for a while, the howling of wolves would be heard, attracting people to run over and follow the sound.
Every time I followed the sound, I would come back empty-handed, and even encounter many monsters.
The black tears gradually disappeared and were replaced by silver tears that could imitate various creatures. For a moment, the howling of various monsters echoed in Nokron. On average, eight out of ten silver tears turned into Rune Bears, and the remaining two turned into other ferocious beasts.
Fortunately, everyone is now considered battle-hardened, and with the help of Gapar, they are able to escape danger safely every time.
If it were a strategy team from a few months ago, they would have happily typed GG when surrounded by two or three Rune Bears.
And every time you defeat a monster, you can find an inscribed stone tablet nearby.
[The tears that cannot imitate the mind, in the repeated imitation, gave birth to thinking]
The Knox people place great hope on the teardrop, hoping that a king of the night, different from the golden tree, will be born from it.
[The teardrop that learned to think, failed to imitate the king, and imitated half of the king]
Each riddle-like sentence was recorded on the stone tablet, and Leon recorded them one by one using the photo stone.
Although I don’t understand what these sentences mean for the time being, reading them gives me a sense of awe. People who were in the middle school years would probably find them cool.
Moreover, Leon's guess was gradually confirmed.
"Isn't this city's faith really different from the Golden Tree?"
“Ouch—”
The howling of wolves sounded again at this moment. People looked at each other and immediately rushed over.
Japar gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, his intuition telling him that he should hold the weapon tightly at this time.
Because no one knew when the wolf howl began to change.
Although it is hard to describe, Japar had this feeling. The wolf howls were no longer as clear as at the beginning, but became more and more manic, like a wild beast that could no longer suppress its ferocity and was about to explode at any time.
This is different from Blaze. Although the half-wolf is quite wild, he never made such a manic sound even when he was knocked down by Latan at the battle festival.
So something is amiss, either something has changed with Blaze, or the one they've been chasing isn't him.
The howling of wolves disappeared, and the people were disappointed again. However, in front of them was a vast expanse of forest and mountains that stretched as far as the eye could see. Noklong had been left behind by them.
The words "Dark Night Realm" appeared before him, indicating that this place was connected to Nokron but was completely different.
The quiet forest and the jumping spirit animals, the atmosphere here is different from that of Noklongen, and has a harmonious charm.
People knew they would get lost, but they were not disappointed because a new blessing was waiting for them to light up not far away.
Leon walked over and stretched out his arm before he reached Ci Fu.
“Ouch—”
The frantic howling of wolves sounded at this moment.
[We were invaded by the "Shadow of Disaster"! ! ! ]
(End of this chapter)
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