Chapter 450 Radiation and Secrets
On the other side, after Ryan sent the long-distance airship carrying Anna and the pure-blooded elves to a safe place, he controlled Blood Feather halfway and flew towards the nearby Valzig ruins.
Since he had already completed the set goal - to ensure Anna's safety, Ryan moderately let go of the concealment of his own tracks and rode Blood Feather to quickly cut through the sky.
He planned to land and walk when he was almost at his destination.
There was a huge difference in speed between flying at high speed in the air and shuttling through the dense forest.
After only about half an hour, Ryan began to let Blood Feather reduce the flight speed, and he quickly compared the map that had long been imprinted in his mind and began to slowly descend.
"It's near here, about three kilometers northwest." Ryan looked around from mid-air and thought to himself.
This location, strictly speaking, has left Ferdinand Forest. Just when he was in mid-air, Ryan saw the destroyed elf outpost several kilometers away.
Of course, the geographical environment will not change significantly due to the division of artificial boundaries.
This is still a dense forest area, with undulating hills, lush shrubs and dense vegetation. The only difference is that this is already the territory of the empire.
A few minutes later, Ryan looked at the dense forest in his field of vision and sighed in his heart:
"It's flat, and there are no traces of any man-made remains. There is no sign of any ruins at all."
"If it weren't for Teacher Mogaro telling me, it would be hard to believe that the underground here was once the site of a large ancient wizard school."
Suddenly, the thin sheet in Ryan's arms vibrated.
"I'm Ryan." Ryan took out the thin sheet and said.
"Lord Ryan, we have received Miss Anna and her people and Mr. Lambert, and they have all been properly settled." The thin sheet came with Olena's voice.
At the same time, Ryan also vaguely heard several familiar crisp female voices whispering in the background.
"Lord Ryan, I'll let Miss Anna talk to you."
"Okay."
Soon, Anna's soft and slightly shy voice came from the other side of the sheet:
"Ryan, we have arrived at Post No. 7. Lady Olena is very considerate and has arranged rooms, food and medicine for everyone in advance. She is so thoughtful."
"Well, Miss Beyonce and Miss Claire are both very good." Anna added.
Hearing Anna's familiar voice, Ryan's heart softened.
Obviously, the whispering sound just now was the conversation between Anna and Claire.
"Then you have a good rest. If there is anything with the tribe, ask Olena for help. I will enter the ruins later. Perhaps the signal is not necessarily good."
"Contact me when I come out." Ryan thought for a while and said.
"Well, Ryan. Then you must be careful."
"I will. Don't worry."
Inside Post No. 7.
When Anna finished her call with Ryan, Claire and Beyoncé looked at each other, and then took Anna's white and tender hand affectionately and said:
"Hehe, Miss Anna, this is the first time we have heard the captain speak so gently. It seems that the captain really loves you."
"However, a beauty like you deserves the captain's love."
Claire said while looking up and down at Anna, who had long since restored her true appearance.
She couldn't help but feel deeply that the Creator favored Anna.
As a half-elf, Anna was not as tall and cold as the average elf beauty, but almost perfectly blended the cuteness and cuteness of a human girl with the beauty and noble temperament of the elves.
Therefore, when she heard Olena say that Captain Ryan's girlfriend was coming to Post No. 7, she and Beyoncé were very surprised and interested.
"Don't say that, Miss Claire, you are also very beautiful." Anna blushed, lowered her head slightly, and said as if she was a little embarrassed.
"By the way, Miss Beyoncé and Ms. Olena are also very beautiful." Anna immediately added, as if she felt that it was not appropriate to praise only one person.
"Haha~"
"Haha!"
All three of them laughed.
"Miss Anna, you are so cute. No, I plan to hold you to sleep at night. I also want to enjoy the treatment of the captain." Claire's beautiful eyes turned and she smiled slyly.
"Okay, Claire, let Miss Anna have a good rest first. Later, when we have dinner, Miss Anna can tell us how she got together with the captain, haha."
The hot Beyoncé also smiled wickedly at this time.
The two of them sang in unison, and Anna's pretty face immediately flushed. She was at a loss,
but she could feel that the two women had no ill intentions, they were just teasing.
At this time, Ryan had already come to an underground cave entrance located below the slope of the hill, which was vaguely covered by bushes, according to the token given by his mentor Mogaro - a prismatic crystal of the Bixiu Construction School.
Judging from the diameter of the cave entrance, at first glance, many people would think that this is just a brown bear cave.
When Ryan pushed aside the bushes and followed the instructions in the crystal, after passing through several forks and several narrow tunnels, he walked for about half an hour before approaching the meeting place mentioned by his mentor Mogaro.
From a distance, Ryan saw a rather empty underground hall emitting light green fluorescence at the end of the tunnel in front of him.
However, before Ryan actually entered the hall, he suddenly stopped with his nose twitching and his face solemn.
"Such a strong smell of blood, could it be that something happened to the school's team? No, this smell of blood is too fishy and does not seem to come from human blood."
"In addition, there seems to be some strange particles in the air that want to force their way into my armor technique"
Ryan's keen perception immediately found something wrong in front of him.
"This place is a bit strange!"
After a little thought, Ryan cast a steel armor spell on himself and walked slowly inside.
The light green fluorescent hall that came into view was like the light green emergency lights that lit up after a power outage in his previous life, but it was several times dimmer.
However, with Ryan's eyesight, he could see everything at a glance. The hall was dozens of meters high, with a huge broken stone statue in the middle, and dozens of stone balls with a diameter of one or two meters scattered around. What caught his attention was that there were many corpses of strange humanoid creatures on the ground.
The bloody smell just now should have come from the blood of this creature.
Then, Ryan came to a corpse and squatted down to examine it carefully.
After a thorough inspection, Ryan found that these corpses were quite similar to the stone palate monsters described in ancient books.
The stone palate monsters are a special group of cave dwellers. They look like apes, have canine teeth, and claws at the end of their limbs to facilitate digging. The petrified skin covering their entire bodies is thickest on the back, which is their signature feature.
But Ryan still looked thoughtful.
Because the size of these stone palate monsters does not match the description in ancient books, they are too big.
According to the records in ancient books, the average stone palate monster should be about 1.5 to 1.7 meters tall.
But these dead stone palate monsters in front of them are more than two meters tall, and the hair on their skin seems to have large pieces of falling off for some unknown reason.
In addition, some of the bodies of these stone palate monsters are only skeletons, some have just rotted, and many are very fresh, and the time of death is no more than 24 hours.
A little confused for a while, Ryan stood up and looked at the hall again.
There are signs of damage and excavation on the north and south walls of the hall, with multiple irregular caves.
In addition, the overall style of the hall is completely different from the undecorated rock tunnel before. Whether it is the dome, the columns, or the marble tiles on the ground, there are signs of a high level of craftsmanship.
Thinking back to it, it seems that the tunnel he just entered was dug by a later comer.
In addition, the architectural style of the hall is completely different from that of the empire. It has a contradictory feeling of being simple but also contains a certain high level of craftsmanship.
"Hey, the precision of this sphere" Ryan thought to himself when he saw the stone ball next to the column.
The stone ball in front of him is almost a perfect sphere.
You must know that π is not a rational number. Any production involving circles or spheres is very difficult. Generally speaking, the level of craftsmanship can be seen from the processing accuracy of the sphere.
"The level of craftsmanship exceeds that of our own school by at least two levels."
"It is worthy of being a large wizard school in ancient times."
Suddenly, Ryan's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Shua! Shua!"
There were slight sounds of breaking through the air all around, and they slowly approached Ryan from three different directions.
"I know one is attracting attention in front, and two are attacking from behind. It seems that their intelligence is not low."
"But this level of strength is still too weak."
Ryan shook his head slightly.
The next second, Ryan suddenly flashed several afterimages, and the three stone palate monsters who were just sneaking and trying to use the dark environment to attack suddenly opened their vertical pupils.
Because they saw that the prey appeared in front of them.
"Puchi!"
The sound of sharp blades entering the body sounded almost at the same time in three directions.
If you look closely, you can see three identical figures of Ryan, holding a knight's long sword that had just transformed in his hand, piercing the eyebrows of the three stone palate monsters.
The next moment, the three figures suddenly disappeared, and Ryan's original body seemed to be motionless at the original position, still maintaining the posture of looking around before.
"Plop! Plop!"
The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was heard one after another, followed by a rustling sound from farther away, as if the stone palate monster in the distance was a little frightened by the scene in front of him.
As the surroundings became quiet again, Ryan injected a trace of mental power into the crystal according to the code agreed upon in the school. Soon, a wall of several square meters in the north quickly moved away, revealing a square-section tunnel like a subway tunnel.
A middle-aged man holding a short staff and wearing a wizard robe of the Bixiu Construction School was looking around and Ryan with extreme vigilance.
"You are Ryan, who was sent by the School of Metal? Come in!"
The middle-aged wizard was obviously a little surprised by Ryan's too young face. In addition, when he observed that the surroundings were very quiet, he immediately showed doubts and muttered:
"Did you encounter any mutated stone palate monsters when you came in? You are really lucky."
"But why did the Metal Department send you here? How can you help at such a young age?" The middle-aged wizard muttered, and quickly pressed the mechanism to close the wall again after Ryan entered.
After all, the mentor asked him to pick someone up, and only mentioned that Ryan was an imperial swordsman with a high affinity for metal and extremely high talent.
In Albert's cognition, even if a wizard has a high talent, it takes a long time of precipitation and hard work to transform it into strength, and he is in this situation.
But at this moment, his eyes suddenly widened, his face was filled with astonishment, he looked up and down at Ryan, and said with a slight stutter:
"You... you are actually a level 3 crystal wizard? Are you really from our school?"
Because the two were far apart just now, and Albert's attention was focused on observing the outside, but now that Ryan came to him, he immediately sensed Ryan's surging mental fluctuations.
Albert's strength has entered the level 2 liquefied wizard.
At his age, even in the Empire, he is considered extremely talented, and in the Bixiu Construction School, he is a top-level genius.
But compared to Ryan, there is still a world of difference!
So, at this moment, he looked at Ryan with an expression as if he had seen a ghost, and was so shocked that he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
What's the situation with this person in front of him?
Such a young level 3 crystal wizard?
Could he be a spy sent by other schools or hostile organizations?
The real Ryan had already...
Seeing the other party's slightly stiff body and the gradually rising alert look in his eyes, Ryan couldn't help but smile and said:
"Hello, I am Ryan. I have just joined the school for less than half a year. It is normal that you have not seen me. My mentor is Mogaro."
Albert asked a few more questions before he was completely relieved, but then he became a little restrained and said:
"Hello, Mr. Ryan, I am Albert, the disciple of Lord Moria. I will take you to meet your mentor now. I believe your mentor will be very happy to see you."
"Okay, thank you."
Ryan could understand Albert's sense of restraint. After all, wizards are ranked according to their strength.
Albert immediately took Ryan and walked into a winding internal tunnel. The tunnel wall was covered with marble and was clean and tidy. Obviously, it was not dug by the stone palate monster.
"By the way, Mr. Albert, are those monsters outside stone palate monsters? It seems to be a little different from what is recorded in ancient books." Ryan asked casually on the way.
"That's right, so the instructor defines them as mutant stone palate monsters."
"As for the reason? Sir Ryan, do you feel that there is a special energy radiation in the air here?"
"Indeed, and it seems that the concentration is higher after entering here." Ryan nodded.
At this moment, Ryan can clearly feel that this energy radiation is stronger because he is getting deeper and deeper.
However, he is now protected by the third-level defense magic "Steel Armor", so he doesn't have to worry about this level of radiation affecting him. Abel next to him also has a body protection magic on him at this moment.
"The other party is affected by this radiation, so he became like this."
"Have you investigated the cause of the radiation?" Ryan continued to ask.
"Well, according to the clues we found in the past six months, there should have been a huge explosion in the Valzig School thousands of years ago. As for the specific cause, we have also found it. It seems to have originated from a dangerous experiment conducted by a senior Dawn wizard at that time."
"According to the damaged diaries found on the remains of several Valzig School wizards, the Dawn wizard named Magnier discovered a metal containing special energy in a certain mine."
"The other party thinks that if this special energy can be utilized, he will have a great chance of becoming a level 5 Full Moon wizard, so he began a fanatical experimental process."
Ryan nodded.
For any Dawn Wizard, if they find an opportunity to become a Level 5 Full Moon Wizard, they will definitely do their best to grab it!
"This strange metal extracted from the ore is silvery white, and will radiate strange energy. It is extremely penetrating, but in small quantities, it will not cause much harm to the human body."
Radiation? Silvery white?
When Ryan listened, a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, and his eyes lit up, as if he thought of something key.
"Why does it sound so familiar? Could it be uranium ore?"
"It's the raw material for making atomic bombs in the previous life, the radioactive isotope extracted from ordinary uranium ore, uranium-235." However, Ryan thought about it carefully and shook his head slightly.
It may not be uranium-235, it may also be other radioactive metal elements.
After all, the world is different, and Ryan is not sure whether the periodic table is still applicable.
But even if it is applicable, then in this world, whether there are more subsequent elements in the periodic table, he has not studied it carefully, and he is also not sure.
Albert, who was standing by, did not notice the strangeness in Ryan's expression, and continued to narrate as he walked:
"The Dawn Wizard named Magnier, after decades of attempts, finally found a dangerous but effective method of refining."
"Some wizards tried to suggest it, but failed to stop it. Unfortunately, one day, the experiment went wrong and a huge explosion occurred. The school, which was greatly weakened, disappeared completely soon after." "
And the stone palate monsters we saw seemed to be because of the explosion, which caused a cave somewhere underground to be opened up, and the stone palate monsters living underground were attracted to the interior of the Valzig School."
"But what is even more surprising is that the stone palate monsters actually like this extremely harmful strange radiation."
"According to what we have observed in the past six months, the stone palate monsters that were originally only at the knight level can be greatly improved to the peak of the knight, or even the great knight, after several months of radiation."
"And for the stone palate monster leaders with stronger tolerance, the increase is even more terrifying."
"Here, that's it, see?" At this time, Albert suddenly stopped and pointed to the end of the tunnel.
At this moment, the two had reached the end of the tunnel. What caught Ryan's eyes were several horizontal iron railings as thick as forearms, blocking the end of the tunnel.
However, through these iron railings, he could see a huge platform more than ten meters below. A large number of stone palate monsters were lying at the entrance of a passage in the north, with a comfortable and greedy expression on their faces as if they were soaking in a winter hot spring.
Even because they were a little closer to the front, many stone palate monsters had a fight, and bursts of low roars came.
Among them, leaning on the thick metal railing in the front was a strong stone palate monster with a body size of more than three meters and five meters. The hair on his head was white, and he was enjoying the best position alone, as if he was sleeping soundly.
"That guy is the chieftain of the stone palate monsters. After being irradiated, he is now at the late legendary level." Albert continued.
"If it was just one guy, it wouldn't be difficult to deal with."
"But the key problem is that there are too many of them. In the past six months, we have at least eliminated thousands of stone palate monsters, but there are still scattered stone palate monsters that continue to emerge, and there seems to be no end."
"This is also one of the reasons why we have been dragged here for so long." Albert sighed.
"Sir Ryan, let's not talk about this for now. The instructor and other members of the exploration team are in the room." At this time, Albert turned around while talking and pressed the mechanism on his left. The wall suddenly slid, revealing a hidden door.
(End of this chapter)
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