books44 Chapter 172: Asaful Ruins
Chapter 172: Asaful Ruins
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The girl walked through the ruins with a dull look on her face. She looked up at the ruined buildings, then lowered her head to look at the scarlet flames still burning on the ground...
Suddenly, the girl stopped and stood there silently... At this moment, a gust of hot wind from hell suddenly blew over, blowing the girl's long gray hair and red robe.
"...It's been sixty days...It seems there are no living people..." The girl murmured to herself, then slowly walked to a relatively intact building, sat on the ground leaning against the building, and then took out an old pottery jar from somewhere.
"..."The girl hugged the pottery jar tightly in her arms, and then gently closed her eyes... After staying still for a few minutes, the girl slowly opened her eyes, with a few tears flashing in the corners of her eyes.
"Brothers... why... why did I only resurrect your bodies... magic... is it because my magic is not strong enough..."
As the girl spoke, she opened the pottery jar in her arms. The jar had two partitions, and was filled with an unknown dust.
"And... why can I only be resurrected for 3600 seconds... I want to see you again, and I need to find more sacrifices to cast magic..."
As the girl was talking, she suddenly found a few drops of liquid falling into the pottery jar. She knew they were her tears, and then she closed the pottery jar, and then it disappeared into thin air, and no one knew where it was put.
"...Magic... Stronger magic... Wait, there must be more powerful necromancy magic recorded in the temple..."
The girl murmured to herself, and then said nothing more. She just stood up and gradually disappeared into the depths of the ruins of this city that was born in sulfur fire and destroyed in sulfur fire.
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A few hours later—
After riding non-stop for an unknown amount of time and experiencing dozens of battles, Xi Yao finally saw the vaguely visible city ruins on the side of the Obsidian Avenue.
Of course, Xi Yao also gained a lot during his journey: he got more than 630 gold coins by killing treasure chest monsters! That's six platinum coins!
In addition to the monetary gains, Xi Yao also obtained the trident in the hand of a red devil after killing it, but that was a mage weapon, so Xi Yao had to put it into the void storage space to collect dust.
Of course, the spoils of killing the Red Devil were more than that: Xi Yao also obtained a blazing fire feather from the corpse of a Red Devil.
By consulting the Book of Terra, Xi Yao learned that this fire feather had a small chance of dropping from the Red Devil. It could be used to make wings, and the maneuverability of the wings made was far greater than that of the fairy wings.
It's a good thing
...After seeing the ruins of Asaful in the distance, Xi Yao did not walk over immediately. Instead, he looked around, found an obsidian tower, flew over and went in.
After being relatively safe, Xi Yao opened the void storage space, took out some food, and after quickly eating a little to replenish his energy, he flew out of the obsidian tower and looked around, and found that there were no enemy monsters nearby for the time being.
Then Xi Yao jumped off the Obsidian Avenue with the Storm Saber in his hand and flew towards the ruins of the city called Asaful.
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After landing steadily on the ground, Xi Yao looked up at the front... the ruined buildings, the uneven terrain, and the sulfur lava that could be seen everywhere...
At this moment, Xi Yao suddenly remembered the "Prosperous City - Asaful" mentioned in the Book of Terra. He couldn't help but frowned and muttered to himself: "This place? Was it once a prosperous city?"
...Xi Yao walked into a "house", looked at the dilapidated interior and the scarlet flame still burning in the corner, and smelled the choking smell of sulfur. Xi Yao only felt a dull pain in his back.
Then Xi Yao quickly walked out of this "house"... Oh, to be precise, this "house" can no longer be called a "house".
After walking out of the "house", Xiyao saw a large area of "trees". Similarly, these "trees" could no longer be called "trees"... because Xiyao discovered that these so-called trees were actually bones, and might even be human bones.
...After walking forward for a distance, Xi Yao saw a building similar to a shrine, with a fire in the center that was still burning.
...After passing the shrine, he saw a group of strange plants. They were very tall, with broad, clearly patterned leaves, and several drooping branches emitting golden light standing in the center.
At this time, the Asafole Ruins finally had an enemy monster to greet them. With a loud crash, Xiyao saw a giant sphere with spikes jump out of the sulfur fire and then attack Xiyao.
The Black Hawk fighter was the first to notice this and immediately turned to fire bullets at the rolling "Stone of Despair". This reminded Xi Yao, who was carefully examining the strange plants in front of him, and he immediately swung his Storm Saber at the rolling Stone of Despair.
However, before it could withstand a few sword energies, the Stone of Despair was shattered, and the stone bricks that made up it were scattered all over the ground, and then a strange object emerged from the broken body of the Stone of Despair.
Xi Yao walked over and held the "Essence of Chaos" in his hand. He found that this thing, like the Essence of Sunlight, was a solid object that looked like gas, extremely light, and could even float in the air. The whole thing looked like a mysterious rune.
Xi Yao put it away and looked around... At this moment, he could vaguely hear that the surroundings seemed to be getting restless, perhaps because of the arrival of this outsider.
Then Xi Yao took off the mythical amulet, took out the Eye of the Storm from the void storage space, and equipped it.
Soon, rain clouds emerged from the eye of the storm and eventually transformed into rain cloud elements. Seeing this, Xi Yao felt relieved.
After all, the last time when resisting the goblin invasion, the rain cloud element was shattered by the goblin warlock Avada... Xi Yao is still worried that it cannot recover.
Now it seems that this worry is unnecessary... Then Xi Yao continued to go deeper into the city, looking for the ore called "Hell Breccia".
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Xi Yao inserted the Storm Sabre into its sheath, then took out the mountain copper pickaxe from the void storage space, and looked at the black ore under his feet.
The color of these black minerals is very close to pure black, and there are some red spots in it, making it look less monotonous.
Recalling the introduction in the Book of Terra, Xi Yao determined that the ore under his feet was the target of this trip - Hell Breccia.
Then Xi Yao began to dig it... Of course, some enemy monsters appeared during the period, but with the Black Hawk fighter jets and rain cloud elements acting as guards, those enemy monsters could not get close to Xi Yao at all.
...After digging all the way, a total of 11 hell breccias of the same size were obtained. Then Xi Yao stood up and walked towards the corpses of the monsters killed by the summoned creatures and collected their drops - the essence of chaos.
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Afterwards, Xi Yao continued to go deeper into the ruins. During the period, he did not stop except to stop digging when he saw the hell breccia.
However, the distribution of Hell Breccia does not seem to be widespread. Xi Yao only encounters one every few minutes, and there are not many of them.
But, come to think of it, this city seems to be quite big... Xi Yao thought so. He had probably been deep in this place for about half an hour, during which time he encountered countless "houses", but when he looked into the distance, he could not see the end at a glance.
Let's keep going... Xi Yao thought so, raised the Storm Saber, aimed it straight ahead, and slashed at the Eye of Disaster that was attacking him. Two Storm Sabers quickly appeared and pierced through it.
Then Xi Yao stretched out his hand, grasped the essence of chaos that dissipated after the death of the Eye of Disaster, and then collected it... Looking at the Black Hawk fighter jets and rain cloud elements, they were protecting Xi Yao's rear, so naturally they had no time to take care of his front.
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In this way, Xi Yao dug the visible Hell Breccia as he went deeper into the city... For some reason, the deeper he went, the less Hell Breccia he saw.
But despite this, it has been an hour since entering the Asaful ruins, and Xi Yao has collected nearly two hundred of them.
Xi Yao planned to make it a whole number and dig 200 before going back, so he continued to go deeper... However, when he once again passed through a community of strange plants, he suddenly saw that there was no way to go in front of him, only a sea of lava.
However, on the other side of this lava sea, there is an extremely empty area, and deeper in that area, there is a building that looks like a palace...
Seeing the palace from a distance, Xi Yao immediately recalled the contents of the Book of Terra: that is, in the city of Asaful, there is a temple used to worship a god... Could that be it?
Of course, since there are buildings on the other side, the indigenous people of Asaful would definitely build a bridge. Look, there is a bridge right in front of Xiyao’s right.
...It's just that...the damage to this bridge seems...a bit serious.