Chapter 2197 A Preliminary Exploration of the Crater
The darkness of the sky, the gloomy sky, the old wooden houses, and the villages and towns covered with fungus. Everything here is deathly silent, the ground is seeping with black water due to the rotting branches and leaves, and the air is filled with the smell of damp mold.
Under the protection of two teams of soldiers, Elisa shuttled through a dark forest. The trees here had long lost their green leaves, twisted dead branches, and rotten bark. Everything looked so ugly. . The soldiers are the Republican Guards of Disman. Although this is not within the territory of Disman, in the face of such a catastrophe, Disman is the only one who can still send troops to protect the sages of the Holy Garden.
The name of the guard captain was Bismarck. He took two people to the front to inquire about it, and came back and said: "If we go further, we will be close to the impact crater of the meteorite."
Eliza Nodding: "Tell everyone to be careful and don't be careless just because you didn't encounter any big trouble along the way."
Bismarck was a loyal, brave and careful man. He had been sent to many countries as a military attache. He ordered his soldiers to set up a warning formation, and the knights in armor and horses marched forward unhurriedly. After walking for more than an hour, fallen trees began to appear around. The further you went, the more trees were broken in a radial pattern. Among these dead branches and rotten trees were mixed the corpses of many animals and monsters. The stench of rotting corpses suddenly came from time to time. It blows with the wind, which makes people feel uncomfortable.
It is not that there is no life here at all. Scavenging animals and plants look at this group of people from a distance, including birds flying in the sky and maggots on old vines. Especially those carrion wolves. These wolves exude a foul smell. They always lower their heads gloomily, and their tails and wet and knotted hair on their bodies are drooped, giving people a very gloomy feeling, especially in In this dark environment, those pairs of eyes reflecting red light in the dim light make people very uncomfortable, as if there are always a group of creatures waiting for you to die.
The well-trained war horses were disturbed by this atmosphere, but fortunately they remained calm under the control of their masters. Elisa's gloved hand held the reins, and the other hand held the staff of the 'Sun King'. The head of the sun disk-shaped staff, which seemed to be stirring up flames, emitted bright light, dispelling the darkness and cold evil atmosphere around it. .
After walking for a long time, they reached the edge of the impact crater. Due to the light, they could not see the full picture of the crater, let alone the situation at the bottom of the crater. But when everyone stood on the edge of the pit and watched this scene, they were deeply shocked.
“This is the biggest crater~!” The soldiers commented one after another: “It’s terrible. Fortunately, it didn’t fall directly on the capital of our country...”
"Don't say such things, the City of Angels is favored by God." Another soldier said: "But this is just one of the largest craters. It is not necessarily the largest one, but it must be the one that causes the most damage. ”
Sage Eliza lamented: "According to the statistics collected previously, this meteorite caused the complete destruction of 94 large, medium and small cities, and countless people were killed."
Bismarck said: "The Republican Party Someone can adjust it After checking the situation in the southernmost part of the crater, across the straight line from here, the diameter of the crater is estimated to be about 390 kilometers, and two countries and four city-states are directly missing.”
This information Yili. Sha also understood this when she came. She frowned deeply and really couldn't express her inner feelings at the moment. However, she came with a mission this time, to conduct on-site inspection of the crater and its surroundings, estimate the amount of dust in the sky, and Look for potential hazards and rescue measures. The so-called potential danger is to worry about whether some huge and terrifying monsters are injured or alarmed, and whether these injured and alarmed monsters will come out of the disaster area and attack towns and villages outside.
In fact, something like this is already happening. Not long ago, the disaster area bordering the Warcraft Forest was attacked by the Cracking Beast, and several villages and towns were destroyed. In the north of the continent, giant dragons emerged from the mountains and attacked cities. The reason was that many meteorites fell into the deserted mountains.
Not only giant monsters, but also many frightened large and medium-sized monsters attacked human villages and towns in groups. Many of them came out to hunt because of lack of food, but more often they migrated to human territory because their habitats were destroyed. . As the Twelve Sages of the Holy Garden, they came forward to coordinate and deal with such incidents, and Eliza took on this task. At the same time, her status as the Disman Kingdom can better handle the work in the hardest-hit areas. .
Elisa pulled her long blond hair behind her head, tied it up with a rope and said to Bismarck: "General, you stay here, I will take a few people down to the bottom of the pit to have a look."
“How is this? "Okay." Bismarck said respectfully: "You are the sage of the Holy Garden and the glory of our Desmans. It is my job to do this kind of hard work. The Grand Consul sent us to accompany you, except for the protection on the road. Taking care of you is what I'm here to do You just need to stay here and wait. If there is any danger later, I will take care of it."
Eliza was helpless. She knew that with her status, General Bismarck would never let her lead him. After people went down, he said: "Then you and I will take two more people down, and the rest will stay above to wait for the response."
Bismarck thought for a while and nodded: "That's good." They assigned the personnel, Start descending into the pit. Judging from the estimated diameter of the crater of 390 kilometers, the depth of the crater must be extremely deep. There are many black or reddish-brown crystals in the impact area in the crater. These are crystal ores formed by impact and high temperature. Eliza randomly picked up a few representative pieces, made a rough distinction, then took out the container and sealed them, ready to take them back for careful study.
I walked down the crater for about an hour and a half, stepping on soft rocks and crystalline soil. Because I walked slowly, it seemed that we were far from the bottom at this time. At this time, they could already smell a strong smell of scorched earth, and the air was still filled with thin gray-black smoke, with a hint of sulfur.
Eliza and the others were well prepared and put on thick cotton masks, but just as they were about to continue entering the smoky area, there was movement from below the gentle slope of the pit.
"What's the sound?" The soldier stretched his neck nervously and looked into the dark smoke. The sound came so suddenly that he couldn't distinguish the distance from it for a while.
"There may be monsters in the wild ambushing here, so be careful." Some soldiers said, but Bismarck didn't think so. He walked at the bottom, and he was the one with the most protection on his body, so he naturally took on the role. Pathfinding work. He turned back and motioned to Eliza not to move for the time being, while he went down to take a look first. But before he could walk down, a soft female laughter came from the mist, which made everyone else's hair tremble.
Every soldier's eyes widened, as if wondering whether there would be anyone in this ghost place?
The chuckle was short and died down quickly. Bismarck was also a little hairy. He waved back and said: "Come three people with me." After that, he led the people into the smoke. middle.
Eliza also wanted to go with her, but she didn’t want to cause trouble to the general. Although she is one of the twelve sages of the Holy Garden, she is a typical academic, proficient in magic, and knowledgeable. However, she is not good at fighting. She can be said to be the sage with the weakest actual combat ability in the Holy Garden. Of course, who is the weakest depends on who she is. For magicians all over the world, she is certainly not weak.
After a while, a frightened scream suddenly came from the smoke, followed by screams and fighting sounds. The soft female laughter sounded briefly again, and then there was the roar of a monster. Very brief mess. The soldiers guarding the sage were all extremely nervous. They held weapons and shields in their hands and formed a circle to protect the sage in the center. At this time, there was no movement in the smoke. Just as everyone was in shock, a bloody figure suddenly rushed out of the smoke, startling everyone. After a closer look, they discovered that it was General Bismarck.
Bismarck ran out yelling: "Go quickly, there is danger inside!"
"What's going on, General?!" As soon as Elisa finished speaking, a black ape-shaped object flew out, stretching out two long black hands that were incomprehensible and grabbed Bismarck's back.
Without saying a word, Eliza immediately used magic. A solid light shield covered the general, blocking the flying black hands. Then the High Sun King raised it high, and the sun-like flames burned into the fog. go.
The black mist in the mist let out a shrill scream, and then turned into a female voice chuckling, and then the black shadows bloomed like flames with magic light in the mist, and everyone's shadows burned under the light of Elisha's magic. The blazing shadow fire and black flames ignited!
Elisa was shocked, her magic instantly changed, and a ball of light enveloped herself and everyone and disappeared.
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(The second update today, and the third update before three o'clock in the evening.)
(End of this chapter)