Chapter 586 City of Pale Glory
“Where is this?”
Nohir glanced at the scene in front of him and asked questions at the same time.
The pale city in front of him is obviously not a building that can be found in the abyss. Looking at the regular and tall castle in front of him, even if most of its entirety has been tightly wrapped in flesh and blood, Nohir can still There is an inexplicable sense of sanctity from the appearance of the castle.
"Here... here seems to be..."
Beside Nohir, Lulu suddenly murmured to herself a few times, and then flew towards the castle as if uncontrollably, and Nohir immediately followed.
Not long after Nohir threw the body of Carlo Loctok out of the pit, Lulu flew down from the outside world and found him on her own initiative. When the two met, For the first time, Nohir also took the initiative to ask her if she had felt the breath of Zariel's Sword on that evil thing.
Lulu’s answer was that she did feel the breath of Zariel’s sword, but it was not on that monster. In fact, she also felt the inexplicable feeling just like Nohir. She took the initiative to jump down from the pit to look for Nohir, and the fortress in front of her made her feel extremely familiar.
As soon as he saw Lulu's performance, Nohir already had a rough guess in his mind. If he guessed correctly, the Sword of Zariel should be in the fortress in front of him. Among them, the confirmation method is also very simple. Just go in and take a look and you will know it.
But on the outskirts of this fortress, Nohir did not observe anything like a city gate. This simple, sacred and solid castle seemed to have not prepared those things since its birth. It can only reach flesh and blood, or city walls. It would really take a lot of effort for ordinary people to get in, but naturally this small problem will not trouble him.
Nohir directly relied on his current super giant size to wield the equally huge [Matalotok], and smashed through nearly 1/4 of the outer wall with just one blow.
But while breaking through this barrier, Nohill also felt a considerable obstacle. The city's defense seemed to be more powerful than he imagined. If it weren't for his amazing strength and the With the help of the divine weapon, if any of these two conditions were missing, he would not be able to blast open this section of the city wall so easily today.
But unfortunately, Nohill is such a monster, and the above assumptions naturally no longer exist. After blasting away the city wall, Nohill directly shrank in size. In his true form, he can move extremely quickly. After recovering his physical strength and confirming that his current condition was pretty good and that he still had a fairly complete fighting capacity, he took Lulu directly into the city.
He saw with his own eyes the internal layout of this city. Compared to the scarlet outside, the interior of this place was more like a palace, a large circular palace that continued to extend inward. Inside the palace, blue-white marble tiles were paved on the floor, and a red carpet was spread on top, leading straight into the depths.
White marble pillars support the dome high. When he was on the outside, Nohill could still see many such pillars. As he went deeper inside, the number of such stone pillars also increased. Keep descending until he is really close to the deepest part of the palace.
First, he walked several thousand meters inward like a flat ground, and then walked up a step nearly 30 meters high. Then he continued to walk inward, and encountered another step. He repeated the above steps four times, and then Nohill truly Arriving at the very center here, I saw a room, an independent room located at the deepest and highest point of the palace.
Looking at the door in front of him, which may be the only door in the palace, Nohir looked at it for a moment, and after confirming that there were no magic traps on it, he directly pressed his warhammer against the door and gently pushed it open.
And at the moment when the door opened, Nohir also saw the hand that exuded endless blue light, had angel wings, and was extremely sharp, inserted directly into the central stone pedestal. The artifact long sword, and the armored warrior who was obviously dead, but still holding the sword hilt tightly, half-kneeling on the spot, and his body had not rotted.
"Ya...Yael!"
Lulu murmured in disbelief, and Nohir secretly thought after hearing this name. Sure enough, although it was a bit unbelievable, but The heroic warrior in front of him was indeed the legendary Yael.
Nohill stood there, silently staring at the deceased heroic man. He didn't expect that he could still see this legendary hero. Although even if he saw it, it was just a corpse, but in the bottomless place In such a hellish place as the abyss, this warrior was able to preserve his body intact for such a long time without being corrupted by the environment of the bottomless abyss or devoured by demons. This alone is of some significance. What a "surprise".
Lulu must have been a little relieved in her heart. Her friend’s body was not desecrated, but was kept here intact, but...
‘Why? According to what Lulu said, hadn't Yael been eaten alive by Karok Rok Tok? Isn't this a scene that Lulu saw with her own eyes? But now her body appears here, along with this sword, this fortress, what on earth is going on in this place? '
Nohir wanted to ask Lulu. Lulu has been very excited since arriving here. The reason why he rushes towards the center so recklessly is because Lulu has been here since From then on, I kept flying in this direction with all my strength, as if I knew there would be absolutely no danger here.
Based on her performance, Nohill also judged that she must know the specific situation here. But when he turned to look at Lulu, before he could open his mouth, Nohill saw a line of clear tears again. Falling from Lulu's eyes.
Nohir was silent. He stopped temporarily and waited silently for Lulu's mood to recover. He just watched Lulu come back to her senses after being stunned for a few seconds, and then slowly flapped her wings. Slowly approached Yael's body.
She caressed Yael's face with her nose, wiped away the little blood stains on it, and slowly closed her eyes that had long been lifeless but still slightly half-opened. Time seemed to be stuck in this moment. It was not until a few minutes later that Lulu shook her head and turned around, seeming to have regained her previous calmness and laughter, and then seemed to see Nohir's doubts.
After a brief silence, she took the initiative to explain to Nohir the reason why this fortress appeared here. She guessed that the reason why this fortress appeared... no, it should be absolutely, absolutely because of the special ability of Zariel's Sword!
Since Lulu’s memory has just been restored, although she has remembered most of the memories, some of the details still require the passage of time or the reflection of people after seeing things. After seeing the fortress and entering it, Lulu completely remembered the origin and capabilities of the fortress.
What is certain at present is that the reason why the fortress under their feet can appear is definitely because of the special ability of Zariel's Sword.
Back then, because of her own ambition, Zariel chose to take the initiative to come to the main material plane to eliminate demons. She also trained an elite army of humans in Eltoril in an attempt to rely on this Legions attack the pits of hell.
But during the march of the army, qualified protection and resting places are absolutely essential. If after occupying a certain area, there are not enough qualified fortress walls there, they will not be able to defend the follow-up The main roads of hell cannot recover the various negative impacts caused by the unique environment of hell.
In order to solve this problem, Zarrell took the initiative to add a unique nine-ring spell [City of Pale Glory] to his sword when he was still in heaven.
This spell is similar to the combination of the extremely enhanced version of Holy Residence and Mordenken's Mansion. It allows the holder of the sword to instantly create a fairly wide mansion according to his or her own ideas in a very short period of time. Holy Castle.
In this castle, soldiers can rest assured. The unique power of the castle itself can also wash away the pollution of the hell environment, and add the effects of spells such as blessing and protection from evil. According to the will of the caster , if you choose to defend with all your strength when casting this spell, this fortress will become as strong as it is now, and even the city gate will not be reserved.
As for the situation in front of her, Lulu guessed that maybe when Yael was swallowed by Kalo Roctok, she did not die instantly in the first place, although she was already deeply affected at the time. She was severely wounded, but the Sword of Zariel protected her, allowing her to survive at least temporarily in the belly of the troll outside.
And Yael must have tried to resist. During that time, she must have wanted to escape from the belly of Kalo Roctok, but the giant monster was rough-skinned and thick-bodied after all. Although El is a powerful warrior, she is still a mortal after all. Even if she holds the Sword of Zariel at the time, she may not be able to fully exert all the power of this artifact, let alone mine it in a short time. Wear that monster's flesh.
Coupled with the other demons existing in the huge demon's mouth, and the endless acid churning in its belly, Yael must have gone through many difficulties and dangers before finally getting out of that giant demon's mouth. He escaped from the giant monster's belly, but by that time, Karrok Tok had probably returned to the Abyss, and directly returned to the area where they were currently.
When Yael finally broke open the belly of Kalo Rokotok and escaped from death, what he saw was the strange and unpredictable environment of the endless abyss. At that time, Yael El must have understood the situation she was in, so after coming out of Karrok Tok's belly, she directly inserted the sword into this land of chaos without any hesitation.
Although most of this bleeding plain is made up of mud, flesh and blood, there are still a lot of solid rocks mixed in it. Using these rocks as the base material, Yael launched [City of Pale Glory] and transformed herself and the sword of Zariel were all firmly protected in this city.
Then, over the next hundred years, the castle was gradually swallowed up by this strange plain, buried deep in the Underground, it was not discovered by them until today, and it was brought to light again.
After listening to Lulu’s guess, Nohir couldn’t help but sigh with emotion, sighing that such a story is really twists and turns. Although the above are all just Lulu’s personal guess, it is not true. It is indeed the situation that best explains the development of the current situation.
Nohir looked around the surroundings again and recalled the harsh terrain of the Bloody Plains and the geographical location of this fortress. All of these can be said to be extremely bad.
If he had not gained such a powerful power at this time, I am afraid that no one would be able to discover the secrets here anyway. Yael's body will continue to stay here, and this sword will not be known. When will he be able to see the light of day again, and as long as he thinks of that possibility, and the thought of letting the hero's body fall here and be forgotten, Zarrell, the hero who originally played a savior-like role, will continue to degenerate into a demon, and Nohir will... You will feel an uncontrollable sadness.
Fortunately, this assumption no longer existed at this time. Nohir put away his emotions and with respect for the hero, he carefully collected Yael's body, wrapped it in a shroud and sprinkled it with holy water. Next Just put it in a coffin.
However, because there was no preparation in advance, Nohir could only use local materials, scrape some stones on the spot with a tomahawk, use brute force to cut it into a simple sarcophagus, and put Yael's body in it in.
He had no idea of putting it into the space box because he thought it was too disrespectful. Nohir even prepared a coffin lid, but because Lulu wanted to see Yael for a while, he Just prepare everything and put it aside until you really want to leave.
And just after Nohir had prepared everything, he finally looked at the gorgeous sword in the middle again. Without any hesitation, he stepped forward and held the hilt of the sword with one hand. , and took it off the stone platform in one go. The process went smoothly without feeling any resistance.
And just when Nohir pulled out the sword and wanted to put it in front of his eyes to observe carefully, an inexplicable but friendly thought suddenly came from the sword body and pointed at Nohir. Hill expressed a desire to communicate.
Nohir was stunned for a moment, and then immediately canceled the shielding of the soul ring, and instantly blended with the thoughts in the sword. And at this moment, all kinds of memories were like watching a lantern, unusually fast, but extremely clear. appeared in his mind.
Nohir immediately knew who these memories came from, Zariel, the uncorrupted Zariel. These memories from Zariel also clearly completed the parts he had doubted in the past. They were definitely They learned about their previous speculations about Zariel's corruption and Yael's experience.
Yes, that’s right, Nohir’s previous speculations about Zariel’s depravity are all true, Lulu’s inferences about Yael’s experience are also all correct, and these messages are equivalent to clear Tell Nohir that they are on the right track at this time.
(End of this chapter)