Chapter 1243: Beacon

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On the other side of the Saron Fault, there is a vast void on which a perennial mist hangs. The imperial capital of the Shadow Empire is located in the void, among the mountains and fog.

Magic Ring City is just like what its name implies. This magnificent capital looks like a combination of concentric circles, interlocking with each other when viewed from a high altitude. The Demon Ring City is very old. Even though the starships above it are constantly coming and going, the buildings in the city still maintain an ancient flavor. This city is located on the void in front of the big fault, but it is different from the floating island of Babylon, there is no anti-gravity device under the city. The city is supported by thousands of stone pillars as thick as mountains. No one knows how these stone pillars came from. They seem to be naturally located under the capital, supporting the city of nearly 100 square kilometers.

There is a very obvious central axis in the capital city, which is the Phantom Avenue. The Avenue of Phantoms runs through the entire city. It starts from Shadow Fort, passes through the entire city, and leads directly to a tunnel in the Saron Fault. In ancient times, if the Magic Ring City wanted to go to the outside world, it needed to enter the fault tunnel through the avenue, and then go to the surface.

Naturally, it is not that troublesome now, and the phantom airships that come and go are the most powerful explanation.

Shadowhold is located in the deepest part of the city, that is Spinak's castle. Even in the best weather, even in the extreme daylight, the castle will always be covered in shadows due to the towering mountain walls rising a thousand meters behind. From a distance, it is difficult to see the whole picture of the Shadow Castle, only the strange lines on the surface of the castle that have been glowing red in the shadows for many years.

These lines are like the blood vessels of creatures, so most of the life on Agareth think that Shadow Castle is a dormant living creature.

Of course, this statement has not been accurately verified. After all, the person living in the Shadow Castle is one of the most terrifying characters on the planet. Around the Shadow Fort, there are pointed and conical Shadow Towers. These tall towers without doors and windows, almost like pillars, monitor the Demon Ring City and even the vast area near the Saron Great Fault all day long. From time to time, a dark yellow beam of light will shoot out from the end of each evil shadow tower. These beams of light are penetrating, and none of the known substances on Agares can prevent their penetration.

The twenty-four evil shadow towers monitor everything in this world like Spinak's eyes, and nothing can escape the Demon King's sight, even when he is asleep.

But the entire Shadow Empire knows,

Spinak has woken up.

Just one day not long ago, the coercion of the Demon King swept across his entire kingdom in an instant like a tide rolling in from the deep sea. On the same day, news of Spinak's awakening came from the Demon Ring City. This is really shocking news. Since the Void Skyfire expedition to Agares, the Demon King has entered a long sleep. When Frius rises, he often wakes up. But the awakening time is very short, sometimes it is a few days, sometimes it is several hours. The Demon King spends more time in deep sleep, and there has never been a waking up like this time, directly releasing his mighty abyssal breath, announcing the fact that he has woken up to the creatures of the entire planet.

As a result, many people in the empire speculated that Spinak would formally attack the Black Emperor, but after the Demon King woke up, he did not make any major moves. Even not long ago, there was a battle between the Phantom Empire and Dobia's army on the land bridge in the Blood Sea. That battle ended with the retreat of the Phantom Empire's army. Ke Guo asked, which made everyone in the Shadow Empire panic.

But no matter what the outside world is like, in the Shadow Castle, everything must be very careful. Even one breath must be controlled, so as not to attract Spinak's attention. No one wants to attract the attention of the Demon Lord, not even the soldiers serving in the Shadowhold.

But today, Lamer had to go to meet the demon king, which made General Lamer, who is known as the hidden demon, feel very heavy.

Lamer, the Baal man, was like a tall, thin monkey, with long hands and feet and a face like an ape. There is a row of long and short bone spurs from the top of the head to the back, and he always bends when walking, looking like an old man. But in fact, the general of Spinak is a master of stealth and assassination, otherwise he would not have won the title of "hidden demon". In addition to commanding an assassination force to serve the Shadow Empire, Lamer is also Spinak's intelligence chief, responsible for managing the huge intelligence network covering the entire empire.

Walking into the shadow hall of the castle, I heard the laughter of women coming from inside. The hall retains the style of ancient Agares architecture, dark, majestic and elegant. Those tall and long narrow windows let the bright sky outside only leave strips of light spots on both sides of the hall, like two rows of loyal guards. The stone pillars supporting the dome in the hall are carved with stone statues of nude women, and it looks like these women are holding the pillars. The dome is filled with spars, the largest being as big as a tabletop. At night, the light emitted by these spars is enough to light up the hall.

At the end of the hall is a high platform with a stone step extending to the ground. There are 27 stone steps in total, and the steps are from bottom to top, from wide to narrow. On the high platform is a black iron throne. The throne is shaped like many straight and sharp blades. At the bottom of the throne are two iron statues of strange beasts. Blood-red crystals are embedded on the strange beasts, which look like living creatures from a distance. As if these two strange beasts carried the throne all year round, there was a figure on the throne, which almost merged with the shadow on the high platform, making it impossible to see its outline. On both sides of the throne sits a voluptuous woman. There is a big difference between the women of the Baal tribe and the men. The males of this race have few common features, but the females are almost human. It's just that their skin is dull, their pupils are bright red, and their bodies have natural lines, but they are all sexy and beautiful.

Lamer looked towards the throne on the high platform and recognized that the two women were the sisters sent into the Shadow Castle by an adult just the day before yesterday. The person they were pleasing was naturally the highest existence in the Shadow Empire. Lamer stopped at a distance of 100 meters from the high platform, and then the whole body fell to the ground, and said straight away: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

A voice sounded from the high platform: "What's the matter, Lamer, you seem to have messed up something."

The sound was flat, with almost no ups and downs, and it kept reverberating in the hall. The volume is not loud, but it seems to be whispering in the ear. Lamer didn't dare to get up, and said: "Just now, I received news. The Kidds' transport fleet lost contact. They seemed to have been attacked before entering the planet. And after passing through the atmosphere, another accident happened. The entire fleet The fleet has been completely destroyed, and we are currently confirming where the wreckage of the fleet fell."

"What!" The voice on the high platform suddenly increased a few degrees, and the voice became high-pitched and angry. The coercion flowed down from the high platform like a tide, and swept through the entire hall in an instant. The pair of sisters on the throne showed pained expressions, and there was a soft sound of bone shattering in their bodies, and their sexy and beautiful bodies turned into two puddles of flesh in a blink of an eye, but they couldn't bear the power of the Supreme Being and died suddenly on the spot.

Lamer's whole body was also rattling, and Spinak's breath was so heavy that he couldn't breathe. After a while, the terrifying wave of power gradually receded, and the light in the hall seemed to be a little brighter.

"This time, the Kidds sent me the Heart of the Stars. They used the water purification fleet as a cover. It should have been foolproof. Who attacked them in outer space? Also, immediately find out for me that this fleet entered What happened behind the atmosphere. But most importantly, you must find the heart of the star, it is more important than anything!"

"Your Majesty." Lamer said in a trembling voice: "Once the wreckage of the fleet is confirmed, I will immediately send a team to recover it. I believe that the heart of the stars should be nearby. But..."

"But what?"

"It's Your Majesty, according to our deduction. The wreckage should fall near the Great Wasteland."

"The Great Wasteland?" The figure on the throne twisted slightly: "That's a little troublesome, the Great Wasteland is adjacent to the Forgotten Realm, if our people appear in that place, I'm afraid it will alarm her. And, once We are going to the Great Wasteland, and we are bound to attract the attention of that bastard Frius. He will definitely try to figure out our purpose. I can't imagine what will happen if the heart of the star is given to Frius .”

"Your Majesty, it's just a star heart, presumably the Black Emperor won't be interested?"

"If it was the core of a dying planet, Frius would certainly not be interested. But the heart of the star was directly taken out of a young planet by the Kidds using their latest technology. Its energy It is immeasurably large, and the important thing is that it is not only complete, but also young. With it, I can make the Idahua star suffer, and let Frius, a bastard, taste the pain of betraying me!"

Lamer said quickly: "Then I know what to do, Your Majesty."

"You better know."

Lamer almost crawled out of the Shadow Hall. After the two tall black iron gates were closed, he barely stood up while leaning on the wall. But he found that his legs were still trembling, and Spinac was as unpredictable as his figure. As long as he misspoke even one word, Lamer believed that his fate would not be much different from that of the sisters. Fortunately, he left the hall alive, and he swore that he would not step into this hall again if it was not necessary.

Of course, the premise is to find the wreckage of the fleet and the heart of the stars!

Five hours had passed since it touched the ground.

Allen stood on a rock and looked into the distance. The snowfield seemed to have no boundaries, and even with the light from the flickering spatial light bands above his head, Allen couldn't see the end of the snowfield. The terrain here is fairly flat, but the weird force fields all over the space not only affect perception, but also affect vision. With Allen's eyesight, he could only see six or seven hundred meters away in this environment. As for the farther scenery, it became blurred.

Even if he is like this, other people will naturally be more affected.

The sky still showed no sign of getting brighter, and it seemed that the night in Agares was extraordinarily long. If it weren't for the time of polar day or night on Agares, Allen thought that the sky would always be so dark. The snow field is quiet, but being quiet does not mean that there is no life. A corpse lying not far away is a creature on the snow field. It looks a bit like a giant lizard, but it has no eyes on its head, five legs on its body, and a thick tail that splits into two sides from the middle.

The creature inherited the chaotic nature of life on Agareth, and what appeared to be a head was actually a part designed to confuse opponents. When Laura chopped off its entire neck with the blood-shaking greatsword, thinking it was safe, the strange beast still attacked violently. Hubble next to him added another axe, almost cutting it in half, and finally ended its life. Afterwards, Allen turned his body over and found that there were eyes and a mouth under its abdomen. It turns out that the abdomen is where its important organs are located.

God knows how many other creatures like this exist on this snowfield.

But now, they are more eager to find traces of the planet's indigenous activities, so as to understand the current location, so that they can formulate the next plan.

A cloud of black mist suddenly appeared nearby, and Belmode walked out of the black mist. After many attempts, he seemed to have grasped the method of opening the space channel on the snow field, and he would never open it directly in mid-air like the first time. However, Belmode is still very cautious, and it is not necessary, he would rather use his own legs than use the space piercing edge. He walked onto the snowy ground and pointed to a corner of the vast snow field: "Master, maybe we should go there to see. I think I should see lights, yes, lights."

Allen's eyes lit up, and finally he had some clues. He nodded and said, "Lead the way, Belmode."

They didn't go fast, and encountered several chaotic creatures on the way. These things have nothing in common. Among the chaotic creatures, there are soft-bodied creatures like jellyfish, who can't see eyes, ears, mouth and nose; there are also monsters like spiders with six or seven pairs of legs, but their bodies are like wolves. . Only one thing, these things are very good at disguising themselves. Often it looks like a deadly part, but in fact it can be abandoned, and even used to lure the enemy to attack.

More than an hour later, Allen saw the so-called light in Belmode's mouth.

The light made him uncomfortable.

No one, including Hubble, feels comfortable seeing a cloud of miserable green lights. The Catu swung his giant ax and said in a buzzing voice, "I bet it won't be a good place."

"It's normal, because this is Agares." Belmode said.

"Let's go and have a look," Allen said.

The group of lights seemed to be open for hundreds of meters, not far away. But in fact, when Allen and the others walked towards the light, they found that it was not that simple. After walking for a full kilometer, they discovered where the light was. That is to say, the invisible force field on the snowfield also affected their judgment of distance.

Standing in front of Alan's eyes was a stone pillar. The stone pillar was very rough and the surface was uneven. There was a gabion on a ten-meter-high pillar, and there was a green flame burning inside. This was the light they saw. Although it is not a real light, neither the stone pillars nor the flames look natural. In other words, this is the trace of the indigenous activities of the planet. And not far away, there is another ball of green fire, and further away are two or three spots of green light.

Allen exchanged glances with everyone, and said: "It seems to be something like a road sign. The perception here is blurred, and the sense of distance and direction are greatly reduced. There is no obvious reference on the snowfield. I'm afraid the local natives will get lost too."

"In other words, we will find a settlement." Laura said with joy in her eyes.

"Don't be too happy, I don't think the natives of the planet will welcome us." Allen said, picking up the Red King.

The five of them walked towards the front of the snowfield along the green flames. When they saw the second lamppost, the snowfield picked up wind. Moreover, the wind and snow came very quickly, and within a few breaths, the vision had become extremely blurred. The light blue snowflakes flying wildly blurred the vision. Fortunately, those green flames did not know what to use as fuel, but the wind could not extinguish them. Allen made a gesture to let everyone speed up. They are not afraid of the cold, but they are afraid that the wind and snow will blow out the flames, and then it will take a lot of trouble.

So the team marched through the wind and snow, and when they passed the eighth lamp post, they finally saw the outline of the building. In the wind and snow ahead, under a dazzling emerald green light, there are stretches of buildings. It's just that due to the backlighting light system, only large black silhouettes can be seen.

Allen had just taken the first two steps when suddenly a little green light lit up in the wind and snow. He stopped awe-inspiringly, turned sideways, and a miserable green beam of light passed by him, slanting down on the snow a hundred meters away, and a ball of green flames rose silently. In the green fire, a large expanse of ice and snow disappeared instantly, and a pit with hot smoke appeared.

Someone in front said "Hey", and then an ugly voice rang out: "Who are you!"

"We are just ordinary travelers, but this damn snowstorm has made us lost, now we need a place to rest, can we go there?" Allen said in pure Agares language.

There was a burst of laughter ahead, and then someone said, "Then tell me, where are you from and where are you going?"

"I can't tell you where we come from, but what I can tell you is that we are going to the Great Wasteland." Allen said the words he wanted to say earlier in the morning. The Great Wasteland is a gray area, and there are everyone there. It would only be a joke if the other party wanted to infer the identities of the people from their destination.

Unexpectedly, there was a louder laughter in the wind and snow, and then the voice turned cold and said: "You are lying, I have never heard that the guy who is going to the Great Wasteland will wander to the edge of the Lost Realm!"

Allen's face changed immediately. He had felt that this snowfield was weird, but he didn't expect it to be the edge of the Lost Realm. Thinking of Ida Huaxing's warning about this area, he couldn't help but feel heavy.