Chapter 973 Han Ancient Ruins

The dead branches in the fire slowly burned, making crackling sounds. The firelight illuminated the dim cave, and the light on everyone's face flickered.

Most people were seizing the time to meditate in order to restore their magic power to full.

After a long time, when everyone recovered a little, a low rustling sound began to spread among the crowd. Sinafa has not returned yet, which made everyone start to discuss in a low voice.

"Can Lord Sinafa beat the sheep demon?"

"If it's just the sheep demon, there shouldn't be any problem."

"But most of the day has passed, and Lord Sinafa hasn't come back yet. Why is that?"

The time was indeed too long, causing people's hearts to start to waver. However, the apprentices were discussing this before. In order to reassure the apprentices, Maher said:

"The strength of the goat demons also varies. I saw that the goat demon before had almost reached the peak level of a first-level true wizard. In addition, with the bonus of the power of the abyss, it is very likely that he will fight Miss Sinafa to a stalemate."

After a pause, Maher continued: "It is actually very difficult to kill the goat demon. I guess Miss Sinafa should be trying to get rid of the goat demon now. With Miss Sinafa's strength, there will be no problem."

Macher's firm tone made the apprentices feel a little relieved.

Angel now understood what Madeline said before. The variables of the abyss are too great, so it is very difficult for the base city to move.

Imagine that if the stranded people in the Cinder Rock also encountered a goat demon on the way to the Undead Street, it is estimated that the thousands of apprentices who can escape are lucky.

The atmosphere in the cave was silent and depressing. It seemed that the silence would continue, but it was finally broken by a Frost Moon guard guarding the cave entrance.

This guard was an elemental wizard, and he suddenly set up a rock and earth armor around himself. He probed into the entrance corridor in doubt, and after a while, he withdrew the armor.

His actions made everyone a little confused.

"Cage, what's wrong?" Maher asked.

"Nothing, I just heard a strange sound. Later, I used my mental power to explore it and found that it was the wind outside, and the wind poured into the cave entrance, making that sound."

Although Cage explained his behavior, the apprentices present had been suppressed for too long, and a whistle broke the calm maintained on the surface.

Some people began to complain, some cursed in a low voice, and some people shed tears silently.

The apprentices' concerns about the future far exceeded those of the formal wizards, so this kind of negative emotions kept growing, and even if Maher wanted to stop it, there was no way.

The official wizard was calm and composed, only occasionally whispering with his colleagues.

Angel felt the strong negative emotions in the cave, which made him feel more and more depressed. Seeing this, Madeline, who was sitting at the other end of the fire, said softly: "It's not good to be too depressed. Why don't you vent it?"

"Controlling your emotions is the basis of mental illusions. Even if you really need to relieve your emotions, there are many ways to vent them." Angel said calmly.

"For example?"

Angel: "For example, sleeping, chatting, or reading, listening to musicals."

"Where can I listen to musicals here... Oh, no, I almost forgot, you are a music box wizard." Madeline raised her eyebrows and said: "Why? Are you going to play a piece of music to calm your emotions?"

"I haven't reached the point where I need to relieve myself, and playing music here will only deepen my fear. It has no other effect." Angel looked around the dark underground cave. The places they could see were very limited. The dark areas that could not be seen would automatically make people imagine terrifying scenes. If we add another piece of music at this time, and the music will definitely echo because of the cramped space, I am afraid it will be even more scary.

"Well, since listening to music is not okay, why don't I chat with you?" Madeline said with a smile: "I see you are frowning all the time, do you have any doubts?"

Angel hesitated for a moment and said: "I heard Captain Maher say that there is an unspeakable horror crisis in the ancient cold ruins. Where does this come from?"

Madeline shrugged: "I don't know about this. When I was an apprentice, I came here many times and didn't encounter any danger. I still remember that someone in the Frost Moon Alliance did propose to use this place as a candidate for a stronghold city, but something seemed to happen later, and it was left unresolved."

"As for what happened, you have to ask the people inside Frost Moon."

Angel asked this question purely out of curiosity. Naturally, he would not bother the people of Frost Moon because of this matter, not to mention that he was not familiar with it.

"When we flew here, I found that the ecological landscape here is much better than outside, but it's a bit strange that there seems to be no buildings here... Where is the site of the Han Ancient Ruins?" Angel changed the subject and asked.

"I don't know either." Madeline recalled her past adventures in the abyss. "Speaking of which, I traveled all over the Han Ancient Ruins and didn't find the so-called building ruins, so I asked people about this question. But no one knows."

"Since there are no ruins, how did the name of the Han Ancient Ruins come about?" Angel was curious.

"I heard that a half-blood demon said a long time ago that this place is called Han Gu Ruins, and it is a holy place for the abyss natives in the Han Gu period... The Han Gu period is the ancient stratification of the abyss natives, an era a hundred thousand years ago." Madeline continued: "Later, the ancient wizards learned from other abyss tribes that the half-blood demon did not lie, and this place is indeed called Han Gu Ruins, so the name was passed down."

Angel suddenly realized that perhaps there is indeed a hidden ruins here, but it has not been discovered yet.

"From what you said, half-blood demons can still communicate?"

"Many demons can communicate, but the premise is that you have to be strong enough." After a pause, Madeline said, "However, demons are all cunning, and no demon will be biased towards humans. But among the half-blood demons, there are a few who are close to humans. For example, the establishment of the Undead Street is actually related to the help of some half-blood demons."

Half-blood demons are hybrids of the abyss natives and demons. They are hated by the natives and attacked by demons.

So, in difficult situations, some half-blood demons began to lean towards humans. However, this is only a minority after all.

Next, Angel and Madeline talked about demons, the abyss, and the strongholds in different realms. When the fire began to replenish the third batch of dead branches, there was finally movement from the cave outside.

The Frost Moon Guards first took a vigilant posture, until the shadow of Frost Hair and Fiery Eyes appeared in the cave, everyone was slightly relieved.

The person who came was Sinafa.

Sinafa's face was a little pale, and Maher asked worriedly: "Miss Sinafa, are you okay?"

Sinafa shook her head: "Too much magic power was consumed, and meditation will be fine."

Macher: "How is the sheep demon now?"

Sinafa's eyes flashed fiercely when she mentioned the sheep demon: "With the addition of the power of the abyss, its strength is not as good as mine, but it is not far away. In addition, the abyss is its home ground, and I am likely to be killed if I drag it down, so I can only find a way to get rid of it. But it is chasing me closely, so I can only take a detour."

"Take a detour?" Maher recalled the area near the Demon Monastery, and there seemed to be only one place where the sheep demon could be shaken off.

Macher's eyes flashed with a trace of doubt: "Miss, you won't go..."

Sinafa nodded helplessly: "I went to the Ice Valley to get rid of it."

When Sinafa mentioned the Ice Valley, all the wizards present frowned except the ignorant apprentice. The name of Ice Valley is known to all wizards who have been in the Abyss. It is an absolute forbidden place, not only because there is a strange-tempered Abyss Dragon there, but also because of the curse of Ice Valley.

Entering the Ice Valley will inevitably be cursed.

No one knows where this curse comes from. Once you are cursed, it is not so easy to get rid of it.

"That curse..." Maher hesitated for a moment, looking at Sinafa with worry.

Sinafa pulled open her right shoulder, and a strange white emblem appeared in everyone's eyes. This emblem looks very artistic, of course, the premise is that you have to put aside the extremely strong curse power.

After Sinafa showed the curse emblem, she pulled up her clothes again: "This is the curse of frost chaos. Before it is lifted, I can no longer use the power of ice."

After Sinafa's words fell, the wizards frowned even more.

Everyone knows that the reason why Sinafa is so powerful is that she can master the "contradictory" power, frost and flame at the same time. Now, the power of frost is contained, and the flame cannot maintain balance, and its strength is probably less than one tenth.

Sinafa's strength has been greatly reduced. If they encounter a similar existence like the sheep demon in this situation, they will be in a very passive situation.

For a while, the atmosphere that was originally slightly relaxed after Sinafa came back became tense again.

Angel also learned some things about the curse of the Ice Valley from Madeline. He frowned and said, "Is there no way to lift the curse of the Ice Valley?"

"It is difficult to lift the curse of the Ice Valley. This is a curse comparable to that of a third-level true knowledge wizard. Either go to the abyss dragon in the Ice Valley, or go to find a third-level true knowledge wizard... and now the third-level true knowledge wizard in the abyss is probably only Monk." Madeline also had a trace of worry on her face.

"Abyss dragon?" Angel was stunned.

"There is an abyss dragon in the Ice Valley. The curse of the Ice Valley was actually partly caused by that abyss dragon, so it is almost impossible to find it to lift the curse."

"The only way now is to take it one step at a time. Pray that the journey ahead will be a little smoother and that we won't encounter strong enemies like the Sheep Demon Man again."