Chapter 976: Neilting Winter Palace
A thousand years ago, a legendary wizard completely destroyed a certain inter-layer door, and the ancient demon god did not show any signs of it. Therefore, the wizard concluded that it might have disappeared long ago.
However, the so-called disappearance in the years does not mean that it is dead. Maybe it is just tired and sleeping, or maybe it is disappointed and far away. Of course, it may also be completely annihilated by the erosion of time.
The breath of the ancient demon god has dissipated after all. The only thing that can be felt is the will and power left on the inter-layer door, which still exists in the world.
"Others, please rest here for a while, all the guards will open the door with me." Sinafa's voice reached everyone's ears.
This "opening the door" is to push open the inter-layer door.
To push open the door, you need to reach a certain strength.
According to research, this restriction on pushing the door is actually a kind of protection of the ancient demon god for the surface creatures. If you want to push open the door, your strength must at least reach the equal strength of the third layer of the abyss, otherwise entering the third layer is to seek death.
With Sinafa's strength before the curse, she could push it open by herself, but now she needs the cooperation of the guards, which is enough to show that her strength has been seriously damaged.
When the crack in the door gradually appeared, Angel curiously cast his eyes behind the crack.
Unfortunately, there was no new world behind the crack, but it was covered by a layer of gray fog wall.
Although he couldn't see the world behind the crack, Angel was lost in thought. Because the abyss has progressive layers, he originally thought that the structure of the abyss was an infinitely extended basement-like structure, and crossing the layers was jumping from one ladder to another, which might be expressed as entering a natural pit. But he didn't expect that the way to cross the layers would be to enter the door. Is the space behind the door a mirror or parallel? Or is it a ladder to heaven, and the door is a way of teleportation?
"You look confused?" Madeline found that Angel frowned and asked.
Angel asked the doubts in his heart, "Is this cross-layer like the three-layer space in the fairy tale world?"
"Not really. Although the fairy tale world is divided into three layers of space, the inner structure and size are actually restricted by the surface world. The abyss is different. The structure of each layer is not subject to any restrictions. You can understand that each layer is a world. These worlds are arranged according to some harsh restrictive rules. They are both interconnected and independent."
Madeline herself has limited knowledge of the structure of the abyss. She just said the conjecture of the wizarding world about the structure of the abyss since ancient times.
While Angel was still thinking, the door finally opened to a certain width.
And when the guards released the force of pushing the door, the door was slowly closed by a mysterious force.
"Before the door closes, everyone should follow immediately!"
The cross-layer door closed itself very quickly, and everyone did not dare to delay, and threw themselves into the fog door one by one.
Angel also stopped thinking, drove the gondola, and plunged into the gray fog wall.
They shuttled through the fog wall for half a minute, and finally saw the scene outside, the boundless snowfield.
The endless fields were all white, the heavy snow blocked the vision, the cool breath penetrated into the nose, and only the whistling wind was left in the ears.
"Is this the third layer of the abyss?" Angel felt it carefully. The energy jump around was indeed more violent than before, which also meant that it would be more difficult for wizards to recover their magic power.
As for other places, Angel did not find any changes. The sky was still gloomy, the atmosphere was still oppressive, and the wind blowing from the cold knife was also like before, with a murderous atmosphere.
The Frost Moon Guard did not stop, and was still clearing the way ahead.
This flight took more than half an hour. They were still in the snowfield, but they came to a shelter, the Nelting Winter Palace.
It was an abandoned temple standing in the vast wind and snow. The style was extremely strange. The carvings on the outer wall were monsters with various hideous expressions, and even the statues guarding the door were gargoyles with wings on their backs. From this point alone, it can be seen that this temple should have worshipped evil gods before it was abandoned.
Entering the Winter Palace, the cold air was immediately blocked outside, and the warm atmosphere filled the palace.
"The Neilting Winter Palace is an important stop for the Frost Moon Alliance. Once here, the next step is to go to various outposts according to different routes of the mission." Madeline said.
"In other words, from here on, everyone will go their own way?" Angel asked.
Madeline nodded, and her expression began to become more solemn: "Yes, so the next section of the journey is the most dangerous section."
After a pause, Madeline changed the subject: "Didn't Lianna leave you a bottle of Kunsha flower fragrance? You can use it after leaving here."
Sinafa arranged for everyone to rest in the Winter Palace, and she left the Winter Palace with a few guards.
When Angel was curious about where Sinafa was going, Maher brought the remaining guards and gathered everyone together, saying, "Miss Sinafa has gone to contact the phantom beasts in various places. I will take you to your respective mission locations later."
After a pause, Maher took out a form: "There are eight front-line locations for the supply this time. They are the twin tower outposts near the Mechanical Gate, the Kodo Port near the Dark Ocean Vortex, the cliff shelter deep in the Cave of Evil... and the watch fortress outside the critical forest."
Macher began to classify and summarize the frontline tasks received by the apprentices, and arranged them to different places for frontline construction according to needs.
As for the formal wizards, Maher did not care. Since the formal wizards came to the front line of the abyss, they must have their own arrangements, or the arrangements of various wizard organizations, and he did not need to care.
After the arrangements were completed, they rested and waited for the arrival of the phantom beasts.
Angel also took this time to get a general understanding of each outpost.
All the outposts are near the entrances to the inner layers. The outpost that Angel is about to go to is the Watch Fortress. According to Brufen, this fortress is the most dangerous of all the outposts, because if you enter the inner layer of the abyss through the critical forest, you will arrive at a black water basin, and there is a demon city nearby.
If there are demons in the demon city who want to enter the surface of the abyss, the critical forest is definitely the first choice.
"Although the Watch Fortress is the most dangerous outpost, it is also the place with the most True Knowledge Wizards. Master of Illusion, Ruye, and Lord Bingjing are all there." Brufen paused: "If nothing unexpected happens, Sinafa will probably go to the Watch Fortress. Therefore, the overall strength is still guaranteed."
"Sinafa is also going to the Watch Fortress? Doesn't she go to Lord Monkey to lift the curse of the Ice Valley?" Madeline asked in confusion.
Brufen sighed: "It's not that Sinafa doesn't want to go, but Lord Monkey went to the inner layer of the abyss several years ago and has never been settled. He is the only one who can contact us, and it is difficult for us to contact him."
Madeline didn't expect there was such a secret. She always thought that Lord Monkey would stay in the base camp of Frost Moon. But in this case, what should be done about Sinafa's curse?
"I can only wait until the next time I return to the wizard world, and then I can find other people to help me. However, even if I want to return to the wizard world, I can only cross the border again after the energy tide has passed."
When Brufen was sighing, a huge whistling sound suddenly came from outside the Winter Palace, accompanied by a sharp eagle cry.
After hearing the eagle cry, Brufen's eyes flashed with realization: "Sure enough, the fastest one is Grosh."
At the same time, Maher's voice also reached everyone's ears: "Grosh has arrived, those who are going to the cliff shelter, get ready to go!"
Angel followed the pace of the crowd and walked outside the Winter Palace, and saw the fantasy beast called Grosh.
It was a huge eagle that was big enough to cover the sky and the sun, with a white crown on its head. In the wind and snow, it was like a servant of the goddess of ice, descending from the sky and raising a lot of snow dust.
The back of this eagle was extremely wide, and there was even a windproof fortress built on it. One of the Frost Moon Guards who had left earlier opened the door in front of the fortress and signaled those who were going to the cliff shelter to come up quickly.
More than fifty apprentices and six wizards stepped on the back of the condor.
Accompanied by an eagle cry, Grosh spread his wings and flew into the sky.
Grosh came quickly and left quickly. When Angel was still shocked by the size of the condor, it had turned into a black dot and disappeared in the depths of the wind and snow.
Not long after Grosh left, the earth shook.
A unicorn red scorpion, which was even bigger than Grosh, howled at the sky and flew over.
"Logamidan is here too." Brufen said lightly. Like Grosh, Logamidan was also a fantasy beast that carried apprentices to the outpost, and the place it was going to was the twin tower outpost near the mechanical gate.
As time passed, various terrifying and huge fantasy beasts appeared and carried away everyone in the Winter Palace of Nierting.
The number of people was getting smaller and smaller, and the originally noisy Winter Palace became lonely again.
At this time, Madeline turned to look at Brufen, who was sighing about the last fantasy beast, with doubt and disgust in her eyes: "Macher has left, why haven't you left yet?"
Brufen smiled shyly: "Didn't I say before that I was actually going to the Watch Fortress?"
"What are you going to the Watch Fortress for?" Madeline frowned. Brufen, as a technical wizard, has always been cherished by Shuangyue. Why would he suddenly run to the most dangerous Watch Fortress?
Brufen smiled and said: "Guess?"
Madeline's eyes were stern, as if she thought of something, and her tone suddenly became cold: "You...are you going for her?"
Brufen shrugged and didn't answer. But Madeline had almost confirmed Brufen's intention. Thinking about Brufen's profession and that person's hobby...
Madeline looked at Brufen with an increasingly sinister expression.
Brufen said, "You can do whatever you want. I won't stop you."
"That's better!" Madeline looked at Brufen coldly, and said no more.