Chapter 41 Treasure House

Ancient treasure houses are hidden in the mountains, the ruins that no one knows are covered with vines, the walls made of boulders and metals are covered with scars, and every trace is a character left by time, and mankind has learned from these The only thing that can be read in the characters is the word vicissitudes.

The history of this ancient ruin can be traced back to the distant Gondor Empire. Its majestic style is extremely unfamiliar to today's Ansu people. In Gawain's memory, when the northern pioneering army found it, it was already here. In ruins - and it didn't look much "younger" then than it does today.

Gawain, Rebecca, Amber, and Knight Byron entered the mountain through the largest arch. The flickering light of the torches made the corridors on both sides uncertain, like the legendary "soul corridor" leading to the kingdom of the dead. Amber complained dissatisfiedly. He wrote: "I should have asked your Aunt Hetty to come here. What's the use of bringing you - you can't even be an algorithm engineer with a flash technique?"

Rebecca blushed: "Fireball... Fireball can also illuminate..."

Unfortunately, the weak tone was not convincing at all.

Knight Byron walked not far behind Gawain. He looked at the ancient stone walls and the dents that were no longer useful, and couldn't help but think of how he felt when he was a mercenary many years ago: "This How many years have the ruins been there?"

"I don't know," Gawain shook his head, "the first time we discovered it, it was already in ruins. The more knowledgeable people in the team at the time said that this was the legacy of the 'Spark Age' - it was the magic of the middle and late Gondor Empire. When the technology developed greatly, at that time, the great magic well 'Deep Blue Well' was successfully launched, and the empire rose up with an expansion boom, and began to build a large number of fortresses and research facilities in various borders, hoping to find similar 'Deep Blue Well' in other parts of the continent. ' That super-large magic focus, but then those facilities were abandoned one by one."

Rebecca felt incredible: "Isn't a magic focus found?"

"No, I can't find a magical focus like Deep Blue," Gawain recalled the history in his mind, "The power of the Deep Blue Well is beyond your imagination. It is a super-large source of magical power located in the center of the continent. The output energy can even supply the current Ansu Entire Realm Mage Tower to run for a month - so later scholars believe that the explosion of the Deep Blue Well in Gondor in 1739 was actually the inducement of the magic tide, although the explosion did not blow up on the spot. The entire empire tore a big hole in the elemental plane, and the imbalance of elemental power accumulated in the second year before triggering the magic tide. However, this conjecture could not be confirmed. ' have been completely annihilated, and no one can investigate."

"It's amazing..." As a mage, Rebecca could naturally hear how amazing the ancient magic well was, and she was even more shocked that human beings were once able to master that level of power, "The Gondor Empire back then was amazing. …”

"All in all, in the eyes of the Gondorians back then, the magical focus of the continent was almost invisible, so after reluctantly found a few medium-sized magical focus, Gondor stopped exploring more distant areas. A large number of fortresses and research facilities were abolished. This should also be one of the facilities that were abolished at the same time, and it is likely to be a comprehensive thing."

Amber suddenly became nervous: "Then... Then there shouldn't be any out-of-control ancient magic monsters or magic traps here?!"

Gawain glanced at the nervous half-elf: "As a guy who dares to dig up other people's ancestral graves, are you still afraid of this ancient facility that has been abandoned for thousands of years?"

"That's different! Even if the person in the coffin digs the ancestral grave, it's just a person - if something pops out in this ancient facility, it's not sure what it is! I heard that some ancient facilities It also seals the synthetic magical beasts and magical colossus made by crazy magicians..."

Gawain had a blue vein on his forehead: "I'm just a 'human' when I deceive a corpse, and I really disappoint you--and the rumors about the Dark Mountains before are also,

The same is true of the strange rumors about ancient facilities. Where did all the incorrect knowledge in your head come from? "

Amber thought for a while, and suddenly said with a mysterious look: "I'll tell you, in fact, I'm really the goddess of the dark night. Sometimes I pray too much and the goddess will give me inspiration. She taught me. of……"

Rebecca rubbed a thumb-sized mini fireball and threw it at Amber, who was caught off guard and covered in black and gray, and suddenly screamed: "Mom, you're crazy! It's dangerous to throw a fireball suddenly. Well!"

Rebecca shrugged: "...It seems that she is not chosen by God."

Gawain was too lazy to pay attention to these two guys who were not very good at dealing with them.

Because the ancient gate had already appeared before their eyes.

At the end of the corridor, a heavy giant door made of violet-black metal stands in front. This giant door has a typical Gondor "Spark Age" style. It is heavy and calm, and its surface is painted with abstract reliefs Pattern of soldiers and city walls.

Amber wiped away the gray and black on his face, and looked at the door in front of him with bright eyes: "This thing... shouldn't it be a whole piece of purple steel?!"

"Yes, it's a whole piece, but I'll let Rebecca convert every piece of slag you scraped off of it into a fireball and smear your face," Gawain tapped the hilt of the Trailblazer's sword on Amber's. Head, "So put away your bold ideas, and honestly wait for me to pay you a salary is the long-term solution."

Amber tilted his head and whispered BB: "...Old stingy..."

Gawain heard her muttering, but ignored her, took a half step back, and took out the crucial "key" from his arms.

Legacy from seven hundred years ago, white gold disc.

Rebecca was a little worried: "It's been so many years, can this thing really still work?"

Gawain looked at her with a smile: "This is the technology of the Gondor Empire. As long as the main body of the facility does not collapse, its main gate will never fail."

As if to prove that what he said was true, at the same time as the words fell, the complex lines on the platinum disc lighted up one by one, and the relief on the heavy metal gate also followed. Wisps of brilliance.

After the radiance filled the entire gate, a creaking mechanical sound came from the gate and from the depths of the rock walls on both sides. Everyone felt the ground under their feet tremble slightly, and with the tremor, the gate slowly opened. .

Gawain, Rebecca and the others had already made preparations. When the door opened, they covered their mouths and noses and retreated to the sides. At the same time, Gawain also activated one of the basic skills of knights, "Aura Protection". The barrier protects everyone on the scene - this ability is similar to the mage's basic magic "Breeze Shield". Although it can only provide very, very limited defense, it can effectively maintain a clean air environment. In places such as ancient ruins, this skill can protect the caster from those poisonous gases.

There are no poisonous gas traps in this ancient ruin, but there may be gas accumulation in a closed space that has been closed for 700 years. It is always good to have more than one layer of protection.

After several minutes, Gawain lifted the protection, nodded to the others, and walked into the gate first, followed by Knight Byron.

Amber hesitated for a while, but gave up the idea of ​​cutting a piece of metal off the gate without anyone noticing—because the purple steel was too hard, the dagger couldn't pick it up.

On the inside of the gate is a vast rectangular hall. The closed gate can be seen in all four directions of the hall, and those ancient properties are stacked directly in this hall.

The sealed environment in the hall and the runes set up throughout the hall ensure that the materials here are oxidized and corroded at the slowest speed, and many of them are still well preserved today.

Stacks of metal ingots, crystals of various colors, swords, armors, and in the center were several large boxes about half a person's height.

Gawain stepped forward and stuck the Sword of Trailblazers into the gap of the box, and when he pulled it hard, the box opened.

One of the chests contained still-glossy gold and silver coins, while the others contained neatly stacked lavender crystals—engraved and charged military crystals.

Those gold and silver coins are not the most valuable things, but crystals.

The ancient Gondor Empire dominated the continent with advanced magic technology. The magic power from the Deep Blue Well gave the mages of the empire almost endless energy to squander. , so the Gondor Empire did something that is almost unbelievable in the eyes of the four major kingdoms today:

Mass production of "Extraordinary Armament".

Ordinary swords and armors are not enchanted. No matter how strong and sharp they are, they are only ordinary equipment. Only enchanted equipment with extraordinary power can be called "extraordinary weapons". In Anzu today, enchanted weapons and equipment are something that only officers of all levels can issue - and not necessarily, but in Gondor's time, each soldier was equipped with a longsword enchanted with sharpness and sharpness. A standard crystal is standard.

The thumb-sized crystal has pre-set spell models for primary shields and explosions. It runs automatically, and recognizes friends and foes. It can be used even by big-headed soldiers without the slightest spellcasting ability. When attacked, the shield will be activated and the shield will be depleted. It will flash with heat and give a warning, and then throw it hard, and it will explode when it reaches a safe distance from the wearer and nearby friendly units. In Gawain's view, this is an incredibly advanced weapon.

If it wasn't for the situation at the time, they couldn't take them away, and the pioneers wouldn't say anything to keep them. The team took away all the more valuable materials that could be brought with them. These crystals are part that has to be given up.

Gawain reached out and picked up a crystal, and gently rubbed it in his hand.

This may be a way for ordinary people to come into contact with magic, but this way will not work.

This kind of thing can only be poured out at no cost if the Deep Blue Well is activated. Now that the Deep Blue Well has been destroyed, these ancient crystals use one less.

But at least for now, these crystals will be the cornerstone of the stability of the territory.