Chapter 584: In the Shadow

Above the base of the Sentinel Tower, relying on anti-gravity technology to float in mid-air, is the most important "functional facility" of the tower, a shield projection device called "Stone Tablet".

The energy barrier of the magnificent wall is maintained by the "stone tablet", but the function of the stone tablet is not limited to creating a layer of shield. As a powerful magic facility, the stone tablet has a very complex structure and function inside. It is creating a shield. At the same time, it also assumes the role of the upper sensor, monitoring the barrier situation at a height of one thousand meters in real time, monitoring the energy tides in the wasteland, and reporting its own status to the demon mind in the base at any time.

The sensor array in the stele may be the last unit that can fail and bypass the mind of the demon.

"There is an elevator on the top floor of this room that can go to the stele," Banner opened a new operation interface on the alloy column next to the demon's mind, and quickly said while checking the system, "Let me see... Thank you for the forest. Ling, the lift table is in good condition."

Gawain nodded: "Let's go to the stele to see."

No one objected, Gawain immediately arranged for Soldering and the Rangers to continue to guard the situation in the pedestal, while he and Banner and others came to the upper floor of the room where the demon's mind was located - a circular shape. The lift platform was moored silently in a recess at the top of the room.

The lift platform has been parked here for seven centuries, but the protection system of the Sentinel Tower has kept it in good condition. After Banner injected magic and manipulation commands into it, the ground of the circular platform was immediately on the ground. Light blue magic lines and faint elven runes emerged, Gawain felt a slight shock under his feet, and the entire platform began to slowly rise.

The layer of magic cloud top with shimmering rays of light gradually approached in the field of vision, and an energy shield to protect the occupants was automatically raised around the lift platform, but Gawain did not care about the magic cloud above his head and the shields around him, he almost All attention was paid to the magic lines that appeared on the surface of the lifting platform.

This is the elves' anti-gravity technology... far more advanced than humans.

It only needs to inject a small amount of mana to lift a considerable load, and the floating process is unbelievably smooth. Its rune structure is obviously well optimized, so that Banner hardly needs additional manipulation. ...

Humans also have floating magic, as well as floating devices based on gravity spells. In the towers of the great magicians, they often use similar floating platforms to transport people or goods, but Gawain knows the deadly existence of those floating devices. Disadvantages - they consume so much energy that they can only be used in the mage tower, the control is not easy, so that the tower spirit of the mage tower is needed to assist the control to prevent it from falling, expensive and complicated, so that only intermediate to high-level ones are available. Only the extraordinary can afford the cost...

Researchers at the Rune Institute have been trying to crack and optimize human gravity spells.

However, they encountered a similar problem with the original communication technique: the technical black box.

Gravity spells are not created by human beings, their origin is a mystery, and there are a lot of unexplainable structures in the spell model. Jenny and her technical team have worked hard so far, but they have not been able to optimize the large-scale anti-gravity magic circle to a sufficient level. In terms of practicality, so far, the only achievements of the Rune Research Institute in gravity spells are "weight reduction" and "floating trick". The former has been applied in the fields of construction and material transfer, while the latter... ...due to the extremely small load and the problem of parallel interference of multiple arrays, it has not been applied so far.

The technical black box of the old communication technique was cracked after the introduction of Eternal Sleeper technology, so the technical black box of gravity spells... Will there be a breakthrough in the knowledge system of elves?

The floating platform continued to rise, and it drilled into the thick magic cloud top. The dense mist filled everyone's sight. The arc generated by the friction between the magic power and the platform shield crackled around, and the amber seemed to be swept away. This seemingly dangerous "traveling" was frightened, the goose shrank its neck subconsciously, while Gawain was still thinking about the application of anti-gravity technology——

Breaking free from gravity and soaring in the sky is something that almost any intelligent creature would aspire to, its significance in the military and civilian fields goes without saying, and more importantly, the technology of breaking free from gravity is something that Gawain has always been thinking about—in his lifetime , in the conceivable field, this seems to be the only way that allows him to touch those satellites in space and touch his own "body".

On this road, the griffins are not good, the giant eagles are not good, and the mage's personal flying skills are not good either.

As long as the conditions are ripe, the aircraft must be built.

The floating platform passed through the top of the magic cloud with a thickness of more than ten meters, and the crackling arc and the dense mist gradually sank to the feet. Beyond the platform, there was an amazing wide field of vision.

The majestic wall of astonishing scale stretches out in front of you like an aurora plunging into the earth, outlining the borders of the ancient Gondor Empire. In the north, the end of the line of sight is the undulating outline of the dark mountains, while in the south, the purple-black The corrupted land stretches as far as the eye can see, and the monstrous rocks and withered plants are scattered on the plain. Some distorted and disembodied remains appear in the distance, looking desolate and desolate.

Amber stared blankly at the scene on the other side of the barrier, before exclaiming for a long time: "Wow..."

"That is Gondor, the most powerful empire in human history, from where the ancestors of Ansu escaped seven hundred years ago," the memory from Gawain Cecil flooded into his mind, Gawain looked at the southern The wasteland broke the silence, "See that slightly crimson band? That's the road, where one-fifth of our people died. And the crooked patch in the distance. The ruins, which looked as if they had melted, were Thranduran, the last frontier city where the resistance was still organized. When Charlie tried to persuade the lord of Thranduran to flee with the people immediately, but the stubborn old man The Count insisted on living and dying with the city. He ended up detonating Thranduran's magic tube, and those crooked things were remnants of the magic tube."

Everyone listened to Gawain's narration quietly, and even Amber couldn't help but quiet down, and in this brief silence, the entire lift platform fell into a shadow——

It arrived at the lower berthing area of ​​the stele.

After a short period of adaptation, the eyes of the group got used to the dim magic light inside the stele. Amber blinked, looked around, and then was surprised to find that there was not much space inside the huge stele—there was only one in sight. A circular hall, the hall has a high roof, but the height is no more than tens of meters, and she did not see any other exits except the hall.

Neat silver-white metal pillars stand in the hall, and those metal pillars may be the monitoring and control devices of the stele.

"Most of the entire stele is sealed off, wrapped with thick artificial rock and more than a dozen layers of magic materials," Banner explained, "This is because the stele is surging with very powerful energy. The energy is extremely dangerous, and it also has to keep its own energy environment closed to prevent the shield from being unbalanced, so we have to seal it up. The walls of this hall are ten meters thick and rely on a huge magic circle set on the roof It has established connections with the stone monument, and through this magic circle, we can understand the working conditions of the stone monument."

As Banner spoke, he came to the silver-white metal pillars. He activated one of them, and complex and mysterious elf runes appeared on the surface of the metal pillar. With a slight buzzing sound, a large amount of data was displayed. Illusion projections appear in the air around the pillars.

Gawain and Sonia were concerned about Banner's work quite nervously. They hoped that Banner could find out some anomalies, but at the same time they were worried that they had discovered a major fault in the Sentinel Tower - the stele is the most important part of the Sentinel Tower. Structure, failures here are almost all fatal, if the problem is really here...

I am afraid that the entire barrier repair and reinforcement plan will become a joke.

Amber also paid attention to Banner's operation for a while, but she really didn't know anything about elf runes, and she didn't understand the work of the Sentinel Tower. After a while, she lost interest in what was in front of her and began to look around.

The "visions" that happened one after another today made her very concerned.

She is a careless girl with a carefree part of her character, but this does not mean that she is heartless (although many people think so), and she will not simply attribute what she has seen before. It's as simple as "seeing the eyes", but she is very clear about those things that only she can see.

It was a projection from the Shadow Realm, or... it was a phenomenon that occurred after part of the Shadow Realm invaded the real world.

Is there a shadow fissure here? Why do shadow fissures appear out of thin air in nature?

Amber frowned, she tried to relax her mind, and let her innate, inexplicable shadow talent gradually dominate her five senses, she breathed gently, and her eyes swept across the hall.

She began to try to see the place through the eyes of the shadow creatures.

Most of the figures I saw below were a shadow dweller-the shadow dwellers had no communication with the living beings in the material world, and even seemed to have a certain malice, but they were relatively... close to her, Amber didn't know the shadow dwellers' relationship with her. Her attitude is not considered close, but she does have experience in dealing with each other.

Those weird, seemingly illogical inhabitants are actually intelligent creatures, and they won't point themselves in this direction for no reason, unless there is something here that disrupts the order of the material world and the shadow world... something.

"The device here also shows that everything is normal." Not far away, Banner's slightly confused voice sounded. The elf magister repeatedly checked several key sensors of the stone tablet, and his tone was full of puzzlement, "Strange... ...normal is just outrageous..."

Sonia also came to Banner: "It seems that the sensor is working well. Where is the connection to the mind of the demon?"

"The connection is smooth, wait, it's too smooth..."

The voices of Banner and Sonia became indistinct in Amber's ears.

Her hair had grown long before she knew it, floating in mid-air as if she had lost gravity, her eyes had turned an eerie pale gold, reflecting the black and white landscape of the Shadow Realm, and a squirming cloud of smoke gathered under her feet , and constructed a passage to the Shadow Realm.

She entered the shadow world.

Some hollow and eerie figures, wrapped in runecloth, emerged around her, and those hollow figures murmured: "You are in big trouble..." "They have already caused damage..." "But it seems that you It can be delayed a little." "That has nothing to do with us..." "It's just that I need to remind you that you belong here after all..." "Look up and look up."

Amber raised his head and looked at the roof of the hall.

Huge hatching vines and roots entrenched on all the silver-white metal pillars, spread over the walls of the entire hall, and drilled out of the stone tablet along the cracks in the berthing area of ​​the lift platform.

They seem to be connected to the pedestal below, to the earth below the pedestal, to the wasteland, to something more profane in the depths of the wasteland.

"Mom!!"