$1491 Doubt

Raymond, who had removed the barrier, wandered in the ruins of the broken city. The breeze blowing across his cheeks made him feel calm, and the faint sound of wind chimes that came with the wind also made him start looking.

The ruins of the city covered with extremely fine quartz sand can be felt without too much observation. Even if you have not stood on the city wall to look down and observe, after entering this ruined city, any corner of the ruins is worthy of admiration.

The huge stone pillars with a diameter of more than three meters, the patterns carefully engraved on the surface, are still exquisite even after years of erosion.

The strangely shaped stone statues on both sides of the long street, although almost completely shattered, can still be seen from the traces left on their bases that they were once landmark buildings standing here.

And those magnificent but incomplete buildings with only outlines left, although they have been completely destroyed and cannot be restored, can still let people know the scale of their construction when they were completed through the remaining outer walls of a few meters wide.

In this city that looked like a ruin, Raymond could not find any signs of the existence of the underworld creatures, nor could he see any building materials other than stone. But apart from the sound of the wind blowing through the ruins, there was only the faint sound of the wind chimes, which was weak but extremely real. Knowing that the soul-sacrificing fruit tree was rooted deep underground, Raymond, who had nothing to worry about on the surface, did not deliberately restrain his own breath, and was within the area covered by his perception. Any energy breath could not escape his detection, and when he came to the other end of the city, he also found the source of the wind chime sound very smoothly.

A stone pillar that was broken into three pieces. Leaning against the middle of a smashed stone statue, although it seemed to be shaking in the breeze, it actually achieved a clever balance, making the bronze wind chime hanging on its edge jingle in the breeze.

The semicircular square not far from the side could not be seen in its original appearance because of the quartz sand covering it, but its scale was far larger than those squares Raymond had passed before.

And the remains of the huge arch at one end of the square. It also proved that this was a special place in the city.

The raised right hand quickly constructed a wind magic, and as the strong wind was generated and swept, the quartz sand covering the entire square was quickly cleared. Everything on the square could be seen by Raymond. There was no gap between the blue stone slabs that were embedded in each other for several meters, and the pattern painted on the square in the same semicircle also made Raymond release the lighting technique so that he could see it clearly.

The huge pattern engraved on the square without much damage was a towering tree. And there were many faint fruits among its lush branches and leaves.

The extremely developed root system is as dense as a spider web, and the faint ripples between its roots seem to indicate that this towering tree is rooted in the ocean or a huge water system. It is obviously not an ordinary underworld plant.

Raymond, who crossed the entire city to arrive here because of the sound of the wind chimes, also concluded that the secret passage leading to the soul-sacrificing fruit tree exists under this square. The situation detected in his perception shows that the area dozens of meters below is a compacted foundation, and the entrance to the secret passage is like a door. It makes his perception unable to continue downward.

The lighting technique fixed on Raymond's side makes his shadow sway and become erratic on the square. Obviously, there is some unknown weirdness in the environment here.

Thinking that there would be no danger in this environment, Raymond carefully checked the square and the surrounding building debris, then woke up the girl Becky sitting on his left shoulder, and after letting her enter the girl's streamside map in the storage ring, he transformed himself into energy and dived into the ground.

There was no obstacle at a depth of dozens of meters, but when he came to the entrance of the secret passage, he had to force the foundations around him to be cleared so that he could stand at the entrance of the secret passage in his original form.

It was like a door buried underground, plain and without any energy fluctuations.

But when Raymond pulled up the handle on the door panel slightly, a cold wind gushed out from inside, causing him to immediately strengthen his protective barrier!

No less than the cold air in the sky, the continuous cold wind gushing out from inside made Raymond feel like he was in ice and snow in an instant, and the gravel around him could not bear it at all, and its original structure was completely destroyed immediately, becoming powder-like particles.

Raymond, who was pulling the handle on the door panel, frowned at the slight tingling sensation even though his palm was isolated from the outside world.

The information collected by the chip in his pupils showed that the cold air coming out from behind the door was as low as minus 200 degrees. Obviously, wizards who were not at the dawn level could not resist it, which made Raymond sigh.

"It seems that the guardian of the soul sacrifice fruit tree is not weak..."

He knew that the soul sacrifice fruit was guarded by powerful underworld creatures before, but he did not think that the strength of these guardians would be so tyrannical.

But after the door of the secret passage was opened, he realized that the danger he might face would exceed his original expectations.

After waiting for a while, he saw that the cold air pouring out from the crack of the door was endless. After some of his fingers that were about to be frozen moved, Raymond pulled the door panel to open it completely, so that the constant illumination light on his shoulder could shine directly in.

As if it was an independent space embedded in this door, the spiral stone steps extended downwards, and you couldn't see the end at a glance.

But the cold air that kept pouring out from inside became more and more intense because the door was completely opened.

After setting up an isolation array at the entrance of this secret passage, Raymond climbed down the steps and began to descend.

20 meters...

50 meters...

80 meters...

200 meters...

After slowly descending for a long time, when the depth calculated by the chip in his pupils reached 400 meters, there was still no end to the stone steps in front of him. Raymond couldn't help but stop and raise his head.

The gap between the stone steps that was decreasing and shrinking in a spiral upwards became a point after the distance reached 100 meters, making it impossible for him to see the existence of the door.

The right wrist that was lifted in front of him showed no change on the coral bracelet. Obviously, either he could not break the illusion effect here, or he was not trapped in the illusion at all.

But thinking of the regional form of the soul-sacrificing fruit tree simulated by the resentful butterfly Uru before, Raymond couldn't help but feel a little confused.

The space where the inverted funnel-shaped soul-sacrificing fruit tree grew should not have such long stone steps no matter which corner you observe from, and he should not be able to find any abnormalities while keeping an eye on the environment.

He waved his right hand to start building the magic model again, and a moment later, the lighting magic that was released again was thrown down by him.

Passing through the gap between the stone steps, the rapidly falling lighting magic soon became a bright spot, and it could not be seen again after more than ten breaths because the distance was too far.

But the distance that the illumination technique has passed through during such a period of time is definitely more than hundreds of meters, and its bottom has not been explored!

Unless the strength of its builder is extremely strong, the independently constructed space should not create such a wide range.

What is the problem?

Raymond, who was looking at the deep and invisible secret passage, was confused for a while.

As a wizard who studies the properties of space, he believed that after entering the gate, he did not feel the existence of space energy in the environment, so he should not be in the kind of "continuously reciprocating" space trap.

But if it is ruled out that he is trapped in a certain space trap, then what kind of strong illusion does he need to be trapped in now to make him unaware of it? (.)