1583 Old Hedgehog 1
The corner of the Desperate Bar suddenly became lively.
The waiters brought all kinds of delicacies, and soon the not-so-large stone table was filled with food. After the empty wine barrels that had been placed on it were taken away, they were placed on a three-story rotating table. It was replaced by a wine rack filled with various fine wines from other planes.
Saliman, the one-eyed sand man who had never been able to resist delicious food, started munching after finishing it. The old hedgehog, whom the waiter called a "historical encyclopedia", finished a large plate of fried powderworms before he started chewing. He rubbed his belly with satisfaction and began to taste the wine.
After a few glasses of wine, the old hedgehog's cloudy eyes became clearer. He looked at Raymond up and down for a moment, and then he muttered and asked. "This is the desperate bar at the end of the plane. How did you, a young man, come here?"
Thinking of what Senmario had unconsciously muttered before, Raymond asked. “I’ve heard that ‘the abyss tornado is the end of the plane’, but I don’t know why there is such a saying?”
"This is the end of the plane. The entire five-layer world can be accessed through here..."
The old hedgehog said it very casually, making Raymond even more confused. "Fifth floor? What fifth floor?"
"Beyond the abyssal tornado is the first level of the plane, and below it is the underground world of the second level mentioned in the general name. Going down further is the basic level of the plane..."
Having said this, the old hedgehog drank the glass of wine in one sip, turned around and waved to the waiter standing not far away. complained. "Why don't you hurry up and send me some more wine glasses! Don't you have to do it yourself..."
As if he had been prepared, the waiter bent down and apologized, then quickly brought dozens of clean wine glasses over on a cart and placed them between the old hedgehog and Raymond.
The previous topic was not over. Raymond waited for the old hedgehog to reopen a bottle of wine and finish tasting it. Then he asked. "So there are three levels below the underground plane? Do they all belong to the wizard plane?"
"The sorcerer plane is not a wizard plane, it's just the name promoted by those planes that were ravaged and insulted by the ancient wizards..."
He seemed to strongly disagree with the name Raymond used. He slammed the wine glass in his hand on the table, and then the old hedgehog looked at him and said. "The three floors below are where the real strength of the plane lies. There is nothing worth remembering or yearning for in the world outside the wall..."
"It is said that the human wizard alliance on the surface is about to be wiped out by the spider beast army in the southern border of the nightmare world. Should we just let them wreak havoc and massacre on the surface?"
Raymond's somewhat abrupt statement made the old hedgehog's expression become a little confused, and he was stunned for a moment before laughing. "Wrathful? It won't last long. They will have to go back when the time is up. This place cannot be occupied by them..."
Raymond, who felt more and more confused the more he listened, turned the rotating wine rack on the stone table ninety degrees with his left hand, took out a simple-looking wine bottle in the middle, opened it, then took a clean wine glass, filled it and pushed it to the old man's table. In front of the hedgehog, he sincerely asked him to explain in detail.
Seemingly even more surprised than Raymond, the old hedgehog picked up the wine glass and shook it, looking at him doubtfully. "Young man. Do you think you don't even know this?"
It felt like what the old hedgehog in front of him knew was a secret that he had never been exposed to. Raymond felt increasingly weird in his heart and couldn't help but smile bitterly. "What secrets lie under the abyss tornado? Please tell me..."
There was doubt in the clear eyes, and the old hedgehog said strangely after finishing the glass of wine that had been shaking for a while. "You came here with that stone fish. Didn't he tell you about the Extremis Bar and the situation under the abyss tornado?"
After the old hedgehog revealed Senmario's identity, Raymond couldn't avoid it, so he had no choice but to nod first and then shake his head.
"Are you worried that the invasion of the spider beasts from the southern border of the nightmare world will destroy the entire plane?"
"I'm not particularly worried, but I am quite disgusted with the invasion plan launched by the Supreme Council of the Human Wizards Alliance..."
The old hedgehog laughed loudly when he heard this. After placing the wine glass on the stone table, he came closer and lowered his voice. "Young man, it is impossible to destroy the foundation of the plane by relying on the nightmare plane alone! So, do you believe in the glory created by the ancient wizards?"
"It should be true. I have read many ancient wizards' notes and records, among which..."
Before Raymond could finish speaking, the old hedgehog interrupted him with a mysterious smile. "Then don't you think there are too few ancient wizard relics left on the surface plane?"
"Ten thousand years ago, the true spirits of the Chaos Plane had a large-scale invasion. The lemures under their command occupied the entire plane for hundreds of years, and also plundered the entire surface plane..."
The old hedgehog laughed again, but shook his head in disdain. "True spirits are very strong, but so what about the plane of chaos! They just entered the second level back then. They didn't even break through the abyss gate on the third level, so how can they say they occupied the entire plane... "
At this point, the right claw was raised, and with the weak energy fluctuations released from the tip of the claw, a moment later, a flask-shaped shadow with an extremely large bottom appeared in front of Raymond's eyes.
"The top is the first layer, which is generally considered the surface, and the extremely narrow area in the neck below is the underground plane..."
The old hedgehog pointed at the flask-shaped phantom with his claws. After saying this, a blue light released from his claws formed a vertical shaft on the right side of the flask-shaped phantom, penetrating the flask-shaped phantom from top to bottom.
Pointing at the vertical shaft formed by the blue light, the old hedgehog seemed to be interested. "This is where the abyss tornado is. There are three abyss gates below the second layer. If you want to enter, you can only pass through the abyss gate, or directly attack by plane piercing. Do you think these trivial matters on the surface may affect the stability of the entire plane?"
According to the level pointed by the old hedgehog just now, Raymond felt that the fifth layer he mentioned was actually equivalent to a hundred times the size of the surface, and even the third layer was ten times the size of the surface. He couldn't help but feel a little shocked. He raised his hand and pointed to the bottom layer and asked. "The area of the fifth layer is a hundred times that of the surface?"
"No more, no less!"
The old hedgehog gave a positive answer without hesitation, which made Raymond's breathing stagnate, and he continued to ask. "Does it mean that the overall strength of the creatures in the three layers below is far greater than that on the surface?"
"Why do we need the sum of the three layers? How many relics of ancient wizards are left on the surface? How powerful are there on the surface? How many old guys who have lived for thousands of years on the surface?"
Three consecutive questions made Raymond speechless.
The old hedgehog with a proud look on his face pulled the bottle of wine at hand and drank it violently. After the bright red wine was spilled on his chest, it quickly spread out, just like blood.
But the rich aroma of wine attracted the attention of other guests in the bar. The creature with a horse head before, but not a horse-headed man, suddenly appeared beside the old hedgehog, staring at the bottle in the old hedgehog's hand, his throat moved, and there was desire in his pupils.
The old hedgehog drank most of the bottle of wine in one breath, and after placing the bottle on the stone table, he said to Raymond. "Young man, don't compare the surface with the layers behind the gate of the abyss. This little wildebeest next to me is just going to hone his skills here for a while before returning to take over the affairs of his family. What kind of status do you think it can achieve if it stays on the surface?"
There was a faint force field glow around him. Even without releasing his senses to explore, Raymond could almost immediately determine that this guy had the strength of the Dawn Level, so he answered directly. "It should be possible to reach a high level in the high tower..."
The old hedgehog laughed when he heard this, turned his face and smiled at the wildebeest. "Did you hear that? If you go to the inland of the surface, you will be a high level..." (To be continued ~^~)