Invincible Chapter 459
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After entering the basin, Kane noticed the looming outlines of roads and farmland.
It can be seen that this place has been well managed in the past:
Along the road there is a wooden fence specially built to prevent weeds from growing wildly, and the fence is also painted white.
At intervals, there are street lamps, which are made of wood and shaped like enlarged spears. The ends extending horizontally from the top are used to hang lamps.
The lamps are like lanterns, but they are more bulky. If he is not bad, the oil inside can keep the lamps on all night. They should be hung on poles.
Kane can even imagine the scene:
At dusk, a carriage full of lamps travels along the road. Everywhere it goes, the lampman on the cart hangs the lighted lantern on the iron hook of the street lamp pole with a pole, and takes it back in the same way in the morning. And maintenance. As a result of working like this for decades, the skill of the lanternmen in using poles is extremely superb...
This is the case with underdeveloped science and technology. Various industries involve a lot of manual labor, and there are some occupations that are very strange to modern people.
It's just... the overall feeling given to him here is not that he was abandoned because of an accident, but more like a situation of 'going in and out'.
It is not an easy task for nature to force human beings to return the homes that have been cultivated and matured for several generations, especially this kind of terrain. In Kane's view, even if there is a catastrophe of national destruction, it is very likely to become a place of refuge. continue to exist.
Continuing to approach the core of the area, the details of the castle began to appear clearly, and Kane discovered that this was not the seamless building complex he had seen from the mountain before.
Rather, there are towns and forts. The town walls are tall and relatively intact, while the fort walls have basically collapsed, so that when you look from a distance, you mistakenly regard the town as part of the castle.
When approaching the gate of the town, the blood thorns made a creaking sound, which Kane could understand. It was a warning to him that there was a powerful curse here.
Kane snorted softly, and the blood thorns understood what he meant, and instead of entering the town, they circled along the outer walls of the town.
After going around half a circle, the cemetery appeared, and there was a dilapidated chapel nearby.
The style of this church is Gothic, but the spire and roof have been turned into rubble, leaving only broken walls. The scenery of that year can only be imagined from the remaining stained glass on the long windows on the gable wall.
Kane stretched out his left hand, covering the cemetery with crooked steles and broken coffins in the distance. The black light irradiated in beams and swept back and forth, and then Kane showed an expression that was as expected.
After chanting a few words to Bloodthorn in the secret language of the soul, Kane jumped off his back and began to peel off his clothes, while Bloodthorn dug a hole at the edge of the cemetery area like a dog digging a hole.
More than ten minutes later, Kane and the blood thorns were finished almost at the same time. Kane cut a lot of fresh grass nearby as filling, propped up the clothes, dripped a drop of blood on his heart, and threw it into the pit.
Bloodthorn waved its claws, bulldozing and filling the pit again.
Kane, who was wrapped in bear skin behind him, used the saber as a tombstone and inserted it on the slightly raised mound.
This can be regarded as a simple cloak, but Kane took the time to do this at this time, not to show his determination to start all over again.
He began to cast dark spells, and black runes were born one by one from his air-swiping hands, and then they were packed into balls and poured into the grave with hammering.
'Om! '
The energy shock spreads from the grave to all directions.
It is very fast, but the energy intensity is not high. Even if ordinary people stare at it with good eyes, they may not be able to confirm whether that scene really happened because of lack of concentration.
At the same time, Kane and the blood thorns had already avoided to the side, and they walked nearly 20 meters before stopping.
At this time, it was the intermission period of the rainstorm, and the dark clouds rolled up, and the next rain was brewing, and the rain was still flying in the air, and it fell silently.
With the spread of energy, a strange wind rolled up in the whole area, swirling on the ground, and blowing randomly, making people unable to tell where the wind came from and where it was blowing.
In the whistling wind, some strange sounds could be vaguely heard, like roars, and moans, thick and thick, not human-like, and seemed very far away, dull and hollow.
Then, in the direction of the castle town, there is a distorted air, and the transparent power that affects the rain rises and gathers, and then rushes towards the cemetery.
In the end, it was like continuously throwing water into the grave. If you look carefully, you can even see the stirred up soil, flowers and dust.
Kane just watched and waited.
After about a quarter of an hour, he walked over.
Time seems to have passed hundreds of years in this small area, and the originally slightly raised soil bag has been completely flattened at this moment, and even formed the kind of hard soil crust that is made by repeated wind and sun.
The most obvious thing is the sword that serves as a tombstone, which is so corroded that it can hardly see its shape, not to mention the wood chips and leather ropes wrapped around the hilt, which have long been rotten and become scum when pinched. scattered.
But it was such a thing, but it seemed to be what Kane liked. He took the sword, and it broke directly after the knot. The chief's broken sword knocked against the stone wall of the nearby cemetery.
The rusted slag fell off, and what was left in the end was a shapeless piece of rusted iron, which had not been completely oxidized, and was about the size of a small box of chewing gum, with a thickness of less than 1 centimeter.
Kane shot a beam of light between his fingers, drilled a small hole at one end, and then passed it through the thin rope twisted from the thick vine fibers prepared earlier, and hung it around his neck like a dog tag.
After that, Kane stepped onto the Thorn Bear again, crossed a nearby collapsed town wall, and entered the town.
As soon as he entered the town, the curse was triggered. It was a very ferocious, invisible energy that came in waves like waves. If it were replaced by a normal situation, the curse would superimpose. With the superposition, the subject would become more and more powerful. It became more and more painful, from the initial imperceptibility, to various visual and auditory hallucinations later, until the final drive to madness.
It can be said that, as far as the result is concerned, the loss of San value caused by the divinity of the old ruler's exposure is only this level in the end, and he went crazy after suffering a lot.
As for what you will do after you go crazy, it is no longer under the control and influence of your pre-mad consciousness.
It's a pity that Kane now has a soul substitute, which is not affected at all, and he doesn't need to resist hard. The power of the curse is absorbed by the small iron plate hanging around his neck.
After absorbing the power of the curse, this little thing is regaining its luster, the rust has faded, and it has become bright, like a high-quality iron ore that has been polished.
At the same time, the third search team also arrived in this area, on the mountain that Kane had overlooked.
Alizee said awkwardly: "Leader, the clues are completely broken. The ability tells me that Horak no longer exists in this world."
One of the team members, Balan, answered poorly: "There is no need for clues anymore." He pointed to the ruins of the castle that was about to be submerged in darkness and said: "The legendary Fort of Blessing, we found it, we have found it. I feel that from a long-term perspective, the value is much higher than those medicines and magic materials that were burned and lost."
Dorum frowned and said nothing. Fort Blessing is indeed valuable, but the process of finding it looks like a pit.
After searching for a missing caravan guard, they finally found Fort Blessing that countless explorers had never found, and the caravan guard died after completing the guiding task. This is too deliberate.
Inadvertently created a series of deliberate Kane in the eyes of others, picked an abandoned house, and settled down.
This is the attic of a big house. The special thing about this house is not that it is in disrepair, but what it has experienced. The face was damaged, and a large piece was dug out from the roof to the gap between the attic and the second floor, and the gap between the second floor and the first floor, showing a huge concave gap.
Kane calculated that if he wanted to claw down such destruction, the target must be at least 15 meters high, with a burly physique and limbs matching his height.
"The attacking giant?" Kane smirked, jumped up and down to each floor, and fell lightly and silently, like a civet that had been cast with a feather fall technique.
Afterwards, walking into the corner, the bear's skin shook, and he sat down cross-legged, and wrapped the bear's skin again, it became a big furry ball.
The night fell, and the darkness gathered around Kane first, forming a pitch-black mass.
In it, there seems to be eternal silence, just like the deep space of the universe.
Kane enters a state of rest. If nothing special happens, he will sleep for 3-5 days, and then explore the dark core of this place one night, and deal with it in a drastic manner.
It is only one of the side effects that the evil that has accumulated here loses its source of nourishment and disintegrates.
The main thing is to complete the tasks assigned by Eugene.
As Eugen explained, his opponent has arranged a pyramid-style node system in this world, and this is one of the terminal nodes, a certain dark core, which is the main factor that contributes to the ghostly appearance of this place today.
So for Kane, this is not an adventure, but pulling out nails. If there are materials available, he will collect and make handy tools to arm himself.
For example, the soul substitute on the neck is made by using the remnant soul relics of this body as a medium, and the power of curse here is forging power.
Kane only uses self-made extraordinary artifacts. Of course, he is not a pedantic person. If he can easily copy some high-value magic artifacts, he will not refuse to take them arrogantly, but use them to exchange resources and materials with others.
In his previous life, he gained the reputation of supporting the younger generation in the Vientiane Sect system, which was basically earned by selling extraordinary items with high cost performance at low prices.
However, looking back in this life, it seems that it is useless, and the sweet-mouthed and attractive ones seem to be more popular. The Emperor recruited so many forces to ambush him, and he didn't even hear any news beforehand, which shows the coldness of the world.
The blood thorn did not guard its master, but went out to look for food by itself.
It is dealt with as a cruel creature that feeds on fresh flesh and stirring souls (excitement, fear, pain, etc.) in order to grow.
Fortunately, it is not interested in ordinary flesh and blood. It eats magical creatures, and the more dark it is, the more it likes it. Kane jokingly called it the "black eats black system".
Its essence is Kane's very commonly used life and soul system. Starting from HP's final battle wolf, this system has been used and never abandoned. Having said that, Kane mastered the extraordinary technology system, which is cost-effective and he is used to using only a few sets.
As a priest, Dorum, the leader of the third search team, can also be regarded as a magical creature. His soul power is far stronger than that of ordinary people, and his body is also refined by the silver holy light (actually Transcendent Moonlight) every day. No less than magical creatures.
Dorum was lucky and didn't encounter the blood thorn.
When Bloodthorn was operating in the cemetery in Kane before, he found that there were a lot of black delicacies in that area. So after Kane gave the stocking order, it went straight there. That side is almost in the opposite direction from the direction Dorum and the others came from.
"Team leader, aren't we too dedicated? This is Fort Blessing!" Seeing that the ruins of the castle were getting closer, Balan couldn't help reminding.
Blessing Fort was once known as the blessed land of the Lord (Moon Lord, Sariel). But what really made it famous is that after a serious incident of desecration, it became a place of curse and corruption, and it is now the 14th worst place.
This kind of ranking is far more terrifying than the so-called dangerous situation that adventurers brag about in taverns after drinking two taels of cat urine. The danger in this kind of place is almost inevitable. Every time there is any luck at all, at the same time, more than one professional expedition team has died to qualify.
It is precisely because of this that for a professional like Baran, getting close to this kind of place is absolutely deadly.
"Why, are you afraid?"
Dorum's words made Balan frown. The team leader he was familiar with usually didn't speak in this tone and tone.
This is not a question of being afraid or not, but of being stupid. People are not only living for themselves, their parents, and their lovers, don't these things be considered?
The king's treasury is full of treasures, why not grab them? In the same way, how different is jumping into this kind of black pit from robbing the king's secret treasury?
"Team leader, I solemnly request a faith appraisal." Balan stopped walking and said so.