Chapter 4 Magic City

With a creak, a big tree suddenly collapsed. The Demon Knight and I quickly dodged the fallen trunk. A huge spider appeared behind the big tree. It was not much smaller than an elephant!

Scott rushed forward with the other demon knights. Although the spider was big, its level was not high, so it was killed by the demon knights in a few strokes. By the way, the items Clark requested to collect seemed to include spider venom sacs. I went up and used the collecting technique on the spider n times in succession. However, I couldn't see the venom sacs, but I could 'touch' two venomous fangs! How stingy, give me a poison sac!

After the giant spider, we encountered many monsters, none of them smaller than a bear, and they were all of the insect type. It seems that this forest specializes in demonized insects.

As we were walking, a faint curtain of light suddenly appeared in front of us. This light curtain is transparent, so although it extends all the way to the sky, we didn't notice it along the way! If it hadn't suddenly flickered when we got very close, we wouldn't have been able to tell that there was something else here!

Through the light curtain, we can see that the forest inside is similar to ours. I can even see very deep, but not a single monster is seen. It is basically certain that the light curtain is safe. But because we don't know whether the light curtain is offensive, we don't dare to try it rashly. The old method was to let Scott summon a skeleton to try.

The skeleton walked towards the light curtain without any melancholy. The moment it came into contact with the light curtain, the area near the light curtain flickered several times, and the nearby light curtains were obviously distorted. But the more amazing thing is yet to come. The skeleton that entered the light curtain seemed to disappear. It passed through the light curtain, but we didn't see it! We can see the woods behind the light screen, but we don't see the skeletons!

"Scott? Did your skull go through it?"

"I feel like it's worn through!"

"Then why can't we see it?" I held my chin and thought for a while. "Can you still sense it?"

"Of course! The feeling is very strong!"

"Let it out!"

The skeleton suddenly walked out of the light curtain, as if it had passed through the door of time and space! We repeated the experiment several times, and the situation was almost the same! I casually broke off a branch from the nearby tree trunk and threw it towards the light curtain. The branch disappeared from our sight after passing through the light curtain. It did not appear in the forest behind the light curtain!

I have basically guessed several possibilities now. The first possibility is that the light curtain is a transmission system, and things that pass through the light curtain are directly transported to a certain place without entering the forest behind the light curtain; the second possibility is that the light curtain is actually an illusory barrier. The forest we see behind the light screen doesn't actually exist. The branches and skeletons actually pass through the light screen and reach behind it, but the illusion blocks our view, so we can't see anything! However, since the skeleton can come and go at will, this light screen is at least not offensive, so I decided to try it myself!

I stood in front of the light curtain and carefully stretched out a hand through the light curtain. I felt nothing when my fingers touched the light curtain. It seems that this thing does not have a physical form! I continued to stretch my hand forward, and miraculously, the part of my hand that passed through the light screen disappeared. I couldn't see my stretched out hand, but I could feel it still there. He walked over in a hurry.

Shock! After I passed through the light curtain, I was dumbfounded! The forest behind the light curtain was completely different from the one I saw just now. The black forest in front of me had returned to the look of giant trees. Giant trees over a hundred meters tall are everywhere, mixed with some low trees, and the ground is also covered with some short shrubs and the like, but these are not very dense and do not affect walking. In surprise, I stepped back a few steps away from the light curtain and returned to where I started. The light curtain appeared in front of me again, and what I saw was the low leafless forest again! But when I walked through it again, the dense forest was restored. It seems that this light curtain can indeed block the outside world's sight!

The demon spirit knight also followed me through the light curtain. The sight in front of them made their night vision stupefied for a moment, but it was not as serious as me!

Scott suddenly shouted. "My God of Darkness! Could it be that this is the magical city of Essinger!"

"Isengard? What is it?"

Scott calmed down his emotions and said: "There are originally four ultimate evil zones in China, namely the Lost City, the City of Remembrance, the Devil's Fortress, and the Magic City Isinger. Among them, the Magic City Isinger It is the most powerful one. But later, the three major cities in the system mobilized 30 million troops to form the Holy Alliance Army, and jointly attacked the magic city Isinger. The war lasted for more than a month, and Isinger was finally defeated. At that time The city lord was forced to detonate the Evil Eye of the Demon City, and 30 million holy legions and 10 million Essinger city defense troops turned into innocent souls. From then on, this place became an evil cursed land, and the evil power of 40 million innocent souls made this place It has become a restricted area for the Light, and all personnel on the Light side will be greatly weakened here."

"It sounds very tragic, but what about the city? Why can't I see anything? There are only trees here!"

"These are not ordinary trees. These are the fragments of the Evil Eye turned into trees. They will absorb all power except dark power. Anyone who uses magic other than dark magic here will consume the usual two times the magic power. And here, the pure light magician cannot restore the magic power at all. Once it is used up, it will not increase again unless you leave this forest and go outside the light curtain just now."

"By the way, what's going on with this light curtain?"

"That's not clear!" Scott shook his head. "We demon knights have always been stationed in the main temple of darkness, and the four dark cities are just subordinate agencies. But I think this may be a purely protective measure, just like the black water lake outside the Lost City. Each dark city has its own special protective measures. As for the illusion and black forest we saw at the beginning, every dark city has it!"

"You haven't answered me yet where the city is?"

"Actually, the city should be not far from here. The main reason is that these trees are too dense so we can't see them. Just get out!"

"Then let's go and have a look!" I summoned Ye Ying and jumped on. Ye Ying was ready to ride. I no longer had to squeeze a horse with Scott!

Not far away, I saw a large piece of white stuff swinging in the forest. I rushed to the front and saw clearly, what a big piece of skeletons! Let the dart find a skeleton far away from the team and hit it. I can read the skeleton's data. Darling, these are level 600 magic skeletons! Not to mention the extremely exaggerated defense power, the attack power is also frighteningly high. Fortunately, the health value is not much! But unexpectedly, the dart that went up to test was actually slapped back by the skeleton. Although the dart level is still very low, but the speed of the darts can be intercepted, the agility of these skeletons is too abnormal, right? The level of skeletons I encountered before was generally not higher than level 0, but the level of these guys was actually as high as level 600! No wonder these skeletons are holding shiny weapons and wearing black cloaks! It turns out to be high-end goods!

"Scott, is there a way around here?" I'm not a superman, and I can't do anything about things that are almost 300 levels higher. Besides, these guys are too numerous and dense, and it might take a long time. Even the Demon Knight can be killed by them!

Before Scott could answer, the skeleton that was harassed by the darts actually ran over. Scott picked up his spear and prepared to attack, but unexpectedly the skeleton stopped before it could reach us. Its long sword flashed, and a black magic bullet condensed into a ball from the blade and flew over. These magical skeletons are actually magic swordsmen, and they can attack from a distance without getting close to us!

Seeing that the skeleton was attacking from a distance, Scott immediately turned the spear in his hand into a shooting posture. With the sound of breaking wind, the spear was accurately shot into the skull's head, and with a click, the skull's entire head turned into white powder. But what surprised us was that the headless skeleton actually rushed forward waving a long sword!

I quickly stepped back. The level of this kind of thing was too high. It would be dangerous for me to go up and fight! The demon knights swarmed up and smashed the entire skeleton to pieces! These skeletons are so terrifying. They are capable of magic and melee combat, and they are harmless. Even if their heads fall off, they still hit them!

Looking at these skeletons from a distance, I suddenly thought, can I fly if I can't do it on the ground? I didn’t say you have to crawl through the pile of skeletons! Putting away the flightless demon knights and demon pets, I spread my wings and flew into the sky alone. As soon as I took off, I noticed something was wrong. My stamina dropped like a stopwatch. At this speed, I could stay in the air for 30 seconds at most!

I seize the time and fly upwards as hard as I can. As long as I exceed the height of the tree and leave the narrow woods, I can summon the lucky ones to take me flying! I accelerated my rise, and finally reached the sky above the forest when my endurance was about to bottom out. I quickly summoned Lucky out, and I landed on his back.

After settling down, I looked up and was shocked! Complete shock! When I was higher than the treetops, I suddenly saw a mountain, and the shape of this mountain was very neat, and it looked like it was dug manually! Looking at it this way, the mountain is estimated to be hundreds of meters high, and the overall shape looks like a square two-layer cake!

I don't have time to appreciate the mountain in detail, and the luck stamina value under me has also dropped rapidly. Fortunately, the dragon has good flying ability and high stamina value. It is not a problem to sustain it for three to five minutes at this speed. When luck runs out, you can switch to plague. With Crystal and the others, anyway, I have many magic pets that can fly. They take me one by one, and they can probably support me to the edge of the forest!

Sure enough, as I expected, Lucky flew for more than four minutes and couldn't support it anymore. I summoned Plague to replace Lucky, and then changed it to crystal. Crystal and Plague flew for less than 8 minutes in total, and then Xiaofeng took over. Although Xiaofeng only lasted two minutes, she was fast. When she failed, we were almost at the edge of the forest. I then put on Xiao Longnu, and after only one minute of flying, we reached the edge of the forest and landed smoothly. On the edge of the forest behind, countless skeletons are still wandering, but they have never come out of the forest. It seems that they also have movement restrictions!

Now I can finally take a good look at this mountain. Just now, I only dared to stare at the endurance value of my magic pet in the sky, for fear that if I accidentally use it and fall down, it will become the dinner of the skeletons! Now that we have landed, of course we must first summon the Demon Spirit Knights. With them here, we can withstand any unexpected situation for a while!

The edge of the forest is only more than two thousand meters away from the foot of the mountain. The ground is black and gray hard land and is very flat. We reached the foot of the mountain in a few minutes on horseback. I got off Yeying's back and stood on the ground looking up at the mountain. My neck kept tilting back and finally I lost my balance. I took two steps back and sat down on the ground. This mountain is really high enough. From the foot of the mountain, it looks like it reaches the sky! The towering gray mountain gives people a strong sense of oppression, making people want to retreat unconsciously!

This is not so much a mountain as a fortress. There are no plants at all on the mountain, and the entire surface is covered with black and gray rocks. The outside of the mountain is obviously man-made. Not only is the mountain in the shape of a regular square, but there are also many skulls inlaid on the smooth outer wall. The angle between the mountain and the ground is as high as 80 degrees. It seems that it is more appropriate to call this mountain a city wall! I don’t really believe that there are any mountains that are square, let alone skulls on the mountains. This must be a large mountain that was manually dug out and turned into a square city wall. As for the skulls, they are purely artificially inlaid to scare people. ! The front width of this "city wall" is about 0,000 meters, and the height is estimated to be more than 450 meters! The demon spirit knight found a huge gap in the mountain. There was a gap of about 30 meters wide sandwiched between the mountains on both sides. Large pieces of gravel were piled on the ground in the gap. It seemed that this place used to be One of the entrances to the city, but it collapsed and became what it is now!

Look at this passage. Don’t even think about riding a horse through it. It’s probably very difficult for people to climb through it! I put away my magic pet and tried my wings. It seemed that I could fly normally, and the only place that consumed my endurance was the forest! After confirming that I could fly, I put away the Demon Spirit Knight and flew directly through the passage and went deeper inside. The walls on both sides of the passage also go up straight, which proves that this was originally a passage dug out. The huge boulders on the ground were only paved for about 100 meters at the entrance, which shows that this was originally a city gate, and the boulders should be the collapsed remains of the city gate!

The length of the entire passage is actually more than 1,900 meters, which means the "city wall" is nearly two kilometers thick! The city wall with this thickness is really terrifying! No wonder he managed to hold out for a month in front of an army three times his own size!

After passing through the long passage, I finally entered the interior of the mountain. It turned out that this was Essinger! The so-called Magic City turned out to be built by hollowing out a huge mountain! But now, what I see is broken walls and ruins all over the place. The whole city seems to have been attacked by an atomic bomb, with broken bricks and rubble everywhere! I can roughly see the street layout of the city while flying in the air. The streets arranged in a tic-tac-shape are still vaguely distinguishable, but the houses on both sides no longer exist!

There is another thing standing in the center of the city. Judging from the color and texture, both it and the city wall came from the original mountain. In other words, this thing is part of the mountain and was left behind when it was excavated. I don't know whether to call this a pillar or a tower. Its base is a circle with a diameter of 10 meters, and the height is about 7500 meters! The bottom of this thing is actually not as high as the city foundation. It is built on a 0-meter-high base. This base is a square with a side length of 00 meters, and there are artificial steps in four directions. The tower-like thing above also has entrances on all four sides. It seems that the thing should be empty inside.

Since there was no sign of the monster, I only summoned Scott and brought him down directly to the base of the tower.

"Scott, do you know what this thing is?"

Scott looked at it and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the legendary Soul Gathering Tower! The place we are standing on should have been a dark temple. The inside of the tower should be empty, and there is a passage to reach the top of the tower."

"It's too slow to walk through the passage, let's fly up directly!"

"Impossible!" Scott grabbed me. "There is a suppression system on the Soul Gathering Tower. It's okay to fly at low altitudes, but it won't work once it exceeds the height of the city wall. The magic barrier will ensure that nothing can reach the top of the tower without going through the entrance at the bottom of the tower."

"That's it! Then let's climb the stairs!"

Following Scott into the legendary Spirit Gathering Tower, waves of cold air hit my face and made me shiver. "Why is it so cold here?"

"This isn't cold air, it's evil air. This is what the Yin Wind Suspense usually looks like!"

"It's haunted!" I moved my body to adapt to the invasion of evil energy. After all, I am also a dark force. Although the evil energy makes me uncomfortable, it does no actual harm.

After entering the tower along a passage, an upward staircase began to appear. We ran all the way to the end of the staircase. This was a 10-meter square room, with staircases in four directions leading here. There is a spiral escalator on the side wall of the room. The escalator spirals upward, but I can't see the sky. It seems that the escalator does not penetrate the tower!

After 30 minutes, I finally realized what a great invention the elevator is. The height of the 7,500-meter-high tower is equivalent to the height of a nearly 300-story building. It’s no wonder that we don’t die from exhaustion when we climb up with only one spiral staircase! In the end, he simply summoned Ye Ying. The stairs were relatively wide and the slope was not steep, so Ye Ying could run on them. With Yeying walking for us, our speed was much faster, but there were side effects. After a while, I started to feel dizzy. I kept turning in one direction and my head was spinning!

no! Climbing like this is not an option. We have only reached half the height. I won’t die if we reach the top! I stuck my head out from the side of the spiral staircase and looked at the top to judge the height. I raised my right hand and pointed it at the top of the tower. I attached the arrow of the dragon tendon rope to the Avenger. When I clicked the spring, the flying rope immediately flew to the top of the tower. . With a ping sound, the arrow hit the top of the tower but did not penetrate. The arrow was bounced to the side, but the fallen arrow caught the spiral staircase. The arrow circled the spiral ladder several times before stopping due to inertia. I tried to pull it, but it was still strong. Putting away Scott, I jumped out from the spiral staircase. Turning on the automatic take-up function of the dragon-skin zipline, I was naturally pulled to the top of the tower. Although this simple elevator is not very comfortable, it is much better than climbing stairs. The most important thing is that it is faster!

Soon I reached the top, took off the zip line, and climbed up the spiral staircase. The spiral staircase ended suddenly here, and a wooden door appeared at the end of the spiral staircase. But the wooden door has now been broken into two halves, and it seems that it will fall down at any time when leaning against the door! The broken door panel blocked half of the door. I went up to move the door panel a little bit, but as soon as I touched it, the whole door fell down with a crash, and a burst of smoke and dust was kicked up. It looked like it hadn't been used for a long time!

Behind the door is a stairway that slopes upward. This stairway is very narrow, allowing at most two people to pass side by side, but fortunately it is not very steep. I ran up the stairs, and soon I reached the end of the stairs. There was already a sign of light ahead.

I was stunned when I rushed out of the stairway. The exit of the passage is already at the edge of the tower. Standing here, I can see most of the city. The shape of the city seems to be not square but concave. The direction we entered Essinger happened to be a straight line, but the other side opposite to it was concave. Moreover, what surprises me most is that the other side of Essinger is actually the sea! Essinger is a port city! The gap in the concave character is obviously a port!

Because there are no railings on the top of this gathering tower, I didn’t dare to go to the edge! Turn around and go around the exit to see the full view of the top of the tower. It turns out that this is a very flat platform. It should feel like a circle, but it doesn't seem to be as big as the bottom. The diameter here is about 800 meters, which is slightly thinner than the bottom. In the middle of the platform was a pile of ruins, which looked like an altar or something.

I summoned Scott. "Do you know what this is?"

"This is the altar where the Evil Eye was placed, but it was destroyed when it exploded!"

"Is the port at the back connected to the sea? It can't be a big lake, right?"

"Yes! That's the sea. This was originally supposed to be a deep-water port. I heard before that the magical city of Isengard has the largest port in the world!"

Let me look at the port below. Based on the length of the city wall (1,000 meters), and then comparing the size of the port, I can roughly estimate that the width of the port is at least 9,000 meters. Based on this comparison, the size of this port should be more than 7 times that of the port in Flood City. It is not surprising that it is ranked first in the world!

I suddenly discovered that there were many circular black spots on the top of the "city wall" around the city, which was difficult to see clearly because it was too far away. "Scott, what are those black spots?"

"Are they the ones on the city wall?"

"Yes!"

"Those are the bases of the forts. It is said that the Magic City had (0 giant magic crystal cannons at that time!"

"(0 gate? Doesn't that cost (billion crystal coins? Oh my god! It is indeed the number one magic city, so generous!" The ruins of this magic city are great for building a city! The city walls are all ready-made, as long as the ruins are Clean it up and rebuild the gate, and it will be a city! We just need a guild station now, and I am afraid of trouble. We can save a lot of things here, and the most important thing is to save money! "Scott, that place on the sea Is there a magical illusion inside?"

"Yes! The illusion is a sphere, not only around it, but also in the sky and underground!"

"That's good!" I have decided to build the city here later!

Since I plan to use this place, I need to see every place clearly. The first thing to notice is the city wall. Scott and I came to the city wall, and now we discovered that the city wall was not solid. There were passages dug into the city wall, and there were many rooms with special uses! The explosion of the Evil Eye seems to only have an effect on things built by humans. The city wall dug into the mountain is well protected, with no signs of damage at all.

At the end of the day's investigation, the entire city was basically intact. Except for the buildings that had been destroyed, this could be said to be a perfect fortress city.

After dinner, I went online to continue checking the city facilities, but as soon as I got online, I was shocked! I was actually standing in the middle of a large group of innocent souls! After rolling and crawling to a higher platform, I realized that the whole city was full of these things! Translucent souls shuttled through the city like living people, and they also exuded a faint green light. Just when I was in shock, a ghost actually walked out from behind my body through my body. He didn't seem to notice that I continued to do his own thing.

I soon discovered that these ghosts were all illusions. They couldn't see me at all, or didn't respond to me! Each ghost is doing his or her own thing, and they seem to still be stuck in Essinger's most prosperous period. It’s so real and scary, the city is full of ghosts!

There are also many ghosts in the Lost City, but they can be touched, they have thoughts and can interact with you. Unlike these things, they are a complete group of walking dead! I began to consider whether to build a city in another place. Our guild is now almost all girls. If they see the lack of security, it will scare a few to death!