Volume 19 Chapter 194 The Strange Underworld

"Ling, do you know what this is?"

Ling shook his head and said: "We don't have such a thing there, but it looks like some kind of low-level hell creature."

Xiao Chun also nodded and said: "This thing must be a semi-spiritual creature, otherwise it wouldn't be so afraid of the Holy Light. By the way, these things can also be regarded as belonging to the Olympus Protoss. Victoria may know what they are."

I thought it was right, so I summoned Victoria and asked her. The thing on the ground had been shattered into ashes, but Victoria nodded immediately after hearing our description: "I know this. I have seen this thing before, but I don't know its specific name. But we don't have to worry too much. , the ability of these things is to pull people into the ground, and then absorb the opponent's life energy. Once the life force is sucked out, they will turn into rocks. Apart from this ability, they have almost no specialties. We only need to use force when they are caught. Just resist. Anyway, the power of these things is very average. The power of combat personnel is definitely much stronger than it. Even the mage can probably fight to a tie with him. These things usually attack free NPCs and they can still have some effect. .It is basically impossible to succeed against combat professions."

"Is this thing so weak?"

"Of course." Victoria said: "This is the only way to the underworld. The people of Hades have to pass here often. If there are any powerful creatures here, wouldn't they have killed them earlier?"

"That's right." I thought for a while and said to Ye Ying: "Fly a little higher and don't move close to the ground."

Yeying nodded to express his understanding. I glanced at the ashes on the ground and climbed up onto Yeying, then took back Ling, Xiaochun and the others and started on the road again.

Since this place is quite close to the center of Netherworld Mountain, we quickly left the outer mountains and entered the core area of ​​Netherworld Mountain. Different from the situation where there are mountains everywhere in the outer circle, as soon as we entered the core area of ​​Netherworld Mountain, we found that our eyes suddenly became wider. The central area of ​​the entire Netherworld Mountain is not the highest peak, but a huge sinkhole.

This huge hole with a diameter of at least ten kilometers is roughly circular. The edge of the hole is basically a mountain that is vertically downward at 90 degrees. Looking down from the edge of the hole, it is completely dark. Even with my dark vision, I can only I could barely see more than ten kilometers deep, but there was no change at all within the range of my sight. There was nothing at all except the unchanged cliff.

Although this huge sinkhole is quite large in area, it is not the only one in the core area of ​​Netherworld Mountain. In fact, there is a ring-shaped plain around this large pit. However, because the surrounding mountains penetrate into the core area to different degrees, the shape of the outer circle of this plain is not very regular. The widest part is five or six meters away from the edge of the pit. It is kilometers wide, and in narrow places it is even only ten or twenty meters wide.

The plain where we entered was relatively narrow. After exiting the valley formed by the peaks on both sides, we reached the edge of the big pit less than a kilometer forward. Standing here, you can see a mountain extending into the tiankeng opposite the big pit. On the top of the mountain, a huge castle stands majestically, looking extremely majestic.

According to the route given by Pandora, the bottomless sinkhole in front of me is the entrance to the underworld, and the castle opposite is the bridgehead from the underworld to the human world, equivalent to the first line of defense in the underworld.

Although Yeying can walk in the void, for the sake of safety, I still let him walk in a big circle along the plain outside the entrance to the underworld to the opposite castle.

Just now, my view was blocked by the mountain where the castle is located on the opposite side. When I walked around here, I realized that the mountain where the castle is located is actually not connected to the edge of this giant cave at all. It extends straight up from the bottom of the pit like an independent pillar, and the only connection between the castle above and the plain here is a nearly 800-meter-long stone bridge. However, this stone bridge is not entirely supported by the bridgeheads on both sides. The entire bridge will have an arch-like existence every fifty meters from the bridge head, just like the kind of inclined steel cables in the real world. The only difference is that the arch is not very tall, and its bottom is not supported on solid ground, but is completely floating. There will be three layers of blue magic arrays underneath these things that look like bridge piers. The top layer is the largest, and the lower ones are smaller in sequence.

Looking at this long stone bridge, my first thought was that I should build something similar for Essinger, just because it looks so handsome. However, Essinger is by the sea, and it seems not suitable for building such a thing. Even if we dig a deep pit around the city, the sea water will automatically fill it up, and there is no way to build it like this.

After admiring the bridge for a while, I let Yeying run up. According to Pandora, there is only one detection spell on the bridge that detects the attributes of people coming and going. If a being of the dark type walks up, there will be no reaction, so to Ye Ying and I, this bridge is just an ordinary bridge. That’s all.

Yeying quickly ran to the opposite side of the eight-hundred-meter bridge. At this end of the bridge is a stone square of several thousand square meters. On the edge of the square are cliffs on three sides. On the side opposite the bridge is the outer wall of the castle. In the center of this wall is a ten-meter-wide wall with four sides. A huge stone door more than ten meters high.

What was a little surprising was that the thing carved in the center of this stone door was not the huge skull I imagined, but a gorgeous butterfly. This butterfly occupies almost the entire door area. Its left and right wings are located on the left and right doors respectively. The wings are outlined with gorgeous colored metal lines and are embellished with various colored gemstones in the middle. It looks extremely gorgeous and majestic.

Because Pandora didn't mention the relief on this door before, this is the first time I know about it. Speaking of which, it is a bit strange to carve a butterfly at the entrance to the underworld. According to my opinion, even if you don’t put a skeleton on it, you must at least put a few ugly monsters on it. This butterfly is really the same as the image of the underworld. Some numbers don't match up.

Although I think this butterfly is quite strange, after all, it is someone else's door. It is their business to fix it how they like, and it has nothing to do with me. Following the method given by Pandora, I put away the night shadow and walked directly to the door. When I approached, the door automatically opened a gap large enough for me to pass through. After I walked through the gap, the door opened again. It slowly closed behind me.

After that gate is the interior of the castle. The first thing you see when you enter is a hall, but apart from a dozen supporting pillars, there are only stairs in front and four gates on both sides.

According to Pandora's description, I walked directly towards the stairs in front, but I didn't go up. Instead, I walked around the side of the stairs to the back of the stairs. This staircase leads to the top of the castle, and I don't need to go up. There is a gap of more than five meters between the back of the stairs and the wall of the hall. There is a door here, but because it is behind the stairs, this door cannot be seen from the doorway in.

Passing through this door I entered a circular room, or stairwell. This vacation only has a small platform of more than thirty square meters behind the door. On the left side of the platform is the staircase that spirals downward along the wall of the room. However, because it is too deep, I did not plan to take the stairs at all. Jumped directly from the edge of the platform.

Although the big pit outside the castle and the vertical passage in the castle should look similar, they are actually very different. The big pit outside and the shaft here both lead to hell, but if you jump directly from the big pit outside, you will fall directly to the starting point of the Road of the Dead, and you must go through it if you go down that road. Only through countless dangerous environments in hell can we reach the real underworld, otherwise we will be 'lost' in the endless interstitial space. However, this road inside the castle does not connect there. If you go down here, you will directly enter the underworld. Compared with the big pit outside, it is definitely much safer and much faster. After all, there is a gap between the underworld and the human world. It is a famous dangerous area, and if ten thousand people are thrown into it, it is a miracle among miracles that even one person can escape.

I floated all the way down the passage in the center of the spiral staircase. With wings to assist in slowing down, I didn't have to worry about falling down, and it was much faster than walking up the stairs.

After descending continuously for about ten minutes, I finally saw the ground below. After controlling my speed and landing steadily on the ground, I walked out through the only door here.

Directly behind this gate with only one door frame is a wide avenue, with beautiful gardens and various cute animals on both sides. If it weren't for the existence of the black palace in the distance, I would never believe that this place is Hades. If there was another sun hanging there in the sky, this place would be the legendary Shangri-La.

Wow. When I was attracted by the scene in front of me, there were suddenly two sounds of armor clashing next to me, and then I heard a voice shouting: "Stop. Who are you? Do you dare to break into the underworld?"

I turned to look at the guy who was speaking. This is just an ordinary Saint, but the equipment on his body is very gorgeous. It is said that the equipment of the Hades series among the Olympus Protoss is the best. Now it seems that it is indeed true. Even the gatekeepers wear such good armor. In comparison, Jehovah's angels are descended from beggars.

After sizing up the guard, I did not answer his question, but stretched out my hand, showed a badge and asked: "Do you know where Aeacus and Minos are?"

When the guard saw the badge, he quickly put away his weapon and knelt down on one knee and said: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were Lord Radamantis's man. Lord Minos is in the court of justice, and I don't know where Lord Aeacus is."