Chapter 101 The Mysterious City

After walking in the forest with Night Child for a while, I began to regret it. Without the Contract Goddess by our side, we had no idea how to move forward in the forest. To us, these big trees all look the same, and they seem to be spinning in circles no matter how we walk. After the system upgrade, the map system became a paper system. Each player's map is drawn on paper and they can find a way to carry it on their back or put it in an item with space storage capacity. When different players meet, they can tell each other where they have been. Copy the map to your own map so you can exchange maps. As for the compass, that thing became a real compass when it was last upgraded. Take it out and take a look when needed. However, this thing also has serious flaws, such as now.

The Night Child and I took the compass and walked a long way in the designated direction, and then found that we kept spinning in the same place. Eventually we walked in smaller and smaller circles until we stopped at this point five minutes ago.

The Night Child looked around. "It's strange, why are we here going in circles?"

Yeyue took my compass and looked at it for a long time. "Can this little thing really point south?"

The Son of the Night shook his head helplessly: "Although it does point to the south in most cases, it cannot be ruled out that it does not point to the south under certain circumstances."

Yeyue smiled and kept changing positions with the compass. "It sounds like this thing refers to the big tree."

"Big tree?" I looked in the direction Ye Yue was pointing, and sure enough there was a tree with a rather strange shape. This big tree seems to be redder than other trees, and its surface is very strange, as if it has a lot of knots. "Go over and have a look."

I walked to the tree and looked at it for a long time, and suddenly I felt something strange. Pushing away the mask, I leaned in and took a deep breath. "No way?"

"What's wrong?" The child of the night didn't know what I was sniffing.

I knocked the tree trunk hard with my fist, and the glove of the magic dragon armor made a clanging sound when it hit the tree trunk. Surprised, Ye Zhizi came up and 'touched' it. "Holy shit. Steelland?"

I nodded. "Not bad, and it's made of magnetic steel."

The child of the night finally couldn't help but cursed. "I...(expletive blocked)...it turned out to be made of magnetic steel. We were so stupid that we took a compass and walked around it."

Yeyue circled the tree several times. "If this thing stands here, the compass will be useless. How are we going to get out?"

I looked at the big tree for a long time. "Cover your ears."

"What are you going to do?"

"Just cover it up."

Yeyue and Yezi covered their ears hesitantly, while I turned eternity into a heavy hammer. I picked up the sledgehammer and hit the tree trunk with all my strength. When..., I felt my hand was numb. The pattering on the tree trunks was like rain, and a lot of iron filings fell down. This place is relatively humid. Although plants like steel trees are demonic creatures. But the steel on the surface will still rust, and this knock shook all the rust off.

The Children of the Night looked at me in surprise, not knowing what I was going to do. I swung the hammer and hit it again. The big tree was shaken with such a loud bang that my ears almost went deaf. After gritting my teeth and doing it a few more times, I put the sledgehammer on the ground. "Yeyue, look at the compass direction."

"Choke! I don't mean the big tree anymore."

The child of the night was surprised and took out his compass and looked at it. As expected, it was not pointing in the direction of the tree. "How did you do it Ziri?"

"Tch, your kid must not have done a good job in class."

"What does this have to do with my class?"

"This is a junior high school course. If you don't understand, go back to school and ask your physics teacher." I put away the sledgehammer and took the compass back to look at it. "Good guy. Everything is in chaos. We just kept walking northward. Hurry up, if we don't walk for a while, the compass will jump again."

"Why?" The Son of Night looked at the big tree. "Didn't you remove the magnetism?"

"This is temporary, at most twenty minutes. After that, the magnetism will slowly recover. If we haven't left the magnetic field range by then, we will definitely have to come back."

Upon hearing this, Yeyue quickly pulled me and jumped onto the steel claw. "Then let's run."

"Son of the Night. Move faster." I shouted and the Son of the Night jumped on the steel claw and started to leave quickly. If we cannot leave the magnetic field within twenty minutes, we will walk back to the big tree due to compass problems.

Without the interference of the big tree, our direction was clear. After running for a long distance, it was confirmed that we were roughly outside the scope of the magnetic field, and our speed gradually slowed down. The Son of the Night picked a fruit from the side and threw it to me. "Taste it."

"How dare you eat this?"

"That's why I let you eat first."

"You bastard, you want me to be a guinea pig?"

"Anyway, your poison resistance is so high. Even if you are poisoned, it won't be a big problem."

"Who is that?" I suddenly felt someone behind the tree. I raised my hand and turned into a whip sword wrapped around the trunk of the tree. With a slight movement, the trunk was cut off at the waist, and the towering ancient tree collapsed.

Yeyue's movements were not slow either. She was sitting behind me just now, but in a flash she was already behind the tree trunk. The scene froze instantly, and Yeyue used her skills to create six arms. At this time, the six snake swords were pressed against the bodies of three people, while the other two people stood nearby and did not dare to move.

"Ji Beiyar?" The son of the night recognized the woman whose neck was held by Ye Yue with two swords.

"Purple Sun?" Jibeiyar also recognized us.

"Is it you?" Yeyue has also met Jibeiyar, and she still remembers them.

"Are you really you?" Lauder and Rikard walked out from the tree trunk. "I didn't expect to see you again."

The Son of Night suddenly appeared in front of Jibeiyar. "Didn't you go to find the Temple of Imoda? Why are you here?"

"It's a long story." Jibeiyar said frustratedly: "After we separated from you, we were chased by a large monster. We finally escaped from the monster's chase but lost the compass, so we started to I was wandering around here randomly and ended up meeting you."

"You are really unlucky." I looked at the forest ahead. "Has the monster been thrown off?"

"We set a trap and ambushed him." Lauder pointed to his tattered armor. "This is its masterpiece."

The Son of Night asked: "Isn't that in the swamp a temple?"

"No." The lovely mage sister Saint Malfianna glared at me angrily: "That's the monster's lair, and we almost didn't get out."

I completely pretended I didn’t see Santa Malfianna’s expression. "What are you going to do now?"

"We underestimated the danger here." Jibeiyar asked me helplessly: "Can you take us out of here together?"

"No problem. We're leaving too."

"Sister. We can go out on our own." Santa Marfiana was obviously still angry about what happened when she arrived.

"I very much believe what Miss Santa Marfiana said. In that case, let's go on our own. Yeyue. Come back." She was angry that I just didn't take her with me. It's troublesome to carry this kind of oil bottle with me.

"Zi Ri." Jibeiyar quickly caught up. "Santa Mafiana always talks like this, why don't you take us with you?"

Yeyue looked at me and then at Jibeiyar. "Miss Jibeiyar, if you really want to leave, you should at least ensure that this is your collective intention and not your personal intention."

Hearing this, Gebeiyar and I looked at Saint Malfianna, but Saint Malfianna turned her head. "I don't."

I made a helpless gesture towards Jibeiyar. "Then this is what we have to do." I threw my compass towards Jibeiyar. "This is for you. I have another one here."

Santa Marfianna grabbed the compass and threw it back forcefully: "Keep it for yourself, we won't need it."

I didn't pick up the compass. That thing flew too high. The little girl was not very strong, and the compass flew directly over my head and hit a big tree behind us. A small wooden structure suddenly sank a little where the big tree was hit, but none of us noticed such a small change.

Jibeiyar was apologizing to me when Yeyue suddenly stretched out her hand to signal her to be quiet. I found that Yeyue was acting abnormally and looked at her nervously. "What happened?"

"Magic fluctuation." Yeyue looked around carefully. "Something has been activated, and magic is flowing around us among the trees. It seems to be the energy gathering process of the magic formation."

Rikard took his berserker sword and looked around: "What is it? A monster?"

"no."

Suddenly a green magic circle floated on a big tree near us, and then the surrounding big trees lit up one after another. The magic light groups between these big trees emitted beams of light to each other on both sides to form a polygonal frame, and we were all enclosed in the middle.

Yeyue suddenly swept the fallen leaves under the ground a few times with her tail. After a few leaves were swept away, the stone slab was revealed. I quickly jumped down and swept away the leaves. Sure enough, there was a big stone slab underneath, and there were patterns on the stone slab. At this time, these patterns actually lit up.

"Damn it, we're standing on a magic circle."

Jibeiyar asked nervously: "What kind of magic circle is this?"

"No matter what it is, just don't let it start." I said to the steel claw: "Smash it open."

Steel Claw suddenly stood up on its two hind legs, then slammed its body down hard, trying to break the ground with its downward thrust. But this didn't help, the magic on the stone slab had obviously strengthened it. "Go back with the steel claws and come out with the tanks." I retracted the steel claws and summoned the tanks. There was not much space here to stop two giant beasts at the same time.

As soon as the tank came out, I got my order to hit the ground. The two bone hammers on the front feet of the tank were the most destructive. I saw the tank raised the heavy hammer high and smashed it against the ground. With a bang, we only felt the ground jump, and we were all shaken. Nightchild and Adepana also sat down on the ground.

I looked at the ground and it was fine. The tank looked at me and waited for the order. I pointed to the ground: "Continue."

The tank immediately swung the heavy hammer and slammed it down again. This time it seemed to have some effect. The weight landed, and a halo of light quickly spread out along the ground. When it reached the polygonal frames, it suddenly began to extend upwards. It was obvious that it had been wrapped up. The whole space suddenly became extremely dazzling, and the glare was so bright that we couldn't open our eyes.

The light suddenly flickered and then dimmed just a few seconds later. The surroundings returned to normal again. All of us were dumbfounded.

"Where is this?" The child of the night said to himself, which made us regain a little consciousness.

We were in the middle of a forest before the light came on. The surrounding towering ancient trees block out the sun like skyscrapers. We couldn't see anything but the forest. However, although the current environment can still be considered a forest, it is obviously not the same area as the forest just now. We are standing on a huge hexagonal platform. Each of the six top corners of the platform has a pagoda-shaped stone sculpture of about three meters. There is a small flame beating on the top of each pagoda stone sculpture.

There is a forest outside this platform, but the trees here are relatively normal and very sparse. There are lush plants of all kinds growing between the trees. It's obviously still a tropical rainforest climate, but the location is wrong. We must have encountered a long-abandoned teleportation array just now, but the problem is that it has been activated again. What's worse is that we were actually in the array when it was activated.

"Oh my God! Look." Rikard pointed in the direction behind me in surprise.

We all turned around, there were very few trees in that direction, and from the top of the trees we saw a huge man-made building. The building in front of us seems to be more than ten kilometers away from us, but the huge building can be seen from here. It could be a city, and a very large one at that. The trees look like shrubs compared to it. You can imagine how majestic it is.

The Son of the Night asked: "Could this be the ruins of the temple of the Imodar Cult?"

Jibeiyar stuttered and pointed his hands in the direction of the building: "I...I don't know...how to describe my mood now."

I patted Jibeiyar and said, "Don't get too happy yet. What are you looking for as the symbol of the Diemoda Cult?"

"A cow's head has a ring of bones on it."

"Unfortunately, this is not something from the Imodora Cult. I think this one is bigger."

"Anyway, let's go over and take a look first." The Son of the Night took the lead and directed his steel claws to run over there.

I took back the tank, turned around and asked Jibeyar: "Want to go there together?"

"No need to trouble you." Santa Marfi Anna took out a small object and threw it into the sky before I could see what it was. The thing flashed and turned into a huge bird-shaped monster. The monster fell down and took them flying towards the city.

I smiled and shook my head to summon Ye Ying. Look at Ye Yue, think about it and send Ye Ying back to get lucky. Yeyue's fighting ability is absolutely top-notch, but that big tail is really not suitable for riding a horse. Lucky took the two of us and flew into the sky. When we passed the Son of the Night, we stopped and took him with us.

When we took off again, Jibeiyar and the others were gone. I figured they had probably landed. A distance of more than ten kilometers is not that far for something that can fly. When we crossed the woods and reached the artificial building, we suddenly saw Jibeiyar standing on the branches of a big tree, waving and shouting something desperately. She would point in the direction of the building from time to time.

Ye Zhizi stretched out his head and looked at it for a long time before saying, "She seems to have something to say."

Yeyue also said: "There seems to be something wrong with their appearance."

I also lowered my head and looked down. I always felt that Jibeiyar was referring to what was wrong with that building complex, but what could be wrong? I suddenly found that a small piece of forest not far away had fallen, and the white bird-shaped monster was lying among the trees.

"That big bird's posture is very strange?" I said.

The Son of the Night looked at it. "It didn't look like a normal landing. It looked like it was shot down."

"What? Shoot down?" I suddenly reacted. "Lucky, pay attention ahead."

I saw a place in the middle of the building suddenly light up, and a white beam of light shot straight in. Fortunately, he rolled at a large angle to dodge the attack, and then another ray came from another direction. Lucky rolled again and avoided the attack.

"Land quickly."

The dragon has four legs, and that's an advantage. We crashed directly into the dense forest, and luckily we landed safely thanks to our strong limbs. I tapped Lucky on the back. "Put your head up to see what's attacking us?"

Lucky looked at it for a while and said: "No, we can't see anything attacking us from this angle. The wall outside blocks that thing inside."

The Son of the Night crawled over and said, "Did you see what it was just now?"

I shook my head: "It's some kind of anti-air defense system anyway. Did you see it, Yeyue?"

"I just saw a white light."

"Are you okay?" Jibeiyar and the others finally rushed over.

Lucky turned his head and looked at Jibeiyar: "I'm not that stupid bird. It's still early for something like this to hit me."

I jumped off Lucky's back and asked Jibeiyar: "Did you see something attack you?"

Jibeiyar shook his head: "As soon as we saw a flash of white light, we fell. St. Mafianna's mount was fatally hit."

Lauder said: "I guess it is an air interception facility similar to a beam launcher."

Licard also said: "Just now from the air, this place should be a city, and the area is not small. It is normal to have defense facilities."

Adepana asked: "Then what do we do now?"

"Of course I walked there." The child of the night became smarter this time. "That's an anti-aircraft weapon. We'll be safe if we go underground."

"It's only a few hundred meters away anyway. Just walk there." Jibeiyar also agreed with the opinion of the Son of the Night.

"Oh well."

I took back my luck and walked directly to the outskirts of the city with everyone. The forest suddenly ended more than a hundred meters beyond the city wall, and the city wall came directly into our sight. This is indeed a city. And it's really huge. But its walls are not very exaggerated. The city wall made of earthy yellow rocks is about ten stories high, which is considered high among ordinary city walls. However, after seeing Essinger's city wall, this kind of city wall is no different from a garden fence.

From here, it can be seen that there is no one on the top of the city wall, but maybe the enemy thought we had been shot down and therefore did not strengthen their vigilance. But no one belongs to anyone, and those strange devices under the walls of the city wall seem difficult to deal with. That's something that looks a lot like a street light. The lower part of this thing is a pillar about thirty centimeters in diameter. The pillar protrudes from the ground about three meters high. There is a yellow tray-like thing on the top of the pillar. This thing is slightly thicker than the pillar and has a very good gloss. Although this thing looks like gold. But I think it's gold-plated at best. Although gold in the game is not as valuable as outside, it is not cheap enough to be used to build city walls. There is a crystal clear colorless crystal above this tray-like component. The crystal is olive-shaped, but relatively slender and has many facets. The crystal stands suspended approximately thirty centimeters above the tray. It didn't make any contact with the tray, it just floated there, and it was still turning slowly.

There are countless such pillars, one every ten meters along the base of the city wall. There are such things as far as we can see. Even if the yellow parts on the top of the pillar are not gold, those crystals are probably worth a lot of money. The crystals are floating and spinning above the tray, which means it is magical. With such a huge facility and magic power, unless it is a sacrificial facility, it must be a defensive weapon.

Rikard wanted to go out, but I pulled him back. "Don't move, those pillars look offensive."

"That's not true, is it?"

"That's not possible."

I pulled a feather from the wing. Feather immediately turned into a dark bee. Under the control of my will, the Dark Bee quickly left my hand and flew toward the city wall. However, when it was still seventy meters away from the city wall, the crystal on the pillar closest to it suddenly stopped rotating.

Seeing this change, I immediately told the Dark Bee to stop approaching and instead hover in place. The crystal didn't do anything except stop spinning, it just stayed still. I let the Dark Bee fly back for a while, and when the distance increased to 80 meters, the crystal resumed its rotation. I asked the Dark Bee to turn around and go back, but as soon as it got close to 70 meters, it stopped turning again.

I pointed to the pillar. "See? It reacts to objects approaching the ground."

"But it's not necessarily a weapon."

"Then let's try again."

I let the Dark Bee continue to approach, and the crystal stood there calmly, getting closer as the distance got closer. Several nearby pillars also stopped. It can be roughly estimated. These crystals will stop spinning as long as the distance is close to 70 meters.

The Dark Bee approached slowly and cautiously. When the distance was close to 50 meters, the bottom of the nearest pillar suddenly lit up. A blue light group seemed to appear inside the pillar and moved upward rapidly. At first I thought the pillar was made of stone, but now it seems that it is not made of stone at all, and it is hollow, and the surface material seems to be translucent.

The blue light group moved very quickly. It almost flashed from the bottom of the pillar to the golden part on the top of the pillar. Several electric arcs suddenly shot out from the center of the golden part. Flying directly into the crystal, the crystal quickly turned into a dazzling light bulb in a second. When the light reached its peak, the crystal suddenly dimmed. A white beam of light shot out from one facet of the crystal, and my Dark Bee directly turned into a wisp of smoke. Without the target, the crystal pillar resumed its rotation. These things are clearly automatic defense systems.

"Light prism?" We were all dumbfounded. The thing that this thing fired just now is exactly the same as the beam of light that attacked us at the beginning, except that the ray of this thing is a little thinner and probably less powerful.

Jibeiyar pulled me and asked: "Then... did that thing attack just now?"

"Well, it attacked. My Dark Bee has been completely evaporated."

The Son of the Night asked: "How can we get close to such a powerful thing?"

"You'll know after you try it." I picked up a small stone and threw it hard at one of the crystal pillars. The same thing happened again when the stone flew about 50 meters away from the pillar. After a white light, the stone turned into stone powder and fell to the ground.

"It's probably not that easy to enter." Jibeiyar said.

"That's not necessarily true." I loaded the Avenger with a crossbow and shot it at a crystal pillar. This time it was the same, my arrow was also intercepted. This thing has absolutely no deviation in hitting the target, and physical weapons are probably not easy to get close to. After thinking for a while, I summoned Ling. "Ling, come here and help me try to deal with that thing."

"What is that?" Ling had never seen this thing before.

"Anyway, it's a defensive weapon that will automatically attack approaching objects. Try shooting magic at it. It shouldn't be able to do anything about magic."