Chapter 1116 Wendell
Wendell is a lightseeker—perhaps the last. As a person who is looking for the remaining light in the Nine Kingdoms, his age is far beyond the requirements. His body is too old and his spirit is dispirited. Every part of his body is constantly reminding him that he is completely unfit to participate anymore. This expedition will only lead to death in a foreign land if one insists on going his own way.
However, he still resolutely left the warm and comfortable Twilight City and embarked on this journey of no return.
And it was the second time to set off.
Wendell once challenged a light-seeking journey. At that time, he was accompanied by twenty-eight companions - half of whom died of fatal diseases eroded by magic energy due to carelessness shortly after passing the first rainbow bridge. Down, the remaining people died one after another in the deadly poisonous fog of Niflheim. That light-seeking trip was nearly wiped out in the middle of the journey. In the end, Wendell and the only remaining teammate in the team barely escaped back to the Twilight City dragging their bodies, and the only teammate was returning to the Twilight City. On the third day after arriving home, he died miserably from nightmares and throbbing pains.
But the ancestors showed mercy and Wendell survived and is living in good health to this day.
Since the collapse of the sky and the earth, the light disappeared, and the world has been shrouded in scorching darkness. Hundreds of light seekers have embarked on a journey in the long night. They dive into the darkness and search for survivors after the apocalypse in the devastated wreckage of the world. The remaining light was bleak, but no one ever brought back the real good news. The vast majority of light seekers, like Wendell's friends, have become rotting corpses in the twisted wasteland. It is difficult to even save the whole body. However, a very small number of light seekers are lucky ones like Wendell. Before being completely swallowed by the darkness, he fled back to the shelter in embarrassment. Throughout the rest of his short life, he tremblingly told others about the deadly shadows in the darkness and the painful magic radiation. No one will laugh at those light seekers who are scared out of their wits and escape, because just stepping out of the Twilight City requires great courage, and those who can go through an adventure in the long night and come back alive, their survival This is already a commendable achievement in itself.
Of all these light-seekers, Wendell was the only one to return from the night alive, only to set out on the journey again.
Some people said that he was a madman, while others praised his courage and believed that his almost irrational challenging spirit was comparable to those of the Enheria in ancient times. However, Wendell dismissed all these comments and set out on his journey. There is only one reason for the journey, and that is to fulfill a promise he made to his wife when he was young: to find the remaining glimmer of light in the long night.
So when he realized that he had only one challenge left in the rest of his life, and that there would probably never be a new team of light seekers set out in the Twilight City, he took the initiative to sign up for the last expedition team, and while others With a mad look in his eyes, he set out with the blessed talisman.
This last team set out from the Twilight City with only twelve members - the smallest Lightseeker expedition ever assembled. Following the routes left by their predecessors, they traveled through the ruins of the Nine Kingdoms, searching for signs of life and signs that the long night was about to recede.
However, no matter where they go, all they can find is the rotten and twisted earth and the air filled with magic energy. The remaining branches of Yggdrasil are growing interspersed among these terrible world wreckage, but there is no elven spring anymore. It flows from these branches. As it is said in the Doomsday Book: The branches of the World Tree are diseased and dying, the nine kingdoms have collapsed, the entire universe has been extinguished, and the surviving humans cannot reverse their fate.
Teammates fell one by one. The strongest Bonem was radiated to death because he accidentally dropped the amulet. The brave Andrew fell into the depths of the cracks in the earth. Helena also died. After crossing the Jotunheim rainbow, When she was crossing the bridge, she disappeared into the gate, but never appeared from the other side: the space storm swallowed her up. In the end, only Wendell and Tanarosa were left in the team, but Tanarosa did not survive the day either.
"Maybe I can't survive it." Wendell huddled in his small camp, his old body wrapped in leather. He felt that his heart was being burned by flames, but a biting coldness came from his skin. This is a sign of magical energy invading the nervous system. He felt a little ironic: the person who made it to the last step in the team was actually himself. Those who were younger, more flexible, and stronger than him all died in front of him.
Perhaps it was the experience brought by a light-seeking trip and his adaptability to magic that allowed him to live a few more days, but that was it.
Another wave of coldness spread, and Wendell subconsciously wrapped himself in leather. He looked at his threaded cane and the compass hanging on the cane. The pointer on the compass was spinning crazily, and the threaded cane was full of cracks. He knew that he was lost, and he was lost soon after burying Tanarosa, which made him a little regretful: if it weren't for this last obstacle, maybe he still had hope of reaching Asgard, although he was sure that even if he arrived Asgard will also die of radiation sickness in a short period of time, but he can at least see the legendary country with his own eyes and confirm the fact that supported him all the way here:
Did Asgard survive.
Wendell took out the blackened parchment from his arms with difficulty. There was only one scrawled sentence on the parchment:
"...Asgard...there is light."
This piece of paper was found by his team when passing through Wat Alheim, and was firmly protected by a mummy wearing Lightseeker equipment. Tanarossa believed that the Lightseeker was the one from a hundred years ago. Members of an expedition team that was completely wiped out: The group of light seekers that set out a hundred years ago was considered to be the elite division most likely to successfully search all kingdoms in history. The Twilight City almost gave up all its last hopes. However, no one in this team survived, which indirectly led to the end of this special group of "Lightseekers".
Based on the contents of the note, Tanarosa speculated that the light seekers who disappeared a hundred years ago successfully arrived at Asgard, the last remnant of the Nine Kingdoms, and found evidence of survival there. However, this team failed to bring the good news back to the Twilight City alive.
It was the content of this note that made Wendell persist until this moment. He no longer expected to return to the Twilight City. He only hoped to at least see Asgard, even if he could crawl over - okay I have ended my life with regrets.
However, it seems that regret will eventually turn into regret.
Another hallucinatory coldness hit from all directions, and Wendell felt that his mind was gradually sinking into the bottomless abyss. He tried to wrap himself in leather again, but this time he couldn't even control the movements of his fingers. As his eyelids gradually grew heavy, he felt as if he had returned to the Twilight City, back to that narrow city covered by a light yellow film, filled with the smell of engine oil, and filled with steam and smoke. His little workshop appeared in front of him again, and his dear Sasha also came to life. She stood at the door of the workshop, wearing an old apron, looking here with a sad face.
He struggled to reach out, but felt that his field of vision gradually narrowed and darkened, and finally, everything was far away.
However, at the last second before he completely sank into darkness, a glimmer of light appeared in the distance.
A detection probe found the lost person, and Hao Ren and his party finally arrived at the other party before it was too late.
They found this inconspicuous little camp in the wilderness hundreds of kilometers away from the Rainbow Bridge. There was only one old man in the small camp who was wrapped in worn leather and was stooped and weak. The old man was suffering from a high fever at the time, his skin had an abnormal bluish-white sheen, and his breathing was weak as if he was about to disappear at any time. The old mage Anthony immediately judged that this was a symptom of severe magic energy erosion.
"He is almost dead," Anthony said while setting up a barrier around the camp to isolate magic energy, "but he is not completely dead yet. Give me some time and I can bring him back from the brink of death."
After the barrier to isolate the magic energy was established, the condition of the weak and comatose old man stabilized immediately. Although he was far from getting better, he was at least temporarily free from the threat of death. While the old mage was busy setting up various purification circles, Vivian stepped forward to check on the old man. She was surprised to find that he was a human being.
Although there are some differences from humans on the earth today - this may be a mutation caused by living in a mutated environment for a long time - this old man is indeed a human being.
"How did he survive in this environment until now?" Vivian felt incredible.
Galadra searched around the old man and found something that emitted magic waves: "It's probably the effect of this amulet. I just sensed that this thing formed a barrier and continued to filter the magic energy and poisonous gas in the air. , but its effectiveness seems to be almost over, and the filtering effect is very poor.”
Hao Ren took the amulet and said casually: "It seems that this is the 'Light Seeker'."
At this moment, with Anthony's full treatment, the dying old man finally recovered and slowly opened his eyes.