Chapter 1480 The Temple of Hades

The degree of dilapidation in the Hades space after the witchers' ravages is even more shocking.

Originally, this place was a desolate and broken place. The sky of eternal night has shrouded the entire world unchanged for thousands of years. The dark and cracked earth is flowing with poisonous water and magma. Undead creatures are wandering everywhere. All life will be cut off here. But in After the demon hunters raided and killed Hades, this place was left with countless scars from the war - the earth that was already full of cracks was torn and curled by powerful magical energy, forming countless There are undulating corrugated ridges, and between those ripples is a terrifying rift, which is a crack that has penetrated the entire Hades. If you jump from it, you will fall directly into the boundary of space, and be torn to pieces and annihilated by this artificial space. ; Most of the undead creatures wandering in Hades were killed by demon hunters. Huge fragmented skeletons and shapeless flesh and blood residues can be seen everywhere in the wilderness; the outposts and guard towers originally used to monitor this space have also been destroyed. Destroyed, ruins can be seen everywhere. The demon hunter's holy flames melted these originally indestructible buildings, causing them to collapse to the ground like melted butter...

Hao Ren and his companions walked on the land of Hades that had been completely destroyed and was gradually becoming unstable. Hasselblad relied on memory to guide the way forward. They have to go around some cracks that suddenly appear on the earth at any time, because the foundation of this world is collapsing, and the entire earth is in a state of constant disintegration and falling. Hesiana also tried to fly in the sky, but it proved to be more dangerous: the soul furnace of Tartarus was shut down, which directly caused all the human souls collected by Hades, the king of Hades, to escape, which had not been burned out. But there are no longer irrational souls floating in the air in pieces, forming a very powerful energy group. Not only is it easy to cause a chain explosion if you approach rashly, but you will also be polluted by the negative emotions that these dead souls constantly emit. Compared with being polluted by these dead souls, The sky occupied by the undead and the earth that continues to crack are a safer path.

After advancing for a while, a dry river bed appeared in front of everyone.

Hao Ren stood on the edge of the river bed and looked far into the distance. He looked across the darkness and saw a land gradually extending upwards across the river bed.

He withdrew his gaze and noticed that the river had dried up not long ago, and the smelly venomous mud still remained on the river beach. The reason why the river had dried up was also obvious: there were a large number of shocking cracks in the center of the river bed, and these cracks were almost paved. It filled the entire bottom of the river, and the water leaked from there - leaking all the way through the underworld and dissipating in the chaotic boundary of another space.

Due to the existence of those cracks, Hao Ren and his party had to walk along the river bank to find a continuous and safe route to the other side. Fortunately, they arrived not too late. The collapse of this space was still in its early stages. They quickly found a suitable "crossing" point and also found a strange ship stranded on the river beach.

This is a ferry built with fishing nets and the bones of unknown creatures. There are holes the size of fists everywhere on the boat. Even the bottom of the boat can be seen with countless visible gaps and damage. It is simply unimaginable. How does this thing float on the water? And at the bow of the ship, there was an ugly giant three meters tall wearing a tattered black robe, covered in ulcers, lying dead there. The skin and flesh on this giant's face was peeling off, and his appearance was hateful. In his right hand, he was holding a paddle that looked like a paddle but the end of it was But there was a fierce weapon inlaid with countless spikes. His left hand was holding a broken lantern, and a silver sword that was still slowly igniting the holy flame was inserted into his chest, nailing the giant to his death. On your own ship.

Charon, the ferryman to Hades.

"Is this Charon..." Hesiana looked at the crucified ferryman quietly for a while, then suddenly showed a sarcastic smile. She took out two coins from her body and placed them in Charon's eyes. Go on, "You also have to go on the road."

It seemed that this slight vibration destroyed the balance of the long-decayed ship under Charon, which had been maintained by magic all the year round. Only a soft click was heard, and then the entire ferry, which was built with bones and fishing nets, crashed. The sound shattered into fragments all over the ground. After the cabin broke, countless golden coins poured out from it. They flowed down the dry river bed like a flood, forming a golden bright streak, and on this road paved with gold coins In the "pavement", you can also see numerous bones mixed in it - they are also Charon's collection.

Charon's body also fell on the river beach. His rotten and fragile body was also torn into pieces. Countless gold coins flowed out of the cracked skin.

Hao Ren and Lily were stunned by this "grand scene", but Hasselblad next to them showed no expression - oh, he was already facially paralyzed.

However, Hesiana didn't have any superfluous reaction when she saw this scene.

"Charon, I know him," Hesiana shrugged. "Although he was dead when I was sensible, I have experienced more or less the age of mythology, these barbaric and twisted 'gods'... Haha, they are all the same. .”

Hasselblad shook his head and stepped down the river beach: "Let's go, there is a good road paved."

How many years of wealth are these gold and silver coins accumulated? Perhaps the oldest of them can even be traced back to the origins of ancient Greek civilization. From the time when the "gods" on Mount Olympus established the rules of life, death and burial, humans in the Mediterranean took these coins with fear and awe. As part of the tomb, it was offered to the Lord of the Underworld for the peace of the soul after death. Charon may have only taken a small part of it, but it was still enough to fill his ship of the dead, and his own entire skin.

Now the money paid by these mortals to buy the road has finally paved a real road, after the destruction of Hades.

Crossing the dry Styx (River of Pain), Hao Ren saw the withered Elysee Paradise (also called Elysium, Elysium). This vast garden is said to be the place where an upright person dies after the death of an upright person in human myths and legends. Enjoy the "blessed place" of the underworld, but Hasselblad reveals the truth about this place.

"This garden was indeed lush, and the flowers were indeed blooming and beautiful from the outside, but it was definitely not a 'blessed place'. After the failure of the Hades plan, the Olympians were unwilling to let this alien space consume a lot of resources. It was abandoned, so some magical plants that were not suitable for growing in normal environments were transplanted in. Most of these magical plants were related to necromancy and shadow power. They originally needed to grow normally in places with strong death and dark power, so Hades Instead, it became an excellent nursery for them. Persephone was the gardener who took care of this horrific garden. She captured the human souls who entered the underworld but were not suitable as 'fuel' and let them wander in the garden, but in fact It is to use them as nutrients for magic plants - the death knell flower and the carrion flower have a strong hallucinogenic narcotic effect on the soul, so the dead souls cannot feel the pain at all. They are unknowingly absorbed by these nurseries, but until For a moment, I felt like I was enjoying myself in paradise. This is the truth of this 'blessed land'."

"Although I have long known what happened in the Age of Mythology..." Hao Ren looked at the completely withered Elysee Paradise. This vast plant area was also swept away by the demon hunter's war-level spells, and all the gardens were destroyed. They were charred, leaving only smoking bushes and scorched dust everywhere, and among these dilapidated botanical gardens, fragments of human bones can be seen everywhere - many of these bones were originally buried under nurseries as fertilizer. But the air waves on the battlefield turned them all over again. "After seeing it with my own eyes, I still feel... it's really dark."

Lily wrinkled her nose: "There is no good person in the age of mythology... Um, are they so weird?"

"Of course there are. There are them on Ra's sun ship, in the palace of Asgard, and on Mount Olympus. Even Zeus himself seems to have proposed a policy of being kind to humans several times, but so what?" Hai Seanna crossed her arms, "Humans are just kept in captivity by them after all. Although I am not a human myself, to be honest, I really can't stand the mythical age, which relies on one race to completely enslave and exploit another race to maintain it." The social structure was not a healthy one from the beginning."

Hao Ren deeply agreed with this.

The area that everyone walked through before can only be regarded as the periphery of Hades. The real inner layer of Hades is the land where Hao Ren and his party are standing. It consists of two parts, one is the Elysee Paradise, and the other is the famous "Tartarus". The dried-up "River Styx" is actually the "moat" flowing outside Tartarus and the Elysee Paradise. It can be regarded as the dividing line of this kingdom of death. The inside of the dividing line is the true meaning of Hades. The territory above is a wasteland completely abandoned by the "gods" of Olympus.

For many years, Hades put most of his energy into the inner layers of Hades, and he threw the wasteland on the other side of the River Styx directly to the mutated monsters, letting them wander there at will.

Therefore, in the land of Tartarus, the remaining power of Hades is still exerting its influence.

The Elysee Paradise is adjacent to Tartarus. Coming out of the withered garden, you can see the layers of scorched earth of Tartarus, covered with mud and volcanic ash, and only one fortress stands on this scorched earth. That fortress Rising from the ground in the darkness, there are three layers of city walls made of pure copper. They look towering and thick enough to make all human armies in this era feel despair.

In the very center of the fortress was Hao Ren's goal——

A Tower of Babel that is constantly rotating and reorganizing, and looks like it is spliced ​​together with countless metal parts. Its bottom is connected to the Temple of Hades, and its top reaches into the top of the Cloud of Chaos, connecting to the Temple of Hades on Mount Olympus.

However, it is not easy to get to the brass fortress at the highest point of Tartarus, because the power of Hades has not completely dissipated - the land outside the fortress is full of wandering undead.