Chapter 586: Pale Glory City

"Where is this?"

Noshil scanned the scene in front of him and asked at the same time.

The pale fortress in front of him was obviously not a building that could be found in the abyss. Looking at this regular and tall castle in front of him, even though most of it was tightly wrapped in flesh and blood, Noshil could still feel an inexplicable sense of sacredness from the appearance of the castle.

"Here... it seems to be..."

Beside Noshil, Lulu suddenly muttered to herself for a few times, and then flew towards the direction of the castle as if out of control, and Noshil immediately followed.

Not long after Noshil threw Kalokoktok's body out of the pit, Lulu flew down directly from the outside world and took the initiative to find him. At the first moment when the two met, Noshil also took the initiative to ask her if she had felt the breath of Zariel's sword on the evil creature.

Lulu's answer was that she did feel the breath of the Sword of Zariel, but not from the monster. In fact, she also felt the inexplicable call like Noshir, so she took the initiative to jump down from the pit to find Noshir, and the fortress in front of her made her feel extremely familiar.

As soon as Noshir saw Lulu's performance, he had a rough guess in his mind. If he guessed correctly, the Sword of Zariel should be in the fortress in front of him, and the method of confirmation was also very simple. As long as he went in and took a look, he would naturally know.

But on the periphery of this fortress, Noshir did not observe the existence of anything like a city gate. This simple, sacred and solid castle seemed to have not prepared those things since its birth. All he could see was either flesh and blood or city walls. It would take a lot of effort for ordinary people to get in, but this little problem naturally did not stump him.

Noshir directly waved the equally huge [Matalotok] with his current super-giant body, and smashed through nearly 1/4 of the outer wall with just one blow.

But while breaking through this barrier, Noshier also felt a considerable obstacle. The defense of this city seemed to be even stronger than he imagined. If it weren't for his amazing strength and the help of the artifact, if either of these two conditions was missing, he wouldn't have been able to blast open this section of the wall so easily today.

But unfortunately, Noshier was such a monster, and the above assumptions naturally no longer existed. After blasting the wall, Noshier directly shrank in size. In his original state, he could recover his physical strength very quickly. After confirming that his current state was not bad and he still had quite perfect combat power, he took Lulu directly into the city.

He saw the layout of the interior of this fortress with his own eyes. Compared with the scarlet outside, the interior of this place was more like a palace, a round, large palace that continued to extend inward. Inside this palace, the floor was paved with bluish-white marble bricks, and there was a red carpet on it, leading directly to the depths.

White marble pillars supported the dome. When he was at the periphery, Noshier could still see many such pillars. As he went deeper, the number of such stone pillars continued to decrease until he really approached the deepest part of the palace.

First, he walked thousands of meters inward as if on flat ground, then walked up a nearly 30-meter-high staircase, then continued to walk inward, encountered stairs again, and repeated the above steps four times before Noshier really reached the center of here and saw a room, an independent room located at the deepest and highest point of the palace.

Looking at the door in front of him, which might be the only door in the palace, Noshier looked and sensed for a moment. After confirming that there were no magic traps on it, he directly used the war hammer to push the door open gently.

At the moment the door opened, Noshier also saw the divine long sword that was emitting endless blue light, with angel wings and an unusually sharp handguard, inserted directly into the central stone seat, and the armored warrior who was obviously dead but still tightly grasped the hilt of the sword, half-knelt in the same place, and his body had not decayed.

"Ya... Yael!"

Lulu muttered in disbelief, and Noshier also said inwardly when he heard the name. Sure enough, although it was a little unbelievable, the heroic warrior in front of him was indeed the legendary Yael.

Noshier stood in place, silently watching the deceased hero. He didn't expect that he could still see this legendary hero. Although even if he saw it, it was just a corpse, but in this ghost place of the Abyss, this warrior could actually preserve his body intact for such a long time, without being corrupted by the environment of the Abyss and swallowed by the devil. Just relying on this point, it was already a "surprise" in a sense.

Lulu must have felt relieved that her friend's body was not desecrated but remained intact here, but...

'Why? According to Lulu, wasn't Yael already devoured alive by Kalokoktok? Wasn't this the scene that Lulu saw with her own eyes? But now her body appeared here, and there was also this sword, this fortress, what on earth was going on with this place? '

Noshier wanted to ask Lulu, since she came here, Lulu seemed very excited, and the reason why he rushed to the center so recklessly was because Lulu had been flying in this direction at full speed since she entered here, as if she knew that there would be absolutely no danger here.

Based on her performance, Noshil also judged that she must know the specific situation here, but when he turned to look at Lulu, before he could open his mouth, Noshil saw a line of tears falling from Lulu's eyes again.

Noshil was silent. He stopped his action temporarily and silently waited for Lulu's emotions to recover. He just watched Lulu come back to her senses after being stunned for a few seconds, and then slowly flapped her wings and slowly approached Yael's body.

She stroked Yael's face with her nose, wiped off the blood on it, and slowly closed her eyes that had long been lifeless but still slightly half-open. Time seemed to have stopped at this moment. It was not until a few minutes later that Lulu shook her head and turned around, as if she had regained her previous calmness and laughter, and then seemed to see Noshil's doubts.

After a short silence, she took the initiative to explain to Noshil why this fortress appeared here.

She guessed that the reason why this fortress appeared should be... no, it should be absolutely, absolutely because of the special ability of the Sword of Zariel!

Since Lulu's memory has just been restored, although she remembered most of her memories, some of the details still need the passage of time, or the reminder of the people, to slowly make up for it. After seeing this fortress and entering it, Lulu completely remembered the origin and ability of this fortress.

At present, there is no doubt that the reason why the fortress under their feet can appear is definitely because of the special ability of the Sword of Zariel.

Back then, because of her own ambitions, Zariel chose to take the initiative to descend to the main material plane to clear out the demons, and trained an elite legion of humans in Eltoril, attempting to rely on this legion to attack the abyss of hell.

But in the process of the army's march, qualified protection and resting places are absolutely indispensable. If there are not enough qualified barriers and walls after occupying a certain area, they will not be able to defend the subsequent important roads, nor can they recover from the various negative effects caused by the unique environment of hell.

In order to solve this problem, Zariel had already attached a unique nine-ring spell [Pale Glory City] to his sword when he was still in heaven.

This spell is similar to the combination of the extremely enhanced version of the Holy Residence and the Mordenken Mansion spell, which allows the holder of the sword to instantly create a fairly wide sacred castle in a very short time according to his own ideas.

In this castle, the soldiers can rest assured, and the unique power attached to the castle itself can also wash away the pollution of the hell environment, and add spells such as blessing and protection from evil to it. According to the will of the caster, if you choose to defend with all your strength when casting this spell, this fortress will become as strong as it is now, and even the city gate will not be reserved.

In this situation, Lulu guessed that maybe when Yael was swallowed by Kalokoktok, she did not die instantly at the first time. Although she was severely injured at that time, Zariel's sword protected her, at least temporarily allowing her to survive in the belly of the giant monster outside.

Yael must have tried to resist. During that time, she must have wanted to escape from Kalokotok's belly, but the giant monster was thick-skinned and tough. Although Yael was a powerful warrior, she was a mortal after all. Even if she had the Sword of Zariel at the time, she might not be able to fully exert the full power of this artifact, let alone dig through the monster's flesh and blood in a short time.

In addition to the other demons in the mouth of the giant demon and the endless strong acid churning in its belly, Yael must have gone through thousands of hardships before she finally escaped from the giant monster's belly. But at that time, Kalokotok was probably back to the Abyss, and directly returned to the area where they were currently.

When Yael finally broke through Kalokotok's belly and escaped from death, what came into view was the strange and unpredictable environment of the Endless Abyss. At that time, Yael must have understood the situation she was in, so after coming out of Kalokotok's belly, she did not hesitate and directly inserted the sword into this chaotic land.

Although most of this bloody plain is mud, flesh and blood, it is still mixed with a lot of hard stones. With these rocks as the base material, Yael launched the [Pale Glory City], and protected herself and the Sword of Zariel in this city.

Then, in the next hundred years, this castle was gradually swallowed up by this strange plain and buried deep underground. It was not until today that they were discovered and saw the light of day again.

After listening to Lulu's guess, Noshier couldn't help but sigh with emotion, lamenting that such a story was really tortuous and bizarre. Although all of the above were just Lulu's personal guesses, it was indeed the best explanation for the current situation.

Noshier looked around the surrounding environment again, and recalled the harsh terrain of the Blood Plain and the geographical location of this fortress. All of this could be said to be extremely bad.

If he hadn't gained such a powerful power at this time, I'm afraid no one would have discovered the secret here anyway. Yael's body would continue to stay here, and I don't know when this sword will see the light of day again. And whenever he thinks about that possibility, when he thinks about letting the hero's body fall here and be forgotten, Zariel, the hero who originally played a savior-like role, will continue to degenerate into a demon, Nohir will feel an uncontrollable feeling. desolate.

Fortunately, this assumption no longer existed at this time. Nohir put away his emotions, and with respect for the hero, he carefully collected Yael's body, wrapped it in a shroud and sprinkled it with holy water. Next Just put it in a coffin.

However, because there was no preparation in advance, Nohir could only use local materials, scrape some stones on the spot with a tomahawk, use brute force to cut it into a simple sarcophagus, and put Yael's body in it.

He had no idea of ​​putting it into the space box because he thought it was too disrespectful. Nohir even prepared a coffin lid, but because Lulu wanted to see Yael for a while, he just prepared everything completely Then put it aside until you really want to go.

And just after Nohir had prepared all the things, he finally looked at the gorgeous sword in the middle again. Without any hesitation, he walked forward directly, held the hilt of the sword with one hand, and took it with one hand. Taking it off from the stone platform went smoothly without feeling any resistance.

And just when Nohir pulled out the sword and wanted to put it in front of his eyes to observe carefully, an inexplicable but friendly thought suddenly came from the sword body and expressed his desire to Nohir. Exchange ideas.

Nohir was stunned for a moment, and then immediately canceled the shielding of the soul ring, and instantly blended with the thoughts in the sword. And at this moment, all kinds of memories were like watching a lantern, unusually fast, but extremely clear. appeared in his mind.

Nohir immediately knew who these memories came from, Zariel, the uncorrupted Zariel. These memories from Zariel also clearly filled in the parts of his previous doubts, confirming their previous understanding of Zariel. Speculations about Er's fall, and Yael's experience.

Yes, that's right, Nohir's previous speculations about Zariel's depravity were all true, and Lulu's inferences about Yael's experience were also correct. This information was equivalent to clearly telling Nohir that they We are on the right path at this time.