In fact, Gawain planned to call Rebecca, but the latter has been busy with the construction of "Magic Network No. 1" for a while, and has not had a good rest for several days. It is not easy to go to bed early today. Gawain didn't wake her up again.
Anyway, there are only a few fireball launchers, which are of little use-it is not as powerful as Gawain's own knife to kill people.
Hetty hadn't rested yet. She was studying the systems and plans written by Gawain in her tent. When she heard that something was wrong with the ruins in the mountains, she immediately put on her coat and rushed over.
Seeing her slightly nervous look, Gawain said with relief: "Don't panic, it's just some unusual noises. It may be that the ancient facilities in the ruins have moved - if there is a real landslide, it won't be this small. Movement."
Hetty nodded worriedly.
Knight Byron quickly selected capable soldiers, and then led Gawain through the mountain road to the main entrance of the ancient ruins.
A temporary outpost was built here using wooden houses. There are usually five soldiers guarding the gate here. The torches illuminate the area around the gate of the ruins, making the situation here clear at a glance: except for a few nervous people standing there. Except for the soldiers, there seemed to be nothing unusual.
"Sir," a soldier came up to him and saluted immediately after seeing Gawain, "There were two more noises inside just now."
"Well, I'll go see it myself. Look," Gawain said as he walked towards the gate of the ruins, "You guys are guarding outside. No one is allowed to come in without my order."
When he came to the gate of the ruins, Gawain came to the gate. He used the platinum disc to activate the ancient Gondor magic pattern. Seeing that the heavy purple steel door was still flowing with the magic glow, Gawain was somewhat relieved: at least the magic channel here is still normal, which means that there will be no magic inside. There has been a big change.
Hetty subconsciously clenched the staff and first sketched out the spell model of Ice Arrow, but in the next second, the magic power was dissipated and replaced with auxiliary magic - if the biu didn't hit anyone, it would be Embarrassed.
The purple steel door slowly opened driven by magic power, and the magic crystal stone placed in the hall immediately lit up. Gawain put his hand on the hilt of the Pioneer Sword and stepped into it with increased vigilance.
There seemed to be nothing unusual in the hall. The metal ingots and weapons and armor that had not been shipped out were still placed in place, reflecting the glow under the bright and constant light of the magic crystal. There was no sign of any abnormality in the entire hall. Any sign of collapse and loosening, everything seems to be business as usual.
But after glancing around, Gawain immediately noticed a change - the doors deep in the hall were open.
This ancient ruins is not just a hall in front of you. It also has a much larger structure inside the mountain. This can be seen from the scale of its entrance and the occasional architectural structures that can be observed on the mountain wall. It can be judged, but so far Gawain and the others have only used the hall at the entrance of the ruins - it is not that they don't want to go deeper, but the door to the deeper place is locked.
When the Northern Pioneering Army found this ruins 700 years ago, the gate to the deep layers was locked, and a magic seal completely different from the surface gate was used. The pioneer team at that time cracked the magic key to the entrance to the first floor, but could not do anything about the door deep in the hall, so they just regarded the hall as a treasure house, reset the seal and left here. And seven hundred years later, Today, Gawain led Cecil's pioneering team back to this place. He and the people he brought were still unable to do anything about those gates.
Hetty once studied in the treasure hall for a whole day, but could not unlock the seals of several doors: that was the magic technology of Gondor's heyday, far beyond what a third-level mage like Hetty could do. Crack.
Gawain originally planned to put those doors aside and wait until the situation stabilized in the future before considering how to deal with them, but he did not expect that just today, those doors opened by themselves.
Hetty also noticed the situation of those doors, and tugged on Gawain's clothes a little uneasily: "Ancestor, those doors..."
"I saw it, God knows how." Gawain said with a frown, but his mind couldn't help but think of the red spot outbreak and the surge of magic power a few days ago - could it be that the surge of magic power at that time also spread to the ruins and became loose? The seal in the ruins? And recently, I have frequently asked Hetty or Rebecca to come here with platinum disks to open doors and move things. The frequent opening and closing of the first layer of seals accidentally activated the door inside?
Based on Gawain's understanding of the magic technology of the ancient Gondor Empire, this is very possible.
He took a few soldiers to the three doors and began to think.
If we follow the general plot, going into such a suddenly opened ruins in the middle of the night to explore is basically a suicide attempt, but the specific situation depends on the subject matter - if this is an American TV series, then Basically, everyone will die soon after entering, but if this is a Japanese drama, everyone will most likely see a female ghost before they die, but if it is a domestic drama... then he will most likely have sex with the female ghost after entering. ...
Gawain looked at the people around him. These people wearing armor and helmets and carrying staffs looked like American TV dramas.
If you don’t go in, you will definitely die, and you won’t even be able to see the female ghost before you die.
But just when he made a decision and was about to order the door to be temporarily closed and wait until conditions were ripe to explore again in the future, he heard Hetty suddenly mutter: "There seems to be a magic reaction inside... ...In a very deep place."
Gawain raised his eyebrows: "Magic reaction? Deep?"
"It came from deep inside this door," Hetty pointed out. Pointing to the door in the middle, "It was probably because the door blocked the flow of magic power before. I never felt it, but now that the door is open, I can vaguely feel that there is something inside... It may be a magic circle that is running. And so on. But the response is very, very weak, and it is still declining, and it may disappear completely at any time.”
Gawain: "..."
He abruptly stopped the urge to turn around and leave, sighing in his heart: Human beings are indeed creatures that have to seek death.
No matter what is inside, it seems that you must take a look before leaving.
Holding the Sword of the Pioneer in his hand, Gawain silently used his knight skills to protect his home with several layers of protection, and then led the way.
There was no light in the depths of the ruins, and it became darker and darker after walking through the gate and into the corridor. Hetty raised her staff and recited a few syllables in a low voice, and a glowing magic ball appeared on the head of the staff. Float up and light the way forward.
He can cast lighting and is a real mage.
Looking at the increasingly deep corridor ahead and the tall and wide spaces on both sides, Knight Byron couldn't help but marveled: "It is indeed something created by the once-prosperous Gondor Empire. ...How big is it inside?”
“God knows, the ruins gate is in the shape of a large fortress in the Spark Age of Gondor. It is possible to hollow out a mountain for such a large fortress,” Gawain said. He curled his lips and said, "I don't know if Amber really absconded with the money - it would be great if she were here."
"This kind of highly professional ancient ruins is the best sneaker." She's not good at dealing with it, either." Hetty glanced at Gawain doubtfully, "Cracking this kind of place is generally the professional field of mages..."
"No, if Amber is here, you can throw her out. When exploring the road, I can feel less psychological pressure," Gawain said casually, "And her escape skills are top-notch, and she can still throw them when she runs back..."
Hetty was stunned: her ancestor suddenly made immoral remarks. , what should I do as a junior? !
Gawain glanced at her and laughed: "I'm joking - mainly because Amber has a special ability to walk in the shadows. In a place like this where shadows are everywhere, she can find more than us. Hidden path."
Hetty breathed a sigh of relief, and the Byron knight next to him also nodded: "I know that you are a model knight and you will definitely not do that to a lady. To do something..."
The corner of Gawain's mouth twitched slightly: Amber? If her breasts and face weren't there, who could connect her with a lady?
And to be honest, the connection between her breasts and women is not very close...
A few chats slightly eased the tension among everyone, but everyone was not at all vigilant. Without weakening, under the illumination of Hetty's magic light ball, Gawain paid close attention to every detail around him, not letting go of any possible traps and the ancient writings that occasionally appeared on the walls.
Those were the common scripts of the ancient Gondor Empire. The common scripts used by the four kingdoms today are derived from them. However, due to the span of thousands of years in between, the scripts evolved more or less. Some changes have occurred, and the "Age of Sparks" itself is also an era of great changes in the Gondor Empire, so basically only Gawain can understand the ancient texts in the ruins.
Hetty only half understood them..
The scale of the ruins in the mountain is indeed huge, even so huge that Gawain was a little surprised.
Advancing all the way from the central corridor, the team encountered more than one fork, detours and stairs. The overall trend of the passage was to continue to spread and descend towards the depths of the mountain. In the process, Hetty After checking the breath flow several times, it was confirmed that there should be complete ventilation holes in places where people can't see them. The advanced construction technology of the ancient Gondor Empire can be seen.
In the process, they discovered rooms or other halls more than once.
These rooms and halls are all made of stone-like materials, but after Hetty identified them, they found that they were not stone, but some kind of man-made material that was more durable than stone; every room Except for a few rotten shelves and some metal tools that are about to turn into slag, there are basically no valuable ancient relics - obviously, the Imperial people in this facility were quite productive back then. Evacuate here in an orderly manner with enough time to spare.
This is also consistent with Gawain’s judgment of the “Age of Sparks”.
But this also made Hetty quite regretful: she thought she could find some antique treasures inside, even if they were unusable, but the words "from the Age of Spark of the Empire of Gondor", It's enough to turn a piece of scrap metal into a hot treasure.
The group did not have time to explore every fork in the road and every room, so Gawain ordered to leave marks at those forks that could not be explored temporarily, leaving it to be explored slowly in the future when someone has time. Under the guidance of Hetty's induction, the team headed straight in the direction where the magic reaction was coming from.