After popping out of the critical state in the Shadow Realm, Amber tried a few times without belief, but every time without any change, he would fall back to the real world just after entering the critical state.
On the fourth try, she was so dizzy that she couldn’t stand it anymore.
Gao Wen was also confused by this situation (of course, it may be that he was confused by the several critical switches), and he subconsciously asked: "What's going on? Your plug-in has expired. "?"
"A plug-in? What is a plug-in?" Amber didn't understand what Gawain was talking about, but he guessed from the other person's expression that it was probably not a compliment, so he curled his lips angrily, "It must be this." There is a problem with the local environment! Wait a minute, I will come back after taking half a pound of shadow potion - I don’t believe even my shadow affinity..."
"Stop, stop, don't get up, calm down and analyze. "The situation," Gawain waved his hand to stop the half-elf from seeking death, "carefully sense the shadow environment here, and then try ordinary shadow walking or sneaking skills to see if it works."
Amber Zaigao. Wen reminded her to calm down, she took a breath, and her figure gradually faded in the air.
After several tests, she released her shadow state: "Regular shadow steps and stealth skills are no problem, including skills such as shadow fog, which can also be used smoothly. It seems that only when entering the shadow world When you are there, you will be affected by something like interference, and it will pop up in an instant."
"The Shadow Realm...so the problem is on the 'other side'..." Gawain. As he spoke, he looked thoughtfully at the ring device that looked like a magic door in the center of the room, and then he frowned and thought, "Isn't the Shadow Realm equivalent to some kind of reflection of the real world? Try it. Enter the Shadow Realm outside this room, and then come over from the 'other side' to see the situation." "I'll give it a try!" Amber agreed and dragged Gawain out of the door." Come here and protect my eyes..."
Does this guy think of himself as an eye protection barrage? Specifically used to block the face of the ancient god...
Gawain followed Amber helplessly. After leaving the circular room for a while, the two of them entered the Shadow Realm smoothly.
Seeing the familiar black and white vision emerge in front of him, and watching Amber's figure switch into a form that is unique in the shadow world, like some kind of metamorphic demon, Gawain suddenly He breathed a sigh of relief: "I was shocked, I thought your plug-in was really expired..."
"You talk really weird, I can't even understand it." Amber muttered, Then he grabbed Gawain's arm and walked towards the rotunda in the Shadow Realm.
They stepped through the ancient door, but after crossing the door, all they saw was an ordinary rotunda.
There is no flesh and blood of gods, no hidden research facilities, not even extra doors, windows and passages, there is nothing here.
Hubo looked around curiously: "It's strange...it's just an ordinary hall. Why?"Why would there be any interference... And this interference is so funny, you can get in just by taking a slight detour..."
However, Gawain immediately noticed the violation after scanning the surrounding environment. What’s wrong: “No, I’m afraid we haven’t been able to get around it. "
He raised his hand and pointed to the center of the hall: "The ring device is gone, and there are residual tear marks on the ground. ”
In the hall of the current world, the most eye-catching thing is the ring device in the center of the room. However, here, the three or four-meter-high ring has disappeared, replaced by a broken ground. Traces, and a large chunk of the floor that was dug out - there was no doubt that there was something there
"Except for the laboratory where I encountered the flesh and blood of the gods before, the Shadow Realm and the real world are basically there. They all maintain a one-to-one mapping state, and based on the traces left on the ground here, it can be judged that there should be a corresponding ring here, but now it is gone." Gawain frowned and came there Next to the dug-out piece of floor, “Look at the size here, it corresponds to the base of the ring. ”
“Someone ran to the Shadow Realm and stole the gate on this side? "Amber's thoughts were curious, "This method is okay..."
"No one would steal a magic door when they are full," Gawain glanced at Amber, "I think it's some kind of The power tore this place apart and 'transferred' things that should have been here to other places. When we enter the Shadow Realm from the rotunda in the current world, we should come to the corresponding ring. However, when we enter the Shadow Realm from the corridor outside the room, we can only see this empty 'inner hall'. This is some kind of dislocation. Mapping..."
Hubo didn't know how Gawain came up with this, but after thinking about it, his own thoughts were zero, so he followed Gawain's train of thought: "So that' What does the interference' power do?
Gawain frowned and allowed his thoughts to wander: "Perhaps it is to prevent unauthorized people from bypassing the 'Magic Gate' and reaching a certain place... They can only pass through Only the correctly paired 'magic doors' can reach the correct location. Otherwise, they either cannot enter the Shadow Realm, or they can only enter this empty hall. The Gondor magisters often used this method to give important information to important people. The treasure trove is encrypted. "
"In other words, if we want to figure out where the correct corresponding position is, the only way is to repair the ring in the current world? " Amber raised her eyebrows, "Then this touches on my knowledge blind spot..."
"It's not just your knowledge blind spot, I'm afraid no one in the territory can decipher such a complex ancient magic device. "Gawain shook his head regretfully. The ring "outside" was not a simple magic circle, but a complex magic device that mixed magic circles, ancient synthetic materials, and Gondor magic gate technology. This level of Damn it, I'm afraid the current level of spellcasters in the territory can't handle it.
Amber stuck out her tongue, feeling that she was really helpless in this regard, and then wandered off.Dadi wandered around the rotunda.
She looked around, occasionally taking out her little dagger to scratch the runes on the wall or on the ground, but when she walked around to the opposite side of the hall, she suddenly stopped.
She noticed that there was a dark crack on the curved wall here - the crack was not very wide, but it branched out into many cracks, and dense cracks even covered the sight. of the entire wall.
She stretched out her fingers curiously and touched the crack.
Gawain was inspecting the traces of runes remaining on the floor of the hall. Suddenly he heard a continuous cracking sound coming from not far away. He looked up in shock. The scene in front of him shocked him. Shocked:
I saw that the side of the hall away from the entrance was rapidly disintegrating and collapsing. The originally seamless curved wall was covered with large black cracks, and the solid ancient concrete was falling piece by piece. Falling down, it's as if there is an endless abyss outside the hall swallowing the building!
Amber, who was standing in front of the wall, seemed to be frightened by this scene. The ground under her feet had cracked slightly, but she stood there unknowingly, motionless!
"Be careful!"
At the critical moment, Gawain shouted and rushed forward, pulling the stunned Amber back, and the two of them retreated to the entrance of the hall. Only then did he stop, and Amber only exclaimed at this moment: "Oh my God, the wall collapsed with just one finger of mine!"
Gawain held Amber's arm tightly and focused on the hall. He was ready to evacuate at any time due to the collapse, but he soon discovered that the collapse only spread to a quarter of the hall and stopped - although it was huge, it ended extremely quickly.
However, the scene after the walls and ceiling collapsed made him frown, and a strange and bizarre feeling filled his heart.
It was pitch black outside, as if the world had disappeared and the universe had become extinct.
"What is that..." Amber's nervous voice changed its tone, and what made her even more nervous was that she watched Gawain walk towards the collapsed place, "Hey ! Be careful!”
Gawain was indeed very careful. He carefully came to the collapsed boundary of the hall and looked at the space outside the wall.
Behind the wall, there should have been the deep and thick rocks and soil layers of the Dark Mountains. However, there was only darkness and nothingness in Gawain's sight. Complete darkness filled his sight, just like the world. Everything seems to stop suddenly outside that boundary.
But he squinted his eyes and observed carefully, and finally saw some extremely distant and blurry things in the darkness.
He saw an undulating outline like the "land on the other side" at the far end of the dark space. Far above, he could see a faint line of light, which was like skylight, and even if Even in the darkness of nothingness, he could vaguely distinguish some floating objects.Things, which seemed to be weightless boulders and islands floating and rolling in mid-air.
Gawain finally realized what the darkness in front of him was about: this was not the end of everything in the world, but an unprecedentedly huge "hole".
The scale of this hole is so large that it exceeds the limit of light that the human eye can accept, so it gives people the illusion that "everything disappears", but the special "light environment" of the Shadow Realm also It was decided that there would be no absolute darkness here, so Gawain could vaguely recognize the things in the hollow.
He casually took out a piece of magic crystal, injected magic power into it to activate it, and then threw it forcefully into the distance.
The crystal that emitted bright light flew forward after being released. It could originally illuminate a wide room, but after entering the large hole, it immediately turned into an inconspicuous light—— Due to the lack of surrounding reflective surfaces, its light appears too small to be worth mentioning.
This confirmed Gawain’s conjecture.
"Is this...a cave?" Amber also boldly followed. She looked at the scene in front of her in amazement, and noticed the ray of skylight far above, "It seems to be directly above Leading to the surface? How big is this hole?"
"Not to mention the size, Knight Byron has been drilling in the Dark Mountain for so long, and the corridors he has explored include us! The area corresponding to the hole in front of me - that is to say, there is absolutely no such hole in the dark mountains in the real world," Gawain said with shock, "This hole is limited to the Shadow Realm... If it is not naturally formed, That can only be the work of some kind of power beyond ordinary people's imagination..."
Amber finally reacted at this time: "So the reason why I couldn't enter the Shadow Realm before was not because of any interference from the magic gate. , but because this area...does not correspond to the current world, and the misalignment here is too serious?"
"...I don't know," Gawain admitted frankly that he was also confused at the moment. "I only know that we may not be able to solve the mystery here... Unless the ring device outside can be repaired, no one will be able to figure out what the ancient Magisters of Gondor did here."
Amber rubbed her arms that were starting to get goosebumps: "Hey... I can't stay here any longer. This place is too weird. I think it's better for us to leave as soon as possible."
< p>Gawain exhaled: "I quite agree with you this time."