novelonline Chapter 3305 Giant Cemetery
Chapter 3305 Giant Cemetery
Chapter 3305 Giant Cemetery
Not long after leaving the small wetland, a group of monks with white candles on their heads forced the team to take a long detour before continuing forward. Both Shade and Sister Belen could feel that the flame they were looking for was getting closer and closer, and the destination should be just ahead.
Looking into the depths of the white fog, there were no magnificent buildings or large open areas beyond the densely packed tombstones. This made Xia De, who was originally expecting a "special cemetery", quite confused.
What the group finally found was an obsidian pillar standing in the wilderness.
The thickness of the stone pillar was about the same as Shade's waist, and the height was two meters. It was called a stone pillar, but if you looked closely, it was clearly made up of pieces of obsidian triangular pyramids, and floating gray runes could be vaguely seen on the outward faces of those triangular pyramids.
Shade circled the obsidian pillar with a compass twice to make sure they were in the right place. It was indeed strange to see something like this in a place full of tombstones, but it didn't look like a "mausoleum" or a "cemetery."
"So what is this?"
Shade asked the three witches for advice. Sister Beren stood there with the lantern and shook her head slightly. The blonde Miss Violet looked at the runes on the obsidian pillar with great interest:
"This is a rune from the ancient Giant Kingdom. The pure-blooded Titans disappeared after the First Era ended. The giants who inherited their blood had a glorious era in the middle of the Second Era, but were soon destroyed by the Elven Empire of the Pointy Ears.
There is very little existing information about the Giant Kingdom of the Second Age. If this thing could be taken out, the professors of the three major colleges would go crazy. But if the first fire you are looking for is in the tomb of an ancient giant, this sounds very reasonable. "
Although she provided such knowledge, she didn't know what it was used for.
Miss Liad, who was the lowest-ranked person present, was inspired after hearing the words "Ancient Giant Kingdom". She tried to observe the runes on the outer surfaces of the triangular pyramids from different angles, and then whispered:
"When I was working before, I came across information from the ancient Giant Kingdom era."
"Have you ever robbed the tomb of an ancient giant?"
Xia De was very surprised, and the witch shook her head hurriedly:
"No, of course not. My skills are not that good yet. I have been to a mausoleum from the Fourth Age. The stone tablets stored inside recorded the events of the ancient giant kingdom.
The giants have very powerful space technology to facilitate their lives despite their huge bodies. One of the unique technologies can hide the giants' buildings, preventing the enemy from directly locating them from a distance. The essence of this technology is the alienated application of space folding and nonlinear continuous space."
These are the only professional terms she knows, and she has no talent for space:
"In short, the space around this obsidian pillar is no longer a linear continuous space. If you want to find the folded and hidden space, you need to move in the direction of the runes on the obsidian pillar. I don't understand this."
"It's okay. I understand."
Then Shade led the way, and the three witches followed behind him, turning 45 degrees clockwise around the pillar, and then took two steps to the right at an angle of 340 degrees. Then they continued to turn a full circle clockwise around the pillar, stopped, and took two steps to the right at an obtuse angle of degrees.
At this moment, he turned around and looked back at the obsidian pillar, but it had disappeared.
A giant pyramid a hundred meters high stands under the dark sky. The building occupying a huge space seems to have existed here originally and is completely integrated with the surrounding scene.
In a world that was originally black, such a tall black building brought a strong sense of oppression. The outer surface of the pyramid extended upwards like steps, and at the top of the spire was suspended a black eyeball that was larger than Shade's body.
When the four people saw it, the eyeball also turned to them. Then suddenly a black lightning bolt shot out from the eyeball, silently shattering the shields set up by Shade and Sister Belen respectively, and was barely blocked by Miss Violet.
The blonde witch looked at her right hand which had turned black but was recovering its whiteness, frowned and said to the three people around her:
"Go in first. We can't deal with this level of magic eye."
The black pyramid seemed to have no entrance, but Miss Liad, relying on her professional knowledge and inspiration brought by her unique talent, quickly found the door hidden on the fifth layer of the pyramid's surface under the pressure of the magic eye.
The nun and Violet held up a shield to cover the four people. Shad, who was squeezed in the innermost part by the three witches, almost stuck to the surface of the pyramid's stone wall before he could recognize the language of the severely weathered ancient giants one by one - he felt that Miss Violet was deliberately squeezing him.
After the spell to open the door was correct, the wall disappeared, revealing a passage leading to the depths of the mausoleum. Shad pulled Sister Beren over and let her go in first. Then he held up the shield for Miss Violet, allowing Miss Violet and Miss Liad to follow in. Shad resisted the black lightning of the magic eye for a while, and then jumped into the cave before the next attack.
At this time, more than thirty minutes had passed since Shad used the time key. If it weren't for the [Time Corridor] that doubled the time, he would normally have to take on the "Ten-Minute Speedrun through the Giant Cemetery" challenge.
The dark interior passage of the pyramid was illuminated by the lanterns in the hands of the nuns. The passage was spacious enough that the witches and Shade did not need to bend down to move forward. Considering that it was built by giants, the size of the passage was understandable.
In the cemetery of ancient giants, there would certainly not be simple traps such as falling rocks, poisonous gas, and flying arrows. However, the wronged souls of humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings who were suppressed there replaced the traps.
They wailed and wandered around in the passages inside the pyramid, and the people who did not want to cause a riot among the undead could only walk and stop in the passages. Fortunately, these ancient vengeful spirits had limited perception and were unable to see through the hiding of the group of four.
As the team followed the compass and entered the inner layer of the pyramid, it was Miss Liad who played a big role. Facing this ancient tomb from the Second Age, the excited tomb robbers seemed to be able to see through most of the mechanisms and rituals, and excitedly said that some tombs in later generations also had similar designs.
The real traps in the ancient giants' tombs actually refer to various disgusting time and space traps. Sometimes after falling into a time or space loop, it takes a while to realize that you have walked the same path again. The passages here are really unrecognizable, and it is completely impossible to explore the space here.
In addition to the traps set by the giants, the group even accidentally fell to the lower level of the passage and encountered a large group of "dead frogs" in the lower waterway. However, except for Mia trying to stick her head out again, this did not cause a greater impact on the team's progress.
Xia De guessed that this group of "dead frogs" probably entered here after the mausoleum appeared in the [Tombstone Wasteland].
In the middle passage of the pyramid, the team encountered a "Gargoyle Knight" that they had to fight, and after falling into the waterway below, everyone worked together to deal with the "Wailing Water Demon Ghost". After climbing up to the upper slave passage again, after avoiding the slave ghost team, they finally encountered the "Soul of the Half-Blood Giant Overseer" that could not be expelled unless all the slave ghosts were eliminated.
It can absorb the soul power of any slave across space, and can return even if it is hit directly by Miss Violet's "Witch's Secret Art: Soul Crushing Curse".
Seeing that more and more time was being wasted in the battle at the deepest part of the passage, Shade could only raise his gun while Sister Belen's flames formed a symbol on the ground to imprison the terrifying soul.
Bang!
A precious "Soul Bullet" was consumed, but the enemy was finally driven away by the [One-Hit Kill Gun]. Although the soul disappeared, Miss Violet said that it was only driven away temporarily and would reappear after a certain period of time.
In short, the team finally found the door to the inner core of the pyramid. On the surface of the door was a big face with closed eyes, which opened only when they approached. This door seemed to be created by using evil soul technology to merge souls with the pyramid:
"Give me three burial objects, or you won't be able to pass through."
It spoke in a language that only Shade could understand, but of course no one wanted to do that.
Shade tried the "Key of the Door" and found that he couldn't shake the door either. But after consuming the [Master Key] and casting the "Key of the Door", the door that mastered the ancient giant language, ancient elf language, ancient dwarf language and ancient dragon language at the same time sent away the group of people who forced the door open amid the curses of multiple races:
"Just you wait, if you let me open the door when you come back, I will take four burial objects!"
After entering the inner layer of the pyramid, there is a huge hall more than 20 meters high. Relying on her years of "work experience", Miss Liad judged that this is the main tomb passage, and the core tomb chamber is probably just ahead.
There are numerous skeletons leaning against both sides of this huge hall. Those skeletons are in the state of black jade. Even after countless tens of thousands of years, it can still be vaguely seen that they belong to giants. Even if you just take a look at them, you will feel as if the living giants are standing in front of you.
"These are the remains of ancient giants. I just don't know if they are living sacrifices or giant craftsmen trapped in the tomb. If they are craftsmen, look, the giant hammer over there has actually become a relic."
Although these giants were not purebred Titans, their skeletons that remained to this day were of great value to both the Fifth and Sixth Eras. Of course, no one present was greedy enough to take some away, but this did not prevent them from temporarily stopping and checking the condition of these skeletons.