Chapter 196: The Ruins Of the Sacred City Behind the Door
“d.a.m.n it.”, Kant clenched his teeth slightly.
The feeling of soul being stared at by something else was extremely uncomfortable.
However, when he raised his head and looked at the faint patterns and the still-intact murals on the stone walls, he could not help but suppress his anxiety and looked up carefully.
This might be the murals left behind by the forces of the Lost City.
It could give him some useful information.
James followed beside him and also raised his head to look at the murals that had been carefully carved and painted. His face had little bit of surprise, “What a shocking masterpiece.”
“That’s right.”, Kant nodded. He was also slightly shocked.
Although the paint on the mural were severely worn off due to time, they could not see what it used to look like.
However, the carved patterns and the remaining paint still allowed them to draw some conclusions.
For example, the origin of this cave.
On both sides of the stone door, there were a total of four ancient mural paintings.
According to their speculation, the murals should be read from left to right. Kant looked at them one by one. The murals were carved with magnificent capital cities, lush fields, merchants coming and going, and terrifying troops.
But what caught Kant’s attention the most was the first painting.
On the painting that symbolized the capital city, hundreds of meters above all kinds of magnificent buildings, there was a thousand-meter-large disk hovering in the air. Countless sacred sun pattern spread on the disk, circulating with a formidable power.
This huge sun disk that exceeded Kant’s impression seemed to be resonating with the blazing sun in the sky.
Golden rays blossomed and scattered around the capital, as well as emitting the essence of the sun into the temple at the center of the capital. Kant could still vaguely see a figure standing in the center of the temple on the murals, its hands were raised high, like it was interacting with the essence of the sun.
“Lost city.”
Kant clenched his fists, and his heart beat faster.
Sure enough, the depths of the cave was still the ruins of a civilization that had been destroyed in ancient times, leaving only legends. He could not help but mutter, “The bloodline of the Sun G.o.d, the city where the son of G.o.d lives, the Holy City of Gold.”
It was like he had opened a new chapter.
And when he thought about it thoroughly, the numerous bones in the tunnel, and the metal residue at the bottom of the bones.
It was the legend of the lost city. After hundreds of years of archaeology and searching for historical doc.u.ments, the scholar of the Dukedom of Leo had come up with a guess. These metal residues were the weapons and armors used by the lost city at its glorious time!
However, after thousands of years, the originally indestructible weapons and armors lost to the bones made of calcium.
“Lord Kant, please tell us what to do next.”
James held a torch behind him and glanced at the stone door that was still half open. He asked in a deep voice, “Should we go in… or retreat?” He suggested, “I think we should retreat first and wait for more warriors to be prepared before making any plans!”
Kant narrowed his eyes and hesitated.
Behind the stone door was definitely an important relic of lost city. Otherwise, there would not be the ruins of the temple of lost city on the mountain peak. There were even stone statues and the smaller sun disc dedicated to it.
However, those fake and inferior versions of the demonized wolves were coming out from the stone door.
If one looked carefully, they could see that the wounded demonized wolves from the cave were also covered in dark red blood when they retreated. They returned to the stone door that was half a meter wide open. In the deep darkness, the torches could not s.h.i.+ne too far.
Two Swadian sergeants stood guard at the door.
They could only discover that the inside of the stone door seemed to be a bigger tunnel.
“Let’s go in and take a look.”
Kant made up his mind.
The legend of the lost city had been pa.s.sed down for thousands of years. It had already reached the kingdom before the dukedom of Leo. In the ancient history that was even older than the previous forces, any danger would probably be wiped out in history.
He and his troops could still deal with a mere demonized creature.
Even if the lost city still had some mysterious backup plan.
However, according to the scholar’s most approved speculation, it could be traced back to 10,000 years ago, which was the lost city in the era of the G.o.ds. Even if there was still a part of its energy left, thousands of years had pa.s.sed, how could it pose a great threat to the current them?
Everything would be consumed by time. Even the G.o.ds who had once been the supreme honor had also retired.
The current world was the era of the humans and all the other races!
The troops that had rested and reorganized were once again on standby. The two Swadian sergeants at the front looked at Kant and asked in a deep voice, “My lord, would you like to open these two stone doors?”
“Open them!”
Kant waved his hand without hesitation.
Since they were already here, they would walk through the main door and entered upright!
At the peak of the mountain above them, 50 Swadian knights were still standing by. Any abnormal sounds or shouts in the cave, amplified by the sound effects in the cave, would cause these knights to immediately dismount upon receiving the order, they carried their heavy s.h.i.+elds and sharp swords and ran down quickly. It was only a thousand meters downhill, and they would be able to appear here in less than ten minutes.
This was also why Kant dared to come down!
“Kacha, Kacha, Kacha…”
The thick and heavy stone door was pushed open by the two Swadian sergeants.
The shaft of the door seemed to have dried up, but because it was made of stone, as the weathered parts fell off, the slightly opened door was completely opened easily. The darkness within was completely revealed in front of Kant and the others after the door opened.
“Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh –”
An eerie cold wind instantly blew from within, brought forth a coldness that seemed to penetrate one’s soul. Kant and the others could not help but tilt their heads slightly while standing in front of the main door.
This cold wind spread out along the tunnel of the cave.
And just as the cold wind blew.
“What is that?”
The Ravenstern rangers pointed forward and said in a grave voice, “There are lights!”
Kant also looked up.
In the eternal darkness within the stone door, right in front of where the rangers were pointing, two bright lights appeared, one on the left and one on the right. They were flickering with a faint light, and although they were very far away, they were very clear.
They were slightly golden, but there were no torches or candles burning and extinguis.h.i.+ng in the flickering light.
It was like it was constant.
It was like two small suns.
They were releasing their weak light, illuminating the surrounding scene.
“That is…”, Kant frowned. He suddenly thought of the sun disk.
But at this moment.
The two small suns instantly exploded.
The golden light continued to spread from the two suns. In the huge s.p.a.ce inside the stone door, countless golden suns awaked by the golden light and began to light up. In the end, all the light converged into a hot golden light-ray that shone on the sun disk in the middle.
The sun disk was 300 meters long and was densely filled with the carved sacred sun patterns. It was more complicated than Kant’s sacred sun pattern. Clearly, it hid more obscure and mysterious information.
However, this sun disk was made of stone.
A huge 200-meter-tall stone statue was standing in front of the sun disk. In other words, the sun disk was a part of this stone statue.
It wore ancient armor and held the ancient longsword in front of it with both hands.
It looked like a human, but there was a sacred sun pattern on its forehead. Golden light flickered in its eyes, and there was also golden light s.h.i.+ning on it, giving it the prestige of a G.o.d.
Kant’s breathing was a little rough.
Even the G.o.d of war, Edmund, who was wors.h.i.+pped in the the largest temple of the Dukedom of Leo, did not have such an insolent statue, nor did it have such a large s.p.a.ce. It could be said that it was built like a hollow mountain!
“This is really… The relic of the holy city of gold…”
Kant gritted his teeth and endured the shock to recover.
The surrounding Swadian sergeants, the Ravenstern rangers, and Rhodok trained spearmen had also recovered. However, there was still shock and fear in their eyes. They subconsciously clenched the weapons in their hands, they gritted their teeth to prevent themselves from paying attention to those magnificent buildings and stone statues. Instead, they swept their eyes forward and vigilantly looked at the pile of black egg-shaped objects in the distance. Among them were countless pseudo-demonized wolves, they were bared their teeth and stared at them with their scarlet eyes.
“Prepare for battle”, Kant ordered.
He also noticed that under the magnificent buildings and the golden light, in the center of the alley behind the stone door, countless huge black flesh eggs were trembling.
As they trembled, the demonized wolves with a few scales on their bodies were being expelled from the flesh eggs. Soon, they joined the remaining demonized wolves and gathered together with low howl. They could not walk very well, but their furious and brutal emotions were transmitted through their scarlet eyes.
As if sensing the arrival of Kant and the others, the black flesh eggs expelled the demonized wolves faster and faster. There were also more and more of them, and they became more and more agile.
Turning his head slightly, Kant said to James, “Tell the reserve team to come down.”
“Understood!”, James nodded.
He quickly walked towards the entrance of the cave, shouting loudly at the cave. His voice was loud, and it was quickly transmitted to the Senwaya Range outside the cave. “Abnormal situation detected. Reserve team, move in!”
“Abnormal situation detected. Reserve team, move in!”
The voice appeared outside.
The 50 Swadian knights, who had already dismounted and were ready, immediately lined up neatly and rushed in.
At the same time, Manid drew out his knight sword and brought the 20 Ravenstern rangers in with quick steps. The entire tunnel immediately rang with hurried and dense footsteps, as well as the sounds of armor clas.h.i.+ng against each other.
In less than 10 minutes, all the troops appeared in this 100 square meter s.p.a.ce.
Although it was crowded, they were all staring at the dazzling golden light behind the stone door with their eyes wide opened .
There were countless sarcomas-like black flesh eggs underneath.
And there were hundreds and thousands of pseudo-demonized wolves that had just been discharged. Countless of them were staring with their scarlet eyes, slowly a.s.sembling and adapting to this world!
“Advance!”, Kant was full of confidence.