In this completely dead space, the sky is always low and dull, and the earth is always desolate and decadent.
No one knows what time it is now.
Sean and others just kept moving forward behind the nightmare war horse, but they didn't know how long they had gone. Harding thought it might have been several hours, Rorty cabas thought it might have been several days, but Sean thought it might only be one day. Everyone was completely lost about the flow of time, and they could no longer know when it was.
Moreover, this situation is still deteriorating. If they can't leave this space, in the end, even their own consciousness will be completely lost and survive with this space.
If we still have a final understanding of the flow of time, it is probably Cecilia.
However, when Cecilia said "is time still meaningful to us now", everyone will no longer worry about the flow of time. Because for them, the flow of time has really lost its meaning. As long as they are not lost to each other, any other problems will not be a problem. As for the diet, they all got a unified solution: they took Cecilia's sense of time as the standard. As long as Cecilia felt hungry, they ate.
That's it.
When all the problems were solved uniformly, the travel speed of Sean and others was significantly improved.
However, the only thing they are not sure is where the nightmare war horse plans to take them. But in this space, the only thing they can do is to follow the nightmare horse. Of course, this road is not necessarily peaceful. From time to time, we still encounter some undead creatures, but it is no longer limited to a kind of ghoul, but also began to appear other varieties.
For example, low-level undead creatures such as walking corpses, zombies and zombies, and even undead creatures of spirit type such as ghosts and ghosts.
But there are no more high-level undead creatures such as fear knights.
Therefore, for Sean and others, there is no threat except that the spirit shaped undead creatures have made people a little trouble.
Without the concept of time and velocity, Sean and others have become numb to everything they encounter in this space. In their memory, except that fighting is eating and driving, they repeat such actions almost all the time, and the magic and divine power retained by Cecilia and Hitler naturally become less and less in such a battle, so that they even basically lose their combat ability in the later stage.
It's not that their magic and divine power are completely consumed, but Sean forbids them to continue to perform magic and divine arts, allowing them to retain their final self-protection ability. If Hitler's magic power is exhausted, she is at most tired and unable to continue to perform the healing magic. However, if Cecilia's magic power is exhausted, the accompanying migraine will lead to other problems, and if she is in this headache for a long time, it will not be of any benefit to the magician.
Still repeated the constant fighting, eating and driving. I don't know how long later, a piece of broken ruins finally appeared in the vision of Sean and others.
The appearance of the ruins brightened everyone's eyes.
Because they are really tired of seeing all kinds of cracked earth, gray sky, dead wood forest and, of course, all kinds of low-level undead creatures everywhere. At this time, it is also a surprise for them to see such a piece of ruins. After all, they can finally see different scenery.
But even if it was a very surging surprise, everyone didn't act rashly.
They are not new people who have just begun to take risks. Although the loss of a sense of time and direction makes them very uncomfortable, it can even be said to cause a great burden and suppression on their spirit, this problem will not collapse their spirit. So naturally, people will not rush up excited when they see such a piece of ruins after they are tired of seeing the wasteland, like those newcomers who have just begun to take risks. Who knows if there are any hidden threats.
Everyone approached the ruins carefully and even put on a defensive battle formation.
The original appearance of the ruins should be a courtyard or something.
The arch, which was supposed to be exquisite, has completely collapsed, leaving only a few stones that are still vaguely recognizable. There should have been many sculptures in the courtyard, but now there are only some abutments that have not been completely weathered, and the sculptures on them have long been weathered and corroded into shape. In addition, we can also identify the place that should be the courtyard. There are a large number of collapsed stone columns and stone walls here. Of course, they are also very seriously weathered. Many places turn into powder just a little touch.
Cecilia checked the surroundings and finally said in a deep voice, "this... Should be the garden center of the main building."
"So we can get out of here?" Lotikabas's face was filled with joy. In this silent space, he had stayed so long that he almost felt rusty. "Where is the exit?"
"It's not that simple." Cecilia shook her head. "This is the garden center of the main building. It's true, but there's no trace of magic fluctuation, so it's not a simple thing for us to find the exit Lance, do you know how to get out of here? "
Everyone's eyes turned to lanster.
But lanster was also at a loss: "I, I don't know very well, I..."
"Well, although I didn't expect much, I'm still a little disappointed to hear you admit so frankly." Cecilia shrugged, but her expression was not lost. "How did you find the entrance to this secret space before?"
"I, I found it according to the blueprint." Lanster said, "according to the elder, a secret space like this can be opened automatically as long as I get close to a certain distance That's how the entrance was opened before. I... I didn't do anything. "
Hearing lanster's words, Sean and others all looked helpless. Although we know that the mermaid is the representative race of diemeng, it is really rare for lanst to reach this realm, at least it is obviously different from the legend of the mermaid that others have heard. Of course, Sean didn't see many Mermaid people in the game at the beginning. Even if he did, he was also the attendant of the player. He only focused on the battle, and there was still time to say hello.
At this time, the nightmare war horse that has been leading the people forward suddenly made a whistling sound, and even stood up directly, showing abnormal panic.
Sean and others reacted quickly. Almost seeing the abnormal reaction of the nightmare war horse, they immediately protected Cecilia and Hitler in the middle, while the others were surrounded in a circular array. When it was confirmed that both Hitler and Cecilia were protected, Sean reached out and patted the nightmare horse, trying to calm its panic and agitation.
"Cough... For a long time... Cough... Live... People..." a very strange hoarse voice suddenly sounded.
But with the sound, what appeared was not the owner of the sound, but dozens of hands suddenly broke through the ground around Sean and others. The hands that broke through the ground soon pressed the ground, and then vigorously supported the whole body to climb out of the ground. Their speed was very fast, and their movements were very neat. It was even too late for Sean and others to destroy these bodies before they climbed out of the ground.
When more than twenty bodies broke through the ground and completely stood in front of everyone, Sean and others' faces became even more ugly.
Dead warrior.
The infantry advanced body of the Black Knight, the sixth order undead, has stronger individual combat effectiveness than the skeleton demons of the same sixth order. Because they have sharper weapons and hard armor, and unless they can be killed at one stroke, the tireless and undead characteristics of the dead warriors are enough to collapse any of their enemies. Because of this, among many sixth order undead creatures, the combat effectiveness of the dead warrior also belongs to the top. Even in some one-to-one battles, the dead warrior can defeat the black knight.
At this time, surrounded by twenty dead warriors, Sean and others did not dare to act rashly.
It's not that they can't completely annihilate these dead warriors, but once they attack first, it is likely to give these dead warriors the opportunity to attack Cecilia and Hitler. If they defend passively, they will become very difficult to solve, and may even let Cecilia use the last remaining magic to fight.
"Don't move." Sean said in a deep voice.
"Why?" Rotikabas was puzzled.
"Dead warriors cannot evolve naturally." Cecilia began to explain for Sean, "in the undead, the only natural evolution route of the black knight is the black knight. Therefore, the emergence of any dead warrior is transformed by the necromancer or lich, that is to say, they can only be artificial products If a lich intercepted us, I think we can surrender. "
Lich, in the game is the existence of twelve levels, that is to say, all lichs are legendary strong.
With the strength of Sean and others, even if they only face a lich who has been trapped here for countless years and has lost almost all its mana, they can't easily defeat it. Because the Lich itself is immortal. No matter how serious trauma and destructive attack, they can only temporarily lose their action power. If they want to kill the lich, they must destroy the life box, otherwise everything will be in vain.
"I think maybe we can talk." Sean glanced around and didn't find the person who spoke just now, but he was very clear that since the other party spoke, it means that he can communicate. At least, he can't communicate at all like facing the fear knight. "If you want to leave here, our purpose is the same."
There was a silence.
Everyone looked at each other, but they could feel heavy pressure from each other's eyes. After all, they were likely to face a dead creature who had only wisdom and could communicate - if it was a lich. Of course, if it is a necromancer, he can still manipulate 20 necromancer warriors, and his power can not be underestimated. Therefore, Sean really doesn't want to fight if it's not necessary.
Because this is destined to be a fierce battle.
"No, that's interesting..." after a moment of silence, when the atmosphere was almost depressed enough to drive ordinary people crazy, a voice finally sounded, "here, for a long time... No, living people... Appeared. So, I haven't communicated for a long time. "
The sound was still sluggish and not smooth at first, but soon the sound became smooth. However, what really concerns Sean and others is not the surprising speed of the language recovery of the voice owner, but the information revealed in this tone shows that this person is really not hostile to Sean and others, and has a very strong tendency to communicate.
This may be a rare good news for Sean and others.
Because it also means that they can negotiate to avoid a fierce battle.
"Excuse me, are you..."
"Me?" After issuing a word, the owner of the voice fell into silence again.
After a long time - for those who have completely lost their sense of time, it may be more than ten seconds or ten minutes, or even several days - then they finally heard the owner of the voice say, "forget Time is too long. May I ask, what time is it? "
"... are you... Asking about the age?"
Sean originally wanted to use the honorific name, but he found that this distorted space caused people to completely lose their sense of time and direction, so it's hard to say whether the other party felt old because of the loss of the sense of time. If so, Sean's use of honorific names is likely to make people laugh, so after a little hesitation, Sean still didn't use honorific names.
"Age... Sort of."
"It may be 1876..."
"Possible?" There was some doubt in the other party's tone.
"Our sense of time has been completely lost, so we don't know how long we have been in this place." Sean answered, "but when we entered this space, it was the end of May 1876."
"Continental calendar?" The owner of the mysterious voice fell into silence again, but this time he soon spoke again: "it seems that I should have stayed here for a long time, so long that I have forgotten many memories So the mermaid Empire has been destroyed? "
This time, Sean heard that the other party had existed since the era of the mermaid Empire, and whether it was the old Mermaid empire or the new Mermaid empire in the ash age, it was enough to prove that this person had lived for tens of thousands of years. If the person who can live so long is not a lich, Sean will cut off his head: "even the Atlantis Empire has been destroyed for a long time. Now... On the surface, human beings are dominating, and the activity areas of other races are limited. "
"Human beings." When the owner of the voice spoke of the term, he obviously had a bit of strange emotion.
But this time, the other party did not continue to hide, but finally came out of the shadow of a stone pillar. Sean and others noticed that the other mage's robe was very ragged. They could even see the white bones in the ragged robe. Such existence was undoubtedly a lich.
Because if they are necromancer or necromancer, at least their bodies still have flesh and blood. If it is skeleton mage or skeleton mage, they can't have the capital to transform the dead warrior, because skeleton mage exists at a lower level than the dead warrior, so let alone transformation, even manipulation is completely impossible.
A genuine Lich.
Sean and others swallowed.
"I mean you no harm." The Lich seemed to feel the emotional fluctuations of Sean and others, and then said, "my memory is very chaotic now, and many things have been forgotten by me Probably, in order to preserve my knowledge about mages as much as possible, I deleted all the unimportant memories during the transformation, so now I neither remember who I am nor completely forget what era I am. But... I remember who I was before I was transformed. "
Speaking of this, the Lich gave out Jie Jie's laughter, probably to show his humor, but no matter how he heard it, it obviously looked extremely terrible: "I'm a human."
Sean and others echoed with a smile.
"AKAS is a gadget I made. I stuffed all the souls I could capture nearby. Now that AKAS's mount is with you, it proves that AKAS is dead." The Lich didn't mind Sean's reaction and asked, "but you can rest assured that I didn't intend to carry out any strange experiments on you. I didn't intend to come out, but I heard you say you have a way to leave, so I was in a hurry and summoned other slaves to intercept you. I apologize for this."
At this point, the Lich even bowed slightly and apologized to Sean and others.
Sean was really curious. Why did the Lich delete his identity as a useless memory, but retain the etiquette of these ancient nobles? At least in Sean's view, if he was allowed to choose, he would certainly choose to forget these aristocratic etiquette and his identity. However, it was naturally impossible for him to ask about the Lich in front of him, especially it didn't look weak at all - in Sean's real eyes, the rich dark energy emitted by the Lich was more than ten times that absorbed by the black king before!
"We should be sorry. It's us." Sean, you're welcome.
"No, no, no, it's my fault. The matter of AKAS is another matter, but it's really my problem to scare you. " The Lich said, "and I also know that as I am now, I don't have a good reputation in the outside world. But I've been trapped here for a long time, so long that I don't know how I live until now, so I urgently want to leave. I hope you can take me when you leave here. "
At the same time, the Lich waved a little. Even if a dead warrior turned and left, he soon dragged a big pocket.
It's more a cloth bag torn by a mage's robe and tiled out. However, looking at the heavy appearance of this cloth bag, it is obvious that it contains a lot of things, and it is impossible to escape the ranks of "treasures" that can make a lich feel valuable for collection.
"These things are regarded as my shock to you and my travel expenses to leave here." The Lich ordered the dead warrior to open the cloth bag. For a moment, the pearly gas emitted from the cloth bag blinded Sean's titanium alloy dog eye. "If you still feel uneasy, I can sign an ancient mage blood deed with your mage friends to ensure that I won't cause any harm to you after I leave."
"I agree." Sean nodded without hesitation, "but the content of the blood deed must be formulated by me."
"Yes." This time, it was the Lich's turn to nod without hesitation.
Seeing that Sean and the Lich reached an agreement after a few words, everyone looked at Sean in horror. In the history of the whole miracle continent, Sean is the only one who dares to negotiate with the Lich and extract wealth from the Lich?
But Cecilia's reaction was different. She just yawned lazily.
Think that Sean not only fooled the madmen of the peace association, smashed the devil's field, but also killed the great figures of the Millennium covenant Empire, and even the goddess of life dared to pit. Now it's just a lich for a negotiation with no choice. Cecilia won't be shocked at all. On the contrary, she looked at the Lich with some sympathy. After all, she had experienced so many things with Sean. How could she not know Sean's temperament.
As long as he makes the rules, it's tantamount to letting Sean make the rules of the game. The rules of the game formulated by Sean must be observed by even God, let alone just a lich. At this moment, Cecilia was wondering how much blood Sean was going to let the Lich shed. Cecilia didn't care if she was the one signing the blood deed, because she knew that Sean would never pit her.
Cecilia has always had unconditional trust in Sean.