Chapter 225: Activated Ruins
"Is this the monster that has reached the second stage of strength?"
Jason squatted beside the giant beast's corpse next to Pororo and observed curiously.
Overall, the corpse was relatively intact. Apart from the two sharp spikes that were inserted into his body from the opposite direction, only the two fangs were broken.
How should I put it? It’s a bit of a pity to see it this way. After all, the huge fangs are excellent trophies.
The irregular fractures are somewhat regrettable.
Fortunately, Jason is obviously not interested in these things.
The main cause of death was that Porro poured lightning into the beast's head, causing the beast to suffer absolutely fatal injuries directly from the lightning.
Juanlu also watched curiously from the side.
For a chef, the moment he saw the corpse, the first thing he thought of was.
Can I eat it?
Is it delicious?
How to eat?
Alka walked over and picked up the two broken fangs nearby. Looking at the two huge fangs in his hand, Alka tested the properties of their materials.
"Not bad, very good material." Alka couldn't help but exclaimed.
These two fangs can really be considered very good materials, not to mention that they are so big, even bigger than his own arms.
It is very strong and has good magic conductivity. You have to know that for materials, good magic conductivity has almost nothing to do with strength.
Now we have the materials to have the best of both worlds.
It seems that inside its fangs, there is a channel specifically used to transmit magic power.
Except for the necessary gaps, the density elsewhere is extremely high, it's simply natural material.
Artificial smelting can never achieve the wonders of nature.
He walked over and squatted with Juanlu, examining every part of the monster's body.
The fangs brought a lot of surprises to Alka, and he couldn't help but want to see what other materials the giant beast had.
"There's actually some strange energy in this horn. The skin is tough, and the spikes on the body are pretty cool too."
Obviously, this monster did not disappoint him.
In response to Alka's admiration, Juanlu also cut a piece of meat from the monster's body.
Looking at the crystal clear piece of meat in my hand, covered with beautiful lines, you can tell from the appearance that the dishes made from this meat will be absolutely delicious.
The two of them began to dissect the body.
"The smell of blood is so strong, won't it attract other monsters?" Porro asked as he stood nearby and sniffed.
They are not in a slaughterhouse now, but on a dangerous island.
To him, the smell of blood was too obvious.
Hearing this, Xia Daiti next to him immediately used a spell similar to blowing wind.
Blow the surrounding smell towards the seaside so that it doesn't spread everywhere.
Fortunately, Juanlu's butchering skills were very good, and together with Alka, it took less than 20 minutes to cut the huge monster into pieces.
"Except for the blood which is not very useful, this monster is full of treasures!" Alka looked at the separated materials and shook the blood off his hands and said.
The bones and fangs in the body are made of the same material. This alone is enough to make Alka laugh for several days.
The most valuable part of it is the pointed horn protruding from the top of its head.
However, Alka has not yet checked out how to use this horn, and the leather and spikes on his body are also very good.
Secondly, there is the flesh and blood on his body. The flesh from all over his body was cut off, which was enough for everyone on the ship to eat for a long time, not to mention that this meat was rich in magic power.
He cleaned the blood off his hands and the cut materials and put them all into Juanlu's pocket ring.
Mainly because Alka didn't have much room in her pocket for the ring.
"Is this meat really delicious?" Lucelia couldn't help but ask beside her.
Just now, Juanlu kept sighing while dividing, which aroused everyone's curiosity.
"Don't worry, it's absolutely delicious."
As he said this, a smile appeared on Juanlu's face.
If it were in the sea of home, it would be absolutely difficult to find such ingredients.
For a chef, making delicious food requires not only superb skills but also the best ingredients.
Both are indispensable.
Better materials can also hone more exquisite skills.
The two complement each other.
He was very satisfied with his first stop in the vast ocean.
Apparently Alka thought the same thing.
"Okay, let's keep moving forward."
After saying that, everyone maintained the previous confrontation and began to explore the grove ahead.
It seemed that because this second-stage monster had just passed by, there were basically no small animals to be seen around, as they had all been scared away.
Then they saw Mathilda entering the woods, squatting here and running there.
Every time we can harvest some plants that no one can understand.
Seeing the way everyone was looking at her, Matlisa said a little embarrassedly: "These are all very good medicinal herbs. I will collect some."
Everyone nodded.
Alca and Juanlu, who had just gained a lot, could understand it very well.
"Do you want us to help?"
"No, no, I'll just pick some." Matlisa waved her hand and said.
Although she said so, as they moved forward, there were more and more various medicinal herbs around them, and Matlisa could no longer hold them all, so she had to give up.
"The concentration of magic here is too high. The high concentration of magic makes it possible for many medicinal herbs that are hard to find in the home sea to appear here." Julia said as she looked at the plants around her that were almost all rich in magical properties.
This island has higher magic power than the surface of the vast ocean.
The most bizarre thing is that the concentration of magic power seems to be different in each area.
For example, the concentration of magic on the beach and the plain next to it is only slightly higher than that on the sea surface, which is within the normal range.
And this piece of woods has obviously exceeded the normal range.
These various materials are basically forced out by excessively high magical properties.
This is not good for the balance of the entire environment, but it is the greatest benefit to the plants themselves.
Perhaps no one cares about the chaotic vast ocean, as it has already been in chaos.
After hearing what Julia said, Simon thought for a moment and asked, "So, all kinds of precious spell materials are actually everywhere here?"
Julia nodded. That was what she meant.
Because not only Mathilda, but also Alka and Juanlu have collected a lot of materials along the way.
Edible vegetables, fruits, and some interesting pieces of wood.
Even Simon himself, who had just cut a pile of vines from a tree.
The four people who needed various materials reaped a lot of rewards here.
"I can't put any more in it. My pocket ring can't hold any more." Alka said helplessly after checking his pocket ring.
Juanlu next to him nodded in agreement.
"Forget it, let's collect these after we finish exploring this place." Alka looked at the materials around him and said with pain.
Fortunately, the woods were not wide and they quickly got out.
There is another wilderness ahead, and there are obviously fewer materials here than those in the forest. Suddenly, I don’t have that much desire to collect them.
“This is a bit desolate.”
"Too much magic power won't help any plant grow well, not to mention that the magic power here seems to have changed its properties and is more inclined towards the earth element." Julia said from the side.
As they walked along, they saw more ordinary mud and weeds with extremely tenacious vitality.
There are fewer trees and various plants.
Except for the dense forest just now.
Walking in the wilderness, they looked at a huge rock protruding from the ground not far away. Below them, they saw a burning campfire that looked like traces of someone having camped there.
"Someone has camped here for about a week." Jason said as he squatted down to examine the ruins of the campfire.
This can only be said to be further confirmation that there are people on the island.
Although everyone has already confirmed it.
Passing the huge rock, everyone continued to move forward in the direction specified by Alka.
Soon everyone saw a huge man-made object in the wilderness, which was nothing more than the ruins of a huge building.
Looking at the ruins, everyone walked over with a little caution and made sure there was no danger around.
"There are footprints here. Someone has been here." Jason said, looking at some traces around the ruins.
Alka also found a lot of traces in another place.
"There are so many people who have been here. There are traces from far to near, almost every once in a while."
Everyone looked up at the ruins and could clearly see that it was a building made of some kind of huge stones, but it eventually collapsed.
Even though it is a collapsed ruin, the stacked boulders still make the highest point reach more than 10 meters.
You can imagine how magnificent this building must have been before it collapsed.
But what is strange is that there seems to be no matching building ruins around.
There are a lot of weeds around these collapsed ruins, which have long been integrated with the surrounding environment .
They could see that the height of the ruins was much higher than what they saw, and many parts had been buried deep underground.
There are still many blurry carvings on these boulders, but with the passage of time, many of them have become unclear.
"I've seen similar carvings like this before."
Lucelia jumped onto the ruins and said, then began to carefully examine those carvings that could still be seen clearly.
"Pas…Temple."
She found a huge stone with the most carvings, studied it carefully, and then read out the characters she could recognize.
Everyone was watching from the sidelines, keeping on guard while waiting for Lucelia to finish studying the ruins.
Lucelia was the most knowledgeable among them, perhaps even more than the rest of them combined.
And Alka also knew in his dream the tip of the iceberg of Lucelia's exaggerated knowledge.
Leave professional matters to professionals.
With Lucilia's exaggerated knowledge, it would be no problem for her to play the role of an archaeologist.
It can even be said that most archaeologists are not as professional as her.
Due to the limited exposed stones due to the collapse of the ruins and the passage of time, Lucelia did not spend much time to simply interpret it.
Looking at the crowd, he said: "These carvings have been recorded in books, but they are much older. Um... a similar existence is the Malkva Empire, which is recorded in books as an empire that perished about 3,800 years ago.
The writing they use seems to be a simplified version of the civilization that the ruins belonged to, so the Malkva Empire should be the successor of the civilization that the ruins once belonged to."
Listening to Lucelia's words, everyone was a little confused.
I don't understand it to some extent.
For example, who is the Malkva Empire?
Looking at the expressions of the crowd, Lucilia knew that they didn't really understand.
"Ah, so you need to read more. Anyway, all you need to know is that these ruins are the more distant ancestors of a country that existed 5,000 years ago."
Everyone will understand after hearing this.
To put it simply, it is the ancestral civilization of ancient civilizations.
"From the carvings and text on it, this should be some kind of temple."
"According to the font that I can clearly see, and the records I have seen before, if I read it in their words, it should be..."
Lucilia spoke an unknown language.
This should be the former name of this building ruin.
So how many languages does she know?
Alka thought helplessly.
He probably learned seven or eight different languages from Lucelia, but Lucelia could still speak many languages that he had never heard of before.
What he learned may be just a drop in the bucket.
The languages that Lucelia taught him were the ones that Lucelia felt had more speakers.
As her voice fell.
There was a slight breeze blowing around.
This breeze made Julia frown, who was a little wary.
"Be careful, the concentration of magic power around seems to have increased."
As soon as these words were spoken, the ruins beneath their feet began to shake.
Just as everyone was about to leave, a burst of energy spread out from the ruins.
They were frozen in place for an instant and then disappeared.
The whole process was extremely fast, like a blink of an eye.
The energy waves that spread out alarmed some other people on the island.
For example, in a strange small town.
"Another temple has been opened? Which little bastard is wandering around again?"
A middle-aged man wearing leather armor and holding a book in his hand said.
Hearing his words, the people who were talking nearby turned their heads.
"Chief, do you want us to send someone over to take a look?"
"Will it cause another riot among these beasts ? I don't know what it will be."
"Who knows, maybe a meteorite will fall on our heads."
"Stop making sarcastic remarks here?"
"Sarcastic remarks? It's not like you didn't get hit when you were a kid!"
Looking at the people around him making a lot of noise, the man called the hand shook his head helplessly.
"Okay, let's have everyone be alert and strengthen patrols to keep an eye on those little bastards. Bai Shi, take a team to check it out."
The man called Shiraishi nodded.
Then these people followed the orders and began to act.
At this time, Alka and others who were frozen and disappeared on the spot have arrived at a strange space.
"It's so dark, so where are we now?"
Jason rubbed his head which had a big bump on it and said while looking around.
Tiny dots of light floated, and one by one, balls of light floated out from where Xia Daiti was, controlled by her, lighting up the surroundings.
Everyone stood up from the ground and looked at the surrounding environment.
"Is everyone okay?" Alka turned around and looked at everyone's situation.
Seeing everyone shaking their heads, Alka counted the number of people and nodded after making sure that everyone was okay.
Only then did he begin to observe his surroundings.
They seemed to have fallen into some kind of underground cave, and their voices had a slight echo.
This shows that the hole is not small and is very spacious.
Of course, all of this can be seen.
As more balls of light floated out, the entire space was completely illuminated and they were able to observe its entirety.
In the huge cave, they landed on a platform.
This platform is obviously man-made. It is circular in shape, and the stone floor has been polished very smoothly, so you can see the carved texture on it.
Very... neat.
Four bridges form a cross and connect the central platform. The width of the bridge is about four meters, and there are stone pillars like braziers on both sides.
Looking closely, there are four brazier pillars on each side.
Outside the platform was a pitch-black abyss. Alka looked up and down. It was bottomless. He threw a piece of rubble next to him down, but there was no echo.
In the abyss, four huge stone pillars extended from the bottom to the top, and the platforms above the stone pillars were level with the platform they were on.
On each stone pillar is a human-shaped statue wearing a full-body robe. Apart from the appearance, no facial carvings can be seen.
These statues are all about 12 meters tall, and all of them are in a holding posture, but their hands are empty.
In addition, in the center of the platform where they were, there was a stone sculpture that looked like a holy grail.
The scene around attracted everyone's attention. They remained vigilant and observed everything around them.
“No one has been here for a long time.”
Jason looked at the print of his body left on the ground after he fell, as well as the dust all over his body.
Almost every step they took would raise dust and scatter it everywhere.
The thick dust is enough to show how long it has been since anyone has set foot here.
Alka stood there, frowning as he began to recall how they came to this place.
"The reason why we came here is probably because of the unknown language spoken by Lucillia?" Alka said uncertainly.
Because when Lucilia spoke the name of the temple in a language they could not understand, strange visions began to appear.
The increase in magic power concentration, the breeze, and the waves transmitted after the vibration brought them to this place.
Hearing this, Xiadaiti looked at Lucilia who was dusting herself off and asked, "So what did you just mean ?"
"The Temple of Parsteva. I just read out the name of this temple using a language similar to that of this civilization." Lucilia said.
She hadn't expected that simply saying the name of the temple would activate something and bring them to this place.
"Forget it, let's spread out and see if there's a way out. And also see if there's anything dangerous in here. Remember to watch your step and don't fall."
Alka said, and began to check the entire platform.
The crowd dispersed slightly, but all kept a certain distance.
Alka first looked at the holy grail-like sculpture in the center of the platform.
This Holy Grail sculpture is about 1.5 meters high, and there is nothing inside.
There are completely incomprehensible patterns carved on the Holy Grail.
Then Alka, Xiadaiti, and Lucilia followed the stone bridge connecting the platforms to the other side.
The materials in the stone braziers on both sides of the stone bridge could no longer be ignited.
After arriving on the other side, everyone discovered that there were rows of seats in this place.
It is arranged in four steps upwards, surrounding the entire platform.
Apart from this, there was nothing special on the other side, and there was no passage or suspension bridge connecting to the outside.
This seems to be a completely enclosed, huge underground cavity.
I had no choice but to turn my attention to the carvings to see if Lucelia could discover anything.
After about half an hour, everyone gathered in the center of the platform again.
Start sharing everyone's findings.
