Chapter 279 Trial Ground
The sudden sound coming from the side made everyone alert and they leaned together to look to the side.
It was a floating triangle. It was made of off-white stone and was covered with a white cloth robe.
The cloth robe looked somewhat clean, but the marks on it showed how long it had been there.
The hem of the cloth robe had been worn out and was hanging down in tattered strips.
The size of the entire triangle is about the size of a human head.
The sound came from this floating triangle.
"Oh, don't be nervous. I haven't introduced myself yet, right?"
Although the expression of the stone triangle could not be seen, everyone could feel his humanity.
"I am the guide here, or at least I used to be."
"What about you? Are you here to take part in the trial?"
They clearly couldn't understand the words that were spoken, but when they entered their minds, they were able to automatically understand what he wanted to express.
It seems that it is not a problem of language, but the magic mixed in the speech.
But the current situation is obviously not about this.
Alka looked at the floating triangle in front of him, and from what he said, it didn't seem to mean any harm.
But they remained vigilant.
The magic power has already flowed out of the palms and can be activated at any time.
After thinking for a moment, he explained, "We just found this island while sailing on the sea, so we came up to check it out. After all, the tower is very conspicuous, isn't it?"
"Oh, yes, yes. Now that we have come to this island, do we want to participate in the trial?"
What's going on with this thing? It talks about trials every other sentence.
"What is the trial?" Jason asked.
Hearing that everyone was finally curious about what the trial was, Triangle immediately began to explain excitedly.
"See that tower? That's where the trial will take place. Enter the tower and climb up. Once you pass it, you'll have completed the trial."
"How is it? It's easy to understand, right?"
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the stone tower.
"There has to be a reward, right? Otherwise it would be a waste of effort." Jason said.
When he said this, the triangle instantly became quiet.
"...Well...maybe I can gain...valuable experience?"
You could clearly hear that he was losing his voice, and then he obviously gave up.
"Well, in this broken age, what is the reward in this ruin? There is not even glory."
He was babble-ing on and on, saying something incomprehensible.
Everyone looked at each other.
Lucilia suddenly said, "I'm very interested in the history of this ruin. If you don't mind, could you tell us about it?"
"Oh, of course, of course." The triangle seemed to have regained its passion.
"But this doesn't seem to be a good place to chat. Come with me. There is another relatively intact room here."
As the triangle spoke, it walked towards a white building not far away.
It seems that the building is indeed much more intact than the surrounding buildings. It only has some surface damage, and there is no problem with the overall structure.
Everyone looked at each other and decided to follow.
After following the triangle for a while, we arrived outside the house.
Passed through the broken door and came inside.
There was a living room inside, and some of the furniture in the living room seemed to be well preserved.
Although it can be seen from some traces that these furniture are very old.
But at least it's clean, which means someone cleans it regularly.
A feather broom formed by the faint blue light swept away the non-existent dust on the seat.
Invite everyone to sit down.
"There is no more tea to serve you now. I hope you can forgive me."
"No problem, no problem."
"It's really disgraceful to let the descendants of God stay as guests in such a shabby place."
He said somewhat frustrated.
From what he said, it was obvious that he had figured out Alka's identity.
He made it obvious from the first time I met him.
Alka looked at his companions.
There was confusion in his eyes: Is it so obvious?
Everyone shook their heads silently, indicating that they couldn't see it anyway.
After all, this is a ruin from ten thousand years ago, a ruin from before the war of gods.
Some special methods can also be understood.
"Since you are so interested, I, the messenger and guide, will tell you the history of the Trial Land."
It felt a little strange to see a floating triangle dressed in white and talking big.
"This is a place of trial, which belongs exclusively to various forces and neutral forces outside the city-states. It was established by the god-the enterprising one, and it is for the purpose of testing all lives that desire to make progress, so that they can take a step forward."
"From us, we have produced countless leaders of forces, founders of countless city-states, and a large number of famous divine messengers and even agents.
There have even been people who have ascended to godhood! Ten thousand years ago, there were always beings who wanted to come here to take the test of advancement."
"What a pity... Even if we remain neutral, we will not be immune to the war of gods that destroyed the world."
When he said this, one could clearly feel that Triangle's mood became a little depressed, and then he recovered and spoke to everyone.
"Although the gods have passed away and the trial ground has been damaged, the only remaining trial tower is still intact."
"Perhaps your ancestors also began to look to the future from here. Don't you want to retrace the steps of your ancestors?"
Having said that, he began to encourage them to take the trial again.
Alka pretended not to hear and asked, "I saw signs of other people being here. Didn't they go for the trial ?"
"You mean those people from before? Although this area has become an island, there are still people like you coming to the island from time to time."
“Some are willing to undergo the trials, while others just want to search for valuable items among these ruins.
Some even wanted to destroy the stone tower, which is really unreasonable."
"No one wants to take the trial? That's impossible." Jason said in surprise.
He all wanted to give it a try. It was impossible that no one who had come here wanted to give it a try.
This doesn't make sense.
"Of course some people have taken the test, but failed. Or they are not qualified."
"Do you still need qualifications?" Alka looked a little strange.
Then why don't they need to keep disappointing them to go through trials?
"Of course it is necessary. It won't work if it's too strong or too weak. After all, there is only one tower left here.
All the trial towers were built by the enterprising ones themselves, how could the mortal beings disobey this order? "
Oh, I see. That is to say, their current strength is just within the range where they can take part in the trial.
"So are there any other people on this island besides us now?" Julia suddenly asked.
"Of course."
It really does exist.
Then why didn't they see any ships when they circled?
Alka couldn't help but think strangely.
"There's a short guy, but he has no manners at all and has been here for quite some time."
"How many times have I told you that I'm short because of my race, you ignorant piece of shit."
There was a hint of calmness in the loud voice, but no one saw the person who was speaking.
All I heard was the triangle saying, "Don't worry about it. That rude dwarf can be heard from a long distance saying bad things about him. He's not here at all."
"Just wait, you broken stone. I will smash you to pieces today."
The voice came again.
Then there was a rumbling sound outside.
Everyone immediately became alert.
Walked out of the hall and came outside through the broken door.
They saw dust rising in the distance, and a figure passed through the ruins and quickly came in front of them.
He was a short man wearing brown adventure clothes and had a big red nose.
Short grey-black hair and a big beard that looks very well- .
It was almost exactly the same as the dwarf in Arka's memory.
"He is really short." Jason whispered in everyone's ears.
"Damn you human , I can hear you."
The bearded dwarf leaped and roared.
After being caught talking bad about someone behind their back, Jason quickly apologized.
However, the man just roared and did not show much anger, as if he had already gotten used to it.
"You people here are really ignorant."
Julia has been frowning and staring at the dwarf since she saw him.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with him?" Xia Daiti asked from the side.
Julia's expression was clearly not right.
Hearing this, she said: "He is... out of tune with this world."
At this time, everyone was looking at the dwarf in front of them, and the dwarf was also carefully observing Alka and others.
"Are you a... dwarf?" Alka looked at him uncertainly.
They were so similar to the people in the entertainment works he remembered.
Short stature, big beard and so on.
Hearing Alka's words, the dwarf's eyes brightened and he walked over quickly, looking at Alka who was speaking.
"You are different, you are very different, my friend. You are the first person in this damn place who is of my race. Have you known my people before?" There was some excitement in his words.
"Uh, no, I just know some similar information."
"Really? But it doesn't matter. It's already great that you can call my race your friend."
He was very happy that Alka could call him by his race, and even became unusually familiar with him, treating Alka as a friend.
Alka just smiled without further explanation. He couldn't say that he knew it from some previous entertainment works.
Mainly because in previous fantasy entertainment works, the dwarf race is so well-known, just like the elves.
I didn't expect to see it in this world. It's really rare.
Alka thought there was no similar race in this world.
It really is living in the boundless ocean.
etc……
Arka suddenly thought of something strange: the triangle did not know the dwarf.
This is weird.
The triangle is an object that existed before the war of gods, as can be known from what he just said.
Then it is impossible for him not to know about the dwarf race.
Unless this race was newly born after the world was broken and glued together.
But this is obviously not quite right.
And what that person said just now was also very strange.
This place of yours.
This obviously wasn't referring to this island; he was most likely talking about the entire vast ocean.
Hiss... This thought seemed to reveal some incredible information.
Alka couldn't help but be shocked.
Come to think of it, if the dwarf had always lived in the Infinite Sea, he would not have said that Arka was the only one who called him by his correct name.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.
Doesn't it fit in here?
He looked at the dwarf and suddenly said, "You are not from this world, are you?"
"Of course not." The dwarf looked at Arka with strange eyes, and then asked: "You can even call out my race, what's so strange about that? Didn't the information you saw explain this?"
Sorry, there is no such thing.
Alka complained, but was more surprised in his heart.
He actually saw a being that did not belong to this world.
And just admitted it like that.
Not only Alka, Xiadaiti and the others were obviously much more surprised than Alka.
Some of them couldn't understand why this person, who didn't belong to this world, came to this place.
Facing the surprised Alka and others.
The dwarf in front of him was a little strange.
"You are so surprised after knowing that I am not from this world."
He thought for a moment and said, "Could you be the people from the legendary Four Gods Sea?"
It was exposed again, and it was seen by someone who did not belong to this world.
Is it that obvious?
Alka thought with some confusion.
"Isn't the legend a little too exaggerated? I remember that there are many people coming from the Four Gods Sea in the Expanse Sea." Simon couldn't help but complained.
It makes them seem like they came from some extraordinary place.
"You don't understand. I've been here for more than 50 years, and you're the first people from the Four Gods Sea that I've seen. Before that, I only knew about you from other people."
The dwarf said with some excitement.
As he spoke, he raised his hand and shook hands with Alka.
"Hello, my name is Harvey Copperhammer. There are no other dwarves here, so you can just call me Copperhammer. I am a scholar of an alien civilization."
"Nice to meet you. Just call me Alka."
Jason and others also briefly introduced themselves.
But a scholar of another civilization, this sounds a bit too lofty.
Alka couldn't help but think.
If it's literally true.
He was about to ask when Lucilia asked impatiently on Alka's shoulder, "What do you mean by scholars of other civilizations? Are they scholars who study other civilizations?"
"Haha, of course, that's awesome, right?" Tongchui was obviously happy and seemed to be very proud of his profession.
"Then you must know a lot about other civilizations? Have you been to other worlds?" Lucelia said excitedly.
That's another world, knowledge that has never been known before.
Lucilia didn't even know there was another world like this.
Not only Lucilia, but everyone else including Alka was extremely curious.
Other worlds... Is it possible...
Alka couldn't help but let his thoughts wander, and he felt an inexplicable touch in his heart.
"Haha, of course. I've been to many worlds."
"Tell me quickly." Lucelia said impatiently.
"No problem. If you want to know, of course it's no problem. But correspondingly, please tell me about the Four Gods Sea later."
As he said this, Tongchui swaggered into the hall of the house.
"Hey, you rude guy, I didn't invite you in." Triangle said from the side.
"Don't be so old-fashioned, you rotten stone. Even I, a dwarf, am not old-fashioned. Don't worry about these details."
Everyone followed in and sat in their seats.
Looking at the curious eyes of the crowd, the copper hammer was obviously very useful.
He cleared his throat and began to tell the story.
"Let me tell you about some special and interesting worlds.
It's too complicated, and you obviously don't understand it. "
As he said this, he stood on the bench and raised his hand.
The magic power draws a three-dimensional shape.
There are densely packed small dots in a blue light.
Some of the dots are spherical, while others are of various shapes.
"These dots are the world, and this space is the astral world, the world that envelops the world."
“I once visited an island where there was no land, not even an ocean.
Actually, it is quite similar to your place, except that the sea is replaced by the sky. "
"You mean to say that all the islands there are floating in the sky?" Simon asked.
"Yes, it's a world where everything is floating in the sky. It's very interesting."
"Uh-huh!"
Everyone nodded, it sounded very interesting.
"The people there all have wings on their backs, just like angels. Do you know what angels are?"
Alka nodded, but everyone except Alka shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know.
Seeing Alka nodding, everyone looked at him.
Tongchui waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Well, forget it if you don't know. Just treat it as someone who has grown wings."
"After my archaeological research, I discovered that the world was actually formed by the fusion of the corpse of an original Titan and an elemental interface, which is why it became that way."
"Original Titan?"
"Elemental interface?"
Everyone raised questions.
"You don't even know this?" Tongchui seemed a little surprised.
Then he thought of something and knocked his head, seeming a little annoyed at asking such a question.
"Yes, your world is like this, how can you understand it?" He said to himself.
He organized his words and explained to everyone.
"Just imagine the Origin Titan as a god, the god above gods, the original god in this star world."
"Just imagine the elemental interface as a world with only a single magical attribute."
I can only say that he is worthy of being a person who travels through various worlds and studies the civilizations of various worlds.
He has more knowledge than his appearance allows.
It was simple and easy to understand so that everyone could understand what he wanted to express.
Although the expression may not be very accurate, everyone can still easily understand the general meaning.
