The Amber Sword

Innumerable light travels in front of you, with five colors of light and a great flow of light.

Behind the halo, in a short step, Brando stepped on solid ground, as if he had gone through a long period of gloom. By the time he returned to God, the sight in front of him had long changed - the underground melting hole had disappeared, the ever-present light gate had disappeared, and there were no more layers of stalagmites and mysterious magical erosion marks in the dark, leaving behind only a thick mist and an infinite pitch-black void.

Sy appeared right behind him, and the young girl held the Tianqing gun and looked at the place with some confusion.

This is the world behind the door.

A world surrounded by fog.

A huge root of tree passes through the mist and hangs in the dark. Man is like a faint dust compared to this root. Around the roots are empty abyss. In the pitch of darkness comes the sound of a tsunami, as if a horrible ghost were laughing.

Both of them stood on the roots of the tree, swallowed by thick fog before and after.

Apart from the monotonous wind surrounding the eardrums, there is a feeling of loneliness all around - the raging wind is noisy somewhere deep in the darkness, but the fog is still moving.

It's like a still world.

After Cee, Metisa and Hippamilla arrived, and Charles followed the tiger, and the last one appeared. He stepped down, clicked a crisp sound, lowered his head and found himself stepping on a thin layer of ice.

“What the hell is this place?” Charles took a breath and the hot air quickly condensed into a white mist.

The people found the surrounding temperatures to be very low, even the fog was a fine layer of ice dust, and they hung a layer of white frost on the trunk on which they stood. But not just cold, the darkness seems to haunt an unpleasant scent, with silk seeping into the bone marrow.

Charles's voice went down and a terrible scream came from behind the crowd. When Brando turned around sharply, he saw an axillary-wing monster break open the fog, but Sy had stepped in front of him, and Tianqing's gun stabbed him and nailed that thing to the tip of his gun.

This is how people see the monster. It's a thin skull, like a firewood, like a bat, but it's all dark and dark. It's like a dark shadow, long limbs, and only two eyes have a fine opening.

Sy threw it to the ground, and the monster screamed and struggled for a moment before dying.

“Shadow Monster?” Charles was stunned when he saw this thing and couldn't help but say: "This is Shadow Country? ”

Metissa shook her head, her silver eyes reflecting the depth and darkness around her, and replied, "Although time here is passing much faster than the material world, it should be a lower realm, but do you smell it? ”

“Smell what?” Charles sneezed, complaining: “I just feel so damn cold in here, Sneeze--”

Medfis looked at him curiously: "Is it cold in here, Mr. Charles, but I feel a little comfortable. There seems to be a sense of tranquillity here, as it is with Lord Lord. ”

He looked at Andrig and asked, "What do you think, sister? ”

“Apart from the last point," Andrig answered indifferently, "all agree. ”

Sydney frowned and wiped her gun tip. She looked at the ugly corpse and whispered to Brando beside her: "Lord, what is the lower realm? ”

Brando looked at the world and replied, “The lower world is the cornerstone of our world, and these worlds are made up of simple laws that are a projection of these laws. The shallow waters of elemental boundaries, rivers of coke, stone pivots and storm mountains are also such worlds, but higher than them. These are the lowest tier worlds of the Tiamat network, such as the film and gray worlds, where time flows faster than the material world because the laws are incomplete. ”

Aloz also interfaced: "Yes, simply put, the Tiamat network that runs through our world is a tree, and the lower the tree, the simpler the foundation of the law; the higher the branch, the more complex it is. At the bottom of this trunk of the tree is a world made up of the simplest and most basic laws: the lower boundary, and up, the more complex four elemental boundaries, which also surround our world, called the outer world or the elemental boundaries. ”

“Our world is situated in the middle of all worlds, but not only in Vaughn, collectively referred to as the material world, but also as the middle world or the courtyard. Above the middle, there are the upper realms, such as the Silver Plains and the divine kingdoms of the Gods - the Truth Council, the Trial Chamber and the Gates of Judgment. ”

This knowledge was obviously too deep for Sy, she blinked slowly, and her moist eyes seemed a little confused in the dark, asking, "So which world is this? ”

“This is the land of the dead, Heim Underworld...”

Ruth, the fairy sitting on Ropal's shoulder, said, “It is not the mist but the breath of death that diffuses, nor is it the wind that is deep in darkness, but the sound of the whole world moving towards death. ”

“Death?” Little Mother Dragon sucked her nose hard, her eyes more like two golden flames in the darkness, sparkling: “But the smell in this fog is not rotten or mature. ”

Ruth replied quietly: "The breath of death is not a rotten corpse, but merely a sign of death. Death is a state, symbolizes eternal sleep, and everything here is death, with wind and water hanging in the fog, the living can't smell death, Miss Metissa can, because the elves themselves are very sensitive to life and death. ”

“No wonder we feel tranquil,” said Medfis, suddenly. “So this is where we sleep permanently, where the dead come from. ”

But Aloz was still unhappy, picking a bone in the egg: “Is everything here dead? But aren't we still alive? ”

“That's because we didn't come in the right way," the fairy lady on Mallocha's head stood up and grabbed two long antlers and said, "I don't know why it's possible to get under the collar of the cedar to the underworld of Heim, but it's obviously not the real entrance to the land of the dead. ”

“The real entrance to the Land of the Dead is beneath the Dageol River. Do you see the abyss around you? Below this abyss, it should be the Underwater Sea. The roots of the world continue to crumble and fall into the Underwater Sea, which is why the roar is so loud.” Miss Fairy looked proudly at Lut, humming: “The Underwater Sea was beneath the Shallow Sea, and I know a lot more about it than that guy. ”

Ruth glanced at her and was too lazy to compare herself to the little girl.

“The underwater is the sea of chaos?” Tiger Bird asked.

“You can say yes, but you can say no, the Underwater Sea is part of the Tiamat Law, but it is indeed built on a sea of chaos," Brando nodded slowly, looking up at the enormous roots beneath his feet.

Others looked at the root of the tree, and someone asked, "Is this the root of the legendary world tree? ”

“Yes," said the Silver Elf Princess, looking at the roots with some shock, firmly answering: "The world tree itself is the embodiment of the Tiamat rule. Now I understand why there is a world tree in the rings of the wind, and Lord Martha seals an entrance to the Heim Underworld beneath the Cold Cedar Territory. One of the three roots of the legendary world tree leads to the world, and the rings of the wind must be influenced by the laws here in order to project the world tree. ”

“I hear there's also a world tree in the ring of the world. What about that world tree?” Charles asked again.

Metisa blinked suspiciously and looked at him: "Didn't the Bukas tell you? ”

Charles coughed with great embarrassment: “After all, I am not a true silver wizard. For a mortal wizard, not all literature in the white tower can be read. ”

“So that's it.” Metisa smiled with regret and then replied: "The world tree is the embodiment of the Tiamat rule, as Miss Aroz described earlier, which connects Martha to every world created by the gods - so in every world there will be at least one world tree. Lord has visited the Silver Plains and must have seen the legendary Black Tower. ”

Brando suddenly said, "Is that the tree of the world? ”

Metissa nodded: “The dwarves built a fortress based on it, and so did Valhalla, so that the World Tree Fortress was one of the five legendary fortresses, named after Barbell Fortress -” she smiled sweetly, with a slight hint of memories: “The World Tree also grew up in my hometown, in the Holy Land of the Pokémon, in the Holy Silver Valley of the Upper World Alfheim, and there was a giant tree like Valhalla, just like our mother, so that the Silver Pokémon became so familiar with the World Tree. ”

“Can we reach any world through the World Tree?” Brando asked.

“Yes, but not necessarily." Speaking of which, the little princess of the Pokémon is somewhat flat: “The material world that exists today - the Vaughn's continent, although only a small part of the whole world, is almost the only part left, and most of the world has been destroyed in the wars of the past, or has disappeared as a result of a restart. If he remembers Mr. Traciman, the brigade magician, he should know that he comes from a world like that, but his homeland is long gone. ”

“Like a stagnation? ”

“Like the boundary of stagnation. ”

“You never told me that before, did Fusia remind you of something from the past, Metisa?” Brando looked at the little Silver Elf Princess, and she was acting strangely.

Metissa nodded: "At the moment of my resurrection, I understood everything from the past. ”

Brando couldn't help but be silent.

He answered for a moment, “Anyway, what we're doing is trying to stop the tragedy from happening again. Now that time in the lower realm is passing much faster than in Warnde, the time left to us is even more precious. Let's go. ”

This is the only way forward.

But there was something strange about how to find the right direction in a place like this, and she looked up and looked around, and there was obviously more than just this rootstock in the mist, and in the deep darkness, the interlaced roots were all over the space, like a giant maze.

But Brando immediately answered her doubts with his actions.

He took the seven slabs out of the suspended sphere —— the seven slabs that were spliced together into a sphere that hung on his hand, and the entire sphere emitted a soft light, like a lighthouse, which emitted a straight beam of light in one direction, and the columns of light fell far out of the mist.

This is the most precious legacy that Antittina's father has left them, named Hope.

The people follow the guidance of the light, and when the fog in the dark is thick, the surrounding terrain changes with the winding and staggering of the rootstocks. Shortly after walking, Tia next to Flo kicked something, and she was shocked, and Brando came up with an arrow behind her to hold the little girl, but found out that Tia kicked a dead body.

The carcass is characterized by typical insect life, like some kind of arthropod, but its body is stitched together by a bright purple crystal. Brando only glanced at the corpse of the creature, and he frowned slightly, not expecting to see it here.

“Is this a… cluster?” Aloz recognized it, too.

“This is not a regular cluster," replied Brando. “This is a cluster lord. Weird. Has dusk invaded here too? ”

Charles came up from behind, poking gently on the body with his staff, clicking and squeaking, and one foot of the crystalline corpse actually collapsed and broke the ground. He saw the scene shake his head and said, “I'm afraid it's not from our time. ”

“In past times, even the kingdom of the dead had a dusk battle? ”

“Not necessarily the main battlefield, but Heim's underworld was the kingdom of the Moon Goddess, and she was a mighty goddess before she was corrupted, and there was nothing strange about fighting the twilight claw teeth.” Aloz replied, frowning, "I even suspected that this was the battlefield she had fallen...”

Everyone looked up subconsciously and looked forward.

In the mist ahead, a long bridge appeared sometime unknowingly.

“What's that?” Fairy Phoenix asked subconsciously.

But Metissa put a finger up and said to everyone, "Shh.”

Behind the fog, two bloody red spots appeared - like two flames floating in the air, shaking slowly, getting closer and closer to the crowd. Soon, a tall figure emerged after the spots of light, Brando, which made it clear that it was a tall skeleton - he thought Kabbas was the most powerful skeleton he'd ever seen, but compared to this daunting skeleton, it was like a little witch seeing a great witch.

It was the skeleton of a giant, one carrying a huge anchor, one carrying a lantern that emitted light that could penetrate the mist, and walked forward one by one.

“What is that thing... the dead spirit?” Someone whispered.

“It's not just a dead spirit," Brando recognized this thing and couldn't help but swallow a sip of spit: “It's Mordgood, the King of Dead Bones, the Bridgekeeper of the Bridge of the Dead, the Ancestor of the Dead - legend has it that it will never let the breath of the living enter the world of the dead, disturbing the tranquillity of the Long Sleep...“

“Lord means it may not let us through here?” Tiger Bird asked.

“So what do we do?” Sy had to frown and ask.

“It's simple,” Charles replied, "of course, kill it! ”

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