Demon Royal Family

There is a scorching sun hanging in the sky, and the fierce sunlight shines on this yellow desert, creating a rolling heat wave.

Two figures lie in the desert, eyes closed, motionless.

Suddenly, a figure's fingers moved, and then his eyelids trembled slightly. He slowly opened his eyes, one red and one blue eye slowly focused, and the surrounding scenery slowly became clear from the double image.

Ivo sat up suddenly and looked around in surprise. The moment he entered the entrance to the secondary space, his consciousness seemed to have been hit hard. He fell into coma for an instant, and when he woke up, he was in this desert.

It seems that they have entered the ruins space.

Ivo found the sleeping Nafi. He originally wanted to wake her up with a big ear scraper, but after thinking about it, it seemed inappropriate, so he finally adopted a gentle method, artificial... pinching her.

Nafei groaned and gradually woke up, looking at the yellow sand around her in confusion, "Where are we?"

Ivo spread his hands: "It should be the secondary space where the ruins are located."

Nafei frowned and sat up, looked up at the sun, pinched her fingers and calculated something, and said for a long time: "The position of the sun is wrong, and it never moves. This secondary space is eternal day, and the flow of time is very slow. Here Three days are worth one day in the main world."

Ivo clicked his tongue in surprise: "How do you know?"

"Every wizard is a learned scholar."

Ivo stood up and looked around. The yellow desert stretched to the horizon, as if it were endless. The desert was deathly silent, and even the wind was silent, giving people a sense of despair.

Nafi was a little uneasy, but Ivo looked calm. After all, he had been in the purgatory of the memory battlefield for a long time and had long been immune to the severe desertification environment.

Ivo suddenly looked in one direction. In the air distorted by the high temperature of the sun, there seemed to be a vague outline of a building a few miles away. He looked at each other and headed towards the building.

Walking under the sun, sweating all the way, after walking for nearly an hour, they approached the building complex and opened their mouths in surprise. In front of them was a huge city made of sand.

The spacious streets can accommodate five carriages side by side, and the buildings are made of yellow sand. There is an inexplicable power that keeps the sand from falling apart.

The two of them were standing on the edge of the city. The buildings were like yellow woods extending into the city, with no end in sight.

This city seems to be bigger than Lasces City. The difference is that this city is empty, only the wind and sand are roaring, and there is a dead atmosphere everywhere.

"There are no people in this city." Ivo said casually. He looked up and looked at the sand houses on the roadside. He discovered a feature. There were one or several bells hanging in the window of each house, but the hanging weights seemed to have been removed. Go, there is only a rustling sound after the wind blows.

The sound of thousands of dumb wind chimes is like a whimpering sound, as if this sand city is crying in a low voice

Ivo shuddered and felt the ominous atmosphere in the ruined city.

"No, someone once lived here," Nafi pushed open a house, pointed at the decaying wooden furniture in the house, and frowned, "But I don't know what happened. Everyone left the city."

The two of them had no clue and decided to explore deep inside the city.

After walking forward for two hours, the buildings on both sides were taller or shorter, and the monotonous earthy color made people feel depressed. They walked from the outer circle of the city to the inner circle.

The two of them suddenly stopped, and a very large square appeared in front of them. A ten-meter-high sand sculpture stood in the center of the square.

This sand sculpture is a burly half-human, half-animal man with a huge wolf-dog head, erect ears, and eyes dyed a sky-like blue. Except for the head, he is human, revealing his proportions. He has a perfectly strong upper body, engraved with complex tattoos, wearing a simple war skirt that covers his thighs, and leggings and sandals on his feet. He holds a hunting horn that is curved like an ox horn in his left hand, and a wild twisted long weapon in his right hand. spear.

Ivo said in a surprised tone: "Idol? Which god is this?"

Nafei looked confused. As far as she knew, there were four major divine systems in the world: Frigga's Northern God System, Odin's Odin God System, Muir's Celestial God System, Carthage's Natural God System, and Abraham Wu's God System. Specific beliefs, but there is no record of this god among the four major pantheons.

Could it be the more ancient ancient gods?

Ivo's sharp eyes caught a glimpse of a slightly raised patch of ground covered with sand at the feet of the statue. He stepped forward and swept away the floating sand, revealing a black stone tablet embedded in the ground, with many unknown words twisted like snakes engraved on it. Waugh felt dizzy after just one glance and didn't recognize a word.

"This is the writing of the ancestors!" Nafei looked at the stone tablet and exclaimed.

"Ancestors?"

"It is said that the ancient gods created the world. The first calendar era recorded in history is the Ancient Divine Calendar, also known as the First Epoch. It was the truly ancient period, the first era of the world, and the races at that time were called the ancestors. Nafei exclaimed, "This is actually a relic of our ancestors?"

"Then do you recognize these inscriptions?"

"I can only understand a few words." Nafei pointed at the center of her eyebrows, flipping through the memory of the writings of her ancestors, reading the inscription slowly, and after a long time she breathed a sigh of relief, "I only recognize five words, Seth, sand, sand, Altar, three, hall, sorry, I can’t understand the other thousands of words.”

Should I bring a linguist with me when I explore the ruins in the future? !

Ivo was at a loss. He knew too little about this city to decide what to do next. It seemed that this ruins had been abandoned for too long. It was hard to say whether there were any treasures. The night watchman and the red-haired female leader were probably chasing after him. When he came in, he was a little hesitant.

The space ring on his finger suddenly beat slightly. Ivo's heart moved and he opened the space ring. The brass disk was flashing white light at a neither fast nor slow frequency. He took out the brass disk from the space ring and held it in his hand. .

The temperature of the brass disc gradually increased, as if it was about to undergo a strange change.

Ivo secretly thought that this disc was really weird. He placed the increasingly hot brass disc on the ground. The temperature of the disc rose rapidly, and the surrounding air began to distort.

"Buzz——"

Changes suddenly occurred.

Ivo and Nafi opened their mouths with shock on their faces.

…

Looking at this ruined city from a high altitude, it can be divided into three areas. The outer circle is bounded by the edge of the ruins, and the inner circle is bounded by three wolf-dog human statues distributed in a glyph shape - Ivo and Nafi are located inside. On the edge of the circle, three wolf-dog statues are located in three directions. The deepest area is the center of the city, which is shrouded in yellow sand and cannot be seen clearly.

In fact, it is more appropriate to use one ring and two rings to replace the inner ring and the outer ring, but our background is not a modern city, so forget it.

In front of another wolf-dog statue, dozens of Templar knights were here. They woke up later than Ivo and were in a different position from Ivo, but they moved quickly and reached the statue on the edge of the inner circle. .

Balzac looked at the inscription and frowned: "What kind of strange writing is this? What is the age of this ruins?"

Norrington was surging with mana. After trying the "Levitation Technique" again and failing, he looked irritated: "There is an inexplicable force that restricts flying spells. I can't fly."

Jones closed his eyes and worshiped in front of the statue. Norrington sneered: "Do you know which god this is?"

"As long as it is a god, I must worship it. This is the responsibility of a believer." Jones said firmly.

"The knights who uphold the creed of justice are the most troublesome." Norrington was impatient. "Balzac, what should we do next, should we explore the ruins or hunt down the heretics?"

"Buzz——"

Suddenly, the ground shook like an earthquake, and the floating sand was shaken up and down. At three widely separated locations deep in the inner circle of the ruins, three pillars of light, blue, red, and yellow, rose up to the sky. They were all over ten miles away. Can see clearly.

The base of the huge wolf-dog human statue made a clicking sound of mechanical operation. The base slowly rotated half a circle. The statue that originally faced outwards turned to the inside of the city. Its blue eyes shot two blue rays of light towards the yellow sand-covered city. The center of the city looks like a blue bridge across the sky.

The statues in the other two directions also experienced the same change, and four azure rays converged in the center of the city that could not be seen clearly.

The sudden change put the Templars on heightened alert.

The whole ruins suddenly heard a rustling sound, and withered and rotten palms stretched out from the yellow sand on the ground. Countless corpses and skeletons crawled out of the ground and headed straight for the living Templars. Go, they are densely packed, like a sea of ​​corpses.

"Get ready for battle!" Although he didn't understand what had happened to the ruins, Balzac made a prompt decision and made arrangements instantly. "Jones, you lead a team to hunt down the heretics. Norrington, you lead people to check these three Light Pillar, I will lead people to explore deep into the city center, let’s go!”

The Templar soldiers were divided into three groups. Blades, flames and holy light exploded, forcing their way out of the sea of ​​corpses.

…

In the outer circle of the city, the red-haired female leader saw three light pillars in the distance. Her eyes flashed and she chose to go to the blue light pillar. The exquisite dagger cut out the golden-red sword energy, and the undead who approached were crushed into bone powder.

…

The brass disc floated in mid-air, and a small hole opened under the disc, revealing a translucent projection.

This is the projection of an old man, wearing a luxurious bishop's red robe. You can tell from his wrinkled cheeks that he must have been a handsome man when he was young. His face was expressionless, like a pre-set image message, and he said: "Lucky or unfortunate people, welcome to the ruins of the ancestors, the golden city, the hot city, Sandhiti, the city of sand!"

"When you see this video, the ruins have been activated. The brass disc is not only the key to the door, but also... the food..." At this point, the image fluctuated and quickly returned to normal, as if it was deliberately deleted. Got this information.

"The guardians of the city, the corpses and skeletons, will wake up from their slumber. Their thirst for blood will prevent them from stopping their pursuit of you."

There were footsteps in the distance, and a large group of corpses and skeletons were slowly approaching. Ivo shed a cold sweat. He couldn't handle so many enemies.

The video continues: "There are three treasure houses in the ruins, containing a large number of treasures. However, the treasure houses are sealed by secret techniques. You must find a 'key' to open the treasure house. Unfortunately, I don't know what the 'key' is."

"Yes, I am not the guardian of the ruins, nor the owner of the ruins. I am just an unfortunate person who arrived before you. If you can receive this message, my body is at the altar of the ancient god in the center of Sandhiti. Waiting for you, I know the only way to leave. Sandhit is only opened on the Day of the Dead. The flow of time here is three times slower than that of the main world, so you only have three days. Please come to me and I will open it for you to leave. Portal, in exchange, I need you to do me a favor."

"Your loyal guide - Augusta."

Zhi——The projection dissipated and the brass disc fell to the ground.

Nafi was still shocked, but Ivo suddenly yelled angrily: "I was so busy listening to you talking, I almost forgot that the undead are approaching, you cheat!"