Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

In the latter half of the night, the sky over Bayam finally cleared, signifying the death of the "Sea God." The battle between the two demigods over the weather had ended, making it the optimal window to explore the elven ruins.

Audis, following his planned strategy, donned the grotesque mask he'd purchased in Bayam. He infused the "Travel Ring" with his spirituality and entered the spirit world, using the blue jade dagger to guide his way.

At this moment, the jade dagger's luster was significantly diminished. He believed that once Cavettua's characteristics were completely extracted, the dagger would lose its jade-like feel.

Audis was extremely cautious, alternating between the spirit world and the real world to reorient himself.

Sometimes, he would appear on an unknown island; other times, he would find himself in the middle of the ocean.

Fortunately, Audis was well-prepared. He threw out a scroll, and a pair of enormous, illusory, semi-transparent shoes seemed to appear on his feet, allowing him to briefly stand on the surface of the sea.

After stopping and starting for about fifteen minutes, the jade dagger began to point downwards.

Audis threw out another scroll: "Activate!"

A transparent bubble seemed to form around him, encasing him, but without hindering his ability to paddle.

This scroll allowed him to move freely underwater for a short time.

To explore the elven ruins, Audis had spent the afternoon creating many scrolls suitable for underwater use, almost filling his leather bag.

Continuing into the spirit world, Audis's spiritual perception soon realized that he had reached his destination.

He emerged from the spirit world and found himself in the deep sea.

In the dim light, Audis saw a large expanse of uniquely styled architecture before him, though most of the ruins had already collapsed.

In the distance, there was a curtain of light-like substance that isolated the seawater, forming a space that resembled a void.

At the same time, this space looked relatively illusory, as if it existed between the spirit world and the real world!

Audis swam into the light curtain and placed the jade dagger into his backpack.

He saw a dilapidated ruin, some parts tall, some short, all bearing the marks of time.

Within the ruins, there were also special corals emitting a faint light, revealing the surrounding wreckage, while also imbuing the ruins with a sense of oppression and sanctity.

Audis first observed the dagger in his bowl, which was pointing towards a great hall, clearly indicating that Cavettua was there, though he should already be dead.

Audis wasn't there to collect extraordinary characteristics, so after looking around to make sure none of the guards had noticed him, he used an "Invisibility Scroll" to conceal himself, and boldly went to observe the light curtain that isolated the seawater and concealed the ruins.

In his opinion, this thing was very cool. If he could find the mechanism by which it operated, he could even consider building his secret base in the sea in the future.

In fact, isolating seawater was not difficult to achieve. The difficulty lay in how to keep these ruins between the real world and the spirit world, thereby effectively concealing them.

That's why the Storm Church had been searching for so long without finding any trace of "Sea God" Cavettua.

After searching along the light curtain for seven or eight minutes, Audis finally found some mystical symbols on the ground.

Audis brushed aside the bricks, and, understanding "Ancient Elven," he quickly understood the meaning of these symbols.

He took out the engineer's shovel he had prepared and carefully continued to dig down through the broken stone bricks. As expected, he found a hollow space underneath, with a complete array at the bottom of the space.

According to Audis's judgment, this was a small "terminal-type" array, providing power to the light curtain.

Thousands of years had passed, and this array was still functioning normally!

Moreover, the materials used to inscribe the array were still very clear, without any signs of fading.

Without affecting the array, Audis took some samples of the materials used to inscribe the array, intending to take them back and study them.

Immediately afterward, Audis realized that although the "Knowledge Wilderness" contained many elven arrays, it did not include the one in front of him.

So Audis took out paper and pen and made detailed records.

Based on this small array, Audis looked at a ruin next to the great hall. According to his knowledge of arrays and mystical symbols, that was the "control room" for the entire array.

Upon approaching, Audis discovered that this place had collapsed by half, and because it was relatively close to the great hall, he could still faintly hear Cavettua's roars.

This made Audis smile slightly. Next door lay the corpse of a demigod-level sea serpent, while he was carefully studying the arrays in this ancient ruin.

This gave him the feeling of a female classmate asking him to fix her computer, and he really was just fixing the computer.

Continuing his exploration, Audis recalled that there seemed to be some clergy and guards in the "Sea God's" temple.

However, judging by the scene in this ruin, few people came here. Audis thought to himself that it made sense; a wild god's church wouldn't think of recruiting and organizing scholars to study elven ruins.

Perhaps even the Sea God Church's clergy didn't know that this was an elven ruin.

While continuously searching with the engineer's shovel, Audis found some clues: there seemed to be an array pressed under the rubble.

This made Audis somewhat helpless because the rubble in front of him was too difficult to clear. By the time he dug out the array, the Storm Church's people would probably have arrived.

Whoosh~

A stone brick suddenly fell from a ruin not far away, making a sound.

Audis carefully checked, but didn't find anyone there.

Then, he suddenly looked behind him, but there was only a ruin there as well.

Audis frowned. For a moment just now, he felt like a pair of eyes was staring at him.

This made Audis immediately check his condition. The "Invisibility" effect was still active, but after a minute, he would have to use another scroll.

After carefully observing the surroundings again, Audis used the "Invisibility Scroll" in advance and continued his exploration.

He wouldn't dig up this ruin; after all, an array that everyone could see wouldn't be too important.

Audis estimated that this was a "spiritual emission" array. There should be many sub-arrays in the ruins. After the surrounding spirituality was concentrated here, the "spiritual emission" array would send it to the "terminal-type" array, which would then set up the "light curtain" to isolate the outside seawater.

The truly important array should be underground or in some secret room.

Audis searched the ruins and finally found the corresponding "door opening" symbols on the wall of the next room.

He thought to himself: I hope there isn't a spell.

He put his hand on the correct symbol and infused it with spirituality. Several surrounding symbols immediately lit up, but that was all; there was no other reaction.

Since the symbols could still light up, it meant that the mechanism on the wall could still be activated, but activating the array also required a spell, which Audis didn't know, so the door didn't open.

Audis thought to himself: I wonder if the spell is "Open Sesame"?

Then he breathed a sigh of relief. The array design from thousands of years ago hadn't exceeded the scope of his knowledge.

Following that, Audis was somewhat delighted because this once again verified that he had mastered very advanced mystical theory, although "Garf runes" were different from "Ancient Elven," and the format of the arrays was also different.

However, the theory of mysticism was the same. As long as one mastered the theory, different symbols were just different tools.

Faced with the problem at hand, Audis first tried to see if he could use "Travel" to enter, but after entering the spirit world, he first heard a painful roar in his ear. Not far away in the spirit world, there was an illusory sea serpent, roaring with its mouth open.

That was the spiritual residue of "Sea God" Cavettua. If you didn't provoke this illusory sea serpent, there wouldn't be too much danger; at most, you would hear the roar, and your head would swell and feel like vomiting.

After searching briefly, Audis discovered that the designer of this "complex" array had anticipated this. The corresponding location of the "central control array" simply couldn't be found in the spirit world.

Moreover, Cavettua's roar was really too unpleasant. Audis returned to the real world, and at that moment, he felt that gaze again.

However, this time Audis didn't check again. Instead, he took out spiritual materials and a pen and quickly drew an array on the wall.

He wanted to use this array to bypass the spell steps, and as long as he infused it with spirituality, he could activate the mechanism on this wall.

After the array was drawn, Audis slowly put on the "Hand of Judgment" and then put his other hand into the array, as if to activate the array.

At this moment, his spirituality sent a warning of danger, and Audis turned his head sharply: "Exile!"

Behind him, a bolt of lightning struck down from the top of the ruin. Audis's "Exile" caused the lightning to suddenly turn a corner and strike into the illusory space.

At this time, Audis saw that in the ruins behind him, a large electric eel with blue eyes, three or four meters long, was rapidly "swimming" towards him.

This wasn't in the seawater, but it was floating in mid-air, its body twisting and turning, as if it were swimming in the seawater.

Moreover, it was very fast, and it could "swim" to Audis in the blink of an eye.

Just now, it had confirmed that there was indeed a human in the air in front of it, and took advantage of his activation of the array to launch a sneak attack.

Although Audis had been in a state of "invisibility," he would still make some sounds and release some odors.

Wild beasts that were very sensitive to this could easily find Audis.

Fortunately, Odyss had already sensed something and put on the "Hand of Judgment" in advance to deal with the potential threat: "Imprisonment!"

The air around the electric eel suddenly became viscous, enveloping it and "imprisoning" it in place.

Seeing this giant electric eel, Odyss seriously suspected if it was some relative of Cavettua?

He then thought: That's not right either, ordinary electric eels are freshwater fish, and "Sea God" is a sea snake, the genetic difference is relatively large.

But now is not the time to think about this, Odyss immediately threw out a scroll: "Activate."

The scroll shattered, shooting out earthy yellow light, the surrounding ground surged, and stone spikes suddenly pierced out, stabbing towards the "imprisoned" electric eel.

However, the skin of this electric eel was very tough and very smooth, most of the spikes failed to pierce it, only three spikes pierced the electric eel, and the pain caused it to open its mouth and let out a beast-like roar.

Odyss, who was about to use an "Acceleration Scroll" on himself, realized this was an opportunity and quickly threw an "Explosion Scroll" into its mouth.

Glug~

The electric eel instinctively swallowed it, and at this time it finally broke free from the "imprisonment" and pulled its body out from those large stone spikes.

But at this time it discovered that the human had quickly run out of the ruins and hid behind a sturdy-looking stone wall.

The electric eel released a ball of lightning and was about to let the ball track the human.

Bang~

A muffled sound, as if something had been muffled by a quilt.

The electric eel was instantly blown into two pieces, most of its abdomen was blown into minced meat.

At this time, Odyss turned out from behind the wall: "Death!"

He rushed over and punched the electric eel's head, and a large dent appeared on its head, and both eyeballs were squeezed out.

The remaining, relatively intact part of the electric eel's body had already begun to twitch violently, but its last bit of will still opened its mouth and bit at the human not far away.

Odyss quickly dodged back, preparing to give the electric eel the final blow.

Pa~

The spherical lightning that the electric eel had created earlier exploded after losing control, and electric arcs instantly filled the entire room.

Odyss hurriedly used a "Defense Scroll", and a layer of "Mage Shield" appeared around him, a thick, hard plastic-like structure, blocking most of the randomly flashing electric arcs.

But some electric arcs still pierced into Odyss's body, making him feel numb all over, feeling like he couldn't even hold the scroll in his hand, and his tongue seemed to be out of control.

The electric arcs disappeared after two or three seconds, and it took several seconds for Odyss to feel that the numbness no longer affected his actions.

At this time, the head section of the electric eel had not completely died yet, and it still used the release of electric arcs to determine Odyss's location.

After it determined the location, the half-meter section of its head suddenly bit over, biting onto the protection generated by the thick "Defense Scroll".

The "Mage Shield"-like structure broke in response, and while Odyss quickly retreated, he threw the "Caltrop Scroll" he invented into the electric eel's mouth before it could close.

The next second, dozens of spear-length hard wooden thorns pierced out from the inside of the electric eel, turning it into a round hedgehog.

Several of the wooden thorns pierced its brain, and after randomly releasing a few electric arcs, the electric eel died, leaving only its incomplete body twitching non-stop.

Soon Odyss noticed that among the electric eel's body and minced meat, small spots of light were precipitating out, and they were gathering in one direction.

During the battle just now, Odyss guessed that this must be an extraordinary creature.

He patiently waited for a while, and those spots of light formed a hollow small sphere composed of networks like electric arcs.

Odyss didn't dare to take it with his hand, but put the hand wearing the glove into the "Knowledge Wilderness".

Even through the "Hand of Judgment", Odyss felt like his palm was being electrocuted.

After solving this electric eel, Odyss rested for more than ten seconds, put away the "Hand of Judgment", and checked his scrolls, before coming to the magic circle he had just drawn and injecting spirituality into the magic circle.

Click~

With a crisp sound, a stone wall opened a portal, revealing a dark room filled with magic circles.

In the very center of the dark room, there was a hexagonal crystal emitting a faint light, at this time it was suspended in mid-air and slowly rotating.

Odyss took a deep breath, carefully and cautiously entered the dark room, and after confirming that there was no danger, Odyss immediately looked at the magic circles.

He looked and quickly took notes.

After looking for a while, Odyss exclaimed: "The person who designed this magic circle is a genius!"

Without a single mistake, every stroke, every stroke, every stroke, every stroke, every stroke, every stroke, every stroke!

This magic circle not only has the ability to isolate seawater, but also has "Spirit World Fusion Magic Circle", "Oxygen Production Magic Circle", "Lighting Magic Circle", etc. inside.

This made Odyss realize that the ruins occupied by Cavettua, a long, long time ago, were all within the coverage of the magic circle, and this was a huge underwater city!

It seems that before the Fourth Epoch, this ruin was already at the bottom of the sea, it was not because of the fall of the "Nether Emperor" that this ruin sank into the sea.

If these guesses are true, then back then, this must have been an important city of the elves, otherwise it would not have been so much trouble to lay out such a magic circle at the bottom of the sea.

It's just that with the passage of time, of course, it may also be that this magic circle has suffered some damage, and currently it can only cover a very small area.

Large areas of the ruins outside are all soaked in seawater and have become what they are now.

Soon, Odyss had recorded more than a dozen pages in his notebook. This was the most complex and precise "composite magic circle" he had ever seen. With Odyss's current level, he was not sure that he could design such a fully functional magic circle.

After carefully taking notes, Odyss went to observe the hexagonal crystal slowly rotating in the center of the room.

There were also many "Ancient Elven Texts" on it, like a complex magic circle, but it wasn't.

Odyss judged that it was actually something like a "smart processor", as long as some parts of the magic circle were damaged and could not be used, it would make a certain judgment and actively close that part of the magic circle, no longer supplying spirituality to that location.

Looking at this magic circle again, Odyss sighed: "It's a pity, I can't communicate with such a master."

As soon as he put away his notebook, Odyss suddenly felt some changes in the jade dagger in his backpack.

Odyss opened his backpack and saw that the previous jade dagger had lost any transparency and had completely turned into something similar to a dull fish bone.

This also meant that Cavettua's characteristics had precipitated out, and that Sequence 3-level characteristic was no longer related to the "Sea God".

Odyss exited this secret room, closed the door, and then erased the magic circle he had just drawn on the wall.

All the "Ancient Elven Texts" in the building were carved and then coated with a special spiritual material.

However, the magic circle that Odyss had just written could be easily erased, without this magic circle, the Storm Church people would not be able to enter this secret room.

Of course, they didn't know that such a secret room existed.

Odyss saw that the electric eel was no longer twitching at this time, so he collected some of the electric eel's blood, internal organs, muscles, and skin, which were all good spiritual materials.

Finally, Odyss went to break off a large piece of coral as a sample. That was the lighting equipment of this city, equivalent to light bulbs, and it was very valuable for research.

Just as he was about to leave with the "Travel Ring", Odyss glanced at the hall next door and suddenly felt that since he was already here, he had to go and take a look.

So he carefully came to that hall, which had obvious traces of being destroyed by giant beasts.

There were originally some murals on the walls, but now they were no longer clear.

At this time, a beast-like roar came from the side hall next door, and Odyss carefully went over.

On the way in the corridor, he also encountered some guards like mummified corpses, who had no signs of life at this time.

After passing through the corridor, Odyss quietly glanced at the side hall.

He first saw a giant sea snake, as huge as a small mountain.

This giant sea snake was biting ferociously on a giant stone pillar in the side hall, presumably it must have struggled violently at the last moment of its life.

Then, Odyss saw a virtual figure floating in mid-air, wearing black armor, a crown on his head, and a cloak fluttering handsomely behind him.

He was as majestic as an emperor, making Odyss afraid to look him in the eye.

Odyss was a little envious in his heart: Klein's "transformation form" is quite handsome.

In addition, there was also an old man in the hall wearing a cleric's robe, who was constantly releasing lightning and storms, attacking Klein.

And from inside the robe, slippery tentacles stretched out, constantly attacking Klein in the "Black Emperor" costume in mid-air.

Beside Cavettua's corpse, there was a row of people in cleric's robes lying down, their bodies in front of Cavettua had been torn and bitten, looking bloody and blurred.

These Sea God Cult people had just devoured the "Sea God"'s corpse, but at that time the extraordinary characteristics had not yet precipitated out, they could not withstand the impact of the characteristics, so they died there.

Odyss noticed that the characteristics that had been "processed" by their bodies were already precipitating out, and some were combining with certain items on their bodies.

Obviously those are extraordinary characteristics and sealed items!

But the battle in the room was too intense, and Odyss didn't dare to go in to pick them up.

He observed the battle briefly, opened his leather bag, and took out an "Ice Snow Scroll."

Then, Audis strode forward and tossed it towards the old man who was fiercely battling Klein: "Activate!"

Squeak, squeak~

Hearing the teeth-grinding sound of freezing, many tentacles extending from under the old man's robe were frozen.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Klein made a gesture of embracing the sun, and a pillar of light burning with golden flames shone on the old man, causing him to disintegrate rapidly.

Klein took a deep look at Audis, and then flew towards the head of Cavettua, in front of the tusk that condensed most of the light spots.

He endured the great pain to touch the "Tusk", and after trying to pull it out, quickly ended the summoning and disappeared into the main hall.

All the pressure in this side hall quickly dissipated. Audis breathed a long sigh of relief before entering the side hall to confirm that there were no living people or living sea serpents left.

Just now, after Klein ended the summoning, he had to leave as soon as possible, otherwise he would not be able to withstand the negative effects of that sealed artifact in the outside world.

Therefore, Klein didn't have time to pick up the extraordinary characteristics and sealed artifacts on the ground.

Of course, Audis would not miss such an opportunity, stuffing all three extraordinary characteristics and five sealed artifacts into the "Knowledge Wilderness" in one go.

He was about to leave when the corner of his eye suddenly noticed that behind the "Sea God's" corpse were some relatively well-preserved murals and "Ancient Elvish script."

Audis went around the mountain-like sea serpent corpse, and behind the corpse, there was actually a portal, with a not-very-long corridor.

Outside the corridor was a section of "Ancient Elvish script". Audis translated as he silently read it in his heart: When the whole world was against us, He helped us.

Audis was stunned. Who is "He"?

Then, he entered the somewhat collapsed corridor and found several relatively intact murals inside. The first one was a man stepping on the waves, wearing dark clouds, and draped in storms.

Seeing this, Audis's eyes narrowed. This man actually had a kind of Eastern charm!

Elven King!

Audis realized that this middle-aged man was "Elven King" Soniatholem!

He looked at the image of this man again. This was the first time he had seen such a familiar image since coming to this world.

Continuing to look down, on the other side of this mural was a man wearing a white robe, with a halo like the sun behind him, as well as a virtual circle divided into twelve grids, and the shadow that resembled a curtain, all proving that this was the "Ancient Sun God."

Audis thought to himself, this should be the war in which the "Ancient Sun God" took back the authority of the "Elven King".

He went forward to look at the next mural, but after only taking two steps, he suddenly realized something was wrong: After the "Elven King" was killed, the elves still had the mood to leave murals behind?

At that time, the elves should have been hunted down by the followers and believers of the "Ancient Sun God", right?

Thinking of the text at the door again, Audis guessed: Could it be that after the "Elven King" died, a god helped the elves build a city at the bottom of the sea?

Then he thought again: The magic circle here not only isolates seawater, forming a space at the bottom of the sea, but also has a certain degree of integration with the spirit world, which plays a very good role in hiding! It is likely to be hiding the elves in this city, so that they can avoid the "Ancient Sun God's" slaughter.

At this time, Audis discovered that the second mural was a scene of elves being brutally killed by humans. Some of them had their heads cut off by humans and displayed on spears, as if to show off, while others were imprisoned. Elven men were treated as slaves, and elven women were used for entertainment.

Audis did not make any comments on this in his heart, because in the Second Epoch, the elves also treated humans very cruelly.

Audis has always been unwilling to comment on this kind of historical legacy.

Continuing to look down, Audis saw a second person with Eastern charm in the mural.

He was floating in mid-air with his legs crossed, with a virtual light behind him, making him look a bit like the immortals in Audis's impression!

Audis was slightly stunned: Back then, Soniatholem was not the only Easterner who came here? Or did someone from "home" come after the "Elven King" fell?

It's a pity that this immortal-like figure has a relatively virtual face, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly, but it gives people a kind and benevolent feeling.

He, or rather He, seemed to be saying something in front of a female elf.

The murals behind show the scene of the elves building this city.

The four murals are connected together, meaning that the "Elven King" fell in the battle with the "Ancient Sun God", so the elves were slaughtered by humans. The surviving elves, under the guidance of a god, built this city and temporarily hid their traces.

This surprised Audis a bit. He only remembered that this ruin seemed to be related to the "Calamity Queen" Goshinam, but he didn't know too much detailed information.

While thinking, he passed through the corridor, and Audis saw that there was a hall behind, but this hall had collapsed very badly.

After passing through the collapsed area, Audis saw a throne with coral as the backrest inside the hall.

Audis noticed that there was only one throne!

This once again shows that the "Elven King" had already fallen at that time, otherwise there should be two thrones, one belonging to the "Elven King" and one belonging to the Queen Goshinam.

In other words, after the "Elven King" fell, Goshinam gathered many elves in this city and lived here for a long time.

Later, I don't know why, the "Ancient Sun God" discovered this place, or perhaps an "Angel King" discovered that there were elves frequently appearing in this sea area for some reason, so he launched an attack.

However, the main battlefield should not be here, otherwise the magic circle here may have been completely destroyed long ago.

And it is very likely that the elves took the initiative to meet the enemy, and this place was not discovered.

Otherwise, the subordinates of the "Ancient Sun God" would not have let Cavettua devour that extraordinary characteristic here.

Thinking of this, Audis glanced at the throne again, returned to the main hall just now, collected some scales from Cavettua's body, and left here with the "Travel Ring".

… …

At this time, in the "Source Castle", Klein learned the characteristics of the "Sea God" through the ability of the gray fog. After forming the ability and negative effects of the sealed artifact, he was overjoyed, and then realized: Was the one I saw just now "The Hermit"?

Klein couldn't help but think: Why does he always participate in some events with huge impact?

"The Hermit" first set a big fire not far from the Sodelac Palace, then "The Hermit" was present when sealing the arrival of the Star Evil God, and "The Hermit" was present in blocking the actions of the "Witch Sect" and the Aurora Society.

Recently, I met "The Hermit" in Bansy Harbor, and I met "The Hermit" again in the Elven ruins where Cavettua was hiding.

Why does he go wherever he goes? Strange things happen wherever he goes?

Then Klein recalled some of his previous guesses about "The Hermit": At that time, the friend he was looking for in Bansy Harbor was obviously a demigod! A Sequence 6... No, at Sequence 7, or even at "Low Sequence", he became friends with a demigod, which is very unusual...

Thinking of this, Klein suddenly thought of Mr. Azik: Uh... "Low Sequence" being friends with a demigod doesn't seem too unacceptable.