The sun is high

In the second half of the night, Xiuge conducted a series of tests on the abilities of the Destiny Roots. With the magic power that had been greatly improved and expanded, he successfully figured out what this strange ancient group could do to him. bring help.

The Destiny Roots are indeed not experts in combat, but they can successfully make up for the shortcomings and shortcomings of Shuge in strategy.

Build positions, set traps, create large-scale illusions...

These are the specialties of the Roots of Destiny. The wisdom they possess is really amazing. Therefore, they are always extremely cautious and meticulous when acquiring target memories and emotional states and creating illusions based on them. Here, On the one hand, they rarely go wrong.

According to Xiuge's personal experience, the illusion created by the fate roots is enough to trap a large group of ordinary people or a small group of mages who act in groups.

In addition, Xiuge was amazed by the ability to deduce fate that they provided.

For the roots, this almost prophetic ability to deduce fate is just their instinct. It is a favor given by the "God of Destiny" and is used by them to obtain the most extreme emotions when capturing prey. One of the important tools.

Yes, just important, not necessary.

Because they do not need to use this ability to predict the distant future, they are more keen to use it to obtain more nourishment, comfort and joy. From this point of view, the nature of the Destiny Roots is actually the same as that of the special cultivators. This is somewhat similar. For both parties, the so-called destiny is indeed just a dispensable tool. It is natural to be able to gain benefits from it. If it is really not helpful, it can be discarded.

But for Xiuge, the meaning of this ability is different.

He walked out of his room and came to the hall where the Law Committee was stationed. Several Law Committee mages who were responsible for keeping vigil immediately nodded to him familiarly after seeing Xiuge. During this time, Xiuge The abilities and conduct he has shown have won the trust of all the Law Committee mages here. If the scenes of close cooperation and coexistence between Council members and Law Committee members in this dead city were spread to the outside world, they might be shocked. Many chins.

Xiuge also had a good impression of these dutiful and firm members of the Legal Committee. He smiled and nodded in response, then came to the corner of the hall and sat down on an unoccupied soft chair. .

Such an action surprised the mages present, so the female mage who had taken Xiuge to find Justina looked over in confusion. She asked: "Mr. Ernst, what are you..."

Xiuge twitched his lips: "I've been alone in the room for too long. I want to sit somewhere with people for a while...don't pay attention to me."

"Ah, that's right."

Several mages present showed signs of approval. Although they had not had an in-depth conversation with Xiuge, they knew to some extent that this mysterious young nobleman was burdened with unimaginable pressure. Under such circumstances, even specially trained sword-wielding hermits like Jeant always need to communicate with others, otherwise sooner or later they will be driven crazy by the depressive atmosphere in Salem City.

The female mage was actually in her twenties. She had a lively personality and was very fond of Xiuge, a young man who was younger than herself. So she stood up and said: "In the lounge next door, There are extra blankets and chairs, please wait a moment.”

After saying that, she walked to the next room in a hurry. Soon, she used the hands of the mage to move out with a stack of blankets and several soft chairs.

She quickly pieced it together and assembled it, and a makeshift bed made of soft chairs and blankets was formed.

"Mr. Ernst, you will have a more comfortable rest this way...Don't worry, we will wake you up when it gets daylight."

Looking at the makeshift soft bed in front of him, Xiuge was dumbfounded, but after all, this was the kindness of others, so Xiuge could only nod gratefully and accept it, so he lay down on the soft chair and covered himself with a blanket. A quick wrap.

This feeling was all too familiar to him.

In the past, when I was working overtime in another world, similar experiences had been repeated countless times.

There are only four mages in charge of the inner hall. They are all doing their own things. The two male mages are playing Dragon Teeth in silence. This is a rare pastime for them nowadays. The young female mage is acting calmly. There were people watching with glasses of water, while another person was holding a magic book and seemed to be delving into some problem.

After seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Shuge silently called on the power of the roots of destiny. So in the corner of the hall, Shuge's eyes were gradually filled with strange psychedelic colors, and in his field of vision , everything in front of me began to change slowly.

The first thing Xiuge saw was that the hall where the Law Committee was stationed had become extremely dilapidated. Just like the room he had stayed in before, the walls and roof of the hall were seriously collapsed and collapsed, and there were horrific traces everywhere. Among the ruins that are almost closed, you can vaguely see the dark shadows that are constantly crawling, which are the traces of the descendants of An Yuan.

"So... the location of the Legal Committee ended up becoming the lair of An Yuan's heirs?"

Xiuge observed all this with squinted eyes while thinking: "Does this mean we gave up the station? Or, the station was finally breached?"

With this thought in mind, he turned his attention to the mages, and an even weirder scene emerged.

The mage who was reading the book turned into a miserable wreck in Shuge's eyes. In that branch of fate, this mage was obviously captured by the descendants of An Abyss. Like other victims, his body suffered extremely severe fragmentation.

Immediately afterwards, Xiuge turned his attention to the other side.

Then, an even more tragic scene came into his eyes.

The first thing he saw was that the two male mages who were playing the Dragon Teeth card turned into two charred corpses in an instant. It looked like they had been burned by some kind of terrifying flames, and they were completely burned. Beside them, the friendly and lively young female mage fell slumped to the ground. In the future scene that Xiuge glimpsed, she also There is no way to escape the pursuit of death.

It looked as if someone had penetrated her chest with a crystal gun. The blood stained her clothes completely red, and her face was filled with sluggishness and surprise.

She was shot to death by someone from behind with a crystal gun.

Xiuge's breathing and thoughts trembled a little. He slowly released the ability given to him by the roots of fate. After the psychedelic color in his eyes faded, it was replaced by a mixture of pain, lamentation and incomprehension. complex emotions.

The fateful development he glimpsed in the hall of the Legal Affairs Committee was basically consistent with the scene he had seen in the small room before. In other words, in a very likely branch of fate in the future, the Legal Affairs Committee finally fell. And many of the mage members who are still persisting eventually died due to various reasons.

But that doesn't tell the whole story.

In struggle and hard work, sacrifice is bound to happen. Xiuge has been mentally prepared in this regard. He wants to know the cause of all these problems and also wants to figure out the relationship between these sacrifices and death. Whether it can be effective for the escape and survival of more survivors.

Thinking of this, Xiuge really had no intention of continuing to rest on the soft chair. He immediately stood up and hurried outside the hall under the surprised eyes of several mages. He needed more samples to verify his idea. .

In the open space outside the Legal Committee's residence, many people were already working.

Most of these people are general survivors in Salem City, and a considerable number of them are members of Iris Street. After Iris Street reached a cooperation and agreement with the Legal Committee branch, they were transferred here under the order of General Boots. , to make up for the shortage of personnel in the Legal Committee’s premises.

Xiuge had no intention of attracting the attention of these people. He stood silently in the shadow of the corner, restrained his aura, and activated his destiny roots' deduction ability again.

There were a lot of people in front of him, so Xiuge immediately felt the accelerated consumption of magic power.

So in his field of vision, these ordinary people who were busy transporting and sorting supplies, inspecting, and repairing the defense lines immediately showed different postures.

Shuge was surprised to find that in the fate he deduced, the ordinary survivors in front of him did not die. They all seemed to be alive and well. Some seemed to have become farmers and businessmen again, and some seemed to have changed into They were wearing the military uniforms of the Kingdom of Deland or the Kingdom of Votel, but more people were wearing heavy coats. It seemed that they were all heading to colder and remote areas...

At this moment, Xiuge finally couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, and his tense face relaxed. He leaned against the wall, his psychedelic eyes flashing slightly.

In the past few days, he had been giving hints to himself every moment, and he was even ready to die completely in Salem City.

But he doesn't want all sacrifices to be absolute tragedies.

And now, the deduction results brought by Destiny Roots made him feel at ease a lot. At least it showed that in the not-too-distant future, the survivors of Salem City in front of him would finally be able to get a chance to escape from their predicament. And this is his biggest goal right now.

Xiuge walked out of the shadows. While releasing the deduction ability given to him by the roots of fate, he instinctively looked up at the sky. This was already his habit. Everyone in Salem City would look forward to the arrival of daytime.

But now, this is destined to be a very wrong move.

Shuge's body froze.

When Shuge cast his gaze towards the sky, the psychedelic color in his pupils had not disappeared, so the deduction ability was still operating. The moment he saw the sky, Shuge felt that his magic power was already abundant. Like a flood rushing out from a sluice, his metal disk began to rotate at high speed, and the peaceful spiritual world also set off huge waves.

Shuge saw a terrifying sight.

He saw a huge black celestial body appearing in the sky above Salem City, just above his head.

In the deduced fantasy of destiny, this black sun was so clear and specific, and it was so close to Salem City, that Xiuge even felt that it was a huge black sun that was about to fall on his head. ball.

Just like the black sun that Xiuge had glimpsed in his dreams in the past, the dark and deep color was constantly filled with despairing and suffocating light and shadow, as if all confidence and hope would be swallowed up by it.

Light and shadow continue to converge towards the center.

Xiuge's body trembled slightly, and he saw the center of the black sun tremble slightly, and then the light and shadow suddenly spread, and the purest darkness immediately burst out in its center.

The moment before he lost consciousness due to excessive loss of magic power, Shuge looked at each other once with the huge eyes connected to the palace of the dark abyss in the illusion of destiny.

…

After entering that astonishingly huge crack, the concept of time became thinner.

As the second group of soldiers from the Ymir Legion and elite mages continued to descend along the previous resting stations, the distance between them and the ground became farther and farther. At this time, the meaning of the sky light had become extremely important. The natural light was limited and could hardly bring much help to the people in this abyss. Therefore, in the early morning, before the sun came out, these brave explorers started taking action again.

Under the influence of the crystal lamps and lighting tricks I carried with me, the dark depths of the oppressive cracks were illuminated extremely brightly.

Traces left by the first advance team are everywhere. The rest sites they left and the iron nails used for temporary resting and fixing ropes provided a lot of convenience for the second team.

Now, the depth they're at is exaggerated.

More and more detailed information inside the cracks were successfully transmitted back to the camp above by those secret ritual nodes.

"According to the log left by the first team, there should be a large area of ​​high-quality crystalline mines below... Haha, if those speculators know about it, they may not need us to explore this place. They can figure it out by themselves. .”

"Stop talking nonsense and get ready... We have been asked to check the conditions of these crystallized mines and make records."

The two mages talked while slowly descending through ropes and fixed nails on the wall. With the help of magic, they could complete these dangerous actions very easily.

Soon, the crystallized mine the two talked about appeared in the team's field of vision.

Under the illumination of crystal lamps, these crystallized minerals with high magic concentration exude an extremely special luster. This luster is so shining, which shows that the magic content in the minerals is very abundant and extremely active.

Similar situations are very rare in natural crystalline minerals.