Leo hid quietly in the groove of the cliff nearby, watching the several members of the Rescue Society who tried to escape being captured. Then he listened carefully to the various movements coming from the passage, and after confirming that there was no one in the passage

, then came down from the cliff and returned to the entrance of the passage.

This passage seems to have been dug manually, and the end should be the other side of the cliff in front of me.

When the abyssal fissure reaches here, it is already somewhat different from the fissure above. In the distance ahead, you can vaguely see that the fissure has turned a corner and begun to extend in another direction, which just makes this cliff become a barrier.

Leo looked at the surrounding cliffs. He found that not far below, he could see some dilapidated landing platforms and hanging ladders that had not been maintained for a long time. These platforms and hanging ladders extended all the way to the corner of the fissure.

before disappearing.

It seems that this platform and the hanging ladder were built by people in the past. It was not until the mountain was excavated and a more convenient passage was built that the road made by the platform and the hanging ladder was completely abandoned.

Leo stood at the entrance of the passage and thought for a moment, then turned around and climbed down the cliff to the platform. He stepped on the broken hanging ladder and walked around this abandoned road.

The reason why he did not choose to take a shortcut and go directly through the passage was mainly because he felt that there might be something in the passage. These things might sound an alarm and expose his whereabouts when he appeared in the passage. In that case,

It would be impossible for him to check the situation secretly anymore.

Although it is somewhat dangerous to walk on the old road, for example, due to disrepair, some hanging ladders have cracks on them, and they will break easily if you step on them. If ordinary people would have fallen into the abyss, these small troubles are not a big deal to Leo.

What, he had already walked over the ladder before it broke.

Soon Leo came to the corner of the fissure. The platform and hanging ladder where the strange scream was originally had broken into pieces and fell. Leo had to climb up the gap in the cliff and move over little by little.

Although he has a lot of psychic skills and witchcraft to solve this problem, such as directly using psychic powers to stick his feet on the cliff and walk over like a normal person, he feels that the power of the surrounding divine realm is getting stronger and stronger.

It is powerful, and there is also a shadow of surveillance in the domain. If he uses extraordinary power, it will inevitably cause a response from the divine domain. In that case, his whereabouts may also be exposed.

Now using the most primitive climbing skills, Leo silently climbed over the corner of the fissure, landed on a slightly well-preserved platform on the other side, and then calmly looked at everything that appeared in front of him.

Just as Leo thought when he felt waves of heat and sulfur smell coming from the crack, when the crack turned to the other end, the scene in front of him was completely different.

In the distance, I saw that the bottom of the pitch-black abyss had been filled by a lava river that emerged from nowhere, and this lava river extended forward along the cracks with no end in sight.

The reason why this lava river did not spread to the fissure here is not because the fissure here is high and the lava river cannot spread, but because there is an invisible force from the bottom of the fissure to the top of the fissure, completely

Block the emerging lava.

However, Leo discovered that the force blocking the lava was not a supernatural force, but an energy field, a powerful energy field at least at the level of a space city.

Not all civilizations in the universe can build something like a space city. The technological content is much higher than even the Brood Warship, whether it is the internal ecological simulation system of the space city or the star core power of the space city.

Engines are symbols of advanced technological civilization, and the energy field device that protects the entire space city can be said to be the smallest piece of equipment, but it is also the most difficult to manufacture.

The reason why it is said to be simple is that the principle of this energy field device is no different from the energy field on a battleship. Even the Earth Federation can manufacture similar energy field devices. And it is said to be the most difficult to manufacture because it wants to

Creating an energy field device that can wrap up an entire space city and run continuously for thousands of years is not something that ordinary cosmic civilizations can create. Even advanced civilizations based on technology can only have less than

One tenth of civilization can be manufactured.

Leo has entered the space city of a certain advanced civilization more than once, so he is very familiar with the energy field of the space city, so that he easily recognized that the energy field blocking the lava river originated from the energy force of the space city.

Field device, this also means that at least one space city wreckage of an advanced civilization race in the universe has fallen here, and the energy field device in the wreckage can still be used, at least partially.

However, the energy field is not Leo's focus. His focus is on the building complex in the lava river.

I saw a huge skeleton quietly blocking it in the lava river. Only a pair of wings that had turned into white bones stretched out from the lava river. The densely packed bones on the wings were resting on the cliffs on both sides of the crack. On these skeletons

Buildings with simple and weird shapes were built one after another, gradually forming a very special urban area.

Although judging from the style of the buildings themselves, these buildings are all very old ancient French temple buildings, giving people the feeling of seeing an ancient city, but in fact the equipment placed on these buildings is not that old, at least

Through his extraordinary vision, Leo saw that some energy collection devices belonging to advanced cosmic civilizations were fixed at the bottom of the building to collect the energy of the lava river below. He also saw a large number of climate adjustment devices installed in some squares in the city.

With these devices, even if the city is located above a lava river filled with high-temperature poisonous gas, the people living in the city will not be affected in any way.

There are a large number of creatures living in this lava river city. These creatures include completely mutated monsters and non-mutated humans, but most of them are wrapped in a layer of horny skin, have an insect head, and have multiple hands and legs.

Betu people.

The status of these Beitu people is very high in the city, and they live in the upper floors of the city. The Beitu people who live in the city below are managers. Whether they are monsters or ordinary humans, they will be humble when they see the Beitu people.

bowed his head and saluted.

However, the Beitu people are not the ones with the highest status in the city. At the top of the Lava River City, that is, at the top of the wing skeleton, there are also people who have a higher status than the Betu people. These people just look like

Nephites are very similar to jellyfish.

Leo didn't see the Nephites with his own eyes, because that area of ​​the city was equipped with holographic camouflage devices for space battleships, and it was difficult to tell which ones were camouflage and which ones were real with supernormal vision, so he couldn't see the people living there.

Nephet.

However, a huge Nephite statue in that area of ​​the city is enough to prove that there are Nephites in this area of ​​​​the city, and their status is also the highest in the city.

In addition, he also discovered that there are a large number of statues of gods in the city. These statues are installed in various places in the city for the convenience of ordinary people and mutant monsters in the city to worship. These statues are not the common main statue, but three.

The statues of gods are merged together. These three statues are the Eagle God, the Lord of the Sky and the Nephite.

After seeing these weird Nephite statues and a large number of Betu people, Leo was already sure that this was a city built by the Nephite people. As for why the Nephite people lived here, and why they built such a city

This is a city that he hasn't figured out yet, nor does he intend to figure it out.

Because he had already sensed something was wrong from the strange situation of the statue, and also felt that the surrounding divine power field was very strange.

Due to being close to the remains of the Eagle God under the lava river, the source of divine power, the intensity of the divine power field has increased a lot, and the power contained in it has also become clearer because there is no obstruction and distance. Lei, who is very sensitive to energy details,

Ou soon felt that the surrounding divine power field had more power than the divine power field he had felt above before, and the strongest among these powers, even the power that was strong enough to be comparable to the divine power itself, was a source of energy.

Psychic energy derived from omega-level advanced life forms.

All the information such as the hidden spiritual energy in the divine power field, the weirdness of the statues in the city, and the magic used by those monsters to capture the people of the Rescue Society were integrated by Leo, allowing him to vaguely guess what was going on in this lava river city.

what happened.

To put it simply, the Nephites who have been exiled here have an Omega-level advanced life form, but there is something wrong with this Omega-level advanced life form. It may be that the rejection of the world has had a great impact on it.

He was forced to actively integrate into this world, and the way he actively integrated was to create a trinity doctrine and use the corpse of the Eagle God as a springboard to replace the Lord of the Sky.

Although this method of reviving corpses sounds absurd, it feels that there is basically no possibility of success, because even if the gods retreat in the world of Velen, gods with many believers like the Lord of the Sky can still carry out powerful attacks on the real world.

For example, what the Lord of the Creation and Destruction of All Things did to erase the demigods back then was just launching sequential magical attacks.

The power of the Lord of the Sky is only stronger than that of the Lord of the Creation and Death of All Things. Once he realizes that someone is stealing his divine power, he will definitely find the source and erase it.

If the Nephite Omega-level advanced life form can still possess the power of its heyday, it may be able to compete with the Lord of the Sky head-on, but the problem is that the Omega-level advanced life form is more likely to have died, and its power has been lost.

After falling into the valley, facing the attack of the Lord of the Sky, he had no choice but to die.

However, now that the gray fog seals the sea, the power and perception of the gods are also blocked and isolated by the gray fog. This also gives this advanced Nefeit life form an opportunity. He only needs to usurp it before the gray fog seals the sea.

If the Lord of the Sky loses his belief in the Velen Continent and re-spreads His doctrine of the Trinity, then even if the gray mist disappears and the Lord of the Sky senses it, it may not be able to cause any fatal harm to Him.

After sketching a complete picture in his mind, Leo felt inexplicably worried, because if this development continues, even if the Lord of the Sky cannot change the fact that his belief in Velen Continent has been usurped, then

It will also inevitably launch a struggle against the usurper, which will definitely trigger a fierce divine war, and the battlefield of the divine war is likely to be Velen Continent. This will definitely be a disaster for the people living on Velen Continent.

.

Leo thought of this and had no intention of staying here to observe the movement, nor did he plan to sneak into the city. He silently turned around and walked along the broken hanging ladder platform to the previous entrance of the passage, and then walked back from the original path.

Although Leo is sure that he should be able to find some more useful things in the city, and even obtain some technological devices of advanced cosmic civilizations that are still functioning, but compared to the harvest, the danger contained therein is greater, Leo

I felt that once I set foot in the city, I might be immediately discovered and arrested.

The reason for discovering the whereabouts is not necessarily supernatural power, but more likely some identification systems originating from advanced civilizations in the universe.

Rather than taking the risk of sneaking into a city built by the Nephite people, Leo would rather spread his speculations and discoveries to see what the reaction would be from the Sky Lord Church and other churches on the Velen Continent.

Different from when he came, Leo did not need to wait for the members of the Rescue Society to go down. He could go all the way up, and the time spent was shortened a lot. It only took less than twenty minutes to return to the canyon passage of the mountain stream.

superior.

However, the uneventful journey seemed to end here. He had previously discovered that the monsters hiding on the cliff seemed to have received some kind of order not to allow anyone to leave. After seeing Leo coming from the abyss below,

When he came out, he jumped out of the cliff where he was hiding, and rained down on Leo.

Faced with the siege, Leo seemed calm and calm. His body seemed to have lost its bones. When he was attacked, he used an abnormal posture to avoid various attacks. At the same time, a crystal sword made with crystal magic also appeared.

In his hands, he stabbed at the exposed vital points of these monsters.

After a round of attacks, all the monsters that were close to Leo were, without exception, pierced through the heart by Leo's crystal sword and died, while Leo himself was unscathed.

Leo did not clean up these monster corpses, but he fought off a monster with obvious mutated characteristics from the corpse, and this monster had a pair of twisted and deformed Holy Rings of the Lord of the Sky on its arms, and there was also a Lord of the Sky on its chest.

of the holy emblem.

It can be judged from the Holy Commandments and Holy Marks on the arm that this monster corpse was a senior priest of the Lord of the Sky Church before it mutated. This should be the result of man-made mutation, which can also be used as evidence to prove that he
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