Chapter 324 Staia

"Staya is ahead." Jia Ben said, pointing to a blurry black figure in the distance.

After more than two hours of flight, they passed through the maze-like abyss canyon and finally arrived at the outskirts of Steia, the city of corpses.

In fact, without Jaben's prompting, Lind already knew that they had arrived at Staia, because through his special vision he could see huge streams of magic power like smoke surrounding the canyon ahead.

Diltos also felt that the magic power was very dangerous, like a volcano that was ready to explode. The smoke and dust outside was just the tip of the iceberg, and the truly terrifying part was the part buried underground.

Diltos immediately conveyed its feelings to Lind. Linde did not let Diltos continue to approach, but found a relatively empty place by the Ashes River far away from Staia. fall.

After falling down, Diltos let go of Jaben in his hand. After more than two hours of flying at high altitude, he felt very tired and his body was sore. He was unable to stand, so he could only crawl to a nearby stone and sit down. At the same time, he took out several bottles of medicine from his pocket, mixed them together and drank them, and his face looked a little better.

Lind stepped off Diltos's back and stood by the Ashes River looking at Staia at the end of the river.

After removing his special vision, Linde used his ordinary naked eyes to look at this most terrifying city in the legends of the world of ice and fire.

Only some of the buildings in the entire city of Staia are made of flat pieces of bricks. Most of the rest, including the main body of the city, are directly carved out of a huge black stone. Even the bricks and stones are The black stone material left after the excavation was polished, so the entire Stea, like Asshai, is a city built with black stone.

The black stone foundation of Yashai is completely different from the black stone of Staia. Yashai's black stone is huge and flat. Although it is also sunk into the earth, it is not deep, only less than five meters, while Stya's black stone is huge and flat. The black stone is prismatic, with one end completely plunged into the ground for hundreds or even thousands of meters. Only a sharp corner at the top is exposed on the ground, forming the current city of Stea, and the underground part is still buried deep to this day. Under the earth.

It is precisely because most of the black stone is buried underground and has not been used by anyone, so the power contained in the black stone is still well preserved, unlike Yashai, which has been almost lost, and the volcanic magic power that Diltos felt It comes from the black stone buried underground.

"Even looking at it with your eyes will make you feel inexplicably sick." Jia Ben, who had recovered some strength, also stood up from the ground, leaned on the stone, looked at Staia, and said with emotion.

"Disgusting?" Linde was stunned, turned to look at Jia Ben, smiled and said, "Master Jia Ben, you are from Asia."

All the buildings in Yashai are made of black stone. Ordinary people will definitely feel sick when they see them, but for spellcasters who live in Yashai all year round, they will not feel sick.

"I'm just telling the truth. It has nothing to do with me being an Asian." Jia Ben didn't care about Linde's teasing. He carefully felt the creatures hiding in the surrounding cliff caves and said with a puzzled look on his face: "What's going on? ? Where are the demons living here? Why are the surrounding caves empty? "

"Are there many demons living here?" Linde turned around and asked.

"Yes." Jia Ben nodded and said, "I visited Staia more than ten years ago. At that time, there were a large number of demons living around Staia." He pointed to the water in the Ashes River. direction, and said: "Their habitat extends to very far away, and those demons are difficult to deal with, so I just stopped outside the place where the demons live, and did not go deep here."

Linde guessed: "Will they migrate to other places?"

"Impossible." Jia Ben said with certainty: "These demons have been living here for countless years. They may even have been living here when the city was first built. It is absolutely impossible for them to migrate to other places."

Linde did not ask any more about the devil. He looked at Jia Ben and asked, "How is your health now? Can you stay here alone?"

"I feel very good now. You don't have to worry about me." As Jia Ben spoke, he took out a few black pearls from his pocket and said, "Even if the devil comes back, I can protect myself. You can do it." It’s your business! Don’t worry about me.”

After confirming that Jiaben was fine, Lind stopped talking and ordered Diltos to fly into the air and hover around, protecting Jiaben while building up strength. Once he got his signal, he would assist him in attacking Staia. City ruins.

After seeing Diltos flying into the air again, Lind set out to walk along the gravel roads on both sides of the Ashes River towards Stea City.

Jia Ben also found a suitable place to sit down, placed the black pearls in his hands around his body, and at the same time wrapped his body in a black cloak, and his whole person escaped into the darkness.

Although the road under Linde's feet is full of gravel, if you look carefully, it is not difficult to find that these gravels can be put together to form complete stone slabs. This road is a carefully constructed stone road, and Si When Taiya first built the city, it should have had contact with the outside world, and the contact was still very close.

Judging from the various traces at the bottom of the canyon, the current Ashes River should have appeared later. Initially, the entire bottom of the canyon should have been paved with stone roads, wide enough for seven or eight carriages to travel parallel.

But later, due to some reasons, the entire city of Staia encountered certain changes and turned into a dead city. The surrounding rivers and streams were also polluted and became the River of Ashes.

The Ash River flowed in the valley, gradually eroding the ground, and eventually formed the current Ash River channel.

As he approached the abyss canyon where Staia was located, with the help of a ray of light falling from the top, Lind was able to see the entirety of Staia.

The abyss canyon where the entire Staia City is located is not naturally formed, but is produced by high-temperature dissolution. It seems that when the black stone that built Staia City fell, the surface had an extremely high temperature, and then it was like a hot knife. It was inserted into the ground like a cheese stick. The high temperature continued to heat the surrounding rocks on the ground, turning them into lava, which collapsed, gradually forming a huge abyss canyon.

The reason why Linde made such a judgment is that there are a lot of lava traces on the cliffs around the canyon, and there are also some hanging-shaped solidified lava. In addition, there are also a large number of obsidian called dragon crystal inlaid on the surface of the lava. .

Standing close, the city of Staia is much larger than expected. The structure of the entire city presents a spiral pyramid shape, with some buildings of different styles built on each floor until the top is an obelisk, which rises from the cliff. The sunlight from the top fell right on the obelisk.

These houses on the city surface are only the peripheral parts of the entire city's buildings. The real core building is inside the black stone. The original builders hollowed out all the exposed parts of the black stone according to the position of the outer spiral steps, and hollowed out the interior into There are more than ten floors, and there are a large number of buildings on each floor. Because these houses are excavated, they are completely different from the various styles of buildings outside.

Lind came to the stone bridge leading to the city and was about to cross the River of Ashes and enter the city, looking to see if Euron Greyjoy had arrived here.

However, suddenly a message came from Diltos, asking him to go to the place where the Ash River meets another tributary, where it discovered an abnormality.

After hearing this, Linde immediately rushed over there. When he came to the small river beach formed by the intersection, a serious expression appeared on his face.

I saw that the corpses of monsters were piled up on the river beach at this moment. At a rough count, there were about fifteen or six. These monsters were all humanoid monsters with a pair of bat wings and completely different sharp horns and horns on their heads. The fangs have black scales on their surface.

"This should be the demon that Jia Ben mentioned, right?" Linde saw these humanoid monsters and walked over, squatting down to check the corpses of these monsters.

Soon the corpses of these demons were examined by him. As Jia Ben guessed, these demons may indeed be a new race formed by mutation of the Styans, because the internal organs, muscles and bones of these demons are not the same as those of humans. There is a big difference. The only difference is that the hearts and brains of these demons have some stone-like substances like tophi, and these substances constantly emit black stone magic power. This shows that these demons should be able to use some magical power.

In addition to examining the body structure of the demons, Linde also examined the causes of death of these demons, and the causes of their deaths were all the same. The heart and brain suffered fatal attacks, as if they were stabbed from behind by some kind of sharp blade. .

Just when Lind was inspecting the demon's corpse, the shadow behind Lind suddenly stood up, and holding a shadow-shaped knife in each hand, he silently approached Lind and aimed towards Lind's head and heart. Pricked through.

However, before the shadow blade could touch Linde's armor, a freezing cold air appeared out of thin air and instantly froze the shadow.

At the same time, a dozen similar shadows suddenly appeared around them, and they all tried to attack Linde, but without exception, they were all frozen by Linde using the power of the Frozen Dragon Rune.

Although these shadow killers are all invisible, and ordinary weapons cannot cause any harm to them, Lind's rune power is an exception, and if Lind is willing, his Homeless Knight sword may also be able to deal with these shadows. .

In fact, before coming here, when he knew that Master Yasha, who was hired by Euron as a guide, was a shadowbinder master, Linde had already been wary of the shadowbinder's best spells.

When he saw the corpses of these monsters just now, his special vision had already seen that there were more than a dozen shadow killers created by the shadow binders hidden around these corpses, so he used a trick to lure out all these shadow killers and catch them together.

Later, Linde took out another pendant from his pocket. The gem in the middle of this pendant was a transparent crystal, and there were some runes engraved on the surrounding pendant base.

Linde lifted the pendant and then injected it with the power of the Nameless King's runes. The crystal in the middle of the pendant immediately emitted a milky white light, illuminating the surroundings. This light instantly penetrated all the shadow killers, and the bodies of those shadow killers gradually changed. It faded, became transparent, and disappeared after a few breaths, while the crystal in the pendant in Linde's hand was as dark as ink.

The Tranquility Court, the Mage Association and the Temple of the God of Magic under Linde have a large number of spellcasters of different schools. There are more than twenty light-binders, not counting the shadow-binder apprentices.

Under such circumstances, he would naturally not let go of studying methods to deal with various schools of magic, and the method he is using now is one of the methods to deal with the shadow killer.

He also has other ways to kill Shadow Killer more efficiently, but that would be a waste. After all, the production of Shadow Killer requires extremely harsh conditions, and it is very difficult to maintain them for a long time. There is only one in the whole world called Quemir. The Shadowbinder Master can do it.

Now all these shadow killers are sealed in the crystal. Although it is impossible to subdue these shadow killers, they can be brought back to the black cave and handed over to Moroya and the others for study. It is said that the shadow killers involve the secrets of the soul and the afterlife.

Putting the crystal pendant back into his pocket, Lind turned around and continued walking towards the city of Staia. After entering the city, Lind sniffed the surrounding smell, because judging from the blood that had not completely solidified on the monster corpses, Euron should have arrived in Steia not long ago, only a few hours earlier at most.

According to Queril's description, when Euron came to Asshai, he brought a lot of ghouls on board. Asshai's spellcasters thought that Euron was a powerful necromancer, so they all stayed away from him.

Although there were a lot of ghouls on the Euron ship that Lind asked Dildos to burn before, the number was somewhat inconsistent with what Quillier said. Apparently Euron also brought some corpses with him when he came to Stea. A lot of ghouls have left, and now Linde is looking for the putrid smell left by the ghouls.

Although the entire city of Stea was filled with the special rotten smell of the River of Ashes, which interfered with Lind's sense of smell, Lind still found out the putrid odor of the corpse, and then followed the smell towards Stea. He walked toward a hall that looked like a temple in the middle of the city, and while walking, he also pulled out the sword of the Homeless Knight from his waist.

At the same time, Diltos, who was flying in the air, felt that the mutated black stone magic power was gathering in the city of Stea below, and this magic power seemed to have a very special shielding effect, isolating it from Linde. Come on.

In this case, Diltos followed Lind's previous plan and directly attacked the city of Staia.

I saw that Diltos quickly waved the two pairs of wings representing the storm and ice with his forelimbs, condensing the surrounding water vapor at an extremely fast speed, turning into a dark cloud hovering over the city of Staia, and then Thunder and lightning flashed continuously in the dark clouds, and they quickly gathered on Diltos. With its body as the core, it amplified it dozens of times, forming lightning pillars that fell on the city of Staia, sweeping Staia away. The abnormal black stone magic power condensed in the city was dissipated, and the buildings in the ruins of Stea City also melted after lightning strikes.